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Taming A Street Teenager (Warning; Very Long Story)
Makuta_of_Oz posted a blog entry in blogs_blog_1719
Earlier this year I created my own chatroom. Not long after, a street teenager from Queensland started to frequent the chatroom seeking freedom and redemption, and I willingly took him under my wing. Over time the former wild child soon became calm, friendly and open, and the two of us would become as close as brothers. He showed me his natural talent for rap music, and was even able to record a song! However, his past life in a gang war continued to haunt him, and dominate his entire life. In his town there are two gangs: the east gang and the west gang. These gangs are so deadly that the police are powerless to stop them, and have even become too afraid to try! After my friend helped the east gang with something, the west gang marked him for death. At this point, my friend had moved in with his girlfriend, but she was a member of the west gang, so she betrayed him for her own protection. She hit him with a crowbar, knocking him out, and then went to juvenile detention for 2 weeks. Her parents spent the entire time away from home trying to free her, leaving my friend home alone with no food. It was during this time that the home was invaded by west gang members, who had come solely to kill my friend. He fought back and was able to hold the gang members off for a while. However, he began to lose faith and consider letting them kill him next time they came. However, I managed to use my words of wisdom to convince him to keep fighting and not give up. He fought back when the gang returned, and managed to kill one of the intruders before he was overcome, and dumped in the family pool. However, he survived, and was rushed to hospital after another girlfriend called an ambulance. Over the next week, my friend was in hiding. The west gang thought him dead, and had plans to retreive his body later and burn it. When they arrived, my friend hid on the roof and was able to avoid notice. However, starvation began to kick in, and he began to have dizzy spells. Thankfully, he was rushed to hospital again. But on the way, he yelled out profanities against the west gang, who, realising he was still alive, pursued the ambulance, with the east gang, who had also heard him, following. When they arrived at the hospital, a fight inevitably broke out, and my friend joined in. Eventually both gangs decided to have my friend fight west gang members one-on-one. My friend constantly won each fight, fuelled by pure hate and rage. When he nearly killed a member, the west gang fled, and the gang war ended. Afterwards, my friend was operated on for his dizzy spells, and nearly died one night. However, he was saved, and it was revealsed that he had a low blood sugar level due to the starvation. The next day saw him eating nothing but pies and coke all day to increase his blood sugar level to a safe level. After 2 weeks in hospital, he returned home to a hero's welcome! Despite that, my friend was beginning to slip into Depression. Only my words of wisdom were able to keep him going through this entire ordeal. The family my friend is currently living with has plans to move interstate because of how dangerous the neighbourhood had become. Last I heard, they plan to move away at the start of next year. However, my friend was still in danger, and 3 months may be too long. West gang members still want him dead. Just recently, he was attacked by west gang members, but was saved by a man. This man, however, had killed his parents 10 years earlier and had tried to kill him too. He still wants my friend dead for god knows what reason. He pretended to have been my friend's uncle, and even let him live with him for a few days. However, it was revealed just yesterday to be a ruse to kill him. My friend escaped to an abandoned house, but was able to remain hidden despite the killer looking for him. The killer soon rounded up some other people who also want my friend dead. Even now they search for him with plans of murder. I realised that my friend would have to go to school today, and made some suggestions to get him to school, and to his adopted family's home, safely. I also tried to get him to convince the family to move TODAY, since he could be killed at any moment, and that puts immediate targets on their backs too. I can only pray that he is able to survive his ordeal, and find a happier life as the rap star he is destined to be. I also hope I can help him in any way I can, even if all I have is online chat. -
My Mac's power adapter is a little frayed, so for safety reasons my activity will drop for a while, as with the rest of my sanity!
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Last year I found a guy on a video site who has a very intriguing disability: incontinence! Ever since, I've started to wonder what it must be like to be incontinent, and begun to realise how much we really take for granted. I really want to send him a message of support, but I think he's lost faith in the Internet: his PMs and e-mails are blocked, apparently because he's been getting creepy messages and requests. I wish I knew a way around that so that I can, if nothing else, at least let him know that there are people out there in the cruel world that is the Internet who do truly care. EDIT: I decided to reveal what the disability is. Come at me. EDIT 2: The video site has recently undergone some changes (they're so pathetic that I'm not caling them upgrades because they're quite the opposite). One change is merging Subscriptions and Friends. Since I had already subscribed to this guy as an attempt to get his attention, this allowed me to bypass his "Friend Block", and successfully send him a PM! The question is, will he ever see it?
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Ever since my first year of TAFE, I've become prejudiced against gamers. Many gamers I've seen, both at TAFE and on online chat, are arrogant, pompous, ignorant and rude. Since I'm not as privileged as most gamers, I therefore struggle to get along with them. I am a peasant at best in the eyes of gamers. And to think I'm doing a game development course at TAFE next year! :/
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So, I had business at two TAFE campuses, which kept me busy all day today. First, I had to go to a campus at Cranbourne, where I enrolled for the Games course I applied for. It looks like I'll be guaranteed to get in once I pay next year! As an added bonus, a friend from a past course also enrolled! :D Second, I had to visit the Dandenong campus because I think I failed this year's course. I have to return there next month to discuss it with my instructor, as the incident that caused this was not isolated; it was a mistake made by other students too, and the instructor had improvised for us.
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I have a very bad habit of exaggerating. When I can't do something, regardless of reason, and I don't like it, I claim that I'm completely banned from doing it. I know I'm not really banned in most cases, and contrary to popular belief I do know what the word "banned" means, but that's just what I'm like, taking things way too far out of context. That's me being me. That is why I often say Bionicle is banned, just because I can't have it and I feel I did something wrong and got punished. I once even had the nerve to use that word in a letter to Lego early last year because, naturally, I was (and obviously still am) ticked off about what they did.
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I've had a big week as of late. Visiting my nan on Thursday, taking the train to Sandringham on Friday, visiting my nan for a Christmas party on Saturday and going to a meetup with some online friends on Sunday. Now I'm so exhausted that I can barely think!
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Everyone says that the 2006+ sets are brittle and break at the shortest notice. Well, I have a story that proves that wrong: I have all my Skrall sets, including Tuma and Stronius, lined up on the floor in one corner of my room because I have an imagination. Last night, don't ask me how, but I lost my balance and fell on them, my hand knocking Stronius down. Panicked, I looked Stronius over twice to see if he was cracked, but found nothing! Furthermore, I later found a cut on my wrist which must've come from a Skrall weapon!
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So, today I went down the Sandringham line for my nostalgia trip. The first thing I did was stop at Elsternwick and watch the Puss In Boots movie. The movie's story was great, however it had no ties whatsoever with the Shrek series it spawned from. Afterwards I went next door to have lunch, but it was closed! No longer is it the Sinatras that I used to love as a kid; it appears to have become a night club! It wasn't even going to open until 3:30pm! I then went to nearby Elwood and paid my respects to my grandmother and her town. I bought chips for lunch, but wasn't able to finish them, so I took them home with me (which I regretted when I found we were going to go to an all-you-can-eat restaurant for dinner). Something else I did, I don't think I'm allowed to mention on a kids' forum in this nanny-plagued post-9/11 world. I MIGHT bring it up again at the start of next year. My next stop was Gardenvale. On the way to Grandmother's home, we took the car along Nepean Highway, and under a bridge on the Sandringham line. Gardenvale was the station at the end of the bridge. It was a dream come true to finally ride a train over that bridge. I then went all the way to Sandringham, and then back home again, just because I can.
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Last night I went to an information session at TAFE, at the campus I'll be doing my next course. I was the only student who attended! :/ I guess that's what happens when you only get 6 hours notice... The session went anyway, revealing that my course is now a dual award: Cert IV in Digital Interactive Games, and Cert IV in Digital Media Technologies! This means I can get 2 qualifications at the same price if I want to. Plus, the dual award course has a lot in common with the Websites course I did this year, so I will have the option of not doing some classes that overlap. However I'll do them anyway, not just to revise, but also to help the other students, and therefore get along better with them.
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Well, I finally finished and handed in my last assignment for TAFE. I'd show the site here, but BZPower would never allow it because of a few links and many videos on it. Now that I am FREE, I will celebrate tomorrow by taking a diesel trip to Warragul!
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I've decided on my next train trip. Tomorrow week, I will travel down the Sandringham line, which was the nearest line to where my late grandmother used to live. Then I will come back to Elsternwick and watch the Puss in Boots movie at the theatre there, where I always watched movies with my grandmother back in the day. Finally, I will walk down to her old home and pay my respects to her and her town.
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I just came home from my final TAFE class. However, it is not over yet. I still have to do a couple more things for my last class, which I will have to hand in by Sunday Australian time (Saturday everywhere else).
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My only sibling may have a severe mental and intellectual disability, but that doesn't mean sibling rivalry does not exist in our family. My brother has a cunning that rivals or even outdoes mine! He knows full well how to take advantage of his disability, and the fact that no-one will think much of him because of it, and uses it to make my life a misery. This afternoon he went into my room and took out some of my Pokemon DVDs, my Pokemon Battle Revolution game, a couple of Pokemon books, an outer space poster and some of my handkerchiefs, hiding most of it under his bed! When I found out, I was FURIOUS! My brother is bloody lucky none of the DVDS (at least at first sight) broke, else I'd've broken him! Worse, my parents are both siding with him just because of his disability! I am getting the blame for him doing it, and I seem to be getting the blame for him being disabled, even though he was diagnosed before I was born! He gets away with murder just because he's disabled, AND HE KNOWS IT!
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After lunch today, I'll be off to apply for part-time work at a fast food restaurant called Red Rooster. There's a new one recently opened up at the nearby shopping centre. In the past, I felt I was above getting work at fast food restaurants. Now, having never worked for money at the age of 20, I'm desperate.
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Well, I had today off TAFE because I finished all my work (what a nerd ), so I decided to apply for next year's TAFE course, Certificate IV in IT (Games Development) at a different campus. I got lost on the way to the campus because I had never been there before, and only found it on pure luck. I asked reception where to go to apply, and they said it was in another campus, the campus I was studying websites this year. When I told them that campus had pointed me to them, they pointed me down a long corridor to where I needed to ask. As I went, I took in the sights of the building, and found it was far superior to both campuses I had studied at in the past put together... it even had a Foosball table! No other campus had one of those! When I arrived, I was given the application form, which I filled in. However, I was nervous for some reason, so I messed up a few times. That was when I noticed something significant: the course had been renamed Certificate IV in Digital and Interactive Games! Furthermore, there was now a Diploma course of the same name: Diploma in Digital and Interactive Games! When I finished filling in the form, I handed it in, and the lady there explained what had happened. She also told me that if I was under 24 (not under 21 like I had previously believed) and had a Healthcare card, I could pay much less for the course! Because I'll be 21 when the course starts next year (could I please ask GregF questions now?), that was a huge relief because I didn't think I'd have the money to pay for both that and the car my dad gave me for getting my licence last month. The next thing that happened is one I'll probably remember the most: another student came in to apply for the same course, and I think he had either leukaemia or some form of cancer! He was bald apart from a few white hairs, and he was on a walking stick. Most chilling of all was that he appeared to be about my age, maybe a little younger! Once again I realised how lucky I really am!
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There's a story coming up on Australia's 60 Minutes about a crime wave in the Gold Coast that the police are powerless to stop. This is VERY CLOSE to where my friend from my Taming A Street Teenager entries lives, and could very well be the same crime wave he was caught in! Needless to say, I'll be watching the story with interest this Sunday, and might mention some things here from the story later.
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My mother said to me yesterday that I need to sign up for the Games course I wanted to do at TAFE. That means she has given the all-clear to keep studying! I'll get to work on it this afternoon once I finish that assignment.
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A while back I told the story of a friend of mine who had been plagued by gangs and killers for 10 years. Last time I posted, he was hiding in an abandoned house. Well, the news only got better from there. He was able to escape the house and make it to the library, where he knew no-one would look for him. From there, he was able to make it home. I then showed him my last blog entry on his life story. He understands everyone's doubts. He knows this sounds too dramatic to be true. But it is true. A day or two later, the man who had killed his parents 10 years earlier attacked someone else. When my friend found out, rage came over him. He grabbed his knife and went out to confront the man. In a fierce fight, my friend killed him! After it happened, the first thing that came to his mind was fear. The police had told him in the past that if he killed again he would be going to jail. Naturally he was freaked out when they showed up, to the point where he passed out! He was taken to hospital overnight to recover, where he was given the news. It turns out that this man was a serial killer, a wanted man by the police ever since that day 10 years ago. So, the police let my friend off with community service. With the killer dead, the west gang members that had sided with him dispersed, and now that entire gang ceases to exist! No longer does anyone pose a threat to my friend! Therefore, he and his adopted family will not be moving away after all. Plus, my friend is now free to pursue his career as a musician, specialising in rap music. Currently he is working on recording an album, so listen out for it! At this stage I don't know if he's been given a nickname like what most rap stars have, but if I can find that out, I will post it on my blog so you know what to listen out for. I wish my friend the best of luck in his career. He worked VERY hard to get to this point, and he deserves success!
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In my 100th entry, I mentioned that I have very little left to do to pass my TAFE course his year. Because of that, I am VERY motivated to get the tasks done, because I am highly confident! And yet here I am on BZPower... :/ *gets back to work*
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Just did a test for Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, and passed with an average percentage of 90.5%, including one 100% score! Now they're talking about taking me to Las Vegas to participate in some Microsoft PowerPoint world championship! :/ And no this is not related to my last entry. This is a different, much smaller, certification.
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ZOMG 100TH BLOG ENTRY! I only have a couple of assignments I have to finish, and I'm confident I can get them done in time to get my Certificate! My only concern is one class which is set up as nothing more than lectures and one or two small tasks per class, which no-one pays attention to. I know a test is coming, and I may need assistance to get ready for it. That test is my only true obstacle IMO.
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In my last entry that no-one read, I stated that a massive storm was about to hit. That storm ended up being pretty much the worst I've seen, comparable only with Cyclone Pancho at the Cuboree of 2008. Hail the size of marbles fell, and they fell so hard that I was afraid they'd break windows! The bottom of the house almost got flooded, as with the front yard. One of my smoke detectors also began leaking, apparently through a crack in a roof tile above it, so I was forced to take it down and dispose of the battery. Thankfully we have another nearby. Apparently my part of town got over an inch of rain in just 20 minutes, causing flooding in many parts of the town. A massive puddle appeared in a street near my home where a puddle has never been before. Another guy's garage was flooded, and he was only able to save his car. A friend also said his entire street got flooded!
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The worst of the 3-day thunderstorm has arrived, after a hot and humid afternoon!
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I'm not gonna mention anything about Michael Jackson's killer's guilty verdict, because I figure someone else is gonna do that for me. Instead, I'll ention Melbourne's weather. Today, and for the next two days, it's gonna be POURING RAIN! My poor parents are holidaying throughout that time and are gonna suffer! Meanwhile, I'm already drenched just walking for 5 minutes halfway across the TAFE campus to get to class! Just as long as Friday's fine for my train trip. So far it looks like that's gonna happen. I really need to get out of the habit of wearing summer clothes to TAFE...