september

Cape Town is soft, gay and everything un-joburg. Trying to settle in a new city is a weird concept...its not like a whole new country but it sure is foreign in many ways. Its now September. I have no friends here, except for Kate. But we are separated by a whole highway and part of a mountain. Friendships are hard when highways and mountains are involved. Anyways, I met some guys at the Mowbray digs. A different bunch. They thought i was different, and I thought they were different. Well the strange got better when a challenge to climb the local mountain presented itself. I conquered. I also discovered a sister-in-law living in the same city from my brother's wedding to his wife. So that makes it 2 people I know so far.

august

This was my last month in Joburg. Since then many things have happened, which i will now attempt to recall. Still generally uninspired I trudged and plodded daily from work cage to home cage. The journey from each cage to the other was 4.8km. I attended 2 weddings, one for a friend and the other for my brother. My car broke down. I went to movies. I went fishing (best thing about the month). That is all I can remember. How boring dude. Joburg or me? Fishing was great!

will the poor always be with us?

One sometimes hears Christians, tired with the news of poverty and exploitation around the world, try and deflect the news by reminding us that Jesus said, "The poor will always be with you." This is offered as a way to stop the conversation. Did Jesus say this? Yes. Does it mean what it appears to mean? Not really. So what does this troubling phrase mean? Follow this link http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/1720.htm By Bryant L. Myers on 5 May 2003

there and back

So after my itch, i got onto Qatar Airlines headed for Bangkok, Thailand. Yeah the itch got me real good. I spent over 10 days traveling around the city, even headed south to pattaya beach. When I got back, I found out i was to be shipped to Cape Town, South Africa...which is only 2 hours away by plane from my (then) current location, Johannesburg. So, im currently writing from Cape Town. I will attempt to update my blog from the my last post, all i ask is for time, more time please.

visa-free

I have an itch in my head! I want to travel this summer. So my itch
has led me to start planning, by which i mean daydreaming. My first
plan is to find cheap places, cheap hassle free places. So i hereby present
a complete list of countries I can visit without a visa! If you have
lazy brain here is what the lovely map above means: blue countries
are visa-free (that's good). Gray countries are not visa-free (that's
bad). I'm the red country (that's ok)! South America and the Far East
look very appealing. I might settle for Thailand, perhaps?

pepper

I almost got into a fight on the weekend, and I was soooo afraid of being beaten up. So i decided to buy pepper spray so that next time a hooligan wants a piece of me, he(or she) will get me plus the spray! I hope I'll be able to shoot the target and not get any on me! My real wish is not to get into any fight situation. Hold thumbs...

26 days

I'm planning a trip to canada next month, and today I have 26 days until I board the flying machine to the northern hemisphere. I don't know much about the north, but if the simpsons have taught me anything about people above the equator, its that they eat, live and party big. As as a result, any word that begins with B and ends with IG, can adequately describe people in the north.

Meanwhile, I've been living small and being a minimalist for the last 3 months so I can afford to eat and live big in Canada for a few days! Holding my thin thumps that it works out!

Here's to 26 more days of living small.