Rainy Sunday

Today is extremely boring and I'm very sleepy.I'm in CAL lab at the mo, don't really want to go back to the flat coz I probably end up being antisocial again. For the past few days, I've been pretty busy. I'm helping Mel doing THE MAP, writing my CV, and trying to buy stuff off "trade me" but somehow other bidder always outbid me.. Grrrr

This moring I woke up around 8 am, feeling very tired, so I tossed and I turned..trying to get back to sleep, and ended feeling annoyed with myself. When I finally get out of bed, it was around 9.30. I have to pick up people from Unicol and take them to church by myself coz Tim didn't reply my text and Dave P can't make it (he have to go to Carrington). Well, it's not too bad except that there was no one there. I waited for 5 min and decided to leave, what else can I do eh? I hope there will be people next Sunday. When I got to church, I was surprised to find so many new faces there. Quite exciting actually, and the first person that I met was, haha, Tim. He came up to me saying "Welcome to church, welcome welcome, you should become a Christian". He is such weird boy.. honestly.

After the service, there was a student lunch, it was cool for a while (except I got hit by a hacky sac.. grrrrr TIM !!) and the sky decided to pour down on us. Typical for Dunedin, I shouldn't be surprised. Then me and mel went to town and grab some lunch... and that's basically what I did today. Pretty boring ha?

Tomorrow should be exciting tho. First day of lecture.. woo hoo.. umm I mean, BOO !!! Well, at least there will be no lab for me this week. At 1 pm, I'm meeting up with Jian (my flatmate from last year) and we're going to sign up for Intermediate Ceroc class. This is something I'm definitely looking forward to. Somehow I manage to convince Mel to do Ceroc for beginners, yay !! and I probably signing up for Hip Hop class as well.

So far, flatting with Mel has been great. She's such a sweet flatmate not to mention very funny as well. Mel and her crazy questions and comments always make me laugh. For the past week, we've been eating out every day, pretty bad huh. I got her addicted to Caper's pancakes, which is extra bad coz I can't say "no" to those pancakes. If this eating out thing continues, I'm pretty sure I'll be broke by the middle of March, and I'll probably gain a few kilos.. nooooooooo..

Yesterday morning I went to the gym. After 4 months of no exercise at all, I'm surprised that I survived the class. More than once during class, I considered packing up and leave. Hmm, wonder how I managed to do two classes every saturday last year, no including other classes during the week. Oh well, I'm glad I went to the gym. Maybe I should start running as well, I'm not good at it but I consider it as a life saving skill. It'll come in handy when I get into trouble.. like being chased by a big, bad, and hungry dog.

Okay, I've been infront of this computer way too long. About 3 hours at least, and I still haven't finish this blog. Well, it's probably because I keep on looking at stuff on "trade me", reading & replying e-mails, and cleaning out my inbox at the same time. My eyes are tired so I take it as a sign that I should get outta here... so laters, my vriendin (dutch = friend)

This is going to be short..

1. I don't want lectures to start

2. I hope that when I pick those first years from Unicol to church this Sunday..they won't be too mean to me.

3. I hope Tim will get back to me about the Unicol thing by tonight

4. I miss Bing

5. I miss Ekta

6. I miss Kristy

7. I miss Ingrid

8. I miss Abbey

9. I hope that I will be able to find a part-time job

10. I hope Paul will be able to set up a life group at Unicol

11. I hope that heaps of people at Unicol will want to go to church

12. Last night at the tent was cool. Get to meet lots of new people (more than half are from Unicol) and see funny things people do when they're drunk. Oh, this reminds me of this guy waiting for the sausages last night, our pretty Mel was there and that guy keep on shouting "I love you" to her. I was trying so hard not to laugh...

13. I got my ear pierced 3 times today. OUCH !!! The first 2 (done by Helen Gwyn) didn't went through the cartilage and according to Mel, my ear turned into a fountain of blood. Aaaargh, the images !! Anyway, luckily, the last time (at Trendz) it finally went through. Yay !!

Last but not least

14. God bless you all, MUAAAH !!!

Nam's Series of Unfortunate Events

Back from putting away my luggage and freshened up.. I walked around trying to find a compuer again. The free ones are all gone and there's a few people waiting so I ended up on the ones that you have to pay. Why? coz I really want to post a new entry and check out other blogs.. that's how much I love reading your blog, guys *wink*. Unfortunately, the stupid computer won't work.. and took my 3 Australian dollars along with it.

Aah, I couldn't believe that Uni will be starting in less than a month. This year will be my last year of my degree and what I am going to do after I graduate is still a blank. I want to continue studying, either getting a graduate degree in Pharmacology or study Physiotherapy. Physiotherapy is cool, but I'm not too sure about it. Yeah, my future is still cloudy/foggy/schmoggy.. whatever. Is "schmoggy" even a word?

Right, back to Earth. There is still nothing to do here, so I walked around



and walked around



and around



around



..round



At last ! time to get my luggage and prepare to go to CHC !!! Yayyyyy...

..and then the annoucment came : "Attention all passengers flying toward Christchurch on Pacific Blue. The flight have been delayed for at least 3 hours. Any queries please contact the Pacific Blue staff at counter G."


*shrug* oh well, I've been waiting for a good 8 hours, I can wait for another 3 hours.


Then.. the another announcement came: "Attention all passengers flying toward Christchurch on Pacific Blue. The flight have been cancelled due to the bad weather. Please contact the ground staff immediately at counter G"


Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.... does this means that I have to spend at night here? at Sydney?I'm tired.. I want to get to CHCH and find a nice warm bed with fluffy pillows to sleep on... blah blah blah.. and the complains went on and on in my head as I walked to Counter G. It turned out that we don't actually have to spend the night in Sydney. They send us to Brisbane instead and we're going to take another flight there to Christchurch.. so off we go to Brisbane !!! (we = me + other passengers) A massive group of us get a subway to domestic terminal. It was quite a challange dragging a massive luggage down and up escalators, but I got to the terminal in one piece and so was my luggage.

A few hours later.. at Brisbane

The airline people arranged a bus to picked us up from the domestic to the international terminal.. how nice !! Took all of us a while to find the departure lounge and we have to waited a little while before we're allowed to board. And blah blah blah (I'm cutting out the boring details and filling up space) Finally, I am on board the plane to Christchurch !!

And there I stayed..

The thunder storm decided to stay over Brisbane so we can't take off. Grrr.. so we sit in the plane for a good 4-5 hours and the plane ran out of fuel.. so they have to refuel. They won't even let us back into the terminal.. what's the deal with that?Anyway, after that we finally took off and I arrived Christchurch around 5 am.. I was supposed to be here at 11 pm the night before. Hmmmm...

Well, I should look on the bright side. I think I rather be in a plane on the ground for hours than in a plane flying in the middle of thunder storm. At least I arrived CHCH save and sound and in one piece. After I got to my friend's place and saw her off to London, I came back to her house and slept 14 hours. Quite impressive eh?

This is a very long blog. I should get off and have a shower and get to bed. Can't wait to be back in Dunedin.. and back to Elim. Miss you guys heaps and see ya soon.

Running around Sydney airport

9.50 AM Australian time, I am having a Rhumba frappucino with whipped cream at Sydney airport. The plane from Bangkok landed here at 6 and it literally took me an hour walking around (with my luggages)trying to find something to do and a computer that works. I managed to landed myself at an e-lounge and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the sign that says "Free Internet", God bless these kind people. Unfortunately, only one of them works and there's a girl waiting for me to finished up. I feel really bad using it for a long time so I left as soon as I finished an e-mail to my parents... which makes me wonder: Why I don't feel like this when I am using an e-stop at Uni? oh well...*shrug*

I was going to re-read "A Lineage of Grace" when I decided I just can't be bothered. So I sit and looked around for a while, which wasn't so bad since there are a few cute guys with surfer body walking around. But eventually, I got bored. After I decided against ordering the new Neapolitan Cream Frappucino, I took out my free notepad I got from the movie Alexander, I started writing. Yes, you guessed it, I've written this whole blog in my notepad before I typed it up here. That's how bored I am.

I think I'm addicted to this blogging thing. I like putting up new entries, I do it whenever I can !! I don't know who to blame for this.. it's either Sam or Mel. Hmm, since Mel is my flatmate and I have to live with her for a year... I'll blame Sam.. Haaa, just kidding.

Delta Goodrem's "Out of the blue" is playing softly and the whole place is buzzing with activities: coffees being made, Japanese tourists trying to figure out where they suppose to be and me struggling to stay awake. I'm feeling very lonely at the moment, I hate travelling alone and the idea of sitting here for another 6 hours is not good at all. Stupid Pacific Blue.. they only have one flight from Sydney to Christchurch per day.

Lots of things happened in the past 15 hours and if they didn't turned out the way they did, I'll probably cry... nah, not really.. but I will be very upset. I arrived at Bangkok International Airport and was shocked to see a very loooooooong line of passengers waiting to be checked in. I had a lil' chat with a couple from London (who will be cerebrating 40 yrs of marriage in two weeks and they are heading to NZ) and it kept me occupied for a while. Okay, this is my initial flight plan: Bangkok - Melbourne - Sydney - Christchurch. BUT (don't you just love this word)I found out at the check-in counter that the BKK to MEL flight have to transit at SYDNEY !!! So I cancelled the sector from SYD to MEL (luckily, this ticket is free) and it was all good.

After the good byes (no, I did not cry), long flight, unconfortable seat, always-occupied loos and bad movies.. here I am, at Sydney. Suddenly, I realized that there are more things to sorted out. My luggage will not be automatically transferred to my next flight and I need to sort things out with Pacific Blue for my MEL - CHC via Sydney flight. At first they wouldn't let me change my plan !! and they told me that they couldn't let me boared the plane from SYD to CHC since I won't be boarding the flight from MEL to SYD (hope you didn't get confused). I was 1/2 scared and 1/2 worried, so I asked to speak to the supervisor. The lady put me on hold.. and I waited & waited, finally she came back.. saying that everything is fine and i will be able to get on the plane to CHC !! YAY !! (apparently she misunderstood the manual or something) Haaa !! I can't believe how things turned out totally in my favor. For a while there, I thought I have to drag myself to MEL or buy another ticket to CHC. Phew ~~~

I really think I need to improve my blog writing skill. This entry is boring !! Can you believe it? I get bored reading my own blog, how weird is that? I think the most important thing is for me to stop whining.. it's rather hard to do though.

Right, I am very sleepy and my big luggage is being a pain coz I have to keep an eye on it all the time. I'll go and find out where I can put it away so I can freshen up and take a nap... hopefully. Who knows.. I might come back and continue whining..

Good bye Bangkok

Finally, my last day in Bangkok *sob sob*.. 6 hours left and counting. It's getting harder and harder to leave each time I came back. I don't like saying goodbye (who does?), always bring me close to tears.. which I usually hide by looking away and take a deep breath.

Lots of things to tell you guys about. First of all, I had my wisdom tooth taken out the a week and two days ago. I've heard that it will be painful and you can't eat for days. That is not true !! Everything went fine-ish. Except when the dentist gave me injections (3 of 'em) of anesthetic and when he was pulling the tooth out, my body went really rigid.. oh, also I found out that I'm allergic to paracetamol (how lucky is that !!?) so when the guy gave me some afterwards, about an hour later.. in a sky train full of people, on my way back to Siam Center also full of people, tons of huge/massive/gigantic mosquito-bite-like things appeared on my face and neck. It was bright red and extremely itchy. So yeah, the whole experience was fun. Well, at least I can still eat, my sister thought that we'll be eating only soft food for days. Haha, nothing comes between me and my food.

It's amazing how things worked out for me here. The day that I went to the NZ embassy (for visa stuff) I found out that if I decided to hand in my application a day later, I wouldn't get my visa in time. The lady told me to come back and pick up my passport on the 1st of Feb and guess when my plane leaves? on the 1st of Feb !! So that was close. But.. yes, there's a but.. they need a receipt from the university to confirm that I did paid my tuition fees. The receipt didn't arrived until yesterday !! 31st of Jan. I was soooooo worried coz the lady also told me: "no receipt, no visa". Ahhhhhhhh, so now everything is taken care of, I finally can relax.

One last thing (I think), this is really cool. My plane will land in Christchurch and I will be staying at a friend's place for 2 nights before getting a bus back down to dear o' Dunedin. My friend told me that it was fine, but she will be going to London on the same day !! therefore, I have to find my way there. Bummer !!! but (right, there's a few buts) I recieved her e-mail today, saying that her plane is delayed and she will be able to pick me up and spend some time with me. YES !!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok ok, I can't think of anything else to write about now. I better head off and make sure that I don't leave anything behind. It will probably do me good to pray that my luggage will not exceed the weight limit... hmm, maybe 5 pair of shoes is a little bit too heavy. Hahahaha.. see you guys soon !!!