Thursday, August 6th, 2009 | Education, Friendships, Life Lesson, Photography, Questions, Tips / Learning, food, thoughts | 1 Comment
On Sunday I was invited to lunch at a friend’s parents’ home -It was her birthday the day before and so celebrations continued the next day.
(now for typing’s sake, I’m abbreviating the word Portuguese to read P…okay?)
Where I grew up, I never had a P friend, never had a P class mate nor did I ever eat at a P‘’s home before.
The area I now reside in used to be all be P owned. In the last five years of my staying here, I have only met one P guy from the area – and so still no real culture check, well at least until Sunday that is.
I felt comfortable and “at home” when I saw the food all laid out on the table. It reminded me of my mom’s Sunday lunch. Each portion in its own glass bowl, each bowl with its own spoon, each person dishes up their own plate of food, all exactly like it used to be for me when I was living with my mom.
The food was no stranger to me – so familiar – even in the taste of it. There was the sweetened butternut with cinnamon, the broccoli and cauliflower, for the meat eaters there was roast chicken, savoury rice but like savoury because its brown of the onions not using spice for rice, sweet potatoes, heck I can’t remember all of the nice stuffies – was just damn good food.
Whilst eating, I looked around in their back yard, noticed how familiar the gardening style was,this again reminded me of my grandmas garden. She used to have grapevines (but the grapes never grew THAT well), the apple tree, the peach/plum whatever tree, guava, banana (even though bananas never really grew) and more.
It got me thinking… › Continue reading
Friday, July 24th, 2009 | Feelings, General+Life Stuff, Life Lesson, Opinion, Personal, Rants, Relationships, Tips / Learning, thoughts | No Comments
The world is filled with so many convincing, lying, story-telling, false people! Today was yet another reminder of how wary one should be of those who claim to be your friend, they act nice and behind your back, they talk crap about you.
Shame on my landlord’s husband for convincing her that I lost my keys and that he lent his to me. I have two sets of keys and two remote controls since the day I moved in here back in 2003.
So I rock up at their house as I was asked to go see them to check out the new lease and to swap remote controls but I just thought they needed my remote specifically as the remote has four buttons. She also mentioned in her email to me that they were short of one remote which led me to believe that they definitely needed a spare one to open and close the garage. I only use two of the buttons but the other two could possibly be linked to the garage for them to use.
Get there, and I am suddenly attacked › Continue reading
Sunday, June 14th, 2009 | Feelings, General+Life Stuff, Household, Life Lesson, Personal, food | 3 Comments
If there’s one household chore that is my pet hate, it’s doing the dishes.
I was chatting to a friend on-line telling him about how I spent most of my Saturday washing up my dishes; I have already washed up three racks of dishes and there’s still more!!! also dried up those three racks full of dishes and packed it away. *proud moment*
Thank goodness it rained today, else I would have been out again and again not done the dishes. Or maybe it rained because I done the dishes?
Saturday, May 16th, 2009 | Feelings, Fun, Funny, Life Lesson, Opinion, Personal, Rants | 1 Comment
My first ever contract mobile phone … *daydreaming* . . . ah yes!
October 2007, I will never forget the day I saw my ex with this exact phone and me saying “Aw it’s cute, I also want that” .. SUCKER! Cause two weeks after signing, I already hated the damn phone but it was too late.
As the two year contractual period draws to a close, so too does the functionality that was once, in this Samsung D900i , pesty piece of telephonic device, that I SO despise. *excuse the anger*
Saturday, April 25th, 2009 | Entertainment, Fun, General+Life Stuff, Life Lesson, Tips / Learning, Useful | No Comments
Two great documentary releases, Zeitgeist: The Movie and Zeitgeist: Addendum, is currently screening at the Labia theatre in Cape Town.
As reviewed by the Labia theatre “…is the mind-blowing documentary by Peter Joseph, and is the most viewed motion picture on the internet …The award-winning movie takes a staggering look at the lies sold to the world via media, politicians, bankers and those standing to benefit.”
“Its follow-up, ZEITGEIST: ADDENDUM, focuses on the shocking truth behind the monetary system, and › Continue reading
Sunday, January 25th, 2009 | General+Life Stuff, Life Lesson, Personal, Rants, Tips / Learning | No Comments
Went shopping today and found this lekker† three quarter pants that I wanted to buy.
My brain told me I’d fit into a size 32 waist but my heart wanted me to fit into the size 30 – so I took along both to try on in the changing rooms.
In the changing room, I bravely tried on the size 32 in the changing room. The zip wouldn’t close… › Continue reading
Thursday, September 4th, 2008 | Education, General+Life Stuff, Health, Life Lesson, Tips / Learning | 1 Comment
I attended a wellness session today and one of the “things to do” was to take an eye test.
They called it a screening which in turn tells them if I need the eye test or not.
Fancy chin onto the holder thingy machine and you are also told to look straight ahead of you into the lenses or whatever its called. As the screening process continued, I saw the green dot-like thingy moving forward and backward and blurring and clearing again – I also noticed that I tended to wink both my eyes alot at certain times during this process.
See, I work on either of my laptop screens or on the LCD at the office but I was however using the CRT screens up until mid 2006. My mom and both my sisters wear spectacles and so it is only natural that one crosses fingers that “it wouldn’t happen to me”!
Turns out that my eyes were very good; he said that I should “watch my eyes” but he meant that they can still become bad if I don’t look after them. Any symptoms like headaches, dry eyes, constant blinking that become more and more regular are all signs that you should go see your doctor. Apparently my sight is good when looking at a far distance and cannot focus for long on short distances.
I then inquired about these headaches etc and I have the following reasons for the causes:
- headache on the sides of your eyes: short sighted
- headache in the middle of your head / forehead: cannot focus short distances; far sighted
- headache “behind the eye as if the pain knocking outwards from inside your eye ball” (this is how I described it to him and he understood me..yay): dry air/ congested nasal passage/ usually when too long in an office type air conditioned environment
I have since checked out the internet and found some really cool links to what I think would be important to you and all related to caring for your eyes, computers and eyes etc:
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- Win Airtime on Vodacom I hate you
- doug_parry on RAMFest IV review
- LAS on Vodacom I hate you
- g23 on SAMA nominations for 2010
- Alfa Somers on SAMA nominations for 2010
