Wab blog – The Lady at the Spar
Every now and then we come across a Blog that is worth reading and has some ties to the sentiment of Represent… Check out the musings of someone called “Gogopimp” from a blog called Worker and the Bee… Click here to go there. I was telling some gents the other day about the lady at the spar on sunday. I was in the Spar pic…king up some fresh fruit. Whilst standing in the line to have the fruit weighed I could not help but notice how the lady weighing the fruit was not answering anybody upon being greeted. She would just take the bag of fruit from them, place it on the scale, slap on the sticker and then hand it back. “hmmmm” I pondered, “why is she not greeting anyone?” I quickly conjured a plan to get her to speak. When it came my turn to have my fruit weighted I handed her the first of my bags and said “The lichis are looking quite good today, what do you reckon?” To which she smiled, bowed her head slightly, slapped on a sticker and took my next bag. Dammit, I was running out of bags fast. I had to come up with something chop chop. She was at least in her early to mid fifties, standing all day at the spar weighing packets of fruit can’t be fun. When it came time to take my last bag of fruit from me I held the bag for one inkling of a second longer than she expected, looked her straight in the eye when she looked up, and I said “How are you?” “I’m fine.” she replied, smiling. Her breath was so strong with alchohol it was like being hit by a tank (a cornerhouse abrams tank i.e. hard). It was no wonder she was not talking. She was totally pissed! At first I thought this was one hardcore old bird. Getting pissed at work. Nice! But then I looked at her feet. The cracks along the side of her shoes made it clear that she was no foreigner to standing at the scale weighing bags of fruit on a sunday as a woman having cleared fifty. So what I initially thought was bloody hilarious was, once again, sad as shit. I tried not to pass out from the fumes as the commented on the lichis. We had a quick conversation about how rewarding it can be to eat lichis (because of extra effort involved in getting the f*ckers peeled) and then we parted ways. I wondered about how hard it would be getting drunk at work. Probably not that...
Freshly Ground in Swaziland this weekend!!!
You know how much we love Swaziland – what an awesome place – and only 3 hours drive from Johannesburg… If you haven’t yet made plans for the weekend, what about going to hang out in the beautiful Malkerns valley and going to one of the most gorgeous venues in the Southern Hemisphere – House on Fire – to watch one of our favourite bands FRESHLY GROUND… you won’t regret it. In fact we …guarantee that you will have one of the best weekend’s yet 🙂 WASHA UMKHUKHU! The concert is on Saturday night, it’s only R80 or 80 Emalangeni in SD. CHeck out HOUSE OF FIRE here… HAMBA HAMBA...
London’s getting all LOVED UP for South Africa
Thanks to Donna for letting us know about the “Love is all we need” project in London – a fabulous fund-raising initiative running over the next few days all with a heart-warming aim in mind – to raise money to build an education centre in SOUTH AFRICA! Being slight anti-valentiners (find it OH SO CHEESY) we are delighted to see some people usi…ng their ‘lovey dovey’ money and moment for more than just a few hours of partnership bliss… The site is gorgeous and is making us feel all LOVED UP too!!! HAPPY VALENTINES EVERYONE! Go and sign up on the site so you can stay in touch: AT LAST LONDON HAS IT’s VERY OWN ST VALENTINES EVENT! This year for the first time ever, Londoners will have their own St Valentine’s Day event. Thousands of love balloons will be flying over London between 14th and 18th February, this is LOVE IS ALL WE NEED! Love is taking off all around the city to create a special moment and day to remember for all lovers and more importantly for those in need of education in Southern Africa. LOVE IS ALL WE NEED is a massive fundraising festival, run entriely by volunteers. We are a group of normal people with full time jobs being very inspired by the possibilities education can create for the poverty stricken people in Southern Africa. All proceeds will go to the Mdumbi Community Project to help create an an urgently needed education centre. There is a massive potential in people which they haven’t had the chance to explore and benefit from being stuck in the cycle of poverty. This Education Centre will equip the local young people with skills necessary to create a secure future for themselves. LOVE IS IN THE AIR LOVE IS ALL WE NEED is about expressing love. You too can share the love by buying a LOVE IS ALL WE NEED balloon. A heart-shaped balloon. filled with helium and a love poem attached, will melt your Valentine’s heart when you release it together. Join the occasion and express your love. LOVE IS ALL WE NEED in conjunction with Virgin Balloons Flights is offering over 50% off romantic hot air balloon flights. ý5.00 of each booking will be going towards the funds raised. To book your flight call 0870 444 2768 and quote “LOVE IS ALL WE NEED”. (Offer relates to a Virgin Balloon Flights Diamond Voucher for ý130 normal price ý270 terms and conditions apply which are available upon request by calling 0870 444 2768) Alternatively, if you feel lucky you can enter the amazing price draw to win a FREE...
Congrats to Egypt for winning the African Cup final
We’re sure the entire Egyptian population must be sleeping late this morning – we imagine the celebrations are amazing.- nothing like a sterling win on home ground… Let’s hope South Africa can party all night in celebration of winning the World Cup final on home ground in 2010. But we’re going to have to pull some serious moves from now till then. Congratulations Egypt and well done to Cote d…‘Ivoire… ************************************** So if you don’t know by now, Nigeria is in third place and the final of the African Cup of Nations is between Cote d’Ivoire and the hosts Egypt today! The Egyptians must be delighted to be in the final on home ground and we are sure that it will prove to be a thrilling finale to what has been a very colourful and entertaining tournament. We won’t mention how badly our boysboys did as some people have just managed to forget about it and we don’t want to remind them…. but we wish both teams luck and may the best African team win!!! The match will be screened on SABC 1 TODAY 5:10PM 2006 MTN African Cup of Nations – Road To The...
Feel like doing some VOLUNTEER work?
So you’re back on track, the year is starting to tick slowly by, you’ve broken the heath regime, nearly spent your January salary already and are wondering what will make a real difference to your life this year? What about becoming a Volunteer and getting amongst the people… What about volunteering your skills, energy, time and talent? What about giving back and making a real differen…ce to the community? Today we present you two programs that we know about – the first is for individuals called Twenty30, they are looking for working professionals, who want to contribute 6-8 hours a month to making a difference in SA, through being part of a meaningful and structured year-long program. The second one is VOLUNTEER WEEK which is a corporate-focused week in March that challenges employees to get their company involved. See the details below: TWENTY30 Twenty30 aims to grow the concept of Skills Volunteerism in SA, bridging cultural divides to solve first order socio-economic challenges. To this end, Twenty30 facilitates ways in which business professionals can volunteer meaningfully by using their own skills in institutions requiring them. Background Information Twenty30 has run a successful project in 9 schools around Soweto, Eldorado Park, and the Inner City in 2005. Prior to that, Twenty30 also ran pilot studies in the HIV/AIDS sector. All projects utilise skilled ‘volunteer consultants’ who carried out necessary skilled interventions, under management’s guidance. Interventions focused on improving school management, strategy and leadership and included workshops and training sessions for educators and school governing bodies. Some examples included: – Strategic Planning Sessions – Computer Training – Team Building Workshops – Budgeting Training – Proposal Writing Sessions – Facilitation of Learner Outings – Counselling Sessions Volunteers participate in a year-long program, which entails 5 conferences/ checkpoint days where teams are able to report back, hear how each other are performing, and network around relevant issues identified. Participants are also exposed to guest speakers and extra material and resources as a part of this process. Additionally participation on the program utilises volunteers’ professional skills, knowledge and experience and plays towards the strengths that each individual brings to their team and ultimately to the school within which they volunteer. Commitments and Requirements We welcome a range of volunteer consultants to apply for this program. General guidelines include the following, about the kind of volunteers we look for: – Having a tertiary education and a number of years’ work experience – A passion and commitment to South Africa’s future and willingness to make it a better place – Dedication to the program, which runs over one year (timelines below) – Ability to work in...
Dutch ‘no joint smoking’ sign lights up interest
From the New Zealand Herald: AMSTERDAM – Amsterdam’s new street signs banning cannabis smoking in parts of the city have sparked global interest. The sign shows a red circle around a fat cannabis joint in a cloud of smoke sparked by white marijuana leaves. It has been installed …at one square and surrounding streets in Amsterdam where young cannabis smokers are a nuisance. Soon after the installation on February 1, the first signs were stolen after which the Amsterdam council of De Baarsjes decided it would start selling what it believes is the world’s first anti-cannabis road sign. Over 400 consumers have approached the council to buy one of the “no joints” signs for ý90 ($160), excluding shipping, a spokesman said.” About 75 per cent of the requests come from the United States,” he said, adding interest is also coming from Singapore, Australia, Scandinavian countries and Germany. The profits will be donated to a charitable cause that has yet to be chosen. It is legal to own and use small quantities of soft drugs in the Netherlands whose relaxed position on the issue has brought it into conflict with other European countries like France which claims the Dutch undermine the global fight against drugs. Picture borrowed from SKYNEws, Click here to see it on...
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