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at 4:15 PM

AIYOOO I'M SOOOOOOOOO LAZY TO BLOG LAHHH!!! :(((((

k. this whole week has been orientation week so i haven't had any classes yet. next monday is the first day of lessons. BAHH SO SIANZZZZ!!!! :(((( i got be in school by 8am and i have to walk SUPER FAR in the cold to get my timetable in some god forsaken location in the school, then hurry off to my first science lecture. duno which science it is, but i have a feeling it's bio. UGHH.

i don't know if i mentioned in my last blog post but i took a math test on tue for me to take an algebra and calculus class, and i got full marks! whhooot! i haven't had full marks anything since i was 7. ahahahaha!!! so on wed it was kinda and off day for me so nana and i went to the ONLY CINEMA IN DUNEDIN, or rather the cinema that shows young people movies, to watch shutter island. the other cinema shows the more old people shows. :P i actually was quite scared to watch it cos i thought it would give me nightmares, but the only other choice we had was "have you met the morgans". dude. of cos mr scorsese would win man. turns out, as expected, it was BRILLIANT. the twist in the story just BLOWS YOUR MIND MAN. TOTALLY GOES BOOMZ. i think u don't really expect it cos the trailer, if u have watched it, really throws u off track. AND IT ISN'T SHOWING IN SINGAPORE YET! WOOOT! NZ is ahead in something! :P ahaahahahah!! yea. so if u haven't seen it, go see it. great film. and i love NZ cinemas. the leg room is wow. like seriously WOW. u can stretch your legs out to the max and still have space for people to walk. awesome.

thursday was boring. more talks, and then we had to do an english diagnostic test. i felt i was in GP all over again. the test was to write and essay on the topic "what do u think is the 3 most pressing problems in the world today?" we had 40 mins to write it, so i don't think they expect too much. i just wrote about global warming, sex trafficking and terrorism. then after that was more talks and time for home.

friday was probably the most painful. we started the day at 10am with 2 hours of talks and intro to the staff. i wanted to dieeeeeee!!! then we had a bbq where they brought us to chingford park and the sun was soooo hot omg. i was gona be burnt but luckily one girl had sunblock. i told myself that if i could survive this bbq i can do anything. so the fact i'm still sitting here is testament to my survival. thank god.

today i slept in. woke up about 12+. i tell u, after not going to school for so long totally screws up your brain man. no stamina already. nana and i went to the uni library to print out some forms immigration wants me to submit. OMG IMMIGRATION IS SUCH A BITCH I TELL U. they want me take a blood test, urine test, and xray. i'm sorry to say this, but HELLO. I COME FROM SINGAPORE. we're not a freaking third world country where we are plagued with all the funny diseases. do i really have to do this??!?! and i have a bad feeling i have to freaking PAY. omg i don't wana think how expensive it's gona be. on monday i'm gona to speak to some people in school and ask them if i really have to do this stupid thing.

so last night and today i spent my time researching and comparing credit cards. i currently have a visa card from my bank, but they don't give me any rewards. such as points and stuff so that i can redeem items after i've spent a certain amount. so i'm gona give up the one i have now and apply for another card from another bank. and since banks annoyingly do not open on weekends, i have to wait till monday before going to ask them how i'm gona pay my bills on this new card i'm going to apply for, because here they don't believe in using cheques. -_-''' but i also have a bad feeling my lessons would end at 5pm on monday and the banks would all have closed by the time i can get down there. UGH MY GOD SO ANNOYING!!!! :((((((((((

so tmr is sunday and i'm gona make sure i enjoy myself. it's my last day before the rat race begins. wow. i can't believe that i've been here for more than a week already. i still remember how i was pinching myself after waking up after my first night.


at 11:03 AM

whoops. sorry i forgot to blog the last few days. haha! well nevermind. better late than never.

k. on sunday the 4 of us went to the otago peninsular. erm, i can't really describe how it looked like so if u wana know just go google images. nila, nana's mum has got some serious driving skills. cos to get there we had to drive the perimeter of the otago harbour, or at least i assume it is, and it's not exactly a straight road. there are some very curvy bends and the speed limit is 70. which in this case, means the SLOWEST u can drive is 70. not allowed to go slower than that. haha! total opposite of back home. so you actually have to have experience to navigate the way. finally we arrived and we got to see the sea and albatrosses, which is our national bird. they're a bigger species of seagulls,and some of their wingspans can go beyond 2m. yep. big bird.

on our way back we stopped by a pottery store run by this lady. daniel bought one of those cheesy valentine souvenir things, a key with the head shaped like a heart with a red plastic crystal. and the packaging says "you hold the key to my heart." we were all joking about how if he gives a girl that and she turns him down, she can stomp on it and say "here. you can have your heart back." LOL!! and also while he gives her the key to his heart, the key to his pants is a bonus. AHAHHAHAHAH!!! I was laughing REALLY hard at that one!!! :P and he also said that this kind of gifts is only better for guys to give to girls. cos if a girl gives the guy a key..... she's kinda suggesting something else..... :P

yep. it was a hot day and when we headed back, we had an early dinner. and after dinner, nila asked nana to give her a massage by walking on her back. it was really quite a funny sight cos daniel filmed it and he said if he just listened to the sound and not the video, the sounds were actually quite suggestive. :P so the 4 of us were laughing like maniacs over it. then the 4 of us went to the airport to send nila off. i think i was actually more sad than nana to see her mum go. cos she's so used to being on her own, but i've always been with my mum. so seeing my only mother figure go wasn't easy either. so the 3 of us youngsters piled back into the car and listened to music on the way home with daniel making funny comments and actions from the backseat. the guy is such a clown. :P

yep! so that basically completes sunday! monday nana had to work again and daniel had classes till 6, so i was all alone at home for the day. bored to tears i tell you! i thought back to how i spent my time at home in singapore, and i realised why i was so bored was because 1. i don't have my guitar with me 2. no cable tv. bummer. i tried to go to sleep early, at bout 9+ but i just couldn't fall asleep. so i put on my discman to lull me to sleep. but i didn't get a good sleep anyway. :(

so today was tuesday, and i woke up at 9am even though i didn't need to leave the house by 11am to walk to school. so i took my own sweet time to eat breakfast, wash up and change. at 11am i left home to walk to school for registration day. there the head of our programme gave us a welcome talk and we had to fill out some admin forms. for my health science course i had a choice to do basic math or calculus and algebra. so i chose to do calculus and algebra so i had to stay behind to take an extra math test. gosh, i hadn't used my brain in so long to do math, it was actually painful! :P but thank god it was really easy and i think i should be qualified to take the class.

i made 2 new friends today. one girl was called bellina, belle for short, and she's from malaysia. the other guy, steven, was from singapore as well, though he's malaysian so he doesn't need to do NS. i was touched that the 2 of them waited for me outside to finish my test cos i was checking my work. OH GOD I'M SO CARELESS IT'S DISGUSTING. anyway, so the 3 of us went to get our student IDs done. and as usual, i look like an idiot in my picture. ugh. i never have nice IDs. never mind. i'm not gona cry over it. then we went to get our lab coats before heading to town for lunch.

we ate at this restaurant called chopsticks 101. they serve asian food and apparently they serve huge portions for a reasonable price. but i didn't find the prices all that competitive. the lowest i saw for noodles was $8.50. and the noodles i ordered was pretty disgusting. salty and tasteless. YUCK. :( so i left quite a bit behind and belle and steven were asking if i was gona pack my food. no jose. haha! and halfway while waiting for our food, the was a blackout! and we were still waiting for our food so steven was like, "great. half cooked food." haha! but half or fully cooked, i don't think my noodles would have tasted much better anyway. when we finished we were the last ones in the store cos they couldn't have more customers with no electricity. belle walked to the hospital for her homestay family to pick her up, cos she stays on a hill and it's a bitch to walk up, especially in this summer heat. steven stays near me though he has to walk a little further. he stays on a hill too while i stay on the flats. so belle left us half way while steven and i continued walking. we found out we actually knew some mutual people so that was cool. and he's been in Dunedin for a month already and didn't spend CNY back home. i don't know man. i'd be SUPER pissed if i wasn't home for CNY.

belle wants to do pharmacy while steven wants to do medicine. i think they're pretty decent people so i hope we can see more of each other.

yep! so i'm home now and it's nearly 5pm. i think i'll go shower then watch a dvd or something. k. bye!


at 5:57 PM

today is saturday, and nana and her mum, nila, brought me to the farmer's market. it's something like our pasar malam back home, except it's in the day and it's run by ang mohs. well, not totally angmohs. u can always rely on some asian infiltration some where. :P

so i set my alarm clock for 8.15am, which i promptly switched off and went back to sleep cos i was too tired. i slept at 2.30am the previous night cos i got too caught up in my book. it was 10.15am when i cracked open my eyes again, and still they were half closed. then nana knocked on my door to ask if i wanted to go to the farmer's market so i HAD to get up. i went out of my room to see daniel just having woken up too. so after washing up the 4 of us piled into the car and we were off!

before heading to the market we stopped by a garage sale run by amnesty international. nila bought some random stuff like a home phone, cutlery, cos apparently they're really expensive in New Zealand -_-''', and trolley marketing bag and nana bought a big of highlighters. did you know that one stabilo highlighter costs 5 bucks here?!?!! it's robbery, i swear. so for all those items, it only cost $7. so i guess garage sales are good!

after that we were off to the market. parking was a bitch cos it was pretty crowded, and people only wanted to park at the free carpark. finally we got a lot. i saw some pretty cool stuff. basically these people are farmers and they bring their stuff to this place to sell. the first stop was this guy who grew organic garlic and he sold them as pastes and stuff that u can apply on crackers. good stuff. nila bought a free range chicken (yes, it was dead and plucked) cos they're healthier as they aren't injected with hormones. next we were on to the vegetable store, and nila bought one whole big bag of basil leaves for $7. food is actually really expensive in new zealand. there was a crepe stand which sold really good crepes. nana and i shared one passionfruit and whipped cream. sinful but oh-so-good. we also bought dumplings from a mother and daughter team from china. by the end of the day i was so so full. it's too much to give all the details here. i don't have pictures to show here cos i was too lazy to take them. i hate taking photos. they make you look so touristy and you're so busy snapping shots that you're not actually paying attention to the things happening around you.

afterwards we went home to deposit the food cos we had fresh meats with us. nila did some cooking while daniel went to sleep. then the 3 of us girls went to meridian mall, the ONLY shopping mall in dunedin. i got my SIM card and my new mobile phone number. i was allowed to choose my number according to the SIM card, so the girl brought out a whole stack for me to choose. but i ended up choosing the first one i saw cos i felt the number was easiest to remember. then we strolled round the mall a bit and nana went to try on some boots. shoes here are CRAZY EXPENSIVE k. like even after discounts, they're still $100+. siao. i'm definitely not buying any shoes here. finally our last stop was k-mart were i bought so household stuff i needed. then we headed home and i took a shower before calling my parents and talking to yingxy on the webcam.

i left yingxy when nana called me for dinner, and the 4 of us had our meal. all the leftovers were given to daniel, who gamely finished everything. nila and nana says that daniel has a dragon in his stomach cos he eats so much. after dinner nana and i walked to the convenience store nearest our house but it was already closed. so we had to walk back and drive to the store in town which opened later. nila needed some stuff to make indonesian pancake thingies, which look really good and i can't wait to try in the near future. nana, nila and daniel set down to making pancakes while i retired to my room for a while to read and joined them again later. nila is a really cool mom, and she really brings out the crazy side in nana. i can't describe her really, except that she's really childish for a mum in her mannerisms but at the same time you can tell that she really loves her daughter and always gives good advice. when we were at k-mart she was playing with this pink rubber ball she picked up from a random shelf and asked nana to buy it for her. :P i don't know if nana really did. haha! shall ask her tomorrow. yep. so seeing the 2 of them being so loving and enjoying each other's company so much made me laugh but really miss my mum too. and my dad and sis and ping and and everyone back home. :(

on a happier note i think i'm adjusting better that i expected. i haven't cried since i spoke to mum on the webcam, and that's because she started crying first. i'm sure i'm homesick but right now i'm not really feeling it that much. maybe the feeling is buried somewhere deep in my heart which has not been unleashed yet. right now i'm just living day to day. i initially thought that i would miss home so bad that i make myself sick, but fortunately it's not happening that way, so for that i'm thankful.


at 4:32 PM

wow. i haven't blogged since october. that's like 4 to 5 months ago. even before A levels. man, does time really pass so fast? geez!

well, greetings from New Zealand! it's my second night here. so i can't say i'm a big fan of the place yet. even Yohana, or Nana as i call her, says that she understands what a big change i'm facing. they only have 1 mall in the entire city, and 1 cinema.and apparently even that's pretty pathetic. sigh. so i've basically moved from modern times to the stone age. sigh.....

well, for the sake of those who weren't there to see me off at the airport, namely yingxy, i better have a little more elaboration. so i had a small entourage to send me off at the airport. i am very touched and thankful to all family and friends who took time off to send me off. the list consists of my family, aunty allyson, yangx, aunty, uncle donald's family minus debbie and sam, and my 5 friends: Jiaying,yanqi, lou, yihui and joyce. i really now truly understand the feeling of being loved. all my aunts and uncles who gave me extra big ang pows and supported me and thought of me, i thank you all. i really am blessed.

i really thought i would cry on the plane, but fortunately i didn't. aunty allyson gave me her discman which she doesn't use anymore,so at least i had some of my own music to listen to. i was a little pissed off that i didn't sleep well on the plane, which is bad cos NZ is 5 hours ahead of singapore. so when we touched down at 10+ in the morning NZ time, it was only 5+ singapore time. and i'm NEVER up before 6. then i had to go through immigration, which was such a bitch cos i had visa complications, and when that was settled i declared that i had pineapple tarts and stuff so i had to queue up with the rest of the people and wait for an officer to open my bags and take everything out. ugh, thank god i had 3 hours before my connecting flight. the whole irony of the situation was that instead of taking my pineapple tarts, they took my po chai pills instead. -_-''' wth man.

so i finally went through after what seemed like forever, then proceeded to the domestic hall, checked my luggage in, got my ticket, and then waited a while until i was on my way again. when i boarded my domestic flight, there was this huge guy sitting beside me. he wasn't fat, just really tall and muscular, so i was still dwarfed beside him. and i felt sorry for him that he had so little leg room compared to me cos he was so big. then i noticed another guy in a blue shirt diagonally in front of me cos of his tattoo on his arm. i didn't think much of it as i spent most of the flight catching up on sleep. only after touch down and i stood up to get my bags from the over head compartment did i notice that the 6 or 7 rows in front of me were occupied by really hot, muscular guys all in the same blue jerseys. and i was like,wait, there is NO WAY that the All Blacks fly coach with the rest of us commoners. they surely must have their own private jet. then i saw their jerseys that said "blues", so i was like, ok. i KNEW the All Blacks wouldn't travel with us. so i got off the plane and met Nana, who greeted me at the arrival gate with my name on a card! i was so excited, cos i had never been greeted like that before!

so we were off for home, but before home, we made a detour to the supermarket to pick up breakfast supplies and then we came home! my room is quite nice, we just have to share the toilet. the house used to be a boarding house, so all our rooms still have numbers on them. :P i'm in room number 3. there are 4 rooms, a toilet and a kitchen. Nana is in room 1, and her godbrother daniel is room 4.he's pretty nice too. i actually thought he's kinda cute but he's waaaaaayyyy too short for me. :P he's really open and friendly so he's the kind of person that you don't feel uncomfortable with when you first meet. so i don't know who is going to have the last room, but for now it's just us 3 teenagers in the house, cos nana's mum is away in christchurch for business.

dinner that night was quite a fun affair. michael, nana's friend and former flat mate who used to live in my room last year, came over for dinner. he's doing medicine cos he couldn't get into dentistry. haha, how's that for a switch! then daniel came back and the 4 of use talked until 11+ at night. after that, 4 of us piled into nana's car to fetch michael back to his flat.

after coming home, i went to shower and all, then settled down to talk to mum,dad and sis on the webcam. we talked until 2am NZ time, and then i went to bed.

when i woke up today, omg guess what time i awoke. hold your breathe people. 4PM! YES YOU SAW RIGHT! 1600 HOURS! i was like,omg u have got to be kidding me. the jetlag knocked me out for like 14 hours! and it didn't help that it's summer now and we have really long days. the sky doesn't turn dark till 9pm. so i had no idea how late it was until i found my clock and my eyes popped.

i hurried to wash up and change and made a dash to my school building to settle my visa stuff and pass pineapple tarts to the accommodation ladies who were a big help to us the last time. i was too late for the bank cos everywhere closes at 5pm. then i walked to a convenience store to buy 2 bottles of water before coming home.

when i walked through the door nana was home already and she was cooking my dinner. we sat and talked while we ate then we watched my Prince Caspian DVD. then she went to take a nap cos of her long day before waking up again to fetch her mum that had come down from christchurch to see me. haha! i feel like a VIP! :P so i just met her mum and she's a gem. she's given me lots of good advice and she's really supportive, telling me that she really wants me to be a doctor or dentist too. i really wish she would be around more like a regular mom, but she's stationed in christchurch so i only see her about once a month or so. ahhh well. i guess we can't have everything.

right. so tomorrow nana says she wants to bring me to the farmer's market, which is something like our pasar malam. then she's bring me to The Warehouse to buy household supplies and get a phone line.

so yep! that's for the moment. my second day of a potential 6 years in New Zealand.