Saturday, 4 October 2014

Guide to the Mall

So a few days ago I went to Sylvia Park, which is the biggest mall where I live, with my friends. As an antisocial person, I don't do this sort of thing very often, and some help would have been useful. Help like this.

How to Survive the Mall
1. Make sure you know how to get there. Saying something like "oh, doesn't the train go there, I'll find a way" and then getting lost on public transport for half an hour really isn't good.
2. Remember to eat. The fact that your friends stopped at Maccas, and you don't want to buy anything because you do not wish to support a giant evil global corporation, is no excuse not to go find lunch elsewhere. Once you get to 3 o'clock, it gets sort of desperate, and you end up eating an entire bag of Reese's Pieces.
3. Don't be a total... um... rooster obstacle. If this trip to the mall was almost solely for the purpose of getting two people hooked up, don't intervene. Even if those two people happen to be your crush and your best friend. Also, try (and fail) to look disappointed when nothing happens between them.
4. Only go into a shop if you want to actually buy things, or at least to seriously consider buying them. Definitely don't walk in, then just stand around looking strange because you hate clothes shopping and why the heck did I come in here anyway?
5. If one of your friends offers you a ride home, ACCEPT IT. Unless you think it's fun to wait for a train for twenty minutes (our public transport system is pretty crappy), then bus closer to home in an ancient bus with no aircon, then run home in the rain because your parents are out and can't pick you up. But if that appeals to you, then go ahead and make no-thanks hand gestures at your friend who's leaning out the window of her dad's car. Knock yourself out.

Hopefully, with this guide in your mind, your next social excursion can be more enjoyable. Go well, people of the internet, and stay tuned because there will be more.

(Bonus points to anyone who spotted the Emma Approved reference.)

Thursday, 2 October 2014

Welcome to my corner of the internet

So I've wanted for ages to be a Youtuber (I WORSHIP AT THE ALTAR OF DAN AND PHIL) but I don't have a good camera. Or any camera, in fact. This is the next best thing, and I like writing, anyway.
I am about to undergo a major life changy thing - I am going to cut my hair. Yeah yeah big deal, says everyone reading this (who am I kidding? nobody's going to read this) but I am a girl whose hair has never been shorter than shoulderlength before, and we're talking pixie cut short here. I'm going to need to figure out how to be a better, more girlish girl, because I don't exactly have a figure of any kind to speak of. It will be interesting and force me to reconsider how I think of myself as a member of the female sex, blah blah, but mostly I'll just have to wear dresses more often and grow some boobs.
There are five more days until this happens. 
And um yeah... this is the school holidays for me right now (New Zealand woop woop!), and I'm a fairly antisocial person, so not much is happening. Stay tuned though because there will be more.