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“So, how was your weekend, Robyn?”
“Oh, you know, the usual.”
“Did you get up to much?”
“Yeah, I spat in Auckland’s water supply.”

Scenic Drive is one of my favourite roads in the world. It runs along the top of the Waitakere Ranges (“only 25 minutes drive from downtown Auckland!”) and it’s surrounded by either lush green bush, [...]

Contact Lenses

I got contact lenses. I came home the day I’d got them and I excitedly told Xris, my flatmate at the time, that I had them. He said that once he’d had contact lenses, but had given up after about a year because in the end he just couldn’t be bothered wearing them anymore.

I remember [...]

Kevin Smith

Kevin Smith made one good film. For argument’s sake, we shall call this film “ClerksMallRatsChasingAmyDogma” (CMRCAD). All his other films, namely “Clerks”, “Mall Rats”, “Chasing Amy” and “Dogma” are just rehashes of CMRCAD.

Kev’s first film, “Clerks”, took the CMRCAD formula and applied it to the generation X slacker comedy genre. Following in the footsteps of [...]

Sarcasm

In the midst of the mishmash of vowels and consonants that we call the English language, there are things called words. Words have meanings, and usually the meaning stay the same over the years. Except sometimes they change. Sometimes the meanings totally reverse!

Charming

You know what charming means. You know that someone who is charming is [...]

Teeth

I had something stuck between my teeth. While I was fiddling around with dental floss in front of the bathroom mirror, I noticed what appeared to be a hole in one of my molars. Uh oh. How long had it been since I last went to the dentist? Er… about three years. I quickly got [...]