Archive for June, 2009
Heightened Perspective
I was sent this in an email and I thought that as many people as possible need to read this as it hands over some valuable lessons in life, some that I have been fortunate enough to learn already, while others I would not have thought of until I read this. It is written by Andy Rooney, a man who has the gift of saying so much with so few words. Enjoy…
I’ve learned…. That the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person..
I’ve learned…. That when you’re in love, it shows.
I’ve learned…. That just one person saying to me, ‘You’ve made my day!’ makes my day.
I’ve learned…. That having a child fall asleep in your arms is one of the most peaceful feelings in the world.
I’ve learned…. That being kind is more important than being right.
I’ve learned…. That you should never say no to a gift from a child.
I’ve learned …. That I can always pray for someone when I don’t have the strength to help him in some other way.
I’ve learned…. That no matter how serious your life requires you to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with.
I’ve learned…. That sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.
I’ve learned….. That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.
I’ve learned…. That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.
I’ve learned….. That we should be glad God doesn’t give us everything we ask for.
Mercury Manic Monday
With it being a long weekend and exams finished, we decided to celebrate another birthday in style. We had heard about Monday nights at Mercury Lounge but had never actually gone there. It was time for a new adventure.
I raced through after hockey practice and my mouth dropped when I saw the queue just after 19h00. I thought i was never going to get in. Fortunately for me, I found a friend second from the front of the queue! Awesome! I quickly slipped in with him and was in. We headed in and had a couple of chilled drinks down stairs as we waited for them to open upstairs. We headed upstairs as the huge queue from outside started to flood in. Things took a while to get going, but once they did, things got hectic.
We soon found out why they call it Manic Mondays at Mercury. The place was absolutely packed, and it was actually difficult to move around, but we had our drinks and were determined to have an awesome time. We had a great time and danced for about 2 hours straight. Things got even better when we were given a free bottle of Jagermeister. None of us were stupid enough to have a sip first, but instead grabbed some dude next to us to be our guinea pig. After he had a few sips he gave it the all clear. Turns out it was fine. After we worked that out, the bottle didn’t last long. Between 7 of us that bottle disappeared before Usain Bolt could run 100m.
Unfortunately I had a hockey match early the next morning so I didn’t stay that late, but all in all, it was an awesome experience that we will certainly be doing again!
Did You Get Your Vanity Username?
So after signing up for my Facebook Vanity User name the other day, I started to ask around. I was too slow in getting my act together and therefore am stick with the user name that is not what I wanted, but I chose one and am now stuck with it. It doesn’t bother me though.
I started to ask around, and noticed that a lot of other people also forget to get their user names when they came out. Facebook did have 500 000 user names in the first 15 minutes, but that still leaves millions to fight over user names. Chatting to people on Gatorpeeps and Twitter, I noticed that not many people had luck in getting the user name that they wanted, and that it took a seriously quick finger, or very a very unique name to get hold of that desired user name.
Stii managed to grab his name rather easily as I would have imagined, but Dave it seems was stuck in the same boat as I am, and now have a number after his name. Justin was very clever and added .co.za after his name. This is actually his blog address as well, so that was a very clever move on his part.
One back move on Facebook’s part, is that they have not included any characters. I would have split my name using an underscore so that my name was original without any numbers as a suffix, but my plans were thwarted by Facebook. I don’t think that was such a smart move on their side.
If you still don’t have your own user name, click here to find out how.
Fantastic Friday
Friday signalled a friend of mine turning 18. The mark of becoming a man, and when a boy reaches that stage it is only right to celebrate it properly. That is what we definitely did!
It was a long day/night, but dam was it awesome. So we wrote our second Maths paper on Friday (I am still shaking from the terrible experience that was that paper), and with it being a long weekend and only one exam left, we organised that most of the guys would meet up at Forries for a beer and some lunch at about 13h00. I thought there would be like 15-20 of us, but that is not how my grade works. There must have been about 60 of us throughout the course of the afternoon! There were still more people slowly rolling in when we left just after 16h00. The walk back to my house, (the HQ for the day) was quite amusing and we lost Charl on the way. He just decided to go and visit a friend on the way back. After managing to make it home in one piece fairly happy ( ;) ) we chilled out for about an hour. Good music and chilled vibes are never a bad thing.
The next step of the day was to head through to a flat warming. I thought that was going to be chilled and quite and a nice build for the evening, but wow was I wrong! When we arrived the flat was packed, and the drinking had clearly started ages ago! We were more than fashionably late! The flat warming was awesome, and got into the mood for the real part of the evening!
My Facebook Username
So on the 13th of June Facebook launched their vanity usernames. This process is very similar to the one MySpace users, where a users profile can now have a unique address instead of the generic URL Facebook provides.
I was a bit of a slow coach in remembering the day and actually signing up so I havn’t gotten the user name that I would like, but I guess that is how life goes sometimes. You snooze, you lose.
If you want to go check out my new Facebook address, you can click here.
I think this is going to be a nice touch for all the social media junkies out there, but this can also be a bad move, with every tom, dick and harry now having their own address. My opinion is that the positives out way the negatives.
What do you guys think?
Weekend Update
So I am into my third week of exams, and after trying to be disciplined and all of that jazz, I decided that this weekend I was going to chill a bit more. Stress was adding up, and with a HUGE week of exams this week, it was time to relax a bit before one last big push and then exams are done!
Friday night saw all my hockey cancelled to the gigantic down pour we had in Cape Town. My body was grateful for the break, and really screamed at me for even climbing the stairs at Cavendish! Quite a big group of us ventured towards the movies, and after what seemed like ages, we finally decided on what to watch. Night at the Museum 2. I was so not impressed, but I decided not to moan and just smile.
I was to be surprised. The movie was actually really good. I thought after the first one, it would just be a repeat of the same story line and I would be asleep before half way, but I actually was entertained. Somehow they took a very similar story line, and made it interesting. I don’t know if I was that over studying that anything seemed awesome, but I enjoyed it.
The real fun was on Saturday night though. I haven’t had that much fun in ages! It all started after my club hockey game, where we stayed and watched the ladies play a bit while we had drink. After that it was time to go through to the Waterfront. We didn’t really have a plan for the evening, but as soon as we got hold of a pack of cards we knew what was in store. KINGS!
Condom Fail
That is a seriously epic fail. How stupid do you have to be to stick a pin into a condom!? Gosh…
Do You Hate Telkom?
Here in South Africa Telkom has a hold on the landline communications sector, and many people are not so thrilled with this. Many people feel that they are too expensive, they offer terrible support, and just generally do not have any concern for their customers.
If you are one of those people, you can now voice your opinion. Of course there is still the lovely Hellkom site which has been voicing their opinion for years now. Now there is another site that I have found – enter futelkom. This is more based on responses from the community where they can leave comments, and truely express their unhappy opinions about Telkom.
Please note that I do not encourage hate speech, but rather calm, ethical and polite means when you wish to communicate a complaint. I feel that all companies should be informed if a customer is not happy with the service that they are getting, but this should be done using the right channels.
Trojan Horse
I thought I would post some smiles since the sun in shinning in Cape Town this morning! The weather last night was quite hectic, but the sun is shinning, so smiles all around
Cyanide and Happyiness are pure awesome :)
Nando’s Ad – Strictly Halaal
Can someone please explain this ad to me? I seriously do not understand it… Maybe it is because I don’t need to worry about halaal food or something, but I really don’t get it!
