Patrick Lam

Post-punted-paper-deadline trip to Queen Charlotte, plus a stay in Anakiwa.

Back at Akaroa for the Banks Peninsula Track with great views of the hilly coast.

Normal month in a non-teaching term.

NZ needs inter-regional passenger rail as an alternative to flying and driving for climate and other reasons.

Getting residence.

Was going to go to NZ on August 6 but finally went on August 21, after a judo grading.

I graded for godan (5th dan) on the competitior stream recently.

5 weekends, 5 trips; now in Waterloo to close out the term (and do lots of marking).

More normal life.

Good showing in seniors (2 wins) and veterans (3rd) at Canadian Open Nationals.

Mostly teaching.

[Written March 2020.

Checking off another territory from my Canada list; brief visit to Yellowknife (NWT) and successful aurora spotting.

End of term.

People are pretending it’s back to normal, but the sixth wave has started in Quebec.

Saskatchewan is surprisingly scenic.

Back to normal?

Sometimes I’m ridiculous.

Hey, I have a place of my own in Waterloo.

I looked up two years’ of dining history and collected all the New Zealand restaurants I thought were worth mentioning.

Last monthly summary from 2021.

Part III: What about Wellington?

Part II: Ten days, a year, and 20 years living in Montreal.

OK, so what do I really think about living in Kitchener, Montreal, and Wellington in 2021?

Christmas Eve content you wanted: egg sizes in NZ, Canada and the US.

All things must come to an end.

Part II: from Auckland to Montreal (and Kitchener).

Ma te wa—see you later, New Zealand.

Argh!

Thoughts about how people get around in Canada and New Zealand.

Waiting for the other shoe to drop and hoping that it doesn’t drop before vaccination rates are high enough.

Following the White Island eruption, the New Zealand Government is soliciting comments on the regulation of adventure activities.

Outside of Auckland, life is almost normal (for now).

Second part of my book review / transit comparison between 1905 and 2021.

Alys Lowth and her party toured New Zealand in the early 1900s and took a surprising amount of public transit.

The 1pm show starring Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Dr.

I finally got around to adding links to my Hugo gallery sliders.

What we got up to on the Cook Islands, and what we’d do differently.

I’m writing as a constituent to urge Canada to take action on climate change.

This month’s highlights: three trips, including one outside of New Zealand; ten new restaurants; normal non-teaching term month.

This month’s highlights: SCAM paper submission; less successful tournament result at the Waikato Bays Open (Rotorua); rainy weekend trip to Masterton and Pūkaha National Wildlife Centre; COVID scare in Wellington (got lucky)

Cliffhanger resolved.

NZ remains COVID-free, barely.

I suspected that the Mount French route would be slightly marginal for daylight, since it was posted at 6-7 hours and sunset is currently at 17:15.

Fought in the Canterbury Open, and then an action-packed day north of Greymouth.

Last year Elliott and I went to the West Coast for the Queen’s Birthday weekend.

Incremental progress throughout May; as usual, non-teaching terms are much less of a grind.

I know what’s when in Canada, but things are completely different here.

Canadian content!

We’ve been in Wellington for the past year and a half (!).