Author: BeeJayGe

Hamilton

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I’ve been down in Hamilton for work, so I didn’t really have much of a chance to update my Blog.

I tried to think of uploading today’s photo as question 20, asking where I was, but I kinda figured that would be too easy if you work with me, or too hard if you don’t.

I did get to take some lovely photos down by the river (with my phone camera) before it got too dark and this is one of them.

Question 20 will be appearing soon and that will end the competition, so it’s got to be a good one!

I Did It

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Today I did something I’ve wanted to do since I was a wee boy… walk over the Auckland Harbour Bridge. It was awesome, it was actually a lot easier than I imagined & I learnt lots of really interesting facts. For example; the Nippon Clippon bits are not actually attached to the centre lanes. And they move up and down constantly an amazing amount.

The view was stunning and the weather was perfect. We were not allowed to take our cameras in case we dropped them onto the cars below & caused an accident. Instead the guide took photos of us & we could buy them at the end of the tour. So this is a photo of a photo, I will upload the real photos once they have added them to their website (sometime tonight apparently).

Rear View (Q19)

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This is a different view of a very famous building in Auckland city. As I turned the corner and saw the building from this angle I was really surprised. I’d never seen it like this before.

That’s one of the things I’m loving about finding things to photograph for my blog… I get to see Auckland in a whole new way. I’m seeing things I never knew were there.

Competition question number nineteen: What building is this?

“neverblack”… More Like Never There (Q17)

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For a couple of weeks these posters have been on various bus shelters around the city.  They looked interesting so I decided to check out the website: http://www.neverblack.co.nz but this always led me to a completely blank page.  The address was correct, my browser would go to that page, but there would be nothing but whiteness.  So I guessed maybe that’s it… the page is nothing but whiteness and will never be black!!!

But how weird is that, plus a total waste of time.  I figured it must be some kind of cool advertising for something that is coming but not quite here yet, a wee taste of things to come.  To make things even more random… some of the posters had the models dressed in nothing but black!  So I don’t get it, I must be too old and not cool.

Today I saw this poster yet again but on a different bus shelter so I decided to share the nothingness with you.  So I took a photo of it and blogged it.  However I just checked it out and the website is now up and running.  It is a fashion label.

Competition question number seventeen: What street was I standing on when I took this photo?

Bestest English (Q16)

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Would you like to save the this timer????  Wow, that’s really bad English.  This DVD recorder is a Phillips, so I’m totally shocked at this message.  Where has quality control gone?  This is enough to put me off ever buying anything made by Phillips ever again.  The other problem I have with this machine, is that it’s so hard to operate, it’s just not logical at all.

Competition question number sixteen: What programme was I trying to record?  Normally I watch this show on Sunday nights, but I went out tonight with a group of friends to see the movie Inception.  Wow, that was amazing!  I went to this movie for three reasons:

  1. Nicky told me I’d love it
  2. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in it
  3. The special effects looks awesome in the trailer.

The second and third reasons were happily fulfilled, Joseph was amazing as always and the special effects were incredible, but Nicky was a bit wrong.  It was so complicated I just couldn’t keep up, a bit like the DaVinci Code really, after about ten minutes I had to tell myself that there wouldn’t be a test at the end of the movie, so just sit back and enjoy the ride, you don’t have to get it.  It was a bit like a cross between the Matrix & a PlayStation game.

The Hotel (Q15)

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The Hotel

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When this hotel was completed in the mid 80s it was the grandest hotel ever to be built in Auckland. I instantly fell in love with it and spent many nights there having a cocktail before heading out to other bars.

I also had far too much to drink there one Xmas Eve at a Champagne Breakfast before work and couldn’t remember the combination to the safe at work (I worked in a bank). Consequently customers couldn’t get their money out until I managed to open the safe! Actually I think I could remember it, I just couldn’t manage to dial it correctly.

One of my friends treated me to a room there for my 21st birthday and I had one of the best nights ever for reasons that just can’t be explained in my Blog.

About a year ago I walked past the hotel, looked up and went into complete shock at what I saw. They had somehow managed to build another 11 floors on top of the hotel and as you can see, are selling them off. Wish I could afford to buy one or at least know someone who lives there so I could visit them.

Competition question number fifteen: What was the name of this hotel back in the 80s?

Old Fashioned (Q14)

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This morning on the bus I sat in the row behind the double seats where the people sit opposite each other. From where I was sitting I could see what the 8 people in front of me were doing… 7 of them were either texting or playing with their iPods and one person was just looking out the window. After about five minutes the one looking out the window got out a book and started to read.

For some strange reason that amused me coz I thought that was really quaint and old fashioned. What’s not amusing is how reading a book on the bus seems old fashioned.

Competition question number fourteen: What building does this magnificent ceiling belong to?

In Memory (Q13)

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In Memory

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Today is September 11 and my thoughts are with people in Christchurch whose lives have been devastatingly changed by the recent earthquake.

My thoughts are also with the millions of people all over the world who have been affected by the horrendous terrorist attacks on the fabulous city of New York.

I was lucky enough in 1988 to be in New York and got to watch the sun set while standing on the observation deck of the Twin Towers. It was an awesome moment in my life. One of those “I’ve made it” kinda feelings.

I also went on the famous Circle Line sightseeing cruise which took me down the Hudson River, under the Brooklyn Bridge – which I really wanted to see because of the ONJ movie “Two of a Kind” – and the Statue of Liberty. A surprising highlight however was the photo opportunity you can see in today’s photo. As we cruised past the Twin Towers we could see (for a brief moment) New York’s very first “Tallest in the World” building, lined up perfectly between the two towers of the World Trade Centre – the tallest skyscrapers in the world at that time. At that very moment I could capture on film the oldest and the tallest skyscrapers in New York.

Competition question number thirteen: What is the name of the building seen between the Twin Towers in my photo?