tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111500892010-10-13T00:44:39.315+13:00A blog on what is happening in my life and what I take from the experience.Mysterious Friendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14745083546094445623noreply@blogger.comBlogger426125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11150089.post-19963123041471667072009-08-07T23:30:00.002+12:002009-08-07T23:44:30.620+12:00

I had a fight night a few weeks back. Basically ten kickboxing fights you watch while drinking. I got offered a seat at a corporate table. During the nights festivities I managed to ask out one of the bargirls. After the fight I drank with a bunch of people, and tried to get some excitement going about going out somewhere. Some of the younger ones 16-18 where going back to one of their places,

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I decided to go up to Blenheim a few weeks back to see a cousin I haven't seen in over ten years. Getting up there Louise gave me a big hug then we went out and got some Coke and L&P and began drinking. It was a Friday night so we went out into town. Blenheim is a lot smaller and only has a few bars. The first bar we went into was pretty much empty. Lousie and I stood outside. Eventually more of

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On friday I completely fucked up one job. I didn't just slightly stuff up the job, but monumentally screwed up; even worse my name was all over the case so I couldn't blame someone else. I fuck up writing the opening case notes, then fucked up writing the notes we work from. Screwed up the dispatch ticket to one of our technicians then when I dispatched a different technician to also take a look

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The Trifecta unfortunately had to be postponed for this weekend, and the next. I've got Martial Arts gradings I have to be at on both gradings. Next weekend I'm heading out Friday night, but still missing out Saturday night so many times is coming a bit annoying.I'm starting to feel like I'm missing some of the old me from last year. The five balls me that could go up to any woman in a bar and

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I had drinks at work on Friday night. The whole team got together ate pizza and had a few beers. As people started to leave I put out the idea that we go out into town and continue drinking, only one guy Dave was keen. Dave and I would occassionally talk about how to meet girls so I was looking forward to see how he operated.Walking into Saints and Sinners I told Dave not to worry getting a drink

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Bronwyn has been telling me we have to go out for dinner and catch up. We finally made a plan to catch up on Friday. I sent her a text during the week asking her if there was a resterunt she wanted to go to, or should I just pick. She told me I could pick.Friday night comes I give her a call the time I said I would. Goes straight to voicemail. I send a text, telling her to text me her address. Go

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My last day of being in Laos I went to a market to buy some souvinours for family and friends. Walking around the market I came saw various stalls that sold IPhones, I was interested to know how much they cost here in Laos. Stopping at one stall I asked the salesman was it actually a IPhone? He pulled the phone out turned it on and showed me that it was indeed an IPhone and had the apple logo

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I've been working on a new website for this blog. I haven't really mentioned it other then the post Firefox is a stink piece of shit. I didn't get it finished last year because I got busy with other things. Now I'm trying to finish it. I had grand plans for all the different things I was going to include on it but have narrowed it down with the aim of getting it up and worrying about all the

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The movie Watchmen has just came out at the theaters, its a great movie if you've read the comic; or should that be Graphic Novel? Do you know the difference between the two? Before answering first have a read of this wikipedia article on comic books, and then read this one on graphic novels.Now your ready to answer the question what is Watchmen?A ComicA Graphic NovelWhoa don't rush. Think about

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NOTE: This happened back in 2008. I wrote the post not long after all this happened but decided to hold back posting it, to be exact to hold it back a year. Suzy at the time was a good friend and though I can be pretty sure she'll never find this post I'd prefer she found it after a good amount of time had past instead of a week after. I must also admit I had a bit of a laugh reading this, that

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It was the Armageddon convention this weekend. To quickly explain what Armageddon is, its a gathering of video game, anime, comic book fans some to sell the mentioned things and the others to buy said things. There's a few quasi celebrities invited, usually voice actors or sci-fi actors. And a few other shows and such but nothing hugely special.John and I decided we need to go Suited up, somebody

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Friday night I met up with John, John's brother and a couple of his friends for a couple of beers. As the jug got emptier the discussion turned to where we should go next. With one of the guys Monkey being newly single and wanting to meet women, John and I bought up Saints and Sinners. Monkey and Jono were keen, the decision had been made.Saints and Sinners was pretty busy, most importantly there

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My scooter has been nothing but a source of trouble, and near death experiences for me. Every couple of months something will happen with that fucking thing. Last thursday driving down the road I found the handling of the bike starting to get sloppy, the back wheel feeling hard. Pulling over I found that I had a flat tyre. I'm I was counting the number of flats I've had I would put the number

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I've now been in Vietnam for four days. All of my tour group have left to go either back home or on to their next destination, leaving me in Ho Chi Minh city by myself. Vietnam is once again different to all the countries, and Ho Chi Minh may very well be my favourite capital. I didn't really get to see much of Bangkok, Vientiane was nice but very small and Phomn Penh was incredibly dodgy; a

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I've been traveling for one month today, it diffidently feels like I've been away from New Zealand for a while. I'm now in Cambodia which is different to Laos in a big way. The beggers here are so much worse then in Thailand its unbelievable. My Mum having not heard my voice in along time decide to ring me the day I went to go to see Angkor Wat. I'm having lunch and my phone goes off. Standing

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Today is my last day in Laos. I've really enjoyed this country and though I wouldn't go and see the tourist sights again I would come back just for the people and the locations. I've mostly met friendly people Lao people and backpackers included. Its not a place you'd come to for excitement but to chill out and enjoy yourself.The main reason I'm on the Internet right now is I'm trying to upload

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I'm in Laos now. Laos is a very laid back, easy going country which I'm really enjoying. I've finished the Thailand part of my trip and there are places like Pattaya I really would like to go back to. Others like Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai I've seen and though they were nice have no desire to go back and see again. The one thing I wished I had done in Thailand was the River Kwai trip and when I

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I'm now fully into my next tour around Northern Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and finishing in Vietnam. In six hours time I have to be up to get on a bus to drive to the border between Thailand and Laos, which means I'm not going to muck around with to much detail in this update.On the 13th my Martial Arts tour ended and all my friends went home. It was a strange feeling sitting in the lobby of the

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I've been in Pattaya, Thailand for 14 days now. Tonight is my last night before I leave for Bangkok tomorrow. I'm going to miss this place. Christchurch doesn't even compare to this place. Its not for everybody but I have came to like this place. The first day I was here I mentioned to somebody standing next to me I could never live here, while that is still fundamentally true; I could stay here

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I bought my notebook down with me today meaning I can write a decent update of what I've been up to. As usual I won't go into huge detail but enough for you to get a picture of what I've been up to. Though I've got to admit I've only written a fraction of what I've been up to, if I wrote it all down it would take me forever.I was walking around one day and passed a guy that came up and handed me

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I'm close to being one week into my trip now and things are going well. I've bought a few more clothes to help get me through my trip but not really much else. A lot of my money has been going on food, alcohol and massages. As I've now started kickboxing training I've stopped drinking for a few days. I've left my notebook which I write what I've been up to in back at the hotel, stopping me from

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I've been in Thailand for two days now and I've got to say the place is amazing. I'm loving every bit of being here. I've already got heaps of stories, I bought a notebook to record what I've been up to and so far I've already used four pages. And that's just noting down what happened in short sentences.But quickly here are a few thing's that have happened.I met two girls in Chch airport and

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I fly out today. In a 5 I'll be on the plane towards Sydney. Its nice and sunny which is good, I'm dressing for when I land in Thailand. Shorts, t-shirt, with a shirt over top. At least I won't be cold in New Zealand for the last couple of hours I'm here.I didn't get the greatest sleep last night. Partly to do with being excited I guess but also because I slept earlier during the day after

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I mentioned that I've been playing a few different online web browser strategy games. Last night I put the final bit of all my plans into action.For the first Utopian account I attacked the Kingdoms Monarch. I woke up today to find this posted in the forum.May 11th, YR6 In intra-kingdom war, Valoury (12:20) attempted to invade Wolfe DesiRes (12:20), but failed.Are you tired of living?- The

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I've finally finished packing. It hasn't been easy I got together everything I thought I may want to take with me, and all that stuff together wasn't very much. Then I went through everything and removed a few things to make it even less. Then I tried to put all that into the backpack. Nope still too much stuff. Pulled everything out and once again checked that I really needed everything, rolled

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