Day OneHundredAndEightteen of being Aflickionless...

Maz went to Ginger Minx to do some painting. Your going to see it all when you get back. It's Spring so Minx is changing it up a bit, they also have the spring party on Friday night.

Maz & Russell got the keys for the new place today, EXCITING!!! Now they can start to move their SHART! So guess what they will be doing for the rest of the week.

Hope you can make it on Saturday night for the Welcome Back party...would be a bit pointless if you weren't there, it would just be people getting pissed for the sake of getting pissed...come on give us a reason!

SJ is currently a bit damaged, but who knows why. Is it fractured or not?!?! The lucky girl is also off to the Ed Hardy VIP Party!!!

Hopefully we make it to the final blog, I'm sure we will find away. But with the whole moving thing, it may be a hit and miss, as to if we get them all done. Wish us luck!

LOUD SHIRT DAY is on Friday 18th September. Just thought we would give you a heads up, so you can pull out those bright shirts of yours.

When Albie the cat didn't come home for his tea, his owners Andrew and Lyn Beale assumed the two-year-old tabby was busy exploring. They had no idea Albie was recovering from a brush with death and a 20-odd kilometre ride wedged into the front of Gail Tomlinson's car. Ms Tomlinson was driving past the Beale's Ormiston Rd, Manukau, property on August 20 when she felt she might have hit a cat. But seeing no evidence, she continued on to work at Auckland Airport, a 20-minute trip driving at speeds of up to 90km/h. When she arrived, she heard a "meowing" from the front of her Holden Commodore. A quick check revealed Albie tucked up in "a perfect little cubby hole" in the chassis of the vehicle, behind the number plate. Afraid to move him herself, a distraught Ms Tomlinson got a workmate to drive her car - "carefully" - about 2km to the Mangere SPCA, where a vet extricated Albie. X-rays revealed he had a broken back leg."I was devastated. I was just beside myself," said Ms Tomlinson. Fortunately for the Beales - who distributed flyers in the hope of finding Albie - the SPCA kept the cat in the hope his owner would turn up. Word eventually reached the Beales that a cat matching Albie's description was being held at the SPCA, on painkillers for his injuries. Albie subsequently had surgery, running up a final bill of about $2000. Now he is up and about, recovering at home. He is able to put weight on his back leg, which has two pins in it, and should suffer no long-term consequences. Vet Craig Hunger said Albie should be fine, as long as the Beales keep up his physiotherapy. "To be stuck in a grill and not fall off is a very lucky thing ... there's a good chance they could have had a dead cat." Mr Beale said that when Albie turned up on their doorstep about five months ago, they named him LB, short for Lost Boy, which morphed over time into Albie. "I think now it might be Lucky Bugger."

Fleetwood Mac have added a second concert to their visit to New Plymouth in December after the first one sold out in minutes. Having played a 55-date, sold-out tour in North America, the band had committed to a single New Zealand show on December 19 at the Bowl of Brooklands. Promoter Andrew McManus Presents said demand for tickets at the 18,000 seat venue was overwhelming and the second show had been scheduled for the following night.

A judge has jailed a Northland man who kicked his partner and baby after an argument, saying society has had enough of such abuse. Michael Luke, from Whangarei, was sentenced in Whangarei District Court to 12 months imprisonment after attacking his partner at his home on July 9, the Northern Advocate reported. (Well I thought that was going to be more interesting, especially since the headline was "Man who kicked partner, baby jailed".)

A complaint will be made to the Independent Police Conduct Authority after a Wellington student allegedly had his neck broken by a police baton as a party was shut down. Police were called to a Khandallah party last Friday after gatecrashers began fighting outside, Fairfax Media reported. Although the gatecrashers fled when police arrived, 18 officers entered the house and used batons to drive the remaining 40 guests from the house, the partygoers claimed. Jakob Christie, 19, said the end of a police baton was jabbed into his neck, causing a vertebrae to break. He woke on Saturday unable to move his head and X-rays showed a lower neck vertebrae had broken.

Just a third of students going into secondary school are numerate, says a maths lecturer from the University of Auckland. And because secondary schools focus on algebra, trigonometry, geometry and statistics rather than basic number problems, they may never get a chance to learn the essentials - in fact, numeracy can worsen. (Yes, we are a nation of STUPID RETARDS!)

The demise of fuel storage at the Tank Farm means cruise ships and large cargo vessels in Auckland will be refuelled directly from a new tanker, the Awanuia. The 80m vessel can hold the equivalent of 25,000 barrels of fuel which it will ship directly from the Marsden Point oil refinery. It will replace a smaller barge which used to take on fuel at Wynyard Quarter and then supply visiting ships. The Awanuia was built in Turkey for around $20 million for Seafuels, a joint-venture company involving Ports of Auckland and Pacific Basin Shipping and is under charter to Shell.

The future of a subdivision intended to save tribal land from being mortgaged off is hanging in the balance. The Maori Land Court appointed interim administrator Kevin Gillespie eight years ago to control the affairs of Matauri X, a land incorporation which had amassed a $2.5 million debt after a water bottling deal went bust. But debt levels have risen to $16 million because of a refinancing deal with Strategic Finance to complete a two-stage, 139-section subdivision. A critical point for Maori landowners was that the sections were not freehold, instead they were subject to 52-year lease terms. But of the 81 sections, which have been on the market for 18 months, only eight of 25 sales had been settled, with many buyers trying to back out of their deals because of the economic climate, Mr Gillespie said. No houses have been built yet.

NEW STYLE PASIFIKA PHOTOS

SIDESWIPPING IT...
Margaret Wong of Epsom writes: "I was walking around One Tree Hill when I spotted a lone paddock of black sheep and lambs. The white sheep and lambs were gambolling freely all over the rest of the park. It was all a bit District 9 ... No doubt someone will be able to enlighten us." (you know the South African's are going woohoo)

Two girls lost in a stormwater drain in Adelaide updated their Facebook status via their mobile phone rather than ringing emergency services. A Fire Service spokesman said the 10- and 12-year-old girls were lucky another young friend was online and was able to call for help for them. Walking through drains is known as "urban caving", is popular in many major cities, despite the danger of flash floods.

A reader writes: "In 2001, my wife went for a precautionary mammogram because of a 4mm lump. We never heard any more about it but were delighted to receive the x-rays today (eight years later) with a letter to say that there is nothing to worry about. Except maybe the Health Service?" (SJ...SEE...YOU AREN'T THE ONLY ONE!!!)

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 17°C
Min: 10°C (overnight)
Humidity: 83%
Cloud increasing. Northeast breeze. (Translation: Nice sunny day, YES sun again, but its about to all turn to shite)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
"What is & isn't photography over mai tai's Yay" - check it out FB

AND the morpork still doesn't have Swine Flu...bwahahahaha!

DAILY FOF MOMENT
People not knowing if SJ's foot is really fratured or not. X-ray people say "yes, fractured" 'experts' say "Nope...nothing wrong" FAIL!

Day OneHundredAndSixteen of being Aflickionless...

Have to say that things were a bit of a non-event today.

Maz watched 300 and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. Other than that just going over idea for Wellington in her head and trying to find some music that will inspire her for the theme and possibly be something that she will use.
Maz is meant to be working tomorrow, but still hasn't heard anything about a call time. How annoying.

One thing that didn't happen today...well one thing that we found out is that your not back till Saturday now, which means that the whole 119 days thing, no longer applies...I think we might make it 119 days + 1...hahaha! No matter which way, CAN'T WAIT for your return!!!

Before we get into the news for the day, guess who was in the news on Sunday???
"...University of Auckland business student Sarah-Jayne Chamberlain, 23, had her fourth endometriosis operation at the Greenlane hospital in January. Several weeks afterwards she says a MercyAscot nurse called her saying "there had been cases of bugs within the hospital and that I needed to go and get my bloods done". She was found to have an infection and prescribed antibiotics, but an examination showed her wounds were clean. "I think it would be good if they were open about it," she said. "It's not fair that people think the public system is crap ... when in fact the private hospitals are having the same issues."..." Read the full article here. Now on to the news...

More than a thousand Auckland bus workers who face being locked out in a row over 10 cents an hour say they will report for work as usual on Wednesday morning. Infratil-owned NZ Bus has told the workers, including 875 drivers, that they will be barred from 4am on Wednesday - a move likely to plunge Auckland's public transport system into chaos. The lock-out will affect staff at the Metrolink, Go West, Waka Pacific, North Star, Link and city circuit bus services.

A Whangarei man is appearing in court today facing charges of sexual grooming and one charge of unlawful sexual connection with a minor after throwing a paper dart at school girls. The charges come after Whangarei police were alerted to a man who had thrown a paper plane out his car window at high school girls two weeks ago. The paper plane had a cellphone number on it. The girls sent a text message to the number asking the dart thrower to leave them alone. A 45-year-old man was arrested on Friday night, and appeared in Whangarei District Court on Saturday. He was remanded in custody to reappear again today. Police have asked anyone with information about other similar incidents is call them.

McDonald's might have made it to Gore but high school students will have to wait until outside of school hours for a feed - unless they a have a pass. The Southland Times reported that the town's two secondary schools - Gore High School and St Peters College - had asked that pupils in uniform not be served during school hours. Franchisee Simon Rhind said he and partner Cherie Edwards had previously have a McDonald's in Matamata and ran a similar policy, at the request of schools. Pupils soon got the message and he believed that would happen in Gore.

A harbour bridge designed to ease congestion was packed end to end at its opening yesterday as more than 15,000 locals marked its completion with a bridge walk. Tauranga and Mt Maunganui residents took advantage of spring sunshine to cross the second harbour bridge, which was opened for foot traffic for the day by the Transport Agency. A temporary on-ramp was to be installed overnight, allowing drivers to begin using the bridge this morning.

Unruly late-night scenes at downtown Auckland taxi stands have sparked plans for a permit scheme to restore some semblance of order before the 2011 Rugby World Cup. Auckland City's transport committee has endorsed in principle - subject to consulting the taxi industry - a regime designed to exert peer pressure on rogue drivers. "We have an important time ahead of us in terms of demonstrating what kind of city we are," parking services acting group manager Rick Bidgood told the committee. The scheme, backed by a parking advisory board including transport industry representatives, will target inner-city trouble spots before possibly being rolled out to areas such as Ponsonby Rd and Eden Park. Violations by individual drivers such as double-parking at council-owned stands will bring down demerit points on their companies or cooperatives, which will have permits suspended if they accrue too many black marks. That means all of their drivers will be banned from using the stands until their permits are restored, a system which has been pioneered at Auckland Airport.

Brave children have been dared. New Zealand's largest - and arguably scariest-looking - insect is taking up residence in the Auckland Airport precinct. The giant wetapunga normally lives and breeds only on Little Barrier Island. However, 16 of the endangered creatures have been moved to Butterfly Creek in Mangere as part of a captive breeding programme. The spiny insects will be on display to visitors with tarantulas, giant centipedes, mantids, native and introduced cockroaches and other creepy-crawlies.

MAZ'S KITTY...

You thought it was the jackpot edition when you read "Kitty" huh? Hahaha...no! Just some photos that Maz took of Florida this afternoon.

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 16°C
Min: 4°C (overnight)
Humidity: 99%
Fine. Light winds. (Translation: It was another nice day...OMG! Thursday & Friday looks like rain though)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Maz is meant to have work tomorrow and doesn't have a call time yet...hmmmm

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Your not back till Saturday now...FAIL!

Day OneHundredAndFourteen of being Aflickionless...

Well where to start. After all the disco balls, hot glue and feathers Style Pasifika finally arrived yesterday.

This year Maz had both Russell & SJ helpping her out, and of course as you know JayJay was the model. Maz was overly calm throughout the whole day, so she isn't sure if it was a good day or not. She spent a total of 11hours painting, it took about 7 layers of blue to create the final blue tone of the piece and 3 different glitters.

Maz never placed, which was disappointing, although she recieved a lot of comments about the tail and the head piece she made. Maz believes that the piece that got second should of won, rather than the one that did. But that's how competitions go.

Corey stopped in after work and took photos of the piece, Maz is glad she could get some photos taken of the piece, although she hasn't seen them yet.

At the after party JayJay & Maz were photographed by Express and also met a person from Pasific Blue (they were a sponsor) and could possibly have some work for them at some point doing body art.

STYLE PASIFIKA 2009 PHOTOS

First & Second place


JayJay's buns

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
N/A

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
How calm Maz was yesterday during Style Pasifika...it was scary.

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Second place in the body art section of Style Pasifika should of recieved first place...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 OneHundredAndOne of being Aflickionless...

Seeings as Maz spent the whole day in bed this is all going to be about last night.

Maz & Russell got the energy to go check out Thank You at Space Bar, the closing party. IF they had of known that people would want to be at Space for once then they would of turned up earlier. They waited in line for 2 hours and were so close to the front of the line when it was annouced that the police had shut them down for 2 hours and they were unable to let anybody else in.
Naturally the paddie wagon turned up to Space and they took away one person. It was this guy. And a girl was also being spoken to, so I take it that something had happened in there. So I have heard though, it was too packed and you could hardly move inside. Really funny since every other weekend they are hardly full.

The line outside Space.

So after not being able to get into Space and talking to SJ via text, we ended up rocking down to Toto's for Flamingo 'Electric Nights'. We never got there till very late but had a good time and got to see SJ, Chris (he was working the bar), Kylie and a few other people. Also picked up a demo CD by Pedro M (I will flick it your way when you get back for a listen).

Maz & Russell gapped it from Toto's at about 4.30amish, and finally after weeks of seening the perfect weather for it Maz took a photo of the city.

'Early Morning Auckland'
Taken from Bayswater, North Shore

Straight is the new black for frizzy-haired bar-goers, who can now flatten their wild locks between beers. Nearly 20 pubs and bars across the country are offering hair straighteners in the women's toilets, giving patrons the offer to straighten their hair for two minutes, at $2 a pop. Newmarket's Mac's Brewbar was among the first to install the hair straighteners, already hugely popular in Irish and Australian bars. Shawn Brookes, co-owner of Mac's, said the straighteners had proved "extremely" popular with the ladies. The machines were put in during a recent refit of the bar in an effort to make it more female friendly. Read More...
Photo pictured was taken by Maz at Space Bar in May. And even though Princess SJ put me onto this article and she says she wouldn't use them. I'm sure there will come a day.

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 16°C
Min: 11°C (overnight)
Humidity: 87%
Showers, becoming more frequent. Northeasterlies. (Translation: been in bed all day so cannot confirm nor deny the weather events of today.)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
How busy Space was last night. I remember it was only in February that they had about 10 people there for the Valentines Day event...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Waiting for 2 hours outside Space to find out that the police had shut it down from letting any more people in. Fail!!!

Day NintyNine of being Aflickionless...

Oh where, oh where can my Flicky be...oh where, oh where has he gone???

AND just because it's day 99 and the song is based on it...
"20 more days till Haydn gets back, 20 more days till he returns, wake up one day and fuck around, 19 days till Haydn gets back"

It's 6.30am and I just got home...BITE ME!!! I can hear the birds!!!
Maz has finished (well for now) The Disco Ball Mirror project. She still has a few things to add to it and a couple of tweaks to make, but the bulk of it has been done. YAY!

This evening Maz & Russell went to Ginger Minx. Russell wasn't working, so yippee we got to sit back and just enjoy a few drinks & a chat. SJ also popped in to say Howdy and hang out for a bit (even photos to prove it...HAHA!).

How Space is going to happen tomorrow night...well tonight if you think about it...I have no idea. Can already tell it's going to be a slow start to the night. BUT it was well worth the laugh. In tonight's blog we have photos and a VIDEO to share. Booyah!

We all hope that you are having an awesome time...and if it's not all rainbows & fluffy clouds; chin up petal at least your not an egg (Maz will fill you in on that one...).

OH HAI (without the sign)

Maz & SJ at Ginger Minx


Adam after a hard days work


Josh (from Barfifa) & Maz


Dom & Adam. HOODRATS


Maz, Josh & Gemma...WORD!!!


Sitting on the kitchen floor at Josh's house. Fridge magnets...FUCK YEAH!


Fun times. Don't you miss us?

QUOTE OF THE NIGHT
Dom (bartender at Minx) said something about signing off, prob. something along the lines of "I wanna sign off". This was just after he had been asked what he wants to drink too and Russell heard a bit wrong I think..."I think Dom wants a sign off". Then we found out what Dom really wanted, which was to sign out/off for the night...so the quote of the night is

"I'll have a sign off please" - Dom at Ginger Minx

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Sorry was too busy having a good night at Minx...

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
How late Maz got home...these all nighters are really going to hit soon...we think!

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Russell got a wof ticket...haha. At least he didn't get the rego ticket as well...nice piggy. Fail!!!

Day EightySix of being Aflickionless...

Maz worked today...YES on a Saturday! From work it was off home to shower off the dirt, then time to head into Ginger Minx.

Ginger Minx hosted Offshore Days and man it was nuts. That place got THRASHED!!! People dancing on coffee tables, girls being way too drunk...totally different crowd.

TELETHON 09: Three-quarters of the 57,000 children in New Zealand's poorest 10 per cent of schools are now receiving food from charities, with growing waiting lists as the recession throws more parents out of work. A 23-hour telethon on TV3 this weekend - New Zealand's first telethon in 16 years - aims to raise about $2 million to help the charity KidsCan reach 32,000 children on its waiting list for food, shoes and raincoats.

The dole queue lengthened by another 4417 people last month, forcing the Government to hire an extra 300 Work and Income staff to cope with the growing numbers.

A racist attack on a Fijian-Indian student at a Christchurch school was not isolated, the student's mother says. Mohammed Akif, 15, suffered a cracked cheekbone, chipped tooth, cut to the head and bruised ribs when he was set upon by other students on Tuesday, The Press reported. He arrived in Christchurch only three weeks ago to join his mother, who had a two-year work permit. (oh come on it's Christchurch what do you expect?)

A website commemorating the 28 Maori Battalion has been launched. The website includes archive photographs, video and an interactive map of the battles the battalion took part in during World War Two. The site is also interactive and includes a function for families to add the experiences of veterans. Check it out here.

OFFSHORE DAYS PHOTOS

DAILY FOF MOMENT
The girl who got to drunk, K.Oed and threw up on the floor in Ginger Minx...

Day EightyThree of being Aflickionless...

After forgetting about yesterdays blog (till stupid o'clock this morning), Maz thought that she better write one for today...I would look like a terrible friend if I forgot two days in a row.

Lots of pictures and random stuff to fill up todays blog. Why you may ask? BECAUSE I CAN!!! Lets see where to start. Maz has work on Legend of the Seeker tomorrow, starting at 6am...ewwwww!!! But at least she is back on there so she can take in her portfolio to show the make-up people.
The battle for the chair has resumed between Maz & Florida. Maz believes that she will be "VICKTORYASS" this time.

The other day it was posted that the Space Invaders shoes had been finished and FINALLY we bring you the photos!!!

and yes we know what you think...your shoes are still WAY COOLER!

CardboardLove.com is Maz's great find of the day (thanks to Kaine). They have a lot of sappy "I love you" written on cardboard on there, but a few of them either made me giggle or think of you...awwww...haha! Then I got sick of seeing all the sappy stuff so left the site...amazes me that chicks like that awww stuff.

Biosecurity scientists are examining whether there is a link between large numbers of fish being washed ashore and illnesses and deaths to dogs that have visited Auckland beaches. One dog died last month after being taken to Browns Bay beach, while there was a second fatality this week from another North Shore location, Cheltenham Beach. Biosecurity New Zealand today said it was investigating unusually large numbers of pilchards washing up on beaches further north, near Whangaparaoa Peninsula and Martins Bay.

An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale hit Fiordland this afternoon. It was part of a series that have rattled the region since a 7.8 Richter magnitude earthquake - the biggest in the world this year - hit last month. The latest quake hit 100km west of Te Anau at 4.25pm at a depth of 5km, GNS Science said.

A Hamilton man has been taken to hospital after an explosion at a gas
cylinder company today. Waikato Hospital spokeswoman Mary Anne Gill said the man was servicing an oxygen gas bottle when the explosion happened.

Kiwi men are not doing enough around the house to win over their wives and partners, new research suggests, but we are still doing better than our transtasman cousins. New Zealand ranked ninth-equal out of 13 countries in an Oxford University study that examined how people become more attractive to the opposite sex by helping out with the household chores and looking after the children. Swedish men topped the table as most attractive in terms of pulling their weight around the house, while Australians - perhaps preoccupied by their great loves of beer and sport - came in last. (looks like I needs me a Swedish man...haha)

SIDESWIPPING IT...
A bid to set a world record for the number of women being photographed wearing bikinis in one place failed, after only 42 of the 1924 turned up. A poor weather forecast in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, was blamed for the disappointing turnout.

SXEPHILLING IT...
From the wonderful world of DeFranco the following guide on how to remove stickers from your ballcap

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 14°C
Min: 5°C (overnight)
Humidity: 83%
Fine. Southwest breeze dying away. (Translation: Nice day, besides the 5pm temp. drop)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
9°C (wind chill 8°C) isn't that cold any more...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Maz totally forgetting about the blog yesterday. Fail!!!