A Momentous Day

Happy Waitangi Day!!

But more importantly...

Happy Birthday Grainam!!
Happy Birthday Kyle!!
Happy Birthday Brad!!

And not to be outdone..
It's also Ronald Regan, Axl Rose, Bob Marley and Queen Anne's birthday!!

And even more...
In 1952 Elizabeth II acceded to the British throne upon the death of her father, King George VI. The coronation took place June 2, 1953.
In 1959 The United States successfully test-fired for the first time a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile from Cape Canaveral.
In 1998 President Bill Clinton signed a bill changing the name of Washington National Airport to Ronald Regan Washington National Airport
In 2004 an explosion ripped through a Moscow subway killing 41 people and injuring 129 others in an attack blamed on Chechen separatists.

Now I know I'm supposed to get excited about Waitangi Day, but with no mud-throwing or anything mildly exciting going on, I'd have to say I'm a bit more excited about SUPER TUESDAY!!! Thank goodness for Triangle TV providing us live coverage of the events via Al Jazeera! I've got my fingers crossed for Hillary! Oh and thanks to Maori TV for actually covering Waitangi Day too. I tuned in to watch a bit of that earlier today. For some odd reason TVNZ forgot to broadcast their advertised special news bulletins at 10 and 11am...

Another Festival

It was the last combined Sunday School class at church yesterday so it as a little different with us getting into teams and playing some games. Hamish, Aonghas, a couple of other boys and I formed one team. The first game we played was the members of each team had to sacrifice as much as they had on themselves and put it all into a box. The team who had the heaviest box won. While members of other teams were carrying bags with them, none of us in our team had bags, except for one of the boys, who also had a box of trading cards! We all took off our shoes and put in our phones and my belt though, and we managed to win the first game by 3 grams!

The last game was where each team had to come up with the most number of sins mentioned in the Bible in two minutes. Once time was up, each team read their list out, and if any other team had the same sin on their list then we'd all have to cross it out! While other teams had three or five words, we managed twelve! :D Our list featured some very dodgy words though (I have no idea how we came up with them!) like bestiality, incest, fornication, polygamy...There were a few of the younger kids who were asking what bestiality meant but most of the older people weren't too keen on telling them! After the games were over we overhears someone pondering..

"With words like those I wonder what goes on in their minds!"

Our team ended up winning getting a maximum 20 points for coming first in both games. All the other teams were tied for second with 16 points! We finished Sunday School with some snacks and drinks which was nice.

As soon as it was over though, our parents came to pick us up and we rushed all the way to the TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre in Manukau City where the Chinese New Year Festival, this time being run by WTV, was held.

This was the first time we had been to this event, let alone the venue, and so we were interested in what it was like, and also how it compared to the Chinese New Year Festival held earlier this year. In the main hall there were all these stalls around the place. It wasn't as big as the other festival, and you could definitely feel ASB's presence there with activities and posters plastered with the ASB logo everywhere (they were the main sponsor of this event). At about 2.30pm there was a performance in the theatre. It started off with a pretty cool Japanese dance by some children, but then after that there was some Chinese rock band and a few random games on stage. There were these four guys who played Korean drums though which was pretty cool!

After a while we got a little restless so we went out and checked the food stalls outside. The festival was nearly over so our mum went around looking to buy some heavily discounted food, and came back with quite a lot!

While we didn't have much time to spend at this festival, overall it was smaller than the ACCC's Chinese New Year Festival at the ASB Showgrounds and possibly not as good, but that's subjective!

Going in Another Direction!

I can now say that I've definitely definitely definitely made up my mind to study pharmacy this year. I got accepted about three weeks ago but I haven't really told anyone because I wasn't certain, but now I've come up with a plan for myself for the next few years which I'm determined to see through! For now I'll study pharmacy, working my backside off to do the very very very best I can and then once I graduate see where I am and possibly consider studying for a law degree the following year. I'd only have to take two law papers in the first year since I'd have already graduated, so I could possibly study part-time. Fingers crossed I'd get into the second year of law after that...But that's a long way from now. I might be sick of studying by then! If so, I'll just keep working in the pharmaceutical world, probably in a pharmacy and aim to get into a hospital!

So now that I'm going to study pharmacy and eventually become a pharmacist (hopefully!), here are 10 reasons to date a pharmacist ;)

1-Very clean life style and bed style too.

2-We are well trained to listen.

3-Drug Dealers….with a license! Hell yea..

4-Free drugs, condoms, and birth control pills…We play safe!

5-When it comes to measures we are precise, gentle, and got a whole bunch of leaks before reaching the end point! lol,don't u just love Titration?!

6-We know quite enough anatomy, to know what works and where.

7-We own a variety of lotions, creams and gels, and aren't afraid to use them.

8-We do it on the counter, in the car, and on hospital beds all day long.

9-We never miss a target ;)

10-Love is all about chemistry, right?…Well so is Pharmacy !

(Courtesy of Facebook!)

Missing Out

I've been having problems with my university timetable and so I've been trying to sort it out with the university and they asked me to come in on Friday, so on Friday afternoon I went to the medical school. Well I tried anyway! I tried coming up to the door and swiped my access card, but the door wouldn't open! I also tried pushing the big red button to open the door, but it still wouldn't work! I waited around pretending what I was doing, until I decided I'd ask this lady waiting outside if she knew how to get in. She swiped her card and let me in. Once I got in, I couldn't find anyone to talk to! The reception was closed, and no one was around, so I just stood there trying to look around corners but to no avail.

I decided I'd go to the Student Support Centre to ring the lady I was supposed to see to find out where I was supposed to be going. Now the only problem was trying to get out of the building! I couldn't get the door open! I was trapped inside the building for a while till someone else came in and I dashed over to exit while the door was still open!

I managed to find out that I was in the right building and so I got back in, met up with the lady and discussed my timetable with her. It looks like it'll be another week or two before I get it confirmed!

Yesterday our family was originally going to go out for yumcha, seeing as the day would probably the last time in a while that everyone in the family would have the day off. We were going to check out the Imperial Gardens Restaurant, the one I went to with the Kiwi Asian Club (thanks guys for helping me discover this restaurant!). However, there were a few things our parents had to deal with at the bank, and with time against us, we got in the city too late for yumcha! After a heated discussion we ended up parking at the far end of the city where the remaining free car parks can be found. This meant we had to walk an extremely long way to get to the heart of the city, where we ended up having lunch at this Asian food court.

Once we had finished we walked along Queen St to Aotea Square, where we found these buskers performing as part of the Auckland International Buskers Festival. These two guys, dressed in very, very tight costumes performed these acrobatic acts, such as one standing on the shoulders of the other, one standing on his head on top of the other's head, and other things. They were very 'Russian', and we were all led to believe they were Russian, right up until the show finished, when they got out their donation bags that said AUSTRALIA on it with the Australian flag. Their Russian accent disappeared and was replaced with their Australian accent! It was all an act, just like the acrobatics!!

A Catch-Up of Sorts

Yesterday Hamish had a job interview in the city, and so I went in with him too as I was going to catch up with my really good friend Diane, who I haven't seen in over half a year. Aonghas dropped Hamish off before taking me to uni. We went to buy his course guide for the computer science paper he'll be taking this year before he left to go to school.

I was an hour early so I decided to try look for cream eggs to buy Diane as I know she really likes them! I walked all the way to The Warehouse to check it out but couldn't find anything! I was walking up Queen St looking for other shops selling them when she texted me telling me she was just about to arrive in the city! We met up outside Imax and then walked down Queen St all the way to The Warehouse. We spent a little while looking for toys for Diane to buy to give to these children of the farmers who own the farm she has been working at (what a very bad sentence!). After a while of browsing, as well as looking for a Spongebob t-shirt (for Diane but with no success), she finally decided on two soft toys, one of them a dancing hippo and the other one this baby that glows and plays lullaby music when you squeeze it.

Once we were done, we then walked all the way to Foodtown to do some shopping. Diane wanted to buy some...stuff but we ended up walking around the store at least five times, picking up a drink along the way before she finally decided to buy the stuff. We then walked back to Queen St, drinking our cans of 'V'.

I have to say this day was really badly planned in that she only asked me to hang out the night before and I hadn't even had any time to think of what to do or buy her something! We ended up walking back up Queen St all the way to Nando's and Imax before deciding we'd have lunch at Burger King. Because she had paid for my drink, this time I took her Eftpos card off her and paid for her lunch! I caught up with Tim, this guy from Rutherford at Burger King too which was cool.

After lunch we didn't really know what to do, as Diane had pretty much done everything there was to be done in the city. I did try suggesting having a little walk around the Viaduct but she didn't want to get sunburnt, and I suggested showing her around Albert Park (which is a really nice park...during the day!) and maybe around uni, but she wasn't too keen on walking, even despite me offering to carry her! I then tried to get her down to the arcade to challenge her at one of those dancing game things, but she wussed out! So we went back upstairs, and wandered around checking out clothes shops. That meant being the only guy in women's clothes shops at times! I even went into this clothes shop and watched as Diane tried on this thing and the saleswomen talking clothes with her! One commented on how the other's were 'fake'...Diane ended up buying the clothes.

My last offer was to take her to the bungy thing next to Sky City since she had never tried that before, but she chickened out of that too! So Diane took me to this little cafe to try some dessert. I tried this ....Timi..something (I was trying hard to memorise the name of it!) which tasted interesting. We talked for a while before she decided to catch the bus home, but not before giving me a hug and slapping me on the head, which I just realised is an imitation of the emoticon she has (one of one MSN person slapping another!!). Wow, and last time she brushed me off when I tried giving her a hug! So it was good hanging out with her. I probably won't see her again till the Easter holidays if she's not that busy that is. It was a bit of a shame we didn't really do much though, hopefully she didn't get too bored!

Oh and as for Hamish's job interview, no news yet...