So we have all been expecting it. Don't act surprised as you read this, because we were all warned a few weeks ago when petrol went up by 60 odd cents.
But what you weren't expecting is the 66 & 68 cents bump! (Cue your shocked look!)
With it going up on the 1st of April, you are bound to think that perhaps Trevor Manuel a.k.a Trev does have a sense of humour, but as soon as you realize that we are looking at R49.50 extra to fill a standard 75 litre petrol tank, you will ditch that smirk for a frown and start shaking your head.
It's time to get that car pool going!
Like most people my age, I have this dream of traveling the world before I get too old and before it becomes an inconvenience to leave my life for a few weeks at a time to go on holiday.
Fortunately, I have been very privileged to have done quite abit of traveling already, even though it is nowhere even close to being enough!
I book most of my flights, hotels and even rent cars online. CheapTrip.co.za is one of the sites that I use often. It's an all-in-one booking engine that emails you your ticket info when you are done.
They also have a facebook group for fellow travelers to chat about destinations, and help eachother out, so it is definitely worth checking out if you are planning a trip anytime soon.
I'm sorry, I should be more positive about things, but this was just too funny to let it slip!
I got another joke:
What's the most useless thing a mother can tell her child?
Don't stick your fingers in the plug socket!
The much anticipated and talked about points system for drivers license is set to roll out by the end of this year. Ever since the card type license system was employed (by the Sheik & Zuma syndicate) this has been the future of the system.
It seems that each driver will start with 12 points and depending on the nature of the violation, the offender will be demerited. Drunk driving counts for 6 points, in case you are wondering.
Drivers will however be able to win these points back at a rate of 1 point every 3 concurrent months. So, it would take 18 months to win back the 6 points lost in drunk driving charge. Upon losing all 12 points, your license will be suspended.
As of now, the pilot project will be rolled out in Gauteng as early as mid-June. I'm still scratching my head as how this can be controlled only within the province, surely this must be a national roll out, as controlling movement of offenders between provinces is a bit like having your soup with a fork!
I've recently bought a new car and being the internet addict that I am, I did quite abit of research. I made sure that I knew ALL my options, and researched brands, their technologies they used, the model line up, the comparative spec sheets, pricing, etc. Yes, I'm obsessive about these things.
Anyway, I ended up with a list of 25 options, narrowed it down to top 10, top 3 and then finally made my selection. I was so picky about the colour, that I purchased mine from a dealer near the border of Botswana and South Africa, and I live in Cape Town.
Henry ford is famous for selling cars in any colour as long as it's black. Well, Ford is going to basics as it has realised that the cost of offering customers so many variations of the same model is far higher than convenient.
Ford's chief of marketing, Jim Farley, who was hired away from Toyota Motor Co last year, said he was stunned to find that Ford was offering 100,000 combinations of options on its entry-level Focus sedan. Some 80 percent of Ford's sales came from just 4,000 of those combinations, he said.
This is of course not so great for the consumer who enjoy highly customisable everything nowadays, but has a major long term effect on the economy on a global scale.
I've very recently been sucked into a topic that I would usually avoid, but I feel so strongly about it that I ended up going back to Wogan's blog to read the article. This is NOT Wogan's work, so before you get all worked up at him, I should make it clear that he merely posted the article published by "The Mercury".
I'm going to repost it here for the convenience of having it on one page.
Now, this is the kind of shit that boils my blood to the core! Sphere: Related ContentSubject: We Apologise
To the Previously Disadvantaged,
We are sorry that our ancestors were intelligent, advanced and daring enough to explore the wild oceans to discover new countries and develop them. We are sorry that those who came before us took you out of the bush and taught you that there was more to life than beating drums, killing eachother and chasing animals with sticks and stones.
We are sorry that they planned, funded and developed roads, towns, mines, factories, airports and harbours, all of which you now claim to be your long deprived inheritance giving you every right to change and rename these at your discretion. We are sorry that our parents taught us the value of small but strong families, to not breed like rabbits and end up as underfed, diseased, illiterate shack dwellers living in poverty. We are sorry that when the evil apartheid government provided you with schools, you decided they’d look better without windows or in piles of ashes.
We happily gave up those bad days of getting spanked in our all white schools for doing something wrong and much prefer these days of freedom where problems can be resolved with knives and guns. We are sorry that it is hard to shake off the bitterness of the past when you keep on raping, torturing and killing our friends and family members, and then hide behind the fence of “human rights” with smiles on your faces.
We are sorry that we do not trust the government. We have no reason to be so suspicious because none of these poor hard working intellectuals have ever been involved in any form of corruption or “irregularities”. We are sorry that we do not
trust the police force and, even though they have openly admitted that they have lost the war against crime and criminals, we should not be negative and just ignore their corruption and carry on hoping for the best.We are sorry that it is more important to you to have players of colour in our national teams than winning games and promoting patriotism. We know that sponsorship doesn’t depend on a team’s success.
We are sorry that our border posts have been flung open and now left you competing for jobs against illegal immigrants from our beautiful neighbouring countries. All of them countries that have grown into economic powerhouses after kicking out the “settlers”. We are sorry that we don’t believe in witchcraft, beetroot and garlic cures, urinating on street corners, virginity testing, slaughtering of bulls in our back yards, trading women for cattle and other barbaric practices. Maybe we just grew up differently.
We are sorry that your medical care, water supplies, roads, railways and electricity supplies are going down the toilet because skilled people who could have planned for and resolved these issues had to be shown away because they were of the wrong ethnic background and now have to work in foreign countries where their skills are more needed. We are so sorry that we’d like this country to fulfil its potential so we can once again be proud South Africans.
The Previously Advantaged
If you don't know about the recent happenings in Zimbabwe and it's HILARIOUS path into economic melt down, you clearly need to come out of your bubble!
In fact I shouldn't use "melt down" as a verb, its too late... its melted and hardened into the figure that had me cracking up while I was listening to a news article y'day.
10 Years ago, 1 US Dollar bought you 11 Zim Dollars, as of y'day morning at 8am, 1 US Dollar bought 30 BILLION Zim dollars.
A soft drink costs 30 million Zimbabwean dollars, a chicken 200 million, a tank of gas 1.8 billion.
:)
Anyway, in true Mugabe style, he said this today, "We don't rig elections," he said. "We have that sense of honesty. I cannot sleep with my conscience if I have cheated on elections. Why should I cheat? The people are there supporting us."
It also turns out that people who have died upto 20 years ago have recently registered to vote in these elections. There's also that hilarious news piece I just saw on SABC of a journalist standing on a piece of vacant land but holding a elections registrar depicting that 10 000 people have been registered from that very piece of land.
I must admit, Bob is funny!
Found this pic and figured its worth sharing!
For those of you who know me, you will know that I am a bit of a car nut. I'm no mechanic, and hate getting myself dirty, I just LOVE to admire them: for their heritage, for their design and for the technology that goes into them, amongst other things.
I've been a Ferrari fan for as long as I can remember and not only on race days. Everything Ferrari! Unfortunately, I'm not financially ready yet, so I don't own a Ferrari.
I've fairly recently indulged myself a little bit and bought myself an Audi. It's a stunning car! Has all the design elements of a modern German engineered beauty, the cutting edge technology and has a heritage that is so deeply rooted, it could bring someone to tears when hearing the history of Audi.
I found this picture showing the history of the Audi logo that sums up the history so perfectly, that I'm not even going to explain it.
For the record, I have this deep rooted annoyance with BMW's. I think that they are overpriced, over glorified lawnmowers with leather seats. Their cars are made of recycled coke cans, too common and resale is crappier than used shoes!!!
Mercedes, now that is probably gonna be my next car if I don't stick to Audi! :)
I have this blogger account for a while now. I wrote a few articles, mostly to vent and am proud to say that I know of at least 1 person other than myself who has read my blog.
My loabi!!!
I'm gonna give this blogging thing another swing. Let's see if I'm diligent enough to get this to work this time around!
In the mean time, check out my other projects at CheapTrip.co.za and LiquidSynergy.co.za!
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