omg it's aileen?!

holy craaaaap i am a bad LJ friend!
hi you guys, what's up!
i thought about posting a million times but my life since september 1 has been all studying for like practice exams and now i have my real exams till november 25, although i could tell you about how SUPREMELY EXCITING studying is if you like :D
since i last posted which was aug 21, sad i know, i have:

• been to my two best friend's 17th
• went to a Rihanna and Chris Brown concert
• went to Armageddon (www.pulpexpo.com) it's like a geek expo! we watched these little kids do the Kamehameha contest omg it was so precious i will post a video
• became obsessed with Twilight OJFSDLFKDS THE MOVIE ISN'T COMING OUT TILL JAN 8 HERE EITHER ;_;
• sat 7 exams with 7 to go YAY
• been counting down forever till I leave to Malaysia for 6 weeks -17 days left wooooo
• hiked a bunch of times - which makes me feel a lot fitter than i actually am
• our house is getting renovated - we're building on an extra room so our backyard is like dug up and a mass of rocks, it's great
• that's all? D: and gone out a bunch of times but that would just be like "so today i went to the mall...it was..fun?"
• and i am officially doing my last year of high school as of jan 28th next year - i feel old! even though i am really not!

i have a gazillion photos i stole from my friends computer from pretty much this past year so i shall post them. although by the time i look through them there will probably be 5 haha

( everything else behind the cut! )

hi everybodddddddy!
yeah i felt like i should write something...or something to that effect.
i will post random pictures too, i haven't taken anything of anything in forever!
my life has been spent uhm watching the olympics obsessively (yes because new zealand is so awesome and our commentators are making up for our little country by saying that china is 300 something times bigger than us and if we multiplied our medals by that we would be winning, yes sad i know :( )

on that note, john i am still waiting for your comment although i guess you still have like 4 days left to think of something :P

hmm i have been sick for the last two weeks, i keep giving everyone tmi about whats been happening when i'm sick and they're like O_O wtf why did i want to know that, but i just like to tell people things haha
i have exams in 3 weeks which i should be studying for but i guess i will procrastinate some more because i am super good at it!

i went for high tea at the langham hotel twice over the past couple weeks. it is so adorable, i should've taken pictures of food but my friends were doing it and the waiters kept staring at them like they were really odd

i don't know what else to write, or what pictures to show!
anything anyone wants me to take a picture of and i'll do it? i need to use my camera more often
i guess i shall write when i have something more important, my cat's snoring is distracting haha
goodbye :)

omgomhomhomhgomg michael phelps YAY 8
wth with that cavic guy almost winning i was like OMG NO YOU CAN'T but then phelps won
yeah i had to make a omg post too
i think i have been cheering more for america than for new zealand for this olympics for some reason
swimmers are so awesome when they win and start screaming and flexing
anyway yay :D
although new zealand finally got 5 medals last night in 7 hours, after the newspapers had been complaining for so long about how we sucked

 DINNER PARTY..ISH I HAD :)

( nom nom nom  )

 HEY YOU GUYS!
What's cracking? I'm going to do like a bunch of huge picture posts to catch people up!
Here goes :)

My easter weekend was faaaaaaaaaabulous. On Friday my friends picked me up and us and we had this huge family outing thing and we went to One Tree Hill and ate a restaurant and then came back to their house and they all went to the beach and we had fish and chipsss. It seems everyone always takes the pictures and I never get 'em to show peopleeee. ONE DAY YOU WILL SEE! 

On Friday, my cousin's wedding :D
Okay I'm going to like copy and paste which was written at like when I came home after that day and I was like half asleep. 

OK SO I AM GOING TO TRY WRITE ABOUT MY  COUSIN'S WEDDING IN DETAIL. BUT I REALLY KINDA WANNA TAKE A SHOWER AND SLEEEP AND READ (but not really take my hair out and dress off and shoes off because this is the kinda moment where i think i look hot and if i take it out it'll all be gone :( )
anyway, i woke up at 8 am, came on LJ, got ready, dad picked me up at 9am for my manicure and pedicure appointment, we got there like 10 mins early and were like wtf are we gonna do but apparently everyone came at like 10 past 9 and i was the last one there out of ivy (the bride) and lisa and rucilla (the other 2 bridesmaids). i had to pretty much wait for those two to be done, so i kinda half texted, got to know rucilla and watched stardust on the minitv.
then she started on my toes underneath the table, which was weird cuz usually they take you round the back so you're covered. then this girl started doing my hands. anyway it was pretty sweet, they are both like french tips or whatever you call it, but most of them are chipped already T_T
went into rodney wayne, me and lisa got our hair done first which was supposed to look like this:

but the girl i had didn't really know how to do it
she sorta curled my hair then tied it up in a high ponytail and tried to do a bun but it failed. lisas was good, its supposed to look like soft and side parted with a swooping fringe. but anyway ivy and lisa told her to move it around and down and to part my fringe properly. rucilla got hers done after awhile, and in about 10 mins ivy came in and got extensions in which btw looked completely natural. so we got in rucilla's car and went to aunty susies house, ate some curry puffs, hung around from about 12 - 2.15pm till we had to go. it was stupid though, my hair was so bad she pulled it all out and did it again - good thing shes a freakin hairdresser
anywho she was getting really stressed with all the parentals around but we finally left and made it on time. calvin hired a BMW for $500 for the bridal car and they tied red ribbon to the front and red ribbons on each door handle and off we went. the 3 bridesmaids were in vince's car (rucillas husband) and ivy,and parents were in the BMW. so we got there, music started playing, rucilla went first, then lisa then me, we had to wait till each hit the bottom of the step before we could go. it was stupid though i was like halfway there and ivy decided to come down so i was like awkwardly not knowing what to do but it was ok i guess. then they got married, the celebrant forgot to say you may kiss the bride and everyone laughed. they signed the registration, did a blessing, everyone threw flowers and then we had to take photos with ivy's friend jenny the photographer. so i had to be in most photos because i was in the bridal party. it was kinda awkward all the guys especially my cousin's were all like pimping out with the girls and since i'm 16 and they're all mid 20's i was like ahh - back away-  so we did like ivy and luwayne and then parents with them and then familys then mixed familys then bridesmaids with them, without, grooms with and without, grooms and bridesmaids, individuals. i am dying to get a copy of all those photos though :D 

we were like 15 mins late to the reception which started at 5.30 there were this cute little chocolate things with ivy and luwayne 22.03.2008 on them and cards that said thankyou for coming, of which i took both even though there wasn't enough for everyone. the bridal party + both sets of parents lined up outside and we had to walk in then split down each side. it was so awesome sitting on the bridal table, like the long one up front, everyone stares though which is kinda creepy. his other cousin did a speech then kelly did then the other cousin read out some emails from luwaynes family. then my dad gave ivy away on the first dance and then we had to get up and dance with the groom person we were partnered with. we had a buffet dinner after that, we got to go first followed by clockwise around the roooooom. it was like coleslaw, pasta salad, mixed veges, fried prawn, fried fish, beef, ham, mushroom and cucumber thing, bread, curryish thing, potato, kumara eeeeeetcetc. when i finished my meal, my mum had just started hers rofl. and then the live band came on and my dad kept trying to get me to dance and finally i got up and danced and it was so much fun, everyone was like up and dancing and god luwaynes family is humongous we like formed circles and people danced in the middle. it was awesome though, its like yay my sort of new not really family who i will never see again which is completely sad.

ok i think thats it i dk what to say, i swear i won't be able to sleep tonight, i'll keep writing down things that i remember. my hair is dying i'm sure its like a rock because of the hairspray.

Lol, wow, ok I never realised how many times I say like. Monday I worked, but since it was technically a public holiday i got one and a half pay and then i stayed the night at melissa's that day and basically the weekend after that i baked because i'm a baking fiend and i keep baking when i'm bored and i can't stop.
on that note, any ideas for what i can bake. :D

OH AND I GOT A HAIRCUT TODAAAAAAAY.

 

OMG AHHHHH. I haven't updated in ages :( Okay, so I just came back on uh Tuesday from Tongariro National Park, which is like down south and I'm incredibly sore. I had to do the Tongariro Crossing which is basically like 18km and 9 hours of climbing up this huge mountain. But we get 5 days off for Easter starting tomorrow so that's pretty sweet. I just had my exchange student's farewell party, tomorrow is the beach, Saturday my cousin's wedding - I'm going to be a bridesmaid :D, Sunday uhm ugh going hiking again, Monday work and Tuesday seeing Sweeney Todd, finally. Btw anyone know if it's any good? Other than that, same old same old. I have a bunch of pictures to upload, but it's taking forever. I don't know why my pictures always come out squished and fuzzy. Photobucket hates me.

How is everyone doing too?! 
Here goes:

WHY, HEATH, WHY? :(



His poor daughter! Ugh, I can't believe it, he was an amazing actor.
RIP. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME ;D 16...finally,even though I've wanted to be this age my whole life its like...normal :(

YAY I'M OLD :( I can't believe I only have 2 years of highschool left aaaaaaaaah.
HOW ARE YOU GUYS BTW :D
I need to update on everything!

OMFG ITS CHRISTMAS IN 13 MINUTES FSDLKFJDSS.


Have a good Xmas ya'll!
Tell me all about it :D I'm so excitedflsdkfjlsdk.