January:
The year started off as it always does with me being bored during the holidays, trying to fill up a lot of free time was a bit difficult plus the heat was making me exhausted. I’ve become a casual worker at the $2 shop which was originally supposed to be a temp job.  I’ve been forced into a new years’ resolution of trying to read more books by my dear friends Kat and Aneesya lol, which I would admit isn’t too bad as I’m not into watching tv so much these days and with only housework to do during the weekday, it was good to read a novel strangely enough even better that it was an action one. I went to the movies at St Lukes with Kat, Aneesya, Leah and her group of friends and saw ‘I am Legend’. My dad went to Malaysia then China for two weeks coming home with another big suitcase that we have no room for... Aneesya and I had a two person surprise party for Sayantani at her place, saw a movie from her laptop, drank a glass of wine which made me flush up badly and just laughing about what we were expecting to happen this year or reminiscing about the past years so was a pretty good day to celebrating her 18^th birthday though when we arrived she was in her pyjamas lol. Been helping lost first years with uni and giving advice as well as I can.. man I wonder if we ever worried so much compared to them.

February:
Over the past few weeks it’s just been work, work and more work. My boss at the $2 shop was on his paternity leave for a few weeks though it’s not busy with everyone at work and school, I’d been working in his place for the first week but then put on call for the last couple of weeks which is annoying because I’m unsure whether I was working that day or not so could never make any definite plans. In between all that work I’ve had to work at Matthew’s family restaurant for a couple days for Chinese New Year as it gets quite busy during that time, it would have been three days but the first day is always spent with family and my family always heads out for dinner.  Helped Matt’s family out at the lantern festival in Albert Park in town for three days, so to make it easier by not having to travel back to my place at 12 something I stayed over at his place, helped clean everything on the following Monday and Matt and I went on our date consisting of Hell’s pizza and the movie ‘27 dresses’ since we could finally go out together at night time with his family taking the night off from work lol. Read two more books of The Tomorrow Series... with me being on call for a couple weeks it’s been good to catch up with Kat and Aneesya and see how things have been, as well it’ll be Yazmeen’s wedding at the end of the year and the three of us will be helping out with the planning. Went to Suzy’s birthday with Kat at Sixth Sense, but before reaching our destination we met up with Wallace, Matthew Yan, Sarena and her boyfriend Kevin and took sticker photos. Spent Valentines Day with Matthew, went for lunch in Henderson and dinner at Momo’s in Mt Albert. When I went to get my uni books I found out 5 out of 6 textbooks (two are the accounting standards, where the pages may be flimsy but make two really fat books) I needed were the size of a phonebook weighing a total of roughly 15kgs! I think lol... glad Matt was there to carry them for me huh? Lol... one week to go before uni officially starts.

March:
Uni started and I found out that this semester was going to turn out like last semester just a little harder, with two projects for business and infomgmt again… sigh... as if I didn’t stress out enough last year.. on top of that were three presentation assignments for accounting, what are they trying to do to me? make me piss my pants. Also there is a hell of a lot more reading this year than last.. sigh.. it’ll be readings that’ll take up my time now.. I had an assignment due for business and let me ask you how do you write an essay on communication? I’ll tell you, you can’t.. there is an unclear definition or explanation for the word communication itself but yet I was meant to write a 2000 word essay on a case study based on it, what the?!! This course is going to improve my English writing skills but it’s also going to kill me with workload, actually it’s gonna kill me with the English writing since I was never any good at essays.. reports I can do.. essays.. no…. My first accounting assignment was due for 291, the calculations paper!!! Yes and it was pretty easy since I had been practising hehe… got almost full marks if I had got the second question right.. oh well..

April:
Ok a whole month gone and guess what? This month I had two presentations in only a short period of 2 weeks with little to no instructions of how to get it done, a business essay and a test to complete was just the highlight of this month. I’m sure I passed my essay but not sure with what mark after having it proof-read by Jay and getting a little help from Matt along the way, my test that I thought I screwed up cuz of a minor mistake but luckily JUST passed. As well as those I needed to help on starting my infomgmt project and man was it a lot of work.. but one good thing.. the infomgmt test was theory hallelujah!! Think that’s how its spelt lol.. oh also I had to prepare a presentation based on research about ‘The 10 Best Companies to Work for…’ in groups and apply what I learnt in that.. what the?? do you get how I’d do that? It was such a confusing assignment… and we didn’t have to hand in the research, but if I made bull crap then it wouldn’t have been similar to the other groups…sigh… but I had a pretty good group with all girls, since I hadn’t had an all girl group before lol.. also that infomgmt project? Yea well that needed some progress happening seeing as the a site preview was drawing nearer to see where we were at.. ugh..  oh and of course our first accounting 292 presentation was due as well the same day.. but that didn’t take as long as we expect but yea..still laying it all out like that.. you can see why I want to kill my course.. where was my sleep?? I needed my sleep especially food I needed food.!!! L, the dumb thing is that this semester my teams were all completely different members.. so I can’t kill two birds with one stone.. damn.. didn’t think that through when I chose teams.. accounting 292 didn’t count.. we were assigned.. anyway.. at least 2 more months before I can relax..

May:
Ok here’s the jist so far, I got a B- in my essay!! Yes the highest mark I ever get for English lol.. I failed my infomgmt mid-semester test which in one hour I had to answer 14 questions but in those 14 questions having three or four other questions as well… grrr…. and I just passed both accounting mid-semester tests. So far it looks like I’ll probably pass accounting 291 since my course work marks are A’s, business got a B- for my presentation…  so what’s left completing the final accounting assignment for 292 as well as putting the finishing touches on our site before we it went live for everyone else to break and before presenting. After our business presentation, my team had a “mourning” session that at KFC, then to mission bay which kinda resulted in skipping our last class for the day but luckily it was only a workshop.. phew… uh.. there’s not much to report I guess in terms of uni, but Kat, Aneesya, Dom and I managed to get together one night for dinner, have pictures taken which was fun.. forgetting about what needed to be done and just hanging out (at la porchetta). Oh oh.. the funny thing was … aneesya.. hahahahaha she’s went girly girly…. With her little heeled boots, and her skirts with her girly tops… man… 180 transformation right there.. (by the time this is read she would have gotten the piss taken out of her enough) oh also she also stands like a chick now.. like you know with one leg bent and the other arm leaning on something compared to her folded arms like she’s pissed off… ahahahahahahahaha oh this is probably the only month I actually got to laugh at something lol… Oh yeah! The end of the month arrived and it was now Matt and me’s one year anniversary but since it laid on a Saturday it meant he had to do work for market, I went over and surprised him with a gift consisting of a bear with a wine glass filled with paper stars, fake roses, chocolate all wrapped in cellopane with a blue ribbon to top off…. Only took me this long to put it together too after thinking of it in one day in February… lol

June:
EXAM month!!!! First up was.. infomgmt.. I wasn’t prepared.. we were told that it would be like the test… It turned out that it was 10 questions in three hours where some were from the mid semester test, that was good. The bad thing… I didn’t revise the mid semester test… dumb me huh… I hope I did alright, enough to just pass would be cool cuz then I’ll definitely be repeating and the stink thing is it’s only offered in first semester so I can’t repeat it till next year since it’s a pre-requisite for my third year papers if I have to, oh and it was on my birthday… at night too … great end to my birthday don’t ya think??, ending with an exam, but I got a ride home from Logan (who gave me a card) so I could go to dinner with my family at 7pm but tried to make it quick since… I had my accounting 291 exam the next morning…. Sigh…. But resulted in me getting back at like 9pm and only got in an hour of cramming theory before dropping to sleep. It was calculation based so the 221 equivalent, good thing I studied that a bit more than I did for infomgmt cuz as everyone knows anything that is mathematically based, the exams and tests always way heavily on the practical side more than the theory side… I’m just a little worried about accounting 291 because though I studied it I wrote majority of my working in pencil so at best it’ll be partially marked.. sigh.. bad mistake on my behalf, but I did get all I could done though since I probably stuffed up my theory… hm.. this reminds me of a situation in high school where I did the same thing I think.

Accounting 292 was alright.. in terms of trying to study for it all I did was study the practical cuz all the theory from the slides basically came from the standards book that I took in with me anyway. I tried every question but I managed to miss half of one part of a practical question cuz well I didn’t read it and I think it’s worth 2 marks out of the 12 that it was worth so yea… After my exam I met up with Dominica and Kathryn who gave me my present for my birthday… a pen with a cool looking necklace that smells like Vanilla all in a pretty black box with a bow… soo cool!! Hehehe… oh with a funny random letter inside too.. lol.. Thanks again guys! Had pretty much one day to study for Business since I decided to flag studying after my accounting exam…

Business was alright to study for I just had to remember the models and some theory that wasn’t common sense but we’ll see how I went. The exam was like my first semester last year… 8 essay questions to choose from... but only having to do 5 only difference this time was that the first question was compulsory and I presumed from the start when she told everyone that, that it would have been relating to comparing two models…. Guess what??? …. I was right.. lol.. well anyway I think it went ok.. I was able to answer all the questions I chose but hopefully I was able to answer it properly. Anyway Yay!! Exams over, now I can relax.. 3 more days till ski trip.. this time Matt’s coming with me.. so yay.. since I heard quite a few people weren’t going it was like.. awww…. Who am I gonna hang out with now other than the newbies?? So was good Matt was coming and it was also his first time seeing snow and the first time being out of Auckland, out of Auckland, not NZ :O so a good experience for him too to get out of the Auckland Region and away from the rain. I’ll end this half yearly review here and start a new one on a good note with what went down at ski trip when I get back.. lol.. see ya guys in a week.