I got this list on a email and thought I'd share it with you!
*You remember collecting and trading tazos.
*You can finish this [ice ice____ ]
*You remember watching Kiddeo, Pumpkin Patch and Zet.
*You remember 95 Rugby World Cup slammers.
*You had a favourite member from FIVE.
*You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday towatch cartoons.
*You remember reading Goosebumps (and being TERRIFIED!)
*You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes and juice bottles to school.
*You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence .. . NOT!
*When everything was settled by rock paper scissors.
*If you ever got Zoo Biscuits in your lunchbox.
*When we played Hide and Go seek until our legs got numb.
*If you used to listen to the radio all day long just to record your favouritesong.
*If you ever watched Full House or The Dinosaurs TV shows.
*If you ever had a Spice Girls Lollipop.
*If you remember Captain Planet. He's a Hero.
*You knew that Kimberly, the pink power ranger, and Tommy, the green powerranger, were meant to be together.
*If you ever read SweetValley.
*You always wanted to send in a tape to Americas Funniest Home Videos .
*If you had a crush on The Nanny or Mr Shefield.
*You remember watching Home Alone 1, 2 , and 3.
*If you remember those Where's Wally books.
*If you ever had Lucky Charm Sherbet.
*If you remember watching the Alladin.
*If you remember Holey Moleys.
*If you remember when every thing was "DA BOMB!"
*You remember Walkmans and Yo Yo's and Uno.
* If you had at least one Tamagotchi.
*If you ever did "Down By The Bumble Bushes".
* If you remember the theme tune to Gummi Bears.
*If you haven't always had a computer, and it was cool to have the internet.
*And Windows 95 was the best.
*If you know any Roxette songs.
*If you ever played Mario Brothers.
*If you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing the first timeyou heard a Britney Spears or N'SYNC song.
*If Pamela Anderson was a bombshell.
*You collected those Diaper Babies with nappies that changed pink for girls andblue for boys.
*Sesame Street was actually Sesame Street and not Takalani Sesame.
*If you collected all the Trolls and My Little Pony or Puppy in my pocket toys.
*You owned a portable tape player.
*You know the Macarena.
*If you ever danced to Sexy Eyes. (ooh ooh eye eye sexy eyes, I wanna take youto paradise...)
Before Facebook . . .
Before the Internet & text messaging . . .
Before iPods . . .
Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX . . .
Before Spongebob . . .
When you still got one sheet of homework for the whole week.
When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
When we recorded stuff on VCRs.
When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off of our walkmans.
Way back... (Starting to feel old!!!)
Before we realized all this would eventually disappear.
Who would have thought you'd miss the 90's!!!!
Monday, October 31, 2011
Watch this space
I
am very dedicated, hard working and always up for a challenge! I love working
with people and have a great passion for doing creative things and coordinating
events. I strive to be successful in everything I do and therefore I am always
eager to help where I can to gain knowledge, experience and self-confidence in
the diverse Public Relations industry. I like to be hands on, identifying
problem situations and improving communication between stakeholders. To be able
to use my PR skills and see a company rise above its competitors is a dream for
me.
I am on my way to reach great heights, every day I learn and
grow, bringing me one step closer to reaching my dreams. Watch this space
people because here I come! Ready to take on the PR industry on another level!
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
It is up to you to have more highs than lows
Sometimes we are down surrounded by negative thoughts and feelings that we get depressed, no matter the reason every person has his highs and lows each day.
I have learned life is not tied with a bow, but it's still a gift to enjoy. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up for the challenges that the day brings.
One of the things we so often neglect is to get rid of anything that isn't useful to us, cluttering our homes and our lives. Beautiful or joyful - Burn the candles placed only for display, use the nice sheets in the back of the cupboard kept for some important guest that never shows, and wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special!!!
It comes down to - no one is in charge of your happiness but you. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer and live each day like its your last.
It’s through conversations that change happens, and we are transformed. Here’s why according to an article on the website of collaborative journeys:
- Conversations bring us together. And when we are together, we are much more comfortable with change – personal change, organization change, community change… We can handle anything, as long as we are together
- Conversations help us get from here to there. Conversations help us see what was, help us reflect on where we are now and what might be, and help us embody the new. As a mediator, conversation is the road to (dispute) resolution.
- Conversations help us build trust. And, when we trust the group we’re in, something special happens. We are freed to be ourselves, to act, knowing that if we falter, the group will pull us through. Count on it! We can even bridge communities and cultures, even those with generations of distrust.
- Through conversation we discover shared meaning, and when that meaning changes, we are changed.
- Conversations connect the family, organization, community… to more of itself, a sign of a healthy living system.
There are so many ways to have a conversation; face-to-face or online, small group or large group, over food, while watching a movie at someone’s home… The possibilities are endless.
Envy is a waste of time
How often do we talk of others as if they have the dream life? Whether it’s the celebrities or that friend with the biggest house and most expensive or fastest car? Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about. If we were all to throw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, I’m sure we would all grab our own back.
Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
My Bucket List, things to do before I die
1. Travel to Italy
2. Travel to Spain and dance the Salsa
3. To summit Table mountain
4. Stay in a Bungalow in Bora Bora
5. Attend the Jones festival in Wales
6. Travel Thailand
7. Travel to Rhome
8. Travel to Indie
9. Go to the kanga caves
10. To cuddle a Kuala bear
11. Learn to rock climb
12. To pat a Panda bear
13. Have a beer at Oktoberfest (Munich, Germany)
14. Walk to the top of the Eiffel Tower (Paris, France)
15. To walk in the footsteps of Jesus in Israel
16. See a bear in real life
17. Ride on a elephant
18. To swim with dolphins
19. To live on a yacht for a year
20. To catch a snoek
21. Sell a house for a profit
22. To learn to speak IsiXhosa
23. Throw a coin in the wish pond in Rhome
24. Go shopping in Dubai
25. Finish my Btech digree in Public Relations Management
26. Summit Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania)
27. Learn to Kitesurf
28. Master the Salsa
29. Open my own business
30. Go Oranje river rafting
31. To weight 58kg again
32. To win a 15km race
33. Finish a marathon race
34. Drink a beer in a Irish pub
35. To stay a month in the forest amongst the gorillas.
36. Buy my own house
37. Travel for three months straight through South Africa
38. Master the art of Photoshop Adobe
39. Maintain a traveling blog
40. Generate an income through my blog
41. Stay at a five star game range for three days
42. See the pyramids’ in Egypt
43. See an ice bear in the Antarctica
44. Work on a cruise ship
45. Drive a Ferrari
47. Create my own beverage and mass produce
48. Take an international trip with my parents
49. Get my own dog
50. Fly a plane
51. Whitewater rafter at Cherry Creek, California
52. To grow my own vegetables
53. Get a photograph I took published
54. To try to win the lotto
55. To braid my hair
56. Star in a movie
57. Learn to play the African drums
58. Go to a Kailly Monague show
59. Attend a swan lake ice skating musical play
60. Take a grand tour through the Buchman palace
61. Have a 3hour full body massage
62. Learn to scubadive
63. Scubadive in the caribean waters
64. Lay on beach at Hawai
65. Go to Disneyland
66. Get married
67. Visit Victoria Falls in Zambia Zimbabwe
68. Give natural birth
69. Attend a World Cup game purely for the atmosphere
70. Raise children
71. Be an aunt
72. Give my children tertiary education
73. Be a grandmother
74. Set the record in the World genius book of records for doing nothing for the longest
75. Find a cure for Cancer
76. Invent a magic cream that makes pimples disappear
77. Go backpacking through the Amazon
78. To reach the age of 86 years old before I die
79. Walk on the moon
80. Take a trip in a submarine
81. Give R10 000 back to the community for a good cause
82. Start a Public Relations campaign to raise funds for needed causes to uplift a community
83. Dive into a field of flowers in Namaqualand
84. Ride a ostrich in Oudshoorn, South Africa
85. Try Thai food
86. Make my own Sushi
87. Eat the spiciest food in Mexico
88. Eat pasta and pizza in Italy
89. Cut off all my hair
90. Donate a organ
91. Camp in the wilderness
92. Serve water to a camel in the desert
93. To roll in the mud
94. To run naked in the Maldives
95. Build a tree house
96. To float in the dead sea in Israel
97. Build a 2metre tall snowman
98. Live life to the full every day until my last breath!
Always ask yourself in the case of a disaster- will this matter in five years?
Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Hate to me is such a strong word, I have grown to the age of 17 when I for the first time experienced the feeling and could for the first time use this word as an explanation to how I felt inside. I hated and I hated the feeling. It was a mixture of jealousy and disappointment and tears of sadness with just an extra hint of something that made it an unbearable feeling to hold onto. This was a situation where a best friend portrayed me and never having an opportunity to deal with portrayal; my body suddenly reacted in this state. I was shocked at this person I have become but soon realised this is all because I allow it to change me. I quickly learned the power of forgiveness and have never allowed myself to let the power of hatered take control of me. Everything did happen for the best in both our lives that was affected and we have a friendship bond that I believe will last forever.
Forgive everyone everything. However good or bad a situation is, it will change and it’s most likely to change for the best.
My big fat BIG dream
Five years ago I probably answered my big dream as being successful. Today this dream feels more and more unreal unless I was to explain what exactly I define as success.
Well I have a dream to be financially independent and live a comfortable life in that sense. I have a dream of growing in my career to be challenged to my full potential while enjoying at least 60% of what I do each day, being creative and active. I have a dream to move back to my home town to start a family and raise my children in a safe environment.
I want to keep learning, keep growing as a person and a leader, making time for others and improving the lives of the less fortunate through fulfilling my cause on earth.
I want to smile and laugh everyday and make someone else smile too. I want to be the shoulder for my family and friends to cry on and a rock for them to hold on to, I want to be the friend, the daughter, the sister, the mother and wife to the best of my ability. I want to be an example as a child of God that live up to my reason for being.
I don’t want to be controlled by worldly things but rather appreciate the little miracles each day holds. I want to be one with nature again as in my youthfull days and get out of the nasty routines of rushing through the days, working so many hours that one forgets to live.
I dream about living a day to the full and enjoying every moment of it…
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Conventional is a good fallback position, isn't it?
The conventional to me refers to the background of our culture our belief system and that what our parents has taught us how to behave and show respect. To be grounded in the conventional, is what you will fallback to. In any situation this is what will guide your decisions and set the tone in case of failure. Don’t change these beliefs, this will form the guide to your personal life, while you take the risks of still thinking out of the box in your working career you will always be grounded in the conventional that puts you in your cultural group and distinguish you from the rest while being backed by your family and friends.
Keeping up with the Joneses
Yes I am so going there, it is time that we all seriously start looking into ways to help our financial situation in these challenging economic times. We don’t know how long the ripple effect of the recession will last or even if it will get worse, but experts suggests that the sooner we can start saving for retirement, the richer we can be. We find that our budgets has been cut to such an extend struggling to put away our savings. It is difficult to cut back any further as providing solely for our basic needs is becoming a challenge. The reality is that we are now at a critical age in our 20’s to already start saving for retirement. SARS and Sanlam have joined in to encourage us to save with high interest rates on a retirement account. To have more money in your pocket you need to manage your budget and control youre spending, is this really easily said than done? Come into the habit to set aside as much as you can each month into a retirement savings plan. It’s the best thing you can do to keep up.
The shocking story about your weight
Whether this is fact or fiction the truth stills stays hidden amongst all, your weight is a reflection of yourself, more than you would think. Your ability to be committed, goal driven and live with respect to yourself is all communicated to your public not only by the way you dress, your makeup, the smell of your perfume or the style of your haircut but also by your weight. See your body as a brand, portraying an image to the public to win clients and sell yourself as the person that top business organisations would want to employ. If you where a business your image will be the building, the front reception desk, the furniture, the corporate stationary, etc – things that big corporate spend large amounts of money on to maintain a set quality standard because it is the first image people see.
Even though you cannot be discriminated against because of weight, your first impression is critical as people tend to create their perception of someone within the first few minutes of meeting, which is mostly from a visual influence – looks to facial expressions and eye contact. Therefore your image together with your weight shockingly enough reflects professionalism, trust, commitment, dedication, mental health and confidence - characteristic to maintain a balanced lifestyle and a balanced healthy weight, because we all know it is hard work. Getting your image right according to whom you are and what you stand for does include weight and will earn you respect for yourself and in business.
Chasing two rabbits at the same time
When we find ourselves hit by the inspiration to take on a task it comes with many opportunities that can cause us to get distracted along the path either through lack of confidence, information overload or opinions by others and self-doubt. The will power and focus is lost and you end up with not one task pursued and only completed half hearted while your dreams suffer as consequence.
Keeping focus is very important to complete tasks and achieve success. To keep focus it is important to make a thorough decision by considering all pros and cons and committing yourself to that decision.
Decide at the beginning what you are aiming at so to have a reason for your focus.
Make a commitment to yourself that you will not give up. Keep focus by doing a little bit each day and learn from your mistakes.
With focus and support from others you can chase that rabbit!
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