Cravings..

It is incredible how much sweets a woman can eat at certain points of the month! Just today I've gobbeled my way through some bee balls, a small package of m&ms, a milo bar, l&p (about half a litre), almost a whole package of pods and quite a few starburst fruit burst caramels.... I now feel quite sick. I think I have managed to calm down the beast inside that keeps screaming for more sweets, and finally can rest a bit. Trying to write my essay, and I'm slowly making some progress... I even get writer's block writing this entry right now, sure sign to get back to work!

Birthdayparties galore

Soundtrack: The black seeds - cool me down


So many birthdays have been celebrated the last few weeks... Jono.. Renaye, and this weekend we celebrated Manuel's birthday. I baked my very first cake here in New Zealand, felt good to finally do some baking! Ophelia did an outstanding job, I think we're getting to know each other now and cooperate better. It was an absolutely fantastic evening, with everyone in a good mood, having a great time. We first had a kinda big party in our flat, before we went pub/clubhopping. Nice. I bought the new Black Seeds album yesterday, when we went to the warehouse to get some equipment for baking. It's nice. :) next weekend I'm looking forward to some R&R when some ppl go for skiing. That'll be good, the plan is to finalise (or as good as) my assignment on impacts of tourism on the environment in Milford sound. Sounds nice, eh? I like the new tourism courses, they are challenging and I feel that everything is useful knowledge. Not just blablabla, like some courses are.

The wind has been really strong today, the whole house is shaking. Today I haven't even been out of the house.. We had some nice Mascarpone thingy, a desert made by our fabulous new flatmate! We've watched fight club, all huddled together in front of the comp. Just like old times, but with new ppl. Times change.

Fun link of the day: Peter Crouch in action

Sunshine - At Home.

soundtrack: basshunter - boten anna

What is it about summer and warm weather that makes all Norwegians celebrate shit music? Every single summer there are some hits at home that would NEVER make it if the weather was crap and ppl had time to actually listen to the songs, like the basshunter song "boten anna". It sucks. And it is kinda provoking that such crap should generate money for the creator. Argh.

I am sucked into a vacuum, I'm tired every day and don't have much energy. I need some rest for my soul... or something.. I dunno.

What a weekend!

Friday night was totally awesome, we went to a birthdayparty on the tenth floor, and then went partying. On saturday we started partying early again, as we were going to the ALL BLACKS GAME!
It is acutally not so hard to get excited about the all blacks, and I must say that going to the game was the absolute highlight of my weekend. Going out afterwards was soo tiring... SOOO many people in town! So stuffed, so... tiring. But the game was awesome. I thought we had bad seats, but actually they were quite nice. We were behind the goalpost with excellent view of the big screen, so we caught most of the action. YEE!

Procrastination...

I'm back to my familiar pattern of procrastination... I realise that the word procrastination is so long just because then it takes longer to write it, and that helps the actual cause, muahhah. Uploading pictures to my photoblog... commenting on other ppl's pictures... worrying about talking too much in tutorials.. gazing out the window at the harbour... searching on TradeMe... Yep. I'm back.

*Grunt*

Drunk Ha tina: ppymuahh hAhh hahh haaa..
Why is it that y can get along with someone soo much better when hy r not living together anymore??? I dunno.. I had a good night, which usually means: I drink, I dance a lot and at the end I get my kebab at cuba kebab, all good (all though they gave me carrot instead of onion today, randomm). Good luck bar is cool. I like it. I met sooo many ppl going home today, and then in the end it was onlly 2 ppl?? maybe it was the big kumara, we passed it on the wahy.. lost some ppl there I think.
Jonno's b-day today, great cake! yum!













Wo ist Peter? We tried to find him but nooo. I found Frank though. :) Tired..
Gonna sleep now.

LOOOVE

stuff

I'm confused. I just wanna drown myself in schoolwork, and not have to think about my life. There's been another shift in the world, a new trimester, a new war in Israel, new people coming into stafford house and old people have left. New lecturers, new assignments, new feelings and old feelings, all mixed together in a huge bowl that just makes the outcome of the dough hard to predict.
Maybe weekend drinking has lost it's charm to me? I wasn't enjoying myself that much yesterday, apart from the fact that I met Peter for the first time in almost two months. It made the whole night out seem worthwhile. I was feeling sick, and in a sence nobody gives a shit. If you are the person bringing others down, everyone just wants to get rid of you as soon as possible. I have seen this happen before with others, so I just took off before anyone had a chance to be brought down by the fact that I wasn't feeling good. I'm not used to all this selfishness... I feel myself slipping, that I'm developing into a new person, and I'm not sure that it's the person that I would like to become, and I'm afraid that it is not possible to change the current and float the right way. I'm going to have to try, that's for sure. But right now, drowning in schoolwork seems juuust fine to me, not having to deal with all these decisions, not having to work hard to maintain my moral, my essence.

Soundtrack: Nina Simone - Night song

Yesterday was a veery cultural day for me.. I went to two exhibitions and one concert! The day started at about noon, when I met Trav to go get tickets for the symphony orchestra. After that we decided to go see the Constable exhibition at Te Papa, a british landscape painter. After that I was on my way to the family store to look for some bedside drawers, when Manuel texted me and asked whether I wanted to go to a photo exhibition at the Wellington city and sea museum. So I thought, hey why not, I'm on a roll here. On my way there I bumped into HGL on the waterfront. Still hot.. *sigh* Gonna be a good trimester ^_^. My last cultural thing was the symphony orchestra, which was absolutely GREAT. They played music by Schnittke (some contemporary composer I have no knowledge of), Beethoven (Piano concerto no 3, beautiful) and finished with Shostakovich (which was powerful as hell, I was completely blown away!). While I was sitting there being entertained by New Zealand's finest, All Blacks kicked Wallabies' asses!

After all this culture, I met up with Annika, and went partying! Yeah! After my bad night on Friday, it was good to have a "normal experience" again. Everything is restored to normal. We got in about 4, and Olivier and Manu made food. How awesome is that! I didn't have to do anything at all!

NOW, I have to get into study mode, as Trimester 2 starts in 14 hours! I passed all my courses, AND managed to keep the dreaded first C away. Pretty happy about that. My first A+ is secured, danke schön. My hair is bright red again. Well.. I think that's enough information for now.

sunshine, blue sky and grey harbour? have to check it out...

Went out partying yesterday, such a random thing. Renaye called asking for Manuel, and before I knew it, I could hear myself say: wanna come down? Weird... I don't know her well at all, but I guess it was just meant to be that way yesterday. I miss girls.. Joanne has been gone since TUESDAY, I haven't even seen her since Manuel came home. He insists that she don't like him. And so, just to get some girly company, I invited Renaye and her bottle of wine to come visit. We decided to go out, since it was girl's night at Blend. It was wicked fun, apart from a few things: Renaye called her bf, she was drunk and he was not, they ended up havin another argument (oouch..), Ronny was hitting on Philipp's gf even though we established that she is a full blown bitch... they should be perfect for each others then (OOUCH...) (I am soo mean..), apart from that everything was great. :) I have decided not to ever drink cheap champagne again, though.

Living with Manu is Awesome though! Today he made breakfast! Just like that! I couldn't believe it...

I had my first tattoo removal session yesterday. It hurt. N i feel like I'm betraying my cute little basilisk... *sigh* I guess that time of my life should be coming to an end.

Dad's home again

Dad went home last Sunday, and now I'm bored as. We managed to do alot before he went though, but didn't get to see the south island. Next time. :) This time I got to do some of the things that I wanted to last time I went north: We went to Taupo, where we went on the Jetboat at Huka falls (awesome), we went sailing on Lake Taupo, we went to Waitomo Caves to see the glow worms and the stalagmites n stalactites, we went to Rotorua and didn't do a thing there *lol*. YHA rotorua is bad.

Got to see a lot of Wellington as well, we spent quite a few days here, I was sick the first couple of days so we didn't do a lot then. I've had an awesome time, it was so cool to show my dad around, now he knows what I'm talking about when I'm speaking of stuff ard here. :)

goin' travellin'

My dad arrived at 20th of June, and I've been doing my best to take him around Wellington, although I've been sick as and the weather has been pretty bad. It's been ok today though, but I'm really sick... trying to be brave, and not to be too much of a drag. Tomorrow we're going travelling north to Taupo, Rotorua and Waitomo. It'll be great! hopefully I'll be a bit better in the days to come, and hopefully the weather will clear up a bit as well. we were going to go to Kapiti Island today, but the weather wouldn't allow it, and I was sick, so we're going to rebook it for another day. It should be a cool trip as well, if we can pull it off before my dad leaves.
Please, let me get well before long!
So far we've been all around Welli, up to uni and all round town. It feels a bit crazy to have my dad here, like another world meeting my world... It's pretty cool though. Now he can see all the things that I've been talking about. :)

Moving date: 3rd of July!

This is a picture from the party on Saturday, one of them that is. Saturday was wiiicked, we started off at 7pm with a bunch of tequila shots, and kept on prepartying through the all blacks game. We won! Anyway, after that, at about 11pm, George took us all to a house party. Which was wild... we stayed there for a while, and then ended up somewhere else. Good luck? yea, goodluck bar. nice. I stole my first ever beerglass here in Wellington, which was an event.. heh.

Last night we went out to send off Jason, he is leaving to go back to USA soon. I don't know him that well, but we have had some good times. :) I am still completely blown by the fact that he proposed to his girl.. He got her up on stage, played "Little wing", and then he got down on his knee and asked for her hand... what a cutie pie.

hrrm

I seldom edit what I write when i'm drunk, but last night, I think drunk happy Tina had a small visit from drunk mean Tina, and what would to me read: "I hate you", would to others read: Ai heeeit jo... As in Jo, which would be bad. I do not hate Jo, I am just going nuts over my flatmate as usual. My other flatmate, that is. here's the rest of the post, intact, untouched, as it was at 2pm this morning.

It is sunday, I'm all dressed up, I look fabulous, I am drunk again, and I am freee from exams and I have just attended the last gig of Jason. And what do you know, he proposed to his GF tonite!!! on stage!! It was soooo romantic... *SIGH*

Cuba Kebab! Why are you closed!!!? wgat am I gonna eat now!? Ronnny ate the rest of the noodles, I heeeeeeeit hiimm!!!! stuppid mæn! fan heller, kann ikkje venta te eg e kvitt han, jævla parasitt! han ete meg ut av huse! eg kan ikkje bejynna å sei k0r masse han irritere meg!! AAAAARGH! EGO EGO EGO!!!!

It was a good nite. i hope I get some pictures from Renaye.

I love you all. all of you, who are reading this! I love you. I am onsly writing this becayse I am drunk, but it is true, you are my friends and I love you, I could not live without you. *BIG HUG* from tina.

Respect to Ghana

I am done with my exaaaams!!!
And on Tuesday my dad comes to visit me!!!
So much to plan, so much to do, so little time, so much fun!
Had a good time yesterday, watching rugby and partying like hell. It was good as, after all this time, I really needed to let my hair down and have some fun. Good ol' fun! Now it's time to start organising, getting ready to move out, that is, maybe clean my room? After all, my dad is coming so it should look nice. Even though I know he doesn't care about mess. So, I have booked the places for Kapiti island, I have booked an appointment to have an assessment for how much it would be to get my tattoo removed (yeowtsch), and the next step is to book time for dinner at Hede's for me, Jo and Manuel. Our date, the three amigos, the three musketeers.. (a lot of good things come in threes!). I want our flat! but I guess we won't get it before the last week of June, or first week in July. Ah well, MY DAD IS COMING TO VISIT!!!!

Oh, and R-E-S-P-E-C-T to Ghana! I lost $80 on you guys, but it has taught me an important lesson: NEVER underestimate the opposing team. I wish them good luck in the WC. (Oh, sidenote: I may have lost $80, but Pun, Trong's flatmate, he lost $1000. *edited: a couple of hundred* That has to hurt.)

days go by

I've been shot down, my daydreaming doesn't make sence to me anymore. I have to find a new set.. Thank goodness that HGL will be back in my life before long. HGL! Brace yourself my dear friends, once again he shall be in my thoughts, and probably on my blog-pages.
I'm feeling bad cause I haven't been to the gym for ages, and I feel all fat and ugly. Of course that is the normal, but not gymming does not make matters any better. I have to get back in the game.. This job and the flu has kept me from my beloved gym-room. I've been ignoring calls from my job both today and yesterday, my conscience is horrible because of it, so probably I'm working tomorrow *grumble* Would much rather like to stay in and study, but alas! I have to be a good girl and go to work, since they are being slow in finding someone else.

The HANDBAG

Soundtrack: Bodyrockers - I like the way you move

Okay, this deserves an entry.
It's been a while since the Hurricanes vs Crusaders final, but something happened on the following morning that has gone down in history here in New Zealand. Tana Umaga and Chris Masoe from the Hurricanes were out at a pub, and apparently Masoe got annoyed at this guy and hit him. So, in comes Tana, heroicly, beating Masoe around the head with a woman's HANDBAG, to try and calm Masoe down. The result: Masoe started crying, and they were both kicked out of the pub. (for more detailed description of the incident, click HERE.)

Well, this was random enough in itself. However, the story does not end there. The woman's phone was broken, and Umaga replaced it. So, the co workers of the woman persuaded her to sell the handbag and the broken phone on TradeMe. She sold it for $22.750!!! The auction had over a million page views, and over 3000 unanswered questions, HAHA. The story has been all over the news for the last few weeks. There has been no official statement from Umaga.

My my my. These rugby guys of ours. I am glad that the All Blacks' season is back, this year I'm catching one of their games when they come to play in Wellington, All Blacks vs Springbooks. Wuhu!

Ok, let's just get this tag out of the way!

I got tagged by Feli. So, here it goes!

Instructions: Name 20 people you can think of at the top of your head. Don't read the questions before you write, and tag 5 people to do the survey.

1. Joanne
2. Trong
3. Ronny
4. Manuel
5. Peter
6. Kristof
7. Gøril
8. Vanessa
9. Renée
10. Odny
11. Wenche
12. Felicia
13. Regina
14. Joe
15. Anette
16. Diego
17. Geeta
18. Katherine
19. Patrick
20. Chandra

Questions:

1. How did you meet #14?
He was mine and Joanne's random flatmate this trimester, who sadly moved out very quickly cause he got a job as an RA. Nice and random dude.

2. What would you do if you had never met #1?
I'd be flatting with someone completely different, and I would only have guy friends! whaah!

3. What would you do if #20 and #9 dated?
What would I do?? I dunno... tell Renée's boyfriend!

4. Would #6 and #17 make a good couple?
Ooh... I have NO idea. Could try? Hehe

5. Describe #3.
EEeeeeeeeh... not much to say, so won't say much. That simple.

6. Do you think #8 is attractive?
Haha, yea, she's pretty nice. ;) She's taken though!

7. Tell me something about #7.
She's a little fire-cat, I met her at my folk high school. She's fun, kinda crazy danger chic, but I like her a lot. Currently she is studying to be a journalist, or something of that kind.

8.Do you know anything about #12's family?
Heeps. ^^ She lives now with her mum, dad and a younger sister, I met them all when I went to visit her in Singapore earlier this year. Her dad scares little kids when the mums are not watching! I was hoping for some "live action" when I was living with them, but he behaved quite normally. hmpf. I guess you could say that Kwee is a part of her family as well.

9. What is #8's favourite?
Animals!! of all kinds! Furry and nice little friends. :)

10.What would you do if #11 confesses that he/she likes you?
I would be a little confused I think. She's quite fond of men.

11. What language does #15 speak?
She speaks Norwegian and English, as far as I know. I don't know whether she can speak any other languages.

12. Who is #9 going out with?
Happily living with her boyfriend for years, Christian.

13. How old is #16 now?
I think he is 30 or 31... not too sure. That is his physical age.

14. When was the last time u talked to #13?
Ages ago!! How is Europe?!

15. Who's #2's favourite singer?
UUuuh, some boyband front figure I imagine?? hehehe

16. Would you date #4?
HAHAHA. Before I got to know him I would have! Nooo, I'm just kidding. He is really nice, I probably would not date him though. He is like my brother, it would be too weird.

17. Would you date #7?
I'm more into guys... anyway, she's taken.

18. Is #15 single?
As far as I know.

19. What's #10's last name?
Askeland! How are you Odny? haven't heard from you for a long time now!

20. Would you ever consider being in a relationship with #19?
Hard to say yes... but hard to say a definite no too. He is a really nice guy, a bit shy for my part though.

21. What schools did #3 go to?
I don't know much about him.. he's at Vic uni now though.

22. Where does #6 live?
He lives with my course coordinator in Wadestown!! Normally he lives somewhere in Germany I think..

23. What's your favourite thing about #5?
He is really nice, on the surface he seems like this really dodgy guy, but he has got layers. And he is amazing at getting beer.

24. What do you think of #13?
A little cutie, a tortured soul sometimes.. I hope she is enjoying her time in Europe now, and will be able to relax more upon her return that what she did before she left.... she has got an amazing capacity to stress. It's a gift. She is selfless, her heart is true, and she will always be a beacon of light to her friends.

25. What do #4 and #19 have in common?
They like movies, they both live in stafford... they are both foriegners and they both like beer.

26. What special qualities does #17 hold in your life?
She is a good friend, and always has something nice and encouraging to say no matter what's up. She is incredibly optimistic, which smudges off on other ppl. Which is nice. :)

My gosh that took long!!

Now, the day is mine!
I tag Regina, Renée, Geeta, Gøril (make use of your space!) and Wenche!

Meditative tapes

Soundtrack: Thomas Dybdahl - make a mess of yourself

My friend Diego gave me these soundfiles to help me sleep and to help me concentrate on my studies. Apparently they are sounds that activate your brain in different ways... I've allways been a bit sceptical to tapes that are supposed to enhance this and that, and hypnotice you into sleep and all kinds of crap. However, I am going to try it tomorrow to get through a chapter that is hard and boring. And tonite, I'm gonna try the sound-sleep one. Hopefully, they can do no harm. So, Jo: If I am being unusually odd the next couple of days, call a therapist or something. Hopefully I won't be brainwashed into joining an UFO sect or something....

weekend

Soundtrack: Gurtz - Caviar

I guess this has been an eventful weekend. When broke one's expectations go drastically down, and therefore everything is appreciated a lot more. I did a psychology experiment on Thursday, which gave me two free movie tickets! wuhu! So on Friday we went to see X-men 3. I thought it was pretty all right, it was good fun. Not too much of a story line, but who cares. :) Effects were great. Then on Saturday, Travis was kind enough to lend me money to go to the LOTR exhibition in Te Papa. Yay!! It was pretty awesome, I must admit that I could have spent a lot more time gawking at the drawings and stuff, but since I'm also bringing my dad there, I will do that next time. ^^ I loved all the costumes! Sooo pretty lah... Thanx Trav! Must see the movies again soon. :) Holidays! When my exams finish, I will do that.
On Wednesday (just the day after tomorrow), my paycheck will arrive. No more money worries! ahh.. thank goodness for that. I have to get better at saving money in the first half of the year... this thing happened last year as well. Not good.