Musings of an Idiot

So after 5 years of living on the North Shore, I am finally making a move into the city as it made more and more sense. So after some house hunting - managed to get a nice 4 bedroom place in Grey Lynn. The rental process is a bit weird because you look at the place, then put in an application, they do reference checks and then decide who they are giving the place to - so it was pretty nice getting the place relatively easily. Now just have to find 2 more flatmates and Lance is on the task, so hopefully we will have them as we move in towards the end of this month. The best thing about the place is that it puts me in walking distance to almost anywhere central - so I can most probably walk everywhere and I am just toying with the idea of getting myself a road bike to cycle to work since it is only 3 KM from the house. The possibilities are endless and I am keeping a lid on them till I actually move into the place.

One of the things I love about NZ is the inorganic collection. Each suburb/locality has 1 day in a year where they put out any old/damaged stuff out on the streets, so that the council can remove it or if you want to you can drive around to pickup any stuff you might deem useful to you. Last night, Lance came back from work saying that there was inorganic collection in Torbay, so we went searching for any thing useful we could find for the flat. It was heaps of fun and we ended up with 5 decent chairs [4 deck chairs and 1 lounge chair] and 8 cups. :-)

'Grace is Gone' is a wonderful little movie. The performances by John Cusack and the 2 girls are sensitive and understated but spot on. For something that was made on such a shoe string budget it hits above it's weight and succeeds in dealing with such a hard topic.

I took a political test online at Political Compass to see what my political leanings are and it turns out that my political views are similar to Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Dalai Lama - which makes me a liberal leftist. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. You can do the test on the website for free, to see where you really stand. Or just to look at how the scale works you can check out this page directly. The thought which cracked me up was what happens if someone does the test and finds out that their political leanings are similar to Hitler. I amuse myself sometimes :-)

That's me for now.
Till later,
Amit