Well, hey everyone as always, welcome to all our readers here in New Zealand & around the world, I'm Whetu Ngapo & you're tuning in to my KiwiAvenger blog here on blogger (And a gigantic shoutout to Pops for wishing him his 78th birthday today on the 5th of July, so best wishes to my fave person in the whole wide world along with Dad) but first in the cricket news department such as the Black Caps are into the final of the Champions Trophy against India (Who had to beat Australia (Who thought that they got their man of Indian captain Rohit Sharma, but the catch was put down by Cooper Connolly (Who was targeted by unhappy Aussie fans on social media after the game) anyway that hurt their chances of reaching the final, & also Glenn Maxwell who tried to get Virat Kohli (Who scored 84 during the semi) out, had dropped a sitter in which the Aussies have been stunned, they'll be gutted that they fell short just like the Blues did in which they didn't get the result against the ACT Brumbies on the 7th of March during Super Rugby Pacific as the men from Canberra brought them home with a match winning penalty goal to break the 12 year Eden Park curse (That was a day before the Drua ended the Chiefs (Who were without the injured Damian McKenzie (Who is one of the Chiefs main players) quest of remaining undefeated in this years competition when the match was played at the Drua's fortress which is Churchill Park in Lautoka (But the Drua-Chiefs match was similar to the ACT Brumbies-Hurricanes one in Canberra last year & the Chiefs-Reds encounter in New Plymouth in 2023) & also Moana Pasifika led by it's inspirational captain Ardie Savea, had caused the biggest upset in this years competition in which they rolled over the Hurricanes (The team that Ardie used to play with) at North Harbour Stadium in Albany for Moana's first win of the season, & the 2nd time that they have beaten New Zealand opposition in history), just a day right before normal service has resumed for the Crusaders as they produced an emphatic win over the Queensland Reds as they gained vengeance following last year's result which had gone in the way of the men from Brisbane, but the latest in the Six Nations as France (Who had beaten Ireland which was marred by Antoine Dupont's horrific injury in which the referee should've checked it for foul play (And the ref said that it was a complete accident meaning that Tadhg Beirne who inadvertently took out & injured Dupont won't get cited by the citing officer) that was shades of Darcy Swain who illegally clobbered Quinn Tupaea's limbs during the 1st Bledisloe Cup test in Melbourne in 2022 which resulted in a yellow card before he got suspended for a lengthy amount of time) lead the standings by a single point ahead of England (Who'll require a win against Wales in the final round should France lose to Scotland, & the Six Nations Championship is theirs) in the other semi in Dubai in the UAE) after beating South Africa in the 2nd semi at Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore (In which the venue had been suited for ideal batting conditions compared to the Dubai pitch which suited the spinners, especially the Indian point of view consisting of the spin quartet of Ravindra Jadeja (One of the elder statesman of the Indian bowling attack), Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel & Varun Chakravarthy) after a dominant batting display from both Rachin Ravindra who top scored 108, then Kane Williamson who posted 102 (And there has been an update in the final that India lift the Champions Trophy for the record 3rd time off the back of their dominant performance against the Black Caps (Who narrowly missed out, yet again) in Dubai including the Indian bowlers, especially the spin department who got rid of both our danger men of the New Zealand side such as Rachin Ravindra & Kane Williamson early which was the turning point, along with Indian captain Rohit Sharma's fast start to the Indian innings in which the men in blue (Who took advantage of winning the Champions Trophy mainly for their refusal to play in Pakistan due to political tensions between the 2 countries, & especially for the Dubai pitch which is spin friendly conditions that suited the Indian spinners) dominated from start to finish, for the entirety of the final in which we were stunned but gutted about the result).
And secondly that shots were fired in Castlecliff here in Whanganui on March 12th which resulted in arrests to a couple of perpetrators who caused a certain crime as the school went into lockdown until before 3pm, according to the story from Carole during our roast pork & vegetable dinner at her place that me & Pops went that the cop chopper had arrived, responding to a call along with police K9 units & the AOS (Armed Offenders Squad which is New Zealand's equivalent of America's SWAT) squad being brought in to bring those criminals who are caught red handed to justice, but these dreadful scenes remind me straight out of GTA game that I always play (And I'm now doing the main GTA IV game story mode that I'm playing because I'm attempting to clock the game by completing all missions as possible, but I managed to complete it just before midnight on the 12th of March), duh! That's right sucka! Ugh...As if (And I now have been using the famous line which is inspired by the 1995 coming of age teen comedy film Clueless that featured the likes of Alicia Silverstone (AKA Batgirl from the Batman & Robin movie which came out way, way back in 1997 & from the Brendan Fraser movie released in 1999 called Blast from the Past) who played Cher Horowitz, but was I talking like a Valley girl like that, it's like but it is so like, anything you want right there).
And thirdly that it was on either Tuesday on Wednesday that I brought a Chromebook to start with for I thought that was a laptop (For which I haven't owned for 16 years, but this time I'll never gonna break it just like last time way back in 2009 (That was a year after Dad bought me a laptop at the time) but I got it wrong that they never do PlayStation remote play, before I came back to the Warehouse + Warehouse Stationary with Dad to ask for a refund of getting a replacement laptop that suits me for which was the right one (And I hope that I was going for broke when I bought a new laptop, but Pops said to me that I wasn't, & it is a good idea to spend instead of saving a whole lot) before Pops took me to Momiji where we had a chicken katsu bento box for dinner (And I've gotta start saving money from now on since I read my bank statement lately on the 31st of March).
And finally that there was Cyclone Alfred in Queensland, Australia as many thousands of people are without power while the premier of Queensland was saying that they have a heap of jobs to do as clean up taken from the cyclone continues as they dropped 15 inches of rain which resulted in a coastal erosion on beaches, especially on the Gold Coast as their beloved beaches were washed offshore by gouging millions of cubic metres of sand from 500km gusts of wind (And people before the cyclone have been told to evacuate, but I hope that Hera, Brendon & Willow are OK from the cyclone just like that).
So that is my 601st blog of the year 2025 (MMXXV) & my 25th of this year, viva Ukraine.
P.S. And it is my biological aunty Cathey Middelplaats (Paige's mum & Norah's grandmother who could be potentially my honorary mum for who I would like to still see her one day along with my honorary sister as well as my dear cuzzie Paige (Whose having her 31st birthday on April 5th) & my honorary niece as well as my first cousin once removed & my possible goddaughter Norah (I once had a god cousin, & her name was Sherylle-Anne) next time I go to Wellington with either Pops (Regardless of his old age as well as the travel costs) or Dad (Unless he retires from his teaching job, but I would have to wait for many longer to have that opportunity before I pass away) who is having her 58th birthday on the 16th of March, but I wanted to give a shoutout to her so best wishes, xoxo.
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