Day OneHundredAndFive of being Aflickionless...

Maz forgot about the guy that SJ saw last night standing on K Road. No, she wasn't looking for a good time, rolling the streets of dirty old K'Road. He caught her attention because he stood holding a sign that read: "New Escourts. 021 creamit" or something along those lines, but that was def the number. What a dodgy number!

So your in LA now, gearing up for burning man...well okay not quite there, your flying around up in the sky somewhere...I think.
Speaking of Burning Man, here is something of interest that I found while jumping around the web.
"As I prepare for my seventh trip to Burning Man this weekend, I came across a fascinating discussion about restrictions on the use of photography from the event. Electronic Freedom Foundation fired the first shot, criticizing Burning Man for controlling the use of images from the event, and BM’s Andie Grace responded with a long defense of their reasons for doing so, and lively discussions ensued on other blogs. " - Pixel Vision

You might want to have a look into it, since you are Mr Photographer :)

Prime Minister John Key is going to sell New Zealand to the worldwide tourism market when he appears on a top US television show next month. Mr Key is booked for the Late Show with David Letterman while he is in New York to speak at the United Nations.

Outrageous Fortune star Tammy Davis, who plays Munter in the New Zealand TV comedy, has been found guilty of drink driving. Davis, who plays Munter on the hit TV show, was found to have been driving at nearly twice the legal limit in March this year. He was caught at the Newton on-ramp going onto the Northwestern Motorway. At a defended hearing at the Auckland District Court, Judge Hole said Davis had tried to defend the charge when he had no defence for it. Davis's reading was 798 micrograms of alcohol per litre of breath. The legal limit is 400. He's been suspended from driving for a year and given a $1600 fine.

A tense hostage situation involving convicted murderer George Charlie Baker continues to play out at Auckland Prison at Paremoremo this evening. Corrections have confirmed Baker, who is serving at least 18 years for murder, has a hostage, thought to be an 83-year-old sex offender. Baker is serving time for the murder of Liam Ashley, whom he bashed to death in the back of a Chubb prison van in 2006.

A Hollywood superstar has spent 24 hours in the country. Tom Cruise flew into New Zealand yesterday and flew out today. Newstalk ZB reported the actor was met at Wellington Airport by filmmaker Peter Jackson. Wingnut Films spokesman Matt Dravitski said Cruise knew Jackson and wanted to visit his studios. Mr Dravitski said Cruise was not discussing any future projects with Jackson. Wellingtonians reported seeing the Hollywood superstar arriving in Wellington and some say they saw him by the Weta Workshop studios in Miramar. Jackson is producing The Dam Busters and The Hobbit. Clothing retailer Cotton On has withdrawn a line of controversial baby clothes after public outcry, several protest groups say. The Cotton On T-shirts and suits, which featured slogans including "The condom broke" and "They shake me", went on sale in New Zealand last month. Last week, the T-shirts were removed from Australian shelves and the company said it "recognised that certain references are not appropriate, and will sincerely endeavour to not cross these lines again".

The severe thunderstorms which cut power and demolished property in parts of the North Island will give way to warm, fine weather this weekend. MetService warned of intermittent thundery weather until Saturday and gale-force winds on Sunday. But in between stormy spells it expected clearer conditions. A warm, dry wind from Australia would lift temperatures to nearly 20C in much of the North Island. The vicious storm early yesterday morning cut power to 8500 homes in the Bay of Plenty, as well as breaking windows and damaging property. A bolt of lightning destroyed a concrete wall and steps at a house in Tauranga, throwing debris into the air.

Drivers may be getting the message about cellphones but their attempts at playing it safe are turning Auckland motorways into "a bit of a parking lot". They are adding to safety risks already caused by breakdowns, police warn. The ban on hand-held cellphones in cars, to become law in November, has apparently prompted more motorists to stop to take calls. But police say pulling over on a motorway is dangerous as well as an offence that carries a $150 instant fine, and should not be attempted.

SIDESWIPPING IT...
A reader writes: "A lady working for the Australian branch of our company went to sit on a chair, missed and fell on her tail bone, which was bruised, resulting in a lost-time injury. After investigation, corrective measures were put in place to minimise it happening again. All New Zealand and Aussie employees had chair-sitting instructions and practice added on to their health and safety training."

The picture about was spotted in the Weekend Sun (Tauranga). "I'm not sure how well 'unforseen circumstances' reflects on a clairboyant's skills."

A BIT ARTY FARTY

"Bones" by merzlak - view here


"Burning Man Sunset" by BPinzonPhotography - view here


"Burning Man - Capital Dome" by NVMark - view here


"The Man 08" NVMark - view here

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 16°C
Min: 11°C (overnight)
Humidity: 78%
Cloudy periods, odd shower possible. Strong westerlies. (Translation: Well the lighting & thunder is gone...other than that didn't pay attention.)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
The way these other projects are popping up so Maz isn't working on her Style Pasifika stuff...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Dee's car (he got it while we were on Spartacus) is well not good. As you know there were car problems after Body Art Awards and there have been more since. The latest one, is that he has long not only reverse, but also second and fourth. And they have only had the car a few months. Fail!!!

Day OneHundredAndFour of being Aflickionless...

RUSSELL VACCUMED and took the washing to the laundry mat...you didn't pass out did you?

WARNING
THIS IS THE LONGEST BLOG YET!!!

Maz was looking through Tina's entertainment booklet this evening and saw a voucher for salsa classes and below it was ceroc classes. She has wanted to take up a latin dance for a while, and eventually wants to learn the tango. She suggested salsa to Russell, and he pointed out the ceroc classes as he thinks that salsa is a bit too hardcore for his liking. So currently Maz is tossing up which to do, but also realises that she may get peeved with Russell doing these classes (which ever one we decide), because "must be better" and everything is a competition. We will see what happens.

JayJay is attempting a no sugar...well to cut it down...in the lead up to Style Pasifika. It's just over a week away now. AHHH!

Last night Maz decided that since she has been paying for rent & food for the past week, Russell was going to take her to Denny's for dinner tonight and he was going to pay.
Maz told SJ about this brilliant plan and she (SJ) asked if she could join, which Maz thought was a brilliant idea.
So this evening Maz, Russell & SJ went to Denny's North Shore for dinner.

NOW where to start...the funnys started flying as soon as we were all seated. While deciding on what we were going to have, Maz was waiting (she had decided last night) and she flicked to the back of the menu and said to Russell "Hey look on your birthday we can bring you here" and pointed to the menu, followed by "We could bring both you & Haydn here for your birthdays".

Thought you might want a photo so you can start deciding now

It was then decided that we have to take you both into Denny's between Monday & Wednesday because kids eat free and well if you & Russell are seniors than we must be kids...

Free Food FTW...oOo FFFTW...haha

Maz ordered a magarita at Denny's (she couldn't help herself)...and yeah there was a shot in it and yeah it tasted like a magarita, but it didn't look like one. She should know better the only place she should be getting drinks is Ginger Minx.

Does this look like a margarita to you?

Dinner must of been about 2 or more hours long, but it was so worth it. Laughing, talking, poking fun. It was brilliant. We also need to have a funky shoe party, where people have to wear their funkiest (looking not smelling) shoes...we know you have plenty of new shoes to fit this.

Since we didn't know if you would believe it unless you saw the bill. We spent $100 at Denny's tonight between three of us. The bill is all colour key so you can see who got what...hehe (GEEK)

We left Denny's just after 11pm so we can say it was def. a really good night!

Any replacement for Auckland Zoo favourite Kashin will come from established Asian elephant breeding programmes under way in Europe. But a new addition to the zoo's elephant colony - which since Kashin's death on Monday stands at one - is likely to be at least two years away. Zoo director Jonathan Wilcken yesterday said regulations did not allow for the importing of new elephants, and the zoo would have to wait for Biosecurity New Zealand to approve new quarantine standards. He said a female would be the ideal partner for Burma in the short term, with more breeding stock imported in the next four to five years.

The spring storm currently passing over the South Island has the potential to cause another avalanche. MetService has a severe weather warning in place, with heavy rain forecast for the Southern Alps and and severe gales forecast for Canterbury. Most of the South Island's ski fields were closed yesterday due to the strong winds. Mountain Safety Council spokesman Ray Goldring says the heavy rain has the potential to disrupt the mountains as it filters down through the snow.

A man with a samurai sword and ammunition belt who broke into a Christchurch home sparked an armed offenders squad (AOS) callout, before police discovered he was locked out of his house after a fancy dress party. A neighbour called police around 12.45am on Sunday after hearing a window breaking at the suburban Avondale house. When police responded, they saw the sword and belt in a vehicle. They placed a cordon around the property and called the AOS. When the AOS contacted the house's occupants, the man appeared at the door and explained his partner had locked him out of the house, so he had to break a window to get in. On closer inspection, the sword and belt were found to be props, police said.

Eating too much or too little during pregnancy has been linked in an Auckland University paper to the early onset of puberty. Studies at the university's Liggins Institute have shown a mother's diet before conception and during pregnancy and lactation affects her offspring's growth, age of puberty and later reproductive capacity in subtly differing ways. The studies were done in rats, but one of the researchers, Dr Deborah Sloboda, said there were striking parallels with some human studies and observations.

Kiwi actress and True Blood vamp Anna Paquin has a very important message she'd like to share with us all: Despite fevered gum-flapping to the contrary, she's not pregnant; although her uterus thanks us for all the attention.

SIDESWIPPING IT...
A text came through to my phone yesterday offering a deal with Christmas Hamper company Hampsta. Join to get $65 of "free stuff" it said. I rang the 0800 number provided to find the free stuff quickly became a $10 Mad Butcher voucher. The remaining $55 - a $20 joining fee and a $35 "account maintenance fee" - would be paid for you. Voila! $65 worth of free stuff. Er, not really. (Reply with STOP to make them leave you alone)

The 10 most costly wedding singers
1. Rolling Stones (up to $12 million)
2. Sir Elton John (up to $4.8 million)
3. Kylie Minogue (up to $4.8 million)
4. Christina Aguilera (up to $3.6 million)
5. George Michael ($3.1 million million)
6. Amy Winehouse ($2.4 million)
7. Sir Paul McCartney ($2.4 million)
8. Leona Lewis ($2.4 million)
9. Jennifer Lopez ($2.4 million)
10. Barry Manilow (pictured) ($1.8 million)

STUPID PEOPLE ARE FUNNY



SO NOT PC...
What do you call a Tongan dog wagging its tail?

A Happy Meal

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 18°C
Min: 12°C (overnight)
Humidity: 93%
Rain developing, some thunder. Northeasterlies. (Translation: SOME thunder...how about shit loads of sheet lighting & thunder? It was nice during the day though. Sun even!!!)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Maz is going to be wearing a bridesmaids dress next year...it may look like the picture below *gasp*

So girly...but HAWT

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Maz & Russell went to Mc Donalds to get a snack this afternoon. Maz got two hamburgers and Russell got one double cheese burger and one standard cheese burger. Normally you get pattie in your cheese burger aye? Somebody really needs to let Mc Donalds Glenfield know aye, cause Russell's cheese burger had the cheese but ummmm something was missing. Oh that's what was missing...THE MEAT PATTIE! Fail!!!

And then this evening while at dinner with Russell & SJ we order dessert. Maz the oreo sundae, Russell the fudge cake and SJ the PIE & CAKE. The guy asked what kind of pie SJ wanted, went off and got it...hmmm something is missing from this plate. WHERE IS THE CAKE? SJ may of ordered Pie & Cake but was only served cake. FAIL!!!
So when paying SJ said about the whole Pie & Cake thing and only getting the pie. And we find out that it means one or the other not both. But did it say Pie OR Cake...NO...it said Pie AND Cake. DOUBLE FAIL!!!

To top it off when leaving Denny's Russell went to push the door (it said push) but it didn't move, so he tried to pull and that didn't work. And SJ walked to the other door, pushed it and walk right out. Bwahahaha MUNTER! That must make today a PHAIL!!!

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!