1997
1997 was another one of those big years. got inot surfing right at the beginning of the year but found out it was real scary... pretty much got my ass kicked by the surf when i went out... really struggled... in fact even now in 2010 i STILL can't surf. this was one sport that i NEVER was able to tame... PWNED! However i learnt valuable respect for mother ocean and whilst i never took to surfing i got into bodyboarding and i did do better at this... however for most of 1997 i was surfing with Tim and Craig and occasionally went bodyboarding with Alan and Andrew Seward. Infact this year would see me really start hanging with these 3 christian brothers. I still hung with Josh but not like in 1996.... still he came to some of our outings and he allready knew the Seward brothers.
I worked fulltime at stringer engineering but now just mostly a dogsbody... when i was put on a machine it normally ended in tears... i was really shite there now. infact one day i walked out in da lunch break and went home... yeah you bet my mother was pissed off. the year before we had a spaz at each other cos of issues with tech... now it was my job. I remember quite plainly i was gonna run away and drive around the country until my money ran out and i starved to death. However that idea fell through because i was sponsoring a child in Bangladesh and if i died then he would die too.. well that was what i thought anyway. So i scrapped that idea and grew some balls wand went back to work the next day.
That wasn't the only shitty thing to happen that year. Nana now had cancer and had a just a few months to live. She died in May 1997 and that was the 3rd funeral i went to and so far i haven't been to anymore.. not even 2 years later when the reaper would choose a younger victim.
I managed to survive my job until June when i was made redundant.... no i was NOT fired. Anyway i now had no job so i went back to tech! Yep i was doing engineering again but this time it was ELECTRONIC engineering. I'm glad to say that i did much better this time round but STILL failed communication skills... i never passed that subject lol.
Anyway in January i had my 21st bday and as with all bdays involving me there was plenty of food. Josh, Peter and Tim came along too as did my cousin and his girlfriend and mum, dad etc. Nana came along too... at that stage she was still well (she was very very ill at Eddies 21st in May though). So we had 3 21sts now.... Tina had hers in 1996 when we all got dressed up and went on a boat... it was good outing i mite add!
Anyway i had my 21st in Jan but part of my pressie was in late July when we all went over to Gold Coast in OZ. What can i say? Gold coast kicks ass... loved it, went on all the theme parks, saw Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo, shot a 44 magnum in a shooting gallery, fly coaster and went bodysurfing in da shore break... and dislocated my right shoulder.... one of about 6 dislocations that shoulder would have over the next 10 years.
We came back to NZ in early August and i basically did tech for the rest of the year and several outings with my mates... especially to Piha.
At the end of the year i went to summer camp for st Johns church.... this was the last year i went to st Johns.... a large faction of that church broke away and formed River of Life in 1998... this was when i stopped going to church on a regular basis. So yeah the winds of change were starting to blow.... in 1998 the winds of change would introduce a new hobby to my growing list of pass times... literally
I worked fulltime at stringer engineering but now just mostly a dogsbody... when i was put on a machine it normally ended in tears... i was really shite there now. infact one day i walked out in da lunch break and went home... yeah you bet my mother was pissed off. the year before we had a spaz at each other cos of issues with tech... now it was my job. I remember quite plainly i was gonna run away and drive around the country until my money ran out and i starved to death. However that idea fell through because i was sponsoring a child in Bangladesh and if i died then he would die too.. well that was what i thought anyway. So i scrapped that idea and grew some balls wand went back to work the next day.
That wasn't the only shitty thing to happen that year. Nana now had cancer and had a just a few months to live. She died in May 1997 and that was the 3rd funeral i went to and so far i haven't been to anymore.. not even 2 years later when the reaper would choose a younger victim.
I managed to survive my job until June when i was made redundant.... no i was NOT fired. Anyway i now had no job so i went back to tech! Yep i was doing engineering again but this time it was ELECTRONIC engineering. I'm glad to say that i did much better this time round but STILL failed communication skills... i never passed that subject lol.
Anyway in January i had my 21st bday and as with all bdays involving me there was plenty of food. Josh, Peter and Tim came along too as did my cousin and his girlfriend and mum, dad etc. Nana came along too... at that stage she was still well (she was very very ill at Eddies 21st in May though). So we had 3 21sts now.... Tina had hers in 1996 when we all got dressed up and went on a boat... it was good outing i mite add!
Anyway i had my 21st in Jan but part of my pressie was in late July when we all went over to Gold Coast in OZ. What can i say? Gold coast kicks ass... loved it, went on all the theme parks, saw Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo, shot a 44 magnum in a shooting gallery, fly coaster and went bodysurfing in da shore break... and dislocated my right shoulder.... one of about 6 dislocations that shoulder would have over the next 10 years.
We came back to NZ in early August and i basically did tech for the rest of the year and several outings with my mates... especially to Piha.
At the end of the year i went to summer camp for st Johns church.... this was the last year i went to st Johns.... a large faction of that church broke away and formed River of Life in 1998... this was when i stopped going to church on a regular basis. So yeah the winds of change were starting to blow.... in 1998 the winds of change would introduce a new hobby to my growing list of pass times... literally
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