Yes, I am too lazy to come up with original thoughs so I'm using this from
nimnod


I tried to create an "evil" chick - but the site is WAAY to perky, so this is the best I can do. Just to sum up my mood for the day - tired and overworked.

Where do you live? (country and city)
SA, Cape Town

What do you like best about LJ? (e.g. meeting new ppl, the fandom stuff, a way to waste time at work, etc)
That I can talk about MEEE once every few days and pretend people care

What do you do with your time? (if you're studying, what level and whats subjects and where, and if you're working, at what and where)
As an in-house journalist for a property company (in-house newsletters, press releases, bla bla)

Cat-person or dog-person?
None of the above - I know

Harry Potter - love it or hate it?
Only watched two movies so far... liked what I saw

Got a driver's licence?
Also only after my third try (seven years ago - getting OLD)

Religious? If so, what?
Yip, Christian

Favourite alcoholic beverage (or non-alcoholic if you're teetotal)?
WINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Favourite movie and why?
Changes often, mmmm, at the moment..... Little Miss Sunshine (because it made me laugh so hard, I cried) and James Bond (because it made me feel like I can conquer the world)

What sort of thing do you like listening to, musically?
Anything - I just don't like too much house music or metal.

Biggest fear?
Heights

One weird fact?
Weird? I'm not weird. I'm probably the most normal person on the planet.

Geek/nerd/jock/other (specify)?
Jock    *Laughs at own joke* Drama Queen

Favourite book?
The Island (Yes, I don't the author)

Single/married/dating/not interested in romantic relationships with others?
Single

Hobbies/interests/sports?
I like the theatre, movies, reading and exploring new places, experiencing new things

Favourite chocolate?
Chocolate is the new enemy *see my New Years resolutions*

Things that make you happy?
Hearing from old friends unexpectedly, good luck (yes, it happens sometimes) and Cape Town summers.

Cheese is ____.
The new enemy *see my New Years resolutions*

If you could have a super-power it would be?
Doing 30 things at the same time - MULTITASKING

Tattoos are ________?
Scary to get; I would like a temporary one! (If I wasn't such a pissy)

I feel like I've won the Lotto...

Yesterday I got to work early (I have a meeting early every Thursday) and lo and behold... there was a special being advertised on kulula.com. I quickly went on the site and made the booking (after switching to a different PC, Firefox didn't display the pages correctly) and guess how much I paid for a return flight to Jozi? R248!!! That is actually ridiculously cheap and I've been giddy ever since. The ticket was booked for my first wedding in Potchefstroom in April - BARGAIN!

After that I floated on a happy cloud for the rest of the day, and as a result of the automated high I was on, I didn't really feel up to work and therefore had a lovely unproductive day at the office.

We didn't have any powercuts yesterday, so hopefully I'm not going to be hit with them over the weekend.

BONUS: It looks like we're going to have stunning summer weather over the weekend, so I will definitely be hitting the beaches (as budget is a bit limited for the last week of this l-o-n-g month and you don't need ESKOM to go the beach)

I sent this email update to my friends today - so thought I might as well put it up on the blog. It covers my progress on the healthy lifestyle resolution, as well as an impression of a Afrikaans club in JBay.

My belangrikste resolution (waarmee ek gister begin het - dis 'n moeilike een OK) is om Meer Gesond te leef. Dit behels om actually weer te begin gim (ek is nogsteeds lid, maar die mense sien my maar min daar) en beter te eet. (Maw, minimum chips, chocolates, kaas, aartappel en al daai ander heerlike verversings wat blykbaar geen voedingswaarde het nie, maar kalorieë bevat wat gelykstaande is aan drie buffet etes!)

Dit gaan in 'n mindere mate daaroor dat ek nie 1,56mx1,56m wil word nie, maar eerder meer oor die feit dat ek nogsteeds nie ordentlike medies het nie en nie regtig my eerste kardio-vaskulêre episode voor 30 wil hê nie. (Outjies, "Sodium" is die geheime vyand - pasop vir hom in sogenaamde "gesonde" snacks by Woolies i.e the single women's best friend)

So ja, nou is ek op Dag 1. Vir aandete gisteraand het ek slaai geëet. Dit is nou slaai met laevet Feta (EEUUU - sal dit NIE aanbeveel nie - maak 'n moerse verskil aan tekstuur en smaak), tamatie en komkommer. GEEN olywe, salad dressing of enige ander goodies wat remotely lekker is nie. Dit is toe dat ek tot die skokbesef kom dat ek nie van slaai hou nie. (Ek hou van kaas en salad dressing!)

Needless to say was dit die mees depressingste ete van my lewe.

Verder probeer ek ook nogsteeds meer water drink, but Rome wasn't built in a day - Hello!

Die uiteinde is nou dat ek nou al konstant honger is van gister af, en nou ook 'n effense kopseer ontwikkel (seker onttrekkingsimptome). Nou drink ek maar Milo (en water) en probeer vir myself sê dat dit alles die moeite werd is.

GENOEG OOR KOS....

Die vakansie het ek die voorreg gehad om die Jolly Dophin in JBay te besoek. Picture dit: Dit is 30 Desember in JBay. Ten minste 60% van die Vrystaat en Gauteng is in die klein dorpie (met 'n permanente populasie van 10 000 - dalk minder). Van hierdie 60% is ten minste die helfte in die Jolly Dolphin. Ek daag effens benoud op (ek hou mos nou nie eintlik van die leeuloop-skarumba bende nie en ek kan nie langarm nie), maar stap steeds die plek dapper binne. Dit het nie lank geneem of vas te stel dat niemand gaan langarm nie (gebrek aan spasie), wat natuurlik beteken dat ons nou na Afrikaanse techno moet luister. Vir die rekord: ek het nie EEN liedjie geken nie, maar gelukkig bestaan meeste net uit een sin - so ek kon vinnig leer! Natuurlik is die gesegde mos "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" baie waar, so toe het ek nou maar gesing en gedans op vreemde lirieke en die techno stamptreffers wat aan my gebied is. To the untrained eye het dit dalk gelyk of ek myself geniet het, maar dit was 'n mental endurance toets van begin tot einde.

Voetnota: Wat is die storie met De la Rey (enigste bekende liedjie by Jolly Dolphin)? Wanneer 'n groep Afrikaners (groep=meer as twee) saam na hierdie liedjie luister, kry hulle skielik daai vreemde kyk in hulle oë (amper soos 'n jagter van ouds) en begin hulle haastig na hulle ou Suid-Afrikaanse vlae gryp terwyl hulle hande om die lyf saamsing en wieg.

Ek het egter 'n voëltjie hoor fluit dat hierdie nie die hele verhaal is nie. So danksy aan Koos Kombuis (op Litnet) is hier nou vir julle 'n paar feite om oor die kombuistafel te bespreek. (Skip die rooi deel as julle nie wil lees nie)

Yes I am making a first post of 2007.

After reading everyone else's latest posts on my friends page - I have decided to add my two cents worth (because I can).

On the subject of resolutions.... I haven't made any REAL resolutions this year, but nevertheless want to exercise more, eat less snacks, do more things I enjoy (going to the beach, movies, reading, etc) and on the long-term list, I would like to start travelling around SA and also climb Table Mountain (still this year). I'm also planning a trip to Robben Island over Easter Weekend (when my parents come to visit), so hopefully they've fixed the damn ferries by then. Basically I just want to experience as many things as I can (but this has always been a focus point).

Other news is that three of my friends got engaged in December. (In a group of 10 that is quite a few!) So yes, I have been getting the expected panic anti-wedding attacks where I'm losing all my friends to a domesticated life (and they want it), whereas I'm still floating around in selfish, single paradise. To me this is great, but most of my couple friends are becoming increasingly anxious about my single-state. (It's been almost two years lolif, don't you even have an interest?) Obviously they don't ask this directly, but I know this is what they're thinking. How do I know this? If people haven't seen me for over six months their second question (after: How are you?) is: Have you met someone? (wink wink). Obviously you spot the train of thought there?!

On the workfront, things are slowly picking up to its normal "I have no time for LJ posts or emails" pace... but I'm a little bit relieved (don't tell anyone), because sitting around doing nothing can become a bit draining after two weeks.

So here's to another great year - some people are jokingly referring to it as the year of the "007" - action-packed and full of surprises and I actually like that connotation. (Not that I want too much action: last year's 3 relocations, 2 insurance claims
and lots of other surprises were MORE than enough for me)
 

 

HOW MANY CHRISTMAS IMAGES DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE MY BLOG LOOK CHRISMASSY AND COMPLETELY KITSCH?

Yes, the Christmas spirit has found me... after a long delay. (Approximately 17 days). I put up my Christmas tree on 1 December and only felt the happy, happy, joy, joy feeling this weekend. And now it has finally sunk in that I am seeing family and friends this weekend and I can't wait. (GOING BACK TO MY ROOTS....)

       

Yes, even it looked as if I disappeared from the face of the earth / went on a long holiday / FINALLY met my millionaire and got married, all of the above is not true.

I have actually been here, in the Green House working like a slave efficient employee. Hence, the silence.

But yes, it is the week before Christmas and finally everyone is giving up settling down for 2006 and starting to make their "To do" lists for 2007. Yeah! As I am not going on leave, this is wonderful news for 2 slow weeks at the office. 

There has actually been quite a few exciting events over the last couple of weeks, but as I have delayed posting them for too long they have become Old News. And this news service is not interested in Old News.

Here follows a summary:
1. I do three people's work
2. I catch a cold (in summer)
3. We have battles in the Green House
4. My sister crashes into a tree with her car
5. One of my best friends got engaged
6. I travel along the West Coast
7. I do shopping in a near-empty mall a week before Christmas

The rest is so old that I have forgotten about it already. Alas, my memory is not as good as it used to be.

I was tagged by nimnod and [info]miss_tibbles ....  Oh the pressure! (Yes, I have only recently discovered how to change my font colour) 1. I have a very short attention span. This means that I get bored with tasks practically as soon as I start doing them.      This of course creates serious challenges in a workplace, as I'm almost permanently bored with whatever I'm busy      doing at the time. A logical next step is of course that I never think of only one thing at a time, which creates even more     concentration problems. But surprisingly enough I got through school OK.. so its not ADT. 2. As a child I was extremely hyperactive. As a result, my parents got me a leash. Yes, of one those that you put around your       body. This was to prevent me from running away in public places, eg. malls etc. Needless to say, I broke my leash on       the first day, so my parents had to make due without it. Luckily they discovered that I had an internal homing device, so       whenever I ran away (in grocery stores), they would just let me be and eventually I would return to them.  Obviously I wasn't      left to wander the streets alone, so please don't call social services! 3. Do other people talk to themselves? I play out scenario's in my head all the time, either as a daydream/practicing my reaction     in certain situations. Is that weird? I don't really know... 4. I've always had a dream of being an actress. Not the Hollywood starlet version, but the type that performs in excellent productions     whether it is in dramas or comedy shows. Sadly, i get stage fright when I have to sing in public, so this makes cabarets and Broadway     shows a bit tricky!  5. I had this very strange method of eating pies when I was in primary school. I would open it up and first eat the filling, after which I would     proceed to take the pastry apart and eat it layer by layer. (With my hands) It used to drive my mom crazy. I have since stopped eating it     that way, as I soon realized that you couldn't enjoy a pie like that in public. 6. Sometimes I miss the most obvious things and completely embarrass myself.  (This characteristic becomes progressively worse when     I'm uncomfortable or preoccupied.) It normally involves something with a mechanical nature, but the sad truth is that I just sometimes can't be bothered with the details... Last week I tried to open a     screw-top wine bottle with a cork opener (I hope the English is right), as I failed to notice the difference.   7. I am terrified of moths. All shapes and sizes. If one is flying around in my room, I can't fall asleep, so then they have to die (apologies [info]miss_tibbles)
    At varsity, I had one the size of bird in my room (Real-life drama). I awoke with the sound of flapping wings, thinking there was a bat in my room,
    we had bats in our res... only to discover the gruesome truth. I'm not going to elaborate further, suffice to say that I had to sleep in a different room
    for the rest of the evening.

8. I'm a compulsive planner. I like to think ahead and map out my future and I constantly spend mental energy on this. The funny thing is that I change
    this plan (esp my five-year-plan) often (at the moment at least once a year). But I like to feel in control and having a Plan gives me that.

9. Almost at the end.... I suffer from chronic hair loss. And have for most of my life. The scary thing is that I think that it is starting on my eyelashes. NOOOOO!

</font>10. I have the most uncanny ability to remember insignificant details... esp re: current affairs. Not the whole story, but segments of it. This comes in quite useful
      when you need to pretend that you are "well-read." And luckily I can fake it so well that I can cover-up my lack of knowledge most of the time, unless of course, I'm with true specialists who uncover
      my secret!</div>

MMMM... Hierdie gaan 'n baie eksperimentele entry wees. 

HERE GOES:

mjvr83

Ja, ek is net besig om random knoppies te druk om uit te figure hoe werk die site.

( www.yahoo.com )

Ok - genoeg vir nou. Dink hierdie opsie wys potensiaal...

I'm not sure what these are supposed to represent, but it looks funky so I'm not complaining too much.

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As a newcomer to the "blog industry", I read this story with interest on Bizcommunity this morning. Is society really busy changing the channels of interaction? I still prefer 3D though, but enjoying my new creative outlet. (Granted - not THAT creative, but at least a start)

The other day I was feeling so creative that I actually started doing fridge poetry again, after I stopped for a long time. That is good sign right?

Half-baked - the Stork margarine blogging advert
By: Mike Stopforth

Well done to Stork and the agency behind its new TV ad for picking up on a progressive trend - blogging - and attempting to reach a target demographic with it. But I must agree with a friend's sentiments that they have lost out on an enormous opportunity to capitalise on the significant Web buzz created by the first few screenings of the advert.


The transcript:

Blogging... blogging. On the Internet, Mikey set it up for me. Kids these days know everything. It's like your own website where you can speak up, play, inspire. I know, I used to find the Internet intimidating too. But this is amazing. It's... my space where I can just express myself and when you sit back and read what you've written its like, Wow! This is me. My creativity.


People love blogs

Ordinary people love blogs (David Sifry's recent analysis of the State of the Blogosphere report indicates that blogging continues to enjoy widespread adoption and usage).

Some love blogs because it gives them the opportunity to publish information, opinion and just general content to the Web in such a way that has never been offered them before. Others just want to tell their story, and blogs are an ideal medium. Others use blogs as a cost-effective marketing tool and still others use it as a money-making device.

Regardless of why you're blogging, you choose blogging because it offers you something you didn't have before - a channel, a network, a conjuit, a repository, a medium.

Stork (or at least Unilever or Stork's agency) seem to get this. They understand that there are hundreds and thousands of housewives around the world that are telling great stories online - finding an identity and occupation - through blogs. They've chosen to associate that feeling of discovery, creativity and empowerment with their product. Brilliant. But that's where it's ended.

1. HEIGHTS (It's not natural for humans to go climbing, flying or jumping off high places. - I can't state this clearly enough)

2. BALLS (And don't read more into this - I've had this conversation too many times - get over it. I'm talking about sports. Squash is the worst... a combination of running, enclosed spaces and balls.)

3. SNAKES (Name one person who likes snakes... and I'm not talking about celebs or circus artists. A real person, that you've had a conversation with)

4. SCARY MOVIES (Yes, I can't watch scary movies. I'm the "sensitive viewer" that they warn you about on the news and Carte Blanche)

5. UNIFORMS (My friends will know why. People dressing alike - creepy.)

I knew I was meant for great things - this is the proof:

Your Chances of Being a Multimillionaire: 80%

You have a good chance of being a multimillionaire. Better than most people. You simply have a natural knack for money and the personality for success.

Who new - head hunters out there... please take note of the findings below! (The results were not rigged in any way)

Your Career Personality: Hard-Working, Ethical, and Orderly

Your Ideal Careers: Business attorney Chef Dentist Financial officer Hollywood agent International business person Police officer Project manager Publicist Stockbroker

And just because a girl has to know...

Your True Love Is a Capricorn

Why you'll love a Capricorn: Hard working and driven, a Capricorn will work overtime to win your heart. Be prepared to get wined and dined, even once you're convince that your Capricorn is the one! Why a Capricorn will love you: You don't rush things. You know it will take a while for a Capricorn to trust you, and you can wait. Social and outgoing, you can introduce normally shy Capricorn to a great circle of friends.

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Ek doen maar sleg, volgens die kaart het ek net 4% van die wêreld al besoek. Nou ja - dit gee my darem nog baie om te doen! (Maar wil mens ook nou regtig al die lande sien?)