HAPPY BIRTHDAY PHOEBE!!!
At Sunday School last Sunday (obviously) we went around the group to see if anyone had any prayer requests. I asked them to pray for me to pay attention in class and study hard. When asked if there was any specific reason...because it was BOOOOORRRING!!!!
So on Monday I woke up wide awake, got on the bus and went to uni. Now here's the miraculous part - I stayed awake right through the whole entire chemistry lecture!!! WOOOO YEAH! The next miraculous part? I stayed awake throughout the whole entire Biosci lecture! Double WOOOO! OK I slightly (just slightly!!) started to slide in population health, but I mean who doesn't??!! Anyway I stayed on at university to study right up till 7pm at night without falling asleep, and managed to memorise all sorts of big words like peritoneal cavity, laparotomy and ectopic pregnancy! Yay now I can speak like a pro!
There was a fire drill for a moment which temporarily halted my studying. Everyone had to evacuate the library. I spent my time trying to see if I could spot the fire, but fortunately there was none and we were soon let back in. When I caught the bus late at night there was a fire in a building near Sky City though which required the firefighters to climb up one of those ladders and even block off a whole road!
Yesterday I had a three hour session for Biosci where we were looking at slides of Rat duodenum, trachea and oesophagus under a microscope. We then got tested on our drawings. Thank goodness I got the trachea which only required me to name three main parts! I'll probably come away with a low mark nonetheless for shocking drawing! In the next lab we'll be making a model of a human embryo so that's something I'll be able to put on the mantle at home! Some people have told me that it's really hard though (they mark you on your model!) and that heaps of people failed it!
Today I spent the day over at Tamaki for my population health lectures and tutorials. The lecture was....yeah OK...it was my first population health 111 tutorial though, which lasted for two hours. I sat at a table with a few girls and got to know them, although I only know one of their names...the one with the normal name....(yeah I feel bad!). Anyway we were learning about mortality rates, which involved us filling in a death certificate! It was funny because we had this Chinese guy as our tutor and he was crazy! (in a good sort of way!)
Now here's the weirdest thing that has happened to me all week! I was sitting in the library today trying to study chemistry, when I must've dozed off. I woke up slightly to notice someone standing next to me thinking it was probably a friend wanting to say hi. Instead it was a security guard! She told me I wasn't allowed to sleep in the library! Since when was it against the rules to fall asleep in the library??!! She added that the building opposite to where I was sitting (which we could see through the window) was where her bosses worked and they could probably see me, and so she advised me to move somewhere else! That was so odd! I went up to the next level to find a spot to study (I like studying in corners and behind walls!) and I was so scared of falling asleep I didn't do so for the rest of the night!
Maybe God is just trying to help me focus on study?
Wednesday, 14 March 2007
Sunday, 11 March 2007
Realisations
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVID (for yesterday) and YAY FOR 600th POST!
Yesterday night we tried making our way to the Auckland Domain to watch the fireworks as part of the Auckland Festival 07. Once again though we couldn't find parking, got stuck in traffic, and had to watch most of it from the car!
I could say that we only realised how people walking in the middle of the street with a total disregard for traffic can be really frustrating especially when you're in a hurry! We were driving all around the back streets around the Domain, past an ambulance attending to some side street accident, blocked off roads and everything else. When we saw the fireworks shoot into the sky we decided we'd try get stuck in traffic down a road closest to the Domain so we could just sit there and watch the fireworks from the car! We ended up finding a little space by the exit of the Auckland Unversity Grafton Campus. Well other cars had already blocked off the exit so we thought we'd just park our car there, cross the road to watch was much as we can and then quickly make our way back to the car before it got towed away!
The number of people there was massive! There must've been so many more people than at Christmas in the Park or the Starlight Symphony! As soon as the fireworks were over we dashed across the road and back into the car and started moving. We didn't get very far though. All the people poured into the streets and we were surrounded by people! We couldn't even see the cars ahead of us and behind us because of the sheer number of people everywhere! We weren't moving any faster than the people, and so random people would come up to our window and say hi to us or wave to us! Finally we took a turn into a side street and lost the huge crowd!
We were at an intersection where this Chinese guy started reversing for no reason. We were on the other side of the road watching this. Everyone started honking their horns at him, so Aonghas thought he'd just have a little fun and join in by honking the horn too!
Today Aonghas was so tired he decided he wouldn't come to church with us and instead would drive himself to Sunday School. Church was boring. Angie didn't turn up AGAIN (thank goodness she got txt again!). While having lunch Aonghas's work kept ringing several times, which led me to wonder if Aonghas had actually gone to work after Sunday School or not! I brought this to my mum's attention, we drove back home and found Aonghas still sleeping and half an hour late for work!
I had to return a book to the library this afternoon when I met Nick's mum and his sister Olivia. I talked to his mum for a while, who said it looked like I had lost some weight! This isn't the first time someone has thought I've lost some weight! Last weekend at the barbeque Zippo's mum thought I looked as though I had lost a bit of weight, and so does my mum. I've actually lost about 5kg in the past while! I'm not too sure what has caused this, but it may possibly be due to having braces, as I've had to watch what I can and can't eat. I don't know if this is a good thing or not, losing weight and being skinny!!
I only realised tonight that we're already half way through what I guess you could consider our 'first term' of university! There's only three weeks to go till mid-semester break (oh and Gwen's birthday don't forget that! Y'all better start buying presents!) and I've got tests just before then which means I've got to get cracking!!!! So I'm off to bed for an early start tomorrow morning!
Yesterday night we tried making our way to the Auckland Domain to watch the fireworks as part of the Auckland Festival 07. Once again though we couldn't find parking, got stuck in traffic, and had to watch most of it from the car!
I could say that we only realised how people walking in the middle of the street with a total disregard for traffic can be really frustrating especially when you're in a hurry! We were driving all around the back streets around the Domain, past an ambulance attending to some side street accident, blocked off roads and everything else. When we saw the fireworks shoot into the sky we decided we'd try get stuck in traffic down a road closest to the Domain so we could just sit there and watch the fireworks from the car! We ended up finding a little space by the exit of the Auckland Unversity Grafton Campus. Well other cars had already blocked off the exit so we thought we'd just park our car there, cross the road to watch was much as we can and then quickly make our way back to the car before it got towed away!
The number of people there was massive! There must've been so many more people than at Christmas in the Park or the Starlight Symphony! As soon as the fireworks were over we dashed across the road and back into the car and started moving. We didn't get very far though. All the people poured into the streets and we were surrounded by people! We couldn't even see the cars ahead of us and behind us because of the sheer number of people everywhere! We weren't moving any faster than the people, and so random people would come up to our window and say hi to us or wave to us! Finally we took a turn into a side street and lost the huge crowd!
We were at an intersection where this Chinese guy started reversing for no reason. We were on the other side of the road watching this. Everyone started honking their horns at him, so Aonghas thought he'd just have a little fun and join in by honking the horn too!
Today Aonghas was so tired he decided he wouldn't come to church with us and instead would drive himself to Sunday School. Church was boring. Angie didn't turn up AGAIN (thank goodness she got txt again!). While having lunch Aonghas's work kept ringing several times, which led me to wonder if Aonghas had actually gone to work after Sunday School or not! I brought this to my mum's attention, we drove back home and found Aonghas still sleeping and half an hour late for work!
I had to return a book to the library this afternoon when I met Nick's mum and his sister Olivia. I talked to his mum for a while, who said it looked like I had lost some weight! This isn't the first time someone has thought I've lost some weight! Last weekend at the barbeque Zippo's mum thought I looked as though I had lost a bit of weight, and so does my mum. I've actually lost about 5kg in the past while! I'm not too sure what has caused this, but it may possibly be due to having braces, as I've had to watch what I can and can't eat. I don't know if this is a good thing or not, losing weight and being skinny!!
I only realised tonight that we're already half way through what I guess you could consider our 'first term' of university! There's only three weeks to go till mid-semester break (oh and Gwen's birthday don't forget that! Y'all better start buying presents!) and I've got tests just before then which means I've got to get cracking!!!! So I'm off to bed for an early start tomorrow morning!
Friday, 9 March 2007
Amazing Discoveries
I'm starting to get into a regular routine now which is making uni slightly better! I didn't have any labs this week which meant I finished on most days by 2pm. Yesterday there was a technical problem during the Population Health lecture, as we kept hearing this woman's voice coming from the speakers, and so they had to cancel the lecture! I spent the extra time walking down to McDonald's to buy an ice-cream cone!
On Saturday the day after Friday's Lantern Festival, I went to the Lantern Festival again, but this time with family. I met up with Shiu Tai, Persia, Mia and Nikki, who I haven't seen for a while! It wasn't long as the wave of people were separating me from them. Aonghas also met a few of his friends amongst the packed crowd! We heard that Angie was selling food at one of the food stalls so we tried looking for her and came across Melissa and her friend. We got talking for a while before resuming our search. We gave up though. She didn't turn up to church the next day either which means it's been several weeks since I've last seen her! Anyway we rejoined our parents who were watching the performances at the main stage. I had wanted to watch Richard, my new friend perform the violin earlier in the day but my family couldn't get ready in time!
The next day we had a barbeque at the neighbours'. Zippo was there with her boyfriend Gabe, and so were Esther and Julia, and the rest of the kids. We all got talking while having a feed, and later that night when it was just Szelin, Esther, Julia, me and Aonghas, we had some good conversation! I found out a lot about Esther and Julia that I didn't know before!
Earlier in the week I had a little freak-out when I wasn't getting anything in biosci. I came home and had a discussion with my parents who told me loud and clearly they never forced me to choose Health Science (yeah right!!) and that it wasn't too late to change to law (my real passion!). I was seriously considering it, but the next day we had a different lecturer for biosci and a new topic - human embryology, which I actually got! I decided I'd just keep with Health Science, as I'm not one to quit something I've already started!!
It was Wednesday when I realised that maybe Health Science isn't such a dead-end degree afterall and that maybe medicine may not necessarily be my thing! The lecturer basically told us that most of us wouldn't get in, and then went on to tell us about the different positions in the health sector which could provide just as much fulfilment as being a doctor, and that made me realise that maybe my future could belong in public health policy, or maybe even in politics!
I got to sleep in a bit on Wednesday morning, and so I caught the later bus, which was filled with Rangeview and Rutherford students. What amazed me was how some students caught the bus at one end of Te Atatu Rd (my stop) and then just got off at the other end! I'm sure they would've had plenty of time to walk! Oh well...
I always look forward to Wednesdays and Fridays, as I usually get to Tamaki early to hang out with the group - Richard the violin virtuoso, Melissa the cycling champ, George...the random girl and Michael the German! We were talking on the bus about what girls look at first in a guy, and Melissa said eyes!! I really don't get what is with girls and eyes!! We had our first tutorial for population health that day as well. Both Michael and Melissa were in my tutorial class but I sat with some other people and got to know these girls Brior, Susan and Candy! Our teacher Dee, an Iraqi with an American accent is pretty cool. She let us talk, eat and drink in class!
Later that same day there was a KiwiAsian Club intro meeting back in the city. I was originally going to go with Shen but he went to an earlier meeting, so instead I went with Melissa and Kat. It was the first time I had seen Kat in a while! I was hoping there'd be quite a few hot girls but ...well not that time! After the meeting I hung out with Kat and her friend, going shopping for some stuff she needed. We went over to AUT to check out their supply stores and came across Perry and Larry! Perry was in the same class as Kat back at Rangeview, but amazingly they didn't recognise each other! Guess who came around the corner at that moment? Their old teacher's (at Rangeview) son!!
We took a short detour to Jay-Jay's to help Kat find this top she was looking for. Originally I kept my distance from the girls' clothes section (once I realised they were girls' clothes!) but then I decided to help. That was interesting!
I was sitting on the bus on Thursday morning when I got a text from 'Secret Admirer'. You may remember I got a text from some mysterious person who kept telling me SHE LOVED ME. Well I got a random text from this person that morning, and through a bit of investigative work uncovered the person's identity! It turns out the person has a sister who knows a certain person who used to work at a certain fish shop...
After walking around the city a bit you start to notice just how many people are holding hands with each other, showing public displays of affection and so on. It's sickening! I'm starting to resent those people! Nah just joking but yeah yay!!!! (individually) for Julie and Alice! I met Julie as she was walking up Queen St with someone! Woo go her! And you too Alice!
Today I was to meet up with my scholarship mentor but my bus was late and so we had to postpone it till next week but at least he helped me borrow this book from the medical library which means I don't have to spend over $100 on the book! I thought I'd try meeting some more people today so I started talking to these people who sat next to me on the bus. The first guy I met was from Malaysia who got a scholarship to study in New Zealand, while I mistakenly took the girl next to me (on the bus ride back) to be a first year student, when she was actually a German student studying 4th year!
On Saturday the day after Friday's Lantern Festival, I went to the Lantern Festival again, but this time with family. I met up with Shiu Tai, Persia, Mia and Nikki, who I haven't seen for a while! It wasn't long as the wave of people were separating me from them. Aonghas also met a few of his friends amongst the packed crowd! We heard that Angie was selling food at one of the food stalls so we tried looking for her and came across Melissa and her friend. We got talking for a while before resuming our search. We gave up though. She didn't turn up to church the next day either which means it's been several weeks since I've last seen her! Anyway we rejoined our parents who were watching the performances at the main stage. I had wanted to watch Richard, my new friend perform the violin earlier in the day but my family couldn't get ready in time!
The next day we had a barbeque at the neighbours'. Zippo was there with her boyfriend Gabe, and so were Esther and Julia, and the rest of the kids. We all got talking while having a feed, and later that night when it was just Szelin, Esther, Julia, me and Aonghas, we had some good conversation! I found out a lot about Esther and Julia that I didn't know before!
Earlier in the week I had a little freak-out when I wasn't getting anything in biosci. I came home and had a discussion with my parents who told me loud and clearly they never forced me to choose Health Science (yeah right!!) and that it wasn't too late to change to law (my real passion!). I was seriously considering it, but the next day we had a different lecturer for biosci and a new topic - human embryology, which I actually got! I decided I'd just keep with Health Science, as I'm not one to quit something I've already started!!
It was Wednesday when I realised that maybe Health Science isn't such a dead-end degree afterall and that maybe medicine may not necessarily be my thing! The lecturer basically told us that most of us wouldn't get in, and then went on to tell us about the different positions in the health sector which could provide just as much fulfilment as being a doctor, and that made me realise that maybe my future could belong in public health policy, or maybe even in politics!
I got to sleep in a bit on Wednesday morning, and so I caught the later bus, which was filled with Rangeview and Rutherford students. What amazed me was how some students caught the bus at one end of Te Atatu Rd (my stop) and then just got off at the other end! I'm sure they would've had plenty of time to walk! Oh well...
I always look forward to Wednesdays and Fridays, as I usually get to Tamaki early to hang out with the group - Richard the violin virtuoso, Melissa the cycling champ, George...the random girl and Michael the German! We were talking on the bus about what girls look at first in a guy, and Melissa said eyes!! I really don't get what is with girls and eyes!! We had our first tutorial for population health that day as well. Both Michael and Melissa were in my tutorial class but I sat with some other people and got to know these girls Brior, Susan and Candy! Our teacher Dee, an Iraqi with an American accent is pretty cool. She let us talk, eat and drink in class!
Later that same day there was a KiwiAsian Club intro meeting back in the city. I was originally going to go with Shen but he went to an earlier meeting, so instead I went with Melissa and Kat. It was the first time I had seen Kat in a while! I was hoping there'd be quite a few hot girls but ...well not that time! After the meeting I hung out with Kat and her friend, going shopping for some stuff she needed. We went over to AUT to check out their supply stores and came across Perry and Larry! Perry was in the same class as Kat back at Rangeview, but amazingly they didn't recognise each other! Guess who came around the corner at that moment? Their old teacher's (at Rangeview) son!!
We took a short detour to Jay-Jay's to help Kat find this top she was looking for. Originally I kept my distance from the girls' clothes section (once I realised they were girls' clothes!) but then I decided to help. That was interesting!
I was sitting on the bus on Thursday morning when I got a text from 'Secret Admirer'. You may remember I got a text from some mysterious person who kept telling me SHE LOVED ME. Well I got a random text from this person that morning, and through a bit of investigative work uncovered the person's identity! It turns out the person has a sister who knows a certain person who used to work at a certain fish shop...
After walking around the city a bit you start to notice just how many people are holding hands with each other, showing public displays of affection and so on. It's sickening! I'm starting to resent those people! Nah just joking but yeah yay!!!! (individually) for Julie and Alice! I met Julie as she was walking up Queen St with someone! Woo go her! And you too Alice!
Today I was to meet up with my scholarship mentor but my bus was late and so we had to postpone it till next week but at least he helped me borrow this book from the medical library which means I don't have to spend over $100 on the book! I thought I'd try meeting some more people today so I started talking to these people who sat next to me on the bus. The first guy I met was from Malaysia who got a scholarship to study in New Zealand, while I mistakenly took the girl next to me (on the bus ride back) to be a first year student, when she was actually a German student studying 4th year!
Saturday, 3 March 2007
Almost a Perfect Day!
I was really looking forward to this day! I was going to finish uni by midday, so there wasn't much to have to get through before I'd be able to start enjoying the weekends!!!
I went through the chemistry and biosci lectures as usual. I slightly fell asleep during biosci, as I probably didn't understand as much as I should've! I probably should've been awake anyway though! After the lecture I caught the bus to Tamaki where I caught up with Richard and Michael (this German guy!), and then we joined Melissa and Georgina. We talked for a while and shared contacts with each other before heading into the lecture theatre.
The first half of the lecture was boring and I fell asleep slightly, but then when the Australian lecturer played the Population Health version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire it started to get interesting! Richard was picked to answer the question and managed to get it right before falling at the next question.
As soon as the lecture was over we all rushed to the bus. I grabbed a seat with Richard and went back into the city. We then walked to his bus stop and talked for a while. Once he caught his bus I went back to the city campus to muck around a bit and see if I could have any luck finding my friends.
I have a new time-killer: playing with the ATM machines!! :D I walked all the way down to the Kiwibank ATM to see if I had gotten my student allowance but...nope I hadn't. So I started walking back before deciding it's about time I topped up and get some credit again!
I was walking back to campus waiting for Diane to arrive in the city (I was going to try meet up with her!) when I came across Alice AGAIN! It was like the fifth time this week I came across her! Anyway she had just finished her classes and I had nothing to do so we walked down the closed off street checking out all the food stalls at the Lantern Festival. I came across the KiwiAsian Club's food stall and asked if members got discounts, but they told us the money was going towards us members anyway! I told them that I already paid my $8 membership fee before they corrected me saying it was $7!
When she heard that I hadn't been into the city that often, she decided to take me down to the shop that sells Pearl Milk Tea. We ended up getting tea, but not milk tea. We did get the pearls though! I got mango flavour while she got passionfruit flavour. She then took me to the games arcade where she introduced me to those dancing game machine thingies! We were going to compete against each other, like master vs newbie but these Asians (and one white guy) were hogging the best machine. We're going to compete next time! By that time Gwen, Alex, Tasha and Zahir had arrived in the city and were at Wendy's having dinner, so I went there with Alice and introduced her to them. We talked for a while before Alice had to go catch her bus.
I then ordered a burger combo with the biggie, which turned out to be too much for me to take! I forgot I still had my tea with the pearls to drink!! We walked up to Albert Park where the festival was being held and checked out the food stalls before I had to rush off to the library toilets to take care of business... I rejoined them again before we went into the park to check out the lanterns. We came across Dickson, my old intermediate school friend!!! That was cool! He's at AUT now. I've got to catch up with him again sometime!
Eventually at night the lanterns were switched on and Phoebe and Lisa joined us. We had all bought these lanterns with real candles inside them! I was being super careful not to set the lantern on fire!
Alex, Gwen, Zahir, Tasha and I eventually found our way to the karaoke stage to watch a few performances. I have no idea where the other two went. Anyway they tried challenging me to get up on stage to sing, so I thought, why not! I might as well! No one will know me anyway! So with Gwen's help, I selected a song and after a long wait, Calum Anderson from West Auckland got up on stage to sing Sometimes by Britney Spears!
I announced that it was dedicated to Britney during a tough time which would hopefully make her normal again...as well as the freaks sitting down there (yes you lovely freaks!) and funnily enough everyone started cheering! I started singing, which sounded really bad and low, especially the BABY part! I couldn't see the audience too well but when I started swaying some people started doing it too! I didn't really sing too well in time but at least I wasn't booed off the stage! I had some guys come up to me afterwards congratulating me for having the balls to do that, and I told them I was doing it for Britney!! :D
After that we started to leave, and walked down Queen Street where Zahir was walking into people! We eventually got to the bus stop where we caught up with Phoebe and Lisa again.
We all sat at the back and were definitely the noisy group! I talked mostly to Gwen, but because Phoebe had hardly said anything to me all night I thought I'd say Hi to her, but she didn't say anything back until Lisa tapped her on the shoulder! That was probably the lowest point of the day because I was kinda expecting her not to talk to me for some reason since it always happens!
Zahir, Gwen and I got off the bus at the same time though and walked to her house where Aonghas and my dad were waiting for us and took Zahir and me home.
Overall though it was the best day of all this week! Even though it's been less than a month since I've seen those guys I've missed them soooo much and it was great hanging out and talking with them (well most of them anyway!), as well as Alice too! I didn't manage to catch up with Diane but I'll have to do that sometime next week!
I went through the chemistry and biosci lectures as usual. I slightly fell asleep during biosci, as I probably didn't understand as much as I should've! I probably should've been awake anyway though! After the lecture I caught the bus to Tamaki where I caught up with Richard and Michael (this German guy!), and then we joined Melissa and Georgina. We talked for a while and shared contacts with each other before heading into the lecture theatre.
The first half of the lecture was boring and I fell asleep slightly, but then when the Australian lecturer played the Population Health version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire it started to get interesting! Richard was picked to answer the question and managed to get it right before falling at the next question.
As soon as the lecture was over we all rushed to the bus. I grabbed a seat with Richard and went back into the city. We then walked to his bus stop and talked for a while. Once he caught his bus I went back to the city campus to muck around a bit and see if I could have any luck finding my friends.
I have a new time-killer: playing with the ATM machines!! :D I walked all the way down to the Kiwibank ATM to see if I had gotten my student allowance but...nope I hadn't. So I started walking back before deciding it's about time I topped up and get some credit again!
I was walking back to campus waiting for Diane to arrive in the city (I was going to try meet up with her!) when I came across Alice AGAIN! It was like the fifth time this week I came across her! Anyway she had just finished her classes and I had nothing to do so we walked down the closed off street checking out all the food stalls at the Lantern Festival. I came across the KiwiAsian Club's food stall and asked if members got discounts, but they told us the money was going towards us members anyway! I told them that I already paid my $8 membership fee before they corrected me saying it was $7!
When she heard that I hadn't been into the city that often, she decided to take me down to the shop that sells Pearl Milk Tea. We ended up getting tea, but not milk tea. We did get the pearls though! I got mango flavour while she got passionfruit flavour. She then took me to the games arcade where she introduced me to those dancing game machine thingies! We were going to compete against each other, like master vs newbie but these Asians (and one white guy) were hogging the best machine. We're going to compete next time! By that time Gwen, Alex, Tasha and Zahir had arrived in the city and were at Wendy's having dinner, so I went there with Alice and introduced her to them. We talked for a while before Alice had to go catch her bus.
I then ordered a burger combo with the biggie, which turned out to be too much for me to take! I forgot I still had my tea with the pearls to drink!! We walked up to Albert Park where the festival was being held and checked out the food stalls before I had to rush off to the library toilets to take care of business... I rejoined them again before we went into the park to check out the lanterns. We came across Dickson, my old intermediate school friend!!! That was cool! He's at AUT now. I've got to catch up with him again sometime!
Eventually at night the lanterns were switched on and Phoebe and Lisa joined us. We had all bought these lanterns with real candles inside them! I was being super careful not to set the lantern on fire!
Alex, Gwen, Zahir, Tasha and I eventually found our way to the karaoke stage to watch a few performances. I have no idea where the other two went. Anyway they tried challenging me to get up on stage to sing, so I thought, why not! I might as well! No one will know me anyway! So with Gwen's help, I selected a song and after a long wait, Calum Anderson from West Auckland got up on stage to sing Sometimes by Britney Spears!
I announced that it was dedicated to Britney during a tough time which would hopefully make her normal again...as well as the freaks sitting down there (yes you lovely freaks!) and funnily enough everyone started cheering! I started singing, which sounded really bad and low, especially the BABY part! I couldn't see the audience too well but when I started swaying some people started doing it too! I didn't really sing too well in time but at least I wasn't booed off the stage! I had some guys come up to me afterwards congratulating me for having the balls to do that, and I told them I was doing it for Britney!! :D
After that we started to leave, and walked down Queen Street where Zahir was walking into people! We eventually got to the bus stop where we caught up with Phoebe and Lisa again.
We all sat at the back and were definitely the noisy group! I talked mostly to Gwen, but because Phoebe had hardly said anything to me all night I thought I'd say Hi to her, but she didn't say anything back until Lisa tapped her on the shoulder! That was probably the lowest point of the day because I was kinda expecting her not to talk to me for some reason since it always happens!
Zahir, Gwen and I got off the bus at the same time though and walked to her house where Aonghas and my dad were waiting for us and took Zahir and me home.
Overall though it was the best day of all this week! Even though it's been less than a month since I've seen those guys I've missed them soooo much and it was great hanging out and talking with them (well most of them anyway!), as well as Alice too! I didn't manage to catch up with Diane but I'll have to do that sometime next week!
First Week Is Over...
I've been so exhausted from the first week of uni that I haven't had time to post! It's been an up-and-down week as well, so here it goes!
Monday:
I had to wake up at 5.45am just to catch the 6.30am bus into the city! I thought my first chemistry lecture was in the new Business School building, but when I got in the theatre and sat down, I saw someone with an economics folder and started to freak out! With about twenty minutes before the lecture was due to start I had no idea who to ask, but to go to the chemistry building and find out where the lecture was supposed to be! This lady there was handing out maps with directions on how to get to the new Business School building though! This is where I met Kevin, this Malaysian guy from Howick College. We ended up talking along the way, getting to know each other. I sat with him during my lectures.
There were too many students for my second lecture (BIOSCI107) so they had to have an overflow lecture theatre with the lecturer being telecast. I ended up in that room! Afterwards I had about three hours to kill so I walked around the quad with Hamish, checking out all the different clubs. I caught up with Estee and Allen, my old intermediate school friend! I went over to the Young Labour stand to discuss politics with them, and then afterwards went to talk to the guys at the Young Nationals. When they tried to sign me up though I told them my name was on the mailing list for Young Labours, and so the guy walked over to them to ask!! I felt a bit guilty so I jumped behind the tent! I also joined the Hong Kong Students Society despite not being from Hong Kong! AND I also caught up with Alice again! I was so exhausted after the first day I fell asleep on the bus and didn't wait for too long before going to sleep once I got home!
Tuesday:
This wasn't such a great day. Same old lectures. I tried to talk to a few people I was sitting next to, but they seemed disinterested and the conversation died down very very quickly! Things weren't looking too great and I was starting not to enjoy uni again. It just felt as though everyone was taking things seriously, and no one could or would joke about anything! I couldn't find anyone during lunch and so I ended up just sitting in the library studying/sleeping. It's really hard finding your friends when you don't have any credit! I had BIOSCI lab for three hours towards the end of the day, playing with microscopes though and that's where I met my partner Mohammad who's pretty cool! We finished the lab with a 10-question multi-choice quiz which thankfully doesn't count towards our final grade! PHEW I had this weird dream that night. I was in Ms Heath's (Rutherford teacher) class (it must've been from chatting to Phoebe about her!) and she was telling off this girl for bringing a baby chick to class. The girl then questioned why I was allowed to bring my cat to class, and I replied that nobody noticed anyway because I was invisible :S I don't know what that's supposed to mean...
Wednesday:
I actually got to sleep in an hour later since I didn't have to be in the city (or Tamaki) till 10.30am, but my dad still insisted on me catching the early bus. I ended up with an hour to kill and decided to try study in the library. I caught the 9am bus and met Melissa who sat next to me! I found out that we have many similarities! When we got off half an hour later I met her friends and we sat at a picnic table, and were joined by another guy called Richard. It's amazing what these people have achieved though! Melissa was deputy Head Girl of Auckland Girls Grammar, at one stage the 3rd best cyclist in NZ and was planning on competing in the Beijing Olympics (now it'll be the London Olympics). Her coach is also Sarah Ulmer's dad! Richard on the other hand is pretty much a violin virtuoso! He also remembered me after I asked him if he knew Jessica Chen (Rangitoto College schoolmates) and then he realised I was the accordionist who competed against him for the Knights Templar Music Scholarship several years ago! He also performed at the Starlight Symphony last year and has performed in many other big events with various symphony orchestras! What was great about Wednesday was that I only had one lecture and then I was done! I caught the bus back to Tamaki with Richard, then the free bus to his bus stop. It was raining heavily then, so I caught the bus all the way to Downtown where I was going to try buy my chemistry goggles. They didn't have any so I tried rushing back to the university to get to the Scholars Luncheon, or so I thought! I wasn't too sure where the Vice-Chancellors Suite was, and so I was looking all around the place in the rain! After I finally found it, I went inside this grand building, but no one was there! I stood there for a while before texting my mentor Aritra who told me it was actually the same date but next month! I also came across Sarena and Ellyce too, the first time I saw them!
Thursday:
I thought that since good and bad days will alternate, Thursday would turn out to be a bad day. It wasn't though! I had a second good night's sleep and so I wasn't too tired on the bus. I sat with Richard in CHEM class. I had all my usual lectures, although because I only discovered I had a pre-lab assignment the night before which was due on that day, I had to rush through it in the library during my break! Once again I couldn't find my friends since I didn't know where they were, so I just sat at Albert Park to eat my lunch while watching the Maori guys putting up the lanterns for the lantern festival. I had chemistry lab for the last few hours of the day. I met Jarrod from Birkenhead College who was cool as a partner, and what's her name (this girl!) from the other side of the bench! It's really weird in the labs, as it is compulsory for everyone to wear a white labcoat as well as protective goggles! Anyway we did some chemical tests, separating mixtures of chemicals. I was a bit of a clutz spilling leaf extract first on my hand before spilling cyclohexane on my hand! Even though the bottle said to avoid having contact with your skin, I didn't notice till after a while and then I asked my supervisor what would happen, but he reassured me he always did that!
Hamish wanted to stay in the library for a while to use the computers so I just mucked around and hung out with Estee before we decided to go. The bus wouldn't come for another hour though, so Hamish and I just wandered the streets. I thought shops were supposed to be open late on a Thursday, but apparently not in town! We had to gawk at all the cellphones and cameras for sale through barred windows! We finally managed to get home by 8pm and I ended up talking to Gwen on the phone for a few hours (for the first time ever!) after she wanted to sort out some stuff.
Monday:
I had to wake up at 5.45am just to catch the 6.30am bus into the city! I thought my first chemistry lecture was in the new Business School building, but when I got in the theatre and sat down, I saw someone with an economics folder and started to freak out! With about twenty minutes before the lecture was due to start I had no idea who to ask, but to go to the chemistry building and find out where the lecture was supposed to be! This lady there was handing out maps with directions on how to get to the new Business School building though! This is where I met Kevin, this Malaysian guy from Howick College. We ended up talking along the way, getting to know each other. I sat with him during my lectures.
There were too many students for my second lecture (BIOSCI107) so they had to have an overflow lecture theatre with the lecturer being telecast. I ended up in that room! Afterwards I had about three hours to kill so I walked around the quad with Hamish, checking out all the different clubs. I caught up with Estee and Allen, my old intermediate school friend! I went over to the Young Labour stand to discuss politics with them, and then afterwards went to talk to the guys at the Young Nationals. When they tried to sign me up though I told them my name was on the mailing list for Young Labours, and so the guy walked over to them to ask!! I felt a bit guilty so I jumped behind the tent! I also joined the Hong Kong Students Society despite not being from Hong Kong! AND I also caught up with Alice again! I was so exhausted after the first day I fell asleep on the bus and didn't wait for too long before going to sleep once I got home!
Tuesday:
This wasn't such a great day. Same old lectures. I tried to talk to a few people I was sitting next to, but they seemed disinterested and the conversation died down very very quickly! Things weren't looking too great and I was starting not to enjoy uni again. It just felt as though everyone was taking things seriously, and no one could or would joke about anything! I couldn't find anyone during lunch and so I ended up just sitting in the library studying/sleeping. It's really hard finding your friends when you don't have any credit! I had BIOSCI lab for three hours towards the end of the day, playing with microscopes though and that's where I met my partner Mohammad who's pretty cool! We finished the lab with a 10-question multi-choice quiz which thankfully doesn't count towards our final grade! PHEW I had this weird dream that night. I was in Ms Heath's (Rutherford teacher) class (it must've been from chatting to Phoebe about her!) and she was telling off this girl for bringing a baby chick to class. The girl then questioned why I was allowed to bring my cat to class, and I replied that nobody noticed anyway because I was invisible :S I don't know what that's supposed to mean...
Wednesday:
I actually got to sleep in an hour later since I didn't have to be in the city (or Tamaki) till 10.30am, but my dad still insisted on me catching the early bus. I ended up with an hour to kill and decided to try study in the library. I caught the 9am bus and met Melissa who sat next to me! I found out that we have many similarities! When we got off half an hour later I met her friends and we sat at a picnic table, and were joined by another guy called Richard. It's amazing what these people have achieved though! Melissa was deputy Head Girl of Auckland Girls Grammar, at one stage the 3rd best cyclist in NZ and was planning on competing in the Beijing Olympics (now it'll be the London Olympics). Her coach is also Sarah Ulmer's dad! Richard on the other hand is pretty much a violin virtuoso! He also remembered me after I asked him if he knew Jessica Chen (Rangitoto College schoolmates) and then he realised I was the accordionist who competed against him for the Knights Templar Music Scholarship several years ago! He also performed at the Starlight Symphony last year and has performed in many other big events with various symphony orchestras! What was great about Wednesday was that I only had one lecture and then I was done! I caught the bus back to Tamaki with Richard, then the free bus to his bus stop. It was raining heavily then, so I caught the bus all the way to Downtown where I was going to try buy my chemistry goggles. They didn't have any so I tried rushing back to the university to get to the Scholars Luncheon, or so I thought! I wasn't too sure where the Vice-Chancellors Suite was, and so I was looking all around the place in the rain! After I finally found it, I went inside this grand building, but no one was there! I stood there for a while before texting my mentor Aritra who told me it was actually the same date but next month! I also came across Sarena and Ellyce too, the first time I saw them!
Thursday:
I thought that since good and bad days will alternate, Thursday would turn out to be a bad day. It wasn't though! I had a second good night's sleep and so I wasn't too tired on the bus. I sat with Richard in CHEM class. I had all my usual lectures, although because I only discovered I had a pre-lab assignment the night before which was due on that day, I had to rush through it in the library during my break! Once again I couldn't find my friends since I didn't know where they were, so I just sat at Albert Park to eat my lunch while watching the Maori guys putting up the lanterns for the lantern festival. I had chemistry lab for the last few hours of the day. I met Jarrod from Birkenhead College who was cool as a partner, and what's her name (this girl!) from the other side of the bench! It's really weird in the labs, as it is compulsory for everyone to wear a white labcoat as well as protective goggles! Anyway we did some chemical tests, separating mixtures of chemicals. I was a bit of a clutz spilling leaf extract first on my hand before spilling cyclohexane on my hand! Even though the bottle said to avoid having contact with your skin, I didn't notice till after a while and then I asked my supervisor what would happen, but he reassured me he always did that!
Hamish wanted to stay in the library for a while to use the computers so I just mucked around and hung out with Estee before we decided to go. The bus wouldn't come for another hour though, so Hamish and I just wandered the streets. I thought shops were supposed to be open late on a Thursday, but apparently not in town! We had to gawk at all the cellphones and cameras for sale through barred windows! We finally managed to get home by 8pm and I ended up talking to Gwen on the phone for a few hours (for the first time ever!) after she wanted to sort out some stuff.
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