after the little braai....

oraait....see the heading? now, if someone remembered to take the camera, i would have posted pics. but seeing as someone didnt take the camera, i cant. so, i will have to tell it as it happened i guess. it was lekker, we got a bit drunk ( dunno why that has to happen, but alas, it normally does) the food was good...best meat i've had since i came to this little island. wonder why the meat here taste like rubber? ok, maybe not rubber, but definatly not the same quality as back home. been feeling a bit homesick recently, missing my bike and going for long hikes in the mountain. or just sitting on the beach watching the sun go down. oh dear, there i go missing SA again. reckon the old adage is true....you dont know what you've had till its gone. ok, back to the braai...think i might have given offence to the...erm...man that likes manly love...that was there. maybe its really narrow minded and shallow of, but i dont understand how a man can like touching another man when there is women around. even if there's no women around i cant see any reason to touch a man. *shudder* i know its narrow minded of me, and i'll probably like them if i get to know them (ok, ive know one or two and they were oraait ;) but i dunno....just feel its wrong. anycase, im probably going to get thrown with rocks for this little bigot remark i made, but thats me....saying stuff and doing without thinking. let the consequences come!!! ok, im going to go to my room and pray the gay-league isnt reading this....lol!

on laziness and chuck norris....

ja ja ja, so we havnt posted for a while. been busy the past two weeks. as said previously, we got work working on the underground. first time in my life where im doing hard physical labour....and i find that i like it. back in sa, i would never even have thought about it, but here for some reason, it feels different. dunno why....maybe its got to do with the money....or maybe the fact that i work about 4 hours a night? lol, either way, i like it. so far most things are going according to my self imposed time deadline, maybe running a few weeks behind. well on my way to retire at 35 ;-). wonder if anyone could tell me what the whole new big thing is with chick norris? i do know that when he finds out all these "joke" emails of have been going around without his stamp of approval, the world will come to a sudden and horrific end...and he probably wont race for ferrari anymore, which means that ferrari will lose...again. the tjoppies went to a place called camden today...felt like being in cape town cbd. on every corner you get some person walking all sideways towards you, going pssst and then whispering very loudly "want some ganja?", with about 4 cops 5metres away from him. wonder if a prerequisite for becoming a drug dealer is lack of intelligence? mmm...what else happened? not much really....weekend should prove interesting. we got invited to a spitbraai (and i mean a proper one with a sheep and all ;-). thety probably heard that me and jaco are spitbraai specialits, lol! anycase, not much else to post, been a busy but boring two weeks. will make a point of posting more.....

never ever will i drink again....

ok, so last night we felt like drinking a bit, as two of the house mates are leaving back to sa. we bought two bottles of vodka. jaco poured the first drinks. after throwing the first one, the bottle was finished. he actually managed to get only two drinks out of a full bottle of vodka. so, in total, i had about 4 drinks last night. and i felt ok. i'll admint i couldnt really remember my own name on various occasions, but i handled it pretty good..i think. after drinking these monstrous drinks, we decided to go out. nearly had an altercation with one of the bus drives, saying my bus-ticket didnt work. obviously, filled with dutch courage, i wanted to argue with the damn driver. and i would have won if someone didnt pay for me! driver doesnt know how lucky he is to have escaped from my scathing rhetoric. lol....so we go out (didnt really feel like drinking then, for some reason) to make a long story short, this morning i woke up groggily, really surprised to see that the train that rode over me a few times, seemed to have dissapeared. i felt like death warmed up. felt like i had alchohol poisining! really cant remember when last i had a hangover remotely on the same scale. and this is why i have vowed never ever to drink again.

health and safety....

oraait, if i fall over my feet once more today, if i stumble over some miniscule object lying on the ground...if i so much as even look as though i want to trip over my own feet running up the stairs....i think i will have to do something about my clumsiness. i keep falling, tripping and stumbling over the feet i have owned for the past 27 years. personally i would think that i would have figured out the walking/running thing by now. obviously i havnt. maybe i didnt pay attention when they were teaching "your feet and how to use them" or maybe was "sick." this is cuurently the most irritating thing that i'm struggling with. running up the escalotors.....and hey, there i fall. maybe i can trade them in somewhere? anyone know of a place i can do it? in cape town i could have gone to tygerberg hospital, if i was feeling like a daredevil. then again, i might have walked out there with my arms attached to my ass. half the fun lies in the uncertainty of what is coming or what you're getting, i know, but i think on this one i will pass. maybe i can get little trainer feet to attach to my current pair of legs? i will have to further investigate this unexplicable phenomana(?) of me falling over my own damn feet!! i cant wait to see what happens when i get older.....should get more and more interesting as the time goes by. oraait, i'm off to go for some one on one lessons on how to walk properly.

looks like u do succeed if you struggle hard enough

been sukkeling for a bit now, trying to get a media player for some tunes. finally got it right, but had to learn to some html coding along the way, as well as develop my swearing abilities, which were kinda built on a rock solid foundation allready. probaly not a bad to learn some coding considering that we're doing a website now. the only drawback this media player has, is that it looks like i can only get one song to play at a time, ie no playlist. if anyone reading this knows of an alternative player, that starts playin immeaditly as the page is opened, and is capable of having a playlist of say about 5 songs.....please post link....or summink. mmmmkay? tot later...

are south africans prone to bouts of aggression?

heard from a pommie the other day that south africans tend to go to their own pubs and clubs. now, the tjoppies has been out once or twice, hindsight shows (albeit a bit blurry) that it was unfortuanatly to places with names like zulu's or similiar. back to the pommie.....it has been said that saffa's are prone to inexplicable bouts of aggression. are we? i know i couldnt step on a cockroach without some twinge of guilt. mmm...maybe there is some trigger that makes us get active-aggressive? dunno....maybe back in sa its because of karate-water, but the shite they sell here is more likely to make you nauseous than aggressive. some brandy/cognac that passes for proper brandy here.... blegh! also brought to my attention, was the fact that most english people dont seem to want to go to these primarily south african pubs/clubs. maybe its because most south africans have a modicum of decency in them, refusing to back down when seeing something that didnt agree with the lessons moeder-lief moered into you when younger? refusing to back down when being challenged? i dont know....i do know that we dont resort to violence unless it might be fun ;).....or unless loads of brandy has been imbued....or someone says something bout our mothers...anycase, im off to do some genome modding. feel free to leave a post on your brandy influenced thoughts.

could this have anything to do with cape town's power failures....?

apparantly, and this is just going on hearsay, bart's simpleton father has accepted a post as main reactor dude at koeberg. now, whilst this is all good and well, it is kinda a bit scary if you think about it. homer is not known for his exemplary working atitude. he sorta drifts in and out of rational thought, lost in the process of thinking. his mind does not wander so much as try to take the road less travelled, or rather, not travelled at all. even with capetonians being the most relaxed people on earth, i still think he might not be welcomed with open arms. seems he's been working there for a few months now, slowly implimenting his own unique way of running a nuclear reactor. dunno if that might have anything to do with cape town's little power problem....

the good, the bad......and still looking for the beautiful

some of the people reading this post might not know who riaan is, but bear with us and you will soon find out. Suffice to say that Riaan Cruywagen is somewhat of an Afrikaans Regis or Terry Wogan, if you must. Except he rocks. A bit. here's some proof of the awesome power that is riaan cruywagen.....



Riaan Cruywagen is fluent in twenty seven of South Africa’s eleven official languages.
Riaan Cruywagen knows the news before it happens.
Riaan Cruywagen is cryogenically frozen every night for exactly eight hours. His brain impulses are monitored during this and used as templates for deciphering elaborate ancient manuscripts.
Riaan Cruywagen knew you would say that.
Riaan Cruywagen had a telekinetic showdown with Johan Stemmet. After draining all of Stemmet’s powers and rendering him severely retarded, he created Noot vir Noot and made Stemmet the host.
Some people believe Riaan Cruywagen wears a toupee - he has, in fact, one perfect hair. The one that covers his entire head - giving it that, ‘not quite real’ look. Riaan himself is not quite real.
Riaan Cruywagen was the original model for Michelangelo’s statue of David. Unfortunately, that was in the early years of Michelangelo’s career and he wasn’t yet artistically mature enough to capture the Cruywagen essence. He nearly drove himself mad with frustration until eventually he decided to settle for his number 2 choice of model in Chuck Norris who was only 3 years old when he posed for Michelangelo.
One night during an ad break on the 8 o’clock news, Riaan Cruywagen mentioned to the makeup lady that he was ‘tired of this apartheid nonsense’. Nelson Mandela was released from prison the next day.
Riaan Cruywagen wasn’t born, he thought himself into existence.
The only man made object visible (with the unaided eye) from space is the Great Wall of China. Riaan Cruywagen can see the Muir Space station with his ‘unaided eye’.
Riaan Cruywagen never blinks; if he does the entire world would just not happen for that split second.
When Sir Edmund Hillary reached the summit of Mount Everest, he was welcomed by Riaan Cruywagen, who briefly interviewed him, before wiring the information through to the SAUK.
The SAUK is actually a front for a secret society of Swiss Bankers who manipulate the world’s economy, and is chaired by non other than his most Worshipful Master, Riaan Cruywagen.
In binary code the word “Riaan Cruywagen” looks like the shroud of Turin.
When he was three Riaan Cruywagen successfully reinvented the wheel.
For his second birthday party he entertained guests by coming up with the first highly successful prototype.
Riaan Cruywagen will never die. His soul gets transferred to another identical body via various arcane rituals and current nano-technology thrice fortnightly.
Bruce Willis’ character in Die Hard is based on the unpublished autobiography written by Riaan Cruywagen at the age of 15.
Riaan Cruywagen is an accomplished author and poet - though, humble by nature, he chooses not to write under his own title but prefers to go by psuedonyms such as W. Whitman, E . Hemingway, Proust, JD Salinger and G Chaucer - amongst others.
Riaan Cruywagen’s first job was tutoring Pythagoras.
After reading the news Riaan Cruywagen built the pyramids. It took precisely 17 minutes to draw up the plans and then a further six minutes to think them into existence.

now, the hoff as all know, is that "wondrous superbeing" millions idolize. he's the star of brilliant, intellectual movies like baywatch (now also a popular porn movie, unfortuatly not starring the hoffmeister) and the hero that saves spongebob in the animated movie. personally we dont really follow the hoff like the rest of the natural world, we tend to agree with this site that proves completly and without any doubt that the hoff-man is the anti-christ. bin ladin aint got nothing on him!! http://www.esquilax.com/baywatch/index.shtml

just a quick word...waffle waffle waffle

was snowing a little bit this morning as i was coming home. though about making snow angels, naked of course, but decided against it for health reasons. felt kinda like and idiot walking around trying to catch the snow on my tongue, but hey, i felt like doing it. the novelty soon wore off as i was walking home, both wet, cold and inevitably miserable. we were thinking of travelling to places like sweden or some snow covered country, cause what they do in travellers' mags, is make it look really nice and pretty(so i think that's misleading) but the cold hard truth is...you freeze ur nads off!! its cold and miserable. might look clean and pristine, but that's mostly due to the fact that its too cold to do anything outdoors. obviously you get those semi-recce people who go gung-ho and do the brave, hard man act, go out and challenge nature, but i will decline i think. friend of mine said its a differnt sort of cold, not so "wet", but going with the way i struggled to thaw out this morning, i doubt i want to experience that. so, to all those gung-ho brave people out there doing all sorts of outdoorsy cold weather stuff...i applaud you and leave you to it. much rather would i be traipsing around some sun drenched country, drinking sundowners, getting horrible inebriated. come to think of it, the tjoppies havent been drunk for some time. think we will have to remedy that.....

I always wondered how the two tjoppies would look like if we were to appear on the best cartoon show in the world (South Park)!! HaHaHaHa So this is what I came up with!!! You could make you own South Park characters at http://www.planearium2.de/flash/spstudio.html