Sunday Recovery at Zuma

Back at Zuma, why? The coffee was not so good last time but it is an interesting venue on the corner of Tory and Wakefield next to Commonsense Organics. I order a different coffee this time, with hot milk   separate and it is quite OK, but never hot enough for me. I like to dwell on a coffee which doesn't go cold in five minutes, or less.

And this lovely black dog at the doorway, lying patiently waiting for her mistress to walk her home. She is patted by another young client who loves dogs.

Here below is an example of mad New Zealand. Or is it more mad Auckland? A bankrupt financier burns down his 14 million dollar home on the beautiful Waiheke Island so someone can rebuild a nicer one, while his creditors go hungry, and totally are understandably ropeable. The owner is living safely in Australia as a bankrupt and he can't be contacted. What a mad country is this?

And now

below is a girl who committed suicide after being cyber-bullied at school. She is first generation Kiwi of Chilean parents and now their lives are ruined. But what a waste of a life!

Below is a Kiwi man in Rio who made good, establishing a hostel for visitors for the next Olympics on the ege of the favellas. He is quite an entrepreneur in good Kiwi style.

Whereas here is another sort of young entrepreneur who is making money out of a private Ambulance business but he seems a bit shonky,  although he may have got away with it.

And here in Auckland a gymnasium for millionaires and a small old-boys club for $2.5k a year in order to have your gym clothes washed for you after each visit, a good example of wealth disparity in NZ.

Two Polish twin boys, both architects successfully working and living in Christchurch. I don't think they will ever leave this wonderful if crazy country..

A Wild and Out singer/songwriter who has succeeded beyond her dreams all over the world, having learned her music at home in the small parochial town in the Wairarapa, Masterton.

And another success story in the London fashion scene, selling to the stars and to Royalty and who was Kiwi-trained at Dunedin Art School...

Such is the stuff of good Kiwi education and training, providing creativity for the rest of the world to learn from and being true successes.

Here are probably two of the such successes enjoying the sun outside Zuma on a fresh Autumn morning.

Forgot to mention a movie I saw last night at Cuba...a great take on an older French movie 'La Piscine', this one called  'A Bigger Splash' was made by Italian director Luca Guadagnino, of great quality, and guilefully played as a four-hander with Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton, the marvellous Matthias Shoenaerts and the young and excellent Dakota Johnson. A different and beautifully filmed film noir of sorts, about an eventual death and love triangle in Sicily. Certainly worth seeing for film buffs. Five Stars.