Broken record, old dance moves, 70s, 80s, and 90s

Went to pub crawl with workmates. I will skip their chit-chat because it just sound like previous post (about The Frog Prince). Their account of him being with this Vicky girl is like twisting a knife in my heart and hurting quite a lot, so I will not repeat the steamy events that was described by several gossiping female. Their forked tongues are scary, wish when I go, they will not talk about me too much. But I know it's inevitable.

First pub was The Cook. It is situated very close to the university. The deco was o.k. I like the comfy couches. People slowly drifted into The Cook, and we avoided talking about work (without success).

Second pub was The Eastside tavern. Great scenery since it's on the east side of Waikato River. You can see the Bridge. Apparently it's parked full with cars. People who live in Taiwan will understand. It's the beginning of the Christmas holiday. So of course, the traffic is a killer.

Talked about PDA (public display of affection). In Asian countries, this is a big no no. But in European countries and in NZ, it's very common. Some horror stories include Japanese woman who got kissed in public and killed herself just because of PDA. Indian teenager took his girlfriend's love scene picture using his mobile phone and this ended up on the internet(!) Her/his parents were fuming and the authority is hunting this guy down etc. Very big rumour. But being an Asian I probably am used to PDA in New Zealand, and the lack of in Taiwan. It's culture difference.

Have seen people in compromising posture on bicycle (!) If you get my meaning. Actually, I was worried about the police car cruising on the road. What if they are caught? Must be quite embarassing.

Third pub is Sekure. It's a new one on the west side of the River, so we have to cross the bridge when we are still sober. Good. People have not started to walk in funny manner.

More people have come to join us. E and P are wearing cool outfit, but no white and denim. By the way, our theme last night was "White and Denim". You should wear: White top, blue denim jeans with white shoes, or denim top, jeans and white shoes or any combination of the above. However, you still get people coming in red and black. They are excused.

The Sekure is a cool place with nice couch, and we talked about Grand Prix in Melbourne Australia, Shanghai, and holiday spots in general. Talked with De about shopping in Melbourne. She loves shopping in Melbourne and got both her top and jeans in Melbourne. Talking about NZ fashion and Oz fashion. Ended up stopping and move onto Spirited.

Me and another Egandopamine (my real name is, *cough*, of course not Egan, but I will let it slide) have won the pool game against C and J. C and J are considerably better than us but I got a feeling that C is trying to loss. Anyway, was not really drunk at this stage because was having a Heniken (excuse my spelling). Was trying very hard to win because never won a game. Sunk everything and when sunk the black 8, felt very happy and jumped up. Feeling very good, so when moved onto Cubby Hole in the second story building in Victoria Street, gave myself a treat: a Pina Colada.

N and his brother have joined us, but after that they sort of disappeared again. Anyway, I will try not to get distracted by foreign cute guys.

Cubby Hole is a great place. You can watch people walking down on Victoria Street, and the sky is clearing at this stage. The weather is clearing and hopefully we will not get too much rain this Xmas.

This pub (Cubby Hole) has a dance floor for Spanish music. M and E and P all danced together. Especially want to mention M and E. They are both my workmates from my group. They are a great team when it comes to work and dancing. Good on ya, E and M. I love the way they move.

Enjoyed dancing there, is also A and the other P. These two girls are never far from the dance floor and they are powered by.......(drum roll)......alcohol and H2O (water). Interesting combination. Because they jive and sometimes they just run on pure water. Not alcoholic drinks. Their energy levels must be high.

Leaving Cubby Hole, we come to the Caz Bar. A corner bar beside the Outback, I kind of drifted to the mature folk group. Listening most of the time, C said that he is going to sing in the summer festival in Hamilton Gardens. Must do a piece on my Chinese webpage now for this cool event. I went last year with Grid. I should text Grid again so we can watch the opera that C is going to do and also the Shakespear thing.

Running toward Diggers because it was raining a little, I tugged at M's shirt sleeves and annoyed the hell out of him. But it was ok. The Diggers is already full of drunken people. I don't like it, so walked out and got into The Loaded Hog for dinner. We waited .....and waited......for 35 minutes for our evening meal. And it was awful food. Too much wedges and chips for our friends, Egan, J and C. C got into singing mode because was too bored. The other Egan started to talk about her holiday and reading Janet Evanovich. J talked about his wedding anniversary being on the 27th of Dec. Aww....too hard to book an restraunt, but to be honest, I think I know why he is such a lady's man because he is very romantic and considerate. I understand why in parties he gets all the girls. Girls feel secure and very comfortable around him. Note to self: should learn from this person.

We missed The Handle Bar, but this bar has its unique quality. All of its windows are opened to the street so you can see (the drunken people walking on the street) or the great scenery. (I doubt that you can see much with all this thick crowd so I will not dare to lie about the drunken people part)

The Bank was the coolest because they put on very good music. WE all danced there. Young and old. The songs are from the 70s, 80s and 90s. All sorts of songs. Wine, beer and liquor flows as well. There are no men or women unsatify. This must be the coolest bar in town.

We kind of finish there. M, E, P, C, J and the other Egan went home. People start to go home from there. It was a great night, I must say. Not too tiring, but exhausted enough for me to clean myself up and go straight to bed. Generally speaking not a bad crowd of people. Everybody danced, jived, talked, drank and had fun. No one was left alone, people were helping one another. Told one another which bar has the best features such as good music, nice dance floor or cocktail etc.

I say, these people work hard and play hard. Cool.

Keep smiling you devilish man

Stop smiling, please. The Frog Prince (I dub the guy who was torturing me yesterday "The Frog Prince") was smiling to me before he left the building. Stop smiling, you are still breaking my heart. Stop it.

Anyway, after reasonable delibration, I have decided to start another experiment at the end of the year. Why not? I am here so I will run one more so get more repeats. Cool. I am getting better results everyday. However, discovered a leak in the waste system so had to mop up a lot of Indigo solution from spectrophotometer. Oh, my God. It was another joke from Santa, I suppose.

I should be careful about what I ask from Santa because I asked him to give me a new boyfriend. Look where it got me. Nowhere, that's what. It got me into this mess with The Frog Prince. Now I am still not sure if he is just drunk or is really interested in me. Maybe I should give him my phone number? You think he will keep torturing me before I give in to him? Or would he just say: What's this? Your bra size? Ohohoh, I am nasty.

I am totally fed up with The Frog Prince now, but can't stop thinking about him. I have blocked out all the other guys from my mind. That's infatuation. Please, help me, frog prince, just give me your phone number instead, ok? Stop giving me the eye and the million dollar smile. You beam like a light bulb already. Well, can't get enough of your smile, ok? Just stop smiling and get some action into your head. I don't have all day. I am still trying to do some experiment without my pride.

Cry.......cry......cry.......I am so damn stupid. Why do I have to fall for the guy who is retard in asking girls out and still hung up on previous girlfriend?

The sound of heart breaking

Say no more.
Boy: handsome.
Boy: Taken.
Boy: Good cook.
Boy: someone else's boyfriend.

Hmm...almost like a poem. Maybe that's just meant to be. I don't know. I am confused and sad, but think I will survive. It's not the end of the world. He is not married. O.K. Now brain is full of ideas.

Cooked meat for all the people to eat. Handed him beer. He came over and sat beside me in door. >_< Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh......What is he doing? I thought he is taken. I though he has a girlfriend. Aaaaahhhhhhh....stop doing that, please.

I will stop feeling mad and go back to work, if I can stop staring at his handsome head over the cubicle.

Seriously, I should get my head checked before I do anything stupid.

Laboratory party 2004 BBQ at supervisor's house (The Captain)

I went to university to show my supervisor the results in the morning, cleaned up Potassium dichromate waste from the spectrophotometer readings before. People were still cooking and baking for lunch party. Wow! They are a bunch of dedicated people.

I have discovered that my present sucks. Oh, no! But I mended things by sharing my present: the bubble kit, with the others. I hope that all the people were happy.

We talked before the BBQ was ready. Admired my supervisor's house and the decorations for a while. Caught up with one another and asked what one another are going to do for Christmas. L is staying home for the Christmas and she will go to her boyfriend's house for Christmas get-together party tomorrow. She will go home to her parents at Boxing Day. J just moved into the new house so she will not leave it, but will wait for her boyfriend to come back from Auckland. Didn't ask G about her Christmas, but will probably write the thesis up, then it's freedom after that! Ya! Good on her. S would probably be having a holiday because her doctorate will not finish this year. Still needs to do more experiments, I suppose. E will also write up, along with A, they would all complete their thesis and have some rest in the holiday.

I got the bubble experimenting kit aforementioned, L got my book, G got a pound cake and a car decoration, A got shavig cream and (candy?), C got elephants figurine, S got a globe, E got a bottle of strawberry champane. Our supervisor got two CDs from his fav singer, the technician got us a lot of hats that are warm, and we sent her a lily and a pot to put the lily in.

The girls borrowed Eye Toy and we played it for two hours on PS2. By the time we finished and go home, we were all tired out. We played Air Guitar, Prison Escape, Mr. Chef, Kung2, Kungfu, DJ, and drumming. It was so much fun! I wish that we will have another opportunity to get together. Work hard and play hard.

I have got to work early today, so hopefully will get some work done before today's work BBQ. Ah! So many parties to go to. I think I will definitely be sick of it after tomorrow.

Experimental log

I am not so sure how to use Word on this computer, so just use this webpage as my log today.

I have talked with my supervisor this morning and he said that I better try out the 0.1 mM Indigo reagent concentration. I will do that tomorrow morning. This should be easy enough, I just have to work out how much to add to the ozonized sample.

He was happy about the other results, so I think I will just repeat the experiments several times so can put these results into my masters thesis.

I will have to read the literature around Christmas so can build up the introduction in the thesis. However, I think I will have to find more papers to write a more comprehensive introduction.

Tomorrow afternoon will be the company BBQ, and on 23rd I will have to go to the Pub Crawl. So bloody busy!

Sunday funday

Rained, haled, but we still had our fun on the beach of Tauranga. Fuzzyslowmo was in the sea before me. Freezing cold water...we didn't even get to play sand castle on the beach and it started to rain. Such a shame!

We drove around the greater Tauranga, and came back to hammie. In the evening, we went to watch the mormon church turn on the light and the Christmas festival that was pretty typical. Anyway, it was played by Fuzzyslowmo's friend, R. R is a cool guy, smart, and considerate. He is talented. Will go to work in Japan for his mission. I think he is a nice guy. Was Fuzzy's intermediate classmate.

Better go now. However, don't have much to do since did most work on Monday. I have kept Tues and Wednesday free for the party. i wish that will not get too tired.

Cold day

I have done one more experiment to confirm my findings, and took a lot of time to fix the graphs for these few days. I will be seeing my university supervisor tomorrow, and attend a party in his house.

Spent whole night making a large salad and marinade the meat. Mum decided in the morning that it's not a good idea to take the pork chop with me because it may not cook well. It may become quite stiff. Hmm...but there's chicken drumstick and sausages so I should be full.

Anyway, the weather looks horrible now, and hopefully we will still have the party. Everyone seems to be still in bed or preparing the food for today. Let's have a nice party! I will tell you all about it later.