I can't believe I am saying this, but maybe Winston is right about immigration, given events this week.
LOCAL NEWS
It is Maori Language week, so you have to read this with a Maori accent. I have restrained myself and not ended every sentence with "eh". Did you know Google doesn't translate to or from Maori?
A five year old Chinese girl was kidnapped. Sounded like a Chinese community kidnapping deal. A Chinese woman translator involved with 60 kidnappings tried to tell us that it didn't happen very often in Chinese community (yeah, right). Meanwhile, the girl was found on Friday, alive and well. Turned out the kidnapper was Chinese, and a real estate agent.
A high school rugby player died a couple of weeks after a nasty neck injury.
Thirty nine Indians visiting New Zealand on the way to the world youth day papal visit in Australia all disappeared. Immigration officials are checking dairies. By this morning they had tracked down twenty of them, which is pretty impressive. Two are on their way home (genuine Catholics, apparently, not sure why that is remotely important) and they are encouraging the others they have found to head home under their own steam. They can't have hidden very well if more than half were found in less than a week.
Poor old Tony Veitch finally resigned on Thursday, finally realising that the only thing worse than kicking a person when they're down is trying to hide the fact.
Paul Holmes managed to make himself look like an even bigger tosser by spending his second consecutive Sunday Herald column telling us why Veitch is being picked on and it's not fair. There needs to be a new word for pathetic, at it's best it was a guy sticking up pointlessly for a colleague, or perhaps a case of "but for the grace of god…" after his fun in the spotlight with his daughter.
A Christchurch man heard a loud explosion, it turned out to be his Nokia cellphone on the charger. The device was spread over 10 metres. Lucky he wasn't talking on it. The charger was fine…..
On Friday it was National Poetry Day, I will resist the urge to put this in rhyme. News writers everywhere seemed to think rhyming makes poetry, it's very sad.
On Saturday a man threatened police by holding a knife to his own throat. Meanwhile there were two dead men inside the apartment. I am not sure the police were terribly concerned about the threat. Looks like a love triangle. The man was Iraqi, but he spent a lot of time in South Auckland.
Winston finally admitted that New Zealand First had taken money from Owen Glenn. Still no idea why it is such a bad thing. Apparently Winston didn't know it went in to their legal fund, funny how he didn't notice an extra 100k, they must have tons of dosh.
The Auckland Harbour Bridge was closed after an accident on Saturday morning.
Two West Auckland boys did their bit to draw attention away from South Auckland by abducting a fellow 14 year old and molesting her.
The man that killed teenager Liam Ashley in prison van has now attacked a guard, in a prison van. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me….
A funeral director delivered the wrong body, and a family farewelled a strange man rather than their mother. Would it have made any difference who they buried, if they hadn't discovered the error? Not really.
A contractor cut two cables, killing most phone lines in Pt Chevalier. We were off the air for about two days. Didn't impact broadband, though, so not all bad. Second big outage in two weeks.
WORLD NEWS
Meanwhile they had a mass mass with the Pope in Sydney, with over 150,000 Catholics. The prime minister was there as well, prompting many to say "Who's that up there with Kevin Rudd?". I would have thought that false idols must be pretty close to the definition of the Pope, but let's not go there.
Some survey of pop songs has Bohemian Rhapsody as #1, which I can understand. But many of the others were shockers (the list was on onepoll.com, it was really odd). Imagine was the only other one in the list that I could agree with.
Oil prices seem to be easing, about time too.
THE GOSS
I am thinking of maybe adding a section with the sort of stories I expect to turn up the sort of magazines that pay $15m for a photo of the baby of an actor or actress. The following is a small sample.
Paul Holmes reveals his early morning trysts with Tony Veitch (they did work in neighbouring studios, both starting at 6am), and the fact the he, too, was beaten by Tony one day after they broke up. Their adventures on the "On Air Club" will then be serialised for mobile phones.
Owen Glenn will tells all about how his money is considered somehow "dirty", and he doesn't understand why. The spread will include finally admitting he used to sell real estate, used cars, and Amway. After writing the article, the journalist will end up being committed to an institution after trying to wash the hand that touched Owen Glenn for 15 hours straight, this of course, will be in a second article.
Winston Peters gives back the $100k after learning that Owen Glenn used to sell real estate.
I welcome contributions from everyone for this section.
REAL SPORT
Well, Rory's 18B team nearly finished with a win, but they lost 5-6, so came 15th, I think. Hannah's team lost their remaining two games so came 6th.
Hannah's soccer on Saturday was defaulted by the other team but we didn't find out until everyone drove all the way to Botany Downs. Andy's team (that I help coach) had eight players so it worked for them (they had six ring-ins play for them in the end). They got a healthy win, but it was with quite a little help from their friends. The weather was actually quite nice for the game, but wasn't flash before and after.
SPORT
Australia played South Africa in the tri-nations and beat them 16-9.
The Warriors won again, third time in a row. They need to win quite a lot more.
Podraig Harrington won the British Open, second time running I think.
MY SAD LIFE
This week was a bit quieter once the polo finished, which was nice. 12 days solid of visiting a pool up to three times a day was a bit more than you really want. Haven't been to a pool since.
On Thursday afternoon both our phone lines died. Then we worked out that everyone else in our area has no phone either. Sounded like the whole of Mt Albert and Pt Chevalier. We will have so many credits on our account we won't have anything to pay.
We went bowling on Friday, just the four of us. They didn't sanitise the shoes, ugh. Diana owned everyone in the second game, got two strikes. Bowling does seem to get boring pretty quick though, one game is never enough and two feels like one too many. Maybe they should do a 15 frame version.
Diana and Hannah popped in to see Sarah on Friday. I must try to do that.
We also all went to Get Smart on Saturday, with Maddie and Maddie's Mum, Kim. We ended up sitting in three different places because it was pretty crowded and without allocated seating nobody wants to sit next to each other (and Diana wonders why I don't like going . I really enjoyed the movie, it had some pretty formulaic stuff but enough of the original stuff old series was included. I know it wasn't exactly high-brow but very few things make me laugh out loud and this certainly did.
I had two messages and two phone calls from Telecom to check my phone is working. Yes, it is, but it is engaged all the time with customer service calls!!! Sheesh.
The kids are not exactly overjoyed to be back at school today. They are either in shock, or mourning, or both.
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