LIU - Look It Up!
Friday, October 19, 2007
To my friend : My Chimerical Mise-en-scene
I wasn't sure if you read my mate's blog, but he referred this to you so I am putting the link here for you.
Lucky Dube
well known South African Rasta musician was gunned down in front of his two small children last night where he was dropping them off at an uncles house.
No, this event did not take place in a township / squatter camp, but in Rosettenville, a suburb in Johannesburg south.
The police suspect it may have been a botched attempted hijacking. So fucking what!?! If a internationally recognised BLACK star is not safe, what hope has any white person, (or any black person for that matter)!
http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=591102
RIP Brother.
No, this event did not take place in a township / squatter camp, but in Rosettenville, a suburb in Johannesburg south.
The police suspect it may have been a botched attempted hijacking. So fucking what!?! If a internationally recognised BLACK star is not safe, what hope has any white person, (or any black person for that matter)!
http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=591102
RIP Brother.
Tha carnage on our roads
Before going to the office this morning, I drove across town to collect the new speedo and rev counter cables for GMans bike. The shop was still closed, so I drove on down to a friends place for coffee. On the way I was overtaken by an emergency vehicle, with all its lights going.
Around the corner, and down the hill, and the accident was there, right where I knew it would be.
it's a steep downhill towards an intersection from the left. Most cars fly down there, but especially trucks pick up massive speed going down. it seems that this little car was stopped at the intersection, wanting to cross over the double road, and the truck side swiped it across the nose.
Don't think anyone died, but the injuries are probably severe. The truck was stopped about 70 - 100 m further down the road.
In case you are wondering it's a Toyota Conquest, and is scrapped!
Salagatle!
Around the corner, and down the hill, and the accident was there, right where I knew it would be.
it's a steep downhill towards an intersection from the left. Most cars fly down there, but especially trucks pick up massive speed going down. it seems that this little car was stopped at the intersection, wanting to cross over the double road, and the truck side swiped it across the nose.
Don't think anyone died, but the injuries are probably severe. The truck was stopped about 70 - 100 m further down the road.
In case you are wondering it's a Toyota Conquest, and is scrapped!Salagatle!
Up at sparrows fart
Up at 4am this morning to take LuckyL to his school. The U14 boys are going on a water polo tour to the South Coast for the weekend. they play their first game in Mooi River on the way down, and another two games when they get to their destination tonight!
Hope you have a safe trip my boy.
Salagatle!
Hope you have a safe trip my boy.
Salagatle!
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Worth posting here....
Dakota Native American tribal wisdom, passed on from generation to generation, says: "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount and get a different horse."
However, in government and corporate Southern Africa , more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that the dead horse can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as 'living impaired'.
7. Hiring outside consultants to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and / or training to increase dead horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overheads & therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position!
If you understand the above, then you are obviously a South African
However, in government and corporate Southern Africa , more advanced strategies are often employed, such as:
1. Buying a stronger whip.
2. Changing riders.
3. Appointing a committee to study the horse.
4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride dead horses.
5. Lowering the standards so that the dead horse can be included.
6. Reclassifying the dead horse as 'living impaired'.
7. Hiring outside consultants to ride the dead horse.
8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed.
9. Providing additional funding and / or training to increase dead horse's performance.
10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance.
11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overheads & therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses.
12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses.
13. Promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position!
If you understand the above, then you are obviously a South African
I made the letters page
A previous post of mine, the poem You do not know my anger was printed in the letters page of today's copy of Zululand Observer. (18 Oct 2007) Just thought you might want to know.
Salagatle!
Salagatle!
More pics of stuff
This morning I stood in the queue with 50 other people at the local Vehicle licensing office. This is 2 minutes to 8, opening time. It's like this every day of the week. people arrive from 7am to get to the front of the queue. There are about 14 service points in the building but never more than 7 or 8 people on duty. You would think that seeing as this is the norm, and continues throughout the day that they would employ more people.
Last Saturday i got witness, the gardner, to start clearing the rocks from the bottom of the garden. There is some good soil underneath, and I figure to plant some bushes, shrubs, flowers down there. he worked for 3.5 hours on this little piece, with LuckyL helping, and check the pile of rocks they produced. Cleared area in the middle of the pic, and pile of rocks next to it on the right.
Lastly, yesterday i attended the funeral of a friend / acquaintance. He died 1 day after his 42nd birthday. he had been in a coma following a motoring accident about a month ago. There were about 800 people at his funeral. A very sad day.
R.I.P. Fernando Gomes Inacio, or "Our Giant" as his family referred to him.
Salagatle!
Last Saturday i got witness, the gardner, to start clearing the rocks from the bottom of the garden. There is some good soil underneath, and I figure to plant some bushes, shrubs, flowers down there. he worked for 3.5 hours on this little piece, with LuckyL helping, and check the pile of rocks they produced. Cleared area in the middle of the pic, and pile of rocks next to it on the right.
Lastly, yesterday i attended the funeral of a friend / acquaintance. He died 1 day after his 42nd birthday. he had been in a coma following a motoring accident about a month ago. There were about 800 people at his funeral. A very sad day.
R.I.P. Fernando Gomes Inacio, or "Our Giant" as his family referred to him.
Salagatle!
Some pics and stuff
Two Sunday's ago we attended the Fiesta at the local Catholic. It's always a good function.
Portuguese traditional dancers.
I also wrote about my brothers quad which LuckyL crashed. Well here it is in stripped down form:-
More later
Salagatle!
Portuguese traditional dancers.I also wrote about my brothers quad which LuckyL crashed. Well here it is in stripped down form:-
More laterSalagatle!
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
The light is in sight
It's sometimes easy, looking up
Into the distance, see the light?
Darkness descending, encompassing,tightening, strangling
Day to day, you soldier on
Life's not easy, not friendly
Are we too casual? Too easy
Are we misled? Too sure?
Wreckless abundance
Wasting our days
In search of that freedom
In search of that way?
Is it inevitable, that we
never learn, that the end
comes before we succeed?
Are we too trusting?
Never at peace, never too sure
Are we to ever get to that light?
Is this the answer, sit back and wait
Or must we forever strive?
What is the purpose, of all of this
If the light keeps on moving,
The days keep on passing
And the end is never in sight!
Salagatle!
Picture taken from Google images - no permission requested - posted in good will.
It's a real lift
when you post a depressing note, and you get good uplifting comments from friends and readers.
Even got one from the Solomonsters down under! Seems they can't comment on line (must be an Ozzie thing, maybe cause they are pissed off they fell out of the Rugby and are now boycotting all the ex South Africans living there...).
Anyway, "si tira avanti" as they say back home, and things can turn around anytime.
I'm feeling a bit more upbeat, as long as I don't:-
a) think about my job
b) look at any bank statements
c) get into any thing with the Princess or the kids
d) don't get pissed off in the traffic
Salagatle!
Even got one from the Solomonsters down under! Seems they can't comment on line (must be an Ozzie thing, maybe cause they are pissed off they fell out of the Rugby and are now boycotting all the ex South Africans living there...).
Anyway, "si tira avanti" as they say back home, and things can turn around anytime.
I'm feeling a bit more upbeat, as long as I don't:-
a) think about my job
b) look at any bank statements
c) get into any thing with the Princess or the kids
d) don't get pissed off in the traffic
Salagatle!
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Another day, another dime
Life goes on. Not sleeping well, due to various factors, but that's how things go.
Of interest in my life at the moment:-
a) License renewal has arrived for a vehicle I sold a year ago! So now I have to get a sworn affidavit signed by a Commissioner of the Oath that it's no longer mine so I can get it off my name.
b) There is a big drive on at the moment to reduce power usage, due to overloading of the power network, which has caused the rolling blackouts I referred to previously. I sms'd the one radio station to tell them "You cannot SAVE electricity" (all the ad's / advise / requests are for power saving) it is not a physical entity you can store. Do you think they took notice? No way, dumb arses are too stupid to comprehend my statement.
c) There is talk of implementing a points demerit system linked to drivers licenses. It works overseas. It could work here, if the drivers all had valid licenses, the cops were not so corrupt.
d) One guy called in to 702 (LIU) and told the story of how he was driving home from the airport, only had ZAR7.00 in his pocket (his wallet had been stolen). He was stopped for speeding. the fine was supposedly ZAR200.00. After he told the cop he only had ZAR7 in his pocket, it was accepted as a bribe, and he was allowed to go! ZAR7!?!?! Man, you can hardly get a loaf of bread for that!
e) The kids got to me last night. They had another of their "days", and when I got home the Princess was stressed out, shouting at them....
Anyway, I called them down, and once again, laid down the law according to me! Problem is, you never really get the true story, so you have to punish both of them equally. Needless to say (and I never touched them) I had GMan there in tears (He's the sensitive one) and LuckyL just sitting there, stone faced. Man raising these kids is hard work.
f) We are having some challenges in the extended family, what with Mom not wanting to move to a smaller, safer place, (I even offered to build her a cottage at our home), my sister who I haven't spoken to for over a year still doing the "Better than thou" thing, all Christian like at the church, church groups, outreaches, but a real shithead when it comes to family, me and the boys and my personal financial challenges, as well as my shitty job, ... wow, a few months ago life was rosy, now it's more like bloody!!!
g) I'm still busy with the bar counter, the framed coasters thing failed and I still don't have a solution for it. My bar's a mess.
h) The damn TVs are way out of focus, and after having paid the TV guy ZAR1200 to fix it all after the lightning damage you'd think it was fixed. Aerials need to be readjusted.
i) And the DIY Caskets thing is really showing me why South African companies go to China to source their components. We still do not have pricing for boxes, short plastic pins, and coffin liners. Damn, you'd think people wanted the work.
Might just have to make all that myself too, and then compete with them (if you can call it competing) in their space!!! Hell, I could have a coffin manufacturing business, a plastic moulding business, a coffin handle and accessories import business, and a plastic sheet extrusion business going!
Oh, well, se la vie!
Salagatle!
Of interest in my life at the moment:-
a) License renewal has arrived for a vehicle I sold a year ago! So now I have to get a sworn affidavit signed by a Commissioner of the Oath that it's no longer mine so I can get it off my name.
b) There is a big drive on at the moment to reduce power usage, due to overloading of the power network, which has caused the rolling blackouts I referred to previously. I sms'd the one radio station to tell them "You cannot SAVE electricity" (all the ad's / advise / requests are for power saving) it is not a physical entity you can store. Do you think they took notice? No way, dumb arses are too stupid to comprehend my statement.
c) There is talk of implementing a points demerit system linked to drivers licenses. It works overseas. It could work here, if the drivers all had valid licenses, the cops were not so corrupt.
d) One guy called in to 702 (LIU) and told the story of how he was driving home from the airport, only had ZAR7.00 in his pocket (his wallet had been stolen). He was stopped for speeding. the fine was supposedly ZAR200.00. After he told the cop he only had ZAR7 in his pocket, it was accepted as a bribe, and he was allowed to go! ZAR7!?!?! Man, you can hardly get a loaf of bread for that!
e) The kids got to me last night. They had another of their "days", and when I got home the Princess was stressed out, shouting at them....
Anyway, I called them down, and once again, laid down the law according to me! Problem is, you never really get the true story, so you have to punish both of them equally. Needless to say (and I never touched them) I had GMan there in tears (He's the sensitive one) and LuckyL just sitting there, stone faced. Man raising these kids is hard work.
f) We are having some challenges in the extended family, what with Mom not wanting to move to a smaller, safer place, (I even offered to build her a cottage at our home), my sister who I haven't spoken to for over a year still doing the "Better than thou" thing, all Christian like at the church, church groups, outreaches, but a real shithead when it comes to family, me and the boys and my personal financial challenges, as well as my shitty job, ... wow, a few months ago life was rosy, now it's more like bloody!!!
g) I'm still busy with the bar counter, the framed coasters thing failed and I still don't have a solution for it. My bar's a mess.
h) The damn TVs are way out of focus, and after having paid the TV guy ZAR1200 to fix it all after the lightning damage you'd think it was fixed. Aerials need to be readjusted.
i) And the DIY Caskets thing is really showing me why South African companies go to China to source their components. We still do not have pricing for boxes, short plastic pins, and coffin liners. Damn, you'd think people wanted the work.
Might just have to make all that myself too, and then compete with them (if you can call it competing) in their space!!! Hell, I could have a coffin manufacturing business, a plastic moulding business, a coffin handle and accessories import business, and a plastic sheet extrusion business going!
Oh, well, se la vie!
Salagatle!
Monday, October 15, 2007
We are back to Square one...
Now, even on FireFox I can't edit the contents of the thingies down the side, like the poll, poll results.
Oh man....
Salagatle!
Oh man....
Salagatle!
Things are a little
fucked up right now. I'm not going to post anything earth shattering. My previous post may give you a clue to the fact I'm a bit down due to the crime stats in SA, and how it is affecting us all in one way or another.
Suffice to say:-
England got lucky against the French.
SA klapped Argentina.
The final will be a humdinger.
The Protea's beat Pakistan 1-0 in the 2 game test series (in Pakistan)
We don't have DSTV so won't be watching the limited overs games played there.
The good rains have made a massive change to the garden.
Witness (LIU) has started moving some of the rocks so we can access what little soil we have on the stand to plant some stuff.
Will chat later.
Salagatle!
Suffice to say:-
England got lucky against the French.
SA klapped Argentina.
The final will be a humdinger.
The Protea's beat Pakistan 1-0 in the 2 game test series (in Pakistan)
We don't have DSTV so won't be watching the limited overs games played there.
The good rains have made a massive change to the garden.
Witness (LIU) has started moving some of the rocks so we can access what little soil we have on the stand to plant some stuff.
Will chat later.
Salagatle!
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