Archive for July, 2008

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TAX CUT

July 16, 2008

The Crown ( Government ) will cut the tax rates from the 1st of October, here a link with the new rates!

It will be a 70 dollars more every month on my income!! I won’t be rich but it’s a good news, overall if I think about Italy, since I remember I could not see a tax cut just because of the inflaction.  In Italy when there is a tax cut, the GOVT brings the money in other ways, as new prices for medical exams.

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VISA!!!

July 16, 2008

I am finally a happy visa owner !! it’s a 12 months visa but I’ve already applied for the residence and in 4 months the Immigration will look at that and hopefully before the end of the year I will be resident, WOW!

Now I wait for my passport to have back from the immigration with the stamp of the visa.

Now we have to celebrate.

Tomaso.

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Kiwi Hackering

July 15, 2008

 

As you can see if you open the link, this guy committed  hackering when he was just 16 and now he will go overseas to work for for a big company. These things can really happen!

tomaso

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Immigration: The ODC

July 14, 2008

After the application, after the second letter with all the information about us, the immigration is still giving us an hard time.

They are making me feel like if I was not a human being, I am here because of Aimee and our relationship is genuine but they are so death, now we will see if we can talk to them for an appointment.

Anyway: yesterday afternoon we talked with the Jp, the official for our wedding, she will marry us. we talked about the money, about how it will be and what we do during the wedding. I asked if my witness “Giovanni” can wear a priest costume and sing for us and she told us that it’s ok so he will do that that day, I know he wants to do it, will be funny!

We went to play bowling yesterday night, the italian couple that we know left the job at the Skycity yesterday night so we went to play “AGGRATIS” ( for free ), hehe.

tommy.

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The Coldest day of the winter

July 9, 2008

Today is the coldest day of the winter, but I am not sure about it anyway.

This week is very cold and even if today is not the coldest is fu**ing cold!!

A couple of weeks ago we went to Wellington, maybe because of the weather but I did not like that much, it was ever interesting to know the Capital of the NZ. I think it could be better in summer time, that’s why I want to go the next summer, I could judge better the city.

Finally we knew Clod and his girlfriend, we went out for a pizza and then for some beers, nice! We met also Ziglio and his family, the administrator of “Italiansonline”.

The flight back to Hamilton was cancelled because of the wind but fortunatly we could fly to Auckland and the Aimee’s parents picked us up ( Auckland is just 1 hour and a half from Hamilton )

We are organising the flights to my parents from Italy, now the price is 1405 with Singapore Airlines, a bit expensive but I think it’s still reasonable considering How long is the flight from Italy to here. My friend Paolo cannot come because of it, but who can complain about it? he’s got a family to look after. Hopefully my other friends Fabio and Gio ( vanna ) may come, we will see what happen later this year.

I am looking forward to see my parents here and how they could be surprised to see this country, I think they will really like here, it would be the same for my friends if they come.

All the other people that I invited to come to our wedding said no, because of the price obviously, but I think there is another reason why they don’t want to come, because all those people are not used to travel and take planes for so many hours.

Anyway I am happy because of my parents ( they come ) and my closest friends are trying to see if the can.

The next week there is the Timabaland concert in Auckland, I don’t know if we go or not, but Aimee wants to go and I’d like to do it to make her happy.

On friday the Iphone will be realesed in NZ, what a shame, the prices are so expensive, I am upset about it, I wanted it but the price is crazy, I read a lot of comments of people telling that they won’t buy the Iphone because of it.

Today on grabaseat there a flight to Tokyo or Osaka for 699 NZ Dollars ( about 350 Euro ), someone’s envying?

 

Tommy.