It was a quiet New Years down here in Wellington, very organised and relaxed atmosphere. I'm guessing a lot of people from here had a quiet night in. I read about terrible storms in Scandinavia and Finland which is preying on my mind.

After months of pricking around not being able to get out of the bit for one reason or another the picture is clearer and uglier than I ever imagined. From studying various sources of information, mostly internet, it continues to show me the worst in people from all angles. The twin towers attack footage i recently viewed made me realise a few things. All I can see that happened from a military perspective is that once that occured, a new government was formed. The recent withdrawl of personnel from the middle east is another sign of power changing hands yet again. This modern day society is the worst place ever to have existed. Peeler is very unhappy these days.

Saddening as it is, Christchurch got hit with more earthquakes. The other things concerning me just now, are an influx of bankrupt Greeks heading for Australia along with boatloads of refugees basically trying to shore up in any commonwealth country. Not so much the genuine refugees, but the criminal gangs that are capitolising on the situation by taking vast sums of money from these people in order to try and get them abroad, many of them dying before getting here. If they do make it, then they get priority at the dole queue. I want a crackdown on the gangs smuggling these people and have them brought to justice. This is happening all too frequently now. Another significant cyclone in the Phillipines taking 1000 lives yesterday. I am aware that there may be tropical activity near or around Auckland soon.

Things are proving very difficult now to maintain a legal status in NZ. The immigration office was shut down and the jobs moved offshore to the Fijan islands.

Just as I predicted, a few months back intense weather in the form of rainfall engulfing the Nelson region of NZ. I'm glad I moved away from that godawful place. The bad news is that a lot of residents were evacuated today and the filming of the Hobbit cancelled as the weather is making it too difficult to film safely. Our kids are tucked up nicely inside with the Playstation 3, playing Battlefield 3 like there's no tommorow. The ute is going back though, we simply can't afford it, and the petrol consumption alone is probably to blame for the Nelson landslides...

Something that has been puzzling me for a while is why i keep hearing that banks in Australia are so strong just now. I've been to Australia and sure the bank buildings look ok, but nothing spectacular strength wise. In fact, a lot of properties over there are pretty much designed to be blown away in a hurricane, check out some of the old queenslander type buildings. The strength is apparently coming from mining, which is even more puzzling, as surely drilling through the earth's crust in such an environment would render the place even more susceptible to collapse.

One of the recent fads called Facebook, which I tried to steer well clear of despite a fake profile being made in my name gave me a small chuckle today to learn the creator of the tool indeed falling victim to his private photos being posted all over the internet. Don't get me wrong, that site has a lot of contacts etc, but as usual it has probably fallen into the wrong hands... My last check found many of the users being within the 15 year old mark, well, you know what kids are like nowadays...

I still for the life of me can't understand why people are taking 2d photos when 360 cameras are available now, it's really lame.

I read with disgust today that a top London surgeon quit his job because he no longer wanted to be associated with the hospital despite his high wages. His fear was negligence by association, due to the fact the hospitals patients were not being treated properly and could no longer stand and watch.

Last night I was tucked up in bed with my girlfriend when suddenly the house started shaking badly. At first I thought it was the washing machine, going a little haywire, but then realised it was a little more serious. It transpired that indeed an earthquake was going on, a 5.7 hit close to this area.