Monday 28 April 2008

New Zealand Observations

1) Buying a phone is tricky. I went into the shop, naively assuming that phones came with SIM cards. Not so. You have to buy a separate SIM card. I have been to five shops so far, and they are all out of SIM cards. Is there a great telecommunications crisis in this country that I am unaware of?

2) Shortland Street (crappy daytime program that used to be on at the same time as Neighbours) is MASSIVE here.

3) It is really, really hot and really, really humid. This makes me really, really uncomfortable.

4) Petrol prices hitting $2 a litre is front page news here. This made me giggle, compared to prices back home.

5) Los Angeles is a fucking shitpit that I am never setting foot in again.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Agreed with the comment on LA. Wish we payed as much for petrol in the US as ya do across the ocean, maybe people would modify their behavior a bit.

Anonymous said...

Glad you arrived ok in New Zealand will tell the others in the Ghetto. Look forward to hearing your adventures! Well done one of the W of E W. PS nothing has changed in the ghetto at all! Even less staff!

Anonymous said...

Buy an xbox and GTA4.... you know you wanna!!!

Monsterlemon said...

Yes. The crisis is called "Telecom"