home?

back in sg and miserable =.=

Silver Wedding

yesterday was the party for mary and robert's 25th anniversary~ they held it at some rentable 'house' for the party... a place with a kitchen and a big open space for you to place tables and chairs. mary wore her wedding dress, and had a hairstylist come over to do her hair, as well as mine and robert's... fortunately for me, it was nothing too fancy, just stuffing a flower into it and tons of hairpins and hairspray enough to make my hair feel plastic. so the result ...

the dress was bought by mary when she was in grand canaria and the necklace by alex when he was in singapore. the makeup isnt present in the above pic... just those below... and as usual, i simply refuse to use anything on my lips except some lip balm thing. so basically powder, eyeshadow, eyeliner and blusher which i really like because it looks so natural. not too pink/red/orange.
kevin, alex's cousin, took these pics for us XD this was taken before the crowd came into the hall... agh... so feminine..................................
a pic of mary and robert... being the gf of their son, i get a place right in front too. which is really convenient because of the space behind me, and because the food servings start very near me X) we had -BEEF- chunks in brown sauce, with potatoes and carrots and mashed peas... it was very good actually... and ricecream for dessert.
alot of funny stuff happend during the party, but my cam died and i forgot to bring my spare battery (which i'm still abit sore about). part of the fun included random people being brought out and made to sing as a choir after half an hour's worth of rehearsal, wearing funny hats XD there was also a quiz game which was quite fun, although half the questions there i couldnt answer mainly because its related to Norway... like scrambled up letters of a norwegian location XD...
there was even a thai dance, which i couldnt take a video of due to a flat battery... two thai dances actually. their national dance and something else. the women were from robert's company, and they are good friends with mary so they offered i think. and mary wanted me to learn it beforehand to join them >_> noooooooo neevvaaahhh.

i'll upload more pictures when i get hold of mary's cam. its missing at the moment, i sure hope it gets back here soon and its not stolen... unfortunately, her cam died of battery before mine died :p so its really sucky. even more when their video recorder died =.= sheeesh. all before the fun choir thing happened.

to end off, i'll mention two things about norwegian parties. first; there is always singing. the hosts plan it it seems... they pick a tune and change the lyrics to what they want XD. secondly, gifts are opened mid-way through the party, and recorded down then displayed. i had the job of opening the gifts, while hilde wrote them down. one fun gift included a big bottle filled with 1 kroner coins! XD hahah.... ok, thats it for now

mary's cam

Finally, here are the long awaited pictures from mary's camera! the shots here are either taken by alex or me. At the beach...Still at the beach...
A closer up pic of the fox that we saw and fed....
And the cute lil chicky bird which alex rescued from the back of a large painting inside the house...
And this is the same bird, which we were coaxing out of the glass container... and waited for it to fly off XD isnt it so cute?!

cool shots

Just a short post with a few pictures that are coooooool
First up, look carefully... isnt the sky clear?
oops... where's the river?

Next.... a full moon in the sky....

So why is its reflection a crescent?

This just looked cool XD.

Lastly, close up shots of the slug which is black this time... so clear you can see the detailed texture on its skin....
and a view from above... still very clear.
thats all XD

Tina's Birthday Wishlist

Before i begin, i'd like to start with all the name-calling that have been going on in this house XD basically between alex's dad and me hahahaha... it started with him calling me Tina Tired because i look sleepy half the time. Then i called him Robert Nugatti (brand of the chocolate that he likes to eat with bread). which is my favourite name so far because of how it sounds XD

then we have Tina Clever... Robert Coffee... Tina Hungry... Robert Hungry.. etc XD

and now...

on to the birthday list! XD

1: As always, a ticket to norway. for xmas.
I CAN KEEP WISHING CANT I. THIS IS -MY- WISHLIST!

2: Money is always welcome.
Reasons? i want to go do clothes shopping :p havent really bought much new clothes for the upcoming semester of uni.... and my clothes are starting to fade in colour. And i wanna go shoe shopping XD Secondly, i'm hoping for a tina schoolbook fund to get essential reading materials, because i intend to be an uber geek. Alex is contributing some psychology books... I dont like borrowing library books because i cant scribble or highlight in them, which i like to do alot because its part of my learning style. Anyway, money gifties will be sorted out according to the reason they are given for... like "oh this is for your clothes". yeah. gotta be organized y'know

3: Clothes
To save me the trouble of shopping! HOWEVER, this is a very risky option unless you know my size and style very well, because i promise strangulation to anyone (well, if i can...) who buys me anything pink. so unless its a casual t shirt to wear at home which i like very much. but even then, i seriously prefer if i dont get anything pink. ( to date, i only have two in use. one was bought by mama and it has cute lil koala bears, and the other was bought by me cuz I LOVE BUTTERFLIES. ) so anyway, for those who REALLY REALLY , HARDCORE want to buy me clothes, let it be in purple or black. and the shade of purple is also very specific. it has to be a very similar shade to that of my blog, or in the cupboard it stays. so far, i dont have that problem with purple clothes.... (only alex's mom been buying me that last time i think )think grape purple, not icky brownish purple. in short, because i am very picky and rather people not waste cash, its easier to just let me pick XD.

4: Money for a new wallet

i am superbly undeniably extensively horrendously extremely picky on this. i rather no one buy me one, since i rather choose this myself. so unless you think you've found the perfect wallet....

5: Stuff you think i need for uni life
Like... a really cool diary. preferably something black or purple with butterflies, that dont look like it belongs to a disney princess. An organizer is something i need since primary school days since i have horribly bad memory when it comes to doing homework. In JC, its actually pretty useful. Money for stationary...i just thought of those. or just get me some decent stationary... but still i like to pick those myself, down to the pencil case and type of pens i use.

i am so damn picky. XD

6: Carebears X)
but i already have a small collection... so you might buy the wrong type/same as i have. again, picky picky.


7: SURPRISE ME
cant think of much else actually... not too much that i want. Its almost more of neccessities...kind of. so if people think of special stuff for me, ITS AN ADDED BONUS! wooohooo~! and if i like it i'd be very appreciative of it. yup.

I dont need electrical doodads i think. i got a laptop which i'm more than happy with... i got two mp3s that are great to use... i got a camera which is still new and very handy.... i got a psp slim and i hardly play with that.. .... .... how about better internet connection. yeah that would be great. or rather, a stronger antenna for my pc at home.. or better still internet connection for my laptop at home.. yeah, that would be perfect.

and that concludes my extremely picky post XD

le island house

This is the old old house of the Gaustadneses. The roof with all the grass on it is an extension of the original house. This house contains some relics like a boat from a ship that was in danger of shipwreck, and it looks darn cool because its built to move with the motions of a rocky trip. And there are some old tools and stuff, and some pictures of the island thats still in black and white. There used to be a small little fishing community on the island somewhat, with 3 other houses and a dock. However, all thats left of the dock is the piles of rocks where me and alex were in the picture in the previous post.

If you look closely at the distance from the first and second floor, you can imagine that the second floor is lower than the first. And in the pic below... go gauge XD.

Its almost like a cute cosy lil dollhouse! the windows on the second floor are on the floor btw. i got alex to take this pic just to show the height of things XD This is the sight when i opened the door.. door to the left leads to more rooms... stairs tothe right leads upstairs to the two bedrooms. one more door to the right leads to the bathroom undergoing construction. they use gas for cooking in this house.. back on the main island, people use electric stoves.
This is the extention of the house... a cosy living room (more to the left of the pic) with a fireplace. they built this themselves. the extention, the fireplace, and even the cabinet over there. The steps you see lead to a seperated second floor, like a seperate living room... an idea which i like very much.
lastly, i just had to take a picture of the beds! ARENT THEY SO CUTE?! its like some childhood dream come true XD pity that there's a few bugs here and there because the house is mainly used in summer. This bed room also comes with a miniature door to peek out to the living room below XD

So that concludes the tour of the island house... dont want to add too many pictures. I made a video anyway.. the island comes with a little "Wading pool" where generations of Gaustadnes kids have played in. Which is where i saw the mink and picked some pretty shells.....which i left at the island =.= DOH.

trip to island house

i took some pics while we were at the small dock, getting ready to leave to the island house. there was alot of jellyfish by the doc, i counted about 4 (the dock is very small ) lion's mane jellyfish. those are the stingables, which can cause some pain and rash when stung, but usually not fatal. when they open up, they are flower shaped, which looks kinda cool as you can see below.this is as close as i could get... it looks abit like and eyeball here cuz of the veins and stuff... their threads hang down, and the longest i've seen is about a meter. thank goodness i wasnt in the water XD
shortly after we got to the island, we saw a family of minks. i never saw a mink before i think? they look a little bit like black otters when they are swimming in the water, and they have a very very shiny pelt. they look very cute too, and have beady blackish-grey eyes... cant describe the sound the make though... abit like a rasp. anyway, one got really close to me since they're considered shy creatures. it was a young one that was curious i guess. so alex got a couple of nice shots then
a closer up pic of the cute lil mink. btw, they were imported from North America for their pelt, but some got loose and now people are grumpy because minks kill birds in Norway. and they ruin the island house a lil bit.. pee and stuff. but consider what happens to them >_>
lastly, for this post, i end with a cool picture of a rock. you can see many layers and i found it interesting. i'll blog up some pics of the house later... kinda dont want to be at the com now since i have a headache. tata!

walk

First up, a couple of couple pics that kas kas requ... demanded. poses are kinda limited due to a lack of people to take pics for us. but dont worry, alot will appear when i give mary the cam XDthese were taken during our walk by the river again, this time at a high tide.
pretty flowers by the river...
and i found a cow with a heart on its forehead XD cute huh!
by attracting one curious cow, the whole damn herd came over. >_> it made a cute pic at least XD but oooo the beef the beef... *drool*
ok, i'm rushing this entry ( compensating with pictures instead) because the weather is warm enough and still enough to go to the island house! I'VE BEEN WANTING TO GO SINCE DECEMBER LAST YEAR. there will be no electricity there, but i'll bring my cam and take lots of pics, and make a long entry when i get back. okay peeps, ciao!

bunch of naggers >_>

i was nagged for a new post. so here we are!
i've been abit lazy to take pictures lately, or rather, the weather's been abit cold rainy and windy to go out and enjoy =.= and sometimes when we go out i forget to bring my camera XD so anyway, these are shots taken when the weather was much better.

first up, a kinda cool looking slug i saw in the garden... and its quite big too XD abit icky but at least i didnt step on it. in the forest, i saw black slugs and those were ickier... because their shape isnt...normal. they kinda alter their own shape to look like a black blob splat. i didnt take a picture of that though, too icky XD

next, the mountain across the lil bit of ocean... it looked quite serene so i took a pic..

this pic was taken for 2 reasons. to show that norwegian kids are made of tougher stuff... cuz the water is really REALLY cold, and to show how clear it is.. thats kelp and stuff you se.. then its all white nice sand X) really beautiful

lastly, by the beach we went to.. this pile of stones is actually a viking burial site. and we stomped all over to get to the road :P but the bodies have been excavated alex believes, so i dont think we were being disrespectful, unless some lone viking was left under there.

two days ago, the weather was really bad~ it was so windy that chairs can get dragged across the balcony, and all the trees dance in the wind. i took a video of it actually. alex went out to take stuff indoors, and his hair was blown back so much it looked nearly horizontal at times XD and the ocean, geez, it looked so... ferocious. not the kind of weather i want to be in a boat in XD

lastly, alex suggested that we could go blueshell.. or some sorta mussel picking. it sounds like fun (and yummy XD ) and i'm hoping the weather will turn good again so we can go to the island house AND pick mussels. even though the sun is shining brightly out now, the wind can still be very cold.

when alex transfers pics he took,i'll upload them. there are some nicer pictures there too :)

paintball

Let this picture do the talking.... what would you guess i've been up to?
1: joining the norwegian army
2: joining a terrorist group
3: spying
and its... none. har har har... this alex, his brother and friend getting ready for a game of paintball in the forest with a few other friends. and even i, and observer, had to wear a mask and a vest so i wouldnt get hit. they crawl all over the forest and shoot each other... its quite a fun game, although i believe its painful to be hit by a paintball.

aaaand thats me... dont ask about my face. i dont know what i was doing there.

On to some nice pictures i took while the guys played paintball... the yellow rose above is not from the forest, but in Molde. took it because i remembered aarthi liked yellow roses..

and this is from the forest, for kas, so she dont feel left out XD haaahaaha.. i quite like this picture though.
this is a bluebell i believe... also found in a field beside the forest.. had to crawl under an electric fence to get there because sheep were kept there... but i only saw 3 sheep though.

lovely sunset in summer..
and this is down by the river, where occasionally you can see salmon and even trout, jumping out of the water to get rid of the parasitic fish on their body. some sort of fish lice. the guy there is a fly fisher, and those repeatedly throw their flies in front of the salmon to annoy it into biting.

lastly, this is alex's brother Raymond (the cool artist) and his friend Stian.. raymond most of his paintball gear, minus the mask and gun. Stian is just hamming up for the cam because he said the hat he was wearing looked gay. he's a nice guy though, he let me shoot him with a paintball XD and it ended up being his most painful shot of the day because the ball didnt burst :P felt abit bad....

in other news, kas kas has reached miami safely... aarthi's life seems to be less chaotic and stabilizing well... i've more or less planned my uni timetable although i havent bid for the subjects.... and i'm just waiting for the letter from nus so i can do some online pre registration. and for those who think i'm gonna miss the other registration, i've scheduled it with nus for the 1st of august. shoo.

okay, thats it for now... i'll take more pictures soon! i've been doing some pretty cool origami for mary and robert's silver wedding decorations.. with just white paper thats too old to use in the office, because coloured paper here costs a little more than a dollar a piece >_> sheesh. i wish i had square paper though.. cutting paper is abit tiresome XD

"lazy"

just random old pictures, till i upload pics again from my camera. there's much new ones, but i'm also much too lazy.

bad luck

i forgot to mention the cutest story of my trip. dooohhhh.

ahem.

before i left, i went luggage bag shopping with my mom and alex. Giant had some really good offers, and i initially found a nice bright green luggage set, 3 sets for less than 40 bucks i think. unfortunately for me, a better deal was found.

and what a deal it turned out to be.

because

its

broken.

as in, i have no handles on either bag. and the thing you use to pull the bag with is gone too. JOY! i wonder how i'm gonna get home =.= i KNEW i should have brought a big bag to carry my laptop in seperately. now it seems i'm gonna have problems with bags and handluggage bag =.=

i refuse to buy important goods made from a certain country now =.=

MY first youtube video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPkn6rJwdgs
a video speaks more than words and pictures, and saves me lots of typing. so here's the video of me feeding the wild fox that came out of the forest

Procrastinated pics

here are the pics which i said i would eventually put up. i bet most find it better anyway, than boring old text.first of all, ze mackeral which i caught, the first fish i ever caught from the ocean! YAY

these are the yummies that we all caught. 3 of them ( and the biggest *gloat*) were caught by meeeeeeee

the river near the beach, its quite still so you can very clearly see the reflection of rocks and grass in the water, and the extremely clear sky

this is how 'far' out we can walk into the sandy waters of the beach, during a high tide. i walked back to shore to get a pic of alex there XD

this giant strawberry was grown in mary's garden, and happily eaten by me

and this mini wild strawberry is also grown in mary's garden, and also eaten by me. reminds me of strawberry gege. strawberries and vanilla ice cream was soooooo gooooooooood...... mary and me went berry picking in her garden, and i washed and sliced strawberries to eat with icecream. *drooling at memory*

lastly, this is a pic of my chicken rice attempt. it tastes good, i will still insist so