1992
First full year of being a christian. Was at 6th form at skool. no longer into the WWF... stopped watching that in late 1990 but would get back into it in 1997. But at da mo was basically into church and RC cars. my skool work fell away this year and would decline even more in 1993. Infact i allmost decided not to do 7th form and goto tech instead... but was convinced to do 7th form.
Anyway for me this was the year of RC cars. I tasted quite a bit of success... in Jan got third in the NZ junior champs (16 years and under). In 1991 Paul got in to bike riding so no longer raced RC cars... now it was just me with Dad hepling out with Papakura RC car club... he was one of the main guys running the club now so he didn't race. Things got quite competative this year for me and sometimes even saw RC car racing as a chore... especially as i did it on Sunday... clashing with morning church. My often religious attitude was starting to cause problems at home, even with my christian mum. She didn't go to church for a reason and that was the reason haha. I was saying some pretty crazy stuff... i had basically lost all sense of reality and was afraid of nothing other than God.. and i saw him as too loving to really be terrified of him. I saw him as my friend and everyone else as my enemy. I had a family at church... but even there i felt rejected and unpopular. it was quite surreal really... some crazy fantasy land... i still had problems with skool, RC cars and other stuff but they really didn't worry me. But at the same time i still had teenage problems as well. Why didn't girls like me? why was i so unpopular? When can i have the keys to the car mum? lol
After struggling for what seemed like an eternity with the clutch i finally got the hang of driving and i got my restricted licence in April of 1992... NOW i could drive hehe. mmmm i had mums car AND it has a stereo... ok now for some heavy metal, wind da window down.... spin it up woop woop fuk yea.
But before all this even begun we went on a trip to chch and managed to stay next door to one of my old mates from Wellington (Alan McCartnie). Alan was my best friend back in Wellie and he was gutted when i left there in 1989. He was origionally from Invercargill and his heart was allwasy in da South so he was now in chch. chch is a nice place.... i wanna go back there again.
Anyway back at Macleans i was now hanging out with the young 3rd form girls and i was at that age (16) when i was young, dumb and full of cum. Anyway i sorta knew that they were just being silly but had fun at da same time... later on that year i would have my ONLY girlfriend... and even that relationship only lasted a week..... now that was wierd being in that situation. It was a "churchy" relationship and we didn't get any firther than holding hands... no kissing and DEFINATELY no nookie. Infact to this day i am still a virgin.
After that i sorta got really staunch about being single... no holding back now... and to be honest the whole movement for me kept gathering steam until 2008... when it faltered somewhat until recovering in 2010.
But back in 1992 all this emotional stuff was causing issues at church, i would still have moods etc etc and it just would affect everything in my life... RC cars, skool etc etc.
In April our cat Skippy was killed whilst crossing Cornelian Cres. Mum found her lying by the house with blood coming out her mouth... she was dead. We buried her in the backyard and then after a few weeks we got another cat Sooty. She was very playful and we had her until 2000 when we had to give her away as Paul got very allergic to her fur despite being a short haired cat. We also had to give away our other kitten Lance at da same time cos he was bring mum "gifts" every 5 minutes lol.... more on Lance in my 2000 edition lol.
Musically my taste just kept getting heavier and after hearing so much thrash i started getting into the latest style of metal to hit the shelves.... DEATH METAL. This was mostly the work on non christian bands like Deicide, Obituary etc but i didn't listen to any non christian music so i got into bands like Vengence which was semi death metal... mostly thrash though. However Mortification would be the first xtian death metal band and i got into them at the end of the year. of course the term "christian death metal" isn't a term most ppl realise exists and certainly at church ppl were not too happy about me listening to much violent music and my long standing problems with the chuirch in general basically was perpetuated by things like this at the start and later on things like war in Iraq in 2003 alienated me even more from the church.
But it wasn't all that bad. I made plenty of friends there and to be honest only hung with christians. I met longtime friend Tim Freidel back in 92 and he was into RC car racing. He would come out with me and Dad but his carefree attitude to life did not go down at all well with the guys at da track... especially when his drivng was well all over the place. but omg he was sooo much fun to take along and his car was good and his skill was right up there (Tim learns things very fast)... he was just just a bit reckless haha.
I also met Craig and Raymond at the same church... infact more of my 90s friends were all becasue of my christian beliefs... so i wasn't exactly worried about what the "world" thought of me cos i basically lived in the church... everything revolved around the church.
But at the end of the year after just passing 6th form things were looking pretty good... had a great summer camp with the youth group and looking forward to a great 93.... and 93 was actaully a good year. Spent the last part of 1992 in Denedin to kick off our 2 week tour of Otago. Saw in 1993 in Dunedin.
Anyway for me this was the year of RC cars. I tasted quite a bit of success... in Jan got third in the NZ junior champs (16 years and under). In 1991 Paul got in to bike riding so no longer raced RC cars... now it was just me with Dad hepling out with Papakura RC car club... he was one of the main guys running the club now so he didn't race. Things got quite competative this year for me and sometimes even saw RC car racing as a chore... especially as i did it on Sunday... clashing with morning church. My often religious attitude was starting to cause problems at home, even with my christian mum. She didn't go to church for a reason and that was the reason haha. I was saying some pretty crazy stuff... i had basically lost all sense of reality and was afraid of nothing other than God.. and i saw him as too loving to really be terrified of him. I saw him as my friend and everyone else as my enemy. I had a family at church... but even there i felt rejected and unpopular. it was quite surreal really... some crazy fantasy land... i still had problems with skool, RC cars and other stuff but they really didn't worry me. But at the same time i still had teenage problems as well. Why didn't girls like me? why was i so unpopular? When can i have the keys to the car mum? lol
After struggling for what seemed like an eternity with the clutch i finally got the hang of driving and i got my restricted licence in April of 1992... NOW i could drive hehe. mmmm i had mums car AND it has a stereo... ok now for some heavy metal, wind da window down.... spin it up woop woop fuk yea.
But before all this even begun we went on a trip to chch and managed to stay next door to one of my old mates from Wellington (Alan McCartnie). Alan was my best friend back in Wellie and he was gutted when i left there in 1989. He was origionally from Invercargill and his heart was allwasy in da South so he was now in chch. chch is a nice place.... i wanna go back there again.
Anyway back at Macleans i was now hanging out with the young 3rd form girls and i was at that age (16) when i was young, dumb and full of cum. Anyway i sorta knew that they were just being silly but had fun at da same time... later on that year i would have my ONLY girlfriend... and even that relationship only lasted a week..... now that was wierd being in that situation. It was a "churchy" relationship and we didn't get any firther than holding hands... no kissing and DEFINATELY no nookie. Infact to this day i am still a virgin.
After that i sorta got really staunch about being single... no holding back now... and to be honest the whole movement for me kept gathering steam until 2008... when it faltered somewhat until recovering in 2010.
But back in 1992 all this emotional stuff was causing issues at church, i would still have moods etc etc and it just would affect everything in my life... RC cars, skool etc etc.
In April our cat Skippy was killed whilst crossing Cornelian Cres. Mum found her lying by the house with blood coming out her mouth... she was dead. We buried her in the backyard and then after a few weeks we got another cat Sooty. She was very playful and we had her until 2000 when we had to give her away as Paul got very allergic to her fur despite being a short haired cat. We also had to give away our other kitten Lance at da same time cos he was bring mum "gifts" every 5 minutes lol.... more on Lance in my 2000 edition lol.
Musically my taste just kept getting heavier and after hearing so much thrash i started getting into the latest style of metal to hit the shelves.... DEATH METAL. This was mostly the work on non christian bands like Deicide, Obituary etc but i didn't listen to any non christian music so i got into bands like Vengence which was semi death metal... mostly thrash though. However Mortification would be the first xtian death metal band and i got into them at the end of the year. of course the term "christian death metal" isn't a term most ppl realise exists and certainly at church ppl were not too happy about me listening to much violent music and my long standing problems with the chuirch in general basically was perpetuated by things like this at the start and later on things like war in Iraq in 2003 alienated me even more from the church.
But it wasn't all that bad. I made plenty of friends there and to be honest only hung with christians. I met longtime friend Tim Freidel back in 92 and he was into RC car racing. He would come out with me and Dad but his carefree attitude to life did not go down at all well with the guys at da track... especially when his drivng was well all over the place. but omg he was sooo much fun to take along and his car was good and his skill was right up there (Tim learns things very fast)... he was just just a bit reckless haha.
I also met Craig and Raymond at the same church... infact more of my 90s friends were all becasue of my christian beliefs... so i wasn't exactly worried about what the "world" thought of me cos i basically lived in the church... everything revolved around the church.
But at the end of the year after just passing 6th form things were looking pretty good... had a great summer camp with the youth group and looking forward to a great 93.... and 93 was actaully a good year. Spent the last part of 1992 in Denedin to kick off our 2 week tour of Otago. Saw in 1993 in Dunedin.
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