Visit from friends

I haven't done enough exercise lately so I swam at work on Monday. The temperature is still high in the middle of the day and the cool water is refreshing.
I was a bit busy in the morning, and still trying to get people to sign my KiwiSaver identification. I managed to get Allan to sign my bank statement for proof of address, and finally sent the package off in the Dinsdale post office. The Justice of Peace in the city council took long lunch hours so he was no help for me. I had a lousy lunch in town, eating butter chicken that was unusually sweet and a burnt Naan bread by myself, feeling very lonely by myself. However, my day picked up after lunch because I actually had something interesting to do after I talked with my boss.
Mark and Jane came to our place with their parents. It's Jane's holiday for Lunar New Year, and a rare chance for their family to have a reunion. Mark is doing his honour year in Canberra university in chemistry. Canberra sounds like a nice place to be, and most of the time the town is deserted like Hamilton. People only gather together when there's a big event on. I told them a little bit about my Europe trip.
We started to make jokes.
Fuzzy is having her holiday. They are going to Coromandal today. Mum is not going to spend a lot of time cooking, just bringing left over pizza from last night.
Richard came to visit after a long work day and we hung out. Dad made a big speech about the Wangs and the Taiwanese community in general. He talked about how some kids don't study after high school and their parents tolerate that and give them money to live. He also talked about the difference between Chinese habits and Western habits. I think Chinese parents are a bit too soft on their children, if a person can't live their life in a financially independent situation, or even make his/her own living, then his/her life is wasted. I think that his/her parents are spoiling him/her. Why let this kind of thing go on? I can't never tolerate it. I believe a young child who is busy studying shouldn't do too much part-time work, but if the job is not going to affect their schooling then they can do it.

Summer party

Richard and I put up a summer party at Bevan and Hailie's place. He moved the foosball table out so the boys can have fun, and people played badminton. We had a pirate and summer theme, but not a lot of people came in theme. Bronwyn, Lin-yi, and Hester were good help, carrying plates in and out of the kitchen and tidying up. We were in happy party mood, talking with our friends and drinking lots of soft drinks and juice. Rachel and Nick brought their own red wines, and Cory was on his super hot red bike. I really like it. He said that it's a 1000c.c. bike, it must go very fast on the road.
Mike is living with his friends, Mike and his wife a few blocks away, and he's moving to Melville on Sunday. He ate a lot of vegetables. Hamish brought his cute dog Tessa with him. She's barking at all the strangers that came through the door. Naomi and her partner also showed up, I haven't seen her for a while. It must have been in Masters class.
Kelly and Mark looked at our Europe picture on Richard's computer. They really like them. I talked with Hester and Lin-yi. I didn't know that Lin-yi has a PhD. She's not so busy at Genesis, but I guess she has her busy days and not so busy days, just like my job. Hester is waiting for permanent residence to come through, fingers crossed for her application.
Adrian told us about his escapdes when he was in primary school, climbing over electrical fences and walking up the road. It was quite funny hearing how he returned because he was very hungry. He also talked about beautiful actresses that made Erin not so happy, but after all, they are celebrities and Erin doesn't really have to worry about Adrian running after them in real life!
Our pirate ship was not so big, but I had fun making it, painting it and gluing some parts together. Bevan helped me to glue the parts together while I was making a salad.
Richard cleaned up most of the mess afterwards, and Haylie was there to tidy up as well. Thank you, guys. I got there and heated up the old meat in the fridge for lunch. There's still salad to be eaten.
Richard and I had fun in World of Warcraft, making two characters in different factions and tried to learn the language. It was quite funny. Luke went to Tanaris and we took Annar with us questing. He was grounded for having a c in Civics and not doing enough chores.
Coke exploded in the fridge and we had a clean up. I made a pizza for Richard, and I think Bevan wants to eat it, but Haylie said no, it had chicken that's not free range on it! Poor Bevan. Oh, well, that's just the way it is.
I got up feeling sleepy, but it's time to get to work. I look forward to work today because I am doing something new. I want to learn new techniques.