my new favourite song

Poker Face Lyrics

Mum mum mum mah
Mum mum mum mah

I wanna hold em' like they do in Texas Plays
Fold em' let em' hit me raise it baby stay with me (I love it)
Luck and intuition play the cards with Spades to start
And after he's been hooked I'll play the one that's on his heart

Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh,
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got

Can't read my,
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(she’s got to love nobody)
Can't read my
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(she’s got to love nobody)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

I wanna roll with him a hard pair we will be
A little gambling is fun when you're with me I love it)
Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun
And baby when it's love if its not rough it isn't fun, fun
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Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhhh, ohh-oh-e-ohh-oh-oh,
I'll get him hot, show him what I've got

Can't read my,
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(she’s got to love nobody)
Can't read my
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(she’s got to love nobody)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

I won't tell you that I love you
Kiss or hug you
Cause I'm bluffin' with my muffin
I'm not lying I'm just stunnin' with my love-glue-gunning
Just like a chick in the casino
Take your bank before I pay you out
I promise this, promise this
Check this hand cause I'm marvelous

Can't read my,
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(she’s got to love nobody)
Can't read my
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(she’s got to love nobody)

Can't read my,
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(she’s got to love nobody)
Can't read my
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(she’s got to love nobody)

Can't read my,
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(she’s got to love nobody)
Can't read my
Can't read my
No he can't read my poker face
(she’s got to love nobody)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)
P-p-p-poker face, p-p-poker face
(Mum mum mum mah)

San on resigning

Resigning with a Company feels like breaking up with someone...

I need a strong cocktail

 

 

 

 

the suspense is killing me! I am going to the bathroom to kill some time

 

 

 

Shoot me now

 

 

 

I can see clearly now!

 

 

 

Right to passage

So, I went to my house during lunchtime.

And the family of the slain guard was there with his body. It is custom in African families to come collect the soul of the person who passed, at the place he died.

I had to walk through the party, what an awkward moment

 

 

 

How To Make Your Own Luck

By: Daniel H. Pink

Some folks do have all the luck -- and psychologist Richard Wiseman can teach you how to be one of the lucky few.

 

"It's better to be lucky than smart." "You make your own luck in life." "Some folks are just born lucky." In an environment marked by rising tensions and diminished expectations, most of us could use a little luck -- at our companies, in our careers, with our investments. Richard Wiseman thinks that he can help you find some.

Wiseman, 37, is head of a psychology research department at the University of Hertfordshire in England. For the past eight years, he and his colleagues at the university's Perrott-Warrick Research Unit have studied what makes some people lucky and others not. After conducting thousands of interviews and hundreds of experiments, Wiseman now claims that he's cracked the code. Luck isn't due to kismet, karma, or coincidence, he says. Instead, lucky folks -- without even knowing it -- think and behave in ways that create good fortune in their lives. In his new book, The Luck Factor: Changing Your Luck, Changing Your Life: The Four Essential Principles (Miramax, 2003), Wiseman reveals four approaches to life that turn certain people into luck magnets. (And, as luck would have it, he tells the rest of us how to improve our own odds.)

Wiseman's four principles turn out to be slightly more polished renditions of some of the self-help canon's greatest hits. One thing Wiseman discovered, for example, was that when things go awry, the lucky "turn bad luck into good" by seeing how they can squeeze some benefit from the misfortune. (Lemonade, anyone?) The lucky also "expect good fortune," which no doubt has Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking, grinning in his grave.

But if these insights aren't exactly groundbreaking, neither are they wrongheaded. For instance, Wiseman found that lucky people are particularly open to possibility. Why do some people always seem to find fortune? It's not dumb luck. Unlike everyone else, they see it. "Most people are just not open to what's around them," Wiseman says. "That's the key to it."

Wiseman began his career as a teenage magician who joined London's prestigious Magic Circle society and journeyed to Hollywood to perform for thousands. "Magic is very good training for seeing the world from somebody else's perspective," he says. Wiseman's latest research makes several forays into areas where most scholars rarely tread: He has investigated the psychological underpinnings of magic, the dynamics of deception, and the psychology of the paranormal. In 2001, he achieved international notoriety conducting a yearlong search for the world's funniest joke, testing how some 350,000 participants reacted to 40,000 jokes.

Fast Company was lucky enough to catch up with the hip and affable professor at a café overlooking London's Hyde Park.

How did a serious academic like you become interested in a squishy subject like luck?

Round about 10 years ago, I was talking to people about why they'd ended up where they'd ended up in their lives -- the people they were with, the careers they were in, and so on. And the words that kept coming up were things like "luck" and "chance." People said, "I met my partner by chance." Or "I'm in this particular career because I just happened to go to this party." I knew from the psychology literature that psychologists avoided luck. They said you couldn't do science with it. So I decided to test that. I did some research that asked people, "Do you consider yourself unlucky, or lucky?"

Over time, we built up a database of about 400 people from all over the UK, all walks of life, who considered themselves especially lucky or unlucky. The people in both groups were saying, "I've no idea why this is the case; I'm just lucky" -- or unlucky. But I didn't believe that for a minute. I thought there was something else going on. So in the Luck Project, we've had them take part in experiments, interviewed them, had them keep diaries -- all sorts of things -- trying to piece together why you'd have one group of people for whom everything would work out well and another group for whom things would be completely disastrous.

Isn't there a distinction between chance and luck?

There's a big distinction. Chance events are like winning the lottery. They're events over which we have no control, other than buying a ticket. They don't consistently happen to the same person. They may be formative events in people's lives, but they're not frequent. When people say that they consistently experience good fortune, I think that, by definition, it has to be because of something they are doing.

In other words, they make their own luck.

That's right. What I'm arguing is that we have far more control over events than we thought previously. You might say, "Fifty percent of my life is due to chance events." No, it's not. Maybe 10% is. That other 40% that you think you're having no influence over at all is actually defined by the way you think.

What are some of the ways that lucky people think differently from unlucky people?

One way is to be open to new experiences. Unlucky people are stuck in routines. When they see something new, they want no part of it. Lucky people always want something new. They're prepared to take risks and relaxed enough to see the opportunities in the first place.

How did you uncover that in your lab?

We did an experiment. We asked subjects to flip through a news-paper that had photographs in it. All they had to do was count the number of photographs. That's it. Luck wasn't on their minds, just some silly task. They'd go through, and after about three pages, there'd be a massive half-page advert saying, STOP COUNTING. THERE ARE 43 PHOTOGRAPHS IN THIS NEWSPAPER. It was next to a photo, so we knew they were looking at that area. A few pages later, there was another massive advert -- I mean, we're talking big -- that said, STOP COUNTING. TELL THE EXPERIMENTER YOU'VE SEEN THIS AND WIN 150 POUNDS [about $235].

For the most part, the unlucky would just flip past these things. Lucky people would flip through and laugh and say, "There are 43 photos. That's what it says. Do you want me to bother counting?" We'd say, "Yeah, carry on." They'd flip some more and say, "Do I get my 150 pounds?" Most of the unlucky people didn't notice.

But the business culture typically worships drive -- setting a goal, single-mindedly pursuing it, and plowing past obstacles. Are you arguing that, to be more lucky, we need to be less focused?

This is one of the most counterintuitive ideas. We are traditionally taught to be really focused, to be really driven, to try really hard at tasks. But in the real world, you've got opportunities all around you. And if you're driven in one direction, you're not going to spot the others. It's about getting people to have various game plans running in their heads. Unlucky people, if they go to a party wanting to meet the love of their life, end up not meeting people who might become close friends or people who might help them in their careers. Being relaxed and open allows lucky people to see what's around them and to maximize what's around them.

Much of business is also about rational analysis: pulling up the spreadsheet, running the numbers, looking at the serious facts. Yet you found that lucky people rely heavily on their gut instincts.

Yes. You don't want to broadly say that whenever you get an intuitive feeling, it's right and you should go with it. But you could be missing out on a massive font of knowledge that you've built up over the years. We are amazingly good at detecting patterns. That's what our brains are set up to do.

What are some other ways you found that lucky people's minds operate differently?

They practice "counterfactual thinking." The degree to which you think that something is fortunate or not is the degree to which you generate alternatives that are better or worse.

Unlucky people say, "I can't believe I've been in another car accident." Lucky people go, "Wonderful. Yes, I had a car accident, but I wasn't killed. And I met the guy in the other car, and we got on really well, and there might be a relationship there." What's interesting is that both ways of thinking are unconscious and automatic. It would never occur to the unlucky people to see it a different way.

Isn't there something delusional about that approach -- sort of a modern version of Dr. Pangloss's "All for the best in the best of all possible worlds"? Suppose I said, "I just wrote this article, and the article stinks, and nobody read it. But hey, at least I have two arms."

What's so delusional about that? If it keeps you going in the face of adversity and softens the impact of the fact that no one read your article, and therefore you think, "Well, I can write another article, and I'm going to learn from the mistakes of the past one, and I'm going to keep on going," I think that's fine. It would be delusional if you took it to the extreme -- especially if you weren't learning from your mistakes.

But can we acknowledge that sometimes bad stuff -- car accidents, natural disasters -- just happens? Sometimes it's purely bad, and there's nothing good about it.

I've never heard that from a lucky person.

So if you buy that way of thinking, then there is no bad luck.

That's right. That's what was weird about conducting some of the interviews. Subjects would say, "I'm the luckiest person alive" -- and they'd come up with dreadful stories. They'd have the same life events as the unlucky person, but they'd look at them entirely differently

 

Isn't that just a fancy version of the power of positive thinking?

There's more science to it -- as opposed to the classic "Just think positive, and you'll be successful." I think if you understand a little about where it's coming from, it's a bit easier to adapt into your life.

We had a subject named Carolyn. When she would come to the unit to be interviewed, it would be just this whole string of bad-luck stories: "I can't find anyone. I'm unlucky in love. When I did find someone, the guy fell off his motorbike. The next blind date broke his nose. We were supposed to get married, and the church burned down." But to every single interview, she'd bring along her two kids. They were 6 and 7 years old -- very healthy, very happy kids who'd sit there and play. And it was interesting, because most people would love to have two kids like that, but that wasn't part of her world, because she was unlucky in her mind.

How do you get people to begin thinking like lucky people?

We've created a Luck School that teaches people certain techniques. One thing that we do is have people keep a luck diary. At the end of each day, they spend a couple of moments writing down the positive and lucky things that happened. We ask them not to write down the unlucky stuff. Once that starts to build up, what they're doing is adding on, each day. So they look back, and it's five days' worth of positive events, and now it's day six. After doing that for a month, it's difficult not to be thinking about the good things that are happening.

What are the applications of your research to business?

We've just done our first Luck School with an entire company. We took all 35 employees through it. The CEO was very open to change. The ideas resonated with him because that's how he has lived his life. So when he heard them, he said, "I want everybody in my organization to think like this." If we did nothing but make his employees feel better about themselves, he'll be a happy man. If it has an impact on profits and productivity, he'll be a very happy man.

Do you think that lucky organizations really exist?

Yes. Whether it translates to just percentages of lucky people, or whether it translates to a particular mixture, where some score high on one principle and others score high on another, I don't know. In the sense of organizational culture and identity, I think that some organizations will be seen as lucky and successful and others will be seen as unlucky, in the same way that individuals are.

You spent a year trying to find the world's funniest joke. Could you tell us the joke that won?

Two New Jersey hunters go hunting. After a while, one of the hunters clutches his throat and falls to the ground, his eyes roll back, and he's lying there motionless. The other one picks up a cell phone, dials 911, and says, "I think my friend is dead! I don't know what to do!" And the operator says, "Just relax. Calm down. The first thing to do is to make certain your friend is dead." There's a pause -- then a gunshot. And the hunter gets back on the phone and says, "Okay. Now what?"

That's some bad luck for the friend.

Yes, unfortunately. But bad luck is funny.

Bad luck is funny?

Bad luck is funny -- provided it's not happening to you.

Sidebar: Wanna Get Lucky?

According to Richard Wiseman, these four principles can create good fortune in your life and career.

1. Maximize Chance Opportunities

Lucky people are skilled at creating, noticing, and acting upon chance opportunities. They do this in various ways, which include building and maintaining a strong network, adopting a relaxed attitude to life, and being open to new experiences.

2. Listen to Your Lucky Hunches

Lucky people make effective decisions by listening to their intuition and gut feelings. They also take steps to actively boost their intuitive abilities -- for example, by meditating and clearing their mind of other thoughts.

3. Expect Good Fortune

Lucky people are certain that the future will be bright. Over time, that expectation becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because it helps lucky people persist in the face of failure and positively shapes their interactions with other people.

4. Turn Bad Luck Into Good

Lucky people employ various psychological techniques to cope with, and even thrive upon, the ill fortune that comes their way. For example, they spontaneously imagine how things could have been worse, they don't dwell on the ill fortune, and they take control of the situation.

Daniel H. Pink (dp@danpink.com), author of Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself (Warner Business Books, 2002), is writing a book about the rise of right-brained thinking in modern life. He considers himself one lucky guy. For more information on the Luck Project, visit the Web (www.luckfactor.co.uk).

 

 

Little bird

How sweet is this?

 

Dalene's mom feeds wild birds.

 

The other day a little bird flew into the kitchen, so she gave it some cheese.

The next day, the bird returned, with two berries and waited for its cheese.

He now comes in on a daily basis, offering his two little berries for a bit of cheese.

 

If Dalene's mom is not in the kitchen, he comes to look for her (carrying the two berries in his beak)

 

 

Reasons to get smash and grab installed

 

Reduce heat
Today's window tint is extremely efficient at controlling the effects of solar energy. Tinting can provide up to 78% heat reduction as compared to untreated glass.

 

Increase your security

Tinted window also severely impairs burglars and "smash and grab" looters from gaining access through store windows. Applied to the glass exterior, tint can even protect against vandalism and accidental scratching

 

Increase your safety
Window tinting film bonds with the glass creating a shatter resistant barrier, protecting the people inside, from flying glass, shards or fragments. This barrier can be of critical importance in protecting executives and personnel in industrial or government facilities where the risk of explosions can be higher. This barrier is equally important in the home where severe weather and household accidents can severely injure children and other family members.

 

Deter thieves
A tinted window in your vehicle helps to discourage thieves. Once a thief tries to break the window the film helps to keep the glass together and hence makes it more difficult to break into your vehicle or home

 

Protect your investments
Window tinting will add value to your vehicle, home and business.

 

Other reasons to get anti-smash and grab installed:

 

• It is a strong membrane to contain glass should it break.
• Skin Cancer
• Increase the strength of glass
• Improves vision and safety
• More resistant to forced entry
• Reduces heat
• Shades the inside of the car
• Blocks UV Radiation
• Reduces fading and interior cracking
• Increases Skin Protection
• Increases air-conditioning efficiency
• Improves occupant comfort
• Reduces glare
• Lessens eye fatigue
• Add privacy
• Glare: These films filter out up to 75% of glare from the sun
• In an explosion 90% of injuries can be caused by flying glass

To the creator of Play Station games

Dear Mister PS game creator,

I am busy playing Godhand (yes even though I am a girrl) and have to tell you that the person who created this, is some sex-craved male chauvinist....

...for the following reasons:

To kill females you have to pull them over your lap and spank them
To recharge your health, you have to look at suggestive magazines...
When you save one of the civilians, she says "ooh, they spanked me so hard, but after a while, I liked it"

But the rest of the game is AWESOME! I am three quarters of the way, I am almost done with my first PS game, and I don't want anybody else to finish my session for me...Grrrr

 

 

 

I had a horrid dream about a dead body that had no bones in it...

I always dream about death at a certain time of the month

Weeweechu

 

WEEWEECHU



It's a romantic full moon, when Pedro said, "Hey, mamacita, let's do Weeweechu."

Oh no, not now, let's look at the moon!" said Rosita.

Oh, c'mon baby, let's you and I do Weeweechu. I love you and it's the perfect time," Pedro begged.

"But I wanna just hold your hand and watch the moon." replied Rosita.

Please, corazoncito, just once, do Weeweechu with me."

Rosita looked at Pedro and said, "OK, one time, we'll do Weeweechu."

Pedro grabbed his guitar and they both sang.....

"Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, Weeweechu a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year."

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

 

I feel lower than a worm at the moment

another song I like

Oooh
Put your loving hand out, baby
I'm beggin'

Beggin', beggin' you
Put your loving hand out baby
Beggin', beggin' you
Put your loving hand out darling

Ridin high, when I was king
Played it hard and fast, cause I had everything
Walked away, won me then
But easy come and easy go
And it would end


So why anytime I bleed, you let me go
Anytime I feed you get me know
Anytime I see you let me know
but,I plan and see just let me go

I'm on my knees when I'm (begging)
Cause I don't want to lose (you)
I got my arms on spread
And I hope that my heart gets fed, matter of fact girl I'm beggin...

Beggin', beggin' you
Put your loving hand out baby
Beggin', beggin' you
Put your loving hand out darling


I need you, (yeeah) to understand
Tried so hard
To be your man
The kind of man you want in the end
Only then can I begin to live again


An empty shell I used to be
Shadow of my life was hangin over me
A broken man that I don't know
Won't even stand the devil's dance to win my soul


Why we chewing? Why we chasing?
Why the bottom? Why the basement?
Why we got good sh** don't embrace it?
Why the feel for the need to replace me?
You're on the wrong way track from the good
I want to paint in a picture telling where we could be at
Like a heart in the best way should
You can give it the away, you had it and you took the pay
But I keep walking on, keep opening doors
Keep hoping for that the door is yours
Keep also home, cause I don't want to live in a broken home, girl I am begging


Beggin', beggin' you
Put your loving hand out baby
Beggin', beggin' you
Put your loving hand out darling


I'm fighting hard to hold my own
Just can't make it all alone
I'm holdin on, can't fall back
I'm just a calm 'bout to fade to black

And I can't come home
You call and I can't come home
You call you can't come home
You call and I can't come home
You call

Begging, begging you
Put your loving hand out baby
Begging, begging you
Put your loving hand out darling

Begging, begging you
Put your loving hand out baby
Begging, begging you
Put your loving hand out darling

 

 

 

it is true what they say: Fly high and you will fall hard

 

 

 

Yayee - I am going to put smash and grab onto my car windows next week! Don't know why I am so excited about it...

HEADlining

The story about the guard who was murdered in my complex made it to the headline in our area newspaper...

I seriously need to move out of SA

 

 

today I am saying a little thank-you prayer for being able to recognise when it is time for change

 

 

shoot me please!

I am getting fat again, I am so IRRITATED

going green

I am going green in 6 days...

I am dying of boredom

FIVE THINGS TO SAY IF YOU GET CAUGHT SLEEPING AT YOUR DESK

 

Something helpful…

FIVE BEST THINGS TO SAY IF YOU GET CAUGHT SLEEPING AT YOUR DESK:

5. 'They told me at the Blood Bank this might happen.'

4. 'This is just a 15 minute power nap they raved about in the Time Management course you sent me to.'  

3. 'Whew! Guess I left the top off the Tippex thinners. You probably got here just in time.'

2. 'Did you ever notice sound coming out of these keyboards when you put your ear down real close?


And the NUMBER ONE best thing to say if you get caught sleeping at your desk...

1. Raise your head slowly and say, 'Amen.'  (LOL remember this one)
  
 

So you think you can lie to me?

You know what?

Lies ALWAYS catch up to people, whether it is lying about your feelings, smoking or not being able to attend a friend's invitation..whatever..I always find out...and I WILL make a point of making you look like an idiot, and then from thereon, I cut you out of my life

Easy as pie

San's latest obsession

So i actually kick butt in Play Station 2!

 

Nobody can beat me in Tekken! And I am good at God Hand too. I am very surprised, as I could never play anything on PS2

Yup - this was at my complex...

Security guard slain at Douglasdale complex

JOHANNESBURG - A security guard was shot dead on Sunday at a mall in Douglasdale, Honeydew police said.

Inspector Tebogo Kgomo said the guard was shot on duty at the Complex by an unknown gunman.

“He went to inspect a certain area after receiving information about criminal activities which were happening at the back of the complex.

“At this moment we don’t know who shot him or why he was shot,” said Kgomo.

No one else was injured.

Police were investigating a case of murder.

- Sapa

New year's 2003 - Current

 

End of 2007 - Location: Perth WA, watching fireworks on the banks of the Swan river. I celebrated 2008 before every South African!

 

End of 2006 - I think I was at Michelle's, Location; watching fireworks on the beach on the South Coast, celebrating 2007 with sand inbetween my toes and rain on my back

 

End of 2005 - Location: With Michelle again? Location: Sea Park. Watching little boats with candles on them go down the river, celebrating 2006 with lots of hope for the future

 

End of 2004 - Location: Casino in Secunda, Free State (in other words: 5 degrees south of nowhere) Built up to 2005 with a formal dinner, and followed the new year in with a Scott playing on bag pipes (The whole dinner party followed the bagpipe player - in a long line throughout the casino)

 

End of 2003 - Location: Dodgy pub in Valhalla, Pretoria (with Michelle) We saw in the new year without a drop of alcohol, cos our new year's resolution was to quit drinking! ha ha - we were so silly

 

Breakeven - The Script

I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing
Just prayed to a god that I don't believe in
Cos I got time while she got freedom
Cos when a heart breaks no it don't break even

Her best days will be some of my worst
She finally met a man thats gonna put her 1st
While I'm wide awake she's no trouble sleeping
Cos when a heart breaks no it don't break even even no

What am I suppose to do when the best part of me was always you
What am I suppose to say when I'm all choked up and your ok
I'm falling to pieces
I'm falling to pieces

They say bad things happen for a reason
But no wise words gonna stop the bleeding
Cos she's moved on while I'm still grieving
Cos when a heart breaks no it don't break even even no

What am I gonna do when the best part of me was always you
What am I suppose to say when I'm all choked up and your ok
I'm falling to pieces
I'm falling to pieces
I'm falling to pieces
(One still in love while the other ones leaving)
I'm falling to pieces
(Cos when a heart breaks no it don't break even)

You got his heart and my heart and none of the pain
You took your suitcase, I took the blame.
Now I'm tryna make sense of what little remains
Cos you left me with no love, no love to my name.

I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing
Just prayed to a god that I don't believe in
Cos I got time while she got freedom
Cos when a heart breaks no it don't break even

What am I gonna do when the best part of me was always you
What am I suppose to say when I'm all choked up and your ok
I'm falling to pieces
I'm falling to pieces
I'm falling to pieces
(One still in love while the other ones leaving)
I'm falling to pieces
(Cos when a heart breaks no it don't break even)

This is totally relevant to me! that ****** lost me, he pretends to be all religious now "pray to a God I don't believe in"

 

And how true is this : "She finally met a man thats gonna put her 1st, While I'm wide awake, she has no trouble sleeping"

Yup - I have no guilt, Clinton treats me like a princess

 

Not to mention this part: "You got his heart and my heart and none of the pain, you took your suitcase, I took the blame"

Yup! I took my cases and left Australia! I have Clinton's heart (and he has mine) and all ****face has - is the blame and the guilt!

why WHY why

Please explain why all the grocery stores and general stores stock laxatives, but diarrhea medication is only found in chemists?

TO ALL MY ALCOHOL LOVING PALS...

COCKTAILS TO DIE FOR!!!          APPLE CRUMBLE 50ml Morgans spiced 100ml Apple juice 2 pinches of cinnamon 12.5ml Lemon juice 12.5ml Sugar syrup Instructions Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into an ice filled Collins glass, Garnish with an apple slice.       ABSOLUTE BERRY BLOOD BATH 25ml Absolut Kurant 12.5ml Chambord 12.5ml Creme de Fraise 25ml Cranberry Juice Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a cocktail glass garnish with fresh redcurrants.       DIRTY BANANA 1 oz creme de bananes 1 oz creme de cacao 1 oz Kahlua® coffee liqueur 2 scoops vanilla ice cream Instructions Blend six ice cubes with ice-cream in a blender until smooth. Add liqueurs and continue blending, again until smooth. Add more ice-cream if needed (for milk-shake consistency). Pour into a highball glass, and serve.       FALLEN ANGEL ice 45ml gin 15ml green creme de menthe 30ml lemon juice dash Angostura Bitters maraschino cherry Place ice, gin, creme de menthe, lemon juice and bitters in a shaker and shake well to mix. Strain into cocktail glass and garnish with cherry       FLORIDA FRUIT SALAD 35ml Absolut Mandrin 15ml Mandrin Napolian 15ml Apple Schnapps 15ml Fresh Lemon Juice 25ml Fresh Pink Grapefruit Dash of Sugar Syrup Instructions Shake ingredients and strain in to a cocktail glass, Garnish with a grape, mandrin segment and strawberry.       HURRICANE 2 fl oz (50 ml) dark rum 2 fl oz (50 ml) light rum 2 fl oz (50 ml) passion fruit juice ½ fl oz (12 ml) fresh lime juice 1 fl oz (25 ml) orange juice 1 tablespoon(s) grenadine ice cubes as required 1 slice(s) of orange 2 cherries Instructions Pour all the ingredients except orange slices and cherries into a shaker with ice cubes. Shake well. Strain the mixture over ice cubes into hurricane glass(es). Serve garnished with orange slice(s) and cherries.       KILLER SNIFF 4 cl Sambuca 2 cl Blue Curacao Instructions First, pour the Blue curacoa in the glass followed by the Sambucca. Then light this mixture. Let it burn for a few seconds and then put your hand on top of the glass (keep it on the glass) as soon as flames go out, bring the glass to your nose and sniff the alcohol. Then drink it. After this: relight the glass and sniff again. cheers!     ZOMBIE In a tall glass of ice pour in order: 25ml Lemon Juice 2 teaspoons Grenadine 2 Dashes of Angostura Bitters 25ml Morgan's Spice 200ml Orange Juice 25ml Apricot Brandy 100ml Guava/Mango/other Exotic Juice 50ml Myers's Rum 25ml "float" of Woods 100 Old Navy Rum       PINK CADILLAC CONVERTABLE 30ml Tequila Gold 12.5ml Cointreau 20ml Fresh Lime juice 20ml Cranberry juice 20ml Grand Marnier Instructions Shake ingredients (except Grand Marnier) with ice and strain over crushed ice into a tumbler Garnish with a salt rim and a lime wedge       MELON MARTINI 45 ml Vodka 22 ml Melon Liqueur 1 dash Freshly squeezed Lemon Juice 1 dash Rich Sugar syrup Shake with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass.       LUCKY SUMMER 25ml Whisky 25ml Grand Marnier 12.5ml Cointreau 37.5ml Fresh orange juice 12.5ml Fresh lemon juice Dash of grenadine Instructions Shake ingredients and strain over ice into a collins glass, Garnish with an orange wedge.       JAMAICAN RUM PUNCH 50ml Myers's Rum 25ml Fresh Lemon Juice 200ml Pineapple Juice 100ml Peach Nectar/Juice 12.5ml Sugar Syrup 2 Dashes of Angostura Bitters Soda Water Instructions Shake with ice and pour entire contents (including ice) into a highball and top with soda water, Garnish with a slice of pineapple and a maraschino cherry.       BLUEBERRY GIN FIZZ 2 Blueberries 15ml Gin 10ml Fresh lemon juice 10ml Gomme Champagne Instructions Shake ingredients (except Champagne) and strain into a flute, top with chilled Champagne, Garnish with blackcurrants         FOREST FRUIT 37.5ml TequilaGold 2 Barspoons of Chambord 2 Barspoons of Creme de Mure 2 Barspoons of Cointreau 37.5ml Fresh Lemon juice 2 Blackberries 2 Raspberries Instructions Muddle berries in the bottom of an old fashioned glass Stir in the Chambord and Creme de Mure, add the remaining ingredients and fill the glass with crushed ice Stir gently lifting the muddled berries into the drink Garnish with a lemon wedge, a blackberry and a raspberry.       PINA COLADA 50ml Golden Rum 25ml Cream 25ml Coconut milk 50ml Pineapple juice Instructions Shake cocktail ingredients with ice and strain over ice into a hurricane glass Garnish with a pineapple wedge & pineapple leaves.

 

not the kind of e-mail you want to send at any time - BUT this is SA!

Good morning,

 

In light of the two recent security risks which occurred this weekend at our complex, we feel compelled to increase security at our flat (number X)

 

Guards were shot at and according to reports one of the guards was shot dead. Our complex is extremely close to the location where the incidents occurred, and our safety feels threatened. Last night we even had two guards situated at the bottom of our steps, to keep watch, which is quite alarming.

 

The front windows by our porch are easy access for criminals, thus we feel the need to install burglar guards, kindly find out from the owner which burglar guards can be installed. One of the windows already has a burglar guard, but the other two windows do not.

 

I trust you will appreciate the seriousness of this matter,

 

Thank you,

Kind Regards

 

ding dong dairy bell...

It's almost xnas!

 

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- by Winston Churchill

who remembers the THONG SONG?

 

house warming this weekend

 

 

 

my new favourite things to do

 

..Is playing mobile scrabble on my phone, and palying battleship!

 

San is going green

 

Word of the day

Cadger:

moocher: someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

Begging means to request something in a supplicating manner, with the implication that the person who is begging will suffer emotional and/or physical harm if the request is not granted.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadger

A hawker or peddler; A beggar
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cadger

 

Telesales

From now on, when somebody phones me to sell fantastic insurance to me or whatever...

I am going to tell them that I am a hippy. **** A flower child ****

I will continue with some ridiculous story about living for today..and enjoying the moment. I will say that society is trying to kill us with all their commercialism, and that I prefer to lead a FREE life. Free from societies constraints..

Next I will read some hippy mantra to them and spend time trying to convince them to convert to the hippy ways, convince them to also be FREE

Then of course, I can also break into song:

The Hippy Killers

Our Apocalypse 1981
Teenage vagrants lookin´ for some fun
A renewed promise of prosperity
A vulgar platform for the world to see
We were
The hippy killers
Busted refuse from broken homes
Pocked flesh and malacious bones
Creatures sustained by desire, heart, and soul
Nothing to leave and nowhere to go
We were
The hippy killers
Good days during horrible times
Overused bodies, neglected minds
Should to shoulder we formed as one
The next miserable generation
We were
The hippy killers

Then - they would be forced to list me as mentally insane on their database, and I will have peace and quiet!

And peace, ironically, was something the hippies believed in

pet hate

I hate it when women look at my gym monitor while I am on a machine...they annoy me! And after looking at my monitor, I hear them changing things on their own one...Women in general, are pathetically competitive creatures

3rd baby shower this year

..is happening today!

pursuit of happyness

what a sad movie!

:-(

i failed Accounts...

 

:-(

the moon last night

..It was something that happens only once every couple of hundred years..where Mars and Jupiter line up right next to the sickle-shaped moon

 

It looked like to Islam 'halaal' sign...

 

Very odd

 

 

i dislike...

i dislike people who are overly dramatic...

Worst function of my life!

Ok, imagine this...

You arrive at La Rouge restaurant (on CR Swart Drive) at 19:30, they bustle you and 90 other corporate people into the dining area. Just to have you sit and wait...

The waitors avoid eye contact with you, so getting a drink is nearly impossible...

Choices for starters are (A) Raw springbok (B) Mussels (C) Blue cheese biltong salad..May I add that we only got our starters at 21:15! And it was terrible! The cheese had the flavour that throwing up leaves in your mouth...

The main meal only arrived at 23:15..and nothing special, they dumped meat on a plate with some chips.

And desert just never came...

The favours at the end of the event were big brown paper bags with ONE chocolate in it and for the guys the same brown paper packet with 3 pieces of biltong

It is a terrible venue, if you are ever contemplating where to eat..remember to avoid this place!

 

 

Mall rage

I was walking in the mall,then these two ladies stop DEADstill in front of a shop entrance, blocking my path.

I said excuse me twice, but they still did not move.

 

Eventually I bashed them with my packets, by accident, of course...

 

Bunch of idiots!

 

San's latest obsession

I have green fingers!

I started off with 3 plants two months ago..and now, I have 7 plants. And I am growing tomatoes and avo too!

I am so proud of my plants! :-) and yes, I do chat to them