of sugary food and caffeine

it was a mission trying to swim today! i had heaps of sugar in my blood (no thanks to all the energy drinks i've been drinking) and i felt really..heavy. it's like the feeling you get when your period's about to come...and all you want to do is just lie around all day long and do nothing.

imagine having to swim 20laps with that crappy feeling -.-"

and after swimming, jimmy was demanding for his "i'm leaving" cuddles. as promised, he got his cuddle. not one, not two, but so many, that i lost count. and brendan was trying to video us cuddling. IT'S ONLY A CUDDLE! z0mg stop being so ridiculous!

jimmy: wohoho! wait till darryl hears about this...you giving me a cuddle in your WET TOGS!
amy: oh dear....he's gonna write crap on my bebo page after that
jimmy: aye?! what does he write there?
amy: oh...erm, nothing to do with you *looks over to brendan for help*
brendan: yeah he just like spamming people's page with shit
amy: yups. but he's been pretty quiet lately
brendan: HAHA COZ HIS WIFE TOLD HIM OFF!! HAHAHAHAHAHA
amy: *makes whip noise*

and everyone cracks up laughing :p

cock&bull tmr night. nyeh already found the outfit i wanna wear.

OH OH! i think i've found a ball dress....well not exactly a BALL dress..more like a cocktail dress.!

cute-ness overload!!

*falls off chair laughing*

i was just browsing through the pics on my cellphone and on my camera...and guess what i saw?

guess guess guess!

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my little sister camwhoring! hahahahaha!! like really camwhoring!
she looks soooo cute! adorable! lemme show you some pics :P














this is the cutest one ^^" i have this on both my phone AND camera...she's working it yo!! she must've learned this pose from my other sis.

SO CUTE RIGHTTTTTT?

that's what she did when i was studying, and she stayed home coz she wasn't feeling too well. *sighs dreamily* my baby sis is growing up!!

holaa bebulz!

yesterday night, or rather this morning, i made an amazing discovery. it has to do with my ear and my em, piercings.

it all started with me browsing through trademe because my itchy bum wants to change my helix piercing for a nicer and funkier earring. so there i was browsing through all these random bits and pieces of earrings.

then i realised that the gauges that they use are thicker than my liking, so i kinda gave up. BUT, as i was searching away, my brain went "DING!" and a lightbulb appeared at the top of my head.

...lame.

anyway, i had an idea of wearing belly rings or body jewelleries on my lower lobe piercings. i've seen my ex-colleague doing that, but she told me that she has had her ears extended before, that's why it fits. so i gave up on that thought at that time...

since i was at the peak of procrastination yesterday, i actually went to the garage and looked at my dad's jewelleries stock and picked a simple belly ring. i proceeded to try it on and it actually fits comfortably in my lower lobe piercings. and i really like the way it looks - funky and different from others, so i sneaked back downstairs to get another one. hehehehe :D

this morning, i took another one - a barbell that's longer to the other ones i have. when i put it on, it looks really...emo -.-" anyway, i told my dad this:

me: oh dad, i took 2 belly rings from you yesterday
dad: WHY ON EARTH DO YOU NEED BELLY RINGS?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??! *shockhorror*
me: emmm...i use them as earrings
dad: O.O

hehe the look on his face was priceless when he thought i had a belly piercing and when he saw my ears with belly rings dangling on it :p

piccies!


looks pretty normal when seen this way, dont you think?


but they're actually quite thick...

i'm not quite sure what is the gauge for these rings, but they're either 1.4mm or 1.6mm thick. heh...dont ask how i got such big piercings...i'm still trying to figure it out!

sunbathing in winter. go me!!!

i am feeling rather contented at the moment, because i went swimming today and i did....dunno how many laps. lost count, but definately over 20. maybe over 30? wouldnt know for sure, BUT i feel exhausted.

FUH!

guess what i did this afternoon?

....

i went sunbathing! where? right on my bed! i am one of the blessed ones in my family who gets sunshine in my room for most of the day. i had a good spot of sunshine coming right in, at one corner of my bed, so i moved my notes to my bed, got changed into a bikini top and plopped myself on the bed and started studying.

and boy, it felt goooooddd when your back's all warm and it's so chilly outside :)

but, i wonder if my neighbours saw me in my bikini. and if they did, i wonder what they thought about that? "eep! we have one freeeaaaky girl for a neighbour!" or "woah! she's hot.." just kidding :P

i think i should do this whole sunbathing-in-my-wee-bikini-on-my-bed thing more often coz winter's basically here, and who would go sunbathing at the beach right? and it's right in the comfort of my own room! what more can i ask? ...a super hot guy rubbing baby oil on my back perhaps? now, i wouldnt mind that :p

fat girl blues

i feel disgusted with myself.

i put on my racer back top this morning, and i saw the lump of fats around my tummy and i was purely disgusted at the way i looked. i stared at myself in the mirror, and thought about my weight gain recently.

now, it may be a combination of things, but i really cant be sure. firstly, it might be the pills that i'm taking for my pimples. secondly, the weather's gone crazy over the last couple of weeks and i'm eating a lot more than my usual portion (i seem to be munching on something all the time!) and thirdly, the weight gain is contributed from my swimming routine BUT the lump of fats kinda gives it away that i gained FATS and NOT MUSCLES.

and just before, on one hand, i was clicking away on weight management websites, and on the other hand, i was feeding myself tictacs..."freshness in only 2 calories!"

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tomorrow...tomorroww.....i'm gonna go do 20 laps in the pool or maybe more coz usually i do about 20 anyway and my legs arent jellified yet, so tomorrow...i'm gonna break a record and swim heaps!

hopefully, in 2 months, my stomach wont resemble this:

meeting&training

i've just finished my shower after coming back from our meeting&training session. that would be my first session since i've started working coz i missed two before this. somehow, i'll mysteriously
fall sick on the day my team leader holds a meeting. how, i really dont know. i guess it was just co-incidence, but obviously he thinks i was pulling sickies :p

i suppose the session wasn't too bad. the meeting kicked off with a few sad news, like jimmy leaving and a few other staff from outside aquatics leaving as well. then came the less serious stuff, and the meeting room was filled with my giggles and laughter fits. i really dont know why, but somehow, i giggled and laugh at everything people said or do and once that happens, it's very very difficult to get me to stop. and IF someone starts laughing, i'll start again -____-

then it was training session. gosh darryl worked us hard today. he refused to tell me what we'll be doing today, worried that i might sneak off and run away before i even attend the session! LOL, but i managed anyway. obviously, lots of giggles and laughter fits when we stopped and during Q&A session. i laughed at everyone's answer and even i found myself annoying. but i couldnt stop myself..seriously -.-"

anyway, i think my stomach wants some dindin now, and i think i'll go finish off the loaf of sourdough bread. believe it or not, but just today, i'm almost done with a 600g of sourdough bread. it's nyummers! absolutely lip-schmaaacking.

t00dles loves!

me = FATSO

*buuuurrrp*

i'm SO full, and my stomach's SO big it looks as if i'm 6 months preggars! i think if i were to fall flat on my stomach, my face wont even hit the ground coz my stomach it sticking out WAY too much :p

but nvm, i've had good food the whole day. and i can say, i am officially a soy milk hot chocolate addict now. i cant get through a day without it...and kaching kaching, it's so expensive :( but it's so nice...doesnt help that i'm trying to save money! but...i've decided on a solution. i'll make it myself at home! LOL ^^

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i'm on a crazy baking phase now. my lucky family and colleagues have been very well fed the last few weeks with my double or triple chocolate and apricot brownies, oreo cheesecake (which Trent had too much until he had to run to the toilet) and my most recent creation, blueberry and cream cheese pastry. it's actually quite tasty and really simple, but since it was my first attempt, most of the filling came out and there wasn't much left in the pastry itself...still tasty nevertheless :)

i think this whole thing about baking is for me to release stress. coz when i'm stressed, i need to do something which is relaxing. swimming three times a week have been of great help, and baking at the end of the week really makes my happy. so i think that'll be my happy drug for now. i'll try to keep up with swimming no matter how busy i am preparing for exams.

7am shift tmrw, so i better head to bed. g'nite!

disturbia

what am i doing?

nothing.

but somehow, there is a sense of paranoia lingering in my room, because i have just watched Disturbia. very disturbing, indeed..

i had my arm up to my chin as a support, and while doing that, i realised the smell of chlorine still lingers on my skin....and it reminded me that, i have come a long way in swimming. i watch, and i learn. i learn, and i practise. i practise, and i can do it :) but i'm NOT boasting. i'm just happy that i can self teach myself *lalalala*

but it's good that i make myself go swimming. or at least, my littliest sis makes sure that we swim at least twice a week. she's my source of motivation ;) and also, i see my stamina improving slightly. only slightly, but it's MOVING at least!

so yeah, i'm happy. and thus ends my past-midnight rambles.

nite world!

"double-you-tee-eff"

on sunday, i had a short shift at work. i have just started work when Trent told me to go tell off this asian lady who went into the family changing room by herself (family changing rooms are meant for FAMILIES..DUH!).

so i knocked on her door, and when she came out, i told her "um, this is a family changing room. you're by yourself..you shouldn't be here..." then she said "my family's out there" and i was thinking to myself "your point being....?" so while i was walking away, i said "dont do it again, please.."

i went back to my standing spot, and daddle came to talk to me. we were cracking some lame jokes there, and the same lady whom i told off a while ago came up to me looking very disgruntled. she asked "DO YOU SPEAK MANDARIN?!" and i said "no." so she started blabberring away:

lady: YOU! YOU VELI RUDE! YOU YELL ME! NO GOOD!
amy: sorry, but i didnt yell at you. all i was saying is that, you went into a family changing rooms, when you shouldn't because it's for families.
lady: NO! YOU YELL AT ME! NO GOOD! RUDE! YOU POINT FINGER AT ME! RUDE!
amy: i only pointed to the sign saying "family changing". i wasn't pointing at you..
lady: YOU DID! POINT FINGER IN MY FACE! RUDE! VELI RUDE!
amy: *starting to feel this lady's really anal* alright, i'm sorry then...but you really shouldn't be in there in the first place!
lady: *keeps yelling away* NO GOOD! VELI RUDE! *walks away*

daddle and i laughed aloud after that while she was walking away. i told daddle what happened earlier and a lady beside me interjected:

lady2: what was that for? is it because you told the little boy not to run around earlier?
amy: no. she went into the family changing rooms by herself, so i told her not to do it again, and she said i was rude and that i yelled at her.
lady2: WHAT! SHOCKING!! that's absolutely shocking!
daddle: yeah it's really bad especially when there're people with little children who needs to use the family changing rooms, and you get ONE person hogging it.
lady2: yeah, that woman's terrible! but you can never win over people like her..
daddle: yeah. NEVER.

later in the evening, i was ranting to Trent how terrible this lady was, and Trent said:

Trent: i knew she would go mental about it!
amy: she didn't go mental..she went ballistic!
Trent: but i dont get it. you and darryl were laughing away when she had a go at you!
amy: that's coz...she spoke in a really funny manner! "YOU! VELI RUDE! NO GOOD!"
Trent: HAHAHAHAHAHA

but really, i didnt yell at her - and i didnt point at her either. no doubt, i did have a serious look on me when i told her, but honestly, i DID NOT yell at her. what was the point of yelling at her when she was right in front of me? why waste my breath on her? i just dont understand some people...already in the wrong and still want to cause misery to others...

another day in my mundane life..

currently, i'm...:

• staring at my empty bowl of cookies and cream ice cream, longing for more...
  
  
• thinking about kennysia's latest entry (the unfortunate accident)
  now, he said in his entry that he had received First Aid training before. i still have a First Aid cert that is valid, meaning i'm a certified First Aider. if i was in his position, would i have freaked out like him? i dont know, i might have, but maybe not....or i hope not! we've had a few incidents at my workplace now, and usually superman is there to do whatever he needs to so i can just stand at the side to watch and learn or be his helper by running to grab stuff and etc. i've never freaked out before in those incidents, but i suppose it's different when it's a major accident that involves lifeless bodies and blood everywhere.
  
  
• waiting for time to go by a tad quicker (just today!) so i can go for my hair appointment at half 3.
  
  
• thinking about those rich people, who owns really exp. high range designers stuff. but i think she's very lucky to have a partner who can support her kind of lifestyle and also her partner's family seems to really like her. well, she looks really sweet and nice anyway..

...i think i'll go and have a look at my today's to-do list and start getting something done.

ps: some people on trademe are SO dumb. there's this seller who listed a laptop at $1 reserve, but obviously the price will shoot up when the auction is about to close right? someone asked "will you take $20 buy now, cash today?" -.-" idiots..

summer came USA

z0mg!

everytime i see something to do with camp USA or something similar, i get really really excited! i know i wont be able to apply until early next year, and if i do get a placement, i wont be going until sometime in june or july...BUT i'm SOOO excited!

i can see myself sleeping on bunk beds, getting all dirty and sweaty with the little kids (go away you dirty minded ppl...) and TEACHING SWIMMING!!

z0mg z0mg z0mg!

i'll be doing what i like and getting paid for itttttt...and what's best? i get to go to a new country and meet new people and work with kids and teach them swimming...ARRRRR!! *jumps around*

i really really realllyyyy cant wait. but in these few months, before i leave for malaysia, i have to decide which organization i want to go with, which camp i want to go to (i heard the one in pennsylvania is pretty good coz it's all rich kids but they're mostly Jews there...) and then sign up once i come back from my trip. lalalala~

*tries to fast forward to one year later*

ok. that was lame. but i really cant wait. now, how many times have i said that?! I REALLLLYYY CANT WAIT! just send me to a summer camp now to teach swimming DAMMIT!

so far, i'm considering 2 organisations (i think they're both the main ones):
IEP *clicketyclick*
IWH *clicketyclick*

i'm not sure which ones my colleague chose, but i think it was with IWH.

i saw some even more interesting things to do after 'em summer camps.....and that is to get a job in *insert country of choice* for 2 years, and 75% of the people gets a job within 3 days. now, i'm thinking, will it be a job that is a field that they're interested in, or just any job? for that, i think i'll attend the information session.

i am soo excited and i reallly cant wait. now, i'll leave you alone and not bore you with anymore information regarding all these stuff...since most of you's who read my blog aren't that keen on erm, outdoor activities :p

...not that this couch potato here is keen, but i dont mind swimming *cheeky grin*

dorkus me

my laptop's up and running again!

big shoutout to stefan and danny :) thank you stefan for fixing everything up when i screwed up big time, and thank you danny for the cds!! my laptop would still be dead without 'em cds!

and it's now sleek and fast *smiles happily*

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yesterday was one heck of a tiring day. i didnt even do anything strenous yet i felt like crap by the time i got to work. i was leaning on the rails most of the time until Eli came to talk to me. and we had an interesting conversation:

eli: i heard there's a cook islands day on friday
amy: oh, yeah, i think so...
eli: this friday or last week?
amy: emm...last week i think coz i saw some performances the other day
eli: oh..damn
amy: are you going?
eli: er, no.
amy: why not?
eli: coz..i cant! it was last week amyamy! i can go back in time.
amy: *bangs head on rail* see, i told you i was tired :p

that is such a dumb conversation *pink cheeks*

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at work, hot jappy guy brought like 20 lads over for some training, and OMG it was pure muskles galore! all the guys were SUPER hot, both body and look. it was really really reaaalllyyyy nice starring at them doing push ups, lifting heavy stuff and raining from one end of the pool to the other and doing all the other work out. but zomg, it was SO good. what a shame coz my boy-watching-partner-in-crime wasnt there.

oh, and i also met nick from back in high school. i havent seen him for 3 years i think...but he recognised me! hehe we had such a good time catching up, and i was basically sitting beside the pool talking to him for a good half an hour or so. ahh, good times...he's currently working at a food testing lab (zomg, he studied foodsci at AUT and he said it's SOOOO GOOD there!) and his pay is really good. someone told him the starting pay at a food factory for a food sci grad is nz$50000. and his advise to me, get a job before you graduate coz they tend to pay students a higher pay, compared to a fresh graduate.

also, to lucy, christine and myself, training is provided when you join a company. i know we all feel like we're not euqipped to go out into the work industry, but that's how nick felt as well, so he said not to worry about it at all. and erm, nick said he slacked off throughout his whole entire degree. so really, you both have nothing to worry about :)

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i think it's time to finish off my presentation slides for my 463 group so i'm gonna head off and work on my laptop.

t00dles!

mothers day '07

i think i'm over my shitty-mood phase. the only time i was happy over the last few days was when i was out with my sisters or by myself, or when i was working away the angst at the swimming pool. scary eh? i swam quite a lot last week, and i've lost...1kg. HEHE

anyway, we had some family problems last week. dad was being very grumpy...all quiet and not responsive and poor mum had to go through all of dad's shitty mood, and us kids had to go through that too. so with the head of the household being all grumpy, obviously the house had a -ve feel too right? so i tried to take my sisters out for the majority of the week. most of the time we went swimming..coz it's my 2nd home :D

so that's all sorted. dad was back to himself again yesterday, and when we were having mother's day dinner, he said he'll buy my mum her dream car. and it can be ANYTHING..so my mum asked for a beamer, and that, she will get soon! ain't she lucky? hehehe but i reckon she deserves it. she's been wanting a beamer for so long now, and being the wonderful mum that she is, she deserves much more than a beamer.

once she gets her beamer, i'll have my little old junk car all to myself ^^ that means i probably get to drive to uni instead of taking the ferry, but it also means i'll have to contribute some to petrol and maintenance, which i think is fair enough, since i work.

and yesterday, kimmy (my sis) and i went on a mad rush. we went to church, then went for lunch, then came home and i started baking brownies while the other 2 girls finished off their homnework. once the brownies cooled down, i was out the door with kimmy to head to my workplace to pass the chem textbooks to bonnie who works at reception coz she was struggling with chem110. poor girl..she looked really stressed! then i started hunting down kat, coz i wanted to give her the brownies myself.

i made brownies coz i promised kat i'll make her some, since she missed the brownies that i brought to work the last time coz she wasn't working. and last week, she told me she's leaving for nepal soon and tuesday is her last shift at work. seeing that weekend is the only day i'm free-ish, i thought i'll make the brownies that i promised her. and so brownies she got. and she was really happy too! i brought some for my other colleagues as well, but i'm pretty sure it'll all be engulfed by ONE person :p i have hungry-eaters at work! no matter how much food i bring for them, everything will be gone in an hour or two. scary i tell ya...

also packed a small packet of brownies for daddle coz i promised him as well -.-" coz he let me have the early shift for tina's bday. so now i only owe him cookies. hahaha he's got his muffin and brownies, but cookies are easy peasy :p just buy some from mrs higgins and wala~

after that, kimmy and i headed down to botany downs to get mother's day present. i've already sorted mine out (shout mum and family to dinner and share cost with bro), but sis said she wanted to get something, so yeah. we decided to get her a rubbish bin (what a present!) coz the one we have is broken. and what a hunt it was! we went to 3 different stores, all located at different ends of botany downs so we walked quite a bit yesterday. but we finally got one, and it was over her budget, so i chipped in the extra. *sigh* i'm such a good sis. LOL

then dinner was at estasi, ponsonby. the food was really good, service was excellent but the wait was...rather long. we waited a whole hour before our mains arrived, but i guess it was all worth it. gotta say, mum was a really happy camper yesterday, what with a nice dinner, a nice rubbish bin (LOL!) and a soon-to-be owner of a beamer, who wouldn't be a happy camper eh??

as for me? i'm feeling better today like i said. went to the doc already, and he prescribed me doxycycline (antibiotic) and estelle which is the pill. and i can keep using my acne gel and combine it with this other gel that i have, and also clean my face with cetaphil. hmm..fingers crossed, it'll all work this time.

oh, and i bought cds to transfer all my files and junk from the laptop so i can re-format my comp. yup, i'm gonna do it myself, but if i get stuck, i'm gonna cry and flood the entire bucklands beach area :p

that's it for now. t00dles!

what's up with me and pimples?!

SIGGGGGHHHH...

WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO STOP MY PIMPLES?! it's SO bad, i think it's worse than my worst acne case..seems to me like it's back to first year of uni all over again, when i had a pizza face -.-" all spottttyyyy....

i feel like slicing my skin awayyyyy...

tmrw...tmrw...i'm going to the doc again. and i'm gonna ask for some super powerful medicine! dont care anymore :(

it's really depressing...i'm already 22!! and i'm still getting pimples..Q#(%&@(%&@#(%UNQ@()#%UB

pissed. super pissed!

i cant concentrate i cant concentrate i cant concentrate

*pulls hair*

YOU KNOW WHAT? our lecturer wants us to write a 2-pages article on some explosion at a chemical plant down in new plymouth that happened eons ago, and i cant find what is the cause of the explosion! and guess whattttt? it's due tomorrow!

anddddd...JENGJENGJENG! i think japanese are HOT! heh, dont ask me why. i have my reasons *blows raspberries* and no no, i'm not talking about japanese girls, i'm talking about japanese males :D

NYEHEHEHEHEEHHEHEHEE

okay, enough of being silly. i think i have too much energy which i didnt use up when i went for my swim. i'm still trying to work on my butterfly stroke. don wasnt of much help coz he doesnt know how to do it either, but he said it looked alright when i did it...i dunno >"< dont like asking my colleagues to look at me swim. it feels..weird.

and i dont like walking around in front of my colleagues too. they....tend to check people out a lot. and i'm guilty as charged coz i check people out too..colleagues included :p AND, because someone else was there today (not my colleague), he made matters worse *sigh* so is the life of a lifeguard. you check people out, and you get checked out too...and not in a good way i think -.-"

but, good news is, apparently, all 3 new staffs are quite big. ok, i met 2 of them today, and they're..big. and they're all girls, so i can keep my title of little amykins :D yes, i'm still officially the littlest lifeguard around. HEHEHE and the lightest. wonder how much the next smallest lifeguard weighs....and the next smallest lifeguard would be................oh, shenanigans!

ok i'm just talking crap now. i wanna get my assignment done and then go zzzz.

t00dles!

hurhurhur ^^

i'm currently leaching FREE internet off the engineering building. it's so unfair how they get FREE internet access while we have to pay for ours. but NYEHEHEHEHEHEHE, today i found GOLD.

NYEHEHEHEHEHE

ok i better go do my work before my laptop runs out of power :p

one of my favourite pics from yesterday ;)

CONGRATULATIONS CHRISTINE DARLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think i'm gonna blow that pic up, and have it printed. i love it! everyone's jolly happy....with the expception of erm, ben who looks rather..constipated -.-" dont ask me why!

i'm boredd..i have work to do but i really dont feel like doing it. and i dont feel like sleeping either! gah! you know what i feel like doing? driving out to the pool and go for a swim. HEHEHEHE :D yes at midnight :p

ok, i'm crazy. and this is going to be a time-wasting entry, so dont bother reading if you dont want to. i just want to kill time. KILLLLLL.....

mmm...meeting and training on sunday night. gonna be interesting. coz it'll be my first meeting and training session since i started working at LEP. but it would be the third one held, since i've been there. i missed the first two coz i was sick...somehow, darryl just chose the wrong days to have meetings and trainings :p lets just hope i wont miraculously fall sick this sunday and not turn up again. i dont think darryl will be very pleased with me then...

and guess whatttt? we're doing spinal injuries, and 2 scenarios. one for heart attack, and the other....epileptic! yes i remember now :D i was trying to tell kat earlier what we'll be doing but i just went *blank*. time to start water treading again for spinal injuries! w00t! i think i'll go for a swim tmrw. gonna try to improve my butterfly stroke. i read up about it the other day, so i'm gonna self teach myself and get someone to see if i'm doing it correctly.

anyhoo, i think that's enough time wasted - i shall go up to my room, get some exercise done, MAYBE do some work and then bugger off to bed and hopefully wake up tmrw feeling hyped. been feeling rather bleurgh lately no matter how much sleep i get. maybe exercising will help.

t00dles my dearies!

mmm....

the ex emailed me again. doesnt he ever get it that i dont want to talk or be in contact with him again?

*sigh*

my whole body's sore from yesterday's hore ride. aunty D said it'll be worse tmrw >"< if you see me hobbling around uni, you'll know why. doesnt help that i had to stand 8hrs today too! in fact, i've been standing for most of the day coz er...my bottom is really sore when i sit down.

daddle was teasing me the whole time he was there. he offered to lemme sit down, then i sai d"no no, i'm fine. thanks.." and he said "ooohhh someone's got a sore bum! i know what happened..you and jimmy ehh...last night.....HEHEHE"

omgoodness! that dirty minded boy!

oh, and i was so dumb today, after work. i was fishing for my keys in my bag, and i put my phone on top of my car, and when i found my keys, i just went into the car and was gonna start the engine...but i saw something on the bonnet of my car, so i went back out to get it. then jimmy saw me and said "what's that? your phone? oh it's gonna go for a joy ride, eh!"

heh heh....i'll probably go bang my head on the wall if my phone went for a joy ride!

*pffft!

horse riding. YEEE-HAAAA!

went horse riding out in helensville today for my sister's bday. was gonna go hot air balloon-ing, but it costs nz$300 per person..which is a rip off i reckon. i could buy a return air ticket to malaysia for myself, if my whole family went on the hot air balloon. to quote daddle, "300?! do we get to keep the balloon after that?"

back to horse riding...i was really excited, though i was really reluctant a week ago. i told my dad "i'll have trouble getting up on the horse! i've got short legs! and i'll probably start giggling for the whole hour!!!" but i thought it over, and i thought it'll be a good experience to ride a horse by myself (no..it's not one of those silly rides where the horse is guided by someone). so i booked my sisters and myself for a 1hr beginner's track.

so, today it was. i didnt know what to expect. i saw someone riding, but she was just going round and round, learning to go slow, then trot and stop. i thought we would be doing the same, but no no no...boy was i wrong! our coach, chelsea told us to get on our horses (they had steps for us to climb up!! hehehe), and i had jackson, which is one of the biggest and strongest horses available there -.-"

chelsea must've thought it would be funny to put little me on a big and strong horse and hear me scream my head off! but it turned out that jackson is a very well mannered horse once you know how to control it properly :) took me about 10 minutes to realise that...but it's all good! baby sis had a horse named blue which is really tame, but quite slow (compared to jackson who started trotting when everyone else was still walking slowly!!) and my other sis had trojan.

now, trojan is a really nice horse, and very easy to control according to my sister. he's a beauty too! he's got class man..he walks really nice ^^ and can go fast too when you want it to.

so, enough said for now, i'll let the pictures do the talking :)


this is us, waiting for chelsea to get her horse so we could go for our ride ^^


still waiting..see how big my horse is compared to the others?


didnt bring a camera with me when we were trekking, but here's us after riding for an hour. our bums and thighs were aching. when the horse starts gallopping, you'll start bouncing up and down the saddle, and that's the ultimate OUCH factor!

also, all 3 of us had a few near-fall experiences when our horses started gallopping! i think i nearly fell off twice, but managed to pull the reign to slow down jackson. and once, i even lost my reign and started shrieking :p but i got it right after i started shrieking. heh heh..


me and jackson. he's a really nice horse, though can be a bit stubborn at times. when he pulls his head down, i get pulled forward too, so i'll be lying flat on jackson -.-" he is seriously one strong horse!


the nice and friendly dog (great dane). i was patting and stroking it for ages while it just lay there being lazy.

ahh...such is life. i wouldnt mind going horse riding again! anyone interested??? we can go sometime over the weekend! only nz$30 an hour or nz$50 for 2hrs and it's only about 1hr drive from my place! it's a really wonderful experience..and it's NOT difficult to learn! chelsea just told us how to stop, make it go and turn and then we were off for our trek! if a dumb blonde like me can ride a horse, anyone can!! tell me if you're interested!

i *heart* ice cream

...moving onto my 2nd popsicle now :D

cool...is when you have a brother who works with fonterra and gets special access to the ice cream factory.

awesome...is when that brother of yours buys ice cream all the time at a really too-cheap-to-believe price

i am happy...when my bro gives us shitload of ice cream...meaning we never run out of ice cream ^^

but i wonder...when are we getting haagen das ice cream again? :(