Well, onto the news stuff that I missed last weekend on the 6th to the 7th of May such as a terrible shooting had just unfolded in Serbia with a 13 year old male school student opened fire by killing innocent people which is a pretty terrible situation (And I mean, get over it not only he's in his early teens that he needs to be at least locked up behind bars, & it's been an emotional but sombre year since the tragic shootings unfolded at a school in Ulvalde, Texas in the United States as lawmakers are hoping to introduce a crack down on gun violence (Just like in 1996 in the aftermath of the tragedy in Port Arthur, Australia & in 2019 following the mass mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand) as well as raising the legal age from 18 to 21 just like raising the legal age of drinking an alcoholic drink which helped cut vehicle accidents & the implementation of a loop hole on background checks for those who want to purchase a firearm as well as red flag laws about to come into effect (And it's lucky that we're not in the United States because New Zealand is much safer here along with Australia than in America which is considered a dangerous country due to the high murder rate involving guns) then the coronation of a new king of His Majesty King Charles III & Her Majesty the Queen Consort in the UK that just happened (And there was a heightened security presence during the coronation there just like the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 8 months ago) while there's also the flooding again in Auckland (I hope Andy (Whose currently nursing a problem since he accidentally swallowed a toothpick but the doctors are still monitoring him as Pops told me last month about it but one of the surgeons have found a tooth pick right down his back side so Andy is currently taking antibiotics to recover) & Kelsey are fine over there) just like in January as well as the provinces of Northland (Where both Kathryn (Who I saw her on both the 29th & 30th of April) & Ken live but I hope they're okay), Thames Valley & Bay of Plenty just like 4 months ago where they had it there where they had to declare a state of emergency according to the estimates on the 9th & of course, there is anti-semitism on the rise in the United States as numerous incidents of anti-semitism have been reported nationwide but I watched a CNN report on YouTube about Dana Bash's interview with Arnold Schwarzenegger (The ex-California governor & one of my favourite movie stars along with Cruise, Jackson, Reeves & the Kiwi pair of Morrison & Urban) speaking out on anti-semitism as well as comparing the 1938 incident in Austria known as Kristallnacht to the 2021 US Capitol building riots in which the pro-Trump supporters were attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 US election, but there's protests in Pakistan about the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan with the government introducing a clamp down on gatherings throughout major cities in Pakistan.
And in motor racing related news as the Miami Grand Prix (It's American Logan Sargeant's home race there because he was born in Fort Lauderdale in the state of Florida in the United States but he had a disappointing result in which he finished last in the race during his home grand prix event (But I like the promo involving movie stars Michelle Rodriguez (Leticia 'Letty' Ortiz) & Vin Diesel (Dominic Toretto) from the Fast & the Furious movie franchise series about the Miami Grand Prix being staged) & the Miami GP is the 1st of 3 American races there (The 2nd one is the United States Grand Prix at COTA in Austin, Texas (First held in 2012 until 2019 & since 2021) then the historic first ever Las Vegas Grand Prix held in the streets of Sin City in Las Vegas, Nevada (The gambling capital in the world) goes in the way of the twice defending world champion & the most successful Formula 1 driver from the Netherlands of Red Bull's Max Verstappen who won his 3rd race of the season after starting 9th on the grid (His first since the late Niki Lauda (The 3 time F1 world champion (Along with Sir Jackie Stewart, the late Jack Brabham & the late Ayrton Senna) & the most successful driver from Austria who passed away 4 years ago in 2019) in France in 1984) therefore he increases his championship lead to 14 points ahead of his nearest rival which in fact his Red Bull teammate of Mexican Sergio Perez after a tyre strategy masterclass proved Verstappen too much (And the next race is in Italy for the 1st of 2 Italian races which is the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix (Their first race came in 2020 which was during the global pandemic but they have secured a contract to race there until 2025, but there's been an update that the Emilia Romagna GP had to be called off as a result of intensive flooding from a heavy rainfall caused by Storm Minerva in Northern Italy which resulted 9 casualties while thousands had to be evacuated from it) at the Imola circuit which is the home race of Ferrari (Who have still got work to do after their recent struggles this season, but the last time the prancing horse won the constructors championship, it was in 2008 but failed to win the drivers championship crown because it went to Lewis Hamilton who won his 1st of 7 titles when he overtook German Timo Glock in the Toyota, on the final lap of the race at the season ending Brazilian Grand Prix (And that's according to Hamilton's race engineer that he's got to pass Glock for the championship) which was won by Felipe Massa (One of the greatest ever F1 drivers to have never won a world championship according to the blog that I did in January 2022) who narrowly missed out on World Championship glory, a year after Kimi Raikkonen was the last Ferrari driver to win the world championship in 2007) along with the Italian Grand Prix in Monza which is held after the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort, Holland & before the Singapore Grand Prix in Singapore) so Verstappen is now on 3 (Including the season opening race in Bahrain then Australia & now Miami) compared to Perez who has won it not once but twice (First Saudi Arabia then Azerbaijan).
And I have added the 6 rock & metal music genres as my favourites such as alternative metal (My 6th favourite in terms of my favourite rock/metal music sub genres), post-grunge (That would be number 7), Britpop (That would be my 8th favourite), hard rock (That would be number 9 on the list), pop rock (My 10th favourite on the list) as well as soft rock (That would be number 11 on the list) & thrash metal (My 12th favourite on the list) to go along with alternative rock/alt rock (Always my favourite rock/metal music genre), heavy metal (That would be my number 2), nu metal (Which would be my 3rd favourite), grunge (That would be my number 4 on the list) & pop punk (My 5th favourite as well).
And finally the latest on the Super Rugby Pacific competition as the results of the 11th round of the competition are in:
Chiefs 52 - 28 Highlanders (It was the Chiefs night as they hammer the Highlanders (Who are one of the bogey teams in all of the New Zealand sides & are in fact useless) to still remain flawless in 2023 at Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin)
Fijian Drua 27 - 24 Hurricanes (It was the Fijian Drua's day as they outlasted the Hurricanes (They'll be gutted that they lost against the Fijian Drua, well, what an absolute bummer this has been) to claim another biggest boil over of the competition (First the Crusaders & now the Hurricanes (Who had a try scored by Hurricanes prop forward Xavier Numia but the Fijian crowd weren't happy that Numia had adjudged to have knocked the ball on in the leadup to the try (And I laughed out loud about it because it was funny about Numia bobbling it before he scored the try in which the ref should've overturned the decision from try to no try) with reserve first five Kemu Valetini (Best known as the brother of Brumbies & Wallabies player Rob) scoring the winning penalty goal at HFC Bank Stadium in Suva)
Crusaders 48 - 13 Force (And it was the Crusaders night as they dismantled the Force with Brodie McAlister provided the heroics as he went in for his hat-trick of tries at Orangetheory Stadium in Christchurch)
Blues 31 - 30 Moana Pasifika (And it was the Blues who got out of jail as a late penalty try sends the Blues home by sneaking past Moana Pasifika (Whose bid for their 1st win of the season as well as claiming an upset (First it was the Hurricanes last year when one of their players Danny Toala scored the winning try during golden point & then the Brumbies) which was denied by that costly penalty try by the Australian referee who got a bit impatient as Moana remains one of the bogey sides in the competition after playing so well during the match but they were out of favour as they fell short at the last hurdle) at Eden Park in Auckland (And why the hell was that a penalty try? Because the referee I believe made the right decision to award it to the Blues (Who had to put their final nail on the coffin on Moana when they snatched a late penalty try at the end) at the death but Moana Pasifika (Who have both Maori players of Lincoln McClutchie (Who plays for Hawke's Bay in the NPC) & Ereatara 'Ere' Enari (One of my favourite Moana players who is half Maori & half Samoan just like the Ioane bros of Akira & Rieko (Sons of former Samoan player Eddie & ex-Black Fern Sandra Wihongi-Ioane) but plays for Hawke's Bay just like his teammate McClutchie & Enari used to play for Canterbury in the NPC & the Crusaders in Super Rugby where he won the title 5 times as a player as well as he plays for Samoa internationally where he made his debut last year despite being born in New Zealand where he used to play for the New Zealand U20's (Known as the Baby Blacks) in both 2016 & 2017 but he's the cousin of Auckland, Blues & All Blacks player Caleb Clarke as well as being a relative of Caleb's father Eroni & Michael Jones (Father of current rugby player Niko) while he is the son of a Maori mother Parehuia & Samoan father Ala'imalo Falefatu) will be so gutted about the defeat)
Reds 24 - 32 Waratahs (And it was the Waratahs who stun the Reds in their inter-state clash at QCB Stadium in Townsville)
& Rebels 26 - 33 Brumbies (And it was the Brumbies who remain Australia's best as they overpower the Rebels at AAMI Park in Melbourne (There was Noah Lolesio when he scored the try when he asked in front of the camera to tell the current Wallabies coach Eddie Jones that why wasn't he'd been with the team because of Jones who preferred Carter Gordon to be selected ahead of Lolesio)
So that is my 499th blog of the year 2023 (MMXXIII) & my 23rd of this year, viva Ukraine.
P.S. And a shout out for Carole (Who I first met in 2017) for wishing her a belated 71st birthday today so me & Pops are heading to the Citadel at Castlecliff tonight for a birthday dinner (Last week, it was Aunty Tan who turned 55).
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