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...)

何を食べましょか？(What shall we eat today?)

So today I went to Heritage Auckland, Hector's restaurant for high tea with a few of friends :D. Wondering why we decided on such a high class, likely quite expensive, congregation? Because we all got vouchers from Grabone :P (High tea for two for half the price, worth our money). It looked so amazing and high class, even when glancing at it from the outside (expect nothing less from a high class restaurant in a hotel :P). Luckily we were all dressed up a bit for the occasion (well most of us :P).

While waiting for our trays of food to arrive, we pondered over the tea menu. So many choices O.o Paris, Decaf Earl grey, Japanese Sencha... all very exotic sounding XD. In the end, I chose Raspberry Herbal. It was as I expected. Not sweet, more sour, but still fruity tasting and smelling. Although my favourite was the Hot Cinnamon Spice tea that one of my friends had ordered. Very strong smell of cinnamon, even from a foot away, as well as being the only tea we had that had a hint of sweetness to it (I love sugar XD).

From the top (lightest colour), going clockwise: 

Japanese Sencha, White Peach, Raspberry Herbal, Paris, Hot Cinnamon Spice and Pomegranate Oolong

"Four emotions in one day"

It's amazing how one little test can get you so down in the dumps. I thought I would be amazingly happy after I finished, and I was. Until I decided to check the answers over with a friend after (I knew it was a bad idea). While walking home, my thoughts trailed further into the pit of despair about how badly I did (how much percentage I lost, how that would affect my final grade, etc...). It made me so depressed that I didn't want to interact with anyone, I just wanted to curl up into a ball and hide. Or a hug. A hug would've been nice. I like hugs. :3

However what's also amazing is how the little things in life can bring you back from from that pit. Watching a few episodes of drama with a cool drink beside you, talking/joking with that 'someone', looking at pictures of cute animals even XD. Anything to take your mind off the thoughts you just put yourself through. This helps to snap you back to reality, brings you back to your old self.

So what I've learnt today is that just like the crazy weather here, emotions can change just as quickly in one day. The best thing to do is just let it happen and learn from it. Then keep walking forward to what the future brings you.

What I learnt today: Emotions can be just as crazy as the Auckland weather :P

To blog, or not to blog

So throughout the last couple years, I've discovered many people's blogs. For example: from links, or they told me about it, or even from plain stalking (?) XD. And I've always thought, "Nah, I'm too lazy to keep up a blog. It's not gonna happen." I've always been more of a reader rather than a writer. However when I read about other peoples lives/thoughts/dreams, it really spurs me on to write down a piece of my own life. Not that anyone will discover and read this anyways hehe.
Let's see JUST how long this lasts ae?