QUARANTINE DIARIES So I have spent over a week in self-isolation and I am coping a lot better than I thought I would. I didn’t expect to be doing as well as I am. I am not insanely bored as I have things to entertain me such as watching...
REO TAUIRA Last week Aunty Jacinda called it and now it is our new reality for the foreseeable future. Lockdown. But life goes on! UOW students have now come off the one-week semi breather known as teaching suspension and classes and assignments have ramped up again albeit all in...
THIS VS THAT SPIN BOWLING Listen, I’m not the most knowledgeable man about cricket, but from what I can gather spin bowling is the way to go. Shane Warne, Dan Vettori, Muttiah Muralitharan, all of them great New Zealanders. What do these men have in common? Putting. Revs. On....
QUARANTINE DIARIES Friday 27th March – Until 12 days ago I lived in London and had no intention of moving back to NZ. I had a visa until July 2021. I had a stable job. I had a flat to live in. It was a normal Saturday. Saturday 14th...
QUARANTINE DIARIES I’m built for disaster. I say that entirely from the safety of my first world existence, from the comfort of my desk, but most of me believes that should the world genuinely turn to shit, I’d be one of the rangers crisscrossing the wasteland. In reality, no...
OVERSEAS CORRESPONDENT As a serious news organisation, we take our cues from Simon Dallow and TVNZ. They have a European Correspondent so we thought it was a smashing idea and scoured our respective Facebook accounts. Our first sixteen options had all been evacuated. Lucky for us, our former Editor...
SEX AND THE TRON Allow me to paint you the picture of my first love: Nissan Skyline. Unemployed. Backwards cap. A two-monitor gamer kind of lad. The guy who introduced me to sex, drugs and hard liquor when I was 17. The whole thing – from the way my...
REO TAUIRA uia te rangi e tū nei Tuia te papa e takoto nei Tuia te herenga tangata kei ngā tōpito katoa o te ao Ko ngā tauwhirotanga o te ao wairua ki runga i a tātou i te ao kikokiko nei Tihei mauriora! Mate-urutā Korona, COVID-19, Coronavirus… It’s...
THIS VS THAT KEEPING IT D LOW Ahh, the rat race that is Instagram. You just have to show the world that you’re so much better than everyone else, upload the photos in the coolest places, have the best looking photos, and get the highest amounts of likes and...
