I don't know if it's me trying to save money or me really wanting to succeed as the bar manager but it's a public holiday and I'm sat in the office doing work on the promo posters and other bar stuff. A bit sad but to be honest there isn't an awful lot else to do with no money and I'm pretty much just waiting for Helen to get here so I have an excuse to do the touristy shit during the day. We all know that my social life is at night not day anyway!
You'd think that finally now I have a better job that life would be that little bit more simpler? wrong. Up until last night I thought that apart from trying to sort out Helen's flights for her, trying to find an apartment, I had everything sorted. I get how to run the bar now (a few things will crop up here and there that will probaly confuse me at some point). Well, I came down the bar last night for a quiet beer but bumped into Hoey, Menz and Kate who were out on the piss celebrating Menz's last day. Hoey took me to one side and told me that the group that own Nomads are pulling out of the building. I think this means that I'm not working for Nomads anymore and the hostel will now just be 'The Fat Camel'. He assures me I have a job but its confusing times as my contract (which I have yet to sign) is with Nomads.
Business has never been my strong point but I'm just going to watch my back and knuckle down to some work, get revenue and show that I'm a key player in this game!
Apart from that I had a great night. Ben popped into the bar who is now living in Albany so we went out on the piss and fuck was in a great mood last night, wouldnt suprise me if Ben slipped me something haha We ended up trekking all the way upto K' road as they were the only bars that were open. We also ended up going into a gay bar with his mate until stupid o'clock this morning! was a great laugh trying to get his gay mate and get hit on myself in the process... aparantly I have amazing eyes and a good sense of style about myself. Actually, as I'm abit ego orientated. I'm going to leave this entry on that. amazing eyes haha
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Promotion
Now i really have been getting slack at this blog stuff. To be honest I've been mega busy and when not working I've been either sleeping or making the most of the short time I have left partying. I've decided to save money and in August I'm going round NZ again with Helen. I dunno how much time I'm going to get off as about 2/3 weeks ago Menz got back from his holiday with his letter of resignation and the bucks been passed onto me. As of the 25th of April, I will be the new bar manager of The Camel Bar, this in part depends on if I can get the time off work to go travelling before the world cup in September. This is a new challenge that I am relishing and could be me settling down in NZ for a little while longer. If I sign the contract then unfortunately or fortunately, I'll be more sensible and less of the naked ste we all no. Now for Naked Ste stories...
1. Mummy, this is where you skip past this section... you will not want to be reading this.
So I went out on yet another pub crawl and got so drunk that I took a girl back to the hostel with me who to put it kindly wasn't my type and had a good 15 years on me. She stole my wallet whilst I passed out.
2. After this... the very next week. I went out again on the pub crawl but this time it had Sian (troy's sister) on it. Gossip had been huge within the industry that I took her to Waiheke Island for a date, this is true and unfortunately for her she is troy's sister so everyone knows her and also unluckily for her it was with me, who again... everyone knows. So out on the crawl we hooked up and everyone saw or found out within 5 minutes. I ended up taking her back to the hostel but before push came to shove I realised how much of a dickhead move this was as I am blatently smitten over Helen so I called it off. Safe to say she wasn't happy and left swiftly after. Ooops.
3. These 2 people who I can undoubtly say out everyone I've met since being out here are up there with my favourites. Sally and Aaron work on a super yacht which has been docked in Auckland for 3 months. They drink in the camel when they head into town and invited me onto their boat for a party before they leave for Tahiti. The food was cooked by Sally who is an amazing chef. All the booze was free and so was the food. The yacht is called the yanneke too and is insured for $7mil. with a nice little van gogh painting which is worth $2mil. After dropping my sunglasses in the water it was time to hit the town. Me and Aaron jumped in a taxi and headed for the camel. unfortunately it was shut but I knew Mikey, Joe, Grogan, Natalie etc where at Lenin bar so I headed off that way. After tipping the hot bartender a ridiculous amount she was pouring me pretty much straight bourbon with a little coke. I was very nicely drunk which led me to lose my wallet again and to top it off I epically fell down a flight of stairs, busting my bad hip again and pretty much fucking up my ligaments around my knee. nice.
I reckon that's it in terms of stories and this'll probaly do for another month now.
1. Mummy, this is where you skip past this section... you will not want to be reading this.
So I went out on yet another pub crawl and got so drunk that I took a girl back to the hostel with me who to put it kindly wasn't my type and had a good 15 years on me. She stole my wallet whilst I passed out.
2. After this... the very next week. I went out again on the pub crawl but this time it had Sian (troy's sister) on it. Gossip had been huge within the industry that I took her to Waiheke Island for a date, this is true and unfortunately for her she is troy's sister so everyone knows her and also unluckily for her it was with me, who again... everyone knows. So out on the crawl we hooked up and everyone saw or found out within 5 minutes. I ended up taking her back to the hostel but before push came to shove I realised how much of a dickhead move this was as I am blatently smitten over Helen so I called it off. Safe to say she wasn't happy and left swiftly after. Ooops.
3. These 2 people who I can undoubtly say out everyone I've met since being out here are up there with my favourites. Sally and Aaron work on a super yacht which has been docked in Auckland for 3 months. They drink in the camel when they head into town and invited me onto their boat for a party before they leave for Tahiti. The food was cooked by Sally who is an amazing chef. All the booze was free and so was the food. The yacht is called the yanneke too and is insured for $7mil. with a nice little van gogh painting which is worth $2mil. After dropping my sunglasses in the water it was time to hit the town. Me and Aaron jumped in a taxi and headed for the camel. unfortunately it was shut but I knew Mikey, Joe, Grogan, Natalie etc where at Lenin bar so I headed off that way. After tipping the hot bartender a ridiculous amount she was pouring me pretty much straight bourbon with a little coke. I was very nicely drunk which led me to lose my wallet again and to top it off I epically fell down a flight of stairs, busting my bad hip again and pretty much fucking up my ligaments around my knee. nice.
I reckon that's it in terms of stories and this'll probaly do for another month now.
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