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Well Saturday was Rob’s cricket final for the season and I promised I’d go along, so I did. And of course they kicked ass! They batted first and got about 237 runs, then bowled the other team out for about 38, so they were about 200 runs short.. haha If you know anything about cricket you know that’s an ass-whipping! So they won their grade (that game was playing for first and second place in the grade).
I’ve got lots of photos.. firstly of the day.. then the party that night.. but more on that later.

There are more photo’s you can view at my flickr page.

So after the game we went back to the boys flat and had a BBQ and drank alcohol and played ‘Battle of the sexes’. Very fun night. The game got everyone drunk - if you got the answer wrong you had to take a shot. lol.
Photo’s of the drunk people:

So yes, lots more photos you can view.. I’ll be here all day if load them all.
People slowely started leaving around 2am and falling asleep all over the place.. haha. So the few of us that were left started playing Buzz on the playstation.. lol. Well Rob dropped me home about 3am, that was late enough for me! Woke up Sunday morning with a headache, but neurofen fixed that quite quick! Was a great night though!

Went shopping with Jo on Sunday, looking for wedding presents for Zarrin and stuff for our bachelorette night.
Had dinner at Victoria’s on Sunday night.. and then had an early night.. lol.
So it’s kinda been a chocker weekend.. and really all weekend I should have been doing my assignment!!! Tut tut me.

Oh, check this gorgeous video out.. it’s of little quadruplet babies laughing.

I’m off to shower and get ready for Uni now!

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
Why women can’t put on mascara with their mouth closed?
Why don’t you ever see the headline “Psychic Wins Lottery”?
Why is “abbreviated” such a long word?
Why is it that doctors call what they do “practice”?
Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?
Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
Why isn’t there mouse-flavoured cat food?
Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?
Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!
Why don’t sheep shrink when it rains?
Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

Yes.. I’m getting the creative bug at the moment. I’ve kept the same layout - but I like this header image better.

I had the day off today as there wasn’t enough work to do at work. The downside is I will be poor when pay day comes around. The benefit is a complete free day! So I ended up starting my Organisation Management assignment, vacuumed and dusted my room and washed my sheets! Oh, and made this new layout. So I’m pretty happy with my achievements for the day.

We are now organising Zarrin’s bachelorette night! We’ve decided on a hotel room, ordering in takeaways (or something tasty), doing facials and manicures on each other…etc. A nice girly night for her last un-wed Saturday night!! hehe.

Here is a map for Sean, who doesn’t know where New Zealand is! :blah: It’s the circled one on the bottom right .

Well I’m off to cook dinner now! My turn.. schnitzel and salad! :yum:

We’re a little country, but we still make a difference!! I got this in an email and thought it was damn interesting! My favourites are the bolded ones.

25 Things you may not have known about New Zealand
1. New Zealand is home to the world’s smallest dolphin, the hectors Dolphin, the rarest sea lion, the Hookers Sea Lion, the largest flightless parrot, the Kakapo, the oldest reptile, the Tuatara, the heaviest insect, the weta, the biggest earthworms, the smallest bats, some of the oldest trees, and many of the rarity birds, insects, and plants in the world.

2. More rainbow trout, in the 2kg to 3 kg category, are caught annually in New Zealand than the rest of the world put together.

3. More fresh water flows up from the cracks in the limestone at Waikoropupu, near Takaka, than from any other freshwater spring in the world – more than 2100 million litres every 24 hours.

4. New Zealand has the third highest rate of deaths in the developed world from maltreatment among under-15-year-olds; third to Mexico and the US.

5. New Zealand has more book shops per head of population than any other country; one for every 7500 people.

6. There are more Scottish pipe bands per head of population in New Zealand than in Scotland.

7. The kea, native to New Zealand, likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows.

8. Less than 5% of the population of New Zealand is human – the rest are animals. This is one of the highest ratios of animals to humans in the world.

9. In the scene of Star Trek: First Contact, when Picard shows Lilly she is orbiting earth, Australia and Papau New Guinea are clearly visible but New Zealand is missing.

10. Measured by club memberships, golf is the most popular sport in New Zealand, followed by netball.

11. The longest blackout in the world was on February 19, 1998, when the four main power cable supplying Auckland city, broke down. The disruption, which lasted 66 days, affected 7500 business and residential customers and cost businesses an estimated $300 million.

12. In 1984, $43 in New Zealand would buy approximately the same as $100 today.

13. New Zealand has won more Olympic gold medals a head than any other country.

14. The longest place name in the world still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronuku-
Pokaiwenuakitanatahu, a hill in Porangahau in the Hawkes bay. The Maori name translates to “the place where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, who slid, climbed and swallowed mountains, known as Land eater, played his flute to his loved one.”

15. Two Massey University (my University) students broke a Guinness World Record in December 2005 for the world’s largest tape ball. The ball, which weighs 53kg and has a circumference of more than 2.5m, was made by winding Scotch tape continually around itself.

16. The shortest interval between separate births in the world is 208 days. New Zealander Jayne Bleakley gave birth to Joseph Robert on September 1999 and Annie Jessica Joyce on March 30, 2000.

17. The median age of New Zealanders is growing. In 1901 were 23. By 1991 it was 31 and in 2001 it was 35. By 2021 it is expected to be 40.

18. No part of New Zealand is more than 128km from the sea.

19. In the early 1980s, New Zealand was home to more than 70 million sheep, but now has 40 million, or about 10 sheep to one person. This decline has not stopped New Zealand from bringing in 50% of all international trade in sheep meat.

20. A New Zealander invented the tear-back Velcro strip, the pop-lid on a self-sealing paint tin, the child-proof pill bottle and the crinkle in hair-pins so that they don’t fall out.

21. For each person who lives here, New Zealand produces 100kg of butter and 65kg of cheese each year.

22. New Zealanders are getting married older. The latest statistics show that the median ages of men and women marrying for the first time are 29.9 and 28.1 years. These brides and grooms married, on average, 9 years older than their parents did.

23. New Zealand births exceeded deaths by 29,890 in 2005

24. Captain James Cook, the man who navigated New Zealand, is said to have discovered a cure for scurvy, a disease that results from Vitamin C deficiency, when he played around with medicines.

25. No capital city in the world is further south than Wellington

..both emotionally and physically. It’s a mixture of two late nights, guy troubles and assignments. It’s been a pretty busy weekend and I think it’s finally caught up to me and I’m buggered.

Friday night I headed off to Takapuna with my sister and one of her friends.. we had a few vodka and lemonades at home… then hit the clubs! I have to say I prefer the Takapuna night life to the Auckland Central clubs (unless you’re a NZer you won’t know what I’m talking about).
It’s great, because you usually bump into people you went to high school with her aren’t really close friends, but it’s great to catch up!
Oh, Nicki, I bumped into Adrienne… she says “Bonjour” :). I got her mobile number, so hopefully when you visit you may be able to fit a couple of hours in to see her!
We got home about 1am and I went to sleep, the other two headed off to Denny’s for a minight snack! lol

Saturday morning I went for my haircut, no colour this time, just a tidy up of my layering etc.. Then in the afternoon I went for my manicure (got a lush bright red ) and my facial! Every girl out there who has not had a facial done to her by a professional yet HAS TO! It is the MOST relaxing, lovely feeling ever! Your skin comes out all gorgeous and glossy too! I definitely recommend you do it if the chance comes up.
Saturday night was Jo’s (and her cousin Winston’s) 21st dinner at Grand Harbour chinese restaurant. Very yummmy food! :yum: As usual.. we all ate too much and felt sick afterwards.. but loved it! Here’s some photo’s of the night:

After the dinner we went back to Jo’s and played Monopoly… lol.. until about 2am! It was fun until everyone started getting tired and not caring. haha.

Today I went shopping with Rob for shoes, which he didn’t end up buying and we went for a walk on the beach. Then I came home this afternoon and did some more of my assignment.. ahhh so boring!

So it’s an early night for me definitely tonight. Might just read my Marion Keyes (really loving this book - can’t put it down!) and sleep! :sleep:

Happy 21st Birthday Jo! :heart:
My friend Jo’s birthday today . We’ve got dinner tomorrow night, I’ll make sure I take my camera for some photos!

I’ve done it! Finally. New layouts up. Hope you all enjoy. The others are still there if you’d prefer to use them! I decided to make it a single column layout - as the main thing to my site these days is my blog. So may as well make it the main part!

Well I had a slow today, had Uni from 11-12pm. This afternoon I didn’t have work as there isn’t enough work to do.. and yesterday I was sitting there doing nothing. And now because I’m part time.. they don’t want to pay for me to sit there. Fair enough I guess.

Oh, Happy St Patricks Day everyone!!!

Finished The Lovely Bones there is now a review up which you can read here. So now I’m onto my new Marion Keyes book!

I really need a new layout on here… I’m just feeling really un-creative.. and everytime I start one, I get half way and don’t like it anymore!
Maybe I’ll have another attempt tonight.

I’m useless.. I’ve hurt him again by ending it again. The timing just isn’t right, maybe in awhile.. but right now I’m not ready.
That’s all.