I did not have a Sexual Relationship with my Mama!

"Are you saying that you had sexual relationships with your mother?"

I was accused by the opposing team of having a sexual relationship with my mum!
Furthermore, the adjudicators criticised me for making stereotypes and said that just because I may not go out much and may enjoy going out with my parents and family doesn't necessarily mean all other teenagers do! So I was stereotyped as some studious guy who never goes out! Oh well...no hard feelings there its all true lol
Our debating team (Hyun, Joon and me) had a practice limited preparation debate against Chen, Sam and Jamie's team. The moot was

"that co-ed schools are desirable."

with us being the negative team.Points of information were allowed, which made the debate even more interesting. The third speaker of the affirmative team made the argument that it would be easier for co-ed schools to organise balls and productions.
When it was Joon's (third speaker of negative team) time to speak and argue the previous speaker's main points, he started off with

"BAAAALLS!"

Tomorrow is the last day of school and it is only a half day!! However we're having our menningicoccal vaccines (which according to friends from other schools hurt for more than three days!!). If all goes well there'll be no more school in no time!

Put into Context

After watching this documentary DNZ: The Other Olympiad about several of New Zealand's brightest students who got to travel to Athens to compete in the Maths Olympics on TV ONE tonight, it kinda made me feel pretty dumb! They are students who are like fifth formers doing seventh form work, and here's sixth form me lying on the couch reading sixth form chemistry!

Whenever I think of the future I always think about how I'm going to raise my children. My plan? Play Mozart music, teach them to speak, read and do maths at a very early age. Oh and play music too!!....all in the hope of having a child prodigy *fingers crossed*!

 

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Money Isn't Everything

It’s interesting to read how the co-founders of Google reduced their individual salaries to US$1 last year. Obviously they realised they didn’t necessarily need all that money. What difference would it make anyway if you’re worth over a billion dollars?  What would you spend a $1 billion with? If I had that much money…well…I’d first probably put it in the bank so I could accumulate interest (unexpectedly!), then I would probably pay for our family to go on a holiday to Hong Kong to visit the relatives. It has been ten years since we last went there!

 

Of course money isn’t everything, and we’ve seen that in Prince Charles and Lady Camilla Parker Bowles’ wedding. Well I don’t know if she’s marrying him just for his money, but he isn’t exactly rolling around in cash either. Then again, he would be rolling around in more than I ever will! However, because Prince Charles decided against signing a pre-nuptial agreement, if Charles and Camilla happen to divorce, Camilla could come away with a lot more than she had before she married. When Princess Diana and Prince Charles divorced in 1996, Diana came away with a lump sum of £17.5 million to pay off her debts, and that basically crippled Charles, with him having to liquidate assets and sell off his investments. But who knows if history will repeat this time round. Camilla and Charles have been at it for something like 33 years? Unless they realise the juice has all dried up from their relationship, they’re most likely destined to be together for quite some time to come.

 

Sure money makes the world go around, but it can’t beat love (and I know this sounds stupid). As much as I hate to say it, the love bug is definitely spreading around school faster than anything else, and it looks to be incurable! At least it is making people a lot happier! I can think of one person in particular but thou shall not be named, who has been a lot upbeat and happier ever since she got together with her current boyfriend. All I can say is that I hope they last the distance! I think right now I could possibly name at least ten of my friends who are in relationships, which is a bit overwhelming. Everyone really is maturing and growing up! That’s a good thing though, we all deserve someone.  

Finally Finished

This morning I finally finished my NCEA Biology 2.4 Ecology assessment. I’m really worried though. I wasn’t sure if I had written enough on the species we focused on, the Nodilittorina antipodum (periwinkle). For excellence you are required to discuss environmental factors related to this species. I wrote two and a little bit pages, so fingers crossed that was enough! Now I only have the English formal writing assessment to go… My thesis statement used to be:

“Reality is Subjective”

But I found this too broad, so now I’ve changed it to:

“Emotions get in the way of truth”

 

It allows me to delve into overuse of emotion in news reports these days. How often do you notice news reporters using words such as SHOCKING and HORRIFIC? These affect our opinions of the matter and the way we feel. A news reporter’s job should be just that – to report.

It is due on Thursday, the day before my meningococcal vaccine :S

 

For the past two days Aonghas and I have been performing at our school’s Studio Show (performing arts concert). What made this performance the more special and memorable was that this would be the last studio show held in Room 90, our school’s theatre before it gets demolished during the holidays to make way for the new Information Commons Centre (flash name for library). Aonghas and I performed March Militaire by Schubert. The performance on the first night went really bad. We made heaps of mistakes! Thursday night’s performance was a lot better though and we made only a few mistakes. I feel sorry for the band that performed on Wednesday though. They played American Idiot by Greenday, and swore all through the song, and their lead singer swore at the backstage crew. Ultimately they got kicked out of the show.

 

Watching the rock band rehearse made me come up with an idea…what if Aonghas, I and a few other people we could find formed a band of our own? It would definitely break our stereotype of being geeks. We could name the band something like *geeksRus* and play cool songs like Stacey’s Mum, What I go to School for and Peaches! But right now it is just an imagination.

 

Hamish, Aonghas and I have been asked to perform at our cousin’s dad’s men’s group (or something like that) meeting, as well as at the Dutch village across the road form our house within the next few weeks. The performance at our cousin’s dad’s men’s group meeting clashes with parent teacher interviews next Wednesday so we might have to postpone it. I’ll probably have to follow my parents round while they meet my teachers and say embarrassing things about me. I’ll keep you posted…

 

One teacher they won’t be able to meet is my Chinese teacher, as she and basically all of my Chinese class (except for me and Julie, this other girl). They’re going to spend the term one holidays in China. Next term I’ll have to give a welcome speech to the Chinese school they visit because their soccer team will be visiting our school.

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. On our way there we pulled over at the side of the road and the bus driver announced that there was some problem with the brakes, and so another bus had to be called out to take us to Piha.

So there we were, sitting on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere for about half an hour waitiing for another bus. When it FINALLY turned up we completed the trip and made it to Piha.

 

Once there the work started. We had to climb up this rock wall (or something similar) and, using quadrats and transects record the species living along the rocky shore. The day just couldn't get any worse for me. The first time my group went up the rock wall to gather data, we found absolutely nothing! We must've been in the wrong area! The second time we tried the group member in charge of recording the data didn't exactly record ALL of the data! PLUS the tide didn't go out completely so as I stood on the sand a wave came in and got my shoes all soaked.

This morning the music teacher asked Aonghas and me if we would like to play in the Studio Show, the school's performing arts concert for tomorrow and Thursday, with a dress rehearsal this afternoon. She asked us to play a duet but we had nothing ready so we had to learn one in an hour!