WRITTEN ON Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland, politics, portugal
When I turned 18, my country gave me the right to do a bunch of stuff, including drinking, driving, travelling without needing my parents authorisation, etc. Oh, that’s right, and voting. They basically assumed that, from that day on, I was mature enough to help decide what was best for the country. For years (I [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland, news
out of 144 countries surveyed, new zealand was elected as the most peaceful nation on earth. now this doesn’t mean we should all go leaving our doors unlocked at all times or anything like that. crime still happens in new zealand (and every now and then we hear about some really violent ones). but it’s [...]
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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 [...]
