Random Thought Bubbles: May 2008

happy

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quiet routine is good. calm days without the unstable drama and a discontented spirit. i think i have become mostly content.

Snaking side-to-side to a beat
undulating curves in the dark,
skin tight black on black
on dirty sunshine locks.

it has no name,
but unknowingly provokes
a knot, an old knot
to twist, like that snake.

a pale skin stranger uncurls an
old blind rage within,
of a different face,
of a different body.

satisfying the craving

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every few months or so i get the urge to get a haircut =)

Left short side

Right long side

Front =)

Some place called Rodney Wayne this time. Again I am disappointed it wasn't funkier but it doesn't look bad. I do miss getting cuts from William. This time it was like wrestling for the cut I wanted... and I lost... haha. Hairdresser was adamant that if she cuts my hair any shorter it'll stick up... which is true... but she wouldn't bend to making my hair anything other than a bob. eck. so a bob it became. oh well. I figured if i wasn't going to get someone who was willing to do crazy i'd rather get a bob. i've had this haircut before though. i suppose i mustn't expect every hairdresser to be cool. so, i've satisfied the urge to get my hair cut... for another few months =D

hair addiction

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gonna go get my hair cut today! yay! =) hopefully it comes out good... second cut i've gotta pay for. haha.

Trip up to the Bay of Islands

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Finally an outing to blog about. haven't had enough happening things worth blogging about lately... or i'm becoming even more boring than i originally was. or i'm just more content with my situation enough to not need to pour out my heart to an audience =P

anyway...

the bunch of us roadtripped up north last weekend to the bay of islands, stayed at a backpackers and went horse riding, atv-ing, bussed up to the northern most point of new zealand and down the 90-mile beach (which is really about 60 miles but it was because cattle would travel along that beach and some sort of random calculation was done based to the the time the cows took to get from a to b) and then went on a super long cruise ride that took about 6hrs and half of us got sea-sick (including stephanie and it was also her birthday that day too. the poor thing)...

better pictures than words =)

Posing with the bus and cruise tickets... you will notice i have this blue cloth under my arm. this cloth i call my 'magic travelling cloth'. it doubles up as alot of things. i will demonstrate soon.

One of the coffee shops in Paihia as their trading hours sign

This is Zhi Yuen advertising for horse-riding

The people who went ATV-ing... i was too late for the photo =P

The people who went horse-riding with zhi yuen taking the photo

This is Khang Hee very pumped after the ATV ride with ATVs in the background and Zheng Taur and David trying to pretend they're not there

Again, notice the smug look

Me =) pretending to be a GT girl... haha!

In the Kauri tree forest walk. too bad it's kinda blur

Sui Ling displaying the cute kindergarten raincoat look

Me and a Kauri tree =)

For most of the day it was raining. This is Cape Reinga, northern most point of New Zealand. All we saw was a fog, rain and this lighthouse. haha.

Zhi Yuen handiwork. he's the resident surroundings photo taker

Wet as hell but we're still happy!

Crap views from the bus window. rained all day!

Zhi yuen's pic - Sand dunes we went sandboarding down.

Sandboarding... very scary at first but quite fun. although you get a mouthful of sand from screaming too much going down.

After the sandboarding. sandy and wet.

More of Zhi Yuen's pictures. 90-mile beach

The one good thing on the bus ride was this rainbow. the bus driver stopped to let us down to let us get some photos and then kept on driving in circles. otherwise the bus would've sunk in the sand and then we'd all be stranded and the bus would've been totaled.

BBQ at the backpackers. I stood around and took pictures while everyone else cooked. =P

The random girl in the bottom right of this pic is dorothy from hong kong. she stays in grafton hall so came along with wei yen and zhi yuen

This is Kari-Ann (nursing student from norway on exchange program who came with us) and these are the other random people from the backpackers we drank with. Jon, Andy, Steve and Shirley. They were in Paihia for the weekend for some sort of marathon. i thought that was funny.

Me and Kari-Ann

Wei Yen drank until tertidur on someone else's bed

And he finally woke up and joined us outside. (the outside seating area was supposed to be 'closed' at 11.30pm. the other people made so much noise that the owner came out at 4am and chased us to bed. i wasn't making much noise but i kena instead. stupid) and when we went to bed i woke up the whole room (we shared a dorm room thing with 8 people in one room, 3 of which were drinking and making noise coming back into bed. haha. jen xin wasn't very happy at all. =P)

Group photo on the cruise trip. 6hrs worth of bobbing up and down on open waters. 2 people got quite seasick and another 2 were quesy.

Wei Yen went to swim with the dolphins. khang hee and dorothy went too but they got shooed out of the water because they didn't look like strong swimmers. the crappiest bit was that they didn't get a refund. so remember, don't jump into open waters to swim with dolphin and pay for it when you know you can't swim very well. haha.