This episode of ‘Deadliest Warrior’ pits a Shaolin Monk against a Maori Warrior. Who will win…? Only tangentially related to Kiwese, but thought this battle scenario was too ridiculous not to post here!! Check out the link to watch trained martial artists destroy large pieces of meat with Shaolin and Maori weapons. FIGHT!! https://youtu.be/SYgKmb_YIoAContinueContinue reading “Fight Club: Shaolin Monk or Maori Warrior?”
Monthly Archives: July 2015
Year of the (Scape)goat: Responding to Phil Twyford on Chinese sounding names
Crime rates rising? Road toll increasing? Quality of secondary or tertiary education declining? No jobs? Housing bubble in Auckland? Just blame the Chinese. New Zealand’s social media is aflame with hot and sour responses (from people with Chinese sounding names and non-Chinese sounding names) to comments from Labour’s housing spokesman Phil Twyford on TV3’s The Nation in an interview with Lisa Owen on Saturday evening,ContinueContinue reading “Year of the (Scape)goat: Responding to Phil Twyford on Chinese sounding names”
He Tangata: Interview with Mayor Meng Foon
Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa, “the Great standing place of Kiwa,” formerly “the first city to see the sun” (jeez… thanks, Apia), whānau hometown Gisborne on the North Island’s East Coast is a very special place indeed. Beaches, cicada song, 50c ice-blocks from the dairy, backyard cricket with the cuzzies! Those hot summers up at Por Por’s are seared into my memory, us Chinese kids barefootContinueContinue reading “He Tangata: Interview with Mayor Meng Foon”
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