Showing posts with label MAORI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MAORI. Show all posts

Monday, January 18, 2010

Wasted the day away at the Piano; my favourite way to waste time. 

Practised Gymnopedie by Erik Satie, I've nearly finished it.

Also practised the song from the movie The Piano, called 'The Heart asks Pleasure First'. The name is a tad dorky, but the song is absolutely amazing. I'm half way through, past the part I was finding difficult so 'Clap Clap Felicity'.

Spent the afternoon watching Cartoons on MaoriTV. They are horrible and annoying, and brought back memories of me and my brothers watching hideous shows on Playhouse Disney, like Special Agent Oso, Mickey Mouse's Clubhouse, Little Einsteins ETC. For some strange reason those shows make me want to jump off a cliff. They all go something like this:

Someone on TV: Where is the blue key? (Blue key is lying on the table right in front of the person) 

Me: It's RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!! 

Brothers: he aha? (translates as What? in Maori)

Someone on TV: There it is... (Pauses for five seconds) It's on the TABLE! Great spotting! 

*sigh* 



Sunday, January 17, 2010

'Twas a Good Day today. I wrote that in capitals because Good Days are very special, not to mention rare. Though I've been having quite a few recently.

So I trotted down to the Hall of Knowledge, AKA the library. There were some people in the library hogging a whole section with a massive camera and microphone and blinding lights. Not only that, but I was listening to a few of the actors talking, and I'm not an actor, but they sounded pretty bad.

I got a TONNE of books, which I had to carry home all on my own. Well... to the car. They included Māori Children's books, Māori Grammer books, Italian language books, A maths book, so I can slowly ease myself back into the painful world of maths, and books about Piano.

I'm thinking about buying some Italian music (that's fairly cool) online, but I have no idea what to search for, or get?! So if anyone reads this, help me out!

Monday, January 11, 2010

A few days ago I went and saw an Italian movie called Marcello Marcello. It was surprisingly good. The funny moment was in the ads before, someone was advertising funeral services and said, "We wish you a long and happy life!" and I thought, "Yes, then we want to take all your money and bury you!!"

I have been buying really important stuff recently, because it's all been on special. I bought a Yoyo (VERY IMPORTANT), an Italian Language book, a Rice Cooker (well my mum did), and she also bought us some Bento box's. Which are Japanese Lunch Boxes!

I have been improving my Maori Language skills, now furthered to dreaming! I had a dream I was with my 1 year old brother, and then I asked him (in Maori) if he needed to go to the toilet, or that he should go to the toilet, because we were going on a really long car trip. Now, logically one year olds don't actually use toilets? But in the dream he replyed, "Yes... No... Maybe" and I was like "You're supposed to speak in Maori! Duh." And got really annoyed because here I was trying to speak his first bloody language and he wasn't making the effort.