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Cuba Street Carnival

Over the weekend Wellington had the Cuba Street Carnival, a fairly big even in Wellington where they close down parts of the CBD and set up a big fair. The carnival runs on Friday and Saturday, Friday was not so exciting with rain during the event, but that still drew...

Drama in the hostel

I’ve been living in a hostel for the last week now; it has been going as good as can be expected for living in a hostel. Not too many rowdy people in my room even got a couple of cute girls in there for a little while. However this morning something interesting...

Sevens has come to Wellington

The international Sevens tournament is in town. Yesterday there was the team parade outside out work; it was hard to not throw my bottle at the American float. Finally the Canadian team came by, and only one person cheered. Everyone around me looked at me like I was...

Way behind on my postings

It’s been almost a month since my last post, where to begin? Work continues on as usual, a lot of routine involved there. The project continues to have it’s ups and downs, but the experience is great and I get to work with a lot of cool IBM developer...

Happy New Year

Last night we celebrated New Years hard. Matt flew in and we met up in town around 2:30 and hung out for a bit. Did the usual stuff, Subway, Starbucks, Manners, and then headed back up to my flat to start drinking. We dove into our 24 Speight’s, plugged in the iPod,...

Happy Holidays

Yesterday my friend Ivan from university came out to Wellington for the day. I showed him around the downtown areas, Manners Mall, and Cuba Street. We shopped for a while looking at New Zealand clothing for something he could take home. We went up to the top of the...