#I don’t know how I did this so fast (1.5hrs)

[memories-break-our-fall]

life was a willow and it bent right to your wind

[kendricksendrick]

Hi so im in a deferred drug diversion program through my school for something that happened back in january and i rly just need to use this space as a diary for a few hot seconds and tell it how it is/tell my thoughts ig.

Basically in january my roommate and i were smoking weed out our dorm window (i know stupid move but listen) it was during interim (3 weeks where we take 1 or 2 classes) and my hall was p much EMPTY like nobody was there except one other friend. Basically we’d get all our hw done by like 3, nap, eat dinner, shower, smoke, and go to bed at like 8pm out of literal boredom. One night after were done w the ritual just eating chips or somrth there was a knock on the door and it was campus police and blablabla searched the room, had to do the walk of shame in shorts and my winter coat all the way around the building to the dumpster (it was cold as fuck im in wisco) and long story short they told us wed be in the drug diversion program (ddp for short) to get the charge off our record.

Beginning of 2nd semester sometime in early feb we had a meeting w some hall director to explain what happened basically, then had to do the online aoda2 program and 1.5hrs of counseling where we had to again explain everything and why we were doing what we did (extreme boredom (were also stoners but besides the fact)). Anyways theyre like yeah your ddp letter and info shouldcome in about a month.

Letter gets to us beginning of march and said we had 30days to pay the $200 program fee or set up a court date. No way was i finna go to court so im like sheet gotta get this bread somehow. Then bam, corona hits and my school tells us we have 2days to leave campus and they dont know when were coming back, u know that drill. So we call the district attorney (da) and are like hi were being sent home and were supposed to pay this fee like tomorrow what do we do? They said don’t worry about it theyll be in contact w us, just to go home etc.

I go home and forget about the ddp until one day end of april they mail me THE EXACT SAME LETTER (SAME MARCH 30th payment deadline, timestamped early march and all) like the same letter to a T that they sent us earlier in the yr. so i call them and am like ok whats up w this its the same thing?? The lady was like just send us your money for the program and we’ll figure it out in the fall and we’ll be in touch.

Fast forward through the whole summer (where j may kr may not have smoked every day out of boredom and sadness bc hello corona) and i move back to school in September and am minding my damn business going about my life when j get a letter saying i missed a piss test in September. Im like the fuck? They didnt tell me it started (otherwise i wouldve quit smoking in idk august) so i call and im like hi you didnt tell me this started and the lady was like well it was implied that youd start when you get bacj to campus and i was like but you didnt follow up like you said and she was like yea sry just start going in for them now its fine.

So now winter break is coming up right, and its like 2months long at my school and i live far away and dont have a car to skedaddle up here on no notice for piss tests that my parents know nothing about so i called them today and explained the situation. Basically what theyre doing is freezing my status in the program from dec 18-jan 29th while im home on break so i want have to do ua’s or anything but when i come back for second semester end of January i have to pick up where i left off (which is one clean piss test on nov 24, the day i left for thxgiving break btw lmao cause i didnt quit till i got the letter saying i had missed a ua in early october)

Basically w the ddp you have a year to have 6consecutive months of clean ua’s and wipe your record, which wouldnt be a problem, but i have a few issues with it.

[yvonneyusa]

Sept’17 Photo Summary

As always, I am very late to update my blog. Honestly have no idea what even am I so busy with, but its just all the procrastination, though Sept is a short month in terms of how fast it just went and how little pictures I’ve got! Nonetheless, we are yet another month closer to end of 2017, I know right?!

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// 9th // Genting & Yoga Lin’s concert //

So me and my sister were quite crazy because Yoga Lin (our fav cpop singer) was going to have his world tour in Malaysia (and not Singapore which I don’t know why!), and so we decided to go to Genting to attend his concert (on Sat) after work on a Friday. Good thing was that my parents were really supportive and my dad didn’t mind driving all 7 hours on his own just so we can go for his concert. And guys, best father award goes to him

^ Dalkkom cafe

^ High tea

Free poster and we are all ready for good music to cleanse our soul and ears

Story time of how we managed to get the first row for the concert. My dad is a Genting member so he spoke to one of the marketing manager (they have plenty of marketing manager), to ask him to reserve two tickets for us (not too far back nor too expensive that’s what we said). The marketing manager then said alright I’ve got the tickets reserved for you so just come and collect. So when we got there, dad went to collect, but turned out the marketing manager didn’t press “confirm” when he reserved/buy the tickets. But since he already said he got the tickets for us, he had to find us other available tickets and somehow somewhat we ended up getting the VVIP tickets, so lucky for us both!! 

^ Hands down to best singer in Taiwan (been a fan since he first debut) 

Almost forgotten that Yoga debuted almost 10 years ago, while I was 13/14! Wow! He debuted via a singing competition in Taiwan and I’ve been a fan ever since. He has got this unique vocal (that is constantly improving), and unique way of singing. There are literally so many of his songs that I am so so in love with so you should really check out him and his songs if not, you are missing out!

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// 23rd // Night Colour Run //

Many of my friends were actually surprised that I went for colour run, because 1) I hate running (I mean who doesn’t?!), 2) I am never a fan of such event because what’s the meaning/point of it? 3) it costed way too much for such event. But yes, I did ended up going and as you’d expected, its mainly peer pressure. Its been hard trying to say no recently and I am still trying to fix that.

Pictures here and there through the night via my gopro

Can’t remember if I mentioned this before, probably did, but still going to say it again. I do highly discourage you if you are thinking of getting a gopro. Honestly tho, its overrated, or maybe I am just not an expert at it. But its sometimes a pain in the ass given its short battery life (max 1.5hr), and if you consider that you are going to use it for long outdoor event, it just doesn’t make any sense does it? Bearing in mind gopro’s equipments are all expensive. So no, don’t.

^ Cleansed my face thrice just to properly get everything off.

If you asked if I enjoyed the event, my answer is big No. People just hyped up the event wayyyyyy too much I can’t emphasise enough. Okay firstly, the ticket is expensive, and I got it for 20% off because I saw a promotion going on, and it is still expensive. Secondly, collection of the race pack was at a super remote/inaccessible shopping mall. Thirdly, the race pack sucks, it just comes with a headlight, the shirt (not even of great quality), your bib and safety pins, and many other useless vouchers/coupons. The run itself it at Sentosa, which requires us to take the tram to get there, troublesome? Yes. The venue itself barely has got anything interesting. Not much fun booth. As much as I can recall, there’s only one photo booth, so imagine the queue. Other booths includes gym trials (really?!), audio stuff like earphones/portable speakers and just some random booths that are not even worth mentioning. The run itself, the flag off is every fifteen minutes and the amount of people is just.. and I hate crowds. And people don’t actually run, or rather, you can’t, because everyone just wanna walk. You walk/run for a distance and you reach the “powder”/”colour” section, where people throw coloured powder at you, you’d think the section would be big, oh no love, its really short and small. Mind you, its only 5K, and they really don’t have a lot of powder section. Basically the entire event is just massively underwhelming. When you are at the flag off point, the MCs by the side keep hyping you up and cheer the crowds, but as soon as the run really started, it just went downhill, and never got back up. It has been a long while since I went for something that I did not enjoy at all. So don’t, don’t even try to ask me to go for such event anymore again. Thanks.

x.

[teajaws]

Be prepared to scroll past all of this annoying long post.

A conversation with @vinasana struck me just a moment ago about those questionnaires that go around where people pick things they wanna know about us and we answer. “If you want to talk about yourself just do it, why we gotta ask you all those questions??” She vexed. Well I just came across one and since I doubt anyone would even ask at this rate I decided, “Fuck it, Im’a do tha whooole thing.”

1. What is you middle name? John 2. How old are you? 30 3. When is your birthday? April 11 4. What is your zodiac sign? Aries 5. What is your favorite color? Olive Drab 6. What’s your lucky number? 7 7. Do you have any pets? A Goldfish 8. Where are you from? Virginia 9. How tall are you? 6′5″ 10. What shoe size are you? 12 11. How many pairs of shoes do you own? 3 12. What was your last dream about? a friend was in a car accident 13. What talents do you have? Emotional intelligence 14. Are you psychic in any way? I can read your emotions 15. Favorite song? That’s a reductive question 16. Favorite movie? See previous answer 17. Who would be your ideal partner? Jeff Goldblum 18. Do you want children? Yes? 19. Do you want a church wedding? Meh. 20. Are you religious? Yikes. 21. Have you ever been to the hospital? I was born in one 22. Have you ever got in trouble with the law? How many times? 23. Have you ever met any celebrities? Enough 24. Baths or showers? Why limit ourselves!? 25. What color socks are you wearing? Barefoot 26. Have you ever been famous? Not even close 27. Would you like to be a big celebrity? Probably not 28. What type of music do you like? Nice beats, clever thoughtful writing 29. Have you ever been skinny dipping? Yes 30. How many pillows do you sleep with? Five (งツ)ว 31. What position do you usually sleep in? All over the bed 32. How big is your house? 4 bed, 3 bath 33. What do you typically have for breakfast? Oatmeal, Peanut Butter on an English muffin with bananas, coffee 34. Have you ever fired a gun? So many 35. Have you ever tried archery? Long ago when Keith had a compound bow 36. Favorite clean word? Shiny 37. Favorite swear word? Really just depends on the context 38. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleep? a couple days 39. Do you have any scars? 3 40. Have you ever had a secret admirer? I don’t know, wouldn’t that make them not secret? 41. Are you a good liar? Ask the people who I lie to ;P 42. Are you a good judge of character? God awful 43. Can you do any other accents other than your own? Making an ass of myself 44. Do you have a strong accent? According to the Irish 45. What is your favorite accent? Indiscernible Scottish or Kiwi 46. What is your personality type? ISFP 47. What is your most expensive piece of clothing? Do GoRuck bags count? If not, my shoes. 48. Can you curl your tongue? Yep 49. Are you an innie or an outie? Innieeeeeeee 50. Left or right handed? Right 51. Are you scared of spiders? Depends on how necrotic the bite will be 52. Favorite food? Gyro 53. Favorite foreign food? You ask like you assume I’d like white people casseroles and hadn’t already answered this in the previous question.  54. Are you a clean or messy person? How much is going on in my life at the time? 55. Most used phrased? It’s all good 56. Most used word? Ok 57. How long does it take for you to get ready? 1.5hrs 58. Do you have much of an ego? Uhhhhhhhhno 59. Do you suck or bite lollipops? I chew those suckers in the last quarter 60. Do you talk to yourself? Only when I’m reenacting something I wish I’d said in a fight or I’m uncomfortable 61. Do you sing to yourself? In the shower and car 62. Are you a good singer? Jesus wept, no. 63. Biggest Fear? Developing dementia 64. Are you a gossip? Negative 65. Best dramatic movie you’ve seen? https://youtu.be/zmq_sYXu64w 66. Do you like long or short hair? On me, short. On ladies, long. 67. Can you name all 50 states of America? Augh, right now?  68. Favorite school subject? World Regions 69. Extrovert or Introvert? Introverted 70. Have you ever been scuba diving? Only in my dreams :( 71. What makes you nervous? Attraction to people 72. Are you scared of the dark? No 73. Do you correct people when they make mistakes? Not if it doesn’t matter! Rude. 74. Are you ticklish? Deathly 75. Have you ever started a rumor? No 76. Have you ever been in a position of authority? Yes 77. Have you ever drank underage? Yes 78. Have you ever done drugs? Yes 79. Who was your first real crush? How are we defining real? Writing a heart around them in the yearbook or having them call the cops on me? 80. How many piercings do you have? Only the giant hole in my self-esteem 81. Can you roll your Rs?“ Que dijiste? 82. How fast can you type? As fast as I can answer this question 83. How fast can you run? Do I have a reason to run? 84. What color is your hair? Dark brown 85. What color is your eyes? Are* dark brown (see? I’m a dick that will correct you.) 86. What are you allergic to? I never figured it out but it caused hives all over my body O_O 87. Do you keep a journal? This tumblr is the closest thing 88. What do your parents do? Retired 89. Do you like your age? I guess I’m a 1/3 closer to the average age of death 90. What makes you angry? Donald Trump, the GOP, Tea party fuckwads, homophobia, misogyny, xenophobia, religious dogma, a fucking lot the list is too long really. 91. Do you like your own name? No 92. Have you already thought of baby names, and if so what are they? Dogmeat 93. Do you want a boy a girl for a child? Girl 94. What are you strengths? Patience and sympathy 95. What are your weaknesses? Assertiveness, confidence, discipline 96. How did you get your name? My parents wanted a kid to address by their initials 97. Were your ancestors royalty? Most likely horse thieves 98. Do you have any scars? I... answered this already didn’t I? YES question 39! I knew it. 99. Color of your bedspread? Blood red or I guess wine red if you want to be boring 100. Color of your room? Coyote

[anniepilchard]

NZ Part 2

The lord giveth and the lord taketh away.... The creation of NZ was probably not much to do with the lord and more to do with tectonic plates pushing together millions of years ago forming a “new” country. It really is beautiful, each coastline holding a different wow factor. “And the lord taketh away” by creating Namu or Sandflies as we mortals know them. Maori legend has it that the god hoobey -doobey made Namu to stop mankind lingering at the wonders he created. Whoever was to blame the reality of the sandfly is this. They are little black flies that with pincers on their heads that burrow into your flesh, rip it apart and drink the pool of blood created. They do all this in a millisecond, by the time you feel pain it’s done. They are everywhere. Especially on my feet, ankles, wrists, elbows and where ever a vein maybe exposed. The deserted beaches of NZ are so because no-one can actually go to the beach without being eaten alive, so god hoogey Dooby did a good job. This is my new NZ beach attire.

Not to be put off we travelled to the Abel Tasman National Park (sandfly pop. 40 billion) south entrance to do our planned kayak guided trip through the calm waters, visiting seal inhabited islands and white sand inlet beaches on the way. We’ve kayaked in quite a few places now, we go in a double kayak, me in the front Dawn in the back, I seem to have excelled at it. We appear to travel really fast gliding through the water. For me it’s effortless, I can even take a few photos on the way. Dawn however, bless her seems to find kayaking tough. She has blisters on her hands and sore aching muscles. I try to give her guidance but I really just don’t understand it. 😂😂

The Abel Tasman walking track goes 70km all the way up the coast to the northern entrance of Toturanui (sandfly pop 100 billion) The walking tracks are more accessible there so I convinced Dawn we would do the 2 hour drive to the “scenic” camp site and stay for a few days. What I didn’t tell her was that the last 10km was on a gravel road exposed to landslides and clearly contrary to our campervan hire agreement. Dawn is a good driver, I kept telling her this to flatter her ego so she would talk to me again. Needless to say it was a long 10k The prize at the end of it was a campsite situated on a deserted golden beach with a clear blue sea lapping gently at the waters edge. The description of “scenic” also translates to minimal facilities and cold showers from rain water. This was us freedom camping at one with nature; Sandflies, weird chicken-birds and god knows what else. We completed another 15k tramp through untouched rainforest and across postcard picture beaches before getting the hell out. We were bitten, scuzzy from not showering and tired from a sleepless night after the call of the wild called all bloody night. Dawn says I am at one with nature as long as it’s on my 50 inch TV watching from the comfort of the sofa, I think I agree, so we decide to leave it all behind and head for the higher colder climates of glacier country. The road however is long, and indeed winding,  6hrs later we had only reached Hokitika on the west coast. Taking advice from Lonely Planet and Jackie we decided we would treat ourselves to fresh fish and chips, eat them out on the spit and watch the sunset over the sea. The sun was hard to find through the driving rain, the fish was from the “wrong chippy” but we persevered and toasted our halfway holiday point with a bottle of beer (me) and dawn had some weird pip and seed, grape and apple combo that she seemed to like. In the morning the storm had passed, we headed to Hokitika Gorge for a stroll before the drive up to Franz Joseph Glacier. On the way Dawn sampled a West Coast traditional delight - whitebait fritters.

We arrived at Rainforest camp early afternoon and decided to hike up to the glacier before the bad weather set in. Entirely the fault of the scaleless map and obviously not mine, we walked 5k before we reached the car park at the start of the glacier walk which was another 1.5hr round trip. But not to worry the glacier was well worth it (note sarcasm - see photo)

Dawn refused to walk any further and forced me to ask numerous tourists whether there was a shuttle bus back to town, we eventually caught one with 2 over zealous glacier intrigued Americans that asked the driver every possible question thinkable about the glacier in the 15min journey, ”who was Franz Josef”, “when did he discover the glacier” “how much does it move every year” blah blah blah. On getting off the bus Dawn asked the driver the most poignant question of the day “where is the best pizza in town?” Answer; Blue Ice Cafe - Friday night half price special - bonus! We’d heard cyclone Gita was coming and it rained all night and all morning forcing us back down to sea level and onwards to Wanaka. The drive there added to our wow moments clear blue lake after lake at the foot of imposing mountains. On reaching Wanaka the only campsite left was one situated right on the lake, it was beautiful and not a sandfly in sight. Dawn was inspired by the drive in and proclaimed she wanted to climb a mountain so I found one. Roy’s Peak was a mere 1587m high 5-6 hour round trip - we were on it!

The day of the hike the sun was shining and the van was broken.  A strange metal on metal scraping noise was coming from the wheels. Dawn didn’t seem phased that we were in the middle of nowhere and said it could wait til we came back. Unsurprising when we eventually returned exhausted from our hike, unable to walk another step the van was still broken, our call to the AA lasted only as long as my mobile “capped minutes” let it, we were stuck. Dawns motto “it’ll be right” and our inability to walk any further resulted in her driving on through a burning smell until the noise stopped. Dawn then tested the brakes on a piece of road called “the Devil’s staircase” which we somehow survived despite Dawn thinking the brakes still weren’t “quite right” We briefly stopped at Queenstown where it appeared everyone in NZ had been hiding including half of the population of Japan who are obsessed with taking photos of themselves and seagulls. Dawn says she had better not see a frigging seagull in Japan with all the fuss they making. I think she was tipped over the edge when, whilst admiring a mountain view she was asked to move as she was in the way of a selfie. We headed onto Milford Sound, the last of our sight seeing biggies, it didn’t disappoint. We drove through valleys carved out of massive granite mountains by glaciers before arriving at the sound its self. We have never seen anything like it, no wonder so many films use the area as their sets. It was however very busy, so we decided after camping the night to set off early in the morning to get a car park space ready for our boat trip across the sound. Late as usual, Dawn said it’ll be fine, we couldn’t find a space, ended up parking miles away and had to run to catch the boat. Dawn said it was good planning, I told her she was an arse. Once on the boat it was a fantastic trip, dolphins joined us much of the way playing in the wake at the back of the boat, seals bathed in the sun on the rocks, waterfalls cascaded down from the glaciers above into the bay and we even saw gold crested penguins fishing off the shore.  All my much awaited wildlife spotting done in one hit. Perfect.

And so we leave New Zealand slightly itchier than when we arrived but having had an amazing time. We are looking forward to a bed, showering without wearing flip flops and being able to have a drink after 8pm cos we can wee when we want. Dawn will need to get over being offended by the Japanese as we are about to join 130 million of them.