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Friday, 14 December 2012 - Three weeks off, and three major shootings
Saturday, 15 December 2012 - SantaCon
Monday, 17 December 2012 - A Wedding in Time Lapse Exactly a month ago I was at a wedding in Alabama, and spent the bulk of that day capturing footage to compile into a time lapse video similar to the New York time lapse I did when I first got here. And this is the finished result if anybody is interested :)
Thursday, 20 December 2012 - The end is nigh?
Friday, 21 December 2012 - No surprises there
So yet another apocalypse prediction has come and gone. History is littered with such predictions, such as these examples. Virtually all of them are based on the bible and/or some laughable religion. It's incredible to me, mind-boggling in fact, the utter ludicrous nonsense that some people blindly and whole-heartedly believe in. Add to that how contradictory religion is - I mean, they can't all be right, though if you ask me none them are right to begin with. I guess that's why they call it (blind) faith. For every apocalypse prediction, there is a group of people who give up their worldly possessions only to be completely gobsmacked that the sun still rose on mankind the following day, and that their 'lord and saviour' never showed hahaha! If you do good things, then I like to think good things will happen to you. It doesn't always work out that way but it's a nice thought. On the other hand, if you're a dumbass who doesn't think for yourself and blindly follows something just because it's written in some book or because some dork holding a book claims it to be so, then this is what you get. If you get a random email from a random address claiming you've won a million dollars and you blindly proceed with whatever it says you need to do, then you deserve what you get (scammed). Same concept.
This prediction was a little different. Rather than being based on religion, it was based on the misinterpretation of an ancient calendar. However, as before, a group of people are still utterly gobsmacked today. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Smarten up! The end of the world will come, as it does for every object in the universe as is scientifically understood, but not because something ordained it to be so.
Sunday, 23 December 2012 - Vot, no Germans?!
Monday, 24 December 2012 - 'Twas the night before
Tuesday, 25 December 2012 - Christmas workout
Wednesday, 26 December 2012 - Radio City Christmas Spectacular
Friday, 28 December 2012 - Colder than a witch's tit
Sunday, 30 December 2012 - Flatmates / Roommates
Tuesday, 1 January 2013 - Another year, another location
Saturday, 5 January 2013 - Aaron around Hawaii, soon
Sunday, 6 January 2013 - Ice / snow skating
Wednesday, 9 January 2013 - New York, always in the news for something or other
Thursday, 10 January 2013 - Ain't nobody got time for that!
Friday, 11 January 2013 - The flu - ain't nobody got time for that! Apparently much of the US is in the midst of a major flu outbreak, with the mayor of Boston (a short ways north of New York) even going so far as to declare a public health emergency in response to four flu-related deaths. In New York City the outbreak has been described as an 'epidemic' with emergency rooms full of sickies. I've got the sniffles myself but nothing close to the flu, and I did have my yearly flu jab a couple months back - phew! More info here.
Saturday, 12 January 2013 - Birthday with the weirdoes
Monday, 14 January 2013 - 'No pants' day on the Subway Gutted I didn't know about this! I'll mark it on my calendar for next year ;)
Tuesday, 15 January 2013 - "Man Hit by Subway After Defecating Between Cars" I shouldn't laugh, but sometimes you just can't help it you know. I don't know what it is about the New York Subway, but it just seems to attract weirdoes! I got the following alert on my phone today from a local new station: "BREAKING: 1 Dead, 1 Injured at 125th Street Station." As per this news article, the dead man was taking a dump between subway cars, lost his balance, and fell overboard as the train was leaving the station. In an entirely separate incident but at the same station, a homeless man was seen wandering out of a train tunnel with a broken pelvis and bleeding. He told police he's not sure what happened hahaha! You couldn't make this stuff up!
Thursday, 17 January 2013 - Eight years! Eight years ago today I started on this incredible adventure that continues to get more incredible each and every year. January 17, 2005, I left the comforts of home in little Christchurch, New Zealand and embarked on an overseas experience of unknown length, journey or final destination. As at this point last year, I had lived in Brisbane, Edinburgh, London, and Paris, travelled to more places than I can probably recall off-hand, and was in the midst of a ten-month leave of absence from the world with my beautiful girlfriend Kristina as we travelled the globe.
Up until last year, I always had a plan for at least the following 12 to 24 months as my travels continued, but for the first time I was almost clutching at straws. The possibility of a job in New York with my London-based employer was my plan A, but far from a certainty given how many things had to fall neatly into place to make that a reality. Canada was my Plan B but that option was rife with obstacles, and as for a plan C, I didn't really have one. Be that as it may, I'm now sitting here in my apartment a stone's throw from Manhattan, with Kristina snoring like a wild boar in bed over there. Needless to say, I never imagined this eight years ago. Hell, when I started this website later that year, I never imagined I'd still be filling it with crap this far on either!
Assuming my bid for a more indefinite US work visa is successful later this year, New York is my plan for the 12 to 24 months ahead. What happens thereafter is, as it has been for the last eight years, a question mark. The journey continues and my final destination is still far from obvious. And that's the way I like it, at least for now :) Keep watching this space...
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