R.I.P Brother

There hasnt been an awful lot to report on here to be honest. The bar's still open and will be for another few weeks so I'm still getting free accomodation till then. I've moved up onto the bar now so it should be alot easier for me to get a job behind the bar somewhere else if one comes up. Tuesdays are still Cassette but now I'm in charge of the bar tab which followed into a certain someone leaving early so I wouldnt break my neck falling off stages or down stairs when I get back to the hostel... yes, that did happen. Wednesdays I've been missing so that I can make it to the gym one night. Thursdays are still the bar crawl where I only catch the last bar although I got this Thursday off so that I could do the bar crawl meaning I had to work Wednesday. I'm actually quite thankful for this to be honest for 3 reasons... The first is that Wednesday was pretty good. Work wasnt boring as there was a group of people who were pretty cool and would stop and chat at the bar whenever they bought a drink. We closed about midnight and it looked like they might want to stay drinking so I said if they waited for me to close up, I would go with them to Cassette. The music was better than usual (some beatles, oasis, cure and some old school songs thrown in) but I wasn't interested in the music. I had had my eye on one girl called Roisin and was out sharking. One by one the group left until it was only me and her left... I'll let you fill in the rest. Shes back on the
31st aswell :p
The 2nd is that I could go on my first Frenzi bar crawl. I'm always working when it's on and can see how much fun it is but can never do the whole thing. I'm not going to lie to you. I dont remember much at all except it was fun and I woke up with random messages off random numbers which made no sense at all!
The 3rd Reason was that It was the anniversary of Dave's passing so I knew I was going to be pretty depressed all day but because of Wednesday night I wasnt in such a bad mood, infact it was hard for me to be in a bad mood which I guess was a good thing. I had my usual 1 Guinness in memory of him. Marc and Raks came with me to O'Carrolls across the road from Cassette for it which was nice.
As I was saying before, going out here is becoming to be the same old same old but with a few different people each time. Its becoming stale. So me and the boys have come up with a genius idea... we're going to fly down to Wellington for a weekend! At the moment the head count is 9 but I have a feeling it may become so much more than that!

Winter is cold!

Its 3pm here and im off to watch the All Blacks vs South Africa in the Tri-Nations in a couple of hours. This is one of the biggest games in the sporting calendar and should be quite a game!
This past weeks been pretty much the same as every other week, just been working and going out during the week. Works pretty fun and I'll be sad to leave Fusion whenever I do. The teams starting to split up now as we all know the bars going to have a refurb in a few weeks so we are all looking for new jobs. Scottys going back to Scotland, Abbys applying for managers jobs somewhere else and preparing for her part in fashion week and unfortunately Sharon's going back to Holland :(
I had the interview at Global Sport but I turned the job down deciding it wasnt for me as it was comission based.
Daniela got back from Fiji and yesterday had a chat about what was going on between and decided it was best just cut it off (yeah i may have forgot to put in here that we had been seeing eachother).
The bar has mainly been the main gossip recently... we had our dj decks taken off us and closed down early last saturday as the music was aparantly too loud and then on thursday the council came in to have a meeting with red our manager and told him to sort it out pronto otherwise the bars getting closed for good!
So yeah thats about it really, im gonna go get ready now for the big game and know I will remember this one as im not allowed to drink before work!

Hamiltron

Another week gone by in Auckland, its all getting very the same now. The weathers taken a turn now we're in Winter. The weekend was pretty full on though. Saturday was the All Blacks Vs Wales in Hamilton "City of the future" (it really ain't that much to shout about) then Sunday was England vs Germany. Saturday we had to meet down the Fat Camel Bar around 12 for some lunch (hotdogs) before leaving around half 3 for the game. I started drinking about 12 with Andy Tuema, Pip, Simon, Dribbles and Catrinn from Stray. Me and andy decided to get some Jim Bean and Coke for the journey (get us nice and pissed so we didn't have to drink at the game) Unfortunately my camera died on me on the way to the game and my memory died on me after the haka which wasnt as impressive as I was hoping. We all fell alseep on the bus on the way back, getting into Auckland about 12 and carrying on with the drinking until the wee hours of the morning.
Sunday I woke with a banging hangover but knew I had all day to recover before the match. The plan was to go down to Frienz about 7 to start pre-drinking in Marc, Jason and now Rak's room (he got a job doing promo for frienz which is less hours).
A whole bottle of big foot and the rest of the jim bean later we walked down to the harbour in the direction of Fox's. It was absolutely rammed in there and we got in just in time aswell after queueing for an hour. I would say the crowd was 60/40 German but being brittish, me and the boys made ourselves heard and maybe a little too much to several hand selected germans in the crowd. The place went mental when we scored our 2nd goal (that's right.... we DID score that 2nd goal). a couple of hours later we all left pretty down in the dumps heading back to bed.
Last night again was Cassette night. The french girls I had met last week were down there and unfortunately reminded me I lost 3-0 in jagerbomb downing contests (im sorry lads but i was smashed and never going to win). It's all good though, I fought my way back to 3-2. Also they reminded me that I lost a bet to them last week and as part of the deal meant I had to try and kiss the pretty looking girl that works behind the bar.... resulting in me getting refused service which is why she might have been looking at me funny last night. ooops haha.
Well tomorrow's a big day, I have an interview and several people to call regarding fitness jobs in Auckland.

Ill... Again!

So yeah, remember that illness i came down with in Queenstown... Boom, its struck again with ridiculous timing! I have one of the biggest piss ups I will have out here ahead of me on Saturday (nz vs wales) and im fecking ill. Its been a quiet couple of weeks, the weathers been up and down overall although it was gorgeous one day so me, chris, emma and jess decided to hop over to Waiheke for the day and stay the night. We got a little cruise around the Island with a guy called Max as our driver who by the way was absolutely barmy! We went to the nudist to start off with and for once i wasnt the first to suggest getting naked... chris was... shortly followed by myself then the girls! after that we got back in the minibus and to a few winerys, lunch on onetangi beach then watched the sunset go down before heading to Ivan's bioshelter to call in the night. Apart from that it's been the usual Cassette Tuesday's and work at the weekend

The World Cup

Its Sunday night here and I'm just chilling in the room with Chris Jess and Eddie waiting to get into the library to watch a movie. A quite uneventful week to be honest, the bar's been dead so we've closed early each night. Was supposed to play rugby saturday for Auckland Lions but the game was so tight they couldn't risk putting someone on they havn't seen play before which is fair enough like, we won which was good though. I was fucked anyway as I only had 5 hours sleep because I went to watch the Mexico game with Daniela, Jaimy and Juan down at Fox's in the harbour. It was such a good atmosphere as it seemed half of Mexico City was in there! I didn't manage to get any sleep during the day before work so all in all after the footy I had been awake 25 hours with only 5 hours sleep from the night before. Some call it a perfect opportunity to get pissed really easily... I am one of them people! We watched the game down at the Fat Camel and it was a good crowd there, all the boys and girls were there and some people from Frienz. Eddie got into a little skuffle with a yank outside after the beer had flowed. He wasn't in the wrong though, the yank threw a metal ash tray at us! It was quite wierd being hammered at half 10 in the morning so I went to bed and slept throughout the whole day, until 7pm!

Fort 208

Not alot to report this week to be honest. Working as usual glass collecting at Fusion and might have got myself a job doing promo for Stray Travel aswell but we'll see what comes of that.
Got in trouble with Nomad's management again nearly. Got really really bored on Sunday and built myself a kick ass fort in the room which we got told to take down a few days later by the hostel (despite them being very impressed at our handy work!)
There's been more episodes of hostel drama (sometimes i swear it would be a better watch than any other soap!). Jack couldn't afford to stay in the hostel anymore so i let him into a secret that he could just squat here by leaving his gear in my room and sleeping in the tv lounge then moving into the library early in the morning for some more kip. Well Sharon saw him one night and said he could sleep in her bed and nothing would happen, well something did happen but not of that variety. They awoke to the girls gossiping and bitching in the room which aparantly is a regular occurance, only this time they didn't realise one of the people they were bitching about were in the room, Jack. He heard everything and lay there for 2 hours listening to it before getting out of the bed (its covered by a sheet so no one can see in the bunk) and saying something. This has caused a fair few awkward days and moments. I like to think of myself as a loyal person and I've tried to be so I stuck by Jack's side and stood my ground by not speaking to or being around the girls meaning not seeing the boys which was hard but had to be done. Only the night after he left did I get an apology of Sinead but not the other 2 which quite frankly is a piss take. Theres been a fair bit of bed roulette in the room (not on my part though, ive stayed in my bed!) which has been funny. Richard also left which was disappointing and is the start of 'the group' falling apart as the girls are leaving on Sunday and taking Sam and Lewis with them.
I finally got out into the suburbs of Auckland during the day with Chris, Emma and Jess from the room. We went to Newmarket to do some shopping and run through the fountain... okay maybe only Me and Chris wanted to do that but we got the girls involved anyway despite their awful attempt fighting us off haha.
Hopefully if the weathers nice I might get to go over to Waiheke again this weekend!

Japanese Karaoke Bar!

The accomodation situation has sorted itself out now. Most of the guys are up at Frienz while me, adam, kirsten, daisy, madeline, raks and sharon have stuck around at nomads as we all have work here and quite like comfy beds!
A new group is starting to emmerge now a little bit as more long termers have moved into the hostel. There a good bunch and ive been joined by 2 more scousers! get in!
Not too much to report on really except a couple of mad nights out. 2 of them involving a japanese karaoke bar. After quite a dilute night at Code on Sunday a few of us decided we would try and do some karaoke at QF Tavern but it was dead so somehow stumbled into the karaoke bar. Its actually pretty good, you get your own private room and the guy lets us smuggle alcohol inside... so i went on monday with a group of brittish guys and girls who were leaving the next day! This week I was greeted with 2 suprises... the first was that danny and james were back in town and the 2nd was that Jack got back yesterday. So as per usual, we made a night of it. We went out with a few girls from Jacks room that i met at Cassette on tuesday. It was quite a mild night considering it was student night but was cool 'cos Anna was out with her mates aswell. 2 plus notes though, kiwi dave got a job and as did Adam but with coca cola and he gets a company car so lots of little road trips to the middle of nowhere!