Josh Waihi 2.1

Originally, I was going to talk about my mad weekend I had but I think I might leave that to facebook. Which leads me to the title of this blog. I have to reason no longer to continue my personal blog. Most of my person stuff I update on facebook and all my geek stuff is on geek.joshwaihi.com. so it is with that that I have decided to retire this blog and focus on my geek stuff (for now) and Brooklyn Road Music (http://brooklynroadmusic.com) and maybe one day open this blog up once again.

Just cooked this for dinner!

Serves 2

Ingredients:

• 2 lambchops
• 1 courgette
• 1 carrot
• 2 portobello mushrooms
• 2 asparagus
• half a capsicum
• 2 potatoes
• a few bits of brocolli
• Olive oil
• crushed garlic

Method:

Dice the potatoes and boil them on the stove. While the potatoes are cooking, thinly cut the courgette and carrot vertically into strips. Thinkly cut the capsicum in the same manor.

Tonight is my final night in Paris. Tomorrow, I fly out for Rome, Italy. In the small time I've spent here I have found Paris to be sooo amazing and beautiful and romantic and amazing. I've been up the effiel tower (without a camera), done the arche de triumph, la defense, ridden the Metro too many times, bicycled around Paris, eaten snails, drunken good French wine, become addicted to Crepes, done shopping, attended Drupalcon, meet people for the first time that I've know for a while and seen and tasted what this city has had to offer in more ways than one ;)

Today is the last day for Drupalcon presentations. The final day tomorrow is a code sprint to get the last things in for code freeze beofre the slush starts.

I arrived into Paris just after 9pm really really tired. My private driver (thats right!) didn't understand a word of english but I manged to communicate to him who I was and where we were going. After 30 hours and 30 mins traveling I finally arrived around 11pm at Hotel Kyriad. I unpacked, had a bath and went to bed. 

I'm sitting in a cafe in Hong Kong airport. I have 5 hours here so I was gonna go outside and see some sights and sounds. I got my Passport stamped, went outside and got confused as to which bus to catch to get to Tung Chung to see the big Budda. Unfortunately I found the somewhat simple bus system a  little too overwhelming so I flagged the idea and the heat (cause I'm wearing jeans and a leather jacket thank you very much Wellington) to stay close to the airport and air conditioned facilites. 

yeah nah yeah, I know I haven't blogged in like ever. Lots has happenedbut I'll save that for another blog another time. This blog is about my plans for Europe. I leave on the 29th of August whic is like 16 days away - It getting really exciting and scary at the sametime.

So I want to share with you where I'm going and when I'll be there - if you're local let me know and we can hook up.

Its easy to get into a comfortable place and not move; good flat, good house mates and of course, good friends. You find youself in a routine that you're comfortable with.

This weekend me and the boys went up to Auckland for a bit of a party, we also took the chance to celebrate my birthday prematurely (its on the 24th of June). As any twenty something year boys would do, we hit the town and partied it up on Saturday, had a great night - the stories, well, "what goes on tour, stays on tour". The morning after, or, well, the afternoon that is, we awoke, got ourselves sorted, then they tell me, an hour before hand that I'm going to jump off the Habour Bridge!

So stoked! I entered this competition called IT Rockstar put on by ninetwenty here in New Zealand. Its all about celebrating IT and appreciating the people in it, behind the scenes, who are never normally in the lime light. To enter, I had to submit an application and told them what I did that made me a rockstar. Next came a few weeks of voting by the public that cut down the entires to 10 people then 5.