Yesterday Aonghas and I attended this accordion workshop over in North Shore. This French guy who is some expert in choosing the right music for programmes to enter into various accordion championships gave us advice and tips on how to improve our playing and performance. Once again we were late, so we arrived at Sunnybrae Primary School half an hour late. Everyone was already in the classroom listening to this French guy speaking! Aonghas and I quietly took our seats.
For the first two hours we listened to this guy tell us how to improve our performance techniques, from pushing and pulling the bellows at the same time, to raising your eyebrows and showing expression on your face as you play music.
We finally had our lunch break at midday, when Aonghas and I sat with some of the North Shore accordionists there like Jessica and this guy called George. Jessica only just got back from Taiwan the night before so I was surprised she even made it! We managed to get talking which is cool, because usually us Westies don't talk much to the North Shorians except for Jessica. So yeah it was cool getting to know them a little more!
After lunch we had to practise the piece we would perform later in the day for an hour, so we found a spot outside somewhere on the school grounds. I sat on this bench, and started playing. It was a little weird practising as some girls in bikinis walked by to the school pool, and these two boys rode by on their skateboards, and here's me sitting outside playing this weird musical instrument!
We were next given a demonstration on how the accordion works. I have to admit I nearly fell asleep during that! Hopefully no one saw me, although these two girls were giggling about something...hopefully not me!
The last half hour we spent doing more practise before we had to perform. I was one of the first to perform since I hadn't played to the French guy that whole day. My performance was so bad though! I kept playing mistakes and stopped right in the middle, so you know what I would be like - smile overtime. For some reason I just smile whenever I make a mistake! When I stopped I made some sort of scoffing noise which made it even worse! The French guy gave me a few comments after my performance, such as STOP SMILING!
I was supposed to go to the second day of the workshop today, but I was planning on going to the University of Auckland careers and courses advice day, while Aonghas had to go back to school for uniform and options check. I decided to come along. I thought I might try laugh at some of the students returning to school! :D (I didn't in the end by the way!)
We dropped Aonghas off while I went driving around Te Atatu Peninsula with my mum. After an hour we drove back to school and I saw Zahir cross the road! That was cool. We waited on the side of the road for over an hour and Aonghas (and Chen who we had to take home as well) still weren't done, so I decided to just drive past the main gate and back to the back gate, when I drove past Phoebe waiting at the corner of the road! The first time I tried waving to her like an idiot but she didn't notice me. She probably didn't notice the white car as I don't think she's seen it before. I came back though, and this time I honked the horn and hopefully she saw me! Hopefully it was her!
By the time Aonghas and Chen came out it was midday, so we took Chen home. I was busting to go to the toilet so I went into Chen's house, and Aonghas and my mum ended up being invited in too. We ended up having lunch there and talked with Chen for a while till it was 3pm! I missed the careers advice day at university but that's OK! I've got most of the stuff sorted out anyway.
By the way I never realised texting people after midnight was abnormal! I've had people questioning me about a previous post...I've been texting after midnight regularly in the past week...is that unusual?
Wednesday, 31 January 2007
Sunday, 28 January 2007
Fun at Church?
I didn't even think that was possible but today turned out to be quite a good time at church! Because this week was the last week of holiday Sunday School before we'd have to resume normal Sunday School next week, us teens were going to have a barbecue instead of Sunday School. I ended up texting Angie till half past three in the morning the night before (before I decided I'd better get some sleep and she started to drift off!) trying to convince her to come today and eat sausages! (amongst sharing other things) :D She ended up coming this morning to church and happened to sit in the seat right behind me!
While I wasn't completely listening to the sermon, I listened to bits of it as I discovered towards the end that it could be relevant to me! The associate pastor was talking about living a life of purpose and doing something meaningful with your life, and as of yet I still haven't discovered my ultimate life goal! I spent the whole service kicking Aonghas's foot, keeping him from sleeping as well as trying not to yawn too much.
When the service was over Angie and I met up with Jennifer, the other girl in my Sunday school class and we carried the food and barbecue equipment to the lawn at the back. The three of us talked for a while before all of us had to sit around in a circle, have a pray, sing some songs and then one of the adults give a little message to us about having a good year and being a good Christian and everything. The singing was pitiful! Hardly anyone sang, and one of the adults started clapping during one of the songs! He looked like some little kid!
Once that was all over, the guys got the barbecue warmed up to cook the sausages. The girls and I were supposed to butter the bread but then it was decided that whoever wanted their bread buttered could do it themselves, so Jennifer, Angie ended up talking. We eventually sat around on the lawn eating and talking about all sorts of stuff. Jennifer just recently went to some science forum/camp thing, which sounded interesting! They ended up being forced to do these crazy things in public down Queen St, like sing songs and hold hands with guys. When she said that I made some comment like that was nice, and her mum (who's going to be a helper in my Sunday school class this year) said that I probably wanted that!!
Jennifer and Angie were to remain in the same Sunday school class this year with all these new people (Aonghas included), while I'd have to move up to the uni students class with Hamish, but Jennifer tried asking her mum if she and Angie could move into the same class with me so that I wouldn't be lonely, and her mum (who's the assistant helper of the class) said that I wouldn't be lonely because my brother would be in the class! She didn't have any problems with it though, so hopefully we'll still all be together this time next week!
We ended up sharing embarrassing stories, and (don't worry about how the conversation came to to this!) I discovered that Jennifer knows Zippo!! She used to go to the same primary school as her! She also recognised Estee's name too (same primary school!). She also knew Phoebe, who used to go to our church's Sunday school! It's amazing how we're all connected!
After lunch Angie, Jennifer, Aonghas and I went back inside and decided to play a little table tennis. Jennifer then went off to attend the cooking class, where my mum went off to as well, so Angie continued to play table tennis with us until she had to go. After that a couple of guys joined us in table tennis, and then after we played soccer. Aonghas and I thought we'd try different strategies which didn't work too well with Hamish as goalie! We ended up reverting to plain basic shooting! After a while we were sweating like hell, so we shot a few hoops before Jennifer came back and together with Tim my Sunday school teacher from last year we played a bit of 3-on-3 basketball. It soon evolved into volleyball after we put up the nets. After one of the guys hit the ball into the net causing it to come off though, it took a while for it to be put back up so we gave up. By now the cooking class had finished, so we left church at about 4pm.
I think I finally have friends at church!! :D
While I wasn't completely listening to the sermon, I listened to bits of it as I discovered towards the end that it could be relevant to me! The associate pastor was talking about living a life of purpose and doing something meaningful with your life, and as of yet I still haven't discovered my ultimate life goal! I spent the whole service kicking Aonghas's foot, keeping him from sleeping as well as trying not to yawn too much.
When the service was over Angie and I met up with Jennifer, the other girl in my Sunday school class and we carried the food and barbecue equipment to the lawn at the back. The three of us talked for a while before all of us had to sit around in a circle, have a pray, sing some songs and then one of the adults give a little message to us about having a good year and being a good Christian and everything. The singing was pitiful! Hardly anyone sang, and one of the adults started clapping during one of the songs! He looked like some little kid!
Once that was all over, the guys got the barbecue warmed up to cook the sausages. The girls and I were supposed to butter the bread but then it was decided that whoever wanted their bread buttered could do it themselves, so Jennifer, Angie ended up talking. We eventually sat around on the lawn eating and talking about all sorts of stuff. Jennifer just recently went to some science forum/camp thing, which sounded interesting! They ended up being forced to do these crazy things in public down Queen St, like sing songs and hold hands with guys. When she said that I made some comment like that was nice, and her mum (who's going to be a helper in my Sunday school class this year) said that I probably wanted that!!
Jennifer and Angie were to remain in the same Sunday school class this year with all these new people (Aonghas included), while I'd have to move up to the uni students class with Hamish, but Jennifer tried asking her mum if she and Angie could move into the same class with me so that I wouldn't be lonely, and her mum (who's the assistant helper of the class) said that I wouldn't be lonely because my brother would be in the class! She didn't have any problems with it though, so hopefully we'll still all be together this time next week!
We ended up sharing embarrassing stories, and (don't worry about how the conversation came to to this!) I discovered that Jennifer knows Zippo!! She used to go to the same primary school as her! She also recognised Estee's name too (same primary school!). She also knew Phoebe, who used to go to our church's Sunday school! It's amazing how we're all connected!
After lunch Angie, Jennifer, Aonghas and I went back inside and decided to play a little table tennis. Jennifer then went off to attend the cooking class, where my mum went off to as well, so Angie continued to play table tennis with us until she had to go. After that a couple of guys joined us in table tennis, and then after we played soccer. Aonghas and I thought we'd try different strategies which didn't work too well with Hamish as goalie! We ended up reverting to plain basic shooting! After a while we were sweating like hell, so we shot a few hoops before Jennifer came back and together with Tim my Sunday school teacher from last year we played a bit of 3-on-3 basketball. It soon evolved into volleyball after we put up the nets. After one of the guys hit the ball into the net causing it to come off though, it took a while for it to be put back up so we gave up. By now the cooking class had finished, so we left church at about 4pm.
I think I finally have friends at church!! :D
Saturday, 27 January 2007
Uni Stuff
Things are really moving forward! Today nearly all of the mail was for me! I got a letter from the electoral commission telling me I was added to the electoral roll so that I could vote in the upcoming local body elections this year, two letters from the university, one with my student ID card and another with information on the careers advice day this Wednesday, and also all my NCEA papers (that's kinda yesterday's news now!). Yesterday I also got a letter from the university letting me know that I got the scholarship too so that's good!
Anyway I finally sorted out my university timetable. Let me know if any of you guys have breaks at the same time as me or are in any of my classes!
Monday:
8-9am CHEM110 (88085) (city)
9-10am BIOSCI107 (87993) (city)
1-2pm POPHEALTH111 (87696) (city)
Tuesday:
8-9am CHEM110 (88085) (city)
9-10am BIOSCI107 (87993) (city)
1-2pm POPHEALTH111 (87696) (city)
2-5pm BIOSCI lab (87985) fortnightly (grafton)
Wednesday:
10.30-11.30am POPHEALTH101 (87692) (Tamaki)
11.30-12.30pm POPHEALTH101 tutorial (90368) (Tamaki)
12.30-2.30pm POPHEALTH111 (90376) (Tamaki)
Thursday:
8-9am CHEM110 (88085) (city)
9-10am BIOSCI107 (87993) (city)
1-2pm POPHEALTH111 (87696) (city)
2-5pm CHEM110 lab (88082) fortnightly (grafton)
Friday:
8-9am CHEM110 (88085) (city)
9-10am BIOSCI107 (87993) (city)
11.30-12.30pm POPHEALTH101 (87692) (Tamaki)
Anyway I finally sorted out my university timetable. Let me know if any of you guys have breaks at the same time as me or are in any of my classes!
Monday:
8-9am CHEM110 (88085) (city)
9-10am BIOSCI107 (87993) (city)
1-2pm POPHEALTH111 (87696) (city)
Tuesday:
8-9am CHEM110 (88085) (city)
9-10am BIOSCI107 (87993) (city)
1-2pm POPHEALTH111 (87696) (city)
2-5pm BIOSCI lab (87985) fortnightly (grafton)
Wednesday:
10.30-11.30am POPHEALTH101 (87692) (Tamaki)
11.30-12.30pm POPHEALTH101 tutorial (90368) (Tamaki)
12.30-2.30pm POPHEALTH111 (90376) (Tamaki)
Thursday:
8-9am CHEM110 (88085) (city)
9-10am BIOSCI107 (87993) (city)
1-2pm POPHEALTH111 (87696) (city)
2-5pm CHEM110 lab (88082) fortnightly (grafton)
Friday:
8-9am CHEM110 (88085) (city)
9-10am BIOSCI107 (87993) (city)
11.30-12.30pm POPHEALTH101 (87692) (Tamaki)
Friday, 26 January 2007
Out Again
A new record for me: going into the city to hang out with friends TWICE in one week! OK it didn't start off too well at first.
I was invited to the city to catch up with the year 12 group of guy/girls...maybe change that to year 13 now! (I keep thinking I'm still in 2006!) a couple days before, but I didn't ask my parents for permission to go because I was a little scared (yeah as crazy as it sounds!) since it was so close to the last time I went out. As it happens, yesterday morning was when my dad had an optometrist appointment in the city, and my mum thought I needed to ask some questions at university, so I decided to go in.
My dad went into the city in the morning by bus, and an hour later my brother drove my mum and me into the city. They dropped me off at the campus before going to pick my dad up. I went into the information centre to ask my question before waiting outside the Clock Tower for my brother to come round and pick me up. I stood there waiting, and waiting and waiting. Eight free City Link buses, three students with kids, an American tourist group and heaps and heaps of white cars passed by, but none with my brother in the driver's seat! I sat on the edge of the footpath waiting, then walked up and down the road checking out the car park, before deciding to find a park bench in Albert Park where I could have a rest. By now, two hours had passed! And then they decided to come pick me up! During that time Gwen and the guys had been waiting for me by Britomart before I told them to go without me. Anyway the reason for the long wait was that my dad's appointment took much MUCH longer than expected!
I finally picked up the courage to ask my parents if I could go meet my friends in the city, and promised to be back home in time to deliver newspapers, but my parents did the whole guilt thing on me! They wanted to go have lunch at some Asian food court down K' Road! So I decided I'd go have lunch with them before meeting up with my friends!
Once again our family had a little disagreement over what we'd eat. My mum suggested this Malaysian restaurant, but as the weather was so hot we didn't think we'd be able to handle it! So we decided we'd just buy a $7.50 plate of food of our choice. We got a cup of tea with it too! :D
As soon as I finished that my family were about to go home before I asked them to drop me off at McDonald's down Queen St where Gwen and the others were. I got out at one end of Queen St and started powerwalking my way down that road. I then spotted Gwen, Aone, Esther and Rhea all standing outside McDonalds! I think they were about to leave. Jenna apparently got picked off the street by the Cut-Above Academy after being offered the chance to have her hair done for free (as a test I think), but it would take several hours! We decided we'd go up and visit her, but once we got to the right level, we asked the two women behind the counter if they saw the girl (Jenna) and...well I didn't really hear what they said. But according to the other girls they were snobby, especially when we couldn't find the button to the lift door! It was on the other side of the wall by the other lifts! That was a little silly! We walked down to Whitcoulls where we caught up with Alex, Zahir, Angie, Howdle (I know that's her surname but I'm not exactly too sure what her first name is...Natasha???) and Yeeping. We walked around checking out stuff on shelves like Barney educational DVD's and what-not. Well...we weren't really looking at stuff but just walking around talking to each other. Yeah sounds a little funny...socialising in Whitcoulls! :D Aone, Esther and Rhea disappeared somewhere, while Angie and Howdle went off somewhere else too. So it was just Gwen, Alex, Zahir and me again. We walked around a little longer, I talked to Gwen about the joys of uni, and then we decided we'd go down to Britomart. The others were originally going to watch a movie and have dinner in the city but decided to come back to Henderson early with me, sorry guys!!! We decided to catch the train back instead of the bus, since the others hadn't caught it before, and also since we'd get home earlier. The guy at the information booth must've thought us guys were crazy when I asked him how we could get tickets for the train. He (jokingly!) told us to go annoy the guy in the next booth, who happened to turn out to be the ticket salesperson!
We managed to jump onto the train. Gwen and Alex sat at one end of the train while I sat with Zahir a few rows down. It was cool going through the tunnel, but the ride was surprisingly slow with plenty of stops! Then again the last time I caught the train was the first time back in January last year! The train might've been the wrong option, as Gwen and Alex were starting to feel sick and there was this...different guy...on board! We finally got off in Henderson, and decided to check out the Japanese garden around the corner, where Zahir and Gwen jumped on fountains shooting up from the ground.
We then went to pick up Zahir's glasses which were ready, and then they all walked with me home. I got to show them my crusty house! :D It was a bit sad saying goodbye to them. It's been really fun hanging out with those guys lately! I wish I knew them all many years earlier! I'm going to try them visit regularly at school though, hopefully on a Friday when I finish uni by midday!
I was invited to the city to catch up with the year 12 group of guy/girls...maybe change that to year 13 now! (I keep thinking I'm still in 2006!) a couple days before, but I didn't ask my parents for permission to go because I was a little scared (yeah as crazy as it sounds!) since it was so close to the last time I went out. As it happens, yesterday morning was when my dad had an optometrist appointment in the city, and my mum thought I needed to ask some questions at university, so I decided to go in.
My dad went into the city in the morning by bus, and an hour later my brother drove my mum and me into the city. They dropped me off at the campus before going to pick my dad up. I went into the information centre to ask my question before waiting outside the Clock Tower for my brother to come round and pick me up. I stood there waiting, and waiting and waiting. Eight free City Link buses, three students with kids, an American tourist group and heaps and heaps of white cars passed by, but none with my brother in the driver's seat! I sat on the edge of the footpath waiting, then walked up and down the road checking out the car park, before deciding to find a park bench in Albert Park where I could have a rest. By now, two hours had passed! And then they decided to come pick me up! During that time Gwen and the guys had been waiting for me by Britomart before I told them to go without me. Anyway the reason for the long wait was that my dad's appointment took much MUCH longer than expected!
I finally picked up the courage to ask my parents if I could go meet my friends in the city, and promised to be back home in time to deliver newspapers, but my parents did the whole guilt thing on me! They wanted to go have lunch at some Asian food court down K' Road! So I decided I'd go have lunch with them before meeting up with my friends!
Once again our family had a little disagreement over what we'd eat. My mum suggested this Malaysian restaurant, but as the weather was so hot we didn't think we'd be able to handle it! So we decided we'd just buy a $7.50 plate of food of our choice. We got a cup of tea with it too! :D
As soon as I finished that my family were about to go home before I asked them to drop me off at McDonald's down Queen St where Gwen and the others were. I got out at one end of Queen St and started powerwalking my way down that road. I then spotted Gwen, Aone, Esther and Rhea all standing outside McDonalds! I think they were about to leave. Jenna apparently got picked off the street by the Cut-Above Academy after being offered the chance to have her hair done for free (as a test I think), but it would take several hours! We decided we'd go up and visit her, but once we got to the right level, we asked the two women behind the counter if they saw the girl (Jenna) and...well I didn't really hear what they said. But according to the other girls they were snobby, especially when we couldn't find the button to the lift door! It was on the other side of the wall by the other lifts! That was a little silly! We walked down to Whitcoulls where we caught up with Alex, Zahir, Angie, Howdle (I know that's her surname but I'm not exactly too sure what her first name is...Natasha???) and Yeeping. We walked around checking out stuff on shelves like Barney educational DVD's and what-not. Well...we weren't really looking at stuff but just walking around talking to each other. Yeah sounds a little funny...socialising in Whitcoulls! :D Aone, Esther and Rhea disappeared somewhere, while Angie and Howdle went off somewhere else too. So it was just Gwen, Alex, Zahir and me again. We walked around a little longer, I talked to Gwen about the joys of uni, and then we decided we'd go down to Britomart. The others were originally going to watch a movie and have dinner in the city but decided to come back to Henderson early with me, sorry guys!!! We decided to catch the train back instead of the bus, since the others hadn't caught it before, and also since we'd get home earlier. The guy at the information booth must've thought us guys were crazy when I asked him how we could get tickets for the train. He (jokingly!) told us to go annoy the guy in the next booth, who happened to turn out to be the ticket salesperson!
We managed to jump onto the train. Gwen and Alex sat at one end of the train while I sat with Zahir a few rows down. It was cool going through the tunnel, but the ride was surprisingly slow with plenty of stops! Then again the last time I caught the train was the first time back in January last year! The train might've been the wrong option, as Gwen and Alex were starting to feel sick and there was this...different guy...on board! We finally got off in Henderson, and decided to check out the Japanese garden around the corner, where Zahir and Gwen jumped on fountains shooting up from the ground.
We then went to pick up Zahir's glasses which were ready, and then they all walked with me home. I got to show them my crusty house! :D It was a bit sad saying goodbye to them. It's been really fun hanging out with those guys lately! I wish I knew them all many years earlier! I'm going to try them visit regularly at school though, hopefully on a Friday when I finish uni by midday!
Wednesday, 24 January 2007
The Greatest Guys!
While my birthday wasn't so eventful, the last few days have been, thanks to my friends! On Monday I needed to go down to the bank to sort out student allowance stuff, so Aonghas and I walked down to WestCity to go do that (as mentioned in my last post) and then went to the vege shop to buy some bread. On the way there we checked out this car shop to look for car aerials. This guy immediately came up to us and asked if we needed any help, so we just had to sound like we knew what we were talking about! After that was over we went into the bread shop to get our bread and we met this girl Sophie (I think? From Rutherford?) that Aonghas knows and that I remember buying chocolate from last year!
When I got home my mum passed me this birthday card, and I opened it to find it was from Melissa and Kat! While I was out they had come by (Melissa? Driving? *cough cough* :P) and dropped it off with my mum. Inside it was a $20 Vodafone top-up voucher! Just what I always wanted! Thanks guys soooo much for that trouble!! They didn't have to do that for me! I've promised that I'm going to take them out for lunch sometime as a small thank-you gesture! So I spent 40c replying to them and thanking them before Melissa told me I was supposed to buy TXT2000. Duhhh. So I finally did that today and now I have 2000 txts to send! Yay!! I'm not used to sending txts though, ever since free weekend txtn was over and it's been about three months since I last txted obsessively! Anyway now you'll get a reply if you txt me! :D
Another surprise came to me when I found out not too long ago that a few of my friends had organised a little birthday 'outing' for me! So yesterday Chen came over in the morning to pick Aonghas and me up from our house and took us round to Gwen's house, where I found Alex, Zahir and Angie there as well! Zahir gave me this book on Worst Case Scenarios for Dating and Sex (very helpful!!!), while Chen gave me this book of jokes (very funny!!). Alex bought me a polo shirt from Hallensteins while Gwen and Angie did this huge collage of Rutherford memories for me which was really nice! I've put that up on my wall now so when I go in there I can remember all those good times! Thanks you guys!! You guys as well didn't have to get me anything either!!!
We hung around in Gwen's bedroom playing with her BIG ball, with Zahir making a little scratch on her wall, and a few of us knocking each other over and nearly smacking her computer. Aonghas and I also got to try out Alex's new phone which is so cool, a 3.2 mega pixel Sony Cybershot phone! It's better than my old phone! I've been looking at it for a while and waiting for the price to drop, but it was cool playing with hers!
We then all decided to go outside for lunch, so we strolled over to Woolworths to buy some food (with Gwen and Alex sneaking around the place trying to hide from their manager I think!), and then we went across the road to the fish 'n' chip shop to buy some...fish and chips. While we were waiting outside on the footpath Mrs Reid came by! It took me a little while to remember her name, and it hasn't even been that long since I left Rutherford!! She said I was welcome to come back and visit her anytime so I'll do that!
Once we got the food we went back across the road to the nearby park to eat it. That was amusing with the cups and forks flying around and Aonghas and I getting soaked in L&P. That was OK though as we couldn't finish it anyway! We went back to Gwen's to play a little bit of Singstar, mainly because I wanted to hear Chen and Angie sing!! Now I've got a recording of it ;)
Time was running out so they got out my cake, and did a fast forward version Happy Birthday and I blew out the candles being sure not to spread germs, and then the cake was distributed! We then had 15 minutes to walk down to the bus stop! We got there in time but the bus didn't arrive for several minutes so we were a little anxious, but sure enough it came late! We all got on and I ended up having a conversation with Angie who I was sitting next to during the bus trip.
When we got to the city we went over to IMAX and bought our movie tickets to 'Night at the Museum'. Aonghas was going to use his 'movie money' voucher but the guy at the counter asked him if he REEALLY wanted to use it on the discount day! So Aonghas changed his mind.
We got in the theatre early and we were the only ones sitting there. Angie, Zahir and I were all sitting next to each other, the guys with the really bad eyesight. Although even though Zahir's glasses got munted at Big Day Out he could still see the screen without them, while Angie and I couldn't without our glasses! The movie was really good nonetheless! We hung out at the arcade afterwards, where Zahir beat Gwen, Chen beat Aonghas (and me for the last three points, but that's just because I didn't have enough time to warm up ;) ) and...I can't remember who won between Chen and Zahir but it was really close! By now it was approaching 6pm so we flipped a coin to decide whether to eat at IMAX or at this pizza place. In the end it was the pizza place.
The pizza place which wasn't too far from TVNZ or Sky City was very posh, the poshest place I've eaten at before! We ordered three large pizzas, Mexicana, American(a) and the other one...(can't remember what it's called...). They all tasted great and as expected us guys were left finishing it all as the girls got full. Zahir mistook a waitress to be a cleaner and asked the waitress to get a waitress!
Once all the food was gone we started walking down Queen St to Britomart to wait for the bus. We got back at about 9pm and just talked and shared stuff in Gwen's room, until my mum came to pick all of us guys up at 10pm.
Thanks once again Kat, Melissa, Gwen, Alex, Zahir, Chen and Angie for making it a memorable 18th birthday afterall and thanks again to Gwen for organising a day out for me!!
When I got home my mum passed me this birthday card, and I opened it to find it was from Melissa and Kat! While I was out they had come by (Melissa? Driving? *cough cough* :P) and dropped it off with my mum. Inside it was a $20 Vodafone top-up voucher! Just what I always wanted! Thanks guys soooo much for that trouble!! They didn't have to do that for me! I've promised that I'm going to take them out for lunch sometime as a small thank-you gesture! So I spent 40c replying to them and thanking them before Melissa told me I was supposed to buy TXT2000. Duhhh. So I finally did that today and now I have 2000 txts to send! Yay!! I'm not used to sending txts though, ever since free weekend txtn was over and it's been about three months since I last txted obsessively! Anyway now you'll get a reply if you txt me! :D
Another surprise came to me when I found out not too long ago that a few of my friends had organised a little birthday 'outing' for me! So yesterday Chen came over in the morning to pick Aonghas and me up from our house and took us round to Gwen's house, where I found Alex, Zahir and Angie there as well! Zahir gave me this book on Worst Case Scenarios for Dating and Sex (very helpful!!!), while Chen gave me this book of jokes (very funny!!). Alex bought me a polo shirt from Hallensteins while Gwen and Angie did this huge collage of Rutherford memories for me which was really nice! I've put that up on my wall now so when I go in there I can remember all those good times! Thanks you guys!! You guys as well didn't have to get me anything either!!!
We hung around in Gwen's bedroom playing with her BIG ball, with Zahir making a little scratch on her wall, and a few of us knocking each other over and nearly smacking her computer. Aonghas and I also got to try out Alex's new phone which is so cool, a 3.2 mega pixel Sony Cybershot phone! It's better than my old phone! I've been looking at it for a while and waiting for the price to drop, but it was cool playing with hers!
We then all decided to go outside for lunch, so we strolled over to Woolworths to buy some food (with Gwen and Alex sneaking around the place trying to hide from their manager I think!), and then we went across the road to the fish 'n' chip shop to buy some...fish and chips. While we were waiting outside on the footpath Mrs Reid came by! It took me a little while to remember her name, and it hasn't even been that long since I left Rutherford!! She said I was welcome to come back and visit her anytime so I'll do that!
Once we got the food we went back across the road to the nearby park to eat it. That was amusing with the cups and forks flying around and Aonghas and I getting soaked in L&P. That was OK though as we couldn't finish it anyway! We went back to Gwen's to play a little bit of Singstar, mainly because I wanted to hear Chen and Angie sing!! Now I've got a recording of it ;)
Time was running out so they got out my cake, and did a fast forward version Happy Birthday and I blew out the candles being sure not to spread germs, and then the cake was distributed! We then had 15 minutes to walk down to the bus stop! We got there in time but the bus didn't arrive for several minutes so we were a little anxious, but sure enough it came late! We all got on and I ended up having a conversation with Angie who I was sitting next to during the bus trip.
When we got to the city we went over to IMAX and bought our movie tickets to 'Night at the Museum'. Aonghas was going to use his 'movie money' voucher but the guy at the counter asked him if he REEALLY wanted to use it on the discount day! So Aonghas changed his mind.
We got in the theatre early and we were the only ones sitting there. Angie, Zahir and I were all sitting next to each other, the guys with the really bad eyesight. Although even though Zahir's glasses got munted at Big Day Out he could still see the screen without them, while Angie and I couldn't without our glasses! The movie was really good nonetheless! We hung out at the arcade afterwards, where Zahir beat Gwen, Chen beat Aonghas (and me for the last three points, but that's just because I didn't have enough time to warm up ;) ) and...I can't remember who won between Chen and Zahir but it was really close! By now it was approaching 6pm so we flipped a coin to decide whether to eat at IMAX or at this pizza place. In the end it was the pizza place.
The pizza place which wasn't too far from TVNZ or Sky City was very posh, the poshest place I've eaten at before! We ordered three large pizzas, Mexicana, American(a) and the other one...(can't remember what it's called...). They all tasted great and as expected us guys were left finishing it all as the girls got full. Zahir mistook a waitress to be a cleaner and asked the waitress to get a waitress!
Once all the food was gone we started walking down Queen St to Britomart to wait for the bus. We got back at about 9pm and just talked and shared stuff in Gwen's room, until my mum came to pick all of us guys up at 10pm.
Thanks once again Kat, Melissa, Gwen, Alex, Zahir, Chen and Angie for making it a memorable 18th birthday afterall and thanks again to Gwen for organising a day out for me!!
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