Update 12:15pm: Not too much happening, it looks like the last Tsunami warning we had. No reporters getting swamped away on the news even.
Update 11:41am: Taking me and my cats to see if we can get closer to the action. Northwestern, here we come.
Update 11:30am: The boats moored near my house are moving around a [...]

Yesterday we had a real nice day at Bethells lake (since it’s our last week of freedom before uni gets back). We jumped in Nick’s car and put on some nice summer music for the 30 minute or so drive.
The walk there gives you two options – walk over the massive dunes that’s like a [...]

このすごく楽しい夏休みが来週から終わる。残念だな。ニュージーランドの大学の最初１週間はオーウイークと言う。オーウイークは１年生になる学生のために１週間でコンサートとか祭りがある。１年生とり年を取ってる僕たちにはもう大学のことを分てるから緊張なくて行けるから今年には出来るだけオーウイークを楽しんでみたい。１年生の時に勉強はすごく大変かどうか分からなかったからパーティーを易しくしたらいいかなと思った。でも今年はもう分かるから勉強しないといけない前にパーティーいっぱいしょ〜と思てるよ！　じゃそれで出掛けるかな。。

Summer Haze by Shapeshifter (awesome NZ music) is one of my all time favorite songs. Over the summer I’ve built up a whole lot of small clips on my phone, and so I put them together to go with this song. I hope you enjoy it.

My massive summer holiday is drawing to an end, but we just squeezed in another camping trip before uni starts back. We went to Anchor bay again, this time for 3 days. The drive up was fine, apart from nearly crashing into another car on the one lane road just before the beach. We [...]

I bought a mahogany ukulele the other day because I want to start getting back into music — unlike during semester, during summer break I have realized that other than work there isn’t much else that I like to do (I normally don’t have time). Although a guitar would have been pretty good too, a [...]

A bit of background: everyone came to town last night – it was awesome. It is kind of hard to co-ordinate everyone so people did end off chipping off at various points during the night. I think there is a new club open in town or something, called Nachoes (and possibly owned by the Margaritas [...]