Voted Best Joke of the Year in Australia
A man walks into his bedroom with a sheep under his arm and says:
"Darling, this is the pig I have sex with when you have a headache."
His girlfriend is lying in bed and replies:
"I think you'll find that's a sheep, you idiot."
The man says: "I think you'll find I wasn't talking to you."
"IF" – Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor walk to wise:
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master,
If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same,
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss,
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: Hold On!
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings – not lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute,
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!
Note: Kipling is said to have written this poem “IF” with Dr. Leander Starr Jameson in mind, who led about five-hundred of his countrymen (Englishmen) in a failed raid against the Boers, in South Africa. The “Jameson Raid” was later considered a major factor in starting the Boer War in South Africa (1899-1902).
Getting Organised!
Anne, you have asked me what do I think of Ethiopean Airlines....I heard that they are part of the Lufthansa Group and therefor I can only guess that they could be better off them some of the local airlines here in Africa.
Or rather hope so......I decided to go with Ethiopean Airlines, because they have a much shorter flight (don't need that 8 hour stop over in Dubai anymore), USD100.00 cheaper and I can take 30kg on board where by with Emirates I could only take 20kg's......
So, I do have the VISA, Tickets and still need the Travel Insurance, but will get that today. So, I'm off to Germany on the 16th and will land on the 17th February '06.
This is hopefully now my final flight details:
Depart DAR on 16th Feb at 15:40 on ET804
Arrive Frankfurt 17th Feb at 05:15 on ET704
Depart Frankfurt on 13th March at 22:55 on ET705
Arrive DAR on 14th March at 14:40 on ET805
Funny, ET (805) phone home......(ET nachhause telefonierin)
DAR to ADDIS - 4 hours 30 min flying
Transit - 3 hours 45 min
ADDIS to FRANFURT - 7 hours 15 minutes flying
Anne, if it is too early for you to pick me up on the Airport, I will catch a train rather....Do not want to it to be a headache at all....let me know! Now, we need to start getting final dates and getting the trip sorted out. ALL IN THE NAME OF FUN.........!
Ciao for Now
Could my life be Brilliant?
A question what I like to ask myself regularly to determine where I stand with myself. Sometimes it’s hard to accept that things might not always be that great, but there are times where you just ride the wave. Somehow I do feel empty, but somehow I always tasted a little bit of satisfaction. It is on & off, but depends clearly on oneself.
This morning could not have been better. I was notified that I could come and collect my passport with my Deutschland visum for my 27 day trip that I’ve planned for so long now with all the effort that Anne and I have put into it. It was just the day where dreams meet reality…..2 Hours later with my ticket in my hand and still battling to get hold of my Travel Insurance, because of the net network failure (some tower is out of action apparently) and the power surges. But at least I know now that I’m on my way and now I can start planning who I will see when and maybe some time on my own doing just that what I like most by observing people.
Well, this incredible feeling ended around 19:30pm when I met up with my director from South Africa who postponed the meeting with one day due to the airplane that needed to do turn around back to South Africa and ended up doing an emergency landing due to hale the took out the front window of the plane. Well, at least he made back to Tanzania a day later still in good health.
I mean every time I see one of my colleagues or superiors from South Africa; I get this burning feeling of excitement, but this evening was different. I did get the excitement though, but I knew what it was all about. Jean Louis just came to tell us what is the updated news from South Africa, doing his diplomatically responsibility to find out the progress of our project and offering his assistance and then also coming to tell us that we will be looked after this contract. Well, that was the good part at least, but there was something I knew what he came to do.
And that was to come say Goodbye. After 35 years service with our company he finally decided that before he’s dead, he wanted to go enjoy that what’s left of his life. A well deserve rest I would say and I personally know how hard this guy worked. Basically lost 3 wives, because of his work obligations! At the end of the day after looking back on his life he is satisfied what he has accomplished. Man, something that I definitely want to do one day when my time comes.
Well, Jean Louis being a Frenchman he had this really firm and hard attitude from the start when I started knowing him back in 2001. A real tough cookie, but at the end a man with a genuine good heart looking after his employees who is by the way technically speaking not his anymore. Well, technically speaking he has nothing to do with me anymore, but I will admire this guy until the day I day. The man who gave me the opportunities that any white young guy in South Africa could dream of! Him seeing me grow during the past 4.5 years from an arrogant young white South African man age 21 as a contract junior draughtsman into a Senior Site Manager/Deputy Contracts Manager probably trusting him with part of probably the toughest project in a long time.
Man, tonight I sat and listened to everything he had say from joking to being really serious giving good advice. A man I have trusted for so long and somehow I’m really sad seeing him go. I knew now for a long time that he will retire now, but it came actually so suddenly and I never imagined it will end here now……
I have to dedicate this day to him. I guess it is really sad to see him go and I don’t know when I will ever see him again….well his next trip is with the chief CEO of Degrémont international which is a by the way a personal request from the big man there above will be in late February when I will be fortunately/unfortunately be in Germany. This is probably the guy that made me believe that by working hard you will go places and by seeing what he had to give up to date…..just so fucking incredible! But I’m really happy for him and I know now that this will be a well deserved rest.
At the end to say Goodbye was the hardest part and I sense that it was hard for him as well though he was pretending that he was happy. Jean Louis Pierrefeu, thank you for everything. You have to be one of the greatest people I have ever known. May the South African force be with you where ever you might be on your sailboat in the world. You really deserved it and I will promise you that I will always try to live up to your standards and try to make you proud. Thanx for calling me one of your children.
Au Revoir mon Grand Patron!
Almost Having Good Time!
This has to be a baby dwarf Mongoose! One of the bitchiest little creatures I have seen in my life. When it saw me for the first time, this little shit wanted to eat my finger off and it was tuning me some shit! But after a while, this baby LOVED me....OK, everyone does after I had a good couple of beers!
Well Friday started off by getting my ass all over to DAR......This was the day when I started to put my dreams into motion to change into reality. This was they day I got all my documents that Anne & me collected to apply for my Shengen Visa for my trip to Germany. I was really just so excited, but also afraid that I might have forgotten some documents.....The night before I went thorugh the list for required documents to apply for the VISA...OK, I went through it at least 5 times to make 110% sure that I had all the necessary documents. I live in Mlandize, 70km away from DAR and if I forgot something it will take me at least another week and time was starting to run out.
As it turns out, yeah....I forgot one or no, I actually didn't know they needed this document. I have included the confirmation for the flight tickets as well for the Travel Insurance. But they needed the POLICY for Travel Insurance. Standing infront of this fucking beautiful, probably the most beautiful building in Tanzania, I knew this was it. Parking down at the counter applying for the VISA, the woman told me that I needed this document, but also notify me I can email it to her. Thanking the man upstairs, I walked out and saw the give German learning courses at the embassy and I knew that is something I really want to do. I need to get pass Dirk on this one, because it is on Tuesdays or Thursdays nights from 19:15 to 21:15pm. By I will inquire about this when I go and collect the ticket and will probably only start once I return ffrom Deutschland.
So, getting my ass all the way back to head office I remembered that it was Friday and on Fridays I eat a fucking shit load of meat, because Indians decided that they like to be vegetarians and therefore I do not eat meat for a week. OK, I decided this time we will go out and do shopping and on Saturday we did.
To get back to my story.....So, around midday on Friday we set off like usually just to go grab a quick lunch at SPUR. Guys, this is really a good SPUR, not like the one in Mauritius and it is probably the best one I have been to in my life. Better than the one's in South Africa! OK, after grabbing a Double Cheese Burger with Extra Pepper Sauce and rice on the side (OH my god....this is so fucking good food. Thanking the man above again for creating CATTLE!) and as usual Dirk with STELLA ATOIS and me with an CASTLE LAGER.....OH lovely! OK, this time Denis came with and he also had CASTLE LAGER......
During this incredible lunch we watched how Australia fucked us up again in the Cricket. Nachi, fucking just close your trap! I do not want to hear anything from you! So, we ordered just a last beer for the road to watch the end of this game, when friends of Dirk's walked in and we decided OK, just one more small beer. Man, this carried on untill about 19:30.......God, 7 and a half hours just drinking beer on probably the most beautiful sunny day ever. People, this was genuinely just the most amazing incredible day I have seen in such a long time....You all should have seen this, the most beautiful sky and then the colour of the sea....Ahhhhh, just so amazing!
Anyway, got back home around 19:30 with me on a fucking lekker station and I had to kill time, because here in Tanzania I also I also have the role as AIRPORT driver.....some things never change! So, around 21:00 I was at the airport to pick up a colleague of ours who came back from his annual from Sri Lanka. OK, he actually waited 20 minutes for me. When I got to the airport I remembered that there was this amzaing restaurant called Flamingo's making the best SAMOOSA's in the world. They are really good...Maybe I was just a little bit to drunk you all know once you get passed that drinking phase, the munchie phase starts off....hey, was that food lekka and after checking the arrivals and I haven't seen him, I went back and got myself a reall grilled half a chicken. They say food taste the best when you are drunk...always wondered why the frencies like their wine with their food, it's because their food can only suck! Hehehe, always wanted to say that.
Anyway, with Bandara in the car we went all the way back home.....from the airport it is 85km and lucky for me that the food kind of sobered me up. Eventually after this incredible long drive 23:00pm at night there was only one thing and that was MY couch right infront of the TV. Not that I watched any TV, but slept like a rock!
Saturday, like I have said earlier we went shopping. Sunday, just enjoying this great game I bought aweek ago....WWII game where I'm an allied fighter and shooting the crap out of the german, their german sheppard dogs, bombing their tanks and meeting up with a couple of their woman spies...yeah, you heard me right. the german woman spies. Guys, you know I love you all and I have nothing against german (I actually love them) but this game is just so amazing and difficult. The game is called Medal of Honor Allied Assualt. It took me all the way from training to OHMA beach on D-Day to Normandie walking through the houses and look for the usual suspects...The Germans..hehehehe, anyway, great game.
So, this was all of my happening since Friday. Guys, I know you all are studying really hard for you exams and I just wanted to say.......ENJOY IT....Some of us never get leave and we work our asses off for so long.....No, just kidding....Study hard and after that we will play hard, believe me! For the others, guys I hope you all enjoyed your weekends.
I miss you all soooo much and I love y'all.
Ciao,
PS: Jess, thanks for everything!
Dwarf Mongoose - Helogale parvula
This is a picture of them when they are fully gorwn. When they are fully grown they wiegh approximately 0.455kg with a total length of 150mm/15cm. Life expectency is around 8 years and they are carnivores....my best friends. They live on insects, reptiles, small birds, but also eat fruit to look after their diets. Definately one of the cutest creatures I've seen in my life. Edina, remember we saw them fully grown at the crocodile park back in Mauritius!
How small can it get?
OH my god, Dirk's baby mongoose!
No Easy Way to Cry - David Gray
Smoke curls through my hands
These one night stands
Making me crazy I know
Morning I'll go
Crowds in the rain all passing by
Faith gone from your eyes
Each word that flies
Taking you further away
And come that day
There ain't no easy way to cry
And as I watch you leave I stand
Inside my house of straw
And everywhere I go I find
Things recollected to my mind
How right it all could be
Faith gone from your eyes
Each word it flies
Straight to the heart and I know
Watching you go
There ain't no easy way to cry
So right now
So right now
So right now
So right
And as I watch you leave I stand
Inside my house of straw
And everywhere I go I find
Things recollected to my mind
How right it all could be, could be
So right now
So right now
So right now
So right now
So right now
So right now
So right
So right
Yeah eah yeah eah yeah eah yeah
GRIFFIN, my BUSHBABY!
World, meet my new African friend. She was caught by locals for dinner and my colleague Denis came to her rescue. 7000 Shillings further, a kitchen full of shit and a medium happy sized camper gladly to still be allive.
This is a BUSHBABY and I will release her this evening again in the bush far away from any inhabitants. Hope this time she will stay high up in the trees and do what nature tought them to do........Stay out of reach from any people and make a decent living by munching some insects, fruits and honey. She was givin' the name of GRIFFIN and hopefully this will be a happy ending.
Ciao
An Unscheduled Visit!
The first question Dirk ask me when he saw me was that he wanted to know "WHAT WENT WONG"....
Man, you all know me with shorts & T-shirts, but this day was a day that I had to get my commercial ties up hand and start building my contact card.
Just kidding, but Dirk wasn't funny when he notified me on Monday night (11:45pm) that the newly elected Minister of Water will come and visit all of our sites to investigate the extend of the project or that is what we thought.
Basically, it was just another fucking publicity stunt. This guy would have been lucky to have seen me in a suit & tie in 34degrees Celcius.
Well, I always knew it but somehow did not recognize the plans of fucking politicians. OK, maybe the intent was good and that normall only happens after elections, but he made a public vouch to come and re-visit the sites to follow the progress of the project. I guess the next time I will see this guy will only be during his last year in the position before the new elections. Fuck no, that means that I will be here another 5 years. No fucking way bru, NOT HERE this long.....
Na, it's not that bad here. I have seen this now time & time again. Politicians making BIG promises to uplift the living standards of the lower class and time & time again it's all about buying face. What the fuck is all this shit about.
Then I think about: the only people that are really doing something is the people physically doing the work, wether it is for a salary or voluntarily. Nobody really gives a fuck, no one. Just some guilty feeling European Institution that will benefit from it somehow and it's all a vicious circle in the capitalist world that we are living in. Anyway, I do feel proud in what I'm personally doing and what we in a whole will accomplish from this project. 2.3 Million people will benefit from this project and maybe just for once people can open a tap and really clean water will run from it.....ach, naja!
So, coming back to my original story. This minister dude made me get up at 6am to get everything fucking organised for his unscheduled visit and then he has the decency to came an hour & half late as well. Listen bru, before you make any fucking statement in the local news paper, please get your fucking facts straight and rather keep quiet if you don't know what you are doing. I know your position is only political orientated even though you actually deep down mean to do something, but stop talking crap if you don't really know what you are talking about and secondly to not attack those who are really biting the dust and slaving around in a country where there is actually no real fucking civilisation to give your people the the opportunity to experiance what life is all about and that is to have the chance to drink clean water.
Anyway, just felt that I needed to get that off my chest. Eish bru..........So, 20 cars with his full news, journalists and personal friend entourage ended up at our site and just not one word of appreciation.......Let me rather stop here before I start a revolution.
So, a week filled with drama, 2 public holidays, hot weather, no INTERNET and personal sadness are over or maybe almost.....Tomorrow (Saturday) I'm forced to work.....Eish bru, Nicht gute!
So my friends, I hope you all will have fun this weekend.
Ciao
No Comments Please - This is just for me!
It doesn’t matter what was said in the past or up to this date. Somehow I thought that I couldn’t care and then you wrote your last 2 emails. I thought that all our pain was long gone, but that definitely has to be a lie, because what I’m feeling right now I do not like at all.
My gut feeling always told me that I shouldn’t worry, because it will work out for us someday even if it’s not meant for us to be together. You wrote those emails because it meant something and it was true. Don’t blame yourself, because a lot has changed during this time, but what stayed the same was that pain & fear of not seeing you again.
I guess we can plan our futures and plan how we want to be happy, but you can’t plan to love someone. Love shouldn’t be complicated as long as it’s pure. Stop trying to make sense of it, because we will never understand why. What you have described in an email that changed both our worlds or maybe set us a step back, I have always believed in it and I did in you. Then you ask me why you are confused now and why you feel like this when you have made your decision…….
I do not have all the answers and I’m human as well, but I believe all that should matter is what your heart feels right now. You should live the moment never less the outcome. Was it wrong, Never! It could have come at a better stage although. What now? That’s again for you to decide. I’ve been told that I should have let go a long time ago, but I can not understand how one could do that to someone you really love even though you walk the road in the shadows. I can not give up on you and forget everything I have believed in for so long……
That would mean that I lived a lie for the past 12 months or so and I’m really sure that I lived that time and I was happy, because you were part of me. I wish life was simple, but unfortunately my dear, it’s not. We should only try and make the best of it and use that what you have to make you happy or at least try and find it. I wish I knew what to tell you, but I don’t.
Be really sure you know what you want before you tell me, because I’m going and I’m not going to turn around again. I can’t…..I just can’t. I wish that that it could have been so different, because all I ever wanted was the opportunity to let you know how much YOU could mean to someone…….I wish you knew just how much you mean to me and how you still determine my world. Somehow I feel that this is the final time that I will write this to you, so I hope you will understand. I don’t want you to go, I don’t. And if you are going, please give back my heart and remove those memories that made me just that person who I liked a year ago. Give me back just that, so that you can never break it again.
Dreams can change, but memories lives forever as long as your mind stays sane. Ballerpipe, don’t go. Somehow you fear the outcome and somehow I feel that you are going to say Goodbye! I don’t want too, but I guess I will take it upon myself to let you go.
Goodbye my German Dream!
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
So I took what's mine by eternal right.
Took your soul out into the night.
It may be over but it won't stop there,
I am here for you if you'd only care.
You touched my heart you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.
And love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.
I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I am a dreamer but when I wake,
You can't break my spirit - it's my dreams you take.
And as you move on, remember me,
Remember us and all we used to be
I've seen you cry, I've seen you smile.
I've watched you sleeping for a while.
I'd be the father of your child.
I'd spend a lifetime with you.
I know your fears and you know mine.
We've had our doubts but now we're fine,
And I love you, I swear that's true.
I cannot live without you.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
And I still hold your hand in mine.
In mine when I'm asleep.
And I will bear my soul in time,
When I'm kneeling at your feet.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so hollow.
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow.
I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so hollow.
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow.
Kingsley Holgate
A man with a big heart and the love for travel. If someone would ask me now who I wished I like to be it has to be Mr. Kingsley Holgate.
I believe that Mr. Holgate has won the hearts of many "want to be explorers" out there, but I also believe he has won the respect of Africa. I truly like him because of what he is doing for mankind and people around him in need and that is how you determine the true quality in a man. He has followed in the footsteps of many explorers before him, but he still carries the heart of gold.
How many of you will do and dedicate your lives like he's had and do something that you love and believe in? Sometimes we think this might be easier now then before, but it takes so much more. He has experiance so much and he dedicate his time to help others in need. Who of you are prepared to do this? Not many, not many!
The Embassador of Africa and a true South African!
If your imagination is captured by this post, follow him with his journeys....
http://www.kingsleyholgate.co.za/
Like every night…….Taking over the world!
To start off this posting, I had to wonder where I should start from. This was just an amazing week (lack of sleeping) and it still goes on. So, I returned to Tanzania on Sunday and by Wednesday I picked up Dirk from the airport from his trip from Durban, South Africa. After work we settled for the SPUR meeting up with another colleague of ours, Denis. Dinner finished with off course a couple of beers, Denis invited us for a couple more with the LOCAL/EXPATRIAT biker group at a local
Meeting the group, Dirk decided to show me another restaurant with a Whiskey & Cigar bar. At this point I had no idea what was installed for me. Here we met a couple local Netherlanders and lets just say that it got a bit loud, exchanging interesting facts from Holland & South Africa and a shit load of jokes. Keep in mind that I was informed to write this posting relatively very diplomatically, because I do have a very well spread reading audience and just lets say that ……….ja. Around midnight, Dirk decided that he needs the sleep and I was just on the verve of finding my old form back. I met up with the Biker boys and our Client at Q-BAR and we took it to the stars. Me turning politician once I had just one too many Captain Morhans and it became 5am…..OH my god, I went to work at 8am….Ouch!
So, Thursday it was back to site. Very hard day I have to add. Around 8pm Dirk gave me a call and I returned back to DAR. We agreed that part of my New Year’s Resolutions I should experience new things and first on my list was gambling. I have never gambled before and this was the way forward. We decided to go gamble at the local CASINO. I looked around and then I knew the only thing that I can properly play is BLACK JACK and that was by far the best decision. Decided that I’m going to play only 50,000 Tanzanian Shillings (around USD 50) and tempted faith and my luck, I was 120,000 above my initial startup cash. Decided that I will leave man standing and with a winning hand, Dirk decided that we should do another first for me, go and play Tenpin Bowling. With the luck streak on it’s ultimate high ever, the place was just about closing and Dirk begged Lulu to let us play just one game. She’d agreed and there was this 2 guys attempting Tenpin Bowling. OK, Dirk did play before and I guess he’d done pretty well by kicking my ass 6 love. But with my luck, I threw a STRIKE on the night of my first time ever with this game.
We went off to Q-Bar and settled genuinely only for 3 drinks (with me paying, because I had Free Money) each and we decided that this was the end. Went home and parked off on the couch and listened to some music. At 3:30am I knew I had enough and we went to bed with me struggling the next morning to wake up. All time low.
Friday coming up we had a party going for the night at Dirk’s house. Did a bit of shopping, 3 fillet’s with 2 espetada’s and a fucking shit load of alcohol. While driving back home after shopping, we suddenly saw a very strange(but familliar) vehicle in the road and somehow Dirk immediately knew exactly who this was.
We made a U-turn and went straight up to him and I have to be really honoured to have met this guy. I would actually like to call him "The White Man of Africa". This guy have done so many expiditions in his life before and rescently finished a trip around the world on the CAPRICORN by car. He is just (I think) the most remarkable man alive and a true Embassador to mankind. He is currently doing an expidition on a DHOW(Tanzanian boat) from Mozambique to Somalia and back, delivering mosquito nets (Project: One Net One Life) and supplies to woman & children who are dying from malaria and can not afford to purchase these supplies. A true South African. His name is Kingsley Holgate. I have added a link if you guys want to read more about his journeys.
Like usually, people arrived late and I met up with one South African born German and another German living in Tanzania for 2 years, but originally from Wuerzburg. Basically the talk of the night was focused on my trip to Germany and the one guy pleading that I should get really fit before attempting snowboarding. God, what a drinking experience this has been. Around midnight I decided that this should not be where this beautiful Friday evening should end and I’ve settled for a bar called Garden Bistro….Ah, playing pool, drinking, meeting just so many more people and then finally I decided to call it a night. So around 3:30am this was it……I can honestly not move anymore. This was it! Alles Klar! Finished! My body and mind did not want to go on anymore the way my will power for having a great fucking experience. Basically going nowhere very slowly, but I’m heading North South.
Saturday, this has been the first time in a very long time I stood up in the morning without having a major Babalas, but I just felt that I could have been paralized or having one of those weird disorders where I have a lack of energy levels or the will power for anything special. But an hour down the line I had my first beer at 2pm and slowly cruising to mission impossible 4. Around 4pm, we were invited to go park off at the Yacht Club with the most beautiful view ever……the bar, chicks and the ocean.
We quickly found ourselves in another big mess. Watching these gals in bikini’s and we totally lost track of the amount of beer that we were consuming & time and around 7:30pm we were back in business. We set off to one of our friend’s house (Nicholas who is the executive head chef at Seacliff hotel) and went straight on partying. BBQ and Captain Morgan was the way forward. Around 11pm this shit was over and we decided it was time to go hit the clubs again. I’ve tried to get my energy levels up with a couple of Redbulls, but that was worthless. This body of mine felt that it just had enough of this 6 days drinking marathon. Around 01:30am we returned home and that was it. I was done!
So, today I’m going to take the time out to revive my soul for the week ahead. Will gladly appreciate the rest and just think……....
Ciao for now……….
Something Interesting!
Hey guys, you all know that my trip to Deutschland has been on my mind now for a while. Anne(AM) my host and tour guide have come up with an amazing plan to doucument everything relating to this trip and put it out there for the public to see.
All the excitement, frustrations, Ups & Downs will be publicised on a new blog called "The Deutschland Experiance, Info & More....". Well, what you can find on this blog is basically everything from me/us start planning this trip all the way up to reliving the Mauritian Experiance on a different continent. Anne & I both have publishing rights, so this might be a bit interesting!
If you know both of us, you will definately recognize the grammar, vocabulary and real weird acronyms. Just that that makes us unique and so SPECIAL. Like I've said, If you know us you will know what's it all about. Fuck guys, jump on the band wagon and enjoy this great time with us.
For all you NUTS out there, you can find the link for this blog on both Anne's & my blog.....
Anne's Blog: German blog (under Extra Stuff......)
Gordon's Blog: The Deutschland Experiance, Info & More....(under Something Interesting.....)
and for those of you who are really fucking DOF/F, find the link below.
http://www.amjointmm.blogspot.com
Acronym DOF: Could only mean one of two things....
Dull Or Fucked (DOF), or
Someone that is quite densed....I'll let you be the judge of it!
Tears & Rain..... - James Blunt
Well I know songs aren't postings, but somehow I feel that music do sculpture your soul. So Nachi, you just need to like it! This is ultimately one of the best songs I have ever heard, besides all of U2's music. You guys need to get the CD. Enjoy it!
Tears & Rainhow i wish i could surrender my soul
shed the clothes that become my skin
see the liar that burns within my needing
how i wish i had chosen darkness from cold
how i wish i could scream out load
instead ive found no meaning
i guess its time i run far, far away. find comfort in pain
all pleasures the same it just keeps me from trouble
hides my true shape, like dorian gray
i've heard what they say, but im not here for trouble
its more than just words, its just tears and rain
how i wish i could walk through the doors of my mind
hold memory close at hand, help me understand the years
how i wish i could choose between heaven and hell
how i wish i could save my sole, im so cold from fear
i guess its time i run far, far away. find comfort in pain
all pleasures the same it just keeps me from trouble
hides my true shape, like dorian gray
i heard what they say, but im not here for trouble
far far away, find comfort in pain
all pleasures the same it just keeps me from trouble
its more than just words, its just tears and rain
far far away, find comfort in pain
all pleasures the same it just keeps me from trouble
its more than just words, its just tears and rain
far far away, find comfort in pain
all pleasures the same it just keeps me from trouble
its more than just words, its just tears and rain
This is just me!
Returning Home.....Tanzania
Yo, what a time it has been back home with the family. So many memories taking me back years before.
It was real fun spending Christmas with my parents. It has been has actually been the first in almost 4 years actually. 2001 I was in Durban with my EX girl, 2002, I was in Cape Town, 2003 I was in Mozambique, 2004 I was in Mauritius and 2005 on the farm.....God, the time has flown by so fast. It seems like only yesterday that I left school and it's been now 8 years....Eish...
Anyway, Friday we setted off to Jo'burg for my final stop before I returned to Tanzania. Wayne greeted me very damagedly, because of the night before. Uma, remember how we looked when you came from Tanzania to Mauritius? He looked so much worse and you should have seen us the following 2 days.......Eina!
So, Friday I met Wayne's new Brittish Girlfriend Lisa. Great girl and did we have fun....I mean the 3 of us! Friday was basically lay back cruising along with a couple of beers. Warming up for the following day. Saturday we had to get the house in order for the guests.....Maids also have holidays in South Africa, soo we had to do the shit ourselves. Anyway, just another big reason to start drinking early while working. Man, we didn't get any sleep since Friday morning. Saturday at 4pm the guests started arriving and we were already halfway past the "I'm still standing phase", but we went on.
At midnight I was super pissed and I caught myself with this one super big South African Cone roled green peace plants and that flipped me into the West Side. Genuinely super strong shit..."Rooibaard" Anyway, peaced up with everyone and enjoyed my last couple of hours in South Africa for the next 14 months.....Real hard, but I knew that this is what I want to do.
Time was absolutely magnificient and now it's back to reality....my normal life with me fighting with my mind with all my unsolved mysteries. The good thing I have made peace with a couple of them and the last one will come in Feb/March......A dream that was realise within a couple of a weeks and that makes me the happiest man allive.....This is probably a dream I have lived for since I was a child....Now I can afford it, I have the recourses and I have the freinds. Isn't it great. OK, Anne, you need to organise those letters this week, so I can purchase the ticket and apply for the trip early next week. This is for definate now.
Yippeee 2006, here I come. I will come with a vengance and brutal force and there will be nothing that is going to stop me. Not this time. So, to sum up the past week:
Lot of drinking and smoking involved
Lot of friends and family
Lot of good food
Lot of thinking
Very little internet
Lot of shopping and driving involved
Great weather during the day.
Lot of Goodbyes involved
But to end it, it was really worth to spend the time with people you love and who loves you. I saw that I did change a lot since I left South Africa in 2004. I know I did change for good.....
Ciao
PS: The pics are published. Check it out!
Final Destination……Home!
Let me start off by saying that I hope you guys enjoyed Christmas as much as I did. Well, Santa did make his turn around my bedside…….Guess I wasn’t a naughty boy at all….Man, Leave me alone, I still believe in him. I have too, because it’s our tradition.
So Friday, 23 December I landed on Johannesburg International Airport. Our luggage took a fucking hour to clear….Guess I have forgotten about African Time….Yeah, it even exist in South Africa. Walking through the doors of International Arrivals was probably one of the most exciting days for me in a very long time. I was greeted there with my mother and sister and we set off for another 2.5 hours drive to our farm in the Free State. OK, it took me 1.75 hours even though the roads were flooded with those fuckers that didn’t have much better things to do then to catch innocent speeding drivers. Was auch Immer!
The first thing that I did once I got back home was to run to the fridge and get myself an AMSTEL…..Hallelujah, Praise the all mighty! An ice cold Amstel in 36degrees centigrade is just what a farm boy needs. Well, I said hello to everyone and we exchanged local news very briefly and then my mom prepared FOOD…..Man, It doesn’t matter how old a man can get, his mother’s food is always the best. Afterwards I had to catch a shower, ‘cause I really smelt like a pig on the way to get slaughtered. Dressed up and set off to catch up with some old mates. I walked into this bar and I realized how much I really missed civilization. Woman, cheap Alcohol and Music! We started off partying really slowly until an old flame walked in and I was suddenly the next best thing since sliced bread. Did we make out? From Red Heart Rum to double STROH Rum clean in gobbler glasses. It felt like I was swallowing Clean JET A1 Jet fuel and it gave me a bit of vuma if you know what I mean. I guess I was the most loveable and friendliest person around since Mother Tereasa.
It was just so great to party among my friends and old stories just came out and we all had great laughs. Well, I was invited to stay over at a friends place, because the legal limit for driving while under the influence was passed even before I got home from the airport, Sooooo……..Great, what can I say? A house with two gals, Amstel and Rum…… What more could men ask for? Unfortunately, nothing was in a good working order so I had to leave all missions ‘till I rehabilitated from the alcohol abuse.
Well, Saturday morning I had to rush to do the final Christmas Shopping and my parents score big time this year. Got back home and passed out. Woke up on Christmas day with a mother of a headache and babalas. So, the best cure was that Deutsche Mas (Anne correct me if I’m wrong – the big beer glass from Germany) Well, 3 of them down the line, I was as strong as ever. Well, the food was great and then we decided to spend a sunny day in the farm dam with more beer. I guess around 4pm and 7 of those big fucking glasses I decided I had enough and it was good night again for me.
During the week I just hang out a bit, did a bit of winter clothing shopping for my Deutschland trip and hanged out with a couple of friends. Just chillin’ out for my next big disaster, this coming Friday and Saturday. People, this is the day we live for in South Africa. Babes in bikini’s and Alcohol galore! So, I’m off to Johannesburg on Friday and on my way back to Tanzania on Sunday. This was just the break I needed for such a long time.
I hope you guys are still enjoying your holidays and will meet up with some of you next week on the NET. Have a fabulous New Year’s Party and I hope you all will be as slaughter as I will be. ENJOY and may the South African force be with all of you.
Ciao
PS: Check out some of the holiday pics……the New Year’s Party pics will follow shortly.
She’s like the wind……. - Patrick Swayze
--DIRTY DANCING--She’s like the wind through my tree.
She rides the night next to me.
She leaves me through moonlight only to burn me with the sun.
She’s taken my heart, but she doesn’t know what she’s done.
I feel her breath in my face,
Her body close to me.
Can’t look in her eyes,
She’s out of my league
Just a fool to believe
I am everything she needs
She’s like the wind…….
I look in the mirror and all I see
Is a young old man with only a dream.
Am I just fooling myself that she’ll stop the pain.
Living without her….I’ll go insane.
I feel her breath in my face,
Her body close to me.
Can’t look in her eyes,
She’s out of my league
Just a fool to believe
I am everything she needs
She’s like the wind…….
I feel your breath in my face,
Your body close to me.
Can’t look in your eyes,
You are out of my league
Just a fool to believe
She’s like the wind…….
Just a fool to believe
She’s like the wind…….
Just a fool to believe
She’s like the wind…….
Change…… - Tracy Chapman
If you knew you that you would die today
If you saw the face of God and love
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you knew that love can break your heart
When you down so low you can not fall.
Would you change?
Would you change?
How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses, how much regrets?
What chain reaction would cause an affect?
Makes you turn around.
Makes you try to explain.
Makes you forgive and forget.
Makes you change.
Makes you change.
If you knew that you would be alone
Knowing that being wrong
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you knew that you would find her true
That brings her pain that can be so
Would you change?
Would you change?
How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses, how much regrets?
What chain reaction would cause an affect?
Makes you turn around.
Makes you try to explain.
Makes you forgive and forget.
Makes you change.
Makes you change.
I saw her cry, you can be bad if it comes to blows
Are you so sure you won’t be callin’ when you had enough of the good wives?
Fallin’…Why risk falling?
If everything you think you know
Makes your life unbearable
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you broken every rule and bone
If hard times come and bring you down
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you knew you that you would die today
If you saw the face of God and love
Would you change?
Would you change?
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you saw the face of God and love
If you saw the face of God and love
Would you change?
Would you change?
I don’t know much…… - Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville
Look at this face,
I know the years are showing.
Look at this life,
I still don’t know where it’s goin’.
I don’t know much, but I know I love you.
That may be all I need to know.
Look at these eyes,
They’ve never seen what matter.
Look at these dreams,
So big and so better.
I don’t know much, but I know I love you.
That may be all I need to know.
So many questions still left unanswered.
So much I have never broken through.
And when I feel you near me,
Sometimes I see so clearly.
The only trouble I have ever known.
It’s being you.
Look at this man,
So blessed with inspiration.
Look at this soul,
Still searching for salvation.
I don’t know much, but I know I love you.
That may be all I need to know.
I don’t know much, but I know I love you.
That may be all I need to know.
I don’t know much, but I know I love you.
That may be all that I need to know.
The first question Dirk ask me when he saw me was that he wanted to know "WHAT WENT WONG"....
It doesn’t matter what was said in the past or up to this date. Somehow I thought that I couldn’t care and then you wrote your last 2 emails. I thought that all our pain was long gone, but that definitely has to be a lie, because what I’m feeling right now I do not like at all.
A man with a big heart and the love for travel. If someone would ask me now who I wished I like to be it has to be Mr. Kingsley Holgate.
