Hap Working The World

“Gidday”, I’m Hap, real name Mark, but have answered to Hap my whole life. And yes Hap is derived from ‘Happy’. It came about as I was a baby that didn’t stop crying, so my father nicknamed me Happy which got shorten to Hap. Its managed to stick around like a girlfriends older brother at a teenage party.  Trust me I have explained the name ‘Hap’ a few times.

I was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1981 in the 11th month, on the 11th day in the 11th hour and 3 minutes before the 11th minute -I blame that on my father being too excited that night.

My first memory after my childhood blur was in Nelson, New Zealand watching a digger at my family home. The remainder of my childhood I lived there with my Mother, Father and sister. I walked the same way to school my entire schooling years, from kindergarten (preschool) through to college (highschool for the American readers)-God knows where I got my nomadic ways from, there must be some gypsy blood somewhere down the line.

The new millenium saw mummy’s boy leave the cradle and enter the world of University. My school was Otago University, bright hopes of post graduate study were destroyed after a 2nd year University working holiday to Australia that showed me there’s a world outside of New Zealand.

So I graduated with my BCom (Marketing, Management) -I really have utilised that $30,000 I invested in that piece of paper- and entered my new classroom, the world. The rest is documented in this one-stop-where-is-hap-now-shop.

PS, I suppose this is the section I write what interests me, what revs my engine. Alright, here goes in bullet form 

• Outdoors, the environment, places with trees, beautiful natural landscapes.
• Sports; soccer, taekwondo, cricket, snowboarding, water-skiing, wake-boarding, hiking, salsa.
• Being active, anything that doesn’t involve TV or PlayStation.
• Anything that involves being around people/friends/family and socialising, I love meeting people.
• The most important, laughing!
• And of course, TRAVEL