1995
Saw 1995 in at work. It started well enough but fell to pieces real quickly once we moved into our rental property due to us moving house. Two teenagers, a stressed out middle aged male and a middle aged female shouldn't be living in such cramped conditions and things quickly got ugly between me and dad. infact my teenage years were known for me and dad not exactly getting on that well. my bedroom wasn't even big enuf to swing a cat... so as a result i wasn't home that much.... going to church, hanging with tim and aaron... either that or i was going to da gym or bowling at da cricket nets. I used to love bowling at da nets.... i used to go down there and just bowl... anyone that wanted to bat against me was most welcome. i went there solo so it didn't matter if no-one else was there cos i was bowling and as a result didn't need anyone else. Things at Shell went from bad to worse. It was the pits now and it was only a matter of time before something happened. The first incident was when me and Aaron went to watch a cricket game at Eden Park. Was meant to be working later that afternoon.... but the match kept having rain delays.... infact it didn't start up properly until i was due to go home to go to work... so me and Aaron stayed! Yep no-show, got into trouble the next day. Let off with a warning but within a month things really turned to shit and my temper was getting the better of me now. Went to Parachute 1995 which on the whole was a great show... saw DC Talk, and watched my favourite preacher speak... this motorbike dude called John smith... real strait up guy... fair dinkum. But the whole day i had been winding Tim up... and at the end we allmost got inot a fist fight which had to be broken up by some of the older guys. About a week later i was fired from Shell for doing another no show (i couldn't find my baseball bat)... but to be honest i was sick of that place. 2 days later Tim rang me up and sed there was a mechanicial engineering course going at MIT... so i went in and got accepted due to my good grades at skool.... s alight reprieve from all the bad crap but didn't last long... within a week me and Tim fell out completely due to an incident at swimarama... i think it was on da way home actually. But anyway i didn't really care despite Aaron too telling me that he too wasn't my friend... well i did care but now i had tech i had something to take my mind off it. Tech started off well enuf, i was getting very good marks in all my subjects. I also met up with several christians there... including Josh Hercock who i would hang out with for da next ten years. However it wasn't long before i started slacking off and missing classes. Despite this my grades were still high. i used to go to Maccas and spend all my money of junk food and then sometimes would drive to tech.... or i'd pick up hitchhikers and would drive them into the city. i was was still hardout into christianity although i did find things at church not easy... but it was the only place i called home.... depsite Tim and Aaron being there... me mostly avoided each other but occasionally our paths would cross.
I was still into gulf FM... but in May they went off air so i was gutted. I was also running out of money... my back even went into overdraft for a time there.... the only time that has ever occured. by now we were in the new house in bucklands beach road... which was really nice... i had a real big room so home life did improve... i also was getting into my sport.... was the first year of the Warriors and i followed their every game. infact 1995 was the year of sport for me.
Things did improve somewhat in June with me landing a job at stringer engineering to compliment my tech course.... also at about the same time me, Tim and Aaron reconciled and that was the last time we offciially fell out. Unfortunately both of them would leave the church at the end of that year and me and and Aaron had little to do with each other once he left the church... but Tim and I still hung out lots.
1995 wasn't so bad for tech... i had my issues but my grades held together... i now had a job which was going ok. both of thesae however were on the verge of collapse though... things turned to shite with both my job and tech in 1996. for 1995 things at both were pretty sweet. The guys at work were cool... i quickly got on well with Ray, this big Tongan guy quite a bit older than me, he was also christain too. In that year i was a big part of the team as our boss Murray would use me for brain stuff to provide the practicial part to my tech training. Me and Ray were also valued for our muscle too so when something needed to be lifted.... either me or Ray would be called upon... which was cool. At the end of the year though Ray would leave but i got on well with Puna who was also Christian.
Things at church were sorta holding together... just but at least i had a good winter and summer camp. Infact on the whole my camps were very good... i think only 3 camps were bad for me.... winter camp 1992 and both 1994 camps.
At thgis stage in life... late 1995 i was into the gym, bowling at da nets, wharfjumping and of course hung at da church... i also was inot making stuff at home with all da junk i had accumulated.... including my RC cars. despite me not racing now i still had my cars and still raced them around the house... i never got rid of them and may still race them again at a later date.
The guyfawks party was cool... in 1994 i had to work on guyfawks nite... this time round though i had a summer, wekends, and a guyfawks... i even had a christmas haha. The end of 1995 was pretty good to be honest despite the odd bit of anger outbursts at church between me and certain ppl. Make no mistake i was by no means popular at church. ppl couldn't stand me but i had enuf friends there to make ti bearable and at the guyfawks party that year i met Stipe who for the next 10 years would be one of the main members of the little group called the eastside god squad.... other members would join the following year... including a good friend of mine.... Andrew Seward.
1995 also marked a big change in my brothers life too... after being hugely into bikes for 1991 to early 1995.... the arrivial of the internet put him on a fast track to becoming an IT genuis
I was still into gulf FM... but in May they went off air so i was gutted. I was also running out of money... my back even went into overdraft for a time there.... the only time that has ever occured. by now we were in the new house in bucklands beach road... which was really nice... i had a real big room so home life did improve... i also was getting into my sport.... was the first year of the Warriors and i followed their every game. infact 1995 was the year of sport for me.
Things did improve somewhat in June with me landing a job at stringer engineering to compliment my tech course.... also at about the same time me, Tim and Aaron reconciled and that was the last time we offciially fell out. Unfortunately both of them would leave the church at the end of that year and me and and Aaron had little to do with each other once he left the church... but Tim and I still hung out lots.
1995 wasn't so bad for tech... i had my issues but my grades held together... i now had a job which was going ok. both of thesae however were on the verge of collapse though... things turned to shite with both my job and tech in 1996. for 1995 things at both were pretty sweet. The guys at work were cool... i quickly got on well with Ray, this big Tongan guy quite a bit older than me, he was also christain too. In that year i was a big part of the team as our boss Murray would use me for brain stuff to provide the practicial part to my tech training. Me and Ray were also valued for our muscle too so when something needed to be lifted.... either me or Ray would be called upon... which was cool. At the end of the year though Ray would leave but i got on well with Puna who was also Christian.
Things at church were sorta holding together... just but at least i had a good winter and summer camp. Infact on the whole my camps were very good... i think only 3 camps were bad for me.... winter camp 1992 and both 1994 camps.
At thgis stage in life... late 1995 i was into the gym, bowling at da nets, wharfjumping and of course hung at da church... i also was inot making stuff at home with all da junk i had accumulated.... including my RC cars. despite me not racing now i still had my cars and still raced them around the house... i never got rid of them and may still race them again at a later date.
The guyfawks party was cool... in 1994 i had to work on guyfawks nite... this time round though i had a summer, wekends, and a guyfawks... i even had a christmas haha. The end of 1995 was pretty good to be honest despite the odd bit of anger outbursts at church between me and certain ppl. Make no mistake i was by no means popular at church. ppl couldn't stand me but i had enuf friends there to make ti bearable and at the guyfawks party that year i met Stipe who for the next 10 years would be one of the main members of the little group called the eastside god squad.... other members would join the following year... including a good friend of mine.... Andrew Seward.
1995 also marked a big change in my brothers life too... after being hugely into bikes for 1991 to early 1995.... the arrivial of the internet put him on a fast track to becoming an IT genuis
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