Jansen's Birthday Blog (London 2012 Olympics Report)

Today is Jansen's birthday & I have not been doing a blog ever since Nan & Pops went away to Vanuatu.

Almost 2 weeks ago, the 30th Summer Olympic Games in London, Great Britain already started then a week later, we picked up our 1st gold medal of London 2012 (After already winning Bronze medals) with the rowing double sculls duo of Nathan Cohen & Joseph Sullivan, then a day later, another gold was won by Hamish Bond & Eric Murray in the pairs, then nek minnit, Mahe Drysdale picked up his 1st gold medal ever (And 3rd for New Zealand at the games) in the single sculls 4 years after settling for the bronze medal due to being plagued by a stomach problem which cost him his chance of getting his 1st gold medal in Beijing, China. But after the Beijing nightmare, Drysdale does what he now does best in London.

Then on Saturday after the Kiwis golden hour in London, we cross over to Hamilton (AKA 'the Tron') for the Super Rugby final between the Chiefs (Hosts) & Sharks (Away team), The start of the game did not go well when the Frenchman playing for the Sharks of Frederic Michalak nailed the 1st penalty kick of the final until according to plan when Tim-Nanai Williams (SBW's cousin because they are related) scored the 1st try of the final with Aaron Cruden successfully took the conversion before nailing 2 penalties before halftime when the Chiefs were leading 13 - 3, but in the 2nd half, another Chiefs try was scored by Kane Thompson with the assistance of a TMO (TV Match Offical) then Michalak scored another successful penalty which put the Sharks to 6 despite being down by 13 points & in the 61st minute, Sonny Bill Williams (Who is having his last Super Rugby match here) made a great tackle, allowing the Sharks player to lose the ball before Lelia Masaga picked the ball up & scored the Chiefs their 3rd try of the final, moments before SBW was embraced by his loyal fans after scoring his famous farewell try in the 77th minute but 3 minutes later, the match was over when the Chiefs made history of taking the Super Rugby title honours for the 1st time ever with the final score of 37 - 6 as well as 2 commanders in chief (Co-captains Craig Clarke & Liam Messam), grab their 1st taste by lifting the Super Rugby trophy.

Then now a week later on Friday (Yesterday we did have a birthday dinner for Jansen, as we asian/chinese food for dinner that we got at the chinese takeaway shop in Victoria Avenue & dessert is blue jelly, cream & yoghurt before having Jansen's birthday cake), another gold medal was won by the women's sailing duo of 'Team Jolly' consisting of Jo 'Jox' Aleh & Olivia 'Polly' Powrie (New Zealand's 1st golden girls of London 2012), not only because I watched these ladies win, then next morning, went off to Palmy and rode on a go-kart at the Daytona Indoor Raceway before having Macca's for lunch and went for a swim at the Lido Aquatic Centre moments before we left Palmy hours before tuning in to the Olympics & the women's kayaking final was on as Lisa Carrington competed for the gold medal & she did because it was a success so she was good now that Carrington won (However, she too joined the London 2012 NZ Olympic golden girls ranks as Aleh & Powrie did), bringing the gold medal tally to 5 (Now 6 since Val Adams handed the gold medal when Nadzeya Ostapchuk was stripped of her Olympic women's shot put title crown).

And on Monday, London 2012 Olympics was now officially finished but nek minnit on Tuesday, there was big news about Valerie Adams (Formerly Valerie Vili), in Switzerland after leaving London post Olympics & now disappointed and devastated about losing the Olympic women's shot-put title to Nadezya Ostapchuk by getting a silver medal, Chef de mission Dave Currie made a decision to call Adams and he also had to say: ''Valerie Adams....and I quote, you are now & still, once again, the Olympic women's shot put champion because of your Belrussian rival, Ostapchuk, had been disqualified after failing a drug test so congrats Val, good on ya MATEY!!!'' And this moment was changed when Adams had been awarded the gold when Ostapchuk is stripped of gold medal following her drug testing scandal failure then a day later, the 4 of the 6 gold medalists arrived back home at Auckland International Airport as well as all the 2 Silver medalists (Not Adams since she got the gold from Ostapchuk) including Sarah Walker (BMX) & the men's sailing duo of Pete Burling & Blair Tuke plus the 3 of the 5 bronze medalists came home with Peter Taylor & Storm Uru (Men's lightweight rowing), the ladies rowing pair of Juliette Haigh & Wanganui's own Rebecca Scown who was born in Hawera which is located in the Taranaki (AKA 'the Naki') region (She has a brother named Sam who plays rugby for the Wanganui Heartland Rugby Championship team) & of course, Simon Van Velthoven in the keirin cycling because he was a joint bronze medalist (British cycling great Sir Chris Hoy got the gold medal) & finally last night as of today, I finally went to Vision's for the 1st time ever by having dinner over there plus a free dessert before me & my father went home to wrap up Thursday, the 16th of August 2012 (4 days post Olympics).

The Month Of June - July Story Period (AKA The Sonny Bill Williams/Euro 2012 Tribute Show)

Last month, went to Uncle Brian's to watch the All Blacks but almost lost the match against Ireland in the 2nd test at Christchurch 22 - 19, then the next day, had to be ready in time to watch the Avengers movie (My favourite Avengers movie characters were but a bit over the top are the 'Black Widow' Natasha Romanoff, 'Captain America' Steve Rogers, Tony 'Iron Man' Stark, Dr Bruce 'The Hulk' Banner & of course, Thor, which is the Norse god of thunder from Asgard which is a planet) which I now saw it before but was a great movie + some funny bits, nek minute on Thursday, got sick because it was bad for me, did not go to Uncle Bryan's 2 days later but stayed home instead when we watched the AB's pummel Ireland 60 - 0 (There was 1 openside flanker (Sam Cane) who bagged 2 tries, 1 blindside (Messam), 1 reserve flanker (Thomson), both wingers (Ben Smith & Hosea Gear), a fullback (Israel 'Izzy' Dagg) and a second five eighth (SBW (Sonny Bill Williams), who played his last game as an AB (All Black) before going to Japan after Super Rugby to join a Japanese club & returning to the National Rugby League (NRL) next year playing for the Sydney Roosters once the Japanese rugby season is complete (SBW's rugby union career will end on a high note as the Rugby World Cup 2011 winning player as well as scoring 6 tries for the AB's (4 at a RWC, his one & only debut tournament appearance so far) but SBW is now known as 'Sushi Boy Williams, Land of the Rising Sonny') who also got 2) in the 3rd & final test match over in Waikato Stadium, Hamilton (AKA the Tron); Not only because the match was just a demolition as the Irish were scoreless (Never conceded any tries, conversions & penalties scored).

Then 6 days later, just only came here for 1 night only, but Dad, Jans & Bernard came here for dinner we had like chicken thighs with roast veges & peas followed by the apple ginger cake for dessert, had to watch tv like the news before my father & step-brothers just left, but a few hours later after reading a bit of ROTG (Rules of the game), had to watch Super Rugby after taking a 3 week break of test rugby previously held, and I only just watched the 1st half before I went to bed as the Chiefs were on the verge of winning by beating the Highlanders, then next morning, had breakfast which was great (It was pancakes with sausages & apples), went over Uncle Brian's farm to assess the situation that we needed a new home & we checked but came back here for lunch by having a stir-fry which tasted nice & lovely because of the flavour then had afternoon tea that I cannot remember now & saw Nan emailing Leon that I was going to watch the Euro 2012 final on Monday morning but was going to have dinner but left for home (which is 43 Rimu Street).
Then next morning, went to the farm of Uncle Bryan's once again to analyze the house that we are going to live @ Uncle Brian's farm but I was unfair about it living because it was disappointing and it needs renovation by master builders & licensed building practitioners (or should I say, the LBP's), then the following morning, I just got up early & had breakfast before heading over to the command center (AKA 15 Alexander Street) to watch the Final between Spain (known as mejores del mundo of the futbol world) & Italy (4x FIFA World Cup champions like '34, '38, '82 & 2006), but in the end, Spain (AKA La Roja, captained by the goalie of Real Madrid, Iker Casillias) proved to be a perfect match as they retained the European Football Championship title (as well as winning 3 straight major championships from Euro 2008 to FIFA World Cup 2010 & now recently, Euro 2012) because they were able to beat Italy (The Azzurri squad consists of Andrea Pirlo of Juventus (formerly of AC Milan) & that self-proclaimed Afro-Italian (Who plays for Man City which is David Silva's team/club that he plays) of Mario Barwuah Balotelli) by scoring 4 goals (David Silva of Manchester City (Balotelli's Spanish teammate), Valencia's FC Barcelona bound player Jordi Alba & 2 Chelsea players, Torres & Mata) to nil as well as currently utilizing the quick passing move dubbed as the 'tiki-taca'.

But then last week like now, went to a swim like every week, had leftover stir fry with noodles for lunch, got a haircut while pops brought new clothing & had roast pork for dinner & watched police ten 7 but then on Sunday, Dad took me to Palmy (actually, Palmerston North) for just a day (we had pies @ Sanson) & been to shops like went to whitcoulls & bought a drawing tool kit like pens, papers & felt pens for use before going to the plaza (Saw a Chevy Camaro from the Transformers movie AKA the Bumblebee (Dad just took a pic of both the car & skating rink) as well as a ice skating rink) & having lunch at BK (Burger King), then also went other shops before heading back home.

Two days later, me & Dad just had an homemade pie for dinner that looked awesome then next day, had that leftover from tuesday night for lunch and had that sphaghetti bolognaise for dinner because the pasta is indeed my favourite food for like 12 years!

I got up this early morning to get ready to go to splash centre to refresh myself off, then got here in time, did my jobs as well as reading newspaper & the ROTG, then deciding to rest before Pops woke me up for lunch and we had that great antipasto consisting of cheese, 2 salamis, olives, dips, a single savoury muffin, carrot sticks, walnuts and baguettes that Pops just made and had mandarins after that before going to bark & boulders @ Murray Street & just came back here in time to complete my blog by doing a brand new updated material that i'm doing now since I stopped editing last week but now it is time to wrap this blog up about the June to July timeline period which is a great story to write.

P.S. Shane 'Mountain Warrior' Cameron knocked out Monte '2 Gunz' Barrett in a epic boxing match because not only the bout was simply but indeed gangsta because Shane Cameron won the fight, taking the boxing titles from Barrett as well as reigniting his boxing career (David 'Tuamanator' Tua won against Cameron in the fight of the century and took the titles from him but 2 years later (David Tua 1st faced Monte Barrett in 2010 which the bout ended in a draw), he lost to Barrett in his last fight, surrendering the titles before Tua formally announced that his boxing career would end like this) but come on, do not forget to say sayonara to the Sushi boy, land of the rising Sonny Bill Williams (The greatest man but the best Rugby & League player in the world of all time).

Windy City Hospital Highlight Reel

It was last week on Friday, to leave home (I took my Cellphone myself to listen to my favourite radio station, The Rock FM) in order go to Welly to see the injured Bernard-Thomas at a hospital near the Government House & Basin Reserve, Me, Dad & Bernard's real Father, Uncle John Orr came as we went through towns such as Turakina, Bulls, Sanson & Foxton before stopping at a park in Levin before carrying on by seeing more towns such as Otaki (10 years since that famous stay at Byron's), Waikanae & Paraparaumu, but saw the Royal New Zealand Police College as well as Porirua & Johnsonville (Home of Pop's good ol' comrade Murray Gray & his Filipino born wife Viluz), but finally after 1 year & 10 months since my last visit, we finally saw the Capital City of New Zealand, Wellington AKA the Windy City (famously nicknamed after Chicago, Illinois, USA), also saw Westpac Stadium AKA Cake-Tin (Home of the 'Canes Super Rugby team), the Beehive (Parliment Building), John & Lim's apartment maybe & Courtneay Place possibly before settling at the Lodgers & saw Corinna who's poised to go home for work & move into a new residence but finally, I saw Bernard who I have not seen for 2 weeks, but had dinner there at the hospital's family room as well as watching television then next morning, I made my own brekkie (It was baked beans on toast + cereal & hot drinking chocolate) before seeing my step-brother again on how he is progressing well with his injuries he succumbed/sustained before having a rest, lunch (I had baked beans on toast yet again, with steak), reading newspaper, watching the rugby (The 'Canes won the match, beating the Rebels 66 - 24 as well as the big Hurricanes hooker Motu Matu'u smash 2 Rebels players) & having hot dog sausage sizzle for dinner, saw my step-brother, Bernard again before heading back & going to sleep, nek minnit (actually it's next morning), Had breakfast before seeing him 1 last time for the day, had soup for lunch before we said farewell to him (Hope 'ya get well, eh?), packed everything & headed back home sweet home all over again (Although, we did stop at Sanson for dinner cause I was feeling hungry that I already had a tomato soup for lunch).

Yesterday (The day after Corinna had her 1st stay at her new home which is located at Harrison Street), visited Corinna's new home & it looked fantastic, went into Warehouse to buy my stuff before heading over to Subway to get the chicken parmigiana sub & got that Kentucky Fried Chicken not for me before headed back to Corrina's for dinner, relaxed & watched TV before heading back to 43 Rimu Street (Which is Me & Dad's place) to end this spectacular 6 days it was.

The Weekend It Was: Getting Hurricaned

It was all over Saturday when the weekend already begun at 5:00pm on Friday when Hamilton Ngapo (my father) & my half-brother Jansen decided to go to New Zealand's capital city of Wellington to catch up on Corinna & her injured son Bernard-Thomas (at a hospital) who had just had an unfortunate bike accident so staying @ Nan & Pops is indeed the best idea for me since Dad got away.

For lunch, first it was soup on the menu (sweet potato & red lentil soup) we had until afternoon tea (russian squares & a bit of chai tea) & dinner (pasta) before watching rugby on the telly @ a bar (I had a juice while Pops had a cider before having chips for snacks) were the Highlanders got Hurricaned (Julian Savea, a potential All Black was the star power in that match, definitely scoring that match winner) & the final score was 26 - 20 to the Canes (although, the match was played over in Dunedin @ the new Forsyth Barr Stadium which replaced the good ol' House of Pain, Carisbrook), nek minute (actually next morning), having a good brekkie such as weet bix, croissants & another chai, read rules of the game including the fouls section which was thought to be hilarious by me, had late lunch by having moccachino, gluten free style caramel slice & a smoked chicken fritatta, few hours before Dad & Jans came back here for the sunday roast traditional dinner when I did draw a few racing car circuits, then headed back home to enjoy a wonderful, spectacular, weekend it was.