Portage Here I Come

Well, not really seeing as I am not staying there. We've decided to stay at Te Mahia Resort, 15 minutes down the road just for my life's sake.....I've much rather stay at a place knowing that someone will not give me the evils when I walk pass them or try to kill me for stealing two of their staff member LOL .... On the bright side, it will be good with catch up with a few old, non-murderous friends that are still there.


Work has not been overly exciting over the last 3 nights as you can see ....



The hotel is less than half full and I have not seen a soul or a fly between the hours of 12am and 4am. BOOORIIING..... I tried to draaaaag my work and not work too fast but still managed to finish up everything at 3am, leaving me 4 hours to twiddle my thumbs and try not to die of boredom.


I did get a visit by the police (AGAIN) .... tonight because someone got beaten up .... one reason why I don't go out alone at night in Christchurch .... I also had to be mean and not let a very strange man bring his cat to stay in the hotel.....WHO BRINGS A CAT TO A HOTEL!! He had to lock the cat up in his car with a container of water which I gave him in the end..... silly man! He did ask whether he could let her run loose in my office though ..... apparently she'll just go to sleep ..... errr...yea right! Knowing my luck she will poop and pee everywhere and I'll have to spend my precious time cleaning it up.


Hmm... I shall try and update this later tonight if I get internet at all. Can you believe it??? They only have dial up internet there....AND ITS NOT EVEN FULL SPEED!! One reason why I will not live in isolated places again...... I'm looking forward to driving my new rental station wagon and pretend to be a big tough macho mover man for Salome and Charlie.... They haven't realised that I will just be supervising and not touching those heavy boxes of theirs hehehe. I'm hoping to beat all the rush hour traffic after work and hopefully won't be too tired for the 5 hour drive. I'll definately be taking those nasty nasty caffine pills that apparently is equivilent to 5 Reb Bull drinks so that I don't fall asleep.... Might just have to stop at every single cafe on the way :p ... Wish me luck =)

Hello Shoes. I've Finally Found You

Well, seeing as you are so important Steve, I thought I might dedicate this post to you.


I've had a bad run with these new very nice black shoes, which I've bought for work but they've started fading white on spots around the edge and tip of the shoes after wearing them only 4 or 5 times.


As usual, instead of taking them back straight away and asking for a refund or replacement, I'd use my cleaver brain and attempt to fix the problem myself....not always a good idea. I started with black polish ..... didn't work ..... black shoe dye.....didn't work as well ... black sharpie marker pen DID work for one or two days before it started going purple on the areas I fixed LOL .... told you Steve, I did try the sharpie trick. Too bad it didn't work. Purple spots on nice black shoes....not a good look.


After I ran out of idea, I've decided that I'd just have to get off my lazy ass finally and go back to the store in the MALLS! ......(my favourite...not!) ... and try to get a replacement or money back. The pushy lady at the store did not believe me at the start and she blamed me for not looking after them ..... HOW RUDE! .... so, I've told her that I've bought way cheaper shoes and they've lasted more than 5 days of wear LOL ..... I wansn't going to give up easy and she had to give me a replacement. She got the wrong Asian to argue with I supposed. She'll never win.


So, I got my replacement and I had a feeling that it would do the same thing again anyway. What do you know ..... it happened to ONE of them after 2 wears. So off I went, back to the store and and this time I've had enough of them and wanted my $$$$ back ....... She believed me this time and I got my money back YAY! She probably knew that there was no point arguing with me after the last visit.


After that, I was work-shoeless and I HAD to go find new ones. Typical me, I wanted these shoes that did not have my size and in the end I had to visit every mall and every shoe shop in the whole of Christchurch to try and find ones that actually fit me. Well, it only took me 4 days to find them, just before I was going to give up and look for other ones.


So Steve, seeing as you've asked for it. I've posted some lovely pictures of my new shoes JUST FOR YOU hehehehe. Aren't you a lucky thing!


THE new shoes .....



It even comes with shoe bags ..... who'd use them??? They act as a buffing cloth as well though ;-)



and just to top it all off....new belt as well ....thanks Kerry and Daz for those =)






NOW, I'm all hotted up again with my new shoes and belt. I wonder what's next .......

Out with the Famdamily

Tonight I'm actually awake enough to be sociable and entertaining, so we all went out together for a nice meal. Being such a control freak that I am, I have banned a few the few restaurants that the family always go to and we WILL have to try something different. Not to mention that I made sure they didn't cut the cake until today otherwise we wouldn't have had one.

We ended up having Indian at Mantra (Go there if you fancy Indian while you are in Christchurch). They always have great food, its clean and nicely decorated although the Indian chantings through the speaker can drive you a bit loopy sometimes. Down a bit of alcohol and you won't notice anything.

I was hoping that we will get the doopy waiter that we've had in the past but he obviously was not working tonight. He provides half the entertainment for the night and we just had to find alternative sources of entertainment I guess.

The food came out about 15 minutes after we've ordered when we were told that the wait was 45 minutes ...... nothing to complaint about so were were able to pack our bellies quicker. As usual, the food was fantastic and we always ended up eating too much.


.....Us before we stuffed our hungry pie hole.....

Then the CAKE came out.... Didn't really eat much....I was WAY too full

So we left Mantra all curried and caked up and I've decided that I'd take them all out into the town HAHAHA.... I thought I might start by taking them back to my work, WHAT BAR and show them around the hotel. They've always wanted to go in and have a look at the change because dad used to be one of those horrible tax man working in that building hahaha. No, he was probably one of the nice ones.

And so we wondered around, sat down and I downed some more alcohol in me ... in front of the non drinkers .... although I did try my best to spike their drinks for them .... didn't wooooorrk ....

It was just nice to sit down, enjoy the chats, the bar and the DJ for a while and not WORK. I lasted till 11:30pm before I got bored hahaha.

So it was beddies bye bye before midnight on a Saturday night....sad I know and the bar tab seemed suprisingly small, partly because I had to behave in front of the family.....Don't want to ruin my nice well behaved image in front of them ;-) Well, too bad if they read this and I'm sure they won't anyway...how often do they touch a computer?!?

Birthday Girl

No, I'm not the birthday girl, its my younger sister Vivienne who is 15 today. As you all know, I'm such a charming, nice and thoughtful person that I always buy presents a week in advance.....NOT!

So...I finished work as usual at some un-godly hour in the morning.....7:30am .... rushed home to bed, hoping to get some sort of sleep before having to wake up early afternoon to go out and find some sort of gift for a teenager seeing as Barbies, Toy World and fluffy toys just don't cut it anymore. I would never buy such childish gifts for people anyway being the boring old fart that I am.

In the end, I had about 3 hours of sleep before the freakin neighbour's alarm started going off and even ear plugs did not helped this time. I was ready to go out there with my axe and hack it to bits.......So, I've decided that it was no use trying to sleep and got up with my puffy eyes and headed off to the MALLS!!! *shivers* ... thank god its not school holidays but its still frightening enough in there.

As usual, I did a loop around the mall, avoiding all the mothers with their push chairs, ankle biters and screaming babies and didn't really find anything that I thought was suitable for a 15 year old ..... See.... I do put thoughts into presents! I did manage to get my money back for the pair of shoes that I've taken back to the store TWICE already and then went off looking for a new pair instead doing what I was supposed to do originally.....whoops!...

As usual, I left the mall without anything and headed off to a shop called NOOD next to my work. As some of you may be aware that I am a noodist since last year ..... I get 25 - 50% off at this store as they are having a big sale at the moment which worked out quite well because I am a thoughful cheapo present buyer. In the end, I did manage to buy a huge bag of goodies for her which suprisingly she liked very much LOL. I suppose if you go somewhere call New Objects Of Desire and buy presents, you can't go too wrong. They are desirable afterall.

We were going to go out for dinner tonight but SOMEONE .... (not mentioning names).....got too tired from their big day, fell as sleep and could not wake up for it so we've all decided that we should do dinner tomorrow.

So yea .... Happy birthday to you Vivienne and can't believe you are still so .......young LOL .... Trust me, when you see her, she DOES NOT LOOK 15!!! .... so all you boys out there, STAY AWAY FROM HER!! ..... We will still try our best to buy more ugly clothes, less make up, less pretty shoes, not teach you how to drive and scare all the boys away from you. Don't we sound like selfish bastards hahahahaha.....

Mind you time does go quick and I still remember the day when dad called from the hospital and I had to give directions to my aunt to drive us there to meet the new addition to the family. Would you listen to an 8 year old me LOL ..... What were they thinking?!?!? .... So hurry up and get older, you can get into misbehave more and no one will really notice or care .... (I'm never a bad influence on younge people)

Now for some photos!

Then ....

....awww look at the cute goaty and the clothes, especially the hat ...... errrr ....

more of those hot clothes and sexy hat .... us poor kids...

ok ok...I'll stop being mean now.....pay attention to the couple in the background in this one .....

...in some tunnel-hole thing at school

...a pretend birthday. We even got the whole restaurant singing and they brought out this strange sweet crusty pastry thing with a candle on it.....HAHAHAHAHA .... you should try faking a birthday...its hilarious

Now...

.....us SuPOr Models

...........and a photo of the cake because we are Asians

.................................and thanks for viewing