My view of the world and anything that might interest me.
Hierdie fotos is gister en vandag geneem vanaf my balkon van die sneeu op die Kaapse berge. Geen wonder dit is so koud nie.
Gister geneem:
Vandag geneem … oornag het die sneeu redelik vermeerder op die berg spitse so ek reken vir die wat vandag en môre wil gaan sneeu kyk, julle sal redelik goeie sneeu kan kry.
Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are, for what you could become.
They say that change is as good as a holiday. Things are changing in my life and with it will come new challenges.
At work I have moved on to a new role (still within IBM South Africa) which will mean that for the next couple of weeks and months, I will be staying in Cape Town and working in Johannesburg. I will be commuting between Cape Town and Johannesburg on a weekly basis and depending on the needs of the work, I will be in Johannesburg anything between 2 and 5 days a week. I cannot say much about the work I will be doing but when things are more finalized then I will post it here.
I will get to know the inside of airports, airplanes and hotels. Made sure that my Voyager and BA Executive Club cards are up to date and make sure I stay in the same hotel group to benefit from Frequent Guest privileges.
This should give me a chance to pop in at 27dinner in Johannesburg. Do they have Geekdinners in Johannesburg?
This will also give me the opportunity to see my Johannesburg and Pretoria friends more often. Hey, one cannot live on hotel food alone. So if any of my readers from up there want to meet, then contact me and we can make a plan.
I am sure I will build up a wealth of experience of how to commute across the country for one’s job. From time to time I will share that here – what to look out for and what to avoid. What the quickest way through an airport is? Experience with hotels, rental companies and airlines. I will also appreciate any comments which any of you might have on things to avoid or look out for.
To my Cape Town friends, I will not leave this beautiful place anytime soon so you will still see me around.
After months of not attending the Geekdinner, I went to last night’s one that was held at Greens in Plattekloof.
It was really enjoyable. The food was great and Perdeberg sponsored the wine — thanks Perdeberg.
It was good the see Ian, Tania, Neil, Bob and many others again. I also met Bev, the one and only Feisty Female — was great meeting the person behind the tweets. Also got to meet Kerry-Anne and Paul from Cape Town Daily Photo. Kerry-Anne, hope the moving today is not to strenuous and that it goes well. Paul, you must enjoy your tip to Vegas, am sure you will enjoy it. I am so envious.
Ian was his best again with his talk on Hippie, Green and something about technology. Bob told us all about what is going on the payment systems and the Presentation Karaoke was just hilarious. I did not get the name of the presenter that tried to find his way through Tania’s slides, but he did an excellent job.
All in all, a great evening with a bunch of Cape Town’s geeks.
For those that live in and around Cape Town will in all likelihood know where this photo was taken from. Those that are young at heart or not so young at heart, with love in their eyes ,has probably spend some time in his/her car making out here. The road is called “Lovers Lane” because of it beauty at night when Cape Town is light up with all the street lights. Some time ago even Table Mountain was light up but now with the power crisis this does not happen anymore.
My seun het nou net sy Matriek uitslae gekry en ek is so trots op hom. Hy het ‘n A gemiddelde met ‘n paar onderskeidings met die hoogste punte in Wiskunde wat hy glad nie verwag het nie. Baie geluk Heinrich.
Gisteraand het ek en ‘n vriendin by Primi Piatti in Table View gaan eet. Dit moet seker een van die restaurante wees met die mooiste uitsig in die werêld. Die fotos is geneem vanaf die tafel teen die venster waar ons gesit het.
Dit was ook ‘n perfekte sommer’s aand wat die son’s ondegang en uitsig nog mooier gemaak het.
Dit was ‘n “stunning” aand met heerlike kos, fantastiese uitsig en die wonderlikste geselskap. Dankie R vir die aand .. jy weet hoe baie jy vir my beteken.
Went to a braai at a friend’s house and this is the sunset I captured:
Taken by Marius Bock with Nokia N80
Taken by Marius Bock with Nokia N80
Now come tell me this is not spectacular. After a great summer evening like that, I woke up to typical Cape Town winter rain in the middle of summer. What is it with the weather in Cape Town this year?
Tot nou tot het ek hierdie TAG speletjie vermy maar dog toe hoekom nie vir ;n slag nie. Anja het my ge-tag en ek moet blykbaar 8 dinge se wat ek dink niemand weet nie.
Soos wie is op my lysie — Tertia, Louisa, Max, Tania
En ek kan nie eindig sonder ‘n prentjie nie.
Cape Town by night by ~vastus on deviantART
A while back I posted about Kimi that won the F1 championship or NOT. McLaren appealed against the result of the Brazilian GP and the hearing was yesterday and McLaren’s appeal was rejected. Kimi was then confirmed as F1 World Champion. Congrats to Kimi and Ferrari for winning both the drivers and constructors titles.
On a personal front .. what a hectic week. As mentioned earlier, I started a new job and what a hectic week. I still had some stuff to handover from my previous engagement to the person that is taking over from me so had to commute between Cape Town and Bellville a couple of times. Coming week will be more of the same and then things should start to get back to normal. Good luck Margie with all the new stuff. The new job is going as well as can be expected. Attending lots of meetings and get to know a lot of new faces, names and roles. A big plus is that it takes me now only about 10 minutes from my house to the office.
This all did not leave much time for social life. I will try to get some relaxing time in over this weekend by going to brunch this morning to catch up with a friend.
My son is off to Stellenbosch varsity next year and he did not make it into residence so we are now frantically looking for accommodation in Stellenbosch. If anybody know of something decent and not to expensive then please either leave a comment or contact me via my contact page.
Here is a photo I took earlier this morning from my balcony. What an amazing place I live in.
Image: Marius Bock taken with Nokia N80
I went to drop off somebody at Cape Town airport yesterday afternoon. She was suppose to fly at 3pm but eventually was allowed into the secure area around 7pm. Luckily we got into the Spur early to get a table and there we spend the afternoon drinking some wine and met a lot of strangers :).
Here is more on it and here also.
It is amazing what chaos one plane can do when it gets stuck on the runway. Although one could barely move, the people was very well behaved.
R (the person I went to drop off) eventually arrived at her destination in Johannesburg just before midnight – about 6 hours after her planned arrival.
