Posts by Kirsten Brethouwer
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This whole competition reeks of cheap. hey, why pay a professional outfit MILLIONS (because we never heard the end of the hoohaa about the cost of the last logo) if we can get everything over and done with for 10 000 and if I read well, not even 10 000 in cash but "The winning entrant will receive a trophy from the judging panel and a prize package of the ‘best of Auckland’ attractions to the value of $10,000."
wTF??? I am a designer and I don't turn my nose up for 10000 dollars but wouldn't it make you feel king of dirty, when you're left holding a trophy in a picture and a bunch of vouchers and another outfit does get paid from that moment on for the actual ongoing design/branding and strategy work? What's wrong with paying people for honest work? -
Talofa Sacha.. all's well with you I hope. Will pass on your greetings.
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thanks Jolisa.. helps me understand some stuff that's "going on" .
re: inquiry learning, did this school by chance have the international baccalaureate's primary years programme implemented? -
I was there roaming Wellington with a group of ten Waiheke women. I did think we were youngish in comparison to most other obvious groups. After thursday opening night WOW we had great fun at the MIghTy Mighty two nights in a row. Shame the City Art Gallery didn't open until Sunday, just as we were getting back on a plane. Apart from that we all thought it was to be repeated. Wellington=good girlie city with lots of shopping and bars that serve cocktails in teacups.
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Three person marriage? is that too much to ask?
the next frontier, after gay marriage in Holland apparently is Group marriage.
Signatures are being collected here:
http://www.petities.nl/petitie/groepshuwelijken/
to petition Dutch parliament (40 000 are needed by September).Funnily enough this one does seem to get support from certain religious groups.
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off topic:
Al Jazeera rocks. Previous BBC world junkies, our Italian tv provider won't give it to us for free, so we converted to Al Jazeera. great stuff. plus everyone who was previously on BBC is now on Al Jazeera. Even Everton Fox. -
peppers make cool little lanterns and start smelling nicely like roast pepper after a little while.
I'm having halloween in the northern hemisphere with my kids that are now really getting it and going to an international school with lots of american kids so we had a proper halloween and I carved my first pumpkin. Always been skeptical living in NZ as it just didn't fit, but all of a sudden it made sense.
re. Matariki..ABSOLUTELY I'll be signing that petition.
One of my problem with winters in NZ has always been the lack a real heartwarming celebration in the middle of winter that cuts the cold/ rainy season in half. -
thank you for that Giovanni, I'm a dutch kiwi that has accidentally ended up in Rome (by accidentally I mean I had no particular plan or dream to live in Italy previously) but since being here I understand that the Italian relationship with food is quite something. First I was amazed and maybe amused, now I've become convinced that this insistance on the attention one gives to nourishment is to be treasured and most of all to be shared and taught.
I do get a bit giggly though when parents at my 6 year old sons school insist on 3 course meals for lunch and on children sitting down at the lunchtable for 45 minutes. I feel like a total barbarian for sending him off to school in NZ with a cheese sandwich. I'm so stoked with having any cooked food for lunch for him at all, really he does not have the patience for primi piatti, secondi piatti, contorni etc. etc. etc. And then another parent suggested that the food would not be digested if they run off into the playground, but that just seemed cruel. Anyway, this is another topic altogether. What I wanted to say is that I very much enjoyed your blog on memory food and I think you should share more of that with us. -
I liked my own wedding. Green dress, on the wharf of the fish netting workshop in the viaduct in Auckland (pretty grungy but waterfront nonetheless), took us 3 weeks to organise, a whole lot of generousity and creativity from friends. The celebrant came from the Rationalist society, he was delighted, didn't get to do many weddings anymore. No parents or family except for my brother. They were too scattered over the globe to all get together at the same time at short notice, so we just went ahead and did it with available friends anyway... took a lot of drama out of the affair and looking back still the best wedding I've been to, which was really just a party in the sun and rain of an october sunday afternoon on a fishing wharf in Auckland. bit late posting this.. i just enjoyed reading all your stories above.
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When explaining to a mocambican friend that the PM of New Zealand in comparison to theirs does not have a motorcade with 7 mercedeses and does not require the red carpet to be rolled out every time she flies somewhere, and no does not have a private jet but flies commercial airlines...
the answer was stunned silence followed by: I didn't know New Zealand was such a poor country.
Having a private jet for a prime minister is not joining the first world.