An Unnecessary Ramble + Christchurch Earthquake Memorial Tribute

For some reason I really wanted to write something before I go to bed, I'd write about my rather disasteriffic Saint Patrick's Day night-out but that'd probably cast me in a bad light. Plus I want to disassociate myself from typical New Zealand binge-drinking teen culture, which mightn't be going quite as well as one would have hoped. Well the plus side of the story that I'm sticking to is that I didn't have a drop of alcohol (well, not really) until I was seventeen. Considering a lot of people I knew were drinking from like, the age of 14 (not sure how they got their alcohol!), I'm pretty much an international role model. I think I crack that joke too often, oh well, I assume my blog readers are all just irregular readers that stumble across my blog from the regularly automated links spammed on my Twitter to the tens of bots that happen upon them.

This really is just a dumb ramble so... here's a picture of what I was drinking last night and probably tomorrow I don't have a picture because I can't find one, so an image-less post this will be, but as I was saying, I mean, it is university after all. (yes, this is a disjointed post, because I came back to edit it and CBF re-writing stuff to make sense). On a more serious note, if I don't spend at least three hours on study tomorrow I'mma be seriously pissed at myself. Was such a tired wreck today I didn't spend a second on study, which isn't ideal with assignments mounting and due dates approaching. God university is scary.

Prince William, centre, with John Key (NZ's Prime Minister) on the right. 

Also, I would like to recognise and pay tribute to the city of Christchurch in the South Island of New Zealand as a result of the earthquake memorial service that was held today. Until the last month when I moved to Wellington, Christchurch was my second best-known city, as I have lived in Nelson which is a 5-hour drive away, but I have been there fairly often as a result of having family there. It's crazy to have a connection with a city so devastated by a natural disaster, and especially so cause it's just such a normal city, not massive, fairly comfortable for a city and it's just a really normal place. Makes me realize just how devastated if my own home town, Nelson, was ever seriously damaged by a disaster of whatever form. It's awful, so I'll post this video of internationally (but mostly nationally, as far as I know) acclaimed singer Hayley Westenra performing 'Amazing Grace' at the memorial service. Prince William was there along with John Key, so that's a pretty big deal, sobering in a way that such a huge international public figure would show up for the disaster. Good to see the English allegiance is still evident regardless of the general chit-chat of New Zealand disassociating itself from the monarchy. (I barely know what I'm talking about.)

I like the quote Prince William used at the ceremony too:

"My grandma once said that grief is the price we pay for love. Here today we love and grieve."