Yay! I finally finished my gigantic TAFS essay! I definitely don’t think it’s anything near the best I’ve done, but it’s finished, and handed in so I don’t care anymore, lol! Uni classes start again tomorrow, which is a weird feeling, since I’ve been working on stuff for most of last week, but that’s ok, coz I think I’ve achieved what I needed to.

Right now I’m watching Prime Suspect, since it’s on as Sunday Theatre tonight. I normally never watch it, but I realised it has Helen Mirren in it, which makes it worth watching. Helen Mirren amazes me. She’s one of those actors I never get sick of watching!

Does anybody know how to get the little thing at the bottom which lets me scroll back through past entries which are archived? Is it a hack, or some random HTML I just have to add in?

Anyway. Gosh, I think this is the most boring blog ever! Go and join Duckylicious BBS, it’s an awesome new BBS which is becoming more active every day, so GO AND JOIN…and U2U me when you do!

I got a new cellphone yesterday! Very exciting! I’d been trying to decide which one to get for awhile, since my other one was getting pretty old and the battery needed to be recharged almost every day. Originally I wanted to get a white one, since I thought pink was kind of, I don’t know…lame? But everywhere in Christchurch is apparently out of stock of the white ones for the foreseeable future, and the pink ones were $50 cheaper anyway, so I ended up buying one.

Mine is identical to the one in the pic, only its cover is blank (where it says Sprint) and the Telecom logo is on the inside above the screen. Mine also has sparkly rhinestones all over it, a Hello Kitty charm, and Disney Princesses on the wallpaper! Yes. I have regressed to being a little girl, but I don’t care, it’s cute! Maybe I’ll take a photo of it, when I can be bothered.

Anyway, aside from my new phone, I’d like to comment on something that really gets to me. I’m not going to name names or link to sites or “proof” (This site’s been drama-free for over a year, and I’d like it to stay that way!), but one girl in particular, has been consistently rude to me on a message board.

She’s not staff on this particular board, and yet still feels the need to go around many of my posts doing what I believe is known as “wannabe modding”, quoting my messages and just generally having a go. What a cheeky little brat! I’m not staff either, and she hasn’t really broken any of the board’s rules (nor have I), but her behaviour and righteous attitude is really starting to annoy me. She’s also 14, which I guess does make her worse to some degree, but I’m not going to hold that against her and say “she’s an immature prat because she’s a kid”, since I know plenty of other people her age and younger who participate on message boards and are absolutely fine! So yes, a certain individual is getting up my nose at the moment, I’m waiting to see if any staff give her a warning, or if she stops on her own. I hope so.

Right. I’m now going to get off my soapbox, if she’s reading this, which I suspect she may well be; You know who you are! Grow up. Being obnoxious and bothering other members is not the way to go about getting yourself noticed by staff members, at least not in a positive light!

For those of you in Australia and New Zealand, you’ll know that today is ANZAC Day and, hopefully, what it’s about, but if you’re from overseas, then basically it’s a memorial day for all the soldiers who died (or just fought) in WWI and WWII. There are dawn services everywhere and an especially big service in Gallipoli in Turkey to commemorate the people who died there.

Both of my grandfathers were in the army. My father’s father fought in WWII at the age of 17 (he lied about his age) and mother’s father fought in WWII. Obviously they both survived and came back, but so many other people didn’t.

One of my neighbours was a bit different though, he was a conscientious objector, and because he is a Christian and therefore believed it would be immoral for him to kill another person, he refused to go to war, and, as a result, was put in a POW camp for several years.

What would you have done? If WWIII broke out tomorrow, would you go, or would you refuse, and risk being punished? I don’t know what I’d do, I’ve been thinking about it all day and I’m still thinking now.

Yesterday was an interesting day. I was walking down the street outside a mall in the way to a friend’s house and as I was crossing the road I saw a car come around the corner in front of me very quickly, then back up into the loading zone of the supermarket.

A guy leaped out of the passenger seat, ran over and smashed the window of a taxi van parked on the side of the road, grabbed *something* off the dashboard and jumped back into the car again, which turned around and shot off!

I was like “OMG!”, and immediately ran into the bank across the road and asked the guy at the counter if I could use their telephone book to get the number for the police! The man at the counter ended up letting me use the bank’s phone as well, which was nice of him. Luckily by this time another man, who had also seen it happen, had realised I had gone to ring the police and come in to hand me the car’s registration number, which he had quickly written down.

When we got through the woman asked me all these questions, then told us to stay with the taxi and tell the driver what had happened when/if he got back to find his window broken and *article* missing, and that the police were on their way.

Eventually the driver returned. He was Chinese and didn’t speak very fluent English, which made explaining the situation a little bit tricky, but eventually we told him what had happened (partly via miming!) and that the police were coming to see us. Apparently the thing they took was a radar detector. I have no clue what that is, but it sounds valuable and important!

45 minutes later there was still no sign of the police. The other witness was a doctor and had to leave because he had an appointment, so I rang the police back again and they said that they’d phoned me AT HOME (why they thought I’d be there to speak to them if they’d told me to stay at the scene I have NO idea!?) to tell me that just as they were on their way to us, they got another report of the same people having broken into another car on the other side of town, so they’d gone straight there instead to try to catch up with them, and they’d be in touch with us by phone in the next couple of days instead of coming to see us today.

It was all very weird, especially since the incident happened in the middle of the day in a really busy part of town! Who does that!? Obviously it was a stolen car, nobody would be that stupid otherwise! They were only young guys too, about my age, so I kind of felt like I should have been apologising for the stupidity of some members of my generation, even though I KNOW that’s ridiculous!

I saw this movie today, and really enjoyed it. Cate Blanchett and Judy Dench are awesome together (collectively, they’re almost even as cool as Helen Mirren)! I’m not sure how many of you have seen this movie, but it’s worth seeing if it’s still on near you. Strange, but worth seeing.

It wasn’t really what I expected, but at the same time it was. It’s certainly not a happy movie, and it doesn’t have a happy ending, but not really a sad one either. It’s sad, but not the sort of sad that makes you cry, the sort of sad that makes you think.

I was talking to another friend about it on th phone tonight, one who’s in her 50s, and we both agreed that part of what makes it resonate and “get to you” is because everyone is able to see something in it, part of the personality of one of the characters, that they can also recognise in themselves, even if they never realised it before they saw the movie. It’s very real.

I think for me it’s definitely more Barbara than Sheba, which I suppose is strange for a 19-year-old girl! I can’t pinpoint exactly what “twigged” with me, but something did, because I was even surprised when my friend described Barbara as “a complete b*tch”. I don’t agree with this at all. I’m not going to go into much detail, since I don’t want to give away the plot for anyone who hasn’t seen it, but I definitely felt sorry for her.

Maybe I’m worried I could end up like her when I’m that age.

Interesting.