This and That

I have not blogged in over week now and not much has happened, Eid has come and gone, people get into their old routines and life's trials and tribulation continues.
My birthday came and went, don't feel any older though, don't feel any younger either. honestly I don't feel like am anything over 30 even though I am well beyond that, that is my mind does not feel that old, the body is another thing, with aches and pains and one thinking you as fast as you were when you were in your teens.
If you are not fit, no matter what the mind tells you or your heart urges you to do, don't do it, you will end up hurting yourself.
My sister sent me a webcam for my b/day so that we can skype with each other, was cool seeing the family on Eid day even though it was via skype.
My uncle commented how he liked my in-laws because the family seemed like a tight knit group. Even though being a loner myself there is nothing like family to make you smile, cry, hurt, angry, feel loved etc. I've always been withdrawn from all family, but this past few weeks I've come to understand the importance of family, I think,
It's good hearing your mother's voice full of smiles when she speaks to you on the phone.
Apologies for not attending all family functions though. Sometimes, even hough intentions are the best, I hate going anywhere without dough and without being able to buy my daughter something she wants. I do however try to be accommodative and will assist with anything where possible.

On the sporting front, it was not a good cricketing week was it? Losing to both Sri Lanka and England was a bitter pill to swallow, Our bowling was kak, but I should not comment from the sidelines, I am sure I could not have done better, I am convinced of that, but that is why I am a SUPPORTER. I don't get paid for making comments like saying our cricket team is untouchable, damn that sets you up for failure and I expected it, anyways enough of that ranting, I still support the cricket team 100%.
The places for the semi-finals of the currie cup is shaping up nicely with the Sharks and Province looking like very good contenders for home births. I doubt Griquas will make it to the semis with my guess it would be Sharks, Province, Bulls and Cheetahs, however the lions should not be counted out, they could surprise one and all.
On the Soccer Front, Chelsea faulted this week to everyone's surprise gifting the top spot of the league to Man Utd, who along with Liverpool scored impressive wins. Everton subjected Portsmouth to their 7th league defeat of the season which made me smile, at least we in the right side of the table this week.

I should really get off my arse and do something so that my life be a little more exciting, maybe I'll go visit the Sexpo this week

Thats all for now,

Eid Wishes

I would like this opportunity to wish everybody a joyous and happy Eid-ul-Fitr Insha'alla, May we take this time to reflect and open our hearts and put a smile on those faces that are less fortunate than ourselves.
Open your doors to strangers so that they can share in the Barakat of your table.
We live in dangerous times and security is of utmost importance however this is one day our doors should not be locked, our electric fences should not be turned on and our gates should not be closed.

I was searching for something beautiful and meaningful to say but came across something much more simple that means a lot

E - Embrace each and everyone with open heart
I - Inspire with an impressive attitude
D - Distribute pleasure to all

Got ithere


Sourced from here

Love and peace to all and keep smiling

of birthdays and the weekend that was

September, a month filled with birthdays, so I would like to take this opportunity to wish my sister and uncle who celebrated their birthdays on the 11th a happy belated birthday, I hope that the day was filled with joy and nice things, not much for adjectives :) My cousin also celebrated his birthday on the 10th, my cousin-in-law (dunno if there is such a thing) celebrated her birthday yesterday - Happy Birthday Bahia, hope you have many more Insha'alla, the most important birthdays are coming up on the 22nd, namely my other cousin-in-law Aasia Fredericks and yours truly me :)
So as can be noted our parents made good use of the December holidays :)

In an earlier post I said I would make a concerted effort to speak to my relatives more often and I am glad to say that I have been calling my Mother regularly as well as my one sister, still need to work on speaking to my other sis on a more regular basis, just phoned to wish her a happy birthday. I also invited my uncle to Iftaar and he has since had Iftaar with us twice (he is the only family from my side I have in Jhb) and he promised to bring some snoek and smoke snoek from CT as he is spending Eid in Cape Town with his family. Yesterday my wife's whole family barring her brother had Iftaar together for the first time this month which is good and there was no animosity shown towards each other - they are 5 sisters and 1 brother and with women one never knows what is going to happen. Algamdoellilah the night went of well.

Another sporting weekend has past and not without too much controversy.
Kim Clijsters won the US Open and I agree with Edge of Where that she retired to early, there was however some controversy in her semi-final against guess who? none other than Serena Williams. Serena got foot faulted when Kim was on Match point and proceeded to throw her toys out of the cot and verbally abusing the lines woman, see video below, this resulted in point deduction and handing the match to Kim Clijsters.


The Boks sealed the Tri-Nations with their third successive win against the Kiwis, go Bokke.
Brawn GP once again was on top of the podium in the Italian F1 with Barrichello edging out team mate Button.
On the soccer front there were impressive wins for Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd and Chelsea, won't say Chelsea's was impressive though, beating Stoke 2-1. My team Everton continues to struggle going down 2-1 to Fulham.
There was also some absorbing cricket on the tele this past weekend where England had to beat the Aussies to starve of defeat in their 7 match series and Sri Lanka taking on India in their tri-series event, with New Zealand already knocked out of the competition. England could not muster enough guns to beat the Aussies and going down by 7 Wickets. India were hoping for a win so they could hold the number 1 spot in ODI's however they got beaten by 139 runs by Sri-Lanka.

As the Champions Trophy nears I personally don't think we are going to make the finals, even though I am patriotic, my gut says we are not because we entering the tournament with no match practice and our last games being the Twenty 20 tourny a couple of months back. Hopefully the guys prove me wrong.

Thats all from me for now and hou die blink kant bo

Time to go back, way baaaack

This morning I was listening to the radio and they were discussing dares you did as a kid or something that you did that got you into trouble and that just brought back flashbacks of a particular incident that happened in my teenage years.

I was living in Mitchell's Plain and had a group of friends that did things together, We had Blommie, Lange (a relative that had glasses and stuttered terribly and by all means wanted to be a gangster)Jameel*, Zain*, Ismail*, Koppe and myself Fivebob.

One night we decided to go for walk and visit some girls in another area of MP, this was around 11pm at night ( as you can see MP was safe back then :). Being a group of mischievous boys we decided to play tok tokkie ( throwing stones on roofs ) and lui die klokkie ( ringing bells and running away ). While throwing stones and ringing bells an running hiding behind corners to see if people actually opening their doors, we had no cares in this world and we had smiles on our faces cause we were on they way to visit some kinnes ( lady folk ).

Before we knew it we heard the sound of sirens coming in our direction, we had managed to throw stones on the roof of the commander of the ghost squad, a notorious division within the MP police force.

We started to scatter in all directions, Jameel and myself stuck together and jumped over walls and fences to get away. Seeing that blommie had longish hair, he and *Ismail walked hand in hand as girlfriend and boyfiriend and as the van approached them they embraced in a passionate uhhmmm, hence, the cops just drove by.

*Jameel and myself found ourselves sitting in a pigeon coup for over an hour, at that point we did not know what had happened to Lange or Koppe. So after about 90 mins we imagined everything was quiet, we got out of the pigeon coup and walked home. As we reached *Jameel's house we saw his dad standing with a belt and as we walked up all he could say was, " O julle wil mos dagga gaan koop, ek sal jou dagga wys" and proceeded to moer *Jameel with the belt, I just continued walking to my house confused at the dagga story. Luckily I was alone at home as my parents were on holiday in Durban, I heard a knock on our door and peered out of the window, it was Lange and the commander of the ghost squad and naturally I did not open.

My aunt lived next door to us so Lange to these guys there, and my aunt did not open the door either. Lange use to live with my uncle (ragam) and was scared to take these guys there but eventually he did.

Because Lange was a stutterer and a very nervous one at that he just answered yes to everything the cops said and that is how the dagga story came about, the cops basically said "julle is op pad smokkie ( guy that sells drugs and alcohol ) om dagga te gaan koop ne" and all old Lange could say was "Ja" because of his stutter.

To this day I don't know what happened to Koppe and he never ever did tell us :)

So, what is your story that stands out from your childhood?

*The names in this piece have been change to protect the no so innocent :)

Death and Evasiveness

So Last Night Just as evryone was sitting around the the boeka(iftaar) table, I was sitting outside trekking a skyf (ja I know I was suppose to quit, but who can in these stressful times) this house phone rang and it was my sister in Cape Town (luv you sis).
She was the bearer of some sad news, my cousins husband had passed away. It came as a shock because he was relatively young and was not even married a year. I tried to remain composed whilst talking to my sister who was in a state of shock. Once I put the phone down it only hit me and I suddenly felt my body weaken.

Unfortunately I am not able to make the Janaazah(funeral) seeing I am in Jozi and it happens in Cape Town today. I feel for my cousin as she is in her early twenties and has lost one person that was dear to her, her husband.

While still talking to my sister wanting to know how he had passed away, my sister said that she did not know. I spoke to my sister this morning again wanting to know how everything was and offcourse what the cause of death was, she still had not been told the cause. Nobody is talking about it and this just begs for the opportunity for people to start spreading rumours. Everything is shrouded in mystery, why I ask?
Don't people fitna(gossip)enough already, why give people more ammunition to start the gossip trail. By now everybody has formed some sort of conclusion to the cause of death, I'll keep my thoughts to myself until I am certain I know the correct story.

My my cousin find peace in her period of mourning and my Allah grant her husband Janatul Firdaus Insha'alla.

My thoughts and duahs are with the respective families.

The week that was

So another week has gone and the Springboks surprised one and all by losing to the sheep shaggers from down under, although the pansies from down under played very well, the referees decisions at scrum time and at the breakdown was appalling. On a brighter note, Western Province secured a victory against their arch nemesis, the guys from beyond the boerewors curtain, namely the bulls (bwahahahahaha) eat that. The US open Tennis tournament is on the go and is in its final week, with the favourites going ok in the mens rounds however dunno if one can call it an upset when Kim Clijsters beat Venus Williams in the womens draw.

Apparently my resent blog has caused some pent up emotions to overflow, hell I don't know, just what I hear through different channels, this blog is not here to hurt anyone hence no names were mentioned, but if the shoe fits and afterall this is my lil outlet to bitch and moan cause I am not one to openly show my emotions and get angry, I let it build up and when I am ready to explode, I take it out on me keyboard :)

The Champions trophy is starting soon, here is hoping SA can overcome their Achilles heel and win a major trophy, its not enough being the best side in the world on paper but when a major tourny comes up we whither like fairies.

Fordsburg was busy on Saturday, seen that they were filming something in the main road, and the boetas and tieties were out in full force shopping for Eid clothing, food and other thingies that goes with the celebrations.

Anyway here is wishing you lots health, wealth and prosperity for the closing days of Ramadaan, may it be cherished.