Uni. Pshhhh.

New Zealand plans are currently:

Land in Christchurch, then fly to Queenstown the next day where we'll spend three days doing exciting stuff: going on the gondola, paragliding (LC, I'm almost there mentally), short LOTR tour and I might join LC on a day trip to Milford Sounds if I have enough money (this holiday is costing me more than I expected, but it's all worth it!).

We can have snowy mountains if we want to, just depends if I can persuade myself to jump off a higher mountain than earlier intended.

Then it's back to Christchurch where Roy will be bringing us to Hamner Springs, which is also possibly the place where we'll go jetboating.

Oooo.... ocean of a hot tub

Then it's do nothing, relax and wait to be shipped back to Sydney where rent, work and reality awaits us. But who cares about that :P

Kiwiland!

New Zealand is ON! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)

Am going with LC* mid-June for about six days and will be bunking at Roy's place (Roy I am staying with you whether you want to or not!).

He has mentioned something about going to the hot springs in Hamner, so excited!

LC is trying to convince me that paragliding will be fun. I am still trying convince myself that it is. Well, I know it is. Just that it might not be very much fun for someone who is extremely scared of heights (think won't even stand near the glass walls of an elevator kind of scared) :P Will prolly pee in my pants, throw up all over nature and then pass out.  

Other plans: LC wants to rent a car and drive and sightsee. I'm hoping we get to see something LOTR related. Maybe cuddle a sheep (LC, I know you don't like animals so you don't have to do that with me). 

I haven't been on a proper holiday since... never :P

I daresay I deserve it too, considering I'm juggling so much work that leisure time = not having to multitask when I eat dinner (which is usually followed up by reading or writing something for uni anyway).

Got quite depressed about that today. I bawled. Took it out on Moobs and the dog. 

Sorry :P

Note to:

Sam, you reckon you might wanna meet up for a coffee (or hot chocolate) when I get there? I still haven't gotten a reply from those people about the price of the watches yet but I am assuming wholesale price should be about AUD$50. Otherwise just check the price on the Australian website and take 50% off that, which is still quite cheap :) Oh, also applies to leather goods!

Roy, let me know if it's okay for us to stay at your place, no pressure :) I was just kidding about you not having a say in the whole thing. But you must must must bring us to the hot spring! 

I used to be self sufficient.

What has become of me?

I need to be taller

The concert last night was awesome!! I got to stand quite close to the stage (close enough that if I wanted to, I could throw something at Jason Mraz and it would hit him) and Moobs helped me fend off crazy girls from squeezing in front of me.

There were hiccups (they were over half an hour late opening the gates, my camera got confiscated, everyone else was just too tall, I was just too short, loud Japanese fan girl chanting "I love you" and "Yay" and "Jason, Jason" behind us all the time...) but I was determined not to get annoyed and ruin the evening for myself. 

So I didn't :)

First up was Lisa Mitchell whose song Neopolitan Dreams we've been listening too. She's absolutely adorable! Her other stuff ain't bad, just a bit too mellow. Someone recorded her performance last night and put it up on Youtube.

Then came Eric Hutchinson, whom we've never heard of but found out sang the song to Packed to the Rafters (or something to that effect). Haven't found any videos of him yet online.

Mraz's set was, of course, awesome. I would've been pretty pissed if it wasn't. Wish I was taller though (note to self: don't stand in front of small little Asian girls either, they block your view with their camera recording THROUGHOUT the concert).

Here's a video of his performance yesterday anyhow :)

Green, green grass.

Our flatmate went out of town a couple of weekends ago, and gave us permission to bring Panda out for walkies.

STOMPSTOMPSTOMP

Eh?

I wanna run to yOouUuuuu...

After a long day's work.

Bestest feeling ever. For us, that is :)

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Pet shops are like mini zoos for Moobs and I.

We'd go in, gush over the puppies and kittens (well, sort of, cause I'm not usually fond of cats) and decide which one we'd bring home that day if we were going to buy one.

We never do, of course, because being poor (a nomad, student, no permanent residence, no permanent job...) is like that.

It's still nice to imagine though :)



Note: Moobs has just trapped Panda in our room so that she doesn't go all soppy eyes at him while he has his supper in front of the TV outside.

New Fossil watch!

So super dirt cheap! Original retail price was about $300 but it got marked down to $69.95 and I get a further 10% off on sale items so only $62!

:D

It's not usually my style (which is plain, simple and a bit boring if you asked Moobs) but I just so love the red croc leather strap I don't know why because I'd usually think that sort of thing to be tacky. Maybe it's age. Plus I've always wanted an automatic watch (that means it runs fully on kinetic power, lasts for 48 hours without movement -- lookie me, the salesgirl!).

Not quite sure still if I can wear it though (something I know I should've thought about before I decided to buy it, but it was the last one!) because I used to be allergic to leather when I was younger and leather strapped watches used to give me rashes which would result in a really gross, wrist covered in pus and raw skin :P

For vanity!