There are a list of things that you can do indoors, and of course, it's not raining swords or any dangerous objects so you can go out and walk in the rain. However, that's not recommended if you are on the brink of getting a flu in the humid summer day.
1. You can read some books. The definition of book here does not mean textbook. You can read fiction. You can read non-fiction. You can read magazine. You can read newspaper. You can read anything from advertisement on the bus stop or the writing on your wall. You can squint or read leisurely.
2. You can listen to some music. You can again, listen to any kind of music to your liking, but don't be too loud otherwise other people will be angry at you. They may throw things at you and your rainy day activity will come to a holt.
3. You can do some house work. I know. These things are tiresome, but they need to be done. For example, wipe your windows clean. Vacuum your room. Fold your duvet. Clean your computer table. Throw away the rubbish and bring in the garbage bin. You can also do something more enjoyable such as cooking up a storm or making something new for the house. You can decorate your room with beautiful things. Ultimately, it's your place so you are free to do anything you like.
4. You can watch something. For example, you can turn on the television to watch some program. You can watch a VCD, a DVD, a video. You can watch people walking on the street. They are watching your garden and admiring your roses.
5. You can do nothing. Yes, absolutely nothing.
6. You can play a musical instrument. You can sing. Make some noise. You can also dance around and nobody will say you dance funny, or you dance well for that matter.
Well, that's how I spend my summer rainy day. How do you spend yours?
1/05/2005
Library is my best friend
I have spent today in two libraries. In fact, if you give me a whole day, then I will immerse myself in the wonderous world of books. I have borrowed several interesting fiction books from CityLibrary, which opened again in 2005.
In the morning, I went to see my college professor to talk about taking Biochemistry again because I have done badly in the exam. Passing the paper may not be enough for me to get honours grade. However, I got an letter in the evening saying that it will be better if I do a very good thesis and this will make up for my bad grades and I still may get an honour. Hmm...not convinced, but I feel much better now. Almost as if my life has been revived and came out from hell. I am extremely happy about this meeting with her and the outcome is great. My fate may be that I don't need to take another paper.
I spent the whole morning searching for papers about ELISA. I am not going to use ELISA, but will be using the machine to measure the colour development. I don't know the principle of ELISA so what's the better way to find out than read some papers? That's exactly what I did. I downloaded and printed them out. Spent the afternoon reading some of them, but got bored in CityLibrary.
I borrowed children's books, a Sci-Fi, tow romantic/historical, and a chick/feminine book. Hope everything will be ok.
I am still writing Fairy Tale magazine and maybe will be able to publish it on Na-No-Wri-Mo when October comes again. Hope everything is going well for everybody.
The foreign minister and our prime minister have both gone to Indonesia to attend a summit for tsunami relieve. Two kids died on Dunedin farm because of a farming accident. Poor kids.
Someone got stinged by a scorpio after coming back from South African. Weird. How did that happen anyway?
Watched five minutes of two and 1/2 men and I'm with Her. Very sad because Alex Young broke up with nice teacher. Why did they do that? They seemed to be going on so well. I really like that bloke, he seems to be genuine in love with the woman. Anyway, I suppose that's life. It's always giving you something unexpected.
In the morning, I went to see my college professor to talk about taking Biochemistry again because I have done badly in the exam. Passing the paper may not be enough for me to get honours grade. However, I got an letter in the evening saying that it will be better if I do a very good thesis and this will make up for my bad grades and I still may get an honour. Hmm...not convinced, but I feel much better now. Almost as if my life has been revived and came out from hell. I am extremely happy about this meeting with her and the outcome is great. My fate may be that I don't need to take another paper.
I spent the whole morning searching for papers about ELISA. I am not going to use ELISA, but will be using the machine to measure the colour development. I don't know the principle of ELISA so what's the better way to find out than read some papers? That's exactly what I did. I downloaded and printed them out. Spent the afternoon reading some of them, but got bored in CityLibrary.
I borrowed children's books, a Sci-Fi, tow romantic/historical, and a chick/feminine book. Hope everything will be ok.
I am still writing Fairy Tale magazine and maybe will be able to publish it on Na-No-Wri-Mo when October comes again. Hope everything is going well for everybody.
The foreign minister and our prime minister have both gone to Indonesia to attend a summit for tsunami relieve. Two kids died on Dunedin farm because of a farming accident. Poor kids.
Someone got stinged by a scorpio after coming back from South African. Weird. How did that happen anyway?
Watched five minutes of two and 1/2 men and I'm with Her. Very sad because Alex Young broke up with nice teacher. Why did they do that? They seemed to be going on so well. I really like that bloke, he seems to be genuine in love with the woman. Anyway, I suppose that's life. It's always giving you something unexpected.
1/04/2005
Working hard, playing hard
I called J this morning to tell her that the city library is not opened. Mum and dad went to Mr. L's house and we stayed home. Fuzzyslowmo changed into a very nice dress and I admired her new clothes. Back to work, I started a new dairy and spent the entire day decorating it.
The weather is superb this morning, so I did some house work. First, I finished mum's chore, which is to hang the clothes from the washing machine. I went to Mr. M's house to check their mail, but there was none.
Mum, Fuzzy and I went to Pak'n Save and New Save because we ran out of food. We picked some obscure items, but mainly for the preparation because Fuzzy will start her work tomorrow for the Post Office. She will be sorting out NCEA test papers again. I wish that she will not be too tired, but when she comes back, she always seems to be tired.
It was quite hot when I drove to New Save. The supermarkets didn't get any new food because no farmers/shops were working today. There were two bunches of spinach lying on the stool. Hmm... they looked very dodgy so we didn't buy them.
We played Mahjong this afternoon. Had a lot of fun and dad was keeping us on our toes. Very "exhilirating, sexy, beautiful". It's just a fun phrase that dad uses.
Need to go because we are watching Ocean's Eleven today. It's a DVD that I got from the movie theatre, which comes free if you buy the movie gift pack.
We had spaghetii for lunch and spaghetti again for dinner. Corn soup and salmon. Aunt wrote e-mail to us.
The weather is superb this morning, so I did some house work. First, I finished mum's chore, which is to hang the clothes from the washing machine. I went to Mr. M's house to check their mail, but there was none.
Mum, Fuzzy and I went to Pak'n Save and New Save because we ran out of food. We picked some obscure items, but mainly for the preparation because Fuzzy will start her work tomorrow for the Post Office. She will be sorting out NCEA test papers again. I wish that she will not be too tired, but when she comes back, she always seems to be tired.
It was quite hot when I drove to New Save. The supermarkets didn't get any new food because no farmers/shops were working today. There were two bunches of spinach lying on the stool. Hmm... they looked very dodgy so we didn't buy them.
We played Mahjong this afternoon. Had a lot of fun and dad was keeping us on our toes. Very "exhilirating, sexy, beautiful". It's just a fun phrase that dad uses.
Need to go because we are watching Ocean's Eleven today. It's a DVD that I got from the movie theatre, which comes free if you buy the movie gift pack.
We had spaghetii for lunch and spaghetti again for dinner. Corn soup and salmon. Aunt wrote e-mail to us.
1/02/2005
There are a lot of people who are suffering right now
For once, the world stands still for the large amount of people who died in the tsunami. This is perhaps the largest catastrophe after the attack in North America. I can't say that our life is affected by it, but we would like to send our condolences for those people who don't know and unlikely to meet ever.
Life is never easy. If you are a pessimist, then you will live life as if it is a series of unfortunate events. You will feel that life is very hard and harsh on you and the people who are around you. I tend to think that life is like a series of tests, or problems that you will have to solve no matter what happened. Sometimes, the problems are not so hard to solve, so you can enjoy them and be very happy, but sometimes, the problems are so huge that you have to slowly entangle from the mess that you or someone else made, then eventually everything will work out. That's probably what the people in the affected area will have to face, and they can not escape from it.
I have heard that the number of death is so great now some countries have delay the release of the total number of the dead. The authorities will collect the number and bury all the bodies, then release the number in the end. The volunteers and the professionals are far too busy to solve the problems at hand, for example, delivering clean water and food to the survivors, providing strong shelters for all the people who are too afraid to go back to their previous living quarters, and burial or cremation of the dead. If you live close to the affected area, maybe it's best if you go there and help, or lend your car to the people who need to send in the provisions. In my opinion, it's best if you can actually help the people and give them support. In years to come, these places will need to be rebuilt so civil engineers and water engineers are needed.
Today has begun without much happening. We went to Mr.L's to pick some plum. We also tried to start his car, but the battery is pretty much dead. Dad said that it will be the best if he buy a new battery for the car when he comes over later in January.
Mr. C called and said that he will tow Mr. L's boat back for he is coming back to stay. Mr. C and his friends will probably come and borrow the boat and fish when Mr.L's here. Anyway, it's not our boat, so when Mr.L is back, the boat will be back in Hamilton.
Fuzzyslowmo is at her friend's house. Mum and dad are waiting for her return and dad's just worried about her. I don't know. I am just hanging around and watering my pumpkin, which is growing successfully even though the weather is completely crap.
Life is never easy. If you are a pessimist, then you will live life as if it is a series of unfortunate events. You will feel that life is very hard and harsh on you and the people who are around you. I tend to think that life is like a series of tests, or problems that you will have to solve no matter what happened. Sometimes, the problems are not so hard to solve, so you can enjoy them and be very happy, but sometimes, the problems are so huge that you have to slowly entangle from the mess that you or someone else made, then eventually everything will work out. That's probably what the people in the affected area will have to face, and they can not escape from it.
I have heard that the number of death is so great now some countries have delay the release of the total number of the dead. The authorities will collect the number and bury all the bodies, then release the number in the end. The volunteers and the professionals are far too busy to solve the problems at hand, for example, delivering clean water and food to the survivors, providing strong shelters for all the people who are too afraid to go back to their previous living quarters, and burial or cremation of the dead. If you live close to the affected area, maybe it's best if you go there and help, or lend your car to the people who need to send in the provisions. In my opinion, it's best if you can actually help the people and give them support. In years to come, these places will need to be rebuilt so civil engineers and water engineers are needed.
Today has begun without much happening. We went to Mr.L's to pick some plum. We also tried to start his car, but the battery is pretty much dead. Dad said that it will be the best if he buy a new battery for the car when he comes over later in January.
Mr. C called and said that he will tow Mr. L's boat back for he is coming back to stay. Mr. C and his friends will probably come and borrow the boat and fish when Mr.L's here. Anyway, it's not our boat, so when Mr.L is back, the boat will be back in Hamilton.
Fuzzyslowmo is at her friend's house. Mum and dad are waiting for her return and dad's just worried about her. I don't know. I am just hanging around and watering my pumpkin, which is growing successfully even though the weather is completely crap.
1/01/2005
Hello 2005!
All my family had got out of bed very early this morning for we have to go to Hamilton lake to celebrate the New Year with our friends. The Sunshine Society organised a tramping trip for the people who did not travel to other countries this morning.
It was far too short a tramping trip, but it was great because all of us had fun. We started the year singing the national anthem, and raise the flag in front of the lake. We walked for 45 minutes from 9:30 a.m. to about 10:20 a.m. The lake walkway is a new infrastructure set up by the Hamilton City Council. Living in Hamilton is like living in heaven, but the houses around the lake made the experience less "nature". The houses made the lake more artificial. However, the ducks and the geese were all out on the calm water. The weather wasn't perfect, but it wasn't cold. We enjoyed a walk in the rain. As my Chinese teacher used to say, the lake is the prettiest when it's raining. I believe that she was right. The lake is the prettiest when it's raining. The reflections of us on the lake made the walk worth while.
We each got a bottle of water in the beginning and a small bread curtesy of the society.
Mum and dad quickly drove us home to prepare for the activities in the afternoon. Mr. W is leaving Hamilton, so all of our family went to his house to send him off. Fuzzy was Mr.W's youngest daughter's classmate and schoolmate. We talked, ate, and talke some more indoor because the weather didn't hold. The rain started pouring, but the BBQ and the other food were good.
The low point was probably when someone started collecting donations. It's not because it was not a good cause, it was because I didn't bring any money so had to take some from mum's wallet. So bad! And the woman wanted my address because she is going to give me a receipt. What receipt! I don't even want to give you money. Don't give me a receipt. I don't need a receipt.
Anyway, the kids (means us) played cards together. We played Snap, taught Tofushark's bf how to play Bridge, and played 99 together. We learned many things about people who we didn't know, and learn a lot more things about our friends we knew.
I found out how each keys on K's keychain work. That was a completely useless piece of information unless I become his girlfriend or a thief to his house, which is highly unlikely. I don't know what he is doing, but he is very weird. He has too much on his plate, I suppose. And he is far too pretty to be single. I believe that if he has a girlfriend then a lot of girls will be heartbroken, etc. You know what I mean.
I found that he wants to be treated as someone who is normal, so that's exactly what I do. I don't think he has been blessed with good looks; he's cursed by it. I hope he is going to be o.k. Just a little bit worried that he will not survive in the big bad world out there. He seems so fragile and young.
R is so funny. Don't know if he is trying to be funny or is real funny that way. Found out that either M or A (the guy wearing red shirt and has a cute small silver cellphone) is dad's computer teacher's grandson. Ah! So complicated, isn't it? Anyway, his mum is very good at singing and is in our choir. There you go. We are friends.
Overall today has been hectic and fun. I love 2005 already. Purpleskirt has already invited me to watch Phantom of Opera and we may get to go out for one day in Rotorua. Cool.
It was far too short a tramping trip, but it was great because all of us had fun. We started the year singing the national anthem, and raise the flag in front of the lake. We walked for 45 minutes from 9:30 a.m. to about 10:20 a.m. The lake walkway is a new infrastructure set up by the Hamilton City Council. Living in Hamilton is like living in heaven, but the houses around the lake made the experience less "nature". The houses made the lake more artificial. However, the ducks and the geese were all out on the calm water. The weather wasn't perfect, but it wasn't cold. We enjoyed a walk in the rain. As my Chinese teacher used to say, the lake is the prettiest when it's raining. I believe that she was right. The lake is the prettiest when it's raining. The reflections of us on the lake made the walk worth while.
We each got a bottle of water in the beginning and a small bread curtesy of the society.
Mum and dad quickly drove us home to prepare for the activities in the afternoon. Mr. W is leaving Hamilton, so all of our family went to his house to send him off. Fuzzy was Mr.W's youngest daughter's classmate and schoolmate. We talked, ate, and talke some more indoor because the weather didn't hold. The rain started pouring, but the BBQ and the other food were good.
The low point was probably when someone started collecting donations. It's not because it was not a good cause, it was because I didn't bring any money so had to take some from mum's wallet. So bad! And the woman wanted my address because she is going to give me a receipt. What receipt! I don't even want to give you money. Don't give me a receipt. I don't need a receipt.
Anyway, the kids (means us) played cards together. We played Snap, taught Tofushark's bf how to play Bridge, and played 99 together. We learned many things about people who we didn't know, and learn a lot more things about our friends we knew.
I found out how each keys on K's keychain work. That was a completely useless piece of information unless I become his girlfriend or a thief to his house, which is highly unlikely. I don't know what he is doing, but he is very weird. He has too much on his plate, I suppose. And he is far too pretty to be single. I believe that if he has a girlfriend then a lot of girls will be heartbroken, etc. You know what I mean.
I found that he wants to be treated as someone who is normal, so that's exactly what I do. I don't think he has been blessed with good looks; he's cursed by it. I hope he is going to be o.k. Just a little bit worried that he will not survive in the big bad world out there. He seems so fragile and young.
R is so funny. Don't know if he is trying to be funny or is real funny that way. Found out that either M or A (the guy wearing red shirt and has a cute small silver cellphone) is dad's computer teacher's grandson. Ah! So complicated, isn't it? Anyway, his mum is very good at singing and is in our choir. There you go. We are friends.
Overall today has been hectic and fun. I love 2005 already. Purpleskirt has already invited me to watch Phantom of Opera and we may get to go out for one day in Rotorua. Cool.
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