'Hulle' se daar is 'n eerste keer vir alles. Vanaand is dit weer bevestig. Ek het na 'n laaaang dag op my voete by die werk (12 ure!!) besluit om saam met my werk-buddies oor te stap na ons hotel se pub, die BLACK SHEEP, net om gou vir 'n ander buddy, Ryan, hallo te se, en dan soos goeie mense huis en bed toe te gaan. Daar aangekom was daar 'n privaat funksie aan die gang: een van ons geliefde regulars, Mr. Williams, wat 'n afskeidspartytjie hou vir 'n kollega wat binnekort aftree. Mr. Williams nooi ons toe ewe vriendelik vir 'n drink of twee, en ons besluit om te bly. Ek bedoel, why not, hy betaal en 'n pint Carlsberg sal nou regtig nie sleg afgaan nie.
Enigste snag was die karaoke. Ek is 'n sucker vir karaoke. Let wel, ek het dit nog net een keer gedoen, saam met twee pelle in Hatfield, halfpad besope. So toe besluit ek en Ashley ons sing nou wel nie alleen nie, maar ons sien kans vir Grease se 'Summer Nights' so saam-saam. Wat ons toe sing, en kry 'n groot applous (nie omdat ons noodwendig so great was nie, maar net soveel beter as die res van die mense wat vroeer gesing het, byvoorbeeld Tim die Bar Manager... ek het hom eerlikwaar gese: "Tim, don't quite your day job!" en hy het saamgestem). Ok, toe oorreed ek vir Dhevan om saam met my Ben E. King se STAND BY ME te sing, weer nogal nie te sleg nie, alhoewel Dhevan baie soos Tim sing... En toe het ek al twee Pints Carlsberg agter die blad op 'n nugter maag, en Mr. Williams cheer en moedig ons aan... So toe besluit ek... Wel, eks eintlik deep down inside moerse skaam, maar die bier help beslis, en ek dink dat Sarah McLachlan se ANGEL een van DIE mooiste songs ooit is, en vra toe vir Mr. Williams hoeveel hy my dare om alleen te sing, considering ekt nog NOOIT ge-Solo nie. Hy se toe tien pond, of twintig as dit regtig goed is. Ek besluit toe what the hell en stap net daar en dan na die DJ en se ek gaan sing. En daar staan ek toe alleen voor al daai mense. En vir die eerste keer in my 22 jaar op aarde nie skaam om alleen daar te staan nie. En ek begin sing, en die mense raak stil. En ek sing verder en die mense maak die ander wat nog probeer praat stil. En ek het nie 'n clue of ek op die noot is nie, maar dit klink vir my moerse goed, so ek is seker nie te erg off-key nie. En toe die liedjie klaar maak is daar so paar sekondes stilte, en toe applous en wolwefluite en mense wat my hande skud... Sug, ek het my paar minute in die Limelight gehad, en boonop twintig pond gekry om een van my favourite songs te sing! Wow. Wat 'n aand... En om te dink ek wou net huis toe gaan en in my kamer sit...
Weet tot nou toe nie waar ek die skielike moed vandaan gekry net nie (moet seker maar die Carlsberg gewees het...) Maar dit was die eerste keer wat ek nie uitgefreak het voor 'n gehoor nie (en ek WEET daarvan... baie jare se (mislukte) klavier optredes wat getuig daarvan...) en dit het great gevoel. Ek gaan sommer een van die dae weer 'n plek soek om te Karaoke!
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
My most eventful off day in a looooong time...
Sunday was my only off day last week. Ryan and I decided to go and do a bit of Christmas shopping. So after I slept about 5 hours (because I can't fall asleep at 'normal' times these days) he woke me up at 12 and we set off to the Filton Abbey Wood Retail Park. I bought a few Christmas presents and a load of Christmas cards, and started looking for an outfit for our annual staff party in January, but was unable to find anything I liked even though (or maybe because) the Christmas specials are currently all over the place. And then I got bored because Ryan buys more clothes than any female I know, and takes a long time! ;-)
So very hungry (I didn't have anything to eat yet) and in desperate need of a cup of coffee, we headed to the Bradley Stoke Pub close to our house (we fondly call it the 'Sadley Broke') got ourselfs a pint and ordered a meal. I couldn't even finish half of my steak, mainly because I ate way too much garlic bread. Then I got an invite to go for coffee at my new SA friends who live closeby, so I first went to Tesco to buy a few vital things, went home to drop it off, and then spent an hour chatting in my own beloved language with people who are the same as me (we all know the rednecks are a bit weird!). I lost track of the time and got a call from Rodwill who was waiting on the bus stop for me, because a group of us from work decided to go ice skating. Goodness knows why they decided to only meet up at the icerink at 8:30, but oh well. So we spent a cold and wet half hour waiting for the bus, and then another 45mins on a bus full of loud teenage girls going downtown for the night. Now, I must confess that for some reason I NEVER EVER went ice skating before, so I was quite nervous. Got on the ice, and had a few tips from Tony (the cute Irish guy) and he took me on my first round. Then I was left on my own and had to get the hang of it quickly. And hey, I have to say I was pretty good!! Only stayed near the side for about 15mins and then managed to slowly but surely skate around the rink. Didn't try too much speed though, and constantly had to dodge the pros wizzing past me. I only fell twice (when I tried to go too fast) and therefore have a bruised butt today. And muscles in agony!
Well, we stayed there for about two hours and I was ready to go home, but everybody was heading for Bristol's nightlife and they said I'm leaving soon, I shoudn't be so anti-social. So we started out at the Australian pub Walkabout, had a drink or two and then headed for Syndicate. Walking in the rain to get there, I must add. In Syndicate we found all the other people that didn't go ice skating. So we were happily drinking and dancing (and for once I actually enjoyed it, maybe because of the stress of the last few weeks that I just let go then) and rapidly getting sloshed. We were the talk of the hotel today, as a lot of us in our drunken states hit it off with our collegues... uhm... including me... So therefore I got a nice snog from a polish guy called Kacper... uhmmmmm yes, I blame the alcohol.
One of our friends, Toni, joined us after work, around midnight. Two hours later she was lying paralized on the bathroom floor because she got a spiked drink from a strange guy. Our night suddenly went crazy. The bouncer had to carry her outside and we called an ambulance. Somehow her state and the fact that everybody tried to help and thought they knew better than the others, some of these supposidly good friends started screaming and cursing eachother. The ambulance arrived and suddenly everybody was very eager to bundle into the closest taxi and head home. I then offered to go with her to the hospital. If she had to stay overnight I would have had to get a cab back home alone (very expensive!) or if not she had someone with her to take her home. By the time the ambulance left everybody had disappeared, not worrying about what happened to me or Toni. By half two we reached the hospital and they told me to wait in the reception area, they will call me when I can see her. 45 Minutes later I was still waiting and when I finally saw someone again at reception, asked them what was going on. They said very matter-of-factly I can go through now and see her...just to find out they told HER that nobody was there for her! They put her on a drip and said when it was finished we can go home. So there I sat, dead tired and the drunkest I've been in months, waiting for Toni to be sent home. We finally got out around five, and got a taxi to take us to my house, as she couldn't go to her home alone. Managed to get in bed around six.
I was supposed to start work at 12, but you can imagine what I felt like when I woke up at 11. So Toni insisted to call our boss and explain that I was the only one who stayed with her and she won't allow me to work a 12 hour shift in my state. Thank goodness for that!
This Sunday didn't turn out exatly as chill as I wanted it to, but it sure was eventful and very memorable... Sure is different than just relaxing at home on an off day!!!
So very hungry (I didn't have anything to eat yet) and in desperate need of a cup of coffee, we headed to the Bradley Stoke Pub close to our house (we fondly call it the 'Sadley Broke') got ourselfs a pint and ordered a meal. I couldn't even finish half of my steak, mainly because I ate way too much garlic bread. Then I got an invite to go for coffee at my new SA friends who live closeby, so I first went to Tesco to buy a few vital things, went home to drop it off, and then spent an hour chatting in my own beloved language with people who are the same as me (we all know the rednecks are a bit weird!). I lost track of the time and got a call from Rodwill who was waiting on the bus stop for me, because a group of us from work decided to go ice skating. Goodness knows why they decided to only meet up at the icerink at 8:30, but oh well. So we spent a cold and wet half hour waiting for the bus, and then another 45mins on a bus full of loud teenage girls going downtown for the night. Now, I must confess that for some reason I NEVER EVER went ice skating before, so I was quite nervous. Got on the ice, and had a few tips from Tony (the cute Irish guy) and he took me on my first round. Then I was left on my own and had to get the hang of it quickly. And hey, I have to say I was pretty good!! Only stayed near the side for about 15mins and then managed to slowly but surely skate around the rink. Didn't try too much speed though, and constantly had to dodge the pros wizzing past me. I only fell twice (when I tried to go too fast) and therefore have a bruised butt today. And muscles in agony!
Well, we stayed there for about two hours and I was ready to go home, but everybody was heading for Bristol's nightlife and they said I'm leaving soon, I shoudn't be so anti-social. So we started out at the Australian pub Walkabout, had a drink or two and then headed for Syndicate. Walking in the rain to get there, I must add. In Syndicate we found all the other people that didn't go ice skating. So we were happily drinking and dancing (and for once I actually enjoyed it, maybe because of the stress of the last few weeks that I just let go then) and rapidly getting sloshed. We were the talk of the hotel today, as a lot of us in our drunken states hit it off with our collegues... uhm... including me... So therefore I got a nice snog from a polish guy called Kacper... uhmmmmm yes, I blame the alcohol.
One of our friends, Toni, joined us after work, around midnight. Two hours later she was lying paralized on the bathroom floor because she got a spiked drink from a strange guy. Our night suddenly went crazy. The bouncer had to carry her outside and we called an ambulance. Somehow her state and the fact that everybody tried to help and thought they knew better than the others, some of these supposidly good friends started screaming and cursing eachother. The ambulance arrived and suddenly everybody was very eager to bundle into the closest taxi and head home. I then offered to go with her to the hospital. If she had to stay overnight I would have had to get a cab back home alone (very expensive!) or if not she had someone with her to take her home. By the time the ambulance left everybody had disappeared, not worrying about what happened to me or Toni. By half two we reached the hospital and they told me to wait in the reception area, they will call me when I can see her. 45 Minutes later I was still waiting and when I finally saw someone again at reception, asked them what was going on. They said very matter-of-factly I can go through now and see her...just to find out they told HER that nobody was there for her! They put her on a drip and said when it was finished we can go home. So there I sat, dead tired and the drunkest I've been in months, waiting for Toni to be sent home. We finally got out around five, and got a taxi to take us to my house, as she couldn't go to her home alone. Managed to get in bed around six.
I was supposed to start work at 12, but you can imagine what I felt like when I woke up at 11. So Toni insisted to call our boss and explain that I was the only one who stayed with her and she won't allow me to work a 12 hour shift in my state. Thank goodness for that!
This Sunday didn't turn out exatly as chill as I wanted it to, but it sure was eventful and very memorable... Sure is different than just relaxing at home on an off day!!!
My song of the week
I decided my favourite song for this week is "True Colours" by Cyndi Lauper. Just because it is one of my "memory songs" of England and suite my current state of mind. I slowly have to start saying goodbye to the place that was my home for more than a year...
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Do you have a role model?
I thought it would be interesting to hear what people have to say about role models. Do you have one, who is he/she, what part do they play in your life, etc...
I was chatting with Adam on Skype the other day, and I said something about my role model. Now, I never previously in my life had a role model, esp. not a celebrity, but I came to realize this year that I have found a role model.
My role model is my boss, Chris Mariette, at the Aztec Hotel in Bristol. He is not just a role model, but a valued friend. He's the most motivated and dedicated person I know. He followed and accomplished the big dreams he had even though his circumstances was anything but easy. He has REAL passion for his job and life, something you sadly don't see in enough people these days. Even with the horrible hours he works and the fact that he has three young kids and a wife to keep him busy away from work, he always manages to keep a (sincere) smile on his face and always have something positive to say to someone. He really cares about people. This year he was my pillar of strength, supporting me while my friends and family were far away. He is always ready to be a sympathetic listener, advice giver and shoulder to cry on. And I know he really believes in me and my dreams. We had endless discussions about our (very similar) passions in life, including catering, people, music and photography. I learnt so much from him during this year; how your attitude determines your own happiness, how to be passionate about your job and give your everything, and how to be an 'actor' on the stage of life (even when your heart might be crying inside). Although there are a lot of situations and people that played an important part in my life during my time in England and had some kind of effect in my life, he was and always will be the most significant.
I was chatting with Adam on Skype the other day, and I said something about my role model. Now, I never previously in my life had a role model, esp. not a celebrity, but I came to realize this year that I have found a role model.
My role model is my boss, Chris Mariette, at the Aztec Hotel in Bristol. He is not just a role model, but a valued friend. He's the most motivated and dedicated person I know. He followed and accomplished the big dreams he had even though his circumstances was anything but easy. He has REAL passion for his job and life, something you sadly don't see in enough people these days. Even with the horrible hours he works and the fact that he has three young kids and a wife to keep him busy away from work, he always manages to keep a (sincere) smile on his face and always have something positive to say to someone. He really cares about people. This year he was my pillar of strength, supporting me while my friends and family were far away. He is always ready to be a sympathetic listener, advice giver and shoulder to cry on. And I know he really believes in me and my dreams. We had endless discussions about our (very similar) passions in life, including catering, people, music and photography. I learnt so much from him during this year; how your attitude determines your own happiness, how to be passionate about your job and give your everything, and how to be an 'actor' on the stage of life (even when your heart might be crying inside). Although there are a lot of situations and people that played an important part in my life during my time in England and had some kind of effect in my life, he was and always will be the most significant.
Quote of the day...
"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might-have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
-Milton Berle
-Milton Berle
Thursday, December 07, 2006
The Ventersdorp IT Dictionary...
The Ventersdorp IT Dictionary...
(Please note, I may be a Venter, but at least I'm not from the Dorp)
Log On - Make the braai hotter
Log Off - The braai is too hot
Monitor - Keeping an eye on the braai
Download - Get the firewood off the bakkie
Hard drive - Trip back home without any cold beer
Floppy Disc - What you get lifting too much firewood at once
Keyboard - Where you hang the bakkie and bike keys
Window - What you shut when it's cold
Screen - What you shut in the mosquito season
Byte - What mosquitoes do
Bit - What mosquitoes did
Mega Byte - What mosquitoes at the lake do
Chip - A bar snack
Micro Chip - What's left in the bag after you have eaten the chips
Modem - What you did to the lawns
Dot Matrix - Old Jan Matrix's wife
Laptop - Where the cat sleeps S
oftware - Plastic knives and forks you get at KFC
Hardware - Real stainless steel knives and forks from Checkers
Mouse - What eats the grain in the shed
Mainframe - What holds the shed up
Web - What spiders make
Web Site - The shed or under the verandah
Cursor - The old bloke who swears a lot
Search Engine - What you do when the bakkie won't go
Yahoo - What you say when the bakkie does go
Upgrade - A steep hill
Server - The person at the pub that brings out the lunch
Mail Server - The bloke at the pub that brings out the lunch
User - The neighbour who keeps borrowing things
Network - When you have to repair your fishing net
Internet - Complicated fish net repair method
Netscape - When fish manoeuvres out of reach of net
Online - When you get the laundry hung out
Off Line - When the pegs don't hold the washing up.
(Please note, I may be a Venter, but at least I'm not from the Dorp)
Log On - Make the braai hotter
Log Off - The braai is too hot
Monitor - Keeping an eye on the braai
Download - Get the firewood off the bakkie
Hard drive - Trip back home without any cold beer
Floppy Disc - What you get lifting too much firewood at once
Keyboard - Where you hang the bakkie and bike keys
Window - What you shut when it's cold
Screen - What you shut in the mosquito season
Byte - What mosquitoes do
Bit - What mosquitoes did
Mega Byte - What mosquitoes at the lake do
Chip - A bar snack
Micro Chip - What's left in the bag after you have eaten the chips
Modem - What you did to the lawns
Dot Matrix - Old Jan Matrix's wife
Laptop - Where the cat sleeps S
oftware - Plastic knives and forks you get at KFC
Hardware - Real stainless steel knives and forks from Checkers
Mouse - What eats the grain in the shed
Mainframe - What holds the shed up
Web - What spiders make
Web Site - The shed or under the verandah
Cursor - The old bloke who swears a lot
Search Engine - What you do when the bakkie won't go
Yahoo - What you say when the bakkie does go
Upgrade - A steep hill
Server - The person at the pub that brings out the lunch
Mail Server - The bloke at the pub that brings out the lunch
User - The neighbour who keeps borrowing things
Network - When you have to repair your fishing net
Internet - Complicated fish net repair method
Netscape - When fish manoeuvres out of reach of net
Online - When you get the laundry hung out
Off Line - When the pegs don't hold the washing up.
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Engeland verander my...
Ek dink ek het baie verander hierdie jaar. Wel, mens kan seker nie verwag om in 'n ander land te woon tussen mense van verskillende kulture sonder dat mens verander nie, of hoe? Maar ek voel ek ken myself nie eers meer nie. Is bietjie nervous oor die GROOT TERUGKEER na SA. Gaan die mense sien ek het verander, of het ek miskien net in my eie oe verander? Wel, ek weet ten minste vir 'n feit dat een groot ding wat anders is, is my immer-groeiende perfeksionisme by die werk. Ek dryf myself al teen die mure uit! Maar dis seker nie 'n slegte ding om 'attention to detail' te gee nie, of hoe?
Ek het vanaand 'n Skotse gereg geeet wat ek nog nooit rerig van gehou het nie, EN DIT BAIE GENIET: smoked, cured Salmon with Oatcakes. Ek eet nie eers meer dieselfde nie en hou skielik van goed waarvan ek nooit gehou het nie... interessant! En my aksent het (hopelik) verander, alhoewel mens mos nie self kan seker wees nie, ander moet vir mens se. Dus sal ek maar sien wat die mense vir my se as ek terug is... is ek nogsteeds dieselfde Madeleine van altyd, of het ek baie verander?
Ek het vanaand 'n Skotse gereg geeet wat ek nog nooit rerig van gehou het nie, EN DIT BAIE GENIET: smoked, cured Salmon with Oatcakes. Ek eet nie eers meer dieselfde nie en hou skielik van goed waarvan ek nooit gehou het nie... interessant! En my aksent het (hopelik) verander, alhoewel mens mos nie self kan seker wees nie, ander moet vir mens se. Dus sal ek maar sien wat die mense vir my se as ek terug is... is ek nogsteeds dieselfde Madeleine van altyd, of het ek baie verander?
Random Question Tag
1) Take a book nearest you, go to page 18 and write the 4th line:
"that mind candy."
2) Without checking, what time is it?
3:00 am
3) Check: 3:05 am
4) What are you wearing?
Black work trousers (way too big these days), black t-shirt "Die Voortrekkers" and their logo on the front, and the words "Gaan groot of gaan dood" on the back, ACG Thermal jacket... (I got rid of the shoes, socks and work shirt as soon as I got home around 12:30)
5) Before answering this questionaire, what were you watching?
The second half of 8mm, an old Nicholas Cage movie... sitting in one of my housemate's room and drinking tea
6) What noise can you hear besides that of the computer?
The totally crazy wind howling around the corners of the house. When I walked home half the dustbins along the way has been blown over and contents spilled all over the place!
7) When you went out the last time,what did you do?
Went out socially or anything where you leave the house? Can't remember the last time I went out for fun, but the last time I left the house was to go to work three o'clock yesterday
8) Did you dream last night?
Yup, can't remember exactly what, but I know that it featured a lot of the people from my life back in SA, similar to all my dreams these days.
9) When was the last time you laughed?
Dunno, was definately not yesterday as it was one of the most stressful days I had in a long time and there was nothing worth laughing about.
10) What is on the walls in the roomwhere you are?
Pictures of SA and most of my friends, a few poems and quotes that I love, a cat calender and a small print of my favourite Jack Vettriano paintings: Dance me to the end of love
11) If you became a multi-millionaire over-night, what would be the first thing you’d buy?
A metallic blue Audi TT convertable
12) What is the last film you saw?
On TV: 8mm (earlier tonight), on DVD: Stander and in the cinema: The devil wears Prada
13) Did you see something strange today?
Oh yeah, most of the things and people at my work I find extremely strange!!!! ;-)
14) What do you think of this questionaire?
I like the odd questions not normally found in similar questionaires
15) Tell us something about yourself that we don’t already know?
hmmm now the question is what DON'T you know! Well, ok, let's see... Oh I know! I watched my second ever (and first voluntary) rugby game EVER last week Saturday and actually kinda enjoyed it (maybe because it was in an English pub, I was the only SA supporter and we were winning... haha)
16) What would be the first name of you child if it were a girl?
Well, I have more ideas for boy's names plus I'm not really keen on having kids, but I like the name Jessica
17) What would be the first name of you child if it were a boy?
Tristan, Gustav or Vincent... what a choice
18) Have you ever thought about living overseas?
Yes, and I've been doing it for more than a year now in the UK. Would love to live for a while in the Netherlands or Germany to top-up my knowledge of the languages which I can read, write and understand but not speak well enough!
19) What would you like God to say to you when you reach the heavenly gate?
"You used your time well!"
20) If you could change something in the world, outside of politics?
I would love to delete the general stupidity, carelessness and "kannie-worry houding" of humans
21) Do you like to dance?
LOVE it! Can dance for hours on end. Really missing it at the moment as there's no-one I've met in the UK who can dance like a boerseun ;-)
22) Georges Bush?
Who cares? I don't have the slightest interest in politics.
23) What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Yet again, I have to write 8mm
24) Name 4 people who also have to copy the questions and give answers?
I can't coz nobody ever bothers to read my blog except Adam and I got the idea from him!!!
"that mind candy."
2) Without checking, what time is it?
3:00 am
3) Check: 3:05 am
4) What are you wearing?
Black work trousers (way too big these days), black t-shirt "Die Voortrekkers" and their logo on the front, and the words "Gaan groot of gaan dood" on the back, ACG Thermal jacket... (I got rid of the shoes, socks and work shirt as soon as I got home around 12:30)
5) Before answering this questionaire, what were you watching?
The second half of 8mm, an old Nicholas Cage movie... sitting in one of my housemate's room and drinking tea
6) What noise can you hear besides that of the computer?
The totally crazy wind howling around the corners of the house. When I walked home half the dustbins along the way has been blown over and contents spilled all over the place!
7) When you went out the last time,what did you do?
Went out socially or anything where you leave the house? Can't remember the last time I went out for fun, but the last time I left the house was to go to work three o'clock yesterday
8) Did you dream last night?
Yup, can't remember exactly what, but I know that it featured a lot of the people from my life back in SA, similar to all my dreams these days.
9) When was the last time you laughed?
Dunno, was definately not yesterday as it was one of the most stressful days I had in a long time and there was nothing worth laughing about.
10) What is on the walls in the roomwhere you are?
Pictures of SA and most of my friends, a few poems and quotes that I love, a cat calender and a small print of my favourite Jack Vettriano paintings: Dance me to the end of love
11) If you became a multi-millionaire over-night, what would be the first thing you’d buy?
A metallic blue Audi TT convertable
12) What is the last film you saw?
On TV: 8mm (earlier tonight), on DVD: Stander and in the cinema: The devil wears Prada
13) Did you see something strange today?
Oh yeah, most of the things and people at my work I find extremely strange!!!! ;-)
14) What do you think of this questionaire?
I like the odd questions not normally found in similar questionaires
15) Tell us something about yourself that we don’t already know?
hmmm now the question is what DON'T you know! Well, ok, let's see... Oh I know! I watched my second ever (and first voluntary) rugby game EVER last week Saturday and actually kinda enjoyed it (maybe because it was in an English pub, I was the only SA supporter and we were winning... haha)
16) What would be the first name of you child if it were a girl?
Well, I have more ideas for boy's names plus I'm not really keen on having kids, but I like the name Jessica
17) What would be the first name of you child if it were a boy?
Tristan, Gustav or Vincent... what a choice
18) Have you ever thought about living overseas?
Yes, and I've been doing it for more than a year now in the UK. Would love to live for a while in the Netherlands or Germany to top-up my knowledge of the languages which I can read, write and understand but not speak well enough!
19) What would you like God to say to you when you reach the heavenly gate?
"You used your time well!"
20) If you could change something in the world, outside of politics?
I would love to delete the general stupidity, carelessness and "kannie-worry houding" of humans
21) Do you like to dance?
LOVE it! Can dance for hours on end. Really missing it at the moment as there's no-one I've met in the UK who can dance like a boerseun ;-)
22) Georges Bush?
Who cares? I don't have the slightest interest in politics.
23) What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Yet again, I have to write 8mm
24) Name 4 people who also have to copy the questions and give answers?
I can't coz nobody ever bothers to read my blog except Adam and I got the idea from him!!!
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Aksente
Ek is mal oor verskillende aksente... Sommiges is natuurlik mooier as ander, en sommiges meer opvallend/uitkenbaar. Maar die feit bly staan dat ALMAL 'n aksent het, of dit nou weens tipografie is, of omdat jou moedertaal jou manier wat jy 'n ander taal praat en uitspreek beinvloed.
Maar nou kry mens ignorant mense soos die Britte. En ja, ek glo regtig hulle is nogal naive oor wat in die wereld aangaan... volgens hulle is hulle mos DIE nasie (Het ek nuus vir hulle... HA!)
Elkgeval, hulle dink 'n sterk aksent beteken noodwendig jy kan nie hulle taal ordentlik praat nie. Ek weet ek het 'n redelike sterk en obvious aksent (maar tog wel nie so erg soos sommige Afrikaners nie!!!!!). Meeste raai darem reg dat ek van Suid-Afrika af kom, maar sommige dink for some reason eks Pools (uhm, moenie vra nie, want ek weet wragtig nie hoor!!!). Nou ja, dan sal ek dit kry dat ek op 'n aand 'n tafel bedien en die hele aand lank heel lekker met die mense gesels in (my) Engels, wat redelik perfek is in vergelyking met hulle woord-misvorming (veral die Bristolians) en as ons dan op 'n stadium op die topic kom van waar ek vandaan kom ens, vra sommiges SOWAAR vir my of ek in Engeland is om Engels te leer! Ek vra jou met trane in my navy blue eyes!!!!! Daars 'n GROOT verskil tussen 'n aksent wat mens nie maklik in 'n jaar kan afskud nie, en incompetence in 'n taal. Nou ja... Ek blame my onnies wat my "Oxford English" geleer het... iets wat NOOIT in Engeland gepraat word nie. Seker iets soos Hoch Deutsch en die alledaagse Duitse spreektaal.
Maar ek moet tog se ek dink regtig my manier van praat het hierdie jaar verander. Die aksent is maar steeds daar, maar dis mos nie iets wat jy so erg in jou eie ore kan hoor nie, want vir jou is dit normaal. Ek HET ongelukkig 'n paar slegte Bristolian praatgewoontes aangeleer... Sug...
Maar darem klink ek nog SUID-AFRIKAANS, en maak nie saak wat enigiemand daarvan se nie, EK IS TROTS DAAROP, want dis 'n deel van wie EK is!
Maar nou kry mens ignorant mense soos die Britte. En ja, ek glo regtig hulle is nogal naive oor wat in die wereld aangaan... volgens hulle is hulle mos DIE nasie (Het ek nuus vir hulle... HA!)
Elkgeval, hulle dink 'n sterk aksent beteken noodwendig jy kan nie hulle taal ordentlik praat nie. Ek weet ek het 'n redelike sterk en obvious aksent (maar tog wel nie so erg soos sommige Afrikaners nie!!!!!). Meeste raai darem reg dat ek van Suid-Afrika af kom, maar sommige dink for some reason eks Pools (uhm, moenie vra nie, want ek weet wragtig nie hoor!!!). Nou ja, dan sal ek dit kry dat ek op 'n aand 'n tafel bedien en die hele aand lank heel lekker met die mense gesels in (my) Engels, wat redelik perfek is in vergelyking met hulle woord-misvorming (veral die Bristolians) en as ons dan op 'n stadium op die topic kom van waar ek vandaan kom ens, vra sommiges SOWAAR vir my of ek in Engeland is om Engels te leer! Ek vra jou met trane in my navy blue eyes!!!!! Daars 'n GROOT verskil tussen 'n aksent wat mens nie maklik in 'n jaar kan afskud nie, en incompetence in 'n taal. Nou ja... Ek blame my onnies wat my "Oxford English" geleer het... iets wat NOOIT in Engeland gepraat word nie. Seker iets soos Hoch Deutsch en die alledaagse Duitse spreektaal.
Maar ek moet tog se ek dink regtig my manier van praat het hierdie jaar verander. Die aksent is maar steeds daar, maar dis mos nie iets wat jy so erg in jou eie ore kan hoor nie, want vir jou is dit normaal. Ek HET ongelukkig 'n paar slegte Bristolian praatgewoontes aangeleer... Sug...
Maar darem klink ek nog SUID-AFRIKAANS, en maak nie saak wat enigiemand daarvan se nie, EK IS TROTS DAAROP, want dis 'n deel van wie EK is!
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Psalm 23 in Afrikaans se twee 'sustertale'
Kirchenbuch 23. Psalm
Der HERR ist mein Hirte,
Mir wird nichts mangeln,
Er weidet mich auf einer grünen Auen,
Und führet mich zum frischen Wasser.
Er erquicket meine Seele;
Er führet mich auf rechter Straße um seines Namens willen.
Und ob ich schon wandert im finstern Thal, furchte ich kein Unglück,
denn du bist bei mir;
Dein Stecken und Stab trösten mich.
Du bereitest vor mir einen Tisch gegen meine Feinde;
Du salbest mein Haupt mit Öl, und schenkest mir voll ein.
Gutes und Barmherzigkeit werden mir folgen mein Leben lang,
Und werde bleiben im Hause des HERRN immerbar.
De HERE is mijn herder Psalm 23
(1) Een psalm van David. De HERE is mijn herder, mij ontbreekt niets;
(2) Hij doet mij nederliggen in grazige weiden; Hij voert mij aan rustige wateren;
(3) Hij verkwikt mijn ziel. Hij leidt mij in de rechte sporen om zijns naams wil.
(4) Zelfs al ga ik door een dal van diepe duisternis, ik vrees geen kwaad, want Gij zijt bij mij; uw stok en uw staf, die vertroosten mij.
(5) Gij richt voor mij een dis aan voor de ogen van wie mij benauwen; Gij zalft mijn hoofd met olie, mijn beker vloeit over.
(6) Ja, heil en goedertierenheid zullen mij volgen al de dagen van mijn leven; ik zal in het huis des HEREN verblijven tot in lengte van dagen.
Der HERR ist mein Hirte,
Mir wird nichts mangeln,
Er weidet mich auf einer grünen Auen,
Und führet mich zum frischen Wasser.
Er erquicket meine Seele;
Er führet mich auf rechter Straße um seines Namens willen.
Und ob ich schon wandert im finstern Thal, furchte ich kein Unglück,
denn du bist bei mir;
Dein Stecken und Stab trösten mich.
Du bereitest vor mir einen Tisch gegen meine Feinde;
Du salbest mein Haupt mit Öl, und schenkest mir voll ein.
Gutes und Barmherzigkeit werden mir folgen mein Leben lang,
Und werde bleiben im Hause des HERRN immerbar.
De HERE is mijn herder Psalm 23
(1) Een psalm van David. De HERE is mijn herder, mij ontbreekt niets;
(2) Hij doet mij nederliggen in grazige weiden; Hij voert mij aan rustige wateren;
(3) Hij verkwikt mijn ziel. Hij leidt mij in de rechte sporen om zijns naams wil.
(4) Zelfs al ga ik door een dal van diepe duisternis, ik vrees geen kwaad, want Gij zijt bij mij; uw stok en uw staf, die vertroosten mij.
(5) Gij richt voor mij een dis aan voor de ogen van wie mij benauwen; Gij zalft mijn hoofd met olie, mijn beker vloeit over.
(6) Ja, heil en goedertierenheid zullen mij volgen al de dagen van mijn leven; ik zal in het huis des HEREN verblijven tot in lengte van dagen.
Nou verstaan ek...
"Multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind." - Terry Pratchett in Eric
En ek hou so daarvan om baie!!! uitroeptekens te gebruik vir effek!!!! Nou ja, dit verklaar (of bevestig) baie...
En ek hou so daarvan om baie!!! uitroeptekens te gebruik vir effek!!!! Nou ja, dit verklaar (of bevestig) baie...
Die groot vraag...
Ek worstel op die oomblik met 'n groot vraag... moet ek vir my vriende in SA se presies wanneer ek huis toe kom, of moet ek net opdaag en hulle dan onverwags bel of aan hulle deur klop??
;-)
;-)
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
Klaar gelees!
Ek is trots om te se dat ek (uiteindelik) Trainspotting deur Irvine Welsh klaar gelees het. Was redelik maklik, nadat ek gewoond geraak het daaraan om weird en onverstaanbare woorde uit te figure en dit te verklaar binne die konteks. Let wel, dis nie 'n boek wat iemand wat bang is vir vloekwoorde moet lees nie. En dis redelik skokkend. Dus: 'n GOEIE boek, maar nie 'n MOOI boek nie. Regtig baie goed, volgens my.
Nou wil ek graag die fliek sien om te vergelyk...
Nou wil ek graag die fliek sien om te vergelyk...
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Stoksielalleen op 'n Vrydagaand...
Ek voel vanaand ongelooflik alleen en hartseer. Seker veral omdat ek sedert gister duiselig voel, en dit word nie beter nie. Baie depressing om jou twee 'heilige' af dae 'n week in die bed te moet spandeer, en selfs DAN draai die aarde nogsteeds. Ek klink seker soos 'n junkie op 'n trip, maar nee, toe nie. Geen redelike verklaring daarvoor nie. Net duiselig. Punt.
En seker die dat ek so alleen voel... "Ek wil my Ma heeeeeeeeee!", ja veral my ma, maar eintlik enige pel wat my 'n lekker drukkie kan gee en se moenie worry nie alles sal orraait wees. Die probleem is dat my beste pelle hier almal weg is uit die UK, of soos Daria, besig en onbereikbaar is. En hier sit ek alleen in my huis, in my kamer, met uncompassionate housemates en 'n vreeslike behoefte aan TLC en 'n cure vir my duiseligheid voor ek more 12 ure lank moet gaan werk.
Die lewe is nie fair nie.
En seker die dat ek so alleen voel... "Ek wil my Ma heeeeeeeeee!", ja veral my ma, maar eintlik enige pel wat my 'n lekker drukkie kan gee en se moenie worry nie alles sal orraait wees. Die probleem is dat my beste pelle hier almal weg is uit die UK, of soos Daria, besig en onbereikbaar is. En hier sit ek alleen in my huis, in my kamer, met uncompassionate housemates en 'n vreeslike behoefte aan TLC en 'n cure vir my duiseligheid voor ek more 12 ure lank moet gaan werk.
Die lewe is nie fair nie.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
"Onttrekkings simptome"...
Ek is besig om onttrekkings simptome te ontwikkel... weens 'n gebrek aan goeie en ordentlike Suid-Afrikaanse DANS!!!!!!!!!! Nie die rond-ruk-spasma-aanval wat jongmense in clubs doen nie, maar ordentlik langarm: two-step, sokkie ens.....
Gelukkig gaan ek BAIE naby aan Presleys woon volgende jaar!!! :-)
En my groot mission vir volgende jaar is om te leer Tango. Moeilik, ek weet, maar iets wat ek nog altyd wou doen!!!
Gelukkig gaan ek BAIE naby aan Presleys woon volgende jaar!!! :-)
En my groot mission vir volgende jaar is om te leer Tango. Moeilik, ek weet, maar iets wat ek nog altyd wou doen!!!
Ek is moeg vir....
... sommige mense (van Suid-Afrika) wat aanmekaar en sonder ophou verwys na Engeland slegs as 'LONDON'. Ja, London is in Engeland, maar Engeland is nie gelyk aan London en London alleen nie! Aarde tog, is daar regtig mense wat so naive is? Ek het al in hoeveel briewe vir mense gese "dit gaan nog goed hier in Bristol" en dan skryf hulle terug en vra: "So, is dit nou al baie koud daar in London?"
Haha, mens kan seker maar net lag. Eks dan sommer lus om te se: Jy weet, laas toe ek in London was, was dit nog somer, maar ek kan regtig nie se hoe die weer nou daar is nie, maar dis nogal koud hier in Bristol waar ek eintlik woon, jou idioot!
SUG
Haha, mens kan seker maar net lag. Eks dan sommer lus om te se: Jy weet, laas toe ek in London was, was dit nog somer, maar ek kan regtig nie se hoe die weer nou daar is nie, maar dis nogal koud hier in Bristol waar ek eintlik woon, jou idioot!
SUG
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Wat ek vandag geleer het...
"Don't be irreplaceable, because if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted."
Sad but very true.
Ook geleer dat as jy baie goed is in jou werk, die Base dit nie meer so baie raaksien nie, en dus jou ook nie bedank nie, aangesien hulle dit 'verwag' van jou.
En iets wat ek nie nou geleer het nie, maar net 'n blerrie stupid ding wat maar net weer herbevestig is, is dat mense baie baie nervous raak as die Grootbase van 'n company kom 'kuier'. En dan word genoemde Grootbase (wat almal gewoonlik mislike en ongeskikte buffels is) beter behandel as enige paying customer ooit. Wat ek voel totaal en al stupid is. As ek eendag 'n company het, sal ek wil sien hoe my customers hanteer word deur hoe EK hanteer word! Maak dit sin?
En laastens het ek oor die afgelope vier jaar in die Catering business meer geleer hoe om goed NIE te doen nie, as hoe dit moet gedoen word ;-)
Sad but very true.
Ook geleer dat as jy baie goed is in jou werk, die Base dit nie meer so baie raaksien nie, en dus jou ook nie bedank nie, aangesien hulle dit 'verwag' van jou.
En iets wat ek nie nou geleer het nie, maar net 'n blerrie stupid ding wat maar net weer herbevestig is, is dat mense baie baie nervous raak as die Grootbase van 'n company kom 'kuier'. En dan word genoemde Grootbase (wat almal gewoonlik mislike en ongeskikte buffels is) beter behandel as enige paying customer ooit. Wat ek voel totaal en al stupid is. As ek eendag 'n company het, sal ek wil sien hoe my customers hanteer word deur hoe EK hanteer word! Maak dit sin?
En laastens het ek oor die afgelope vier jaar in die Catering business meer geleer hoe om goed NIE te doen nie, as hoe dit moet gedoen word ;-)
Monday, November 06, 2006
Goeie ou Suid-Afrika...
Ek moet bieg dat ek eers (weer) begin Afrikaanse musiek luister het nadat ek uit die skool is en blootgestel is aan die Afrikaanse kultuur by Tuks. Ek het wel toe ek nog 'klein' was na Afrikaanse musiek geluister, maar later jare was dit mos nie meer 'cool' nie. Maar daar is 'n asemrowende oplewing in Afrikaanse musiek en baie wonderlike kunstenaars wat ons Taal en Kultuur aan die lewe hou. Noudat ek hier in Pommieland woon (vir amper 'n jaar al!!!), is ek absoluut verslaaf aan Afrikaanse musiek! Ek luister baie minder Engelse musiek nou as wat ek in SA het. Vreemd ne. Ek het selfs begin hou van mense soos ou Steve Hofmeyr en Dozi ens. En luister selfs met genot na daai 'commin' liedjies soos 'Meisie Meisie', 'Rooi rok bokkie' en 'Ek wil my baby he vanaand' (en ander liedjies van kunstenaars wat ek voorheen niks van gehou het nie, soos Nicholis Louw, Valiant Swart en ander). Alhoewel ek nog nie so laag sal daal soos 'Skarumba' nie, hoor!
Wys jou nou net mens moet partykeer duisende kilometers reis en lank uit jou land wees voor mens regtig die kultuur en die mense en al die wonderlike goed van jou Vaderland mis en waardeer!
... En as mens lank genoeg in Engeland woon (ek praat nou uit persoonlike ondervinding), lyk die probleme in SA maar alledaags en glad nie so erg nie, want daar is baie goed in Engeland wat maar net so sukkel en selfs MEER sukkel (glo dit of nie!). Hierdie rooinekke gee mens soms grys hare en maagswere...
Dus is my boodskap aan almal in SA wat so graag kla oor alles: DIS NIE SO ERG NIE, EN NIE VEEL SLEGTER AS IN HIERDIE 'VERONDERSTELDE' EERSTE WERELD LAND NIE!!!!!
Wys jou nou net mens moet partykeer duisende kilometers reis en lank uit jou land wees voor mens regtig die kultuur en die mense en al die wonderlike goed van jou Vaderland mis en waardeer!
... En as mens lank genoeg in Engeland woon (ek praat nou uit persoonlike ondervinding), lyk die probleme in SA maar alledaags en glad nie so erg nie, want daar is baie goed in Engeland wat maar net so sukkel en selfs MEER sukkel (glo dit of nie!). Hierdie rooinekke gee mens soms grys hare en maagswere...
Dus is my boodskap aan almal in SA wat so graag kla oor alles: DIS NIE SO ERG NIE, EN NIE VEEL SLEGTER AS IN HIERDIE 'VERONDERSTELDE' EERSTE WERELD LAND NIE!!!!!
Sunday, November 05, 2006
British Humour...
Chris Walker (VERY British assistant manager): "I'm going to the room where the nobs hang out."
Luticia (VERY Welsh supervisor): "Oh, so you're going to the back office?"
Chris: "Uhm, no...?"
(The back office being where you usually find most of the managers.... HAHA)
Luticia (VERY Welsh supervisor): "Oh, so you're going to the back office?"
Chris: "Uhm, no...?"
(The back office being where you usually find most of the managers.... HAHA)
Oor katte en dit...
“"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?" Death thought about it "Cats," he said eventually, "Cats are Nice”.
- Terry Pratchett
- Terry Pratchett
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
SKOTLAND!!
Kilts, Macs om elke hoek en draai, honderde Lochs, Scottish Terriers, Highland Coo's, Monsters (van die Loch tipe), doedelsakke (o, behoede my!), Whiskey... whiskey en NOG whiskey, berge, skapies, lou-warm bier van die bitter tipe (al noem hulle dit 'xtra cold'), shortbread, haggis (yuk!!), semi-onverstaanbare (maar baie mooi) aksente en reen...Wat ek die naweek geleer het (1)
1. Dis baie moeilik om Trainspotting deur Irvine Welsh te lees (maar ek SAL deurdruk!!) ... wonder nou net of die fliek beter is as die boek of nie?
2. Die Jehovah's Witnesses is BAIE weird, en alhoewel hulle glo hulle geloof is so great en hulle is soveel beter as ons (ten minste in die opsig dat hulle kastig 'n kans het om hemel toe te gaan en ons nie) is die meeste van die hordes wat die naweek in ons Hotel was, vrek ongeskik en ongemanierd en sommer net moeilik. En nou bring dit my by daai classic gesegde: As DIT is hoe hulle optree, wil ek nie soos hulle wees nie.
2. Die Jehovah's Witnesses is BAIE weird, en alhoewel hulle glo hulle geloof is so great en hulle is soveel beter as ons (ten minste in die opsig dat hulle kastig 'n kans het om hemel toe te gaan en ons nie) is die meeste van die hordes wat die naweek in ons Hotel was, vrek ongeskik en ongemanierd en sommer net moeilik. En nou bring dit my by daai classic gesegde: As DIT is hoe hulle optree, wil ek nie soos hulle wees nie.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
So is die lewe...
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
Dit is seker die mees belangrike ding om te onthou as mens in die catering business werk... alhoewel mens nie altyd kan se wat jy wil nie, want dan is jy net dalk minus 'n job. Vanaand dit weer goed ondervind met 'n klomp fussy en ongeskikte mense wat my lekker laat rondhol het. Ek begin al hoe meer glo in die volgende gesegde (ek weet ongelukkig nie wie dit gese het nie):
"Someone who is nice to you, but nasty to the waiter, is not a good person."
Mmm, laat mens nogal wonder ne?
Dit is seker die mees belangrike ding om te onthou as mens in die catering business werk... alhoewel mens nie altyd kan se wat jy wil nie, want dan is jy net dalk minus 'n job. Vanaand dit weer goed ondervind met 'n klomp fussy en ongeskikte mense wat my lekker laat rondhol het. Ek begin al hoe meer glo in die volgende gesegde (ek weet ongelukkig nie wie dit gese het nie):
"Someone who is nice to you, but nasty to the waiter, is not a good person."
Mmm, laat mens nogal wonder ne?
Thursday, October 19, 2006
A quote by a very special person that I miss a lot...
Do you know anything about orchids? No? Then know this, red orchids are very rare. My neighbour gave me one; and it is wonderful.
Lawrence Edwin Jay
14 March 1944 - 2 October 2006
Much-loved and sadly missed breakfast chef at the Aztec Hotel for the last 15 years...
Lawrence Edwin Jay
14 March 1944 - 2 October 2006
Much-loved and sadly missed breakfast chef at the Aztec Hotel for the last 15 years...
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Terry's Wisdom...
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!
Terry Pratchett, The Truth
Terry Pratchett, The Truth
Ah... life...
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
- Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
- Douglas Adams "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Saturday, October 14, 2006
I love you, hate you, love you, hate you...
Everyone has brilliant times and baaaaaad times at work. Although I (manage to) enjoy my job most of the time (which I see as EXTREMELY important, otherwise, when you totally hate your job, you start hating your life, in a way... or at least wishing your life away...) But today was one of those days. Everything went wrong because of the stupidity of co-workers (really, nothing that happened was my fault!) but it still managed to reflect badly on me. SIGH...
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Lysie van goed wat ek nog wil doen... eendag...
Hier volg 'n lysie van die goed wat ek die graagste wil doen in die volgende x aantal jare. Ek weet nie of ek die tyd of die moed sal he om alles te doen nie, maar ek sal beslis probeer! (Adam, my lysie hou nie by 5 op nie, want ekt te veel goed... maar dankie vir die idee!!)
1. Valskerm spring en/of skydive
2. Ordentlik leer perdry
3. Die Otter Staproete in die Kaap stap
4. Diepsee duik
5. My eie restaurant begin
6. Die Bybel deurlees (Hmmm, het al 'n paar keer begin...)
7. Leer om te Tango
8. 'n Boek publiseer
9. 'n Ordentlike wynkursus doen
10. Die Lord of the Rings Triology deurlees (Het dit alreeds gekoop maar op die oomblik sit dit net op my rak en mooi lyk... haha)
11. Leer Saksefoon, viool en kitaar speel
12. In 'n lugballon ry
13. 'n Lang fietsry kompetisie doen, verkieslik die een wat in die karoo begin en in Knysna eindig
14. 'n Ragdoll kat koop
15. 'n Professionele fotografie kursus doen
(ok, daars nog, maar ek sal maar eers hierby volstaan)
1. Valskerm spring en/of skydive
2. Ordentlik leer perdry
3. Die Otter Staproete in die Kaap stap
4. Diepsee duik
5. My eie restaurant begin
6. Die Bybel deurlees (Hmmm, het al 'n paar keer begin...)
7. Leer om te Tango
8. 'n Boek publiseer
9. 'n Ordentlike wynkursus doen
10. Die Lord of the Rings Triology deurlees (Het dit alreeds gekoop maar op die oomblik sit dit net op my rak en mooi lyk... haha)
11. Leer Saksefoon, viool en kitaar speel
12. In 'n lugballon ry
13. 'n Lang fietsry kompetisie doen, verkieslik die een wat in die karoo begin en in Knysna eindig
14. 'n Ragdoll kat koop
15. 'n Professionele fotografie kursus doen
(ok, daars nog, maar ek sal maar eers hierby volstaan)
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
En nou vra julle seker... WAAR kom die naam vandaan?
Poppetjie Mabalel, of om meer spesifiek te wees: Die reisjare van Poppetjie Mabalel...
En dit die naam van iemand wat glad nie met 'dom blonde poppies' wil vergelyk word nie. Maar HIERDIE Poppetjie is darem iets heeltemal anders. Het al meer as 'n jaar terug begin, toe ek, Andries, Adam en Adam se Ma afgery het na KKNK 2005. Adam se ma het my begin Poppetjie noem, en ek is nie meer mooi seker nie, maar ek dink amper dis Andries wat met die Mabalel begin het... Die 'reisjare' deel kom van die titel van 'n boek wat bietjie aangepas is vir ons eie gebruik. Die 'reis' was natuurlik die avontuur na die KKNK...
Het baie spesiale memories van daardie vakansie!! En die naam het net eenvoudig ge'stick' in hierdie vriende-kringetjie.
En toe dog ek dis van pas vir die naam van my blog wat stukkies van my 'reis' deur die lewe uitbeeld... Soos ek gese het in die vorige post... Life is a rollercoaster... Dis die reisjare van Poppetjie Mabalel!
En dit die naam van iemand wat glad nie met 'dom blonde poppies' wil vergelyk word nie. Maar HIERDIE Poppetjie is darem iets heeltemal anders. Het al meer as 'n jaar terug begin, toe ek, Andries, Adam en Adam se Ma afgery het na KKNK 2005. Adam se ma het my begin Poppetjie noem, en ek is nie meer mooi seker nie, maar ek dink amper dis Andries wat met die Mabalel begin het... Die 'reisjare' deel kom van die titel van 'n boek wat bietjie aangepas is vir ons eie gebruik. Die 'reis' was natuurlik die avontuur na die KKNK...
Het baie spesiale memories van daardie vakansie!! En die naam het net eenvoudig ge'stick' in hierdie vriende-kringetjie.
En toe dog ek dis van pas vir die naam van my blog wat stukkies van my 'reis' deur die lewe uitbeeld... Soos ek gese het in die vorige post... Life is a rollercoaster... Dis die reisjare van Poppetjie Mabalel!
Life is a rollercoaster...
... just gotta ride it. Hmmm, as dit maar net so maklik was! My emosies is deesdae soos 'n rollercoaster: op en af teen een moerse spoed. Begin vandag in 'n vrek goeie bui, en toe ek vanaand huis toe loop is ek sommer tranerig en ek weet nie eers mooi hoekom nie. En dis nie net geite nie. Nee.
Dink die grootste issue op die oomblik is hoe lank ek nog in Engeland kan bly. Ek is mal oor surprises, maar nie as dit met sulke groot goed te doen het nie. Ek wil 'n dag en datum he, nie so moet wonder of dit nog een maand of drie maande gaan wees nie. Vir een of ander rede is ek nog nie 'reg' om huis toe te gaan nie. Dit is seker omdat ek nou my 'peak' tyd hier by die Aztec Hotel het, en nie nou wil uit en weg nie. Ek is 'n baie belangrike stukkie in die puzzle deesdae, al moet ek dit self se.
Aan die ander kant verlang ek regtig baie na my mense, my kultuur, LEKKER kos en ORDENTLIK dans. Maar op 'n manier weet ek dit sal maar altyd daar wees wanneer ek ook al sal terug gaan, maar as Engeland verby is, dan is dit VERBY. Of ek nou wil of nie. En ek WIL NIE!
As ek kon bly, sou ek beslis 'n manager geword het, hoe hartseer is dit nie om DIT te moet dink nie. En dan voel dit ook asof ek die hotel in die steek gaan laat wanneer ek weggaan, alhoewel EK weet en HULLE weet ek moet gaan.
Dink daar gaan baie trane stort in die tydjie wat kom...
SUG...
Dink die grootste issue op die oomblik is hoe lank ek nog in Engeland kan bly. Ek is mal oor surprises, maar nie as dit met sulke groot goed te doen het nie. Ek wil 'n dag en datum he, nie so moet wonder of dit nog een maand of drie maande gaan wees nie. Vir een of ander rede is ek nog nie 'reg' om huis toe te gaan nie. Dit is seker omdat ek nou my 'peak' tyd hier by die Aztec Hotel het, en nie nou wil uit en weg nie. Ek is 'n baie belangrike stukkie in die puzzle deesdae, al moet ek dit self se.
Aan die ander kant verlang ek regtig baie na my mense, my kultuur, LEKKER kos en ORDENTLIK dans. Maar op 'n manier weet ek dit sal maar altyd daar wees wanneer ek ook al sal terug gaan, maar as Engeland verby is, dan is dit VERBY. Of ek nou wil of nie. En ek WIL NIE!
As ek kon bly, sou ek beslis 'n manager geword het, hoe hartseer is dit nie om DIT te moet dink nie. En dan voel dit ook asof ek die hotel in die steek gaan laat wanneer ek weggaan, alhoewel EK weet en HULLE weet ek moet gaan.
Dink daar gaan baie trane stort in die tydjie wat kom...
SUG...
Saturday, October 07, 2006
'n Lysie van eerste sinne...
Nog ‘n tagging game! Krap op jou boekrak rond en soek interessante begin sinne van boeke… ek hou hiervan!!
Hier is my resultate (alhoewel my bronne baie beperk is aangesien 99% van die boeke wat ek besit in SA is, en ek aan die ander kant van die aardbol sit…)
1. “The Morris dance is common to all inhabited worlds in the multiverse.”
Reaper Man – Terry Pratchett
2. “The story of how I paid for college begins like life itself – in a pool of water.”
How I Paid For College – Marc Acito
3. “It was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to mark their retirement.”
The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
4. Adult editors of children’s books
If you must follow the adventures of a public school conjuror, even though you are a) notionally a grown adult, and b) have probably been to university or at least to ‘big school’, why attempt to conceal the fact behind a different cover, as if fellow passengers will assume after a casual glance that you’re actually reading Thomas Mann in the original German?
Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? The Encyclopedia of Modern Life – Steve Lowe & Alan McArthur
5. “Vyftien jaar lank het ek, Silas Miggel, in vrede op die platrand by Gouna gewoon.”
Moerbeibos – Dalene Matthee
6. Estragon (giving up again) Nothing to be done.
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
Hier is my resultate (alhoewel my bronne baie beperk is aangesien 99% van die boeke wat ek besit in SA is, en ek aan die ander kant van die aardbol sit…)
1. “The Morris dance is common to all inhabited worlds in the multiverse.”
Reaper Man – Terry Pratchett
2. “The story of how I paid for college begins like life itself – in a pool of water.”
How I Paid For College – Marc Acito
3. “It was the evening on which MM. Debienne and Poligny, the managers of the Opera, were giving a last gala performance to mark their retirement.”
The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
4. Adult editors of children’s books
If you must follow the adventures of a public school conjuror, even though you are a) notionally a grown adult, and b) have probably been to university or at least to ‘big school’, why attempt to conceal the fact behind a different cover, as if fellow passengers will assume after a casual glance that you’re actually reading Thomas Mann in the original German?
Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit? The Encyclopedia of Modern Life – Steve Lowe & Alan McArthur
5. “Vyftien jaar lank het ek, Silas Miggel, in vrede op die platrand by Gouna gewoon.”
Moerbeibos – Dalene Matthee
6. Estragon (giving up again) Nothing to be done.
Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
Friday, October 06, 2006
Tagging game...
"I’ve stumbled upon a tagging-game – listing 20 random facts about yourself and then tagging a bunch of people to do the same."
1. Ek is die laatlammetjie en enigste dogter in ons gesin.
2. Ek is een van die grootste kat-liefhebbers wat ek ken.
3. Ek is verslaaf aan lees en is altyd besig met een of meer boeke, maak nie saak hoe besig my lewe is nie.
4. Ek is GLAD NIE 'n oggend mens nie, maar kan met gemak elke oggend vier uur gaan slaap.
5. Musiek is my lewe, ek het een van die wydste musieksmaake waarvan ek weet.
6. Ek is mal oor psychological thrillers, hoe weirder en meer complicated, hoe beter.
7. Ek is 'n totale "people's person".
8. Ek is 'n regte ou "softy" en gee soms te veel om vir mense en kry daarom baie keer seer.
9. My "indulgence" is sjokolade, veral Belgiese en Switzerse sjokolade.
10. Ek kan nog nie bestuur nie en dit pla my, maar my lewe was nog altyd te besig om tyd te vind vir leer.
11. Ek kan baie goed fietsry met 'los hande', en ek is nogal trots op die feit.
12. Ek hou meer van catering as wat ek ooit gedroom het ek sal, en wil dus 'n restaurant oopmaak eendag.
13. Ek is mal oor fotografie en neem oor die algemeen heeltemal te veel foto's.
14. Die kleur van my oe hang baie van my "mood" asook die kleur klere wat ek dra af, hulle wissel tussen groenerig/bruinerig/blouerig/gryserig met goue spikkels om die pupil.
15. Ek is 'n totale "romantic at heart", maar dis nie baie goed vir my nie.
16. Ek haat roetine.
17. Ek word al hoe meer perfeksionisties hoe ouer ek word.
18. Ek is verslaaf aan dans, dis nou "ordentlike" dans soos two-step ens. My rekord is omtrent 12 ure se non-stop dans.
19. Ek word omtrent altyd 4 jaar jonger geskat as wat ek werklik is, en haat dit as mense op jou neerkyk omdat jy volgens hulle nog "jonk en dom" is.
20. Ek hou nie van grimering en opdress nie en doen dit net met BAIE spesiale geleenthede.
1. Ek is die laatlammetjie en enigste dogter in ons gesin.
2. Ek is een van die grootste kat-liefhebbers wat ek ken.
3. Ek is verslaaf aan lees en is altyd besig met een of meer boeke, maak nie saak hoe besig my lewe is nie.
4. Ek is GLAD NIE 'n oggend mens nie, maar kan met gemak elke oggend vier uur gaan slaap.
5. Musiek is my lewe, ek het een van die wydste musieksmaake waarvan ek weet.
6. Ek is mal oor psychological thrillers, hoe weirder en meer complicated, hoe beter.
7. Ek is 'n totale "people's person".
8. Ek is 'n regte ou "softy" en gee soms te veel om vir mense en kry daarom baie keer seer.
9. My "indulgence" is sjokolade, veral Belgiese en Switzerse sjokolade.
10. Ek kan nog nie bestuur nie en dit pla my, maar my lewe was nog altyd te besig om tyd te vind vir leer.
11. Ek kan baie goed fietsry met 'los hande', en ek is nogal trots op die feit.
12. Ek hou meer van catering as wat ek ooit gedroom het ek sal, en wil dus 'n restaurant oopmaak eendag.
13. Ek is mal oor fotografie en neem oor die algemeen heeltemal te veel foto's.
14. Die kleur van my oe hang baie van my "mood" asook die kleur klere wat ek dra af, hulle wissel tussen groenerig/bruinerig/blouerig/gryserig met goue spikkels om die pupil.
15. Ek is 'n totale "romantic at heart", maar dis nie baie goed vir my nie.
16. Ek haat roetine.
17. Ek word al hoe meer perfeksionisties hoe ouer ek word.
18. Ek is verslaaf aan dans, dis nou "ordentlike" dans soos two-step ens. My rekord is omtrent 12 ure se non-stop dans.
19. Ek word omtrent altyd 4 jaar jonger geskat as wat ek werklik is, en haat dit as mense op jou neerkyk omdat jy volgens hulle nog "jonk en dom" is.
20. Ek hou nie van grimering en opdress nie en doen dit net met BAIE spesiale geleenthede.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Tickle's Inkblot test - Baie interessant, kliek op hierdie titel om dit ook te doen...
Madeleine: Your unconscious mind is driven most by SELF-PROTECTION.
By having your unconscious mind driven most by Self-protection, it appears that you've developed a kind of shield to keep you from either experiencing or expressing strong emotions. This barrier might have formed due to some hurtful situation in your past, or perhaps it's simply your way of minimizing discord and pain. Because of this trait, you can typically keep your cool during arguments. As a result, you're not likely to say hurtful things that you'll have to apologize for later. Unlike many people, you're not normally one to fly off the handle. In fact, people with a heightened drive for self-protection often shy away from conflict and can become a bit numb toward others when forced into confrontational situations. As one with this unconscious drive, you might find that you tend to intellectualize emotional issues rather than becoming upset or overwrought. This can be a way of distancing yourself from painful feelings.Self-protection is a coping technique that can be helpful to you at times when you're forced to deal with distressing incidents like arguments, breakups, or loss. However, by not fully expressing your emotions in sad times, you might forget to express them in happy ones. People who become emotionally shutdown risk missing out on life's upside. In tough times, try to remember that you're likely stronger and more resilient than you give yourself credit for. By being willing to fully engage in the good and bad of life, you can give each day more depth, meaning, and color.
Your responses to the inkblots reveal more than just what drives your unconscious mind. They also uncover some central details about your personality, perspective, and relationships with others. Your unconscious mind colors these characteristics but is different from them. Here's what your responses indicated:
Your concept of reality
Your concept of reality is highly similar to that of others but not an exact match. Your perceptions seem to fall in between those who create their own unique realities and those who possess more mainstream perspectives. Because you straddle that middle ground of being in agreement with others and having your own opinions of the world, you can be both a follower and a leader. You can be a follower in the sense that you probably don't have trouble going along with the group most times since others' ideas will usually seem rational to you. You can be a leader because your creative viewpoints may sometimes allow you to guide others in new directions.
The difficulty for people like you is that at times you may feel pulled between taking the popular viewpoint and accepting your own vision of what is right. Because your concept of reality is rarely off the deep end, you can generally feel confident that there's something valid in your perspectives. Even if others don't always share your views, try not to let the masses talk you out of them. There can sometimes be great value in forging your own path. Finding a healthy balance between others' ideas and your own can be key to both your relationships and success.
Your mental flexibility
This section looks as the flexibility of your opinions, values, and perspective. To determine your result, Tickle's experts examined both the fluidity of your thinking and the rigidity of your opinions.
Based on your responses, compared to most people, your thinking is highly flexible. When someone challenges your values or opinions, you're one of those rare types who are usually willing to sit back and listen. People like you tend to enjoy this kind of intellectual sparring and may even welcome the opportunity to examine and reexamine your views. Those around you probably appreciate this willingness to consider others' ideas, rather than always thinking your perspective is the right one and trying to convince everyone else of the same. Being open to fresh viewpoints is an admirable quality.
In addition, flexibility can be paramount to fast learning. This is true because unless you're able to question what you already believe, it's difficult to believe in something new. By being open-minded, you're more likely to make your life into a kind of schoolroom for constant learning. People who don't have this skill can become stuck in the rut of their viewpoints and may fail to grow and develop as well as you can.
You Level of Fantasy
Some people fantasize nearly nonstop, others rarely do, and the majority of people fall somewhere in between. Imagination and the ability to create alternate realities are the two factors that determine whether or not a person is capable of having a highly colorful fantasy life. However, not everyone who can fantasize does. For example, if two strangers who were both capable of fantasizing were sitting next to one another on a bus, one might still spend the whole ride thinking about paying their bills and formulating their next to-do list, while the other could be envisioning taking a siesta on a tropical island. For Tickle's Inblot Test, having a high level of fantasy involves both having the mental tools necessary to fantasize and putting them to use.Being prone to fantasy can be thought of as a spectacular gift. Fantasy can give one the ability to create a made-up world much more captivating and pleasurable than the usual day-to-day realities. This can be a wonderful asset as you go though life - a free form of entertainment that you can use any time.
Some people look at those who are fantasy prone in a derogatory way. They feel that the more realistically a person thinks, the saner they are. Indeed, most definitions of "abnormal" refer to what is "unusual" or "not frequent". Clinical experts sometimes look at fantasy as a means of trying to escape reality, rather that face what's there.
Regardless of how one feels about fantasy, its value is heavily dependent on how it's used. If you use fantasy to visualize improvements in your life without ignoring important realities, then fantasy can be a useful talent. It can help you maintain your optimism and even to devise novel solutions to your problems. However, if fantasy is something you retreat into as a way of denying reality, then you might want to reconsider your use of it.
Tickle's experts found that you are certainly capable of fantasizing and may even enjoy keeping yourself entertained that way. However, based on your responses, your first reaction to stress probably isn't to create an alternate universe or to imagine things differently than they actually are. In fact, you appear to have the nice balance of having the gift of fantasy at your disposal without having the tendency to overly rely on it. In other words, when it comes to fantasy, you typically use it, but don't abuse it. Fantasy is a technique frequently employed by people living under harsh conditions in order to ease their stress. In this way, imagination can be a vital tool for prison inmates who live in depressing, restrictive conditions day in and day out. Using the power of fantasy can also be a profound relief for people living in poverty and in war zones. In fact, there are many people who live in adverse situations or deal with other painful circumstances that could benefit from occasional relief through fantasy.Fantasy only becomes a problem when you ignore something you need to deal with because you have the ability to fantasize it away.
For example, imagine you have a problem with an aunt of yours. Perhaps this aunt says something that upsets you almost every time you talk with her. As a result, after a while you stop listening to her in favor of pretending that you're someplace else entirely. The fantasy you create for yourself might be more exciting - and far less annoying, but it doesn't change this detrimental pattern between you and your aunt. A better response might be to put your fantasies aside for a while to address your aunt's poor communication style head-on.At it's worst, fantasy can keep you from making important lifestyle choices.
For instance, if you fantasize that you have boundless energy and are a wonderful athlete, and in the meantime sit on your couch eating potato chips and playing video games, there will eventually come a time where you won't be able to deny what is really happening to your body and you will have to tend to the reality of your deteriorating health. However, there's no reason that you have to let fantasy affect you in these negative ways. So long as you pay attention to the aspects of your life that need addressing, like your health or your career, you should be able to use fantasy and creative visualizations to bolster your happiness and success, not impede them.
How you relate to others
Your relationships are complex things. One important aspect affecting all of them is the role that you play when interacting with others. Do you typically take an active approach when dealing with the people around you, or do you tend to behave more passively? According to your test responses, you appear to have a balanced approach to interacting. You're not consistently the one who is active or passive. This mixed pattern indicates that, relative to other people, you try to either be sensitive to the needs of a particular situation or the people with whom you're dealing. By being able to adjust your approach depending on how the others are behaving, you can handle most situations with ease. Your friends may see you as a great listener or a savvy communicator because of your gift for reading people.
The overall effect of this balanced approach is that you have more options available to you when it comes to your communication style. The possible downside to this fact is that certain individuals with a balanced approach can get confused about which approach feels most natural to them — not just to the situation. While flexibility is a good thing, if you behave solely according to what's going on around you, it can wear on your sense of self.
Another difficulty you may find yourself running up against is that your balanced style may seem like inconsistency to other people. For example, if one day you take the lead in a group and the next day you choose to follow, this transition can be unsettling to those around you. Also when you're dealing with someone who is also balanced in their approach, your relationship can become an elaborate dance where each of you is trying to figure out who's taking charge. If you find yourself in a situation like this one, consider making your style more consistent — whether active or passive — in order to avoid potential confusion.
By having your unconscious mind driven most by Self-protection, it appears that you've developed a kind of shield to keep you from either experiencing or expressing strong emotions. This barrier might have formed due to some hurtful situation in your past, or perhaps it's simply your way of minimizing discord and pain. Because of this trait, you can typically keep your cool during arguments. As a result, you're not likely to say hurtful things that you'll have to apologize for later. Unlike many people, you're not normally one to fly off the handle. In fact, people with a heightened drive for self-protection often shy away from conflict and can become a bit numb toward others when forced into confrontational situations. As one with this unconscious drive, you might find that you tend to intellectualize emotional issues rather than becoming upset or overwrought. This can be a way of distancing yourself from painful feelings.Self-protection is a coping technique that can be helpful to you at times when you're forced to deal with distressing incidents like arguments, breakups, or loss. However, by not fully expressing your emotions in sad times, you might forget to express them in happy ones. People who become emotionally shutdown risk missing out on life's upside. In tough times, try to remember that you're likely stronger and more resilient than you give yourself credit for. By being willing to fully engage in the good and bad of life, you can give each day more depth, meaning, and color.
Your responses to the inkblots reveal more than just what drives your unconscious mind. They also uncover some central details about your personality, perspective, and relationships with others. Your unconscious mind colors these characteristics but is different from them. Here's what your responses indicated:
Your concept of reality
Your concept of reality is highly similar to that of others but not an exact match. Your perceptions seem to fall in between those who create their own unique realities and those who possess more mainstream perspectives. Because you straddle that middle ground of being in agreement with others and having your own opinions of the world, you can be both a follower and a leader. You can be a follower in the sense that you probably don't have trouble going along with the group most times since others' ideas will usually seem rational to you. You can be a leader because your creative viewpoints may sometimes allow you to guide others in new directions.
The difficulty for people like you is that at times you may feel pulled between taking the popular viewpoint and accepting your own vision of what is right. Because your concept of reality is rarely off the deep end, you can generally feel confident that there's something valid in your perspectives. Even if others don't always share your views, try not to let the masses talk you out of them. There can sometimes be great value in forging your own path. Finding a healthy balance between others' ideas and your own can be key to both your relationships and success.
Your mental flexibility
This section looks as the flexibility of your opinions, values, and perspective. To determine your result, Tickle's experts examined both the fluidity of your thinking and the rigidity of your opinions.
Based on your responses, compared to most people, your thinking is highly flexible. When someone challenges your values or opinions, you're one of those rare types who are usually willing to sit back and listen. People like you tend to enjoy this kind of intellectual sparring and may even welcome the opportunity to examine and reexamine your views. Those around you probably appreciate this willingness to consider others' ideas, rather than always thinking your perspective is the right one and trying to convince everyone else of the same. Being open to fresh viewpoints is an admirable quality.
In addition, flexibility can be paramount to fast learning. This is true because unless you're able to question what you already believe, it's difficult to believe in something new. By being open-minded, you're more likely to make your life into a kind of schoolroom for constant learning. People who don't have this skill can become stuck in the rut of their viewpoints and may fail to grow and develop as well as you can.
You Level of Fantasy
Some people fantasize nearly nonstop, others rarely do, and the majority of people fall somewhere in between. Imagination and the ability to create alternate realities are the two factors that determine whether or not a person is capable of having a highly colorful fantasy life. However, not everyone who can fantasize does. For example, if two strangers who were both capable of fantasizing were sitting next to one another on a bus, one might still spend the whole ride thinking about paying their bills and formulating their next to-do list, while the other could be envisioning taking a siesta on a tropical island. For Tickle's Inblot Test, having a high level of fantasy involves both having the mental tools necessary to fantasize and putting them to use.Being prone to fantasy can be thought of as a spectacular gift. Fantasy can give one the ability to create a made-up world much more captivating and pleasurable than the usual day-to-day realities. This can be a wonderful asset as you go though life - a free form of entertainment that you can use any time.
Some people look at those who are fantasy prone in a derogatory way. They feel that the more realistically a person thinks, the saner they are. Indeed, most definitions of "abnormal" refer to what is "unusual" or "not frequent". Clinical experts sometimes look at fantasy as a means of trying to escape reality, rather that face what's there.
Regardless of how one feels about fantasy, its value is heavily dependent on how it's used. If you use fantasy to visualize improvements in your life without ignoring important realities, then fantasy can be a useful talent. It can help you maintain your optimism and even to devise novel solutions to your problems. However, if fantasy is something you retreat into as a way of denying reality, then you might want to reconsider your use of it.
Tickle's experts found that you are certainly capable of fantasizing and may even enjoy keeping yourself entertained that way. However, based on your responses, your first reaction to stress probably isn't to create an alternate universe or to imagine things differently than they actually are. In fact, you appear to have the nice balance of having the gift of fantasy at your disposal without having the tendency to overly rely on it. In other words, when it comes to fantasy, you typically use it, but don't abuse it. Fantasy is a technique frequently employed by people living under harsh conditions in order to ease their stress. In this way, imagination can be a vital tool for prison inmates who live in depressing, restrictive conditions day in and day out. Using the power of fantasy can also be a profound relief for people living in poverty and in war zones. In fact, there are many people who live in adverse situations or deal with other painful circumstances that could benefit from occasional relief through fantasy.Fantasy only becomes a problem when you ignore something you need to deal with because you have the ability to fantasize it away.
For example, imagine you have a problem with an aunt of yours. Perhaps this aunt says something that upsets you almost every time you talk with her. As a result, after a while you stop listening to her in favor of pretending that you're someplace else entirely. The fantasy you create for yourself might be more exciting - and far less annoying, but it doesn't change this detrimental pattern between you and your aunt. A better response might be to put your fantasies aside for a while to address your aunt's poor communication style head-on.At it's worst, fantasy can keep you from making important lifestyle choices.
For instance, if you fantasize that you have boundless energy and are a wonderful athlete, and in the meantime sit on your couch eating potato chips and playing video games, there will eventually come a time where you won't be able to deny what is really happening to your body and you will have to tend to the reality of your deteriorating health. However, there's no reason that you have to let fantasy affect you in these negative ways. So long as you pay attention to the aspects of your life that need addressing, like your health or your career, you should be able to use fantasy and creative visualizations to bolster your happiness and success, not impede them.
How you relate to others
Your relationships are complex things. One important aspect affecting all of them is the role that you play when interacting with others. Do you typically take an active approach when dealing with the people around you, or do you tend to behave more passively? According to your test responses, you appear to have a balanced approach to interacting. You're not consistently the one who is active or passive. This mixed pattern indicates that, relative to other people, you try to either be sensitive to the needs of a particular situation or the people with whom you're dealing. By being able to adjust your approach depending on how the others are behaving, you can handle most situations with ease. Your friends may see you as a great listener or a savvy communicator because of your gift for reading people.
The overall effect of this balanced approach is that you have more options available to you when it comes to your communication style. The possible downside to this fact is that certain individuals with a balanced approach can get confused about which approach feels most natural to them — not just to the situation. While flexibility is a good thing, if you behave solely according to what's going on around you, it can wear on your sense of self.
Another difficulty you may find yourself running up against is that your balanced style may seem like inconsistency to other people. For example, if one day you take the lead in a group and the next day you choose to follow, this transition can be unsettling to those around you. Also when you're dealing with someone who is also balanced in their approach, your relationship can become an elaborate dance where each of you is trying to figure out who's taking charge. If you find yourself in a situation like this one, consider making your style more consistent — whether active or passive — in order to avoid potential confusion.
Elsewhere...
Elsewhere - Sarah McLachlan
I love the time and in between
the calm inside me
in the space where I can breathe
I believe there is a
distance I have wandered
to touch upon the years of
reaching out and reaching in
holding out holding in
I believe
this is heaven to no one else but me
and I'll defend it as long as I can be
left here to linger in silence
if I choose to
would you try to understand
I know this love is passing time
passing through like liquid
I am drunk in my desire...
but I love the way you smile at me
I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near...
I believe...
I believe
this is heaven to no one else but me
and I'll defend it long as
I can be left here to linger in silence
if I choose to
would you try to understand
Oh the quiet child awaits the day when she can break free
the mold that clings like desperation
Mother can't you see I've got
to live my life the way I feel is right for me
might not be right for you but it's right for me...
I believe...
I believe
this is heaven to no one else but me
and I'll defend it as long as
I can be left here to linger in silence
if I choose to
would you try to understand it
I would like to linger here in silence
if I choose to
would you understand it
would you try to understand...
I love the time and in between
the calm inside me
in the space where I can breathe
I believe there is a
distance I have wandered
to touch upon the years of
reaching out and reaching in
holding out holding in
I believe
this is heaven to no one else but me
and I'll defend it as long as I can be
left here to linger in silence
if I choose to
would you try to understand
I know this love is passing time
passing through like liquid
I am drunk in my desire...
but I love the way you smile at me
I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near...
I believe...
I believe
this is heaven to no one else but me
and I'll defend it long as
I can be left here to linger in silence
if I choose to
would you try to understand
Oh the quiet child awaits the day when she can break free
the mold that clings like desperation
Mother can't you see I've got
to live my life the way I feel is right for me
might not be right for you but it's right for me...
I believe...
I believe
this is heaven to no one else but me
and I'll defend it as long as
I can be left here to linger in silence
if I choose to
would you try to understand it
I would like to linger here in silence
if I choose to
would you understand it
would you try to understand...
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Life is life
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)
Friedrich Nietzsche
German philosopher (1844 - 1900)
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Something to ponder about...
"It's just that I'm happy now, and I guess that's how we judge a place, isn't it? Not for what it is, but for what we are when we live there."
Quote from Sarah's Window by Janice Graham
Gedink dis baie interessant... Op 'n manier van toepassing op my lewe hier in Engeland... Aan die een kant is ek so gelukkig hier, maar aan die ander kant mis ek my lewe in Suid-Afrika ongelooflik baie. Dis moeilik om so 'n soort van 'dubbel lewe' te lei... Twee huise, twee stelle vriende in twee verskillende lande. As jy aan die een kant van die aarde is, mis jy DIE wat jy aan die ander kant agtergelaat het. En dan is daar natuurlik die feit dat ek vir myself soos 'n vreemdeling voel deesdae. Die vraag is, het ek so baie verander (d.w.s. sal die mense wat my lankal ken my ook anders ervaar) of het ek net in my eie oë verander? Of was ek nog altyd soos ek nou is, maar ek het anders gedink oor myself en die lewe? En het ek verander OMDAT ek in Engeland is, of sou ek inelkgeval ook so gevoel het as ek steeds in SA was?
Ek dink ek dink te veel deesdae...
Quote from Sarah's Window by Janice Graham
Gedink dis baie interessant... Op 'n manier van toepassing op my lewe hier in Engeland... Aan die een kant is ek so gelukkig hier, maar aan die ander kant mis ek my lewe in Suid-Afrika ongelooflik baie. Dis moeilik om so 'n soort van 'dubbel lewe' te lei... Twee huise, twee stelle vriende in twee verskillende lande. As jy aan die een kant van die aarde is, mis jy DIE wat jy aan die ander kant agtergelaat het. En dan is daar natuurlik die feit dat ek vir myself soos 'n vreemdeling voel deesdae. Die vraag is, het ek so baie verander (d.w.s. sal die mense wat my lankal ken my ook anders ervaar) of het ek net in my eie oë verander? Of was ek nog altyd soos ek nou is, maar ek het anders gedink oor myself en die lewe? En het ek verander OMDAT ek in Engeland is, of sou ek inelkgeval ook so gevoel het as ek steeds in SA was?
Ek dink ek dink te veel deesdae...
Saturday, August 26, 2006
Oor blou oë...
The sky is the colour of your eyes
when your soul is lost
and you hide your sorrows
in the corners of your lonely smile...
- M.V. April 2004
when your soul is lost
and you hide your sorrows
in the corners of your lonely smile...
- M.V. April 2004
Friday, August 25, 2006
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