Beware the hippie invasion on 1 Sept…

[*Warning: This post may contain words dating back to another era*]
The 1st of September is traditionally celebrated as Spring Day in South Africa. And to mark this rather wicked occasion, the entertainment committee at my company has decided to celebrate in it style.
Now Sept 1 is not to be confused with the SPRING EQUINOX (22 [...]

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And the winner is…!

What if your financials for this project is based on the wrong assumptions?
This is the question that set off an entire debate this morning. (Gimme one large spool of 3/4″ solid braid nylon rope to go, please?)
Now on the surface this sounds like a right reasonable question to ask and kudos to the guy who [...]

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There’s no “I” in team, but there is a “me”

I’ve just been told that I will be going on a 3 day team building exercise with my soon-to-be-ex colleagues. Yippee…. I am so happy.
I tried to argue that I am leaving the company soon, but the boss pointed out that I am an employee and a member of the department until the end of [...]

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Are you going my way?

My girlfriend has no sense of direction. And when I say no sense of direction, I mean no sense at all… nada… zilch. She could get lost in her own backyard even though she lives in a complex and her garden is about the size of my office.
I just spend 40 minutes on the phone [...]

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Ever the patriot!

We kicked Aussie ass on Aussie soil and I (and the SA team of course) have the battle scars to prove it!!!!
The Boks beat Australia 22-19 in the Subiaco Oval on Saturday. True to tradition and not having learnt A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G from the previous tri-nations games, I gallantly proceeded to sacrifice my liver for the love [...]

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Gather ’round

Ok… comments on the post below necessitate that give I up my day job and become an online gossip columnist. Suits me fine… I have just one question; “what is the pay and can we discuss perks and benefits?”
I hope I have not raised expectations unnecessarily and made the story seem juicier than what it [...]

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Just call me Nosy Parker

I am caught like the proverbial deer in the headlights. I overheard something today that I was not meant to hear. I was in the wrong(right?) place at the wrong(right?) time, well that is how I see it.
Shhh… is that singing I hear? (I know a secret… na-na-ne-na-na…)
It was one of those moments when you [...]

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Celebrate the passage of time

El fabuloso!
I have a birthday coming up and I find it quite a daunting prospect. It is not that I hate birthdays…. I have come to dislike to some extent what my birthday has come to represent in my life.
My friends have been trying for weeks to ‘muscle’ me into having a loud party, with [...]

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Just for the record

Due to a number of frantic phone calls from a concerned group of people, I want to make the following statements:
I am alive & well.
I am not Korean.
My name is not Lee.
I am not 28 years old.
I have not been to a cybercafé in years.
The last time I stayed awake for longer than 24 hours, [...]

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Somehere, over the rainbow…

And onto the bandwagon, I jump…
I’ve watched the first few episodes of the current series of South African Idol on television.
What can I say? Sunday evenings are kind of slow and I am desperately in need of entertainment and a few good laughs.
Firstly. I take my hat off to those kids who took the [...]

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