My day in a nutshell

Misery is...

• Forgetting to put your headlights off the whole day.
  
• Having the code break-down and breaking the whole system after 5pm on a Friday evening.
  
• Working late on said Friday.
  
• Missing an important schmooze-fest (aka networking opportunity) at the annual ISACA awards ceremony which was free in Sandton today after planning a whole year for it.
  
• Leaving the office after 7.30pm on said Friday and starting Sly and getting total silence.
  
• Realising the consequences of leaving the headlights on the whole day!!!
  

I hope this is no indication of how my weekend is going to be.

Happiness is...

• Arriving for work only 30minutes late.
  
• Finding out that an assigned task was much easier than expected after so much angst over how to solve it.
  
• Good Samaritans pushing and jump starting your car after you've already called the tow – line services for FREE!
  
• 500ml of home-made strawberry smoothie J
  

And now for the moment you've all been waiting for...

That right thurrr is my foot courtesy of some unknown sea creature. The photos are not so good and don't show anything about how itchy it was. Feast your eyes on my beautiful appendage :-)))

Deserving of their own post

Feeling much better now. Sunday night i kept waking up while choking on saliva. The following two comments are trully deserving of their own posts so that we all can appreciate what we have, and she couldn't have said it better. So here goes:

last night our dear darling Eme was cutely cuddled in Papa's arms - he fit
in so well in the nooks and crannies of papa's arms me and missy ayado were
wishing our camera was near coz it was trully a kodak moment!!! he looked so
sweet settled and peaceful, were told daddy as much that he gives the young dude
alot of peace. you should see eme, he poses exactly like daddy these days, his
expressions, thoughts, mannerisms, crossing his legs, wearing a kofia wearing a
jacket-the exact similar way papa does. Where papa keeps his shoes, even papa
keeps his too!!! its too hilarious sometimesin many ways i envy him, he gets to
spend alot of quality time with a very good man, a patient and loving man and he
is getting to learn alot of good stuff from him...oh we need to thank God for
that, papa teaches him alot, papa doesnt seem to loose his temper with him the
way we do daily!!! poor eme he gets yelled at sometimes a bit too much i
think!!! Papa reminds me of how Jesus Christ is with us, patient and kind and we
are always short tempered!!!! Basically Eme is learning alot and we thank God -
even how first he has wezad to talk is all because of papa's influence

The rat!!!How is it now that I don’t know how to put headings in this blog???!!!!Last night papa killed a rat/or yesterday papa killed a rat using that our famous rat trap. How is it now that me and Eme and papa are the only ones remaining in the sitting room because all and sundry have gone to bed – order of the day sometimes…we three remain to bond and catch up…then papa goes to check on his rat trap and finds a dead rat just like he and missy kafupi had predicted…then he calls me and asks if I want to go and see the dead fellow and so I carry my Eme and we go and do you know what? Eme says toto – he is calling the dead rat a toto!!! So we kinda scare him a bit with it and the little man is giggling himself silly not scared at all and wanting to touch it!!!! Now he is my hero, he thinks the rat is a toto!!! At this point me and papa are tickled silly so we toss the dead rat over the fence and come back in doors!!!Na haya ndio mazingaombwe yetu! And what is mazingaombwe anyway???

Sick as a dog!

This is amongst the worst colds that I've had in a long while. My chest pains and my taste buds are totally gone. Will see how it goes by Monday. Imagine most private doctors here don't work on weekends. This place is really funny, even essential services are closed on the weekend. I doubt I will ever get used to that even two years later it still baffles me how any businesses in this country make money! Report at 9am, knock-off at 4-4.30pm, take numerous smoking brakes and a lunch break and various tea breaks…it baffles me.

In other news, Sylvia was fixed and I'm officially broke until the end of the month. They had to replace loads of things, but at least now she's starting much faster and that knocking metallic sound isn't there anymore. Another advantage with going to the dealer is that all their parts are guaranteed for a year or 20k km, so we all know where I will be if I hear even the funniest sound. Anyway, let me wait until tomorrow morning and see if the starting has really improved and she doesn't have a hard start any more.

This is another post from Word, it really is quite handy because it does actually spell-check and stuff. The only disadvantage, actually there are 2, firstly, the other day I also posted a photo but somehow it didn't appear, I think I just need to figure out how to do that because the functionality is there. Secondly, I can't leave my blog permanently registered on my work laptop because I don't want any of those people accidentally stumbling upon it.

Hope you are all having good weekends. I'm watching TV now, and its slim pickings I tell you, it's a choice between:

• Local football (with the commentary in a local lingua!).
  
• WWE wrestling - which I'm getting back into watching because of no other choice…I must admit I quite enjoy it once again…brings back memories of when I was obsessed with it. Right now I'm really looking forward to the "Battle of the Millionaires", between wrestlers fighting for Vince McMann and Donald Trump. Whoever's wrestler looses, will have his hair cut off. I know I'm just too sad. Imagine "The Undertaker" still wrestles; he must be the grand-daddy of them all, though I also saw Austin Powers. Ok, enough of that already.
  
• World Cup Cricket – the bane of my existence. It comes on my favourite station, which also happens to be the most interesting station. Did you guys know that a cricket game can take a whole game? I mean they even stop for lunch I think! Who takes the whole day to sit in a stadium to watch and what do they do for/about work? Thank God, we are almost at the end. But they will probably have those nasty one day internationals as well. You should hear how excitedly the men at work discuss it.
  
• Athletics – Again with a commentary in the local language.
  

Need I say more? Clearly, we all see how desperately I need cable TV. I hope I can be able to afford it soon. One the other hand maybe I should just not get it because God knows that will be the end of life as I know it, I will never leave the house again! Apparently MNet is planning to show Big Brother, Survivor and Pop Idols this year from around August. Wooo hoooo! By the way, did the free hour stop there also? Here it stopped from the beginning of this month I think, something to do with unfair advertising advantages or some such business jargon.

Blogging from Word

Just a small test to see how easy it is to post directly from MS-Word. Maybe it would be easier to upload photos and spell-checking would also be done for me.

Sick

My baby girl is sick, my Sylvia is suffering. The problem seems to have started last week before I went for Easter. She's so hard to start and she makes a metallic clanking sound when i attempt to switch her on. Then I have to step on the accelerator so she can start. Most mechanics don't work on Saturdays here, but after calling around yesterday, i managed to get an appointment for tomorrow at a Ford/Mazda dealer, but since they don't do major work on Saturdays, they will only tell me what's wrong but won't fix it...yeah, what will that help me. Anyway, i hope whatever is ailing her won't be too expensive to fix.

Hope you're all enjoying Friday 13th for those of you who believe in that. I have my annual cold already and we're not yet even in winter proper.

More tomorrow

The camera battery just died so i will continue tomorrow or after i charge. Not that there are too many more. As usual my camera was not fully charged and my phone battery was dying too..typical i hear someone say (remember Xmas).

Anyway, the 1st day we went to Camps bay, then we went to the Waterfront and took a 3 hour sunset cruise (Note to self: Never again!). The weather was very windy and me who had taken afew sips of champagne (euuuuu!!!), that was complimentary with the cruise promptly started feeling sea-sick. Good thing i was seated in the open otherwise everything was coming up for sure! After that we came back and had some really good fish and chips at some restaurant at the Waterfront. We then walked around in the shops there for abit before my aching foot got the better of me and we headed home around 8pm.

The Atlantic..or is it the Pacific?

I think it's the Atlantic. Boy, is it cold! The water is as cold as fridge water. This was at Camps bay beach i think, clearly i wasn't paying close attention to the names of the places. This is the 1st place we went to after church on Friday. It is really beautiful, also on the opposite side of the road, there are many restaurants and very expensive beach front properties...too bad i forgot to take any pictures of them :-)). Clearly you can see from the wisps of water that it was very windy. The sand was really being blown and actually very painful when it hits you so we didnt stay too long. I had oiled my hair that morning so you can only imagine how full of sand it was and still is.

CT Pics

The ones with the other people will go down as soon as you guys have seen them because i don't think its fair to them to put up their photos without the permission, so only the beautiful scenes will remain.

Parliament, opposite the cathedral catholic church we went to on Friday



Table Mountain with a huge cloud covering it on the 1st Friday we went around

Patience is a virtue

God knows this is not my strong point but i'm definitely learning alot of this of late. I pray its not in vain though

Back

Easter was nice. Had a blast in CT. Got pierced by something n my leg is still itchy!

Pictures will be uploaded shortly.

Meanwhile, this post about a floater cracked me up!

Thank You....

....God for the internship. 1 down, 1 to go. I remain trusting and praying

Weeeeee!

CT here i come :-)))

Hope I remember to carry my camera and chargers

Cheaters

Just watched the most dramatic episode of Cheaters yet. This guy whose wife was cheating just drove up to the car in which his wife and the guy she was cheating with were sitting and pushed it into a lake!

So whats new?

Frontal view
Side ways

Clearly, you can see that I have no kids living with me! Forgot to ask the shop people how to clean it

Why?

Why is it that when you're really waiting for one particular phone call, EVERYONE but the person/people you're waiting to call remembers to call that day?

Wow, this is bad....

Even by my standards this is bad, not even 7 days and i'm already bored of blogging. Story of my life...never see anything that i start to the end.

Anyway, work is getting busier.

Looking forward to CT for Easter, but not looking forward to the flying part of it. I think I will try and wake up early tomorrow morning and sleep really late (if at all), tomorrow night so that I am so dead tired by the time i get onto the plane that i just black out.

Good thing that everything worked out with work and leaving early for the airport on Thursday. My friend and i were wondering how we would possibly make it to the airport on time. Our flight leaves at 6pm and yet we have to work til 5pm, so the plan was to run away at around 3pm. Luckily, i was asked to work late tomorrow and then i can leave early on thursday afternoon. Hopefully, we can navigate through the traffic, get to the airport in time to get long-term parking and check-in 90 minutes before time as required.