Category: Thoughts

I was going to write something on the quality of music these days but just when I was going to get into it Wellington just had an earthquake.

It originated just out of Palmerston North out of Castlepoint.  The Geonet report can be found here.

I am not going to go into much detail about the earthquake itself, that will be boring…but thought I might go into my experiences with earthquakes in Wellington.

I think I have been into a few earthquakes in Wellington. I have lived in the sourthern part of Wellington in Brooklyn and now in Tawa. I found that the earthquake intensity stronger there than in Tawa.

I found that in Tawa, the earthquakes there are just slight shakes and that was it. Nothing too shaky and nothing to really worry about while in the city it was a lot worse. . . it felt more like a jolt…I don’t think I want to know what a serious one feels like such as the ones in Christchurch.

 

I have stayed in Wellington well over a year now. What was very compelling for me to move to Wellington were two things. The first was family reasons. I had one brother that was staying here, and the second was that I was under the impression that Wellington had a very good transport infrastructure. I cannot drive, due to medical reasons, so I need to live in a city that has good public transport. I am from Hamilton and although Auckland was closer, Auckland is one of those cities that is so sprawled out without a very good infrastructure that everybody needs to have a car to get anywhere.

So I guess I was kind of surprised when I came to Wellington to find that the buses on where I am staying do not arrive in a timely manner on certain parts of the day. People say to me that it is just my route (which is Brooklyn), and I suppose that in some ways it is. I am just not sure. You see, sometimes the buses come late, or sometimes they even come to early. It is all too much for me sometimes, and I just give up.

I suppose that this is something that I was not made aware of when I made my decision to go to Wellington, or I did not pay heed of it. In either case, I think that I have gotten used to it now, and I have just learned to come that little bit earlier than before.

I have a strong belief that if one says something then it is important to keep their word, or just follow through with what they say.  What drives me nuts is someone that asks for something and then when I take the time to do what they wanted, they either fire back saying that it  doesn’t matter. I have taken the time to do something for them and then all of a sudden they just say “Forget about it”. I find that rude. I have taken the tim and it just feels like that when they back out they don’t appreciate what I am doing and they are just wasting my time.

Some people just don’t understand….

There comes a point in time when one might feel passionate about something and then that fades away. I am the type of person that if you treat right then I will stand thick or thin regardless of external factors. When I hear issues of injustice and ill treatment and I find truth in it, I just start feeling inert and thats it. I can’t be bothered anymore

When I feel underappreciated or people start to  take things for granted then I am just the lazy and I can’t really bothered and I move on.

Well another person that is leaving from the group. Farewell Mia, you taught me many things  I hope everything goes well in your new job and that we will see you again.

There does seem to be a trend that a slew of people have left work, and that is sad but that is the way things are. I just couldn’t imagine that things would happen that quickly. But such is life. Hopefully thing will remain stable and we start getting into a decent rhythm.

For the past few years, I have realised how holed up I was in comparison to what I  am now.  A lot of my friends when I was in Hamilton were on the web and so thats where I spent most of my time. Now I am in Wellington I have had more motivation   to meet new people and I have.

I think sometimes its good to have the interaction with physical friends otherwise end up holed up in our houses glued to our machines hoping to socialise virtually with others satisfying our innate yearning to meet with others.

At the end of the day thats what I think most people’s desires are, that is to mingle and interact with others. Many people express that in many different ways. Some its through being in the company of others. Others express it by doing bad things and others through intimacy or through all the facets listed above. Its all dependent on how they have been brought up.