<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>0:17 oh like we <.>or originally came up with the design yep and then i wasn't happy with the layout so who who designed it well rob basically did did the outside design but <.>r and i sort of thought out you know i said oh i approximately want the rooms here you know you know the <{1><[1>bedrooms down lower down and then the lounge and then rob came up with sort of you know something which is about eighty sort of seventy percent what i wanted but since i did the course up at polytech i did the <{2><[2>design appreciation <[1>yeah <[2>all your ideas have changed sort of my ideas have sort of changed and sort of <.>d just looking at what other architects have done and that sort of thing i've just changed a few things round but it's funny sort of come back more or less to almost the same thing <{><[>what we originally thought of but it's just i'm just changing a few things like we had the laundry at sort of the <&>1:00 front and now i've put the laundry out in the back and i've made a separate toilet because the toilet before was in the bathroom <[>mm YEAH it's good having a separate one um and you really <{><[>need <[>for all those visitors you're gonna <{><[>have because you're gonna owe lots of dinner parties <[>yeah yeah both laugh so um yeah er no that's one <.>thing architects like to put toilets in the um in the bathrooms cos i think it saves space and it's <.>ea if it's it's easier to design you have just chuck a toilet into a bathroom yep and but as soon as you get people who have long showers long showers and also there's always a panic somebody needs to go to the toilet if somebody's in the shower or and you really don't want them using your garden yeah no laughs so so have you got an estimated time of construction well the other problem is that sue's got she's got to get an updating of property so that when i come to crosslease mm she's got enough money she she she's supposed to have eighty percent on the value of her property mhm problem is i don't think she's quite it's like <&>2:00 borderline whether she can then sort of borrow some money off her rich brother or whatever right so <.>may maybe i'll just go ahead mm and do it or maybe i have to wait till they put the um put the proper drive on maybe a room upstairs i'm not quite sure but the other day she was looking at a house up the road so so you don't quite know what's going on but she can't really do anything she she can't really do anything until i've crossleased unless i know i read somewhere else you can do something else apart from a crosslease because you can only crosslease when you've actually built you've got to actually have built i think mm then they draw a plan of it and then they you get it surveyed and then that goes on the title cos the other way around you know how you subdivide yep but you can do something else which is not a crosslease apparently which which apparently according to some valuer or something is a better way to do it but whether the lawyers like doing it well that's another thing but there's loopholes in everything so it's not very straightforward yeah so it's sort of a quandary as to which way <&>3:00 but you're quite happy where you are oh not really no i'd want to um oh that's why i want <{><[>to find a job for for <[>you really never planned to be in there that long eh no i want to really get a job and <{><[>er <[>what will you do if you get a job move? no well then i could go ahead and <{1><[1>start getting the thing <{2><[2>built <[1>oh right <[2>get it going mm so you know if i can get a couple of parttime jobs more you'd so you think you'd keep on your cleaning well i could do that <.>i if i don't <{><[>find a if i don't find like a quantity surveying job <[>find something you can do some mail sorting and no i wouldn't want <{><[>to do that laughs <[>cleaning and mail sorting's <.>pre this is much better than mail sorting you know at least the guy's you know he he's a german guy he came from germany yep and he's um apparently he apparently got divorced from his wife about two or three years ago now he's married a filipino mail order? yeah think so but but er he sort of tends to employ only asians oh yeah so how did you get the job oh because i knew this chinese girl at polytech and she's been saying on and off for the last two years or three years since i've known her <&>4:00 oh do you want a cleaning job do you want a cleaning job so i rang him up and she asked me in about august or something and i rang the guy because i was thinking of by then that i'd need a job yep cos i kept i'm earning too much on my allowance to actually get a job oh of course so in order to keep the allowance i haven't been able to get a job so now i i was thinking well this year will be my last year when i'm gonna do fulltime study yep cos it's been become a bit of a bore otherwise so er i rang him about august i thought it was and er he talked to me over the phone a bit of a chat sound i thought he sounded like a samoan or something on the phone just by being a german sort of thing he just sounded foreign <{><[>he said oh <[>what did he sound like he sounded like a sort of like a <.>samo well i don't know not maybe not a <.>sam i i knew i knew he was a foreigner but i couldn't sort of didn't pick him as being a german right maybe he's been out here too long or laughs but when you talk to him now yeah <{><[>you can obviously word <[>maybe he's picked up stuff from <{><[>his wife <[>yeah but there's a bit of a obviously a german accent there and he said oh yeah yeah yeah keep you in mind and then um ming rang me and this was about sort of two or two or about three weeks to go on the course <&>5:00 right or about two weeks to go that's right and i rang him <,> and he said yeah you'll have to start next thursday it was the busiest week of <.>i in out of ALL the years it was the busiest week i had about MASSive national project to hand in and it actually put me behind because i didn't quite finish it and a few other things because but you had to have start the job then <{><[>if you wanted it <[>had to stop then because the guy was yeah leaving oh <{><[>right <[>and um and i suppose i could've said no and he more or less said but i may may not have got it sort of thing yeah and he wanted me to sort of watch this other guy and i ran around the first night with this um asian guy and he went so flat out i was actually buggered after the first night <{1><[1>just walking after him trying to keep up with <{2><[2>him <[1>laughs <[2>oh yeah cos they go so fast you know what he does he pays you for three hours but you can you can get it down to two hours right so it means you can sort of get in and out pretty quick mm so these guys go flat out otherwise see at the moment i'm doing it in two and a half hours which is a nice leisurely pace and some nights i really push it and yeah get it done and but always like two two hours <&>6:00 forty minutes sort of thing or it's like round here i mean i don't i don't really care how <{1><[1>slow i go and i just play computer games and have a <{2><[2>cup of coffee <[1>in two hours two and a half <[2>yeah oh no i can do it in two and a half oh that's right no it would be about two hours ten minutes sort of thing if i really push it but and where is it just lotto just doing five you know kent <{><[>terrace <[>but it's oh yeah it's so it's all the oh there's lotto there's new zealand on air <,> um who else is in there lotto commission new zealand on air and there's a few other little <,> oh there's u d c finance mhm but they sort of they they must have sort of lean times because you know one of the floors has got a lot of empty desks <,> so they've got this whole sort of couple floors and there's not a lot of people there but um <{1><[1>some it's amazing like there's a guy there i recognised <&>pronounced as reckonised on sale of the century he's a real obnoxious sort of going a bit bald you <{2><[2>know how they sort of you know how their hair starts to disappear and they sort of drape it across their bald <{3><[3>head and he and i thought he looked a bit of a slob well he is because he throws all his stuff you know the rubbish bin he has to be the only guy who throws it and then half of it misses <[1>yeah <[2>yeah <[3>yes great then you've got to work out which is rubbish and which is not <&>7:00 both laugh cos i got accused got accused last night he said um somebody apparently on the third floor apparently i might have picked up some documents <,> top secret yeah so you you got to be careful that you don't <.>u <.>un <.>u unless it's a good <{><[>old <[>and then how were you supposed to know really <{1><[1>i mean you don't know whether they it's a copy that they want to throw out <{2><[2>or <[1>yeah <[2>yeah sometimes they just leave it you know they just don't throw there's another guy like his office has got little piles <&>pronounced as poles of paper everywhere mm and you can hardly get the vacuum cleaner in there and <.>o obviously he suddenly realised that i was dragging the <.>ni the rubbish bag in there maybe just disturbing all his documents that's his filing system all over the floor just like dad you can vacuum but don't vacuum my office <{><[>laughs <[>yeah well he's starting to learn that he now puts it out by the door he realised that you know i won't disturb his documents right yeah and then there's another guy there's another guy down on the where is it on one of the other floors what does he do he does something funny <,> yeah different <&>8:00 people have got sort of real they're peculiar sort of yeah he'd be the worst one the slob and the guy who puts it everywhere all over the floor <,> oh that's right there's another guy in new zealand on air he's got all these tapes these c ds all along the <.>fl <{1><[1>wall and all these videos and <,> you go in there at night and he's there playing his music oh i suppose that's his job he just sits <{2><[2>there and he listens to all the music he says oh it was all paid for by the taxpayer and i said well does that mean that i can take some of these home <{3><[3>if i want to he said yeah help yourself both laugh <[1>yeah? <[2>laughs <[3>yeah copy them and take them <{><[>back <[>yeah they're usually sitting there sort of <.>wat one night they were sitting there watching some sort of programme so they must get these some of these i don't know <.>may maybe they send them they must watch certain ones to see what what it's all about and give it a rating or something oh right something controversial about it decide whether to screen it or yeah or to cut something out <,> but um yep so i still feel a bit stuffed at the <.>mo er after <&>9:00 you know two hours or two and a half hours running around you still feel a bit do you have one of those little back pack vacuum cleaners no bit of a pain got one you drag along the ground <{><[>bit of a <[>right cos that would that would make a big <{1><[1>difference i used to flat with a cleaner <{2><[2>and he used to bring it home and it was really cool you just slip on this little back <{3><[3>pack and it had this great big long cord and you could <{4><[4>just whizz around the whole house and it was just <{5><[5>so easy <[1>bit of a wild yeah <[2>yeah <[3>mm <[4>mm <[5>oh yeah it'd make your job you could do it fifty percent faster <&>9:18