oh the perils of being hungry at 5 am
u cannot understand the pangs of hunger that attack in the wee hours of the morning.. oh, the discomfort! the anguish! the torture!
LUSH!
thats the new brand of facial stuff that im trying out, and so far so good. i must say, i love the smell of the place. you can smell it a few shops down. if you think you love body shop, and whatever smelly stuff on the market, you will LOVE Lush! simply because its...well, its great. its all natural and preservative free and is very gentle on the skin. fantastic stuff. body shop pales in comparison. another reason is that its affordable. yet another reason is the ingredients used are all fresh. beautiful eh? but then again, if you know me well, you'd know that i have a soft spot for things that smell good. but come on, how can you say NO to a massage bar that smells like chocolate? how's about lemony smelling moisturiser? or a chocolate mud mask? hmm? any takers? i should be paid for this free promotional work :P however, i have been quite irritated by my skin recently. it just does not look as good as it could. vanity? perhaps ;)
PINK is my favourite colour
no its not.
only about 4 months till november. see you soon iain.
this is your song
its been extra chilly today. getting QUITE tired of this weather really.
i'm BORED.
napier.
so how was it? well, not much to say, since it was an overnight trip. but overall, it was ok. nice place. wont mind going back for art deco week. how sweet is that?
winter break is HEEERE!!
i'll update if there's anything going on.
oh i saw a gazillion sheep and cows and horses on the way and back. and a paor of COWS humping. hebat no?
got my feet wet tho. ran to the ocean going "WAA...its the ocean. there's no way i'll get...AAARRRGGGHHH!!" ;
toodle-oo
chocolate DENSO...mmmmmm
a call to all chocolate drink lovers..i have found this quaintest of quaint shops in parnell where the chocolate denso is orgasmically dee-vine. it lives up to its name...DENSO. and its the perfect drink mid-winter (which today happens to be) its so beautiful. i cannot find the words to describe it. if ever any of you are in auckland, parnell'll be the place for the chocolate drink at the chocolate boutique. and its not expensive! (wonder of wonders :P)
saw a cute terrier whatsit there too. we thought he was lost, but the the owner came out and said "oh..no, he's fine. he knows i'm inside". GUS, his name was. had nice curly fur that doesnt moult. and he can sit! and thats about it. and shake hands. he's 10 this year. how lovely.
exams are going to be over by tomorrow!! celebrate!
bring on the denso babe.
big girls dont cry
there is no way i can take coffee or sugar without having it affect me severely. probably cause i dont take much sugar or caffeine each day. so it affects me CRAAAZY! i like sugar rushes tho. everything suddenly becomes so much FUN. coffee's good but it keeps me going FAR longer than necessary.
so here i am in auckland, major city of NZ and what do i do? i blog. its all good. mid-exam season and its just dragging on and on and on and on and on and on and on. get my point?
ever feel like you want to do so much more? so much more and yet just too lazy to do so at the same time?
i know so much about love because i want it but i have never had it myself.
so goes the line john leguizamo said in moulin rounge, which i watched AGAIN. its still a great movie.
major part of the exam is over. 3 papers done. and my sleep pattern is officially haywire. officially. and i'm under a way lot of stress. just lots of things on my mind. and the jobhunt begins!
lookin for ya hot stuff baby i need it
now who sang that song??
educ 116 exam is on tomorrow. i cant wait for it to be over. i can never wait for these exams to be over. primarily becausei can CHUCK STUFF OUT! and i can get on with cleaning my room better.
a lot of things on my mind really. mainly to do with money..lets hope the gods of finance and money are merciful and provide my parents with the wisdom and foresight for flight money.
doubt i can sleep later cause i slept just now. oh god, that was a mistake.
I HATE WINTER. I HATE WINTER. miserable weather. and in auckland, since its a coastal town, you get CRAAAZY weather. and i hate the whole bulking up idea, stupid i know. but i DO. i plain and simply DO.
penguins! dense penguins. penguin density.
ZOIDS!!
WAAAAAH exams on the roll. cant wait for the week to be over. then its mostly over. SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!
budget needs reworking. that got my up and out of bed earlier. pretty damn freaky what the thought of the lack of money can do to a person.
well...i think i'll go hunt out a job.
and so it is
i'm 21. i'm a fucking grown up, GOD DAMN! its LEGAL for me to do stuff now. strange tho, i'm still the social retard i've always been.
many many heartfelt thanks to everyone for the wishes. you've all made exam season a whole lot more bearable. first paper on my birthday :( to hunnie and sha and aud for the cake (i love it!) and the gift (i love that too!) to everyone back home, thanks for the wishes. i miss you all very much, surprisingly. :p thank you so much for everything. if you read this and realise you forgot my birthday...well...be thankful that i have depth.
yesterday we went to PUKEKO's NEST..which was closing down. funny thing is, we've always walked by that area but never dropped in. anyways, the whole point of us going out was not to go to pukeko's nest, but to go to the police station to make a report cause sha had her phone pickpocketed from her the day before. and PN was havinga closing down sale. and it was the last day. so we just thought we'd drop in. LO AND BEHOLD cool paintings! and a bunch of artsy fartsy stuff. or at least things that could pass as artsy fartsy stuff. prices were reduced to clear and since i'm in the mood for decorating, that was a great place to go to. ok lah, long LONG story short, i bought 3 paintings, sha and hunnie got a few. then the artist said she'd give us a discount since we bought so many. i guess she could tell how much we liked the paintings. then she gave us each a free painting, and she gave me the one she saw me eyeing, but couldnt afford cause they only take cash there.
HOW SWEET IS THAT?? the paintings are up on the wall now. and i love looking at them. i dont know what it is, the one she gave me, but i just love looking at them. they're not, in my mind, avant garde-ey art per se..but i like it nonetheless.
Exam onslaught! i hate the weird dreams exam season gives me.
do all dogs go to heaven?
thats a good question isnt it.
anyways, found a poem while reading linguistics textbook - you can tell how focused i am for my exams. its by E.E. Cummings (whatta name!) and i dont know what its called. but its pretty interesting.
love is more thicker than forget
more thinner than recall
more seldom than a wave is wet
more frequent than to fail
it is most mad and moonly
and less it shall unbe
than all the sea which only
is deeper than the sea
love is less always than to win
less never than alive
less bigger than the least begin
less littler than forgive
it is most sane and sunly
and more it cannot die
than all the sky which only
is higher than the sky
okeh..to perevent me being charged with plagiarism..that was
Cummings, E.E taken from Kuiper, K. and Allan, W. S. (2004: 92) An introduction to English language: word, sound and language (2nd edition) Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010. Palgrave, Macmillan.
-->if my referencing is wrong, too bad.
this is just to say...
i dont have dogs anymore. tinker and gembo died..tinker died sometime in may and gembo passed away wednesday morning. apparently its some lethatl virus whats it thats killing dogs round the area. suddenly i think of resident evil..
well..whats done is done isnt it.
of zombies and hot soldiers
funny the kinds of dreams you get when you watch resident evil and then indulge in a bit of aromatherapy. the kind where there's zombies and hot soldiers. and then there's your boyfriend whom you havent seen in months and well..there's zombies wandering the streets. they need to be killed. or they'll bite you and you become like them.
apparently its the queens birthday today..either that or it was yesterday and they brought it forward to today. oh well. long live, i guess. bring on the sales!
its great what you can find in the kids section here. plus the clothes are just as pretty and cheaper and far easier to maintain.
pirates of the carribean 3. lets see what i have to say about it. well, for one, i'm glad its ending. i'll miss seeing johnny depp as captain jack sparrow, but thats what dvd's are for. i dont know why my friends were quite disappointed about the movie tho. i liked it. my only gripe about it was that i felt it was too long. some scenes just felt TOO draggy and "oh god, he's still swinging up there??" but other than that, it was great how it just plunged into the action. the opening really grabbed my attention. funny how some of the pirates looked maori or pacific island-ey. was that done on purpose? and if you walked out when the credits rolled, you missed out the hidden scene. i point and laugh at you, all of you who did that. HA! HAHA! it wasnt much la, but it did provide a nice sense of "aww..thats nice" to the movie. (thank you mimi for telling me about the hidden scene) i'll be nice here, and not spoil the scene for anyone. go find out yourself when you can.
I MISS CARAMEL POPCORN!!!!! popcorn here is crap. i would've expected otherwise.
onto more breaking news that..nevermind.
salsa dancing. we went to a salsa bar last friday, which was really a very welcome change from going to some seedy bar where everyone's drunk and spilling drinks on each other and on the floor and spasing to music. anyways, salsa. really great. people actually dancing. DANCING. DANCING. and me and my amateur 1-2-3, 5-6-7 steps. went with the girls (you bitches still owe me big for that night btw) and it was really warm there. felt almost..tropical. at around 10, the festivities begun. the dj put on some salsa music and people start dancing. was just checking out the dancing when lo and behold, pablo's there! he asked to dance, and i'm a rubbish salsa dancer. kept bumping into him and the people around me. oh god, the humiliation! but it was all fun anyways. and pablo told me to "keep practicing". its kinda hard to do that when you learned the male steps to a dance when in real life, you're a FEMALE who's supposed to be led (NOT LEAD) and pick up on signals on when to turn and where to tuen and such. nonetheless, it was great going there. i might return, if i practice :P but i still say this, and i dont care how repetitive i sound, and how annoying it will probably sound, it was great to go to a place where people were actually DANCING and not fishing for attention. music was great too. whats another word for great besides awesome? well..you get the idea. and there was SPACE TO DANCE. the steps were red and there was candle light and a balcony and people were very nice and CIVIL to you. and it doesnt feel trashy at all! WOW! what a breakthrough!
which brings me to my next topic: THE NIGHTLIFE. i dont know if its just me growing older or getting tired or whatever, but personally i'm getting quite tired of the nightlife. getting all dolled up and going out to dance and a few drinks, yeah sure, its nice once in a while. but when it becomes so...regular (?), i dont know if thats the proper word to use, it just becomes so superficial and pretentious. honestly, whats the point? i dont see the point anymore. its another thing if you want to try out a new place, or go out once in a while for occasions and all. but so often? what for? cheap attention? come on...none of its real. NONE of it. quite tired of coming home, cold and hungry with aching feet at almost dawn, and proceeding to sleep the day away. maybe its just me. i dont mind trying out a new spot. or going once in a while. or for some occasion (a real one, not just handing in an assignment) but..come on lah. it not real. none of it is. and come dawn, story's over. but then again, maybe its just me.
well..exams, people. EXAMS. i dont think i care very much about them. have yet to start studying. and they begin next week. it just doesnt seem to bother me. this is weird.