Category Archives: fun

Only You Can Free Yourself

Plenty of important life lessons (ennui; the power of choice; the freedom we truly have; the limitations we set ourselves; the motivation for all of it) in here: To do list: Not give a fuck That is all (many thanks to @AaronM_NZ) relatedEarplugsBring In The ClownsWar Games Cracks Me the Hell UpA Silly Party GameThar’s Gold In Them Thar Street

18/Feb/2013 – 12:49 | By Si Dawson | Posted in fun | Comments (2)

It's All My Fault

I grew up on a faultline. This shouldn't come as too much of a surprise, since New Zealand only exists because two tectonic plates decided to get together and have a rub-yourself-up-against-each-other party. To the West we have the Indo-Australian plate, to the East the Pacific Plate. Which I guess actually made it something of …

24/Feb/2012 – 14:34 | By Si Dawson | Posted in fun, life | Comments (4)

Nice Night For a Walk

It's just turned New Year, 2012. Generally for New Year's Eve I prefer to do something contemplative. Meditate on the past year (or years). Feel my way to a better direction for the coming year. Assess and makes choices that will guide me positively forward. With that in mind, around 10pm I took off up a …

01/Jan/2012 – 03:04 | By Si Dawson | Posted in fun, life | Comments (8)

Please Board, Mr Sexy Pants

My little bro flew up for a visit the other day. It turned out to be quite an eventful trip. For a start, he managed to wangle a free trip, which is always a bonus. A friend of his was coming up and said she had a spare ticket for whomever asked first. Nice one. They …

07/Dec/2011 – 23:01 | By Si Dawson | Posted in fun | Comments (5)

Snow!

Today I woke up and there was honest to god, real life snow, just lying everywhere, being all lazy. Even though it's winter, around these parts there hasn't been snow since 1995. So, what better way to spend a Monday morning than to go for a walk up a local hill? (rhetorical question) This hill, unsurprisingly. Mum …

25/Jul/2011 – 14:11 | By Si Dawson | Posted in fun, life | Comments (10)

Random Thursday Night Adventure

I was sitting at home the other night, minding my own business when a text message flashed in on my intra-planetary communicator: "I'm coming to pick you up. I'll be there at 9:50pm. Pack a toothbrush" Well, okay then. (Secretly? I adore these kind of spontaneous adventures.) On the agenda? Sitting in an outdoor jacuzzi half …

16/Jul/2011 – 20:52 | By Si Dawson | Posted in fun, life | Comments (10)

Rebecca Black vs The Internet

In case you weren't paying attention (or were distracted by, I don't know, important things) Rebecca Black has become something of an internet sensation. The short story: Rebecca Black's mother paid a company $4000 to produce a music video for 13 year old Rebecca, which was then released on Feb 10 2011. It received a …

07/Apr/2011 – 14:11 | By Si Dawson | Posted in fun | Comments (0)

Hot Dog!

Today I went to see a bunch of dachshunds discuss human rights. No no, I'm not making this up. Really. Check it out for yourself. Anyway, they didn't seem very talkative — although I suspect they made roughly as much progress as the regular UN would have if they'd been plonked in a Melbourne park …

29/May/2010 – 21:10 | By Si Dawson | Posted in fun | Comments (5)

Earplugs

I got a set of earplugs a few years back, when I was heading off to Burning Man. I saw on them on ebay for, I dunno, maybe 30 bucks. I'm thinking ok, I'll be there ten nights, I want really good earplugs, since people running around with airhorns at 7am is a relatively common …

25/Mar/2010 – 08:48 | By Si Dawson | Posted in fun, home | Comments (7)

The Rat And The Rose

I was at a friend's place having a coffee when I saw the weirdest thing (to help you out, I circled it): Can you see it? Nope, neither could I, at the start. However, we'd been watching the cat (a delightful Burmese). The cat had seen something interesting, so we were curious what it was. Usually …

24/Oct/2009 – 05:10 | By Si Dawson | Posted in fun, life | Comments (12)