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hey kids,

a couple of you may have noticed whats going on over here

congratulations go out to both of ya - i'm pretty stoked for you guys.
just the whole situation bought back a sense of deja vu.

this year is my 6th year of flatting, and i don't know whether i scare dudes away, or make girls feel comfortable, or what, maybe my flatting styles aren't up to standard? but scotty enters a long list of my flatmates, past and present, who have got up and got married within a year of living with me, or in the same year.

here goes:

2000 - andy stringer
2001 - simon eyre
2002 - bryan (double) davis -(he actually got married in 2003, but i flatted with him july 2002 to march 2003 anyway)
2003 - nathan leslie
2004 - michael (muffy) dixon
2005 - scott kennedy
2006 - *position yet to be filled

so yeah, i'm not telling you to come flatting with me if you want to get married, i'm just saying this is how its worked out for me, over the short period of living away from home.

so yeah, march - april '06 bring it on.

and last but not least, finally a toast to the future kennedy's, - scott and sarah. cheers!

history

hey kids,

was just reading the 'listener' last night and noticed a column by a young matt nippert. that name resonated within me, and when i finally remembered i pulled his business card out of wallet, he gave it to me somewhere around tirau.

it was christmas eve 2004, and he was hitch-hiking from auckland to wellington, and i helped get from mercer to tirau, (on my way to rotorua), but not only was he a hitch-hiker, he was also a staff writer for the listener. writing a column about his hitch-hiking escapades.

sadly i didn't make it into the final cut, and if you want to you can check it out here

as he said when i emailed him, 'you had some tough competition' from the other characters on his trip.
the one suprising thing - i had heard of hitch-hiking evangelism before, but this guy got a lesson form the mormons and then 2 young lass's blazed radio rhema on the way down, i didn't get into the gospel, but told him a little bit about trinity and stuff. the funniest dude would have to be the fulla with the crossbow in the backseat to sort out some business dealings - reminds of my t-shirt 'machete express - don't leave home without one in your boot'

fun times.

lets hear it for hitch-hiking!

friends

i'm gonna dedicate this post to my friends: you know who you are.

i'm not sure where to start i but i know where i want to end, so here goes.
i've been blessed with so many good friends. friends that don't just know about you, but know you.
friends that just come round to hang and don't have to be entertained, friends that make you smile and laugh just by their natural selves. friends that have been there, done that and made it out the other side. friends that have supported and prayed, defended, protected, sheltered, when things have been rough.
friends who know your phone number off by heart, who don't need a reason to pop round, who invite you to share their life with them.
who know you almost as well as you know yourself, and still decide to stick around.
friends who let you drive their car - and drive considerable distances just to see ya.
even after you haven't seen them for a while, you can kick it off again just like old times.
friends who leave the front door open. friends who have nothing and still share it with ya.
friends who bake a cake, and its not even your birthday.
friends who forget your birthday and don't bring a present, but come to your party anyway, cause being there makes your day.
friends who give you a hug, and say 'i love you bro' and once again everything looks brighter
friends who take an interest in something you like, just because you like it.
friends who look after you when you are sick, feed you when you're hungry.
friends to tell you what you need to hear, even when you don't want to hear it, but with humilty and respect.
friends who offer their experience as a lesson to protect you.
friends who serve.
friends who name jesus as a friend also.

akld haters

yo.

went down to the huntly golf club on saturday, with big neil, holla!
and experienced a great piece of, country humour, graffiti, (hate speech?) auckland bashing?

but i'll share mine, and you guys can share yours, if ya got any?

here goes:

inside the toliets at the golf club their was an official sign on the urinal tank, that read:

'please flush the tank after use' - because it didn't flush automatically

followed by some graffiti which said:

'yeah, auckland needs the water!'

and then auckland got theirs back:

"yeah, we bottle it up in auckland and send it back to you as beer!'

heh, it had me chuckling to myself for the first 3 holes.

anybody else got any good stuff?

not quite breaking news

you guys remember my facial hair poll?

well, 'flava savour' just broke 25 votes (my original standard), and is now hovering on 26.
and some people have claimed my poll to biast in the past, which i'm kinda leaning towards given the fact the clean shaven is now in 4th place, either that or i have been misreading girls for the past few years? both are still very good options.

anyway. that'll about do it for now.
another interesting thing to note is at the time of writing this i have the least facial hair of all my flatmates, which hasn't happened often this year. (thanks to a trusty neckbeard).

keep it real cuzzies.

peace.

firefighter

hey kids,

well, i'm on a bit of of a comedown at the moment, cause i was getting all amped last week about becoming a volunteer firefighter, but alas no, i live outside the 2.5km radius for the papakura firestation, but there is still hope for the manurewa one - although they don't have a sign up outside, saying 'volunteers wanted'. so we might have to put it on the back burner for a while - no pun intended.

but yeah, i was getting pretty excited, i mean how cool would it be, to help out people in distress, put out fires, learn heaps of really cool helpful stuff, and get a manly uniform. yea-uh. oh well, i guess i'll just have to wait and see how it goes.

in other news, - i get around.
i now see why the diesel is cranking over 325,000kms. went down to matamata in the weekend, to holla at my home boys 'tubbs'

















seeing as he was up from chch to visit his girlfriend, so it was cool, went for a skate (yes - matamata has a skate park), had a beer, chewed the fat, and just downright enjoyed each others company. i also like that photo, represent the nigga lines and handlebar moustache. Oh to have some corn braids........
hopefully he'll move up to hamil-tron next year and we can go on surf and skate missions all over the show.

well thats about it, everybody take care, eh?

peace out g-units.

carl.

gat

hey cousins,

just thought i'd write about my new found hobbie, so that its recorded hear, in all of it's glory, and somewhere down the line line people can ask me, 'hey didn't you start learning the guitar?' i can truthfully respond, 'yeah.'

that's right! i'm learning the guitar!

i haven't learnt a musical instrument since those good 'ole piano lessons in form 2, so it could be interesting, but seem to be going alright so far. i can now (on a good day) play the first verse to "Ancient of days" - chorus coming to town near you soon!

learning stuff is weird, because you're always very conscious of where you're not up to, and what you can't do. but i'm sick of all of that i've changed my philosophy to nike - just do it.
apart from self improvement and the challenge of learning something new, the main reason i took up guitar, was to aid my church (trinity - represent!) in worship, and also the cambodia, as no one was willing to sing acapella! heh.

so umm yeah, just bear with me for the next few months while i try and get it sorted.

peace and random strummings,

carl.

greetings

'whatup bro?'

'nothing'

'oh true? .....sweet.'

just been thinking about the way i deal with people lately, and alot of my conversation starters revolve around that sort of thing from both directions, or:

'how are you?'

'aight'

'thats good.'

is that because it is my culture? or the way my society interacts? are those answers/questions my default settings for user interaction?

i obviously realise i can change what i say, but by using these 'templates', does that show i am unwilling to communicate, or simply not excited about the conversation taking place.

i mean, obviously you can't go deep and meaningful on everybody that you interact with everyday, but surely, apart from not talking to somebody, this most be about the minimal contact you can have with another person. if a conversation is for giving and taking / sharing information, then there's not a whole lot happening in those examples.
i'm not really sure where i'm going with this. feel free to drop your comments.

peace out. carl.