A Summary 22 November, 2008

Live. Love. Learn. Life
♥

This entry has been sectioned for easy reading and well, actually just an easy entry for me. Coz I’ve wanted to blog but just not sure where to start and well, waited till now coz thought that there would be some photo-taking yesterday but there’s not so oh well and yeah. And, end of the week is a good time to post and reflect and summarise :]

WORK

Work is good other than not being paid this week due to me forgetting to fill out and give timesheet to boss/finance department… T_T damnit, then realizing like after work and then going in the next day to see if I could… I couldn’t =(

And from next week onwards I’ll be working there everyday from 12.30 – 2.30 as opposed to just two days a week… and when I’m back in West Auckland, have to train in everyday…. it’ll be like I’m going to uni! Heh… must be how its like for full-timers…. with the exception that I’ll be only working two hours a day! xD

It’s good. Gives me something to do since well, I can’t get a new (retail?) job anyway coz of me going overseas in about a month (hmm… actually month~ four weeks!! ^.^) so yeah, this is good aand obviously I will be getting more money and hopefully paying off that damn overdraft finally. It was supposed to be like paid off um, on Thursday? My last allowance payment….? Yeah.. didn’t happen -_-

UNI

I failed a paper.. It sucks, but oh well. That happens. =\ Actually got an F….. but hopefully I don’t think it matters next year since I’ve changed like from an extended Chinese major to a double major (in Event Management).. Ahh, more work (probably?) and like more papers to pass…. well hopefully it is interesting and just realized that I never mentioned this change of plan. The paper descriptions I rea seem interesting and have planned (really) small events and quite enjoyed it…… yeah, we’ll see what I say this time next year. Quite proud of that small birthday celebration for a friend that I planned, but anyways, this is getting off-track..

Got results back yesterday and it was good and bad (this was just for the Chinese papers). I passed Chinese II but I failed the year-long Written Chinese paper… fcuk. Oh well. It’s not the end of the world and like I said earlier, I don’t think this affects my degree anymore as I don’t think I need it anymore.. :] Got B- for Chinese II. Which I’m pretty happy about. My whole semester of (not-much, but much at the same time…?) study!

Still waiting back on a core paper, icomm. Not sure when will get those.. probably in the first week of December… hopefully earlier~

SOCIAL LIFE & FRIENDS

Social life has been alright this past two weeks, ever since I finished exams for the year. Been loved and visited by friends! ^^ That has been awesome. And hung out and caught up with a few others.. actually thinking back hasn’t really been much but a lot in my book. :]

This week saw a movie with a friend. Went to see Saw V. Friend didn’t think the traps/games were great.. “ametuer” in comparison to the previous ones, according to her. I thought that it was a pretty good movie, on par with the rest (but then realizing that I hadn’t actually seen all of them and think even thought that was the fourth~ =_=) but yeah now thinking back, I do agree with her comment, specially in comparison to the limb torture one! AH! >_<

Also went to the beach with classmates after getting results back. That was good. The was sooo nice! Definitely gonna go again (maybe, hopefully more than once!) before I leave for HK/China!~~ Also got like the typical kiwi fish and chips for lunch and the girls had icecream.. that was nice. Had it at that Gelato and Sorbert shop.. think that was what it was called. Had Tiramisu flavoured icecream.. wanted Rum and Rasin (alcoholic! LOL XD) but they didn’t have that flavour. Damnit. And then just laid on the beach for a while and soaking up the Vitamin D… when I got back, was feeling quite tired, maybe too much? Haha. It was great.

And speaking of alcoholic, met up with two friends after work on Thursday and well, ended up drinking at my place with some sushi that we made while watching some Home & Away~ ^^ It was nice. Quite excited about my friend’s upcoming birthday dinner (plans haha.. but also means spending T_T)

Good week

COMING UP….

• Friend’s birthday dinner on the 5th.
• And also before that am planning on a shopping trip to get a new dress for that birthday with my gift vouchers that I got for my birthday but still haven’t spent
• Possibly another class outing (lol) on the same day since I have like work and the birthday dinner later that nigth and it would just be poitnless to go back and so yeah, hopefully~
• CHINA/HK TRIP! – this is the most exciting and the one I cannot wait for!! Shopping, shopping and more shopping! Oh, and of course visiting and spending time with family and relatives. And also possibly improving my Chinese

And there’s probably other little spontaneous things along the way in the next five weeks Actually, there will definitely be some more. I’d like see some movies that are coming out like My Best Friend’s Girl and possibly (yes, delayed, lol) Dark Knight too.. I hear it’s $8 atm…. anyone keen? (That’s living in the Auckland region haha) Oooh and karaoke again too!

And, lastly, which I wasn’t going to mention but maybe (actually it is) mention more indepth at my LJ (if you would like it, email me and we’ll see from there ) is the love life. Virtually, nothing to mention and nonexistent! As the saying goes, you can’t have everything and when I did have one, it was last semester and my grades weren’t too hot… but this semester it wasn’t too hot… actually FAILED! -__- but. Not the end of the world! That was a year-long paper and soo yeah… damnit. Maybe would of had a chance if I didn’t like um, pretty much fail the last exam! D:

But yes. That is my life in the past two weeks and also semester. Not much excitement or drama (no drama is great, thanks!) but was a pretty social and good year for the academics~ =]

We shall see what next year/semester brings with my changed double degree of Event Management and Chinese. I have also signed up for Student Mentors and so that should add some spice to the mix of things Can’t believe that another year is nearly over and will be going into the new year in another country! How exciting! =) Although wish we were going into the New Chinese New Year over there…. money! Hahahaha XD

I will follow this up with a list of my current favourites that you might like to check out…… tomorrow n_n

Hope you all had a great year/semester and that you all go into the new year with a bang! (I know I will be…. kinda… maybe. Okay. Not. Lol.) But yes. A New Year Is About To Come….. ♥

YUS! OVERDRAFT = GOING DOWN! :D 13 November, 2008

“A smile is nearly always inspired by another smile.”
- Anonymous

YAYYYYY!!!! My overdraft is going down! I am sooo happy. This end of year and actaully SEMESTER has actually been pretty great! Greatness all around… and now that just sounds cheesy, lol. >.<

Overdraft = now $116! YUS!

The next couple of weeks is going to be quite good too… well the next week anyways…

1. Getting exams back… fingers crossed I passed! ><
2. Some plans with Chinese Class (LOL, yes, we’re that tight haha XD)
3. Getting paid… haha… and equals overdraft disappearing! Also my last allowance payment~
4. Friends (finally) coming to visit me!

Well.. the last one is actually this week but nonetheless, I’ll count them as like next week lol… OOoh and HEROES! Coming back. OMG! It is sooo goood!!! >_< But so very whyyy and wtf as well.

Ohhh and like today also like got reconnected with an old friend on FB! Facebook is great! Lol. That’s now like two people finding me in a FB group lol… (the primary school I went to~)

Soo yeah, life has never been so great! I’m very happy. And ooohhh of course CHINA AND HK! YUS!! HAPPY! LIKE OMG!

Sooo pretty much there is quite a few things that I am looking forward that’s coming up in the next month… like:

1. CHINA/HK! LIKE OH YEAH AND OMG!!!! YUS~ ^_^
2. My friend, Chloe’s birthday dinner… birthdays  are always nice and good time to catch up! =)
3. Working! Yes… lol… I found out that I will be working till the week before I leave for China/HK! ^.^
4. And the above stuff, exam handback plans, etc etc.

I am like pretty happy and satisfied with life atm. And exaaaaams have finsihed! Yus! Finally!

Though one thing that hasn’t really like “lifted off” is that NZ site… I’m too lazy to like tend to it… emailed a few sites in the hopes of a exchange but yeah… I dunno. I think I need more help. Heh.

Oooh and of course not like forgetting my little outing today, lol! It was actually quite interesting~ Like I stumbled onto this guy on Vulcan Lane, I think like doing this awesome and soo original painting! Sucks that I was like 30c short of $2 to try and get one through the raffle he was doing! The art was like soo great! Pretty great~ It’s like apparently this technique from South Africa and like next to no one other than he does it!? It’s pretty awesome!

Also, this guy was busking..

And I believe that is about all! Satisfication. ♥

Oh and am also planning a few stuff before the end of the year/before I leave… presents… gotta go shopping for a secret santa present on Snark and also for some other people. =) Might leave some till I actually have money!~ But would like the snark secret santa to be like sent out soonish… since it’s gotta be sent overseas~

Since, am sharing photos, below, jacket I bought at Pagani the other for half price of the original!~

=)

Sigh. Monday.. Again~ 13 October, 2008

It is Monday… again. It’s amazing how fast a week has gone by… it seems that it was just yesterday that it was the beginning of the second half of the second semester… and I just somewaht made it really complicated lol. Oh well.

Monday, Monday, Monday…. =_=

For some reason I have been feeling like tired all weekend after cleaning the bathroom (yes, I know, some people’s gotta clean their bathroom AND kitchen AND lounge etc) and my friend’s 21st.. Not sure why but hmm. /Shrug.

But yes… last Friday was my friend’s 21st and it was pretty good… had a little wine and a Corona before having to leave and look after a friend got sick after too many wines… gotta say that’s the shortest amount of time I’ve stayed at a party~ lol. It wasn’t that bad though, good that she got over most of the throwing up and didn’t have to watch it… coz if that happened, I think I would have been throwing up also >_<

But yeah she was thankful and such… unlike other people I have had to help who was like pretty ungrateful and remembering back, didn’t even say thanks.. and I even got blamed by the father! =_= Oh well. Not friends with them anymore. So, yeah.

Met one of her my friend’s friends at the bar, lol. While I was waiting to get served and yeah, she was nice. Also talked to another of her friends which I met earlier this year/late last year (or almost like a year ago) at a defensive driving course in Mt Roskill area. Other than was just drinking my wine/Corona with family friends and two other friends who I knew.

But yes, I don’t think I will be returning there again in a hurry~ also took something that don’t think will be like ever returning heh.. >_<

The rest of the weekend…. didn’t do like anything other than clean bathroom and then like sleeping on and off and then not being able to sleep till 5 am! >.< Oops..? -_-

Should really study more… wow, I cannot believe that there is only like three. more. weeks of uni~ kinda scary.. well not really but to know that a year’s already over and… well…  guess a lot of achievement(s)… like that at the beginning of this year, didn’t know ANY Mandarin Chinese and yeah.. amazing what coming onto 8 months can do…. can string together like sentences and understand (kind of…) some basic conversation. Quite amazing… sort of…

But yes.. somewhat a lot to do before the end of semester… like creating a Chinese newsletter and like study.. yup, study.. ugh… ><

Sigh. I also hope, maybe even wish that my family and I wil be able to go overseas to China/HK! That would be really great and definitely the cherry on the top of the year~ it’d just make this year somewhat even more awesome and better.. not exactly sure what has made this year like great..

But yes.. till next time~

Birthday, External Hard Drive and Other Stuff 18 September, 2008

So. I have managed to once again damage (most definitely beyond repair) my second external hard drive!

And what have I learned… don’t put it near the edge of the bed or on top of tvs or anywhere where it may fall off and onto the ground! =_=

I never learn, do I!? T_T

I am not as concerned and distraught as the first time because I was smart and zipped all my photos that I had on the external hard drive and saved it onto my computer’s hard drive… and I’m not really too concerned what like documents I have lost becuase all that matters is my photos… that are like irreplaceable and I will never be able to like take again… etc. But I do wonder what I have lost other than nearly 5 GB of music and about like a season or two of tv programmes that I have spent endless amounts of time dedicated to their sometimes slow download times.. but oh well. *sigh*  I guess this gives me like a reason to tidy up my music collection… been meaning to do that~

I’m also not very concerned by what methods (i.e. money) that I am going to be getting another one… first one I paid for (with my OD – overdraft.. ) and the second one my mum paid for…  I have an inkling that she probably won’t be paying for this third one… maybe half….? But yeahh… not quite sure how I am going to go about this…. hmmm.

Soo. Onto other stuff. I am sick. Third or fourth day into it. It began with an awful itchy and sore throat and then escalated into a sniffling and.. I won’t go into the details but yes, a sniffling nose and dreadful and quite painful cough and now just sniffling nose and occasional coughing…  was coughing like there was no tomorrow yesterday! Jeez!! T_T And it was my birthday as well! T_T

And yes, yesterday was my actual birthday and I actually went and hung out with friends from my Chinese class despite the fact that I was sick and probably shouldn’t have been out… but hey, colds are the result from being inside too much…. as I read. Somewhere.. but yeah.. I kind somewhat have been inside the past few days… but yeah, that’s another story~

On my actual birthday I had lunch with Nikki and Robin at Momo tea ^^ it was nice… but didn’t finish it.. =\ Good value for $10 though! Then we went and got sticker photos~! (Soo typically asian, haha – well then again, we are studying chinese and like 2/3 of us are asian haha, soo it’s all good ) After that we walked around trying to find a karaoke place coz the place that we were going to go to wasn’t open.. found another near downtown and it was pretty good ~ $30 for 1 hour..

It was a great day! Despite again that I was sick and coughing like craaazy! That wasn’t fun. The karaoke place was pretty awesome too.. there was like disco lights haha.. The place is pretty decent as well! Pretty recent song choices… I sung a few songs that I usually sing like A Whole New World (awesome song! Pretty much know all the lyrics~ haha xD) and some other stuff… sung Angel by Shaggy (I surprised myself by actually by being able to sing it hahaha) and The Great Escape. Another really awesome song! I like it. Yeah it was a good day ^^

Oh. Damn… this compiling and re-creating of my music library again… urgh! >_< I haaate it! I think I need some help haha.. I’m going to enlist help in getting my friends to send me music via MSN hahaha. Oh, the offer is extended here too… if you feel like helping the cause of making Maggie’s iTunes fat and healthy again… you know where to find me! All donations greatly appreciated! ^_^

And, that is all for now~ hope everyone is doing fine and for those on holiday, enjoy it while it lasts… while I spend the last of mine sick and having not much energy to do much other than lurk on the net…. *sigh* Also gotta get my icommunicate powerpoint done…. T_T It is due almost exactly a week from now… =_=

Straight from my….. 7 July, 2008

[Friends Only] LJ~! That is on the rare occasion t hat I remember to update it with a public entry!

Met up and went out with a few people from my Chinese class the other night…. Saturday night I believe and it was the best night out ever! ^_^

I…. got extremely wasted! >_< Not really…. but I definitely did drink more alcohol that I normally would…. I had four lemon, lime and vodkas and then when we went to the karaoke place on Queen Street, next to the Korean bank, had probably about 3-4-5 even? shots of soju! >< And somehow I ended up getting money out to pay for the karaoke….?!

I probably maybe should’ve updated this like yesterday when I was like more like I dunno remembering lol… I don’t know. I’m not in a very blogging sort of mood atm.

Oh and I think… I definitely had a hangover the next day! I wasn’t really feeling that well aaand yeah.. I probably wouldn’t have gotten out of bed if I didn’t have to meet up with my friend, A but it was all good! The catch up was great. She is sooo amusing!!! I like forget how amusing my old friends from primary are! And also told me a few home truths… I hate it when what they say is true but you just don’t want to believe it and yeah…. it’s been a benefit of a doubt thing and yeah… just didn’t want to believe it.

Oh yes. I didn’t have much recollection the next day after I was like gone…… I was quite surprised that I made it to bed… in my pjs too and yeah.. haha… it was fun. We went to Barzuka and originally it was just me, Sabrina and Lee.. then txted a few other people and then Ryan and Alex and his (girl)friend turned up later.

I overspent that night… it’s not much… like in total I spent $60 on alcohol and karaoke and a few random stuff… like icecream and umm.. McDonald’s chips lol.

Gotta haircut! ^^ It’s greeeat! I LOVE IT! It’s like the best haircut I’ve ever had… coming under closely tothe haircut I got back in China when I last went.

Koreans are awesome hairdressers!! And in general, Asians too! I reckon Japanese and Koreans are the best. But, atm I am thinking with this experience, Koreans ftw! Oooh, I got it cut at the place called ID in like midcity… haha I was like descibing and going on about my haircut and how great it was etc to my friend the other night and like I was like SOOO bad at describing where it was and I had like forgotten the name of the place… lol.

I paid $35 for the haircut. it’s a good price to pay, I think.. it was the price of the haircut I got from this place on Queen Street next to $3 Japan. They were I think Japanese and yeah, it was great, too! Don’t think I have photos of my last haircut… it was in February, I think… end of February and I remember this because it was my friend’s friends birthday drinks that night and it was also the night that I would later get in trouble from my friend’s ex-girlfriend’s father for….. it wasn’t good..

But yes…. that day I spent A LOT of money! >_< I also didn’t get up till like 1 pm or 2 pm… I think… lol! =P

And because I’m so lazy this is cross-posted from my LJ with a few tweaks and additions. Soo lazy

Sooo…. yeah, lazy days ahead in the city coz I am overdrawn! I am really keen to make some more plans….

COMING UP. . . .
June 19 – Beth’s sister’s going away party

and that is about it.. T_T Yeah, I need more plans… that doesn’t involve much money. Oooh, getting paid Wednesday! But… I think there is a bill that needs to be paid >_<

I need a job, damnit!! The one that I got… I don’t think is like “for me”. Me and “approaching people” just don’t go well in a sentence apart from this one. Hah.

Photo of haircut..