Monday, February 8th, 2010 | Celebration, Education, Entertainment, Fun, Funny, Personal | No Comments
The ability to pretend that nothing happened (with a straight face) and still be confused (yourself) as to whether it actually did happen.
Sunday, June 28th, 2009 | Celebration, Entertainment, Friendships, Fun, General+Life Stuff, Personal, food | No Comments
@ch00n’s car was being moody all weekend so we couldn’t go anywhere. Today we just HAD to do something about not having transport. Like an angel, my landlord came down and suggested we go out for lunch – he drove. We had to sit through a really torturous slow drive that normally takes us 15 minutes get to, but took us nearly 45 minutes today. Sigh, how we missed being mobile today.
What made it worse, there is construction taking place on almost all of Cape Town’s freeways. We were all hungry and decided it would be quicker to take the N1 highway to Pizza Grill King (PGK) in Goodwood. › Continue reading
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 | Celebration, Opinion, The Office | 1 Comment
Today I been up since after 07:00 and started working at around 07:30 at my desk at home. I am still on sick leave because of the operation yesterday.
It has just gone 09:20 and I now only feel like breakfast, a cigarette and a shower. All things I would have needed to do two hours ago already in order to get to work on time.
I always thought that I would be unproductive if I were to work from home; seems I am even more so productive than ever. No ringing telephone, no pestering colleagues, no stressed out academics asking for unnecessary things to do, no student queries etc.
Think about the time we spend preparing for the office in the morning, in the case of a female, this could be up to an hour. Then if you traveling from say northern suburbs into Cape Town, you will be in traffic for at least 40 minutes. That is wasted time that could be used for productivity? Now double that time because you still have to get home in the evening.
I could do this everyday - Life is great, but just for today that is. Tomorrow it is back to the hell hole…
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 | Celebration, Education, General+Life Stuff, Rants, Relationships, Tips / Learning | No Comments
Just when you thought traffic is becoming a breeze in the mornings, you are normally hit with that one Monday morning, where everything is just pure chaos, and naturally you would be late for work on that one day and happen to have an important business meeting scheduled. › Continue reading
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | Celebration, Friendships, Fun, General+Life Stuff, Music Related Links, Opinion, Personal, Relationships | 2 Comments
My inbox rolling with party invites and reminders for events happening around Cape Town for New Years Eve.
What’s the big deal anyways? I used to be big on the celebrating – guess I have outgrown that now. I used to go to Synergy parties that used to be held at the River Club in Observatory. Those were fun parties. Kinda like what Vortex is doing these days having Bands, Trance etc – many options not just one genre.
Synergy used to › Continue reading
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | Celebration, Friendships, Relationships | Enter your password to view comments
Sunday, October 26th, 2008 | Celebration, Fun, Music Related Links | 2 Comments
When I see strawberries on sale, the avocado’s are priced at under R3, the South Easter wind starts blowing … then I know it’s time… festivities has started …
You
all ready for this yet? Ready for coming out of hibernation? Yes dear
friend, it’s time to put away your winter blankies, warmers and
heaters. It’s time to open up more of your windows at home and let
that fresh scent of summer happiness into your home – with all those
open windows maybe then you will hear the music playing in the distance
- the music of a nearby festival.
The festivals haven’t even
started yet and I can see myself waving good bye to my bonus that I
have not received nor made plans for as yet. . .
- this weekend, 24-26 Oct – Khayelitsha Festival – celebrating 25 years of existence
- also its the Cape Town International Kite Festival in Muizenberg 24-25 Oct
- next week Thursday 30th Oct is the start of the Obs Night Market (first ever night one to be held)
- the Sunday 2 Nov is Obs Holistic Fair
- usually 30 Nov / 1 Dec, it’s Obs Festival
Sunday, October 26th, 2008 | Celebration, Entertainment, Fun, Music Related Links | No Comments
After a miserable day yesterday where nothing was going right, I made
my way to the ‘Fresh ta Death’ party in Woodstock. If you are familiar
with the size of Don Pedro’s in Roodebloem road; you’d be a bit worried
about pulling such crowd of friends into such a tiny place especially
if its a farewell party to a well known person! Controversy leaves the
Cape for USA later this month and hip hop heads, and the crowd that
tags with those people all joined in to bid her farewell.
I’m not feeling so fresh right now and I do feel like I am dying; head
sore, eyes still tired, nausea etc – yes too much alcohol. The party
was SO much fun and I saw all the familiar faces I normally see on
Facebook and bumped into friends that I forgot about (honestly).
The music selectors included:
- Eazy – Faculty of HipHop
- Azhul – Beatbanger extraordinaire
- Earl Scratch- Battle king
- Erefaan Pearce – Mixology master
- Tyrone Paulsen – GHFM
- Intelligent Design – USA
- Phax Mulder – Germany
There will be loads of pictures posted later … pictures up on my Facebook profile only.
Monday, October 20th, 2008 | Celebration, Entertainment, Music Related Links | No Comments
Yeah exactly. That was my first question too; What the hell is hip hop education?
No! It’s not that latest infomercial on TV attempting to sell us an exercise video; its some hip hop movement exercise.
The Faculty of Hip Hop is a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town that uses hip hop culture as a tool for youth upliftment and promoting sustainable development in various communities. This organisation that started back in 2003 has been doing positive works in the community for only just five years; Five years and has just registered the organisation under section 21 of the Companies Act 71 of 1973 as a company for public benefit, in youth upliftment and development in a social, artistic and community context. *Applaud* Now registered under Hip Hop Education SA (HHESA).
Pictures of the Faculty of Hip Hop on Flickr.
There is some video footage I found on You Tube showing you the type of work done by this organisation. Truly inspiring view. This works in collaboration with Concious Connectionz. In these videos you will learn how the youth open up to these leaders and talk about HIV/AIDS, Substance abuse etc. I quote from one the kids saying: In class the teacher preaches to us and we don’t get a chance to be heard, but with Eazy and Azuhl, we are split up into groups and then we all have a chance to say our say.
I was invited to their launch event held at Artscape on Thursday 16 October 2008. Before this launch, all I knew about this organisation was the fact that they ran the DJ Workshop at Artscape; I took pictures and this can be found on Flickr. Now that I attended the launch, i learned that they are usually invited to schools to talk to the youth to educate them on particular problem areas within that school.
As I am employed at an academic institution, I was really amused to learn how they came up with the name ‘Faculty of Hip Hop‘ so here it goes: As they used to run the hip hop show at UCT Radio, they saw Faculty of Science and Faculty of Engineering and so they also felt like being a Faculty.
Other organisations and people that supported the launch and gave a short speech included: Each One Teach One , Adam Haupt , Concious Connectionz . These people are all supporting the same or similar cause throughout the world including Germany and the USA.
So now that they are officially registered to serve the public, you are most likely to hear alot more of them and their works in future. Well done to you guys Tyrone, Ricardo, Richard, and the guys from Concious Connectionz Akio and Stephen and Anna and crew from EOTO.
Saturday, October 18th, 2008 | Celebration, Entertainment, Fun, Music Related Links | No Comments
Each one Teach one gig tonight at Zula Sound Bar. . .full story and pictures to follow. . .
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