I really am getting crap at this blog I do apologise to everybody that’s following this site, lack on internet at my apartment has really contributed to the decline in the updates to this page that an ive been partying every night so between those 2 occurrences I haven’t had a lot of spare time on my hands, I should also mention I haven’t taken a day off since I started so ive worked 40 days exactly as I write this in a row maybe that’s why I got promoted or cause I’m just dam good ay my job.

Ii think the little things in life are always the best feelings in the world last Wednesday I ran into 2 guys from new Zealand which we found out that we had a mutual friend in this German girl I met in whanga about a year an a half ago these buys came on the crawl 4 nights in a row, their last night on Friday was supposed to be a big one but Dan got annihilate by the vodka that was goin round an disappeared which left beau looking for him the whole night an ended up sleeping at the train station to wait for him there if they got separated instead of crashing at my apartment as per the plan, turns out Dan was asleep/passed out in the toilet of the 1^st bar we were at an woke up round 4am with one hell of a headache an no memory,

I also ran into this English dude the same day who I met on the pubcrawl last year who remembered me ahhhhhhh the little things ay.

A bit of a story here, a few nights ago  some guy was shot outside the shooter bar my boss owns ive heard different things but from what I can gather this guy went for a cops gun an they killed him whats crazy is that it happened right after we got the last person in the door of the bar so there was a shot an everybody ran back out to see what happened, the other story I heard was that it was supposed to be a warning shot but the dude got hit in the neck which I don’t believe cause I mean how does a warning shot in the air nail a dude in the neck but yeaaaaah knarly ay

Man I’m trying to cram as much stuff into this post as I can but it’s hard to remember all that crap that’s happened over the last 2 weeks, been in a few fights (whooped their asses too) trying to stay in shape is a bit hard, meeting tonnes of people, if anybody reading this knows people coming to Amsterdam in the next few months let me know an ill hook em up if they need a place to stay an so on, Claire or Kate if your reading this tell Chase, he mentioned heading over my way soon.

Other than that i think ive covered everything thats happened over the last couple of weeks....... i think

i really am getting crap at this blogg thingie from what i understand i havent written anything in about 2 weeks now to be fair i have been busy, what with setting up my SOFI number my bank account moving in to my apartment (which is pretty kick ass) also probably cause i can only use the internet about half an hour a day when i go into the office for the arvo meeting, looking at getting internet for the flat but itll probably be a month cause instead of getting paid weekly im getting paid monthly now so the first month will be a bit tight over dare!!!

Heres something that really grinds my gears, ok my baby has been at my mate elis for the last 5 weeks while i looked for a place to live, finally got it back off him a couple days ago stoked as hell got it back to the apartment took it out of the case took off the towels wrapped around it cut off all the cardboard wrapped around the nose tail and rails, cut off about 3 inches of bubble wrap covering THE WHOLE BOARD  showed the boys my pride an joy, laid it on the bed an watched it fondly when i noticed the edge point of my tail, upon closer inspection i saw that the tail had been fucking SMASHED!!!!  Needless to say i flipped out worse that i have ever done, i mean after all the wrapping an protection i put on it like emirates suggested somehow it still gets damaged and apparently their counter to this was “we don’t have our baggage handlers at every airport so we cant be held responsible for how other baggage dudes handle your bags” assholes, later that night i also found a hole in the left rail aswell so now i have 2 things that need fixing the rail could just do with a repair kit but the tail needs to be re glassed and moulded  and the only ding store is about an hours train outside of town.

So thats a big FUCK YOU to emirates and cheers for putting me off flying with my board to spain an portugual, cause if it got damaged with all that wrapping what the hell will happen when its just covered by a few towels, on the other hand me an my boy vince are talkin about renting a car an cruising down the cost later on in the year so that could be problem solved right there

AMSTERDAM, Visas, SOFI/BSN numbers and Housing

ok so im sitting down chillin before i have to get ready for work when  i though "hey i should write down what ive done to come over here" so if anyone else had the incentive to come to amsterdam to work for a few months they can beat the system like me.

ok first off the visa, alot of places will say you need a visa to work before you come over technically this is true but just so they can charge you about 40x the prive you can pay, what you do (atleast in amsterdam) is get there wait about 4-5 days then go to the IND office in sloterdijk an say like "hey i was traveling through asmterdam i met this dude/did something an got offered a job but i dont have a visa cause i wasnt intending on staying so the guys just told me to come down here..... you need to take your passport, your health insurance, and either a bank statement showing enough funds to buy a ticket home or a return ticket, i just booked a one way flight an told the customs dudes at the airport and at IND the same deal i was gona travel down the west coast an didnt want a return ticket to govern where i had to be to fly home. anyway 43e later an bang i have my visa stamp for 6 months.

ok the next part is tricky, the SOFI number BSN number social security whatever you wanna call it, has a stupid cycleto get one you need to register an address an have id from the landlord and blah blah blah, obviously this is a problem cause 1 housing is fuck hard to find in dam unless you know someone and 2 alot of places wont let you register their place anyway, SO what you do it ring up the tax office an tell them you have a place but the owner is not in the country and as such cannot sign rego or provide id an stuff then what happens is they take your number an call you back in a couple days with an appointment an bang there you go, atleast thats how alot of people say it should work but in actual fact the tax office will only speak to you in dutch as i have found out so unless you get someone to speak dutch on your behalf you have to do what im goin to do, go to the tax offive in sloterdijk (just round the corner from the IND bulding) and talk to them in person with the same story owner not in town , you really need this number cause you have a job lined up but they wont hold it forever yadda yadda yadda" and they should make an appointment between the next 2 days or 2 weeks not really sure how it works yet but ill find out.

Now the third thing is finding a place to live believe it or not this is actually the hardest part of getting your shit together in amsterdam, there are soooooo many scams out there its ridiculous, ive been looking for 2 weeks straight an have had 2 viewings over that time, unless the apartment is insanely expensive in the centruum area a 2-3 bedroom place in that area will be a scam, theyll ask you for a wire transfer an give you some crap along the lines of i live in the U.K/USA on the first year of a five year job contract/doing an internship/parents died an left the place to me, then theyll say something like oh our family lawyer can take care of the viewing and documents, basically the rule here is DO NOT SEND MONEY BY WIRE TRANSFER ! always meet the person first, this is why i stopped looking for apartments and started looking for rooms to rent instead as atleast you can meet the person see their place and if they do screw you hey you know where they live....... on the other hand you can always go round town asking for the manager of the little pizza places takeaway joints restaurants cause usually they own the whole building so they might have a room available you just gotta put yourself out there. or go through a leasing agent but they usually charge commission or have massive security deposits to each their own i guess

so i made this resolution yesterday to learn another language, mainly spanish or itialian largely because of the fact that people native to those languages seem so piss scared when i come up to them on the street to promote to them, most of the time im pretty sure they speak english fine they just wanna be dicks and not listen so what my boy JC does is yell something like your hips are too wide lose some weight, hey assholes or something along those lines at them when they leave its usually a good indicator of whether they understand us or not. on the other hand i think itd just be handy to know another language you never know when it could be of use.

now i think i may have a problem coming home because of the world cup one way flights are more than return, this could be interesting...... when the fuck did flights to new zealand get so expensive right now im looking at about 2200 for a flight home when a flight over cost 1600, and its not cause of the world cup the price is the same next month an in november this is bullshit ahhhhh the joys of travelling. right now the cheapest option is to fly out of rome on emirates for 1000e actually make that 770e on singapore airlines but i gotta spend like 18 hours in transit

ive been pretty crap at this blog this over the last few days, mainly cause im still looking for a place to live which is pissing me off so much cause after i leave my mates who let me stay at theirs out of teh goodness of their hearts ill be back to paying about 120e for 4 days in a hostel which is quite annoying cause thats like 2 days work on good days, the thing thats annoying me is that 1. why do people have to be dicks an try to scam people out of money atleast change the story once in a while, ive seen so many people come back to me with the same story,  aw im living in england i dont want my place to get messy blah blah blah, on the other hand if your actually stupid enough to fall for it you deserve to have your money stolen, 2. i get so far with a place then all of a sudden they just stop emailing me back for no reason, well you can come round for a viewing but i wont give you the address, time an to top it off ill just stop responding to your emails.

apparently the way to go is to ask all the little pizzarias an coffee shops an boutiques an stuff if they have any rooms for rent cause most of the time they own the building their shop is situated on so thats gona be my plan of attack for today, hopefully i find something cause i am getting absolutely nowhere with looking for places on the net.

other than that nothing much else is goin on here, the city i gearing up for queens day which will be a massive celebration on the last weekend of april so the 30th-1st, its so big we're not working that night cause there'll just be to many people on the streets out celebrating this weekend is another reason why i need to step it up a notch to finding a place to live as all hostels are booked, so i might be a it screwed, guess we'll see in about 8 days time

what the fuck just happened

so the pubcrawls been going strong last night really stood out though, first up my main man rory turned 22 which resulted with nir (the owner of the pubcrawl) and the other boys holding rory down an pouring vodka down his throat, t least i think it was vodka...... for then on the night got uuuuuhhhh interesting, at cinema one of the english guys got his pinky jammed in the door of the toilet somehow but instead of jamming it it sliced about 1cm off the end of his pinky, he took it well for a second or so then started freaking out he didnt go nuts just started goin my finger man my fucking finger blood pissed everywhere, dunno what happened to him, i guess he went to hospital...


so. for rorys birthday we went to melkwig which had some dubstep dudes playin, everything was fine till about 4am when rory started to get really fucked up which is strange cause we had the exact same amount to drink except the 3 shots, an he starts fallin over on stage tripping over speakers an generally being drunk, eventually i had to call it so i txt eli to come pick up his hammered flatmate, anyway 5am rolls round everything ends im carrying rory out of the club when some dude rolls up and rocks rory right in the face straight away i grab the dude in a half nelson an pull him off rory but one off his mates comes after me when all of a sudden another fight breaks out for some reason, then everyone converges bouncers, cops, dutch dudes everybody.. while this is happening im checkin on rory who got KNOCKED. THE. FUCK.OUT. he took the punch like a champ though, anyway full credit goes to the man himself eli who saw everything go down an came in guns blazin which was the cause of the other fight that started up fuckin champion bro he got cuffed but got off cause he didnt do anything to provoke the fight or something like that, anyway all 3 of us are in the cop station waitin to give a statement, which was taking fucking ages for some reason, in the end we just left, rory was pissed as fuck, i think he still reckons he got a few punches in before he went down, called it a night end of story

THIS IS HOW WE DO IN THE DAM!!

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