Favourite NZ Quotes of 2005

"Wanker wanker wanker!" -Some cross-dresser verbally abusing the media after Donna and Wi Huata's fraud trial

"I don't want any candidates to be talking about their testicles to be quite frank" - Don Brash, Leader of National

"If I were [Chris Taylor], I'd be shooting myself. I'd be pouring petrol over myself and throwing myself off Auckland's tallest building." - Bill Ralston, Head of News and Current Affairs, TVNZ

"Do you know where the apes come from? She [Sarena Williams] is a reminder." - Tony Veitch, weekend Sports presenter, TVNZ/Breakfast host, Radio Sport

"Men's problems are traditionally dealt with by the criminal justice system. Women, on the other hand, get a bl**dy Cartwright Inquiry and get millions of dollars thrown at their breasts and cervixes. Men get nothing." - John Tamihere, former Labour MP

Funeral Fotos

Greg, Korina (my cousins), Aonghas, me, Janice (my cousin) and Hamish

All the family members at the funeral

Final Farewell

Today I attended my nana's funeral. My brothers and I began the procession by playing Amazing Grace as everyone was led in. A couple of hymns, eugoogolies (nah just joking eulogies!) and prayers. Hamish, Aonghas, Greg (my cousin) and I concluded the service by playing O Come All Ye Faithful as everyone was led out of the church to the hearse waiting outside. This Christmas carol was significant as it was the song our nana was listening to when she died.

 

There were about 100 people at the funeral, with relatives from all over New Zealand - Christchurch, Tauranga, as well as some from Australia making it all the way to Auckland just to be there.

 

I think I probably learnt more about my nana at the funeral than all the time I've known her! We were told how she loved our grandpa so much, and how she always put everyone else ahead of her, being willing to help others out whenever they were in need, even when she needed help herself. One saying she used often when asked how she was doing was

 

"Oh not too good but you've got to keep on going" 

 

Probably the most entertaining were the eugoogolies, when my dad, my uncle and my aunty got up to say a few words...well apart from my dad...he kinda went for a while despite being told to cut half of his originally prepared four page eugoogoly. Probably some of the best quotes came from my dad's little speech though:

 

"I originally prepared a four page speech but was told by my brother David to cut it a bit so I've reduced it to two pages. So Catherine Muir was born in .... she was sister to ..., whose parents were ... and ..., who were originally from... " (the beginning continued that way for a couple more minutes at high speed)

 

 

"When I came back up to Auckland my mum told me to get married so I took a four day weekend, and got married"

 

"I'd like to thank Noeline (his sister and our aunty) for looking after Mum for the last few years. I really should've been there more often. I'd also like to thank Waitakere Hospital and St Josephs Hospice for taking care of Mum. I'd also like to again thank you all for attending this funeral service. I'd like to thank all the ladies who helped prepare morning tea. Finally I'd like to thank my employers for granting me bereavement leave and for allowing me to attend this funeral service. "

 

Following the service we all had morning tea, and then went over to our aunty's place to hang out with all the relatives before they had to head back home.

 

Year in Review

With not much to write about due to a very slow holiday, for the next few days leading up to New Years I'll just take a look back at the year that was.

 

Here's a look back at the past year - the first couple sentences of the first post of each month (I got this idea off Grainam's blog ' FlyingCow's Blog' so be sure to check it out!!!!)

 

January

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Man there is so much to talk about. Yesterday (Friday 31 December) I was invited by my Korean twin friends Hyun and Joon to go to the movies with them. Surprisingly, my mum gave me permission to go!

February

For some reason people keep making bets with me relating to my personal/social life.

March

I know I said I would post more regularly in my last post, but preparing for this debate tomorrow has taken up a lot of my time and nearly all of my weekend, as they do…I had to stay up till 2.30am Sunday morning just to get it finished!

April

So much happening this week. It all started off with the biology trip to Piha yesterday...We set off at 9am on a Ritchies bus. Now you know what usually happens with Ritchies buses. Well yesterday was no different.

May

I once was on the phone talking to my neighbour Zippo when she told me I was weird and different to other guys.

June

I had my biology exam this morning which is the last of my exams, apart from the music performance exam tomorrow morning but I don't really consider that as an exam because I enjoy performing to people anyway!

July

Rest In Peace Greg (not my cousin, but our goldfish named after him) We found him/her floating upside down in the water.

August

My niece...or great-niece...or something along those lines from my mum's side of the family is getting married!

September

The election race is hotting up, and no it ain't the NZ General Elections. It's the Rutherford College BOT Student Rep elections!

October

My family got a bit of a reality check and decided to do a bit of home maintenance, starting with our clothesline.

November

On the 1st of November, Calum discovered anime.

December

I got attacked by my seven year old neighbour with a lemon.

I can't believe so much has happened this year, which seems to have flown past quite quickly!

Christmas All Over

Yesterday's Christmas wasn't such an eventful one. I spent the morning being watching ad-free TV (yay one of the best things about Christmas!), taught how to drive my dad's manual car and once again releasing the clutch slowly was holding me back! I managed to reverse right around a corner for a little bit of fun!

After that my family went over to some family's house for lunch. The food was great, I ended up filling myself up again, being asked to finish off the pavlova and the pudding! After lunch though things got a little bit boring as most of the guys my age left with their girlfriends and boyfriends and so we were just left with the adults who just sat there and talked about stuff.

Later that night my brothers and I performed a Christmas medley at our church's Christmas service. Once again I made a mistake at the beginning of the piece! Apart from that the church service was like any other regular service except for it being in the evening, and light snacks provided afterwards.

We thought we'd take the opportunity to check out the Christmas lights down Franklin Rd in Ponsonby, and some of those houses looked fantastic! It was cool to see heaps of people (mostly Asians) walking down the street admiring the lights, and having a good time!

Thanks Persia, Kelvin and Julie for the Christmas cards, and Phoebe and Chen for my only Christmas presents which were really great!

And that's Christmas over for 2005!

Seasons Greetings!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

(warning: this post contains mushiness)

 

I just want to wish everyone a very MERRY CHRISTMAS! I hope you all have a great day with your loved ones whether it be with family or friends, and remember to cherish every moment you have with them because time will just keep marching on and you won't get any second of it back! So be sure to let those dearest to you know how you really feel about them before it's too late and you miss the chance for whatever reason!

 

(Here's my turn) I also want to thank everyone I've met, talked to and have made friends with this year and throughout the years. It has been a pleasure and an honour being in the presence of each and every one of you! I appreciate my friendship and relationship with you all, no matter how close we are, and I'll always be there for you guys! If I have done or said anything to upset or disrespect any of you this year or in the past I apologise!

 

Have a safe and festive Christmas holidays, whatever you get up to please take care of yourselves out there! Remember:

-Don't Drink and Drive

-Hugs Not Drugs

-If you don't got the rubber there'll be no hubba hubba

-Make sure your meat is cooked properly or you'll be having fun in the loo ;)

 

Seasons greetings to you all!

Bye Nana

"Bye Nana. Thanks for everything, I'll miss you"

Those were the last words I said to my nana as she lay peacefully on her hospital bed.

My brothers, mother and I were at home watching TV when we got a call on the cellphone, which usually means an emergency because hardly anyone rings us on the cellphone! It turned out to be our uncle, letting us know that our nana has just passed away. We tried getting through to our dad at work but it was busy, most likely because of Christmas time, but when we got through we were told he had already left.

We managed to get to St Josephs Mercy Hospital where our nana had been staying for the past few days. In her room were all our relatives, and there on the bed was our very pale nana. It was really freaky seeing her lying there. You kinda expect to see her breathing, but when you take a closer look she just lies there very still, with a wreath placed beside her on the bed and a solitary candle burning by her bedside. Obviously my dad, my uncle and my aunty, all of our nana's children, were very upset. We each took turns to say our goodbyes to Nana.

There were a few comical moments. My dad took a little snip of our nana's hair, 'for DNA purposes if needed in the future', and got me to take photos our nana's face from all angles as it was our last opportunity to take any photos of her, and to also use it as a possible reference if we ever decide to digitally recreate her. My dad was about to raise the bed with the remote control to sit our dead nana up on the bed to take a photo of her! My mum told him not to though.

A couple days ago the doctors predicted our nana wouldn't last for more than a couple of days, but it was looking hopeful she would last at least to Christmas. Despite being so close she didn't make it.

The funeral will be held this Thursday. One song that will be played at the funeral will be 'O Come All Ye Faithful', the song that played when our nana left us.

Rest in Peace Catherine Anderson, 1923-2005

Catherine Anderson, 1923-2005

About an hour ago my nana, Catherine Anderson, passed away at St Josephs Hospital. I'm on my way there and will post more later tonight.

One Good Deed

I just want to add that I did accomplish one good deed while shopping - I donated $2.00 to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) so hopefully that helps save a few birds and bees!

Independent Shopping

Usually I always shop with my mum and my mum buys us everything, but because this morning my mum had to go off and deal with a bit of business and last night I wasted her time looking around Westcity for Christmas presents and coming away with nothing, she decided to drop my brothers and I off (with a bit of money) at Westcity to go shopping ourselves and buy Christmas presents for each person in the family.

We first got Hamish a watch because I lost the one he had for nine years. I had to buy that with my own money too!

Next we had to find something for our mum. Our mum is one of those people who always bangs on about saving money: DISCOUNT DISCOUNT BARGAIN BARGAIN BARGAIN! so we had to be aware of how much we spent on her. In the end we found something at The Warehouse I was at first proud of:

Dead-looking Tomato Plants   5 x $0.10    $0.50
Buttercup Plant                     1 x $0.50    $0.50
TOTAL                                                  $1.00

My mum likes gardening, and likes growing vegetables, so I thought we'd try find her some vegetable plants she woudn't have in her garden yet. We were served by Amber at the check-out. I was talking to her while she was scanning our six plants and doing all the checkout sort of things. After about 5 minutes she informed us:

"OK that comes to a grand total of......$1.00!"

We also bought her a set of $2.00 Christmas lights.

We should have bought these plants last though, because we ended up walking around Westcity with these drooping dead-looking tomato plants in The Warehouse bags! I even caught up with Jacqueline, Banthoon and Ben!

When we got home I was so certain my mum would be surprised at how cheap the plants were (Hamish did trip over while walking home and disfigured a couple of the plants though), but as soon as we came in showing her our five tomato plants and the buttercup plant, she told us

"We've already got tomato plants and a couple buttercup plants!"

First Drive

This afternoon was the first time I tried driving! My dad let me have a go at driving his manual car. He made sure I had the procedure clear in my head:

"Seat-belt, clutch down, gearstick in first gear, hand-brake down, turn car on..." (now I'm not so sure if that is the right order!)

I kept making the car jerk and had problems with starting the car up but it was fun for my first go! A bit like driving those little go-karts at Rainbow's End, only with changing gears and indicator lights and the other extras to worry about!

Calum's Curiosities

Just a few things that occurred to me in the past few days:

Last night as I was helping Aonghas mark his answers to the road code questions, I noticed that subsequent answers spelt:

A C C B A D

Could this just be mere coincidence, or could it be some subliminal message the LTNZ are trying to get through to us, that ACC is BAD?

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Kiwi Careers, a website run by government agency Career Services provides A LOT of job outlines, but some have been excluded from the list, such as street worker, escort, prostitute... You would think that having legalised prostitution for two years now, the government would promote this initiative. Kiwi Careers has had plenty of time to create and add job outlines for such occupations, as they're now considered as perfectly acceptable career options now aren't they? (that should be read in a sarcastic tone)

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Dictionary.com has published an alphabet of most looked-up words in 2005. Probably the most interesting inclusions have to be the words 'love' and 'sex' for most looked-up words for the letters 'L' and 'S' respectively. Do people not know how to spell a three-letter word such as 'sex', or have they just been looking in the wrong place to get their thrills?

License in the Mail!

I just got my learners license card in the mail! So excited! I like those sort of ID card things to put in my wallet and make it look full to compensate for the lack of money that's in it! I would put it on this blog but I'm not too sure if I could run into trouble doing it so I better not! I look whitey yellow with big dimples in my photo though! Really bad!

False Alarm

This morning we had to get out of bed and rush to the hospital, as my dad had been contacted by the hospital. He was informed that our nana's condition had deteriorated and that she might not last long. Gathered around our nana were her three children, my dad, my uncle and my aunty, their spouses, her sister great Aunt Margaret and her husband great Aunt Rob, and about eleven of her grand children (it's amazing how it takes something like this to bring all the family together! Us grandchildren should spend more time together!) We all held hands for a prayer before anyone was allowed to come up to our nana to say any last words to her.

 

There were definitely a lot of sniffing and tears. I was trying as hard as I could to keep it all in but thinking about my brothers' and my relationship with my nana made me feel really guilty inside that we hadn't spent as much time as we should've with her and that we hadn't been better grandchildren to her. So I led my brothers over to our nana and thanked her for always being there for us and supporting us, and apologising for not spending much time with her.

 

I thought those would be my last words to my nana, but as it turned out, the doctor came in to check on her and realised that she may have been a little dopey because of all the drugs she was on. My cousins and I all went to McDonald's for breakfast, and we ended up staying at hospital till one in the afternoon when we had to go to church to practise for the Christmas service next week. We returned to the hospital soon after and stayed there till 10.

 

Hospital is definitely not the most exciting place to be when nothing happens but then again you don't really want anything to happen. Late at night after visiting hours when the hospital was dark and we were sitting around our nana, suddenly an alarm went off and a red light outside a room started to flash. All these nurses went rushing down the hallway to the room! It turned out to be another false alarm.

 

My nana's always been a strong woman and she seems to be holding out but we're not too sure just how long she can hold on for. It would be great for her to enjoy one last Christmas together with all of the family.

Got It!

This morning I went into AA with the certificate the optometrist gave me to claim my learners license. The lady asked me

 

"Did you bring any form of identification with you...like a passport...or birth certificate...?"

 

I just started laughing because I had asked my mum before we left if I needed identification but my mum told me not to bother! This also happened to me when I first applied to sit the learners license test six months ago! We had to go all the way back home to pick it up but by then we decided we better go to a friend's place to get our dad's car fixed, which broke down once again yesterday.

 

Right at 4 o'clock before (I think) AA was about to close, I came back in with my passport, my bank statement, and the receipt I got when I sat the learners license test, and handed it all over to the lady at the counter. Finally after six months of procrastination I got a piece of paper which granted me the LICENSE TO LEARN!

 

We also visited our uncle at Auckland Hospital today who was recovering from an operation to treat a kidney stone found in him. He's doing well and will hopefully be discharged tomorrow.

Anime-zing! (lol Yeah dry!)

We continued our holiday tradition by watching late night movies and tonight we watched Spirited Away which was a ...different...sort of movie, but really cool! It's probably the best anime (is it right to call it that?) movie I've seen so far! (considering Pokemon - The First Movie is the only other one I've really seen...is that an anime movie as well?) That little mouse thing and the flying black thing carrying it is pretty cool!

I'm off to find us some more of these types of movies!

Finally!!!

Today I FINALLY got my eyes checked which means I can FINALLY get my learners license! We went to this Chinese optometrist, and found out that my eyesight has deterioted since the last time I had my eyes checked which was two years ago. I think I used to be about 150 in each eye, but now I'm around 400 for both eyes (if the numbers mean anything to you!) I got my certificate as well as a new set of glasses. All I need to do now is take the certificate back to AA tomorrow morning to prove to them that I have had my eyes checked and then they should be able to grant me my learners license!

 

 

Taking Turns

We visited our nana today in hospital. She had just had something done to her and had to have morphine injected into her, so she was in a bit of pain when we arrived. It was a bit uncomfortable sitting there watching her lying on the bed in pain and all worn out. She wasn't very talkative today and so it was pretty quiet. My dad tried adjusting the bed for my nana with the remote control which could make our nana sit up or lie back down on the bed. My dad had no idea how to use it so he tapped the buttons on the remote control and my nana ended up jerking up into a sitting position and then back down as my dad tried to figure out how to work the thing!

 

When we got home we found an message on the answer machine from our aunty asking us if we knew anything about our uncle (our aunty and dad's brother). Apparently he has a kidney stone and has also been in a lot of pain.

 

It hasn't been too great in the last couple of months for the health of my family, with my nana getting sick, and then my aunty (who suffered a stroke, but has recovered) and now my uncle. Hopefully they all get well soon!

Some Things are Better Said in Another Way

This afternoon I had an audition for an accordion teaching job. Three other people were auditioning to teach the piano. We each had to play a piece and then pretend another auditionee was a ten-year-old student and teach them a song for ten minutes.

 

I had this Asian girl who was auditioning to become a piano teacher as my pretend '10 year-old student'. When I put the accordion on her she had her legs together. When you sit with the accordion on your lap you have your legs slightly apart for your accordion to sit in the middle...so I had to awkwardly ask the girl to spread her legs slightly apart!

 

After we had all finished, the man assessing our teaching (who also happens to be my former accordion teacher) gave me this piece of advice:

 

"Be careful of how you ask a girl to open her legs"

 

Fortunately I've been asked to attend the teachers training course next month so I'll have to see how far I get from there.

Another Change in Direction

During the weekend I was talking to a friend about how I was thinking about doing NCEA Level 3 History by correspondence next year and she recommended against it as she thought it was a lot harder than Lvl 3 English and Classical Studies, and that the headgirl at her school took 3 sciences and history at level 3 and failed history. I have to take at least one out of Lvl 3 English, history or classical studies, and because correspondence would make history a lot more difficult (the teacher in charge of NCEA also told me out of the 5 students taking Art History by correspondence this year at our school, 2 pulled out and the other 3 didn't do well either), taking lvl 3 English is looking a lot more likely now than it did before, and to think I wouldn't ever have to study English ever again!

 

Does anyone have any suggestions? Level 3 history by correspondence vs Level 3 English vs Level 3 Classical Studies?

 

My dean told me that I REALLY NEED TO DECIDE WHAT I WANT TO DO AFTER I LEAVE SCHOOL AND THAT IT IS MY HOMEWORK OVER THESE HOLIDAYS TO COME UP WITH A PATH I WANT TO TAKE.

Beginning of Holidays

Last Friday night my brothers and I performed with the Auckland Symphony Orchestra in the Town Hall for this Christmas Carols concert. There were two Pacific Island church choirs present, with each choir performing a solo, and they were great! The Reverend of one choir explained the story behind their performance before ending with:

 

"I hope you enjoy our performance. If you don't......well I don't care!"  

 

It also took a bit of time trying to get to the Town Hall! My mum is unaccustomed to driving to the city or even on the motorway, and so we were trying to guide her. She was supposed to turn left into the Civic carpark but was in the wrong land and so had to continue driving straight. We couldn't get her to turn into a side street and turn around and so she ended up driving all the way to K' Road before she finally managed to turn around! In the end we got there though! Driving home was a lot easier though.

 

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It has been a tradition for our family to go to the concerts in the park every year and we've been to each Christmas in the Park since it started way back in 1993 or 1994 but this year my mum was thinking it was going to rain and so she couldn't be bothered going. It turned out to be hot and sunny, but then my mum said it was too hot to go!

 

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I managed to find a 37 page Christmas medley for orchestra (some pages only had one bar as there were 16 parts to this song!) and managed to arrange it for an accordion trio so we could perform it at the church's Christmas concert. I only finished typing the arrangement out the night before we had to play it to those organising the concert, and so basically we were sightreading it the next morning! The lady who wanted to listen to it told us we had to bring out the melody and let the interludes flow or something like that.

 

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So I've started tidying up the house once again these holidays and this time we aim to KEEP it tidy for the rest of the year!

 

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Our two yet-to-be-named tadpoles have grown rear legs!! We still haven't planned how we will look after them once they turn into frogs. We can't let them hop around inside just in case they get behind the TV and shock themselves, or my mum 'accidentally' cooks them, and if they go outside they might get eaten by the cats...

 

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My nana's still holding up! I'm aiming to spend a lot more time with her over these holidays!

Christmas Concert at the Town Hall

Aonghas, Hamish and I once again filled in for the Auckland Symphony Orchestra at their Christmas Carols concert at the Auckland Town Hall on Friday night.

A Happy Christmas Afterall!

It looks like it will be a Happy Christmas after all for most people!

 

Congratulations to Ayesha who has recently been appointed Head girl of Kelston Girls College! (of course I won't brag on about how I went to the ball with her! ;) )

 

I was informed that some people are having a lot more luck with certain things and a couple of people have finally discovered something which is really great news and about time!

 

Things are really starting to turn out good for people who deserve it the most!

Transcript - First Speech at Junior Prize-Giving

This of you who weren't at the Junior Prize-Giving Ceremony today, Mr Murphy and Mr Lee, two beloved maths teachers won't be back next year (they're off to Glenfield College), Mr Singleton is leaving to set up his business and Miss Ho won't be back for a year as she takes up the position as languages facilitator with the Ministry of Education. Apparently Ms Hsiao, last year's Chinese teacher is applying for the Chinese teaching job for next year! Miss Ho reassures me that we will get a good Chinese teacher and she will be back here and then.

 

This is the first speech I delivered to the school as head boy at the Junior Prize-Giving Ceremony today:

 

Hi everyone my name is Calum, and I'll be your head boy for next year. Like Heather, I have attended Rutherford College since third form and throughout the years have participated in various groups and activities such as the school orchestra, and the student committee.

 

Rutherford College is a great school. We have great students and great staff. We all know that. Now we must get out there and prove to the rest of Auckland just how good we are through taking up opportunities offered by the school. 

 

Next year Heather and I will lead a strong team of student leaders, who are dedicated to providing as many opportunities as possible for you all to take part in, as well as making your time at Rutherford a lot more memorable and enjoyable.  

 

My challenge to you all next year is to find a school activity or group that you are interested in, whether it is lawn bowls, rugby or the environmental group, and get involved. By representing the school out there or having a say and improving the school for everyone in some way or another, we will continue to help build Rutherford College up to be one of the best schools in Auckland, and at the same time gain some experience and have a bit of fun.

 

Of course schoolwork is just as important, and I too would like to congratulate all prize winners today. To the fourth formers, make the most of your first year of NCEA and to the third formers, make the most of your last year before NCEA! I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy holiday. Have fun, take care, and I look forward to seeing you all again next year! Thank you.

She Will Survive!

Yesterday I went to hospital to visit my nana, who has just recently been diagnosed with cancer in the kidneys and secondary cancer in the liver (I think that's the one?) Despite obvious signs I'm trying to stay positive and believe she'll get through this.

 

I haven't really been close to my nana lately and the relationship between her and my family has been a little shaky in recent times. For some reason she often likes to compare our family to our cousins, to whom she holds in high regard. 

 

Nonetheless I still hope she does get well soon. She's still family and she still means a lot to me. I'm not too sure how I'd react if I did lose her though. The last time I lost someone close was when my grandad died when I was about six years old, but let's not think about that just yet! She's still here at the moment and I have to make the most of it now.

And it's supposed to be the Holidays...

Today was book return day at school so we only had to turn up, return our books and get our sheet signed off before getting our yearbook. I managed to give out most of my Christmas cards (or holiday cards to be PC!). After that the student leaders group had a meeting to discuss the structure and the initial plan for at least the first week of next year. I'm put in charge of the Junior Students Group, which could possibly be one of the hardest to figure out, as there have been so many various forms of a 'junior student group' in the past few years, none which have been too effective because the group never had a purpose. I'll have to come up with something over the holidays.

 

We were lucky enough to be given free Subway (the first time I've actually had something from Subway apart from a small cookie I bought two years ago!), and then Heather and I were told that we have to give a speech at the junior prize-giving this Friday about...anything, or what we're passionate about, or who we are...really I have no idea what we're supposed to talk about!

 

My biggest fear coming into the job as headboy is that you have everyone looking at you expecting to do heaps of things for them and when either you don't make it obvious that you've done something for the students or you don't do anything at all for them, you get slated for it and people seem to (I don't know if they actually do) turn against you and put you down and lose faith in you. Next year rather than the head students doing everything while the student leaders lie back and relax, each person in the student leaders group will be in charge of a certain area, and so hopefully things will get done. I just hope I don't screw up the Junior students group!

 

This lady from church asked my brothers and me to perform some music at their Christmas concert, and is expecting us to be able to play it for her this Sunday, but the only problem is we don't have any Christmas music for an accordion trio which means I'll have to arrange some music! (By the way just to do my part for being a novice Christian, God and Jesus are really cool people, or spirits, or guys/girls whatever they are!)

 

This Friday I'll be performing with the Auckland Symphony Orchestra for a free Christmas concert at 7.30pm in the Auckland Town Hall just in case anyone has a Friday night to waste! This means I have to attend rehearsals on Thursday and Friday night.

 

I also applied for this job, and tonight I attended a little presentation about what would be involved, and if I decide to go for the job, I have to auditon for it next Tuesday which would require me to plan all this stuff and do a little performance and demonstration :S

 

I just want to RELAX for once!

All Over!

I left the exam room at 5pm and that was it for me for this year! No more NCEA exams for me! Chinese wasn't too bad. I'm not too good at listening and so I probably stuffed up that paper. This time round I wasn't the only person left in the room at the end but Julie (a friend from my Chinese class) and I were last to leave while everyone left before us.

 

The scary thing is when I was sitting outside the exam room before the exam with some other people, my dean walked past calling out to me telling me that she was expecting all excellences! She's going to be disappointed!

 

Anyway our computer upgrade saga continues...We bought a new motherboard but not after we bought a new power supply for the computer as we were told we needed a more powerful power supply. So now our computer has a new graphics card, motherboard and power supply. The next thing is putting it all together and getting it to work! We could probably create another computer out of our spare motherboard and power supply but that would cost more money...

 

 

Little Kids

I got attacked by my seven year old neighbour with a lemon. There I was, being chucked in the back with a lemon. No I couldn't touch her because I'm a guy and I might have been labeled a child abuser! Nah we were only playing anyway so nothing serious!

 

This Saturday will be the music school's (where I teach recorder) prize-giving. All my recorder students will be performing and the powers-above will all be there, so I've been preparing all the music and making sure everything is right for Saturday. Now all I can hope for is that the students turn up and they play their very best! I'm going to try dress up to give me that sophisticated teacher look ;)