Monday, September 7, 2009

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 th
at 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 anyth
ing 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 thin
g, 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!

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Day OneHundredAndFifteen of being Aflickionless...

So the blog has been a bit slack this week with the inpending doom that was Style Pasifika. But now that is over and done with things will be pretty much back to normal, besides the moving part. YES, Maz is moving house this week.
Maz is also deciding if to road trip to Wellington for this years Body Art Rocks competition, interested?
It's on Sunday 25th October at Basin Reserve. Let us know! Need to come up with an idea for the theme "Magic & Mystery", can also provide your own music for this one, so thats a bonus.


Today was a pretty non-event day. Last night Maz & Russell went to Ginger Minx after having dinner at a Chinese place on Dominion Road. Suppose rolling in the door at 3.30am had something to do with the whole non-event Sunday thing.

On Friday Ginger Minx has a partay happening. If your not too jetlagged you should come along, let us know if you want to come, we are more than happen to pick you up on our w
ay if you want.


SJ & Maz have been organising Willkommen Zurück (Welcome Back). So let us know if you would like to be picked up for this one as well. Just because your back in the country doesn't mean the hangovers have to stop...haha.

FACEBOOK FUNNY

posted by one of Russell's friends

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 16°C
Min: 4°C (overnight)
Humidity: 79%
Fine. Light winds. (Translation: NO RAIN...YAY!)


Looks like winter is on it's way out!!! Although at the moment they say it is meant to rain on Thursday so don't get your hopes up for returning to good weather.

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
Matt & Tina have moved most of their stuff, so it is just Maz & Russell at the house now

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Your back in 4 days and we don't know what time you get back...FAIL!

Saturday, September 5, 2009

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!

Friday, September 4, 2009

Day OneHundredAndThirteen of being Aflickionless...

Style Pasifika 2009 was today. Which means that Maz was tied up all day with that. Blog update tomorrow...And since it is Friday it all means...

ONE WEEK TILL YOU GET BACK...YAY!

"6 more days till Haydn gets back, 6 more days till he returns, wake up one day and fuck around, 5 days till Haydn gets back"

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Day OneHundredAndTwelve of being Aflickionless...

Style Pasifika is tomorrow...so Maz hasn't had the time to write a blog