WRITTEN ON Monday, December 7th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland
The last month was a month of absolute insanity, with work and nanowrimo taking up pretty much all of my time awake. Still, a girl’s gotta have some distractions so, even if the cultural life was way slower than what it should have been, there was still time to go to a couple of really [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, October 8th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN bucklame, kiwiland
You have no idea how crappy the weather is right now in bucklame. Spring officially started on the first of september and, since then, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen more rainfall than at any other stage of my life. It’s depressing to the point where, at the slightest hint of sun, I am out the [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, August 16th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN bucklame, kiwiland
An incredibly scary adventurous way to start the next quarter of century and one more thing crossed out of the bucket list.
* but of course i did. and i was shit scared from seeing all the water below and the bridge’s structure in front of me and the wind blowing. during those 5 seconds that it [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, June 28th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN bucklame, kiwiland, life
i’m not trying to come out as a relationships expert (trust me - i’m not!) but i was thinking about my life here in auckland and had this metaphor in my head. it might be just me and my particular experience as an expat (i hate this word but i think i hate the word [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, June 7th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN bucklame, kiwiland, politics
before i start, a couple of facts:
i don’t think underage people should drink
i agree with a law that tries to prevent underage people from having access to alcohol
i agree that if the law says that if you’re under 25 you need to show your ID to buy alcohol, you definitely have to do it
having said [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, May 17th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN bucklame, kiwiland
it’s something that i took for granted for 23 years until i moved to auckland and had to realise that, no matter how advanced a city wants to be, if there aren’t enough tax payers and there’s a large area to cover, the public transport system is going to be crappy.’crappy’ is, indeed, a euphemism [...]
