Tuesday me and Gaz decided we would run down to Mission bay and catch up with the Nomads day trip. We really did miscalculate how far it was and was completely dead when we got there... about an 8km run with bags on our bags and passing the rugby ball all the way.good fucking workout.
We caught the bus on the way back and stopped by the camel for a few drinks. This was when our master idea came about, for his last night we were going to dress up as 80's as we could. After we threw our wigs, short shorts, singlets, leg warmers
and sweatbands we looked Austrian and Swedish so we ran with it. So far it could have been the funniest night of my life in nz. We had the whole of Cassette doing aerobics with us when we were on the stage.
Wednesday was Magic Buses 20th birthday party at a secret location. Theme was 'M' and therefore all guests had to dress up in something beginning with M. Nomads chose to go as Mafia and fuck did we look the party. I didn't have time to go all out on the costume so I had to improvise with my own clothes and bought the hat, suspenders and gun. We were picked up in a Magic bus and drove out to a swanky bar in Ponsonby they hired out called The Crib.
We had a free bar all night downstairs but only on house pours and house beers... loved it. At midnight we hitched the free bus back to town to go to the after party in Globe. I got chatting to an american girl called Chelsea (I thought if I was going to pick up, it definately wasn't goingto be industry... I learnt my lesson after the toga party when I was caught kissing Cat from Stray.)We hit O'Hagans on Vulcan Lane and then Father Teds. When I realised Eddie and Gaz were both out andI couldnt get in the flat I ended up going back to her dorm in Base.
It was all good until I went the toilet in the morning and got caught by Matt from Frenzi. There goes my cover. Immediately he text everyone we both knew saying he caught me in Base.
Thursday was the pub crawl and Kevin's birthday so we all dressed up in cowboys and indians. I was still real hungover from the past couple of nights so I didn't go hard but arranged to meet up with Chelsea again. This time I was clever, we went back to mine and avoided the inevitable hostel gossip. Although I did get some abuse jokingly from the guys that were in her room when I was working.
Friday I had the day off to recover and spent my time getting my Liqour Control Qualification sorted and flat hunting. I had few drinks down the camel in the evening and got chatting to a girl whos sister is a regular and she's showed interest in going for a drink when sometime... take it with a pinch of salt as I'm punching above my weight so much and she was drinking like me.
I got home to find out that We had to be out of the flat by Wednesday. This wouldn't have been a problem but Im up in Paihia from Monday to Thursday so I have to have all my stuff out of the flat by Monday morning.
Again can be done except that I'm opening and closing the bar both Saturday and Sunday. I've managed to have all of my stuff packed up and ready to move but the cleaning is going to be a bitch!
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Saturday, February 12, 2011
TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!
Tuesday I headed over to Waiheke again with Katie, Dan (the guy who's birthday it was on saturday) and Steph this german girl.
It was a cool crowd we had and they loved the island. We did the usual trip of beaches and vineyards but there was also a pretty
cool art exhibition along the cliff top by the matiatia ferry terminal. It was an hour walk with random peices art dotted around.
Hard to explain but there are pictures I'm going to rob and put up on facebook. When we got back into town we ended up going to cassette.
Angry scouse came out, I cant really remember what happened but I know apologised to this guy and he wouldn't except it and was abit
of a prick about and tried talking down to me and I wasn't having it. In the end after some very heated discussion, katie pulled me away
and said we were leaving before something bad happened, fair enough. She ended up staying the night and left in the morning for her flight
back to Sydney.
Eddie had also had an eventful night. After taking acid he ended up pushing some guy off the stage and nearly getting thrown out twice.
He went back to Nomads TV lounge and was halucinating thinking that there was a wedding and ripped up a load of leaflets and used them as confetti.
This meant Wednesday was purely a junk food and movies day as we were both struggling.
Thursday was a productive day, well kinda. I went into town with the intention of opening up a bank account with another bank and giving the card to gaz
so I can save. Getting a hair cut, getting my toga costume for the boat party and paying my vodafone bill. Well I did the later 2 as I didn't realise how long
they would take and my haircut is getting done next week. Me and Matt went for spartans and infact were very resourceful, it should turn out to be a pretty good costume.
Friday I woke up and headed over to Frienz to start putting together the costume with Matt, Mark, Ed and Dribbles. We stripped back to costume till eventually it was just the very skimpy tunic, cape, shield and spear topped off with fake tan. The boat party was epic, I ended up spending a crap load of money and the stories that have come out are priceless. 1 involves me and katy falling into C.K's vomit. another is me dancing away with little clothing infront of the camera. I also threw a random phone over the boat.
Friday was so big that I ended up missing my shift at the gym and struggling through a 13 hour one at the bar. Today has been kinda quiet, the gym was dead and the bar at the moment is too so I can just chill but my god after this weekend do I just want to hit up my bed!
It was a cool crowd we had and they loved the island. We did the usual trip of beaches and vineyards but there was also a pretty
cool art exhibition along the cliff top by the matiatia ferry terminal. It was an hour walk with random peices art dotted around.
Hard to explain but there are pictures I'm going to rob and put up on facebook. When we got back into town we ended up going to cassette.
Angry scouse came out, I cant really remember what happened but I know apologised to this guy and he wouldn't except it and was abit
of a prick about and tried talking down to me and I wasn't having it. In the end after some very heated discussion, katie pulled me away
and said we were leaving before something bad happened, fair enough. She ended up staying the night and left in the morning for her flight
back to Sydney.
Eddie had also had an eventful night. After taking acid he ended up pushing some guy off the stage and nearly getting thrown out twice.
He went back to Nomads TV lounge and was halucinating thinking that there was a wedding and ripped up a load of leaflets and used them as confetti.
This meant Wednesday was purely a junk food and movies day as we were both struggling.
Thursday was a productive day, well kinda. I went into town with the intention of opening up a bank account with another bank and giving the card to gaz
so I can save. Getting a hair cut, getting my toga costume for the boat party and paying my vodafone bill. Well I did the later 2 as I didn't realise how long
they would take and my haircut is getting done next week. Me and Matt went for spartans and infact were very resourceful, it should turn out to be a pretty good costume.
Friday I woke up and headed over to Frienz to start putting together the costume with Matt, Mark, Ed and Dribbles. We stripped back to costume till eventually it was just the very skimpy tunic, cape, shield and spear topped off with fake tan. The boat party was epic, I ended up spending a crap load of money and the stories that have come out are priceless. 1 involves me and katy falling into C.K's vomit. another is me dancing away with little clothing infront of the camera. I also threw a random phone over the boat.
Friday was so big that I ended up missing my shift at the gym and struggling through a 13 hour one at the bar. Today has been kinda quiet, the gym was dead and the bar at the moment is too so I can just chill but my god after this weekend do I just want to hit up my bed!
Saturday, February 5, 2011
February 2011
It's the 1st week in Feb and quite fiting that nearly a year into my time here I happened to bump into 2 of the guys I came out with. It was just a normal Friday night, nothing special then who should wander in for a drink but James and Paul. James is heading home in 2 weeks as he only had the 1 year visa and Pauls just been granted his 2nd year so he's going to continue working at Sky City and we arranged to meet up for a beer at some point. An old flame from the UK got back in touch and to be honest, at a good time aswell as it's helped me get over Michelle almost
completely now I think. She's thinking of coming out here and travelling as a gap year. It'll be awesome if that happens because even if we decide to just travel as friends I know the 2 of us would have a ridiculously good time as we're too good of friends for anything to be wierd.
Now, as Naked Ste is well truely back (The sign above the bar stating how many nights i've been sober is back up and that is when it's official) I feel it's time to tell some drunken stories. Last Saturday I was just having a few drinks in the bar and chatting away to a few cougars before leaving for cassette with Frienz Mark and Emma who was back from the Paihia for a few days and crashing at mine. Emma got ridiculously drunk so I gave her my keys and told her to keep her phone on so I could ring her when I needed to get in. I ended up going back to Cassette and couldn't of been there more than half an hour before I was just stood outside minding my own business until Kirsten (one of the girls that came to Waiheke Island) joined me. I didn't even manage to get a word out of my mouth before she blurted out that French Jo had told her I fancied her and she asked if we could go back to mine. And they say chivalry is dead hey.
1 problem. She had been sleeping with an irish mate of ours called Ed, who I've known for a few months now. He happened to confess that he liked her a lot although he was leaving on Tuesday to go meet up with a girl and travel with her. After her giving some bull shit excuse for why she was leaving the bar we darted out the side door and took the long way round the hostel to go to mine. She ended staying for a few nights before she departed for the Bay of Islands. We still keep in touch and said we'd meet up again but it's definately not another Michelle situation. Just lust haha. Thursday was a comical one. I stayed behind after my shift to have some half price drinks and was so pumped to get my party hat on. Me and Ed now give eachother so much banter over the microphone that I now love working the Pub Crawl. I caught up with the crawl in Globe and got hounded straight away. Usually I have to put effort in to get chatting to the girls but not at all this night. It has to be said I did enjoy it a little bit too much I think but it was nice to have 2 girls almost fighting over you. I ended up leaving with a russian girl and once back at mine she started crying into my pillow randomly before things we about to get started. I found out it was because she was a virgin and scared. I said to her that its probaly best that her first time isnt with me and she could stay the night and i'll walk her back to the hostel in the morning. She continued to cry and got it out of her that she needed to be sick so i took her the toilet and held her hair back. She got up and went to give her a hug, whilst doing so I was lucky enough to get vomitted on!
Saturday after work I went out for a few drinks with some guys from the hostel. It was a birthday so i said I would show them some of the delights of Auckland on a budget. We went up to fort st union and met up with the guys from Nomads Fusion. We shortly left for Globe but didn't stay long, I started hooking up with Katie, an american chick and we left to have some drinks at The Albion near me. Not before climbing the massive sculpture outside the ASB Bank tower. While I was at the Albion the general manager was asking about where I was working and stuff. He told me to come in to Shakespeares with my CV once I got my managers certificate. Sounds promising. I don't know if I want to leave the travellers circle quite yet though. If I move into the private room then I may look elsewhere for better money but we'll see.
completely now I think. She's thinking of coming out here and travelling as a gap year. It'll be awesome if that happens because even if we decide to just travel as friends I know the 2 of us would have a ridiculously good time as we're too good of friends for anything to be wierd.
Now, as Naked Ste is well truely back (The sign above the bar stating how many nights i've been sober is back up and that is when it's official) I feel it's time to tell some drunken stories. Last Saturday I was just having a few drinks in the bar and chatting away to a few cougars before leaving for cassette with Frienz Mark and Emma who was back from the Paihia for a few days and crashing at mine. Emma got ridiculously drunk so I gave her my keys and told her to keep her phone on so I could ring her when I needed to get in. I ended up going back to Cassette and couldn't of been there more than half an hour before I was just stood outside minding my own business until Kirsten (one of the girls that came to Waiheke Island) joined me. I didn't even manage to get a word out of my mouth before she blurted out that French Jo had told her I fancied her and she asked if we could go back to mine. And they say chivalry is dead hey.
1 problem. She had been sleeping with an irish mate of ours called Ed, who I've known for a few months now. He happened to confess that he liked her a lot although he was leaving on Tuesday to go meet up with a girl and travel with her. After her giving some bull shit excuse for why she was leaving the bar we darted out the side door and took the long way round the hostel to go to mine. She ended staying for a few nights before she departed for the Bay of Islands. We still keep in touch and said we'd meet up again but it's definately not another Michelle situation. Just lust haha. Thursday was a comical one. I stayed behind after my shift to have some half price drinks and was so pumped to get my party hat on. Me and Ed now give eachother so much banter over the microphone that I now love working the Pub Crawl. I caught up with the crawl in Globe and got hounded straight away. Usually I have to put effort in to get chatting to the girls but not at all this night. It has to be said I did enjoy it a little bit too much I think but it was nice to have 2 girls almost fighting over you. I ended up leaving with a russian girl and once back at mine she started crying into my pillow randomly before things we about to get started. I found out it was because she was a virgin and scared. I said to her that its probaly best that her first time isnt with me and she could stay the night and i'll walk her back to the hostel in the morning. She continued to cry and got it out of her that she needed to be sick so i took her the toilet and held her hair back. She got up and went to give her a hug, whilst doing so I was lucky enough to get vomitted on!
Saturday after work I went out for a few drinks with some guys from the hostel. It was a birthday so i said I would show them some of the delights of Auckland on a budget. We went up to fort st union and met up with the guys from Nomads Fusion. We shortly left for Globe but didn't stay long, I started hooking up with Katie, an american chick and we left to have some drinks at The Albion near me. Not before climbing the massive sculpture outside the ASB Bank tower. While I was at the Albion the general manager was asking about where I was working and stuff. He told me to come in to Shakespeares with my CV once I got my managers certificate. Sounds promising. I don't know if I want to leave the travellers circle quite yet though. If I move into the private room then I may look elsewhere for better money but we'll see.
Learning Curve January
o it's coming to the end of January and I havn't wrote in here as my whole month has revolved around Michelle. I've held off writing in here because I didn't want to write anything I would later go on to regret as my mind keeps changing but
the other day my mind was made up for. I'm going to make it short as it's too painful to go in depth and put all my thoughts in here as I usually would. Basically, A lote happened very quickly for me and I made a rash decision which I later went back on and that decision was to break up with Michelle as I felt she wasnt putting any effort into our relationship and I can't be with someone like that. I begged her to take me back and after almost 4 weeks I gave her her ultimatum the other day over the phone. We ended up going round and round in circles and I realised if she didn't no by now if she wanted to be with me then her mind was made up. I ended up stopping being so nice and pussy footing around to make her take me back and showed my true feelings and told her that was it. It is possibily the hardest thing I have ever had to do and still believe that if we had been living in the same city this would never happen. I do not regret anything i did pre-break up and had a great time with her but it's too much of an up hill battle to keep us together and it's depressing and I turn to drink which makes me broke and harder to pay my bill. I can't live like that.
Plus side though, I'm coming up to a year in NZ and have been thinking about how I am going to spend my last year here. I am seriously considering working a ski-season (probaly won't settle in Queenstown because I'll bump into Michelle and it'll be so hard for me)for a couple of months while I'm waiting for the call off Gaz to move back to Auckland and run the bar. I'm moving out of the apartment in a month
and looking into moving out to Waiheke Island and working there. My social life may take a huge hit but I'll save money and just chill the fuck out, which I have not done in a long time. I spent the day there today and have struck a deal with Bodhi that I'll go over every other week and bring with me atleast 4 or 5 peeps which will
get a discounted rate and I'll get it for free. It was exactly what I needed, just to chill and mellow out as the whole of this month has been stressed. I got back into the city and immediately was not chilled, i didn't like that at all.
In the next couple of weeks, me and a girl from Cali are going to head over to the island and look at jobs and accomodation. This year, I promise. Will be the best yet. I am not going to get myself into another situation similar to one with Michelle but if they are in completely the same mindset as me and there plans match mine exactly then I won't say no but until then I have one thing to say...
Naked Ste is back, and he is ruder, cruder and more naked than before. The guy my friends love is going to come out and play.
the other day my mind was made up for. I'm going to make it short as it's too painful to go in depth and put all my thoughts in here as I usually would. Basically, A lote happened very quickly for me and I made a rash decision which I later went back on and that decision was to break up with Michelle as I felt she wasnt putting any effort into our relationship and I can't be with someone like that. I begged her to take me back and after almost 4 weeks I gave her her ultimatum the other day over the phone. We ended up going round and round in circles and I realised if she didn't no by now if she wanted to be with me then her mind was made up. I ended up stopping being so nice and pussy footing around to make her take me back and showed my true feelings and told her that was it. It is possibily the hardest thing I have ever had to do and still believe that if we had been living in the same city this would never happen. I do not regret anything i did pre-break up and had a great time with her but it's too much of an up hill battle to keep us together and it's depressing and I turn to drink which makes me broke and harder to pay my bill. I can't live like that.
Plus side though, I'm coming up to a year in NZ and have been thinking about how I am going to spend my last year here. I am seriously considering working a ski-season (probaly won't settle in Queenstown because I'll bump into Michelle and it'll be so hard for me)for a couple of months while I'm waiting for the call off Gaz to move back to Auckland and run the bar. I'm moving out of the apartment in a month
and looking into moving out to Waiheke Island and working there. My social life may take a huge hit but I'll save money and just chill the fuck out, which I have not done in a long time. I spent the day there today and have struck a deal with Bodhi that I'll go over every other week and bring with me atleast 4 or 5 peeps which will
get a discounted rate and I'll get it for free. It was exactly what I needed, just to chill and mellow out as the whole of this month has been stressed. I got back into the city and immediately was not chilled, i didn't like that at all.
In the next couple of weeks, me and a girl from Cali are going to head over to the island and look at jobs and accomodation. This year, I promise. Will be the best yet. I am not going to get myself into another situation similar to one with Michelle but if they are in completely the same mindset as me and there plans match mine exactly then I won't say no but until then I have one thing to say...
Naked Ste is back, and he is ruder, cruder and more naked than before. The guy my friends love is going to come out and play.
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