City to Surf - 12 km run

I don't know how I got myself into this, but I'm going to do the great walk in Lake Waikaremoana for the Labour long weekend. I start going to the gym and doing as much training as possible from now on. I think I'll DIE, but hopefully by doing all those workout, I'll die slower! That's why I went for a 12 km run this morning (very last entry!!). I saw sunrise though!

"Are we there yet? Are we on 1/Nov yet? Can someone just fast forward to the end of the that 20 km in one day tramp?"

TGA Sweet Shop

I'm so proud of my TGA customer!!!

From the first two weeks that barely half of chocolate was eaten to this week that they finished the whole block of chocolate in a week!!!! I can now retire from TGA. :D

Technical Support isn't too Technical

You know that I didn't want to wash your amperes. The reason is I knew there was something wrong with my washing machine. The maintenance guy came to my apartment this morning and I found out that I have been "baking" my clothes i.e. I haven't been washing my cloth at all. It was set to dry my cloth only all along :(

No wonder my cloth isn't washing properly....and I was smelling very natural recently! :x

Closeness

We become closer but I feel safer than ever. However, the vulnerable emotion came later just before I left for Tauranga on Thursday. You didn't say a word and you were cold. I had no choices but left you alone because I had to and because I thought you needed some space. I was glad that you rose the issue. At least we acknowledged that there are still differences in our cognitions.

When we met again, it was for this fun costume party until 2am. I had fun even sometimes, I felt lonely in the party. It's amazing that when you pretend hard enough to have fun, you can actually start enjoying it more. After you were gone, the emotion hit again. I took out pen and paper and started writing a long letter; a letter I would probably regret to write and send later, but I had to put my thought down or I couldn't sleep.

My eyes are tired and I think I can finally sleep now...

I'm really close tonight
And I feel like I'm moving inside her
Lying in the dark
I think that I'm beginning to know her
Let it go
I'll be there when you call
Whenever I fall at your feet
And you let your tears rain down on me
Whenever I touch your slow turning pain

You're hiding from me now
There's something in the way that you're talking
The words don't sound right
But I hear them all moving inside you
Go, I'll be waiting when you call

Whenever I fall at your feet
And you let your tears rain down on me
Whenever I touch your slow turning pain

- Fall At Your Feet, Crowded House

First Weekend in TGA

The sun was shinny, the birds were singing and I was up early (7am :o) and ready to explore the Mount. However, not fitted!!! Almost killed me, but the view was breath taking! I'll be back to conquer it again!!

I was so excited about having visitors and sharing my little discovering in this town with someone else. Then, we went to the twins party, which was really fun! Knowing me with camera, all I needed was some invitation to take it out. Once I had done it, there was no turning back. Within few hours, I had taken more than 150 photos already!! :x

It was a big night for him because for the first time he felt welcome. However, I didn't feel the same. We had a bit quarrel about some other trivial issues, but I know he was trying to push my button because he felt hurt when it wasn't as big deal for me as it was for him. I tried to explain, but it didn't seem matter :(

I had an wonderful first weekend spending in Tauranga. However, I had to come up to Auckland tomorrow for the AMA interview. Is it possible not seeing Auckland every week?!

I'm really close tonight
And I feel like I'm moving inside her
Lying in the dark
I think that I'm beginning to know her
Let it go
I'll be there when you call
Whenever I fall at your feet
And you let your tears rain down on me
Whenever I touch your slow turning pain

Fall At Your Feet, Crowded House

My Life in Tauranga

Weather is marvellous here as it’s always sunny and even when it’s a bit wet outside, the office is only 2 min away from my apartment ;) Talking about my home, it has everything from toaster, ventilation, washing machine, drier, hairdryer, bath tub with spa to oven etc. I did go and checked out the gym, but it was a bit intimated as it was very "manly" when I went there. It was small with few treadmills and the place was packed with smelly men.. :x

I have been quite excited about little achievements at beginning such as cooking, strolling to water front to have lunch, discovering chocolate shop, second hand shop, juice shop, restaurants, library, art gallery, video shop, vege shop and even seeing places such KFC, Mcdonald, Startbucks, National Bank, and Hannah were exciting; making effort to talk to people, finding out what other people do in the office and getting invited to Friday lunch and BBQ were all intriguing to me. However, those little excitements disappear quickly as I get used to the city and start feeling a bit lonely when I have no one to share those achievements :(

My new colleagues are very friendly and I have learn a lot of different engineering disciplines that I wouldn’t normally get across, such as water engineering, stormwater, Road Asset Management, Fire engineering, roading tender, planning and of course traffic engineering. I have picked up some new vocabulary such as 'nil detriment', 'mitigation', 'aerial photo as built' and 'walking isochrone'. It’s such an alien language.

Life starts getting into some sort of routine and there are different kind of joys now such as I keep running into ppl in town and they smile at me and say hi. It’s not too stressful at work compared to Auckland and I have nothing much to do in the evening except cooking, relaxing, watching TV, reading, writing and sleeping – lots sleeping :D. See, very healthy lifestyle :) Once the summer comes (and after I get my license back – I left it in Auckland last weekend), I would like to explore further than foot distance during weekend and evening :D I have been asked few times that if I would move down here permanently. I think I am enjoying it so much that I wouldn't rule that possibility out at the moment :)

Last weekend, I went back to Auckland for my University reunite. It was a pleasant night to catch up with lecturers and friends, and hear how the department has been grown in the last 40/45 years. The evening was full of laughters and joys with trivial stories. My supervisor was the MC and he had done a fantastic job to deliver a memorable night. There are some old song and flag from the ’80 and we got to heard the remade and see how pound those students were to be a TAM/Esci students. Songs with LP formula were an highlight and we revisited it during the dinner. Everyone was singing Davey-Boy to the lecturer who has kept telling us that that formula is the most important equation!! And see what we do? We sang it back to him :D

This weekend, I’m having my very first visitor and I am so looking forwards to it! However, I have to come back to Auckland on Monday for my interview. I was really hoping to spend more time in Tauranga this weekend. Oh well, there are plenty of time!