Well. I guess I start with the fact that I brought a new pair of shoes. They are pink, red, white and gold Gallaz. Now, you may be thinking (if you are of the thinking variety) that Gallaz are what are worn by high school girls between the ages of 13-15, of which you are correct. However, I found myself wanting a pair of sneaker-type-shoes-that-you-don’t-do-sports-in otherwise known as “kicks”. I would not be writing this had I got the pair of blue Reeboks, but alas, there were none in my size. Instead I got these, which had boring white laces… and so my hunt for the golden laces began.

Hunting in CBD meant that I had a variety of shops from which I could possibly obtain the laces. I started with Look Sharp on Victoria St which has almost everything you could ever want. Witches hats, Santa beards and material from which you could make your own witch’s hat and Santa beard.  Alas, they did not have gold laces.

I then headed to the other end of Queen St, a lot of walking my feet did do, to Coin Max in the Westfield mall. When I asked if they sold shoeslaces the Korean behind the counter pointed to the corner and said “Underwear”. Unfortunately I am pretty hopeless when I’m trying to look for something amongst a group of things so I was staring at the underwear a while. I did find shoelaces, but alas, they did not have gold laces.

The next stop was the Warehouse which had about 3 sets of shoe laces… none of which were gold.

To $3 Japan (+GST) where they had a larger variety of laces than the previous places, but alas, they did not have gold laces.

Despite the lack of glittering string I did not give up hope. I was reminded of the time Genie sent me on a hunt to look for black sequins, but alas, the only shop that sold black sequins in the CBD had an owner that died the weeks previous and all of the stock was shipped to the Ribbon Rose in Ellerslie.

With variety shops running low I decided to think of the next place I would look for laces. The answer was simple, a shoe store! With the intention of heading down to the Number One Shoe Warehouse I marched back down Queen St. (Because I don’t walk when I’m on a mission, I march). On my way I walked past Pat Menzies which is located down a little way next to a sushi place. I remember it from two years ago when Genie brought her shoes from there, just before we went to our first Big Day Out.

I headed into the store and quickly saw that they, once again, did not sell gold shoelaces. I happened to ask one of the shop assistants (who could easily be one of the imported teachers from England at BDSC if it weren’t for his coloured sleeve tattoo) if they sold gold shoe laces. He said that, alas, they did not sell gold shoe laces. I was about to leave for Number One when he said that maybe they had some… He went over to their storage shop (where they keep their shoes) and it just so happened that a new pair of shoes did have gold laces. Well that was nice, I thought. He also said they came with THREE pairs of laces, a bit extravagant. He took out a pair of gold laces and handed them to me free of charge. It was the most fantastic thing, it completely made my day!

http://www.finda.co.nz/business/listing/y08h/pat-menzies-shoes/

Then had UGAP which is definitely going to be one of the most memorable nights of my life. Trying to stay up the whole night meant that everything kinda blurred a bit… and I remember speaking French at one point but I don’t think it made any sense. This was definitely from the sleepiness, not the alc.

I think I’m getting sick, and this is definitely from going out last night, for the whole night, and getting cold, and possibly a little bit of the drinking. Dakara, je porte my scarf and hats so I won’t get sick. I want to go to Omaha soooooo bad. But my itchy nose and parents are saying no…. DAMN!

ARGH! I just want these stupid exams to be over. I wish Ukraine didn’t have the swine so I didn’t have to change my flights and I could just be getting there this weekend instead I’m not getting there for another two weeks… FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! And Sian is leaving tomorrow… So I’m probably going to be bawling my eyes out sometime in the next 24 hours, if not for her then for the fact that I won’t be able to sleep on Wednesday night cos I’ll be studying Chinese. Omg. I’m so  FRUSTRATED RIGHT NOW.

I NEED TO CALM-THE-FUCK-DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I felt all hyper (thank you mochaccino) before but now all I want to do is more case analysis and statutory interpretation.

Well this is my favourite song at the moment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-75tNnUBLQ. Like Last Request I can’t stop listening to it. But I love this song in a different way. It does make me melt like Paolo does… ahhhh. *Melts*

I should really explain myself and why I chose Ukraine. Sometime at the beginning of the year I decided that I wanted to go overseas and teach English. Then I heard about AIESEC which sets up internships (among other things) doing things like teaching English!”Wow, what an awesome opportunity!” I thought to myself. I quickly decided that teaching English in China would be wonderful and that I would do that. In the process of being matched with an internship in China the internship in Ukraine popped up. They pretty much said: “Hey you can do this job.” and I was like: “Yeah, ok.” Compared with the Chinese Internship I was being paid, had accomodation provided and it was longer too. Oh and of course the obscurity factor. Without this internship there is pretty much no chance/opportunity/need/want for me to go to Ukraine whereas I’ll always want to go to China.

I really can’t believe that I will be going to a country I don’t know like ANYTHING about… and I can’t believe that I’m doing it all on my own. I also can’t believe it’s raining right now. What’s with this? I guess I don’t really want it to be too beautiful and sunny or I’m going to miss New Zealand too much. I’m having Christmas and New Years there, hoping it will be good. I’ll get to learn about Ukrainian culture and tradition as well as some of my own.

So I’m only going to Ukraine for two months of my 100 day trip, the last 6 weeks I’ll be in Malaysia either teaching in a kindergarten or working in an office depending on which one I like better/has work for me to do. The reason I want to go to Malaysia is so that I can experience a proper Chinese New Year. I feel so isolated and cut off from my family over there and it’d be nice to live with them and connect especially since I have some Chinese now so I actually have a medium through which I can communicate.

Hoorah. I have exams to deal with first… ugh.

But anyway:

We went to Tanuki for Becca’s birthday dinner last night. I didn’t realise it but Tanuki is very expensive… their rice is $3.20 per bowl… WTF. Then we went to Burger King to get cheaper food. Then we went to Met where we got cheap drinks. Overall the night was… SOOOOOOOOO MUUUUUUUUUUUCH FUUUUUUUUUUN!!!!! Like the most fun I’d had in a while… XD Hooray for birthdays!!!

Those are the only reasons that I want to see it.

Just out of interest I watched the trailer for The Notebook. I have yet to see The Notebook because the one time that I could watch it I was too scared that I would cry so I only watched the first 20mins. By the end of the trailer I was tearing up, like enough for tears to come down my face. AND THAT IS WHY I CAN’T WATCH THE NOTEBOOK! I’m sure it’s a great movie but I hate the fact that you fall in love with the characters and their story and then something happens to make me cry like that… and it has a sad ending (I know this because I got my sister to tell me what happens). But you like the story anyway because it’s so sad…

I watched Titanic when I was 7 and it made me cry so much… and pretty much every time I watched it I cried… until recently I think… It was that bit where Rose is on the raft, Jack’s already dead and she has to try and get help…

Oh yeah we decided to watch Finding Neverland one time because Martina said that she liked it, and it was sad… and that she cried when she watched it… and she did… but not as much as me. I was actually sobbing as though the children she left behind were actually not going to have a mother… which is rather embarrassing in front of your friends who obviously didn’t find Kate Winslet’s death as sad. (Sorry if I just ruined the ending). I cried even more than Vanessa (who happens to tear up a lot during these kinds of movies).

The only Disney movie I’ve ever cried during and the one I’ve failed to watch properly despite us having it for like 13 years is The Fox and The Hound. The scene where the old lady has to release the fox back into the wild and where she’s reminiscing about the memories they shared, I stopped the video before began sobbing too hard to find the stop button.

So, will I cry in The Lovely Bones? I did tear up a tinsy winciest bit during the book. It is a VERY good book. So maybe? The last book that made me cry was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince during Dumbledore’s death/funeral when I read it during the summer holidays (again). Crying makes reading quite difficult because the tears get in the way.

My most spontaneous cry was when the guy from Air Tahiti Nui said that we wouldn’t make the flight to Paris when we were stuck in L.A. last year. I think that made Lutonia and Genie very uncomfortable. Because usually you know when you’re going to cry, it kind of builds up or you know from what’s happening that you’d cry (like the death of a central character in a movie) but this hit me like outta nowhere. It was the weirdest-outta-nowhere-cry that I’ve ever experienced.

Songs have made me cry too… well one… Vitamin C’s Graduation. I was in Year 6 and was listening to it one day and it just made me tear up that everyone was going to intermediate and that primary (which was my life back then) was ending.

TV shows have made me cry. I remember this one episode of Gray’s Anatomy where the mum was terminally ill and she was giving like the last bits of advice to her demanding daughter and how much love she had for her even though she had been horrible throughout the episode and how the daughter was finally realising that her mum wasn’t going to make it… that made me cry. I remember that quite vividly. I’m pretty sure I’ve cried in other episodes of Gray’s…

People of course have made me cry… Mrs Brisden’s speech at prize-giving last year, I bawled like a baby… and then I had to take a picture with my All-Rounder’s trophy which is now on the school’s website… puffy-eyed and everything. Prize-giving was way more emotional than graduation because after graduation I was going clubbing for the first time so I wasn’t exactly in a nostalgic mood.

Believe it or not, a website has almost made me cry. www.mylifeisg.com is about how people’s lives are great and the some of the stuff posted is really touching…

Surprisingly, I wouldn’t say that I’m prone to crying.

So the second half of the week we all discovered Spumante which is both very delicious and very cheap. Hooray. Had heaps of fun on Thursday night! (No thanks to the Spumante which gave me cramp… in my other leg this time!)

Had an awesome time at Broomball on Satuday and got slammed into the side of the rink by Cheddar and have the bruise on my hip to prove it. It was actually some of the best fun I’d had in ages because I miss hockey so much….

I feel kinda sad now thinking about how much I miss hockey. My life feels kind of empty without it. I might go do some Antarctic Studies now.

It’s really awesome being out on my own… except I miss Mum making my lunch and not having to worry about cooking dinner We decided to buy individual lunches and I had quite a trouble picking what I wanted to have within a budget. BUT! I managed to spend less than $15 on lunch for a week, which means that it’s less than $3 a day if I don’t buy any more food! I’m pretty proud. The only thing I have to complain about is that the house is FREEZING! This morning was so cold you could see your breath and this was inside the house! And I didn’t bring my really warm green jacket cos it was too big… and oh yeah, I forgot my pjs like a retard so I’m wearing a t-shirt and Lisa was kind enough to lend me the other pair she had thanks Lis. If it weren’t for her I would be sleeping in my undies. Wait, another complaint. Having to wait for the bathroom… That’s annoying… In the morning my sisters and I have two bathrooms between the three of us so it’s all good, this morning it was one to four people, Becca has her own bathroom but Zak stayed over so we were sharing one bathroom… It’s not really that annoying but I can’t really function well in the morning without first having washed my face and brushed my teeth. It think it’s because I’m picky.

I’d write more but I gotta go to class!

HOWEVER! This was made BRILLIANTLY! Each transformation from page to screen was done in such a way that it made me feel the same happiness, fear, anxiety and sadness that I experienced while reading the book, a feat not quite accomplished by neither predecessors nor its Dan Brown counterparts.

I know was quite a lengthy movie by the fact that I left the theatre almost three hours after I entered but I was so enthralled by the magical world that it didn’t feel like three hours of my life had been spent watching the movie.

What I felt in leaving that theatre was something that movies I’ve watched recently lack, the ability to cast a spell which enchants you into forgetting the outside world: true cinematic escapism. I have a horrible habit of picking out little things that annoy me about the movie/analysing the movie to the point that realise I’ve separated myself from the story, I blame NCEA English. It’s only when the movie makes me forget that it’s a movie that I can really enjoy it, which is what it did… and I didn’t even realise it. Simply magical.

*Obliviate*

{Interesting to note that I decided to dress up as Ron Weasley, complete with a wig, a red “R” jumper and ginga eyebrows made from orange paper and blu-tak. Highly amusing according to Becca’s giggle fit when she saw me. The only reason I felt comfortable walking around Botany in the get-up was because it was difficult to recognise me in the wig (which looked surprisingly real). }

SO: For the last week of the holidays I am working (yawn, but good=money) AND going to see HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE OMG! Yayness!!! Apart from that the really exciting things are over… It’s like my post-concert-feeling where I’d be looking forward to a concert for ages, go to it, and then have nothing to look forward to… I think I’m just being selfish now…

Wednesday Zak drove me, Matthew, Becca, Nessa and Becca’s snowboard down to Ohakune. Now, HENRY’S is quite small… So the girls were in the back with the snowboard and it wasn’t very comfortable at all. We couldn’t really move much at all. The car was pretty packed.at all. Wait, what?

Took us a while to get there. How many hours? 5-ish. I can’t remember where we stopped. I don’t remember… wait… O… Otarahonga… That’s where I got a sausage roll and a potato and gravy. I should have just brought a Subway.

Anyway: Got to our place, Sunbeam Motels which was pretty lucky especially since we didn’t have the address (as usual were hoping to find it by wandering around). I must say that the Ohakune New World is FULL of skiiers and snowboarders.

The place we were staying at was quite nice, it was JUST big enough for 6 people. Darren meet us down there because, unlike us, he only had to drive 2 hours from Wanganui. Darren is ultra nice and chilled. Hahaha PUN! What’s more he has a large van which meant he could take us all up the mountain! But we took the bus for $20 the first day. $10 for 17km… That’s not really fair is it?

OK! So the SNOW!!! It was really white and slippery and participating in snow sports is very expensive especially when you don’t take your ID to say that you’re 18!!! ARGH! I had to pay adult fare. Dammit! $100 for board, boots and pass for the whole day. Me and Matthew were ripped off pretty much. Of all of us, Nessa spent the least amount of money ‘cos she didn’t want to ski or snowboard.

Becca showed us newbies how to snowboard, unfortunately I didn’t really understand and we spent most of the first couple of runs on our knees and bums crawling down the very shallow incline. It was ok getting back up the slope because there was a little conveyor belt that took you back up, just like at Scholastic. And just like the one at Scholastic it stopped, often randomly so you would either lurch forward and stop yourself or lurch forward and fall over. There was one time when it stopped cos this kid fell over and in stopping the belt it caused this group of kids behind me and Matthew (who was my mountain buddy) to fall over in a pile up. Matthew thought this was quite a hilarious thing. I have to admit that I had a bit of trouble riding it and slipped on it a couple of times. Bit retarded.

You know what is awesome? Warm things like hot water bottles, beds and spas. The motel had a spa which was really nice. Unfortunately someone decided to leave their dirty cup which once had pumpkin soup in it…. oh guys! Did anyone tell them that I accidently broke one of the small plates? I don’t think anyone did… woops. Oh well. Matthew will be getting billed… $3.

On the second day me, Matthew and Nessa had FREE FUN! We made a snowman, went sliding down the mountain on plastic sheets and ended the day watching snowboarders/skiiers fall over as they came down the mountain. It was mega tiring going up and down the mountain because I am unfit… and may have eaten too many brownies and ANZAC bikkies. I JUST CAN’T SAY NO! Free fun was the best especially since Matthew and I were VERY sore from the day before. Darren, Becca and Zak went back up the mountain snowboarding again. Apparently it was VERY cold up there.

On Saturday we went on this awesome walk that took us to this waterfall. It was really pretty. Check out all of the awesome pictures on Facebook, baby! 

Having this two week gap between my exams probably wasn’t the best thing just because I haven’t done like ANY work this week… Oh well I’ve done work for my Chinese exam, not so much for my French. Was meant to start yesterday and got through subjunctive… and that was it before hanging out with Lisa and Lud in the city. I have all next week to study so it’s OK I guess… uh not really.

Just finished looking through these awesome cute and sometimes very flash places to stay for next next week’s ski trip… unfortunately we probably aren’t able to get another car down there so that means that there aren’t going to be enough people to fill a house… stank! Probably going to stay here : http://www.sunbeammotels.co.nz/ which will be cool but I really want to stay here : http://www.bookabach.co.nz/holiday_homes/dsp_listing.cfm?bachId=4414 

So yeah. Off for some lunch and then going to do some proper French study probably while watching some sort of Disney movie… in my duvet… It’s so COLD in this house!

Things I did today: Wash, dry and re-bed the sheets, hand wash my scarfs, write out characters for Chinese, listen to a CD I haven’t listened to in years, play around with my make-up, play around with the straightener, take off my make-up, realise that buying that red lip-stick was a bad choice of colour, tidy the house, do my hair… that was in no particular order.

I should be doing my work for my exams but frankly I have just under TWO WEEKS to do it… That’s a LOT of time… which kinda means that I SHOULD be really prepared for it but just because you have so much time to do something doesn’t mean that you’ll do it right –> Asian studies essay.

I think my parents are annoyed by me.

I had a really interesting dream in which I wore my old Sommerville uniform… weird? Yes. I think I need a hair cut. Oh, another thing I have to add to that list of stuff I did: transfer money to Becca’s acc for SnOw TrIp! Yeah I’m not excited about that right now. It seems so far away.

I think that I’m a very instant-gratification-orientated person… well maybe just gratification-orientated person. I was watching this thing last night on happiness and people who are happy are working and involved with stuff, among other things. This is probably why I wasn’t happy today, because I wasn’t doing anything in particular. Hahahahaha… If only Lutonia read my blog.

Nessa just tweeted me that she will read this when she gets home but that won’t be until 4.30 because of the bloody traffic. I need Nessa’s phone number or I’m going to need to call her one day and I’ll call her old one and have weird people answering it. “Great, you’ve made me feel awkward.”

Going back to the gratification thing- this is probably why I’m overweight. Let me share with you, my one and only reader, my BMI. I am 156 cm and weigh 63.5kg (I checked this just now), this makes my BMI 26.1, which means I’m overweight. When I’m bored I eat… thankfully, there’s very small variety of things to snack on at home. Eating is just so good. Damn ME! I started losing weight at the beginning of the year when I went for runs or walks in the morning but then I went on camp with Brenda and Tom and went to the Mount with Lud and then I ate too much Kiwi Dip and I gained the weight back… 3 weeks of hard work, GONE in less than 2.

I’m feeling really weird right now. Spending time at home by myself isn’t too good for me. Someone remind me not to become a housewife, please.

Let me share another thing (Oh, when I’m bored, I like to talk about myself): I don’t want to get married… I don’t want kids and I don’t want to get married. Personally, I think that the love two people experience does not come from the NEED for love but that “love” is in fact a prevention/cure for lonliness which no one can live with. If lonliness lives with you, you are sure to die… soon. Omg… I was just about to write something REALLY inappropriate about being lonely and possible suicide. Not going to write it because THAT IS JUST TOO SAD. So the primary factor in life is lonliness and our brains create “love” to cure this… or out of fear of experiencing too much lonliness our brains create “love”. Ok. Enough of that. I’m feeling kind of lonely–> spending the day at home. Don’t come near me or I might “fall in love with you”.

I bet your thinking: but Novia, if you don’t get married you WILL be lonely. HA! No I won’t be, being married and being lonely are not each other’s complement in fact one can be married AND lonely and be unmarried AND unlonely… this shows that they are NOT complementary factors…  Wahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ahahahaha ahahahaha

Ok, so what have we learnt today? Novia is 1. fat 2. lonely 3. crazy. I’m planning on fixing all of these faults in the holidays… after French and Chinese… IN 11 DAYS XD

But now that I’ve decided that I didn’t need to study today… I HAVE LIKE NOTHING TO DO! … such irony.

It’s just so much harder to try when you have tried really hard and then you get kicked in the balls. Ah. I have my Asian exam tomorrow and I just found out that I got 74% for my essay that I stressed over for 3 weeks. I can’t blame anyone. I thought I did it really well, so even with full effort and plenty of time I still didn’t get what I was aiming for. Now. I have to study for that exam. If I had’ve got my mark back earlier THAN THE DAY BEFORE THE EXAM I think I’d be more motivated to study. Right now I feel kind of useless.

Actually if I’d got a better mark I would feel more motivated.

NO! I AM AMAZING AND I WILL SUCCEED.

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please let me not screw this up…

The first mid-semester law exam was no kidding, THE MOST HORRIBLE TEST I’ve taken. And in second comes Ms Davies’ Microbiology test in yr 11 which made me make up stuff… Oh and there was the listening test for French a couple of weeks ago. That only comes third because I ended up doing well it… if I had of done worse it’d be higher.

In those tests I seriously had a … I HAVE NO IDEA IF WHAT I’M DOING IS RIGHT… spazz moment. I hope to write a well as I have been over the last few days… unfortunately my writing about law over the last few days has been with the help of my readings and all on the computer so I can go back, delete and make my stuff make sense. Unfortunately I don’t have either of those things tomorrow. Fingers crossed it’ll go all good.

Mona got her comic published in Craccum. OMG! I laughed for like 2 mins… It is so AWESOME!

Love your sarcasm. You needa get a different job or maybe some time for a hobby where you meet new people to break the monotony of a cafe worker… or ALTERNATIVELY you can start playing games with customers (or play games by yourself about the customers without them knowing). It’s all up to you really.

Movies. I honestly think you should go into some movie reviewing or SOMETHING because you are such a movie buff that it’s just plain RETARDED that you don’t! Go to Uni, get a degree and then become the world’s best movie reviewer. Two thumbs up.

MARK WATSON! OMG! Yeah, I know the one, Welsh, awesome. Becca might be going to see Danny Bhoy on Saturday too.

Aw! That’s stink. I think you should go to Chch anyway because you don’t NEED someone to drive you around do you? I mean, Jono can do it without a car… See what Becca’s doing during that time, she’ll probably be doing something/going somewhere you can hop along to. I think she said something about a ski trip.

You know, I was just thinking about how I hadn’t CONNECTED with you in ages… do you get what I mean… not just talking or anything that shallow but c-o-n-n-e-c-t-i-n-g. I feel better connected now. Never worry about being too long. The longer the better… hahahahahahahaha… NO NESSA STOP THINKING LIKE THAT!

Miss you too.

Lots of love

Novia

So instead of I don’t know, going through my Asian Studies readings, I wrote my speech for Friday. I KNEW that I didn’t actually needed to write a speech because no one else was going to and it wasn’t a formal speechy thing. It was for a talk I was doing with Pippa, Abbey and Jason (all ex-BDSCers) about going to Auckland Uni… I was REALLY good at procrastination in this time because I spent 2 hours doing it and wrote more than an astounding 1000 words! YEAH! I should make procrastinating my part-time job.

Then I of course wasted more time by hanging out with Sian and Lud in Starbucks instead of going to Chinese… Yup. I’m a model student. Perfect to talk about Uni to the year 11s and year 12s at BDSC.

So on Friday went to talk at BDSC and I actually got a laugh outta the crowd woot! And of course I didn’t use my speech word-for-word like I wrote it.

Saturday was my 5 HOURS MUST STUDY ASIAN STUDIES!!! But… of course I only did 2 and a half hours of really crap, really slow, not really real study… about nation-states in Korea and Indonesia…. RIVETTING STUFF!

I mean I DO have a vaild reason… Genie and I were at Botany (I needed to buy a pen and a new toothbrush) and Jono’s New Show was their… starting to set up their busking challenge thing. Cool, cool. Genie wondered out loud which NZ band was doing the busking today when we see the two guys from Autozamm chilling with the producer/director-lady by the fountain. “Oh my gosh!” said Genie. So then I convinced her to get her Autozamm Drama Queen that I got her for her birthday signed.

After running (Closer to) home and getting Docie to come along with us we got to Botany to find that they had already started filming. Genie’s one objective: DO NOT GET FILMED. After a very awkward dancing around the cameras we finally got Docie (with her cute baby face) to get their autographs. They thought that she just bought it then (as though she were a poser) and Docie had to pretend that her name was Genie. She said that they were really friendly and I totally reckon Genie shoulda gone to say hi BUT the cameras were still everywhere. They wrote: HELLO GENIE THANKS HEAPS, squiggle, squiggle. It was quite the adventure…

I was meant to do more study today and I did… until I needed the computer to get the readings for Asian… and then I checked my twitter … and my gmail… which of course led to facebook… need I say more?

SO! Tuesday I got like 2.5 hours of work done, then yesterday I did 5 hours of work (which sounds like a lot of work but is still 3 hours less than my quota) and today I only did 2 hours… I even had 3 hours of class… and I wagged Chinese. (But I’m kinda glad I did because I gotta hang with Sian and Lud in Starbucks!)

I HATE MYSELF FOR BEING RETARDED AND NOT STUDYING LIKE RIGHT NOW… but I feel disgusting and want to have a shower then go to bed… its only 6.55pm. I’ll be in bed by 7.30pm. I CAN’T COMPENSATE TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last night I went to my VERY first (of many, I hope) launch party. This particular one was the lauch party of Midnight Youth’s The Brave Don’t Run album which came out on Monday. OMG!

SOOOOOO I was UBER excitement about this.

WTF

I have major writer’s block.

I can’t seem to get my words out properly.

Ok. Well I invited a whole bunch of people to hang with me but everyone had tests or meetings or work…  or were underage… DAMN SISTER NOT BEING 18… not that I blame you Genie…or simply couldn’t get permission (a bit like me… but that’s different because I did… I just tweaked what I got the permission for…) . So it ended up being hang times with me and Lisa 

Lisa was SOOOOOOO nice, she drove us there and even got a bit pushed around and was probably a bit uncomfortable because there were HEAPS of people… it was awesome being able to catch up as well I did feel kinda outta place though because everyone else was like 20yrs plus (which meant they didn’t have to get asked for id… like we did… damn us being short!) and was like really trendy wearing things such as gross-leather-like-ass-gripping-rear-widening pants… among other things.

I have to say that The Studio on K rd would be a BRILLIANT place to have a party… I’m looking at it for my 21st… if I’m a millionaire by then it will be definately be happening there people!

I brought Midnight Youth’s CD and a band shirt… I got the $45 combo deal that came with one debut album and one small tee…. WHICH I’M WEARING AT THE MOMENT AND IT’S LIKE THE BEST SHIRT EVER IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE FOR INFINITY.

So when it actually came to the set and the band actually playing… they sounded AWESOME… I have to say sounded because I pretty much stared at the back of this lady’s head the entire time… Lisa and I stayed on the ramp near the door because we wouldn’t have been able to see if we had gone right in and would have been surrounded by a forest of leggy blondes and weird guys… so we (mainly Lisa) were subject to some pushing… which kinda sucked. Upside we did get to see the stage when people moved their heads on from time to time…

From what I understand they played all of the songs on the album including one that didn’t make it on the album the “tear my pockets dry one…???” which I think is really awesome so sucks it didn’t make it … (I think they said that it didn’t make it… ) ANYWAYS I’m pretty sure the lead singer (Jeremy I think?) was black in a past life… (that’s not pc) HE IS SO GOOD! And the lead guitarist (Simon I think?) SUPER AWESOME too. Can’t really say much for the others because one: I couldn’t really see them and two: I have little to no proper music reviewing skills so my opinion is heavily based on what I can hear with my rudimentary listening skills which pretty much suck at listening to anything but vocals and lead guitar.

Lisa and I left after they finished and headed to McDonalds for some dinner. YAYNESS! All in all very good experience… hoping my next launch party will be bigger and better… and maybe have some nibbles so the Red Bull doesn’t get lonely in my stomach.

(x’s on the back of your hand…) … Just another girl alone at the bar.

Ok, so you might be saying “is this why Novia is at Uni on Sunday, to use the University facilties??” WELL NO! I’m here because I need to study for a STUPID midterm. What’s not so stupid is that it’s Chinese which isn’t my worst subject so I’m not stressing too much… I’m getting with some Chinese study buddies. We were meant to meet at Munchy Mart at 10.00am. Ashwin even sent a reminder text. NO ONE ELSE IS HERE YET! … unless they are and decided to study without me which means that I’m here for pretty much NO REASON because I can study fine by myself. If I didn’t have to come into Uni I coulda had more sleep… Instead of sleep I have to have V instead… which I have found to be an awesome stimulant. Thank you V.

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Blank for 20 mins while I did my work… eg go through my essay and get it handed in to turnitin.

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Went to Irene’s birthday party yesterday. It was really awesome just being able to chill with mates and just be socialable I ended up staying the night because I live two streets away so I just had to walk to get my schtuff! YEAH!!! Talked to Eugene heaps (who is Irene’s friend she met through working at Kmart… hahaha… Where good times start! :D). Had two hours of sleep and then skidaddled home and went to Uni. That’s how I roll.

Need to pee really bad because I’ve drunk most of my V…

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The kick in the ass:
I NEED A FRICKIN’ BOOT UP MY ASS! I need to get a move on with this Asian Studies Essay!!!!!!!! ARGH! ALL I do is COMPLAIN about this… BUT NEVER DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT! NOW(!) I’m complaining about my complaining. WTF IS WRONG WITH ME!…. Ok. It’s Easter Break so I can take a four day break… 
I’m just listening to the radio and this chick is STUDYING this break… SCREW YOU!

Ok. Now that’s over… what was my sigh… um…. I got all worked up over the kick in the ass that I completely forgot what I was sighing over… hm.

Well I can tell you ALL about the sob… FRANCE! It’s been almost a year since we went to France and I have to say that I MISS IT SO BAD! We were only there for three weeks but it was the BEST three weeks of my LIFE! I totally want to look at the photos and the videos… ah… *sigh* I love you FRANCE!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m going for my first drive since getting my learners tomorrow!!! WOOT!

Here’s the gist… of the part that I can remember at this very point in time:

Univeristy:
Uni has gotten easier and I’ve actually kinda made some friends Overall the first half semester wasn’t that bad and was quite enjoyable… Except for the minor stress of test, assignments and labs (which to be fair make up pretty much all of the work you do in uni). Had a law test on Friday and I think I screwed it up.

Dragon Boating:
We had nationals last weekend. I’m not sure if I talked about regionals… but if I didn’t we came third. Nationals in Rotorua last weekend we came 15/33 or something like that… but to be fair we weren’t paddling with the same team and the draw was different so it was split into divisions… but even if it was we wouldn’t have won… ANYWAYS… Went to town on Saturday night. Most of the people who read this have already heard my stories from town and in fact the whole weekend… So I’m ending it here. Oh yeah but I did become a theif. Shhh… don’t tell the cops. Or my parents.

Other stuff:
Went to Genghis Khan for Matthew’s bday on Thursday… ate too much…. as usual… and no more dragon boating to get rid of the excess calories :(

Now back to yesterday:
I spent a lov-er-ly day helping Vanessa move out/in with Matthew and Shelley. We just put things on a truck (I helped move the plants mainly) and then drove to Hobsonville and unloaded it again. After the unloading, which worked up an appetite, we got lunch and I must say that Lois supplies some of the best lunches Matthew, Shelley and I spend the afternoon just lazing around while Nessa unpacked her stuff and occasionally whipped out an old Harrry Potter script or story written by her and Shelley or one of her dodgy old diary entries from when she was like 15. HILARIOUS… “I liked what they wore in the movies pantwise… ” Hahahahaha! That was one of my favourite afternoons in ages.

Then we had Sam’s pub crawl party which was awesome and meant that I got to have like all these random conversations with drunk people, some of them I knew and some of them I didn’t really know. We went to Fibbers, Ratoto (Ok I have no idea how to spell these places) and then Bungalow 8 (where I saw Brooke who is a chick in my Asian Studies class without her shoes on) We weren’t allowed in Empire cos someone chundered everywhere right in front of the bouncers. Fave place was Ratotos because there was an awesome dance floor with mean music!!!

Went back to Beccas (really early because we only had the party bus (which had free drinks, thanks Mr Paul!) and we watched Bridget Jones’ Diary and half of BJD 2 and chatted for ages. I’ve only had three hours of sleep and feel flipppin’ DANDY! YUSS!