Better late than never? ...Best quotes of this past week...

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood – Elbert Hubbard (Thanks Adam!)

Definition-Confidence: Boldness stemming from self-assurance. Being flase and submissive will only please a man who wants someone false and submissive. A huntress does not rely on others to provide her with a feeling of self-worth. – Caroline Hurry (Handbook for the Huntress)

The harder I work, the luckier I get – Samuel Goldwyn (Thanks Adam!)

I will greet this day with love in my heart. – Og mandino (The Greatest Salesman in the world)

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life – Mohammed Ali (Thanks Adam!)

My lilies...

I know you're expecting the quotes of the week right about now...uhm...I'm running a little bit late with them...but don't worry - they are definitely on the way. i'm just putting the finishing touches on the list!

In the mean time let me share something else with you: my lillies that I planted in Sepetember have all started blooming madly this week. I am as thrilled as a new parent. Look at my babies...

Summer...at last you have arrived...

In last week's post Gobody commented that he didn't know how a SA summer would be like. Well, I've been thinking how best to describe it and I keep coming up with silly descriptions like ...hot and humid...fun...alive...easy going looooong days of summer...I don't know. I think everyone just generally seem much happier in summer, must be the regular exposure to sun?

Well yesterday (Saturday) we opened summer in a big way at our house. My brother and our one of our friends Denise came up with the brilliant idea that we should have a pool party. So they invited all the hooligans over and it turned out to be quite an event. It feels like it's official now! Gobody...I don't know how to describe a SA summer to you (but I'm going to work on it) but for now what I can do is show you some pictures of our welcome summer pool party, and you should get a fair idea how much we enjoy this season around here. ;-)Here is a picture of my brother and Denise...the two main culprits (geniuses behind the event)

Even my parents got into the whole event...

Here's a nice shot of almost everyone in the "pool"...
This carried on until the sun went down...then we made a big fire and BBQ'ed loads of meat and partied until almost midnight! Doesn't that sound like fun?

This is basically what happens round here in summer - only the venue changes. We like getting social in exotic locations too. So you can basiaclly take all the main ingredients and stick it on a beach...in the bush...on a partyboat...in a club...next to a lake...at someone's house. It doesn't really matter. I guess summer is so well loved here because summer means good times with friends.

Quotes for this week...

This week selection:

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination – John Lennon (Thanks Adam)

Mother nature is not sweet – John Shelby Spong (Thanks Adam )

Definition – Moderation: This is not a word in the huntress’ vocabulary. Moderation is for bores. – Caroline Hurry (Handbook for the Huntress)

Never will I be of concern that my goals are too high for is it not better to aim my spear at the moon and strike only an eagle that to aim my spear at the eagle and strike only a rock? – Og Mandino (The Greatest Salesman in the World)

Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage – Naomi Littlebear

Busy busy busy!

This has been a crazy week. For one I finished my exams and now have a lot more time to contemplate my unemployment. Luckily I have found some very interesting ways to distract myself ;-)

I have “invested” in a new toy…meet my zippy new data card. It is the best thing to happen to my computer since virus pretection became available in free software too. Since I am going to be on the internet feeding my addiction I might as well be faster? Anyway, it’s bliss. I refuse to say anything negative about it.

Observe the next picture…this is what happens to you when you spend almost two days uninterrupted in IRC chat and MSN messenger. You get really really tired and forget how to talk coherently! I’ve had so much coffee in the last few days that my hands start shaking just at the mention of the word.

Other news this week – I’ve finally updated my links. Actually this development was inspired by Gobody’s blog (where I also have a link now J). Not everyone I connect with have blogs so you’ll notice that some are just bulletin boards in MySpace, but for the sake of completeness I added them too. Also note that there is a section on Me,Myself and I…this is a list of all my official sites but I use them all for different objectives. This is my one and only Blog, MySpace is my bulletin board and a few of my friends are there which helps me connect with them, and then LiveSpaces I’ve decided I’m going to use mostly as a photo album, so loads of albums to get onto that in the next few days.

I hope that you all will have an excellent week ahead full of surprise and adventure.

Why does it still feel like August to me?

Geez but this year has whizzed past! I just realised today that it’s almost December – I should definitiely start panicking about Christmas and what-not. It’s been more than 2 months since I’ve listened or watched any news other than the opinions I encounter in news groups. *No news is good news, right?

This week I rediscovered IRC chat – and it’s still as addictive as it used to be, that’s for sure. I used up my monthly data in a week!(On text?!). *Bright side coming: Lucky thing too, since I would otherwise never have found out that I was being charged for double the data package I was actually being allocated…some sad story was told to the effect that my requested upgrade only went through in some of the systems and not the others. Yeah right! Just fix it or I might come rattle things personally to see where in the world it really got stuck. A system will only what the operators make it do. (#@! In,will give #@! Out, isn’t it?). *More Bright side coming: Buuuut, I finally got transferred to someone who knows the system, and who felt inclined to help me so it’s all sorted out now – and just so you know I’m not a complete cow, I did say some very nice things about him on Hellopeter.com and recommended that he should get a big fat bonus for being so clever. I once recommended a very good sales lady should be cloned and one put in every branch – but he wasn’t THAT good.

I wrote Civil Procedure (again) on Monday and I have a sneaky suspicion it won’t be the last time. That subject is fast becoming my unicorn. *See gone in 60 sconds – Eleanor. But thankfully I only have one exam left for this semester on Thursday – Advanced Family law. Let it be known that 6 in one semester is a foolish thing to take on, and no fun. I am sick and tired of exams for this year.

Not to worry: it’s not all work and no play. They had a belated Holloween party at the club this week and we all had to dress up as witches and wizards. I’ve included a few pics for you here. I like dress-up parties! ;-) Can’t wait to see what’s next. I’m thinking of maybe organising a Mad-Hatter’s (Long Island Ice) Tea Party – or maybe just some LazerQuest war games in camo. *Excuse me while I nurse my aching head and rethink this for a few minutes.

Hope you have an excellent week!

Quotes of the week

Adam is working off his notice period (and seems to be busier than ever!) so this week I had to find some of my own material too… Enjoy!

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one – Malcolm Forbes (Thanks Adam)

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no point being a damn fool about it – W.C. Fields (Thanks Adam)

There are as many opinions as there are experts – Franklin D. Roosevelt (Thanks Adam)

Reasons to travel: Number 6 – I want to find myself: Mmmm. If you’re having problems discovering yourself in a place where you can actually read all the signs, what makes you think it’s going to be any easier where they’re all in a foreign language? – Peter Moore: No Sh*tting in the toilet (The travel guide for when you’ve really lost it)

Falling in love is like getting hit by a cattle truck. Either you go straight to heaven or you spend six months in traction sucking nourishment through a straw. – Caroline Hurry (Handbook for the Huntress)

The 115Kbps Connection

Once again tonight

I glance at my connector cable

Coiled up like a snake

Ready to strike

It lures me

To a society of like minded

Intellectuals? Loners? Outcasts?

I call them on-line friends.

Like the rubber-hose tourniqette of TV junkies

I slip it on and fasten it tight

Cutting off my circulation with my mundane life.

A few breathless seconds

…alone…

Between this world and the next

Before the info-bubble pops up:

Connected

Soft sigh of relief

I just a need a little bit more…

Favourite quotes of the week...

Okay, since I have now started mailing my posts in I have no excuse to be lazy anymore… Hope you find this week’s selection inspiring.

1. Take my love, take my land. Take me where I cannot stand.I don't care, I'm still free.You can't take the sky from me.--- "Firefly" theme.[Quoted off a thread on Rasfc]
2. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the only one who asked why. (Bernard Baruch) [Thanks Adam]
3. We are retreating-we are advancing in another direction (Douglas McArthur) [Thanks Adam]
4. I have found power in the mysteries of thought (Euripides 438 B.C) [Thanks Adam]
5. Send the Universe mixed messages and it will support the message with the most power attached to it. If you focus on lack in your life, lack is what you will manifest. (Caroline Hurry) [Handbook for the Huntress]
   

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This (and a bit of last) week in a nutshell...

Well, it was a pretty uneventfull week. Compared to last week at least? I was still battling with Blogger to update at that time so I may have left out some details, so I better clue you in on those too.

Last week was not really a good week for people to know me I guess…

One of my buddies (Tanya) was involved in a smash and grab robbery (as the victim of course!) and even though she was not injured, she did suffer some emotional trauma. That makes me really mad! How dare these criminals carry on like this and make prisoners (of their own fear if nothing else) of people like that?! It’s probably better that nothing like this has ever happened to me – because I think I would most likely react so violently that I may end up endangering my own life or that of innocent people around me. I just skip scared and go for furious. *Note to self: re-look at that anger management thing maybe?

Then, after that another family friend was diagnosed with breast cancer. This illness is apparently more common than one would expect, last I heard if you are a woman you stand a 1 out of 10 chance of getting it? (Mmm, this is sales pitch data – so it could be ever so slightly inaccurate) Those odds suck if you ask me – especially since I am apparently in a high risk bracket (Don’t ask…I won’t ellaborate). Luckily it was an early detection and the cancer has not yet spread into the glands. They have already operated and successfully? removed all the cancer, but her doctor has recommended a full masectomy on both breasts and she has only a week or so to decide if she “wants” to do that. Apparently her chances for the cancer not to return is much better if there is nothing to return to? That is truly horrible! I’m not sure if I would be able to make a decision like that if I were in that possition. I hope it works out well for her whatever she decides…

Then, my friend Simone’ lost her husband Pieter in a very tragic bike accident last week. He was driving around a bend in the road when a taxi-bus popped out of a blind entrance and they collided, since there was no time for him to avoid it or stop – it was instant. He leaves behind two very young children too: Mishcke (4) and Juan-Antonio(2). pic of Pieter with his son

And of course my exam – all in one week!

That’s why I am really releived to say that this week was fairly uneventfull. But nonetheless, here are all the events of the week:

My mom went back to work on Wednesday after almost a month recuperating from her 3-in-1 operation.

We bought a new not-inflatable pool (the other one got slashed by Tigger in a survival attempt after she decided to drink water from it and fell in…the patches come off in the heat, so I constantly had to re-fix it!)

I wrote another exam on Thursday

I went bowling with Freddy and some of his friends (and I came second – whoo-hoo!)

Had a great seafood dinner with *Esmerelda* and Jacobus on Friday and saw a spectacular sunset of which I couldn’t get a decent photo taken (so you’ll just have to imagine it – it was a sky’s on fire type)

I’m exhausted! Wish I could sleep now – but I’m writing on Monday morning so no rest for the wicked (or even just for me). ;-)