Author: ranginui

World XI vs Australia

Yay its cricket season in the southern hemisphere. Tonight the World XI are
playing Australia in Melbourne, and Daniel Vettori has started the series
really well. He took 4-33 off his 10 overs when bowling, hopefully he will
do well with the bat as well. Currently the World XI arent chasing so well
at 61-3 … but they bat a long way down, so we’ll see.
There are 4 internationals in Wellington this summer, Australia ODI on the
7th of December, Sri Lanka ODI 6th of January, West Indies ODI on the 18th
and West Indies 17-21 March.
I plan to be at them all, barring the ODI on the 6th of January, wearing my
beige and singing stupid songs.

UPDATE 2005/10/05: Eeek

Its now 105-7. 149 to win off 121 balls, I cant see it happening

UPDATE 2005/10/06: Bah

Its now 118-8 … 142 off 102, but Daniel is batting now so Ill watch for a
bit longer.

Daylight savings

Well daylight savings started this morning, the bad news is we lost an hour,
the good news is, it means summer is on the way. Lets hope its less
miserable than the last one, and we get piles and piles of cricket. I dont
know if any of you have been watching ‘Frontier of Dreams’ on TV one. If you
haven’t my suggestion is dont bother, its pretty much a pile of drivel thus
far. One of my pet peeves was that Maori were consistently called
colonisers, and yet last night they often referred to Pakeha as ‘settlers’
… eh??? It was the other way around buddy. Unless the definition of
coloniser has changed in the last year or so.
Oh and another thing, now im not usually one to support an Act party member
in anything, but can anyone explain to me why Donna Awatere Huata got
sentenced to two years for stealing $80,000. And yet Michael Perry gets
12
months with leave to apply for home detention after helping to steal millions
Surely he should be getting at least 2 years also, or more as he was
convicted of money laundering also.
Lets see 2 ppl, convicted of stealing 80,000 … get 2 years a piece, so
thats what 1 year per 20,000. From stuff ‘Sixteen rental properties were
bought by Perry with fraudulent transactions of $243,245 in deposit funds
and $1,251,999 in mortgage funds.’. So lets say 1.5 million / 20,000 = 75,
so 75 years for him. Of course its not that simple, but surely its worth at
least 2 years .. oh and maybe some coverage in more than 1 paper in the
country.

Letters to Ali

I got this out to watch purely on a whim, and boy I’m glad I did. A
documentary following an Australian family’s journey of discovery about
their own country. As a mother learns about the detention centres in
Australia she becomes determined to do something to help the refugees
arbitrarily detained there. I wont say anything more as I dont want to ruin
it.

Election day

Well our votes have been cast and by about 11pm we should know what the new
government is going to be made up of. Im hoping a Labour, Greens, Maori
Party Coalition. But I’ll take anyone but National. Seriously all parties
with National in their name, should not be allowed. National Socialists,
National Front, and just plain old National all people the world would be
better without.

UPDATE 2005/09/18: Way too close

I still have a really uneasy feeling, although Labour should have the
numbers for a coalition, there is still scope for National to scrape in.
I’m still disgusted 39.6% of NZ voters gave National, and their racist
agenda, their vote. Mind you, Labour arent much better at all, they just
hide their racism a bit better. I guess its better the devil you know.

Crash

We went to see this today, and whiles its depressing in a ‘everyone is an
intolerant prick’ kind of way. It also points out that even pricks can do
good things. Its also a well shot and written film. If you dont recognise a
part of youself in at least one of the characters, you arent human. Go see
it, laugh, cry, despair .. and think a bit about the direction this country
seems to be taking.