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Goodbye, dream

Goodbye, dream

For sale: A contemporary country home near Queenstown: This six-bedroom three-bath home is in Closeburn Station, a 3,000-acre working alpine farm with 27 private homes.

The house, which sits on nearly 1.5 acres, has over 1,615 square feet of outdoor space, including a wrap-around deck. The house overlooks a pond and stream.

Unfortunately, I won't be a candidate for a house like this in the near future. I have to make new plans now

You’ll find a copy of this post on my grow-a-brain blog here

Pools of Mud

Due to the real estate crisis, and the fact that I am stuck here with quite a few apartment buildings that are losing their value and cannot be sold, my plans of moving to New Zealand are being postponed, at least for a “while”. I am sorry to hear it myself!

Meanwhile then, here are a few Kiwi links:

Pools of mud (by Pete Ashton)

New Zealand’s Hottest Weather Broadcast

How to prepare a kiwi. (Re-post)

Welcome to the youngest country on earth

Lost Novels of Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

Another blog about Emigrating to New Zealand

Living Chess

Another blog about Emigrating to New Zealand by a British couple, Jonathan and Rebecca

Volcano Camera - White Island crater

Stamps of Antarctic research centers for glaciology, meteorology, geology, and biology, on Kiwi philately

Ancient Maori Kites

Outdoor chess in Christchurch

A proposed new New Zealand Flag

Bed & Breakfast & Four-Wheel Drive combos: Kiwi Housetrucks

“Southern lights" aurora on APOD. New Zealand from space (Click to biggify. Another angle)

Maori liquor made from Ti-Toki berries

Walking upside down on the Southern Hemisphere

World's largest tape ball

Penguin Crossing

Bic Runga sings Listening For The Weather. (From Bioneural’s Great New Zealand music. Thank you, Bruce)

This is a post that I am “co-blogging”, with on-going Grow-a-brain contributor Craig Conley of Abecedarian blog who provided most all of today’s links. Thank you, Craig! (All previous co-blogged posts archived here.) If other bloggers are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details.

Escape from America

Kiwi songbird Hayley Westenra. (Thank you, Steve M.)

NPR story about The Front Lawn duo

Escape from America, one year later

This 'Hell Pizza' billboard drew complains from some circles

The underarm incident of 1981

Music from Elsewhere introduces music which would otherwise go unheard and unnoticed. (Thank you, Doddery’)

My New Zealand vacation, by a Singaporean blogger who immigrated to New Zealand recently

Also, Rudy Ruker‘s trip to New Zealand, Part 3, part 4 and 5

Rastafari Parliament member Nandor Tanczos

The last self-portrait of a kayaker who died at sea

Mystery plane on the tarmac at Christchurch Airport

Q&A on AskMefi: Tawita works for the government of a small developing country, and they are looking to make all of their legislation freely available on the internet. The Kiwi Public Access to Legislation (PAL) Project is a good example of how to do it

More on Mefi: Lots of Haka chants by the All Blacks. Compare that to 1932 All Blacks Haka from Rugby Pioneers

Looking for jobs on Seek

Things to Know When in New Zealand

New Zealand Sculpture and Sculptors

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Lake Taupo

A Stone Circle at Whanganui Bay, Lake Taupo

You Want Testosterone? I'll give you some testosterone

I wanna buy The Barton Estate! (Thank you, Doddery. TradeMe = the Kiwi eBay)

Fast-motion video of a scenic drive from Te Anau to Queenstown, New Zealand (original video was 40 minutes). On the left-hand side is Lake Wakatipu

Fish found in New Zealand

New Zealand is Droning

I love the Mutton Birds' haunting "White Valiant", but I have no idea what it means. Can somebody tell me what the song is about?

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It's only natural

(There’s not much progress with my plans of moving to New Zealand right now. I am going on a trip to China in November, and after that ?) Meanwhile, here are some links from my other blog -

Live at St. James with Crowded House Don't dream it's over, from Jonson’s tribute to the Finn Brothers: “Of the several thousand reasons to give thanks for YouTube, I count among them the many live Neil Finn/Crowded House/Split Enz videos that people have uploaded. That Neil Finn, I swear to God, just about the greatest thing that ever happened to music. You can keep your Thom Yorkes, your John Lennon’s, your Lou Pearlmans, for my money, it just doesn’t get any better than this”. (Also there, unrelated but amazing - Bus Graveyard)

Flight of the Conchords, New Zealand's fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo – Like Simon and Garfunkel meets Beck's "Debra". (From Metafilter)

More threads there: What liberal country should I move to?

49 Gorgeous Digital Images. (Thank you, Steel)

The Moeraki Boulders

The Chatham Islands

Some Random Facts about New Zealand and other places

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Another "Moving to New Zealand" Blog!

Ha! I found another blog called… Moving to New Zealand… A story of a boy, a girl, and a cat moving around the world (I wonder how they move the cat. And I have two!)

Mixotheque is a music blog with “compilations of the classic and obscure. Every month, two 80 minute mixes catering to the cognoscenti and the newcomer”. A large Kiwi Category with lots of MP3’s

Earth, Sea and Sky. (From the Te Ara, The Encyclopedia of New Zealand)

Doctor Fun: I picked it up in New Zealand

100% Pure New Zealand, winner of the 2006 Webby Awards

Night stars

Southern Sky- Images of Southern Hemisphere Night Sky. (From Starry Night Photography)

Kiwi dancers at their proudest

Today's Fark Photoshop ingredient: New Zealand

These signs tend to puzzle tourists and townies: Facial Eczema Risk Monitor…

New Zealand Not Really For Sale, eBay Says. A prankster in neighboring Australia listed the nation of New Zealand on eBay. Bidding rose to more than $2,300 before the Internet auction site pulled the plug on the bogus listing. There were more than 20 bids

A blog about travelling on the South Island

Photo above by my niece, who’s traveling somewhere on the South Island (Click to enlarge).

Apple Picking

My other niece, Michal, left Israel after serving in the army and has been traveling the world. About 3 months ago she somehow found herself in New Zealand, and she too loves the place. Right now she is picking apples in Nelson area. (Click on photo to enlarge)

The New Zealand Weta. Weta = Mouse-sized crickets. The purpose of this page is to give people a better understanding of this national treasure in the hope that we may be able to preserve them for future generations. (From Open Reading Frame)

The awe of Haka

The New Zealand Kunekune Breeders' Association

New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) became the third official language of New Zealand in April 2006, joining English and Māori

The Long March to NZ. The Herald spent two weeks in Shanghai, China, trying to find out why so many Chinese want to abandon their families and their culture for a new life in New Zealand. We tracked the stories of two couples - young, bright, educated people with dreams of doing better - as they set their sights on the South Pacific. One pair made it; the other didn't

Milford Track, called “The Finest Walk in the World”. Other hiking possibilities around the world

Tramping (backpacking & such) in the backcountry

Energy Painting of Ian K S Robertson

NZ International Arts Festival

Lake Tarawera

Steven Pinker is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University and one of the charter members of The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. He is also a wonderful travel photographer. Here are his photos of Lake Tarawera and Lake Wanaka

More news from Wanaka

Fungi from New Zealand and Australia

Nostalgic Kiwiana by Kurt Langer. (Thank you, Rest Area 300M)

The art-blog of my prolific friend, artist Ian K SRobertson in whose house I stayed while in Akaroa

Thousands of Maori names for your dog, cat, horse, pet & child. (From Names by ChinaRoad)

142,839 photos from New Zealand on flickr

Tim Kolar - In the summer of 2004, I went out for a walk...

Danny Yee’s journal of his travel on the north island

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