Background story
Background, places I have lived, misc stories, and family
I provide this mostly for the sake of background information, to help with context. It’s aimed more at normals than at the “fae”. In particular, I want to let people know where I lived, and when. And introduce you to my family. It is probably a little too heavy on family history and family photos, but I guess you have got to start somewhere.
First, a few photos:
From left: Grandpa, Uncle David, Grandma, unknown, Paul, Tedge, Uncle Andy, Uncle Jonathan, Matthew and David.
My mother Tedge studied biology for three years at Victoria University graduating with a degree in etymology. She’s worked as a research scientist, in retail, owned her own business (Kingdom Arts and Crafts in Taupo), and also studied two years visual arts and design at the local polytechnic in Taradale, Napier. She also did factory work for a while, sharpening tools. She is a good cook and loves reading.
My paternal grandfather Ivan was from Hungary. His family (himself, mother, father, sister) were refugees. They fled from Hungary in 1956 after the failed Hungarian Uprising against the Stalinist system (the Hungarians had a revolution, but then the allies left them hanging, and the Red Army invaded from Russia).
My father’s mother Carol is Welsh. She used to work in childcare and ran a daycare centre.
My mother’s parents are from England. They all moved here when my mother was a child.
My grandfather (Michael Foster) worked in the oil industry (he worked for Shell Oil). His father (my great grandfather) also worked for Shell. He studied economics by distance through the London School of Economics, and held a bachelors degree. He liked sailing, photography and gardening. He also liked reading and loved the Greek/Roman classics. When he was young he rode a motor-cycle, when he was old he played bowls. After he retired he became an amateur historian, and ended up writing several books of history, including “A Comedy of Errors: the marriage records of England and Wales” which is a book about the births, deaths and marriages system in England, which actually sold quite a few copies. He wrote a history of Shell in New Zealand, and he wrote a book with the title “Karori and the Boer War”. He wrote a compilation of soldiers’ tales and a thick family history. I liked him.
My grandmother (Joyce Foster) had three kids (Andy, Mum and Jonathan). She later studied geography, gaining her degree at Victoria University. Also, she lived in England through the blitz. She was great. She did a bit of fencing when she was young and was very fond of both walking and tramping. I loved her cooking, especially her rice pudding. She took an interest in my education, doing things like picking out good books for me to read, leaving them beside my bed when I went to visit. She taught me mahjong and took me to swimming lessons. She always seemed a little nervous. It is almost silly to try to summarise a family member like my grandmother in one paragraph, but there it is.
I spent a fair bit of time with my grandparents when I was a child/teenager. They both loved books, and their house was overflowing with books. My grandparents and Uncle Andy were all involved in conservation, including developing the Wellington wildlife sanctuary, Zealandia.
My Uncle Andy is a politician. He is currently a member of parliament. And he used to be mayor (2019-2022) of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand. Before that, he was on the Wellington City Council for 27 years and briefly a parliamentary researcher for the National Party. He also used to be a currency trader. Andy Foster is now a member of parliament, and a member of NZ First, which is part of the current coalition government. Peter Jackson is a close personal friend of his. He’s on my mother’s side.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Foster
My Uncle Jonathan is an engineer. I always preferred him to Uncle Andy. I don’t want to talk about him at the moment.
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I have two Aunts and one more uncle. They are Aunty Wendy, Aunty Monica and Uncle David. I used to spend time with Aunty Wendy’s children (my cousins Andrew and Ben) when I was growing up.
My grandfather Ivan remarried when his first wife left him, and had two more children, Marton and Andrew (András). I used to spend a fair bit of time with them growing up. They were like cousins.
I have one brother, Matthew. And two half sisters (unnamed).
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Back when we lived in Taupo, my parents used to run Kingdom Music, Kingdom Crafts and Kingdom Computers back in Taupo. Which means that I grew up around musical instruments, craft supplies, sewing machines, computers, and game consoles. We always had cool stuff at home (pianos, stereo equipment and arts and crafts supplies). My father also owned music shops in Napier, Hastings, and Paraparaumu over the years. My father was part of the set that started the Lake Taupo Christian School. He was chairman of the board for a while. The school used the (ACE) system. The ACE system pushes a very fundamentalist point of view. It supports biblical literalism and creationism. It’s worth googling. I was raised in a very religious environment. My father used to be a youth pastor. Kingdom Computers sold computers, video games and consoles (SEGA and PlayStation One). They sold equipment to business and schools as well as to the consumer market. All three businesses were on Taumamutu Street in Taupo at one point.
My father won the Taupo “business of the year” for Kingdom Music multiple times on multiple years.
Kingdom craft/music/computers were openly and explicitly Christian businesses.
We grew up going to Parachute music festival, the largest Christian music festival in the southern hemisphere. Parachute music festival was my introduction to live music, three days of Christian rock music. My Dad knew Mark de Jong (founder and CEO of Parachute Music). That won’t mean much to people outside of New Zealand, but in New Zealand, parachute music festival was big. It was also extremely good. It was a highlight of the year for me and I listened to the music I heard there ever since.
My school was started in the back rooms of the Taupo Apostolic Church (now renamed and rebranded Equippers). We used their premises, because they had a lot of space available. I started school shortly before the age of five. The school was kind of like a “startup” school. It had very few students when it started.
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Amanda is an investigator and analyst working at the Tertiary Education Commission (they do funding decisions for NZ tertiary institutions). She was an investigator for NZQA and the Charities Commission, and has worked as a tutor for Victoria University teaching the compulsory university level criminology papers to NZ police who want to become detectives (sorry for the clunky sentence). She has a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria University (majoring in criminology and social policy), with first class honours - (Criminology is kind of like sociology mixed with policing). Things like investigations, regulation and policing were regular topics of conversation at home. She’s on LinkedIn if you want to know more. I used to proofread and edit her essays for her years ago. I also used to read her textbooks and course materials some of the time (only the interesting ones), which is how I came to take an interest in criminology and sociology.
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I was a Christian, and grew up going to church. I was raised in a highly religious environment.
We were evangelical Christians (aka born again Christians). I was a true believer (and I thought my family were too, but it turns out that they were just pretending).
Lake Taupo Christian School was started in the back room of the Taupo Apostolic Church (now Equippers Church). I went to Lake Taupo Christian Camp in the holidays. As a family, we often went to the annual Parachute Christian Music Festival (the largest Christian music rock festival in the southern hemisphere). At about the age of 9 we switched from going to the Apostolic Church to Taupo Baptist. For the most part, going to Church was a positive experience for me, if a little bit dull. It was a nice place full of good people. Some people look down on or denigrate churches, but it’s not so bad. At least the people are nice.
My father was a youth pastor from way back in the day. He started out in part time ministry when he was going to Karori Baptist Church. And was pretty involved in the church while in Taupo, as a youth pastor and a few other things such as music. He is a trained youth pastor (he actually went to school for it). We used to have a ton of ministry related books at home sitting on this shelves (all of which I read, because I like reading and I got bored sometimes).
I ended up a going to a Presbyterian church later on (at about the age of 13). The Presbyterian Church was St Columba’s in Taradale. Brett Walker was the pastor, and his son David Walker was my best friend in Taradale. I went to an open brethren church after that (basically non denominational). The open brethren church was the Coast Community Church (CCC) in Kapiti. I was a part of that church for quite a few years. It was my “home church” for maybe 8 years, from the age of 15 to 23. Jesse Orchard went there, and his father was an elder back then, and is currently the chief elder (which is virtually the same thing as a pastor). Also, Nathan Thatcher, Ashley King, Chris Westwood, and (later) Amanda Ward went to that church too. Amanda was baptised there as an adult.
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What sort of person was I when I was about 8 or 9 years old?
When I was about 8 or 9 years old, I wanted to be an inventor. I loved reading and climbing trees. I enjoyed playing rugby and tackle bull rush at lunchtime with the other kids in school. I loved spending time with my Dad and playing Lego with my younger brother. I liked going to the lake or to the local swimming pools (Taupo is well known for its large freshwater lake, and the local pools were heated pools, kept warm by the local geothermal energy). And I loved music.
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Here is a rough timeline of where I lived and when:
I was born in November 1988 in Wellington Hospital. I started speaking when he was very young, and was some sort of infant genius. My parents labeled me as being gifted. When I was about a year old my parents moved the family to Taupo. I think they did it to isolate me/us from the Karori Baptist set (there were too many “muggles” there, and they didn’t want the “muggles” getting too much access to their genius son).
At about the age of one, we settled in at an house on Arthur Crescent in Taupo, and we lived there for a decade. It was a moderately large, but quite badly designed wooden house. We lived on the edge of town. The house was nice enough, but impossible to heat! Taupo is a nice place to grow up, it really is. It’s got a beautiful lake, good swimming pools, and the weather is decent in summer. It’s not too built up. I liked my home town.
My family along with a group of other local Christian’s started the Lake Taupo Christian School, out in the back rooms of a local Pentecostal church. I started attending school a little while before my fifth birthday.
My school outgrew the back rooms of the local Pentecostal church (it was the apostolic church in Taupo, now the “equippers”), and had to find new premises, and so we moved into some club rooms that belonged to the local soccer club, and then to some permanent premises once we had them. They built the school by means of relocation of second hand buildings, rather than building ones on site. They managed to secure a cheap patch of not very good land, and then shifted some buildings onto the patch of land (I think they bought them from the local power company), and renovated them in a series of “working bees”. We eventually became a “state-integrated” school, which means we retained our religious character and nature, but were partially government funded.
I didn't like my school though. I thought it was rubbish and that it was dumbing me down on purpose. I just plainly thought the school system of ACE was stupid. (By the way, the curriculum was stupid and the pedagogy was bad). And so I complained (I had to complain a lot) and managed to get myself moved to a new school. It was a dedicated campaign of whining and whinging. But it worked. I knew I was smart, and I felt that the school I went to was stupid. As it so happened, that was by design. Dad did it on purpose. He started the school for the purpose of ruining my education, and encouraged the teachers to stymie my education, because I was a genius. That paragraph was not well written, but it’ll have to do.
There was a thing that happened at that school where they put me in remedial maths. I know I was intelligent, and good at things like mathematics. That was one of the things that motivated me to complain about my school, so that I could get shifted to a better school.
Anyway, I got shifted to a new school (Taupo Intermediate). Which was awesome. I was put into the highest streamed class. And was the top of the class (or smartest kid in the class, whatever). Little did I know, but I allegedly scored 186 on the IQ test to get entry into my class (or so they tell me on wifi!). But my dearest father, in all of his wisdom kept that fact from me. He didn't want me to get an "inflated head". I knew I was a genius all the same. We also moved out to a farm house out in the countryside, which was okay (I think that they wanted to isolate me a bit though). And at this age I played a ton of video games and read fanatically. I only spent one year at Taupo Intermediate.
We moved to Taradale, Napier. And I went to Taradale Intermediate for a year and then Taradale High School. My parents split up (separated) just before I went to high school. I liked Taradale, Napier. It's amazing. It's a nice town. It is sunny, quiet and almost idyllic.
I moved to Paraparaumu, Kapiti Coast at the age of fifteen to live with my father (four hours drive away) and I went to Paraparaumu College. They put me into the wrong stream for maths, English and science. Which was extremely frustrating, but that's life. I played a lot of video games. I went to the internet cafe with the guys to play first person shooters. I got into Halo One and Halo Two, Counterstrike and Natural Selection. I often had “gatherings” with the guys at my place to play Halo 2. These gatherings were a highlight of my week. We often had up to twelve of us at a time and I bought pizza and coke for lunch.
After I finished high school, I moved into Wellington to go to university. But it was only Wellington. Which isn't far. I got married to Amanda. Some time passed. My health was poor. We moved back to Paraparaumu. I was really sick and had to quit university not too long afterwards (my health was poor from 18 onwards). By the way, they started waging what I call “a systematic long term war" on my health at the age of 18. Not that I knew it at the time! I just thought that I was sick and I didn't know why. My doctors told me it might be glandular fever, and then that it might be "chronic fatigue syndrome". Which is just about the most worthless diagnosis in the world - it tells you that something is wrong, but doesn’t tell you what is wrong or what caused it. I will talk more about my health in other posts.
And then I was an invalid and a dropout.
I had a variety of health problems caused by the satellites, cell towers and other electromagnetic devices. There were also things like noise pollution, and silly things like Amanda systematically stealing the blankets from me and jostling me to make me up. I had energy, sleep and exhaustion problems. And I couldn’t control my body temperature. Or stop sweating. I also had horrific digestive problems caused by satellites. And I had back problems (caused by electromagnetic interference weapons). My doctors weren't supportive or helpful. They basically treated me like an idiot who wasn’t actually unwell, and then they didn't help to treat the symptoms or resolve the underlying issues. They acted like it was all in my head (so did my father!). Instead they actively made me worse. I had extremely serious digestive problems. I also had rapidly worsening back problems. These back problems never got properly retreated by the doctors and physiotherapists. In fact, my doctors and my physiotherapists made it worse. On purpose. They all knew that my health problems were caused by electromagnetic interference, but didn’t let me know what was causing my health problems, or how to solve them. By the time I was about 23, I couldn't even play video games or enjoy playing board games with my friends. My back was so locked down and hampered. I found some relief from the symptoms with the help of something called "the Alexander technique", but in the end this went nowhere and didn’t solve my problems in life.
Some time passed, and Amanda’s mother asked us to leave Weka Road, and Amanda and I were pushed to purchase our own home in a hurry. I was actually very unwell at the time. Eventually we moved to a place of our own at 17 Princeton Road. The house itself was nice enough, but I was very unwell. I couldn't even lay down on my side in bed to read a book. This was because of the satellites. The satellites and cell towers were doing horrible things to my back. Life was horrible.
That's about enough writing for me for now.
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Some time passed
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They then crippled me totally. But that happened much later, in 2017.
This is discussed in “how I got this way part 2” and “torso integrity compromised” and I think also in misc stories, as well as maybe a bit inside disambiguation post and the grab bag.
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Tomoe Takahashi
Paul shagged our Japanese exchange student Tomoe Takahashi. He is a creep. I didn't know about it at the time. She came to us for her 6th form year of high school, she was about 16/17 at the time. She was basically part of our family. This story is told more completely elsewhere.
Anyone who grooms and sleeps with your teenaged Japanese exchange student is a problem. And someone who does that in his thirties will probably get worse and end up doing worse things later in his life.
And he used table tennis tournaments and coaching as part of grooming her.
I will put up a proper page for this story later, and link to it from here. Or at least I hope I get around to it sometime.
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University:
I went to Victoria University when I was 18 and did a bachelor of commerce and administration, but I had to drop out after two years. My majors were accounting and finance, and (sort of) economics. Economics wasn’t officially listed as a major, but I studied it as though it was a major, and was so fascinated by it that I count it as my third major. I was a very good student and had good marks (I was a straight A student) in spite of poor health. I had to drop out of university due to poor health.
Poor health: unbeknownst to me they were waging a systematic war against my overall health and wellbeing by any covert means considered to be appropriate by their standards. I thought I had a mystery illness, of unknown cause. I knew I was sick but didn’t know what caused it. I was actually really sick, and kept going to doctors. But no one told me what was wrong. I was kept in the dark as to the true nature of my illness (much of it was caused by electromagnetic means, as well as other deliberate sabotage and also conspiracy by my doctors Abe family).
They were damaging my body, and destroying my health and fitness. But I was kept in the dark as to why I was unwell, so thought that I had some sort of “organic” illness.
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