Life of a teacher

How to make the best of a bad situation

2012-02-14T13:24:00.003+02:00

Picture taken at high school gala

2012-02-08T11:17:00.002+02:00

Private School is a must!!

2012-02-08T08:27:00.002+02:00

I studied to become a teacher and I knew it would not be a well paying job but i did it because i thought it was my calling.

I was young and immature, thinking I could conquer the world in one go. There I was sitting at my University lecture, listening to how great teachers are and how much they can contribute through the new OBE system. Working in groups, talking freely in class, teachers were now moderators, children were now learners... We were managers and we were ready to move our learners from zero to hero. Anyway to cut a long story short when I got to school and had 43 kids to teach then it was somehow different to what the textbook said.

So this past weekend I attended an IEB conference and got to meet other teachers from private schools and the things these teachers were talking about was truly amazing. One teacher took her learners to Egypt to measure the pyramids as a practical lesson, another took her learners to Mauritius and while on the boat they would take daily excursions out with their jet ski's to study the botany etc.

Okay I know what you going to say, excluding the fact that school fees are 100kpa excluding excursions, this is what learning was supposed to be like. At least in the books that is.

So I have some exciting plans for this year as well and what I will do is post it once I have accomplished it - I don't want to set myself up for failure...

Popular Education Hashtags

2012-02-08T08:23:00.000+02:00

This education hashtag listing is a refined list based on the one available through Cybrary Man. Please visit his site for more hashtag options. Also, follow leading educators using many of these hashtags by visiting this page of the same site. You can easily reach this listing by visiting http://www.novemberlearning.com/twitterhashtags.

General Education
#Education – General Education
#edchat – General Education
#educhat – General Education
#ntchat – New Teachers
#curriculum – Curriculum
#k12 – K12 Education
#passiondriven – Passion Driven Educators

Subject Areas
#artsed – Art Education
#arted – Art Education
#engchat – English Education
#mathchat – Math Education
#musedchat – Music Education
#sschat – Social Studies Education
#socialstudies – Social Studies Education
#scichat – Science Education
#langchat – Foreign Language Education
#historyteacher – History Education
#physed – Physical Education

Specialty Areas
#edtech – Technology in Education
#edapp – iOS Apps in Education
#ipadchat - iPads in Education
#ellchat – ELL Education
#esl – ESL Education
#gtchat – Gifted and Talented Education
#spedchat – Special Education
#sped – Special Education
#isedchat – Independent Schools
– Counselors
#elearning – E-Learning
#librarians – Librarians
#tlchat – Librarians
#library – Librarians
#stem – STEM Education
#flipclass – Flipped Classrooms Administrators
#cpchat – Connected Principals
#edadmin – School Administrators

Education Levels
#earlyed – Early Age Education
#preschool – Preschool
#kedu – Kindergarten Education
#kinderchat – Kindergarten Education
#elemchat – Elementary Grade Educators
#midleved – Middle Grades Education
#highered – Higher Education

Issues
#edreform – Education Reform
#ptchat – Parent Teacher Issues
#parenting – Parenting
#bullying – Bullying
#cybersafety – Cyber Safety
#dyslexia – Dyslexia
#adhd – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
#infolit – Information Literacy
#literacy – Literacy
#profdev - Professional Development

November Learning
#nlearning
#blc11

Online school

2012-01-12T08:33:00.004+02:00

I have changed careers about six times in the last 11 years and the one thing I have always found consistent is that every new job makes me more tired than the last. It’s like I can’t get enough sleep. So as I’m falling asleep last night the hostel bell rings to announce to the learners that it is time to go to bed... go figure. Around 2am every morning my mosquito buddies come and pay me a visit - really, really annoying! And then, at 6am the bell goes again... no need for an alarm.

On the school front, I teach grade 10, 11 and 12 and so far I have a total of 8 kids in total.... really hard work. But then again the upkeep of this network is a little more intense than I thought-this is real hard work. The headmaster wants a school that is the leader in technology-so tomorrow I have a meeting with him to discuss this. The primary form of communication at the school is BBM and email. So in order to get this school to the top I’m going to propose an intranet system for teachers and learners to communicate. There is a section where parents can log in and check the progress of their child and even check what homework the child has. The teachers can put tasks online; communicate with learners and with parents. Lastly the learner can log on and have a work page where they jot down notes from class, check the teacher’s notes, check their daily/weekly/monthly planners etc. so I will pitch this with good intentions... Please send me some ideas...

Welcome to the year the world will end.

2012-01-09T20:17:00.002+02:00

This is not a fake cry from Delilah but 2012 doth be upon us! Anyway I am not a good blogger, I lost track and then become distracted...sigh. So what’s new? I accepted the teaching post at CBC in Kimberley and as my last post understated-it’s HOT!

Okay lets jump around a bit. I have acquired a nice little toy, the Samsung galaxy tab... Yes the 10.1. So here I sit trying to type my first blog entry on a touch screen. The ANC turned 100yrs yesterday and had, what seemed to be, a bit of a flop in Bloemfontein. The reason I’m telling you this is because I saw this awesome Jet fly over Kimberley, where I now live, it’s called a Gripen, made allot of noise I tell you.

Sorry this is the smallest pic I could find, so apparently this Gripen was in charge of the air security. However, comrades, the people started leaving this Bloemfontein ANC gathering as the president came up-very rude and so did the Gripen, decided to check out Kimberley quickly for any threats. So while he was in Kimberley the President and the big 6(not Julius Malema) decided to toast to 100yrs of ANC-ness. And so aptly the president started cutting from this huge cake and handing out slices of cake to all members on stage from tallest to shortest... remind you of something? No? Our present government? No? A nice little metaphor nonetheless.

So the people were filing our by the tens... apparently they expected 120 thousand people and only 120 pitched... I lie, but it was somewhere down there. The News reporter in all her wisdom then says that the people must be leaving because of the heat. mmmmmm. So did I mention that is piping hot in Kimberley, the professional people at the weather service tell us its only 38 degrees. My thermometer reads 44 in the sun and 38 in the shade. What’s this world coming to when everyone is just lying?

Some teachers in Kimberley warned me that the classes might be bigger than usual this year, to which I responded: "what do you mean by "bigger?"" to which this lovely lady said she expects about 10 learners per class. "Ten hundred" I asked nope, just 10. Lady, do you have any idea what bigger is? The school I come from had 43 learners per class and this year they will have bigger classes apparently around forty eight. Anyway the High school only has 150 learners, you heard me right-not per class-IN THE WHOLE SCHOOL-- bless their souls. Unfortunately I gave up the position to be in heaven first when I left Randfontein high and for what? For immediate comfort...pfffft.

This morning the headmaster came and did the welcoming and then he used a metaphor which I have heard before but which is still beautiful. The metaphor goes like this: life is like a river and most people just jump in and tread water, Tony Robbins said this beautifully. He said, people jump in and get caught up by the current, current affairs, current news, current life... and when they get to the waterfall now they want to grab an oar and start peddling. The headmaster said something slightly different, he advised us to start swimming the moment we hit the water... and sometimes when we not swimming hard enough we will just stand still but even that is better than going downstream... in the famous words of Dory in Finding Nemo, Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming.

Schools start officially on Wednesday. Let’s analyze the positives: I have an air conditioned classroom, with an uncapped internet line... the classes are terribly small…I have a swimming pool in my backyard, yes I do live on campus so everything at the school is now my backyard. Okay I think that’s enough random talk for now.

So why the title? the world will end 21.12.2012-read all about it: http://www.endoftime2012.com/

HEAT!

2011-10-25T10:21:00.003+02:00

When its hot we complain and when its cold we complain... so difficult to just find that middle ground... kids are running wild with the water and throwing water at anything that moves! In the mean time we need to teach and try and drill something solid into their heads in this heat.

We're doing film study at the moment on Hoodwinked(The Red Riding Hood Story) think its too upper level for these kids. Anyway, lets try and focus on the last two weeks of grade 8. The great thing about teaching is that the terms go so quick.

All Joburgers, keep hydrated and use sunscreen!

last Term

2011-10-17T14:33:00.002+02:00

Here i sit in an empty classroom. thinking about the teacher somewhere in the sixties that hung himself in this very school. i am told his ghost still marches through the corridors at night. i usually don't stay that late to actually find out. But i do know what could drive a teacher to that... a teacher's life is simple, the problems are few but they add up and sometimes too quickly. Today was one of those Monday's when I almost ended a child's life with a flying kick. this is what happened, i was talking to child A and asking him why he felt the need to talk while the school anthem was being sung. child 'e' (called this because it will be his highest achievement at school-if he's lucky) butts in and says I'm blind... to which I prepared the flying kick but never launched it... should've though. Anyway i left him with enough insults to have a negative effect on his grandchildren. again if only we could beat the demons out of these kids.... i digress.

Tonight we have a Valedictory Ceremony for the grade 12's and we have to be here in toga and all... So i got my Toga today just need to be here and try and look alive. I shared my overseas experience today with one class and after that i told them what their futures are most likely to end up like i.e. watching pirates and Chiefs fight it out week after week month after month, where we pretend to really be into this soccer thing but in essence all we are using it as is an excuse to drink... surely if one soccer team beats another three times in a row... it should end... why would they want to fight it out year after year... generation after generation.... its not even a league anymore. I also told them that people from Randfontein were generally narrow sighted, they either don't go to Keywest mall because there's too many 'boers' or westgate because there's too many blacks and the rest of the malls is just too far. the parents who do have money take the kids with them when they gamble or they spend December's in Durban... majority of them, though, have not seen the sea. I try to tell them that there is slightly more to life... i hope 1 kid out of the 260 take me to heart.

Some people say I should share the gospel with them. which I do when I get a chance but this is a tough bunch pretty much set in their ways the way their parents are... there is no winning with them. The greatest part of being a teacher by calling is that you never cease in trying, you will force and force until they leave the school. many teachers are here just for the money, which is not much i may add but money is money when you have nothing.

So this is enough from today's ramblings... I will try and direct more thoughts to write something more specific next time!

Is this what you call a dictator?

2011-09-16T10:41:00.000+02:00

1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.

2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.

3. Home considered a human right in Libya

4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.

Is this what you call a dictator
Traditional wedding in Tripoli, Libya

5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 83%.

6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kick-start their farms – all for free.

7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government funds them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US$2,300/mth accommodation and car allowance.

8. In Libyan, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.

9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter.

10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally.

11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.

12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.

13. A mother who gave birth to a child receive US$5,000

14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15

15. 25% of Libyans have a university degree

16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Man-Made River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.

Which other dictator has done much good to his people

Empty Classroom

2011-09-15T11:43:00.002+02:00

So here I sit in this empty classroom reflecting on the emptiness of the common grade eighter's head. This was a rough week... I say again man was not intended to educate 43 kids in a classroom. 43 personalities, 43 different ways of thinking, 43 different homes, 43 ugly faces....aaaarrrggghh! I'm just so annoyed today, I spoke to a parent who asked me if it was her responsibility or mine to discipline the child... the cheek! Anyway I am currently trying to teach them 12th night... all I can say on this topic is trying. They understand that the book is orange... the pages are white and the writing is in black... they understand the page numbers... these are the things i can vouch for..... the rest... nah!

I had a visit from the department on Monday and they were quite peeved that my files were not up to scratch, let me say this, if you do a file in 2 hours on a Sunday evening, what do you expect... especially if this file is supposed to reflect 3 terms of work....

The exams are starting next week and some clever jack put down English test 3 times on the time table... what the goal is with this little exercise-I don't know! Anyway onto more positive things... I now live only 4kms away from school yipee!(NOT) nice little old age-home-type area.

I spoke to someone today who got so angry that they want another job... I asked her, how could you want another job when you only work 8 months out of 12.... needless to say the daggers she shot could have seriously injured me.

Let me move on to my next class and attempt once again-THE IMPOSSIBLE!

Quote of the day: There is none so dumb as they who resist learning.DD

Corporal punishment contd.

2011-09-05T08:12:00.003+02:00

So last week we had a very busy week... weed smokers and the like. What I don't understand is why teenagers feel the need to smoke at school... you can smoke before school or after and no-one would bother you... at least no-one from the school. Last week I snapped. There were cops all over the school, some kids trying to beat each other to death... is this what school is all about? This is definitely not what I studied for. I remember sitting in my classes at Varsity talking about group work and adding meaning to learner’s life, I never imagined this. I must commend the teachers who deal with this on a daily basis and still feel led to come back to school and teach regardless of the criminal elements in the school.

So I decided to address my issues with one of the cops and he agreed with me what these kids needed was a solid hiding... something to wake them up from this paralysis that happened somewhere in their junior phase... thinking they're untouchable. This attitude gets carried right through school and right through life, the display by the ANCYL last week is a fantastic example of exactly that.

But back to my feelings, I AM SO ANNOYED by this. Nothing in a school ever affected me so much. We don't get a danger allowance; we don't get to walk around with guns or weapons so why should we teach when learners are allowed to come to school like this. My proposal is this: assign 3 teachers at the school with corporal punishment rights, send letters out to the parents asking them for the right to beat their kids if they misbehave, every time the kids get a hiding then the slate gets wiped clean again. Else if the parents disagree with this then we follow the three step plan proposed by the people who sit in offices and don't know what is really going on at the schools.

I'm out for now but watch this space... there will be more!

Corporal punishment still in schools

2011-08-25T07:59:00.002+02:00

Johannesburg – Corporal punishment is still common in

South African schools even though it was banned more than a decade ago.

Recent research showed that up to 70% of primary school and 50% of high school pupils were still subjected to corporal punishment.

Gerhard Olivier, vice-principal of the Eendracht Primary School in Pretoria, was recently awarded his Master's degree at the University of Pretoria. He did research on teachers' perceptions of corporal punishment and the reasons why they still administered it even though it is against the law.

Six teachers who administered corporal punishment at three Pretoria schools with different cultural backgrounds were involved in the study.

The study showed that teachers were well-informed about the consequences should they administer corporal punishment. They felt, however, it was acceptable if done reasonably.

They were frustrated and believed corporal punishment was an effective way of maintaining discipline in over-crowded classrooms. Many still viewed it as an effective "classroom aid".

The research showed some of the teachers didn't think other methods of discipline were as successful as corporal punishment. Some of them had tried other methods but had limited success with them.

Teachers also believed the department's poor support on how alternatives for corporal punishment should be applied, contributed to the ineffectiveness of these methods.

They claimed the abolishment of corporal punishment was forced on them too quickly while they were not trained in other methods. The teachers said they were not consulted when corporal punishment was scrapped in schools.

The teachers said they had over the past decades done many workshops, seminars and training sessions but seldom received information on different methods of disciplining children.

The main reasons why teachers still administered corporal punishment, appeared to be difficult to control, over-crowded class rooms. Language problems were also cited as reasons.

Apart from these, poor morale under teachers, limited work satisfaction and high stress levels made efficient teaching and learning impossible.

Teachers were convinced that corporal punishment educated children, improved the quality of teaching and academic achievement.

The study found that although corporal punishment damaged the rights of pupils, the practice continued because many teachers saw it as the only way to maintain discipline.

Olivier in his research pointed to another South African study done between 2003 and 2006 under pupils of 16 and older in which was found 51% had received corporal punishment from a teacher or principal.

Olivier said he regularly encountered the view that corporal punishment should be brought back. He believed teachers should accept that it would never again be legalised.

His recommendation was that smaller classrooms and acceptable alternatives for corporal punishment that were realistic to teachers' working conditions were looked at.

http://langbulang.blogspot.com/2007/10/corporal-punishment.html

Riots

2011-08-16T08:40:00.001+02:00

Riots everywhere. Watching the riots in London made me think of the little story that happened in Stephen Kings book Under the Dome. There is this one bit in the book where a riot breaks out and people start looting. Their excuse is obviously that everyone else was doing it so why not us.... there was someone else in control though who allowed this to happen so that he could exercise more control over the town people, basically use that incident to show everyone that 'now can you see why you need extra security?'

Anyway be that as it may... Back to school matters, I spent 3 hours out in the bitter cold yesterday collecting funds for the RACA. I managed to steal away for 15 mins to watch our school's 15minute minimum, it was mmmmmmm how shall i put it? it was both good and original, unfortunately the parts that were good were not original and the parts that were original were not good.

Before I forget, I went to see Planet of the apes on Saturday and i must commend the director it was excellent!

Slightly Perturbed

2011-08-12T08:59:00.001+02:00

Okay so the topic of the day is disagreements. What is it about disagreements that upset us so much? Shouldn’t disagreements be a natural thing? After all aren’t there going to be people that do not share your opinion? Why are so easily angered? Is it because we feel belittled, ashamed or insulted? I’m asking because there must always be an underlying factor. In every workplace there are always fights, bosses with employees, employees with employees… a constant power struggle. I know I might be approaching this very vaguely but let’s just say I don’t want to implicate any specific situation or people. This morning on the radio someone was extremely upset because the words “previously disadvantaged” refers to the greater community of black people and thus he called it reverse racism… I wondered to myself what this persons views were during the apartheid regime? Did he call in to radio stations to announce his disagreements? Or was it just because he was affected now? It seems to me that when we get upset we ask all the wrong questions… the first one of coarse being; “why did this upset me so much?”

Camp 2011

2011-08-10T08:19:00.003+02:00

I had a really great time at Deo Gloria this year. Firstly, it was very cold, Secondly, it was very cold... We had a good few services and workshops, not forgetting the fun and games ofcoarse! Late nights and early mornings took their toll on me and now I have a swollen eye and a scratchy throat... but it was all worth it!

The topics dealt with over the weekend ranged from Adoption, marriage counselling and ofcoarse "better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof... and lots lots more.

I think next year I will definitely take my own heater and electric blanket because, lastly, it was very cold!

Randfontein Arts & Culture Academy

2011-08-04T08:40:00.002+02:00

Discipline at schools

2011-08-04T08:16:00.002+02:00

In this morning's times newspaper Prof Jonathon Jansen raises an important point WRT the other side of the principal beating the learner half to death. No one can really understand the pressure of teaching unless you're a teacher and parents are quick to jump in defense of their near perfect children and yet they leave them in the care of someone else for a minimum of 6hrs a day for 12 years-OFCOARSE discipline will be an issue! but the working parent who only gets to see his beloved child over weekends overlooks the imperfections of his child and would rather take a teacher to court than try and solve the problems at hand.

Next let me take you to page 2 of the Sowetan today, where two teachers thought they wouldnt beat the child to death instead they would do the sensible thing, the first world thing, the right thing and visited the parent of a disruptive learner. the parent being a traffic officer told them they are more than welcome to come but when they arrived he cuffed them at gunpoint and nearly beat them to death with a knob kierie... (http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2011/08/04/traffic-cop-father-beats-up-teachers)

Someone is going to be beaten to death the question is, who?

Parents and Teenagers

2011-08-03T07:58:00.002+02:00

This is a topic I will again address at a later stage. Right now my girls are very far from being teenagers although Eden talks about it a lot. Anyway here is what happened, yesterday one of the girls in grade eight was taking too long with her hair, her dad got over excited and pulled out the clippers and shaved her head clean off... now that is unacceptable behavior. The poor kid is so embarrassed and has to walk around with a beenie all day, shame. Anyway with parents you always want to do the "right" thing which sometimes ends in being the wrong thing because we tend to forget what it was like. the reason i want to approach this topic at a later stage is because there is doing too much and there is doing too little and we all know "those" parents who allow their kids to call them by their first name and we also know those parents whose kids look like they're in the army... so where does one draw the line?

Anyway this weekend we are attending a youth and young married couples camp so I will be providing feedback as soon as I can.

Black to move. How can Black save this game?

2011-08-02T11:30:00.001+02:00

Another Tuesday at school

2011-08-02T11:20:00.003+02:00

Okay someone just vomited in my class. Its the 5th period of the day and the kids have just returned from break and as you can imagine the energy levels are high, i have given them work to do so I can quickly update my blog. I have revived the chess team at the school and am looking forward to coaching the learners to new heights.

The lesson for this week in my English classes is poetry, so I'm trying to teach the learners about different types of poetry, the rhyme scheme etc etc. boring stuffs. With one class I did sonnet 116 and the other sonnet 8. Obviously this was higher grade to the grade eight's who can just about handle ring a ring a rosie.

Last night we were handing out reports until 7pm so the day was very long, so today I'm planning to be out of here by 2 not a minute later. I still need to complete my prep for 12th Night which is due next week so wish me luck.

That's all for now

I am Back

2011-07-31T20:56:00.001+02:00

Okay i am back. i hope i will make it good this time. anyway heres the thing. I got swallowed by the Facebook craze, updating my life there as if I'm some kind of celebrity. So here's the deal: i was working in I.T. until September 2010 and now I have returned to teaching... this is mostly what i will blog about and my travels for now... lets hope this goes according to plan this time!

How true is this?

2008-09-17T08:33:00.000+02:00

This is what is wrong with Hip Hop

2008-09-10T12:09:00.000+02:00

Brilliantly Confusing

2008-08-27T15:09:00.003+02:00

Designing a Logo

2008-08-20T09:24:00.000+02:00

Olympic Fingersports

2008-08-13T10:51:00.002+02:00

Beijing Olympics

2008-08-06T09:45:00.000+02:00

Temptation

2008-07-30T08:56:00.002+02:00

Keep this in mind the next time you are about to repeat a rumour.

2008-07-29T12:53:00.001+02:00

In ancient Greece (469 - 399 BC), Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day an acquaintance ran up to him excitedly and said, "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about one of your students?""Wait a moment," Socrates replied. "Before you tell me I'd like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test.""Triple filter?" asked the acquaintance."That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my student let's take a moment to filter what you're going to say. The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you are about to tell me is true?""No," the man said, "actually I just heard about it.""All right," said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what you are about to tell me about my student something good?""No, on the contrary ...""So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about him, even though you're not certain it's true?"The man shrugged, a little embarrassed. Socrates continued." You may still pass the test though, because there is a third filter - the filter of Usefulness. Is what you want to tell me about my student going to be useful to me?""No, not really...""Well," concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither True nor Good nor even Useful, why tell it to me at all?"The man was defeated and ashamed. This is the reason Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high esteem.

The wishes of our children

2008-07-21T13:33:00.002+02:00

Who said cycling isn't a contact sport?

2008-07-14T09:41:00.002+02:00

Jesus is the Answer

2008-06-20T10:17:00.001+02:00

Divorce cakes

2008-06-19T08:29:00.001+02:00

fathers day

2008-06-12T08:11:00.002+02:00

The Evolution of robbery

2008-06-06T08:26:00.001+02:00

!!BaBiEs!!

2008-06-04T12:30:00.000+02:00

The Dilemma

2008-05-23T06:40:00.003+02:00

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk rejection.
To place your dreams before the crowd is to risk ridicule.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To go forward in the face of overwhelming odds is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love.
Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave.
He has forfeited his freedom.
Only a person who takes risks is free.

Get more here:
http://cndcountrygifts.com/poetry.html

The 84 year old bride

2008-05-15T09:13:00.001+02:00

Striped Icebergs

2008-05-14T12:44:00.002+02:00

Some thoughts on Perfection

2008-05-07T13:59:00.000+02:00

So here I was laying in bed thinking about things and those things started thinking about their own things which also gave birth to their own thoughts… the point being that one of those thoughts reached a higher level of evolution in my brain and that’s what I thought I’d write down before it gave birth to newer more exciting thoughts. Anyway here’s the deal: Did you ever notice how it is that we hate perfection. We like thinking about it we love talking about it… discussing it among our friends and even in our religions perfection seems almost farfetched and better suited for the afterlife (the cooler side of coarse - no-one I know imagines a perfect fire). It all started last year sometime while I silently obeserved a male species who was struggling to find love for a very long time and suddenly chanced upon the most beautiful girl he’d ever chanced upon. She fell for him long before he had a chance to fall for her which gave him the upper hand for the mean time. It was beautiful, everyone was so proud and he was showing his trophy about wherever he went. Although in all fairness it has to be said that the first reaction people had to this was: “how on earth does a girl like that fall for a guy like this?” They eventually got over the initial thought and unanimously agreed that it was well deserved. Nevertheless this wonderful thing came to an abrupt end not more than two months after it began, he ended it. Why, you may ask?? Exactly is my answer! Oh, you’d like to know why… he felt, and told me this with the straightest of faces, she was way too young for him(he 30, she 23), he had too much baggage, she was extremely religious and he was the prodigal son that would come back on his own not through the love for a woman etc. This thought played on my mind for a while by itself before it met its perfect match and paired off and gave birth and so on. But last night the original thought re-occurred to me and I realised that this girl was too perfect for the guy and that’s why he decided to dump her. I through this thought around at some of my peers and realised that as soon as something goes too well or near perfect we feel that we’re being setup for failure and in a way I think we actually just create that failure by thinking it because like all actions, it started with a singular thought that met another thought that paired off and gave birth and so on. Please indulge me with your thoughts…

Mad cow

2008-04-11T10:47:00.001+02:00

Thoughts on mugabe

2008-04-09T14:27:00.002+02:00

Meals after the petrol increase.

2008-04-03T14:51:00.003+02:00

Nothing better than a cold glass of water...

2008-04-03T09:11:00.000+02:00

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this "sludge" reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal. A serious note about heart attacks - You should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive. (A cardiologist says if everyone who reads this message sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.

all that for one loaf of bread

2008-03-27T11:48:00.000+02:00

Wordless wednesday

2008-03-19T13:21:00.002+02:00

Creed of the South African white kid

2008-03-18T10:57:00.000+02:00

We are sorry that our ancestors were intelligent, advanced and daring enough to explore the wild oceans to discover new countries and to concur and develop these.

We are sorry that those who came before us took you out of the bush and taught you that there was more to life than beating drums and chasing animals with sticks and stones.

We are sorry that they planed, funded and developed roads, towns, mines, factories, airports, all of which you now claim to be your long deprived inheritance so you have full right to change and rename these at your discretion.

We are sorry that our parents taught us the value of small be strong families, to not breed like rabbits and end up as underfed, illiterate shack dwellers living in poverty.

We are sorry that when they provided you with schools, you decided it looked better without windows or in piles of ashes. We happily gave up those bad days of getting spanked in our all white schools for doing something wrong, and much prefer these days of freedom where problems can be resolved with knives and guns.

We are sorry that it is hard to shake off the bitterness of the past when you keep on raping, torturing and killing our friends and family members, and then hide behind the fence of 'human rights' with smiles on your faces.

We are sorry that we do not trust the government. We have no reason to be so suspicious and short sighted seeing that there has never been a case where any of these poor hard working intellectuals were involved in any form of corruption or irregularities.

We are sorry that we do not trust the police force and although they have openly admitted that they have lost the war against crime and criminals, we should not be so negative and just keep on hoping for the best.

We are sorry that we basically flung open our border posts, and now left you competing for jobs against illegal immigrants from our beautiful neighboring countries. All these countries that have grown so strong after kicking out the 'settlers', you should follow their excellent example and grow big and strong like them!

We are sorry that we don't believe in witchcraft, beetroot and garlic, urinating on street corners or trading woman for cattle, maybe we just grew up differently.

So sorry that when we are forced into sharing the same establishments, sometimes we loose our temper, that is totally uncalled for.

We are sorry that your medical care, water supplies, roads, and your electrical supplies are going down the toilet because skilled people who could have planned and resolved these issues had to be shown away because they were of the wrong ethnic background and now has to work in foreign countries where their skills are more needed.

We are so sorry and should really try harder to be more tolerant and learn to get along with EVERYBODY around us, one big happy family.

The Dumb White Kid

Cape Argus 2008

2008-03-13T08:03:00.003+02:00

This year I did my first Argus. With two 94.7 races in my legs I thought I was ready…
Everything was perfect, my bike landed on time-without anything missing-thanks to the airways for that, I had a few easy rides before the race, was psyched up… perfect weather… what more could we ask for?
I have been cycling for about two years now, so with very little experience I figured let me try and catch a pack and stick with them… immediately after hospital bend I found a slow enough pack and stuck with them. Unfortunately our female leader – all dressed in pink, for no apparent reason, took a nose dive 2kms before Simons Town… With both my hands tightly squeezed over my brakes I was the fourth rider to hit her at around 60kph. With bloody legs… I tried to help those who suffered the same fate as me and was pushed aside by an official screaming “ don’t touch her!”… I tried, my bike seemed fine so I jumped back on, blood dripping into my “free” white socks I got from last years 94.7 - thinking “it’s not too bad I only lost about 15mins”. However, 3 kms after simons town I hit a cat eye… these are those hard insensitive creatures who have no respect for cyclists wheels. As I was changing my tyre, an official and his wife dressed my burning wounds with some more burning liquid - bless their souls… Everything else was a blur until I hit Chapmans… halfway up, legs on fire-inside and out, chest burning, my foot slips out of my pedal(isn’t this where cleats differentiates us from the normal pedal cyclists? WE DON’T SLIP OUT!!!) rendering me useless since I can only hook in my cleats while rolling…forward ofcoarse—could it get any worse? Finally “bitterbossie” the most humbling experience I have ever had as a cyclist-need I say more? Finishing in just over 4 hours, despite it all I have to admit that all in all this was the most beautiful race of my life!!!

Four stages of a mans life

2008-03-04T08:30:00.000+02:00

Drive or wait?

2008-02-07T08:45:00.000+02:00

I am Wordless

2008-01-16T01:27:00.000+02:00

"Great spirits have always been violently oppressed by mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein -

After the festive season

2008-01-08T08:58:00.000+02:00

Hi all Friends, loved ones and Family

2007-12-21T10:16:00.000+02:00

It's that time of the year again, just taking this opportunity to thank everyone who made 2007 a fabulous year.Hoping 2008 will be even better.

- For all those I've made promises to and never kept – it was not deliberate but I will
"improve" in 2008.
- Those that I owe lunches, movies, night out etc, I'll fix that aswell-u know I’m a busy
man
- For those that have supported me and made me smile through all my hardships.....5
Points...could’nt have done it without ya!!
- For those I've disagreed with, argued with and just never got along with......well, lets do some
introspection and come back “a clear head"...hopefully we'll improve our level of tolerance and
understanding with each other!
- Those that I've hurt.....unintentionally/intentionally....I've already apologized but "I'm Sorry"
again...
- For those that stuck a knife in my back..........the past is all forgotten....
- For those that have let me down.....oh well....life goes on!
- For the new FRIENDS that I've made: you ROCK!

Congratulations to all the newly weds etc...I hope to be invited to more weddings next year, no funerals please guys I cant take any losses anytime soon in the new year.....

But all in all, you guys have made 2007 a great year; I wish you and your loved ones prosperity, good health, wealth, happiness, greener pastures, abundant blessings, God's protection and a wonderful festive season.

May 2008 be the year you achieve great and wonderful things.
See you in the new year......

So lyk Sjokoladesous

2007-12-06T01:26:00.000+02:00

Pothole of the Month

2007-11-28T02:12:00.001+02:00

Protection

2007-11-15T01:54:00.000+02:00

Why do we need protection? I have two helmets currently dominating my life coz they tell me that without it my brain is at risk of damage... forget all the pollutants and microwave towers etc surely I stand a better chance of survival not wearing one of these? Or am I wrong?

I wanna be a pilot!

2007-11-13T08:38:00.000+02:00

I got this pic from a someone who is currently trying to sell his plane. This is what i am doing my PPL on, looks a bit like a microlite, but they class it as a plane i think because it has ailerons.

Anyway its alot of fun and also quite expensive... this little toy will set you back around 180k and has two twenty litre tanks i think that will take you around 400kms. So just something nice to mess around with...

Just a pity it only takes two people, no babies, no luggage.... nada... i think the Max all up weight is 280kg's.... All in all its a very nice Safrican creation.

My sympathies go out to the guys family who took me in my first flight in one of these in december 2004, he sadly had a crash while testing around 6 months ago.... what a pity. So if there is anyone who feels like sponsoring me please feel free to do so!

Being an African Pilot

2007-10-30T01:34:00.000+02:00

You are a South African bush pilot. You fly in some critical medical supplies, enjoy a quick lunch at the hospital.It's a stifling 100 degrees in the shade and you're eager to get back up to the cool, high blue yonder. On the way back to your plane, you discover that the only bit of shade within 10 miles has become very popular . . You start calculating the distance to the plane door, and wonder . . ."Do I feel lucky today?"

Latest Bluetooth

2007-10-17T07:30:00.000+02:00

So what? I bought a bike!

2007-10-16T07:16:00.001+02:00

Yeah so what? The reason I'm posting this article about the "BIKE" I bought is because some of my friends who try to belittle me refer to my ride as a scooter... I think they are hideously mistaken... so for those of you who did not know; this is how I get around these days... very fuel efficient... I fill the tank and after about 1000km's I throw out the old fuel and throw in new fuel... it just goes and goes and goes... It is a gutsy 150cc and on a downhill I can squeeze off about 100kph--the only draw back being that my right wrist really hurts after that! So please don't criticize my new mode-de-transport... while you're sitting in traffic I’m at my destination already... while you fill up R300 for a tank of fuel I’m filling up R29... the best part is that I am really enjoying it... There is only one other car

I could possibly drive again:

The Worlds Best Kept Auto Secret

2007-10-11T08:42:00.001+02:00

I have been driving (legally) for over a decade. One would think I would have noticed the little secret on my dash that was staring me right in the face the whole time. I didn’t and I bet you probably haven’t either.

Quick question, what side of your car is your gas tank? If you are anything like me, you probably can’t remember right away. My solution is to uncofortably stick my head out the window, strain my neck and look. If you don’t do this in your own car you definetly have done it in a borrowed or rental car.

Well ladies and gentlemen, I’m going to share with you my little secret so you will no longer look like Ace Ventura on your way to the gas station or put your neck at risk of uncomfort or injury.
If you look at your gas guage, you will see a small icon of a gas pump. The handle of the gas pump will extend out on either the left or right side of the pump. If your tank is on the left, the handle will be on the left. If your tank is on the right, the handle will be on the right (see photo above). It is that simple!

I don’t know how you feel right now but when I found out this morning I felt cheated!
Why don’t the dealers share such importnant information with car buyers? I don’t understand why this isn’t in the drivers ed manual? I don’t get why any mechanic I have ever been too or know has even thought of mentioning this to me? The only possible explantion can be that all these people probably don’t even know!

(www.cameltap.com)

How to tell you weren't Mom's favourite....

2007-10-10T06:49:00.000+02:00

IF YOU'RE NOT SURE OF YOUR PART

2007-10-09T07:14:00.000+02:00

I heard about a junior high music teacher who had just organized a band in her school. The
principal was so proud of the music teacher's efforts that without consulting her he decided
that the band should give a concert for the entire school. The music teacher wasn't so sure her young musicians were ready to give a concert, so she tried to talk the principal out of
holding the concert, to no avail.

Just before the concert was ready to begin, as the music teacher stood on the podium, she leaned forward and whispered to her nervous musicians, "If you're not sure of your part, just pretend to play."

And with that, she stepped back, lifted her baton and with a great flourish brought it down. Lo and behold, nothing happened! The band brought forth a resounding silence.

I can't help but wonder if we have the same problem in the church at
times. Christians may have the idea that since they're unsure of the part that they are to
play, they'll just sit and pretend. The problem is, when everyone is unsure of what part
they're supposed to play, the result is silence -- nothing gets done.

What is the solution? The solution is helping each and every member of the body of Christ
to learn their part. In I Corinthians 12 and Romans 12, Paul pictures the church as a body
with all of the different parts of that body having different functions.

"Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them..."
(Romans 12:6).

I can't do everything, and I certainly can't do everything well. But that's OK. The saxo-
phonist in an orchestra isn't expected to know how to play the drums. His talent is playing
the saxophone. His job is simply to make use of his talent and do the very best that he can.

Learn what your gift is, and then use it to the glory of God. Paul offers a list of possibi-
lities. Maybe your gift is speaking, or serving, or encouraging, or giving, or leading, or
showing mercy (Rom. 12:6-8).

Perhaps your gift is in that list, perhaps it's something else altogether. But, if you're not
sure of your part, please don't sit and pretend to play. Find out what your gift is and then
make use of it to the glory of God!

Mondays....

2007-10-08T07:22:00.000+02:00

Have a fantopotamus day!!!

2007-10-03T09:50:00.000+02:00

Life is not measured by the breaths we take...but by the moments that take our breath away

Nice little inventions

2007-10-01T02:25:00.000+02:00

Bush Dies

2007-09-18T08:20:00.000+02:00

Suicide

2007-09-12T09:43:00.001+02:00

Guess Who!

2007-09-07T09:09:00.000+02:00

Wordless Wednesday

2007-09-05T00:01:00.000+02:00

Wedding bells were ringing

2007-09-03T06:39:00.000+02:00

Congratulations to Charissa and Johnathon Nicholson

Wordless Wednesday

2007-08-29T09:17:00.000+02:00

FIREBALL

2007-08-25T07:47:00.000+02:00

Eleven people were injured when a hot air balloon's basket bursts into flames shortly after take-off in Canada. News24

who is the boss of your castle?

2007-08-24T07:54:00.000+02:00

Sometimes i feel like the cat but tonight i am the dawg!

After a thirteen hour shift

2007-08-23T06:34:00.000+02:00

Ze weather forecast for Wednesday is...

2007-08-22T06:23:00.000+02:00

WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD ?

2007-08-21T00:18:00.000+02:00

* KINDERGARTEN TEACHER: To get to the other side.

* PLATO : For the greater good.

* THE POPE: God knows.

* POLICEMAN: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll know why.

* ARISTOTLE : It is the nature of chickens to cross roads.

* CAPTAIN JAMES T. KIRK : To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

* MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives being called into question.

* MACHIAVELLI : The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The end of crossing the road justifies whatever motive there was.

* FREUD : The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.

* GEORGE W. BUSH (2): We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road or not. The chicken is either with us or it is against us. There is no middle ground here.

* DARWIN : Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads.

* EINSTEIN : Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road moved beneath the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

* NELSON MANDELA : Never again, will the chicken be questioned for crossing the road. This is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

* THABO MBEKI : We need to establish if really there is a connection between the chicken and the road.

* MUGABE : For all of these years the road has been owned by the white farmers, the poor underprivileged chicken has waited too long for that road to be given to him and now he is crossing it in force with his fellow war veteran chickens. We intend taking over this road and giving it to the roadless chickens so that they can cross it without fear of retribution from Britain who promised money to institute road reform. We will not stop until all roadless chickens have roads to cross and the freedom to cross them.

* ISAAC NEWTON : Any chicken in the universe shall always cross a road perpendicularly to the side of the road, and in an infinitely long straight line at uniform speed, unless the chicken stops due to an unbalanced reactive force in the opposite direction of the chicken's motion.

* ZANU (PF) Spokesman: The chicken did not cross the road. This is a complete fabrication. We don't even have a single chicken in our country as the whole world knows. All the chickens were bought and consumed by the long-suffering masses at give-away prices when we sent out our comrades to enforce what our enemies are now unpatriotically and maliciously referring to as the largest closing down sale in the world.

* JACOB ZUMA : I am gravely suspicious that this question is being asked with a malicious intention to trap me, send the Scorpions to raid my chicken run, haul me before the courts and charge me for sodomizing the chicken that walked across the road towards me as it was running away from an advancing light shower! Awuleth' umshini wam' ........!!!

Monday Blues

2007-08-20T06:19:00.000+02:00

Wordless Wednessday

2007-08-15T09:31:00.000+02:00

Wordless Wednessday

2007-08-08T07:44:00.000+02:00

Who Drives a Golf?

2007-08-06T08:04:00.000+02:00

How do you Upgrade a GOLF?A: Put in an engine.------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: Why do GOLF's have heated rear windows?A: To keep your hands warm when you're pushing them.------------------------------------------------------------------------Q. What's the difference between a GOLF and the principal's office?A. It's less embarrassing if your friends see you leaving theprincipal's office.------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: What goes on pages 4-5 of the GOLF's user's manual?A: The train & bus schedule.------------------------------------------------------------------------A man goes to a parts garage:Man: "Can I have a windshield wiper for a GOLF please?"Parts man: "Yeah, that seems like a fair swap."------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: What is the sport-version of GOLF?A: The driver wears Nike shoes.------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: What do you call a GOLF at the top of a hill?A: A miracle.------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: What do you call two GOLF's at the top of a hill?A: A mirage.------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: What do you call a GOLF with dual exhausts?A: A wheelbarrow.------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: How do you double the value of a GOLF ?A: Half fill it with petrol!------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: What do you call a GOLF with brakes?A: Customized.------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: What do you have to do if your GOLF gets in the way of a swarm ofkiller bees?A: Stop pushing and take refuge into the car.------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: What is the GOLF owner's most ardent wish?A: To buy a car.------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: What do you call a GOLF with a seat belt?A: A rucksack.------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: How do you make a GOLF go faster uphill?A: Throw out the passenger.------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: How do you make a GOLF go faster downhill?A: Turn off the engine.------------------------------------------------------------------------Q: What do you call a GOLF with a flat tire?A: A write off.------------------------------------------------------------------------GOLF has announced a new 16 Valve model for 2006.8 in the engine, 4 in the radio and 1 in each tyre.------------------------------------------------------------------------*I can see you've got a new car - a GOLF!*Yes, I won the second prize in a lottery.*What was the first prize then?*A fruit-basket.------------------------------------------------------------------------GOLF's are so slow that you actually have to wipe off the bugs from therear end of the car

F1 Accident

2007-08-01T06:31:00.000+02:00

The Main Ou

2007-07-31T09:19:00.000+02:00

This is my wordless tuesday

BMW E92

2007-07-30T07:59:00.000+02:00

Daily I dream...

Women's pants to be set on fire

2007-07-25T04:46:00.000+02:00

Interesting article a friend sent me... makes one wonder what happened to the morality of this world. A hundred years ago the white man came to tell our natives that being half naked is not a civilized thing to do... so with that in mind did we then become less civilized that the natives were 100 years ago?

Women found wearing trousers in T Section in Umlazi, Durban, risk beingstripped to their underwear, having the offending clothing set alight andbeing barred from living in the area.

That was the resolution taken at a meeting this week after Zandile Mpanzawas made to walk the streets naked and forced to leave the area after anangry mob burnt down her shack, The Mercury newspaper reports.

Her "crime" was wearing trousers while walking in the area.

Residents said the ban on females wearing pants had been restricted to one part of T Section, but had been introduced throughout the section after theincident.

Professor Anand Singh, a social anthropologist at the University ofKwaZulu-Natal, said the attitudes of men in Umlazi's T Section wereoutdated, but could have been influenced by globalisation, which had madepeople romanticise about the past.

Sapa

Wordless Wednessday

2007-07-18T02:40:00.000+02:00

The Ten Commandments of cell phone etiquette

2007-07-16T00:43:00.000+02:00

1. Thou shalt not subject defenseless others to cell phone conversations. When people cannot escape the banality of your conversation, such as on the bus, in a cab, on a grounded airplane, or at the dinner table, you should spare them. People around you should have the option of not listening. If they don't, you shouldn't be babbling.

2. Thou shalt not set thy ringer to play La Cucaracha every time thy phone rings. Or Beethoven's Fifth, or the Bee Gees, or any other annoying melody. Is it not enough that phones go off every other second? Now we have to listen to synthesized nonsense? Actually just put it on vibrate!

3. Thou shalt turn thy cell phone off during public performances. I'm not even sure this one needs to be said, but given the repeated violations of this heretofore unwritten law, I felt compelled to include it.

4. Thou shalt not wear more than two wireless devices on thy belt. This hasn't become a big problem yet. But with plenty of techno-jockeys sporting pagers and phones, Batman-esque utility belts are sure to follow. Let's nip this one in the bud.

5. Thou shalt not SMS while driving. In all seriousness, this madness has to stop. There are enough people in the world who have problems mastering vehicles and phones individually. Put them together and we have a serious health hazard on our hands.

6. Thou shalt not wear thy earpiece when thou art not on thy phone. This is not unlike being on the phone and carrying on another conversation with someone who is physically in your presence. No one knows if you are here or there. Very disturbing.

7. Thou shalt not speak louder on thy cell phone than thou would on any other phone. These things have incredibly sensitive microphones, and it's gotten to the point where I can tell if someone is calling me from a cell because of the way they are talking, not how it sounds. If your signal cuts out, speaking louder won't help, unless the person is actually within earshot.

8. Thou shalt not grow too attached to thy cell phone. For obvious reasons, a dependency on constant communication is not healthy. At work, go nuts. At home, give it a rest.

9. Thou shalt not attempt to impress with thy cell phone. Not only is using a cell phone no longer impressive in any way (unless it's one of those really cool new phones with the space age design), when it is used for that reason, said user can be immediately identified as a neophyte and a poseur.

10. Thou shalt not slam thy cell phone down on a restaurant table just in case it rings. This is not the Old West, and you are not a gunslinger sitting down to a game of poker in the saloon. Could you please be a little less conspicuous? If it rings, you'll hear it just as well if it's in your coat pocket or clipped on your belt.

Well, I'm all thou-ed and thy-ed out, so there you have it: the first 10 rules of using your cell phone. Most of these seem like common sense to me, but they all get broken every day. There is one more though that i wanted to add but that would make it 11 commandments and that doesn't suit the type well.... it is rude to interupt someone while they're talking... the same applies to being at a climax of a conversation and being interupted byt a cel phone and then putting the conversationee on hold for your phone... that is just wrong....

can you think of any more?

facebook explained

2007-07-13T06:42:00.000+02:00

So are you on facebook?

Wordless Wednessday [15]

2007-07-11T09:41:00.000+02:00

The problems we hand ourselves

2007-07-06T07:24:00.000+02:00

Isn't this the truth?

2007-07-03T10:23:00.000+02:00

I bought myself a new scooter. I wanted something that was easy on gas and could zip Me to the store and about town.This seems to meet my EVERY need.

I love it!

Remember:Senior Citizens Are Valuable

We are more valuable than any of the younger generations:

We have silver in our hair.

We have gold in our teeth.

We have stones in our kidneys.

We have lead in our feet and.

We are loaded with natural gas

My Baby

2007-06-28T07:56:00.000+02:00

Wordless Wednessday [14]

2007-06-27T09:27:00.000+02:00

Monday Morning

2007-06-25T03:20:00.000+02:00

Evil Sign?

2007-06-21T06:13:00.000+02:00

I was in a friends Alfa romeo and took this pic off from his steering wheel. what is up with this emblem? Is it evil or what?

Wordless Wednessday [13]

2007-06-20T06:54:00.001+02:00

HOW TO SURVIVE A SHARK ATTACK:

2007-06-19T09:32:00.000+02:00

1: Don't swim in the ocean. Ninety-nine percent of all shark attacks take place in exceptionally large bodies of water also known as oceans.The way to determine if you are currently in an ocean is to taste thewater, which should be salty.

2: Listen out for the music.In the event that you are foolish enough to swim in an ocean, listencarefully for the music, as demonstrated in the marvelous documentaryfilm Jaws. All shark attacks are preceded by the " daah-da, daah-da"chords, which will gradually become more rapid as the shark getscloser. This is due to the Doppler Effect.

3: Swim with fat people.Try to surround yourself with more appetizing companions.If you know them well, you might even try to switch their suntan lotion with A-1 Steak Sauce. This will definitely improve your odds.

4: Don't go into the water without a knife.This is not to defend yourself but to stab the person (a.k.a the decoy) closest to you in the case of a shark attack. Once you are sure the "decoy" is bleeding profusely.....swim for your freekin life.

And finaly.....

5: Don't panic.In the event that a shark actually bites you, try to remain calm. Thisreally won't help you survive, but everyone else on the beach willappreciate you not shrieking madly, as this is quite unsettling

Happy Friday

2007-06-15T07:18:00.000+02:00

My in-laws sent us a text message from New York last night... I am currently Bright Green with envy...

I NEED A HOLIDAY!!!!

Life is Simple

2007-06-14T07:12:00.000+02:00

The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just makethe best of everything.
Live simply.
Love generously.
Care deeply.
Speak kindly.
Leave the rest to God!!

Wordless Wednessday [12]

2007-06-13T07:43:00.000+02:00