sun setting in the middle-of-nowhere

The nice thing about sunsets here is that there are no skyscrapers anywhere to block my view.

Illiterate skills @ Zula on Long Str

Compromise.

That is what this night was all about for me. I really really wanted to go and see the Illiterate Skills performance on this night and as you can see from the pictures, I managed to get there. But the problem was I had two wonderful guests (for the purposes of this piece i shall call them "the Joburgers")that I needed to entertain. While we may be old friends and share everything, music was not one of our shared past-times.

I love hip hop (and it loves me back hahahhaha) and they do not. So we had to compromise. Or rather they had to compromise. So I took them to Long str which is rather dead on a Wednesday night and we eventually landed at Zula, because it was open (what are the chances?)

There was an open mic poetry gig called Voices. The atmosphere was great and we had money for drinks and a cab home, so really things were looking up for us that night. After Voices, Illeterate Skills came on and the party continued. The Joburgers were having fun. All was good with the world again.

Good advice

FW:FW....delete

I'm sure you have seen the above in your e-mail inbox before. If you are anything like me, then you immediately press the "delete" button. I really don't like receiving forwarded mail. Especially the ones with graphics of flying angels or jokes (they are never funny). I always hesitate to give out my e-mail address to people I just met because more often that not, they will forward me something. My sister (bless her pretty face) had a penchant for sending me forwarded mail, until I admitted to her that I did not read any of them. A couple of friends are still sending me, but I haven't told them that i do not actually read it, I don't have the heart. So I reply with the mandotory "thanks" or send out a fresh email telling then something useful they need to know (I think that is why e-mails were invented). It's bad enough that women do it, but what possesses a grown man to forward all these fruity chain-mail of the "if u don't send this within two minutes, you will run of luck" variety? What is this world coming to?

my new obsession of the week...graffiti

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I take great pleasure in writing about the mundane. People are too serious these days. Conversations have become so boring around the country, with every second person giving their psudo-political alalysis of everything from Jacob Zuma to Barack Obama and the looming recession. It's like everyone has decided that it is cool to be a bore and talk about politics. I find it boring and it bores me to even write about it.

Instead I am putting up pictures I took of some graffiti art in the area I now reside. I take a long walk every morning just so I can walk past this wall (and because I really need the exercise) and this week I had my camera on hand and was able to take pics of the wall.

With the first picture I tried to get that "through the prison bars feel"by taking the picture from the other side of the fence and failed dismally (as you can see). Because the bars ended up blocking out large chunks of the wall and I was standing too far from the wall. But it was worth a shot.

The second shot is a little clearer, I will try to get more pics and post them on here. I think while everyone is obsessing about the economy and politics, my new obsession will be to take pictures of graffiti. And this post is dedicated to Blaqdust86, for sorta like getting me to start noticing graffiti art for its beauty!

the hills- Kirstenbosch botanical gardens

I am aware that this looks nothing like the botanical gardens, that is because it isn't. This is on the other side where I work, along with other tree-huggers amongst the trees and all things natural. We do have a beautiful building or two but this view on the way up is way prettier.

my view is better than yours

I was making my way to the office, up this really steep hill at SANBI. It takes me about 15minutes to walk from the gate (where I get dropped off by the bus). Today was one of those few days when I didn't mind the walk coz the sun was shining (which hardly ever happens in the Republic of Cape Town) I now wish I was based here all year, it's so beautiful.