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I've been enjoying seeing a lovely Japanese lady (Wakana). She hasn't been in NZ long, so English is still a little difficult for her. While I'm enjoying spending time with her and getting to know her, I'm also enjoying learning … Read more …

Holiday in Australia

While I was in Australia, I kept a notebook with me all the time and wrote in it each day. It's transcribed below. (Photos have been placed in here to help accentuate the description – 10th Dec.) 26 November, 2:35pm … Read more …

Grief, and aliases

It must be hard to know that your son died in combat. It must be even harder to have it represented in a movie, with some actor playing out the death of your son. How would you deal with it? … Read more …

Reflections on past relationships

Over the past week, I've been re-reading this journal, and I've gained some fascinating insights. It's coming up to the 3-year anniversary for this journal, and its seen some significant changes over those years. Changes in the formatting of the … Read more …

Back to Australia…

Yesterday I booked my tickets for a week in Australia. I’m leaving here on the 26th November and flying to Sydney, where I’ll stay for a couple days with my friend Peter. I’ll be getting there late afternoon, and flying … Read more …

A new relationship

Healing is what I've been doing. The past few months have been quite interesting, particularly in the past few weeks. Since splitting up with Venus 3 months ago, I've been taking time out for myself, going through a lot of … Read more …

I want my own children

I had a good conversation with a friend (we'll call her Susie) on ICQ last night. We talked about the perception that others may have of me, particularly thinking I'm arrogant. It was pointed out to me last night by … Read more …

Why do I bother?

Sometimes I wonder why I bother doing this journal. Every time I make statements about my life at the time, and how I feel about it and/or the person I'm with, it ends up coming back to bite me because … Read more …

Catalyst for change

I've been trying to work out what to talk about in the latest journal entry… and it wasn't until I was conversing with a friend via ICQ, and he asked me about something, that I realised what I'm going to … Read more …

Making it permanent

I'd like to talk a little bit about Venus, the Goddess of Love. Well, she's not really a 'Goddess', but she's one in my eyes, at least. Everything in my past has been preparing me for the person I'm meant … Read more …

Venus and the BMW

Here’s a photo of my new girlfriend – we’ll call her Venus. She gave me permission today to put the photo up, so here it is. And here’s a couple photos of my car… we’ll call it a BMW. Hehehe. … Read more …

Clarification

As I was sitting here reading over the past few entries, just to review what I've said, I realised that the last entry was talking about things happening between Michelle and I… and back in January I had mentioned that … Read more …