Such is lfe

today was just one of those days where, when things went right they went perfectly right, and when things turned nasty, they hit rock bottom. good news 1st. i bought tickets for the pro 20 series cricket which was to be played on friday last week. as nature had it her way(females!!) the match was cancelled due to rain. today i took a long shot and asked if they were refunding the tickets. and whatya know..got my money back.somehow receiving money that you were never expecting no matter how small the amount gives you an elated feeling.

but that was short lived. a middle age man came by the office today complaining of some pain.(we see lots of this sort of thing and we assume its the normal causes).the poor man opened his mouth and i knew this was going to be a difficult day. i had to break the news to this poor chap(who assumed he just had toothache) that he had cancer. and that it had spread fairly extensively.(in my opinion he has max 2yrs to live).

i guess the best we can do in these situations is make dua to allah to alliviate the suffering of the ill and grant them shifa..ameen

points 2 ponder

Can you slam a revolving door?

How young can you be, but still die of old age?

What would happen if you found a four-leaf-clover under a ladder?

Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?

What happens if you get a paper cut from a Get Well card?

Can you read a picture book?

Why does it say "shake well" on ketchup bottles, but not ketchup packets?

If mirrors need light to work, what happens if you put night vision goggles on in the dark and look at a mirror?

if you only have one eye...are you blinking or winking?If you have a gun and you ask, "can I ask you a question?" and they say "fire away" should you shoot them?

How come the Bible is the most stolen book, and one of the ten comandments is "thou shall not steal"?

IRRITATING

is it just me or has tv advertising gone to the dogs. cant remember when last i saw an advert that grabbed my attention. seems the advertising agencies have lost all creativity an are trying to appeal to geriatrics.has anyone seen the harpic adverts? whoever thought up that ad should be arrested. everything is wrong with it! firstly who on earth has such filthy, better yet who lets their toilet get that filthy? secondly two grown white males, over enthusiastic to clean shit pots?(come on...yeah rite!..in which lifetime?) so far absolutely nothing to grab your attention. so you think maybe , just maybe they would use a half decent actress to play the homeowner..all in all a pathetic advert. an embarrassment to modern advertising.

then you get the home shopping ads that think we all fell of the paw paw tree.(yes i subjected myself to the torture of watching it for a few minutes). make a fruit salad in 2min's every morning.that's the claim. they even show you how the product dices the fruit in seconds. they conveniently forget to show you how long it takes to peel the fruit! do they really think people are that stupid? or are people stupid enough out there who fall for it?

fatherly advice

LUCK

You get some people in life who are just blessed with good luck. I am definitely not one of these people.In fact my luck is so bad ive given it a name! "mo luck". At first i thought maybe it was just me seeing the negative in every situation but soon those around me started seeing it too. its kinda like in everything i do , if there is something that can go wrong it will , and this is just with day to day activities. There are those times periodically when a major stat dose of shit luck just slaps me in the face , almost warning me that it travels with me.
let me give an example to illustrate the magnitude of my rotten luck.

i studied in cape town where i lived with family for the duration of my studies. Being the cash strapped student that i was , i drove a beaten up yellow beetle, with semi bald tires and a petrol gauge that didn't work. The car didn't bother me at all. It got me from A to B, and i had alota fun times in it.

One one particular morning i was taking my cuz to school and in my family tradition we were late. So here i was gunning it trying to get her to school on time. As we round the corner the 1st bout of mo luck hits! there was a road block. Still not thinking much of it, playing it cool we approach the officer(cuz is now way late for school) and they decide that i must pull over. We go through the usual drivers license, car license story, then they start inspecting the car.

officer starts writing out the ticket(mo luck 2). R300 for bald tires, R300 for me not wearing a seat belt, R300 for cuz not wearing seat belt(the bloody car didn't have seat belts!!!!). so i start pleading with officer waving my student card, pleading porper , begging for some grace. after 10 mins of pleading got away with just R300.

Got on my way, got cuz to school(in time for her 2nd period), and was now on way to campus. mo luck 3 hits. i get stopped again at the roadblock, by the same officer for the same thing within 10mins.(is there anyone out there who can top that?) By now i didn't know why i was even going to campus i was so late. anyway pleaded with officer again showing him ticket i received 10mins ago(i swear traffic cops have IQ's below room temperature). he gave me a small lecture an let me go. phew!

well i guess we all cant be luck. the world needs balance. for those of you who are fortunate to have been blessed with favourable luck , enjoy it.


ps... i got stuck that same afternoon on my way home cos i ran out of petrol. a traffic officer gave me a lift to the petrol station and back to the car.

all in all....a really shitty day.

my virgin blog

hmmm...two days ago i was really bored at work so i started looking up blogs to see what the hype was about. Started reading a few and found that i couldn't tear myself away from them. That was it! i was hooked!...

So i decided to start my own "house of shit" where i can rant , rave , vent , amuse , bullshit , share random and scary thoughts and just be my crazy self.

What surprises me is that i absolutely hate english and especially writing. So have no idea why I'm actually doing this.Maybe its the comfort that there isn't a teacher who is going to read it and criticise it. Well whatever it is im glad ive got going.

for now i'm outer here...