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How I celebrated my 32nd birthday

I caught up with a bunch of friends on Sunday. For breakfast, I reunited with my ol’ university flatmate Kolitha.  He lives in Papa New Guinea nowadays but his work occasionally brings him through Brisbane.  I caught up with him and his special lady for breakfast.  It was a good revisiting old memories (I can’t believe uni was ten years ...

For someone who gets a bit self conscious about birthdays, I’ve ended up having a pretty extravagant and prolonged 30th birthday celebration spanning three weekends.  On the weekend of my actual birthday, Jen secretly arranged tickets for the two of us to fly to Melbourne.  I was planning on spendying my 30th birthday working a regular day in the office.  ...

I had a rather unusually protracted birthday celebration this year as it co-incided with my recent holiday with all the relatives in town.  So Jen and I celebrated a week early, then we celebrated with the family on the actual day and then a few weeks later I caught up with my friends for a drink.  Lastly, for some strange ...

It was my sister-in-law Sarah’s 22nd birthday recently.  One of the gifts she received, from her twin brother, was a set of alphabet tiles that spelt out both her name and tuahine, which is Maori for ‘sister’.  A nice and thoughtful gift. It didn’t take very long for us to get into a silly mood and re-arrange the letters. Sarah ...

For Jen’s birthday weekend, we invited some friends over for dinner on Saturday night.  Jen always like to cook up a storm for dinner guests but she had to change up her game a bit this weekend as two of our friends recently switched to a vegetarian diet. Jen decided to make a ratatouille and cous cous dish and she ...

The Wire Season 4 & 5, Tickets to the Wallabies vs Springboks (halfway line), Zombieland (BluRay), Super Mario World (1991) and the new Alan Wake book.  All up, a pretty sweet haul for my birthday.  Not to mention a champagne breakfast served up by Jen.

I’ve had a hell of a busy week.  It’s been entirely awesome but I’ve had no time to blog until now. On Wednesday night I went to State of Origin Game 3.  It was the first Origin game I’ve attended and I went with Matt, a relative who’s visiting from Scotland.  I grew up watching Origin and always enjoyed the ...

Jen gave me an early birthday present this year:  an HD video camera.  She’s pretty awesome like that. It must drive her nuts because I only bought a video camera three years ago and I barely used it.  All the videos I’ve taken over the last couple of years have been using the video recording function on my digital camera.  ...