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Here’s to new beginnings

Nov 3, 2008 | Mumblings, Randomness

Mmk, I’m going to try and ignore the fact that I got effall sleep last night and just
look forward to a brand new phase of my life that starts today …

New beginnings. New opportunities. New challenges.

It’s all good 🙂

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.“

Have a rocking Monday everyone!

The Fairest Cape

Oct 27, 2008 | Books, Mumblings

THE FAIREST CAPE

РBy Andr̩ van Rooyen

“My romance with the light and the seas off the Cape, in images.”

I’m so proud of André van Rooyen and Nic Haralambous (SA Rocks) for collaborating on this AWESOME new photographic book!!

Nic says:

“I have been dying to try and get something off the ground as an initiative to help SA Rocks Flickr group contributors. André was the first one to come to me with the idea of printing a book of his photographs and getting his work out there. I am more than happy to announce that we have (well mostly André) successfully used Blurb.com to set up André’s very first photographic book: The Fairest Cape.”

I’ve had a look at the preview the first 15 pages on Blurb.com and WOW, it looks absolutely stunning!

Prices start at $22.95 (excluding shipping and local taxes) and I’m going to be ordering my own copy as soon as pay day swings around, that’s for sure. I urge you to do the same. (Wouldn’t it make a great Christmas gift?)

Let’s all show our support for this great new local collaboration. Well done guys 🙂

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Double tagged!

Jul 19, 2008 | Mumblings, Personal

Hmmm … tagged again. Twice.

This time it’s the “7 Interesting Things About Me” game and I got hit by both Chris Mills and Wogan May!

Does this mean I now have to come up with 14 things??

Hoo Boy … this ain’t gonna be easy – between my About Me page and being Tagged for the Very First Time by SheBee, I’ve just about exhausted the topic of Me! But then again, being an Aries means I love to talk about me, so I’m sure I can manage … wahaha!!

Alrighty then, before I begin, let’s take a look at that word … INTERESTING.

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A quick check on Dictionary.com reveals the following definitions:

  • engaging or exciting and holding the attention or curiosity: an interesting book.
  • arousing a feeling of interest: an interesting face.

– Synonyms

absorbing, entertaining. Interesting, pleasing, gratifying mean satisfying to the mind.

Something that is interesting occupies the mind with no connotation of pleasure or displeasure: an interesting account of a battle.

Something that is pleasing engages the mind favorably: a pleasing account of the wedding.

Something that is gratifying fulfills expectations, requirements, etc.: a gratifying account of his whereabouts; a book gratifying in its detail.

– Antonyms

dull

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Tough one … I’m supposed to come up with Interesting Things that are NOT dull, will please and gratify you, occupy your mind and fulfill your expectations … YIKES!!

Oh well, I can only do me best hey? Can’t please all of the people all of the time and all that =)

  1. I learned how to fly on a trapeze when I was in high school.
  2. I have no formal tertiary education … I always have to choose the “some other college” option when completing questionnaires. Although I matriculated with an exemption, I just didn’t feel the urge to waste my time on some arb degree or diploma that I would probably never actually use. So I landed up doing a secretarial course straight after school in ’89 – figured it was something that would always come in handy. I sucked! I still can’t type =) The only thing I did (ridiculously) well in was Word Processing. After that, in 1994 I did a 3-month DTP course.
  3. Everything I need to know, I teach myself.
  4. I have taught others though – I used to be a lecturer, if you can believe that. Yes, me. The Shyest Person On Earth used to make her living by standing up in front of a class full of students and teaching them how to use Macs, FreeHand, Quark and PhotoShop (waaay back in the day, before PS even had layers LOL) … and get this: I was pretty damn good at it!
  5. I designed and developed the first accredited Web Authoring course in the country.
  6. This is my the first website I ever built, the result of my very first dabble with the www … on good old Notepad =) http://www.pbdphoto.co.za
  7. I am good on a stage, I actually love performing =) (or I WAS good, should I say – haven’t done that for goodness knows how long!)
  8. I have double jointed fingers and I can move my eyes independently of each other – cool party trick haha
  9. I was well on my way to becoming a ballet dancer until sometime in high school, when Art kinda took over … I still miss dancing.
  10. I can’t remember the last time I went to the hairdresser.
  11. I don’t have any tattoos – I’ve thought about it many times and still do … and then I rapidly change my mind when the rather revolting image of a wrinkly old hag with body ink pops into my head.
  12. I absolutely ADORE dried mango and raw almond nuts (together) as a snack. I buy mine from Gabi’s in Access Park – Lekkerbek rules!
  13. I forget absolutely everything about a movie right about 5 minutes after I’ve watched it – damn frustrating!
  14. I am fascinated by people who are “different” – people who look different or think differently. I welcome the opportunities to see the world from another perspective, although I’m really stubborn so “different” also has to be “smart” to get my attention.

*whew* I did it!

There are no rules, so I’m not going to pass this one on to a whole bunch of folks … if you want to do it, be my guest. Pop your link into a comment on this post when you’re done.

I’m only tagging one person – Sir G! Welcome to the blogosphere Dude =)

TGIF and TFTD

Jul 11, 2008 | Mumblings

It’s Fridaaaaaay! The weekend is nearly here =)

Thank goodness … what a week …

Don’t quite know why I’m getting amped for the weekend though – I’m going to have to work to make up for the time I lost yesterday. Bummer.

I look like shit today =) Lots of blubbering and not enough sleep have left me looking like I’ve been a few rounds with a heavyweight LOL. Just as well I can stay tucked well away behind my monitor for the day!

Have a rocking Friday everyone. Here’s your thought for the day:

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.” -Dalai Lama

It’s Monday morning

Jun 9, 2008 | Mumblings

Bleakness. I am so not ready for today. I have a thick sleeping pill hangover (think I took it too late last night) and a head that seriously feels like it’s going to blow up and splatter my brains all over the wall behind me. Urgh. So I’m waiting for the sleeping tab to wear off and my painkillers to kick in. Until, then I just to push through ….

I am really sluggish – that could also have something to do with all the crap I ate this weekend. The closest I came to eating fruit and veggies was in the form of blueberry muffins and some roasted beetroot and parsnip chips! Oh yes, and I got protein courtesy chicken burgers and MickyD nuggets. Shite.

And I’m freezing! It’s only 8 degrees right now, FFS!

At least I don’t have to go to gym today; I really don’t think I could handle that. I just have to go out later and do the mom’s taxi thing. But it is going to be a bizzy bizzy day – two sites to code, one to upload and QA, some SEO reports to spit out, papers to shuffle.

Well, I suppose I should try and sort my Inbox out, it seems to have exploded overnight … sheesh …. I’m so over being told how I can enlarge my frikkin’ penis!!