30Jun
Categories: Church, Review

Website: http://www.cession.org.nz; Ph: (09) 279 9332; The Depot, Lloyd Elsmore Park, Pakuranga; Senior Pastor/Speaker: Brett Jones; Sermon topic: “Bland Death Auto Pt 1: It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over”; 21.6.08; 5:45pm.
Rating: nearly AA
(A=return worshipper, AA=excellent and growing, AAA=must be my home church lol)
A unique review of a theatrical church service with an intellectual and countercultural edge [...]
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28Jun
Hello there. Couple of points:
Taught my last class at Remuera Music School for the time being. It was a bittersweet day, and I’m definitely going to miss the lively and outgoing violin students that made such huge strides and worked hard over the years. I got lots of thank you cards, and I have to [...]
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24Jun
Categories: Church, Review


Website: www.cityside.org.nz; Ph: (09) 377 3512; 8A Mt Eden Rd, Newton, Auckland; Senior Pastor: Brenda Rockell; Sermon topic: “teach, heal and cast out evil“; 15.6.08; 10.30am.
Rating: none given
(A=return worshipper, AA=excellent and growing, AAA=must be my home church lol) [...]
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17Jun
*sighs* “Times are tough.” – NPC, RPG World Comic #9.
The above picture shows what you can get for NZ$40:
a loaf of bread
2 bags of onions
6 assorted muffins
a bag of tomatoes
500g minced pork
1kg NZ rose apples
35g of mesclun salad
200g brie
2 boxes of biscuits
Philips energysaver light bulbs
… I remember not-so-long ago, we could feed our entire family [...]
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16Jun
OK, this has got to be the most inane song ever. I’m talking about it from a musical point of view – from its earthy Dsus9 chord on the piano, it flips back and forth between that and B, giving it a very unorthodox feel to it. If you keep listening it’s definitely complex in [...]
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16Jun
Categories: Church, Review
Website: http://www.pakbapt.org.nz; Ph: (09) 576 8403; 2 Fremantle Place, Pakuranga, Auckland; Senior Pastor: Andrew Brown; Sermon topic: “Servants with a High Calling” (2 Cor 5:11-7:16); 8.6.08; 9.00am.
Rating: none given
(A=return worshipper, AA=excellent and growing, AAA=must be my home church lol) [...]
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11Jun
Lots of people having exam stress at the moment. I can’t say I envy any of you, though I myself seem to have caught something from one of my students. Should request they all wash their hands before class or something! So for some reason I ended up staying home on Monday and today. However, [...]
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10Jun
Categories: Church, Review

Website: http://www.ecw.org.nz; Ph: (09) 533 4956; 219 Burswood Drive, East Tamaki; Senior Pastor: Rev Richard Waugh; Speaker: Rev Ian Croudace; Sermon topic: “Holiness” (Luke 10:25-28); 1.6.08, 9.30am.
Rating: AA
(A=return worshipper, AA=excellent and growing, AAA=must be my home church lol) [...]
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06Jun
This is what’s left of my iPod headphones.
I normally use them at work, but they were left on the floor over the weekend, and a cleaner’s overzealous approach to vacuuming has left a mangled mess of frayed wires and broken audibles, and nary a note in sight to explain themselves. Pfft.
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In other news, who remembers [...]
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03Jun
Hehe, I now have william.hc.chong and fruitcocoon @ gmayle. Very cool.
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[you are in a cocoon. a fruit cocoon.] Has anyone noticed that the two syllables in the word “cocoon” are both pronounced with an “u” or “ooh” sound, but one is spelt with 1 o and the other is spelt with two o’s. strange.
I actually [...]
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