A while ago a thought about the above came to me, and it’s elegant in it’s simplicity. If you love someone, you want them to be happy. If you’re in love with someone, you want them to be happy with you.
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P.S. The Caipiroska Recipe!
Ingredients
- Vodka (4 doubles)
- Limes (2 cut into eighths)
- Ice (cubes)
- a little sugar (raw)
Directions:
- Crush sugar into the lime wedges with a spoon.
- Place the lime wedges in the bottom of an 8 oz. glass.
- Cover with crushed ice, fill glass with vodka, and serve.
Easy.
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Where NOT to eat in Auckland part 1: The Observatory
If a restaurant is going to be put towards of the top of the Sky Tower, it should at least be a reasonable restaurant. A simple idea I thought, but apparently not. We had talked about going to the above for friends’ father’s birthday but ended up going elsewhere (a good thing for all concerned). This time around myself and another decided to take in the views and what should well be a great buffet experience.
The evening started off well enough – $10 in a pokie yielded $100, apparently thanks to my lucky charm. Things went downhill from there though.A request for a Caprioska at the first bar resulted in blank looks and a shrug of the shoulders. I decided to ask at a couple of other bars in Sky City – same blank look, same unwillingness to ask us to wait while they went and found out what the hell we were on about. This is a bar that is touted as a tourist attraction to fair Auckland, as well.
I’ve said it before: customer service in NZ is poor. When the barman finally got around to making it, I counted at least 8 pours of vodka though, which helped ease the frustration somewhat…
We then went up to the Sky Bar, to find the same thing (ok – maybe by now we were just playing with them) from the American tending the bar there. Surely the meal experience will make up for this.
Nope.
We arrive, and the Maitre ‘D leads us to a table immediately in front of the cash register, while there’s a number of others further around empty. Argh. Surely the food will make up for this.
Nope.
The chef must have felt deficient in many areas in life, as the food by and large was overdressed, overcomplicated, and very much had the appearance of someone trying too hard. With food, often less is more, and the appearance and taste was a mishmash.
Overall verdict: Valentines at three times the price (with a slightly better view).
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I’m slack.
I’ve been told this by a number of people now, as I don’t update my blog enough. I agree!
When I have a moment, I’ll spend it telling you why I was too busy to tell you what’s been happening.
Simple…
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The Return.
The last couple of months have been hectic, and with all the goings on I haven’t had time to bring mirth and merriment to the readership of ThinkSpace. However, everything’s falling into place, and I’ll be keeping everyone up to date via here (and the family site for the unfortunate people related to me!).
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For Sale. One satellite. Slightly used. Slightly goes.
Trademe strikes again. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=52360702
I wonder if the Lamborghini that was listed on trademe a month or two ago will tow it?
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$?%^&!
I come home after being AWOL for ages to find one Cappuccino chocolate left from a whole box of Guylian chocolates. I don’t even drink coffee you sots!
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A Xmas party like no other!
As it was in February, for starters.
The nzwireless 2005 Xmas party, brought to you by – err – nzwireless. It’s always going to be a great party when the guests turn up to the venue and there’s a row of shotguns waiting. Followed by more guns with which we can shoot each other carte blanche. I’m not sure the golfers on the course next door to the field we were in were quite so rapt about it, but it’s golf; who cares.
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Smashing a Ford GT: A ‘How To’ guide
For those who asked – here’s one potential way 🙂
- Stop at traffic light on red
- Upon the light turning green, give it a bootful
- Rapidly release clutch, causing copious amounts of wheelspin and tire smoke
- Proceed to move forward slowly, at a rate of knots inconsistent with rotational rate of rear tires
- Enjoy the lulling effect of the rear of the car moving from side to side with increasing frequency
- Note with alarm the barrier approaching via the window – the window in the door, that is
- Brace for impact as the GT gives the barrier a nudge
- Decide that symmetry is important, and clean the other side of the GT out with a telephone pole
- Wonder why the CD didn’t skip during the aforementioned pirouettes.
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First a Murcielago; now a Ford GT
New Zealanders really seem to have developed a penchant for giving factory unauthorised facelifts to exoticas – the latest is this Ford GT. Even worse – these can’t be replaced once renovated, as Ford have just announced they’ve stopped production of the model.
Some of you may recognise the car in question – if you haven’t already given the person responsible some grief; please do so! It may look pretty bad, but the airbags didn’t even go off; it was a few smaller collisions with inanimate objects, as opposed to one big one.
p.s. I said I wouldn’t email the pics to all and sundry – as anyone can attest to – I didn’t email pics to anyone 🙂