Opinions are like arseholes...

So I haven't blogged in a while, so I though it would be time to churn out some sort of pseudo intellectual ramble that some people my consider reading at some point.

Something that has been grinding my gears recently is the way that people seem to think that media institutions are some sort of unbiased entities that have no corporate or commercial interests. Someone on Facebook said "It scares me how blatantly biased CNN and Sky are against the Wall Street protests! Thank-you RT for demonstrating true journalism". Well, I have news for you. Every single piece of news and media information that we consume is in some way biased and harbors some form of hidden agenda. Its our right to express opinions, but it is our responsibility to question everything we are told.

Some food for thought, I hope.

Sense and sensibility

So here is something I have been thinking about recently.

The ANC needs a united opposition, right?

So then why, particulalry over the municipal elections, are there so many independent candidates?

It doesn't make sense... All you people are doing is dividing the opposition, which is counter-productive.

Are you just power-hungry, money-grabbing thieves like the politicians that you are going against?

a word to the wise

The other night, I had the most incredible experience.

I managed to get a super pretty girl to come home with me. It sounds like nothing in particular, but we got on so well. We spent the night listening to Pink Floyd and mucking about.

When i woke up, she was gone. it was like an episode of How I met your Mother.

shit.

I ain't stooopid.

Its funny how people seem to treat me like an idiot. Quite frankly, it makes me quite irate. I mean, seriously. Why is it necessary to treat me like I am stupid? I have been around for a while and have a fair few experiences - more than most people my age. And yet people still speak to me as if I am a retard. Man. I have to have everything explained to me like I have no idea of context or protocol.

Stop it.

Home, kinda.

So. I'm back alive and kicking. Beating off first years with a stick. Any varsity student will tell you that going back is bitter sweet. No longer can I roll donw to the Pick 'n Pay with my mom's credit card and go bananas, yet I can come home, pissed as a newt and no one cares. I shall keep this short because, for starters I am tired and hungover.

This year should be a good one. I am now settled into the routine of varsity life and am comfortable with everything that is around me.

'Till next time, chaps.

x

Here we go

So it's time. Nearly back in Grahamstown, G-Funk, Jazzy-fizzle, G-Jelly, call it what you will. I, for one am excited. Sure, don't get me wrong, I love being at home with my old friends and parents and what-have-you, but living away from home simply cannot be beat.

No one says, "Get off your paddon-ka-donk and do something," or "Why are you so drunk? God, Julien, it's 4 am and you stumble in and piss on the front stoep!" (That last one has not yet happened).

But, for me one of the major downsides to living alone is that you have to buy everything yourself. You can't just rock down to the fridge and drink Coke out of the bottle. The closest to that I get is a sip of hot, stinky, dirty water from the tap. Bleh. But, as they say, every fork has it's prong. (Well, thats not really a saying... yet)

So, let us hope that the world favours me this year...

Y'all should see some good picks and some other lovely things from me in the next little while...

much lurve

Economics

So, here's a thought that has been bothering my for quite a while.

If the inflation is so high is South Africa that we are given ridiculous interest figures at banks and on retail bonds, is it helping or not?

The idea behind high interest rates at banks is to curb inflation, but it just compensates for it and drives it further and further.

For example. Bob may put R10000 in the bank and in 10 years that will grow to R17000, in theory. Now, inflation, set at around 6% or so, is compensated for by this. But now Bob has more money to spend, but the same buying power as he did 10 years before. See my point?

Let me know what you think.

x

Time to go

So, its time for me to go away. I am rather excited. (Its not manly to admit that, is it?)

Going to Holland just for the night, to a town called Kaatsheuvel in Noord-Brabant. Then, off to France early on Saturday morning. 12 hour drive. yay. NAAAT! We're going to a skiing village called Le Deux Alpes, which is pretty damn cold. Its -23 degrees at the moment. Sigh. hahah.

We're are there for 8 days skiing and doing whatever else we decide, then we're going back to Kaatsheuvel for a week, hopefully I am going to Friesland for New Years, where I will see a friend I met at University. Keen. Then we're off to Italy for a week. We're starting in Rome and Then going to Venice. It's gonna be awesome! Then we're back in Holland for 4 days or so and then bck to Cape Town. I am excited. Like, really!

Chat to me on twitter or Facebook for updates and pics!

Much love

The state of the City

Good Lord, things have changed around here, haven't they?! Man, I leave this place for 3 months and when I come back, Jug Night is lame, Manic Monday is boring and Fiction is popular. Noooooo!!!!

But, no matter, I have never been entirely into the party scene in any case. Too much money to be surrounded by pretentious 16 year olds strutting about with there chests puffed out.

And now apparently there is a cover charge for most places that used to be free?! Baaastards!!! aaaaah.

Anyway, I'm off to listen to my newly acquired Eurotrance mix.

x

Homzies

Whoody Doody Everyboody. Its been a while since I last posted.

Well, its nice to be home, kinda.

My friends have been replaced by family feuds, crappy dining hall food has been replaced by the food that I make and instead of the weather changing every 10 minutes, as it does in Grahamstown, it is rainy for a week. All this said, I do love Cape Town summer, I really do. Its usually warm and everyday is a beach day. Its nice to see my friends again, although I have to reconnect with them after not seeing them for three months and evidently things have changed around here.

Ciao bbz.