Well, what's up guys & girls, it's Whetu here on my Kiwiavenger blog but first, the Super Rugby Pacific final for this year is set, it is going to be the Blues who'll play the Chiefs at the garden of Eden, at Eden Park in the city of sails in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland for the decider which is the biggest rugby match of the year apart from the internationals as Pops told me on the 19th of June before the All Blacks squad is announced for the internationals in which this year's Super Rugby season especially in the final, concludes with the battle of the Bombays (And it is going to be another all New Zealand final just like in 2022 & last year (And that's the 8th time they have done that in Super Rugby history with 1998 being the first all Kiwi final between the Blues & the Crusaders (Who were champions the first time in that year as they ended the Blues 2 year dominance on top of the Super Rugby charts) followed by the Highlanders & the Crusaders in 1999 (In which the Crusaders had a successful defence of the Super 12 title), the Blues & the Crusaders in 2003 (It was the Blues who got revenge from the Crusaders by reversing their result from 1998), the Crusaders & the Hurricanes in 2006 (Where the Crusaders were champs of the inaugural Super 14 championship which was overshadowed by the fog that ruined the final) & the Hurricanes & the Highlanders in 2015 (In which the 1st & only time that the Highlanders emerged triumphant of winning the Super Rugby crown) with the most successful side in Super Rugby of the Crusaders, taming both the Blues (2022) & Chiefs (Last year) for the last 2 seasons, although with both the Blues & the Chiefs are seeking redemptions after missing out in the hands of the Crusaders in both 2022 (Blues) & last year (Chiefs), but the most recent meeting between the two was in the last round where the Blues had a win but miss out on leapfrogging the Hurricanes to the top of the table (And now they'll be hosting a home final after the Hurricanes fell to the Chiefs (Who have a star player injury crisis, ahead of this Saturday's final as both hookers Samisoni Taukei'aho & Bradley Slater (Who has been given the all clear to play by overcoming his injury woes, even though he is on the bench as reserve hooker (And there has been an update as Slater has failed his fitness test with Mills Sanerivi taking his place) compared to Blues captain Patrick Tuipulotu making a shock return from injury after being ruled out in the semi against the Brumbies & potentially his season, & Chiefs outside back Shaun Stevenson who returns as the starting fullback after missing the semi against the Hurricanes through injury during the warmup) succumbed to injuries but the two of them will not take further part in the final with the Chiefs are down to one specialist hooker which is Tyrone Thompson & call upon a Waikato club rugby player who plays in the hooker position as the reserve hooker for the team prior to the big final) thanks to Wallace Sititi who had a blinder of a game) after speedy Josh Ioane had snuck in to score in the dying seconds) after the Blues got over Australia's best which is the Brumbies (For who I thought the Brumbies won but it's the Blues (Who haven't won a full Super Rugby championship in 21 years where they last did it in 2003 (And they last reached the Super Rugby Pacific final in 2022 where they fell against the eventual champion Crusaders side) compared to the Chiefs who last won a full Super Rugby championship for 11 years back in 2013) anyway) to make the big dance, meanwhile in the other semi as the Chiefs topple the top seeded Hurricanes (Who were having a great season until they had fallen flat by falling short in the semi against the dominant Chiefs who are hoping to rebound in this years final after their defeat in the final last year against the Crusaders (Who in the end were out of the playoff picture this year) in a payback best dish served cold with a Boston Celtics & Florida Panthers inspired peformance by one of the Chiefs loose forwards of Wallace Sititi (Son for former Samoa captain Semo) who made a massive impact (And the Hurricanes - Chiefs semifinal match in Super Rugby Pacific is the game that made Wallace Sititi), but I was chatting to Bryan at Rutland about me supporting 6 NPC teams such as Hawke's Bay where both Jansen Ngapo & Bernard Condon-Orr (For who I was trying to recognize him while I was at Caroline's with Pops back in 2019/2020 back then) are from now, then Northland where Kathryn Ngapo is from now, North Harbour where both Andy Webb & Kelsey Nicholls (My new bestie now as of today) come from (The one I forgot to tell Bryan but Carole was orginally from North Harbour), Auckland where Gemma, Huia, Rosalie (Gemma's daughter) & Arlo (Huia's son & Rosalie's cousin) come from not only because where Waiheke Island is (Although Gem & Rosie both live there) which is part of the Auckland province, as well as Wellington where Cathey Middelplaats, Paige Ahearn (Who I'm willing to meet her again one day next time I go to Welly according to the previous blogs that I did & also that I'm imaginary friends with her as well as being best friends/BFF's/besties now just like Kelsey) & Norah are always from (But I always pledge allegiance for Whanganui because of them competing in the Heartland Championship along with Pops & Bryan) & Otago because of Jona Nareki (Who I met him back in 2020 in which Nareki was the last famous person I have ever met) playing for them, but I reckon the final should be close in regards to the scoreline so I would have to say Chiefs by 12 or less because I expect the Blues to be competitive & not only I live near the Taranaki region which is Chiefs country now (And it used to be part of Hurricanes country from 1996 until 2013), but I should've gone for the Blues (Well, my heart is certainly on them at least) because of the Chiefs beating the Hurricanes in the semi & for both Northland (Kathryn & Ken's home province that I already been once in late December last year), North Harbour (Andy & Kelsey's home province as well as Carole's old province before moving to Whanganui in 2018, & has lived there since) & Auckland (Gemma, Huia, Rosalie & Arlo's home province) being part of Blues country, & the first time I remembered going to Auckland was a family trip in 2006 then visited again in 2007 after we had been to Waiheke Island but my last visit there was in 2016, just before I went to Waiheke Island with Dad, Pops & Jansi to attend a tangi of the late Nana Minnie, but there are calls for consistency around referees in the leadup to this year's Super Rugby Pacific final between the Blues & the Chiefs in front of a sell-out Eden Park crowd following union bound player of New South Welshman Joseph Sua'ali'i's sending off in Origin I for an illegal hit on a former Warriors player who is a Bronco playing for Queensland of Reece Walsh (An Aussie who has Kiwi roots), which resulted heartbreak for New South Wales who got comprehensively beaten in the end by the always dominant Queensland side in the opening State of Origin league match (And now Sua'ali'i has now been suspended for 4 matches in wake of his red card during game one of State of Origin for a dangerous tackle on Walsh which caused Sua'ali'i to miss the remainder of origin & take no further part in the series (And committing a high tackle in both codes of rugby is like someone consuming cocaine (Which is always an illegal drug), then embarking on a rampage fuelled with drugs).
So it's the Blues to play the Chiefs in the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific final at Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday local time to decide who will become the new Super Rugby Pacific champions (Well, who is it going to be? Whether it's the Blues to party like it's both 1996-97 & 2003 or will it be Chiefs mana just like in 2012-13? We'll see but I don't think so), but will it be the Blues captain of Patrick 'Paddy Tups' Tuipulotu (Who is back after returning from injury which caused him to miss the semifinal & it was both the great Zinzan 'Zinny' Brooke who did it in 1996-97 then Xavier Rush in 2003 the last time the Blues had won a full Super Rugby championship) or Chiefs captain Luke Jacobson (Who so desperately wants to win a title, but the golden rule is that they cannot touch the Super Rugby Pacific trophy until they have earned it) to become the SRP winning captain to lift the Super Rugby Pacific trophy?.
And the holiday to Waiheke Island that Pops & Carole are possibly going next year is questionable but I decided not to go as I would be looking after the house while both of them are away & I chose not to attend Jansi's 21st birthday party in the Hawke's Bay province in August this year but I will be here when Jans is having his birthday dinner here in Whanganui & I have already planned for my next trip, & it's going to be Wellington because I wished to meet my cousin Paige (And Pops showed me & Carole a picture of her at a wedding getting ready to get married to her husband Jarrod last year on the 27th of June at Spice Guru compared to me seeing a picture of both Martin, then Kace (Zaki's grandson) on Carole's phone) again one day along with my biological aunty Cathey as well as Paige's daughter & Cathey's granddaughter Norah (Who was born on January 26th last year as Kathy (Whose birthday is on the 23rd of January, 3 days before Norah) alluded to me according to the email that she replied to me, but Northland to me was by far the best holiday that I experienced of all of the trips that I've been throughout my life because I saw Kathryn & Ken (The man originally from London who is a New Zealander now) there, as well as Andy (Son of Iraqi slash British Kiwi Carole (The one who watches the Al Jazeera TV news channel due to her Middle Eastern roots compared to both Aunty Tan & Rejean who are in fact, CNN watchers) & Kels (One my my honorary sisters along with my dear cuzzie Paige) which was last year when it was my first post-COVID era holiday (And my fave part of the holiday to Northland was in fact the food except that I almost had food poisoning where I had a mango kulfi which nearly made me throw up, but somehow I got over it & I was feeling fine just before I woke up on Christmas day when me, Carole & Pops stayed at Stay Kerikeri motel in Kerikeri) compared to 2019 in which we had our South Island trip where I went with Pops, Aunty Tan & Rejean which was in fact my last pre-COVID era trip) when I told Dad about it, but Paige Ahearn, Norah as well as Paige's husband & Norah's father Jarrod Ahearn are still in Welly, but they have moved recently to a new home to accomodate the family especially Norah according to the post from Paige on the social media platform Instagram (And I even saw online that she has 3,000 followers according to her IG account, compared to Cathey who has just got 30).
And something terrible has happened in Hawke's Bay as rival gangs clashed with a van belonging to the Young Maori Party rugby team was shot at after a game in Hastings with Ngati Kahungunu has stepped in to ease gang tensions as police investigated after a van had been shot during a rugby match, with the violence thought to be gang-related. Prior to the shots, cops were sent to the Hawke's Bay Rugby Club at Bill Mathewson Park in Hastings in which the match had been called off as a result of safety concerns when fans pulled out weapons in the aftermath of a rugby player who made an aggressive tackle being made before being assaulted by gang members which prompted police to call in to disperse the crowds (And both arrests have been made following a serious incident involving the shooting, but this is like during Euro 2024 in Germany where neighbouring countries fans of both Georgia & Turkiye clashed with strikes being thrown & projectiles thrown at each other before kick off, then riot cops had arrived & had been told fans of both sides to disperse & separate when the players came out onto the pitch according to the sports news report that I saw on CNN), but there was an incredible story to the Rugby World Cup winning player for the Springboks last year of Canan Moodie who was the one that escaped the clutches of gang violence back home which was easy (Although Canan had just tasted a brush of near death to get out of the violent situation from the gangs themselves) to become one of South Africa rugby's rising stars (I remember watching a match between the Boks & Australia during a Rugby Championship test in Sydney in 2022 where Moodie scored an incredible try after he successfully contested a high ball when he started on the right wing, filling in for the suspended Kurt-Lee Arendse (Who was one of Moodie's teammates at the Bulls (Moodie's club that he plays) who are playing in the URC (United Rugby Championship) which is a professional club rugby competition involving teams from Ireland, Italy, Scotland, South Africa & Wales) but Moodie is mainly a winger, but can play at centre (He played in that game as a midfielder against Romania last year during the World Cup) which was his old playing position during his schoolboy rugby days).
And finally that my fave radio station of the whole wide universe of Brian FM (The music that mainly plays both classic rock & adult contemporary) reminds me of both Radio X (Alt rock & grunge) & Liberty Rock Radio (Classic & alternative rock) being mixed altogether that I listen to because of me secretly playing both Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas definitive edition (In which Radio X makes an appearance) on the PS4 via PS5 console & GTA IV (In also which Liberty Rock Radio makes its appearance) & it's expansion pack which is The Ballad of Gay Tony (TBoGT) on the Xbox 360 via my Xbox Series X console (And I've always been a GTA fan because of my 2 favourite games that I got now (Such as GTA: SA (Where I first played it in 2008 on PC) & Grand Theft Auto IV TBoGT (Where I first played it in 2013 (A year after I first played GTA IV) on the PS3), but I prefer modern rock music from the year I was born in 1991 until now (And not only I was born in the 90's decade that I've always been a part of), but I have revealed my list of my fave musicians & bands as of today so here is the list in it's entirety (For which I've downloaded the mp3 music stuff online on the computer that I've got, but I've written both down a piece of paper (The one I've got to show it to Paige next time I go to Wellington & the one that I've got to give it to her, & I've got her new email address but I prefer to wait until I meet her of course), but I was once an AC/DC & Metallica follower way back in 2007, then both Faith No More & Korn back in 2014 for which I was a fan of these 2 bands, & I'm always still a Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, Incubus, A Perfect Circle, Shihad & Filter fanatic, but I've have revealed that I'm a aficionado of these girly rock bands & singers for which have been taken over this year such as Alanis Morissette (My fave female pop rock singer), Avril Lavigne, Michelle Branch & Evanescence (And of course my fave female fronted rock band):
Motorhead
INXS
Faith No More
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Blur
Foo Fighters
Blink-182
Filter
Creed
Linkin Park
Incubus
Nickelback
System of a Down
Joe Walsh
The Doobie Brothers
Genesis
Bon Jovi
Motley Crue
Guns N'Roses
Living Colour
Depeche Mode
The Stone Roses
Jane's Addiction
Helmet
Soundgarden
The Black Crowes
Alice In Chains
Stone Temple Pilots
Pearl Jam
Green Day
Weezer
Bush
The Smashing Pumpkins
Oasis
Tonic
The Verve
Matchbox Twenty
Goo Goo Dolls
Lenny Kravitz
Manic Street Preachers
Alanis Morissette
Placebo
Fatboy Slim
Vertical Horizon
Moby
Coldplay
Fuel
U2
Feeder
Limp Bizkit
Avril Lavigne
Queens of the Stone Age
Evanescence
Audioslave
Live
Michelle Branch
3 Doors Down
The Killers
Stereophonics
Muse
Nirvana
The Cranberries
Radiohead
No Doubt
Dishwalla
Duncan Sheik
Dave Matthews Band
Garbage
The Cardigans
Smash Mouth
Lifehouse
Lorde
Cage the Elephant
John Newman
Fall Out Boy
Twenty One Pilots
Phantogram
Greta Van Fleet
Imagine Dragons
Portugal. The Man
Måneskin
& the Black Keys
So that is my 555th blog of the year 2024 (MMXXIV) & my 31st of this year, viva Ukraine & Palestine.
P.S. Look in my eyes
What do you see?
The cult of personality
I know your anger, I know your dreams
I've been everything you want to be
Oh, I'm the cult of personality
Like Mussolini and Kennedy
I'm the cult of personality
The cult of personality
The cult of personality
Neon lights, a Nobel prize
When a mirror speaks, the reflection lies
You won't have to follow me
Only you can set me free
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