Yesterday I got a chance to hang out with one of my very bestest friends Diane, which was pretty cool because while I talk to her heaps I hardly get the chance to hang out with her. In fact for the first five years I knew her I had only met her in person twice! (She lives in another area of Auckland). Unfortunately if she gets in, she'll be off to Palmerston North to study at vet school which means I won't get to hang out with her any more than before...OK maybe that's unfortunate. She deserves to get in so it'll be a good thing if she does go!
Anyway, originally we were going to hang out last Friday, the day after her last exam, but the bad weather forced us to settle for Monday. While the weather was slightly better on Monday, Diane slept in! Just as well though, as my mum forced me to have a haircut, so finally Tuesday was going to be the day! It didn't start off too well though. I missed all the early buses and the earliest bus I could catch would get me into the city by 11.25am when I was supposed to meet her at 10am! Along the way the 'Bus Stopping' light got stuck and so there was a slight delay. God just didn't want us to meet!
He couldn't stop us though as I finally got into the city and met up with her outside IMAX. From there we went to buy our tickets to watch Shrek the 3rd before waiting around sharing files with our phones. When it was time to go we went into the theatre to find there was only about ten of us in the theatre!
Shrek the 3rd was a pretty good movie! I thought another sequel wouldn't work with Shrek, but they still managed to do it! Thrown in were some good old positive messages too which made me think! In some previous posts I've compared myself to the ogre, and while I was watching this movie I noticed another similarity...our teeth!! We've both got crossbites! Hopefully surgery will stop me from looking like an ogre!
After the movie we went down to Burger King where I bought some combo.(I have no idea what...I said yes to everything and ended up with a large cup of drink and two burgers???). After paying I nearly forgot to get my food and started walking to Diane's table!
I was trying to eat all my food while she drank her pearl milk tea and just as we had finished, Grace, one of Diane's vet school friends came by with a friend of hers. After catching up a little and all the introductions, we headed off to look for the pool place. Following Diane was a bad decision! Grace told us the place she knew was opposite Sky City, but Diane thought she knew of another place, so we followed her and ended up walking right around the block to find ourselves at the pool place opposite Sky City!
We paid for an hour's worth of pool play. It was the guys vs the girls. I was terrible, banging into the light and knocking and missing things, while the guy I was playing with (I should've remembered his name!!), despite claiming he didn't know how to play pool, carried our team to victory! Grace was like me and had to use that cool extension stick! The final result: Guys 2 - 1 Girls (oh yeah!!!!)
I was amazed at how fast time flew by, and by the time we got out of the pool place it was almost 4pm, and so everyone had to go. Sadddd!!!! Well she's still got a couple more weeks here in Auckland and so I'll probably get a chance to hang out with her at least one more time before she goes. Watch out for the waterworks!
Diane, one of my very bestest friends may be off to Palmerston North if she gets into vet school, and
Wednesday, 27 June 2007
Happy Birthday Daddy!!
This is a little late as my dad's birthday was on Saturday. It was a bit of a milestone as he was turning 21 (uh huh!! nah uh huh!!) so we were going to have a birthday party at our cousins' house (our house is too messy and small) Now all we needed was a birthday present for him!
Saturday was a bit of a hectic day with my mum busy cooking food and getting things organised, while us Anderson brothers were searching for a birthday present on the internet. We decided we'd get him a laptop, seeing as our main computer is out of order at the moment and because the rest of us are using laptops, nothing has been done to fix it which had left our dad on a slower computer. We finally spotted one from Dick Smith with good enough specifications so that it was better than my laptop in certain areas despite costing half the price that I bought mine! There were only a few left though with the closest DSE shop being in New Lynn, so we quickly went over to our cousins' house to drop off some food before heading off to the shop.
When we got to DSE we were greeted by some Indian lady who showed us the laptop. We told her we'd buy it but we'd need to cross the road to Lynn Mall to get some money first, so she said she would reserve it for us. We went off to Lynn Mall in search of a Kiwibank ATM only to find the single Kiwibank machine out or order! So we dashed across the road in the rain searching for the post shop.
We finally got back to DSE when the Indian lady told us the laptop they were going to reserve for us had actually been reserved for someone else already! There were no laptops left in any Dick Smith store in Auckland and the only ones available would be the store model. We had a tough decision, but with no alternative, we decided to get the store display. We were informed that it would take half an hour to restore the laptop to factory settings so we decided to wait around.
Fortunately it paid off, as the person who had reserved the last laptop just pulled out, and so we were able to purchase that one! We were saved!!
Even though a few of the family couldn't make it IE AONGHAS (production commitments taking priority over his dad's birthday party aye!) the party was still pretty good, with yummy food. As usual I got myself full again and then spent the night talking to my cousin Janice and flicking through my cousins' Sky TV channels hunting for Cartoon Network and I've got to say, once I found it I wasn't disappointed! Samurai Jack, Teen Titans, aaaaaahhhyeeeeaaaah!!
My relatives got my dad a book on philosophy and an Antarctic journey (??) and some clothes, so it was a good way to celebrate his 21st, the first time we've bought him a birthday present with our own money too!
Saturday was a bit of a hectic day with my mum busy cooking food and getting things organised, while us Anderson brothers were searching for a birthday present on the internet. We decided we'd get him a laptop, seeing as our main computer is out of order at the moment and because the rest of us are using laptops, nothing has been done to fix it which had left our dad on a slower computer. We finally spotted one from Dick Smith with good enough specifications so that it was better than my laptop in certain areas despite costing half the price that I bought mine! There were only a few left though with the closest DSE shop being in New Lynn, so we quickly went over to our cousins' house to drop off some food before heading off to the shop.
When we got to DSE we were greeted by some Indian lady who showed us the laptop. We told her we'd buy it but we'd need to cross the road to Lynn Mall to get some money first, so she said she would reserve it for us. We went off to Lynn Mall in search of a Kiwibank ATM only to find the single Kiwibank machine out or order! So we dashed across the road in the rain searching for the post shop.
We finally got back to DSE when the Indian lady told us the laptop they were going to reserve for us had actually been reserved for someone else already! There were no laptops left in any Dick Smith store in Auckland and the only ones available would be the store model. We had a tough decision, but with no alternative, we decided to get the store display. We were informed that it would take half an hour to restore the laptop to factory settings so we decided to wait around.
Fortunately it paid off, as the person who had reserved the last laptop just pulled out, and so we were able to purchase that one! We were saved!!
Even though a few of the family couldn't make it IE AONGHAS (production commitments taking priority over his dad's birthday party aye!) the party was still pretty good, with yummy food. As usual I got myself full again and then spent the night talking to my cousin Janice and flicking through my cousins' Sky TV channels hunting for Cartoon Network and I've got to say, once I found it I wasn't disappointed! Samurai Jack, Teen Titans, aaaaaahhhyeeeeaaaah!!
My relatives got my dad a book on philosophy and an Antarctic journey (??) and some clothes, so it was a good way to celebrate his 21st, the first time we've bought him a birthday present with our own money too!
Child Abuse!
I'm not the one abusing children, I'm the one being abused by children!
Friday was the second day of looking after the kids. Because the four-year-old had no kindy on Friday, it mean I had to play with him (good clean playing of course!) ALL day! Some time during the day my parents wanted to visit my uncle and aunty's new lunch bar in Avondale, so we strapped the kid into his kiddy seat in the car, all jumped in and drove over there. When we got out my mum asked the boy if he wanted to hold her hand or my hand, and he wanted to hold my hand so I got stuck with the kid (not...so much a bad thing!) However, it was a little dangerous taking him into the kitchen with all the knives, stoves and everything else around the place! He kept spinning around, jumping up and down and running around with me trying to be the buffer between him and danger! My mum asked me to take him outside for a little walk, so we walked around the building before the boy wanted to sit up against a garage door and play with water squirted from his drink bottle.
He then dragged me back inside, and started demanding to go to my parents. My parents hadn't finished talking to my uncle and aunty, so I had to somehow keep this kid at bay. He kept unhooking the lock on the door to the kitchen and trying to open it to get out, so I stuck my foot up against the door at the far end, and pretended that the door was stuck and that we had to wait until our parents were finished so they could 'unstick' the door. The boy started going around pretending he had glue and started gluing the door and then CHOP CHOP CHOPPING the door down!
We got home not too long afterwards and then my mum had to pick up the other kids from school. When they got home they were all over the place! We played a game of Monopoly and we managed to get the eldest girl (the one who hates guys) to join in! I tried having a bit of a conversation with her, so I made a little progress! Later when the girl and her brothers left, we were left with the Eurasian girl, so we played a little basketball with her before letting her use the computer to create a Bebo profile. It's amazing how much these little kids are catching up to us! She tells us kids at her school have cellphones! I think our family got our first cellphone when I was at high school!
Yesterday we didn't look after the kids for as long, as their parents picked them up earlier. While we were hanging out with the Eurasian kid letting her customize her Bebo profile, she asked me if I had a girlfriend and I told her I didn't. She then asked me if I used to out with Zippo, and when I asked her how she knew about that she told me they talked about me and that they think I'm annoying! Ouch! She then later told me I wasn't hot! When I asked if Aonghas was hot she said no as well, but hotter than me...and Hamish was...so-so.. Double ouch! My feelings hurt by an 8-year-old girl!
Friday was the second day of looking after the kids. Because the four-year-old had no kindy on Friday, it mean I had to play with him (good clean playing of course!) ALL day! Some time during the day my parents wanted to visit my uncle and aunty's new lunch bar in Avondale, so we strapped the kid into his kiddy seat in the car, all jumped in and drove over there. When we got out my mum asked the boy if he wanted to hold her hand or my hand, and he wanted to hold my hand so I got stuck with the kid (not...so much a bad thing!) However, it was a little dangerous taking him into the kitchen with all the knives, stoves and everything else around the place! He kept spinning around, jumping up and down and running around with me trying to be the buffer between him and danger! My mum asked me to take him outside for a little walk, so we walked around the building before the boy wanted to sit up against a garage door and play with water squirted from his drink bottle.
He then dragged me back inside, and started demanding to go to my parents. My parents hadn't finished talking to my uncle and aunty, so I had to somehow keep this kid at bay. He kept unhooking the lock on the door to the kitchen and trying to open it to get out, so I stuck my foot up against the door at the far end, and pretended that the door was stuck and that we had to wait until our parents were finished so they could 'unstick' the door. The boy started going around pretending he had glue and started gluing the door and then CHOP CHOP CHOPPING the door down!
We got home not too long afterwards and then my mum had to pick up the other kids from school. When they got home they were all over the place! We played a game of Monopoly and we managed to get the eldest girl (the one who hates guys) to join in! I tried having a bit of a conversation with her, so I made a little progress! Later when the girl and her brothers left, we were left with the Eurasian girl, so we played a little basketball with her before letting her use the computer to create a Bebo profile. It's amazing how much these little kids are catching up to us! She tells us kids at her school have cellphones! I think our family got our first cellphone when I was at high school!
Yesterday we didn't look after the kids for as long, as their parents picked them up earlier. While we were hanging out with the Eurasian kid letting her customize her Bebo profile, she asked me if I had a girlfriend and I told her I didn't. She then asked me if I used to out with Zippo, and when I asked her how she knew about that she told me they talked about me and that they think I'm annoying! Ouch! She then later told me I wasn't hot! When I asked if Aonghas was hot she said no as well, but hotter than me...and Hamish was...so-so.. Double ouch! My feelings hurt by an 8-year-old girl!
Thursday, 21 June 2007
Operation Getting Used to Boys: DAY ONE
While our friends have gone off to Malaysia on holiday for the next three weeks, we've been asked to look after their bird and dog while they're away, and to look after the kids they usually look after after school for the next week. There are four of them - a four-year-old and a six-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, and an 8-year-old girl from a different family. For some reason the eldest girl doesn't like boys and always snubs us or hides from us whenever we come to visit! Now that we'll be looking after them after school for the next week, it is up to us Anderson brothers to introduce her to MAN. So here's how DAY ONE went:
The youngest finished kindergarten at midday, so I drove my mum to the kindy to pick him up. Before we left for home my mum wanted to have a look through Foodtown, so she made me hold hands with the little boy. He ended up dragging me around the place showing what his parents usually buy him, like chocolate cake and chocolate milk. I wouldn't mind swapping places with him! This little kid is so random at times, and asks so many questions, but I guess that's just a sign of a very curious child!
When we got home (with the lounge tidied at the last minute!) my dad gave him some paper to draw on and some pictures to trace and so he drew some pictures of planes. It's funny seeing my parents with little children as they're so different! Maybe that's what they were like to us when we were younger!
After lunch, I had the task of entertaining him right throughout the day, so I got out some of our old toys. It just happens this kid turns out to be a Transformers fan! I also introduced him to some of our exercise equipment which he took a liking to, especially the exer-cycle. After lowering the seat down for him, he started cycling and cycling until he had cycled for 1km! He then took a break to play more with toys before we decided to watch TV.
When his brother and sister and the other girl got home it all went crazy! The two girls stuck together and played around on the piano while the boys played around with the exercise equipment. I tried talking to the eldest girl but she didn't really talk much. My mum later asked if the kids needed to get anything from our friend's house, so we led them there. I checked up on the dog, but the dog managed to get inside the house. With Aonghas, my mum and me not being too keen on picking up the little dog and getting bitten or hurting the dog, we relied on the four-year-old to get the dog out of the house for us, which wasn't such a great plan! The dog ran upstairs, and then when we finally chased it downstairs ran under a bed! I went back home to ask the girl (who had been eager to get back to our house away from us!) if she could get get the dog out of the house as we were afraid of him, and she sighed quite heavily!
The two boys and the girl soon left when their friend's dad came to pick them up, and so we were left with the other girl. Aonghas and I played a little basketball with her outside in the cold (she was only wearing a t-shirt while I was wearing four layers of clothes!) before she said she had never seen a college student do homework and wanted to see Aonghas do some! We found out Aonghas didn't have homework, so we decided to play some board games while Aonghas went off for his squash thing.
An 18 year old vs an 8 year old in chess...who won? Depends on which rules you go by. If you went by her rules where any piece can go anywhere, she won, but if you went by the official rules, it probably was a tie. I then tried some card tricks on her which didn't work, before Hamish and I went up against her in Monopoly.
We were talking to her while playing games, and it's amazing how much she knows! The latest she's ever stayed up is 1am and she usually watches Desperate Housewives. She sometimes watches C4 so she could basically tell me everything going on with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, and when I put some music on from my phone's loudspeakers (such as Akon and The Fray) she could sing the songs well!
Her dad eventually came and so I don't exactly know who won Monopoly, but as soon as the last kid left, I slumped on the couch and took a break. Tomorrow's another day!
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Yesterday I went over to visit my relatives on my mum's side. Finally I could practise listening to my mum and her cousin speak Cantonese to each other and try to figure out what they were saying! We drank tea and had our cups refilled constantly till I needed to go to the toilet. I'm sure I had ten cups of tea by the time I left!
Soon Joshua my nephew came home from school. Damn he goes to St Kents! I managed to start a conversation with him about Star Wars which led him to explain to me all this stuff to do with Star Wars. I wonder what he'll be like in 10 years time!
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I went to see the Rutherford College production 'Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat' last night with Heather, my mum and Hamish (OK pretty much my family except for my dad who went to see it tonight) and I must say we were impressed! It's great seeing how far people have gotten since those days of Wizard of Oz and Aladdin. Troy was the lead male (or is it male lead?) as Joseph, while Michaela was the lead female (or female lead?) Troy will always be Tin Man to be though, and Michaela will always be Dorothy to me! We also noticed the girl who played Toto (the dog) in the choir! She was only a primary school student back then! It was good to see heaps of music (complete with harmony!) throughout. I caught up with them after the show, as well as with Alex during the break, Andrew and Chelsey who was doing the lighting. So if you have a couple hours to spare from 8pm-10pm tomorrow or Saturday night, go check out Rutherford College's production! Oh yeah by the way Aonghas is playing trumpet too...added bonus ;)
The youngest finished kindergarten at midday, so I drove my mum to the kindy to pick him up. Before we left for home my mum wanted to have a look through Foodtown, so she made me hold hands with the little boy. He ended up dragging me around the place showing what his parents usually buy him, like chocolate cake and chocolate milk. I wouldn't mind swapping places with him! This little kid is so random at times, and asks so many questions, but I guess that's just a sign of a very curious child!
When we got home (with the lounge tidied at the last minute!) my dad gave him some paper to draw on and some pictures to trace and so he drew some pictures of planes. It's funny seeing my parents with little children as they're so different! Maybe that's what they were like to us when we were younger!
After lunch, I had the task of entertaining him right throughout the day, so I got out some of our old toys. It just happens this kid turns out to be a Transformers fan! I also introduced him to some of our exercise equipment which he took a liking to, especially the exer-cycle. After lowering the seat down for him, he started cycling and cycling until he had cycled for 1km! He then took a break to play more with toys before we decided to watch TV.
When his brother and sister and the other girl got home it all went crazy! The two girls stuck together and played around on the piano while the boys played around with the exercise equipment. I tried talking to the eldest girl but she didn't really talk much. My mum later asked if the kids needed to get anything from our friend's house, so we led them there. I checked up on the dog, but the dog managed to get inside the house. With Aonghas, my mum and me not being too keen on picking up the little dog and getting bitten or hurting the dog, we relied on the four-year-old to get the dog out of the house for us, which wasn't such a great plan! The dog ran upstairs, and then when we finally chased it downstairs ran under a bed! I went back home to ask the girl (who had been eager to get back to our house away from us!) if she could get get the dog out of the house as we were afraid of him, and she sighed quite heavily!
The two boys and the girl soon left when their friend's dad came to pick them up, and so we were left with the other girl. Aonghas and I played a little basketball with her outside in the cold (she was only wearing a t-shirt while I was wearing four layers of clothes!) before she said she had never seen a college student do homework and wanted to see Aonghas do some! We found out Aonghas didn't have homework, so we decided to play some board games while Aonghas went off for his squash thing.
An 18 year old vs an 8 year old in chess...who won? Depends on which rules you go by. If you went by her rules where any piece can go anywhere, she won, but if you went by the official rules, it probably was a tie. I then tried some card tricks on her which didn't work, before Hamish and I went up against her in Monopoly.
We were talking to her while playing games, and it's amazing how much she knows! The latest she's ever stayed up is 1am and she usually watches Desperate Housewives. She sometimes watches C4 so she could basically tell me everything going on with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, and when I put some music on from my phone's loudspeakers (such as Akon and The Fray) she could sing the songs well!
Her dad eventually came and so I don't exactly know who won Monopoly, but as soon as the last kid left, I slumped on the couch and took a break. Tomorrow's another day!
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Yesterday I went over to visit my relatives on my mum's side. Finally I could practise listening to my mum and her cousin speak Cantonese to each other and try to figure out what they were saying! We drank tea and had our cups refilled constantly till I needed to go to the toilet. I'm sure I had ten cups of tea by the time I left!
Soon Joshua my nephew came home from school. Damn he goes to St Kents! I managed to start a conversation with him about Star Wars which led him to explain to me all this stuff to do with Star Wars. I wonder what he'll be like in 10 years time!
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I went to see the Rutherford College production 'Joseph and the Technicolour Dreamcoat' last night with Heather, my mum and Hamish (OK pretty much my family except for my dad who went to see it tonight) and I must say we were impressed! It's great seeing how far people have gotten since those days of Wizard of Oz and Aladdin. Troy was the lead male (or is it male lead?) as Joseph, while Michaela was the lead female (or female lead?) Troy will always be Tin Man to be though, and Michaela will always be Dorothy to me! We also noticed the girl who played Toto (the dog) in the choir! She was only a primary school student back then! It was good to see heaps of music (complete with harmony!) throughout. I caught up with them after the show, as well as with Alex during the break, Andrew and Chelsey who was doing the lighting. So if you have a couple hours to spare from 8pm-10pm tomorrow or Saturday night, go check out Rutherford College's production! Oh yeah by the way Aonghas is playing trumpet too...added bonus ;)
What a Pain!
It has been a while since I last posted on my lack of understanding of the female human species, but here is one that has me completely confused and clueless.
I was chatting to a friend asking how she was doing when she told me she was upset. I asked if I could guess why she was upset, and managed to guess right (based on what I had heard around the place and from piecing things together). She quizzed me on how I knew and I told her I knew very little, having only put things together. She told me she needed to be alone and so I left her. A week later I tried chatting to her to see how she was feeling and she told me to go with what I hear.
So I'm guessing I got my friend angry at me for either hearing things about her or guessing why she is upset. I have no idea. If only I had that power Mel Gibson has in What Women Want, then I'd be able to hear what girls are thinking which, despite an invasion of privacy, would be pretty cool! It probably won't work over the internet though...
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On Tuesday morning I woke up especially early just to get all the way to Middlemore Hospital for my orthodontist appointment. I'm supposed to have a check-up every six weeks but because my dentist didn't give me an appointment card at the end of my last appointment in...March...I haven't been to an appointment since! So after about twelve weeks I finally had my next appointment!
They went through the routine of tightening my braces (which they said should hurt more than usual because of the longer time between two appointments) before letting me know roughly when I will go in for surgery - around the 12th November, so prior to that date I will be sure to get around to talk to all of you before my surgery just in case the worst happens!
My teeth haven't been hurting as much as the dentist said it would which is a good thing because tomorrow I might be meeting up with my long-time friend Diane (who's going down to Palmerston North if she gets into vet school!! :'( ) for our day of fun!! We're also having a birthday party for my dad at my cousin's place on Saturday which will require a lot of munching!
I was chatting to a friend asking how she was doing when she told me she was upset. I asked if I could guess why she was upset, and managed to guess right (based on what I had heard around the place and from piecing things together). She quizzed me on how I knew and I told her I knew very little, having only put things together. She told me she needed to be alone and so I left her. A week later I tried chatting to her to see how she was feeling and she told me to go with what I hear.
So I'm guessing I got my friend angry at me for either hearing things about her or guessing why she is upset. I have no idea. If only I had that power Mel Gibson has in What Women Want, then I'd be able to hear what girls are thinking which, despite an invasion of privacy, would be pretty cool! It probably won't work over the internet though...
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On Tuesday morning I woke up especially early just to get all the way to Middlemore Hospital for my orthodontist appointment. I'm supposed to have a check-up every six weeks but because my dentist didn't give me an appointment card at the end of my last appointment in...March...I haven't been to an appointment since! So after about twelve weeks I finally had my next appointment!
They went through the routine of tightening my braces (which they said should hurt more than usual because of the longer time between two appointments) before letting me know roughly when I will go in for surgery - around the 12th November, so prior to that date I will be sure to get around to talk to all of you before my surgery just in case the worst happens!
My teeth haven't been hurting as much as the dentist said it would which is a good thing because tomorrow I might be meeting up with my long-time friend Diane (who's going down to Palmerston North if she gets into vet school!! :'( ) for our day of fun!! We're also having a birthday party for my dad at my cousin's place on Saturday which will require a lot of munching!
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