Who Is The Black Chinaman?

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Kuala Belait, Brunei
Saving someone's life is like falling in love. The best drug in the world. For days, sometimes weeks afterwards, you walk the streets, making infinite whatever you see. Once, for a few weeks, I couldn't feel the earth - everything I touched became lighter. Horns played in my shoes. Flowers fell from my pockets. You wonder if you've become immortal, as if you've saved your own life as well. God has passed through you. Why deny it, that for a moment there - why deny that for a moment there, God was you? I realised that my training was useful in less than ten percent of the calls, and saving lives was rarer than that. After a while, I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop. It was enough that I simply turned up. Living and working back in Brunei, after a 14 year absence... Also known as: Brunei, NASA, Bruise-Eye, Bru, Cheesecake, Nick, BruNick, BruMedNick, Two Step etc etc etc

Monday, 15 March 2004

Argh...I hate assessment tasks...!

Gee, it's been a while since I've blogged hey??? Been really busy the past couple of weeks, as some people will know...

Well, if I can remember what's been going on in order, I'll put them here now...:

Firstly, after Ash Wednesday, all hell broke lose...but they managed to fix the damned boiler...:D

First weekend in March I managed to get out and stay over with Jonsey over the weekend...Friday night was just a chillin' night, and we got out a couple of movies that we both haven't seen yet, like Stanley Krubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" and "No Man's Land"...we also tested out my alcohol tolerance with the pills, and believe me, it wasn't cool...after 2 and a half drinks of Toohey's Extra Dry, I was passing out in the toilets...so not cool...

Saturday night I managed to get into the pub, and the bouncers' are pretty cool...met Chief, who's a bouncer in Sydney and Bathurst, and he introduced me to all the blokes at Panthers and The Ox, so I'm pretty sweet to get into there now...well, I wouldn't have to be worried about it in about 56 or so days...:D:D:D...but yea, the pubs were alright...I was a bit gone by the midnight curfew, and aparently Jonsey had set me up with this chick from Illawarra...too drunk to realise...:(

Sunday was monumental hangover day, but that was all right by the time I got back to school...

Friday (05 MAR) I can't remember, but there was something going on that day...the Saturday was the WAS Carnival, and that was washed out, but we still did it...Stannies came a close second, and it was all good...

Sunday was the Fate, and that was alright...the residual rain from Saturday was evident in the morning, and the Fate wasn't all that too big this year unfortunately...but in the afternoon we set up the water slide on the sid eof the hill and managed to get a couple of really good ones into it...I kinda went off at a tangent and slid down the dry grass on my back, so it was covered in scratches for about a week...but it was fun nonetheless...

Last week the shit really did hit the fan...I am in so much trouble with the school it's not funny...but I've come to a comprimise, and so far everything's gone pretty quiet...

Wednesday, the school decided to take our chairs, and the year 12's were rioting about it...the top floor had to change their chairs firstly, and a couple of our boys went downstairs, who then took all their chairs, locked them into the showers and barricaded the door into it...everyone on the top floor threw the chairs out into the corridor...and we were complaining animatedly to Burkey, when the fire alarm went off...there was a fire in yr 10, but it was still funny...all the yr 12's were shouting that we wanted our chairs back...so, sitting in the quad, we started the chant "What do we want?" "Chairs" "When do we want them?" "NOW!"...and probably the biggest "Paul" in a while...we got our chairs back by 2100...:)

Friday (12 MAR) was the ISA Swimming Carnival at the Sydney Aquatic Centre in Homebush Bay...Stannies came overall 6th of 8 schools, and it was a bastard of a night...we only got back into school at about 0200...but that was alright I guess...

Saturday was trying...had to wake up at 6 because the painters were using the cherry picker at 6 in the morning, and they had this really annoying 'beep beep beep' tone when ever they were moving about...so it get back to sleep...at 10, I had to get into town to take part in the Red Cross Door Knock; managed to raise about $170 all up, so that was pretty alright...got back to school at 1500, went to sleep, and started on my English Assessment Task that night...well, finished it at about midnight last night, and it's looking pretty smick now...did the all nighter on Saturday...and Plummer is not running with his v-plates any more...congrads to him...:)

In other news, Julia's leaving next Monday, so I'm trying to see if I can talk to her before then...next weekend is Walk Against Want, so that'll finally be out of the way, then the weekend after I'll have a deployment...so it's looking pretty busy still...

I also didn't get onto Op Singleton, so that's a bummer...I'm trying to see if I can get some work in the school over the holidays...so that should be interesting to see...

I've got to get going now...if I remember anything, I'll type it up again soon...

Gee...that's a long Blog...!

I REMEMBER NOW!!!

Friday 05 MAR I was in Sydney Uni for an English excursion...met Zhanger and Suttor there too! More later...bell's just gone...

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