January 8th, 2009
First of all, let’s conclude from our previous entry. In short, Rod’s funeral was terrible – I mean.. funerals arn’t supposed to be “great” – heck, someone has to die for one to be held – but there was no celebration of his life. Every acheivement was related to his “church” - every good thing his did for the church was taken credit for by the church.
I don’t think I mentioned the fact he was mormon in the previous entry. Maybe they farewell their dead differently?! No one once mentioned his awesome guitar playing, or wonderful sense of humour. Just the fact that he “only” managed to complete four months of his “mission” – everything was drawn back to religion. At one stage someone had the gall to say that he (Rod) was going to heaven purely because he went to the only right church (as in the LDS/mormon church as a general organisation) and was a true follower of god.
How completely ridiculous is that? GRRRR! I’m not religious in any way, shape or form, but I have no problems with people who pratise their chosen religions provided they don’t hassle me, or use it to justify horrible things (war, anyone?). And especially as long as they don’t use it to judge. There are many forms of Christianity, who’s to say any of them are the right one? To be fair, at the end of the day you all believe in the same God, you just practise your worship differently. I realise it may have just been one narrow minded man, and I’ll try not to let that affect my opinion of Mormons on a whole (Stephenie Meyer is a pretty awesome mormon, just as an aside) but GRRRR at him!
I’d really like to hear you opnions on this (religion and such).
Anyhow, to the main event! Summer school has started.. and it’s terribly borning. The lecturer is great, but the content is mind numbing. It’s basically a revision of primary and intermediate school maths so far. Yawwwwn. 
I had way more to say, but I’m actually quite ill. Ugh.. What a cop out of my intention to blog about summer school then going off on a tangent.
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January 5th, 2009
How do you do it?
How do you say goodbye to someone when it still hasnt sunken in that they really are gone?!
I can say it in my mind: “Rodrigo is dead” – but I can’t process it. I will never see him, talk to him, laugh with him again?
I’m in a state of disbelief. I’m thinking I’ll get a txt from him soon “lol, just kidding!” but I won’t.
I’m terrified about the funeral. Sometimes at funerals I start crying and sobbing really hysterically, and it’s embarrassing. It sounds so vain, yes, but it draws attention and that is the last thing I want. A funeral service is about remembering the persons life, and the good times. I know it’s also for grieving, but I just don’t want to seem like some pretentious git making a big scene.
I wish Rod was here. He’d make some big joke out of it, and we’d have a great laugh.
In other, far less morbid news, summer school starts tomorrow. I’ve been focussing on this a lot. Summer school is a bright, happy prospect.
Sure, so I’ll be studying maths intensively for the next 6 weeks, but it’s something constructive to do with my time. I’ll be out of the house, I’ll be working towards my degree!
I’m going to try working on my website over the next few weeks. I’ll be reopening hosting (nearly anything considered – leave a comment if you’re interested), and working on making my own theme for word press! I’m considering downloading some themes to look at how they work (remember I’m still in the stone age when it comes to this website thing these days).
Anyhow, I best shower and make myself presentable for farewelling a friend.
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January 4th, 2009
It’s been less than a day since I posted with my first entry. Full of optimism about uni and the like.
Here I am, 11 and a half hours later posting with some really sad, devastating news.
Today (or rather yesterday now..) at 12.30pm (The exact time I posted my previous entry.. ) my friend Rodrigo “passed away peacefully”.
I only found out late this evening (around 10pm) when his brother txted to let all his friends know.
It wasn’t completely unexpected – he had a heart condition and went in for surgery in mid december to correct it. He made it through the surgery and was making progress, but something happened clearly and he passed on.
I’m bummed. I really am. He was a brilliant guy – happy, cheerful and excellent at guitar. I know people always praise someone after they die even if they weren’t that great, but Rod was truly a genuine kinda guy. One in a billion. He had a wicked sense of humour (always had me in hysterics with his witty jokes), and was just an all round good person.
I’m not gonna try and spin it and make out like we were bestest of friends. We saw each other rarely, and spoke occasionally on msn.. this wasn’t because we didn’t get along.. he lived in a different part of Auckland, and just never really seemed to get a chance to hang. When we did talk on MSN it was always great – we’d have big long funny elaborate conversations – always memorable.
We had a big conversation the night before he went in for his op. We talked about anything and everything. Some part of me felt like that was our final conversation. I knew I was saying good bye – I wanted to save the conversation we had – something to remember him by? I didn’t – I thought it would be too morbid of me, and bring bad luck.
I miss you Rod. You were an amazing, brillaint, talented, funny, cheerful, friendly, wonderful guy! I will always remember you as the shining star you always were, and always will be. R.I.P
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January 3rd, 2009
OH BOY! Wordpress!!
I braved the big scary wordpress beast and finally got it installed and set up (thanks of course to fantastico, and a friend of mine!).
I realise the theme is rather default, but I’ll work on that. I’m going to read up all the info I can on wordpress and become a super wordpress know it all, because at the moment I am a total n00b.
Anyhow, let’s get down to business.
I’ve decided to start up this blog again to keep you posted on my adventures as a first year BSc student (Bachelor of Science). I finally completed TFC (Tertiary Foundation Cetertificate – University Entrace qualification) at the end of last year and had my little graduation ceremony.
It felt so great! It was the first thing I really completed since Intermediate School (Year 7 & 8).
I was originally intending to enroll in a BA and major in history, but none of the papers were really that interesting, including all the papers across the other arts subjects. I thought about it for a few days and realised my true passion was geology. I decided to go with a BSc, because it would be more challenging for me, and keep me interested. I’m taking Geology, Geography, Maths, Physics and Computer Science papers this year, and I’m really excited about it!
I start summer school on Tuesday (6th Jan) and am taking Maths 101 (Maths and Physics will be my weakest subjects by far) so that I can concentrate on it purely for six weeks, in hope that it will help me grasp it better.
That’s all for me to say at tis moment in time, I really need to get ready to go out and go stationary shopping (best kind of shopping there is!!).
Tags: BSc, happy new year, i'm back, n00b, TFC
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