who knows this one, yes, WHO knows THis ONE!?

swift anyone? davo, how do u actually spell 'mampy'?

lets do some web 2.0 stuff. yeah i just figured out what those people in their IT ivory towers were on about whenever they say two point owe! honestly guys. get over it. its just sharing. so because the idiots at universal music wouldnt let me embed 'their' video in this posting, i got it from some other guy who spliced it together with some random clips and stuff. i think this one is better anyway. good old hoobastank.



i couldnt help but connect the video above with the video below. yeah papa roach its a real blast from the year 2000!



u gotta love guys in white suits playing golf in the grounds of a mansion. at least it diverges from the cliche of chicks and cars. actually i think it may well have preceded the cliche.



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walking around de pijp

i was just walking around de pijp looking for the fietsfabriek shop that was rumoured to have the best new €100 bikes available in amsterdam. the closest i got to said bike was an offer of a cup of coffee from the owner of the fietsfabriek shop who enjoyed hearing my attempts to speak dutch. turns out these fabled bikes were (a) not made by the fietsfabriek whos cheapest bike is around €800 and rather stylish (if you live in amsterdam), and (b) sold out.



really tho this post is just for my mom who is probably the only person who will appreciate the fact that i found a meditation centre called shambala (while walking around de pijp) and took photos of it with her old phone



i did get a bike in the end tho. its purple. and a sticker says it was made in holland. no one is quite sure when tho.

poor kids

according to a postcard here in the netherlands: 'arm zijn is uit. rijk zijn is in.' basically thats saying that being poor is out and being rich is in. i agree, being poor is so last season. unfortunately i feel like im still adhering to last seasons fashions.



but being poor does have its advantages i guess. before that gets taken the wrong way im just trying to figure out why i fix what others throw away. and enjoy it so much. yes. thats a lot of white saddle. the middle one is enjoying its 4th incarnation while the other two are infants in the cycle starting only their second lives as saddles. i guess moving up the saddle wheel of fortune can only take a saddle so far. but i reckon being a white saddle has to be pretty near the top. too many potential mixed metaphors to safely continue. gonna go ride now.

heaven help the roses

when the bombs begin to fall

go andy

nice sunnies mate (circa 1988)

honestly

whats the problem? after a big night to say cheerio/bugger-off to our mate duncan who succumbed to the pull of joburgs gold, we decided to go jump off some high things into the hermanus reservoir. good times. the water level was pretty damn low, so i'll freely admit we didnt even attempt the big guy. we reckoned it was like.. too high. dunno how high that is in metres, but probably over 20. but there is still something special about hiking up into the bush on a (mid-summer) winters morning until u cant see any people or their houses and then jumping into a dark dark full-of-tanins dam. it was probably the same temperature in the water as the air. now it was raining right, so both my walking clothing and my cleverly brought along separate swimming clothing got wet. so my original plan to protect the old man's nice leather seats was foiled.



anyway, i still dont think there is anything wrong with driving home in your boxers. some hermanus grannies did tho and they voiced their disapproval quite clearly through their hooter. hence the photo. nice one deon.

back in black

deep dark africa huh? is it really all that dark? well negativity can make things seem pretty dark. the threat of no electricity dims things a little. zuma being on trial however may provide a little light at the end of the tunnel. its sure not boring to be back in cape town! i went to a super-insightful lecture by clem sunter and chantell illbury last night at UCT's graduate school of business, well, dawson fabrications had to sent a representative. i guess i was (naively) wondering why the zuma trial and eskom being morons was making such headlines before this lecture. i mean sure we need electricity but right now i'v got it and president shmeshident woe woe what is he good for anyway..? clem put it pretty succinctly when he said (and i dont quote him) that the economy wont grow until we have power, and if there is political violence related to the zuma trial we will become another kenya, plonkers... so im back to watching the news i guess. that is when im not riding with the boys, plum pudding, yeah welcome back!

almost somewhere

ive been instructed by his holiness the dalai lama up in mcleodganj, been a celebrity at the golden temple in amritsar, seen a food poisoned blur of the taj mahal in agra, some buildings from james bond in udaipur and somehow we have found ourselves on a sun-and-trance-soaked-beach in goa. kingfisher makes great beer, good aeroplanes and pretty average bottled water. ok i give up trying to describe my indian experience, hopefully these pics will help otherwise lets have a chat, ill be in cape town on the 6th of december! see you on a bike

red bridges

this is what we did on the last sunny sunday of amsterdam summer


2 more weeks till india baby

almost a fake-enger

its almost there, one gear, new colour scheme and it rides like a dream...



pity the streets of amsterdam have holes thicker than my tires and the tourists ride soooo damn slowly! haha jokes, we love them really... :-)



now i just have to stick to the origional plan of selling it before i go cos im kinda getting attached to it, aah 1 more bike wont hurt will it?