Day OneHundredAndSix of being Aflickionless...

JayJay has a custom pair of bunny ear. If they are custom then that must mean they are JadedSphnix, and you would be right in thinking that. They have been made for Chemistry. So photos of them will go up tomorrow night. Maz is also going to make custom bunny ears & other animal ears to go with all the other custom stuff.

This afternoon Maz & Russell had to go look at a place on Rosebank Road, was nice but right at the intersection by Avondale Racetrack, so heaps of road noise. STINK! After that it was time to go to the first Style Pasifika rehearsal...one week to go. JayJay is lined up to be 4th on stage on the night. Exciting! oOo and one of the artists in the competition is one of Maz's former tutors.
After the Style Pasifika run through it was off to Ginger Minx for A drink...but hmmmm it turned into two for Maz. SJ also popped in to Minx, but missed Maz by that much...which isn't much. She walked in, as Maz, Russell & JayJay drove off. Very quite night at Minx...well it was at about 8.30pm.

A large earthquake in Wellington early this morning shook locals out of bed but there were no immediate reports of damage. The tremor, measuring 5.2 in magnitude, hit at 2.10am, GNS Science reported. It was centred 20km south of Wellington and was 30km deep. It was followed by a 4.3 aftershock at 3.52am.

Health authorities have lifted their warning on people going to beaches in the Hauraki Gulf. The Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) lifted the warning today but recommended people take extra care. The warning was put in place last month after marine life and dogs were found dead at Narrowneck and Cheltenham beaches. Approximately 15 dogs from a wide geographic area within the Hauraki Gulf became unwell with symptoms consistent with tetrodotoxin (ttx) poisoning. Five of the dogs died.

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
Diagnostic Medlab has hired a film crew to interview patients emerging from the rooms of its rival, Labtests, and has threatened to release the footage if it finds undisclosed problems. A public health chief last night slammed the move as "desperate". Is switching from Diagnostic Medlab to Labtests Auckland a good idea?

SIDESWIPPING IT...
The Vegetarian Star reports that executive producer for The Simpsons, David Mirkin, says Paul McCartney agreed to appear on the cartoon only with certain conditions. "When I asked him to do the vegetarian episode, he agreed but made me promise to keep Lisa as a vegetarian - and I was happy to comply with that because I'm a vegetarian too. Every time I see him, he always checks - and he's always surrounded by nine or 10 lawyers, so it's quite frightening!

Sharon writes: "A colleague came into work a couple of weeks ago as mad as hell. She and her 16-year-old had a heated discussion on the way to dropping daughter off at school. Mother angrily declared 'you're grounded!' Daughter's comeback was great. 'You can't ground me! I've got a ranch slider and a bus pass!' ... daughter 1, mum 0."

TRAILER, TRAILER, TRAILER...
Interesting fact. All movies that come out have a website, pure and simple a .com, but Wolfman also has a .co.nz...how cool is that?



AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 18°C
Min: 9°C (overnight)
Humidity: 89%
Fine, a few cloudy periods. Northwest winds. (Translation: Fairly nice day...bit chilly this evening though)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Style Pasifika is only a week away now...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Dave was about to walk out the door to dj at Degree and realised that Gabbie's g-string was hanging out of the back of his shoe. FAIL! Haha Imagine if he got all the way to Degree and didn't notice.

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 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 NintySix of being Aflickionless...

Day NintySix...I can't believe how quickly time seems to be going. If somebody knew how to slow it down, that would be awesome right about now. Can you believe that there is a blog (or at least something) for every day that you've been gone? Now it just has to be decided if the blogs stop when you get back or stop once I see you...hmmmm...figure there willbe a far bit of sleeping when you get home. Hard work traveling around the world and staying up all hours...haha.

Maz went through a re-tagged/labeled the blogs this evening. The three new tags are "Pictures", "News" and "The Haydn Return's Song". You know the song...

"23 days till Haydn gets back, 23 days till he returns, wake up one day and fuck around, 22 days till Haydn returns"

Besides that Maz hasn't done any work today (besides sending her CV to Phoenix), she hasn't had the motivation and has been feeling blah & tired all day.

A 30-year-old woman who died in Dunedin on Sunday has been confirmed by the Health Ministry as being New Zealand's 15th swine flu victim. While some fatalities involving influenza (H1N1) have been attributed to other health complications, the ministry said there were no underlying medical conditions involved with the latest death.

The Government is looking at raising the driving age to 17 and tightening alcohol limits for young drivers. Raising the national driving age to 17 would have an adverse effect on rural families, says a farmers lobby group opposed to the move. High country farmer and Federated Farmers transport spokesman, Donald Aubrey said kids growing up on farms are exposed to vehicles from an early age. Given the shortage of public transport in the provinces, lifting the driving age would have a detrimental effect.

Fiordland has been rocked by a quake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale this morning. The quake struck shortly before 5am, 120km west of Tuatapere and had a focal depth of 12km. It was felt as far east as Waikiwi in Southland.

SIDESWIPPING IT...
Peter Webby of Waimauku doesn't know what all the fuss is about over New Zealand's well-known people taking up knighthoods. "Any everyday Joe Blow like me can obtain the title of Sir ... Book your travel with Air NZ online, select any title you want and hey presto, an instant knighthood. Just a word of caution: males should never select the title 'Lady' ... got into a wee bit of bother over that one, with the airline demanding I provide further proof of identity. Just goes to show anybody can get in with the ranks of Snell, Meads or Tindall!"

A British chief police officer is hand-delivering birthday cakes to criminals in a bid to cut down crime. Chief Inspector Andy Boyd of the Vale of White Horse even pays for the £1.50 ($3.70) sponge cake himself. Each cake is accompanied by a card that reads: "On your birthday we wish you well, we would hate to see you in a cell. Time to change your ways, go straight, if you don't, you know your fate." Mr Boyd believed the personal touch had contributed to the 18 per cent cut in crime over the past five months.

BAD TASTE...BUT FUNNY!
Since singer Susan Boyle has been on TV there's been a marked drop in suicide bombing. Apparently, a lot of the terrorists didn't realise what a virgin looks like.

Achmed the Dead Terrorist

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 17°C
Min: 11°C (overnight)
Humidity: 86%
Cloudy, rain. Southwest change. (Translation: I think it rainned...wasn't really paying attention)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
It is almost a habbit now for Maz to watch Outragous Fortune on Tuesday nights. Any idea if the UK has their version yet?

DAILY FOF MOMENT
There isn't one...must call JayJay. Fail!!!

Day NintyFive of being Aflickionless...

Lets see...disco ball mirrors, glue and glitter. That pretty much sums up Maz's day, but unlike the last few days, there was no burning of fingers and no cuts recieved. This may be because Maz is gluing to the floor and hasn't peeled off todays work yet. Hmmmm...

Nikki brought a pair of shoes of Maz today for her little niece. She got the Outta Space kids low tops. Awesome...she is so going to have the coolest shoes ever!

This Saturday is the closing of Space. Yes the day has finally come for us to say "see you later". Maz will possibly be going to it...just to see if it was all worth it.

PHOTO MANIPULATION SNEAK PEEK...
Thought we would let you have a look that something else that Maz is working on. It is only it the very beginning stages, so who knows where it will end up.

Now...NORMALLY I would put the news up here...and I could possibly still do that, but right now I think it is time for some...

RANDOM PICTURES MAZ FOUND ONLINE

And now on with the news...well what little there is.

It must have been a fur-raising ride for Poppy the cat. The four-year-old was believed to have secretly hitched a ride in a car from her Levin home to Hunterville, 100km away, where her collar meant she avoided being shot by bird-loving farmer. Levin couple Kevin and Sandra Stent noticed Poppy was missing after a visit from some friends 3-1/2 weeks ago, but were assured no felines were stashed away in their car. Mrs Stent thought Poppy must have climbed up under the car and held on as it travelled through northern Manawatu and either fell off or jumped off somewhere near Hunterville. For the next three weeks she foraged for food and nursed her injuries until Waituna farmer David Guylee noticed her lurking around his neighbour's property. Mr Guylee said it was lucky Poppy was wearing a tag.

Cadbury has bowed to consumer pressure and agreed to stop using palm oil in its chocolate. The confectionery giant received hundreds of letters and emails of complaint after it revealed a new recipe substituted cocoa butter with vegetable fat, including palm oil. Palm oil has been linked with the clearing of native habitats in third world countries. Cadbury New Zealand Managing Director Matthew Oldham says recipes will now only use cocoa butter. He says Cadbury is "really sorry" and the change is a direct response to consumer feedback.

Experts have added a grim warning to the poison beach scare in Auckland, saying the toxin that killed dogs is deadly enough to paralyse humans in seconds and kill them within an hour. Test results have shown that tetrodotoxin, a poison found in puffer fish, is responsible for the deaths of two dogs, birds and sealife on Auckland beaches. The poison was found in the dead dogs' vomit and in a sea slug sample taken from Narrow Neck Beach on the North Shore. Further tests are being carried out to find out how the sea slug came to contain the poison. Touching a dead animal on the beach could be enough to endanger human life, said Cawthron Institute algae specialist Paul McNabb.

TRAILER TO WATCH...
Dorian Gray...HOW AWESOME!!! Personally I think that Dorian Gray is the hawtest character ever...


AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
N/A because it's 2am...oops. But guess what, there were showers today.

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
How fully dedicated Maz is to doing well at Style Pasifika this year. Talk about a lot of glue.

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Getting to the Flying Horse Takeaway's to find out they are closed, look at the clock and see it's almost 10pm. Wonder why they aren't open? Maz blames Russell. Fail!!!

Day NintyThree of being Aflickionless...

So this is the first time and possibly the last time that I am going to write this blog THIS fucked up (tipsy...we must remember Maz has control, almost ALL the time). So sorry for any typo's and anything else that may not make sense...and also for the fact that this is probably going to be very short lived.

Pretty laid back day really. Maz & Russell have a new DVD-Rom...YAY. After picking it up off a friend they decided to get a snack from Mc Donalds, and they are pretty sure that the patties are now "seasoned" (eg. contain pepper), so JayJay has been informed. It would be pretty bad if she died from McD's, ya know.

Russell worked at Ginger Minx this evening. It went off there tonight, nice and busy. Maz had no idea how many drinks and thinks that maybe she shouldn't of had that tiny bit of beer at the end of the night (Maz can't really do beer on a good night, so why lord why?). She is surprised your not online, but figures that you are on your way to Berlin...good times, good times!

CUPPA TEA? Sounds good. Sorts out the stomach after drinking...

TRAILER TO WATCH...
The Warrior Way. Filmed here in Auckland...Dee & Sam (Wheeler) were both extra's on it. YEAH1 KUNG-FU



AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
N/A
We had showers this evening though...

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Why did Maz subject herself to beer? She has the whole funny feeling cheek thing going on...not cool.

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Don't think there was one. Fail!!!

Day EightyOne of being Aflickionless...

Maz has been playing around with her drawing tablet, seeings as she had the day off work. It will take a bit of getting use to, but it is MEAN!
The Space Invader shoes were finished and handed over on Saturday, will try and put a photo of them up on here tomorrow.
Maz has also found Tetris on facebook...can you say "OH DEAR LORD!"

Not long to go till Style Pasifika now and Maz is a wee bit stressed as to if she will have a props ready for it...oh noes! Your due back in 38days, which means that Style Pasifika is about 32days away....ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

A woman was seriously injured after being attacked by eight pig dogs while jogging this afternoon. The 36-year-old was set upon as she jogged along a rural road in Arapuni, 37km east of Te Awamutu, about 1pm, Sergeant Jason Shailer of Putaruru police said. A friend who saw what was happening called for help but the dogs had left the scheme by the time emergency services arrived. The victim received multiple bites to her scalp, arms and legs and was flown to Waikato Hospital by the Westpac Waikato rescue service.

Northland's "Lion Man" Craig Busch has dropped his claim for unjustified dismissal from the park he helped make famous. Mr Busch had complained he had been unfairly dismissed from his job at Zion Wildlife Gardens, near Whangarei, by his mother Patricia Busch. An Employment Relations Authority (ERA) investigative meeting into his dismissal was due to resume today after it was interrupted in May by the death of Zion Gardens handler Dalu Mncube. But Mr Busch has since notified the ERA he has withdrawn his personal grievance claim.

Beer bottles littered the floor of a wagon that ran into the side of a car in Western Springs yesterday. Four people were taken to Auckland City Hospital for treatment as a result of the crash - three with moderate injuries and one minor. Police believe the dark Toyota Rav4 was travelling down Motions Rd past Western Springs College near the zoo when it misjudged the right-hand bend and struck an oncoming white Holden Commodore just after 4pm. Two fire trucks were called - one to block off the scene and the other to provide fire protection to rescuers and the injured - as well as ambulance and police. Both drivers were cut out of their vehicles by firefighters.

Pearl Jam have announced they will play in New Zealand in November. The veterans of the Seattle grunge scene, known for hit songs Better Man and Alive, will play for one night each in Auckland on November 27 and Christchurch on November 29. The tour is to promote the band's ninth album, Backspacer.

Paris had a sex tape, Susan Boyle sang I Dreamed a Dream, now Dan Carter has found himself caught up in the YouTube phenomenon by appearing in a grainy video dancing on a bar top in a Perpignan wearing white shots, a cheeky grin and a road worker's fluorescent vest. Short of a glow stick or two, the All Black legend pulls out his best oonst oonst dance moves waving his hands in the air like he just doesn't care. Neither do the other patrons. The bar is full of revellers who seem oblivious to Carter's fame and happy to dance along to the cheesy Euro club mix pop song. Check out the video below...

SIDESWIPPING IT...
There's no need to cycle the length of the country, with a new book offering a pictorial journey of traditional Kiwi welcome signs, you can enjoy provincial New Zealand from the couch. Welcome to New Zealand includes 350 pictures of entrances to cities and towns such as Manaia, which should be a great place for a sandwich. South Otago small towns show off a sense of humour ("Welcome to Clinton, our three-horse town" declares one sign and further up the track, "Welcome to Milton, the town of opportunities") and others have elaborate sculptures like Taihape's giant gumboot. But our art deco capital, Napier, doesn't have a welcome sign at all.

Rosaleen McCarroll of Hamilton writes: "While waiting for an x-ray at Waikato Hospital I read a magazine that I thought was 29 years old. As I walked home wondering if I should invest in a state-of-the-art Asahi Pentax camera advertised in the magazine, I remembered that that issue of Life was dated October 1970, which makes it 39 years old."

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 15°C
Min: 7°C (overnight)
Humidity: 86%
Cloudy at times. Westerlies. (Translation: A bit nipply this evening...)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
How quickly the year seems to be going now. Seems like the second part of your trip is just flying...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Dan Carter's dance on the bar...Fail!!!

Day SeventySix of being Aflickionless...

Maz got to play dead again and it was a very, very bloody death. Maz has been told to tak eher portfolio into the Legend of the Seeker people, so she will do that when she is back on next.

The Spartacus trailer is out and you HAVE to check that shit out. Maz can be seen twice in it and Dee can also be seen as well. YAY!



SIDESWIPPING IT...
Dutch pranksters have dumped dozens of the tiny two-seater Smart Cars into Amsterdam's waterways and police fear the bizarre trend will spread to the UK and the rest of Europe. Eco-friendly Smart cars are small enough to be picked up by just a few people and dumped into the Dutch capital's canals, reports De Telegraaf newspaper. One victim, Casper de Jong, was woken by police after they found his Smart floating in the waterway outside his apartment. Mr de Jong said: "Several weeks ago the same thing happened to my companion's Smart. Both cars were a complete write-off." One Smart sales worker said: "We're not supposed to talk about this because the police don't want the craze to spread but we've had quite a few drowned cars returned to us."

QUIZ FOR PEOPLE WHO KNOW EVERYTHING...
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

3. Name six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter S.

4. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked or in any other form except fresh. (Answers tomorrow).

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
N/A

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Maz has died four three times in three days...no wait four times in three days.

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Doesn't look like that Maz will be back on Seeker unless its a call back. Fail!!!

Day SeventyThree of being Aflickionless...

After a super long day and not getting to bed till about 5am, Maz slept till about 5.30pm. She must of been super tired. She wishes she didn't wake up though...Maz & Russell found out that James (person who was living here before them) hadn't signed papers to say he had moved out. Tina had told him to do it weeks ago. But now because he hasn't done it, Maz & Russell have 90days to move out. FUCK!

Other than that Maz has work tomorrow (7.30am start).

Child advocates have slammed a risque range of baby clothes that created a storm of controversy in Australia and are now on sale in New Zealand. The T-shirts and suits are on sale in Australian chain Cotton On Kids' 17 Kiwi stores and feature slogans including "I'm a tits man", "The condom broke", "I'm living proof my mum is easy" and "Mummy likes it on top".

A website designed to look like the TV3 homepage has been uncovered as a creative ad to promote a new brand of party pills. Pill manufacturer Evolve Technologies created the fake website, www.3news.net.nz, featuring an almost identical layout to the broadcaster's site, including a "breaking news" video about the new drugs. TV3 confirmed its lawyers had issued the fake website's administrators with a cease and desist notice, forcing them to pull the site this week. It declined further comment on the site for fear of giving the manufacturer publicity. The "speedy" and "sensory" party pills were launched in Auckland this week and have a Facebook group dedicated to their promotion. Group administrators posted a message on the site on Tuesday expressing surprise that the fake TV3 website had not then been pulled down. It read: "Oh my! it looks as if we've had the 3news.net.nz site for over 24 hours now.

THE REMEDY
New Little Boots video clip for Remedy


AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 12°C
Min: 3°C (overnight)
Humidity: 80%
Fine with light winds. (Translation: wouldn't know)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Maz slept all day...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
90 days to move. Fail!!!

Day SixtySeven of being Aflickionless...

Ummmmmmm...really nothing to go in here today. Maz has work on Seeker tomorrow and with a 10.15am start she likes them so far, that could all change tomorrow though.
Maz distroyed her friends list on Stalkbook this evening, about 100 people didn't make the cut "I'm sorry, you are the weakest link...now fuck off".

Shit all in the news besides a whole bunch of crap about people dying or some boy trying to rob a member of the public with a toy gun...OH and today (informed by Tina) marks 40years since America faked walking on the moon...hahaha. COME ON THE FLAG DIDN'T MOVE RIGHT!!! Anywho some monkey landed on the moon 40years ago, woot woot for man!!!

The worst of winter may be over for Auckland but weather forecasters are warning it will get wet and windy again before next weekend. MetService weather ambassador Bob McDavitt said although signs of spring had started popping up in the city two weeks early, it was too soon to celebrate winter's end.

A range of imported drinks marketed as fruit juice has been recalled after the Commerce Commission found the products contained little or no trace of fruit. Armenian Imports Limited, trading as Super Juice, distributed four juice products from Armenia under the brand name Yan. An investigation by the commission found at least two of the products were incorrectly labelled. Beverages described as 100 per cent blackcurrant juice, peach juice and pomegranate juice were tested by an independent laboratory.

SIDESWIPPING IT...
A frustrated dad sold his family trampoline for $1 after a series of expensive mishaps. He explains in his Trade Me listing: "If I had a chainsaw, I would hack it into small pieces on a stormy night while cackling like a maniac ...I got it for free from a neighbour, and thought, 'Bargain' ... Little did I know that it would end up costing me $742.
Incident 1: Tandem jumping collision. One kid jumped up, other was coming down, downward one's front teeth went into the head of the upwards one. Tears, blood, cracked teeth ... Result - $48 at A& E (kid number one's head), $84 at dentist (kid number two's teeth), $24 painkillers.
Incident 2: Son sneaks out at 8pm for sneaky jump. Can't see edge, falls off into tree stump ... Result - $72 x-rays, $48 at A&E.
Incident 3: Two kids decide to throw stones on to neighbour's roofs while jumping. Smash one neighbour's leadlight window. Old lady with the wobbly head next door thinks tapping on roof is demon/lava/dead husband/Jesus/Santa in May. She 'comes over all queer' (that's what she told me, hatefully, may I add) and rings ambulance in case she's dying/possessed. Ambulance man tells me off. Result: Leadlight, $140; ambulance, $90; flowers for wobbly head lady, $38; flowers for leadlight lady, $38.
Incident 4: After just four weeks, I decide to kill trampoline. Try to dismantle its springs. Trap finger. I'm sure I heard trampoline chuckle. Result: $58 A&E, $78 x-ray, $24 wine and painkillers."

LAUGH YOUR ASS OFF


AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 14 °C
Min: 7°C (overnight)
Humidity: 89%
Cloudy periods and the odd shower. Southwesterlies. (Translation: meh day)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Blank moment...so no weirdness...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Well the original fail of the day was going to be Tina tripping on the edge of a bit of wood under a mat and looking like a total dick...hahahaha. BUT something far more entertaining happened.

Brought to you yet again by Tina...

She was trying on Matt's work harness...Matt said "try that on", so she tried it on...he then told Tina to tighten it up, so naturally she listened (like the good little bitch she is)...HOWEVER, while she wasn't paying attention Matt flung it up over the beam and lifted her off the ground.
Meanwhile Maz was on the computer after culling her list when she heard Tina then screaming like a bitch cause her balls were hurting. Maz ran in saw what was going on, ran back, got her camera, realised there was no card, managed to go grab one and take a photo all before she was let down...."hahaha...what good help I was. Such a good friend I am"

Tina didn't want you to see her crying like a bitch because of her balls, so we have blurred her

SO that is the FAIL OF THE DAY!!

At least Tina learnt, Never trust Matt when strapped in a harness!

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 FiftyFour of being Aflickionless...

Let's see...hmmm...Tina went and signed up for Fresh Talent today (same agent that Maz & Dee are with). Now I realise that you haven't met Tina yet, but I'm sure you will at some point.
When Maz & Tina went to the supermarket they were being dicks while waiting in the line...Maz was doing the "You know you want me" dance, but what Tina didn't tell her is that the lady infront of them was looking at Maz like she was on crack or something. Then while being served the checkout girl was looking at Maz & Tina like they were a couple and smiling to herself. Was a classic moment.

Topics of this evening: flaps, tits and ass!!!

And lookie, lookie what Maz got off TradeMe this evening. Hopefully she will have it very, very soon...and no the blonde doesn't come with it

JayJay called in sick to work today, which means that JayJay's mum thinks she must be dying and should move home for a week. I think she might have the swine...haha...or maybe its the crack *gasp*.
JayJay's set from National Anthems is FINALLY up on CityVibes and she also has a set up on the UPFM site.

Amber has discovered The Gossip, so is currently looking up remixes of their stuff. And she has yet MORE ink!!! This time...bats on her back.

Leading oil companies have dropped the price of petrol and diesel from this afternoon. The price of petrol has been cut by four cents making 91-octane $1.63.9 a litre, and 95-octane $1.69.9 a litre.

A young woman was groped by a flasher while walking to a city backpackers in Christchurch last night, police say. The 20-year-old woman was walking down Gloucester Street between Stanmore Road and Fitzgerald Ave about 10pm when she noticed a man outside a property near where she was headed. As she passed him, he undid the zip on his pants and exposed himself, before groping her from behind as she tried to open the backpackers' door. He ran off when she screamed. (not the right way to pick up chicks huh?)

Police are trying to work out the identity of a human jawbone found on a Christchurch beach. Dental records had confirmed the jawbone was not that of missing woman Tisha Lowry, Christchurch police Detective Senior Sergeant Virginia Le Bas said. Ms Lowry was last seen on September 25 after waving goodbye to her grandfather at the Bower Tavern in suburban New Brighton.

Three of Auckland Zoo's Bornean orang utans are moving to a Florida zoo this month, where they will take part in their captive breeding programme. Indra and Horst have been at the zoo for over 25 years, along with their 20-year-old daughter Intan. The Bornean orang utan only breeds once every 6-10 years and generally only produce one offspring. A public day to farewell the orang utans will be held at the zoo on 19 July.

They're known as Generation Y - today's older teens and 20-somethings, regarded as a self-obsessed lot who blow their pay packets as quickly as they text their friends. But two Waikato researchers say Generation Y is no more self-centred and fickle in the workplace than the generations before them.

Twelve people are now in New Zealand intensive care wards with swine flu. The number of people in hospital with the virus, influenza A (H1N1) was 47, and 12 of those were in intensive care, the Ministry of Health confirmed today. The number of confirmed cases of swine flu was now 1195, up from 1059 yesterday, she said.

Reverend Al Sharpton is using his Sunday appearance at The First A.M.E. Church in South Los Angeles to call for a U.S. Postage stamp honoring Michael Jackson, as well as national day of mourning. Sharpton faces a steep challenge in getting the stamp approved, as commemorative stamps cannot even be considered until 5 years after the subject's death, according to the U.S. Postal Service. The only exception to the rule is for deceased U.S. Presidents, who have traditionally been honored with a stamp released on their birthdays, following date of death. (so maybe little boys will be able to lick him even after death)

Little people are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to ban the use of the word "midget" on broadcast TV. The group Little People of America said Sunday the word is just as offensive as racial slurs. The request was prompted by an April episode of NBC's Celebrity Apprentice that the group said was demeaning. In the episode, contestants created a detergent ad called "Jesse James and the Midgets." The contestants, including Joan Rivers, suggested bathing little people in the detergent and hanging them to dry.

BECAUSE IT MADE ME LAUGH
I don't lknow if you have seen this or not, but I saw it for the first time last night and it made me crack up laughing...



LINE OF THE DAY
"Fuck my ass...hurts" - Tina, talking about her sore butt (for unknown reasons) on the way back from the supermarket
(please take note of the pause, which is what made it so effective)

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

You take your boots off to jump on a trampoline

TALKING WITH MOTHERS (BY MISS CADAVER)
Amber Cadaver says: got a review in a music magazine
Amber Cadaver says: 8/10
jan says: is that the name of the magazine
Amber Cadaver says: no mum
Amber Cadaver says: the name of the magazine is Nocturne

Awww bless 'em...

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 15 °C
Min: 8°C (overnight)
Humidity: 81 %
Cloud increasing and northwesterlies developing. (Translation: cloud...but nice day otherwise, didn't notice any rain)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Maz still has sore cheeks and a sore jaw...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Maz lost her eyebrow jewerly somewhere between the bedroom and the Spartacus set yesterday and totally forgot until she went to bed last night, and then didn't remember again till just now. FAIL!

Day FiftyTwo of being Aflickionless...

After the bank card phail last night Maz had to go into the bank this morning to get out cash and replace her bank card. She was totally surprised that they could replace it right then, rather than waiting, so that was super awesome.
After the trip to the bank Maz & Russell went up to In Hair to see Sally & Gene. They were doing head shaves in support of Dylan Ward to raise money for the cancer socity. Dylan has recently been diagnosed with Leukemia, his sister has started up a fanbook page too. Check it out here.
On the spur of the moment Maz decided that Russell was to shave his head...and that he did, thanks to Gene. So the goldy locks have gone, no more looking like a chick from behind now...haha.

Maz was also working on set as an extra today. She played a hooker...haha...was working hard for her money. No surprise it wasn't hard for her to dress like one. Red & Black lace dress, black coat, knee high boots, hoop earrings and some red lippy.
Oh yeah and the advert that Maz worked on the other week (for 2Degrees) and its up on YouTube, so check it out (Maz hasn't spoted herself in the crowd yet). Spartacus tomorrow (5.30am start).



JayJay's photos STILL aren't up. Hopefully they will be soon, it's been a week now (well just over).

Oh interesting video Maz found today. It's about the animatronics for the Hall of Presidents at Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort. Quite amazing how life like they look.



New Zealand Michael Jackson fans in three of the main centres have gathered to remember the king of pop. The memorial services were held yesterday in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Organiser Rose Van Wylich says New Zealanders needed a place to say goodbye. She says living so far away from Los Angeles, it was important people could gather together to support one another.

Some eastern areas of the South Island are experiencing heavy snowfall. Gerard Barry from MetService says around 15-20 centimetres of snow is forecast for the Canterbury foothills and south of the Rakaia River this morning. The Mt Hutt ski field has had to close for the day after around 20 centimetres of snowfall overnight and it is still snowing hard, with the access road closed because of the risk of avalanche. Mr Barry says snowfall is expected to continue until around midday.

Fair Go presenter Kevin Milne is battling a brain tumour which has taken him off air and left him fighting a "dreadful" lack of energy and enthusiasm. Although the tumour in the pituitary gland is benign, Milne may need surgery to protect his eyes and other parts of his brain.

Most people would shudder at the thought of seeing photos of their mother in lacy underwear and suspenders. Not Auckland student Michael - who twice tried to auction such saucy shots on Trade Me. The first time was to annoy his mother Jennifer after an argument. Her instruction to clear out the garage and sell unwanted items on Trade Me backfired when Michael started an auction titled "5 naked photos of my mum".It was removed by Trade Me the day after, but the 18-year-old posted a second series of "glamour photos" last Sunday - with Jennifer's approval. Although she was wearing more clothing, one was an underwear shot. The auction had more than 11,000 views before Trade Me removed it on Friday.

A Westport couple celebrated selling a queensize bed for $302,600 last night with a free historic six-bedroom guesthouse attached. Kathy Wahrlich and Wayne Saggers listed the bed and free house with a $1 reserve on online auction site Trade Me.

Twenty homes and a hospital were damaged when a tornado ripped through the Far North yesterday afternoon. Residents were evacuated as the twister made landfall at Ninety Mile Beach and left a trail of destruction as it headed south east through Kaitaia.

Next time you're enjoying a classic Kiwi dinner of fish and chips, think twice about what you're eating. New rules allow the import of frozen fillets of Vietnamese catfish or basa, a super-cheap species farmed in the polluted Mekong Delta. The move has raised concerns about health and the impact on the New Zealand fishing industry, and renewed debate on the need for compulsory country-of-origin labelling on food.

A Hamilton teenager with swine flu died at home without being diagnosed with the illness. He was one three New Zealanders to have died in the past week with swine flu more than likely to have been the cause, the Ministry of Health confirmed today. Zachary Wilson, 19, had been ill for three or four days but had not been to hospital before he died last Sunday

SLIGHTLY TWISTED (BY MISS CADAVER)
Whats the definition of disgusting?

Shoving 7 oysters up your grandma and sucking out 8

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 15 °C
Min: 8°C (overnight)
Humidity: 86 %
Showers, fine breaks. Fresh westerlies. (Translation: Fresh, indeed it was...but yet again, where the hell was that thundery weather?)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Russell has short hair and Maz is planning on going to bed early...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
We had hot dogs for dinner. Tina ate her first one and it was "mean", but on the last bite of it she thought she could smell perfume. She smelt the mustard and thought it smelt like perfume so was put off eating her second hot dog. Funny thing is, it didn't smell like perfume to the rest of us. FAIL!

Day FiftyOne of being Aflickionless...

Hmmmm Cirque du Soleil is back in town and the school holidays have come around again. Okay is it just me or does it seem like they are always on holiday?

Maz is off to see Transformers tonight (will either update after the movie, or it will be in tomorrows blog). UPDATED: Okay so Maz WAS meant to go see Transformers tonight, BUT after getting there and putting in the order her card decided it wouldn't read. Even tried the ATM and it wouldn't read...FUCKIN RAAAA!!! Russell had her card in his jacket, so Maz is thinking his keys scratched it to fuck (even though they were in the pocket infront). So now she has to manually withdraw money till she gets her new card.
Maz is also regreting have such big flippers after looking at shoes on TradeMe, why are all the cute or cool ones for little feet? She is in love with the two pairs of shoe below, BUT they are both size 7

However, she also kinda wishes her feet were bigger (see shoes below)

Besides drooling over shoes, Maz has also been working on a new painting. Below is the first look at it, titled "Opps, I threw up custard"

Michael Jackson stuff for sale on EBay...
Moonwalkingmichael.com (just the domain name). Buy now is $21,000,000.00
Michael Jackson autographed Moonwalk shoes...buy now $20,000,000.00
Heaps more stuff on there, its just nuts. And before we get into the daily news and keeping with the Michael Jackson theme, below is a tour of the Neverland Ranch.



New Zealand appears to have had its first swine flu deaths following confirmation today that three people who have died in the past week had the virus.

Up to 15 houses were left with missing roofing iron and tiling, along with broken windows, after what appeared to be a tornado ripped through Kaitaia this afternoon.

Health officials are working to contain a measles outbreak in Christchurch. Four teenagers at Christchurch Boys' High School have caught the potentially lethal infection, with a fifth case suspected.

How many Unilodge employees does it take to change a lightbulb? One, provided you pay them $12. This is the joke told by Canadian student Graeme Clarke who was not forced to pay only $6 to replace the blown lightbulb in his former bedroom but also a $12 "installation fee" after leaving his $275-a-week room at Unilodge, in Auckland's inner city.

A couple of infrequent visitors to New Zealand waters were spotted off Auckland's Milford Beach this week. Steve Barham photographed this southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) and her calf on their way to Whangaparaoa.

Massey University marine ecology lecturer Karen Stockin told the Weekend Herald the whales - considered an endangered species in New Zealand waters - were probably spending time in warmer, safer, coastal waters before the youngster made his first journey to sub-Antarctic feeding grounds. When fully grown, it could measure up to 18m and tip the scales at 117 tonnes. The calf could live up to 70 years.

The owner of a hotel in small west coast town has died after being punched in the face by a woman patron. David White, the owner of the Little Wanganui Hotel, which is 20kms south of Karamea, was fatally assaulted after trying to intervene in an argument between to females early on Friday morning.

Lockwood Smith has become the first Speaker of the House to be married at Parliament. Thirty-nine years after meeting his sweetheart, the pair finally tied the knot in a ceremony Mr Smith described as a fairytale.

MICHAEL JACKSON HUMOR
Michael Jackson's ashes with be made into a violin. they are going to call it the the kiddy fiddler.

Micheal Jackson did not die in hospital after a heart attack, really he was found in the childrens ward having a stroke.

The family of Michael Jackson is sewing the paramedics,they said he would have been just fine if they had brought him to a Children's Hospital.

Did you hear that Michael Jackson wanted to be cremated and put into an Etch A Sketch so that little boys could still play with him.

SLIGHTLY TWISTED (BY MISS CADAVER)
What do 9 out of 10 people enjoy?

Gang rape

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 16 °C
Min: 10°C (overnight)
Humidity: 92 %
Rain, some thundery with hail. Fresh northeast. (Translation: Bit colder than it has been lately, don't believe them about the thunder though...not after the other night.)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Maz is actually going to the movies tonight (rather than DHnF), she hasn't been since Christmas Day *gasp*

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Bejeweled has been broke on Facebook all day. FAIL!

and the BIGGEST FAIL of the day goes to Maz's bank card, for not working, even though it was working fine yesterday. BIG PHAT PHAIL!!!

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!