Well its 2007, January the 1st where I stand right now, for you back in NZ you are on day 2 of what is to be another unpredictable year, as they always are. We don’t know what this year will bring, but the beauty is that if we have a fair idea and set our sights on the dreams we bring to the forefronts of our minds then we may just be pleasantly surprised with where we end up. May your dreams come true this year. Where will I be I ponder today, where am I going...there is a rough plan [View Full Entry]

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Indeed, its true, sometimes the best trips and times of your life are those that are totally completely utterly planned on a split second decision at a precise moment in the afternoon of a particular Saturday while enjoying a beer and feed in a cosy Canadian pub. It just so happened that this particular spontaneous seed was planted the Saturday before last, at a typical Canadian franchise Earls that does things very well indeed and it grew within 5 minutes and turned into something that may in fact go down as the biggest weekend I will ever see in Vancouver, lets [View Full Entry]

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Bonjour everybody and greetings of the season to you all!!! xoxoxoxo Lets make this month extra special by all sending me Christmas presents, yes, that’s right, im still a child inside and I just know it’s the same for all of you reading this so no excuses I want you all to have fun, this means singing extremely load with your headphones on in public places while dancing insanely, asking the person next to you on your next mode of public transport if they would care to join you for a Christmas drink (it’s a generous time of the year so [View Full Entry]

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Indeed, Toronto, Canadas largest city, the big smoke of the north, affectionately known as T. (T Dot) or simply TO, was kind enough to let me call it home for the past nine days. Arriving last Monday from Oshawa, it was a 30 minute bus/train trip and a farewell to a huge heart back in Oshawa, Big D, you know who you are. Night one was spent in the HI (Hostelling International) Backpackers on Church Street (near King St subway), as per usual HI impress with a great backpackers that comes with a price (I did manage to get a sharp [View Full Entry]

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Ladies and Gentlespoons, It’s Friday evening and I type to you all from a lounge in a small apartment in downtown Oshawa pop. 180,000, 45 minutes outside Canada’s largest smoke, Toronto. Devon, who is a 30 something year old father of four and a Bob Marley loving security guard, gave me a lift today after holding my thumb up for over an hour, the longest I have had to do so far since I started my hitch trip 5 days ago, yes, I picked a shit spot. Location, location, location. It gets you places. It’s been a busy week, lots of [View Full Entry]

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Hello all out there in this big bright beautiful world, wonderful that I have friends from all corners of the world reading this, I miss you guys! Its lunch time on a Monday, I got up about an hour ago after crashing really late as we were writing the movie script that I jsut posted, what a hoot. The weather, its over cast, which is a nice day these days as far as the season goes, the city will not get above 7 degress from here on in and its gonna keep dropping. Sitting at the kitchen table inside a cosy [View Full Entry]

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The following is for a laugh, I have been staying on my mates couch for the past four days, Ben, a Londoner studying on exchange at Concordia University. Top notch charactor, studying English Literature back home, politics here. Last night we stayed up late, Ben, Ashley (Bens girl from Toronto), and I, to put together a three scene script for Bens assignment. Its just so totally random that it has to be shared also so that I have a copy of it, its currently unedited so excuse that but enjoy the laugh. Shane Ben Aitken 6141684 Scriptwriting Exercise 1. EXT. STREET. [View Full Entry]

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Salut, bonjour, from the South Shore, Today as I was riding a bike over the Jacque Cartier bridge (connects the South Shore with the island of Montreal, yes Montreal is actually a river delta) it started to sink in that yes I am actually in North America, a highway sign pointing to Quebec city/U.S.A kind of reinforced this. Its a little surreal actually, I think as I have been moving around since June landing in another city is just landing in another city, you need to remind yourself to stop and smell the scenery, the little differences, the crazyness of riding [View Full Entry]

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Im alive, This I am sure of. My eyes are tired, its 2am on Wednesday morning and Im sitting on the free internet at a cute little auberge (inn) that is costing $19 canadian a night in the heart of Old Montreal, an area that was developed by the French a few hundred years ago, our building is this old. Am I happy? Well, things could be worse. Settling in well really, need to find a place to live, a job, found friends which is the main thing, and I need to find a way of getting the girl Im totally [View Full Entry]

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Considering that I am going to be living in -30 C soon it was decided unconsciously be myself to head to the Gold Coast for a week, actually in search of an old business associate that owes me money, who happens to be enjoying the sun over here as well. Met with him today actually, originally I had extreme plans to spread his name around town in a negative way but after talking to him I realise that he is still the person I origianlly left my job for, and he has not exactly skipped country with everybodies money...he is selling [View Full Entry]

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