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Monday 16 April 2012
Tuesday 15 December 2009
Upto wupti!
Back :D
In th elast post i told you about my intention to move to Newmarket, that is now a reality. Im living together with 3 kiwi girls and a guy from Chili. So far has it been very good, lots of fun and a party every weekend. The people are nice and we are all getting along very well.
The first weekend after my last post (dates: 27 - 29) we did the Eastcape tour. We - consisting of Markus N, Markus S, Thorsten, Steve(Markus S landlord) and I, took off directly after work and headed for our overnight stay in Whakatane. In the evening we went for a few beers and then early to bed as we had to get up 7.30 the next day in order to get to the boat in time which would take us to White Island, a active vulcan.
There are lots of pictures of the Island on the online gallery.
In the same weekend we also visited Gisborne, drove on a old road which has been replaced by a modern tarmac road, the road have been used as a rally stage at one point. On the sunday we did a white water rafting tour. It was a great experience and deffently something ill be doing again before i leave the country.
Pictures on web gallery.
The two past weekends have mostly been in the name of party. The first weekend we had a Flatwarming for me because I missed the first one due to the eastcape trip. Last weekend we went to christmas in the park, it was a great experience and yet another reminder that christmas this year will be celebrated in shorts and t-shirt.
In th elast post i told you about my intention to move to Newmarket, that is now a reality. Im living together with 3 kiwi girls and a guy from Chili. So far has it been very good, lots of fun and a party every weekend. The people are nice and we are all getting along very well.
The first weekend after my last post (dates: 27 - 29) we did the Eastcape tour. We - consisting of Markus N, Markus S, Thorsten, Steve(Markus S landlord) and I, took off directly after work and headed for our overnight stay in Whakatane. In the evening we went for a few beers and then early to bed as we had to get up 7.30 the next day in order to get to the boat in time which would take us to White Island, a active vulcan.
There are lots of pictures of the Island on the online gallery.
In the same weekend we also visited Gisborne, drove on a old road which has been replaced by a modern tarmac road, the road have been used as a rally stage at one point. On the sunday we did a white water rafting tour. It was a great experience and deffently something ill be doing again before i leave the country.
Pictures on web gallery.
The two past weekends have mostly been in the name of party. The first weekend we had a Flatwarming for me because I missed the first one due to the eastcape trip. Last weekend we went to christmas in the park, it was a great experience and yet another reminder that christmas this year will be celebrated in shorts and t-shirt.
Friday 20 November 2009
Moving day!!!
Today is the day where I move to Newmarket. I secured my new bed yesterday night on trademe and booked a trailer online.
Right now im sitting in what can only be described as a empty room in Otahuhu, Auckland, and in 10 minutes the race starts.
Steps:
1. Refuel car
2. Pickup trailer
3. Drop off clothes and have a chat with the new flatmates until the time surpases 1 p.m.
4. Go get bed
5. Put bed into room
6. Return trailer
7. Return to old flat and pickup the last bits and pieces
8. Get comfortable
9. enJOY :D
Quite excited only met 2 of the 4 others that im going to move in with. But I think its going to be great! Not only getting a fresh bunch of flatmates but also to get closer to the city cause here in otahuhu its quite ded between 12 p.m. and 11.59 am.
Will update a bit later on how it works out. Quite a challenge with no street map or gps. But there arent as many nice cars here that i have to look at so Ive had a chance to look at road signs for once, so think im qualified to do it...
Only time will tell.
Thats it from otahuhu, next post will be from Newmarket.
Right now im sitting in what can only be described as a empty room in Otahuhu, Auckland, and in 10 minutes the race starts.
Steps:
1. Refuel car
2. Pickup trailer
3. Drop off clothes and have a chat with the new flatmates until the time surpases 1 p.m.
4. Go get bed
5. Put bed into room
6. Return trailer
7. Return to old flat and pickup the last bits and pieces
8. Get comfortable
9. enJOY :D
Quite excited only met 2 of the 4 others that im going to move in with. But I think its going to be great! Not only getting a fresh bunch of flatmates but also to get closer to the city cause here in otahuhu its quite ded between 12 p.m. and 11.59 am.
Will update a bit later on how it works out. Quite a challenge with no street map or gps. But there arent as many nice cars here that i have to look at so Ive had a chance to look at road signs for once, so think im qualified to do it...
Only time will tell.
Thats it from otahuhu, next post will be from Newmarket.
Stock cars: Blackout, Crashes, fire
Yesterday evening was an evening with some of the best motoring entertainment. I joined a Colleague and his wife to go to Humbley speedway track to watch some racing. I wasnt sure what exactly it was because my colleague said that it is hard to describe and it is something you have to experience(and yet im trying to write a post about it).
When we got there I heard some high pitched engines and it didnt sound like they were something that were driving on dirt. We then got in and the first machine I saw was the a funny looking car wich is best described as a fly with four wheels and a slight displaced cockpit. They were powered by motorbike engines and that explains the high pitched engine sound.
Next up was the production car class. And by production they ment: out of production, i think that the newest car in the field was a mitsubishi FTO. And the only thing left from the production car was the body. Everything else was stripped away in order to avoid glass and plastic getting into the drivers faces when crashing. They were good entertainment but nothing to what was still to come.
In rolled some cars which looked like they have just dropped out of a Godfahter movie, got fuel with ethanol and got a rollcage in them. I was getting high hope, which got shattered in a split secound when my colleague turns to me and says: "This class is boring as hell, its 12 - 16 year old kids driving". The race started and they went round and round and nothing dramatic happend. So my colleague was right....
After a while it became clear that they have a good photocopier in the back because in rolled cars looking exactly like the cars the kids drove just scaled up to 150% in size and sound.
They did some showoff and in the end all but 10 cars disapeared. 2 cars from two teams were to battle each other. Yes it is battle not race. They putted 1 car in the middle of the track to preserve them and drove with 4 each.
They line up in the grid bumper to bumper and when the green flag goes on they are off, or some of them are cause some just stands still waiting for the leader to come around and then take him for a closer look at the concrete wall sorounding the track.
The trick is then to see if it is possible to have all your cars in the top in order to score the most points in order to advance to the finals. But you also have to protect your leading car otherwise the other team will just crash him till his car dies. Another thing is to crash your own car into another car only damaging the other car and not your own. It proved to create some spectacular crashes, cars flipping, catching fire and some oldskool head on collisions.
Great entertainment
Pictures to come a bit later.
When we got there I heard some high pitched engines and it didnt sound like they were something that were driving on dirt. We then got in and the first machine I saw was the a funny looking car wich is best described as a fly with four wheels and a slight displaced cockpit. They were powered by motorbike engines and that explains the high pitched engine sound.
Next up was the production car class. And by production they ment: out of production, i think that the newest car in the field was a mitsubishi FTO. And the only thing left from the production car was the body. Everything else was stripped away in order to avoid glass and plastic getting into the drivers faces when crashing. They were good entertainment but nothing to what was still to come.
In rolled some cars which looked like they have just dropped out of a Godfahter movie, got fuel with ethanol and got a rollcage in them. I was getting high hope, which got shattered in a split secound when my colleague turns to me and says: "This class is boring as hell, its 12 - 16 year old kids driving". The race started and they went round and round and nothing dramatic happend. So my colleague was right....
After a while it became clear that they have a good photocopier in the back because in rolled cars looking exactly like the cars the kids drove just scaled up to 150% in size and sound.
They did some showoff and in the end all but 10 cars disapeared. 2 cars from two teams were to battle each other. Yes it is battle not race. They putted 1 car in the middle of the track to preserve them and drove with 4 each.
They line up in the grid bumper to bumper and when the green flag goes on they are off, or some of them are cause some just stands still waiting for the leader to come around and then take him for a closer look at the concrete wall sorounding the track.
The trick is then to see if it is possible to have all your cars in the top in order to score the most points in order to advance to the finals. But you also have to protect your leading car otherwise the other team will just crash him till his car dies. Another thing is to crash your own car into another car only damaging the other car and not your own. It proved to create some spectacular crashes, cars flipping, catching fire and some oldskool head on collisions.
Great entertainment
Pictures to come a bit later.
Tuesday 17 November 2009
Discovering and invention of a new word; Bimmerratery
Well yesterday I went for a drive while listening to a new album Ive just got my hands on. Unfortunately I had to do it after work so there were ltos of traffic, but I came up with a brilliant solution, a few simple rules:
1. Go where noone else is going, nomatter what
2. When aproaching a light go wherever the lights want you to go, meaning the first green. Only excepted if it is directly into rush hour traffic or onto the highway.
3. Highway must be avoided at all cost
4. Have a good tune in the radio
5. LOVE driving
6. Dont read signs, if you wnat to go somewhere special do it by landmarks, if you know no landmarks then start driving and get to know your sorroundings.
I ended up in a north western part of Auckland I cant even recall what is called. Afterthat I suddenly found myself near the airport. There i found 3 levels of carpark where you could park with the front towards the airport so you could see the planes come in. Now i just need to find out when Emirates lands with their Airbus A380 next time.
After some time driving around(not wrong, there is no wrong, remember?) I got home and got trapped in Youtube watching danish comedy :)
Today I was reading online it struck my mind that i wanted to go to the library to rent a book and go to the airport to read and watch planes. I then went for the library homepage to find out what kind of ID was needed to sign up as member. I packed everything needed in my car and went to the city centre as that was the only one open at the time. I got in and found a parking spot in a secound, lucky me. Then I discovered that Ive forgotten a letter to prove my adress.... It was now a race against time. 40 minutes untill the library closed against me with a speed limit saying 100, it would be close.
On my way back home an old E36 wanted to pull out in front of me and he started blinking, I let off the throttle to make room but he didnt pull out. I then flashed with my headlamps and he pulled out, thanking me with his hazard lights. It was here I thought of the word, "Bimmerratery" from now on it will be the same friendship as taxi drivers have to each other, just only for BMW drivers.
Back to the time trial. I rushed into my room got my recent letter from the transport department notifying me that I had taken on ownership of my E36 328i sedan. Back in the car, reversed like there was no cats in the neighbourhood and putted it into "Drive". I arrived back in the city just 10 minute before the library closed. I then found a parking spot and walked in the library door 6 minutes before closing time only to be met by a security guard telling me they had closed. I could do nothing but accept it and walk back to my car and drive home.
What a dissapointment.
1. Go where noone else is going, nomatter what
2. When aproaching a light go wherever the lights want you to go, meaning the first green. Only excepted if it is directly into rush hour traffic or onto the highway.
3. Highway must be avoided at all cost
4. Have a good tune in the radio
5. LOVE driving
6. Dont read signs, if you wnat to go somewhere special do it by landmarks, if you know no landmarks then start driving and get to know your sorroundings.
I ended up in a north western part of Auckland I cant even recall what is called. Afterthat I suddenly found myself near the airport. There i found 3 levels of carpark where you could park with the front towards the airport so you could see the planes come in. Now i just need to find out when Emirates lands with their Airbus A380 next time.
After some time driving around(not wrong, there is no wrong, remember?) I got home and got trapped in Youtube watching danish comedy :)
Today I was reading online it struck my mind that i wanted to go to the library to rent a book and go to the airport to read and watch planes. I then went for the library homepage to find out what kind of ID was needed to sign up as member. I packed everything needed in my car and went to the city centre as that was the only one open at the time. I got in and found a parking spot in a secound, lucky me. Then I discovered that Ive forgotten a letter to prove my adress.... It was now a race against time. 40 minutes untill the library closed against me with a speed limit saying 100, it would be close.
On my way back home an old E36 wanted to pull out in front of me and he started blinking, I let off the throttle to make room but he didnt pull out. I then flashed with my headlamps and he pulled out, thanking me with his hazard lights. It was here I thought of the word, "Bimmerratery" from now on it will be the same friendship as taxi drivers have to each other, just only for BMW drivers.
Back to the time trial. I rushed into my room got my recent letter from the transport department notifying me that I had taken on ownership of my E36 328i sedan. Back in the car, reversed like there was no cats in the neighbourhood and putted it into "Drive". I arrived back in the city just 10 minute before the library closed. I then found a parking spot and walked in the library door 6 minutes before closing time only to be met by a security guard telling me they had closed. I could do nothing but accept it and walk back to my car and drive home.
What a dissapointment.
Wellington weekend
Lesson learned: A car is like a woman, it needs a cup of liquid to keep quit. (in my case it was the engine needing a bit oil in order to lubricate properly and it caused a tapping sound :( )
We drove down to Wellington friday morning at half passed 7 after brimming the car with this octane 91/butter they are selling down here.
The trip went smooth and we did a few stops. First at Huka falls wich was a great waterfall, looked good and there were some good scenic viewpoints. The secound stop we made was in Palmerston North where we visited the local BMW Dealer to have a look at the stock they had.
We then went for a walk in the city square, and after a few minutes of walking we see a guy writing parkin tickets and then it struck me, "I didnt see anywhere to pay when parking", the speed back to the car were a bit higher than away from it, though we managed to stop at Hallensteins(mens fashion store) to buy a white longsleve t-shirt for Thorsten so he would fit in with the crowd at the soccer game on saturday night. We got back to the car but lucky me, no extra paper to be found on the car, and I have not recieved anything by mail...so far.
We arrived at our hostel and we decided to take it easy, therefore we headed to Pack and save and bought 12 Heineken and to Subway to pickup our dinner. We then got back to the hostel and started to eat, we came in talk with another German guy(germans... they are everywhere...). After we had eaten we started a game of Taboo. To those of you who dont know the game it goes like this: you draw a card with 6 words on it. the top one is the word you have to explain to your "game partner" and the 5 others are words you are not allowed to use. We started out quite badly due to a shrinken vocabulary but soon the heineken started to expand it and our capability to guess so we ended up being quite good, eventhough Markus tried to convince us that his shirt was made of the word he was trying to explain which was "cottage".
Saturday morning we took the train to wellington from Paraumu where we were staying and the first thing which struck me after entering the train was: "....I forgot my ipod". I managed to kill time by looking at the scenery and have a phonecall to my cousin.
We wandered around in Wellington for the whole day, we did a guided tour in the parliament, took a ride with the cable cars and walked at the harbor.
The clock soon turned 4.00 pm and it was time to do the warm up for the soccer game in order to avoid injuries. We managed to find a nice Irish pub, or better descriped an AWESOME Irish pub. It was a brilliant athmosphere inside with flags, decorations and drunk people.
We stayed there until it was time to go to Westpac Stadium. We soon got caught by a group of All white(NZ national team name) and we went with them through the city singing(pretending to know the lyrics) and had a great time.
Entrance to the stadium was the easiest ever, we scanned the end of our ticket like an Etix at the airport and walked to the first two white dressed girls we could see to get inflateble "clappers" (dont know what they are called). We walked in and found our seats. GREAT SEATS directly in the middle of the field, almost the chair next to the waterboy. I was quite impressed because it was last chance tickets we got them in a secound round of 500 extra releases.
The game got on and the crowd was on fire, 19 out of 20 was NZ supporters and the rest was a mixture of referees and bahrain fans. it really was great home support to the guys.
We joined at our best, drinking NZ Tui beer and cheering.
Our cheering paid off, NZ won 1 - 0 and therefore qualified for the World Cup next year. Best soccer result since 1982.
The rest of the night got well invested and with great return.
The return trip the next day was quite boring. You can do 100km/h everwhere in NZ and you are allowed. Its just boring, there are a few times where it gets a bit exciting, not because you are allowed to do 100 but because eve a horse would complain about the quality of the road. It keeps you awake while driving, cause you newer know when the car will do something unforseen.
We drove down to Wellington friday morning at half passed 7 after brimming the car with this octane 91/butter they are selling down here.
The trip went smooth and we did a few stops. First at Huka falls wich was a great waterfall, looked good and there were some good scenic viewpoints. The secound stop we made was in Palmerston North where we visited the local BMW Dealer to have a look at the stock they had.
We then went for a walk in the city square, and after a few minutes of walking we see a guy writing parkin tickets and then it struck me, "I didnt see anywhere to pay when parking", the speed back to the car were a bit higher than away from it, though we managed to stop at Hallensteins(mens fashion store) to buy a white longsleve t-shirt for Thorsten so he would fit in with the crowd at the soccer game on saturday night. We got back to the car but lucky me, no extra paper to be found on the car, and I have not recieved anything by mail...so far.
We arrived at our hostel and we decided to take it easy, therefore we headed to Pack and save and bought 12 Heineken and to Subway to pickup our dinner. We then got back to the hostel and started to eat, we came in talk with another German guy(germans... they are everywhere...). After we had eaten we started a game of Taboo. To those of you who dont know the game it goes like this: you draw a card with 6 words on it. the top one is the word you have to explain to your "game partner" and the 5 others are words you are not allowed to use. We started out quite badly due to a shrinken vocabulary but soon the heineken started to expand it and our capability to guess so we ended up being quite good, eventhough Markus tried to convince us that his shirt was made of the word he was trying to explain which was "cottage".
Saturday morning we took the train to wellington from Paraumu where we were staying and the first thing which struck me after entering the train was: "....I forgot my ipod". I managed to kill time by looking at the scenery and have a phonecall to my cousin.
We wandered around in Wellington for the whole day, we did a guided tour in the parliament, took a ride with the cable cars and walked at the harbor.
The clock soon turned 4.00 pm and it was time to do the warm up for the soccer game in order to avoid injuries. We managed to find a nice Irish pub, or better descriped an AWESOME Irish pub. It was a brilliant athmosphere inside with flags, decorations and drunk people.
We stayed there until it was time to go to Westpac Stadium. We soon got caught by a group of All white(NZ national team name) and we went with them through the city singing(pretending to know the lyrics) and had a great time.
Entrance to the stadium was the easiest ever, we scanned the end of our ticket like an Etix at the airport and walked to the first two white dressed girls we could see to get inflateble "clappers" (dont know what they are called). We walked in and found our seats. GREAT SEATS directly in the middle of the field, almost the chair next to the waterboy. I was quite impressed because it was last chance tickets we got them in a secound round of 500 extra releases.
The game got on and the crowd was on fire, 19 out of 20 was NZ supporters and the rest was a mixture of referees and bahrain fans. it really was great home support to the guys.
We joined at our best, drinking NZ Tui beer and cheering.
Our cheering paid off, NZ won 1 - 0 and therefore qualified for the World Cup next year. Best soccer result since 1982.
The rest of the night got well invested and with great return.
The return trip the next day was quite boring. You can do 100km/h everwhere in NZ and you are allowed. Its just boring, there are a few times where it gets a bit exciting, not because you are allowed to do 100 but because eve a horse would complain about the quality of the road. It keeps you awake while driving, cause you newer know when the car will do something unforseen.
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Quick update
Internet breakdown.
Will update as soon as it will be back up and running.
Status for now:
GOOOOOD
moving to newmarket on 20th of November in a nice house with some cool people.
Going to the FIFA world cup qualifier NZ vs. Bahrain this weekend. biggest soccer game in nz since 1982 so quite excited about that one, especially if they win, long night is planned :)
Big rework of this blog scheduled as soon as I get internet again and not like now where im in a internet cafe paying $1.5 pr 30 minutes + parking fee.
ps. Google analytics is broken :)
Will update as soon as it will be back up and running.
Status for now:
GOOOOOD
moving to newmarket on 20th of November in a nice house with some cool people.
Going to the FIFA world cup qualifier NZ vs. Bahrain this weekend. biggest soccer game in nz since 1982 so quite excited about that one, especially if they win, long night is planned :)
Big rework of this blog scheduled as soon as I get internet again and not like now where im in a internet cafe paying $1.5 pr 30 minutes + parking fee.
ps. Google analytics is broken :)
Sunday 18 October 2009
Yet another weekend :)
The last hours of this weekend is approaching where alot of money have been lost but alot of knowleged have been gained.
Friday was Thorstens birthsday and we went to the harbor building to watch some ligts getting beamed onto it. There were different types of ligts, everything from making the buildling looking like it was mid winter with snow in the windows to small black and white video flash backs and animals walking over the building. We thereafter went to a mexican restaurant, and I must admit, Im not impressed. I ordered a Burito with beef and it came on a VERY hot plate with some rice and what seemed to be chili con carne or something like that. The chili con carne didnt look any good at all and i noticed after a little that thre were skin on it, Im not sure if it was there when I got it or if it came during the time i had the plate, but it didnt really taste of that much.
We then went to Skycity in order to visit the casino and blow up some money in a game of blackjack. Yet again I was a bit disapointed, the dealer made the game so fast you didnt have time to enjoy it and it felt like the casino were just ripping you off and harvesting money from you. Im not sure how people turns into casino addicts. The only thing which will get me back is if I can get 100% insurance that I will win, then Ill head back and take my revenge, but until then Ill rather play Lotto and then do my blackjack online for gamemoney in a more comfotable speed.
We briefly visited the poker lounge upstairs but not much were going on, a few tables were playing but other than that there were a few people winning CENTS on slot maschines, the highest win we spotted up there were 8 dollar 75 cents. Cmon people go collect bottles instead, you cant tell me that youre enjoying autoplay and a total win of 8 dollar 75 cent....
After a disapointing first time casino experience we went for the Auckland dancefloors to see if there was anything going on. The bounce told me that he knew me (???(he got good memory, only been there 4 times since 1. september) and we got in and found that it was going quite good. The only odd thing about this friday was the amout of traffic on the floor people commuted from the front to the back and you got pushed around all the time because of people wanting to go somewhere else.
We left at around 2 am and hired a taxi to get home, I gave him my EFTPOS car in order to pay and he only had the old system where he used a slide to copy card details, but it just came to my mind that there is no expiry date on my eftpos card som im excited to see if we got a free taxi home.
On saturday I wanted to sleep the whole morning because I was devastated friday evening but I got badly interrupted by the chinese part of the house having a conversation in the kitchen. No hard feelings for them, they just talk LOUD!
Thorsten and Markus asked me if I wanted to come with them to coromandel at 1pm but I didnt want to go because its one of those thing close to Auckland that I really want to save until my family is here.
So basicly my saturday and sunday have been spent on reading, writing and talking to friends and family in europe. The time is now 7 pm and Im about to make dinner with a push of a button and then all my attention will be on ironing shirts for the next weeks usage until dinner arrives.
So long!
Cheers
Friday was Thorstens birthsday and we went to the harbor building to watch some ligts getting beamed onto it. There were different types of ligts, everything from making the buildling looking like it was mid winter with snow in the windows to small black and white video flash backs and animals walking over the building. We thereafter went to a mexican restaurant, and I must admit, Im not impressed. I ordered a Burito with beef and it came on a VERY hot plate with some rice and what seemed to be chili con carne or something like that. The chili con carne didnt look any good at all and i noticed after a little that thre were skin on it, Im not sure if it was there when I got it or if it came during the time i had the plate, but it didnt really taste of that much.
We then went to Skycity in order to visit the casino and blow up some money in a game of blackjack. Yet again I was a bit disapointed, the dealer made the game so fast you didnt have time to enjoy it and it felt like the casino were just ripping you off and harvesting money from you. Im not sure how people turns into casino addicts. The only thing which will get me back is if I can get 100% insurance that I will win, then Ill head back and take my revenge, but until then Ill rather play Lotto and then do my blackjack online for gamemoney in a more comfotable speed.
We briefly visited the poker lounge upstairs but not much were going on, a few tables were playing but other than that there were a few people winning CENTS on slot maschines, the highest win we spotted up there were 8 dollar 75 cents. Cmon people go collect bottles instead, you cant tell me that youre enjoying autoplay and a total win of 8 dollar 75 cent....
After a disapointing first time casino experience we went for the Auckland dancefloors to see if there was anything going on. The bounce told me that he knew me (???(he got good memory, only been there 4 times since 1. september) and we got in and found that it was going quite good. The only odd thing about this friday was the amout of traffic on the floor people commuted from the front to the back and you got pushed around all the time because of people wanting to go somewhere else.
We left at around 2 am and hired a taxi to get home, I gave him my EFTPOS car in order to pay and he only had the old system where he used a slide to copy card details, but it just came to my mind that there is no expiry date on my eftpos card som im excited to see if we got a free taxi home.
On saturday I wanted to sleep the whole morning because I was devastated friday evening but I got badly interrupted by the chinese part of the house having a conversation in the kitchen. No hard feelings for them, they just talk LOUD!
Thorsten and Markus asked me if I wanted to come with them to coromandel at 1pm but I didnt want to go because its one of those thing close to Auckland that I really want to save until my family is here.
So basicly my saturday and sunday have been spent on reading, writing and talking to friends and family in europe. The time is now 7 pm and Im about to make dinner with a push of a button and then all my attention will be on ironing shirts for the next weeks usage until dinner arrives.
So long!
Cheers
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