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….. ♥

Job-less By February? 11 November, 2008

I may be jobless in February of next year….. but least will have a job when i return? For like a week….

But nonetheless, guess it’s back to job hunting again when I return….. not that it ever stopped! =_=

*sigh~*

Edit// But good news is (guess there’s always a silver lining to everything..) that I will be working till the 19th of Decemeber! A week before I leave! =D

Third Week Back 4 August, 2008

Aaand… it’s going alright. Definitely on toof my work in iCommunicate. Kind of easy when umm.. you’re not like learning a language? When it’s not continued? =_=

Anywho. It’s great. I love my classes. I love the people in it. I am definitely also more social than last semester… I know people from my last semester classes and well.. I guess you could say it’s hard not to communicate and socialize with the people. I kind of want to be like this more often. And also I guess you could say am becoming more closer to people that I know from my Chinese class last semester. Which is awesome. I love it.  This is definitely been a good year in terms of friendships, not like last year was horrendous in friendships but I am more social than I was last year. So it’s been good in like a different aspect. =) 

Which is good! Sooo… umm…  I also have a job!! That I scored like about two weeks ago from SJS (Student Job Search for uni students ^.^) and it’s going alright eh.. this month I’m working three days a week as opposed to two days and yeah… it’s good. I like it. I was a little like tired of the job but.. it was only for like a split second and yeah. I like it. It’s a good job and I like the person I sometimes work with.. heh. It’s good. Love<3

My laptop. Is still a bit like scarce in programs, music and umm… videos. But kind of watched almost all of The Hills episodes that I have downloaded anyways so all good and just waiting for C4 to like catch up. It’s a good show…. in my opinion. Soo dramatic haha.. makes me forget about mine which isn’t so dramatic although the love front is always almost like something happening… but… well, not at the very moment~

Oooh I also can’t like wait to get an external hard drive!! ^.^ I’m not very like up with the technicalities and speicifics of what’s good or not and so I’m just like kind of aiming to get a 500GB external hard drive for about like $137 off Trademe. Love that site. Bargains! Especially in terms of DVD’s. Omg.. I can’t wait to get paid… hmmm may go shopping for like dresses or like buy the two that I want from Glassons.. but going to go shopping… aww… can’t wait.. but kind of also want my overdraft to go down.. it’s… okay it’s bad. It’s like in the 900’s! TT_TT Really do hope that I get like the Santamagic job at the end of the year eh… which is like really soon~ hmmm.. oh well. Hopefully like spend less and get it down… arghh gonna like takes aaages! It took me like about 3-4 months and two jobs to pay it off and then I think within like about 2-3 months, it increased again… probably really didn’t help that I like moved out but… well, I don’t think I could resist in some umm… purchases… actually it has mostly been food and like apartment-related.. soo eyah… like “unexpected” bills. That’s when it went downhill.

Well. Overall I think my life is pretty good atm… just gotta like study more… I am sure I most probably like didn’t get a good mark for that Written Chinese test/5% “quiz” that occurred today… I studied like the night before (at like 2am… what!? lol.) but yeah… arghhh… it kind of came in handy but not really.. hmm… Oh. Yeah… 2 am study… seems that I like study best at that time.. probably only study at that time/before I go to bed is because I feel guilty and feel unproductive that I make myself do some study and learn something buuut well it works but I don’t like remember some characters. *sigh* More studyy.. hate it. I hate starting. It’s sooo hard!

Wow. Ages! 30 July, 2008

Edit// I am also at times feeling the need and like wanting to actually move away from wordpress.com and be able to like create my own layouts.. have a few ideas too… I need to be creative.. have that little creativity.. sometimes I’m creative in photos I take.. but it’s like rare and only some look creative and photography-y. Anyways.. just a random thought that I thought that I would share…

It has been ages since I last updated and a lot has happened as well…. like that I randomly went out last Thursday night with a friend from my Chinese Class aaaand, well, let’s just say I did not expect that to happen! Twice even… =_= Lol…

But anyways. I have now officially gotten a new harddisk for my laptop coz there was something wrong with the old one aaand… I have pretty much nothing. No photos, music or videos! So I am pretty much music-less. Yes. That is the one that I really care about! I had like sooo much music… I guess this teaches me to like back up my stuff… well I’m thinking of getting like an external hard drive to like get my stuff like transferred over from my old hard drive/disk anyways coz I don’t think there is any other way…? I’m not a computer expert and sooo… yeah. >.<

Last week I also went down to Hamilton to like sell the rest of my (two) textbooks from last year! And I only got one of the sold! For $25 as well! That doesn’t even like BEGIN to cover actually going down there! Speaking of which, I owe one of my friends, SC $30.. (yeah, just a side note.. have decided to use initals or whatever you call them to refer to friend’s names so it won’t be as easy to identify me?? I dunno. I know I once started like using first letters but… that could (and did!) get confusing and such… not really sure why I am like so paranoid bout getting like idenitified but… I dunno, I may get lazy and like be back to just naming names. Not that I say anything bad.. that’s kept to myself and such but hmm… well anyways)

*cough* Oh yes. I am sick! Officially. I have aquired a cough now along with a stuffed and semi-runny nose x_x damnit. Thought that I would like be immune…. but obviously not I’m sick! I don’t think it helps that I am just like at the apartment all the time… hmm… coz I thought that I would like be totally not up for work yesterday but… seems change of like environment, I guess, changed that and I was actually quite fine and not that sick..

I need to buy an umbrella.. I want a Hello Kitty one… where can you get one in Auckland City?? =\ Cheaply.. heh.. I dunno. But yeah… time to visit the $3 Japan store.. It also didn’t help my sickness yesterday that I walked like in the rain without an umbrella~ oops.

Oooh yes and I also got myself a jobbb!! ^.^ I have also started to like plan my 20th birthday.. lol. I have made an event on facebook and yeah… seeing whose like keen to come I’m excited. I can’t wait.. I am thinking that probably this year I will have a like semi-big thing for it and then like next year, maybe just a small close friends one? Heh… it’s like opposite….  I dunno, we’ll see. 

Uni-wise. I am like screwed. I’m behind. I need to learn like key characters to be able to like read and like understand passages! T_T I am like dying atm! And I think I have a little pop quiz/test thing sometime next week in one of the Chinese papers and oh. my. goodness. -__- I think it’s just like how to use a dictionary, though… so, I might be like good.

So. Um. I have a completely new and blank harddisk.. 

I think that’s about it. Yeah… that’s it. In a nutshell. Hmmm for a while there I was going like hard with daily updates… and then something happened.. heh. I’ve also been quite the social butterfly during the weekend! I have been like out every weekend… drinking…. >_> Yeah… lol.. Ohh… >_<

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..

Reasons To BLOG! ^_^ 30 June, 2008

Edit// I was going to post another entry saying that I feel…. I don’t know reminiscent? I have just completely pretty much caught up on the lives of my dailies. But then now I feel some sort of nostalgia…. I don’t know why but yeah, I do. I will just go have a think about this before I sleep… in which I was meant to do like 45minutes ago… or maybe I’m thinking about something or someone else….. hmmm. Ponderings.

Sooo… I have TWO JOB things this week!!! ^_^

Thursday night got a Supre thingy… in which I have to like dress up and like follow the theme of ‘Dress to Impress” Hmm… this is exciting!! I can’t wait.

Kind of also means I’m probably going to be staying in the city for like longer than expected… was like kind of supposed to go home like today.. Lol..

And the second one is tomorrow, it’s just a little meeting and where the guy tells me what it’s about and such. So, yeah, that should be good

Hmm and Iike emailed SJS (Student Job Search) for another job referral… but yeah, I guess keep my job opetions open. I’d really like to get that Supre one! Dunno what it is about fashion retail but yeah… I want.

Sooo yes, happiness and such!

Oh, and the personal situation… hmmm I’m not sure like what exactly is going on there but, he’s talking to me and when I called him today, he didn’t seem unhappy? Yeah, I’m not sure, just confused but I guess he’s not like upset, angry or unhappy with me, anymore? Not sure. Weird.

So. I am pretty happy and satisfied and at ease atm

I would love for plans to follow this week and for the rest of the holidays!

I’m thinking of maybe wearing a dress on Thursday night…. ^^

Oh, and I had a nice coffee with my friend today after her exam

Been Forever! 31 May, 2008

Okay. So it has definitely been forever… maybe not forever but well over a week since I have last updated…

Not much changes or not much but a lot?

Today I went into the city (I’m at my mum’s home atm, for Queen’s Birthday weekend ) for a kind of I guess job interview/meeting thingy and I don’t think it went well… I am so like kind of screwed because of my timetable! T_T My timetable is pretty much like all over the place…

This semester’s (that is nearly finishing…) timetable:

Monday ~ 10 am – 12 pm
Tuesday ~ 9 am – 12 pm & 3 pm – 4 pm
Wednesday ~ 2 pm – 5 pm
Thursday ~ 12 pm – 2 pm
Friday ~ 9 am – 12 pm

Sooo… pretty screwed in that I definitely won’t be able to work two full days and hmm yes. -___- I’ll just go die now.. *sigh*

Another reason I am just going to die now is my lack of motivation to study! I have an 800 word image/text essay due at the end of next week, 1500(?) word essay due 12 June and of course study for my upcoming exams in about a week from now? T_T *die* I need to find motivation!!!! Anyone have any that I could have….? *SIGH*

And, its not really even much? The 800-word one? But the thing is.. I haven’t even started the like reading for it, in which I have to like base my essay off! It’s like, I don’t even know how many pages! T_T … help?

I REALLY can’t wait for the semester break! Like THREE WEEKS of NOTHING!! Ohh! Yes. On my way back to my car from the job interview/meeting today, I saw at this cafe that was hiring and I went in and enquired and I have a trial next Saturday! ^_^ Yayy!!! I’m excited. It’s for this cafe and is like front of house staff and yes. Happy! Thought it was a like pretty bad day but then… not really!

I, then spent the rest of the day pretty much doin gnothing but something at the same time? I was meant to (don’t know what time exactly but some time…) meet a friend to go shopping with him for his birthday present but he just took too damn long. Lol.. he was shopping with his family and soo yeah… although on the bright side… I ended up getting my money back on this universal laptop charger that I got from Dick Smith last night at the mall and also went to visit my friend where she works and so that wasn’t too bad But was pretty tired from all the walking I did today. And, the sucky thing about today was (hence the massive amounts of walking done) that I didn’t have my ASB (bank) eftpos card and my apartment keycard with me and so I couldn’t go to my apartment and like rest. T_T That definitely sucked! So yeah, ended up doing productivity! Not that it’s a bad thing.. =]

Haven’t also beeen updating this blog coz I have like nothing to update or just felt it was too personal or like I dunno.. just no motivation and couldn’t-be-botheredness. Heh.

Oh and some monetary and financial news…. I am in overdraft again…. =_= Had like unexpected expenses come up like the fact that we have been using hot water without like paying for it… it finally caught up when it was like switched off and was like wth is going on. Hmmm. Yeah. So yeah, got a $200 back-bill in the mail.

Aaand, I just heard news like  yesterday that two of my hooked-up flatmates are moving out to their respective partner’s apartments… and so that leaves me and my other flatmate…. not sure exactly what is happening… but that just leaves like one room kinda coz at the moment, two are sharing one room and so yeah… it has been three months living in that apartment… Hmm. Interesting.

So. Yeah. That is my life in a nutshell minus my much-more personal life that I have decided to keep under wraps coz well… yeah not much people need to know other than pretty much me and that person. Yup.

Thanks:) 6 May, 2008

Thanks for the comments! ^^
Really like appreciate it~

And just thought that I would update with a little something from one of the past entries where I mention that Work&Income/Depart of Social whatever.. wanted money from me… they don’t (thank God!), they just didn’t like receive like an end date for my jobs… although I don’t really see how it is pertenient to them since like I didn’t receive student allowance at that time… I guess I can now since they were under the assumption that I was still working with them buuut, yeah. It’s sorted. No more money dramas.

Specific guy drama dying down.. or like slowly like working through it Although like this guy in our class asked like where he was, like I’d know and that we were like close…. I guess I can see how he thought that but… meh. Anyways. Moving on.

Not much to update.. I woke up late today.. or like right as class started T_T and had a good like ten minute delibration as to whether I should go lol. I’m way too undecisive!

OMG! I think I am extremely and way too(!) picky and selective in my job applying~ T_T This isn’t helping me..

Those retail jobs…? Pretty perfect. Paid about $12.00-$12.50/hour and I guess about 15 hours work per week.. So. Why don’t I apply for them? I don’t know.. because I am too picky? :I I’m just too much of a perfectionist. Hmmm…

But yes. That is all for today… if I seem to have a yearning to post another.. I shall, I guess.

Wow! I update a lot! Like, everyday! That’s… wow. Heh. Lol..

it just keeps getting better… 5 May, 2008

*Sigh*

It just keeps getting better. This day. I just opened a letter from Work and Income (a sorta division and equivalent of tax company..) and it has something to do with my student allowance. I probably owe them money. T_T *sigh*

Like my life couldn’t get any better.

The only upside to everything is the fact that I got paid like $600 which is my pay from working at my old work last week plus holiday pay.. that’s the only highlight. *sigh*

And, y’know I don’t know why I just seem to like gravitate towards updating this blog.. my public blog. =\

Hmm. Oh well. Well I just checked my blog stats and well, people visit so, there’s a reason to keep updating.

And, this is pretty like personal.. hmmm…

I don’t know eh. I wonder if this is going to come back and bite me on the ass. Well. I don’t see any reason it would, I mean, I didn’t exactly like pour my heart out and like mention specific details and names. Although I guess if like you really knew me, you’d probably have some or all of the idea of what and who I am talking about but… I don’t think I have shared enough with one person (or maybe one or two, but I am hoping that they will not like mention it to other people and such.. =\ which I’m sure they won’t..) and yeah..

So, yeah, as well as what I am currently dealing with/getting over/whatever, I have to also deal with like Studylink/Work&Income/Whoever wanting to take money away from me and accusing me of pretty much withholding money and (probably) information from them. -__-

I don’t need this but I guess things just come at most convenient times~! (not. -_-)

Aaand, also there is actually like uni! T_T I just like don’t feel in the mood to like study and like learn characters and remember characters. I think I have forgotten some.. =\ I haven’t studied for like two weeks.

Oh and I failed a part of my Written Chinese exam. T_T *sigh*

Just. Add to it. Really. Just add to it.

Before all of this. Or this one specific thing. I thought that my life was pretty good. Nothing to complain about but it seems that once something bad happens, it seems your whole world is falling apart and is like against you. >_<

Why does it always happen to me?

Why.

First Post And Other Stuff 2 May, 2008

So. I have been meaning to start off this blog. But I didn’t kind of know how to… I was intending to start it off with a little rant and reasoning of why it seems that I (and possibly other people) seem to ask friends how their love lives are.. but I couldn’t think of any reasonings.

But anyways. I have good news to start off this blog! ^^
I am going to get paid about $600!!! I worked last week of my two week break ( which is still on atm, but not for too long =[ ). I got a call from my workmate and the Accounts/Payroll manager and she told me of the good news~! =]

Was sooo happy! =D

It’s going to pay off my ($460) overdraft and I’m going to have money to spend!! Which I am going to save half of it~ ^^

So yes. Pretty happy.

I apologize for my lack of creativity and originality in my blog layout.. psp is being a bitch >_< and so that means no means of ummm.. well creativity or originality..

But I hope my blog content makes up for it….?