About: Banana

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2007-12-11 12:17:26
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Just a Post

I was bored and felt like writing.. so this came out.

My holidays are boring so far, but I have decided that my father should be enrolled in Anger Management classes. He’s always angry and blaming people for others mistakes. I’m going to research some today, if he keeps it up. In other news in the Nordsie Hole of Hell, I think my newly met friend Joints may be dead. We talk at least twice a day normally, and we haven’t talked at all for around three days. If he is dead, well, that’d be a shame but, I’m not sure I’ve known him long enough to be saddened greatly by it. I hope he’s still alive though.

The tragically bad performance by Metro Station last night on Australian Idol, I can barely touch on how bad it was. Oh man, If you asked me to sing Shake It on a stage infront of 50 people, I would, rather than see that crap again. And just so you know, I cannot sing a single note! I am terrible, but I would rather humiliate myself than see that again!! Deep breaths, and it’ll go away… I’m going to have nightmares about that… that… disgustingly horrific performance. Poor, poor James Mathison for having to be in the actual studio for it!!

THE PLUG: (that’s such copyright infringement, don’t sue me Rove, please) http://vivadramatica.blogspot.com

That’s the blog of my artistic friend A. I won’t use her name, as she has issues about that type of thing. But follow it, please, it’s entertaining to read and about her new school. Which, incidently is her first school, we were both home-schooled.  Anyway, check and that is called School out and enjoy reading it. A. is also a talented artist, and this is her deviant art page: kageayumusakushi.deviantart.com

Well, I feel like talking about my past.

I’m 14 years old and I was born in Australia on the Fourteenth of September. My mother is from Aoeteoroa (New Zealand), and my dad is from Australia. They met in China.
When I was four or five years old, they moved onto a boat called Reflections IV and decided to attempt a journey around the world. To this day, I question the sensibility of taking a five year old and a seven year old on board a boat and comdenming them to a childhood of isolation. Granted, it was an amazing trip despite only ever going to South East Asia, and I have beautiful memories because of it, but it also caused be to become the greatly depressed person I am today.
We sailed between Papua New Guinea (PNG), the Solomon Islands, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Thailand and Australia for 5 years, before the Incident  happened. The Incident consists of two things, the first was the Ship, and the second was the Storm.
We were in Port Klang, a good enough place, and some of the few friends I had were on their boat there too. For us yachtie kids, being near other kids our age is very rare and something to be treasured, and I treasure Simon and Shannon very much. They had just arrived, and I was finishing off my English while Corky, my sister, went ahead to greet them. The Ship happened then. One of those Indonesian cargo ships, you know, the really big looming 100 foot ones, crashed into the side of my boat, with my mum, dad and I onboard and ripped a hole through the side. My boat is amazingly strong. The Ship weighed well over 4000 kilograms, more than 10000 kg actually, and we were still floating! Two weeks later,  the Storm happened, and we got struck by lightning. Radios and computer and nav gear all fried, we sailed from Klang to Phuket, Thailand. We spent 5 years there, and 2 months ago, I moved back to Australia with my sister to live with our dad, who moved back 18 months ago, so he could be happy by himself. I still resent him for it, but atleast he wasn’t being miserable and hard to live with back in Phuket.

Well that’s alot down, and I’ve mention JM, infringed copyright and I need to talk to Joints, who is alive after all, and just came online.

PS. Watch Life as a House it’s beautiful

October 6, 2008 | Filed Under General Forum | 5 Comments 

Any other yachties?

So, I’ve been reading through posts and I just realised that I haven’t read one other than mine from a yachtie kid. There’s gotta be some out there! I grew up on a boat, and have never travelled for my parents jobs, in fact it was basically a 10 year holiday, and if there’s anyone else here who also was a boatie, or is still, drop me a line, please? I’d really appreciate it as so far I feel the only one of my kind here amongst TCKs.

September 26, 2008 | Filed Under General Forum | 2 Comments 

Nick Vujicic, a true hero in my opinion

So, at my school assembly today, they showed this video, “No Arms, No Legs, No Worries,”, which is by this guy Nick Vujicic, who was born limbless except for this small foot-like limb with two toes, which he refers to as his “chicken drumstick”. He showed in the video how he walked, how he could do everthing and cracked loads of jokes, and it was really funny and interesting. But then in the second part of the video he started to talk about looks, and how for girls it’s so important to not be fat, short, tall, and they have to be perfect and we’re all always trying to be what we think everyone else wants. He kept saying through the video, “I love you all, just the way you are. You can say ‘But I’m fat,’ or whatever, man, but I’ll say, ‘I don’t care, I love you, not what you look like”. He talked about bullying and how when he was a kid, 12 people made fun of the way he was, and put him down because he couldn’t do all the things they could, eg, sports like rugby. He talked about how on that day he decided if one more person put him down on that day, he would just give up, and how when he was going in his wheelchair to his parents, a girl called out his name and he thought “this is it, she’s going to insult me,” and then she said, ” Nick, I just wanted to tell you, you’re looking good today,” He talked about how that was him on the edge and how one comment you make could make them take that last step off the edge, or start to bring them away from the edge. He talked about how he didn’t know what it was like for them, to be abused, or hurt, or abandoned or to be overweight, but he did know what being disabled and being alone was like and could understand some of the pain people had.

His talk and support was amazing to hear and I was fighting tears for the last 30 minutes of it, and what with having been really depressed lately as I just left all my friends and my mum and home and bird, started school at a narrow-minded, rasict school, my  auntie’s mum just died and my nan being really sick and my poppie who normally looks after her, fracturing his hip, so we have to look after her even more than normal which is really stressful, amongst other things, helped me feel better about my situation, believe more in myself and was so special because it came from someone who knew, and could understand about hurting inside so much, unlike so many other guest speakers at my new school, who have never experienced something like Nick had, which was so much easier to listen to and to respect him.

I definetly know that if I’m ever blessed to meet Nick Vujicic, I’ll give him the biggest hug I’ve given anyone, because, in his words, he is a ‘hugging machine and loves to be hugged, cause hugs are full of love.”

So to finish off, I want to say, I love all you guys and gals on tckid, even though I don’t know any of you, but because I bet you’re all amazing people who should be loved by everyone in the world.

August 12, 2008 | Filed Under General Forum, Stories | 6 Comments 

help!! Belarus!

I’ve got this assignment for school to research Belarus in the Olympics, and i need help.

Can anyone who knows something about it possibly help?

July 28, 2008 | Filed Under General Forum | 5 Comments 

TCK or Not???

I’ve been wondering lately about a girl in my class here in Phuket, Chanelle. She’s German-German, but moved to Switzerland when she was 3 months old. Apparently, she then moved when she was 11 to Koh Samui, and now, lives in Phuket. Because Phuket and Samui are really close, and both in Thailand, she’s really only lived in 2 places, as she doesn’t count Germany. My friends and I say that she’s German, as Deutsch is her first language, her parents are German and she was born there, but her home is Switzerland. She says that she’s Swiss, not German, even though her French isn’t very good and she has no connections there, and that her home is Phuket, despite being a boarder. I always tell people that I’m an Australian New Zealander, and that my home is the Pacific, as I grew up there. I’m curious to know what others think,  in your opinion is she Swiss or German? It’s really irritating as she’s always commenting on it, and I’d like to have an unbiased opinion, as she is a ***** , and thinks that I only call her German to get her angry.

May 22, 2008 | Filed Under Ask Uncle, Fun and Games, General Forum, Stories | 13 Comments 

‘lo

lo everyone. I’m an australian-new zealander who was born in australia. I’ve only lived in SE Asia, and some people would say that that wouldn’t be too hard, but my earliest memories are from being 6. I moved onto a boat and start sailing when I was 5. As a kid, i’ve never really played with kids my age. I think that during the 8 years of sailing and living for short times in different places, the only time i played with an english speaking kid who wasn’t 4 years older than me, was when i was 7. That kid was 9 1/2.  I was Distance Edded and went to school for a full year for the first time when i was 10. Soon after that my da moved away, and i begun to figure out the reason kids hated me. They didn’t understand that i wasn’t angry, I was sensitive and unused lots of people. When I visit Australia, people mock my accent which to them is new zealand-english-american-asian. Um…. Hello???? i’m AUSTRALIAN!!! thank you for alienating me! In NZ it’s the same, except swap NZ with Australian.

I go to a school with heaps of other TCK but they’re all older, almost finished school. In 6 months I move again, to the most foriegn country ever. The one I was born in

January 17, 2008 | Filed Under Introduction | 7 Comments 

intro boating kid

hey, I’m anna. I come from a land Down Under(Australia) and New Zealand by blood, Australia by birth, Pacific Ocean by primary schoool(PNG, Sol Islands, East Timor, Malaysia, Singapore, Indo, etc ), Thailand by high school. I’m Still in Thailand but my dad’s moved back to Oz and we might be joining him, maybe…

December 11, 2007 | Filed Under General Forum | 12 Comments