The Life of an Asian Chick

            Well I got back from KAC's ski trip and back home to my cosy soft bed that I've missed lol.. I did have a good time at Ski Trip though seeing as asian male testosterone under the influence of alcohol...is quite funny we had two cabins, one which became the gambling cabin with guys playing poker for money most of the time and the other cabin which had all the drunks lol.. I was in the alchy cabin which doesn't mean to say I'm an alchy lol.. anywho...Matt and I had fun snowboarding.. well falling on our butts really but still.. I got the hang of it which is good.. uh.. the second day of the slopes Matt and I decided to stay behind and observe the others.. near the end of the day me being my usual self decided to have a little fun by making snowballs and well of course throwing them hehehe... which resulted in a snowball fight and poor Wallace got hit in the nose somehow and ended up bleeding... Drunken nights consisted of theft, kidnapping, stripping, vomitting and hallucinations lol... the guys stole from the other cabin majority of their furniture on the first night...they kidnapped people and stripped on the last night as well hallucinations of being invisible.. lol..all too funny though... the second night was just a cruzzy night to relax pretty much so not alot went on then.. or was that the night of the other stripping.. stripping of tops... hmm.. not too sure but probably lol..  well anyway after getting back I hung out with Kat and Aneesya at Yazmeen's place to help with wedding stuff though I can't really say I helped since I didn't.. but it was good to hang out with the girls and chat and yea.. seeing as next semester I might not see them as much.. we'll see.. Also we (Kat, Dom, Aneesya, Leah and I) went shopping mainly to look for jeans for Kat and maybe Dom and boots for Dom to I think... ended up finding a nice red dress that I was able to get after being consider by well my mum lol. oh and Kat got a Sari which looks prwettty... hehe.. and Aneesya got a salvakami.(not sure of the spelling) from an indian store in mt roskil... oh yea... lucky for us.. we found small dog tags that we've been looking for, for over half a year now.. yay.. anyway.. that's all i have to say for now.. can't think of much off the top of my head but i'll fill everyone in later if anything comes up lol

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.

As my title suggests wow a year has been and gone.. and a year since i last posted. I'll try keeping a summary of last year as short as I can so you don't read such a boring blog.

First semester began the beginning of uni life, joined the KiwiAsian Club and made many new friends not only from my course but from many other faculties through existing friends. The Lantern Festival in March was alright, though I hadn't been there in a few years it seemed pretty much the same with the karate school performing and the food stalls out front all packed with people trying to fill their growling stomachs. I took Eva along with me as well as my mum and her friend and Henry, with Eva and I on our own I got her to try a few things and she liked them so she might go back this year for more lol.. we saw people with candy floss but couldn't find where to get them so the whole night we walked around and around to find the person selling it whilst looking at the pretty, bright festival but yet such a crowded place you would probably be focusing on not tripping on someone and trying to get through the crowd then it was time to go home and relax as uni was to start on Monday and man was I not prepared. The thing was I knew I needed to read a bit for uni, seeing as I don't prefer to read in the first place but the amount of reading that had to be done was so much it was like I can't have a social life if I want to keep up.

The first half of the first semester I was able to keep up and balance my social life with uni life as it wasn't as hectic or full on, giving some leniency to have some fun, with the assignments needing to be handed in one after another I was still able to attend the Orientation Bbq with Kathryn and Aneesya at Cornwall Park for the KiwiAsian Club and though we were a tad late we made it just in time to get spilt into teams to run up one tree hill and back down again.. yay!! lol.. other than that we managed to meet a few of Kathryn's intermediate friends and a few new ones who I've tried to keep in touch with when I can. The fun ended and the readings began again this time it was coming close to mid semester tests and any final assignments for the half of the semester being due, when another KiwiAsian Club Event arose, this time being the Dessert Night which was fun, having to skull ice tea, draw using our mouths with chocolate, a cake eating competition was even in there with a bet totalling around $40 all in all which got everyone hyped up but the best part was eating cake... mmmm soooo delicious too bad Aneesya couldn't make it as she had a law test that night and probably needed the sugar.

Finally!! Midsemester break had arrived but I still had to study seeing as all my tests were after the break so not really an actual break for me as well as having to continue with an assignment. All that studying was making my head a little disoriented with so much information stored in only a few days and not answering my txts much so why not take a break?! that's what I did lol.. took a break at the KiwiAsian Club's Sports Day at Avondale College which was soo much fun lol.. man I missed playing sports, we played netball, badminton, soccer and dodgeball.. by the end of the day not many people stayed and a whole lot more were in pain from all the running involved lol.. Later that second week of break I went on the KiwiAsian Club's Few Days Away trip without Kathryn, though she was originally going to go with me but decided to stay home to babysit her brother. Overrall it was fun, making up dances, me staying up all three nights.. major insomnia then, think it was the study.. and a hell of a lot of drinking on day one with an executive getting ko’ed and a few others just being totally wasted and a bit on day two for those that weren't driving back the next day but again with executives getting wasted and ko’ed lol.

Ahh.. the day had come, the end of break and my tests began and ended in just a week, sad to say I failed accounting my major but it was only the midsemester test and was sure I could do better in the finals.

A presentation was to be done for information management in only a week, seeing how I was pretty bad at speaking at assemblies in 7th form I didn't have much confidence speaking in uni, amazingly my team consisting of Lavanya, Jing Jing and I did pretty good and managed to get ourselves an A+ for it... go us!! Later that semester around mid May I had a pretty busy day, with classes in the morning, an assignment due, double booking myself with dodgeball and meeting my older brother in town, reffing a hockey game in Avondale College with the original intention of just supporting and then going to a KiwiAsian Event in Newmarket eating steamboat, playing pool and karaoke for some, just typing all that was a mouth full...but you get the jist of what happened.

The second half of semester kinda ended up making me fall behind in my readings for accounting as I had missed a chapter and then having so many assignments coming up that it made me lose track and stress especially after having 5 assignments due so close to one another and after completing one immediately getting another the next day, not being able to handle so much at once I ended up taking the short route on my final accounting assignment and failing it. Why is it that I seem to be jeopardizing my accounting major?? Why?

During the last few months I had been getting pretty cosy with this guy Matthew who was a friend of a friend of a friend lol.. and after all my assignments were completed and handed in we decided to go out as a couple, hiding it for about a week that we liked each other from others, it finally came out in the end and we’re still going strong, anyway I had only just over a week to study for my first final, information management, but first had to help Asenati a zeal leader with 2007’s prefect’s amazing race along with Antonia, Courtney, Kathryn and Desiree (sorry to those I forgot). That day was soo much fun, watching all those 7^th formers run around in town not knowing where to go or where to look, it was a good reminder of how we had done ours.

My finals were soo annoying I started on the first day and finished on the last day, though it was good because it made my finals evenly spread out to study it was annoying because most people I knew had finished and were enjoying their holiday and I wanted mine. During my exam period it was my birthday and normally I don’t celebrate it or try not to, but this time was different, it was my first date with Matthew.. awww and he looked so handsome compared to me because I had an exam on my birthday, great start to celebrating my birth lol.., anyway we went and played pool, then walked around town till we reached the viaduct to just sit and gaze at the view together before heading to dinner at a Japanese place, soo delicious and romantic.. I won’t go into much detail as this blog isn’t going to get any shorter lol but it was a nice end to a bad start to the day.. so continuing on while I was studying for my last two exams I had to not only make my costume I was going to be wearing for the Ball Skit at the end of the year as Ling Xiao Yu but also get things packed for my ski trip with the KiwiAsian Club the next day after my last exam, this time Kathryn was coming with me so that was cool.

The ski trip was 4 days of fun, 2 days of drunkenness, 2 days of snow… it was the first time I saw snow as well since I arrived in NZ.. my butt got soo sore from falling so much and a sore wrist from falling on that as well that I decided to take the last day off and build a snowman with Kathryn, Sarena, Allen and Tim.. originally it was a competition between the boys and the girls but then we decided to merge the two. There were so many pictures that our snowman took… must have loved the short term fame lol.. also while onlookers were taking pictures we decided to have our own fun and have a snowball fight.. hehe.. while this reporter was apparently taking our pictures.. hmm.. wonder where those turned up. When it was about time to go and we were all waiting for the others to come down from the hill, we decided we’d throw snowballs at those that came down.. hehe man was that fun.. though my aim wasn’t that great..stink thing was on my way back I got majorly car sick but was fine when I got home. My final results for the first semester PASS!!! Passed them all yeayeah!! That will end my first half of my uni year..

Nearing the mid of the first half of the second semester Kathryn and I had applied for the potential executive interview thing, I got in but it involved 4 months I believe of this interview which went by pretty fast. We met up for an overall general meeting and was split into teams using the device of a hat..lol.. I was with Mark, Kaye and Danny. Kathryn with Bettina, Marcus and Leo. Danny had left for a holiday for a couple of weeks so I had to work with Mark and Kaye till he got back and man was that difficult and thus I had to take charge and make decisions with the amount of things I had going on as it was it would have been nice if they could have made it a little easier especially since Mark did say that I did have quite a lot of work for a first year student. Our idea was Foodoke, where we ate and sung, I got to the restaurant just in time after having lunch with my family and family friends, had to leave early otherwise I would have missed my own event, not only was I stuffed from my own lunch but to make use of my money being there I had to stuff myself more, was sooo bloated after all that food, whereas some weren’t going back for seconds and thirds even.. so that turned out pretty good as not many people left after the food.. Kathryn’s team had an Amazing Race which seem pretty hard to organize but they got it done in the end with Aneesya and I lending a hand with handing out the clues. It was a little hectic for us as well having to run in many directions to fill in missing gaps where people were suppose to be and that was the day I stuffed up my phone.. lol.. made the battery completely die.

The projects continued, the assignments continued and the practices continued.. what next?! Tests, mid semester tests. First up economics test numero uno.. lol.. I actually studied for it and got 78% but sadly later in the semester I slacked off on the second test and dropped to 58% lol.. glad I wasn’t there to collect my paper from him hehe.. would have got such a disappointing look. I had my information management test and after relying heavily on theory I still failed but only just failed… the coding was what got me and if I had gotten at least one question fully right I probably would have just passed.. oh well..

As soon as the break ended midsemester break was here…yes!! Because it put one project on hold, business though too bad information management wasn’t but not like it would have made much difference. Aneesya’s birthday was the first day back so we thought we’d have it the day before on Sunday, lunch and Karaoke!! We had pizza, chips, cake and lollies with Kathryn, Chris and his girlfriend Katie, Eva, Priti, Dharsi, Dominica, Aradhna and her little sister and Leah.. while Kathryn and Dominica went to get pizza, Leah and I were trying to make a karate movie but when it came down to it, leah forgot the the moves half way and we ended up laughing. Dharsi was the only one that couldn’t go to Karaoke but she should have, it was soo crack up.. Chris and Katie just watched while the rest of us went nuts over the songs.. it was a good day before I had to leave to work the Matthew’s family restaurant… oh forgot to mention he had one, well now you know lol.

Another event had risen, Survivor and it was fun.. though it rained most of the time. We had to eat weetbix, burry people in sand, play the fighting game on a plank.. I can’t remember what it’s called, search for treasure and a quiz… soo much fun.. though I forgot to bring a towel or spare clothes.. how smart am I.. it was at a beach you think logically that’s what you do lol..

Next up was my brothers’ graduation.. he was graduating from his diploma and so I missed all my classes that day except the last one because it was compulsory to attend.. man was that ceremony long, we had lunch after at a nearby Chinese yum cha restaurant, but I had to leave soon so we finished up and I got dropped off at uni to attend class after almost being mistaken for not having uni when my dad was on his way home. The next day I had dinner at Pizza Hut in New Lynn with the hockey girls from Kelston Girls’ as I was invited for playing a game once, got to get to know the new girls in the team and caught up with my old team mates so that was fun before getting my oldest brother to take me home as I had a midsemester test for accounting the next day… and again.. why do I do these things around accounting?!

Another KiwiAsian event needed to be thought up from us potential executives and this time I was with Bettina, Danny and Marcus and Kathryn was with Mark, Kaye and Leo. We came up with an asian gameshow but to me I’m not entirely sure how well that went with everyone always on their butts and not getting much done.. though I think Kathryn’s project runway event was fun, messy and funny.. lol.. again with Aneesya and me being helpers lol..

Finally my projects were coming to an end, my last assignment gave me almost a month to complete so wasn’t high on my priority list, my information management presentation was first up and after being criticized about the colour and inconsistency we managed to pass with a presentation mark of a B and a delivery of a C+, oh well we still passed. My business project soon came to an end after our peer reviews, overall we passed that too but the actual performance itself we didn’t.. oh well was a good experience though. Finally it was time to vote on this year’s executives via a annual general meeting, the executives for this year is Kathryn, Danny, Marcus and Bettina out of the Potential Executives and Tim, Sang and Winner from last years executive team

Disappointed I didn’t get the position but I had to focus on my finals for the second semester after so much that happened especially trying to understand information management.. I met a friend in new lynn to help him with his assignment by giving him an interview based on the KiwiAsian Club. My first final was accounting which seemed to go pretty easily from what I thought later on that day I had to go to Matthew’s brother’s wedding..which was nice and small at the Perennial Gardens..Then off to the Penny City Restaurant for the reception a lot of food and a chocolate fountain!! Lol.. though as I was told if I didn’t eat vegetarian like Matthew’s family I wasn’t allowed to sit with him, not that hard a choice to make.. slow danced with him after being dragged by his younger sister and her boyfriend, hearing such funny speeches by both the groom’s best friend and the brides’ sister lol.. we eventually cleared up and left at 11.30 with me getting back at around 12 or so.. then back to study the next day as I had an economics final on Monday lol.. and my final two exams later that week as well..

Exams finished and it was time to help at the family restaurant as Matthew’s younger sisters had their NCEA exams to do and needed the study time so I was the replacement..Went to the KiwiAsian Club’s End of Year Party at Sixth Sense, got tipsy and left by 12.30 as Kathryn’s dad was giving me a ride home and didn’t want him to wait too long.. um.. what else celebrated my 6 month anniversary with Matthew at Muriwai beach which was fun.. got drenched by the waves lol.. just a pretty simple average westie styled celebration. Went to the Mission Bay beach with Kathryn, Aneesya, Matthew as our driver and Marcus.. we met up with Marcus after a while and we hung out.. with Aneesya and I chasing Matthew around.. me getting tossed in the water by Matthew and vice versa.. lol.. hilarious.. but was drenched the whole day that I had to always sit on a towel to not get the seats wet lol.. before heading home Kathryn, Aneesya and Matthew went looking for shells.. I would have joined in but didn’t feel like it as much as they did.. Head to Silverdale to go luging with my brother for our cousins 21^st, ended up losing a bet and had to take $20 off my brothers debt to me.. oh well knew it was coming lol. I can’t drive as well as him. Start work at the $2 shop to take over Sayantani while she’s on holiday for two weeks... Spent Xmas evening at Matthew’s place having dinner and playing Pictionary with his siblings.. very funny game..  especially when people can hardly draw.. hehe.. oh and I PASSED!! Passed all my second semester papers but I’m not satisfied with the marks though and that’s the end of my year 2007.. man that turned out longer than I anticipated..