♀~ ĄnnaŞtaysħere ~♀

2009-09-27T22:18:00.000+02:00

My blogging home since August 2008, is anastayshere.co.za

why no longer blogging here...

2008-06-14T16:53:00.002+02:00

been trying many different blogging spaces and seem to be liking/possibly sticking to this one (for now)...analivejournal

Jody Engelbrecht - The Rudimentals

2008-05-18T20:50:00.001+02:00

Jody Engelbrecht - The Rudimentals
Originally uploaded by greenmeansmatt

Dubmasta China

2008-05-18T20:41:00.001+02:00

Dubmasta China
Originally uploaded by greenmeansmatt

The DubMasta pon di mic...

This was a lovely gig - nice outdoor venue with green grass, a restaurant, sufficient toilet paper etc...

supported bands was Rudimentals, 7th son, Tidal Waves

Jitsvinger & Posse

2008-05-18T16:24:00.001+02:00

Jitsvinger & Posse
Originally uploaded by BOOKphotoSA

Relaxing ahead of Jitsvinger's performance at the Spier Poetry Festival.
victordlamini.book.co.za
spierarts.book.co.za

Uploaded by BOOKphotoSA on 10 Feb 07, 3.11PM CAT.

Jitsvinger

2008-05-18T16:11:00.001+02:00

Jitsvinger
Originally uploaded by BOOKphotoSA

Performing at the UWC "poetry hour".
spierarts.book.co.za

Uploaded by BOOKphotoSA on 1 Feb 07, 4.20PM CAT.
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2008-05-15T22:26:00.001+02:00

UCT Network Security

2008-05-04T10:09:00.006+02:00

I just have to applaud UCT's security of their network...well done okes :-)

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:7jukGkIF_ZEJ:lists.uct.ac.za/pipermail/scs-l/2006-July.txt.gz+%22anastacia+haddon%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=za

but wait, there is even more juicy information. You can find mac addresses, IP addresses, date of last login and time thereof...sigh

Have written to the IT relationships manager and our IT representative about this...No wonder ICTS at UCT always needing emergency this and emergency that. Cause they flipping not maintaining properly! No wonder there are arb viruses floating around campus and then we the first to report this to McAfee...catch a wake up guys!

A forgotten friendship...impossible

2008-04-26T14:38:00.006+02:00

"A true friend is hard to find, hard to lose, and impossible to forget..."

This is a bit of a sad post. When a friendship suddenly turns into a relationship that last six years in total, I could have only hoped that at least the friendship will continue - but i guess it won't...

My one true friend has totally changed. I have not seen him since December last year. Not that we can't, he just won't. Even talking to him telephonically is a problem. I usually ask "Do you have a minute to chat" and the usual reply is yes but the moment I ask e.g. "how are things?" then suddenly "he's got to go" or "busy with a crisis" or "i have a colleague with me and I can't talk".

I still love him and always will. He was my first true love and yes I will always have that special place in my heart for him. How can he now claim (approx four months later) that he no longer loves me and that he loves the new rebound in his life? They got together only two months after we broke up but I found out the hard way that actually they'd been hanging together while we were still in a relationship.

I am not jealous about them, nor angry at the loss of him just angry at the loss of our special friendship. Through all the abovementioned shit I still felt he was my best friend. I still waited patiently for him to one day contact me and ask to hang out. I still talk of him with respect, honor and i am proud that I even got a chance to be a part of his life.

I knew that in the back of my mind, he told me that he will always have a special place in his life for me, he will always be there for me when i need advice, he will be there for me in my time of need.

This lie was exposed today...

I wrote to him saying I needed his advice and honestly these were my words:

"As a friend that I normally used to talk to, I feel like I want to ask your advice.
I'm totally confused and depressed and in need of some guidance.
I think I already made up my mind but just for confirmation from someone I trust please.
If you ok with this , I will explain."

this was his reply:

"No offense, but I don't think I know you. How do you know me? Just
asking, have gotten emails intended for others before."

This is way in which I intend ending this post because I have that "You cannot say you've lost a friend. If a friendship is capable of ending, it is because it never existed."
and that is not what I would have hoped to be happening...

If he trully had the intention, to :
1) firstly break up with me telephonically, then
2) refuse to see me,
3) refuse to send my christmas gift to me (even though I went through the effort of couriering his),
4) refuse to answer my calls at times,
5) refuse to ever have been in a relatioship with me,
6) delete all pictures of me from his Facebook profile,
7) delete all pictures of me from his Flickr profile
8) delete all my wall posts sent to him on Facebook,
9) delete me as a friend on Facebook and never add me again,
10) claim that he has no love for me
11) be nasty to me and give me crap answers like this when all i asked for was some advice....

then really...he is not the friend that I thought he was and he is not the person that I knew and fell in love with...he also not the person I wish to ever be accociated with and sadly, he is not the person I wish to call my friend...

It goes CRRRRcccccttt , in your _ _ _ _ _

2008-04-25T03:02:00.000+02:00

Today I was wearing my blue jeans that I somehow claimed from my niece a few years ago. She happens to be a tad bit shorter than me; but the jeans were a perfect fit otherwise. So being the self conscience person that I have turned myself into, I would habitually keep pulling down the pipes of the jeans so that it will not be all that high ...

At approximately 12:42 I was on my way to my already late lunch desperately trying to still be able to make it in time for Xhosa lessons at 1pm. So the multitasking person that i am, yogi sip in the left hand, keys in the right busy and locking my office door when I tugged on the jean pipes to kinda straighten up my clothing (only yes I know that you tug downwards).

....... I heard a CRRRRcccccttt....
The jeans ripped! It ripped a nice horizontal line approx at the point where the length of a hotpants would stop. So for those who didn’t quite get the story, NO! I did not bend and then a rip appeared at the behind; this rip was horizontal (a line like this --------- ) on my left leg, in the front noggals.

I burst out laughing on my way to the first aid kit (note the quick thinking involved here) and start looking for the sticky bandage stuff. At some point I have E the building supervisor hovering over my shoulder trying to see what I’m up to. When he figured it out he suggested I use this tape that seemed thinner than the rest and so I opted for that and grabbed the scissors and headed towards the toilet.

Now, the toilet is not exactly “a few steps away”, neither is it “just around the corner”...picture this. The length of the building could be 100m and my office is way on the right whereas the toilets are all way on the left. I know. Yes I had to mission pass the students (sulk).

Yes the tape didn’t stick to my jeans after making an 'X marks the spot' on the inside of my jeans to keep the rip in tact for the rest of the day. Sigh. Back to the first aid box cursing E and grabbed the very sticky 'sticky bandage', trekked off to the toilet again and fixed up the rip.

So finally i get to have my yogi sip while chatting to some colleagues outside when I realised that its 13:07 and Xhosa lessons have already started. SHHHIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTT!!!!

So that was my very hectic active day (well part of it).
Suddenly I’m cracking myself up with this ‘AnaJoke’ I just thought up which puts this story into perspective "I let one rip" Hahaha

Email - what irritates you about it the most?

2008-03-25T22:33:00.001+02:00

I attended courses and I read tips and I am aware of what is seen as good netiquette to have these days...but like...

sigh.

Why do people still say "Hi Anastacia" or "Dear Anastacia" or "Dear Miss Haddon" or you get the picture THEN yada-yada-yada-message "REGARDS WHOEVER" if I am the only one getting the email?

uhm - I only refer to friends, colleagues and close peeps of course - not the usual general business type emails that I can understand...ITS THE DAY TO DAY EMAIL IRRITATION PROBLEM THAT I HAVE!

I can see who sent the email so why say "Regards NAME SURNAME" and sometimes "TITLE" when you gonna see me in the tea room in 5 mins time.
Just 'thanks' at the end is fine or even ending at the last sentence of what you wanna say in your message/reply IS ACCEPTABLE!

Just 'hi' or 'hello' in the beginning or just don't use a FORMAL
GREETING LINE...

Eggsclamation!! price for an egg?

2008-03-20T21:26:00.002+02:00

My favourite Easter memory dates back to the young age of no more than nine years old. I know this because we still lived in Kensington at the time and my grandmother was still alive - if you trying to calculate the time / era, it was approx 1990.

I remember being accompanied by my mom (and someone else also but that was not important to remember who it was), we went to a nearby house in my home town Kensington (in Cape Town not JHB). The entire lounge was filled with a variety of shapes and sizes and all individually wrapped up in their _____ paper (the type used for fruit baskets), there was also like a little courtyard just past the kitchen (outside but covered up)and this was another storage room filled with more Easter Eggs ...and even a choice of white or brown chocolate...*me smiles*

Thinking back to this time really makes me appreciate that time - the time of "home made chocolate" made in the home-grown style, right in your neighbours kitchen - the type that was made of cooking chocolate bought from the nearest store around the corner; the moulds that were used were the plastic ones that I bet are still available at some "babbie" stores . A "babbie" as it is called, in my mind is referred to as a muslim shop owner, selling spices, rice that is weighed off in front of you, Tambrein, henna, okka pipes, okka tobacco and all sorts of little muslim literature books etc - I am particularly thinking of the one that was inside Foodworld mall in Westridge MPlain, he was next to Namso...anyone remember?

Ya so what...I had at least 10 different types of bunnies in their unique poses, I also had a huge hollow egg, I even remember that all my eggs were beautifully packed into my white plastic container - NO, not the used ice cream containers!! This was an actual Tupperware type container, and I remember it was filled to the top, and I was VERY PROUD to have SUCH alot of eggs and I don't even think I ate them all in one go because I treasured them so much.

Back to Year 2008: So I walk into Pick n Pay and I see the stand of bunnies all nicely wrapped up in this gold and red foil wrapping and something catches my eye...LINDT!!! ITS A LINDT EASTER BUNNY!!!! My heart sank when I saw this little treasure no bigger than five centimetres high, priced at a whopping R23,99 or was it R21,99 - there was a bigger one too at something like R27 or whatever - well the point is that it was shit expensive!!!

I wasn't intentionally looking for any easter eggs as I knew (of past experience) that the price would increase the closer it got the time of Easter and so I bought mine end of January already when shops just started packing them out...yeah, another cheapy kulerd trick of mine...I am sure that if I ate fish I would have bought that with my Christmas shopping already and frozen it until today! ha ha...pickled fish Friday tommoz...

How the hell? The chocolate is REALLY GOOD we all know that and either im just a cheapy or really unaware of the price we pay for good chocolate? I must admit that I have cut down enormously since 'the A word' appeared in my face and needless to say that I try to avoid chocolate at all costs - but I still can't stop thinking about having a Lindt Easter Bunny Rabbit :-(

I want I want I want

Maybe I gonna go oogle at the festival to see whats cooking (well besides chocolate of course) at the Canal Walk Lindt Chocolate Festival this weekend!!
"Hop into Canal Walk Shopping Centre and be spoilt rotten with Easter chocolate treats, activities and competitions brought to you by Lindt."
When: 18 – 24 March 2008
Time: 9am to 9pm

YUP! A Chocolate Festival :-) YUM YUM YUM

Some useless info but kinda relevant to this topic:
I loved the Charlie and the Cholcolate Factory movie...the book by Roald Dahl was my first Big person's book I read in Std 3. My first book I read from beginning to the end without it being prescribed to me by my teacher nor forced to read in English class...

I'm SO eggcited its this time of the year...Its Oxy Cute Them time~! Boing Boing Boing me bounces off to bed...

Facebook RSS Feed Updates

2008-03-09T23:22:00.000+02:00

Facebook has this option to import posts from an external blog so that they appear together with your Notes in FB. "Facebook will automatically update your notes whenever you write in your blog. Imported blog posts cannot be edited."

bwa ha ha ha....

Automatically as in how many hours? for what is supposed to be only minutes at least but essentially seconds?

You are currently importing notes from:
http://annastayshere.blogspot.com/rss.xml

I wrote the post called 'Alt key for special characters' and uploaded it at 05:12 (05:12PM RSA time). It is now 11:28PM RSA time and it still hasn't fed through? wtf?

so I thought that it was maybe Blogger and I done another test. I done a email post to Blogger as a test and guess what; by the time i moved from my email window to the blogger tab in my browser, it was already there! But can one compare the two or not?

Also I subscribed to my own feed; using a feed reader of course (durrr) and I can see the post link there? Hmm...

Alt key for special characters

2008-03-09T17:12:00.000+02:00

I started seeing people using these characters in Fluff friends on FB and I thought it was SO cute. See the two examples below...
-------------------------
..:: ♦♦♦♦ Please Pet Name! ♦♦♦♦::..
http://apps.facebook.com/fluff/fluffbook.php?...

..:: THANK YOU! ::..
☺☻☺☻☺Leave your link!☺☻☺☻☺
-------------------------
(\(\
(='.')
o(_")")
Please pet Name
http://apps.facebook.com/fluff/fluffbook.php?...
Thankx!
(¯`v´¯)
`*.¸.*´
-------------------------

So as I was saying...and then I got an email from my niece and it had a hearts at the end of her message ♥♥♥♥ and i thought to myself, no ways! I am going to find out how to do this...

See, it's easy using a normal keyboard, but when you using a laptop and when you using Linux it is different. Well not THAT different...below each heading, do that first then use the codes as shown after that.

Windows + normal Keyboard
Hold the Alt Key, then press the numbers while still holding down the Alt key.

Laptop
I'm using Toshiba and the NUM lock key is one of the function (Fn)keys. So i pressed Fn F11 (the NUM lock key), then once NUM lock is on, I had to use the numerical keys from the numeric keypad overlay (as they refer to in the manual) - in plain English its that buttons that share buttons with other buttons e.g. usually the text on that key will be white and then the overlay keys are grey.

Ubuntu Linux + normal keyboard
It's the toughest cause you got to hold Ctrl, Shift, U

Smiley face 1 ☺
Smiley face 2 ☻
Heart 3 ♥
Diamond 4 ♦
Club 5 ♣
Spade 6 ♠
Bullet 7 •
Bullet 8 ◘
9 ○
10 ◙
11 ♂
12 ♀
Music Notes 1, 4 ♪
Sun 1, 5 ☼
Arrows 23 - 29 ► ◄↕
Greek Alphabet 224 - 238
Math Symbols 240 - 253

◙ ◙ ◙ ◙ That's all for today ◙ ◙ ◙ ◙

Language Usage

2008-03-08T11:41:00.004+02:00

I live in a country that has 11 official languages. English is my first language, Afrikaans my second and I am in the process of learning the third – Xhosa.

Ndisafunda Ukuthetha IsiXhosa.

In May 2007 I done an oral examination and passed it with an ‘A’. I am a little rusty as I only start intermediate lessons this coming Tuesday. The wait has been long but at the same time it made me realise just how uninterested people can be. See, our class started with at least 20 people in it. Some dropped out along the way and some never did the oral and some failed it. All in all, three people passed and that wasn’t enough for a new intermediate class. So finally, its here and I’m REALLY excited...

Link to for more info:
http://www.uct.ac.za/faculties/ched/departments/mep/study/

Chances of you speaking to “your kind” can sometimes be slim and so what you actually saying might not be fully understood by the next person if they’re not “your kind” as different backgrounds, not being able to express correctly and not understanding your expression in the same way you do...

...Language barriers in other words...

Certain words have been used incorrectly for so many years that it has become abnormal to correct; and sometimes you have to be almost apologetic for correcting it? We have what is called “Common Spelling Errors”; it almost sounds okay to make those errors now, not so? Never mind the incorrect use of language grammar! I am guilty of talking in what is called “kulerd language” and likely to have incorrect grammar usage too.

Could that really be the reason some people who are in the advertising business are just poor at doing what it is they claim to be good at? Are they not understanding their readers, are the readers misinterpretting them, help me understand this...

It most cases in my experience, most messages are misunderstood when written in an email, a website, a sms etc compared to a verbal conversation. And yes society is swinging more towards this type of communication and I am all for it, but it can cause major confusion, anger, hurt in some cases, and it can make you feel even worse if you believe that what you are reading is what you understand it to be saying to you? You with me?

Could it also be that people just don't know common netiquette? I refer to emoticon usage (UCT people please don't get too excited, you can only see emoticons in email if you actually set your profile to view html messages because in GroupUnwise, it is not the default!),a little :-) or a :-P (My boss once asked why I made a colon, dash and P?)...and he's an HOD, one would assume that at least a professor would be aware of these things?

In my opinion, it is such a pleasure being able to converse face to face. To see the smile, to hear the laugh, to wipe the tear if necessary, to hug if needed, to argue your point, to see the body language, to correct if wrong, to ensure that you are understood, and you feel like you really are connecting to that person...

Whenever I visit Mitchells Plain I start mocking and talking with that added accent or if I feel like having fun, I talk to myself in different languages (like dialect) whilst showering in the morning – the things we have to do to keep ourselves amused if we live on our own!

I totally amused myself and laughed aloud at the adverts you can see if you follow the link…Have fun! Whilst browsing a few local sites, I saved a few to an album on my Facebook profile. (the link is the blog post title)

So much has happened

2008-03-06T21:38:00.001+02:00

Yelloooo...is anyone still reading this? You thought the last post in August 2007 might have led to a suicide attempt? hehee...well actually, i'm back.

djhfoinq eufio'a kjkdjl;....I don't know where to start...

Lemme explain whats been occupying alot of my time...FACEBOOK! but ya, i finally got bored of that and yes i still log on to "check up" but ya...

The main points, Timothy and I no longer together so to all you single males that just been waiting for this moment, wait some more. I am beginning to be okay with this now. I miss him alot and whenever I go to a place that we once went to before, I think of him and I get sad again. See he was/is my best friend and probably one of the only people that I can fully trust. He encouraged me, spoke to me, gave me advise, taught me responsibility, taught me to save money, almost like a responsible father/older brother figure type; the one i never had...and he refuses to see me and has moved on...only two months later he moved on...quite sad.

Also, my mom, eldest sister and her fam (my immediate family) all moved to JHB :-( It's not all that hard not having them around but having to go through the above without them and other matters, it was the worst part of my life ever...

The best part of going through a hard time is realising that it is long over and realising that you actually got through it. Realising that life just really ain't that bad afterall.

The valuable lessons i have learned in the last few months was treasure special moments and don't be shy to say that you feeling happy. I also learned how to say sorry and really mean it. I am still trying it and it makes me feel good to encourage people and compliment them for a change; i admit that i was/am/can be very demanding to the extent that the other person does not matter and everything is aboout me me me. Well people don't change overnight and i sure as hell am not going to lie to you now and tell you that I'm a new person. I'm not. I'm still me, but only I am just more aware now.

So I am not going into too much detail about anything more, i wanna blog regularly again because i feel that is helps to write/type/talk about thoughts...whether or not you get feedback, it's just a sense of fulfillment to think about it and jot it down.

10 days of downhill

2007-08-05T09:50:00.000+02:00

Sun shining in winter, Beautiful Photos taken, Compliments from all can't make me smile as much as we would have...had he been around to do so

I miss him - SO much...

It's been 10 days since the breakup and nothing seems to matter anymore, nothing to care about, nothing makes me laugh - not even spelling errors -

I even asked my colleague to tell me how she got through her divorce, her answer, move out of your comfort zone, get a flatmate, leave all memories there and start afresh...I don't know

...just like everything else around me, I don't know why it mattered at that time and drew him away from me - yet he was actually the only thing that should have mattered...and now its too late! Timothy, I'm SORRY!

F4 to Reload a Saved State

2007-07-20T16:42:00.000+02:00

They say that when you leave one habit you pick up another...or something like that at least.

So with no internet at home, I download games when i have the chance to (and 30 or so at a time) and play roms all night long. I think too much now...

So the other day I spilled milk on the kitchen sink and immediately went for the F4 button, only it wasn't there. I already have it in me to hit "reload" (thats the F4 button, whenever I make an error / die in the game.

I love it!

If you up for networking, lemme know. Oh! but I don't do the killing games. I like the friendly Mario Brothers type / well in that era, kinda games.

I think I gonna change my name/nick/blog name whatever to

ROMAnnaPlaysHere

Kinda Back - silly GPRS connection

2007-07-09T21:17:00.000+02:00

Yellooo folks.

Damn it feels good to be back! (well not entirely tho)

So the wireless connection i had politely just stopped working 2 mnths ago and I only discovered yesterday that my cell actually has GPRS!

So yes, this post is not only short, but costly...looking into a better solutiion cause this 115kbps line aint doing it for me!

Anyways, yes I am bored outta my brains cause all i do is work all day and then play roms at night...I have in total (well my 2 months collection) built up 133 games of which i clocked 3 and stuck on 5 games (to pass the main boss on average level 5).

So ya, thats me ... will spoil you guys some time later this week again... "over and out"

2007-05-19T13:26:00.000+02:00

Forecast: Monday, 21 May 2007 - MY BIRTHDAY!

Min: 9°C Max: 13°C

Cloudy, showers mainly morning (60%)
Wind: fresh southerly
Sunrise: 07:35 Sunset: 17:49

Thats all !!!

Amended: Some friends just had to rub it in...

teejcee: we in for a nasty few days gonna be cold and windy

Anastacia: har har

teejcee: been reading reports on iol

Anastacia: do u have to remind me, go check my blog bitch

teejcee: :)

Feeling Good

2007-05-06T13:17:00.000+02:00

Wewwo, miss me? I been on leave for a week so feeling all relaxed, rejuventaed, menstruated and frustrated and irritated...Luckily for the last three, I had the option to go to the Observatory Holistic Lifestyle Festival...was good!

What you can expect?
- Holistic treatments & life readings. Vegetarian, whole & exotic food.
- Health products, remedies & services. Funky arts, crafts, d�cor & clothing.
- Organic produce, plants & herbs Esoteric books & world music. Body art & jewellery.
- Tai Chi, bellydancing, Nia, capoeira, drumming, portrait artists & live music!
- There is a children's playground and dogs also welcome. Free patrolled parking.
Fee: Adults R7, under-16's free
Address: Observatory Community Centre; Off Station Road and Lower Main Road, Observatory.

Irritated as I have work again tomm, frustrated cause I didnt get enough leave and didn't do THAT much, and menstruated kinda was the filla word to rhyme with the rest of them.

Was my landlords birthday yesterday. 76 years old! WOW! and here Im complaining that Im getting old...TJC bought him a bottle of KWV which he was extrememly happy to have gotten as a gift and was extra chuffed at the nice KWV brandy glass that came with it, I bought him a 1955 CD which he listened to while drinking his dop. R bought him KFC for supper.

Anyways, I'm off to fight the crab in Super Bomber Man - still stuck on area 3 stage 5 the bonus round...thereafter, play Alladin or Animaniacs or Nuts and Milk or Circus Charlie or one of the 20 new games I have downloaded...

A familiar Face

2007-04-27T21:40:00.000+02:00

TAKE IT TO DE BASE...TAKE IT TO DE BASE...ooh ,ooh, ...IM DONE...

~ Leave ~

2007-04-26T20:08:00.000+02:00

The plan (initial future tense)
Awwww...!!!... days off, catch up on washing that has piled up; laze in my hammock; enjoy the last of the summer days; walk around window shopping; possibly go up to Tsitsikamma forest and tree top swing; etc etc etc

The plan (present tense)
The rain has come down, it aint gonna stop until gawd alone knows when , the booking for Citrisdal is not booked and they r fully booked, Tsitsikamma a maybe, but too many little bits of things to do in CPT in between - Marius birthday party on Saturday as well as a Groovy Troopers trance party, Teba & Jitsvinger playing at Zula on Monday, Cultural Evening on Thursday, dot dot dot

The plan (very sad future tense)
Wanna roll up like in my pjs into my very fresh smelling clean blankets, dont feel like the rain, SO do not feel like going to these gigs if it means I must go with an umbrella (that someone borrowed and never returned yet) or raincoat...Just wanna be on leave and leave whatever that must happen to happen...no planning...

Any change lying around?

2007-04-18T07:56:00.000+02:00

Maserati GranTurismo...

Data Summarising

2007-04-16T18:39:00.000+02:00

Being in the 'Administrative Industry', I research for, receive, collate and manipulate data in many ways...I was just never sure which app to use and which method/formula was the fastest to produce exactly what I wanted...
Needless to say I think I know this now but I am open to suggestions and welcome all sorts of feedback, advise or whatever input you think would be worthwhile.

I have just learned about Pivot Tables in MSExcel / DataPilots as it is called in OpenOffice Calc...WoW..and did I say WoW yet? I have been on this statistical data high all weekend and it gets worse everytime I add more columns to my table...more columns means more data, means more summarising of data and looking at things in a different light...

I give you the Wiki meaning...

Okay, so now that you on par, here's what you should then know/claim to understand...

and if you still don't know what I'm talking about, go try it for yourself...
Link 1 -Excel
Link 2 - Excel
Link 3 - Excel
Link 4 - Datapilots

No more Paper Spam, Unsolicted calls to cellphone, paging devices & Fax machines

2007-03-29T00:14:00.000+02:00

So at least once a week, I open up my non electronic mail received, and just like in the movies you kind squizz through the batch to find the most important ones...i.e. love letters, invitations to weddings etc...
We would never do this squizzing nonsense if our banks, clothing stores, cellphone companies and many different other industries would just stop sending us Paper Spam telling us that we have qualified for a R30K loan or pre-appoved credit of R4k and if we respond before X date that we get to use the voucher to the value of R50...etc ...

Cape Town summer days are hot enough, I always said that the reason why we fry and why the weather is weird and can get very hot at times is because we cutting down too many trees, trees give shade, shade keeps us cool - cutting trees for the use of printing bull .

So now enough ranting cause, FINALLY there is a law about this and is to be obeyed with effect from 1 June 2007...the NCA... <>

Act No. 34, 2005 National Credit Act 2005
&
Act No. 2 , 2000 Promotion of Access to Information
&
Discussion Paper No 109 on 'Privacy and Data Protection' in October 2005

Key aspects read thus far - well, of importance to me:

"To prohibit certain unfair credit and credit-marketing practices"
Tranactions dealt with in this act include credit cards, loans, mortagage bonds, vehicale and personal finances and well, our favorite, the store cards...
Credit limits may not be raised automatically
You can opt to not receive promotional material, info on new products, competitions, special offers, events or whatever - we'll see about this one cause I always choose this optioon but somehow, the ink of that ball point pen, clearly is never dark enough for them to see that X that supposed to indicate that I DO NOT WISH to receive promo stuff...
"The right to privacy recognises and protects an individual’s interest in what has been called ‘informational self-determination’. This is an interest in restricting the collection, use of and disclosure of one's private information by others."
Baically, the sharing of personal info amongst these companies is gonna be banned - I waiting to get to the section (if any) that a company like e.g. Big Bang (back in 2001/2) called you out of the blue and said they got your number from person X and that they have X package to sell you...what sort of laws are set around the companies asking for more contacts after having spoken to you and you all willingly pass on your entire phonebook and boom...you partake in killing a forest!!! Recycled paper my @ss...

Asking Permission if its a Relationship

2007-02-20T19:00:00.000+02:00

When a couple is dating, should they ask permission to go out and permission to sleep over and permission to ask permission...WTF????

Why is it that couples (NOT MARRIED) are doing this. I feel like I must report back on EVERYTHING i do and in return I get asked "Can i do this"...

Next time he asks Im gonna say: "Yes you may go howver I wish to know (1where you (2) Priod of time that you will be there (3) Name and tel no of restaurant or whatever (4) Which seat you'll be on and lastly How much do you plan to spend on her!"
We are young and should enjoy our lives and not live it reporting back to or watching a loved ones life and critting and asking too many questions...apparently we leave that to the BIG M word....marriage!

Eager Beaver

2007-02-20T18:26:00.000+02:00

So like, Yes, I know, I don't wanna turn 25, but I can't wait for my 26th birthday...because...Its gonna be on full moon.
I always loved a full moon, took many pictures of it, damn, I'm even convinced that females are MOST horniest around full moon.

The wikipedia explanation : Full moon is a lunar phase that occurs when the Moon is on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun, and when the three celestial bodies are aligned as close as possible to straight line. At this time, as seen by viewers on Earth, the hemisphere of the Moon that is facing the Earth (the near side) is fully illuminated by the Sun and appears round. Only during a full moon is the opposite hemisphere of the Moon, which is not visible from Earth (the far side), completely unilluminated.

I am SO planning a party for this occasion from now on already!!! and yes, IF I do remember that I invited you in this blog post then come...and act invited!

Things you should have learned by now

2007-02-10T18:49:00.000+02:00

har har - I just couldnt NOT blog this one

If you're too open-minded, your brains will fall out
Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a workshop makes you a motorcycle
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before
My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission
For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program
Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks
A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good
Eat well, stay fit, die anyway
No man has ever been shot while doing the dishes
A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand
They say middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places
Opportunities always look bigger going than coming
Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it
There is always one more imbecile than you counted on
Experience is a wonderful thing - It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again
It ain't the jeans that make your butt look big

Support Local Bands

2007-02-09T18:04:00.001+02:00

I think I have become a local band addict...

It's not like I chose to mainly listen to local bands but rather that seeing them live, listening to after having bought their CDs just made me realise that they are SO damn good and I wanna listen to them and as a result, now addicted...

A few of my favourites (and in no particular order) include: Sons of Selassie , The Rudimentals, Teba, Godessa, Hog Hoggidy Hog, Henry Ate, Springbok Nude Girls, 340 ml and many more...

Be sure to check them out at least once (else you'll miss the opportunity i.e. Boo! gone and forgotten) - support the brothers and sisters - be proud to be South African - be proud to say that "I am addicted to SA music"

Wrapped in Lies

2007-02-09T01:35:00.000+02:00

You lived your life telling lies, cheating, being inhumane....
So the day you come clean, start afresh, your behavior changes...you sleep longer, you do less things cause you don't have the energy and you don't want to bump into people of the past...

Suddenly your loved ones start accusing you of spending time with someone else (cause in their mind you spent the night before with the one you have cheated with);
You can't wake up the next morning(s) cause you partied all night long;
You get seen in the same vicinity as an ex and suddenly you wanna be back with that person or better yet, you were with that person....

For once i am not cheating, not lying, stopped using and yet i am still in the wrong....I don't blame the person for thinking the way they are, but can you ever be forgiven??
Can one ever move on again with the person you hurt SO badly? Its tough but I am game to work hard at it.

Worst still:
Is everyone just living a lie and nobody knows the truth
anymore? So when you tell the truth, you are actually lying??? A recovering addict, cheater, lier yes can always go back to the way they were, and if they are in recovery, it

is a LONNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG hard road, so nurture them in every way possible, be there for that person, ask more questions about the things they are going through, try to understand and don't down the already fragile sanity the person is trying to rebuild...after all, why be patient enough to read this when there is no interest to know what is going on inside that head?

Formula 1 - Counting the days

2007-02-03T15:05:00.000+02:00

So yes it has been approximately 4 months since the last race - can't wait until March 18th...

No! I don't support any particular team, just the "championship" overall...

Some alarming new rules include:

BridgeStone is now the sole supplier of tyres - so yay! we not gonna have another replay of the USA race about two years ago - 14 tyres for each team - 4 for the Friday , 10 for the Sunday
Drivers can use two engines i.e. save a engin for the official race on the Sunday
Team names must now be clearly marked on the front and side body to distinguish between the two cars per team - WHY???
Lewis Hamilton (the first so called "Black" driver in Formula 1) s Alonso's newpartener - yes I said Alonso - he left Renault

42 more days - then i won't be blogging for another 7 months - so enjoy this while it lasts okay!
Off to my friend Teboes now ... Be sure to check him out at Zula on the 19th February it's gonna be seriously Rude...

Oh the Life!

2007-01-31T19:26:00.000+02:00

There's nothing like a warm summers evening, its 19:40, there is no wind, a bottle of Boschrivier Shiraz 2003, alone, in a double hammock, passing the time on the net, waiting for the full moon and the sun is still up - updating my blog? What the hell chick? Uhmm, something is missing in that picture? Hmm now lemme see...Oh right, you missing the cigarettes and loud music...I love "me time" - Time to relax and unwind after having had a long, hard working day in the office. Its "Ladies Night" tonight - guess me and Betty (Blow up doll bought for friends stag party) all on our own ... Anyone keen? ha ha ha

Pirated 2010 Gear

2007-01-28T09:24:00.000+02:00

I never been a fan of any sport (other than Formula One) but the day that I saw South Africa's name slowly being pulled of the envelope and being announced as the host for the FIFA 2010 Soccer World Cup, I actually shed a tear.

It was tears of joy but I can’t explain what exactly I was happy about? And now that I hear that the money schemers are jeopardising this so called money making opportunity for our country. I am absolutely horrified...

So yes, some peeps in Durban, KZN, are producing illegal/pirated 2010 gear…

Benchaped

2007-01-27T23:26:00.000+02:00

I am sure you heard of "waking up on the wrong side of the bed" but what about "Waking up on the wrong side of the Birthday calendar"???

By that I mean I'm slowly dreading each day I wake up knowing that I'm another day closer to being labeled as a 25 year old…
The thought makes me:

feel old

want to act mature

think of marriage (ya!!!)

kick myself for doing retiring already and start enjoying my savings

realise that the friends I currently have are probably the ones that are going to stick by me until 50.

Did you know that 'Benchaped' is a Thai word meaning 25 years old. Since some hundred years ago, Thai people have believed that whoever turning 25 years old will be in bad luck

On a brighter note, it is only a 1/3 of an average human being’s lifetime. That to me means, your foundation shudda been built by now Anna! Whether it be a degree certificate, drivers licence, your own home, your ideal job - you supposedly should have done something along this line...or so society thinks...

You see, when I attended school for the first time back in 1987, I was only 5 years of age. So by the time that you completed your secondary education, you are 17, then do a degree and completed studies at 20/21 years old?

Do they honestly expect someone THAT young to be all that focused? I certainly wasn’t! and still aren’t – well fully that is…so made me decide to be focused? Well, being that young and working and living on your own, you tend to NOT save, open many clothing accounts, etc etc so at 23 you start working on your debt that you have accumulated and by the end of 24, you just about fixed yourself up again…

I wouldn’t have been able to do it without my financial advisor TJC – a true friend who taught me responsibility and how to work hard & be patient for expensive necessities. At this point in your life you have over 100 names saved in your cellphone directory but only used 5 of it for the last year or so – YES, your friends list has diminished! They have either (1) found a partner & possibly gotten married already and has now ditched you or (2) they moved away, or (3) mostly I feel its because you are no longer a benefit to them because you are saving your money and not spending it on them.I know it sounds harsh, but friends (and especially the females) can stab you SO hard in the neck, back and throat just to ensure you felt it!

I have heard from 3 people this year already that I haven’t been in contact with for over a year. One in particular (DVS) was in a relationship with this chick that wouldn’t allow him to have any friends - needless to say that they have just broken up and he was wondering how I was. Him having been the 3rd that I spoke to, I drew the assumption that everyone is always “no im fine thanks” and “I just chill at home and I don’t party anymore” and “I’m enjoying my job” and “No I don’t drink anymore”…am I supposed to be lying to myself too or am I like so different than others that I really have to get with the programme?

It has been proven: "Younger adults associated aging with major events in their lives, and even though these events tended to be positive, aging had a negative meaning for them. Young adults tended to associate aging with increased responsibility and lost freedom." - I absolutely do not feel that I will be losing my freedom cause I already have and so then could I safely assume that I am over the negativity too as I strive to always lead a positive life? I am sure it won't be too bad...crossing fingers

This is me...

2007-01-15T21:21:00.000+02:00