high school

Girls of 5 Usaha 2003

There's something very stimulating about coming across an old photograph of you and your friends back in school. I find that when you see yourself and everyone else clad in the white and blue (olive green for guys) uniform, an intense sense of nostalgia arises and you're left there taking a train down memory lane to everything you went through in school. Only when I see myself in the uniform, for some reason. I feel nostalgic when i see old photos of other things as well, but high school photos...those just hit all the right spots don't they? I reckon high school...5 years of that...is a chapter in life in its own. You just spend so much time in school, you think? It's 5 (sometimes 6) days a week, from the moment the sun rises till your stomach grumbles in the hot scorching afternoon. For busybodies like me, after school programs were plentiful too. That's a LOT of time spent with your friends. I happen to have gone through some of the best and worst moments of my life in high school. After all, isn't adolescence the most difficult time of a person's life? Ah...i dont know. I miss high school so much. School was fun. Really fun.

And boy was i chubby back then...haha...

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btw i made the most delicious bowl of carbonara pasta today. yum~

why auckland public transport's such an a**

This is a sign at Britomart train station, which Ben so graciously pointed out to me..now if you could just zoom in on the words just a tad...

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Have a good weekend! =)

Guy Fawkes Night

Today is Guy Fawkes Night. Basically it's a celebration of the night a gunpowder plot to blow up the House of Parliaments in London was foiled. The plot was made by a bunch of Catholics who were against protestants (i think) and Guy Fawkes was the guy who made the explosives.

What has New Zealand got to do with it? Well New Zealand was under the British colony and...yea that's it.

Anyway, Guy Fawkes Night is the only time people can sell, buy and play fireworks legally and the days leading up to today (starting on the 1st i think) there has been fireworks lighting the sky every night. And since i stay on the top floor of an apartment with a balcony overlooking the little town of Mount Wellington, i have a pretty spectacular view of the fireworks and all.

No, this image i stole from the internet because my cybershot phone is awesome...but not that awesome.

Anyway, i took a small video just to show just how many houses were playing with fireworks. it's quite pretty, but i don't know if u can see it clearly...=)

karen bought a new jacket!

and only for $15. *woot*

envy

with every step she takes
with every move she makes
i feel a ticking in my nerves
i feel a tension i try to reserve

with every sweat that trickles down
with every crease upon her frown
i feel my adrenaline kicking in
i feel the need to be there to win

with every picture that she's got
with every tan line that she spot
i feel my patience wearing thin
i feel the bitterness from within

yet with every look of every page
of her every picture that she stage
i feel the resemblance so uncanny
i feel the striking similarity

and perhaps i've gone a bit too far
in leaving my envy gates ajar
but really, she's the girl i truly fear
would take the place that i've held dear

hill training

Kauri run is about 9 days away. if u haven't heard, i'm going for this crazy-one-way-ticket-to-cramped-calves-and-sore-thighs race on the 22nd of November. And with that looming ahead, I try to do as much uphill training as i can. But not really succeeding actually. Because the weather hasn't been too good...

But anyway, i managed to log a 10 km run on the treadmill today after i closed the gym up. I ran at speed 11 and I raised inclination every 0.5 km by 1.0. Until i reached 3.0 i'd go back down to 0.0 again and repeat the cycle again. which was good...i had a good sweat, something i havent had in quite a while because u don't sweat here. u don't get to. ahhaha

So i was feeling pretty happy, thinking i managed to burn some of the calories i've been piling on to my epidermis...that is till i made myself pizza for dinner...

and i wonder why my weight's going up....*shrug*