tomorrow is Monday

Hello there, I’m here again. It’s Sunday, and Monday is just a few hours away~~~ T.T

Monday blues… I definitely have Monday blues…. though I don’t despise Monday’s lectures.  =w= as I’ve only 2 lectures for the day. ~~~~ This coming Tuesday is good too. No labs in the morning, and just a few lectures…

But, … I have 2 mid-course tests next week. Both are Psychology. Personality then Cognitive. And then it’s 

H-O-L-I-D-A-Y!!!!!!!!!!

YATTA---!!!!

Mid-term holiday!!!

It’s start on Friday because it’s Good Friday and then Easter Sunday and Monday. Mid-term break ends on the 22^nd of April. Almost half of the month, hoooorayyyyyyy. NICE HOLIDAY.

Although holiday is nice, … I have 3 research papers due after it. = = oh no….

I have one due on the first day of the 2^nd term. No good. Uwaaaaaa… my tension went down after realizing it. No mood for the holiday la…..

By the way, auntie is coming back on the 4^th of April, a few days after holiday starts…….hmmm… a bit alang-alang la… the time. It’s good too that auntie and uncle(maybe) are coming back. Can end our care for MoMo. I prefer him to be quiet and so but he can be so annoying during feeding time. >_>  And he’s sooooo choosy sometimes.

Skip the topic about Momo.

I went to a new church today. ^^ Not that the church is new, it’s just that it’s our first time there. A small church, and the church members are mostly foreigners. ^^ The 4^th Sunday is a multicultural service. So, we thought that we could try it since Auntie Pat keep asking us to go over. Have a change from St Peter, since there’s much more Asian there in St Luke. By the way, the service was held in the cathedral!! A long time since we attend a service in a cathedral in Christchurch!! >.< Foreign cathedral is beautiful as usual. Should have brought my camera along to take some photos inside of the church. I only get the chance to take photo of the infrastructure outside. 

Since it’s a small church, there’s no choir. All hymns and praises and sing by the members. ~~~ Besides that, there are no servers too. ^^ All preparations are done by the priest himself. 

It's Palm Sunday. We used ferns instead of palm leaves to wave during the service. >.< Kind of funny. lol.

After service, coffee and chat. Later on, we went for lunch with uncles and aunties. At a Chinese restaurant. Something like dim sum house la. The atmosphere is similar to the dim sum restaurant we went in Hong Kong. I ordered  皮蛋瘦肉粥！！！！！！！！！！ 好吃啊！！！！ 终于吃到了！！！！ 在本地根本就没可能吃到呐——！！ 可是里头的皮蛋好少好少好少。T.T 为毛那么吝啬啊。

10 people ate at a table, and we divided the bill. I paid $19.88 for both my sister and I. hm... a bit expensive for lunch ... And it's just for dim sum... 

lalala... but we enjoyed the company. So, ok la.

After that, we went separate ways~~~~~~ We went to the mall for groceries and then went home to hang clothes. ^^

I'm not complaining, really.

It's 11:25am in Malaysia and my family is on the flight from Kuching to Kuala Lumpur and few hours later on the next flight to Hong Kong.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to go too !!!! T.T

Sometimes I wonder why did I have to choose UC out of soooooo many universities!!!??!!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. SHOULD HAVE JUST CHOOSE LOCAL UNIVERSITY LA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not saying that I'm complaining about my current life, but still, it might have more excitement if I choose to stay >.< Don't you think so????????? What with most of my friends staying in Malaysia.... or maybe I could have gone to Taiwan or Australia... 

Australia....nah... I don't think that's a really good option. Though my father had wanted me to go there in the first place. But considering the currency at that point, I refused so. I have quite a few classmates there.... not like here, NONE OF THEM ARE HERE!!!!!!  What a sad place to choose. T.T 

back to my main point, my family is going on vacation!!!

Even my cousin, who is in Junior 2 this year, took a week or two holidays from the school and go on the trip!!!! >.< grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... I want that too!!!! 

It's not like I have never been in HK before, I was younger though. I like the food ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ porridge.... aww... That's the place where I truly find porridge tasty!!! I could finish a big bowl of it!!! 

Actually, the main country I really wanted to go is Japan..... Mum said if I'm not in NZ right now but in local university or Singapore Uni, we might have gone there for holidays... T.T see!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! why did chances slip away since I came to NZ?!!!! I missed my cousins weddings, 2 or 3 of them, I can't go to Japan, or Taiwan ( Mum went there last year!!!)..... I can't go vacation!!! The only place I went since coming to NZ is Singapore. = =  Singapore has turned out quite small for me and has become really familiar.... I want to go places with beautiful architectures too!!

I still grateful I'm able to come to NZ... It's not easy for my parents to send both me and my sis here.... Thank you very much. 

I shouldn't have

... I failed my own promised. = =

I really should have updated the blog yesterday since there's quite a few things going on in my mind and I should have better written them down. Now, after one night sleep, my mind is kinda blank. O.O 

Let me recall....

From the start of the day...

9am, BIOL271 tutorial. Tutorial, that word bring's chill down my spine. = = I don't like tutorials. Why? Because, it means a small number of people doing group discussion of a topic in a small confine room or something. I'm really weak at this. I rarely talk to strangers and discussing topics with them is a VERY HUGE STEP. Besides, maybe this is my own negative thinking, I felt... inferior. hm... I'm a foreigner. A foreigner from Asian countries. I know I shouldn't have felt that way and there's no reason for me to feel so... but that's not the case. Although I'm on the same level as them (academicly...?), I can't speak out at all. ....hm... Why so? It's like I'm really scare. Really scare. I'm the type to get really nervous in front of people. I remembered clearly during Senior 3, I got so nervous that I nearly stopped talking completely in front of the class during my BM oral exercise. = = I was twisting my hands behind my back. .... Bad memories.....

Also, I find it difficult to tell somebody some interesting episodes happened in my day. Even if I'm telling it to my sister. It's frustrating that I can't get my message or excitement across. So I was thinking, maybe I should start by telling my sister stories?  I mean, I read something first, and then tell her in my own words... That might help in my explanation to others, right???? 

Back to my tutorial. I'm the only Asian in my group. And the whole group felt like.. . "Even if I said I don't really get the essay but I could still answer the questions." ... How should I follow up to that. When I said I don't understand that means I really don't understand. ...And once again, this is my own thoughts, I'm relatively very small.... ...erm... Skip this topic. 

Since 2 years ago, how I wish I could be grouped together with other Asians. At least, maybe, I would dare to talk out cause I feel that we are on the same level...maybe. ...aih... 

Actually, this group discussion thingy for this course is new. The lecturers/course coordinators introduced this learning system this year and "used" us as the white mouse for this. You see, they wanted to see if the students learn more from the Traditional Teaching method or the group discussion method. And of course, I voted for the first method in my head. To me, learning and thinking is a personal thing. It's something that going in my head and it felt kinda...private. Maybe I don't mind sharing....and maybe I do mind...

I don't know... When discussed, it felt like ...people could roughly examined where your thinking or learning or revision is... And I really don't like that. Maybe I'm a bit too self conscious and really nervous and stressed out about what people think of me. I'm afraid of people thinking negatively of me... I rather they have no thoughts about me to negative thoughts... That's selfish, I know....

Skipped the details about the tutorial...

I had Personality lecture next. ^^ Love this lecture. It's much more interesting than Cognitive's lectures. =v= I don't know...For me, I could understand Personality lectures more than Cognitive's. Cognitive is a bit difficult. lol... I'm not hardworking enough to understand it. :p
Anyway, the lecturer came late today. Around 20 minutes late?? Students left during the first 15 minutes. lol. The others sat back and wait. I wait too~

Next is laboratory. I like this lab too ^^ This course's lab is fun actually. Maybe because it's not a core course, it's much more relax and that bit easier. =w= That's why I like it. Not much pressure at all. Maybe during the test though. XD

We looked at our pulses and heartbeats. I tried my pulse first and discovered that we needed to adjust the ranges till small levels to see changes on the chart.  = = My lecturer commented that I have no pulse. lol. I did expected that...He said I'm the type that have cold hands and legs and pulses that are hard to detect. ...hm.. .. my hands are cold... legs are cold too sometimes... Oh well, we used my lab partner's pulses in the end.

We wrapped the transducer on her middle finger and a transducer belt around her waist. Next, we do some breathing exercise. Inhale, hold ; Inhale, expel; Expel, hold....we recorded her pulses and heart rates for each of the conditions and answers some questions.

The next exercise, me and my partner switched. This time, instead of using belts to wrap around finger and waist, we used big clippers to measure pulses and heart beats...I think. er... No no no. We do ECG. Electrocardiogram. It's used to see the heart exercises and detect and heart problems.

So, it started by measuring my normal pulses and heart beats. Then I get on the cycling thing and cycled for a few minutes with high frictions. My lecturer screwed it quite tight (means higher friction and need to put on more force to cycle) and it didn't help much with only one complete pedal. Another pedal was long spoiled so I could only pedal with that tiny metal. Painful la. By the time I stopped and came down from the thing, wow... dizzy la. Did I stop breathing while cycling ? = = We quickly measured my pulses and heart beats. Wow... Huge peaks. lol. It's interesting to see some differences in the readings. ~~~ Actually it's kind of interesting looking at the instruments that telling the condition of your heart beats. Really.

So... interesting lab. ^^ Fun.

After that, I went to the library to look for my sis. By then, it was already 5:20pm... Quite late. hm...

We went straight home then cause we had a dinner date with Auntie. ^^

I drove us to an Indian Restaurant - Kinara located just opposite the Hornby Hub.

We ordered 2 curries and that came with rice. It's $15 for each curry. Don't get tricked by the photos, actually they were just 2 small pots. But you can eat up to a few bowls or rice with just 1 small pot, since the flavour is so rich....

So, that's dinner....

After that, Auntie rented a dvd from a video store nearby and we spent the rest of our evening watching that particular movie. hm....

oh ya, before I forgot, let me introduce one of  my 'housemate'.

He is totally different from my old 'housemate', Mimi the Cat. >.< This guy is soo....fluffy. It's Momo the Dog.



I think I will just end the post.... it's getting quite stuffy....and long.... with all those....words...


ciao~

I need to update!!!!!

I'll definitely update something tonight !!!
I have quite a few things to say !!!

Hope I remember till tonight .....
It's quite late too by then ....

By the way, it's 10:15 in the morning here. So.... still a long way to go.....