A belated Happy New Year to you all! I hope you were able to enjoy some time off with friends and family. I’m not hugely into New Years celebrations but I did enjoy two weeks off work. The Otanewainuku Trig Track. So on New Years Eve, a friend and I did a nice walk in […]
Read More Here’s to 2026What is Whatipu beach? Whatipu Beach is in a remote location on the west coast of Auckland, New Zealand. Unlike other west coast beaches, such as Piha and Muriwai, it is not popular with tourists. Yet, Whatipu gives off a wild but majestic aura. On a recent weekend, I decided to do a trek out […]
Read More Whatipu: A Wild Yet Wonderful PlaceTwo days ago I was reminded that “five years ago to this day” our country would go into lockdown to try and contain the new virus that was COVID19. It was shocking and unprecedented at the time. At the time I was working at a lab that does food safety testing. As our government considered […]
Read More FIVE YEARS AGO WAS A SURREAL TIMERecently I went on another exciting trip to Japan with a group of friends. You can read about my first time here. Where in Japan did we visit? We spent the bulk of our trip in Nara. Nara is a nice small town known for its Sika Deer and various temples. We used Nara as […]
Read More JAPAN TRIP 2025We live in on a large planet, with a circumference of around 40 thousand km. As large as our planet is, it is a grain of sand compared to a whole beach that is our solar system, and our solar system is only a grain of sand compared to a whole beach that is our […]
Read More A relationship with God is an alien conceptRecently a friend and I decided on doing another hike together. This time we chose a walk near Tauranga, the Otawa Trig Track. The start of this walk is on a quarry road in Te Puke which is just east of Tauranga. The walk. On a cold yet sunny winters day, we started our walk. […]
Read More Otawa Trig: sometimes the journey is better than the destination.I love to write about my hiking adventures. Hiking takes you on a journey away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Hiking reminds you that, despite all that is going on in the world, it’s an amazing, beautiful world out there. Depending on where you live, hiking spots often require you to travel […]
Read More My Favourite Walking SpotsI don’t follow US politics too closely, but I understand you Americans have another election on the horizon. A friend of mine told me about the first upcoming debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, so I actually gave it a watch. So what to make of this? Firstly, Trump. He made no effort to […]
Read More WHAT ON EARTH???When I started this blog, I was an agnostic on the inside but a conservative(ish) Christian on the outside. I had spent most of my life in Christianity, fully believing in Jesus, but I wanted an out, or at least a place to express my thoughts and feelings. Just over seven years ago, on April […]
Read More Life After ReligionWhen life gets hard, many people ask themselves whether life is trying to teach them something special. Religious people will often ask whether God is “testing them”. However, this sentiment also extends to the non-religious who may make generic claims such as “the universe is trying to teach me something”. I’m not mocking these people; […]
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