Day EightyEight of being Aflickionless...

Russell and Maz went over to Casa de Adam & Nikki, to fix their car...well that was the plan, but ahem, daiquiris got in the way. First it was a round of banana daiquiris, then Nikki & Maz had kiwifruit daiquiris while Adam & Russell had mint juleps. SO the plan is to fix it another day...I wonder if it will get done next time?!?!

Maz recieved her letter this evening (via email) informing her that she has (yet again) made it through the Style Pasifika pre-judging. Are you surprised? I'm not! Suck thing, it's on the week before you get back.

Rangitikei District Council is not keen on building a public loo shaped like a strapping bull's backside. The $226,000 proposal, put forward by Bulls and District co-ordinator Bronwyn Meads, was a vulgar concept that was not worth the money, according to Bulls ward councillor Jill Strugnell. Visitors would walk up a bull's tail and through his backside to find male toilets in one buttock and female toilets in the other, the Manawatu Standard reported.

Dancers and television personalities celebrated the end of TV3's 23-hour Big Night In. The first telethon in 15 years raised $1,944,225 for the KidsCan charitable trust, which supports children living in poverty. The live entertainment extravaganza ran from 7pm on Saturday until 6 last night.

Four New Zealand students scooped the first and second places in the FedEx Junior Achievement award at the International Trade Challenge in Singapore last week. Paul Minors of Rangitoto College and Charles Slogrove of Macleans College, both 18, won $4000 for their unique interpretation of this year's challenge: to come up with a market entry strategy for exporting carpets to Egypt. Talman Madsen of Long Bay College and Aimee Gordon of Taradale College, Napier, took second place. This was the first year New Zealand had competed at the event, which involved 42 contestants from seven Asian-Pacific countries.

FIRST SIGNS OF SPRING

From The NZ Herald

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 15°C
Min: 12°C (overnight)
Humidity: 71%
Cloudy, few drizzly showers. Gusty northeasterlies. (Translation: when the wind blows it blows...and 12°C is pretty chilly tonight)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Although it has been colder than 15°C in the past few months, today the cold felt cold

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Russell was meant to fix Adam & Nikki's car but good hospitality got in the way. Fail!!!