John's Update!

Just thought I'd give everyone a quick update with what I've been up to in life lately. Geez, I think this'll be longer that I first expected, so bear with it:

Well, Jenny (my wonderful wife) & I are in the process of building our dream home in the suburb of Teviot Downs on an acerage. We recently dug our footings to pour the concrete, put in the steel reo and then BAMM!! the rain came down!!

We instantly had ourselves a thin swimming pool as the heavy rains flooded our footing trenches which is a complete nightmare. So we're now basically a month behind in our work as we wait and pray for a dry spell in order for our trenches to dry out so we can re-dig and start again. Oh well ... we'll get there!

My two kids, Alexis & Jacob, are now 6 and 5. Man they're growing up fast... life's so short! How my opinions have changed since I was at highschool, I wish life would slow down now. Does anyone else feel that way???

These days I'm working as a trainer within the Police Service at the moment which is going well and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. It's been about 7 years now that I've been with the police during which time I've certainly seen some crazy things and crazy people.

Khang and I managed to catch up a few months ago at the Coffee Club which was great. Paid a fortune for a morsel of food but the company was good. Khang, we still haven't been able to catch up for that game of squash!!

Luke, it's awesome news about you and Lisa having your first baby. Exciting times ahead 4 U guys ... with many sleepless nights!!! But it's all worth it. Anytime you need some advice about parenting, come and talk with Father John.... It's about bloomin' time as well! By the way, I check out your website at ey3, the opinion and the other opinion! You obviously went to a lot of effort with all of that. I've got my opinion on the opinion and the other opinion, but I'll keep that to myself!

I've been getting into the Website Designing world lately myself, and trying to teach myself some html, css, mysql and php. I've recently designed a simple website for our church at www.loganchristianfellowship.com. Obviously, I could learn a lot from you, Luke, though in this area ... we'll need to talk later about Website Stuff.

Alex, I've been seeing your updates re your promotion to Assistant Vice President (I think) for CitiBank. Congrats to you, bro. Doing well

Jasmine, it sounds like you're enjoying the family life very well over in the States. How many kids did you say you have?

Natassa, you're involved in some kind of opal business? That's great. Hope that's doing well for you guys. Love to hear about how you got into that, or was it something that your hubby was already doing?

Who knows when we'll all be able to catch up again one day with everyone living in various parts of the world.... at least we can keep in touch on the net I suppose. As soon as the upload features work again, we'll all need to upload some piccies of ourselves so we can see how we've changed (and so I can print them off as my new dart targets and also do some Photoshop exaggeration!!).

Till next time,
Johnnyboy.

PS. By the way, it's Valentine's Day today. Hope you all did something "romantic" with that special someone. Here's a final something called Love, Lust and Marriage:

Love: When you take a bubble bath together
Lust: When you take a bath in Jell-o together
Marriage: When you give the kids a bath

Love: A romantic candle-light dinner for two
Lust: "Do I have to buy you dinner first?"
Marriage: 4 McDonald's Happy Meals . . . to go

Love: Giving your love some candy
Lust: Thinking you are the candy
Marriage: Scraping the kids' candy off of the carpet

Love: Sex every night
Lust: Sex 5 times a night
Marriage: What's sex?

Love: A night out at the symphony
Lust: A night out at the Holiday Inn
Marriage: A night out at Sesame Street On Ice

Love: French perfume
Lust: Brut aftershave
Marriage: "The baby needs changing. . ."


Till next time,
Johnnyboy.

How can I invite?

I just realized that I can't really invite more people to this blog. Only Johnny can. Not sure if this will really work that well. What you guys should do though is to join facebook.com. I have some Springwood alumnis in my friends list and can get more. It might be easier that way.
Jasmine

This is great!

Hi you guys! This is a great idea. So, you guys have been busy with your families, eh? I'm here in Florida, married with 2 kids. I will try to recruit more alumnis to sign on, so we can all get in touch. This might be a great preparation for an upcoming class reunion sometime. What do you say?
Jazzie

Hi Luke

Hi Everyone,

Great idea Johnny and Alex to setup a blog. I certainly post to it. For those you who don't know I run my web development firm. I don't haven't much time to post to much about meyself today. But one quick new item is them my lovely wife Lisa (the same lady I've been marrried to for 14 yrs) is expecting our first baby (boy) in about 4 months. So that's first blog post.

If you have time I use to produce a podcast with my Wife and best mate called "The Opinion and The Other Opinion" If your easily offend I don't recommend your listen to it but if not take a listen it.

Cheers
Luke

Springwood High Class of 92 Blog Spot Launch!!

Hi guys, Johnny here.

Just a quick initial entry for our own blog spot. I hope this thing will be any use for us to stay in touch, post updates & piccies, and place anything else we think might be interesting. Who knows, we might track down a whole heap of other old friends who might want to be a part of this! If you're a bit unsure how to blog or post, shoot me an email at jelbuilder@gmail.com and I'll help you out. Also, if you know of any other school friends who might want to join up with this blog as Contributors, then send me their email addresses and I'll send out some invites for them to join up.

Cheers,
Johnnyboy.