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BarrenImpressionsJanivYou are on the archive wiki. The new wiki is here. BarrenImpressions - Archives - January 2004BarrenImpressions 30 January 2004 - 12:14My last day in Jo'burg! :) Haven't been doing much either. Found a new webcomic which has been going since 1995 and I'm slowly finding my way through their archives. Screwed up my dad's computer by installing Daemon Tools over Roxio, and I know they're not compatible. Was just taking a chance. And now my brother's not even at work to help me sort it out. Oh well... Still have the laptop and an internet connection so I'm happy. Now I just have to convince myself to start packing before I really run out of time, cause I'm gonna run out of space no matter what I do. And now everyone can look forward to me only updating my site every weekend, usually, rather than bombarding the Wiki with useless crap every day. Gonna miss the connection though. So looking forward to being back! Getting all excited, think it's finally sinking in. 29 January 2003 - 08:08First of all don't ask about the ridiculous hour. I woke up and I can't seem to go back to sleep. Decided the best thing to do was to stay in bed with the laptop and surf stuff before I return to a state where I no longer have 24hr internet. YanKa?: I know the spelling thing is not a big issue. There's reasons why I think I mentioned it. Basically because there were two 'mistakes' within a few days of each other. Then sometime this holiday I read some post from Reuel mentioning how ClawMembers? are the type of people who take pride in being able to write properly. I also read the offical IusedToBelieve website where the spelling can be so bad at times that you can't figure out what they're trying to tell you (actually, after reading the site for a while, i realised that a lot of the posts are by little kids. yes, they can and do use the net, although their spelling and grammar often leaves something to be desired. damn kids - MoonFlake (damned actually -- WikiPedant?). Also, words spelt way incorrectly can maybe be seen as deliberately spelt that way, it's the ones that are only slightly 'wrong' that I notice. And then finally my own issue where I've never been able to spell and if I notice anything I can actually spell and I'm in the mood it does tweak me a bit. So basically boils down to a lot of little things (like it usually does with me) but I did at least keep it to my own personal webspace and not invade the rights of those people it might have affected, while still giving them space to crap me out :) And now to journal news. Spent yesterday doing stuff for a change. Went to coffee with a good friend (Sandton again) and then met up with my mom for the Exclusive Books sale. Didn't find anything interesting that my mom hadn't already found. Then went by CNA on the way out. They were having a comics sale! Now I date Marc and he's flatmates with Ian and I belong to CLAWs. How can I walk past a comics sale? So needless to say I now know what it feels like to spend R105 on comics. But I got 21 comics out of the deal (unfortunately one copy cause I wasn't checking closely enough Do you know you are the third person I know of that has gone to the CNA Comic sale and come home with at least one Duplicate... Wierd - ShadowsLight - Thank Azathoth for obsessive compulsive girlfriends - InfernalRabbi) so it was worth it. And then I went to dinner with another friend and hung around with her until eleven. Can you tell I've been trying to fit everyone in before I go? One more sleep! Hasn't really sunk in yet. 27 January 2004 - 23:16First of all, to PolishProffesional. Yea, I kinda figured that it's because it's a nick and that's cool. More than fair to spell it however you like. Was just because I was seeing it so soon after the other 'mistake' that it got to me. (forgive for this E.R but if it is easily legible despite spelling errors, why the fuss.Everybody chill, we are all supposed feeerends roiht... If slightly dodge spelling tweaks u just deal. Life's too full of kak too sweat the teeny tiny things) -YanKa? (delete this if u feel like it) Spent the day in town with all the people who've taken time out to be nice to me at work, which was relaxing and pretty cool. Then went out with a pagan friend of mine to what was meant to be a pagan-meet thing, but we were late, then couldn't find the place and when we finally got there, they'd all already come and gone. (if anyone's wondering La Grand Cafe in Rosebank is now the Mugg & Bean) Oh, well. Spent some time having coffee and driving around so the night wasn't all wasted. And now I've just been crapped on by another friend who said we bailed on him and his friends because he was the one who hadn't bothered to get hold of us earlier :p damn Jo'burg people. However, my list of people to see before I leave has decreased by one so there's only three left that I'd promised to make time for. And the rest of my family and the Exclusive book sale. All fitted into three days. Three more sleeps :) 26 January 2004 - 19:58Before I start... <rant> Please could everyone on the Wiki take the time to try and spell things correctly??? I know I'm probably also at fault due to bad typing/spelling skills, but I do try and take the time to re-read everything I've written and at least make sure my WikiPage names are spelt correctly. Not to point fingers, but I could almost handle Embarressing or even Proffesional on their own. But they've appeared within a few days of each other. Please, for my sanity. Thankyou. <\rant> Anyway, now that's over. It's so nice to wakeup on a Monday and turn over and go back to sleep! Wow. Almost forgot what it felt like. Really nice to be back on holiday. Saturday was great. Buddhist temple was so cool :) and there was lots of wierd fun, food to try out which resulting in an interesting and tasty lunch. Was really interesting to see that they'd invited representatives of all different faiths to join in the celebrations. Funnily enough only the Catholics and the Ba-hai (spl?) actually turned up. Always thought that the Catholics were the most tolerant of the Christian denominations. Also thought that people had cancelled Saturday night and postponed until Tuesday, however I got a call from Sean informing me otherwise. So six of us went out to The Doors :) my last time until my next holiday :( but it rocked! Played a game of 'have you ever' while waiting for some people to pitch and learnt some things I didn't know about. Also gave up some secrets, but I think it was a fair trade. Got niced toasted and all in all had a really cool night. To follow MoonFlake's lead. Four more sleeps! I am assuming that the reference to Proffesional being incorrectly spelt was because of my nick, PolishProffesional, which is spelt like that for a reason (I am fully aware that it's professional not proffesional), it originated after many LAN games when everybody was dead drunk, fragging and bitch talking. Everybody used two f's and one s and it sort of stuck, seemed funny at the time ... but then again we had 3 1/2 bottles of Vodka between the five of us so everything seemed rather funny. Anyway just wanted to let you know :-) 23 January 2004 - 19:53Found out about SmackThePenguin. Not half as addictive as the worm game, much quicker to play though. Had my last day at work :) Finally! Was rather boring. Went to see two other divisions of the bank and just came to the conclusion that this vac work has helped me far more in figuring out what I don't want to do rather than giving me any direction. But I suppose most of my academic choices in life were made by crossing off the things I didn't want to do and deciding what was left. Why should my eventual career be any different? Now I'm just looking forward to cramming my final seven days full of seeing people I won't see in another six months and sleeping. A lot. And reading. And trying to forget how much I miss everyone down there and can't wait to see them again. nine weeks up here is far too much time. Ten weeks is gonna make it even worse, but I'll deal with it when I get there. But the rain has stopped and I saw sunshine today, for the first time this week, so it can't be all bad. Positive 2004/Year of the Monkey/etc outlook. 22 January 2004 - 17:27Happy Chinese New Year everyone :) got sms's at midnight reminding me of this fact so thought I'd share the joy. Many ClawMembers? out there who are monkeys so I hope this year is good for all of you! We're going out to Bronkhofspruit on Saturday to the Budhist temple to go and see the celebrations. Should be quite cool. Never been into a Buddhist temple, so I'm extending my religion education. Only met my first offical Buddhist last year anyway so add that to the Jews and I'm becoming reasonably religiously well-rounded ;) I noticed the SmackThePenguin page. I'm intrigued. Unfortunately I can't get onto the site to see what it's all about, but seems to have a CLAWs following so one day I'll try it out and see if it's as addictive as the Infamous Worm game. Hopefully it is cause I've got my last day of work tomorrow and then I still have to survive another week in Jo'burg. With all the rain :p and yes, NoHolesBarred, the traffic is terrible. I've come home early both today and yesterday and still had to sit in the middle of incompetent morons for over half an hour. And we even had to get past an accident this time. People who can't drive in wet weather just shouldn't! But it it's anything like normal Cape Town rain is, then it's organised to rain Monday to Friday and clear up nicely over the weekend. Just in time to start again on the Monday. 22 January 2004 - 18:53Okay, ShadowsLight, you wanted a real challenge? This one's a more serious one. Contributions by anyone else would also be greatly appreciated. This one comes from my mom. There is an old, I assume South Africa, poem which my great-grandmother used to recite to my mom and some other lady's great-great grandmother used to recite to her. So it's old... They can remember: Open wide the window sonny So there's obviously some missing and this is probably paraphrased anyway, but I've done all the obvious searches (and ShadowsLight has shown me how bad I can be at searching) and couldn't find it. Can anyone find it on the net? Or is there anyone I can contact who might know where to find the rest of the poem? Thanks :) 21 January 2004 - 19:12Thankyou ShadowsLight :) Thought I knew how to search, but it seems that not only working, but Jo'burg, are affecting me in all the wrong ways :p Very obvious search term that I just didn't think of... and don't you worry, haven't forgotten the DVD. In fact just been watching it with my mom. Yes, she has that type of weird parent humour that includes things like South Park. Yup, she even came with me and my friends to watch the SP movie on the big screen. My dad doesn't approve of 'stupid' humour of course so we're on our own ;) Other than now being at peace again ;) I had a rather busy day... Got to see the back office part of Corporate Banking and I never want to work there. Ever. I am not doing a four year degree to land up paper pushing. Certainly not to that extent! I can't imagine doing that sorta stuff day in day out. Yuck. On the other hand I got to go to a meeting with a Corporate client which was pretty cool and then go home early :) Only two days left so now I get to see whether I can manage as good a deal for them too... Doubt it. Don't even have a computer at the moment :p Have to wait until I get home. And I'm jealous of all the Cape Town people (yet again) because they have good weather and it's the third day in a row here where it's been raining solid. Good Cape Town wussy rain even, not one thunderstorm. And it doesn't look like it'll let up for at least another day or two. Not that I'm really complaining. I love the rain. Just not when I have to get out of bed at six in the morning and go to work. Really love been able to snuggle up and go back to sleep. Or grab the duvet and go drink hot chocolate in front of the TV. None of this going outside stuff for me :p And just to spite me, it's gonna probably be all sunny and hot on Monday when I can finally sleep in. right you are. the weather's apparently going to change late today, or tomorrow. more's the pity so far as i'm concerned, this being the first 'proper weather' i've experienced in over a year. the only downside is the ridiculous desert-dwellers' reaction: in even a light drizzle they all immediately slow to 40 and flip on their brights, one can only assume in some misguided attempt to appease the gods of the occasional falling wetness. the particularly devout will offer sacrifices by crashing into random posts, motorists, and people as they go. -- NoHolesBarred Oh well... Murphy... 20 January 2004 - 13:35Just because I haven't posted in awhile... Actually had stuff to do at work. (shock gasp horror). But I had a really good weekend with a very interesting night on Friday which involved me attending a party where I didn't know the majority of the people there and slowly getting drunk throughout the night with a bunch of guys where I knew even less of them. Had two of them hitting on me (Marc was jealous when I told him, so cute) :) but my thing for younger guys seems to have worn off over time and I truthfully actually only want to be back with my boyfriend. (yes, sweet soppy lovey-dovey stuff) but nonetheless completely true. Only ten days!!! Will find the time eventually to make up some stuff about whatever's meant to be going on in my life over those ten days... 20 January 2004 - 18:01Okay it's been pissing me off for two days now and I have no idea who to ask about it... and I've looked on Google and that hasn't helped either. Once again I blame the fact that I'm currently working in a treasury. A market can be bullish (expecting a rise in prices so everyone buys) or bearish (expecting prices to fall so everyone sells). That's the terminology, I looked it up to make sure, and I understand what it means. However, where the hell did that imagery come from in the first place? I mean why a bull and a bear? Could've been a horse and a... well I dunno. Does it have something to do with a bear hibernating for the winter? Help? Anyone? The first search I did was for *"Bulls and the bears" +origin* and the first link was to here: http://www.greekshares.com/bullbe.asp No need to thank me, just remember the DVD ;-) - ShadowsLight 16 January 2004 - 10:48Despite help on the Euro question yesterday I have cause to disagree with PlosiGuant on the colour blue ;p Although it may lower his impression of me I happen to like blue. Not love. Just like. I love black :) However I do have the opinion that the only colour created that is worse than orange, is yellow! Yuck :p Okay it's fine in nature, plants and the sun etc etc, but not in anything manmade :p What were they thinking? And the only thing worse than that is the bright/flourescent/highlighter pink, orange, yellow... just thinking about it scares me. Highlighters should only be used in blue, green and purple. If absolutely neccessary then I suppose it's kinda okay to use pink... maybe... which is weird cause I hate pink too :p PlosiGuant: Heretic! Admit it, you are an undercover agent of the BlueLovers, aren't you!
Anyway as you may have surmised I'm having a rather arb Friday session at work. Hanging around in the research area reading stuff... Basically just waiting for the day to be over so I can go out tonight! Damn I need to get out of the house. I'm almost becoming comfortable with living at home :p Time to leave. Almost becoming comfortable with the idea of work too :p That really needs to end. One more week and then I'm back into freedom. Just before I go to my next meeting with general people, now is the time to make a comment about the WikiRant which is going on currently... I think everyone's made their point and that we're not neccessarily going to agree. There are times to get involved in your friends' issues and there are times when it'll only make it worse. It also depends on your friends and what they would prefer. Yes your friends reflect on you, but how good a friend do they have to be for you to get invovled? And what happens if they'd rather you not, but you feel you should? Gets complicated and I don't think it's fair to try and generalise about most of this... But I dunno. I agree to some extent with everyone who's had an opinion on here, but generalisations are always involved in "to some extent"s. Still think we've become better adjusted as time goes on. 15 January 2004 - 08:24Actually thought of this yesterday and was wondering what the hell the answer was? It most likely got thought of because I'm working in a Treasury on the dealing floor and they're dealing with currencies all the time. But at the same time noone I've asked can confirm the answer for me... Rands & cents. Dollars & cents. Pounds & pence. Euro & ???? Now we all suspect that it's cents, but as I said noone can confirm for me. Is there even a physical fractional Euro? There must be, cause they can't round up all their prices in the shops. I dunno... any help would be appreciated. PlosiGuant - The Euro subdivides into cents, at least according to http://europa.eu.int/comm/economy_finance/euro/coins_features_en.htm 15 January 2004 - 09:18Wow, a reply so quickly ;) Thankyou... Although I now have free time on my hands for the rest of the day to do nothing, so I even went looking myself here, only to find the answer already posted. Work continues, but I managed to talk my way into a day with no obligations and a computer to use which is great :) Especially since I'm really tired and can feel a headache building up :( Once again getting paid for doing nothing... 13 January 2004 - 14:37Probably because I'm in Jo'burg and I have nothing better to do with my time, but I feel I have to get involved in this one. Even if just to have my point of view taken into account. Yes, I believe that CLAWs has a reputation for some seriously immature fucking around with other people. And I believe it's not all dead either. However, I remember having a discussion with differing generations of CLAW members sometime last year concerning this topic. This ranged from someone who's been there almost from the start all the way through to someone who only joined last year so I hope the group represents enough of an opinion. Over time CLAWs has matured. The comment from the older members was that we could actually gather at a party where the atmosphere was completely friendly and have fun. There was noone crying a corner because A had done this to B and noone had done anything about it and C didn't want to talk to them and D stole E when they had no right to etc etc. Now I've seen this behaviour when I was still in high school, but I have to admit I have never been to a CLAWs party where this has happened? And sure I've heard some weird stuff about the "older generation" of CLAWs, but am I just completely out of loop to think it doesn't happen in the "younger generation"? Or that it does, but not half as much or half as badly as it used to? Or do we just all choose to keep quiet about it? (Which I believe was one of the 'mistakes' we make that was mentioned?) I'm not saying that noone creates issues. One of the things CLAWs prides itself on is having issues ;) We just choose to admit it. Sometimes more than other people want to hear, but still... And I'm not making any personal attack here either. I'm sure something went down that was very much not cool. But as some other people agree, I was a little ticked at the generalisations made... but then again I always am no matter the topic. And I also feel insulted that it was implied that jocks are mature??? There's noone I would rather not spend time with than a jock, simply because they are so shallow and immature. That's just my personal opinion of jocks and other 'airheads' who have nothing else to talk about than gym, sport, shopping etc. Maybe I just have limited experience here? And to think that CLAWs is so much worse than these other groups because we're nerds/geeks/marginalised/etc? I had the experience of working in a group with four 'popular' girls and they have FAR more experience in backstabbing/stealing boyfriends/who did what with who/major crisis than CLAWs will ever be able to claim. I really don't think we're that different from anyone else, each group just deals with it in thier own way... I like to think that the ostracism I experienced at school for having a brain and wanting something more intelligent to talk about than fashion (it's an all-girls high school I'm dealing with here!) did me good in the long run. I have no burning desire to have CLAW males drooling all over me because I'm a female paying them atttention. None of the current female CLAW members would be happy with that. And there's been proof of that in current affairs (fair enough I don't expect HardBoiled to know about that since he's been away for a semester) but that's an entirely different story and Wiki rant. Personally, I enjoy spending time with people I can actually talk to, and males who treat me no differently than they would another guy. More than anything up here, I miss just being able to sit down and talk shit with someone rather than gossip. The only major gossip associated with current CLAWs (as far as I know, I've been away for seven weeks!) has been due to the influence of outside 'factors'. Some have come and gone, others have decided to stay, but we're better because of having to deal with it. And it was dealt with. And we're all still friends funnily enough, even though we strongly stood up for each other, even on differing sides, and chose to passionately disagree. Which I think is mature? And on the other point. Sometimes you just stay out of it because it has nothing to do with you and you're just going to make it worse by getting involved somewhere noone wants you and having both sides hate your guts in the end? But maybe I'm wrong after all..? 11 January 2004 - 22:11It's Sunday :p and as Marc mentioned to me earlier, yes I am counting down the days... I do try and not think about it, but just doesn't work. Our house got struck by lightning today during a wonderful thunder storm. Not quite sure if that's sarcastic or not. But anyway our hub got half taken out as did (we suspect) the network card for the main computer. And one of our phones. The joys. At least there's proof that lightning protectors do work. Now we just have to remember to connect them to everything important and we might be okay. But at least the laptop still works and I have some sort of internet connection, even though one of our connections doesn't seem to be working either. Have to admit that life here got a little more interesting :p Other than that. My friend who got back from Cape Town is having a party after all, so I get to enjoy myself on Friday. Still really tempted to take Sean along as everyone who'll be there from school knows him. They're just really intimidated by him :) But that was kinda the point when I took Cas, Max and Bubbles with me last time and that worked, so who knows. It's not like I'm trying to scare all the Jo'burgers... no wait... it is ;) But CLAWs does have some sort of reputation to keep up and Cas was complaining that noone was scared of her anymore. Anyway to bed. To read. To sleep. To work tomorrow :p Yuck. 09 January 2004 - 12:34Yay! Finally got a computer at work. Although it's not mine to keep, just to use for today :p And they ordered chinese for lunch so I'm eating well, and it's DAMN good chinese too. Peri-peri chicken (num! :) with chillies) Conrad would be proud... Other than that I'm checking out a new part of SCMB Treasury today which contains some people who have been kind enough to actually give me something to do! Not that it's hard or anything but been doing stuff in Excel and improving their formulas ;) If that sounds impressive, trust me, it only sounds impressive. But been learning some stuff about Credit too, which although it may sound boring it actually includes some Statistics and therefore (strange as I am) I'm finding it interesting. Would have had more fun yesterday, but an hour after I got to work I felt really sick and wanted to die (and almost fainted). So I went home instead and spent the whole day in bed :( Not so great. Especially since my mom had to come all the way out to the center of town to pick me up. More proof that even if I had a car and a driver's license it'd be no help. There's no way I would've been able to drive myself home yesterday. But feeling better today and the day's going by pretty fast. Will soon be weekend and happiness again :) (In three weeks and a few hours I'll be back in CT!) 06 January 2004 - 16:51Going back to work isn't as boring as I thought it was going to be. Still get to sit around and watch other people work, but at least they're interesting to chat to. Just feel kinda stupid around them but hey... And I figured that if I want to go into anything insteresting in the financial field I have to do my Masters, so my mind's almost made up on that one. Other than that I get to come home early which is great :) Haven't found my own computer to sit and play games on (yet) but I'm still trying. Can't have all the perks ;) Three weeks and three days :) Yes I know I'm really sad that I actually worked that out. Nothing else interesting going on unfortunately. But one of my friends is getting back from Cape Town today and hopefully he'll hold another party at his house before his parentals get back. Funnily enough, nothing got broken last time... think we need to try harder. 04 January 2004 - 20:26No pearls of wisdom today. Actually doubt I have pearls of wisdom any day, but it's usually worth a shot. Today's entry is simply because I have to go back to work tomorrow and I'm even kinda looking forward to it. There is no way I'd be able to stay at home all day for the next few weeks, so finally getting out to do something again. And life is good because Std Bank overpaid me for last month :) and I realised that I have less than a month left here and that this is my last real time to sit at home and do nothing. Why is this good? Because if I work then time goes quickly and in three weeks time, my last few days up here will be spent running around doing all the things I've forgotten to do in the previous two months. And then I can finally return to Cape Town :) Just a little excited about that at the moment. Put my life in perspective when I realised that I've more than passed the half way mark and I've been up here for over six weeks!!! And in comparison to that, just under four weeks to go sounds like heaven. Always amazes me how little it takes to make me happy... Just have a really good feeling about this year. No idea why, but it's going to be a good one. Sure my attitude will change under stress, but for now... Maybe I'm just feeling this way cause it's finally decided to rain today. Ever since the final countdown at The Doors there's been a different atmosphere. It's kinda weird. Like being with all those people who count this as a new year just let go of all the old energies around us and gave us something new to work with. And everyone's being really positive and optimistic about everything. Really strange feeling, but very cool. Like everyone can sense some sort of huge change building up, but none of us are sure what it is. We've just decided to be happy about it. 03 January 2004 - 17:54Finished the new Anne Rice today (Blood Canticle) which was pretty cool since it's the first book to be 'written' by Lestat since Memnoch and brings him into the world of the Mayfair Witches, explained in her Taltos series. Felt it was a bit short, but it told the relevant story I suppose. Now I just have to find something else to read in this house. Lucky enough to have a sci-fi/fantasy nut for a dad, so maybe I'll start one of those series. Other than that I've been lazying around doing nothing (hey, my horoscope told me to!) :) and playing with my neopet which I seriously advise against starting with unless you have a permanent internet connection like me (at the moment). Not that you can't play it otherwise, but you can't really play it seriously unless you have acouple of hours free in which to do nothing... ah wait, exactly what I have every day in Jo'burg! How exciting :p Oh, let me drown in a mortal world... I blame the book and my strange dream about religion vs. philosophy for that comment. I'm not just trying to pick on the Christians here, if I knew as much about the other organised religions I'd use them instead, but let's take for example the Christians... religion and philosophy don't work together. Sure there's religious philosophy in which there is debate about technicalities within the Christian faith (as I'm sure can be said for the most of the others too). But besides that they're pretty incompatible. If you change your mind about something in Christianity, you change denomination, or your religion completely. Duh, that's why denominations exist ;) Anyway take something more 'liberal' of thought, like Buddhism. Even with Buddhism there is a core set of beliefs that you have to follow to be called Buddhist and changing any of these changes your title of faith in some way. Philosophy in itself, rather than part of the religion, is not encouraged. So why is it that I find a faith that let's you believe whatever you what, and as much of it as you want. Philosophise as much as you want, you're encouraged to question. The only thing you need to hold onto as a core is respect. And that's pretty much fundamental to any religion, they just seem to interpret it in different ways. Sounds pretty wishy-washy when I describe it like that actually. Sounds like I have no true basis at all for my beliefs. Maybe I don't? Like to believe I do ;) And then you begin to think about creatures such as a vampire or taltos. They live for centuries. A vampire far less innocent and naive than a taltos, but both long lived creatures. Anne Rice writes that a vampire too can find religion and believe, but what would you do if you were in that position? At some point, sure, you'd eventually try and make up your mind about where you came from and where you're trying to get to. Are you damned for all eternity or is there something to look forward to? And I wonder if I could follow my current set of beliefs if I was in a poistion like that. Where everything is transient and there's nothing really to hold onto, even if you do get to live through it all. But I think perhaps because of my set of beliefs, I would not choose to be a vampire. And not even because of the human beings I would need to kill to survive, funnily enough that doesn't bother me at all. I think it's just because life is what you have at the moment and why prolong it? There's more coming after and when you're done here and learnt what you needed to, then it's time to move on. So move on... life is transient, that's the point. 02 January 2004 - 22:33Spent time at Sandton again today :p I was right about previous comments, it was just because it was a Sunday. T'was packed with people today, but once again just went because of movies. Saw Igby Goes Down. Really good movie, with lots of good comments from Igby, sarky little boy that one. And it had Ryan Phillippe in it - always a reason for me to watch a movie :) (He's kinda like Angelina Jolie in that way) Shallow as that may be. Was morbid and weird with it at some points, really more an artsy movie, but good to watch all the same and the reviews agreed. Went to coffe after and spent some time with a really good friend of mine. So there are some reasons to stay in Jo'burg for a little while. Did hear something else I wanted on a T-shirt during the movie, but I can't recall what it was. If someone sees the movie anytime soon please watch out for it and let me know what it might have been... Cas is coming back to Cape Town on Sunday. Midnight for anyone interested. So really Monday. Insanely jealous, but I suppose I'll get over it. Right now I'm just trying to enjoy my weekend since I go back to work on Monday :p Only a month until I return so trying to be a bit optimistic about all this. Just trying not to piss my parentals off too badly in the meantime, think I'm lasting quite well. Certainly the longest I've been up here without a traditional family row. And I asked about the ducks in the end anyway. Not that interesting after all. It seems noone thought roast duck might be something to try while drunk. Suppose there's always next time.... 01 January 2004 - 21:02Welcome to 2004. Started out my New Year at The Doors. Awesome party with a massive crowd, but very chilled out and I seriously enjoyed myself. Made it back to Cas' mom's place by about 05:30 and asleep at least an hour after that, so all in all a very successful night :) Thanks to those who helped make it one of the best New Year's that I've ever had. Only thing that would've made it any better would to have had certain people with me, but that must wait until I return to Cape Town. Had too little sleep, but a good few hours just chilling in the garden as everyone slowly woke up. So nice to have people that you can actually just talk shit with. Not many of those in Jo'burg. Now I'm exhausted and my lack of sleep is catching up with me. I hope everyone had a good one and 2004's starting out as a really good year. I'm going to go and contemplate how much longer I can stay awake. (And I decided I'm just not going to ask about the ducks) |