Auckland

Auckland is an ugly city! The parts I’ve seen, at least, are strikingly unattractive – especially the CBD (downtown) area. I guess no one in Auckland bothered to hire a good architect.

I am just chilling out, and mostly planning and making arrangements for Japan. I have booked my lodging in Tokyo. I will get a JR Rail Pass, which gives a good discount for long-distance rail travel; but only foreign tourists can buy it, and it cannot be purchased in Japan.

Black Sheep

I am going to miss the movie Black Sheep! It opens in NZ on March 22 – the day after I leave. I have seen the trailer for it a few times, and it looks to be pretty funny. It is basically a zombie movie, except that the zombies are sheep, which start attacking the people.

The movie was made in NZ, and Weta did the creature effects.

Fugly Car

The image is the Toyota Will VI. I’ve seen them around NZ. I guess that Toyota was inspired by the VW New Beetle to try to create a “cute” car. This is what they ended up with!

Most of them seem to be dented up, too, like this one.