The NDAA Low Down (Benny)
26/06/10 • 2 Comments

Last night was the National Drug & Alcohol Awards night, presented by the Australian National Council on Drugs. As Chris was unable to attend and living large in Vic, we had some of the HSM crew in attendance to represent: Adam (in his last week of HSM and one of the founding fathers of HSM) Aisha (the lovely and lively social media maven for the evening) Chris (the sharp shooting, low buying, high selling, wheel dealing hot rod) and Me (juggling two live iPhones for the stream & juggling two puddings for dessert ) If you missed it – we’ve got a couple of recordings from the live stream online. HERE For the fly on the wall entree experience – Featuring a little intro from Adam at the end and HERE For the announcement of the nominations and the award presentation A massive congratulations to The Loft from Newcastle who [...]

the stake in your head (Benny)
07/06/10 • 5 Comments

When Elephants are young, they are tied to a small but immovable stake, buried deep in the ground.
No matter how hard the young elephant tries – the can never break free…

After a while – they give up…

I thought I was done here? (Benny)
23/05/10 • 2 Comments

I thought I was done here… ? I have my 6 months down and out – I had a blast. Learnt a lot about myself, the people around me and booze – and yet – the HSM road just continues to stretch out ahead of me. I know it’s something that’s going to be with me for a while – maybe forever. It was a short-term change for a life-time benefit. I know that I’m going to be involved with HSM for a long time – I’ve done it – I might do it again… who knows? I don’t think there’s a rule saying you’re only allowed one go?… Is there Chris? But now that I’ve finished my own – I want to be able to be there for the other bloggers, even the HSM’ers that aren’t blogging – because the single strongest factor in the whole HSM process comes [...]

My Final Word (Benny)
30/04/10 • 5 Comments

Benny’s Last HSM I had prepared a nice long blog for this one…. but I thought A video might go down better Heeelloooo Sunday Morning! Password is – ‘hsm’ My last HSM Post from Ben Hamley on Vimeo. Peace out! Benny

Every day is Saturday night… (BEN HAMLEY)
09/03/10 • 3 Comments

One of the biggest things I learnt while working the club scene. Everyday is Saturday night. ^^^ Just quietly – that title is a link… you should click it… ^^^ There is always another reason to go out There is always another crazy story just behind these doors They’re right – it is awesome. There are some wicked parties. There are some great places to go. But most people have stopped choosing that for themselves, and just going with the flow. Group-think is a powerful thing. A lot of what Jiv was talking about in Enjoy Everything – Need Nothing. got me thinking about that. By extension, I wasn’t just thinking about the way I used to represent myself with what I drank, how much, how often, where, or with whom. But alot of the time it came back to – who I told about it…. Which comes back to [...]