LAUNCH PARTY @ The Studio

April 28, 2009 – 10:06 pm

3….2….1….. LAUCH! hahahahahaha… I mean LAUNCH!

Last night I went to my VERY first (of many, I hope) launch party. This particular one was the lauch party of Midnight Youth’s The Brave Don’t Run album which came out on Monday. OMG!

SOOOOOO I was UBER excitement about this.

WTF

I have major writer’s block.

I can’t seem to get my words out properly.

Ok. Well I invited a whole bunch of people to hang with me but everyone had tests or meetings or work…  or were underage… DAMN SISTER NOT BEING 18… not that I blame you Genie…or simply couldn’t get permission (a bit like me… but that’s different because I did… I just tweaked what I got the permission for…) . So it ended up being hang times with me and Lisa  :)

Lisa was SOOOOOOO nice, she drove us there and even got a bit pushed around and was probably a bit uncomfortable because there were HEAPS of people… it was awesome being able to catch up as well :D I did feel kinda outta place though because everyone else was like 20yrs plus (which meant they didn’t have to get asked for id… like we did… damn us being short!) and was like really trendy wearing things such as gross-leather-like-ass-gripping-rear-widening pants… among other things.

I have to say that The Studio on K rd would be a BRILLIANT place to have a party… I’m looking at it for my 21st… if I’m a millionaire by then it will be definately be happening there people!

I brought Midnight Youth’s CD and a band shirt… I got the $45 combo deal that came with one debut album and one small tee…. WHICH I’M WEARING AT THE MOMENT AND IT’S LIKE THE BEST SHIRT EVER IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE FOR INFINITY.

So when it actually came to the set and the band actually playing… they sounded AWESOME… I have to say sounded because I pretty much stared at the back of this lady’s head the entire time… Lisa and I stayed on the ramp near the door because we wouldn’t have been able to see if we had gone right in and would have been surrounded by a forest of leggy blondes and weird guys… so we (mainly Lisa) were subject to some pushing… which kinda sucked. Upside we did get to see the stage when people moved their heads on from time to time…

From what I understand they played all of the songs on the album including one that didn’t make it on the album the “tear my pockets dry one…???” which I think is really awesome so sucks it didn’t make it … (I think they said that it didn’t make it… ) ANYWAYS I’m pretty sure the lead singer (Jeremy I think?) was black in a past life… (that’s not pc) HE IS SO GOOD! And the lead guitarist (Simon I think?) SUPER AWESOME too. Can’t really say much for the others because one: I couldn’t really see them and two: I have little to no proper music reviewing skills so my opinion is heavily based on what I can hear with my rudimentary listening skills which pretty much suck at listening to anything but vocals and lead guitar.

Lisa and I left after they finished and headed to McDonalds for some dinner. YAYNESS! All in all very good experience… hoping my next launch party will be bigger and better… and maybe have some nibbles so the Red Bull doesn’t get lonely in my stomach.

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WAITING AT UNI

April 25, 2009 – 11:26 pm

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I’m finally writing a blog post after ages! And it’s my first one from Uni! My posts have been few and far between because my internet at home is really shit and is spending more time NOT working than actually working… and because I’m the only one who will call Xtra the internet is just NOT GETTING FIXED. FAR! I need to call… BUT I don’t have time to talk to them……………………… TUESDAY! That is my plan for Tuesday morning!!!!

(x’s on the back of your hand…) … Just another girl alone at the bar.

Ok, so you might be saying “is this why Novia is at Uni on Sunday, to use the University facilties??” WELL NO! I’m here because I need to study for a STUPID midterm. What’s not so stupid is that it’s Chinese which isn’t my worst subject so I’m not stressing too much… I’m getting with some Chinese study buddies. We were meant to meet at Munchy Mart at 10.00am. Ashwin even sent a reminder text. NO ONE ELSE IS HERE YET! … unless they are and decided to study without me which means that I’m here for pretty much NO REASON because I can study fine by myself. If I didn’t have to come into Uni I coulda had more sleep… Instead of sleep I have to have V instead… which I have found to be an awesome stimulant. Thank you V.

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Blank for 20 mins while I did my work… eg go through my essay and get it handed in to turnitin.

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Went to Irene’s birthday party yesterday. It was really awesome just being able to chill with mates and just be socialable :D I ended up staying the night because I live two streets away so I just had to walk to get my schtuff! YEAH!!! Talked to Eugene heaps (who is Irene’s friend she met through working at Kmart… hahaha… Where good times start! :D). Had two hours of sleep and then skidaddled home and went to Uni. That’s how I roll.

Need to pee really bad because I’ve drunk most of my V…

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Wordle!

April 12, 2009 – 4:21 am

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A sigh and a sob and a kick in the ass.

April 9, 2009 – 9:56 am

Let’s rearrange that:

The kick in the ass:
I NEED A FRICKIN’ BOOT UP MY ASS! I need to get a move on with this Asian Studies Essay!!!!!!!! ARGH! ALL I do is COMPLAIN about this… BUT NEVER DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT! NOW(!) I’m complaining about my complaining. WTF IS WRONG WITH ME!…. Ok. It’s Easter Break so I can take a four day break… 
I’m just listening to the radio and this chick is STUDYING this break… SCREW YOU!

Ok. Now that’s over… what was my sigh… um…. I got all worked up over the kick in the ass that I completely forgot what I was sighing over… hm.

Well I can tell you ALL about the sob… FRANCE! It’s been almost a year since we went to France and I have to say that I MISS IT SO BAD! We were only there for three weeks but it was the BEST three weeks of my LIFE! I totally want to look at the photos and the videos… ah… *sigh* I love you FRANCE!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m going for my first drive since getting my learners tomorrow!!! WOOT!

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A quick recap.

April 4, 2009 – 9:55 pm

It’s been WEEKS(!) since I’ve posted anything.

Here’s the gist… of the part that I can remember at this very point in time:

Univeristy:
Uni has gotten easier and I’ve actually kinda made some friends :D Overall the first half semester wasn’t that bad and was quite enjoyable… Except for the minor stress of test, assignments and labs (which to be fair make up pretty much all of the work you do in uni). Had a law test on Friday and I think I screwed it up.

Dragon Boating:
We had nationals last weekend. I’m not sure if I talked about regionals… but if I didn’t we came third. Nationals in Rotorua last weekend we came 15/33 or something like that… but to be fair we weren’t paddling with the same team and the draw was different so it was split into divisions… but even if it was we wouldn’t have won… ANYWAYS… Went to town on Saturday night. Most of the people who read this have already heard my stories from town and in fact the whole weekend… So I’m ending it here. Oh yeah but I did become a theif. Shhh… don’t tell the cops. Or my parents.

Other stuff:
Went to Genghis Khan for Matthew’s bday on Thursday… ate too much…. as usual… and no more dragon boating to get rid of the excess calories :(

Now back to yesterday:
I spent a lov-er-ly day helping Vanessa move out/in with Matthew and Shelley. We just put things on a truck (I helped move the plants mainly) and then drove to Hobsonville and unloaded it again. After the unloading, which worked up an appetite, we got lunch and I must say that Lois supplies some of the best lunches :D Matthew, Shelley and I spend the afternoon just lazing around while Nessa unpacked her stuff and occasionally whipped out an old Harrry Potter script or story written by her and Shelley or one of her dodgy old diary entries from when she was like 15. HILARIOUS… “I liked what they wore in the movies pantwise… ” Hahahahaha! That was one of my favourite afternoons in ages.

Then we had Sam’s pub crawl party which was awesome and meant that I got to have like all these random conversations with drunk people, some of them I knew and some of them I didn’t really know. We went to Fibbers, Ratoto (Ok I have no idea how to spell these places) and then Bungalow 8 (where I saw Brooke who is a chick in my Asian Studies class without her shoes on) We weren’t allowed in Empire cos someone chundered everywhere right in front of the bouncers. Fave place was Ratotos because there was an awesome dance floor with mean music!!!

Went back to Beccas (really early because we only had the party bus (which had free drinks, thanks Mr Paul!) and we watched Bridget Jones’ Diary and half of BJD 2 and chatted for ages. I’ve only had three hours of sleep and feel flipppin’ DANDY! YUSS!

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ARGH!

March 17, 2009 – 6:38 am

So the stress of uni life has finally gotten to me and it appears that it’s never going to reach Becca who has been told by 2nd and 3rd year engineers that she doesn’t need to do any work for the first couple of weeks.

FARHHHHHHHK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And although I absolutely ADORE Dragon Boating, I can’t wait until it’s over just because then I’ll have SO much more time…

GARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really can’t wait until nationals. It’s going to be so much fun. OR it’s NOT going to be as much fun as I anticipate it to be… which has happened before… which is ULTRA GAY!

Speaking of gay, one of the friends I made at school is gay. She is awesome! What is so not awesome AND gay is French 201. I wish I had taken a stage 1 French course because it’s stage 2 SO HARD!

I should REALLY be doing work… and SO I SHALLLLLLLL…. AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!

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Freshers’ Week

March 6, 2009 – 8:46 pm

And so ends the very first week of University for Novia. It was so unbelieveably tiring. I just feel like sitting around and not doing anything today. Alas, I have a BBQ I must attend for one of the clubs I joined. Suck… I mean I’ll get to meet other people but I don’t feel like doing anything atm.

So my first week went pretty well. HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS… AT ALL!!!!!!! It’s so hard when the lectures are so big that you sit next to someone and never see them again AND it’s not like you get to talk to them anyway because it’s a LECTURE!!!

I haven’t made any “friends” yet because I only really see them in lectures… I have met up with lots of different people who went to Botany though. Bethany is in my law class which is awesome. And apparently Josh Wu is as well which makes sense because I keep thinking I see him in my lectures…

The lectures are pretty good though. I do enjoy my law lectures which I have 3 times a week at 8am! French and Chinese aren’t lectures but more classes… So we have to call the roll or sign a piece of paper to say that we’re there. SO yeah. I also had to buy a $100 book for French yesterday. It is SO THIN!

The MOST annoying thing about going to Uni is taking 2 hours travel (there and back) for two hours of lectures… The bus makes you really tired and it’s not surprising to see people falling asleep. I would but I’m paranoid about missing my stop.

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Sunday.

March 4, 2009 – 8:16 pm

I no longer have ANY showers on Mondays or Wednesdays. But I have two on both Tuesday and Thursday. This is because dragon boating finishes at 8 and we have to bus back, by the time we do so it’s too late to have a shower. The only shower in our house that we are allowed to use is our parent’s one (as ours is undergoing maintenance) and they are in bed by the time we get back. Dakara no showers on Mondays or Wednesdays.

Sunday was possibly one of the most busiest days of my life in which I ran A LOT… and this was on top of dragon boating. Ok. So we finish dragon boating and get dropped of in Newmarket by Emma (yay Emma!) to catch the bus back. The bus is coming in 13mins and I need to wee. Dash over to the Westfield opposite us and when we get back all the cars have disappeared… huh, that’s weird I thought to myself… and THEN there are all these road cones and people in yellow flasher-jackets… IT’S THE AUCKLAND CUP WEEK PARADE! There were horses crapping everywhere and little kids doing handstands and stuff… anyway. This meant that our bus WAS NOT coming… We were going to watch the hockey game Black Sticks vs India.

Grabbed some lunch and after a VERY frustrated explosion in my head THE BUS ACTUALLY ARRIVED. We were actually WALKING AWAY from the bus stop when we saw it coming. When we were running back we laughing in a spastic kind of way. From Botany RAN(!) back home and jumped in the car to the game.

The game was cool to watch. We were there for both of the goals that were scored… both by India. Or was it three? I don’t know… It was pretty mean to watch and the Indian fans made everything interesting. At the end when the Black Sticks lost the crowd ran onto the field to surround the Indian team and the BS were all alone and hanging their heads… Meh.

After this we went over to the Military Tattoo (whatever that is) and we saw Army things… yes I am being vague.

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Orientate me.

February 25, 2009 – 1:30 am

Went to AU for the first day of orienation week. Hm, I didn’t go today, hopefully I didn’t miss something important. Shit, I should have checked. Apparently we’re meant to go everyday… but whatever.

After a brief spell of getting both lost and wet ,Kelsey and I parted way with the engineers (Becca, Chris, Iris) and found the Arts room. We got a Uniguide named Amber with red hair (ironically… or not… I don’t actually know the proper meaning of ironic.) After the first 5 minutes she actually forgot that I was in her group and asked if I’d lost my Uniguide group and this was after she had taken down my details including name, dob and id number… But then again I can’t guarantee that I wouldn’t if it were me… So I really shouldn’t make a big deal out of it, but here I am making something of it because I feel like it.

We walked around for like 2 hours… the campus is HUGE and there is so much to see… After this Kelso and I went to the special event. It was this guy talking about the beginning of Uni, very interesting, very funny. I can’t remember his name… but then again I didn’t have to write it down… or his dob.

We met up with everyone else up at Shadows (Uni pub YES!). We grabbed lunch. I met an international student from Venuzula named Juan (who was really cool) who the engineers had met in their Uniguide group which sounded really fun and interesting. Our group was quite quiet and didn’t seem very interested in making friends with each other. I asked 3 people what their names were and talked with two others. Our group was rather reserved. We had lunch there. YUM!

Ah. Uni.

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The Three Kings and I

February 22, 2009 – 2:08 am

After a rather UNHELPFUL trip to the bank Genie, Docie, Jenny and I went on an amazing adventure by an amazing horseless carriage driven by an amazing driver (my amazing father) to the amazing Three Kings Reserve where we Rocked the Park!

The (amazing) first band to play was the Midnight Youth who are REALLY good live and now I’m even contemplating actually paying to see them play. Their lead guitarist (your classic skinny white guy) was SUPER GOOD. There were all these teenie girls in front who went spaz (but not international-band-spazz) when they started to play The Letter {which is like one of the best songs released by a Kiwi band EVER[!]}… and I was fully acting like a retard mocking them. Teenage girls are so fun to mock. How could I have been that stupid… We got their autographs too which was pretty mean (the band not the girls).

We then brought an H2Go bottle and got our pictures taken by the H2Go Spotters so one of us (excluding Docie who isn’t over 16) might win $10,000. We actually chased them with our bottle… yes we brought one between us and took turns sneaking up on the Spotters so they didn’t know we were cheap.

We watched some band with the ex-lead singer of the Exponents when they did the classic Why Does Love Do This To Me… it was so awesome to hear everyone singing along.

We took a walk and I got something to eat. So we missed watching Pluto, but I’m gald we did cos I was getting hungry and wasn’t going to pay $3.50 for a pot of chips.

We headed back in time to watch Autozamm play and I was very pleased that they played Closer to Home and Killer Shoes :D While we were watching the band this Maori lady was talking to us (who may or may not have been drunk) and we watched the middle aged guy in a blue button-up shirt (who looked kinda like Dominique from the France trip) dance really spassticly (Docie was pissing herself watching him)… along with other concert-crowd characters like the young-long-haired-shirtless-guy and his friend old-long-haired-shirtless-guy as well as the covered-my-shirt-in-free-stickers-guys.

The whole thing was sponsered by V and put on by The Rock radio station. WOOT! T’was an amazing afternoon.

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