Petrol Price Drop Again

Petrol price continue it 5th drop in a month when all the major oil companies cut its petrol prices by 5 cents to $150.9 for Octane 91 and $155.9 for Octane 98 yesterday. In a short space of 1 month only, petrol prices has dropped by as much as 25 cents per litre. This is certainly good news for motorists as a car with a full tank of 50 litres can save the motorist as much as $12.50 per full tank.

J School's Production

Last Thursday, we came to the Regent Theatre, one of Palmy's tourist attraction, to watch J's school production (concert) titled Giant John. The whole school were involved from June onwards and the children spent many hours practicing the dance steps, story telling and singing. The parents were involved too including teaching the children some dance steps but many more were involved in preparing the props and sewing of the children costumes. All in all, it was an enjoyable evening seeing all the children showing off their talents and enjoying themselves tremendously.

Bill Gates Story

Have you heard of the Bill Gates story about his encounter with a fisherman at sea? If you have not, here is a short version of it. Bill Gates met a fisherman at sea and ask him, don't you want to earn more money by working rather than just fishing the whole day? When you work hard, you can earn more money and with this money, you can buy a very big boat and go fishing everyday. To this, the fisherman replied, why is there a need to have a big boat? I do not need one, this boat is sufficient for me and beside, with this small boat of mine, I too can go fishing everyday. The moral of the story is that we worked our socks off, especially in Asian societies, to get the dream houses and cars. What we have done by coming over here is that we can work less here in NZ and still afford our dream house (unlike the pigeon hole) and big car (without paying the high taxes). We are living our dreams.