Day FourtySix of being Aflickionless...

Thought of today is if this blog will continue on your return, get it out there more, use it was a way to educate the masses on music, fashion and news from both here in New Zealand and overseas. There is a lot of cool stuff out there, but people are stuck in their little groups and pigeon holes that they don't realise what they are missing.
For example, Beat Torrent! 4 x World DMC Team Champions they are and FUCKIN AWESOME! DJs Pfel & Atom.
As one half of the C2C team, Pfel & Atom have won the DMC world Team Championships a record breaking 4 times in a row, an achievement matched by no other artists in the history of DMC. Check out their myspace page here and the video below. "Whole Lotta Love BeatorrentRMX" and "Beatorrent Live Mix Slice 1" are the shiz! Crap they are just the shiz, so check em out!



Nocturne magazine is out and they have done a review on the Codeine Like Candy EP. Not sure how good or bad the review is yet, but woot woot for CLC! (update...the CLC EP got 8/10 in the review).

Maz made pikelet's this morning, YUM! Also she is going to do a showreel today of her photography, why? To show Corey. Why? Because she is looking for photographers for UPFM ("hint hint" I was told).

Auckland and Northland were hit by more than a thousand bolts of lightning last night and meteorologists are predicting the bad weather will be around for some days. The foul weather has caused slips and flooding across the North Island and snow has closed some South Island roads. Deafening claps of thunder shook buildings in central Auckland, where the cavernous nature of some of the streets bordered by towering buildings seemed to amplify the intensity of the noise. (It was FUCKIN AWESOME. Some of the best lightening I have seen in a long time. It was loud and close together. Woot, fun times! Naturally there are a lot of weather warnings out today, because of high winds, slips and ice.)

A New Zealand Post scheme to recycle its old office equipment has proven so successful it is being offered to other businesses. Postal services chief executive Peter Fenton said the organisation was finding new uses for equipment that would otherwise be sent to the tip. It had sold equipment online and supplied a number of small businesses. Staff came up with the idea.

Long-promised measures to improve motorway peak traffic flows for Waitakere and North Shore motorists and bus passengers come into operation this week. From today, a managed priority lane opens on the city-bound onramp from Te Atatu Peninsula.
On Wednesday, the first ramp signals on the Northern Motorway are switched on at the northbound onramps at Tristram Ave and Upper Harbour Highway. The Te Atatu priority lane can be used by cars with two or more people, buses, taxis, motorcycles and trucks. These vehicles can also reach the lane from Te Atatu South, turning right from a new slip lane. This would give priority vehicles faster access to the motorway during peak times, said NZ Transport Agency acting regional director Tommy Parker.

Ministers have been told that they cannot take their spouses on trips overseas unless they pay for it, Prime Minister John Key said today.

A person infected with swine flu is in a critical condition in Hawke's Bay Regional Hospital's intensive care unit. The person was admitted into intensive care on Thursday in a critical condition, with lab test results confirming swine flu infection on Friday night.

Only 13 of the 85 people eligible to become a knight or dame under the return of titular honours have declined. Prime Minister John Key said the names of the 72 who have said they would take the title would be forwarded to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, "then they're approved and we'll have a final list". Tomorrow was the last day for people to indicate whether they wanted to take up a titular honour and the names of the new knights and dames would be released on August 1. The titles were dropped in 2000 by the previous Labour government, which instead instituted titles of Principal and Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Relations hit a sour note between two Westport youths yesterday, culminating in one allegedly hitting the other over the head with a violin and the armed offenders squad being called out. Senior Sergeant Geoff Scott, of Westport police, told NZPA the pair had been drinking at a Romilly St house during the afternoon, when the 17-year-old showed his 18-year-old friend a pistol, which he tucked into his waistband. The pair later argued, with the younger man threatening to kill the other man, who hit him over the head three times with his violin. He then fled to a neighbour's house and called police.

IMPORTANT: The official campaign has started to make it easy for people to take part in the Citizens Initiated Referendum on the question “Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?”. The referendum runs from Friday 31 July until Friday 21 August, but to take part people need to be correctly enrolled.
Visit elections.org.nz for more information.

THOUGHT OF THE DAY...
Friends..
Friends are like bum cheeks.
Crap might separate them,
But they always come back together.

MAZ'S PHRASE OF THE DAY...
"..besides, it's only cute when I do it"

PON & ZI (CAUSE IT'S SUPER CUTE)

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 14 °C
Min: 10°C (overnight)
Humidity: 80 %
Periods of rain. Strong or gale southeasterlies. (Translation: it was wet, DUH!)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
The blogs seem to be getting longer & more random(content wise).

DAILY FOF MOMENT
It's barely after 5pm and Maz is sleepers. And NO, I'M NOT A FUCKIN NANA...fucking nana's is just wrong...haha FAIL!