Musings of an Idiot

It has been a busy few days - it always is with the studio shows at school. Wednesday evening was interesting to say the least - bumped into old acquaintances, went to a farewell party for one of the people I know at TVNZ, went onto another party, discovered a Russian restaurant in parnell (only to find that it was owned by the Russian couple who earlier ran a cafe next to our school).

I kept pushing the US distributor to tell me how 'Memories' was doing and it is not doing too bad but we still haven't made any money out of it. It has been sold to Thailand for DVD rental or something and the distributor is planning to take it to the buyers market at Cannes this year, so small but interesting things happening on that front- hopefully it will provide us a better audience base for 'Nowhere to Love'.

The drinking culture in NZ still amazes me and it feels like decadence of culture. The NZ Dollar is falling rapidly against all major currencies, which is a cause for worry because that affects the cost of living a fair bit with petrol prices going up and commodities prices going up at the same time. Plus obviously means I have to earn more to pay off my student loan - what a bummer. On a positive note - the North Shore city council have decided to buy the Victoria theatre instead of letting it be sold off to be made into apartment blocks.

I cooked some chicken with 'Nandos' sauces and it was yummy...Mouthwatering good. My room has turned into a mess again and that will be part of this weekend's agenda - to clean it up. The days have been so long that all I seem to do is work - go home and sleep - get up and goto work again. I will have to balance it out over the next couple of weeks.

Off for now,
Amit