Goodbye!

Well this will be my last post :( It was fun having this assignment because it is probably the best school assignment ever! I had fun writing each post and I had fun reading all of yours! I wont delete this blog, Its part of my life that has been preserved on the Internet, I can even use it as a kind of time capsule so I can read back to what happened when I was in Mrs Haydocks year 11 English class!

Goodbye! its time to shut the lid on this capsule and bury it into the soil of the Internet! :D

Crazy News...

So at dinner tonight we we're talking about our family history.

My mum pulled out her laptop and showed me, my brother and my sister what our real granddad looks like because we have never, EVER seen or met him. He lives in England with his wife and my grandma and her new husband (my mums step dad) moved over to live in Australia but to me my mums step dad is my granddad. The picture she showed us of my real granddad is actually quite old (from the 1970's) so he doesn't look like he did in the picture as he does now.

But the weird part is everyone thinks my mum is italian, wether she just meets someone new or someone stops and talks to her in the street or just shop clerks. My mum believes that it was her grandmothers husbands side of the family who is italian which might be why. So what does that make me? part Aussie, Irish, English and... ITALIAN!?!? well that explains my love for pizza, pasta, Ferraris, scooter rides and coffee :P

Its always interesting to learn little about your family history, isnt it?

Troll 2 Movie Review

If you have just seen the movie trailer I have posted I know what your thinking, "wow that movie looks terrible!" thats because it is. Actually, it won the award for 'Best Worst Movie' and i sat down and watched it last night.

Troll 2 is a film about a family, the Waits family, who take a trip to a small country town called Nilbog (goblin spelt backwards). The town only has a population of 27 people and the towns people are actually goblins who are disguised as people. Everyone in the town is vegetarian and this is because since they are really goblins they make every tourist who enters the town eat and drink poisoned foods which turns the people into vegetables and the goblins eat them once they turn into a vegetable. The first symptons to show they are turning into vegetables is that they become dizzy and start coughing and sweating green dye. Eventualluy to stop the goblins the Waits family holds a seance in the livingroom and together they hold a magic stone which eventually defeats all the goblins.

The movie was so awful it recieved a rating of 0% on www.rottentomatoes.com

I rate the movie -10/100 because the acting was poor, the sound effects in the movie were often repeated, the masks for the goblins were horrible and the special effects, plot and just everything was shocking!

Given Up!! :S

Hello, hello!

Yes as the title reads I have given up. The house was going NOWHERE! besides, the pieces of Lego were scattered all over the lounge room and they are the most PAINFUL thing in the world to step on! Last night Jacob had to go to a guitar lesson so we put the L plates up on the car, put the Lego in the boot and I was the chauffeur for the evening. His car is manual and I've been practicing in it with every chance I get and yesterday was by far my best driving ever! I could take off at the traffic lights and do hill starts as good as any other cars on the road at the time. my dad kept calling me "The Stig" when we were in the car and he was commentating like a race track commentator on most of the moves I did (I found the name he was calling me and the commentating to be annoying...)

Yes so with the house I only made parts of it but due to its general time consuming-ness and frustration of building it (not even listening to your iPod helps calm the frustration) I demolished everything I had made and put it all back in the box. Although I feel quite unaccomplished its a relief its all over because I no longer have to build it and see the big, ugly box sitting in the corner of my living room.

BUT! as another challenge me and my friends have an amazing idea. In the Christmas school holidays me and my friends want to buy a Toyota Hilux (or a similar Ute) and turn it into an amphibious vehicle! by that I mean we will put an outboard motor on the back, seal up any cracks which water could flood into and attach floatation devices to it. In my group of friends who ever gets their P's first (probably Stephen in December) he will drive it down to the boat ramp and into the water while we sail it down the Swan River and challenge ourselves by boating to Rottnest Island on it (if the water police catch us we could get into deep trouble)It will be on a calm day though so we don't have a rough crossing and I will follow behind in my parents boat so if they sink i can rescue them and I can film along the way. It does sound like a crazy idea but you only live once so why not try it?

OK I'm off now! I will publish a few more posts in the next few days about my life in general.

Just A Little More Progress...

Hello again!

yesterday evening it was raining and my laptops broken so all I did was watch TV and build just a little more of my Lego house by building the outside walls of it higher and higher. It's progressing very slowly and it's not as big as I want it to be (due to lack of Lego bricks. In media today though we realised Kevin Rudd looks like the Milky Bar Kid, what do you think?

Feeling Bad For Borrowing...

Hey Everyone!

So on Saturday I finished work at 12:30 so when my dad picked me up we went straight to my cousins house to borrow some Lego for this assignment. My cousins names are Lachlan (who is 7 years old) and Romy (who is 4 years old) and when we arrived at their house the Lego was already out and it was scattered all over the lounge room floor!

While my dad was talking to my auntie both my little cousins wanted me to watch them build something out of Lego because they wanted me to be the judge of their game. Now these two kids (ESPECIALLY Romy) are quite wild. They laugh nonstop and have crazy imaginations! Laclan built what looked like a brick wall mixed with a car and Romy (who is quite the artist) built a Lego sculpture which looked like abstract art and could have been displayed in a museum! (seriously!) unfortunately I couldn't get a photo of hers because she destroyed it in seconds :(

What I found quite funny was the life of a 7 year old. I asked Lachlan "what are you doing this weekend?" and he replied in an upset tone "Oh I'm just relaxing, I'm so tired! on Thursday and Friday we had to do hand paintings at school which was hard and there's annoying kid named Hamish who's a doodoo head 'cause no one likes him!" I also felt quite bad because before I left and I was packing all the Lego up I asked "how often do you use your Lego?" and then Romy screamed in a cheery tone "WE USE IT EVERY DAY!!!" then as soon as we were leaving Lachlan and Romy were both trying to take the box off me and when I put it in the back of the car they started climbing over the boot and the bonnet shouting and going wild :S But once we drove off they looked happy again :)

Then that night my 14 year old cousin, Sasha, came over. When she saw all the Lego I had borrowed she screamed "LEGO!!!!!" and started to get to work at building a house for me! I helped her with it and after a very frustrating hour of building a 2 storey high Lego house with Lego furniture she posted pictures of it all over the Internet claiming it as her own :P I'm going to demolish it and make it bigger soon.

OK I think my fingers need a break, after all this typing I think they might fall off!! Oh and hers some pictures I have taken:

James May's Toy Stories - Lego House

Construction's On Hold

OK, I have been quite bust the past few days and haven't been able to do anything on my house since my last post. Last night after me and my mum went to Harvey Norman we stopped past my cousins house to give them their mail and try and borrow their Lego. Unfortunately they didn't hear us knocking on the door so we just left their mail in the mailbox and left. We will go back on Saturday and get it instead.

Once I started building the house the other day I only just remembered why I hate Lego. I get very frustrated when making it and impatient trying to find the right parts for what needs to be done. I need to listen to my iPod to calm me down i think :S maybe that's why i didn't use Lego much as a kid, instead i used my bike and the Gameboy Colour!

Ready, Set, Go!

So yesterday construction began. Jacob had to go to a guitar lesson so once we dropped him off me and my dad drove to my friends house , Mitch. Once we arrived at his house i pulled up on the driveway and knocked on his door, he answered enthusiastically by saying "hey Luke! whats up?" I then reminded him that i needed to borrow his Lego and he went off to find it. About 3 minutes later he came back with a large storage box full of all the Lego he has then i thanked him and I put it in the boot of my car and we went back to pick up Jacob from guitar lessons.

Once I got home I hauled the huge, heavy box of Lego upstairs and opened the lid. There was enough in there to build a whole neighborhood!! I'm not even kidding it actually had lego roads and lego trees and other things. So I went through the box and started building the house using all the lego bricks i could find. All this frustration from digging through a box looking for good peices made me hungry so i went downstairs and ate a browny, the strange thing is these brownies my mum made actually make you feel hungrier after you eat them :S so instead of building more of the Lego house I decided to dig through the pantry more and see what i could eat : Oh well, more to finnish off tonight then :P