Musings of an Idiot

Piha

Julia had invited me to a party at Piha for farewell of one of her flatmates, who has to return to UK because she couldn't get her work permit renewed. I was in 2 minds about it - first and foremost because I still hadn't made up my mind about going to the lecture by Marcus Chown and then I wasn't sure if I wanted to go to a party. Anyone who knows me well enough will know my avoidance of parties for some deep psychological reasons I have yet to fathom. As soon as I made up my mind that I might give the party a go - I started coming down with flu on Friday morning and it was the most annoying thing ever because it was my first weekend off in ages and I didn't want to spend the entire weekend recovering from an illness.

I somehow got through the work day and decided to skip the gym in favour of a short nap to see if I could sleep off my illness but it didn't really help much and I was feeling a little queasy by the time Julia came to pick me up. The drive to Piha at night didn't exactly improve the matters either because of the curvy roads through the hills and when we did arrive at Piha Beachstay where the party I was pretty happy to be on a solid ground and not move at all.

The party turned out to be a really relaxed and chilled out affair. Met some really interesting people and I started feeling better as the night went on. There were conversations, there was music, there was food and best of all the location itself was pretty unique. Here are some pics from the party.

I woke up pretty early for a Saturday after a late night party and I had decided early on that I wanted to go for a walk on the beach - first and foremost because Piha has this raw energy that I wanted to experience and the second was that I wanted to get a couple of pics for my online polaroid exhibition. I was still not feeling 100% but in a much better shape than the night before. Julia accompanied me on the walk and it turned out to be a fantastic morning with no rain to spoil the excursion. Here are some pics from the walk.


After a lovely day at Piha, I got dropped off home and since then I have been sleeping, eating, recovering from the flu. I have skipped another gym session but I figured that it is better to recover completely and then give it your all rather than damaging your health further by not letting your body cope and recover.

It was a great outing to Piha and I got a couple of lovely shots on my polaroid, soI am a happy chappy and I am now off recovering some more.
Till later,
Amit

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posted by Amit @ 7:54 PM