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jul 07 2005

what the hell is going on?

i can't get a hold of some of my friends in london... nassty, kaptain, errol, derek, ian, natalie... are you guys alright? so far i've heard damien is cool, luckily he overslept because he says one of the bombs went off at a station he uses... update: pretty much everyone i know in london is safe, what a relief!

Posted by sarah | comments (4)

jul 06 2005

peeeevd

hello everyone! i would just like to have a little rant and rave about lastminute.com!!!! (morons) So this is what has happened......they are selling the tickets for rem right...so little old me (very dubious about buying things on the internet) decides that lastminute.com is quite a well known, popular, reliable site....NOT. in a nut shell....i am still waiting for the rem tickets and the bloody concert is on saturday!!!!!! and there is no number to contact them......!!!!! MAD Nicky

Posted by nassty | comments (3)

jul 05 2005

Hello all!!!

Hello to all you bloggers!! It has been a while I know. I have been really busy but have managed to pop in now and again to catch up on all the goings on!!! Been working really long hard hours lately - was still in the office at 8:30 last Thursday which is not uncommon - but that just gives us an excuse to go out and enjoy our time off!!! Have had quite a few work nights out that have gone on into the early hours of the morning.... on company expense naturally! Had a fab week end with adrian nix and some of her workmates last week end - went to the bacardi festival on clapham common... headline act - Jameraquai! And he rocked! The whole day was great (with free cider, pumping dance tents and of course, bacardi!!) Going to another festival in august on the grounds of a castle, and can't wait for that!! Happy birthday to everyone I have not wished yet! Good to hear that you are still visiting buckleys and that not much seems to have changed!!! (DD - glad to hear that you still have the 6th sense when it comes to reasons to have a drink!) And if any of you bump into our favourite lesbian again, get her to blog!!! Would love to hear from her! Oh, and I'm sure you'll all join me in congratulating Vin Deisel on his resignation from SK!! DD - yet another reason for a drink;-) hope we can catch up when you here in london again! lovies to you all and hope you are all loving life! Nix - have a great time at rem.......... (although i'm sure I'll chat to you before then!) K x

Posted by kaptain | comments (2)

jul 01 2005

a day of days

yesterday was ed's birthday and did he have a day of note... a very good day. he got awesome presents (if i don't say so myself, ahem) and his day went really well. work was good, later they won gold in volleyball in the men's 2-a-side competition (our mixed 6-a-side is out of the tournament, with no chance of a medal). we ended up at buckley's just to play a few games of foosball, but it was dead so we played pool and who walks in but our favourite lesbian. we had a good party there and got pretty sloshed (at volleyball already, actually)... we headed home at close to midnight, planning to drop off the expensive stuff and then to head on out to town, but when we got home our party plans crumbled and we got real snug instead. i'm so happy ed had such a great day... how on earth do you top that?

Posted by sarah | comments (2) | chillin', personal

jun 30 2005

Dear sweet DD

Hello Dy!! i have changed jobs and i am now working at heathrow airport so when ever you are in london let me know!! ps pls can you give me your email address cause i lost it..... :) anyway how are you doing?? what have you been up to?

Posted by nassty | comments (2)

jun 30 2005

Squares!!

am i able to upload pictures onto the blogger?

Posted by nassty | comments (1)

jun 28 2005

silent disco

surfing through bbc news today i came across some pics from the glastonbury festival, a mere 11 to sum up the whole 3 day event, but hey they normally do that... anyway, above is one of the pics from the gallery of people enjoying a silent disco in order to not piss off the neighbours in a nearby town. i can't help thinking that this would never work if they were to play heavy metal through those headphones...

Posted by sarah | comments (4) | music

jun 23 2005

bits

last night was cool and crazy. we played our best game of volleyball ever, we still lost but as a team we rocked... then we stayed for some drinks and headed on home. almost home and the back tyre disintergrates. 11pm at night. we call home to see if anyone is there and if they can give us a hand, nope. the (long) walk begins. we try hitching, but no-one's really interested, until we get to about 2-3 kilometres from the house and a really tired looking guy gives us a ride. quickly grab my keys, some juice and head on back to the combi. what a mission to get the spare tyre out and change it, my jack is made for a tiny hatch-back not a big combi. put rocks under the other tyres so it won't roll off again... change the wheel and head off home, by the time we get there the spare has gone pretty flat, yay! head on out to the garage to put some air in and by the time we get there, that tyre is finished too. double yay! leave the combi at the garage and finally go home to get some sleep, it's well after midnight when we hit the bed. mission around this morning trying to get some new tyres for ed, he's working from home until my dad comes around with some new (old) tyres for the car. i'm a little tired... billy corgan has released his solo album. he's been keeping a secret for about a year now though, he wants to reform the smashing pumpkins... i liked the pumpkins, so hopefully it happens. so we have our first woman deputy president. nice for the woman's rights, bad because it's like shuffling a bad deck of cards. what am i on about? well, the president replaced a person suspected of corruption with some-one else who's suspected of some questionable dealings... we'll see how this pans out, it seems dodgy in so many ways. i was watching the news on tuesday evening and spotted a piece on patricia de lille naming names and still questioning the arms deal shenigans. i thought she had a valid point, in point form below a brief summary of what when down in the news piece (in parliament): - de lille asks why we paid more than the market price for various arms - trevor manuel yells that they only bought the best for the country what do i think? well, why did we pay millions more than the market price for the weapons? she never asked "why didn't we buy the cheaper version?", she asked "why did we paid millions more than the market value?" well, why did we? i would like some-one to answer that question. i have no doubt that we would want only the best, but why at a cost of millions / billions when we have people starving, unemployed and without a roof over their heads? make poverty history

Posted by sarah | add a comment | music, personal, politics

jun 22 2005

make poverty history

every single day, 30,000 children die, needlessly, of extreme poverty. On July 6th, we finally have the opportunity to stop that shameful statistic. 8 world leaders, gathered in Scotland for the G8 summit, will be presented with a workable plan to double aid, drop the debt and made the trade laws fair. If these 8 men agree, then we will become the generation that made poverty history. But they'll only do it if enough people tell them to. We don't want your money - we want you! Visit these sites to find out more: - Make Poverty History - Commission for Africa - Live 8 Live (via damien)

Posted by sarah | add a comment | politics

jun 20 2005

your bank?

generally speaking banks hire the most stoopid people for their marketing campaigns... just look at those most annoying nedbank ads, the ones where some irritating voice asked "who are those people?". i didn't care, i just wanted to smash the idiots face in who was speaking! plus the ad in the cinema was too long, i made a point of missing the ads / trailers just to avoid having to sit through that stoopid ad... really! now absa seems to have joined the stoopid ads band wagon, with their "my bank is absa" ad campaign. so a few irritated people (and some with too much time on their hands) went and made spoofs of the ads... some are stoopid, some are also funny... at work, one of my colleagues came up with this gem: my bank is ... nedbank let me know if you have any good ones. ah, poor mister z, things just got a lot worse...

Posted by sarah | comments (1) | politics, stoopidity

jun 14 2005

it's so cold

last wednesday during the afternoon i started sniffling, it seems i had caught the flu from one of my work mates... by that evening i was down. i was throbbing all over, headache deluxe and unable to sleep. on thursday i was a mess, unable to really move at all, shaking all over and frozen to the bone. i sure got the flu and i got it bad. i spent all of friday in bed too, sweating it out and catching bits of sleep because i wasn't getting any during the night. on saturday i was feeling alot better, but i got a cough and a pretty sore throat. so i went and got some cough medicine and some throat lozenges. the packaging for the lozenges said "take every 2 hourly or as often as needed". my throat was damn sore, so i had about 4 in the span of 2 hours, when i decided to read the rest of the packaging... under side-effects and special precautions it says the following: Depression of the central nervous system with convulsions, hypotension and coma may occur. (among a list of other things) i stopped taking the lozenges and opted for some mints rather... i've pretty much fully recovered, with only a slight cough remaining, and i still have a few antibiotic pills to take. oh, i'm glad he's been fired!

Posted by sarah | comments (3) | personal

jun 06 2005

amazing

on saturday morning i headed to the traffic department to renew my car licence. i have no idea when the place actually opens, there's times on the door for monday through to friday but no times anywhere for saturdays. so i get there after 8:30am, because i know it'll be open and i don't have to wait around, because it's one of the things i really really hate, waiting... i park, i walk in, go to the counter, produce the renewal slip paper i got in the post, pay, wait for the licence to print out and leave. i spent all of 5 minutes there and that is bloody amazing! that has never ever happened to me and i hope it will again but i have my doubts. i wanted to post a pic of the storm that was about to hit cape town last week, but i didn't. here it is now: on sunday ed and i slept in... it's the law. then we met up with clint and wendy at blue peter in the afternoon, it was a very sunny day, although it was kind of chilly too. i had a humungous burger, chips and some pizza (and some beer). what a pig i am! i was starving and damn full after all of that. we then headed to melkbos beach and spent some time playing ball and chilling on the grass there, pics:

Posted by sarah | comments (2) | chillin', personal

jun 03 2005

finally

i wanted to blog first thing this morning, mainly because it feels quite dull / dead on the blog, but our web connection was down until about a few minutes ago... so here goes... winter has kicked in and it's been raining alot, it's good, real good. i believe the dam levels in the western cape are rising but not as fast as i would've guessed. they were at about 27% and now they're at about 35%. i reckon the "collection" of water in our dams is not very effective because it's been raining alot, i would've expected levels to be somewhere near the 50% mark. maybe after this weekend it'll be a little closer to my guesstimate? i've been busy updating ed's website with new pictures and implementing a better way of filing all the pics of their work. for my b'day i got a bass guitar from ed and i've been practising on that when i get home in the evenings, it's quite simple and hard at the same time... i have yet to acquire a tutor and am currently learning the basics from a book that ed also got me for my birthday. i've got to finish ed's web pages, so i'm going to dash...

Posted by sarah | comments (1) | personal, web

may 26 2005

a berlin blog!

well after a hectic 3 weeks in South Africa, back home with my family enjoying the sunny weather (for most of the time) I am back in berlin... and what a busy 3 weeks it was all i can think about is sleeping for days now, i need a holiday after my holiday! The party on friday the 13th was great, not as wild as the parties usually are but just what the doctor ordered, I did a lot of driving around to visit friends, a lot of late nights and early mornings, many bottles of SA wine, many litres of Amstel beer, i lost track of the amount of mixed drinks and shooters i had and of the amount of days i spent hungover! I arrived back at 12pm yesterday and have to go to holland at 5pm today for work, so i guess the relaxing will have to wait until next week or at least until who knows when! but work work work = MONEY! which i will need if i am to become a homeowner in the near future! I will have my own web page up and running soon, so you cann all check it out when it is done... compliments of my Talented Sister! thanks!

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may 23 2005

what a weekend!

it all started on friday, a good night to go out and have some fun. ed and i made some arrangements to meet up with a few people in town and play fussball there for a change. we never made it to town though because on our way through sunset beach (between table view and milnerton) we came across friends of ours due to meet us in town in a car accident. it wasn't very nassty, but it definitely wasn't pleasant. their car is buggered and they've only had it a week! luckily, the other cars' passengers are also fine, nothing serious (abit of whiplash)... it was a bit of a freak accident, the other cars' tyre had just blown out and our mates, as much as they tried to, couldn't avoid a smash. i then got a hold of friends we were due to meet, to let them know that we wouldn't make it. i couldn't get a hold of paul and adriana though and simply assumed that they were all partied out and had gone home... the next day, adriana calls to apologise for never pitching or returning my call, her bag got stolen when they were eating out in camps bay, before they were going to met up with us. friday the 13th had struck, a week late though! saturday was alot better. sunday was the cherry on top. ed and i got in the car on a mission. firstly, stopping at bayside to say hi to vinnie. as we leave bayside to meet up with lloyd, we notice people pointing and looking and moving towards the intersection on blouberg rd. i'm like, uh oh, something is going down and it can't be good! wait is that vinnie chasing a guy across the busy intersection? next second there's a cop car and they've got the guy. next second the security guy has got the guy by the shirt, that i can see he is going to worm his way out of. next second he has done just that and he's escaping to melkbosstrand... vinnie (and others) are on the run again. this time the cops get the guy and keep him in custody, a good idea. it turns out that as we were leaving the complex, one of the cleaners at ster kinekor caught this guy in the staff room stealing stuff out of the lockers (there's a gap at the bottom that one can forcefully pull items through if they are determined enough). vinnie, the projectionist and various security personnel gave chase (and got their man - a kid who has been caught for the 3rd time this week...) after that action, ed, lloyd and myself went to green point stadium market to get an african drum for a friend of his in germany who has been helping lloyd with producing his music. a very nice idea and gift. note: don't get a carwash there, they do a terrible job! ed and i then went and played games at tygervalley and ate tons of junk food. then we headed back to bayside, but the movie we wanted to see wasn't showing so we found out more about the earlier robbery attempt. with nothing much else to do at 5pm on a sunday afternoon, we headed home, got some videos and were about to settle in for a quiet evening... we get home to find adriana and paul there, visiting with both their dogs. our quiet evening turned into quite a party, a late night take-out and plenty of drinking. we got to bed late and i never made it through the first half of the first dvd... funny enough, today, i don't feel like i've been hit by a train or a bus! and that's always good.

Posted by sarah | comments (4) | chillin', personal

may 18 2005

ATT: Ian, Chris, Damien, Warren...etc.

HEy guys! hope you are all well! hey the sun is shining so you have to be happy. :) well...we never seemed to meet up after Motion Bar....so seeing as its adriana's birthday party on Saturday (her birthday is on Wed next week) i would like to invite you to On Anon in Picadilly! if you need directions let me know...but it would be good to meet up again and i'm sure adriana would love to see you there! Cheers.

Posted by nassty | comments (3)

may 17 2005

Happy Belated Birthday

Hey squares!!! Hope you had a fantastic birthday yesterday!!! Let us know what you got up to!!! I gotta go now.....time is running out....I'll be back... :)

Posted by nassty | comments (1)

may 17 2005

the party

on friday the 13th, lloyd and i had a joint birthday party (his birthday being on the saturday and mine was yesterday). the party and turnout was great, even though it was a chilly. i charged my camera all day in anticipation of taking loads of pictures but only managed to take these two: ed also managed to take some pics, here they are: we spent a good deal of the day setting up anti-rain measures, when the wind in the late afternoon managed to rip a good deal of it away. so then we put up some wooden boards on the patio beams... and it never even rained, but the boards helped keep the warmth in from the chilly breeze. we also had drums around the yard with fire in them to keep the people warm (and the house clean-ish). we really should've taken more pictures because it looked really cool, but alas we were too busy having fun! a good time was had by all and the cops never came around!

Posted by sarah | comments (5) | chillin'

may 12 2005

stats

surfing around today, i came across nationmaster.com. a handy way to graphically compare nations... i did a comparison on murder rates and south africa came 4th. 1st was india, 2nd russia and 3rd colombia... we should be a little quite worried though because then i did a comparative on population figures and south africa is rated 26th (42,768,678), while india, in 2nd place, has over a billion people (1,049,700,118) and in the murder category we even beat the gun-loving americans who came in 6th! interesting and disturbing!

Posted by sarah | comments (1) | crime, information

may 11 2005

bad deal?

fnb has loaned about r91 million to a major zimbabwean bank in an effort to help the country. some of the money has already been used to buy fuel for zimbabwe as it has suffered from regular shortages of fuel, among other things. i can't help thinking that this just might be the start of the decline of fnb... another thing: is my money at fnb helping the zimbabwean government? a government that, i believe, has committed serious crimes against humanity. a government that doesn't like freedom of speech. a government that would rather buy planes than feed it's people...

Posted by sarah | comments (2) | politics


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