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If You Really Knew Me
I was watching this show on MTV last night. It's like a project that various high schools take part in to help stop bullying and bring people together in the school. Every episode, each school has a...
View ArticleMy Christmas Wish (And my 100th post of 2010)
And apparently 200th of all time...So, It's 11pm on Christmas Eve here. I'm sure Santa is on his way to New Zealand, that is, if he hasn't been already. Ten years ago, my siblings and I would have been...
View ArticleLookin' Back: 2010 in Review
If I had to pick one word to describe 2010, I would pick the word “insane”. If I had to pick two words, I’d pick “life-changing”, and if I had to pick three, I’d say “the best yet”.2010 has most...
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Welcome, 2011
I had a good evening celebrating the new year last night.First, I met up with some friends in town and we went to a gourmet pizzeria which was really good. Had a few drinks and lots of laughs. It was...
View ArticleSmall Steps; Giant Leap
Tonight, I did something I haven't been able to do for about thirteen years.I took some steps, independently. It all seems rather surreal really. My mum was talking to my dad about a piece of home...
View ArticleEveryone Has That One Ad They Hate
This is mine:It's a campaign to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as you would have seen if you watched it.Where to begin...First of all, can you say "hello, pity"? The whole message of it is like...
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Just Some Tidbits Here and There
This post isn't really about anything in particular, but I thought I'd blog about some things happening anyhow. So here are some things happening in life currently:I've taken a few more steps...
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Banner Bearing and Volunteering
Over the last few days, I've been busy volunteering at the 2011 IPC Athletics World Champs which has been a fun and worthwhile experience. It's a pretty massive event with over 1,000 athletes from 80...
View ArticleActually, Disability is OK
I feel like for a long time, I have been fighting against my disability and the idea of disability as a whole. Many in society see it as something that shouldn’t exist; something that needs to be...
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Nineteen.
It's my brother and I's nineteenth birthday today! How far we have come.To think I started off as this tiny, tube-filled being...The future was so uncertain back then. There was so much fear, so much...
View ArticleWe Have a New Winner!
For the worst advertisement ever made.Good to know I've "blown (my family's) world apart" by being born with CP and that my life is now "devastating".Classy, CP Alliance, real classy.And they've...
View ArticleSometimes There Just Aren't Words
I was planning to write a personal account of what happened with the massive earthquake(s) that struck my city of Christchurch yesterday, but I can't seem to find the right words.Sometimes there just...
View ArticleA Different Kind of Beauty
It is almost two weeks on from the devastating earthquake that destroyed thousands of buildings and killed over two-hundred people. The quake robbed and is still robbing thousands of people of basic...
View ArticleI Don't Really Feel the Need to Blog Anymore
I just don't really find it fulfilling lately and I doubt many people read what I have to say anyway, not that I do it for the readers, mainly myself, but it's been good to connect with people through...
View ArticleWell I Said I'd Blog When the Urge Struck
And I guess it has.So, I bring you tonight's late-night blog topic/ramble: uncertainty. un·cer·tain·tynoun /ˌənˈsərtntēbeing unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance; "the uncertainty of the...
View ArticleThe Biggest Leap of Faith I Have Ever Taken... Literally
Surely videos are worth more than the thousand words pictures are supposedly worth, so I'll just leave this here and let it do all the talking. All I really want to say is that it was one of the most...
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Still Around
I prefer to read others' blogs rather than write my own these days, but since I haven't updated in a long time, I thought I would post just to let any people who still check this that I am still around...
View ArticleRugby World Cup is Finally Here... But Not
It's no secret that I'm a big rugby fan. I enjoy sitting in front of the TV and watching the All Blacks play whenever I can, and yelling too, probably a little too loudly. Rugby isn't everyone's thing,...
View ArticleMoving Out and Moving On
It's official. My parents are moving to Melbourne and consequently, I am moving into university accommodation (though still staying in Christchurch). This seems blog worthy.It has happened very fast....
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Moving Out: Week One
Well, I have survived my first week of living independently rather well, if I do say so myself! I have managed to keep myself well fed and watered, bathed, well rested, and on time to lectures with a...
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