Birthdays
Friday April 25, 2008
It was Andrew's birthday yesterday, so we made an expedition to Matiu/Somes Island in the middle of Wellington Harbour for a walkabout and a picnic. Really awesome weather, the skies were blue and the sun was out in full April force. We got to see some wildlife as well, including some skinks, a fantail and a robin. And sheep, sheep are cute :3 Pictures in the gallery.
Dave had his birthday earlier in the week as well; Jono and I had homegroup so we joined the gang afterwards - just in time for delicious cake, I might add.
Only another week to go before I'm back in Auckland \o/
Posted by Jeremy at 11:59pm on Friday April 25, 2008 :: 0 comments :: 
Armageddon
Tuesday April 22, 2008
Last weekend was the Armageddon Pulp Expo at Wellington's TSB Bank Arena. While I'm not a big fan of comics, sci-fi, anime and wrestling, Armageddon still has a decent gaming presence and I was there to catch Super Smash Bros Brawl and, of course, the best racing game ever, Speed Racer.
Bumped into Peter today. He just arrived to start work on Tuesday. He's probably reading this. I met John for Burgerfuel and the three of us went to HK BBQ for milk tea.
Posted by Jeremy at 9:54am on Tuesday April 22, 2008 :: 0 comments ::
Friday Night is the Scene
Saturday April 19, 2008
The three flats met up at Calzone (again) for some coffee and dessert. While it was not the best in the world, it was certainly delicious and droolworthy.
We were also joined by Tom, who had flown down from Auckland for something to do with the tramping club this weekend.
Calzone were closing up, so we migrated across the road to HK BBQ. And there's only one thing we go to HK BBQ for.
Yum :3 Still not as good as Momo's, and we got booted out at midnight. Sigh. And they say the Wellington night life is better than Auckland's.
Posted by Jeremy at 6:15am on Saturday April 19, 2008 :: 0 comments ::
Misconduct
Wednesday April 16, 2008
I slept at work today :O Legitimately, you could say. Basically, we're shifting the place around so that people in project teams are closer to each other, and it's easier to communicate or whatever. Anyway, shifting means unplugging computer; unplugging computer means I can't do work; if I have no work to do... I sleep :O
After work, I met up with the others at Char Bar for the pub quiz. We didn't do too badly this time round: our name was In Soviet Russia, Quiz Answers You!. And we weren't DFL either, so that was great.
We decided to end the night by having rock melon milk tea with pearls at HK BBQ.
Posted by Jeremy at 10:56am on Wednesday April 16, 2008 :: 2 comments ::
Yum Char
Sunday April 13, 2008
We resolved on Friday night that we would go for yum char, since some of us hadn't been in a long time; or in the case of Jono, never been at all.
We chose to go to Majestic Cuisine, since it's such good value for money and the quality is pretty much up there. We had so much food.. prawn dumplings, scallop dumplings, vegetable dumplings, siew mai, rice noodle, char siu bao, glutinous rice, deep fried squid, pork ribs, pork pastries, mango pudding, tofu fa, custard buns, coconut cubes...simply awesome. However, there were not enough egg tarts and no more durian pastries :(
We had so much fun that Jane and Andrew could not contain themselves.
The rest of the day was spent napping and playing... DotA! Yay! :D
Posted by Jeremy at 11:04am on Sunday April 13, 2008 :: 1 comment ::
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Saturday April 12, 2008
IT REOPENED HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
So yeah, I went into town with John to grab a few things, such as Burgerfuel, a clothes rack, and a sympathy card. I wanted to get a haircut too, but I didn't find anywhere suitable.
Anyway, that night, we had a potluck dinner with the other two flats. Man, it dragged on for a whle *_* But the food was really good: I contributed some prawn-cuttlefish ball-onion and capsicum kebabs, we also had roast pork, roast chicken, roast vegetables, salad, garlic bread, chips and dips...and ice cream and fruit salad to finish.
In other news, I got to play on the keyboard \o/ and we also watched Dirty Dancing /o\
Posted by Jeremy at 1:51pm on Saturday April 12, 2008 :: 1 comment ::
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Friday April 11, 2008
IT REOPENED HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
So yeah, I was a bit late home last night because I went out with Jono, Sunita, Jane and Paul. We went to Calzone, this cafe on the corner of Courtenay Street and Cambridge Terrace and just hung out. I had a honey-roasted chicken fettucine. Then we migrated to HK BBQ across the road for some taro milk tea:
By the time I got home, it was midnight and I called my parents (timezones, you know) and spoke to them for an hour or so. I swear, everytime I call them, there is ALWAYS a mention of "this absolutely delicious thing we had the other day. It was so good. If only you were here." -.-
Posted by Jeremy at 9:41pm on Friday April 11, 2008 :: 1 comment ::
Pub Quiz and Python
Thursday April 10, 2008
Instead of Ceroc, me, Jono and John (The three J's) went to a pub quiz on Wednesday. Our team name completely and perfectly described the events that night.
Anyway, today I completed a program in Python, which is rather new to me. My exposure to Python consists of CompSci111 lab exercises that require you to figure out the area and circumference of a circle or to create a random number guessing game. But Python is a neat language, I've yet to fully discover its benefits and quirks. I still don't really like that indentation thing though.
I might have an epic update for tomorrow. We'll see...
Posted by Jeremy at 9:49am on Thursday April 10, 2008 :: 0 comments ::
Balloooons
Sunday April 6, 2008
Someone on my project team left the company on Friday, so we had a thing for him to celebrate his time at Sidhe. As usual, we had our obligatory company trivia quiz, and since he was from Norway, the inevitable question was "Who created the fjords in Norway?". No, my team didn't get it right. Yes, I'm sorry.
Anyway, here's a photo of some of the events that transpired that night. It was a balloon popping game.
On Saturday, I binged on a $6 bag of sour gummi lollies, including sour apple rings, sour watermelon rings, sour peach rings and sour coke bottles. And two mega snakes. Insert diabetes here.
On Saturday night we went to the other flat for a cultured wine and cheese night. To some people's dismay, there was more cheese than wine, but Bjorn didn't seem to mind. It was a really good night, despite the cacophony that was John and Matt talking in French.
Today I went with Jono to Central Baptist for a proper service, and yeah it was really good. I think I'll stay. I even managed to slip in that I was interested in the piano ¬_¬ And we're looking to join a home group as well. I guess we'll see how that goes.
Posted by Jeremy at 9:12am on Sunday April 6, 2008 :: 0 comments ::