gone
The cab’s here and I’m outta here bound for Shangai. Have a good week all
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money
I discovered today how difficult it is to find Chinese currency! None of the major banks carried Yuan 🙁 I…
speedy
At last Telecom got my broadband installed. This happened on Thursday and I’m getting about 3.5Mb/s (vs 7Mb/s into the…
weekend-end
Another far to short weekend over unfortunately 🙁
Highlights of the weekend? Going to our friend Brent’s 40th birthday party on Saturday night. There were five babies there with four of them being two sets of twins! The great thing about the night was watching the All Blacks thrashing world champs England 36-3 in the Rugby. YES!!
Then on Sunday evening we got to see Shrek2. Funny, funny movie. The thought and detail that went into some of the gags was amazing (keep an eye on the shop names in Far, Far away land!) If you get the chance, and enjoyed the first one, go and see it – it’s even better.
The cool thing is we got to see it in the private studio theatre at Weta Digital (the people that did LOTR) It’s a great little 120 seat theatre with the best sound I’ve heard (as you’d expect) and all the popcorn, soda and sweets were free 
friends
I forgot to do an update earlier this week – lazy bugger! ? David and Claire came down from Auckland…
buggy
Vic partook in, and won, her first on-line auction today. She was bidding on this used mountain buggy. She seems…
courting trouble
I’ve just finished my two days of jury service at the high court 
I was called up for a possible two week stint and was a possible juror for two trials. In the end I didn’t get picked for either and didn’t even make it past the random ballot stage which was good.
The trial that started yesterday was a murder trial and was expected to go for up to two weeks and I’m not sure what the one today was for. Yesterday’s trial made the newspaper today and I have scanned in the details – they are found in the “click here..” section of this entry. I’m glad I didn’t have to see pictures of that!
another trip
I got back from Oz very early (01:00) yesterday morning in one piece and am very glad to be back. This trip was extremely busy as I was told on Wednesday that one of my customers wanted a proposal by Friday morning! The only night that I had planned as free time I ended up working in my hotel room from 5pm though to 11:30pm 🙁
Besides that the most interesting news was that my next trip (at the moment) will be in 3 months to Shanghai! We will be having our tech-summit there with all the tech people from AJP (Australia, Pacific and Japan) attending – all 380’ish of them. Should be fun