nzlegend
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My buddy was dodgy about doing it, he had full on coke bottles -10 and -11 dioptres!!!! he was blind!!! anyway after I did it successfully he raced in at the spped of sound and was sorted.
His eyes are still bang on perfect 4 years later.
I raved about it to a Japanese friend who did it last week, in Japan the surgery was only approved in 2000, very far behind the reat of the world. Many Japanese are play it safe for this kind of thing, but I was the catalyst for her to do it. She was soooo happy after she did it
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this is the place I went to in ChCh NZ. Check out Dr Kents credentials, the dude is the LASIK master, if he doesnt have the skill or experience no one does. 7000plus satisfied customers
It cost $4000NZ to do both eyes 4 years ago, so i am figuring maybe $4500 now thats about $2500US.
It was the single greatest thing I have done for myself. No glasses, contacts. for a person who is active and has contacts or glasses, one of the top 5 greatest days of your life is when the take the covers off for the first time after the op the next day and you can see.....
The joys...scuba diving and not worrying about your mask flooding, not losing a contact on a powder day, your contacts not drying up in dry room, not ever taking out your contacts again,or putting them in, not fumbling for your glasses in the morning, being able to read an alarm clock across the room at night, your glasses not steaming up, not paying a kings ransom for disposable contacts, not forgeting to take the contacts out after getting drunk and passing out......the list goes on.
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Translation of O11 - "I needa lay a cable so Im goin to the shitter"
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my eyes were pretty bad, -5.o dioptres, had it done by an expert in NZ, called David Kent, LASIK is his bread and butter.
My eyes 4 years later a perfect still usually, 6/5 better than perfect. Before I had it done was night sight was terrible, but after the op it was really good again, but recently its decreasing a little, still very good, not awesome any more at night.
Overall I highly rate the op, long term I think there are no effects, PRK has been around nearly 20 years and no long term ill effects are to be seen.
Dont listen to opticians they will say its bad mainly because after the op they lose a customer who previously spents hundreds a year on contacts and glasses. Many opticians and optomertrists have lost thousands of patients in NZ and it worrying, truly worrying for them.
Plus peoples eyes change regardless of Laser ops or not. The more I think about it Recently I have been using the computer much more and reading more and I think that may well have more to do with it that the operation.
when i dont use a computer or read I can feel a difference in my eyes, after a week of skiing my eyes are like an eagle, a week on the 'puuter and I am Mr Magoo
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I had done 4years ago, anyone else had it done? how have your results been?
My eyes are still awesome, excellent vision, but at night time recently my night vision has not been as good, still pretty good, but not as good. Anyone had problems?
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I love reading nostalgic and historical stories.
The things that get me was how unbelieveably flimsy the bindings were.
wow and I complain about my bindings. These guys probably ripped aswell. I would love to time travel and take some modern equipment back to Sondre and say " there ya go my son, have a lash on these" He would probably cream his pants
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Ping Pong yep i studied geology/geography at University. I love field work but hate book work which is why I never did a Masters, couldnt wait to escape from University and head for Colorado for skiing and never went back (to school)and then ended up here in Japan.
I studied Coastal and Glacial in Geog. And in Geol I did Sedimentolgy, Geophysics, Eng Geol, Metamorphic and Igneous Geology and Structural geology.
I have always been into that kind of stuff so thats why I studied it, but studying it wasnt as I expected and you need a Masters or Phd to do anything in that field and I am slipping further and further away from that now.
Those pure disciplines are also limited as far as work, most end up as research and faculty at University.
As far a glacialolgy, thats some interesting stuff, my lecturer (Canadian) did her Phd on the Hubbard glacier
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someone emailed this to me, thought I would share it with ya all
Quote of the day
"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy,
the
best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France
is
accusing the US of arrogance, and Germany doesn't want to go to war."
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Bang on there Davo, bang on. Teaching English is a bit of subterfuge (1. Noun - Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity) for many Chain schools. All they really want is money, its all about sales, ripping people off for huge amounts of money and as a token gesture sending some unqualified native speakers to speak to them, Speak not teach. I have seen some complete dickheads "speaking to students" they couldnt teach their grandma to suck eggs.
The patronising progress reports Davo mentioned mean little and as far as caring for the students needs......get this certain places have level up quotas that have to be met, Screw student ability. Leveled up students = happy students = students who buy more tickets.
5% may seem little but in a 400 student school thats 20 students who have to go up every month! every month. They dont care about progress they care about money
Working for one of the big schools for whatever reason is frustrating, for these reasons, for the reasons Barok listed and more, especially when you personally care for the students progress and the clowns around you and the company dont
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plagioclase feldspar
penecontemperaneous
god the list goes on for sexy igneous and other geologic words
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when I was a kid at ate them whole, now a bite a hole and squeeze and suck out the juicy goodness
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Anyone keen for mountain Biking??? know some good places to go? has this been discussed ages ago in the forum already? anyway who peddles here in the other season?
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my man shouichi had his technique down and all
he was about.......eeeh!!....aaahray??? oooh hooh hooh ooooh.....sssuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu eeeh!!!!?
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Every year I am reminded how biased, bribed and out of touch with the public, those w*nkers at the motion picture academy really are. Oscar???Oscar is a green furry fella on seasame street
I couldnt give a Rats ass if a movie does well at the Oscars. I am not so superficial and besides the Cannes is more indicative of a good movie, its a good yardstick for decent movies
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http://www.geocities.com/japanfaq/FAQ-Prices.html
makes for very interesting reading.
what a place we live in.Also has anyone read the book "Dogs and Demons" I know you have Davo, but anyone else? another dude was giving me a mindnumbing blow by blow account of it.
also this another interesting website especially the SAQ Seldom asked questions.
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Quote:Originally posted by Ocean11:
"The underseat heaters are turned up so high as to poach the eggs of all the male passengers - yosh!"
awesome post Oceans, but that is the one thing that sh*ts me to tears, the incredibly hot underseat heaters, what the hell is with that? the crap local line I ride has the worlds hottest seats
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as per usual BBC has the best coverage. CNN is putting out garbage with dramatic overtones and the big banner "operation freedom constantly visible.....I hate to think what FOX is serving up
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Are you kidding?????Quote:Originally posted by db:
. So giving up deprives me of a convenient work distraction.Isnt this forum enough of a distraction??? between having a fag and posting here I doubt you do any work 
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.....Having first hand knowledge of your employer, I know how muchQuote:Originally posted by barok:
I would also like to see a feature that reimburses me for sick days that I spend at Hakuba, Nozawa, et. al.
they ream you when it comes to sickdays......
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http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,177243-1-9,00.html
but weeGeoff it seems that the UK is now getting behind their troops and public opinion has swung.
Unfortuneately it is game on now whether anyone likes it or not. Now is the time for solidarity
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Fattwins did you see what I posted in this thread?
http://www.skijapanguide.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=003808
I spent 5 days there a while back, Princess Diana died while I was up there so thats when it was.
I loved the place, the solitude, the atmosphere, the lack of people, 20-30 on the whole mountain while I was there. Hanging out in the lodge talking and drinking.
NZ mountain safety run some hardcore Avalanche courses there, right up to learning to use explosives etc.
The terrain is awesome wind lips, cornices, bowls, shutes, cliff drops, extreme faces everything but trees (alpine environ).
Ropes tows take a while to get used to but are twice as fast as T bars, you seriously need leather glove protectors as you would wreck your gloves in 3 seconds flat.
I really enjoyed the place, would go back for a ski week in a heartbeat.
Oceans - a club field, is owned by a ski club but anyone is welcome, very cheap and generally only rope tows, no lifts or grooming, but real skiing/boarding -very few posers.
woywoy, sorry I have never spent a full season down there myself, only had friends do it, but they all rated Wanaka over Queenstown. So I dont know anyone down there now.
If living in a small town with reduced nightlife and atmosphere is your scene, then try Methven and Mt Hutt. Hutt doesnt have the best terrain overall but always has the best snow, longest season and has a decent pipe, no park.
My folks live nearby and might be able to help with contacts, My mum worked in the ticket office a while back. no promises though
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You should meet a cabbage of a student I have taught called Shouichi, he is the World Champion Airsucker, impeccable technique
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typed in haste...regretted for a lifetime.Quote:Originally posted by confused:
Kamoshika, I thought I read in another thread that you were all for open discussions? So what's all this 'stop bickering' business then?
anyway such issues can strongly divide people / friends who were previousy civil and courteous to eachother. A case in point was when I was a Junior high School Student, or Intermediate School student to be more precise, back in the late '80's I had a good rapport with Mr X teacher, he was a top bloke. There was another teacher Mrs Y who never spoke to and ignored Mr X , so one day I said why does Mrs Y act so snobbishly and rudely to you?. Mr X told me that in the late 1970's they had been good friends and their families too, but in 1981 there had been the South Afican Rugby tour of New Zealand. A still isolated Apartheid South Africa had been invited to play Rugby the #1 game in both countries and a way of life for some people. There were massive protests and demostrations about this and it divided the country. Some said its just sport, the best teams in the world playing eachother, others said its the racial issues we cant let them in to play Rugby, we'd be condoning Apartheid
Anyway Mrs Y was a leftwinger and staunchly against the tour, Mr X loved Rugby and said let them play, dont involve sport in politics. The staffroom at school was bitterly divided and some of those teachers to that day still didnt give one another the time of day.
So lets respect eachothers views and beliefs and not get too acrimoious, because this is an awesome forum here at SJ, lets not end up like Mr X and Mrs Y. lets Agree to disagree -
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