Exams Are Over!

HEY PEOPLE!

I'm back after a big break, and it's actually quite a sad note. I am on holidays now and my exams have finished yet yesterday my dad was painting my brothers house when the trestle they were standing on broke. He fell and has broken his ankle severely and his back as well. He has a fractured spine yet the spinal nerve wasn't damaged and he can move his toes arms and they think he'll be walking with a back brace in a little while. He's in hospital and my family has been in a distressed state lately running around like headless chickens.

So what I'd like to say is stay safe this summer/winter guys (Summer in NZ) because accidents like this can easily happen my brother feels really guilty as it was his trestle and he chose to paint the house himself instead of hiring people. However no one blames my brother and we all agree it was just an accident, but if I was in my brothers position It would be hard not to feel guilty. All I can say is get well soon dad and Ben don't feel hard on yourself, Dad will be alright.

On another note, my t-shirt Idea didn't go ahead because one of the image designers never came back to me so I decided to scrap it. However I have opened a zazzle store and I'm just experimenting with things, drawings, photos yadeyayaya so something may come about from it, if I get time.

Zazzle Store!

You would expect a rather eventful post considering I've been gone so long but with all the hastle of things happening I can't say I've really had time to sit down and focus. So I'll link the couple of articles I wrote at Triond (earn money writing here). So yes I am sorry and more will come out.


Lets have a funny picture because this post is quite sad and bland.

Old Zac Effron and Vanessa?

Saw that one on the net, made me giggle :)


Lets add some photos from the last little while!

Me at the museum, they must've caught me in my private moment with A.aferensis.

Museum again, Fanta from way back.

Nemo, at the museum.

Me at the museum, my hairs really long :p

Museum still, I didn't take many photos so I took one of myself :( I live a sad life.

My Myspace face I put on for my friends :D (Thats a whole different post idea...)

Mates at school.

Me with my mate Alex!

Again, Myspace face!

Mates at school again, I've got my C's up!

C's up again haha.

Jumping behind Mitch and taking a photo, ha.

Doing the same with my physics teacher.

Peter on the bus

Da bus :p

Myspace face on the bus, I should stop that... And my hairs really long...

Those are a few photos from the last few weeks at school and the museum and my Myspace face, hope you enjoyed that flattering face of mine. I actually have had my haircut since then and in my next post about the Myspace face I'll upload a picture of my new do.


So guys this may have been a shit post but I'm back and still busy inconveniently. I'm doing my best to get some time but with my Dad breaking his back it may be a struggle.


Stay safe guys and have a sweet summer/winter.


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Drivers Licence Test

Ok so I've been a tad absent since I got this but yay I passed my driving test! I've just had the long weekend so I've been busy at the beach and stuff like that so I've got a couple of photos for you guys!

So we went to the beach to walk around the sand dunes and give my brother (Ben) and his wife's dog a walk around the beach/river/lake that was around there.

Sand dunes and dad (peter) to the left

Ben, James and Dad

Ben and a huge sand dune that I raced 

Some more sandy dunes

Dunes... again

Gizelle the mini schnowzer with Kerri, Ben and James

Gizelle after a drink of water with our picnic

So that was our little day at the sand dunes of the beach, I hope you liked the photos and I hope to get a few more out every now and again. I've actually got a couple more photos to show you that I've just taken during the week. Enjoy!

I was playing around with the settings on my camera to try get a nice clear photo, I finally got a semi decent on of these two daisies.

This is of a mint plant I took a photo of, I changed it to black and white but partially left the colour in the flower that was growing on it.

Taking all these photos really made me wish I had a good DSLR camera but hey I'll be happy with the digital camera I have at the moment.

So those are my photos that I've been taking recently, again I hope you've enjoyed.

As for other news, the guy who came back with a reply for the Gin & Conic shirt idea, hasn't further replied. So now I'm in the process of finding a new one because he wussed out and wouldn't reply. I might end up making my own but in the mean time while I'm still busy with exams, It's going to have to wait.

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Cya guys on the flip flop later!

Angry Birds, iPhones Are Addictive

I've recently been sifting through my friends iPhone to find many addicting games. One I've recently found to be quite addicting is the angry birds application. I myself don't own any form of angry bird playing medium so it's probably why I find these little apps to be so addicting and fun.

Thank You

So Angry Birds made me wonder about the actual playability of these iPhone and other iPod touch games compared to other medium. I guess this can vaguely be related to my other technological posts and my view on them. iPad, Seigway. Go read them and see what you think of the up and coming fad that is the iPad and the futuristic form of transport... The Seigway.

So back to Angry Birds, among other apps I found this one along with doodle jumper to be quite amusing but I couldn't see myself playing these little games for hours on end. It does seem like Apple is winning in the long run charging what seems like a mere amount of a dollar relative to the time you may or may not spend on these little applications. I can imagine the creators of these games rolling around in their pool of dollar coins laughing as we sit squinty eyed trying to focus on a tiny screen, what a sucker we say... It only cost me a buck. However buck upon buck we see us buying more and more applications, more little games just like Angry birds but hey for a buck I would feel happy with even the little enjoyment I got out of a borrowed turn on a friends iPhone. I guess that's why no one goes to arcades anymore.

Thanks!

So at the end of the day, looking back at the cost of the apps to the relative enjoyment I got out of them, I would definitely consider getting an iSomething. A dollar aint too bad and some games I could imagine being played for hours. So if you aren't too stingy, a good few bucks could turn into a good few hours of fun on a device that can play music, movies and photos. Sounds pretty good at the moment.

Cya guys around.

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May Have A Shirt Design

Hey there people

I'm pretty excited as I've designed a shirt graphic made from pictures from flickr. I've run into a bit of a hitch but am hoping it works itself out. Ya see I was looking in the section of photos with a creative commons licence that allow adaptation and allow the graphic to be used commercially, I found some sweet images and put them together into a cool image that goes with a running joke me and my friend Matt have. The problem is, after I'd done all the photoshopping and cutting and stuff I looked back to see that on neither of the photos had I clicked *allow commercial use* so on this finished graphic which I was pleased with, I couldn't actually use either of the photos. I'm now waiting on one more of the image creators to email me back to allow me to use it commercially *the first one did and gave me the heads up so I'm really stoked with him! Go check out his flickr!*

So here's the image (put together with cafepress)

They allowed it to be adapted and shown on the internet still :D

This shirt is a mathematics joke so I don't blame you if you don't get it. There are things in maths called conics which are pretty much cones with a plane bisector through them which then show a graph. I have explained this poorly but it gives a brief idea.

So lets hope for the best with this shirt and hope it gets approved. As for my studies and exams, I'm still doing them and I just had a bit of free time on my hands to do this image and get a blog post out so lets hope for more free time to get more blog posts out!

Cya guys have a good Thursday... Only Thursday... UGH

Facebook Button

O quick before I go to bed this above is going to be my new facebook button linking to my page! I want to get a facebook audience! So get clicking liking and referring your friends!

Like button on the right column aswell! Cya guys when I see ya!

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Just A Heads Up

I'm going into exams soon so this blog may just be in a coma until I'm out of them. I've got 4 weeks of school left in which I won't be spending a great amount of my time on my blog and other things. So if there hasn't been a post here for awhile its because of exams and study. I'll be back soon, don't miss me too much.

Kill Your Friends

Kill Your Friends

Well I've just been out playing a certain game all day and for some reason you got rewarded for killing your team mates, and no it was not on any computer game.

I just thought this was cool.


We were playing laser tag. In a nutshell you run around in the dark trying to shoot/blind your friends with a laser beam. Here's a little video I found on Youtube about laser tag.



And so back to my title. I was playing laser tag with my under water hockey team as a sort of farewell function for all the players leaving school. Now me being the apex of laser tag skill was not doing too well in one round so I decided to start shooting my own team mates and wonder how long it would take them to figure out it was me. Now I was using the knowledge that we don't get any disadvantage for shooting our own team so shooting season was open to me who wanted to be annoying.

So shooting away I went. POW!
"Oh snap someone hit me" - Friend
"I think there's a sniper up on that ledge" - Me
*Friend respawns* POW
"Damn, that guy is a fiend with that gun" - Friend
"Yea he's been up there all round" - Me
*Another friend jumps behind our set of barrels*
"Bro try take out that sniper with us" - Friend 1
POW! POOOW! *Two dead friends*
"How does he keep getting us we were hardly above the barrier???" - Friend 1
*More team mates stack up behind this barrier*
"I dunno but imma step back and try shoot him"
POW! PoOoW! PEW? *all dead*
*A general WTF coming from my team mates*

It took them a good while before they found out it was me... And when they did I continued to stalk/hunt/dominate my team mates. It was only when we left the room to check our scores do we see that I had the most points... And most pissed off friends to accompany.

Moral of the story, if you have the choice. Kill your friends.

Cya guys later and don't murder anyone.

PS! I've made the decision I'm going to start a vlog just to see where it goes.
Things I need...

• Good video editing software
• Better camera (coming soon, bear with me for the mean time)
• Some time on my hands

All this is expected to come. Oh and I'll be uploading regular photo updates of things I do! so stay posted!

Weezer's New Album Hurley

Weezer has recently released a new album called "Hurley." If you know lost you've probably heard this name around and yes their album is titled after the lost character Hurley. I love Weezer a lot not just for their music but with which the comical ways they conduct themselves. Some of their previous albums have just been named after themselves with only colours to tell them apart.

Blue

Green

Red

So the newly titled album is no surprise after the earlier escapades and laid back style of writing and naming.

The music as always is good, I love Weezer's style of playing as it still upholds the same feel as they had from the day they started playing. I've seen a few youtube videos of them playing with people like Tay Zonday and they even made an appearance with the Gregory brothers in auto tune the news where they used a backing track from their song Memories.

This is Weezer playing with Jorge Garcia (Hurley)

Weezer featuring in a video with Gregory brothers, they've taken a backing track from Weezer's song Memories which I'll post after this video. Go check out schmoyoho (Gregory brothers) on youtube! They autotune some good stuff.



Weezer's Memories



Go check out Weezer's youtube channel aswell. In that last video they were with the guys from Jackass. Weezer are all around the show with celebrities and musicians and it's really cool to see.

Hurley (Deluxe Version)

So that's my little piece of why I love Weezer and their new album. Hope you guys like them too!

P.S I've got my camera up and running so be expecting some cool stuff to be coming soon!

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Cya guys and stay fat on the island like Hurley somehow did 0.o

Where Have I Been?

Wow have I been absent from my blog, things just get so busy that I haven't really had the time to be posting and keeping up with whats going on. So as a quick debrief of the last few weeks I'll bullet point the important things that have happened.

• Failed My music performance at school, Don't really care because I didn't practise much and I don't need the credits.
• Failed 7 papers in my end of year mock exams, the real one's aren't looking too good at the moment
• Came second in the nationals school underwater hockey tournament. Kinda alrightish.
• Made under 18 Auckland Representative team
• Came 5th in that nationals tournament

And that about brings us to now. I'm in school holidays at the moment but have been training my ass off with the Auckland team I made. So now I can grab a bit of spare time amongst the study I have to do so I can give a little update on my blog.

I got a free 10mp camera! Thanks to my great brother Ben, his travel blog which is seldom updated but still fun to read is linked here! Ben and Kerri's Blog So hopefully in the future I'll be able to upload heaps of cool photos of my conquests and stuff like that, maybe even get a vlog going. That'd be quite cool.

So the future is bright, for my blog maybe. For my academics, I should be worried. Keep checking in, I'll be throwing out a whole lot of stuff soon if my time management doesn't go flipsy flopsy again. Picture for fun!

If anyone knows Zach Braff... I think he looks like the half life dude.

So remember to check back here always. Favourite me! Leave comments! Follow me!

Anyways

Cya peeps, Get ready for summer! (for NZ, anywhere else... Good luck for winter :P)

Paris Hilton's Crack

Ahhh I can finally steal away some lovely time to myself and indulge and a long awaited blog post in which I have been deprived of for what seems like forever. So as a way to get back into it. Time to rip on Paris Hilton.

Dear Ms Hilton

I am writing in sheer appal at your recent conduct. First and foremost lets get your past behind us in this letter of great concern. We know you haven't made the wisest decisions and know you have made quite the mistake of a tape in your history (tehee), but we can put that behind us as we have a new topic to adhere to. It seems you have been caught with  .8grams of cocaine. This isn't the first time you've been seen in association with drugs our dear socialite, no. This is in fact the second time this year we've seen you arrested for drug related allegations. How can someone of such high values *snigger*, with such great career prospects and future potential *giggle* find herself in a situation so absurd and uncouth? *holds back a cacophony of laughter* And so the world is once again in an awe struck and surprised state as you are carted away in the paddy wagon. *chuckles*. If you are to end up in jail I just want you to know that I send my best wishes that you aren't stuck with an overly large women named Leslie who bats for the opposite team *leaves room as to hold back overflowing urges of laughter*.

Best wishes on a bad topic
Sam

*falls to the floor in laughter*...

Follow me! Comment! Check out my other letters! Lindsay Lohan!, Miley Cyrus And Her Vagina, Lindsay Again..., Tiger Woods 


Cya guys round aye, Don't forgot to hold onto your coke properly :P

So Far From Being On Time

O wow I am so sorry, I have been so busy with underwater hockey tournaments, been sick (for like the millionth time this year) and the kings crown, I started exams. I'm about half way through them now so I don't think a good post will be coming through any time in the very near future. But when I get back it will be a good one. I'm thinking of jamming on Paris Hilton... O the poor excuses crack addicts have for cocaine found in their purses. But as for now I'm going to be a tad absent.

So yea don't miss me too much, I'll be back around soon with some good content and yadeyaya but till then

Cya guys around :D

Dear Tiger Woods, How's Being Single?

Dear Tiger Woods

It has come to my knowledge that you have recently split up with your wife, and for that I am sorry. I do however like your views on teaching young kids about sex education as you obviously are quite adept in this practise. You're setting such a lovely image for your admirers

"13 years ago, my Dad and I envisioned helping children through education. That work is unchanged." - Tiger Woods

It is a great shame to see such an iconic figure such as yourself stoop to such lows but can we blame you? Long tours away from your wife, home and dearly beloved. It's all justification to have sex with over 120 women...

"Starting tomorrow I will return for more treatment and therapy"


The only thing I can pull from this is that you are starting to return to something? All I can say is that it is kinda sucky to see a great sporting hero to many go so wrong. It's like when Chris Brown ragdolled Rihanna or when we found out the only reason Paris Hilton was famous was because we could look at her naked on the internet. It's these subtle let downs I choose to prey on and make the best of. So in the words of Joey Tribiani

"If you're going to do it wrong, do it right!"


And can we deny that you didn't ole Tiger ole pal?

Yours with love
Sam

P.S! More grill letters! Lindsay Lohan, Lindsay again, Miley Cyrus

In all honesty though. My view on Tiger Woods professional career is unchanged. I still think he's an iconic golfer and to let his personal life get in the way of his image may be hard to look past (I'll refrain from the obvious self set up joke) but hey, life's life we gotta move on... And not have sex with everything in our path. :) 121... jeez...

How To Draw?

Something that has been bugging me lately is my lack of the ability to draw, and to be more specific the lack of being able to draw on photoshop. I can draw adequately with a pen (still no freaking artist), but when it comes to photoshop and "painting" I can't get my mouse around drawing the lines and especially shading! It just doesn't seem to work! I know it's one of those practise makes perfect things (I've been drawing in all my classes :))

K I think these are all going to be on there side. I'll say it now. Sorry for the bad quality and just as an FYI. That sign he's holding says "Will work for oil"

This one's fine but I got half my shadow in it. Grrrr night time and house lights.

And this is a kitty cat! No more to say there...

That's pretty much as far as my drawing skills go. Nothing special but I thought you guys might wanna have a look. I also made the photo in this post with photoshop. Go check it out. PRETTY COLOURS.


So yea nothing too special for this post. I'm going to continue drawing to try and become awesome at it. Along with other things, trumpet... Under water hockey (gotta make NZ team in the next few years). All those things are soon to come and you better be around to see them! Follow me in other words. :)

Cya people, keep on drawing!

Happy 101 Award!

It's come to my attention that I have been given my first award here at Sam's Point Of View (povofsam.blogspot.com). I'd like to thank the award giver. The great Andrei Sipos over at Scream Bloody Entertainment. So go over there and give that good man a view, some comments and general happiness. So the title of the "Happy Award 101" Is now mine! So to honour this award I have to post 10 things that make me happy and bring me joy. Here goes!


Numero Uno!
Writing for cash. Being able to see those few cents roll in is actually the most awesome feeling. Even if it is a little bit of money, being paid to do something you enjoy gives you a strong sense of moral awesomeness. I now have earned a boastable amount through my writing so I'm pretty stoked with how things are going.


Numero Deux! (I'm not sure which languages these are from, if any at all)
My guitar and trumpet. I play a lot of music, around the house and quite loudly with the latest addition of the trumpet (to my families horror) but I love playing music, jamming with my mates and any other array of music listening or playing.


Numero Tre!
Water sports. I love playing under water hockey sooooo much. I also play waterpolo but it's the off season and I don't enjoy it as much. I've recently been selected for the Auckland under 18 boys trials. So if all goes well it's only a few steps from there until I'm in the New Zealand team. Cross my fingers for good luck.


Numero Quattro!
Watching a good movie. I love being totally enthralled by a movie. In particular, the ones that leave your mind in a jumbled soup of awe. Fight Club, Reservoir Dogs, Inception, just to name a few of my latest faves (Fight Club from way back though ^_^).


Numero Cinq!
My friends. Always there with me in the worst situations to make it a little bit better by making it a whole lot worse. But I wouldn't have it any other way. One night whilst at my friend Dan's place with George and other various people things got a bit out of hand. Ended out with one guy getting violent, police and ambulance showing up and 3 girls cowering in a corner, I took a drunken hook from a body builder that night! It was really sore the next morning...


Numero Six... Sei!
Noodles! More specifically, easy and instantly made noodles, even more specifically Indomie Mi Goreng Fried Noodles. I'm a big fan of these noodles. The downside is they typically have 17g of fat in each packet, 1/3 of your daily sodium intake (pfft recommended, 2400mg is for panzies :D). But they have it down! From flavour to texture they (IMHO) have got the instant recipe for these noodles sorted.


Numero Sette!
Free stuff! I found an old post I wrote about free stuff in fact! Free Is My Favourite Word Me being a fine connoisseur of being insanely poor, (so poor I tried to make money on the internet. HA) I love it when I get free stuff. Just a few days ago I was driving home when a Mizone van was giving free Mizone to people in cars. Stoked right? It's a brand familiar in NZ, I'm not sure if the outta NZ dudes will know this one, but who knows.


Numero Huit!
Video games, I love just sitting around and relaxing while playing video games. You can get lost in a trance while playing them and it's so much fun just wasting your life away prowling around the many games. I personally am a BIG fan of the Bioshock series. Love Halo on Xbox. All sorts of multiplayer games, TF2, HON (If you've ever heard of it). I love a large array of games, so for video games to get on this list it wasn't very hard :D.

Numero Nove!
Christmas! Even if the gifts are lame, I just love getting into the whole spirit of it. Buying gifts, receiving gifts. The surprise on people's face when they open their gifts, the fake smiles on people's faces when they open a stink gift (hehe). I definitely am a fan of this holiday and it's definitely my fave up there with Halloween because it's a lame excuse to go out for a party.

Numero Dieci! DIX! (French and Italian numbers win!)
Finally on my list of things that brings me joy is chillaxing. Nothing better than to sit around a waste a day away eating bad food, sleeping in, having brinner (breakfast for dinner) you feel a lot better the next day knowing that the day you just had was a total write off in the grand scheme of things. I mostly do this after a big night out because I was up late and so so.

So that's my list of things that bring me joy. I'm now suppose to pass this onto 10 fellow bloggers who make me happy and bring me joy so they can to indulge in this award. I however don't follow too many blogs, but when I do it's the blogs I really enjoy reading and visit often so here goes my list!

5 Blogs I enjoy

Alright Tit

Lets Graph: Funny Graphs And Charts

One Photo A Day For A Year

Scream Bloody Entertainment

Avitable - Tact Is For Pussies

Inception: Was It Really That Good?

The simple answer is yes! It was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. I saw it awhile ago and only recently has the idea of writing something down about it popped into this little teenage head of mine. The movie dragged you right into the head and mind of the main character Cobb (Leonardo Dicaprio). Presenting this so well leaves the watcher challenging his perception on things never before thought about in original life. Take a movie like Fight club, We are taken directly into the mind of Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) which is then an extrapolation of the mind of the narrator (Edward Norton). It is these kinds of movies in which we are shown "the light" in a different way and it's these movies I can't get enough of!

The special effects astounded me. Ranging from the mass decay of buildings being beaten by waves to the anti-gravity fight scenes that found characters leaping from roof to ground while fighting an array of projections. This complemented the storyline beautifully making every fight worth the while. I respected the fact that they didn't over use special effects to the point it detracted from the storyline, it just gave a kick to the already enthralling plot that was growing over time. For the overall use of special effects I'm going to give it a 4/5 thumbs up.

In a nutshell the movie is a must see! I know some people found the movie a bit hard to follow as it did have a relatively hard to follow plot but if you're a quick thinker and can hack the pace of movies that throw your mind into a blender. Then this movie is for you. I left the theatre in complete awe as to what had just happened. So if you're craving a bit of mind fuck. Inception should be on your list.

Cya guys. Keep dreaming

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