“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to love what you do. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all pride,
Miscellaneous
Host nation crashes out of ‘Virtual’ World Cup
Let’s hope it’s not a sign of things to come… Host team the All Blacks today crashed out of The Moodie Report’s ‘Virtual World Cup’, the sister competition to the real Rugby World Cup (RWC) currently being played in New Zealand. The Virtual World Cup (VWC) asked companies to sponsor one of the 20 finalists
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Miscellaneous
A place where no Blackberries grow…
The Moodie Report has opened many temporary bureaus down the years, refusing to let geographic position or isolation frustrate our publication schedule. But even in an age of almost ubiquitous internet access, some places just defy modern technology. Such is the case on the wild West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island where I took
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Events
The journeyman who would be king
‘Stay positive, says Dan’s dad.’ Only in New Zealand… The front page headline of Christchurch’s ‘The Press’ newspaper was dedicated not to international affairs, not to the aftermath of the local earthquakes, not to the soaring local employment rate. Instead it referred to an interview with the father of New Zealand’s stricken sporting hero Dan
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Events
At the mercy of nature
Sumner is a picture postcard-perfect seaside suburb of Christchurch. Its valley is ringed by volcanic hills, whose houses command magnificent views over the Pacific Ocean. I grew up in such a house, at 2 Nayland Street. As a young boy I used to gaze for hours from our top-storey window at the ships out to
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Miscellaneous
A city begins its comeback from catastrophe
“We are home, Christchurch lives on.” The paint-scrawled sign at the end of a driveway in the eastern suburb of Bexley stands as a statement of defiance. Street after street after street has been rendered uninhabitable here. On a glorious Spring day, everything almost looks normal in what was a typically neat Christchurch suburb. Except