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I have nothing to write about today but you know what i thought i'd write anyway because i wanted to do two quick blogs in sucsession, let it be known a week apart is quick sucsession for me. So I thought i might just ramble for a small while i hope you are all alright with that. I do hope it doesnt sound to much like drivvle, based on self obbsesion. So how bout an anecdote, i was going to save this one for my grandchilderen but maybe you desevre it im not sure but ill give you the benifit of the doubt. So this is the deal, right, oh fine i dont really have a story i just thought you would have all stopped reading by now. By the way i am sorry for using the collective all to describe my readership, i dont believe i have a readership, let alone one large enough to deserve an all, i mean really who do i think i am. So what does everyone want to know, i think i am going to request a list of topics from people that they would like to hear me write on, and if no one provides any ideas i may just do a collation of short stories written particularly for this blog. I will turn it into a creative writing blog and is that really what you want, im not sure that it is. None the less that does look to me to be the future of this area as i am finding daily that i have less and less to say by the second. It's troubleing me really. I think the real problem is that anything i might have to say would be boring and would be empty shallow distractions from life much like this only with a point and with some form of directional sence. I know the question on everybodies lips is, if it is the case that you do infact have things to say that my be less pointless why dont you just say them because this is already terrifically boring and i may or may not be ready to throw my computer of some sort of high thing whether it be a building a cliff or some sort of strange flying machine. My only answer to this is i am unsure but all i can say in my defence is i would probably start talking about like polotics or i would write like a scathing review of the nightly news and the shoddy production values and the low quality journalism that is appluaded in australian media outlets. Now tell me you wouldnt find that far more boring, and dont enough people do those anyway, you know im right. Heres something that might interest you, if i had a stallion it would be black and it would be called lightening, and i would ride it into battle preferably wielding a long sword named, horatio, or similar, and on my back i would have a bow which i would wield with such skill that i could in one simple movement remove it from by back re-string it, because if you know about bows you will know you dont just leave them lying around with the string in them, and then i would in the same movement remove an arrow from my saddle, because that is where i would hang my quiver, and then i would shoot it, all whilst dodgeing enemy arrows. It's the truth and you know it so dont deny it. I would also keep that same horse if i had a farm, i think a war horse would make life on a farm so much easier, think how quick and strong they are, imagine rustleing cattle with one of those bad boys, the fear that it would strike in the eyes of those bovine foes.

Etienne

My title in this case is entirely untruthful, i am afraid to say, (apologies melanie) that i will not be writing in ode format, nor will the primary subject be melanie. However can i please take a moment to thank Melanie, my myspace friend, for inspirering this new addition to my blog, it is much apreciated. So this is the first blog of the new year, and i am well aware that it is no longer anything like the new year as it has just hit may, thats month 5 of the year if you are trying to keep up. This means that alot has happened since the last time i blogged, if we take into account that it is nearly half way through the year, which we will, that leaves me apporxmately six months away from being half way through my course. When i first moved up here i was slightly dreading it, wow you might say but its such a fun place townsville whats not to like, you know what i think i agree with you. In my current state of mind i would happily stay up in the ville following graduation, now im not necessarily going to, but i wouldnt shy away from it if that where i got a job if you get my all to obvious drift. I hope my wonderful sister raya reads this because i would like to say that haveing her up here at the begining of this year has been awesome, she is the true and best bomb, much luv as always to the girl.


"Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter."
William Shakespeare


The second paragraph starts like this.
"I was dreaming of a dreamer,
who had stars in his eyes.
he woke and saw the real things,
and the world he did despise.
I supoose this only serves him right,
for never seeing truth,
but in the end the real truth is,
things looked better in his head."
Etienne Hine
Poetry the haven of a "girly man", (at this point a moment of silence for california which died and made Arnold King).


So i think that is most of what i want to say, except for, im sorry that this was by no means funny melanie, i can only do my best, I suppose i had stored up to much stuff to say, im far funnier when nothing is getting achieved, its when i hit my prime.


Now can i add this to the end, i am particularly sure that in few things i can be certain, but one thing is definite, the world is so much more than death and taxes, despite what they all may say, My Lord has come and in him i will put all my faith.

Etienne

So here is the buzz (a reference to my myspace for those who want to know), actually i shouldnt have said that as i am unsure as to what the buzz acutaully is, i really dont, know, so ill probably just take a random guess at it. You know what i seem to remember something significantly embarising happening to me, but i just can't seem to remember what it was, (seriously its true, i remember at the time saying, "i think this is my new most embarising story ever, becuase my old most embarising story wasnt really embarising and no one would have known about it if i didnt tell everyone", this story is the story of my tooth from Numero Uno entry if you care to read about it) but i suppose i cant really tell you about it if i cant remember it happening and what it was , but be sure the moment i remember i will tell you that is for sure. So I am back from a rescent trip home for like five days, maybe six at a strech, so that was good fun for all involved, i attended a friends wedding, and it was awesome it was great to see them married after all this year that they have been going out (its just too much to take to wait so long) but you know what weird is i was talking to a friend of mine in my course up here and they were so shocked and surprised that some people of there age were getting married already, and im like that happens all the time i know lots of people who get married that early, (some earlier), but then i thought wow what a difference the circle of friends makes, more particularly how different it is coming froma christian circle were all of everybody is like trying to get married early its really weird for people who arent in the circle (another good reason to get them in the circle). Another thing before my holidays i was going around saying i was going home for a wedding (there may opr may not have been sandwhich boards placards a mega phone and skipping involved, make your own mind up) no as we may know i am in townsville and only moved up this year, yet whenever i told some one i was going to a wedding in brisbane (which is a long way away from townsville) people were asking me whos wedding i was going to, like they thought they might know the person, they wont know the person, how could they know the person they have never met any of my friends or even my family for that matter, they just dont know so why for are they asking it makes no sence, but i suppose if they want to hear me say oh its a friend of mine from brisbane, i dont think you know them they can ask if they want, i dont mind really. Hey i have spent 20 minutes writing this who knows Etienne has a 2000 word assignment due in tomorrow which he has only done 500 words of and now he is mega procrastinateing by writing this, wee hee. Dont worry everyone im about to wrap it up. Ok done.

Etienne

Once you are tagged you MUST write a blog entry about your 6 weird habits/things as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next six people to be tagged and list their names.

Can I firstly just point out that the above statement has some of the most appalling grammar of all time and whoever wrote it should be happy that anyone understands what he is saying at all.

Now for the buisness that i must get too. Firstly, i drink water when i am bored, this is actually quite effective and healthy i suggest everyone takes it up, but that is just my personal opinion its up too you completely. Secondly, again related to boredom, i also have a tendancy to randomly wander when i am bored, ill just walk around everywhere with nothing in mind, this is also a very effective procrastination tool, and it works in every environment, uni, school, home, the city, i even do it before church in the morning, it never fails me. Thirdly, when i drink coffee at home i will often have it black no sugar, but when im out at a coffee place ill drink latte and ussually with a sugary addition, the two basically oppose each other but i dont care. Fourth on todays list, i have bouncy leg syndrome and i often cant control it, its really quite annoying because it means i have tired legs at the end of the day. Coming in at number five, i sing to most everything, about just about anything, preety much all the time, i will make things that people say into songs, and ill often sing things that i am thinking, i just find it fun. Six, sometimes i sit down in the shower.

Well there we go everyone six ways that Etienne is weird and strange (im not even sure that those are the most weird things i do). This is where, i think this is right but im not sure who'd know how can you tell with the grammar up there, i am supposed to tag the next six people in the chain, now this would be wonderful if i actually knew six other people, but i dont, as in i dont on LJ i do in general no many more than six people after all there are six others just in my family here, maybe in the future when i do know six other people on LJ then i will tag them but until then i guess i shall have to abstain, probably forever because i dont think ill ever know more than six people on LJ. Anyway this entry is now over so good bye all and i hope you are having fun, CYA.

Etienne

You will have to forgive me for the delay, but i have found that settling into a new routine in a whole new place at a whole new uni is a lot harder than even i expected, and we all know i know alot of stuff. So whats new for me? thats a good question Etienne, what is new? Well i am now officially on my way to becoming a OT and for that matter a professional, i finally have a career path and its the very on that i wanted the most so that is most awesome. Also i am in townsville away from all of my family, and if i was more of a cry baby i would never stop crying, and from all my friends, that is a bit easier to cope with because i am so cool that i dont need to worry about old friends because i already have like a bus full of new friends, that was a metaphorical bus full by the way. But really those of you who read this and are my friends and live in brisbane, i really do miss you all, and if my family read this for some strange reason, i really really miss you and love you. To let you in on some news, OT is the best ever and i am so right being here, it is fully the best move i ever made, i absolutely love it the most ever so yey for me. If i sound like a little girl right now i dont care, fine i do care but i cover it up really well. but this is going to be the shortest one yet because short of moving nothing else has happened up here so i have nothing to say, although i will say thankyou to anyone up here for being my friend already because you did make moving much easier, and all in Bris Vegas, im back for a week after easter so see you then. CYA


Etienne

Well it has been some time since my last entry so i have a bit to catch up on, this is however not true. I have done very little to inspire me to feats of literary genius, as this blog appears to be. I will however do some writing in regards Australia Day which was, for those who dont know, although every one who is my friend, all three of you, should know, the 26th of January so that is four days ago now, and it is now the second last day of the month.

So how did my Australia Day go? i hear you all asking. Well it started as a regular day, that is to say that i woke up at 10 o'clock, which is a bit early true, but Everwood, which is an awesome program by the way, is on at 10 o'clock so it was for this reason that i was up. I then followed this wakeing up with an hour of watching Everwood followed by some more television watching, includeing tennis, news and the finally some cricket. It was at about 2 o'clock, so not long after the cricket had started, when my family as a whole, minus my older sister who was out with her boyfriend, made the decision to go out for afternoon tea at South Bank, for anyone who happens to read this and is not from the beautiful city of Brisbane South Bank is the home of the 1988 expo and a major cultural, and activity centre of brisbane, a real place to be, a place real good stuff.

Now also in the area of South Bank is the convention centre, and at this point in time, as in on Australia Day, and infact the whole week leading up to it, the Lifeline Book Fair was going on at the convention centre, so the first family stop was the convention centre. Now i found absolutely nothing in the way of good literature there, it was in my opinion quite poor, but we managed to spend over an hour there and by the time we came out, they were getting ready to do the parade, along our route to south bank. But we were aloowed through the parade route and we made it to South Bank safe and sound. We then had a good feast of chips there. But before we got to that i ran into a couple of mates i havent seen for over a year, one of them i havent even talked to in that time. But i saw as they were coming out of the pub in south bank, and yeah there where a couple of US Marines with them, i will say this about US Marines, even if they do dump planes, and apparently garbage, in our Bays, they do have very very firm handshakes, and i was able to be the recipent of one of these fine hand shakes, now i made sure i squeezed back, but my hand came out the worst of the two, and i continued to feel the pain for some time. After we had chips we then went and got some lollies from the lollie shop at South Bank, and we spent like 8 bucks and got like almost half a kilogram of lollies, which we ate by mid way through the next day. Anyway, that was preety much my Australia Day, i cant think of anything else that happened at the moment. So now i will just go. see you next time.


Etienne

Well it may or may not be true (I believe it is true), but i think i have left a couple of lose ends un tightened so i am here to tighten them for you. But first things first i would just like to say that my career as a professional stocktaker, though short lived, is finally over after having done my first true stocktakeing job. Now i will give you my reasons as i have a short moan as to my stocktakeing experience. I did stocktakeing at a certain discount store that will remain nameless, for legal reasons, now this store is all osh posh when it comes to its shelf stacking, many shelves have a large number of different varieties of the same thing on them, and some have even just got random items on them, this makes counting and displaying numbers and barcodes very hard, infact overly annoying, sorry my detail is scant but it is to soon to talk about it. Stocktakeing is also the most boreing repetitive job of all time and i hate it, stop me now before i have a stress attack from the memory of its monotony. But yeah anyway thats enough of that, its in the past and i must let it go.

Now for the cliff hanger. I am heading of too Townsville this year for uni. So this is both a blessing and something for me to be one of the most stressed i have ever been in my life, and definately the most nervous, i think these nerves are just a mixture of excitement, fear and sadness. Now for each emotion in sequence as it should be. Excitement, because of a couple of reasons, one because i am finally going to be doing the right thing with my life and that is OT, two because im moving out and becomeing "independent" and three because its just exciteing i mean really im going away, yey. So fear, thats preety much the same thing, maybe not the first one but yeah i think you get the drift there, i mean im moveing to a whole new city that ive never been to before and well, im wetting myself constantly, so much so that i need to drink constantly because the moment fluid enters my body it leaves again. Now sadness, well this is because i am a sissy, proud about it too, i just am too attached to my family, yall should come check out the water works what will be goin on when i head off ey, ill be cryn all over the place. I mean so far in my life, my family have been it, my family are my life, i depend on them all man, its crazy true, and it is really gonna get to me, but yeah this is me at this point of time, but yeah, i need to get a move on becuase im going to Townsville, see you all there.


Etienne

The State of My Education

The Third title is a mixture of me trying to do that whole ironic thing, you know, isnt it ironic how his third Entry has three titles, and me not having enough room in my subject line to put in the three titles. So I will just say, in order to let you all know, that on this occasion the true subject matter is "The State of My Education" and that the sub-title officially given refers to my numbering of my posts in the title, i know its good while it lasts, which may be a bit longer yet.

Now 2:53 PM is a bit early for me to be on the net usually, but today at one stage held particular interest as far as the internet was concerned. I have for, perhaps, approximately the last 6 months been rather stricken as to what the future holds for my education, and in fact my future in general. This is because it was at about this time that i resigned myself to applying to attend university at JCU (James Cook University) which is located in Townsville, for any readers who are interstate or international and do not know the geography of Queensland, Townsville is in north queensland and is queenslands second largest city, that is second to Brisbane, which is in south east Queensland and is where i currently reside. Now such a move for one such as myself who lives at home still is very hard desicion to make and more so a very hard move to make, but i had made it. When i first made the decision it was quite on the proviso that i was accepted of course, and at the time there were some definate doubts as to whether or not i would make the grade, but i have just recently learnt that it is more than likely i will make the grade and now it is only the mere formalities that remain.

This is what has brought me to my computer so early in the day. This year, i belive for the first time, university offers are being made via te internet one day before they are published and a number of days before the letters of offer are recived. Today is the day that one can come to the internet and find out what ones offer, if you have recived one, is. Wonderful, we all think simultaniously, at last my mind shall be put to rest and i will be sure. But what is that where is that QTAC number you require to sign on to your account and find out what you get, you can not find it anywhere. This is how it went, i am now sitting here, feeling hot for one, because of the temperature, secondly i am slightly annoyed at myself, the heat is the greater of those two, and thirdly, and in greater proportions again greater in truth than for a while, i feel some what nervous as to my results. It is a pain i am sure many have felt before, and many will feel again, but i say too you all now i feel it too, but do not let it get you down, because tommorow for me i will see in the newspaper my offer, and relief to shall come to you.

Well that is "The State of My Education" as it stands right now, and tommorow it will be in an entirely different place, perhaps a different city, until i see you again, this will not be at least until wednesday as i am away until then, have a most excellent one and thankyou for reading todays issue of, this week bi-weekly, next week who knows, Everybody Needs An Etienne For Thier Car: At Least Thats What I Heard.

Etienne

I think many people on seeing the title of this entry would assume it refers to either two incidents or two subjects, i will make it clear that it is infact the second of these, it seems somehow right for it to be the second. In truth it refers too three seperate incidents occuring upon these last three days, that is from today; tuesday January 10, going back to two days ago; sunday January 8. These events are however related entirely to two subjects, as the title suggets they are Cricket and Narnia.

The first two are both cricket related, this seems so far to have been a running theme in all two of my entries but it is after all the season, then again it is nearly always the season somwhere in the world. Firstly i will tell of our families first attempt to hold our annual cricket match, awarding the coveted Hine-Cambridge Trophy to man of the match. Now firstly, just to clarify, when I say our first attempt I mean of course; one the first attempt of the 05/06 season and secondly; that it is the first occasion when we where able to get on the field, there was some disscusion that would have had this match played much earlier only to have all efforts thwarted by scheduleing issues. So our first attempt for the Hine-Cambridge Trophy was i must say going very very close to swimmingly, meaning there was some definate threat of an early postponement before any play had gotten under way this was a direct result of some quite persistent rain in the morning. However the game did continue with only a half hour rain delay. This was some good luck for me as after a short time of play i was called on to bowl, last years two top batsmen were at the crease and were looking to create a bit more havok, i had infact for a few of the earlier overs sat at silly mid off and then silly leg, but i didnt get much action there truthfully. However as soon as i came on i had success my first bowl had last years Trophy holder stumped, the rest of the over was a bit of a waste but these things happen. Just a few overs later the game had to be abandoned as the afternoon storms were rolling in so basically we missed most play for the day. This almost worked to my advantage as i was almost awarded the trophy for my wicket however in the end play is rescheduled, some thought has gone into this sunday, as the family is up in the same place for my cousins 21st on saturday night anyway.

So number two cricket. I think i shall make this one shorter. Well for you locals you may know that last night saw the introduction of international 20 twenty cricket. Those who do i will just say i was there for every ball of Australias comprehensive destruction of RSA and it was great to see Australia win as it always is. For those who didnt know, well it probably doesnt interest you anyway so to make everything easy on myself i will say nothing else.

Now Narnia, and as much as i love cricket this is closest to my heart as I have always loved Narnia scince the first time i read them and when i saw the BBC series, and up until now when i saw the movie finally today after not finding a single friend to go with, they had all seen it while i wasnt around. In the end it was today with the fam, but that meant free ticket at huge South Bank screen, so that was awesome. I loved the movie, it was brilliant, it stayed really quite well to the book, and the parts were it did differ did not in anyway take away from the story, infact i quite liked the way they did it, especially the begining, although not in the book at all, it gave good background that the book could just tell you and didnt need the action. But im not going to tell the story read the book or see the movie if you havent already, instead im going to tell you this little tid bit ive got about my going to the movie. Now i think coming into my family you would see me and hear me and you would know that of all the people in my family the one most excited about going to see the movie was me, it didnt let down by the way, this is because i have read it the most, maybe my mothers read it a few times more but she has like a twenty four year head start on me, and i love the books the most, i got the compiled edition, including all seven books, for christmas, and have since read the entire thing, infact in the week following christmas i had read the entire thing, that's a book a day and i wasnt at home all that time. Yet when my family were organiseing to go, and they all new i hadnt seen it yet, I made my anguish quite well known, they left me entirely out of there plans, i was not even considered. I made quite a thing about that i must say, more through annoying jabs and barbs then anything, no tantrums or anger, just baiting constantly, and it came today and i went, but i must say considering i thought it quite inconsiderate that i wasnt asked earlier.

Anyway, that is my cricket and Narnia topic thats all i have to say so now i will say hey, have a good one and see you again next time.


Etienne

This first story takes us back to my childhood, about seven years ago, when I was but a wee twelve year old. I have always been quite the sports fan, a particular favorite of mine is cricket, now you think what a strange tangent this fool has found to go off on I thought it was about his teeth, but it was during one of my many bowling practice sessions that the following happened. Now even as a young lad I was quite lanky, I know I'm jumping all over the place but these things happen, long arms, long legs and a quite flexible body. This may seem like an advantage in many situations, and i suppose it is, but it also makes one slightly awkward, especially if you would be slightly awkward anyway.

So one day I was out the front of my house, this was my last house not my current one, and I was practicing my bowling. In order to do this I would make my run up along the path, the path ran directly along the front of our house it was the only suitable place in the yard for a proper run up as the rest of the front yard was severely sloped upwards and the back was far to small and crowded with plants, these areas were very good on the other hand for playing farms, and they had a wide variety of fruit trees including mango, guava, peach, apple, and some strange form of lily pilly from asia, oh and also banana. Now anyone who has watched a fast bowler in the process of bowling will notice that during their follow through they can bend quite far, it means they have put a lot of effort in, its an inertia thing, this is what i had done this fateful day. In the action of the follow through this lanky young boy lifted his knee, with help from his flexible body, up towards his head, the left knee stuck his mouth dislodging the top left incisor, well more like chipping the visible part of from the rest of the tooth.

After this and with a great hole in my knee i was taken first to the dentist to get a two hundred dollar cap but on my tooth, and then to the doctor to get a butterfly bandage on my knee. I now have a scar on my knee and an oddly round front left incisor. Well that's my story thanks for reading.


Etienne