The NZ Soccer fan club

Some of the Kiwi staff here at Bahrain Polytechnic popped out for a quick photo shoot yesterday - rumour has it the photo may be heading towards the Christchurch Press.

Mum note your 2 flags feature in front and back rows.

The National Stadium is in the background - venue for the game next weekend.

Koh Samet

ahhhhhhhhh Thailand, beautiful people, place, food, environment, water, sea, company = perfect place to meet Dave for a 5 day weekend.

View from our room, sipping on drinks watching the sunset and swotting the HUGE mosquitoes.

Temperature moment

Guessing that maybe I'm getting used to living in the middle east - been thinking recently about how pleasant the temperatures are these days and how it's cooling down; maybe time to start wearing my jeans................ but it's still 33 odd degrees out there most of the time popping up into the late 30s most days. Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Football again

It’s official you can watch the All Whites play Bahrain on October 11 as the kick off time has been confirmed at 4.30am (NZT) for the away leg of New Zealand’s crucial FIFA World Cup playoff. The match kicks off at 6.30pm (10 October) local time and will be shown live in New Zealand on Sky Sport.

I will be there waving my NZ flag – see if you can spot me!

New |car

Woohooo I just went out and bought myself a car - how exciting! Did day of looking looking looking in the heat last weekend and dragged myself back out today - wasn't too keen as there is a large pile of polytechnic work occupying my attention.

But got out there (thanks neighbour for giving me a wee push) and what luck the first car I saw today meet all my criteria, price range, engine size, brand etc so did the deal, knocked few dinars off the asking price and signed up.

Paying cash here means just that - paying cash. Hence a short drive to the bank in the knowledge that it closes earlier on Saturday due to Ramadan, traffic jams, bit of queue in branch and finally I had large envelope of cash in my hand, largest currency note here is the 20 dinar bill............. you can imagine the pile of cash starts looking large when you're buying a car!

Anyway, here is a picture of my new wheels. Most expensive and flash car I have ever owned! Don't believe I have ever taken a photo of any prior car purchase either..........hmmmm.

Oh and I hear the All Blacks lost the game :-( bummmmmmmmmmmer.

All Whites are playing in Bahrain

Yay, the whole Kiwi crew at work is a buzz with excitement of seeing All Whites play Bahrain on 10th October! Normally about 1% of us would follow the team but being in the country far away from home it takes on a different perspective.

I mean, lets face it, what are the chances of any other NZ team playing a game of anything in Bahrain?? It's the size of Lake Taupo!

10th Oct we'll all be there at the Bahrain National Stadium cheering the lads on - can someone send over a NZ flag for me to wave!!??