Study techniques

I'd read this recently in an article, thought it was interesting. Now it's in video form :D

Source: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/09/avoid-these-bad-study-habits-to-actually-retain-information-in-school/

I feel perhaps it's time to review my studying techniques, as cramming obviously isn't the best way to go in terms of learning all the information now that uni is throwing heaps of content at you per course. I have had a slight epiphany in the recent term. It is that: The later I stay up to finish something due the next day, the worse quality the thing is likely to be. Even if it's quite good quality already, but obviously it could be better. A perfect example of this is when I finished a lab report before 10pm the night before and got full marks for it, compared with finishing a lab report at 5am in the morning on the day it's due, and getting 87% on it (in fact I think I deserved less than that, looking at the individual marks in the marking rubric). But despite this, I continue to stay up late doing reports/assignments/researching/studying. Because it does still seem to work well for me (better than it does for a few others?). That's just the way I like to live my life lol. Although I suppose it would be nice to take up a few of these techniques (some of which I do already) to better my learning abilities.

Back in the days~

I went to visit Chelsea today. It turns out she got stuck babysitting, so I went with her. Outside the house, I was hesitant, because I didn't know how the kids would take to me. And they were shy too, cuz they didn't know me that well. But in a matter of two hours, they really grew on me. The 8 year old girl was a very friendly outgoing type, so she took to me straight away. + she loved cats and making cat noises as well (they had a cat) so even more to bond over. Her 5 year old sister took a while to warm up to me, she was more shy. She even straight up said "but I don't want to ask her (if she wants to watch me), because I don't know her very well", which I thought was very brave of her (I would've never said that out loud when I was younger). But eventually she warmed up to me quite well, seemingly favouring me more than Chelsea at times. And by the end of it they were trying to stop us from leaving.

It was quite fun actually. Takes a load off your mind when you're hanging around with children, because they're carefree and you just play along with them. I find that kids are most likely the best human beings to hang out with. Best ones being around primary age. They can walk and talk and kind of take care of themselves, but they're young enough not to have their innocent minds corrupted by the ways of the world. They don't judge you by the way you look or what kind of background you come from, or what your grades are like. As long as you're genuinely nice to them, they will be nice to you (do unto others as you want done to you). And children won't lie to you to save your feelings or to get something out of you, because they haven't learnt that yet. If you ask them something, they'll give you a genuine answer, but not one laced with sharp poisonous words that hurt, they'll just tell it like it is. Something I think adults should be re-learn, I think.

I liked them. They were rather adorable, despite being quite loud at times. They'll drag you off to show you something really cool, or so that you can join them in their next fun activity. At random times they would like to ask riddles, most of which I answered correctly (especially proud of answering the cat questions, cat lady at work :p). And of course at other times you humour them by saying you don't know (but then I genuinely didn't know haha), like those really punny jokes that are so dry they're funny XD. At some point they even said "why do you know everything?" (because I answered most of their riddle questions like "why is the sky blue?" (o god the answer I could come up with for that)), to which I had a slight grin on my face because they thought I was smart. They were also easily entertained by pretty much anything we came up with. I did the "kiddie ride" thing with the 5 year old that my dad used to do with me, and she loved it. As well as the piggy back rides :3 (who doesn't love piggy back rides?). 

Being with them reminded me how much fun life can be if you make it so and made me reminisce about my childhood days a bit.

It's damn tiring keeping up with them though. Haha.

Go to sleep! *cue rant*

I forgot how much music calms me.
It may, just MAY, help me go to sleep.
At least I've developed the habit of turning the laptop light down so it won't shine brightly into my eyes and tell my brain to be alert (something I learnt from reading an article online :p). But seriously, I hated those days when I couldn't get to sleep whenever I tried to (especially during exam period >.<). It was painful. Tossing and turning for ages, to find that an hour has passed (I checked the clock, I know). It's better now, but mostly likely because I sleep quite a bit later than the required 12AM. Now I'm just browsing all the songs I'm addicted to at the moment and replaying them over. Even with facebook logged off, I'm still procrastinating sleep.
Then I go to contemplate what to do until time for camp. Because I am really bored. I feel like I haven't been doing much since term started, which I guess is to be expected due to uni and studies. It feels like half of the connections I've made have been dropped. It's like high school all over again. You know people and you occasionally say hi but you don't really hang out. What's worse is that I don't really try to change it. "If you don't hang out, you probably didn't connect that well anyways". It feels like my old friends are slightly drifting away as well. I barely see them through the term as it is, but when I try for a gathering, most of them can't make it. Mainly due to work, or family, or things that suddenly come up. I guess with friends like that, attendance is never for certain. I shouldn't blame them. Everyone's got their own thing going on nowadays.
Also feeling slightly pressured to find work. I don't know why. Maybe because it seems like everyone else has a job? Or trying to find one? Even if I find one, I don't think I can uphold it along with uni anyways. I want to do well in uni this year, I feel work will cut into that. But I still at least want to fulfill that goal of finding a summer internship. It seems so hard though. Like I don't find anything that's related to my degree. More proper networking and attending those career things methinks ("fixing up the CV is a start ~.~" -I keep reminding myself).
I guess I'm starting to feel a bit more sleepy now.
Time to go.
お休みなさい～ ^=>+<=^

Break!!! Wheeeee!!!~~~~

OMG I JUST NOTICED I HAVEN'T POSTED IN MORE THAN A MONTH!!! That is bad > .<. With all the assignments, lab reports, tests, and exam period for the last two and a half weeks, I really haven't had the time to post at all > .< (Hmm deja vu?) + the fact that I don't really have that many interesting things to share anyways ._. BUT THAT SHOULD BE NO EXCUSE!
But winter break officially start for me now!!!! So excited!!! XDDD

Plans for the holiday? Gee I don't really know. The ONE thing I was thinking about all through term and study break was catching up on all the anime and drama that I've steal yet to watch XDDD. Just think of it: Lying under your cozy fluffy blanket, a warm drink in your hands and your laptop in front of you with your favourite show, ahh~~~. What more could one ask for? XD. I haven't really thought much about going outside. Surprising because looking through my past diary, it seemed I scheduled going out/hanging out with people at least every second day. There's HKESA camp coming up, but for some reason I'm not as keen for it as I was beforehand. Maybe it's because I have to do preparation and leading groups, rather than just having fun this time. Am I becoming antisocial? Maybe a little. All this work and responsibility and reality hitting you has made me put a lot less time into hanging out with my friends outside of uni. + the fact that our timetables are less well fitted with each other, being second years now and in completely different degrees. Time for a bit of a catch up with the girls? :D.

-EDIT 28/06/2013-
Last night I stayed up watching/skipping through a few of my favourite movies, probably the best time I've had watching something in a while XD. Oh and I cleaned my room today! So proud~ Cuz I actually did what I planned to do hahahaha. I do love a clean room~ :3

What I learnt: (Or more one of those values of life that I was reminded of)
Any experience you get is good experience. Even if it was temporarily upsetting, in the long term it will be part of your learning experience. Life is all about trial and error. Gain all the experience you can so it presents you with many new and perhaps more interesting paths to pursue. And along the way you may also learn that what you were aiming for before is no longer what you wish to pursue.

World's lightest material desu~

I find this to be an amazing discovery, even though I don't do Chemmat or biotechnology. I guess it just makes more sense to me since I had recently been introduced to Chemmat stuff in one of my physics course. (Yes I'm such a noob XD)

Hope is restored

This year I attended HKESA singles' night, but rather as a host (as opposed to a participant :3). It was hosted at Kaze lounge and restaurant, which had a pretty good atmosphere itself. This reduced most of our work (like decoration and stuff). At the beginning of the week, we had a lot more guys than expected and even had to make a wait list, so we pretty much freaked out that we couldn't get the guy:girl ratio even. I felt even more useless since I, being a girl, couldn't get any girls to sign up (some PR I am). But by the end of the week, we managed to get a whole heap of girls (girls like to last minute things ae?).

We got there, we set up, and started the event. I even arranged the roses all pretty in a basket :D. To be honest we were a little pushed for time, since we started quite late due to latecomers, and there turned out to be a lot more girls attending than we had intended to (too much promoting ._.;;) that we had to get some of our committee guys to stand in and there were more pairs to take care of. My job turned from basket girl to showing the guys how to rotate to the different tables. Sounds tedious? Nah not really. It wasn't too hard of a job and gave me a bit of free time to mingle with the other execs/committees. It was a LITTLE disappointing that I couldn't meet many NEW people seeing as I wasn't participating, but I wasn't too bothered about it :3. Interesting how I had a whole bunch of guys come to me at the end of the night asking to buy roses, didn't think they'd sell so well (the length guys would go to to impress girls they're intereted in ae?). Although I ended up buying one myself, it's nice to have something pretty to look at~

Favourite part of the night? Making the promo video. It was great to be a part of something useful and was definitely good for a laugh watching the others put up a performance XD.

The night was a surprisingly great success :D I feel so proud to have such a great result due to all our hard work and effort. By far the best organised event yet, since everyone had pulled their weight and done what they were meant to do :3 (tbh I think it was because we had finally recruited our committee so we had a vast addition of good ideas and helping hands). After that night, I do see the possibility our other events will turn out just as well :). Very much looking forward to camp now~ ^^

Inner introvert's rant

I realised recently that I'm a real 縮頭烏龜 (for lack of a better word, pussy).

My job is to promote the group and their events and get people interested. But recently I feel like I have not been doing that at all. I dislike talking to random strangers, in fear of rejection, or that they will look at me as if I was one of those desperate beggars in China. Sitting stall has become tedious. Not just because it feels like a bit of a chore and with increasing time, my enthusiasm for the events decreases. But also because I'm not really fulfilling my role as PR. I pretty much stand at the stall, not really appealing to the students that walk by, because I don't know HOW. I constantly reject the other execs' requests of going up to random people, asking if they would be interested in our event, which gets me a reply of "you're PR, why aren't you doing you're job?" I even got a "how did you even get this job?" to which I replied "I don't know..." The committee does a better job of bringing people in than I do, and I feel ashamed. It may just be the event itself that's a little difficult to promote, but I cannot blame that entirely. Have I exhausted my energy and passion for this club? Am I just a terrible persuasive speaker? Most likely a bit of both. Either way, not doing a good job discourages me from wanting to promote because it leads me to think that I will continue to not do a good job. Feels like a bit like a vicious cycle.
The clear solution here would be to just pluck up the courage to walk up to strangers and talk to them. But it's not something that comes easy to an introvert like me. Add to that the fact I care quite a lot about what people think of me. Not a great combination for a PR is it? All I know is that I need to fix the problem and I need to fix it soon.

(and tbh, I'm not doing much in terms of helping the group either, so that just makes me feel worse...)
/end rant of self pity

Late night reading

It's a Sunday. The first Sunday of the second half of the first semester. It is almost four in the morning. There is uni the next day from 8-6. Why am I still awake?

Because I went blog browsing. Not the smartest time to suddenly go blog browsing, I know. I am actually pretty tired. Despite this, I have rather enjoyed my adventure through Blogger this fine rainy night. It's amazing what you can find when clicking the hyperlinks of interesting titles as you go. One title can lead you onto so many other different blogs. One click divides into two, which divides into multiple more other clicks. And the stuff you're exposed to. Words that exposes a piece of a person's soul with every post. It's fascinating. Especially since the blogs you've stumbled upon are those of your friends, old or current. Only it is from the perspective of a much younger versions of themselves, because many of these blogs have been abandoned. You would never think those words would be typed by those very people. Shows you a different side to them. I remember particularly this one blog I had been trying to find when she first told us about it. She even told us the URL name. But to my dismay, I could never dig it out (I'm not very good at searching anyways ._.). Now, out of the blue, I have stumbled across it, just by clicking interesting titles and moving through the connections of their authors. Overall this short journey has shown me two things:

1. It's amazing how small the world is. When you can find your way back to your own friends from a stranger's profile in just a few short clicks.
2. Each of these strangers have their own unique views of their lives and the world. And we all convey this view in our own unique way.

(I do believe it is time for bed. Apologies in advance any mistakes or incomprehensible writing, I'm writing all this with my brain pretty much half asleep.)

zzzZZZ~~~

Yay break...

Damn, I've been lazy again. But this time I guess I have a proper excuse. The last week before break is always crammed with tests/assignments/reports/presentations. On top of that I always have heaps of stall duty (not that I do anything else with that time XD). There's just not enough time to do other things ie. post. But now that we've reached mid semester, I guess I have a bit of time to relax :) (although I have a test on the first day back and I haven't studied at all, so not really >.<). I WAS very much looking forward to this break, second year has been a lot to deal with >.< and I'm only a quarter of the way through :(.
First day of break, I slept in til 11, which felt pretty good. And I didn't do much for the rest of the day. Then I went to this thing called Apocalypse Z, which is pretty much an interactive theater where you're thrown into a simulated zombie apocalypse and you have to get yourself to safety. It was pretty scary, but less than what I was expecting. I was expecting a lot more running away from zombies, and easier chances of "infection" (not that I wanted to get infected, was trying very hard to escape that). But it was a pretty interesting experience overall, would go again if invited :D.
I must say I wasn't very excited about the fact that it was the break. Probably because:
1) It isn't a very long break to begin with. It's only a week, instead of the two weeks we usually get, due to it not coinciding with the Easter break. I think that's pretty random, changing our term like that.
2) It doesn't feel like much of a break anyways. With a test on the first day back, reports to finish,  and exams/assignments to study for, it really is just more of a chance to catch up on all that work I'm behind on.
3) The rainy weather over the last week. And forecasted to be the same for the next week or so. So that really ruins the mood (Ah the woes of suffering from SAD).
Not that I'm really using this time to catch up. Most of the time I just lie on my bed thinking about that mountain of work I have yet to do and getting depressed over it (pretty stupid, I know). Not feeling relaxed and the crappy weather just kinda makes is worse. I didn't really feel the relaxation instinct kick in until I went to hung out with my friends today, it made me remember how much fun it was to just talk about anything and everything without having to worry what they think. Learning from that, I'll just have to try my best to enjoy the time I have and try not to worry too much about everything.
(Oh wow it's 1am already, should probably go to sleep. Have a long day ahead tomorrow~)

What I learnt: Chuunibyou (中二病): Literally middle school second grade syndrome. "People with chuunibyou either act like a know-it-all adult and look down on real ones, or believe they have special powers unlike others."

Downs and ups

Urgh, sick for the first time in I don't remember how long. Feels crappy. At least it's not during uni time >.< or else I'd be dying. Would be especially worse for the coming week since my mum is away for 3-4 days and all those tests and assignments coming up >.<. Hopefully I'll get better by Monday.

Something nice to cheer me up though. Went to the Cosplay club/anisome's maid cafe event today ^^. Was quite fun :D. All those cute maids, and the delicious desserts~ (even though I really shouldn't be eating sweets while I'm sick XD). But the endorphins I got from the event made me feel heaps better :D especially since I've been deprived of sugar for the past couple days :(. Even dressed up and took lotsa photos :3. Incredibly tired after, but worth it~

Chocolate brownie cheese cake and a coffee drink~

What I learnt: Sometimes it's good to go outside, get some fresh air and surround yourself with things you like. It really helps to lift up those down moments :)

More procrastination

Have a look at my wonderful creations~

Making of...

 Puffy~

 Hot cocoa cookie~

Om nom nom~ :3

What I learnt: You can't really bake cookies in a microwave, it just doesn't work. You know because of the smoke coming out of it after cooking it for a few minutes ._. (was a fun trial though XD)

Treasure your memories

Reminds me of how I used to love brain teasers and problem solving when I was little~
It helped with my memory and challenged me~
What happened to me? T.T gotten so lazy.
(I love how these videos always have some kinda of life moral at the end, even though the talks are all logical and mainly teaching skills)


What I learnt: Why I suck so much at speeches now than I did before (by watching this video) :/ will now improve on that.

Procrastination

So as you may all know, I have a bit of an passion/obsession with sugar (Ok a HUGE obsession with sugar, but just better at keeping it under control for the last year or so :P). I am now making it my mission to try all the places that the UoA Dessert club has discounts at :D (maybe not the places I've already tried a few times, and not the one's where you have to buy a lot, like a cake). I think this is a good goal for a sugar lover like me XD.
The current sponsors, with their discounts:

So yup gonna try out at least half of these places methinks. Especially since student allowance has kicked in XD.

There's also this new place that's opened up beginning of March, called Milse, where they serve desserts only. Yes, DESSERTS ONLY. That's like, a dream come true for us girls (I don't know why I generalise girls to be dessert lovers). Here's a bit of detail on the restaurant, even though it's only a news article. I think it'll be worth my money, and a great life experience. Definitely take lots of pictures when I drag a whole bunch of girl friends along XD.

Oh if you're wondering, the reason I titled this post procrastination is because that's what I'm doing right now. I have four reports due next week, and an assessment, and I haven't even finished one of them (very close though), or studied for the assessment (but vocab tests are easy, I don't need a lot of time for it). I went to the engineering library to study (because that's the only place I can focus on my work for more than half an hour) but STILL for the majority of the time, I spent most of it on the internet. Facebook, browsing clothing website (I have 8 tabs open of some stuff I want to buy...), thinking about all that sugar I'm gonna have in the future, and then writing this post. All of this is some good procrastination ._.

I really should get off......

(I also now have a few tabs open on food, mainly dessert, because I logged on to stumble upon ._. oh god I can't be stopped)

What I learnt today: That spiders are poorly misunderstood creatures, haha.... Still don't like them much though ._.

Time flies~

There really isn't enough time in the world to do all that I want to do. Sure I'm probably wasting heaps of it doing nothing, but people need time for a break to do nothing every now and then, so technically I'm not wasting my time. Nowadays, it's just the same old routine. Wake up, go to class, break, class, break, class, hang around a bit, go home. Then go on internet (not just facebook)/sort out small stuff/check uni stuff. By the time that routine is finished, it's already time for bed O.o and I just think "Where has all my time gone? I still have heaps to do!" Having classes til 5 or 6 doesn't help, seeing as I wouldn't really get home until 7 or 8 :/. And 8-6's means I won't be home for most of the day, where most of my uni resources are (mainly the laptop haha), which is rather inconvenient (and great reason for procrastination). The thing with university is that when you're in it, it takes up most of your life, and there's not much time for anything else (actually I think it's just my degree's crappy timetable ._.").

I miss being able to lie down and marathon anime/drama for hours on end, and not having to worry about any upcoming tasks/errands/deadlines. Having all these responsibilities have robbed me of much of my time. Not that I'm complaining, I get my benefits from having these titles :3 (although sometimes it feels like I'm sacrificing a lot and getting little/no recognition ._. alas, the life of a person with zero presence). But it really does take a toll on you when you have on average 5 different extracurricular things to complete a day, on top of the classes (I REALLY need a planner methinks). Time especially flies past when you're spending most of it with that one person, which can be a good and bad thing I guess.

It just feels like my time has been stolen away from me, without me knowing it. Life slowly ticking away with every second, without us knowing it.

I wish I could just stop time~ 

To capture all the beautiful things happening at the time,

To take a moment to appreciate being alive~

What I learnt today: Took me a while, but I learnt a few keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl + L = highlights address bar and Ctrl + tab = navigate tabs in a browser. Will be very helpful for me in the future :3

Long week

So the first week of uni has passed. It was most likely the most hectic week I've had since I've been at uni. It was mainly having 8am-6pm three days in a row and spending about 4 hours a day standing at our club stall trying to recruit people to join us (especially under the blazing sun for the final two days =_=). You would think I would've adjusted to the uni timetable while attending summer school, but no, that is not the case. Whatsoever. Never have I been more tired, mentally tired. I had used up all my social energy by the third day and after I just didn't want to talk to anyone. It was a mission to continue any in depth conversation. That was most surprising for me, as I had never felt that badly. I think I just have to pace myself next time, like in exercising, haha.

I'm surprised I managed to turn up to all three 8am classes actually, although they're pretty interesting (I like our lecturer, + getting class rep is a bonus :p). Most of my classes at the moment are just introductions or revision of last year's material, so it's not too hard. Korean is proving to be most interesting, definitely a good divergence from all the numbers in the morning and physiology in the afternoon XD. Although sadly I am having a bit trouble with it, I shall have to get some help. Also the fact that my brain 'turns off' after 2pm doesn't really help my case though, can't focus on my medsci classes T.T.

Then there was our welcoming BBQ for all the members who signed up this year. I wasn't assigned much, so it wasn't too bad. But then again my one weakness was always that I wasn't a very leader type character, so I felt quite disappointed with my performance while leading my group. I just feel like the groups I always end up with never really have that much participation or competitive spirit. I don't want to blame my group, since if it happens often it might be a problem with me. I guess this is just something I will have to work hard to learn along the way, being a good leader. Got some pretty good feedback though, people seemed to have fun :) (hopefully they aren't just saying that to make me feel better ^^")

After all that, I was exhausted. When I got home, I had a shower and went straight to bed (only went on facebook for about 20mins, which is a record for me). I hadn't slept that early since that one day during summer school where I felt sick. Best 11 hours sleep ever.

What I learnt: This bird is a gynandromorph, which means it is an organism that displays both male and female characteristics. The brightly coloured red side is is male, while the bland white side is female. Article here

Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis)

An unfortunate discovery

Today I found out that one of my old high school friends had recently died (last week). At first I heard it from a close friend and she gave no mention of the name. I thought it was just one of her friends that she knew back then, so it didn't matter too much to me at the time, and I just tried to be supportive. But then I heard later, it was actually someone I knew. Someone I was acquainted with in school AND after graduation. She was in my class. Lovely girl. Hung out with her quite a few times and had interesting conversations. I wasn't AS close to her as some others, but doesn't mean it hasn't affected me. I was struck dumb. Rendered speechless for the next 10 minutes. I couldn't believe someone so young and so close to us would just leave the world, just like that.
She had died of heart failure. But she was so athletic  You wouldn't expect someone like that to just pass away of heart failure. And I didn't even know she'd been having chest pains and stuff, none of us did. We were all in shock. (well maybe except for a few close friends she still hung out with, a lot of us didn't really keep in contact after she went to another high school). She was about to start uni with us too. But then came the unfortunate incident.
It's at times like these that make you think about what you're doing with your life. Because it could happen to just ANYONE. Strikes a slight fear into a person really.
R.I.P to her~ Forever in our memories~

Summertime ends~

I gotta say, this is just about the best summer I've ever had yet XD. For many reasons. Been the most optimistic than I've ever been and I like it, hope the happiness inside me keeps up ^^

I've been quite productive these four months by means of:
- Carrying out my duties as a club exec.
Learning a lot of skills along the way by being a PR. Like better communication skills, persuasive skills. All very helpful for finding a job in the future :). Also helps me be 'in with the crowd', makes me feel a part of something ^^.
- Doing a course at summer school.
Helped me settle back into the uni routine early so it won't be too hard to adjust in semester 1. Some good bonding time with other summer school people and people who just come to uni a lot XD. And helps to decrease my work load next year, which I would be very thankful to my current self by next year :D
- Had a holiday job.
Sure it was a crappy job but the hours were good for me, and earning money is never bad. Despite the fact that they were going to pay under minimum wage and didn't like to give holidays off (and their business so bad they have to cut costs apparently). But good experience. Improved my customer service and mandarin speaking skills :p

Socialising was always a key component in keeping myself chipper.
I've been to the beach multiple times with different friends, and each was a nice experience. I've bonded well with females instead of just males, which is a first since mid high school. I've met a few new people and created closer bonds with old friends, made me very proud of how I was increasing/improving my social network ^^. Although I'll admit I was a little envious of all those photos people were taking of their trip overseas and sharing their experiences. Haha.

Starting the blogs was a nice touch, I could rant a little without having to bore anyone in real life and helped me remember what I did that day XD. It allowed me to organise my thoughts as well as improving my writing skills.

In addition to this, I've come across many useful points that I feel would be useful for me in life. Like "Take the chance while you can, and see what comes of it" has finally done me some good, and I hope it will apply very well in the future. My main value of "Whatever will be, will be" has been appeared time and again throughout the holidays, and has henceforth been strengthened. Let yourself go with the flow every now and then and who knows, something unexpected may just happen~

Tomorrow is the official start of my second year at uni. To be honest I'm really dreading it. I had a look through some of the material we had to learn in one of the courses, and I barely understood what it was saying. I'm so afraid I'm not going to keep up. Apparently our year is the first time that they're making the second years do this course, and I think at least half of us don't have the prior knowledge (pre-requisites) required to understand it. I don't understand why they're making us do this course when we haven't done the pre-requisite courses, but hey, who does? At least I've got Korean to keep me entertained and wake me up for the rest of the day :P.

I hope for another exciting and eventful year, preferably with not too many troubles along the way~

What I learnt: This is just an observation I've made. I've noticed that many of the pool places are located either deep in alleyways or hidden in some dark corner somewhere, and sometimes it looks a bit dodgy. Not sure why this is the case, but I don't think it helps encourage people to go there O.o

Quality time with mum

Yes, it's getting to be the time where I'm getting too lazy to post everyday. And there's not much happening anyways. Uni coming up soon, going to be SOOO busy, don't expect a lot of posts >.<

Had a hang out day with mum today, it was lovely~ Haven't had alone time with mum for a while now, since dad was around. Went out to lunch with her at The Windsor Castle in Parnell today (had one of those Grabone vouchers to use up XD). It was a lovely place~ Though I WAS bummed that I left the camera at home so couldn't take better quality pictures >.<. We talked heaps on the way there and back, without dad interrupting, whoop! But after I just felt too tired and wanted to go home. (getting to that time again...)
Man I really should've taken a nap when I went home... >.<.

Om nom nom, burger and fries~

Went to my friend's house warming thing today as well. Turns out she moved JUST up the road from me, yay! :D. Got a free dinner (pizza XD). Ooh I love my friends, they really are the most interesting bunch :3. We had a good talk about how Romans ripped off the Greeks and changed their gods's names etc, fun conversation XD. First time watching Adventure Time. Your first time looking at it, you would thing it was a cartoon made for little kids, but appearances are deceiving. There are a lot of more 'mature' references in there that you would not expect to turn up in a little kid's cartoon O.o. But it's short and interesting, so perhaps worth a watch.

(I WOULD have a bit of a rant about the process of finding a new mobile phone, but I'm too tired to keep typing, so maybe I'll leave that for another time)

What I learnt today: The first people to wear high heels were Egyptian butchers, so they could escape the blood. (I have some interesting friends who provided me with that fact XD)

Journey around Lantern Festival

Today was my official day at Latern Festival. Although I had planned the day out, it turned out to be completely different. But I guess it was a good thing. I met a whole bunch of new people (increasing my social network :D), though it was mainly two new people, two friends and I, by halfway through the night (we got ditched >.<). We did A LOT of walking, especially trying to squish through crowds of people on Princes Street. I got to show off my Diabolo skills a bit to my new friends hehe. After walking for god knows how many meters/kilometers, we were all very tired, and the day ended with churros, om nom nom~ :3

I'm really starting to like pool (with a cue stick, not with water). It seems easy to bond with new people over a bit of friendly competition, good to break the ice. I'll admit I was hesitant to go at first as I only knew one person there, but then I thought "Oh why not? What's the worst that could happen? Just go to meet new people la" and I am very glad I did :). This is why I suggested we should have the pool event before karaoke, but each to their own I guess. And I suppose it is true that not everyone is into pool.

Here's something delicious I had today, toffee covered strawberries :3. They sold well too :o (even though expensive, $3.50 a stick =_="). To be honest, I could probably make them myself for a lot cheaper, but I'm just too lazy XD

picture borrowed from my friend's profile :p

I feel myself being way too busy lately though. I feel like I haven't had a proper break this whole week after my exam, been out everyday pretty much, and am not getting a break at all >.<. Just that there's the need to catch up with everyone and do the things I want to/have to do before the holidays end and the busy term starts. Feeling a bit overwhelmed. I miss just sitting at home and watching anime/drama on my computer, and relaxing on my bed without having to worry about too much. I guess this is what happens when the lovely holiday you've had is due to end huh?

What I learnt today: Wow what? There's a thing called a 3D doodle pen? O.o. Where you can draw in the air with plastics :o. That's pretty amazing~

A most productive day yet

Woke up this morning feeling like I could accomplish a lot today. Randomly woke up at 8am for some random reason (which is so abnormal for me) and couldn't get back to sleep. So I decided I would go gym once again since I didn't have to focus on summer school anymore (I feel I got fat again since dad got here =_=). Oh gosh I am so incredibly unfit. I had to lower the settings from the usual standards just so my body could keep up, though I expected this. Felt really good to exercise again :D keep fit! Then I had to carry my heavy old textbook to uni so I could sell it to this person I had arranged to. Sure made me some good money~ Waited around for an hour for my friend to arrive, but only to end back up on the computers to go on Facebook (OK so this part is not so productive, but hey I tried). Accumulated more friends along the way and it turned into a seven people group with one guy to six girls XD. So we all decided to go dinner together. By that time I was already "crashing and burning", as I expected (my energy does not last long after a long day, especially being up so early >.<). But I was still nice enough to see all of my friends off to their respective bus stops, which resulted in me encountering more acquaintances on the way back home. For me, that would be overall a very good day :D as I consider each friend encounter/catch up as a stepping stone to becoming closer to a person.

Oh and I remade the bed as well. Haha. XD

Tl;dr: I did a lot today, saw a lot of friends, now I'm very tired XD.
休む時~

What I learnt: I think this is rather self explanatory :3

With a sigh of relief

The reason I disappeared the last two days was I had an exam today. Stupid maths, I wish it would just die >.<. But the moment I finished the exam, oh wow. That feeling, that rush of adrenaline when the heavy burden is gone, is so good~  I was so ultra happy after that on the way home, I was skipping and dancing to my music XD. Even though looking at my through my last assignment kind of upset me (I had no idea what I did wrong), I didn't let it get to me. Because I am officially rid of maths 108 and summer school! Now that I don't have work or summer school, I can relax a little and get onto the to do list from earlier on :) (thought I'll be completely honest, I did feel extremely bored after the exam because there was no longer the pressing need to study ._.)

Here's some pictures of the preparation going on for the upcoming lantern festival :D. I'd never seen the preparation before so it was a little exciting for me. I noticed a lot of other people were also taking photos of the models as well (and I thought it was just me lol).

Also had a Japanese style cheesecake from La Couronne, it was good, nom nom~ I don't know why I had a craving for it today, just felt compelled to look for it and eat it.

What I learnt today: I can't think of a specific fact, but I've continued to learn the road code now :D. Hopefully I will get my learners before the term starts (in less than two weeks XD)

What to do now?

I went to work today and they told me that after working tomorrow, I don't have to work anymore. At first I was a little stunned, because I was very much intending on working until school started (and I didn't have summer school anymore so it's a good way to kill time). But I wasn't sad about it either, cuz it wasn't that great of a job anyways, and I wanted to not work one of the days next week (but I didn't ask). O well this means I can go to lantern festival next week :D. Yay! I guess fate really does work in my favour huh? Or maybe this is Karma. Either way I'm not to fussed :)

Growing up

Instead of posting about the generic "what's up?", I thought I might post a few of the deep meaningful thoughts I've had throughout the day.

Things you come across on the internet...

I didn't write anything yesterday because really, there was nothing of interest to say.

Interesting work story today though.
This guy wanted to buy a snack right? So I pointed him to the biscuits/cookies section. And he came back with a packet of chocolate wafers and asked me if they were good. The girl with him was objecting to him buying it because she knew what they were like (a bit too dry), but he wouldn't listen to her and asked me about it instead. I said "Well I like wafers. And I think they're pretty good" (even though I wasn't sure because I hadn't tried them before). So he bought them. Then he came back five minutes later with the wafers and said "Hey do you want these? I don't like them cuz they're too dry." (this is what happens when men don't listen to women -_-). And at first I rejected cuz it felt weird to accept food from strangers, but in the end he kinda shoved them on me. And that is the story of how I got a full packet of wafers for free from work ._. They're delicious though :D

疲れた。お休みゃ～ ^(_ _)^~~zzZZZ

What I learnt: While looking at funny anime pictures, I came across the term "rule 63" in the comments section. So I proceeded to google it, and came up with an instant hit. Don't ask me what it means, find it out yourself ._. Here's a nice example.

Tired but inspired

Today I am tired (again XD). I stayed up until 4 last night looking at Detective Conan information, like on the character and live action specials. I don't even know why I did that ._. the internet just sudden;y became interesting to me at 3 in the morning. Had to wake up for Yum Cha this morning too, with the parents T.T luckily it wasn't TOO early, still got a small sleep in.

I went to uni today to finish my assignment, It seems no one else is very clear on what to do either ._. like we ask the stage two paper people and even THEY don't know what to do with the question. I don't even know why this question was put on the assignment when no one knows how to do it and there is no information in the course book telling you how to. Ended up spending a full three and a half hours straight finishing the assignment ToT, with the help of someone else's assignment (not copying, just looking at the working). I swear tedious assignments will be the bane of my existence.

What I learnt today: Oh yea I read this article about this 15 year old kid finding a much cheaper, more efficient way to identify cancer, it was really interesting :o. He combined technology and biology together to come up with a method. It's kinda related to my field of study at the moment, so I find it really interesting :D. Kind of inspires me in a way :3
You can read an interview about his work here.

Happy Chinese New Year!

新年快樂！！！祝大家蛇年好運，身體健康，萬事如意。^^

So it was back to another boring day at work, as everyone kinda stays home on Chinese New Years :/. Bored from 7:30 onward with barely any customers. I saw these cute as kids though. The bigger one is probably around four years old and the smaller one around three years, beautiful ethnic background so they're cute physically as well ^^. They're that type that insist on putting the groceries on the counter themselves, and they were both saying "Up!" while putting the stuff onto the counter. So cute!

Then while on the bus, I sat behind these really cute girls. Asian. They looked Korean but they didn't speak it to each other so I guess they're not? The way that they spoke English to each other, fluent but with a slight hint of an accent. They were passionately talking about good music, and I managed to catch a glimpse of the name Jack Johnson (good taste, girls ^^). I don't why I thought they were cute. Maybe it was they way they were bonding with each other over some good music. It wasn't about boys, and they weren't bitching about how crap life was. Somewhere along those lines.
Feeling weirdly optimistic today~ Ha~ :3

I shall leave you guys with some good music~
Jack Johnson - Upside Down

P.S. George is also very cute ^^

What I learnt today: People get cake for Chinese New Year. What is this?? I don't get delicious, beautiful looking cake for New Years!!! >.<

Work on 年三十晚

Never have I been more happy to work on a busy day like today :D. Two hours passed by so quickly, I didn't even notice until I checked the time on the screen. Then by two and a half hours, time to count the cash and do some cleaning! Got stuck doing more cleaning than I intended to after packing up the vegetables and stuff ~.~ but that's ok, just learn not to ask "what else do I have to do?" next time (lol jokes). Oh well, I got to leave early, so no matter :D. So many people came to shop today ^^ after all, it IS Chinese New Year's Eve (年三十晚), so people are preparing their delicious new year's eve meals~ Saying 新年快乐 to the customers and hearing it coming from them made me feel very festive too ^^ so it made being at work not so bad :D (even though I didn't have the traditional family dinner).

Work story time:
So today this lady wanted to buy a watermelon (we sell them whole), but then she asked if we had a large knife so she could cut it into little pieces to take home. At first we (other cashier and I) thought she wanted to cut it open to see if it was good, and we said "No you can't do that". I thought I was hearing wrong due to my bad Chinese listening skills. But apparently it was because she didn't have a large knife at home to cut it open with. Why would you buy a whole watermelon if you don't have a knife to cut it up with? O.o. And the whole time I was thinking "how do you expect to bring it home after you've cut it up into pieces...?". So there I was, watching the lady cut up the watermelon ON MY COUNTER (on newspaper) into bite-able pieces, and putting them into the plastic bags we provide (which is slightly unhygienic), all the while I'm going "Wtf... this is happening... O.o". Yup WTF moment at work ._.

What I learnt today: To test if a watermelon is good to eat, just smack it lightly and test it for vibration or if it has a hollow sound. If it does/vibrates well, then it means it has a lot of juice (inside the hollows) and is likely to be sweet :)

I am ashamed~

I didn't write a post for yesterday. This is not good. I know that once drop off the wagon once, I'm likely to drop off again. 良くないよ～

I had a good reason though (I guess). I had a really bad headache that was killing me and all I wanted to do was go to bed. I was trying really hard, lay down and closed my eyes and stuff, but couldn't fall asleep >.< (insomnia? but likely due to the headache as well). And kept getting called out by the parents, sigh...
Had a bit of a sleep in this morning, so I got refreshed.

What I learnt: Don't sleep so late, especially around school time. I know I tell this to myself a million times and I never listen. But hopefully this time has taught me a lesson. And really, wear more clothes when it's cold... sigh >.<

Waitangi day, so beach day :D

I think I'd have much rather stayed at home and slept in today, or continue watching Digimon or something. But I thought, since it was still a week day, I might as well go out and soak up some sun, and leave lazing about for the weekends. I ended up going into the water even thought I wasn't intending to (that always happens, I just want to join in the fun :3). Hanging out with Big Bro kind of sucks now, cuz I feel like I'm third-wheeling it all the time. Luckily I'm better friends with his girl friend than he is, so she's always on my side/prefers to hang with me hehe. Kinda sad that I didn't get to take pictures because my camera is now permanently stuffed T.T I guess I'll just have to rely on the ones other people took...

Today is a prime example of how things don't always go as planned:
- I didn't expect today to end up being a good day, especially since I was quite bored at the start (I don't really mix with this crowd, you see), but I guess going into the water made it better :).
- I also expected to go to Kiwiyo. It's so close by after all, and so delicious + all the others were going as well. Then one of the guys just HAPPEN to spill soft drink all over MY shoes (which strangely pissed me off a lot at that time O.o), so I couldn't wear them to go to the shops and had to dry them out in the sun instead.
- Finally, I made it back into town (was so tired that I was falling asleep on the bus >.<) and was so keen to go home and take a catnap. But after I made a detour, I bumped into my uni club (KAC) friends :o. They said they were going to get some food, so I went with (cuz I hadn't had lunch ._.).

So marks another significant event in my life: Had Burger Fuel for the first time in my life today :D

Chook Royale ('tis a mini burger) + combo

(aioli is surprisingly tasty)

What I learnt today: So apparently there is a fruit called Pineberries O.o. They are a mix of strawberries and pineapples, and the look like strawberries and taste like pineapples.

Tbh they look a little creepy to me... those red seeds... >.<

帰った! (I'm back!)

I skipped lecture again this morning. Seriously why do I even bother? :P. I went to get breakfast though (well it was more like a treat XD). At Moustache Milk and Cookie bar, they have a special flavor that they release every week and this week it was Tiramisu (one of my favourite flavors :D), so I just HAD to try one. It was actually quite good. A double coffee shot is poured onto the cookie, so the entire cookie is soft (so it's easy to poke the fork through) The cream dampens down the bitterness and adds the 'light and fluffy' element to compensate for the richness of the coffee. You really do need the cream though, because the cookie is literally drenched in coffee.

Sure it looks like a cake, but it's a cookie :D with cream on top

(crappy camera quality >.<)

At tutorial today, I managed to race ahead with most of the questions and getting all the answers correct, which means I actually understand what I'm doing :DDD (you have no idea how good that feels to an average person like me). Afterwards I went to pool with a couple of friends, and probably played the best I'd ever played, yet :o. This was most likely due an overall contentment with how the day was going (nothing bad happened), so I was able to fully focus on most of my shots. Even won my last game with my beloved 'behind-the-back' shot.

全体として、今日は良い日だよね～ ^^

Also: Got told that tomorrow was Waitangi day (fail, living here 11 years and not knowing that ._.), so there's no class. Not that it really matters to me, It's not like I go to uni for the class anyways :P.

What I learnt today: Apparently the slots in the post boxes labelled 'Standard' and 'Fast' actually lead to the same letter bag inside. I had no idea O.o. And that they get sorted out after they are taken to the post office (fast post letters have more stamps and a 'fast' sticker on them to indicate they need to be fast posted).

猫ーたんはひどい雨がすごく好きじゃない

今日はひどい雨が降ったから、大嫌い。I think this illustrates me very well where at one point at work, I was so entranced by the rain (because it was raining so hard) that I didn't realise there were customers behind me waiting in line.

It's not that I dislike rain. I just dislike heavy rain. Puddles soak into my shoes (if they're not waterproof type shoes). Everything gets wet, my clothes, my hair, my bag, etc. It's slippery everywhere. It's one of those times where you just can't wait to go home and snuggle into your warm, cozy bed with a cup of hot chocolate.

I do like light rain though, sometimes. I remember back in high school when I danced in the rain. That rush of adrenaline when you can't be anymore drenched than you already are and you're just hopping/skipping around, without a care in the world. One of the best feelings~ (no I didn't catch a cold after, aren't I lucky?)

What I learnt: I finally learnt to take my time with clean up so to take up more of the time I have left at work. Hahaha... (there were no customers, there was nothing to do at check out, it was really boring... >.<)

お休み～

今日はつまらない。三時間の間に、デジモンを見たり、まんがを読んだり、友達と喋ったりしました。それから、アルバイトに行きました。今、ベッドの上に座りながら、このポストを書けます。私は本当につまらない人ですね～

眠い
眠い
本当に眠い
とても眠い
すごく眠い
ね. む. い.
(寝ていく)

本当に眠いから、もっとを書きたくない。
-お終い

What I learnt today: More like what I saw today, my dad shaved his head ._. Like I came home and I was like "Who's this bald man on my couch? Holy s*** it's my dad! O.o"
すごくびっくりしました。

Get well soon, mummy~

Mummy was sick today :( so sick that she had to go to the doctors. (We almost never have to go to the doctors. I've only ever been to the doctors twice since I came here 11 years ago). Turns out she had a really high fever, 39 degrees Celsius O.o. Still don't know what the cause is yet, we shall just have to wait for the blood test report to come in.

Work today was a nightmare. I kept running out of change to give to the customers. I knew I didn't have enough change at first, so asked the boss to change some notes into coins (first ask). I also knew it wouldn't be enough to sustain me through 4 hours, but I didn't want to bother him too much so I didn't ask further. Then twice when I was the only cashier left, I ran out of change again =_=". So I had to go bother the boss TWICE (second and third ask) for change, WHILE making the customers wait because I didn't have enough money to give them. What's even worse is that apparently there was no $10 or $5 notes left, and by the time I'd asked the second time, no gold coins. How is that possible?! O.o. And customers feel annoyed about have to carry coins around, so even more inconvenient. I'm sure even the boss was annoyed that I kept asking him change my notes into coins. Nightmare.
Then on the bus ride home, these drunk retards (I can't think of any other name for them) were being so loud. One of them was trying to shush the others up, but they continued laughing and talking really loud (one of them kept saying "INSTAGRAM!" =_=). I just wanted to tell them to SHUT THE F*** UP. I managed to get off the bus while keeping my composure though.
Man I am NOT a happy girl when it's that time of the month... ._.

My friend just linked me this song, it's stuck in my head now. Although I gotta say, it's a pretty good song :D
Jack's Mannequin - Swim

What I learnt today: So apparently I've been spelling awkward wrong all my life. I've always spelt it "awkard" but apparently it's spelt "awkward". So fail ._. (just like the time where I used to spell available "avaliable". But don't worry, I've fixed that :D)

So much to watch, so little time

I don't even know why I bothered to turn up to uni today. I pretty much skipped my only class and stayed in Ic0 for like 5 hours. Well I had to hand in my assignment, but that's about it. Saw a few of my friends, the usual people playing games haha. Bumped into one of my old friends, kinda caught up (although we don't get along THAT well, so he just kinda pissed me off). Went to La Couronne's again today :D (I think I'm getting addicted to them). I bought a tuna and cheese bun like last time, a peanut butter bun (interesting) and a mexico chocolate, since it was the only chocolate bun there (last one left too). I expected it to be average, covered in chocolate polo stuff and that's it. But I didn't realise it had chocolate in it! O.o. OMG that moment I realised when I bit into the chocolate inside, it was so delicious!!! They should REALLY make those more often! (I think they were only available today)

 OMG chocolate filled! Om nom nom~ (yes sorry it is half eaten so doesn't look very appetising ._.)

I finally finished Digimon Adventures today :D (that's season 1). So happy ^^. Even though I had already watched the last episode in the beginning, I decided to watch it again, just for finality's sake. Now I've moved onto Digimon Adventure 02, wonder how long that will take me to finish XD (season 1 only took me about a week, and it was 54 episodes). Also I obtained Sword Art Online from my friend :D very interested to watch and see what it's like since a lot of my friends say it's really good. I also got Clannad. However when we searched up the plotline, it sounded like it was one of those very depressing storylines with no happy ending, so I'm not sure if I want to watch it.... Especially since I JUST watched a really sad episode of 下一站辛福 ToT. Cried so hard that my eyes hurt and my nose is still stuffed.

What I learnt today: That there are now 649 pokemon (excluding the ones from pokemon X and Y) O.o. And apparently in the game of X and Y, you can catch all the other pokemon from all the other generations. Have fun catching 650+ pokemon, people!

From brood to good

This morning trying to get a coffee from Esquires and 15 minutes later, coffee still not done =_=. Was getting kinda impatient, but they were really busy so I didn't bother them. Another 5 minutes later, they ask if I ordered a Cappuccino and I said "No I ordered a strawberry white chocolate mocha, regular". Turns out my drink was the one sitting on their coffee counter waiting to be served, but surely by then it had grown cold, so they made me a new one :). By that time I didn't even care, I just wanted to grab my coffee and be off, but the waiter dude even said the next time the coffee is on him, hopefully he remembers me the next time haha....

Was still a bit depressed due to my test mark, and maths was not being nice to me today at all. Finally finished my assignment (yay) but made a huge mistake on a question in the middle and there wasn't enough space to write down the right answer so I had to rewrite the entire page again =_=. Through tutorial, I got lost as to what she was saying half way through, so I BARELY managed to keep up with the rest of what she was saying while trying to figure out where I went wrong. Had to get my friend to explain it to me afterwards, at least he's patient. We both got really bored while each waiting for our events to happen, so we ended up making up some fun for ourselves, at each other's expense (yes, we were THAT bored).

Had an exec meeting at night. At first I didn't want to go, because I was tired from the day and just wanted to go home. However it was actually quite fun :). The grape green tea with pearls I had was quite nice, the pearl are actually good here (at Yosmite, out east). We came up with lots of good ideas and elaborated on them more in detail, looks like they're gonna go through with them. And we all had a good laugh during the non-serious moments. So the day kinda turned out well despite it getting off to a bad start.

A new conan opening song came out today :D immediately addicted
倉木麻衣 - Try again

What I learnt: I learnt a bit of programming today :D. Not sure what language it's part of, Java I think? Like one thing was;
system.output.println "start: " + start + " value: " + value +, which results in
start: *whatever was assigned to start* value: *whatever was assigned to value*
(I don't know if this is completely right because I'm just pulling this out of my memory ._.)

Watermelon is good for a hot day~

This morning I actually woke up early-ish (because my phone's vibrate is really loud), and I was txting for a bit, but then I decided to go back to sleep, which resulted in me waking up late again XD. So like yesterday, I had skipped the first half of the lesson. At quarter to 12 (break is at 12), I saw these two students coming out of the classroom going "omg that lecture was so boring". Then when I snuck in during the 10 minute break, I had noticed they hadn't even gone through the whole first half yet (which is a whole lecture in the course guide), whereas I went through the whole lecture by myself in half an hour while sitting outside. Shows how useful these lectures are huh? Half way through I decided to take a catnap and woke up at the end of the lesson. That was like the best nap I've had in a lecture yet! I felt so refreshed after :D

I actually did a surprising amount of work today :o. Did most of my assignment except the last question, and the all the Matlab work. Spent about two hours in the computer lab because I was confused about what to write on the sheet (as we had not gone through the commands for that topic yet) and the tutors were NOT helpful at all (granted they weren't maths tutors, but still). In the end I managed to figure out what was wrong. Turns out they typed the wrong symbol on the sheet which caused me to get the wrong answer =_=. 好在我同maths有緣，如果唔係就永遠都做唔完la~ 

I DID feel a strange amount of pride when I finished most of my work though, it's not a feeling I get everyday. Goes to show how much I can actually accomplish when I actually do something productive with my free time :)

(But just accidentally came across my test result, so am slightly depressed now...)

What I learnt today: Learnt (by MYSELF because there was a typo on the sheet ~.~) that the matlab function for double differentiation is diff(f^2), for a certain function f (NOT diff(f,2) like they printed on the sheet, holding a slight grudge haha)

What is a blog?

Today I woke up a bit late and spent a bit too long getting ready, so ended up wagging half my lecture (two hour lecture, was planning to join in the second half). But then I bumped into my friend while sitting outside waiting for my class, and he's smart, so I decided not to go class and get him to help me instead XD (if i needed). He didn't have class anyways. Head was feeling a bit cloudy :/ really just wanted to continue lying in bed, but it would've made my head still hurt.

At tutorial today I was surprised I actually understood this vector stuff now. Went through it pretty quickly by myself., until the last question. So I waited until the tutor got to it. Funnily her marker ran out of ink at that point and she told us to just go find the answers on cecil, so we were all keen to leave. That is until this one guy decided to hand his marker to the tutor. I scanned the room at all the others' faces, they all had a look of "Wth... Why...? ==". I found that rather entertaining to watch. I even heard one of the girls in front of the guy say to him "Why would you do that?!" Ha XD. So we all got kept in an extra 10 minutes when we could've left early (you could literally hear the scribbling of pens/pencils as we all hurried to copy it down so we could leave XD)

Afterwards I watched the third episode of 下一站辛福 (english: Autumn's concerto) with a friend. The preview from the last episode really drew me in O.o and it certainly lived up to it. Was so dramatic :o sad moments, funny moments, touching moments, definitely worthy to be called a drama :D (I praise my friend for recommending it 3 years ago ^^). My mood got a bit dampened down after playing pool with them :/ but don't worry, I will bounce back :). Just one of those emotional days I guess. Can't believe I'm saying this, but I AM glad to be back at uni. Although it will very likely get a lot tougher when Semester one starts > .<.

What I learnt today: I learnt from my friend who currently does a Computer Science course that the proper definition of a blog is "A web log, such as an online journal where posts are made in reverse chronological order. Other types of blogs also include Photoblogs, Videoblogs and Soundblogs (podcasts)". Interesting piece of information, but who the hell needs to remember that? XD

別の日だけ (Just another day)

Auckland anniversary day today. But it doesn't feel much like a holiday, more like a weekend day (because both mum and dad are home and I just do what I do every other weekend day haha). Still not getting enough sleep though > .< head kinda hurts. I really should sleep earlier... (believe me you will hear this many more times as I continue blogging haha...) Although the most joyous news that I've heard today was when my manager called me to say I didn't have to work today XD (they weren't gonna pay me time and a half anyways, so I didn't want work. But they couldn't find a replacement for me until this afternoon.) So I continued on happily with my Digimon~ :3. I'm up to episode 35 now :D.

I guess karma sometimes really DOES work in my favour huh?

Went out to dinner with my parents (again), down at the food court below The Strand. We had this large bowl of Tempura Udon, it was quite nice :o like the tempura fish was quite good, will definitely try again :D. And BBQ beef with rice, was too salty.

                                                      Giant bowl of Udon :o                                  Beef BBQ

What I learnt today: That いらっしゃいます/いらっしゃいませ is the honorific form of "to be" and that shop owners saying it to you when you come in has a meaning somewhat like "Honour us by coming into our humble establishment"

End of the week

Today was even worse than yesterday. On the bus on the way to work i was falling asleep. All the way through work, I was yawning all the way through work. And for the first time in ages, I actually have illness symptoms for being overly tired. My head was spinning a bit, feeling heavy, concentration was out, and I felt light headed (which has never happened to me). I can't even remember the last time I was THAT tired (And there were times that I have been more tired and I was never liked that O.o). Then the moment I got home and went on the internet, I was tired anymore. What ._.

Also I have noticed I really don't have much to write in the weekends :/ most likely due to the fact that I stay home in the weekends so there's not much exciting happening. Which then feels like I just making up a whole lot of rubbish to post here. Perhaps I should consider posting only when I have something interesting to say... or take my friend's suggestion and write "晴，没事" XD. O well, Tuesday's a school day again. Hopefully something interesting to write about will happen :)

What I learnt today: Despite feeling like I was not going to survive through work, a 600ml bottle of Assam tea can keep me going for the rest of the work shift :o. Hurray for sugar! XD

^(_ _)^~ zzzZZZ

I really shouldn't have stayed up til 2:30am last night..... (was deleting all the useless stupid stuff on facebook...) I'm sooo tired today >.<. Woke up at 10:30, thought didn't get up til 11:15 haha. Went to friends's house for a bit of DMC. Then went to work. Only just got home, sigh....

I have a random craving for cheese today :o. Like when I had lunch at my friend's today (it was american hotdog), my mind was thinking "Hmm I want cheese on this...". And then we also got spaghetti and cheese toasties as well, om nom nom~ As well as on the way to work and on the way home, I was craving cheese O.o. I had this instant cheese with noodles thing in my bag and was just yearning to eat it. When I went to make it, I retreated to my room for five minutes waiting for the water to boil, and came out to find that my dad had left the water in (instead of draining it like you're meant to) and mixed the cheese in with the water. Talk about ruining my dinner... T.T

仲有啊，今日真係累到死。寞講話返工，連同人講嘢、行街、攞嘢食都失晒魂 >.< 真慘 (不過我係有啲蠢咗既... :P)

Ok now to watch some Digimon to cheer me up~ :3

What I learnt today: That it is possible for me to be falling asleep when you're walking along the road...

Blast from the past

Not much happened today. Went to class, learnt more about matrices, then went home.Was meant to go pool with a couple of friends, but then something came up so they couldn't go, what a shame. Not used to going home at 1pm :/. Though I bought some stuff from La Couronne before I home, tuna and cheese bun (surprisingly tasty) and 菠蘿包, as well as stocking up on V for the upcoming school term :3. When i got home, I started watching Digimon (one of my friends had posted on facebook that they were rewatching it from the start a while back, so that got me into it too~).

OMG I love digimon! It was like my favourite childhood anime! Along with Cardcaptor Sakura :D and Yu-Gi-Oh (omg I'm such a guy XD). So I've been watching it since then, quite interesting actually :3 didn't realise how cute the baby forms of their digimon were until now :D. Althought Digimon got a bit crap since Tamers, so I stopped watching. I used to like Frontier a lot but realised they're not really digimon, just humans transforming.

Surprise, surprise!

Today was one of my friend's birthday, and he's not the celebrating/big party type, so we held a surprise party for him :D (well more of a picnic). We were all waiting at the park near our uni, preparing for his arrival. Even set out a picnic blanket and hung up a pinata :D. Thought we did end up waiting for ages due to the guy who was meant to bring the birthday boy kind of failing at his job :P (everyone kept saying "he had ONE job" XD). But when it came to the time that we were meant to jump out and yell surprise, was pretty entertaining. I was just watching the guy and the birthday boy walk right past the tree we were hiding behind, and saw that the guy was trying to look for us, but we were right behind him (some people are so oblivious ae? XD). Then all my friends went and stompity stomped (ran) towards the birthday boy and yelled "SURPRISE!!!!". Not that he looked very surprised haha. I'm sure he had a good day overall :)

Delicious Coffee/walnut/raisin cake :D

(I get the feeling there was rum in it...)