Gamedriving

And so .. Warren’s 21st came and went. The much-anticipated trip to an exclusive lodge called Pitse was a great success.. we (and i believe i’m speaking for all 11 of us) had a FANTABULOUS time.. that’s a mixture of fantastic and fabulous..

What was so great about it? Well for starters, the exclusivity.. the place only caters for one group at a time.. so for the duration of our stay, it was just us and no other touristy types.. we had the full attention of the hosts.. the food was delicious (all 3 meals and snacks of it) i was stuffed most of the time.. the animals were great, with rhinos coming as close as 5m to the place we were staying.. We also almost got attacked by a lioness which was pretty fun..

Went for a game-drive this afternoon and saw some wildlife.. u know.. zebras, a lot of buck and.. lions.. or lioness to be exact. Only we almost got attacked by it! We’d given up sighting any of the higher-up-in-the-foodchain animals and were calmly havin a beer & snacks (outside of our vehicle) when James went ‘I think there’s a lion over there.. no seriously guys.. there’s a lion over there..’ and indeed, less than 100m away, stood a lioness with its eyes intently watchin us and poised for a leap!
The guide calmly said, ‘Please get inside the vehicle..’ ( which was pretty much where everyone was runnin to at that point…) and somehow it turned its attention to the zebra herd nearby.. anyway, so that was that.

All in all, a very memorable two nights.. Thanks Warren (and your folks of course and everyone else that i played poker with, drank a coupla beers with, sat by the fire with and had a good laugh with.. )

Another strange but sad thing happened yesterday (saturday).. As I was having my hair plaited like a little girl [or shld i keep it masculine and say "havin my 'rows done"], my hairdresser got a phonecall informing her of her brother’s death! (
So there I sat, with half my head plaited and the other looking mad-scientist’ish.. at loss for words. Was she gonna carry on? Was the other half gonna be done by someone else? What in the hell should i do? .. Anyway, after a lot of ‘sorry about your brother..’ from everyone around.. and after she’d made a phonecall she came back.. teary eyed.. and attempted to finish up.. it felt really wierd.. and i asked her if she was sure she wanted to carry on to which she replied ‘yea.. it’s ok.. i’m alright.. i’ll finish up.. ‘ etc. I decided to give her all i had in my wallet leaving transport money.. I hope she gets the support she needs during this very trying moment…

Asides that.. well the weekend’s finished. Sunday evening.. and, here’s the best part, no varsity tomorrow!! or for the next 3 weeks actually i’m lovin life. i’m probly gonna talk to some friends online.. if not i’ll watch a movie.. or read.. or whatever.. anything but engineering. ( oh wait, tomorrow i officially begin on our project for next semester : a hovercraft that can find its way through any maze w/out touching the walls of the maze.. freaked out by the seemingly daunting task? good. so am i )

Finally..

I’m made my move to wordpress. Livejournal’s layout was too ugly and somehow i felt it was “old”;. And so, after a million guesses, i’ve got drivel working. [As you might recall, i dont blog w/out a desktop client]. So here goes.. pretty soon I should be putting in all my older posts..

12 weeks..

It’s been 12 weeks! wow. There’s laziness and then there’s being busy and then there’s procrastination and there’s lack of interest.. there’s a lot of reasons why i havent posted for such a while. mostly it’s attributed to the fact that after 5 days of an engineering schedule every week, i simply lacked the drive..

And then there’s the burning question. Why write when no one reads? If it wasn’t for it would’ve easily rolled into the 24th week! so thanks audrea.. good to know at least one person out there wanted me to post something!

That said, im gonna try to make my posts have a general theme. i think i’ll keep them short and interesting (or at least to me) to serve as a reminder for me later on as to what i was interested in at the time of writing.. as well as just what my life was.

It is friday and my friday habits haven’t changed [ beer + pizza + chilling]. i’m 3/4 exams done. have one more on wednesday and LOOKIN FORWARD! the third year of my degree is rolling by rather fast!

My eyes sting so I’ll stop here.. But here’s 3 things that caught my attention today:

1. Trials for drug that leaves HIV defenceless :

This is different from anti-retrovirals.. and I quote: “A small human trial of the drug, reported last August, showed that when given on its own it rapidly clears most HIV from the blood, driving down the levels tenfold in a matter of hours.”

2. World’s first cancer vaccine ..
Title says it all..

3. Super Battery:

Combining nanotechnology&capacitor technology to form a “super battery” that charges in seconds.
“It could be recharged many, many times perhaps hundreds of thousands of times, and … it could be recharged very quickly, just in a matter of seconds rather than a matter of hours…”

From my favourite news source.. digg.