A Couple of Games (Curveball and Copter)

Blog Games

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Smoking


I think that smoking should be illegal. What does it do apart from shorten our lives and waste our money? I have thought on this topic for quite a long time, and I think it is finally time for me to speak out.

I am sick of walking down the street all the time, walk past a person that is smoking and catch a big whiff of smoke. Just think of all the toxins going into my body! I have even resorted to holding my breath each time I see someone smoking, then finally breathing out when I am far away from the source. I don't want to breathe in the smoke and tobacco that emits from the mouth of these selfish beings. That's right, I said they were selfish. They are depleting the ozone layer for absolutely no reason apart from their own enjoyment, and then they exhale and force us to breathe in their waste. It's unacceptable.

I don't have anything against the person that smokes, as it is not completely their fault. The sale of tobacco should have been outright banned years ago, before it became a part of life for people. Now it is too late, and if it gets banned now it will just cause a lot of strife. It will open up mass black markets to distribute the stuff, and it will involve lots of more people to go to jail or have charges laid on them. It will also cause some people to go out of their minds, the people that are addicted. They will go insane and that will cause large problems for the government and other social services.

Ever since I was young I decided that I would not smoke. Never let myself get hooked. I decided that once I was past the age of 20 I would try a cigarette and then never touch one again. I say over 20 because apparently people that age have a lot more self control than teenagers do, which will hopefully stop me getting addicted.

My Voki. (Push the 'Play' button)


Get a Voki now!

Life

This is going to be quite a deep blog entry about life.

I love life. I can't imagine not living. I would like to believe in reincarnation but I just can't see it happening. That means we have one shot at life. One chance to get it right. I want to live my life to the absolute full, and not leave anything out. There are no second chances at life. You just have to do what you can with the opportunities are given. I always get annoyed when I see people throwing away their life, their only chance, by smoking, binge drinking, drugs etc. They are just letting their lives waste away, not doing anything productive. I can sort of understand their thinking though. That is probably be their idea of living their life to the full. Too bad they don't realise what they are actually doing to themselves.

I want to make sure that I don't waste my life. I don't want to be one of those people that grow up, get married, and die. I want to do something special with my life that gets remembered, leaves my mark on this Earth. I'm not sure what for or how I am going to do it, but I will do it somehow.

I am at an age at the moment where my future is still greatly undetermined. I am at an age where a lot of what I do will effect my future. If I screw up now, don't focus at school, I will find it hard to to back on the rails. If I decide to become rebellious, it could mean that I won't end up getting into a good NCEA class, leading to not going into university, leading to not getting a good job. I have to make sure that I live my life right, and make sure I don't throw away my life.

Friday, June 20, 2008

Copter



Some people honestly have no life. My high score is only 5412. This guy over doubled my score. I repeat, NO LIFE!

University

I am definitely going to go to university, but I'm not sure what I want to study. I will probably do a Bachelor of Arts and something else. My sister did a law degree and she said it was really boring, and that the only thing that kept her going was her Bachelor of Arts. A lot of the subjects in that course appeal to me. History, French, Classical Studies, Mathematics, Philosophy, Ancient History and others.

As for my other option, I have hardly any clue. I could possibly do a sports science degree, but I am not really sure what that includes. I can't really think of anything else that I can do, as I don't have any ideas for a career path.

University is very important to me. My mum didn't go to uni when she was young, and she very much regreted it when she wanted to get her degree just a few years ago. She said that is was much harder to learn and remember things as an oldie, rather than a youth. I am not going to make the same mistake, and I am going to get my education out of the way so I can live the rest of my life.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Kevin Garnett and Kobe Bryant


Paul Pierce Celebrates With the MVP Trophy


The Boston Celtics. New NBA Champions!


Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! Well, yes! But nooooooooooooooooooooo!. Yes!, because the Boston Celtics have won the NBA finals for the first time in 21 years. Noooooooooooooooooooo!, because I missed the whole freakin game because I was at school and had Alice in Wonderland rehearsal after school. The whole time I was at the rehearsal I was fidgeting restlessly, hoping with all my heart that the Lakers could beat the Celtics, forcing the game 7 on Friday so I could watch the whole game. But luck wasn't on my side. The Celtics absolutely annihilated the Lakers in a 131-92 victory. And the replay is on at finishes at midnight tonight, and I can't watch it because I have to get up early tomorrow for another rehearsal! I can't even record it because my mum hasn't set up our DVD recorder so we can't record anything on SKY!!!!!!!

Oh well, I am happy that the Celtics won, and that Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce finally have their first championship rings. Pierce got the well-deserved Most Valuable Player award for the finals, and fans all over Boston are cheering for joy.

10 Years Time

In ten years time I see myself travelling the world, hopefully with the love of my life, or if the right girl (or guy [but mainly girl]) hasn't come along yet, then I will go with a mate (probably Josh). I would have just graduated from uni (not sure what in yet), so I will be full of knowledge. Hopefully whoever I go with and I will be fully loaded so we could stay in each country a few months at a time, so we can get the full feeling of each place. We won't leave any countries out so we don't miss out on anything. Because my brain will be bursting with knowledge from uni, all I will then will be experience. Experience that I can gather by traveling the world.

After we have travelled to all (or most) of the countries, whoever I am travelling with and I will settle down in one country for a few years (probably the UK or the USA. Over there I will use my knowledge and experience to get a good job and earn lots of money.

After a few years I will move back to New Zealand to the Whangaparaoa Peninsula to settle down and start a family and stuff. I will probably go back to school and get my Doctorate in whatever.

I would also like to go somewhere with my basketball. It would be great to represent my country in the sport, or even make it into the NBA. If something like that did happen, I would probably have to put my travel and education on hold which will be quite hard. It is really important to me that I go to university and get my education, because I know I will regret it later in life if I don't.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Zimbabwe


This is my work on Zimbabwe for my Social Studies homework.

Zimbabwe is located in the southern part of Africa and it is surrounded by land in all directions (or landlocked). To it’s northwest is Zambia, to the east is Mozambique, Botswana to the south and South Africa to the south. The majority of people in Zimbabwe speak Shona, which is one of two native languages in Zimbabwe, although the official language of the country is English.

Zimbabwe used to be called Southern Rhodesia and it was controlled by the United Kingdom, up until after the civil war. On the 18th of April 1980, the country became an independent nation. It got it’s new name of Zimbabwe, a new flag, and a government led by Robert Mugabe. Mugabe became Prime Minister and Canaan Banana became the first president. In 1988 the government abolished the prime ministerial office, and Robert Mugabe became president. In 2000, Robert Mugabe began to reclaim land from the white population (mainly farmland) and redistributed it out to 250,000 Africans.

Zimbabwe is currently experiencing a shortage of funds, which has led to causing shortages of imported fuel and goods, and also hyperinflation. Critics blame it on Mugabe’s land reclamation programme.


Facts
· The capital of Zimbabwe is Harare, and it is also the largest city.
· Its total area is 390,757 km squared. The 60th largest in the world. Only 1%of the land is water.
· Zimbabwe’s population is 20,010,000. The 68th largest in the world.
· GDP= $400,000,000,000. The 80th largest in the world
· GDP Per Capita= $188. The 178th largest in the world.
· Zimbabwe’s motto is “Unity, Freedom, Work”

Monday, June 16, 2008

Happy 60th Blog entry Anniversary!


Yay! 60 blog entries!

I am Bored

I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bored right now. I am just waiting for Desperate Housewives to come on (Shut up! It's actually a very manly programme!) ad I have nothing to do except blog. Dang. I have run out of blog ideas. I know, why don't I just write some random sentences, and see what comes out.

Billy the man frog lives on a banana. One day he lifted up a nose hair and spanked the giant monkey from across the road. Little did he know, that his dried up goober brain cheese ball was rolling in the dragon, and that it was screaming a song full of tranquilisers and boogers. People from the 19th century used to keep lollipops in their butt holes to keep them warm in the winter, even though it is illegal on other planets. Helicopters from Pluto like to dance on evil monkey sausage men on Sundays, maybe even stopping in time t lick the evil marshmallow anvils from hell. Gregory the Sasquatch likes to play in the sand with no clothes on. I strongly advise you to close your eyes when you are around, otherwise you might just get too excited. Or as Mr. Tubby puts it best "Did you see what she said?". Meowie was a mushroom burger and sleeps on the moon frog if the floor is wet.

Wow. That was weird. Well I managed to kill 10 minutes. Bye!

Putting Videos On Blogs

Yes! I finally learnt how! I have finally learnt how to put a ideo from Youtube onto my blog. I have lost count of the amount of times that I have tried to upload a video from Youtube by clicking the video button when I'm creating an entry, and the copied and pasted the embed in in there. Now thanks to Vinay, I learnt that I am supposed to put the embed straight into the blog entry, rather than using the video button.

I guess I went a little bit overboard by putting 3 videos on in a row, but those are the videos that I have been wanting to put on for for a long time. You should really check out the videos I put on, they are great! They are some awsome dunks from some of my favourite players.

Now I am going to enjoy blogging much more, withthe knowledge that I can put videos on it that will contribute to making my blog a bit more interesting.

Dwight Howard Superman Dunk

Shaquille O'Neal Breaks the Backboard

720 Degree dunk. AMAZING!

Friday, June 13, 2008

Basketball

Basketball is my life. I have been playing the sport for 7 and a half years now, and I still love it. I am currently in the Under 15 Hibiscus Coast Rep Team as a trainer, because I am too old for the team at the moment and I need to wait until next year when there is an Under 17's team. So now I just train with the Under 15's to keep up my skills in preparation for next year.

Right now the Under 15 team consists of. . .

Point Guards= Kale, Chris, Jamie, Daniel
Wings= Connor, Sam, Jacob, Alex
Posts= Andrew, Matt, Marco, Clark, Joe, Ryan and myself.

We are currently in the Intercity tournament which has been going on every Saturday for the past few weeks. We have won every game except our last game against Massey our rival. Tomorrow we are playing against Harbour B which will be a tough game, and we will have to work really hard to win.

The Big Three. Ray Alen, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce (in that order). P.S They have switched shirts with eachother.


Wow. And He is Wearing the Same Shoes I have as well!


Pierce, Garnett and Allen have 35 years of NBA experience among them, but none has won a championship. Yet.