After my regular Saturday morning recorder teaching, I went to the library with my brothers this time to sleep while they had to study (hehehe) before going to West City to watch the Trash to Fashion Schools Show, in which a few of the Rutherford students were participating, including Christine Stucki! We tried getting there ten minutes early, but as usual a large audience had already crowded around the stage, so we were relegated to watching it from behind taller people. Aonghas found his friends and so he watched it from the other side of the stage while I was trying to film the show from the other side. It was a little tiring holding up my arm to get a shot above this tall woman's head. I just hope people weren't getting the wrong impression of me filming the thing as well, especially with schoolgirls on stage! (For the record I was filming it for Aonghas for his school video work!)
Later last night just before the big fireworks display was about to start at the Trusts Stadium, my brothers and I all jumped in the car and our dad dropped us off by the gate. We were expecting to pay $5 each to get in, but instead they charged us $5 for three people! There was a bit of a delay before the fireworks got started as the firemen had to wet the athletics track to prevent it from getting damaged by the fireworks.
The fireworks was great, lasting for over twenty minutes and creating heaps of noise and light. A bit of ash did fall on me though and I got blinded a few times by the laser light, but all good all good! I'm as blind as before so no harm done (or so I think...)! We were making our way back up the steps to the gate when we came across a few people from Rutherford. The really weird thing is how some people who used to talk to you last year at school just seem to ignore you now probably just because you don't go to school with them anymore! That didn't wreck the evening though as it was a good way to celebrate/commemorate/mark Guy Fawkes Day.
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What a fascinating Labour Party Conference...well from the outside anyway! I wonder how hard it was for the police standing in the line facing the protesters not to laugh at their antics. While we don't have all the information, the people arrested were supposedly found to be in possession of illegal firearms. Even if having terrorism charges laid against them isn't justified, releasing them despite being in possession of illegal firearms isn't justified either. Doesn't it seem as though the protesters seem to be over-reacting just a teeny weeny bit, and maybe jumping the gun a teeny weeny bit?
However, a swing at someone's head with a megaphone isn't physical assault? That Labour party delegate probably needs to have a look at that tape again a few more times...
Sunday, 4 November 2007
Holiday Plan
OK so now I've got all the time in the world for the next few months I'm starting to come up with a list of what I need to try accomplish by the time uni starts up again next year, such as:
- Find a job
- Tidy the house
- Studying grade six theory (which I should have done a long time ago!)
- Learn how to play the clarinet by Christmas just in case the church needs a clarinetist
- Get passport applications sorted
and probably most important - decide what I'm going to do at uni next year!
So far I've been in pain for most of the days off I've had since exams, as the wire from the braces on my top teeth seem to have slid to the right and is stabbing me in the gums. Initially I thought the orthodontist just didn't cut the wire short enough, but when I felt the extra wire getting longer, I knew something was wrong, and when I checked on the other side, the wire was gone! Now I have to wait till this Tuesday for my orthodontist appointment before I can be relieved of the pain! I thought I'd be able to escape it while asleep, but for some reason last night I kept dreaming about having this wire poking me in the gum! I have to try apply my Health Psychology knowledge to this situation and try preoccupy myself with other things, such as cleaning up the backyard!
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What is the meaning of a hug? I got shunned by yet another female friend after an attempt to share a hug (It's all good we're still friends haha) yet my guy friends and I had no trouble in indulging in a group hug orgy (maybe a slightly over-exaggerated description)! You get people who hug everyone they know every time they seem and you get those who back away from you the instant you get too close! One of my friends' opinion is that a hug is to show someone you think of them as more than a friend...
- Find a job
- Tidy the house
- Studying grade six theory (which I should have done a long time ago!)
- Learn how to play the clarinet by Christmas just in case the church needs a clarinetist
- Get passport applications sorted
and probably most important - decide what I'm going to do at uni next year!
So far I've been in pain for most of the days off I've had since exams, as the wire from the braces on my top teeth seem to have slid to the right and is stabbing me in the gums. Initially I thought the orthodontist just didn't cut the wire short enough, but when I felt the extra wire getting longer, I knew something was wrong, and when I checked on the other side, the wire was gone! Now I have to wait till this Tuesday for my orthodontist appointment before I can be relieved of the pain! I thought I'd be able to escape it while asleep, but for some reason last night I kept dreaming about having this wire poking me in the gum! I have to try apply my Health Psychology knowledge to this situation and try preoccupy myself with other things, such as cleaning up the backyard!
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What is the meaning of a hug? I got shunned by yet another female friend after an attempt to share a hug (It's all good we're still friends haha) yet my guy friends and I had no trouble in indulging in a group hug orgy (maybe a slightly over-exaggerated description)! You get people who hug everyone they know every time they seem and you get those who back away from you the instant you get too close! One of my friends' opinion is that a hug is to show someone you think of them as more than a friend...
Bye-bye First Year!
I finally finished my first year of uni on Thursday, marking it with an exam in the morning and one in the afternoon! Once again I spent the days prior to the exam at the Henderson Library, trying to cram as much into my brain. I even spent Halloween in the library! That night was the night before my exam and I caught up with Joanne who came by the library and saw me through the window. Angie also texted me, telling me how she was having to look after her sister and her sister's friends as they went trick o' treating! We might be BCom buddies if I decide to switch next year! That's something I still have to think about over the holidays.
Thursday came along, and I had to get into the city early so I could catch the 8.30 bus to Tamaki. I got in slightly early but only JUST managed to get on the bus, ending up having to stand right beside the driver at the front. Usually there is more than one Tamaki bus and so I asked the driver if there'd be another bus coming, but he told me he wasn't sure and that I better stay on board. As the bus left there were still well over thirty (probably heaps more!) Health Science students standing there hoping for the next bus!
The bus got to the Tamaki campus about fifteen minutes before our exam, and I caught up with Henry. We were waiting and waiting to see what would happen, and if another bus would turn up. 9.15 rolled on by, and still the bus hadn't come and we were still waiting outside. Finally the second load of Health Science students arrived and so our first exam for the day - Population Health 102, got delayed!
Population Health turned out to be a killer. I'm sure I wrote a lot of generalised stuff that made absolutely no sense. After the exam, I went to the Resource Centre to collect my essay on differences in cardiovascular disease statistics between ethnicities in New Zealand. I wasn't too surprised to find the marking schedule filled with comments butchering my essay (it sounded like it was a female marker for some reason...not being sexist or anything!). I got told I didn't put the idea that Maori didn't have control over their health in the right way...
Henry, Kevin and I then spent the next hour (we missed the earliest bus because of the exam delay) having lunch in the cafeteria. I went to the toilet and while washing my hands, turned to the guy next to me doing the same thing and, thinking he was someone I knew, asked him how the exam went. He started talking to me and that's when I realised I had no idea who this guy was! Well it wasn't too bad in the end. At least we got to know each other a little bit...in the toilet!
Us guys decided we'd try get to the bus stop fifteen minutes earlier just in case there was only one bus back, but when we got there we found the bus completely full! Originally one of Henry's friends had offered to drive us back into the city, but then some guy said another bus would come in five minutes time so we ended up catching that one.
As soon as I got back into the city it was all study study study for Health Psychology! I was nowhere near confident, knowing I was probably going to fail this exam. When I got into the exam room and looked at the paper it didn't look as bad as I thought it would be. For a start, we only had to choose three out of five questions for each of sections B, C and D to answer instead of four out of six as we were told at our tutorials. Time seemed to go really slowly during that exam though. Almost three quarters of the people in the exam room left early. I just decided to stay till the end or else I'd feel guilty afterwards.
Once the exam was over I went over to discuss it with my friends as well as farewell them and do group hugs and the whole shebang. Kevin, with nothing better to do, decided to join me, who missed his bus and equally had nothing better to do. We ended up wandering along Queen St. As we took the shortcut through Albert Park, Kevin caught up with a couple of friends. One of the girls, Anna, instantly asked me if I was a half-cast! Wow someone got it right!
I finally redeemed my voucher at Starbucks for a free green tea latte which didn't taste too bad, although its green, slimy appearance does it no favours. That's probably why Starbucks were giving away vouchers for free green tea lattes! We also went over to Wendy's for a feed, sitting at the same place where we ate the last time we went to Wendy's! It must be turning into a tradition! We then wandered around that massive arcade, where they seem to have simulation games for nearly everything - from Japanese drums, to dancing, to drums, to guitars, to tambourine playing, to pottery-making! We only had a look around before we had to head back to uni so that Kevin could get a ride home from his dad.
And that was the last day of uni for me in 2007. Bye-bye first year Health Science!
Thursday came along, and I had to get into the city early so I could catch the 8.30 bus to Tamaki. I got in slightly early but only JUST managed to get on the bus, ending up having to stand right beside the driver at the front. Usually there is more than one Tamaki bus and so I asked the driver if there'd be another bus coming, but he told me he wasn't sure and that I better stay on board. As the bus left there were still well over thirty (probably heaps more!) Health Science students standing there hoping for the next bus!
The bus got to the Tamaki campus about fifteen minutes before our exam, and I caught up with Henry. We were waiting and waiting to see what would happen, and if another bus would turn up. 9.15 rolled on by, and still the bus hadn't come and we were still waiting outside. Finally the second load of Health Science students arrived and so our first exam for the day - Population Health 102, got delayed!
Population Health turned out to be a killer. I'm sure I wrote a lot of generalised stuff that made absolutely no sense. After the exam, I went to the Resource Centre to collect my essay on differences in cardiovascular disease statistics between ethnicities in New Zealand. I wasn't too surprised to find the marking schedule filled with comments butchering my essay (it sounded like it was a female marker for some reason...not being sexist or anything!). I got told I didn't put the idea that Maori didn't have control over their health in the right way...
Henry, Kevin and I then spent the next hour (we missed the earliest bus because of the exam delay) having lunch in the cafeteria. I went to the toilet and while washing my hands, turned to the guy next to me doing the same thing and, thinking he was someone I knew, asked him how the exam went. He started talking to me and that's when I realised I had no idea who this guy was! Well it wasn't too bad in the end. At least we got to know each other a little bit...in the toilet!
Us guys decided we'd try get to the bus stop fifteen minutes earlier just in case there was only one bus back, but when we got there we found the bus completely full! Originally one of Henry's friends had offered to drive us back into the city, but then some guy said another bus would come in five minutes time so we ended up catching that one.
As soon as I got back into the city it was all study study study for Health Psychology! I was nowhere near confident, knowing I was probably going to fail this exam. When I got into the exam room and looked at the paper it didn't look as bad as I thought it would be. For a start, we only had to choose three out of five questions for each of sections B, C and D to answer instead of four out of six as we were told at our tutorials. Time seemed to go really slowly during that exam though. Almost three quarters of the people in the exam room left early. I just decided to stay till the end or else I'd feel guilty afterwards.
Once the exam was over I went over to discuss it with my friends as well as farewell them and do group hugs and the whole shebang. Kevin, with nothing better to do, decided to join me, who missed his bus and equally had nothing better to do. We ended up wandering along Queen St. As we took the shortcut through Albert Park, Kevin caught up with a couple of friends. One of the girls, Anna, instantly asked me if I was a half-cast! Wow someone got it right!
I finally redeemed my voucher at Starbucks for a free green tea latte which didn't taste too bad, although its green, slimy appearance does it no favours. That's probably why Starbucks were giving away vouchers for free green tea lattes! We also went over to Wendy's for a feed, sitting at the same place where we ate the last time we went to Wendy's! It must be turning into a tradition! We then wandered around that massive arcade, where they seem to have simulation games for nearly everything - from Japanese drums, to dancing, to drums, to guitars, to tambourine playing, to pottery-making! We only had a look around before we had to head back to uni so that Kevin could get a ride home from his dad.
And that was the last day of uni for me in 2007. Bye-bye first year Health Science!
Friday, 2 November 2007
Mnemonicky!
Just before I chuck out my notes here's a few of the mnemonics I came up with to try help me in remembering the stack loads of information for the exams! It worked to some extent, except for that time during my Health Psychology exam I was sitting there thinking... WHAT DOES P STAND FOR??!!!
Remembering causes of forgetting:
Feeling Dogs Is Really Mad
Remembering the key points of the 'Let's Beat Diabetes' programme:
Constantly Bob Undermines His Housewife Wrecking Precariously Sentimental Stuff (I know I know..doesn't make any sense at all!)
Remembering the symptoms of schizophrenia:
Simon Found Prawns Down the Sink
Remembering the seven criterion for mental illness:
Subtly Michael Indicates Louis is Urinating Over the Volkswagen
Remembering the psychological effects of chronic illness:
Dennis and Deepak are Possies
Remembering the parts of the respiratory system (descending):
Try Making Lasagne. Soon She'll Break That Right Awful Arm
Remembering the demands of chronic illness:
Please Stop Vomiting!
Remembering the cognitive, behavioural and biological challenges to adolescents with a chronic illness:
Tell Vampire Uncle is Ticklish
Remembering the dimensions of attitude:
Simon Is Always Claiming Indians Are Cool
Remembering the dimensions of persuasion:
Someone Might Cook Calum's Rice
Remembering the effects of social support on stress and health:
Always Talk In English
Remembering the aspects of perceptual organisation:
Free Domino's Meat Pizza!
Remembering aspects of monocular cues:
I Like To Shoot At Family And Relatives
Remembering the circumstances in which observational learning is more likely to occur:
model is Highly Likely to Attract Similar Rewards
Remembering the four basic requirements of observational learning:
At bRett's Moe Reproduced
Remembering causes of forgetting:
Feeling Dogs Is Really Mad
Remembering the key points of the 'Let's Beat Diabetes' programme:
Constantly Bob Undermines His Housewife Wrecking Precariously Sentimental Stuff (I know I know..doesn't make any sense at all!)
Remembering the symptoms of schizophrenia:
Simon Found Prawns Down the Sink
Remembering the seven criterion for mental illness:
Subtly Michael Indicates Louis is Urinating Over the Volkswagen
Remembering the psychological effects of chronic illness:
Dennis and Deepak are Possies
Remembering the parts of the respiratory system (descending):
Try Making Lasagne. Soon She'll Break That Right Awful Arm
Remembering the demands of chronic illness:
Please Stop Vomiting!
Remembering the cognitive, behavioural and biological challenges to adolescents with a chronic illness:
Tell Vampire Uncle is Ticklish
Remembering the dimensions of attitude:
Simon Is Always Claiming Indians Are Cool
Remembering the dimensions of persuasion:
Someone Might Cook Calum's Rice
Remembering the effects of social support on stress and health:
Always Talk In English
Remembering the aspects of perceptual organisation:
Free Domino's Meat Pizza!
Remembering aspects of monocular cues:
I Like To Shoot At Family And Relatives
Remembering the circumstances in which observational learning is more likely to occur:
model is Highly Likely to Attract Similar Rewards
Remembering the four basic requirements of observational learning:
At bRett's Moe Reproduced
Brief...YouTube Glory
A few days ago a video of Aonghas and I performing an accordion duet at the Rutherford College Luv Musik Concert a couple weeks ago posted by one of Aonghas's friends managed to reach number 1 in the Top Rating You Tube videos for that week! Woohoo for our very brief moment of You Tube glory! I say brief because it only lasted three days. The video only had four five-star ratings and 11 views (yeah we refreshed the page eleven times...) yet it shot to number one! Oh all right it happened at midnight at the beginning of a new week and You Tube NZ just started. So maybe it wasn't so glorious after all, but what the hey!
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