I miss everybody

Sooo pretty much all my friends have left town now, on tues i sent Viv off on her way then had lunch in the park and said bye to Amanda and Lisa, and said bye to them, that night i went to bed at 9.15pm cause i couldn’t think of anything after being kicked off the computer at uni and strolling aimlessly round town for 2 hours which don’t get me wrong i love. but then Marvin came home and we watched movies and ate sushi.
next day i slept in till i was working, i love that i can tell Roy i think he is an uptight prick at work and after were mates again!! and we go for a drink then cook pizza at 2 am cause we feel like dinner.
anyway gotta got to work again, catch up more soon ok mum!!

some days ill sleep in till 3 then eat work, i don’t mind, i m enjoying it!

On friday i got up at 6am to meet up with uncle tony for brekky, my best meal of the week!! plus great conversation and company, good laugh that ol man!! then i got the tram to jennys and jumped back into bed with her for a few hours then we went to savers to trade in some clothes cause when you do that you get a discount! then into work for a 12 hour shift with one hour break! and i dont even really mind, i kinda got sore and smelly feet but the people i work with are great and just as the novelty of working at this cool place is wearing off, now i have to make the most of it beacuse ive only got like 3 more shifts!! i rekon i can now confidently say i can pick up any waiting job within a day!! i dunno if thats something to be proud of! work is also great cuse i have two big crushes on guys from work, Mike the head Chief and Ben the day bar boy from upstairs! yummy!

friday night after work me and roy went for an Argentinian beer at this south American place marvled over gross old people hooking up , discussed and argued like we usally do then we went to hungry jacks and he bought me dinner, cause he owed me money!! still now i can say i was taken out buy a guy and he brought me dinner in melbourne, but everyone will know the sad truth!!

so this is kinda strange, like every night round 2 am i hear Celene Dions titanic song playing justfaintly, i really cant tell if im going a bit nutty or one of my neighbours is just a really big fan!!

at the moment song wise im totally obsessed with ‘closer’ by kings of leon, the best song on the album
and also ‘im yours’ by Jason Mraz, great summer song, i dont care if its cheesy!!!

Vivienne and me

Vivienne has been and gone, we did a helluvalot of stuff!!!
I made damm sure that that girl saw as much of this lovley city as possible, i cant really say i turned on the weather for her, in fact god kinda turned on the tap. and it hardly stoped raining in the whole week, but still we had a brill time!
Tuesday

We walked through vic market, it was funny i bumped into ben and viv thaught i was just yelling out peoples names randomly so it looked like i knwe people, we just wandered really, went to the uber cool metroplis books where you can easly spend a day browsing then through some grungy alleys with all if not more appeal than gallerys, we sat in section 8 the container bar and drunk cofee while i was caught up in all the goss from home!

more soon…

Uni, Mountians, Wigs, Whacked, China, Bananas

haven’t caught up for ages so here goes the last two weeks!!

this was monday morning at uni, it was crazy, i dont know how you are supposed to get your work noticed when it is crushed into a space less than a meter squares, sorrounded by lie 200 other students. well i do believe that my portfolio was stand out if nothing else and im hapy its over for the year.

so i finished uni and i had this weird felling of what should i do, i still dont really feel comfortable enough with anyone in my calss to go to the bar with them at 10am!! and all my international friends haden finished yet, soo i went to the movies by myself which is a lovley thing to do!! then at like 5 when lillian had had her hand in we met up at Workshop, our favourite bar by far and we had some drinks, i txt all the gang to see if any of them wanted to come for a drink, within 2 mins Mo and Roy were there, nice going guys!! then steyn and Maud came along too, it was lovley its always a very satisfying feeling to be done for the whoe year!! the most awesome thing that happened this night though was that we decided we felt like going on a trip,

soooo the next moining we jumped in the car Roy drove us, mo sat in the front and like the small children we are Maud and Styen and i squished into the backseat!! we drove fot 5 hours to the Grampians national park and when we got there we Climbed a mountian, its called Mount Abrupt, (cause its Abrupt) its got a great clif face down one side, and a fucken awesome view, i really love rocks, and i also love climing out onto cliff edges and dangling my legs!!

that night we camped, it was soooo sweet, it was a lovley qiet campground and we could make an awesome camp fire, and its a fun group to go out with and stuff, well Roy does always give me shit and mock me, but i give it back, he is like my arsehole Brother i never had!! lol

soooo next day we swa some pretty sweet waterfalls then got back on the road again, Road trip song for this trip would have to be New Slang-The Shins, ill always rember huddling under the blanket in the back with maud and steyn cause Roy refused to close his window!!!!

The reason we had to get back early is beacuse Maud and Lilian and i had an engagement, AKA my Uni end of year party Theme INCOGNITO. The funnest part of the evening for sure was dressing up with red lips and Black wigs and taking photos of ourselves, we looked soooo different! For some reason i was a bit off the whole party, Maud and lil could tell. I dont really know why. the booze was free and the costumes were funny. But I felt i was still an outsider after 6 months i still didnt feel that close with anyone. all i could really do is look foward to how cool our Unitec grad party will be!!

this day i took Styen shopping for a suit for the races…. mmmmmm men in suits!

This week i worked alot, you see the boss at work fired the manager cause she was crazy, all in all it is better for everyone but it leaves us with like 4 staff alltogether to cover floor and Bar sooo ive been a busy girl, should be ritch soon!!

On Sunday though we went surfing! and although i had done the exact trip before and i had to work till 2am the morning before i was up at 7am to catch the train to Gelong, the reason being Topi asked, and i cant say no!! Having said that it was great fun, Jenny and Topi and Marko and i had some retail at the surf shop outlets, i know, very un me! then we surfed and surfed and i was still shitty at it but having fun! jenny Ran me over and whaked me in the head with her board hard, so i was mildly concussed for the day, that made it all great fun!

on tuesday we got up bright and early and styen and i dressed in our Melbourne cup Finery. we met Lilian and Laura at melbourne central and got on the crammed full train to flemmington. when there we proceded to sit on a park bench on the train platform and observe the outfits and drink goon from drinkbottles, this is not easy considering it was 10am, so we sat there for about an hour and a half untill the police came and shuffled us along, we entered the races, did some betting then met up wit all the rest of the gang they had a good spot near the finish line and we had brought a picknick blanket and umbrella so set up, the day consisted of more drinking eating and lying in the sun, chatting to new friends, and the occasional yelling at horses that ran in circles. it was brill!!
that evening we woluld have done something but were feeling kinda hungover so we watched movies and fell asleep on the couch!

more work work work
on fri after work i felt like going home but roy convinced me into one drink, so we headed to croft and met with some other exchangees, mo and the danes, after a while it closed and soo Roy and Mo and i went along to a flash coctail bar called 1806, we just chilled out. really there was one moment when i thaught out loud what am i doing with a 29yr old German and a 27yr old auzzie in some bar at 4am, but the funniest thing really is that i feel totally comfortable with both of them!! Then we went to China bar open 24 hours we had some chineese food and when we walked out it was light! the sun was coming up,i really wasnt drunk we had been doing more talking than drinking, but that walk home was one of my favourite melbourne experiences yet, everything was fresh but it was warm and it was a new day and it just felt good! i do like dawn. (bad name though!!) the victoria market was open soo we walked through, i bought an avacado, roy was hastling me to bargin with them so when i bought some bananas for $2 he was like come on $1.90!, the lady just laughed, then we went home to bed.

Saturday we held an engagement party for a greek couple at work, it was awesome with live music and everything and as the night went on and the crowd got drunker, adam the groom said, have some drinks put it on my tab which was an 8 grand bar tab, so we did, my golly that was the drunkest i have ever been at work, but none of the staff noticed cause they were all worse!! it was funny, ill rember this night by drunkenly polishing cutlery to sex on fire by kings of leon, love that song, and spilling the cutlery water on julians crutch, whoops!!

sunday Laura and i went for a lovley walk by the yarra river, and visited the shrine of rememberence, very fitting since anzac day was the next day. it was really awesome at sunset, we went to crown casino and had mocktails, I hate casinos.

on Monday the Great Ocean Road Tour begun, it was my first experience being a real tourist!

doo do do de do

Last night working, and lilian and Marvin came and hung out at the bar the whole night. i was a busy girl though i was like running the whole restaurant by myself cause there was no other wait staff on!! i was rockin and we got nice tips,  by the time me and roy were done, Marvin and lilian were well pissy!! we went for a night cap at Prudence the rad bar on the corner by home and then went home, i had my first sleepover in like forever cause lilian stayed over, before that though marvin managed to pick me up flip me over and knock my head into the brick wall, i have a lump,

This morning we had our first ever flat outing, well there was no food in the house either that or we were all to scared to open the fridge cause it stinks to all hell!! sooo we went out for brekfast. nice

My Flatties and my flat

ive just been putting together my portfolio, heres some pics i took the other day of my vodka bottle and package design.

Kron vodka, would you drink it???

One life is never enough.

Ive been working hard and playing hard, the last two weekends have been contrasting in theme.

The weekend before last was a major booze hag/ party animal weekend.

and last weekend was a major, back to nature sublime beacehs and painfull hiking.

both in there own way were great. i will ellaborate

In the weeks ive basically been working hard for uni. as i only have 6 days left till everything is due, i was told that i dont have to do a portfoilo because i am an exchange student, but i told them back that that is a load of crap i am going to do one, i wast something to show fro myself in theese 6 months! this is a illustration i made for a postcard, it was nice doing design for fun illustrative purposes rather than “for the man”

sooooo Party weekend. this is epic because i am a nana! take that into consideration

On thurs i worked at the money order till 1am then hung around with Roy doing cash up and drinking pimms and lemonade till like 3 then went to bed, had work LAST DAY at don camillos 7am start, sooo not much sleep was to be had! as soon as i got home from work, Lauri and Jukka who were throwing a big party in st Kilda were at our house, see they needed our beastly sterio! so we all piled into the car with the sounds pumpibg yea you know the speakers were hooked up in the car, and we went on a beer mission, lots and lots of beer!

Lauri, Jukka, Lots of beer

the party was pretty sweet, thet had people dj ing on the computer and whippin out some rocking tunes so we dances and we drank, it was a little too cold to swim, but we felt the water, the beachfront apartment was sooo full it was like a club. Lauri had a sweet new Fish eye lens!!

Three fishes

lol, when it got to like 3 someone started playing some slow old school tunes, possibly to get rid of the people but everyone rolled with it and started slow dancing and trance dancing, at first some of us tried to halt the downwars pace with some head banging but eventually reverted to the slow dancing! we got home at 5.30am, i was proud. cause Marvin always mocks me and my friends about finishing and going to bed at 10!

the next day i had work, but only at 4, sweet as, it was a busy night at the Money Order Office, all the more reason for the staff to get Crunk after work!! lol soo when we finished at 2am we had all ready been drinking the few hours prior, we headed to the Carlton club and FUCK. i am never gonna try and keep up with the hospo crowd ever again! there alcoholic’s!!! woah!! it was really fun though i wiord with a great crowd, he he, that night i really felt part of the cool Melbourne scene, the people i work with know all the bouncers and bartenders and cool people, and we never wait in line and we gety drinks cheap, and i get introduced to all these lanky indie cool boys who are nice to look at. at ilke 5 me and roy decided to walk home i think this was a good idea as i was very keen on taking advantage of the sexy drunk head chef from work. we stopped outside lounge bar caus roy was like lets have a dance, the bouncer was like na were closed, i saw his ponamu and i was like ‘aye you a kiwi,’ he was like “na kiwi lover!” lol and he let us in after 5 mins of trance dancing i was ready for bed, so i walked home, i got to bed at 6. real good effort! he he Roy fell off his bike on the way home.

sunday was the hottest day yet. I stayed in bed all day!

OK The Hiking weekend

Lillian, Ben, Maud and i went to Wilsons Prom, its about a national park about a 3 hour drive from Melbourne. We got there at about 5 on Thursday and set up our tents went for a walkie on the beach, made dinner on the bbq, steak, snags, and 6 onions. yum then it was dark so we went to bed. me and maud shared a tent, when she was out brushing her teeth i heard a rusteling, maud? maud? is that you . no answer, lilian? ben? are you trying to play a joke on me, but no it was my good friend, WOMBAT, and he found the door of the tent and he walked on in, FUCK OFF WOMBAT. i said and i banged the ground and screamed maud ive got no torch!! it didnt maul me, im alright, but i was a bit freaked out! after a great sleep on thin camping mattress we started our hike, 16km on the first day, woah, let me tell you after 1 k with that pack on my back i was ready to jump off the side of the cliff because i thought it would be a less painful way to get out of there, ahhh the luxury of being airlifted to a hospital, the idea so romanticized in my mind!!

after 10k we made it out to sealers cove, it was beautiful, we stopped for scroggon then tramped on to our destination, Refugee cove. We sat with our packs on the beach in the sun and it felt like we had just washed up we were the only ones around for miles. we went for a swim, made camp, made padta and pasta sauce for tea and watched the stars. the next morning lilian and ben got up at like 7 to cary on there 27km hike that day then 19km the next, There crazy! maud and i slept in untill 10 then hung aroung waiting for the sun to come out,we walked along the beach and along the rocks, the guy in the yacht in the bay offered us a lift to Hobart but we had to turn him down. soon the sun came out and we lay on the beach in our bikinis soaking it up. (with thick layers of sunblock of course.) after like 20 mins a gtoup of 7 eligible batchelors hiked past it seemed humourous that there was no one roulnd for miles that they would stumble upon us, they thaught that the yacht was ours!! wehee! unfortunatlkly after a small chat the sexy hikers had to press on there way so we lay back and bathed in the peacefull serenity untill two jet skis came round the corner then ther ws 4 then 7 then 15 jet skis all parking at our own private beach. we didnt give a shit about our serenity cause they offered us a ride!!! yehaa!!!

Look at me ride

IT was great i have never been on a jet ski before, first we went with these two really old guys and they went really slow, then when we got in some other guys wanted to show us how it was really done so maud got on with some lovely old man with a grey ponytal, wild ones you can never trust, well the totally had a comnnection, he trusted her enough to let her drive!! woah!! i got on with a huge fat guy and i had to hold him for dear life to stop from flying of the thing, it was great fun, we got air, and did doughnuts and went really really fast!!

then we had to pack up camp and walk back the 6k to sealers cove, nothing was as fun after the thrill of jetsking! that night there were like 23 other tents at the Campsite and heaps of kids even though it was still like a 10k walk from anywhere!! crazy kids! next day up at 6.30 to do the last 10k back before it got too hot, not that it ended up getting hot that day. It was comforting that maud and i were both as pained as eachother when it came to hiking, we would complain and bitch but keep each other going. When we got to the end i was triumphant i had hiked 31Km and i had learned something valuable, I hate hiking, nex time i am going to visit the serene beaches by yacht!  we hobled like raped Grandmas to the cafe and waited for the others to finish ther hike. Im Glad i did it! more photos later, of scenery and flora and fauna and such, the others took better pics than me!!

A week in the life…

its catch up time, well i wont bother catching up on everything but heres a few things ive been upto. Events that i have made my presence known include

- The royal Melbourne Show. Jenny, Matthias Lillian and I got to pet small animals like lambies and goaties, free food tasting, watched a sheep get shawn and went on awesome rides that flipped my insides out then in again. It was like a giant A&P show. it smelt like poo in some places, but i had fun

- Went to the movies with the dutchys. you would not believe the amount of times i an the only one who dosn’t speak dutch. sometimes they just speak dutch to me! oh well at least its a lovley language. we had dinner then Jorien and Maud and I went to the arty cinema Nova, and watched a film set in Beruit.

-Wednesday Exhibition. Nior, a local kinda painter sculpture street artist. http://blog.niceproduce.com/?p=1851 he does weird creatures with long noses! anyway Amanda and Lisa and i really enjoyed the free wine, yum, then we had dumplings for dinner in Chinatown. we were kinda tipsy cause were all tired from such a long week, i flicked the table behind us with a flying chopstick whoops!! they were really tasty!

Lisa and I, chopstick fight! hayyyyy ya

- I dont really know where i was up to but on frday i worked, then me and Styen watched the last episoses of the second season of prison break. it was the end of an era now we have completed season one and two, we have not yet found a way to source the 3rd season. So in true Hazel-and-Styen-watching-prison-break fashion we lay in bed and are ice cream from the tub and watched as they triumphantly escaped!

Ahhh tradition...

- well Friday night it was raining so i felt like staying home. Styen was bloody going camping in the Grampians so i couldn’t exactcally use the rain as an excuse not to go out to a bar, Plus it was $2 wine night at La La land! so i met up with Maud and Lillian there and we had our FAIR SHARE of $2wine, happy hour finished at 8 so by then we were well stocked up and on the way to being crunk! later we went on in to town, to workshop our fave place, met up with Ben and Topi. It was Fun, Lillian was drunken! lol. i got home at like 1 pertty early, considering Chris and Marvin only got home at 6.30 am! the woke me, up and we hanged out for a while, they brought flowers from the market, for the flat! calendulars, I love calendulas, i ate some and they thought i was weird!

-on sat marvin and i went for an adventure to Coburg to get his hair cut, i went for a walk, it reminden me of the suburbs of auckland, there was nothing to see and no people. so i walked back.

- That night i got a new job. I had a trial at the Money Order Office aka MOO. Roy works there as a bartender and he hooked me up! its a really flash wine bar restaurant, the wine menu is 30 pages long, no jokes!! anyway it is a big step up from the last job, and the wages are better and there are hot guys that work there, what more could a girl ask for! Trial went really well, after like 3 hours, word around town was that i was the “shizzle” sooooo all good!

- sunday i went to the dream festival, we chilled on the grass and watched cool bands, boogied a bit and chatted and ate ice blocks, i had 4 layers of sunblock on but had to retire to the shade at times, it was a scorcher!

Maud entranced by the band..

Ben and Lillian and Jenny in the hot hot sun

Surfing at Torquay

I had two Iceblocks, It was a lovley day now i have a red face and aching arms so i cant write too much!

Yup, thats me, do i look convincing?

Hot chick i saw on the beach

Jop practising his moves and Lisa and Amanda transforming into seals

Some random bald guy i was hanging out with.

on sunday my half brother Tom took me out for brunch. we met up in town and he gave me a nice tight hug like sarah does. we drove to St Kilda and went to Greasy Joe’s fro brekky, its not as bad as it sounds! it was a beautiful day and we sat outside and ate eggs Benedict and chatted. i was very happy to have someone that understands my excitement for new Kings of Leon album next month! yay. then we walked through the market and along the beach. twas the first time the sand touched my toes and it was glorious! And by that time it was beer o’clock so we went to the espy and sat in the sun some more. It was really cool. only like the 4th time i’ve ever hung out with Tom and never by myself.  but it was cool, he has heaps of epic storys and we had a good laugh.

Boys Night.

Last night Marvin still had his hire car from his romantic weekend so we went on a trip, it was silly really cause we just ended up going to a place that you can get too by tram anyway!! but it was fun, marvin and Chris and Mo picked me up from the printer, and it took us like an hour and a half to get to st kilda enen though its like 30 mins on the tram we couldnt figure out all the no turns and hook turns and toll ways shizer! so we blasted some ‘ice ice baby, and some ‘mc hammer’ and crused, i just like being in a car cause i havnt for sooo long! when we got to st kilda we went to safeway and got some booze, then went and sat on the jetty and just hung out and chatted and drunk and ate chippies and pissed off the side. I made a message in a bottle and i threw it as far as i could in hope it would get to NZ!!  when we were done with the jetty we went back to the car and hung in the carpark for a while i felt like one of the hood rats cept marvin had this wak music that was an old film oundtrack blasting, and that really threw people off, we nearly got a parking ticket but we moved just in time…. we went to a nice bar where a band (5 piece with trumpets and all) was playing and the boys continued to ply me with alchol!! ohh we had some tapas too, i felt very flash! after a while we headed home. i was i bit tipsy! woke up feling pretty average, but made the best of the day, more betterness to be making right now so, catch up on the rest later, yay Josh Pyke tonight.

My vision

Pretty Shoes

I believe when i last left off i was looking forward to going home to watch prison break, well i was on my way home when Laura rang to inform me that actually the party tonight was at my house, ya know how it is, last to know. It was kinda lame cause it was all Germans pretty much and there not my favorite gang. but it was alright i had the most hilarious time dancing with mo and Laura. i got a text from mummy, telling me she sent me piccis of Jess’ B’day. so i checked my email straight away. Styen was like man you weren’t lying when you said you had hot friends!!  They had me sad sad that i wasn’t there it looked awesome. Anyway Chris had told out guests that they had to leave at 12. soo we didnt get evicted from our house, sooo at 12.30 me and styen, finally watched prison break.

That Day was fun too, it was the most beautiful weather, i missed the morning cause i was working but realistically i wouldn’t have got up till 12 if i wasn’t working anyway!!  When i got back Marvin was gonna get a haircut so me and Roy decided we would tag along and go and hang out on Sydney rd, in Brunswick, check out the op shops and stuff. Roy and i sat in a courtyard of a lovley cafe in the sun and i had pink grapefruit juice it was really yum! then we checked out some opshops, We met up with marvin again at the fruit shop, i ate a whole mango, it was heaven, it dripped all down my face! then we went to salvos with marvin and i was his fashion adviser, it was much fun i have always wanted a boy i can dress up!! Purple shirt, grey pants, and a blue waistcoat. I got some pretty shoes, I know, me? pretty????