I'm Back in the Game Baby!

Finally my work permit has been approved!

Just for the record, I have been waiting 3 weeks for the approval to come through and in that time I have not been going to work as my old permit ran out and could not legally work or get paid.

All's well thats ends well now but I am still pretty sore at the immigration lawyer that was supposed to help me navigate the tricky labyrinth that is the immigration process in the hope that I would be able to do a deal with the Auckland District Health Board about the HUGE hospital I incurred when I took ill 9 months ago (has it been that long ago?)

As it is... I have paid off the Hospital by taking a loan from my bank and spread out the re-payment over 5 years. This means I am definitely going to be in New Zealand at least for that length of time. Taking the loan seemed like a good idea at the time as the hospital wasnt happy with the regular weekly payments I was making complaining they couldnt carry the debt. They had sent my name to a Debt Collection Agency and if I hadnt paid them... it would have gone on my credit rating report. Living in the Western World with your credit rating shot to shit is not ideal. Not at all!

So now I go directly back to work moving huge amounts of dairy products to my customers in the Middle East and Africa! Yipee!!!

And I dont have to worry about posters like the one below anymore.... hahahahahaha


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I had a very good weekend.

I played in the Fonterra-Maersk-Toll soccer championship and came away with a healthy appreciation for the professionals who play an average of fifty 90-minute games over the course of 9 months! 20mins running across the field and I was huffing and puffing like an old style locomotive from the 1800s! And get this... I was playing on the mixed team! So my opponents were delicate (some were fitter than I was) ladies and guys who didnt quite make the All-men's team!

This was on Friday and there was a nice piss-up afterwards with employees from the 3 companies mentioned above. I didnt stop there. I went on to take a shower at home and headed to the Argentinean party downtown! Moved from there to the Hip Hop Club and towards the tail end was reminded of Tope with the song, "Dont Matter" by Akon.

Sunday was even better and I spent the evening with this delightful Ethiopian girl who I thought was called Yudith but turned out to be a Hannah. And some people call her Alemnash. Ah... its a complicated story!

Anyway I saw Die Hard 4.0 and I would definitely recommend it for viewing! As the fourth film in the franchise, it had huge expectations on its head and the likelihood was that it was going to disappoint! But thank goodness it didnt!

Storyline was logical, coherent and wrapped up nicely. Dialouge was superb and funny all at the same time and the acting was top top class. Bruce Willis makes for a very believable almost-obselete-one-time-hero-who-can-still-deliver-heroics-and-save-the-day!

I Definitely recommend!