Posts by Simon Grigg
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Michael. I would imagine Neil Finn, has drawn pulled more foreign bucks back into New Zealand than a goodly percentage of the population of Auckland city combined but under your rule, since he was resident abroad for a decade and a half, he should be summarily stripped of his citizenship. So also would Sir Keith Park, who, having played his part in saving the UK in 1940, was away for decades, returning to NZ for his last years. We should've made the bastard stay in Essex! Perhaps we should also strip Dame Kiri and, posthumously, Ernest Rutherford and Katherine Mansfield. Sam Neil lived abroad for many years..he has a damn cheek coming back, no?
And I'm not a "foreign investor", like Ann, I'm born and will die a New Zealander, but I happen find my life draws me elsewhere from time to time.
This whole thread has taken a turn towards the ludicrous
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He went to Changi on the way through and I think is heading back that way for a few days
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It's funny how, despite being a western aligned fascist state, the Singaporeans don't seem to worry about terrerists at all
Actually they did have that 2002 alleged attempt at the US Fleet in 2002 and there was a 2004 arrest for an alleged plot to do damage on the MRT.
And the young men with machine guns are very evident at the airport, where men of Arab origin tend to have their passports examined with magnifying glasses before they board. I'd say they are very concerned with a potential terror strike. But Russell is also right, Singapore's secretive banking laws offer good haven to dodgy funds.
Bangkok's the one....they're in the midst of an insurgency in the south, bombs went off on NYE and yet security is pretty much zip.
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That Senate one you posted is very cut down..the better one is here in all its glory.
His second sentence (and you need to see it to get the full impact) was:
Now I know that standards have slipped in the last few years in Washington, but for a lawyer you are remarkably cavalier with any idea of justice. I am here today but last week you already found me guilty. You traduced my name around the world without ever having asked me a single question, without ever having contacted me, without ever written to me or telephoned me, without any attempt to contact me whatsoever. And you call that justice.
It was fantastic. Like him or hate him, he served it well that day.
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If you live overseas - good on you but if you're away too long say 5 yrs - bye bye NZ passport. You don't live in NZ, you don't contribute to NZ, you're therefore not a NZer - so fuck off - oh that's right you already have!
Well in that case, I guess I'll just pack up my New Zealand based tax paying companies (which supply goods to other New Zealand based companies who employ people and also pay tax), one of which I'm doing GST for right now, and tell the IRD to get fucked too.
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the Saddam stooge. London elected him on the basis and clear knowledge of the latter aspects of his career.
But I note that Senator Levin has yet to take him up on his offer of a day in court over the US Senate's claims of Galloway's Oil benefits, which, when one considers the evidence presented was such an amateurish forgery, is not surprising.
For all his faults, Galloway was fantastic that day in the senate...what an opening line.
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Ben,...turn on your cellphone..an SMS comes through with the login details. Singtel and Starhub both offer it.
If it doesn't arrive, On Singtel send an SMS to *9434 and they'll send you a login and password.
I've used it probably 30 times with no problem..blisteringly fast too...you may need to clear your cache before logging in though. The same companies offer free wi-fi in various malls including Suntech. Singapore itself is in the process of offering free 512 across the island...everywhere (censored of course).
Even in third world Indonesia free wi-fi in cafes, malls and bars seems to be becoming the norm
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That said, the whole world would do well to look at Changi Airport (one of the world's busiest) and work out how it can actually be done well. It's one of the wonders of the modern world....clean, efficient, polite, free Wi-fi, not grossly over-priced and edible food
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Singapore isn't quite as repressed as i've been led to believe.
my favourite sign in Singapore is on a park just off Scotts:
Permitted Activities- Hip Hopping
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In Bahasa apa means loosely "what"...or eh?
Take them to Bali....and for heavens sake take them out of Club Med if you do....Nusa Dua is probably the last place I'd subject a family to, nasty, horrible sterile place where the only locals you encounter are the staff.
Day to day, the most dangerous things here are the dreaded Bali Belly (avoidable) and the roads (hire a driver when you want to go any distance).
Seriously, there are lots of family friendly resorts and hotels especially around the Sanur area (where I brought a six year old some years back). The beaches are clean and safe, food, babysitters at reasonable prices, unlike a place like Med, so you can get some adult time. And you're close to the mountains etc for something a little more adventurous if you have the urge.
If you do want some suggestions, fire me an email