Worm trumps Frog
11:15 AM
The weather in Auckland has been progressively getting worse. It rains non stop. The wind blows to no end and my umbrella is taking a terrible beating for it. I have two umbrellas and both have inverted at some point. Just recently I spotted some rust on my black and white polka dotted one. Apparently, Auckland saw the worst storm of the century during the weekend. I received numerous text messages warning me to stay away from windows and to prepare for power cuts. I didn't think the storm was too bad though. It did set a huge downer on everyone but there were no smashing windows or moments of intrepid darkness in the blizzard.
That aside, education has only been getting more and more interesting on my part. Yesterday, I dissected a worm and disgustedly poked at it's slimy organs. Pretty impressive actually. Before this, I would've never stopped grimacing and wailing in utter disgust if I was made to hold worm. But in an attempt to appear literate and composed, I stifled my disgust and held the worm in my hand, even mildly squeezing and rolling it between my palms at one point to feel the chaetae on it's body. Stripping the skin layer was quite tricky. Turns out, my first dissection wasn't too good.
That aside, education has only been getting more and more interesting on my part. Yesterday, I dissected a worm and disgustedly poked at it's slimy organs. Pretty impressive actually. Before this, I would've never stopped grimacing and wailing in utter disgust if I was made to hold worm. But in an attempt to appear literate and composed, I stifled my disgust and held the worm in my hand, even mildly squeezing and rolling it between my palms at one point to feel the chaetae on it's body. Stripping the skin layer was quite tricky. Turns out, my first dissection wasn't too good.
Hahhaah, sry!!! But then again, grossing you out was my intention....
This was my lab partner's (Celia) dissection. Her dissection put my dissecting skills to shame.....
That was an interesting lab. And apparently, there're bigger, better and juicier things to come. So stay tuned!
Psych was just as interesting. We're learning social psychology this semester. And one of the components is love and relationships which left me completely intrigued. The lecturer went on to explain all the different types of symptoms and feelings when you're in love or in a relationship. All along I thought I was this really cynical person, turns out there's more to everything. Like how there are generally two different kinds of reaction when it comes to attraction. Some people just need one major aspect to be attracted to another. One thing sets them off and they find themselves falling deeply in love. While others had to find a whole package.
And then there was the deeply engaging lecturer on explicit and implicit characteristics. Think you're not a racist person. Never have been. Never will be? Think again. You might have a racial preference without even knowing it. We're evaluating this at our psych lab today. You might want to check out this site and see if you were actually different from the person you thought you were.
Have fun! Gotta run off for lectures now.....
....in the rain! Barh....
you know you love me!
xoxo
The outgoing crazy sensible RA - Trish
The Oblivious Hyperactive Mormon - Courtney
The one who makes Inappropriate faces/comments - Muah
The Ipod-er who's camera shy yet takes awesome pictures of people in their natural state of being - JoBanana
With Trish on the bus. Look at my cheesy smile!! Urgh...
Courtney's all peaced out.... Couldn't take one of JoBanana coz we had arrived right after I took this one.
The four of us on the beach with Rangitoto Island behind us.
Courtney doing her victory dance after chasing the sea gulls and shooing them away. She has this thing about not being able to see any sorta bird wandering peacefully in her presence. Seriously. Sparrows. Sea gulls. Pigeons. Count on Courtney to annihilate the term "as free as a bird".
The lost wanderer. It was cold, but I have sufficient insulation to feel warm.... Pfft.
And then, we found the rock overlooking the water and all (posing) hell broke loose....
take one - high
take two - oblivion
take three - accusation
take four - angst gone wrong
take five - freedom???
We bought fish and chips from the take away shop across the road and ate by the beach coz this is what people normally do. Turns out.. Bad idea. The birds took advantage of this to plot their revenge against Courtney. They flocked towards us, eyeing the food, hypnotized by it's smell. I think we drove them to desperation. Coz Courtney continously chased them in circles while Trish succeeded in luring them somewhat. Talk about confusion!!!!!!
And then, to reward ourselves, (for what?????) we headed over to the legend itself..... Movenpick..... for ice cream. But only JoBanana and I ended up eating. And true. The ice cream was legendary.....mainly for it's sugar overload..... I elevated my insulin levels on Macadamia and Chocolate flavoured giant scoops in a honey glazed sickeningly sweet cone. While Joanna went for Walnut and chocolate in a cone..... Yum! No dinner for me....
JoBanana and me - U see la.... Two spoons and I'm hiiiiigh....
Trish and Courtney holding our ice cream cones for a picture....
And then right, I don't know how or why, they ended up fighting for Courtney's half sucked lolly..
But all was sweet. Coz the next thing we knew, they were pondering over Courtney's little book of quotes which she brought with her......
Meanwhile..... JoBanana and I continued to pig out... and still pose for the camera. Girls are indeed multi taskers. Bless us...
To burn some of it off, we went to play ball on the beach.... From volleyball to monkey to donkey (no seriously, these were Courtney- recommended games) and football and then rotate-and-catch-the-ball, we played it all.. Thanks to the Huia footie.. held by Courtney...
Some Chinese tourists stopped by and had a good laugh at us and our ball playing skills.... Only the uber cool play ball on the beach on a cold winter's evening....
The only catch was, we had to make sure the ball didn't get into the water where it was impossible to retrieve..... LOL...Hence, Jo and Trish here, running after the ball.... I am not in any of these pics coz duh, I was the one taking them...
.....and me....
