Christchurch Aftermath
It’s been days since the 7.1 Earthquake down in Christchurch but there’s still tonnes of shit going down. From what I’ve heard and read in the news, there’s been over 120 Aftershocks, most being over 4.0 and the biggest being as strong as 5.4 magnitude.
The aftershocks have caused damages themselves, already damages roads have cracked to pieces and sunken down into the earth. And already wrecked buildings which were once salvageable were seriously damaged or written off due to the shocks.
An example would be the main gay club down in Christchurch city. From what I read, the owner closed up and was driving home at about 4:30 when the quake happened and he drove back to check on the place to see it was alright, minor damage and things on the floor etc etc, but the next day, after an aftershock, a neighbouring building’s chimney fell off and went straight through the clubs rood and smashed into the club.
Think there are about 3 whole streets that are pretty much fucked. One of them had an actual fault tear right through it; one reported walked up the street and showed the rips in the ground and where they went right through houses. One street had a 1 metre wide trench open up and one woman ran out of her house after the quake and fell neck high into the watery sandy silt that was being pushed out of the ground. She thought she had died for a split second, but managed to crawl her way out, breaking all her nails. Scary!
All that water that flooded many suburbs has all gone, but it’s left this thick layer of silt and sand that has come up from under the ground. Also of residents are now questioning why houses were built on this type of earth in the first place. Houses have sunken into the ground, especially since the quake pushed so much of the sand out from beneath the ground from under many homes.
My cousin is living down there with his partner and 2 kids. There house is apparently fine and they all have electricity and water. They are one of the lucky ones thank god! He told us one his is kids was actually laughing during the quake as he dragged them under the table. They didn’t know what was going on and though their dad was just joking around. That’s so cute. Glad they are alright.
More earthquakes have been felt in Wellington and Hawkes Bay today, Wellingtons was only 3.6 and Hawkes Bay was 5.2. Neither of them were big enough to cause any damage at all and nothing has been affected by them. Officials say it has nothing to do with Christchurch’s quake but anyone with a brain will know of course they do. When faults move, they set off chain reactions and cause further faults to move and release pressure.
There’s a lot of footage on www.herald.co.nz if you’re interested on seeing any of the damage. They even have some CCTV footage of the quake, but it’s nothing amazing. Tonnes of pics on there too. More pics here as well: http://news.msn.co.nz/glance/7957370/christchurch-earthquake-aftermath
Apparently the quake has changed the flow of some rivers and even broken a lot of stop banks. I saw an aerial view shot of the ruptured fault line which stretched over about 22km or more of land. You can even see hedges which have been ripped apart and moved about a metre off each other. It’s scary stuff.
The Christchurch Cathedral – which is equivalent to Paris’s Eiffel Tower or New York’s Statue of Liberty or even Sydney’s Opera House – has been reported to have cracks throughout the structure. They are not saying whether it is safe or not, or even if it will have to be demolished. It will be a huge tragedy if anything happens to that heritage site. It is the icon for all things Christchurch.
There are more aftershocks all the time and some experts are saying there might be one bigger one before it’s all over with. They say that every major earthquake usually has one aftershock which is just one below the magnitude of the main earthquake; in this case the strongest aftershock could be 6.1 and could potentially still be on the way.
Getting back to more positive news – Sunday was Fathers Day as most of you know. I know it’s a touchy day for some people out there, so feel free to move on to the next few paragraphs
. After work me & my sis drove down to South Auckland, out in the country where my Dad lives. We planned to take him out to dinner then to see a movie. We couldn’t really afford to buy him anything decent.
We had to race to get ready as the major motorway here in Auckland is under upgrades and was actually completely closed for about 48 hours. But a work mate told us that they had it opened till 5, so we got ready as fast as possible and raced for the highway! We were badly late, but turned out they left it open all night so no need for any detours.
Dinner was nice, we didn’t take him anywhere flash, just a family restaurant – they usually have tastier food and you can be yourself. Then we took him to see that new action packed movie The Expendables. It was directed by Sylvester Stallone – so um yea, you can already guess that the movie didn’t have a lot of substance.
Dad thoroughly enjoyed it, which is I guess what the movie was all about, just a big smash up for all those older men out there that grew up with these {once young, fit & popular} action heros. It has everyone – except Steven Segal & that F’in HOT Jean-Claude Van Damme. But everyone else is there….
As Empire said these guys are simply getting too old for this shit. It’s true, even if you did love the film. Stallone is 64!!!!!! Did anyone know that? That’s crazy he’s still able to do this stuff. I read in a magazine that he actually broke or fractured his neck during filming. You can tell his body is beginning to give though. He has just one shirtless scene, & he never faces the camera, you only see his muscular back and his side, never his full on chest or abs. That’s because his pecks are beginning to sag out like those tribal African woman you see on the ads. I’m not saying that to be nasty. It’s true! In one scene his shirt gets wet and you can totally make out the shape of his decaying beautiful pecks. I also just wanted to make the note that parts of his face look as if they have been stapled on. I whispered that to my sis in the movie & she totally agreed.
But the thing that kept my eyes open in this movie was Jason Statham. I know he’s not very hot to some people, but DAY-UM! He certainly pushes my buttons. He’s the kinda guy you hate till he’s inside ya
. HAHA but seriously the guy is a walking brick wall. And get this Jason is ALMOST HALF THE AGE OF STALLONE! He’s 38! I saw him talking to a NZ reporter once and I’m pretty sure he has a British accent. Oh he’s been in my mind ever since then. Sad thing is – I’m not really a fan of any of his films. I was sooo glad to see him with Charisma Carpenter – I’ve been a huge fan of hers ever since her funny Buffy days. I love her character of Cordelia Chase so much! And to see her score {& kiss} a babe like Statham, I wished I was her. Fuck what I’d do to be under that hunk of steel.
But as for the rest of the cast – apart from Randy Couture who I’ve always thought was dead sexy – this movie is about guys who have bigger muscles on the outside, when really the ones in the inside count the most when being an actor.
I have no idea why Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to do this film. I thought his {ONE} scene was alright, kinda funny. I didn’t expect to see him jumping off any planes, but just wondered why the governor of California would do such a thing. He’s been offered plenty of other small films roles, which were quite in-depth and hell, might have boosted his popularity in the politics world, yet he chooses to be seen in a cheesy blockbuster movie for about 3minutes. Odd.
It wasn’t a terrible film by any means. But not something I’d ever bother to watch again. Ever.
In more Faggier news headlines. Kylie has finally released her highly anticipated {well by the gays anyway
} her new song release off her new Album Aphrodite. It’s ‘Get Outta My Way’. I talked about it in older posts and pretty sure I said it was almost better than her first release of ‘All The Lovers’. The music video is pretty kick ass as well. Typical Kylie with all her hot boys around her and her outlandish and fierce and glamorous costumes. I prefer videos that have more of a story or small message and theme throughout, but I still really loved it.
The ‘knuckle-dusters’ she has in her clip are hot as! I read that apparently she’s pretty famous for them and brought them into fashion way back {yes she is that old haha}. She even sold some and they sold for huge amounts. Glad to see her going back to her roots.
Anyway that’s way more writing than I had intended to do.
Write to you beautiful people later










































































