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

Healthy dinner and kiwi entertainment I provided!

Yop and Amanda and Maud and Styen and Lisa and Elizabeth and Jorien and Serafin, for dinner, then i convinced them all to come along and see an awesome NZ singer so we all went along to a bar to see Hollie Smith!, it felt like i was home for a few hours!

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.

Poland|India|Hong Kong|Portugal|Germany|Finland

Soo it all came together in the end for uni on thurs i handed in my work, and i was happy with it. i wasnt exstatic, my work is still not really cool enough to get noticed or anything here. theres some pretty stiff compitition. We got our new brief it is to design labels and packaging for a polish vodka, should be ok and also an intresting topic to research!

On thurs afternoon Lisa, Ara, Sarah, Wilson and I went on an Adventure! only my second time out of zone one! we decided to go to savers to celebrate hand in. for some reason we decided to go to the one that was the firthest away from town, so we went on an epic train journey about an hour to get to Frankston, which anyone  will tell ya is the Wop Wops. It was a cool ride though, me and lisa and wilson Chatted whilst sarah and ara watched good olde Flight of the Choncords, on the ipod, they would crack up like every two mins and everyone would look at them weird!! we got some sweet scores from savers then i lost my Nandos Virginity. my first time was a bit of a let down. But ya know ya gotta try!! We then had another long trip back, it was all good though, it was great hanging out with new people, there all really nice, I think wilsons cute but he smokes! gross.

By the time we got back to the city it was 9.30 time for me to meet up with the international Gang at THE CROFT INSTUITE this is a prety cool bar it is fitted out in the theme of an old hospital, and kinda scientific like tey have large glass vessles all round, the drinks menu, is a “chemical closet store list, and there is a hospital bed in the toilet!! Goot times as usual, i was having some king of argument that involved biting with a sweedsh lad, Roy was wasted and attacking me humping and stuff, crazy boy, we were two cheap to buy drinks from the bar cause they were soooo expensive and so we got some from the liquor store and stealthed them it, ohh and i licked two cocks! they were drawn on peoples hands, but i think thats all the action im gunna get here! lol, and i got the most funnest piggy back from Mo all the way down the street, and he didnt even drop me!! I had to protect Jorien from the german serial womaniser!! and i still didnt have the guts to ask two finnish guys i like out on a date, no not together, i just cant decide at the moment! which one i like better! aaggghhhh!! lol fun night went home early likw 1 cause i had work at 8 the next morn. ohh  on the way home me and amanda had our first pissing in an alley experience, it was very relieving!

Josi and Jorien in the Hospital. (mental hospital!)

On the Frankston adventure…

Uni is Alright!

Soo for like the last week, (the mid semester break) i have been spending every evening at uni from like 4pm till 12. And as well as getting some work done i have actually made some uni friends too! I have produced a pretty sexy looking Catalog that i’m handing in today. Plus got marks back today for two assessments, i don’t really understand there system but i believe that a tick in the box as far away from failed as you can get is a good thing!

Ive been working at Don Camillos too early starts like 7 and 8. didn’t wake up one day, whoops, thats soo me! One night i caught up with maud, caus i missed her. I went to st Kilda and we met up and went for a lovley stroll along the track beside the beach, and we went and sat on the Jetty, no one knows what a jetty is here, Honestly, some people!! Then we went to this awesome resturant called “lentil as anything.” where the food dosnt have prices, you just pay what you feel is appropriate. sweet huh. i got some awesome curry, but maud wasnt satisfied with her tofu burger so we headed on to grilled, for fries! yum. its always fun to go there to perve on the guys that make the burgers, mmmmmm. then since st Kilda is famous for its cakes we went to one of the many cake shops. we got a chocolate éclair and a coconut cake. as well as being completly stuffed they were just plain gross. it was made better by the entertainment provided by the staff unintentionally. the lady was soo brilliantly white trash with her big blonde hair and apron, she proceded to put all the caces in the fridge where we suspected she kept them for weeks on end!, the shop was fitted out in the absolutly highest level of kitsch and not in a good way and then there was the emo who made the cofee, couldnt for the life of me figure if it was a boy or a girl.

Next day work, uni, then i kinda invited myself to dinner with some mates from my class. it was sweet we went to ara’s house and shee cooked us steak with mushrooms and heaps of other awesomr shit.. and about 6 of us hung out and watched movies and ate awesome asian snacks man they make every single flavour of puffed corn you can imagine, i was a big fan of the banana, it was my first time hanging with people from my class, out of uni! they are all asian, but then more than half my class is…

Last night i had sooo much fun. i auditioned for a part in the theater production of James and the Giant Peach. I love auditions, if only something would come of them.

now im at uni again deadline for architecture catalouge and poster is thurs at 1.30. scary

Gawd, where do i begin… catch up time…

K… On tuesday I baked Cakes… Me and Chris and Roy the cool neighbour chose a rocking playlist for the upcoming party! luckly it was like two to one against the trashy euro techno soo we got some good rock n there! when it hit midnight we all said happy bday to chris and they forced me to give them cakes, and so i did, they all sat there in heavenly bliss and that is how i succeed in arousing and fulfilling five males at one time, i think thats probably the best ive done!

Wednesday night was chris’ Party. I burnt my finger with hot oil, i met some new people. we danced we drank. Oh it was really funny Chris tried to charge people an entrance fee to his party!! $3 what a stupid amount! anyway we all told him it was a pretty shitty idea but he was absolutely sure of it!! it was hilariously he would get all mad and defensive every time we brought it up! then never ended up charging anyone!! oh and this party was different than the rest cause we had lights, fary lights, and a black light and redlight and bluelight and a green light, PIMP! at 4 we had rid the house of most the people… Marvin, Mo and I cleaned, a bit then we ordered Pizza delivery and ate it in bed!

Thursday due to my No Goon Diet i felt fine!!! yay I went to uni, that probally went as badly as a day ever has for me at uni,  I didnt really know what hw were supposed to have for crit, The tutor said to me “thats just not good enough Hazel!” soo all really encouraging!! yay i love uni! But thurs night was fun, we had a visit from our lovley landlord, she told us this was our second warning, we could not have raging mid week partys till 4am or people spewing on the neighbours doorstep or staying over on the couch, She told us our house stunk like beer and that three different neighbours had complained about us just this week!! next time we are going to be given 14 days notice then we have to get out!! But my friend Josi Invited me to come and see the opening night of a musical that her boyfriend had written. it was about the politics of the running of melbourne uni, quite hallarious really when presented as a musical.. it was great i was sitting next to fred who wrote it and he was like mouthing every word and getting really into it , they were both sooo nervous at the beginning. It was a mint show, really sweet outfits and live music, and it was great to see people of our generation, actually making a stand, a protest. i really enjoyed it.

soo i went home to get some sleep, but marvin convinced me to drink some wine with him  and watch a dvd, twas funny after like 2 glasses we were both, tipsy, crazy 15percent auzzie wine..

Friday when i woke up for woek at 7 i felt like the walking dead from lack of sleep. the whole time i was working i was looking foward to coming home and lying on the couch and watching Prison Break (on to first season now) it was totally worth it!! Then i made dinner for my friendey Jenny and we went to Pruedence wich is our local bar, it is like 30 steps from my door so a totally swet place to get crunk then crawl home… but thats not what we did, we just hung out and soaked up the atmosphere which is great, it is an old record shop that started selling beer and now evovoled into a bar that plays records,  we sat in the outdoor bit with fairy lights and chatted to some friendly auzzies who worked for the Lonley Planet Guide!

Im still sore

Lol im sooo unfit. On sunday i did some homework at uni, then i headed out to the Carlton Gardens where some of my mates were playing soccer. i was just gunna watch but the boys convinced me to play!! I was the only girl, i was playing in a dress and boots and it was muddy and i managed not to make a fool of myself, it was a miricle!!! it was really fun too. i might even go back next week, i know this is sooo un me! after an hour ( the boys played for 3 hours!0 i went to workshop which it the best bar ever and me and maud caught up, thees couches nice… then jorien and jop and styen and fernando joined us and we got jugs of beer and some free BBQ action, It was a moment that was just like ” this is the life” mabye endorphins from sport went straight to my head or something!! lol anyway couldnt walk properly all monday and tuesday!!

Monday Styen dumped Laura, My flate mate and my friend… Hope it dosnt get weird.. Oh well honesty is the best policy! That same night he was in another womans bed!! Mine watching Prision Break!! lol we got the first season, luckly not the whole one, wouldnt want to get addicted, me and chris joined the wideo shop,  its sweet vids are really cheap at out local “Movie Box” but out dvd wont play them cause it is the wrong region code, so we burn them on chris’ comp and so we have a dvd collection!

Last night Amanda and Lisa came over to my house for din and to borrow my sleeping bag to take to Tazzie! they forgot the sleeping bag!! i made pizza it was good shit, we discussed boys for example my Finninsh crush Topi, who is infact pictured below!! reowwwww, yum!

Today i worked, Tomorro im working, Big Dilemma, cant decide wether to Buy Mac now, yay music and photos will live again and i can do work from home and i will own a georgus black mac… But i will have to work at least 3 days a week to keep myself afloat for the rest of my holiday,

Or just have fun and spend my $ on shit and adventures, and not work so much and party more… i really need some help deciding! think aboutr it, it is not an obvious decision

Thankyou! and goodnite

Hazel No GOON

I have finally made a stand, No more goon, it is always bad when your saying cheers heres to the hangover, well i am o-v-a-h Over it!! No more goon for me not that i am opposed to the 3 dollar bottles that taste exatcaly the same!! havent been un to anything really special to wite home about…

Had lovely dinner at lauras on wed, her and i cooked an epic vege lasagne, you see we all love having other round for dinner and stuff but is is such a mission cause we all have like either totally mini kitchens or no impliments, our biggest problem is that our biggest pot is like 10 cm in diamater!! ahhhh it is sooo painfull trying to cook like 3 loads of everything!! lol that was nice, we had drinks and stuff too, goon, it wasnt bad, tasted like juice, even the outcome wasnt disastorus but its just rank, i think im growing up!! lol! was funny when me and styen got home we both went to the freezer and got out our matching tubs of vanilla icecream and my choc mint sauce (hard top) and his choc and we just sat on the couch scoffing out of the tub! thats how we bond!! lol.

Thurs i have uni but only at 1.30 so wed always seems to be drinking night… i beleive every single time ive been to that class i have been a tad hungover!! lol, good times, the tutor is really cool, his name is helmut stencil, rockin name huh, any way every week he gives us bagges different ones, we only have a group of like 10 each week the badge means a differen thing, there has been individuality, and creativity and transparency, its a cool group, the people are cool enough, but ther really have no intrest in getting to know me, other than polite hello how are yous in class, oh well! ya win some ya loose some!

On thursday night we went to a pretty sweet exhibition it was painting and printmaking, it was called BIRD + HUMAN some sweet imagery, it seems easy enough to drag people along to exhibitions with me like 9 peeps came along, its a bit sad here though the booze at the exhibitions isint free!! its like a gold coin donation and shit like that, oh well, then we went to an asian restureant, i hat deep fried sushi!! he he weird, we went to this awesome club called the Carlton, it is all plush and there is red velvet booths all round and giant taxidermy’s like a huge ostrich with pearls and an even huger giraffe with glitter eyelashes, my friend Jukka fell for the giraffe and the glitter eyelashes big time, they are now in a relationship!! My finnish love Topi wasnt there so i hung out with his friends, I dont think he is ever gunna get the hint anyway, guys are sooooo stupid! anyway it was cool it was one of those clubs that it was really nice to just hang aroung in, i wasnt that drunk cause im way too stingy to buy drinks in bars!! but i liked stroking the velvet and hangiin out in the nice environment, i tried to take pics, but my camera is pretty shit when it comes to no flash photos which are the best, it has served me well but i do think it is time to upgrade!

Last night i had dinner at Amanda and Lisa house they live with 7 girls, its a nice change!! man girls talk about sex lots!! way more than guys, lol never really realized, it was hilarious!! Amanda made us all dump soup, Its the soup she makes for boyfriends before they subsequently dump here! it was pretty good, i didn’t dump her!!, Lucy were not weird, they hump legs too!!!! lol