Typhoons: My 1st Blog of the year 2026

"If you love me as I love you, not even death can part us" - Anne, Anne of Green Gables (1908) novel by the late Lucy Maud 'L.M.' Montgomery

Well, welcome to 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 happy new year to you all tuning in to everyone for my 1st blog of 2026, but my first thoughts of this year would be? Damn baby, the new year is finally here) but first that during my first Kiwiavenger blog for this year is I want to discuss about 1991 (The year that I was born in Raetihi, New Zealand (My hometown for 16 years until I moved to Whanganui way back in 2007 with him, his 2nd partner, his 2nd partner's family & Jansi Jans of course where I have been living here since for 18 years (And I'm currently living with Pops since back in 2017 (After 25 years & 8 months living with my Dad from childbirth, until I moved in with a grandparent), a year after Nan passed away also back in 2016, so I took her place as Pops living companion), to both of my parents of Mum & Dad at Raetihi hospital on June 7th (2 days following my Dad's birthday in which he had a late birthday present which is me, to say the least, & 3 days prior to Aunty Tan's birthday), for which was the year that Metallica had released the self-titled Black album which was a success that I bought at the Whanganui River Traders market on November 15th last year (Which was exactly 2 days before the late Carole who had passed on November 17th (She was born on June 17th, 1952 (That's 5 years after Pops who is lucky to be alive, was born), but it took 34 years to finally get that music album that I fully but thoroughly deserve, thus rediscovering my love affair of the band), same year that the Soviet Union had been collapsed, along with the end of the lengthy but prolonged Cold War that began 2 years after World War II, & there was a war in the Persian Gulf as a UN-authorized coalition fought against Iraq, that invaded Kuwait way, way back in 1990 as the invasion began & ended also way, way back in 1991, meanwhile other significant events took place included the release of Nevermind by American grunge rock group Nirvana that brought themselves, especially the independent 'Indie' rock genre into the mainstream, then the greatest basketball player of all time of Michael Jordan (The man who is effectually known as 'MJ') winning his first ever NBA Championship with the Chicago Bulls (Who would later gone on to win 5 more with the last being in 1997-98), followed by the Terminator 2: Judgement Day movie starring the famous Austrian American bodybuilder turned famous film star & future California governor of Arnold Schwarzenegger, came out in cinemas (Along with the Anthony Hopkins & Jodie Foster movie, the Silence of the Lambs for which I've seen the film once back in 2019 was released in movie theaters across the globe), then Freddie Mercury (Who secretly had a daughter during the 70's despite the fact that he was bisexual) passing away as a result of AIDS (Although his band of Queen with their 1975 smash hit 'Bohemian Rhapsody', reached on top of the UK charts again (Therefore becoming the Christmas number one), this time after Mercury's passing as the re-release was a tribute to him, & was intended to raise money for the war against the AIDS disease), followed by the invention of the world wide web (www), as they marked the beginning of the new era in communication, then the All Blacks losing our first men's Rugby World Cup match against the eventual world champions Australia in the semifinal (Including 'Campo' Campese's heroics as he dotted it down to score the try for the Wallabies, then managed to get a try assist as he passed the ball to the try scorer Tim Horan that put them through to their first final), as well as Ayrton Senna winning his Formula One World Championship for the 3rd & final time in his illustrious career (3 years before he was involved in a fatal crash in Italy way, way back in 1994 which brought changes regarding to safety in F1 the following season also way, way back in 1995 & beyond) as he beat British rival Nigel Mansell (Who would gone on to become world champion a year later way, way back in 1992 (During which the economic bubble upheaveal occurred in Japan prompting Honda to withdraw themselves from Formula One following that season, allowing Ford to take over for the 1993 season as the main engine supplier (Originally it was going to be Lamborghini) followed by Peugeot also way, way back in 1994 (Although Renault turned down the offer because it was sponsored by Elf with Shell being McLaren's fuel supplier at the time), before Mercedes-Benz from 1995 until 2014 where they had success such as securing back to back world championships in 1998-99 with 'The Flying Finn' himself, Mika Hakkinen, then Honda again from 2015 until 2017, as well as Renault from 2018 until 2020, & Mercedes once more since 2021), even before he left to go to IndyCar in 1993 in which he also became the champ) for the title over the course of the season, & the late Martin Crowe scoring 299 runs against Sri Lanka at the Basin Reserve in Wellington, one run shy of a triple hundred (That honour went to 'Baz' McCullum the current England head coach who scored 302 (The first & only New Zealander to do so) against India at the same ground back in 2014, but there was Tim Southee who was chosen by McCullum to be his assistant for the English as the bowling coach, as well as Daniel Vettori (One of 4 New Zealanders that are part of the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame along with Debbie Hockley, the late Martin Crowe & Sir Richard Hadlee) who is the assistant coach for Australia under Andrew McDonald as the spin bowling coach, & finally the head coach of the Black Caps is a South African named Paul Walter who assumed the role from Gary 'Steady' Stead (The one who took over from Mike Hesson (Current RC Bengaluru coach) back in 2018).

And secondly that I managed to restore some of the lost content that I inadvertently deleted for my future blogs that I'm due to post for which I'm both stunned & gutted (Damn) such as containing new material since I've restarted my blogging career when my Dad who restored my Imanolchristian Gmail account so I'm satisfied about it, & I'm really happy that it has been brought back altogether meaning that I'm both thrilled & stoked of bringing it back therefore making a comeback so far to my blogging career.

And thirdly that Aunty Tan's got a hell of a lot of money, because of me setting up that Movember account for which has been raised to over $700 dollars in donation, especially Hera who lives in Australia, as well as Kathryn (I did not know she's related to Aunty Tan, because Kathy was born 8 years before her, while Pops had a sister (My grand aunty who'll be in Whanganui in either March or April next year) just like Dad who had a sister (And my aunty) as well), Eufeymya & the now late Carole who have thus donated so far, & she asked me to appear in an interview of River City Press about the Movember stuff, but I'll get Dad to accompany me for that (And I thought I was going to shave my mustache off until November 30th, but she said no way meaning that I'll have to wait until she gets here with Rejean in December last year (And why the hell not? Besides it is true). 

And finally the latest in the cricket as New Zealand win the ODI series against the West Indies 3 - 0 (Well, another ODI series clean sweep in the bag for us though just prior to the test series getting ready to begin on December 2nd to the 6th with the 1st test at Hagley Oval in Christchurch) with Matt 'Matty Hezza' Henry being awarded the standout player of the game for his figures of a four fer of 4 wickets for 43 runs off 9.2 overs, but the standout player of the series went to 'KJ' Jamieson who had an outstanding series since returning from an injury that kept him out of the T20 series which was won by the Black Caps ourselves, but he's not in the test squad for the upcoming test series against the same opponent that there is no room for him mainly due to workload management that he's suffered.

So that is my 649th blog of the year 2026 (MMXXVI) & my 1st of this year, viva Ukraine.