How do you step down from a 100 foot pole?

Personally I do not know, I would step down from a 100 foot pole but what I can tell you is that a 100 foot is 30.48 meters long.

Firstly, I am not afraid of heights but the 30.48 meters is very high, I would not even attempt stepping down from it, im more likely to fall face first. i would rather slide down a pole, yes . . . like a stripper.

Secondly, I would never step onto a pole to begin with. I consider myself as a heavy individual, so I would not attempt it. I would then rather have rephrased that question to “would a 100 foot pole survive if I step onto one?”

We are what we do

I know of we are what we eat, but can we really be what we do? If we take a look at “we are what we eat” it is as simple as if we eat fatty foods, we are fat, we eat healthy foods, we are healthy.

Does what we do determine who we are? The phrase “what we do” would mean the job we do. We are supposed to be able to choose the job we want or do what we love. Yet I don’t think this should determine who we are.

To look at an example, although the guys collecting garbage may have not wanted to collect garbage, they still do so to earn a living. If they are what they do, they’d technically be garbage, which they can’t be as they are merely collecting our garbage.

Now from another point of view, if you think of someone who does nothing (unemployed), would it be okay to say that that someone is nothing? That would not be nice now would it?

Disconnected – a day without my blackberry

Over the past few years, Cell C my cellphone service provider has not let me down. But two weeks ago I had a problem my blackberry internet services, I could not connect to the internet, and the internet was slow. Since getting used to being connected to all social media networks, yet not being able to connect or send and receive emails I became frustrated. I then decided to change my service provider to Vodacom.

I then went to a Vodacom mobile store with my passport and a R5 for a new sim card. I was happy with the friendly service and the fact that I did not have to get a new number. The guy said it would take at least 24 hours to port my number and so the wait began. Due to me being a bit impatient I then switched on my blackberry and stupidly tried to tweet. I felt disconnected from the live world, sadly….alone. I could not even sms or call anyone or load airtime onto my phone L

I had to survive a whole day without my phone. Everything seemed brighter, that’s when I started focusing on other things like having a face-to-face conversation with my classmates. This was not at all bad, but made me realize that I created some sort of tunnel vision when I got my blackberry. I realized that being disconnected was not as bad as I thought it would be. And by the 24^th hour of porting my number I was once again connected to the online world.

My favourite series

Grey's Anatomy is an American medical drama that follows the lives of interns, residents and their mentors as they struggle to complete their medical training and maintain personal lives. The reason why I love Grey's is that it is filled with emotions, like during an intense episode where a husband has to decide to either let his brain dead wife die or live, he holds her in his arms and cries non-stop. This gets me sad and even to the point where I want to cry, although I know it is all acting.

At the beginning of a Grey's episode a small reading is read, and towards the end that reading is completed, this is linked to the title of the episode and the reading makes you wonder about things like love, friends, hell, family, dreams, heaven and even fairytales. In every episode each character gets to do the reading, the main character, Meredith Grey, is my favourite. A third reason why I like Grey's is the music they play, for the sad parts like someone dying they play really sad touching songs.

My favourite quote so far from Grey's Anatomy, in Season 5 episode 13 (Stairway to heaven), voiced by the character Danny Duquette goes like this:

“I believe in heaven,

I also believe in hell,

I have seen neither but I believe they exist

They have to exist

Because without a heaven, without a hell

We are all just heading for limbo

Heaven . . . Hell . . . Limbo

No one really knows where we’re going

Or what is waiting for us when we get there

But the one thing we can say for sure with absolute certainty is

That there are moments that take us to another place

Moments of heaven on earth

And maybe for now, that’s all we need to know”.

Top 5 Female football players

Due to my interest in soccer and having played soccer myself for 5 years, I decided to broaden my knowledge and of course share this with others. Since soccer is becoming popular among women, I have decided to find out who the top 5 female football players are.

Mia Hamm holds a record for scoring the highest international goals this being why she is considered to be the greatest player of the history of women’s soccer. Mia became FIFA World Player of the year for twice in 2001 and 2002, with the second position in terms of highest international appearance with USA after her fellow team mate Kristine Lilly.

Birgit Prinz has been awarded as the FIFA world footballer of the year for three consecutive times from 2003-2005 and  has been the first women footballer to have been offered to play in the men’s professional league. In 2006 she also got an offer to join the Real Madrid women’s football team.

Kristine Lilly is the longest playing footballer for both men and women in terms of appearance. She has already played 310 international matches for her country and has already been the highest goal scorer for her country with 112 international goals. Kristine has won 2 world cups and 2 Olympic medals with her country.



Captian Faye White



Faye White is the captain of both Arsenal and English Women’s national team. In 1998 she got the chance for the 1^st time to play for England’s national women’s football team against France. She has already won six FA Premier Leagues, five Women’s cups and five League cups and became the first played as the captain of England in 2002 against Nigeria.

Julie Foudy played 271 international matches for USA and she won 2 cups and 2 gold medals for her country in the Olympics. She started her international career in 1887 and retired in 2004 and was also became the President of the Women’s Sports Foundation.

We are afraid of the wrong things

I believe that somewhere out there, there is probably a long list of ‘wrong things’ that we are afraid of. Ultimately it boils down to our personalities, our experiences and even our surroundings that may influence us to become afraid of things we should not have to be afraid of. Some ‘wrong things’ may not even be that wrong, they may be right to other people, but who gets to decide what is wrong and what is right?

If I think off the top of my head, I would think that we are afraid of the wrong things, for example dying, of failure, of getting hurt by people closest to us or of hurting the ones we love. We are also afraid of being judged by our family and friends when we disappoint them.

Some people are more likely to do the wrong things then be afraid of the wrong things. The wrong things may also be speeding, drinking and driving and smoking illegal substances, yet these are wrong things that many people are not afraid of. I know of people who do wrong things knowingly and who would deal with the consequences later on. Somehow, I think we should for ourselves, decide what the right things are and what the wrong things are.

Drinking and driving kills

Where do I see myself in the future?

Where I see myself in the near future (1-2 years) is here in Cape Town, South Africa. I still have no desire to return back to my home country, as there are better job opportunities here in the Public Relations field. Next year I would like to start working to be able to earn lots of money while I do what I really like. I would like to get involved in PR for sports teams but more specifically female sports teams. A year or two later, depending on how much I have saved, I would love to then travel to European countries to gain more insight on sports PR.

Why PR for female sports teams? Since primary school, I have always loved sports, from swimming to inline hockey. I would like to work with female sports teams because they need to get enough exposure. Why a sports team and not a sports individual? I have realised that I perform better and communicate better within a team.

In the far and unforeseen future (3-5 years) I would like to eventually do my masters or even start studying sports management. Not knowing what the future far ahead has instore for me, I do not want to plan too far ahead. In the future I would want to have a child or two depending on the economy, and maybe eventually get married.

Fish falling from the sky

Fish falling from the sky may seem pretty weird but it can happen. According to Google, many strange things fall from the sky, like golf balls or toads. Fish falling from the sky can be a good or a bad thing.

I would think that fish falling from the sky could be a bad thing simply because as the fish lay for a while on the ground it could become smelly. The smell of fish is not attractive and the sight of the fish after a while for any town or city is unsightly. The good thing about fish falling from the sky is the fact that a lot of people would have food. Also this could also be an opportunity for people to get a job by cleaning up the fish.

In my search for fish falling from the sky on the internet, I came across a report that clarified that this is possible. The meteorologists claimed that this could possibly be caused by a tornado. It is apparently common for tornados to suck up water and fish from rivers and drop them hundreds of kilometres away. The fish get into the weather system, the fish are pretty much frozen and after some time they are released. I thinking this could possibly even solve hunger problems for the people in poorer areas.

Based on a true story. . .

Once upon a time, a baby girl was born to an independent single mother. The mom worked at a bank, probably earning minimum wage. The dad was probably never seen after the mother said to him “I am pregnant”. The grandmother, two aunts and a cousin stood by the mother through her pregnancy and were all very excited for the latest addition to their family.

The baby was born in the 1980’s in a land far far away. She was a bold and cheerful baby. A year after she was born, her one aunt passed away and the second one travelled to Ethiopia for a while. As the years went by, the baby became a child. Soon the child was old enough to attend primary school which she ended up liking.

The child starting learning her ABC’s and swimming lessons as she loved water more than anything. As the child grew into a young girl, she did not particularly like boys but she would end up playing soccer with them. During her primary school years, her aunt returned from  Ethiopia, got married, had two children, lost her grandmother in a car accident and her mother shortly after from a cardiac arrest. Heartbroken and alone, the young girl was adopted by her aunt and uncle, and since them called them her parents.

Although the young girl was lovable, she blamed everything that went wrong on her mother who had passed away. The young girl then became a teenager, went to high school and never really spoke about her biological mother as this was still a sensitive topic. Two years later her family moved and she had to start making new friends. The teenage girl was excited to move as she loved meeting people and making new friends. As the years and a few crying sessions with new friends went by, she became comfortable with speaking about her biological mother.

Being adopted eventually caught up with her as her two sisters and two brothers (her biological cousins) became older and started asking questions about why they look different. She constantly started feeling out and slowly spent most of her time with her friends as they would take time to listen or even by herself. She grew up never knowing what it was like to have a mother rock her to sleep, or sitting on her father’s shoulders or even just cuddling with her sister when she was sad.

As she completed her secondary education she couldn’t help but feel like a burden to the family, she then moved far far away to complete her tertiary education. She became a young lady, had great times and really hard times far far away from her family but she did not give up. She often still feels like a burden but has learnt how to deal with it.

That young lady goes on living far far away, missing her mother, father, sisters and brothers more and more every day. She regrets not spending as much time as she could have with her family, but one thing she did do very well until to this very day was love her family unconditionally.

The end. . . 

What is the colour of the wind?

Wow! What is the colour of the wind? I have random thoughts about why things are the way they are or what makes people do what they do. This question has never crossed my mind. All I ever thought about the wind was how hot it is or how strong the wind is, but not what the colour of the wind may be. Not sure what colour to call the wind, but I would like to think the colour of the wind is linked to the different seasons or temperatures we experience.

When we experience summer and it is windy and warm, I would see the wind as red. In autumn I would see the wind as orange or brown just because the colours are associated with the season.When I think of the colour of the wind in winter, I would say it is blue, because its cold and rainy. I associate spring with cool breezes which is my favourite, and when the wind blows I see the colour green.

In the end this is what I think the colour of the wind is. What is the colour of the wind? This something I now have thought and blogged about. What should be interesting is what others think the colour of the wind is.