How to persuade your parents to buy you something.

Hey what's up everyone? This week's post will be a tutorial on how to persuade your parents to buy you something.

There are many ways to make your parents do something, but making them buy you something is a bit harder. I will list the 3 main things you need to execute before actually telling them about the item you want to buy.

1. If your parents do house chores a lot, you should start doing some of it, but make sure that they don't know that you're doing this just because you want them to buy you something; and start doing this at least a week before you tell them about the item.

2. Improve your grades. If you get good grades, your parents will be very proud of you and would want to award you for your amazing effort. This one here should be done a while before telling them about the item.

3. And for the last one, the easiest one. Be nice to them. Do what  they ask you to do, and interact with them more.

If all else fails, then pester them until they buy it for you. Haha just kidding, if you followed the steps, you should get what you want. I used this way to get most of my stuff, for example, before I told my mum about a guitar I wanted, I showed her my math assignment where I got an A, she then straight away thought of rewarding me and that's where I mentioned the guitar, and guess what? I got the guitar a week later! Alright that's it, thanks everyone, hope it helped, stay tuned for the next post.

The Paralympic Games

The Olympics are over with the USA winning with 104 medals of which 46 are gold; but don't worry, there's still more exciting sporting to come! And the next big thrill will be "The Paralympic Games" also being held in London and will start on Wednesday 29th of August!

The Paralympic Games will last for a good 15 days with a lot of interesting variety of events such as wheelchair fencing, sitting volleyball and the one I’m looking forward to the most, the wheelchair rugby! There will also be events that all of us are familiar with such as swimming, cycling track and track and field.

Queen Elizabeth II will be officially opening the games just like she did for The Olympics. Prince Philip was also suppose to attend the opening ceremony, but it looks like he is too sick with a serious bladder infection.

“Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorious is making history by competing in both The Olympics and The Paralympics this year! There were so many complaints about him competing in the 400m run in The Olympics because a percentage of The Olympics fans think that he had an unfair advantage with his bouncy blade feet.

So everyone, don’t forget to turn on your TV starting 29th of August to follow The Paralympic Games! See you guys on the next post.

Why am I who I am?

That's a really hard question. Many people have inspired me for who I am today.

Sport has changed my life the most in the past two years. I started getting into sport at the age of 14 when one of my friends invited me to join a rugby training session on an oval in Sanur. After that day, I felt that rugby could be part of my life because I enjoyed it so much. I continued with the training sessions and I got better and better. No one person really supported me to keep playing rugby, I motivated myself because I really liked it and wanted to get better, but now, I feel like the whole club is actually supporting me and has become like a second family.

After awhile training hard, I got to go to different places to play some matches, such as the big rugby 10s competition that happens every year in Jakarta and a friendly match in Sumbawa against the Nagas.

Because of rugby, I became pretty good in sport generally. I now learn new sport skills faster, understand sport in general a little bit better and helped me become a better player.

I am not who I am today just because of rugby and my team mates, there are also my family, friends and anyone I crossed troughout my life which made me who I am today, but yes, sport is now a big thing to me.

Thanks for reading everyone, stay tuned for next week’s post!

Top 3 favourite surfers

This post will be about my top 3 favourite surfers. I don’t surf much, but I really like watching surf videos and look at specific surfers’ montages. So here are my top 3 favourite surfers, all sponsored by Quiksilver.

3. Kelly Slater

Age: 40

Residence: Florida, California and Hawaii

Height: 1.75m

Weight: 73kg

Sponsor: Quiksilver.

Stance: Regular/Natural

Kelly Slater is a really humble surfer, he has won 11 world titles on the ASP World Tour. He lived in Florida where the waves are really bad, for him to get to the point where he is now is quiet amazing. There probably won’t be any surfers like him for the next 100 years.

2. Dane Reynolds

Age: 26

Residence: Ventura, California

Height: 1.83m

Weight: 79kg

Sponsors: Quiksilver, Vans, Monster Energy drink, Channel Islands and Boost Mobile.

Stance: Regular/Natural

Dane Reynolds is known for his “go for broke” style, where he experiments lots of new tricks. I really like him for his awesome airs, he does the best 360 airs and he’s a really smooth surfer.

 














1. Clay Marzo

Age: 23

Residence: Lahaina, Maui

Height: 185m

Weight: 79kg

Sponsors: Quiksilver, Skullcandy, DC Shoes, Rockstar, Vestal, SPY Optic and Super Brand  Surfboards.

Stance: Goofy

Clay marzo is my number one favourite surfer. He has the most unique surfing style, he just goes for it. He developped his own trick called the “Clayback”. This trick is an advanced version of the snap where you land on your back and then get back up.