WRITTEN ON Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland, politics
If you travel around kiwiland, chances are you’ll have trouble pronouncing a big percentage of the names of places. That’s because they’re not in English, but in Maori. You can go to Whangarei, Whakatane, Waiwera, Whangaparaoa, Manukau, Mangawhai, Maungaturoto, Pukekohe, Takapuna, etc. These are not even the hardest ones, just the ones I can [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, April 19th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland, music
Tiki Taane - Always on my mind
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, April 19th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland
kiwiland was the first country in the world to give women the right to vote.
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland, maori word of the day
kiwi fact of the day: there are more people living in auckland than in the whole of the south island.
maori word of the day: aroha. it means compassion and sustaining love.
(p.s. i might start doing this more often, as a way of forcing myself to learn this sort of stuff)
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland
maybe everyone else has heard by now but i only found out about it a few weeks ago. te araroa is the name of a project to create a tramping trail between cape reinga, on the top of the north island, to bluff, on the bottom of the south island. that’s a total of 3000 [...]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland, movies, music
i don’t know why but this song always puts me in a good mood. maybe it’s because of dave dobbyn, who always looks and sounds happy and cheerful. it was part of a kiwi animated movie called footrot flats: a dog’s tale (1987) that i find absolutely delightful.
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WRITTEN ON Monday, April 13th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN travelling
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Consider this “it’s all your fault” rant by a woman who returned to Britain with an unexpected holiday souvenir: “My fiance and I booked a twin-bedded room, but we were placed in a double-bedded room. We now hold you responsible for the fact that I find myself pregnant.”
Her complaint and scores like it, compiled by [...]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, April 13th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland, life
Hot cross buns and cadbury creme eggs. Chilly evenings at the campsite, with baked beans on toast. A city girl that now knows how to pitch a tent. Returning to the top of the island and watching the oceans meet again. The angry Tasman and the quiet Pacific. And a sunset to die for, [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, April 5th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland, photography
like i said, lots of it.
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, April 5th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland, photography, travelling
even now that summer is coming to an end, kiwi green remains my favourite colour. which is good because green is something that kiwiland is not lacking.
