It was the controversial Boobs on Bikes Parade in the city today. Now before you ask me if I skipped my lecture to go perve, the answer is of course not! It was all just a coincidence!! I just happened to be at the Kiwibank ATM machine getting more money to buy some stuff at the 'Lost and Found' Sale going on at the Quad (all items that hadn't been collected in the past three months were being sold off, including textbooks and electronic Chinese dictionaries!! And I needed cash!!!) and then saw all these people standing along the side walk of Queen St waiting for the parade to begin, so yours truly, on behalf of the Democratic Republic of Calum decided to investigate..not what was on parade (I couldn't see!!), but to see the other side of the parade - the perves!
When everyone realised that the parade was going to go up Wellesley St rather than down along Queen St, the masses began flocking up Queen St to get a glimpse of the boobs and ...bikes?? The range of perves out there was amazing. Earlier in the day I had seen high school students (won't mention which schools they were from *Massey* and *EGGS*) wandering along in the city. Some of the onlookers included roadworkers who were supposed to be working on Queen St, office workers, little kids, old men, old women, Asians (they were the ones who tended to have cameras with them..how convenient!) and even little kids.
This is contrary to what mayor Dick Hubbard told Paul Holmes on Newstalk ZB this morning, something along the lines of
"I'm sure some of the Asians, people of other cultures and students will find this offensive"
Yet many of the onlookers and photo-snappers were Asians and students!
Here are a collection of quotes I heard amongst the perves:
"WOOOOOOAHHHHH!!!! LOOK AT THOSE!" - Young little Samoan boy with jumbo-sized Wendy's drink as he dashed to the parade
"I don't know if I would do that...Maybe if my parents didn't know..." - One girl to another
"I should've bought a cow udder and squirt milk all over them <insert sleazy laugh>" - One horny guy to another
"Did you see those boobs? They were horrible!!" - An office worker
Extensive coverage, including photos of perverts (with their eyes blacked out to conceal their identities) can be found HERE
Wednesday, 22 August 2007
Tuesday, 21 August 2007
Rutherford Senior Debating Champions!!!
Congratulations
to the
Rutherford Atoms Senior Debating Team
for beating St Kentigens College
tonight in the ISAY Debating Finals!
to the
Rutherford Atoms Senior Debating Team
for beating St Kentigens College
tonight in the ISAY Debating Finals!
Monday, 20 August 2007
New Friend, Chinese on Maori TV...Beauty Pageants Amongst Other Things...
Just a random collection of stuff...
I made a new friend today! Andy, this Chinese guy who can play piano and used to go to Takapuna Grammar School (yeah phewee flash!) who organised the MEDSCI study group came up to me today after our population health lecture and started talking to me. It turns out he can speak Cantonese, and so he's going to try talk to me in Cantonese! While he was sitting with me and my other uni friend Kevin on the bus he actually asked me an interesting question:
"Since you're..a halfcast. are you attracted to Asians or Kiwis?"
I never actually thought about that before! They didn't think I looked like an Asian though!
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I cannot commend Maori TV enough after last night. They screened a Cantonese movie 'Infernal Affairs' (the movie in which The Departed is based on) during prime-time hours, and best of all with no ads! (Maori TV is ad-free). Maori TV now also have the rights to some boxing and the Tall Blacks basketball. They're really becoming a good public broadcaster! So Congratulations Maori TV and keep it up!
Ever since that new Chinese TV CTV8 went on air and replaced Alt TV, my mum has been addicted to that channel! It hasn't been too bad, but it's all in Mandarin, when we would prefer to watch Cantonese shows! My friend Esther told me that it is possible to change the audio to a Cantonese feed for a few shows, but I think our TV is too old to do that!
On Saturday night my mum FORCED us to watch the Miss Asia New Zealand 2006 pageant. Now you would be thinking GREAT! Girls in bikinis woohoo!!! However the standard of the broadcast as well as the format of the show was a bit questionable at times. For a start, it was 3 HOURS!!! The sound levels were all over the place throughout those three hours. Sometimes it was deafening, sometimes it was too quiet, and at one time they left one of the hosts' microphones on while he was backstage or out of the shot!
The girls were made to parade in their bikinis and then had to stand in the middle of the stage and answer a question. The girls actually looked pretty much the same! Yeah I know they're all Asian, but they were all fairly white! I don't think there were any tanned Asians! To add to this, they were judged by an panel which included 'experts' such as John Fellet (Sky TV CEO)!
But then again what do I know about beauty pageants? Luckily I didn't miss too much of SWAT!
I made a new friend today! Andy, this Chinese guy who can play piano and used to go to Takapuna Grammar School (yeah phewee flash!) who organised the MEDSCI study group came up to me today after our population health lecture and started talking to me. It turns out he can speak Cantonese, and so he's going to try talk to me in Cantonese! While he was sitting with me and my other uni friend Kevin on the bus he actually asked me an interesting question:
"Since you're..a halfcast. are you attracted to Asians or Kiwis?"
I never actually thought about that before! They didn't think I looked like an Asian though!
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I cannot commend Maori TV enough after last night. They screened a Cantonese movie 'Infernal Affairs' (the movie in which The Departed is based on) during prime-time hours, and best of all with no ads! (Maori TV is ad-free). Maori TV now also have the rights to some boxing and the Tall Blacks basketball. They're really becoming a good public broadcaster! So Congratulations Maori TV and keep it up!
Ever since that new Chinese TV CTV8 went on air and replaced Alt TV, my mum has been addicted to that channel! It hasn't been too bad, but it's all in Mandarin, when we would prefer to watch Cantonese shows! My friend Esther told me that it is possible to change the audio to a Cantonese feed for a few shows, but I think our TV is too old to do that!
On Saturday night my mum FORCED us to watch the Miss Asia New Zealand 2006 pageant. Now you would be thinking GREAT! Girls in bikinis woohoo!!! However the standard of the broadcast as well as the format of the show was a bit questionable at times. For a start, it was 3 HOURS!!! The sound levels were all over the place throughout those three hours. Sometimes it was deafening, sometimes it was too quiet, and at one time they left one of the hosts' microphones on while he was backstage or out of the shot!
The girls were made to parade in their bikinis and then had to stand in the middle of the stage and answer a question. The girls actually looked pretty much the same! Yeah I know they're all Asian, but they were all fairly white! I don't think there were any tanned Asians! To add to this, they were judged by an panel which included 'experts' such as John Fellet (Sky TV CEO)!
But then again what do I know about beauty pageants? Luckily I didn't miss too much of SWAT!
First KiwiAsian Club Event...For Me!
On Saturday I attended my very first KiwiAsian Club event - Foodoke, which was having a buffet lunch at this Chinese restaurant, and then going to karaoke afterwards.
I had to rush straight home after music lessons to get ready before Sarena picked me up. She looks so mature behind the wheel...especially in a big jeep-type vehicle too! We got to the city and met up with her cousin Allen (or is it Alan?) and walked down Queen St to the restaurant. We originally thought we were late (yes my fault!), but it turned out that we were actually almost an hour early!
We waited outside for other members to arrive and when it finally was 1pm we all went in. The buffet was great! I'm used to going to yumcha where you only get three or four on a plate and can only eat a little bit and then fill the rest of yourself up with tea! This time though I could eat as much as I wanted! I ended up having three plates of food and two plates of dessert (I did sneak some stuff in my pockets to feed my family later that night ;) ) and so I couldn't be bothered entering the food eating competition.
Thank goodness Aneesya and Kat also came too, so I sat with them along with Sarena and her cousin.
While Melissa (who actually organised the event! Well done Melissa! I'm voting for you and Kat to be p-execs!!) was looking at the list of people who were supposed to be attending, I saw the name
JASON YOU
My old primary school friend who I hadn't seen for five years!! I started looking around for him. Dickson had told me the day before that he was now really tall. Well guess what? It turns out he was the winner of the food eating competition!
When time was up we had to leave the restaurant and walked all the way down to the karaoke place. We got split into two rooms and so I went into the room with the people I knew. I didn't really get a chance to sing much except for one song...a Backstreet Boys song. What's with me and singing old school pop songs!!
After a while we all went into one of the karaoke rooms to watch the competition for best and worst singing and most entertaining performance. Kat and Aneesya competed for best performance while Aneesya and Melissa got dancing on top of a table for most entertaining. I'm not really too sure who won because I had to leave early!
So I've finally broken that barrier and attended one KiwiAsian Club event. Next up is the KACino Royale gaming night where everyone gets together to play Mahjong, poker and big 5 against each other. I'm tossing up between whether I should go or not, as I don't know how to play any of those games!
I had to rush straight home after music lessons to get ready before Sarena picked me up. She looks so mature behind the wheel...especially in a big jeep-type vehicle too! We got to the city and met up with her cousin Allen (or is it Alan?) and walked down Queen St to the restaurant. We originally thought we were late (yes my fault!), but it turned out that we were actually almost an hour early!
We waited outside for other members to arrive and when it finally was 1pm we all went in. The buffet was great! I'm used to going to yumcha where you only get three or four on a plate and can only eat a little bit and then fill the rest of yourself up with tea! This time though I could eat as much as I wanted! I ended up having three plates of food and two plates of dessert (I did sneak some stuff in my pockets to feed my family later that night ;) ) and so I couldn't be bothered entering the food eating competition.
Thank goodness Aneesya and Kat also came too, so I sat with them along with Sarena and her cousin.
While Melissa (who actually organised the event! Well done Melissa! I'm voting for you and Kat to be p-execs!!) was looking at the list of people who were supposed to be attending, I saw the name
JASON YOU
My old primary school friend who I hadn't seen for five years!! I started looking around for him. Dickson had told me the day before that he was now really tall. Well guess what? It turns out he was the winner of the food eating competition!
When time was up we had to leave the restaurant and walked all the way down to the karaoke place. We got split into two rooms and so I went into the room with the people I knew. I didn't really get a chance to sing much except for one song...a Backstreet Boys song. What's with me and singing old school pop songs!!
After a while we all went into one of the karaoke rooms to watch the competition for best and worst singing and most entertaining performance. Kat and Aneesya competed for best performance while Aneesya and Melissa got dancing on top of a table for most entertaining. I'm not really too sure who won because I had to leave early!
So I've finally broken that barrier and attended one KiwiAsian Club event. Next up is the KACino Royale gaming night where everyone gets together to play Mahjong, poker and big 5 against each other. I'm tossing up between whether I should go or not, as I don't know how to play any of those games!
70's Birthday Party!
On Friday night it was my cousin's girlfriend's 30th birthday party with a 70's theme, so we all had to dress up. So as you know, I just grabbed whatever I could find: a sick orange shirt, striped pants, one of those old hats with a flap and my sleeping gown. My mum wouldn't let me wear my sleeping gown though because she thought I was too embarrassing! I told her it was the only night we could wear whatever we wanted and not have to worry how we looked!
The party was held in Mt Wellington, but of course someone lost the address and so when we got to the road, we ended up driving up and down the same road two and a half times until we finally spotted the purple balloon at the gate!
Most of the people at the party were older people who had dressed up in 70's clothes. There was even one girl on roller skates! Only one of my female cousins from the other Anderson family - Korina - showed up, as Janice was somewhere else.
The dance music was all the sort of music you'd hear on Classic Hits (then again to be expected!) and so Aonghas and I (and trying to get Hamish to join in) hit the dance floor and tried to do a bit of dancing. We ended up coming up with some of our own moves like the shovel, the shopping trolley and the wheelchair ;)
By the end of the night a few of the older people including the birthday girl were drunk and everyone was tired, but it was a good night in the end. I think I'm starting to enjoy trying to dance! Haha...notice the word TRY!
The party was held in Mt Wellington, but of course someone lost the address and so when we got to the road, we ended up driving up and down the same road two and a half times until we finally spotted the purple balloon at the gate!
Most of the people at the party were older people who had dressed up in 70's clothes. There was even one girl on roller skates! Only one of my female cousins from the other Anderson family - Korina - showed up, as Janice was somewhere else.
The dance music was all the sort of music you'd hear on Classic Hits (then again to be expected!) and so Aonghas and I (and trying to get Hamish to join in) hit the dance floor and tried to do a bit of dancing. We ended up coming up with some of our own moves like the shovel, the shopping trolley and the wheelchair ;)
By the end of the night a few of the older people including the birthday girl were drunk and everyone was tired, but it was a good night in the end. I think I'm starting to enjoy trying to dance! Haha...notice the word TRY!
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