Posts by merc
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Yes, we have real youth problems out West. Cars, speed, drugs and boredom, a lethal cocktail. But we also have some really great local youths too, I know I surf with them.
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Man if I could live and work locally, that would be great. Working from home I don't like so much. If John would bat for my train from Waimauku to Mt Eden I'd be stoked. Also, can't find the link, but I saw this neat new train/ bus combination on Boing Boing I think.
So we need,
1. regional development incentives (Warkworth anyone?)
2. cheaper, real broadband for home work
3. integrated rail to open up the hinterland (Helensville anyone)And yes all this can be achieved with the motoway budgets and working cross councils, Govt, developers, business and residents (I pay 2k PA rates and I don't get nothing, really).
Utopian, cross communication, maybe. Maybe intelligent John should start thinking about this stuff rather than building virtual ghetto's where there are none. -
As the cavalcade glides by..."John, look, Owairaka loves you!".
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I'm guessing you mean Cornerstone and their proposed development at Waimauku? Look, there's alot more going on than umitigated sprawl, greed and stupidity. For example, go to ARTA.co.nz, read and if you don't agree....MAKE A SUBMISSION!
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I meet the local youths, there are Sudanese, Iraqi, Tongan, Brazilian, Asian (broad I know, Tze) and more. There is a soccer vibe and a basketball vibe. Yes, if you go down to the park on Sunday morning, there will be smashed alco-pop glass and yes there will have been ruckus and yes somedays walking along there would be people drinking on their front lawn all day long, but I got that in Mt Eden too.
Yes some local youth would make noise outside my house, and if I thought it was getting too loud I would go out there and talk with them. ALL were respectful, a little shy and quickly moved on, or we chatted, you know, where are you from originally, how long have you been here, ask about the family. Now I know things got heavy on occasion and there was stabbings (Avondale), but hell I know of 3 stabbings in Remuera (one fatal) in the 70's.
I'm in Key's electorate now and I can't help feeling this is all a very sly way to undermine. Hell, what would change under National? But lookout because the Owai onion has more layers to exploit. -
Hey this is creepy, 9 months ago we lived just a couple of streets away in Owairaka. Sure it's not pretty but I lived right there and it's a helluvalot more interesting story than Key or the Herald are letting out. You know it's funny when you've actually lived somewhere that is being used as a polical media poster child. And boy, what a selective interview technique, Campbell Live use it also.
1 year ago I was interviewd off the street (at PaknSav) with regard to what I knew about The Treaty...as I had studied it quite comprehensively I bent the Herald interviewers ear for quite a while; as it stood the published article did have me photo and one line of quote...I had got the date wrong! All the other selected interviewees were recent immigrants and so you can guess the headline outcome.
Don't for a minute believe the hype, go to Owairaka yourselves and take a walk round before Key (whom I dearly want to believe is intelligent) steals the Owai meme.
BTW, there is a great Mosque down the road, lots of burqa clad women, all sorts, and guess why we didn't buy a house there?
We couldn't afford one!
Oh, I had a great Polloing Booth experience there too, there was every kind of people trying to vote but English was a problem for many, the couple I helped (everyone was helping it was a very cool vibe), the women was facially tatooed, I thought to myself, I wonder who she's voting for!
I have also stayed in the Algerian quarter of Paris, a Basque village during a bombing, been to Sao Paulo, got lost in Brixton, LA and Granada, been robbed in Lisbon, and evacuated from the Tube in London (fire), and I can tell you, in Owairaka you have nothing to fear except fear itself (normal conditions apply for personal safety of course). -
Ooh no, from wikipedia (meme),
Meme-theorists contend that memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes which replicate the most effectively spread best; which allows for the possibility that successful memes might prove detrimental to their hosts. -
What's to get, the hardest job Kaizen Key Way National have is to convince caring people that they arn't just in this for the money.
It's not about the power! Man, I've had enough of them already, I keep wondering when Mayor Quimby is going to pop out. -
Hehe, I was born in Tauranga, lived at the Mount. One day I found myself living in Mangere (East), then I escaped, or thought I did and went the whole world over doing the strangest things, all to escape NZ suburbia.
Now I live in one again (red pavement, dead give-away). There's an old seminary saying (apparently), "Who gets to God faster, the priest who loves God, or the priest who hates Him? Answer, the one who hates God, he thinks about Him more...
Often what we rail against says more about us than what we support, don't you think? -
I love suburbia.