5 November, 2010 in Family by Aonghas

Visit to China Town

My mum found this ad in the Chinese newspaper about this China Town opening in Manukau so today we thought we’d go on a family outing to check it out. The place is located on Ti Rakau Drive and we noticed the distinctive red building as soon as we arrived. Inside the large warehouse-like building there were aisles of store cubicles. My first impression of the place reminded me of the Chinese New Year festival held at the Auckland Showgrounds every year, but a more permanent version. In the centre they had a stage and audience seating, complete with a massive flat screen TV at the back of the stage. Of course it was empty though, as were many of the cubicles since they were still being set up.

There were many aisles like this at China Town

4 November, 2010 in Engineering, Friends by Aonghas

My Only Exam

This morning I had my only exam for the semester (yay!) but I didn’t think I was totally ready for it yet (boo!). I guess I had nobody to blame but myself seeing as it was the only exam I had and there were nearly 2 weeks between the last day of semester and my exam. My exam was held in the Fisher and Paykel lecture theatre and I tried to find a seat that was nearby the front of the room so I could see the clock.

The exam itself wasn’t too bad though there were definitely areas where I felt I could have done a lot better in. A lot better. Towards the end of the exam I was just hoping it would finish soon so I could enjoy my holiday, but I didn’t want to leave early so I could spend as much time as I could trying to answer all the questions.

After I finished my exam I went to have some lunch and I was sitting in the quad when Chen came along. We had a good catch up over lunch (well, while I was eating) and he told me that he was going overseas to China for a holiday. I wish I could go overseas too!

As I was walking back to the bus stop I saw they were doing renovations to the footpath in Albert Park. Maybe next year when I walk through Albert Park it will be all nice and new!

It looked like they were fixing the footpath in Albert Park