#38: Mission Bay

Yesterday afternoon was a short picnic down at Mission Bay, which overlooks Rangitoto Island as seen in the photograph above. Fifteen minute bus ride from the city.

Sand, ocean, splashes of the ocean waves, one of the best environments to be at to relax especially on a sunny day in winter with some snacks.

#38: What’s under that thick navy blue peacoat of mine, pinks, whites and golds. Weather was pretty sunny at 6 degrees Celcius but could get rather chilly after a while especially when the wind blew.
#38: The navy blue peacoat with a fur collar attached on.
And we made scrumptious smoked tuna with scrambled egg, onions, grated parmesan cheese, slices of edam cheese and lettuce sandwiches on wholemeal bread to pack for lunch by the beach.

Bus ride down to Mission Bay.

And here we are, Mission Bay. Awesome weather for a winter day.
Shore line.

Lesson learnt, do NOT attempt to feed A seagull because more and more will approach and swarm around.
Never even attempt to feed the small birds. Feed them and the huge seagulls start swarming.
Some random lady about the age of sixty with really edgy dressing. Leopard print coat and calf-length boots!
Anyway, I just finished reading “The Way We Were” by Elizabeth Noble and I would say that the story was pretty much disappointing with the most drab ending. Basically, it was about some girl who recalls how she fell for some boy back in high school, cheats on him, and they break up. Years later in her mid-forties while she is suffering from some mid-life crisis of fulfilling her role as stepmother with her new partner, cheats on her new partner with her the guy from high school who  is married to some military girl who has to serve in Afghanistan, gets injured in Afghanistan, has to get her leg amputated. Guy from high school was too cowardly to leave military girl, tells main character that they can never be together and never will because he can’t. The end.

Sheesh… what an annoyingly sappy story. Her novel of “Things I Want My Daughters to Know” was so much better.

Nearly five. Years. Less or so.

Another funky car plate in Auckland.

Nightfall, back in Auckland City.

Homemade dinner of three-meat rolls (mince chicken and beef with bacon stuffing), tuna pasta salad and coleslaw.

#37: DIY Black

#37: The do-it-yourself necklace.

I usually keep bits and pieces that I disassembled from jewelry to suit my preference, chains, charms and all. While I was putting together an outfit for an afternoon out, I was inspired to piece together several pieces together since I could do with a black necklace. I have a thing for either personalizing jewelry and tops or finding unique or last pieces.

Complete #37. Off for an afternoon movie, Bad Teacher. That was one amusing movie.

Again, the DIY necklace. I’ve been DIY-ing quite a few things since winter break started. Frankly speaking, so far my winter break had revolved around nothing but going out, arts and crafts, novels and sitting in front of my computer.

After the movie, we grabbed some traditional Malaysian dessert.  I had my all-time favourite, the ice kacang but it wasn’t as nice as what we could get back home. There should have been coconut milk in it. Hence, it lacked that fragrant taste and scent.

Herbal jelly. Again, would have tasted better if it was in root beer.

Hail to panda eyes- NOT. Must be from all that irregular sleeping patterns since the start of examination and winter break.

Totally random.

This is the sun setting at 4.30PM.

Randoms

Received a nice little surprise when I opened my door, a bag of cashew nuts on the ground and a rose taped to my door. A bag of cashew nuts on the ground sound really random but cashew nuts are pretty much something I have in my room daily for breakfast or after lunch and dinner bites. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a vase so I popped the rose into a water-filled glass bottle that once contained this awesome fizzy pink grapefruit drink.

#35 & 36: Deluxe Party

#35: outfit for the Deluxe Party at night, some Malaysian students’ union, Taiwanese students’  union, Hong Kong students’ union, dessert, photography society event.
Outfit was an awesome grab because they were all last items remaining, jacket was the only XS left apart from another L, dress was the last S left apart from XLs and XXLs. Shoes were like 50% discount from $99 to $49.90 and of a comfortable height to walk up and down hilly streets in.

This is #35.

The place was pretty small.
Eight of us girls went as a group together with three guys.
One of them tried their first shot of tequila. Amusing.
Dance floor. They played some nice music with nice beat but they played quite a lot of Asians songs too. Personally, I would have preferred less Asian songs since I don’t understand a thing they’re singing about.
Us. Coincidentally we both wore purple.

Trippy how the light bounced off the chain of my handbag and created that pattern.
Awesome photographer/one of the three guys who took all the photos for me during the party.
Another of the guys with us.

 
#36: This morning’s outfit while out on a stroll along the streets.
Tasty vegetable pie that someone bought for me this morning as a nice treat.

Art-sy Random Bits

Another creation, a painter in a picture painting a picture in a picture and a road on a road.

Lazy corn cob man.

#34: Art-sy Themed

Latest piece of artwork, with a creepy winter theme on a freaking expensive new sketchpad I bought.

Back home we could get good grade sketchpads (suitable for water painting) for maybe MYR10.00 (~NZD4.50) but here, this cost me NZD13! Thin art paper is way cheaper, like NZD5 but it’s so thin it’s pointless to buy since all the ink would blot through and it would be a waste of the flipside.
#34: An outfit that made me think of painters, easels and canvas.

Vintage-looking locket which I thrifted from a sale.
For fun and laughter.
For dinner, we tried this Japanese place called The Don at Canterbury Arcade. Price was decent and servings were huge. I had the spicy seafood udon.
Chicken katsudon.

Dessert. Swiss ice cream. Double scoop of walnuts with caramel and caramel ice cream.