So again I've been real lax in writing my blog. I can't blame it on being too busy because my hours are beginning to get back to being around 40hrs and apart from seeing Portia on mondays and over the weekends I've still got thursday night to myself.
Right, now I've got to remember what I've been doing over the last month (checking facebook status's etc)
16th May.. me and portia became facebook official... really gay I've mentioned that but atleast I can refer back to it to make me look like a good boyfriend haha
I made some changes to the bar this month like bringing a jagermeister pool cloth (1 of only a few bars in nz with this pool cloth!) and a beer pong table for wednesday nights (which has gone down a fucking treat!)
19th May: NZ did the SuperHaka. This was a charity fundraiser to help the victims of the recent Christchurch earthquakes. The city has been harshly treated by mother nature in the past few months with 3,100 earthquakes... 125 over magnitude 4 and 14 over magnitude 5. They live constantly in fear of more to the effect of the February 22nd quake which devasted the city to rubble. The idea of the superhaka was to get people all over nz doing the same haka dedicated the people of chch and raise money. Nomads took a team down to Aotea square in Auckland to do it. It was freezing cold but we did our best! http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150628650755057&comments
May 20th. One of the highlights of the past month... Shake The Lake in Rotorua.
After the succcess of the past 2 boat parties in Auckland, Rotorua held one sponsored by Kaitiaki Rafting. Dribbles before his departure to Thailand organised a bus for everyone in Auckland to drive down friday. In true dribbles fashion he didn't organise it well as we had half a passenger list meaning we had to make a detour through south auckland before we found out, meaning we were just in time for the party. Get V.I.P (which infact was a v.i.p area at the back of the boat for just industry people with a free bar and feed. Saturday morning do a raft with kaitiaki. The party was awesome and State of Mind (one of NZ's premier drum and bass bands) was headlining. I'm not completely into my DnB but it was pretty good. Afterwards we had the V.I.P after party at Shaken Joe's but after a couple of beers we all headed to Lava Bar across from Base where we were staying. The bar manager bernie remembered me from Aucks (apartly I got him fucked up) and he made it my mission to mess me up. I rode his shots well taking them in my stride but I don;t remember leaving and woke up in a different room to one I checked into!
Sunday morning we were supposed to be doing a kaitiaki raft but this wasn't organised so we went for a walk down to the lake for a feed while we waited to find out. We ended up doing an OGO zorb which was fucking cool!
On the way back to Aucks, me and Ganna started drinking on the bus which got Digger our driver in the mood. Once we got back into Aucks, me and him hit up globe before heading to the drivers flat in Nomads and getting on the piss hard! last thing I remember was doing champagne bombs and chatting shit to strangers!
27TH May I headed down to Hamilton with Portia for her friends 21st birthday at the old boys club across the road from the rugby ground. It was good to meet all her friends and my beers were all free so winner winner haha. We headed into town afterwards but silly me forgot his I.D so we could only go to House where she used to work and this really nice cocktail bar next to it. It had a very mediteranian feel to it and the cocktails were top notch like.
On the sunday we decided to head out of the CBD as we tend to just end up going to mission bay or staying in all weekend usually. We drove to one tree hill. The history behind this is that a pahutakawa tree stood at the summit of the 182m volcanic peak. European settlers cut down the tree and since has been replaced with a pine tree. Maori activists twice cut down the tree to draw attention to the government. since then a monument has been put in it's place. The park surrounding it was beautiful so we took a walk round there and then drove upto the summit overlooking Auckland across Manukau harbour and just seeing Waitamata harbour.
since then most of my time has been spent in work and at weekends spending time with Portia and trying to go out and do stuff.
Friday just gone was my first big test as bar manager. I had my first party to plan, promo and host. It was a 70's party for the Interns. Not a full on industry party and only a week after Mingle at Globe but we promoed the event well and drew in a good crowd from 8pm til around 2am. Making more money in one night than we did for the whole of the week just gone.
Saturday we all went out to Avondale to watch Jason play ice hockey for his team. It was real cool to see the game played live from up in the bar and afterwards we went round to Marcs house in Eden Terrace for his house warming. Me and portia were still feeling it from the night before so we left early.
Monday night I spent the night at home instead of my usual visit down to Waiuku to spend the night with her. It was Ed Browns leaving meal (it pains me to write this to be honest) Him and Jenna are leaving for OZ for 7 weeks but he doesn't know if he'll be back and none of us expect him too even though we would love him to come back. We had a 2-4-1 meals at bluestone corner room and towers of beers on a tab. The food was excellent and it was a good turn out aswell. Ed will be sorely missed by everyone including myself. I've learnt from my time here that you create strong relationships quickly with certain people but you also learn to let them go quickly aswell. But. There are always a few people who you will always be fond of (certain people that spring to mind for me that have already left are.. Sharon, Tuema, John Tu'inufukuafe, Jack, Gerry and now Ed) Ever since working at Fusion, me and him have been close friends. We've shared many a good party exchanging jagerbombs and some great laughs aswell. I don't know how the bar crawl will do without his dedication and love for it.
On a brighter note though, I had a visitor come in and see me at the bar today.. Bethyn. She's back from ChCh for a little bit as there still hasnt been enough snow fall to open the ski slopes there!
Me and Portia are going well, we have our odd arguements and disagreements like any couple does but we know to talk about things now rather than letting them boil up.
It's her birthday this weekend so we're going out on Thursday in Auckland and then heading down to Rotorua where I have a suprise for her (I didn't want to say where we were going but she's driving so I have to!)
