Day SixtyTwo of being Aflickionless...

Lets see...it's July 15th which means that today is JayJay's birthday!!! Maz sent her a somewha annoying text this morning...basicially the Happy Birthday song but sent as it is sung (line by line).

CHECK IT OUT...LOVIN IT RIGHT NOW...


Amber made a complete dick of herself while at Denny's having breakfast with Hannah. She (Hannah) was telling Amber something about elk, and Amber was like "whats an elk?". Hannah was like "really? its a reindeer!". And then Amber looked like a dick by saying "whoa I thought reindeer were made up!!"

Maz was up at the crack of dawn (not even dawn) to boot Russell out of bed to drop Matt off at work. Then helped Tina get Jamie & Joelle ready to go on set for the first time, they were super excited. Domestic morning, washed dishes, cleaned windows (how thrilling). Took photos of Biccie & Doughnut pendants, they are now available to buy...YAY!!!

TVNZ has apologised for a swear word being repeatedly broadcast on One News last night. The F word featured in court footage from the Clayton Weatherston murder trial in Christchurch.

A man who watched his bus burn in front of him is unimpressed the fire communications centre did not know where Southland was. Greg Sayers was outside his family's partly converted small bus in Edendale, 39km northeast of Invercargill, when he noticed it was on fire and called 111, the Southland Times reported. The operator put him through to fire communications, but told him no one was answering, Mr Sayers said. The operator then tried a different number, but the new operator was unsure of where he was in the country, he said. "I said Edendale and she said 'where's that?' and I said Southland and she said 'where's that?"'Police have confirmed that as part of a review of equipment used by frontline officers some speed radars will be taken out of patrol cars and not all will necessarily be replaced. Frontline officers say they had been advised 400 Stalker detection units, which are leased, are to be removed from police vehicles as part of efforts to cut $21 million from the police operating budget. There are 1000 Stalker units in patrol cars around the country. Officers said they feared many speeding motorists would now escape without penalty.

SIDESWIPPING IT
A reader writes: "While heading north at the weekend I spotted a hitchhiker with a sense of humour hoping for a ride in the other direction. To up his chances of success he held a sign reading 'Won't kill you'. I have no doubt he would have been picked up in no time at all by a passerby or, if not, a marketing agency with a little foresight."

An American toddler did such a good job of hiding during a game of hide-and-seek that the family had to call police to help find her. Emergency crews and friends frantically searched the neighbourhood for an hour before the family dog found Natalie, 2. She had fallen asleep in a drawer underneath the washing machine.

SLIGHTLY TWISTED
How do you get a leper out of a bath tub?

With a sieve

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 15 °C
Min: 11°C (overnight)
Humidity: 89%
Cloudy spells. Late rain. Dying westerly. (Translation: Auckland weather being well...Auckland weather)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
10pm and Maz is thinking about bed...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
A couple of Tina's friends came over and failed when turning around in the drive. Mushy clay + car front left wheel = FAIL!!!

Day FiftySix of being Aflickionless...

What a productive day it was today for Maz. She handed in the physical copy of her NZ Body Art Award concepts (& payment), posted off her Style Pasifika designs (& payment), PLUS she has sculpted two Om Nom Nom's today as well (possibly may make more tonight). Maz also went to Spotlight again and spent a further $20 on lace, ribbon, string of pearls and gold 'rope' (stuff for the Kinky Slinkybody paint & Body Art Awards). She even picked up a 'stick' at Mitre 10, so she can make the weapon for Body Art Awards. FUN TIMES!!!

Check out The Rapping Flight Attendant as well. Wouldn't that be frickin awesome!?!


The weather was warm enough for some girls today to be out in shorts and singlets. It was a wonderful sight driving along Wairau Road, but you must remember...it's the school holidays, it could be wrong to be looking at them.

Oh and the kids spotted Maz in the 2Degree advert. Orange shirt, white scarf! woot!

The swine flu death toll has officially reached six with a seventh case unconfirmed.

One of Auckland's most popular summer events is at risk after its major sponsor yesterday pulled hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding. The SkyCity Starlight Symphony - which has been running for the past 17 years - is in limbo as its promoters look for a new sponsor. SkyCity - the naming-rights sponsor for 11 years - has announced it will no longer fund the show.

While some females would argue this has long been the case, British fertility researchers are on track to proving it, having created sperm using stem cells from an embryo. Scientists at the Northeast England Stem Cell Institute say that with some minor adjustments, the technique could theoretically be used to fertilise an egg to create a child - taking real men out of the equation.

John Key says the "door is wide open" for former All Black Michael Jones to stand for National if he decides he wants to be an MP. Mr Jones is on the Prime Minister's trip to the Pacific, as is Va'iga Tuigamala. Mr Key said he had tried to encourage Mr Jones to stand in 2008, but he had chosen not to for family reasons. He said if Mr Jones changed his mind, "the door is wide open".

The bodies of a man and a woman have been found outside a Rotorua address after a fatal shooting this afternoon. The incident took place in Rotorua's Sunset Rd. A police spokesperson said the two victims were not shot by police. Traffic is being diverted from the area.

A Maori cloak and a diamond-studded silver fern are among some of the Queen's most treasured gifts to be displayed in London this month.

The Queen and Commonwealth: The Royal Tour exhibition will run in Buckingham Palace from July 26 to September 30, displaying gifts given to the Queen on her various trips around the world. They include a cloak presented to her by Maori chiefs in 1953 when she visited Arawa Park in Rotorua. The Queen was invested as a Maori chieftain and given the brown kiwi-feather cloak as well as a korowai - a flax cape covered in tassles. A diamond-studded fern brooch gifted to her by the Women of Auckland group on Christmas Day 1953 will also be displayed, as will the intricately patterned dress she wore for the state opening of Parliament on a 1963 visit to New Zealand. Other gifts from the Pacific in the exhibition will include traditional handheld fans from Tuvalu, a Fijian whale tooth necklace and an Aboriginal carving from Australia.

And to international news...

John "Junior" Gotti has lost another attempt to be freed on bail before his New York trial on racketeering charges. Judge Kevin Castel rejected his latest bid during a hearing on Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Manhattan. Gotti's defence lawyers had asked Castel to free him on bail while he awaits a trial in September.Prosecutors have accused Gotti of being involved in three slayings in the late 1980s and early 1990s and possessing and trafficking more than 5 kilograms of cocaine. His three previous trials have ended with hung juries and mistrials.

Police say a 22-year-old worker died after falling into a vat of boiling chocolate in New Jersey. The accident happened at a plant owned by Lyons and Sons in Camden.Police tell WPVI-TV in Philadelphia that the chocolate was being mixed

It is Australia's national gemstone, mined in the deserts of the Outback and prized worldwide for its brilliant plays of light and colour. But the opal industry is struggling, with the market flooded with synthetic stones and demand plunging thanks to the global recession. The situation is so dire that the world's only tertiary-level course in opal cutting, in the South Australian mining town of Coober Pedy, has just been scrapped. Stuart Jackson, who founded the course 20 years ago, said yesterday: "Opal is a luxury item and times are tough. You can't eat it, you don't need it, so people aren't buying it." Coober Pedy calls itself the "Opal Capital of the World", but even there, shops in the dusty main street are selling synthetic stones, made from plastic and silica and imported into Australia, mainly from Japan.

U2 and Bono's long-held commitment to "save the planet" has been questioned after it emerged they have a combined carbon footprint big enough to fly the band the distance from the Earth to Mars. The Irish rockers have campaigned to fight poverty and Aids in Africa and Bono called on the world's population to take better care of their planet. Speaking in Tokyo last year he said: "My prayer is that we become better in looking after our planet." However, according to an environmentalists' website, the band's 100-date 18-month world tour will see the multi-millionaires clock up 70,000 air miles (113,000km) in their private jet.

One's a rising soccer star. The other's a self-described jealous boyfriend. One had no physical evidence linking him to a rape. The other had matched DNA and teeth marks. One's black. The other's white. One was convicted. The other was never a suspect.
Please check out the story here and Digg it or Twitter a link to it #FreeEric. It hasn't had much publicity at all, just a single story on ESPN.

HAWT RIGHT NOW
Beyonce has a new track out and it is HAWT. Awesome, awesome hook! Check out the video clip below.


SLIGHTLY TWISTED (BY MISS CADAVER)
A dyslexic kid sold his soul to Santa

SIDESWIPPING IT
An empty billboard is an ugly thing in a recession and a tempting canvas for taggers, but a group of street artists from Cut Collective have come up with a great idea to brighten up unbooked billboard space. Together with billboard company OGGI, the Cut Collective will add its street art on empty billboard spaces around Auckland. The first artwork, measuring a massive 6m x 3m, will be auctioned on Trade Me, with the proceeds going to Kenzies Gift, a charity supporting families of children with cancer. Come on, corporate Auckland with large dull foyers, dig deep!

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 13 °C
Min: 2°C (overnight)
Humidity: 84 %
Fine, with light southeasterly winds. (Translation: It was a beautiful day, the sunset even had colour *gasp*)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Maz had a productive day for once *gasp*

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Maz shaking her ass at Russell while opening the door and Tina opening the door at the sametime to snap her. FAIL!

Day FiftyFive of being Aflickionless...

(Adam) Freeland...check that shit out!!! Click here!!! So hawt today.
now there is a reason behind knowing about Freeland, PEREZ! But anywho apparently Black Eyed Peas have stolen a sample of the song "Mancry" by Freeland. According to reports, B.E.P. member and producer Will.I.Am was at an event last year where Freeland performed this song in question. The B.E.P "version" is called "Party All The Time" and is to be on their new album The E.N.D. We will have to see what happens.

Let's see...Maz was up at the crack of dawn (it wasn't even dawn, it was still dark outside) to watch the Michael Jackson Memorial on TV, and she was surprised that it wasn't the circus that she was expecting it would be. It was like a normal funeral service, but with a few thousand more people. Beautifully done.
Maz has finished all of her designing now (both NZ Body Art and Style Pasifika are down). This afternoon she went and picked up the fabric needed (SPOTLIGHT)...one of the fabrics was $26.99 per meter, Maz is rather shocked that she paid it and all up spent close to $80 on fabric for what is basicially a skirt. While in Spotlight though Maz found these things called Face Paint Sticks...and began to think. They are basicially like a crayon but paint. Could possibly make life a lot easier and very interesting. Bring on the competition!!!

Nine Wellington bus drivers have been sacked for allegedly stealing thousands of dollars in fares, but they won't face charges if they repay the money, bus company Go Wellington says. The drivers were fired over the past three months for stealing at least $20,000 between May and June, the Dominion Post reported.

More New Zealanders are cutting their spending because of the recession but the dollars they do spend are going on food, fashion and fun, a survey shows.

The cost of living in Auckland is cheap compared with major cities measured in a global survey. Out of the 143 cities measured by consultancy firm Mercer, Auckland placed 138th, down from 78th in 2008. Mercer's 2009 Worldwide Cost of Living survey compares the cost of housing, transport, food and other goods, and is used an indicator for compensation for companies who send their employees abroad.

SIDESWIPPING IT
One way to keep those Swine Flu carriers away: "You wash your coffee mug and leave it to dry in the office kitchen. Next thing you know, Nasty Joe from three cubes down is using your coffee mug. Our Dirty Mug is sure to fend off other people. Even when it's clean it looks ... well, dirty. No one will ever steal your mug again." (PerpetualKid.com)

Megan writes: "It's nice to know that Post Haste Drivers sign for your parcels themselves. But rather than asking your name or letting you sign it yourself, they use nicknames. A driver I encountered signed me as 'Old Lady'. I am 24. Maybe he shouldn't be driving if he thought I looked that old."

SLIGHTLY TWISTED (BY MISS CADAVER)
Whats the difference between a baby and a sandwich?

You dont fuck a sandwich before you eat it

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 14 °C
Min: 4°C (overnight)
Humidity: 89 %
Few showers possible. Westerly breezes. (Translation: It was cloudy, I don't remember seeing any rain.)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Tina doing a little dance at Pizza Hut, Wairau Road to some song on Futurama..."Jimmy got something and I don't care..."

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Maz got her hair caught on a nail this morning. Russell had to un-hook her, or though Tina thought it would be funny to leave Maz there for a bit justtofuck with her. FAIL!

Day Fifty of being Aflickionless...

Where to start for today's blog...oh I KNOW!!!

69 DAYS TO GO!!!
"69 days till Haydn gets back, 69 days till he returns, wake up one day and fuck around, 68 days till Haydn returns"

Now that is out of the way...on with the blog. FIRST for the masses ("masses" being eveybody but Haydn), time to get in the loop and find out about some more music that you may not know.
Today we would like to introduce you to GoldieRocks. That's Sam Hall; DJ, presenter and party planner du-jour. Now most renowned for her energised DJ appearances, invading parties and aftershows all over the land - at some point in time, Sam's probably hijacked your fave indie/electro haunt. But she's much more than London's latest party-person, skilled DJing aside, Goldierocks is also growing her reputation as a respected producer, remixer, presenter and music journalist…just some of the highlights are outlined below.
In my opinion, BLOODY FANTASTIC. Goldierocks truely does ROCK! You need to check them out and well thank the geeks for websites huh? Visit either the Myspace page or the official website to find out more and check out some the music.

JayJay is pissed off that her photos from National Anthems are STILL not up! Even though she re-downloaded them, .zip'ed them and re-uploaded them so that they could go up today. RAGE!!!

Maz started a new painting today, she also went out looking for that magazine at Glenfield mall but phailed, so brought herself a new beanie (YAY!) and a Wendy's Mega Choc Shake instead. She also picked up a pair of shoes for a comission. However she wasn't thinking of only herself while looking in shops...she picked up something for you too. Not quite a "hand sculpted nut sack" but it is a nut and was sculpted by somebody at some point (photo below).

She will try to find the magazine again tomorrow.
Besides shoping and painting Maz has also been working on a new JadedSphnix page, something a lot more simple, mainly because she can't be bothered with designing a new website. You can check it out here.
In other news on Sunday Maz is playing a HOOKER!!! And on Monday it's off to be almost nudie on Spartacus. FUN TIMES!

Nothing better to do on a Friday night? Stand around, kick a coke bottle and plot about the seeing if somebody will drink it. And then later on stand around and talk about nuts & jiggling them ("You better be careful Maz, If you shake the nut too hard you'll get peanut butter" - Dee, talking about the photographer nut)

Flights at Christchurch Airport have been disrupted after a communications cable was cut during development work. The incident, which happened at 8.35am, has affected check-in facilities and electronic flight information.

A transformer fire sent a shower of sparks into the air, cutting power to 77 North Shore homes overnight. Eyewitness Kevin Hind said the noise "sounded a bit like thunder". The incident looked like a fireworks display, said Mr Hind. "Sparks were flying as high as the power pole."
Three appliances manned by 12 firefighters arrived at the Killarney Ave, Torbay, scene after receiving a callout at 7.20pm yesterday.

Thousands of Air New Zealand passengers are this week getting their flight safety instructions from staff wearing nothing but body paint. The airline has decided to expand its use of body-painted staff from advertisements to the in-flight safety video used on 737 domestic flights.

Nelson and Marlborough were shaken by a pair of earthquakes this morning. The first was at 4.25am with a magnitude of 4.2. The second was at 5.16am and measured 4.6. Both were at a depth of 90km and centred around 40km south-west of Nelson.

If you're the kind of person who types tipsy and regrets it in the morning, Google's 'Mail Goggles', a new test-phase feature in the free Gmail service, might save you some angst. The feature requires you to solve a few easy maths problems in short order before hitting "send." If your logical thinking skills are intact, Google is betting you're sober enough to work out the repercussions of sending that screed you just drafted.

The extraordinary amount of news coverage the mainstream media has recently devoted to Twitter has led some to think the press is in love with the 3-year-old microblogging service. Twitter's constantly updating record of up-to-the-minute reaction has in some instances threatened to usurp media coverage of breaking news. It has also helped many celebrities, athletes and politicians bypass the media to get their message directly to their audience.

SLIGHTLY TWISTED (BY MISS CADAVER)
How do you stop two black men from raping a white girl?

Throw them a basketball

SIDESWIPPING IT
Leonie bought a bottle of Nature's Own Men's Multi for her husband. "The label says they are 'designed to meet the specific physiological needs of men'. Then 'if you are pregnant, or considering becoming pregnant, do not take vitamin supplements without consulting your doctor'."

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 16 °C
Min: 9°C (overnight)
Humidity: 85 %
Mainly fine, chance shower. Light winds. (Translation: I didn't see any showers and speaking of not seeing things, what the hell happened to the thunder and lighting we were meant to have last night?!?!)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Maz has a sore wrist and doesn't know why...hmmm

DAILY FOF MOMENT
JayJay had an epic fail with the vantage order - but it wasn't her fault. Bruce (the boss) forgot to tell her that everything had to be ordered in 6 or more. JayJay did a normal order, lucky she asked him to check it before she sent it, so he picked it up. FAIL!

Day FourtyNine of being Aflickionless...

In ten days to go till you hit the halfway point. Does it seem to be going fast? I would write out the "How many days till Haydn gets back song", BUT I am saving it till tomorrow...you will see when we get to tomorrow...haha!

Some exciting things in the works at the moment in Maz's world. Some to do with photography, some to do with videos...fun times!Spartacus isn't happening tomorrow, it's been moved to Monday.
Singing bitches, wonder the possibility of Maz actually doing karaoke one night. Maz is did a UV doodle on one of Tina's daughters tonight (photo below) she thinks she is the shiz nizzle now. They (the girls) have a school disco happening. Funny thing is that it's a Black & White disco and this was organised before Michael Jackson kicked the bucket.

so she kinda sorta blinked...oops FLASH!

Still can't find any photos from National Anthems...geez. Other than that you know the happenings.

And because it is cool, you SO need to check this computer tower out. IT IS HOT! Click Here.

Oh yeah...CLUNGE!!! *gasp* CLUNGE FACE WHORE BAG!!! (or crack whore..thats CRACK not krank) Charming aren't I?

Popular swimming spots in lakes and rivers have high levels of bacteria that cause diarrhoea or infection, a new report shows. Of 300 popular swimming spots tested regularly by councils over the past two summers, just 58 per cent were suitable for swimming almost all of the time. The rest had too much faecal matter in the water at least 5 per cent of the time - and one spot never met the guidelines for safe swimming.

Temperatures were well below average during June, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) climate summary says. Extremely low temperatures were recorded in the Waikato, Taumarunui, Taupo, southern Hawke's Bay, Central Otago, the Kaikoura Coast, and some alpine areas of the South Island. All other areas experienced below average temperatures and the national average temperature of 7.5degC was 0.7degC below the long-term average for June.

Two men are in custody after an armed offenders squad seized 15 guns from a house south of Tauranga today. (The headline said "Mass weapons haul founf in Tauranga house" thought it would be more than 15 guns...geez)

A Nelson man has been arrested after allegedly setting off fireworks around sleeping huts at an air force base near Nelson. The incident happened about 9pm yesterday at Dip Flat where the Royal New Zealand Air Force were completing an exercise, police said.

A woman who went overseas to meet her long-lost father is now on trial accused of incest. The man is also on trial, but denies being her biological father. The pair allegedly had a sexual relationship for more than 10 years. They met when she was almost 30 and he was in his late 40s, living in Britain.

The auction on TradeMe to win Dinner with Tariana Turia & Brendon Pongia has closed. The winning bid was $2,530.00. The proceeds will go toward helping three Wellington-based brothers, who are outstanding sports players in both basketball and rugby, whose family are finding it extremely difficult to meet their high sporting expenses.

MAZ'S TRACK OF THE DAY
Nothing new, but cranking today...


SLIGHTLY TWISTED (BY MISS CADAVER)
What do spinach and anal sex have in common?

If you were forced to have them as a kid, chances are you wont like them as an adult

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 14 °C
Min: 9°C (overnight)
Humidity: 70 %
Becoming cloudy, thundery rain tonight. Northeasterly. (Translation: so much for the beautiful day, look like it's going to turn to shit now! Fuckin retarded Auckland weather)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
That all the blue sky is gone and it's just all grey now...get ready for the THUNDER!

DAILY FOF MOMENT
JayJay dropped 6 packs of Robitussin cough mixture on the ground at work today. Two bottles smashed and the other four packets have to be written off because they got drenched in it and are ruined. FAIL!

And a water pipe burst at Maz's place, meant they were without water for a few hours. FAIL!

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!

Day FourtyFive of being Aflickionless...

Who's a lucky, lucky person, seeing 6 acts front and centre?

Last night was National Anthems @ 324. Nick Collings set was wall banging awesome, but Joe Johnson had glasses vibrating off tables (Joe did a 3 hour set, because Sam Hill pulled out). Both were wicked, wicked sets anyway...although I thought Voyager was heaps better.
Currently waiting for JayJay to edit her photos (Corey is going to teach her how to), once they are up I will post a few here.

If you expect everything to be or turn into a drama then it will, but if you just let things be then it will just be.

That's the theory, but it's amazing how people just enjoy turning things into drama's when they don't have to be.

Maz just sent Russell to the supermarket for Chocolate Primo, Cornflakes and milk...it's almost 4pm. Hang overish much? Last night Maz also (FINALLY) got "Woody Woodpecker"...she's gone far to long without hearing it.
Also Maz did her weekly media radio research survey today and is horrofied that "Day and Night" is still on the list (it's been on it for months now), but she is pleased to report that Little Boots "New In Town" is now on the list. YAY!

Miss Cadaver has started a blog to, shits and giggles naturally. Check it out!

Lotto first division was won last night by two tickets, bought at Brookfield New World in Tauranga and City Mart in Hamilton. Each takes away half a million dollars. Lotto Powerball jackpots to an estimated five million dollar prize next weekend.

The West Coast was shaken by two earthquakes this morning. The quakes, in the Lord Howe Rise region about 100km northwest of Ross, both happened at 6.32am. The first, at a magnitude of 5.0, struck at a depth of 12km, and the second, a 4.8 magnitude, at a depth of 90km.

Teens ages as young as 16 are being declared insolvent as the number of people succumbing to debt balloons. A 16-year-old, three 17-year-olds and 16 18-year-olds were among the 810 people under 25 declared insolvent in the 2009 financial year - more than double the 2005 figure.
Insolvencies, which include bankruptcy and two new alternatives, shot up by 77 per cent overall, from 2986 in the year ending June 30, 2005, to 5292 so far this year.

The NZ Herald coverage of Glastonbury. You were there (I see what you mean by the valley of tents). Thought you would find it interesting to see what they said about it. Read here.

When they worked together and argued together, TVNZ's power couple just emerged stronger. But when their work schedules separated them, the distance proved insurmountable. Simon Dallow has now moved out of the Remuera home he shared with wife Alison Mau and their two children, friends told the Herald on Sunday. But yesterday he picked up son Joel, 8. There had been signs of trouble as long as 10 years ago, yet this week's announcement that Dallow and Mau were separating after 19 years of marriage surprised even some of their closest friends. (slow news day huh?)

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 15 °C
Min: 11°C (overnight)
Humidity: 93 %
Rain, some heavy falls. Strong easterlies. (Translation: It's wet (outside, your head is in the gutter isn't it) and it doesn't look like it is going to get better any time soon)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
JayJay is cooking potatoe bake and hasn't burnt down the house yet.

DAILY FOF MOMENT
At JayJay's place they have a big 4L bottle that they make juice in. Mark had brought the raro in 3 sachets so it needs four of them to make a bottle full, so JayJay pulled one off another set of three and it ripped open spilling raro all over the floor. She thought to herself "fuck! I wont do that again but I will tell maz for the fof".
So she cut the next one off fine, and the next one she was shaking the powder to the bottom so that she could rip the top off and the fucken thing ripped apart spraying raro all over the floor again! JayJay was extra careful with the fourth one, which went fine. Now she is walking raro through the house coz she's too lazy to clean it up and its all over her socks. FAIL!

Day ThirtyNine of being Aflickionless...

Almost 40 days without us! Miss us yet or glad to be rid of us? We miss you!!!

JayJay and Nik have been seeing each other for a month now, but she hasn't seen Maz in a month (Stink). JayJay also thinks Maz has lost weight in the last month (from looking at photos), Maz tends to disagree.

Mud cake, brownies (from Dominos) and French Vanilla ice cream...there is a god! YUM!

Maz is working on an advert tomorrow as an extra (aka "background talent"). She spent the day working on her entry for the C4 Vans competition (COMBI VAN POWER!) and listening to (among other things) Britney Spears.


You know you love it! (pity it's not released as a single, would go off in the clubs I think...*hint* *hint* CUT THAT SHIT UP LIKE CHEAP COKE!)

Russell is now on the board of doing house chores too. He did the dishes and also cooked dinner tonight, since Tina or I couldn't be assed and well Matt has been working all day so he automatically gets out of doing it.

A Lotto winner who left his ticket on the front seat of his unlocked car for two days is thanking his lucky stars it was not stolen, after learning he won more than $300,000. The winner from Whenuapai in west Auckland says he brought everything else inside, but for some reason left the ticket sitting in the car, in his driveway. He says once he and his wife realised they had won, they locked the ticket in their safe until they claimed it.

New Zealand now has 303 cases of swine flu, with the majority of people experiencing relatively mild to moderate symptoms. The number of confirmed cases is rising rapidly, up 45 from yesterday.

National retailer Farmers Trading Company has been fined $10,000 for selling a returned and repaired television set as new.

A furniture store has been fined $28,000 after admitting providing misleading information about the savings to be made on sale goods.

CADAVER PICK UPS
"Hey baby. Does this rag smell like chloroform?"

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 13 °C
Min: 2 °C (overnight)
Humidity: 89 %
Fine and cloudy periods. Southerly breezes. (Translation: Fine, yes. Cloudy, yes. Rain, no. Southerly Breeze, dunno.)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Russell accually did something AND likes that Britney song!

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Matt left this morning with a total of $20ish, realised on the way to work that he had to put gas in the car, $7 for parking (he works in town) and then it dawned on him that he didn't pack his lunch. So he only had $6 for the day. FAIL!

Day Thirty of being Aflickionless...

Maz has done nothing productive all day, besides making a video for today's blog. Yay! Down side of making a video is waiting for it to upload...and come on we know Maz has no patience. I suppose I was a little productive today, I mean I did Tina's make-up...does that count?



Maz currently has a lot of ideas floating around in her head, and seeings as she isn't going out tonight she will probably work them out...or she will end up watching a DVD.

We have received word that we should be expecting to hear about a whole lot of JayJay fail sometime in the near future...see what happens when your away for more than a day.

Amplitude is on this evening, but seeings as Maz is Sneezey Mc Sneeze Sneeze she isn't going anywhere. Matt & Tina are going out however (it's their wedding anniversary this weekend), which means that Russell & Maz have the house to themselves. Did you know Maz hasn't been out since Frantic? Shocking huh?

Another cold snap is on the way for New Zealand with snow to low levels and extremely low temperatures, says WeatherWatch.co.nz. A southerly is expected to arrive on Sunday in the deep south reaching Auckland by Tuesday.

Pioneering New Zealand rock musician Chris Knox is in Auckland hospital after suffering a stroke on Thursday.

A 22-year-old man died at the scene of a two-car collision early today on Auckland's Upper Harbour motorway. Police said the crash happened soon after 1am near the Greenhithe Bridge. (that's like the 3rd serious crash they have had there since the "new" section of motorway opened).

Five of the eight people accused of manslaughter over the drowning of a mother-of-two during a ceremony to lift a curse were found guilty late last night.

SIDESWIPING IT
The top 10 celebrities Britons would like to bring back from the dead are:

1. Jesus.
2. Princess Diana.
3. William Shakespeare.
4. Albert Einstein.
5. Marilyn Monroe.
6. Leonardo da Vinci.
7. Elvis Presley.
8. Roald Dahl.
9. Freddie Mercury.
10. Martin Luther King.
(Source: The Telegraph.co.uk)

CRANKING IT


AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 16 °C
Min: 9 °C (overnight)
Humidity: 86 %
Showers, some heavy. Southwest change. (Translation: so much for the showers, I didn't see them. Although it was really dark at one point today.)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Have a ticket for Amplitude and I'm not going...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
The amount of times the computer has died on Maz today, while she has been in the middle of something (like this blog). Payback for not using it since Monday aye?!?!

Day TwentyFour of being Aflickionless...

Packing boxes and clearing out the house with a slight hangover isn't the best idea. But that has been Maz's day. Today's blog is being brought to you from the living room floor in Greenhithe, freezing my ass off with no heater...fun times.

Police say they are still confident of catching accidental millionaire Leo Gao and his partner Kara Hurring despite no sightings of them for a month. Rotorua police have been pursuing the pair since they fled to Hong Kong after a Westpac banking error saw $10 million transferred to Rotorua businessman Mr Gao's account. He had asked for a $100,000 overdraft. Most of the money has been recovered but $3.8 million is still unaccounted for.

An Auckland man has been charged with murder after allegedly slashing his wife's throat and leaving her body in a state park near New York - a month after their wedding.
You have to read more on this story...check it out here

A record 1.2 million New Zealanders were prescribed antidepressants last year - and the recession is getting the blame.

OF THE MOMENT
A track I have had on the computer for a while now, but really feeling it right now...

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 14 °C
Min: 6°C (overnight)
Humidity: 75 %
Fine. Light winds. (Translation: a bit chilly, threats of rain, but otherwise okay)

OH HAI

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
The change of location...not hearing the Greenhithe fire station siren or the planes flying over. Not having that view...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Tina & Matt's two girls playing with the trolly (one sitting on it and one pushing it) and then assing it and falling over in our drive. FAIL!

Day TwentyThree of being Aflickionless...

Packing, packing, packing...two MudShakes and a couple of Cornish Pasties later and it's time to write the blog. Mmmm chocolate & vodka, the best of both worlds! OoO and System of the Down...yeha!

A woman who set herself ablaze in central Nelson 10 days ago has died in Hutt Hospital. A passerby dragged the 39-year-old woman into the nearby Maitai River after he saw her pouring a liquid over herself and setting it alight. But she suffered severe burns and was flown to the special burns unit at Hutt Hospital.

The whereabouts of fugitive and accidental millionaire Leo Gao and his partner Kara Hurring is a mystery.

The early-morning chill that has gripped Auckland and Hamilton with severe frosts looks to have passed. But while conditions will probably remain clear, a good book, a hot milo and a selection of DVDs look a safe option for the weekend. Yesterday, temperatures as cold as minus 3C were reported in Waitakere about 6.30am.

Christobelle Grierson-Ryrie won New Zealand's Next Top Model. She seriously needs some food...it's not really a true representation of NZ beauty, fashion or models. It's just what the rest of the world...what the media want fashion to be.

A Weta Digital researcher, Iain Matthews, has joined university academics in Britain and the United States to develop a way of "cloning" facial expressions.

A blaze at a historic Antarctic hut which was Sir Edmund Hillary's favourite place to stay at Scott Base has destroyed a piece of Kiwi history. The A-frame hut went up in flames on Saturday (23rd May) night after a fuel leak from a heater. Staff desperately tried to douse the fire in temperatures as low as -35C.

And just so we can all remember the day when Maz's farm on FarmTown spoke the truth...

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 15 °C
Min: 4 °C (overnight)
Humidity: 84%
Few showers, gradually clearing. Southwesterlies. (Translation: clear, cloudy, showers, clear, showers...make up your flippin mind)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
How quickly my piercings are closing up...noooooooo

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Wire from my bra is digging into my side. It has been for awhile now, but have I fixed it...nooooo!

Day TwentyOne of being Aflickionless...

Nothing happened today...it's true nothing did happen. Well not that I know of...JayJay is hard at work and Maz was hard at work relaxing after doing 41.5 hours in 3 days.

It is a bit nippley this evening. According to Met Service it is currently 8°C (feels like 7°C). It was so cold this morning when JayJay walked to work that there was ice on the road...yes black ice in Auckland. So like I always say to you, you better be living up the sun you fucker :p

Telecom says a major telecommunications fault that hit Auckland and Northland has now been fixed. The problem affected landlines, the Eftpos payment system and some mobile phone calls to and from landlines north of the Bombay Hills.

And did you know that you can buy Daniel Craig (James Bond) on a stick now? Yes he is an ice cream...WTF?

and the track I told you about in the last blog...

QUESTION OF THE DAY
Should the Kaimanawa horse herd be culled to 300?

More Kaimanawa horses are likely to be culled this year as the Department of Conservation aims to reduce the herd size. Previously annual musters have kept the herd down to about 500 to keep the horse population healthy and prevent damage to threatened plant species, the Dominion Post reported. However, the Kaimanawa Wild Horse Advisory Group has now recommended the herd number be reduced to 300 over the next two years , and between 150 and 180 horses were likely to be taken in this year's muster.

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 13 °C
Min: 2 °C (overnight)
Humidity: 83 %
Fine, chance fog or frost. Light winds. (Translation: nice day, but it was a bit nippley)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
That your time left away now souds like "99 Bottles of Beer"...98 days till Haydn gets back, 98 days till he returns, wake up one day and fuck around, 98 days till Haydn returns

DAILY FOF MOMENT
The fucking phone woke Maz up this morning from much needed sleepy times...

Day Twenty of being Aflickionless...

Maz did a 15hour day today and although it was an awesome day her throat is a bit sore now from all the yelling. Tomorrow is a day off, which means that Maz finally has a day of dressing like a "normal person".

Not much to report on...I've decided that I will be a slack ass tonight. but tomorrow we will be back on form...since it's my day off and all.

ps. you need "Let Me be Your Superhero" by Jaded Edge (featuring Young Boss). I think it's awesome. SONG OF THE MOMENT!!!

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 13 °C
Min: 2 °C (overnight)
Humidity: 91 %
Fine with light winds. (Translation: again another brilliant winters day, but a wee bit colder than yesterday...)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
NO EARLY START!

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Almost going hypothermic on set...somebody got a little too cold

Day Thirteen of being Aflickionless...

Lets see...it's day THIRTEEN!

JayJay's first set for cityvibes is now up on the website (have also included a few below)...YAY!

Maz's has been packing boxes for the move...has black hair...has a scratch or something on her cornea...AND has to be out of bed at 4am to be on set for 6am (stupid Auckland traffic).

You missed an awesome looking sunset this evening, beautiful reds and yellows. Firey! Find photos below.

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 17 °C
Min: 7 °C (overnight)
Humidity: 89 %
Fine. Southeast breeze. (Translation: they weren't lying, it was fine all day. such a nice change)

EXILE PHOTOS

SUNSET

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
That Russell has watched all of Beetlejuice without leaving the couch for any reason...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Reading fail of the day has to go to you, Haydn for reading camera not CORNEA.
Music fail goes to Kids of 88 for their new song My House. It's only just been released, yet because it is the current C4 song I'm already over it.
Maz has to get up at 4am, that alone is a massive FAIL!

Day Twelve of being Aflickionless...

i thought that I would put today's one up early, I doubt anything exciting will happen between now and later tonight.

Maz picked up some more days work on Spartacus. This stage we have a total of 11days of work on it...woot!

Last night on chat I told you about the video for My House by Kids of 88. Paint Splatter...and well I leave the rest up to you to decide. Yes I have found it on YouTube for you to see.



AND also the trailer for the Sherlock Holmes movie. *giggle*



In other news Basshunter is coming over here and doing 4 all ages gigs. Oh joy...*sigh*

PIGGY WINK MOMENT OF THE DAY
Maz: "so when are we going to have cheese cake"
Russell: "but i'm kinda full"
Maz: "yeah same, but when are we gonna have cheese cake" *giggle*

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 14 °C
Min: 11 °C (overnight)
Humidity: 80 %
Thick high cloud. Southeasterlies. (Translation: think we had a little of that wet stuff today as well...but otherwise good)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
It's only just on 6pm here and it's already as black as pitch

DAILY FOF MOMENT
SpeedTouch Router problems...do I need to explain this further?