December 2023

December 2023

Sweet as End to 2023  ♥ As Auckland emptied itself for Christmas break/summer holidays, Mahiran and I joined the exiting trend and headed up North to our favourite coast. To our relief, the number of cars reduced after hitting a couple of towns, and it didn’t take us...
May 2023 –> November 2023

May 2023 –> November 2023

It’s been a hot second How do you start a blog entry that was meant to be a monthly update but you haven’t posted anything in ages? The challenge of re-starting these, of finding that catchy first sentence that re-engross the reader while apologising for...
April 2023

April 2023

Turning Tables April behaved like spring but showed us the colours of Autumn. Warm days basked in sunshine juxtaposed gray skies whisked by westerly winds. While the rest of the world slowly celebrated the end of winter, we braced ourselves for its onset .   This...
March 2023

March 2023

Still Flowering in Concrete The first month back in Auckland was an emotional whirlwind of events . There was the realisation that we could not break our housing contract without losing our bond given the recent development that our housemates also wished to move out....
The North Island Travels

The North Island Travels

Two People, One Car, and an So Much of an Island Country to Discover Seven weeks, 5,168 kilometers, 96 different places we stopped at, a colorfulfully marked map of New Zealand’s North Island, four cyclones, a two year anniversary, one birthday, and a lifetime of...