MIP

October 16, 2008 – 4:38 am

Hey guess what guys! I got Most Improved Player for my hockey team last night at hockey prize giving. YAY! I was pretty pleased myself and quite proud that I got an award :D

Botany Bolts are playing tonight at 7.40pm at Lloyd Elsmore Park. I’m kinda not really almost but maybe looking forward to it… because I don’t know if I really like summer hockey which is played on a tiny itsy bitsy sized turf. It’s kinda like table-football… foosball… and the ball just goes back and forth. In normal hockey it actually takes time for the ball to get to the other end. GAR!

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Feeling like shat

October 8, 2008 – 7:48 am

You: That title’s a bit of an overstatement, isn’t it Novia.

Me: Yeah, you’re probably right. Oh well, I’m too lazy to change it now.

So I just watched a video of Carl Barron (…hm is that with a C or a K?) on Rove which will be showing on Friday because chances are I’ll miss it. I love Karl Barron… SO FUNNY! I COULD TOTALLY be watching Big Bang Theory right now. However Mum is engrossed in a Tom Cruise interview with Oprah. There is one thing that I want to watch tonight: Real Life: My Car is My Lover- men who are sexually attracted to cars. You can’t tell me that that doesn’t sound interesting. Mechaphiliacs. WEIRDOS. Personally I think there is something wrong with someone who isn’t sexually attracted to human beings… sometimes there’s also something wrong with them as well. ANYWAY… I’m going to watch it at 9.30pm today one channel 1.

Right now I’m feeling so UNSTIMULATED. I hate this. It’s kind of like being bored sans the frustration. I guess I could watch Flashpoint which starts one channel 2 in about 5 minutes. Or I could sit here and continue talking to you about my average day.

I had work and I feel like I did HEAPS today… There were also times where time went REALLY quickly. Becca fully worked hard out for one GIANT order and completed 45 things of Club to Class orders in 17 and a half minutes! WOW! I fully didn’t think she could do it… but she did. Well done Rebecca! I keep drinking water because my mouth is kinda dry. I’m going to need to piddle REAL bad tonight. I hate getting up in the middle of the night.

Do you know what I also hate? When people think you’re a loser and then they just like act like they don’t think you’re a loser.

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Garlic.

October 7, 2008 – 7:04 am

Do not eat raw garlic. I just had some sauce that my dad made which consists of garlic, lemon and soy sauce. VERY TASTY. I didn’t eat the garlic because it’s so strong and makes your mouth go all dry and gross. I think I’m going to try and avoid the raw garlic-lemon-soya sauce sauce because it’s made my mouth all garlicy even though I fully avoided the garlic bits. The sauce is supposed to aide in cold and flu prevention. Nothing is going to come near you if your breath stinks that bad, is it?

I started work again this week! MONEY! And as we all know Money= Good. Becca and I’ve been doing it since before our first concert… so since the July holidays in Yr 11. I fully had blank out moments… it’s so weird… When you’re packing brochures it feels like time stops and there is not beginning and end to what you’re doing. It’s just one order after another… Working today seemed slower than yesterday. It’s like school. You’re in class and you feel like the day is going by SOOOOO S-L-O-W-L-Y and then all of a sudden it’s Friday and you don’t know where the week has gone. Highlight of the day: getting to scan our fingerprints into the machine so we can clock in and out all by ourselves :D YAY!

I didn’t realise how not doing any form of exercise for almost a month can mean you’ll almost be a cripple after you try and play hockey again. Weirdly it’s my groin muscles that hurt the most. Yesterday, The Botany Bolts got to take to the turf for the first time as a team in a couple of friendly games against some of the other summer league teams. We lost the first game… BUT they weren’t playing by the proper summer hockey rules which states that you have to have at least 3 girls on the turf, (but neither were we for some of it.) And we won the second match… it wasn’t really a proper match though because we just had one massive first half and didn’t have a second half which was good because it was getting dark and the lights weren’t going to come on. The Botany Bolts which played yesterday were: Me, Sophie, Lili, Matthew, Zak, Lud, Herman and Grove. Because we there were 8 of us and only 7 on the turf at a time we had one sub… or putting it more accurately, someone had to sit out. Grove volunteered at the beginning of the first game. I saw him sitting on the edge of the dugout and felt sorry for him because he’s been REALLY looking forward to this game. I know this because he drew up PC game plans, got his braces coloured black and yellow-our team colours and apparently every time Lud went to his house it was ALL he talked about. Definately enthusiastic.
We have awesome black and yellow uniforms so we look totally pro.
I didn’t play as well as I could have. This is because I was a retard and decided NOT to try hard because I was getting chest pains because I’ve turned into a lazy blob since hockey finished about a month ago. AND because I was totally intimidated by the level of players on our team. I feel like a retard with a stick compared with the rest of the team. I didn’t on the school’s girl team because there are 11 of our players spread out on a GIANT turf AND because I know how girls play. The summer league is mixed and boys play so much harder and faster than girls… so my skills are way under par compared to the team as a whole which basicallly comprises the best girls and boys from our First XI teams. ARGH! But I decided that I just have to run lots to improve my game.

I FULLY should be doing my Biology internal right now. We were given over a month to do it but of course I didn’t start until this past Sunday. I didn’t start it straight away… I don’t think anyone started it straight away because WE HAD EXAMS. WHO WOULD THINKS THAT IT’D BE A GOOD IDEA TO GIVE STUDENTS AN INTERNAL ASSESSMENT JUST BEFORE THE MOCK EXAMS? And another reason I’m fully hating on this is because it’s research. I hated it this year and I’m hating it this year. BUT I would choose this over the stupid experiment thing we did with potatoes last year. We’re going to get 5 lessons of Bio to write the report SO that means that we won’t get our exam marks back until the 2nd week of term 4 when we got every other subject back before the end of term… The weird thing is that even after all the stressing I was doing last week because we didn’t have any proper internet I’m fully not taking this seriously. I’ve only got 9 websites… and haven’t even read through all of them. I wonder if I’m going to pass this.

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#014 - And that’s why adults drink coffee

September 27, 2008 – 7:13 pm

This week, Novia turns 18 and complains about not being allowed to be 18. She also lets you in on What’s Up!

What’s Up?!

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SCREW FATE!!!

September 26, 2008 – 7:41 am

I’m writing 4 exams, 2 internals and more than a week later to say that I survived the mock exams! AND surprisingly I also did pretty well which I’m completely stoked about. I’ve had 4 of my subjects back and not one achieved or not achieved!!! BUT still have to get biology back and it’s going to be the worst by far… I’m fully hating on bio at the moment. And I’m hating on the fact that I’ve wasted my family’s broadband watching Zero Punctuation videos. I don’t know how my sisters are not wanting to stab me right now… Well I’ve just screwed myself over because I’m the one who has to do bio research for yet ANOTHER internal.

I FINALLY handed in my internal for classics about the Roman viewpoint on Fate and the Gods. HOLY SHIT IT WAS LONG. Like 4100 words. AND! … ok. I forgot my and. BUT! around 80 of those 4100 was “fate”. ARGH!!!!! Last night I counted them because I was curious but that’s A LOT! I’m so sick of it. I was also sick of the fact that I write like someone who’s taking level 1. I must admit that I’m quite proud of my initial introduction but the rest of it was SO BORING! My introduction was the cheesy crust on the poorly seasoned mashed potato of essay. I’m just glad it’s over but I didn’t really get that satisfaction that I normally get after doing a heap of work, which sucks.

ANYWAY.

Guess WHAT?!

WE HAD THE LONGEST SCHOOL ASSEMBLY TODAY AND IT FULLY WENT OVER BY 15 MINUTES! Ok, so normally I wouldn’t have minded because it was the last day of school today so it’s not like we were doing strenuous learning BUT THIS WAS 15 MINUTES OF CLASSICS IN WHICH I WAS MEANT TO BE DOING MY FUCKING INTERNAL!!! ah. Ok. It feels good to get that off my chest.

Realised today that taking classics was a better decision than taking english this year because english is retardedly hard, as in you actually have to be able to teach the subject to get an excellence and because I would have found it hard I would have always regretted taking it instead of classics. Doesn’t mean that classics hasn’t been without its struggles *cough*facilitator*cough*.

OH YEAH! This is my first blog post as an ADULT!!! The age fairy came and made me one year older on Wednesday. Scrazy AWESOME. I’M 18, I’M 18, I’M 18!!! I’m going away with some of my friends to Waihi :D on Sunday. I’M SO EXCITED. I fully can’t wait!!!

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#013 - I Am Challenge

September 21, 2008 – 9:19 am

We have Ben come and help us host the show this week!

What’s Up:

Boredom Buster:

Check out game reviews from Australian based Brit Ben Crowshaw a.k.a Yahtzee. Click here for his review of the brand spanking new SPORE!

iamchallenge:

We chat with Dan and Ben about their shirts which will help kids in Africa. If you want to check it out and help them get the cash click here.
For the full interview, just follow this link.

Video Response:

We get our THIRD video response from Maria and Kelsey!!! YAY! Thanks girls!!! And Happy Birthday to Kelsey for next Wednesday :)

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Study Leave

September 11, 2008 – 9:38 pm

Yesterday I had my very first exam of the year. Statistics. As exams go it went rather well because after some serious brain working I answered every question. And it was only 2 hours long. My next exam is Chemistry, which, let’s be honest, is going to be a bitch.

Two reasons: This exam is three hours which is standard time for an exam but that doesn’t stop it from being feeling like a marathon each time. AND I don’t get titration curves which is something that we did in the last topice AND because I have not looked at ANYTHING from the beginning of the year so I’m going to be so LOST and must STUDY MY ASS OFF to even understand what I’m doing. GAR.

Well I might as well go and start. MEH!

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TOURNEY!

September 11, 2008 – 6:58 am

This year I was lucky enough to be chosen for the First XI Girl’s Hockey team and the tournament team.

We went to Wanganui and let me tell you now, it’s a hole. (But it’s not as bad as Ngatea which has all of a hockey field and Subway.) We played BUM WATCH, an awesome game I made up. We just sat in the car and looked out and counted the number of bums (people doing nothing). It was a rather stink game to be honest. But meh, kept us entertained to and from the turf.

Here is the breakdown of our games:
Monday: Botany vs Onslow 2:0
Tuesday: Botany vs Breams Bay 0:2    Botany vs Newlands 8:0
Wednesday: Botany vs Iona 0:6
Thursday: Botany vs Havelock North 0:8
Friday: Botany vs Wanganui 1:1

So we ended up playing off for 7th and 8th on Friday. We came 7th equal, which was cool.

You know what our coach and manager had in store for us after each game? COLD POOL! It was the COLDEST water I’ve stayed in voluntarily. My lower half actually went numb so that when I ran for the hot shower I couldn’t feel anything. Do you know what the boys team got after each game? Pink buns and bananas. Shows you which team has more balls. But the cold pool was very good because my legs weren’t aching as bad as they should have been. It did get difficult to run by the end of the week though.

I was kinda hoping that this week woulda been the week where I’d get enough exercise everyday and eat really healthy but 90% of what I ate was chocolate biscuits which wasn’t totally unpleasant :)

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Two Saturdays Ago

September 8, 2008 – 8:31 am

SO! PEOPLE! WHATS UP?! I haven’t blogged in ages and so much has happened in the last week!

Let’s start with two Saturdays ago. I jumped on a bus with a number of other people (including Laura all hopped out on Relentless energy drink) to Auckland Uni’s Open Day. I would say that this was useful for one thing: getting to know the campus a teeny weeny bit better than before which was pretty much no knowledge what so ever.

So I went to a couple of Law lectures, one of Philosophy (SO CONFUSING) and one where I learnt to read Korean in 10 minutes (I’m still not great but I can kinda make out some words). I also had a free sausage sizzle for lunch because like a cheap bastard I didn’t have any money for real food.

Some time during the day Genie, Laura and I dumped out supluferous gear on Zak and Becca, taking only what we needed we headed to VECTOR AREANA!!!!

WOOT! Going to concerts is awesome. So got there after a quick stop at Foodtown and then hung out not for long before Shannon and Laura (Shannon’s cousin) met up with us out the front. Us three went to the toilets quickly before the lines started to go up but unfortunately everyone jumped into line while we were away! SCHTANK! Oh well.

Trying to locate Genie and Laura in a concentrated mass of people is difficult. While trying to squeeze my way back in line some die-hard told me that neither Genie, Laura or I should be in the front of the line (assuming that her and her friends had been there overnight). WHATEVER.

I got my ticket and decided to make the most of it chatting with Laura and Shannon and soon enough Genie and the other Laura joined us too, deciding that it was too claustrophobic in the front of the line.

Pretty soon it was TIME TO ENTER THE VECTOR!!! AHHH! Of the 5 of us we kept leaving the line and I was always paranoid that the line would start to move without them. Anyways. So we got in…

… and surprisingly enough we were fully like 3 people from the front. I was surprised. But then again the majority of the people there were girls aged between 14-18 so they wouldn’t have taken up too much room. Can say the same for the sprinklings of males that were there too.

A Kiss Goodbye started off. We had seen them earlier taking pics with people in the line and we even did a “Give A Life” on one of their teenaged photographers. We names him Jim Bartowski and he was gay- his lover being a much older man. “Give a Life” often ends in the participant being gay… AKGB were ok. I didn’t LOVE them. But the only thing I could sing-a-long to was their cover of Rihanna’s Umbrella.

So. We were getting to the good bits. I can tell you know there were quite a few people there JUST to see Cobra Starship. Pushiness amongst the crowd intenified, much to the annoyance of some 14(ish) yr olds in front of me. They were being such retards. “Everyone’s pushing me… I have no room… I can’t breathe… blah blah blah.” What dya expect? They left. YAY!

Cobra Starship were really good. I loved it when they did Snakes on a Plane and William Beckett even came out and did his bit. IT WAS MEAN! Victoria, the key-tarist, had a sore arm because the band were in a car accident the night before! But they still played and the crowd loved it!

Now, I was there to see two bands: Panic At The Disco (of course) and The Academy Is… The Academy was awesome. I was like getting excited while they were doing the set change. They played heaps of their old songs and even did their brand news stuff. It was cool that Laura knew like all of the lyrics to all of their songs and Cobra’s songs. I went spaz over the songs I actually knew, which was pretty much anything off of their first cd Almost There. The crowd was so intense! I was being really squished and had to fight hard to keep my place… which by this point was 2nd from the front!

While they were doing the set changeover a piece of screwed up paper flew into Laura’s hands. IT WAS THE SET LIST FOR THE ACADEMY IS!!! She quickly shoved it into her bag before anyone could rip it from her.

Panic had the strangest or should I say oddest backdrop. It was a giant screen (like a tv screen) which showed random as artwork. Ah, such is the way of the Panic. They played a good set. To be honest I can’t really tell you what a good set is but I did enjoy it. The crowd was TOTALLY mellow for this. I HAD ROOM TO MOVE and I was still 2nd from the front. Like what they did with Northern Downpour and bubbles were nice.

Too soon the concert was over and we migrated to McDonalds until our taxi came and take us home for $80. CORPORATE CABS ARE TOO EXPENSIVE.

Will blog about tournament. Must do the study now! Ew, probablity.

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#012 - Filmed on a Sunday

August 24, 2008 – 9:38 am

What’s Up:

Ew. Why do I look so gross right now?

Would You Rather:

Taking a break for the next couple of weeks until you want to it back!

DE-railed:

I rant on about stuff that’s coming up including Auckland University Open Day, Panic At The Disco concert and hockey tournament.

Should have done those 5km runs. Look like a blob.

My Faves:

We look at Ludwig’s favourite band at the moment: Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head and my favourite comedian of the moment: Eddie Izzard.

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