My Birthday

December 19th, 2009 Filed under: Life, Restaurants, Reviews | Tags: birthday, canterbury university, China Kitchen, chinese, christchurch, Copper Chime, food, graduation, indian, ivy, preschool

Talk about what I did on my birthday; graduation, visit to my old pre-school, great meals.

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Fashion Show

December 18th, 2009 Filed under: Life | Tags: dress, fashion, ivy, men, suit, women

Ivy’s year 2 fashion show for CPIT.

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Xmas Due at Santorini

December 4th, 2009 Filed under: Life, Restaurants | Tags: chrismas, greek, ivy, party, santorini, vlog

Ivy had her Xmas work due tonight at a Greek Restaurant called Santorini. Was more fun than I expected it to be.

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Lovely Sunday Night

July 2nd, 2009 Filed under: Life | Tags: flat, ivy, office space, printer, University

Sunday night, I’m sitting down watching Beverly Highs Cop on C4 getting ready for a relaxing night before heading to bed around midnight. Ivy on the other hand, had an assignment due Monday morning which she still had to do quite a bit on. She was settling in for an all nighter.

Midnight rolls around and I’m about to hit the sack, when Ivy calls out for me “Ki where’s the printer ink I ask you to get me? The printer just ran out of ink!”. Shit! I knew I forgot something. My answer of “Umm didn’t get it” doesn’t go down to well.

Ok, it’s midnight, it’s Sunday and we are in New Zealand. Where can I get some ink for Ivy to print the rest of the stuff she needs for her assignment. Mum’s house? I wake up the flatmates to grab their car keys and move their cars to get Ivy’s out. I drive out to mum’s place thinking that I’ll just grab her printer and bring it back to the flat. Too bad, mum’s printer is out of ink too.

Now it’s 1am and still no ink. At this point all I could think about was that scene from Office Space where they take the printer out to the field and kick the shit out of it. But I hold my composure and and think. OK, I can take Ivy out to Uni and use their 24 hour computer labs to print off her stuff. Of course this means I’ll have to go with her so that she can get in. Good news right? Well kind of, she hasn’t finished everything that she needs to print, so I’m stuck watching Seinfeld dvd’s until she’s ready to head off to Uni.

4 am, rolls around and we drive into Uni. Thank goodness we get in after a hairy couple of seconds with an beeping keypad on the door to the lab. We print everything off and are home just after 5 am.

Now it’s really to early in the morning to go to bed only to get up at 7 and go to pre-school. Couple more episodes of Seinfeld an then we head off to school and work. Let me tell you dealing with 20+ 2 to 5 years olds is hard work, even with a solid 7 hours sleep, but it’s just painful with no sleep.

Got home after work and grabbed a quick bite to eat before falling asleep. My bed has never felt so good before.

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Dinner and a View

January 11th, 2009 Filed under: Life | Tags: food, ivy

Since we have been having such nice weather here in Christchurch, Ivy and I have taken to eating our dinner out on the front porch. We live right next door to a dairy and it is amazing the amount of foot traffic we get outside. It has been nice to do a bit of people watching while talking with Ivy rather than sitting in front of the tube during dinner. I would suggest you trying to eat outside whenever you get the chance.

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