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For thoes South Africans, that feel that they are continuously taken advantage of, by business, government, and well-meaning but misinformed family members and friends, here is an online resource where you can have a look at the different Acts on the South African books. Acts Online – Home : ‘via Blog this.'

Here is the website run by JPSA where you can find more to the point information on the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences… the government run one, is not clear and seems to muddy the waters even more. As the maintainers of this website ask, do not take your frustrations out on them. Your frustration is with an inept government. Save your fight for them. AARTO facts – everything you need to know about AARTO – in one place : ‘via Blog this.'

In the world we live in, it has become customary to complain about your life. Well, that is what it would seem to be, to any intelligent race that lands on the planet. Just open your ears and listen to the people around you. It’s hard to find anyone upbeat about anything anymore and should you be upbeat, then they lay the beat down on you. For as sure as tomorrow will come, they will have a stupendous amount of reasons why you shouldn’t be happy. Now, I ask you: “Why the hell not?” Why shouldn’t you be happy? Ignore the stress and worries for the day, because you can always worry tomorrow. If tomorrow doesn’t come, then at least you didn’t waste your today on worrying about something that would not come. I know I am a worry wart. It seems to be expected. At work, everyone passes their worries on to you, then seem surprised when you just listen, nod wisely, and carry on. Why take on someone else’ burdens when you have so many of your own to carry. Grab your coat. Grab your hat. Leave ...

Alone Time Is Good For Us, Research Says : 'via Blog this' I don't know about you, but I enjoy my alone time. Never needed a study to confirm it but the above article actually does and introduced me to a new term 'social loafing'. Always thought that was what happened and now there is a term, from as far back as the 1900 to describe it.

Today I had some time on my hands, and decided to check in on this website. I've bought a Afrika wood pipe from EbenHarts in 2008 and still smoke it. It's a heavy pipe. Solid in the hand. Not one you want to clamp down on though. Unless you like spending time in the dentist chair. It's with great joy and a little grump (hate the exchange rate) that I looked over the pipes on the site again. There are some seriously beautiful pipes here. Some, in fact, I don't think you'd want to smoke. I hope to soon see sold on all these pipes and a new batch of remarkable creations to sit and drool over. Sterkte met die pyp maak en ek hoop:  'hulle verkoop so lekker, want hulle rook so lekker.' cheap : 'via Blog this'

It's been longer than I intended since I've updated this post. Today I grabbed my trusty Kindle reader and started in on a book titled " How to Get Ideas " by Jack Foster and Larry Corby . What a surprise when the first chapter is titled " Have Fun ".  Coincidentally with this, I've read the ICAS desk drop (it's an email on personal wellness, diet, work life balance etc.) wherein the TED talk of Caroline McHugh was discussed - it too arrived today. How you need to find your true self and stop being who the world wants you to be. How do they relate? Simple: fun ! If you are currently, where you are, whether it be your work, life, family, friends, whatever, and you are not having fun in each, then you are not being you. You are being something you where never meant to be. It's something I'm struggling with. For thirty years I've been working in computers, processing data, putting up with, well everyone. It all has me wondering is t...

10 Ways To Hack Into Your Happy Brain Chemicals Life gets busy. 2016 for us in South Africa is going to be tough. Emotional black mail and black mail in general is a socially acceptable way to deny some their constitutional rights. So take a read above and stick it to all those office clones that make your day hell. All those wannabes on the roads that can't drive to safe their lives (it's been one of those days). So, to quote Bobby McFarren: "Don't worry. Be Happy."

We regularly get these desk drops from the ICASA people. It is supposed to be filled with all the tricks, treats and stories to help you cope with life, your job, your family. In short pop-psychology packaged in easily digestible chunks. Today's one has this interesting article in it relating to Caroline McHugh's TED talk. The art of being who you are "There’s an art to being yourself, says life coach Caroline McHugh, in her powerful Ted talk of the same title. When you look at remarkable individuals, people who have achieved what they set out to do, what they have in common is that they have nothing in common, she says. Rather, the thread that links them is that they have found a way to figure out their unique gifts – to play the one true note they were meant to sing, she adds. These remarkable people come from all walks of life, in art, business, music, even the person in front of you in the grocery store or the colleague in the cubicle next to yours. McHugh notes ...

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Working in a bank has it's ups and downs.  You get used to that. Then you work in a bank in South Africa and you realize that the downs can bee a 18% free fall on the value of your bank. We have been working diligently to grow our bank and by some amazing grace from God we have managed to get some pretty amazing things done.  Then the populist president, inserted by the revolutionist party goes and does the unthinkable. He replaces the minister of finance, at a whim. Yes, he explained it. But only after he got his ass held over the fire and them some lame excuse of deploying Mr Nene in another position. Which Mr President, doesn't explain the nobody, without a track record you shoved into his position. The ANC must recall Mr Zuma, like they demonstrated they  can and will do with Mr Mbeki and replace him. Why wait. To see if he can destroy the country further? Yes, JZ. Your King is not impressed with your actions.  Business Day Live - Stuart Theobald...

Don't you just hate these signs. Detours. Whether they are in the road on the way to work, or home, or on your way to your holiday destination. Even in everyday life these detours happen. I'm sitting at the moment, under the apricot tree in the back yard. It's summer and there is a nice cool breeze blowing. Why am I outside? Simple. A teenager has taken over the space where I normally write. I've just started to get this free loader called procrastination under control, when my brother dropped his two kids off to visit the grand parents. Ah, well. My newest detour. At least the change of scenery doesn't seem to have affected the writer in me. Been scribbling in my notebook, mostly venting about work. I've also picked up another of my purchases from Writer's Digest. A book by Elizabeth Sims called "You've got a book in you" Now, for most people the title would not stand out. But for us writers, this is like a flame to a moth. It drew me in. Ca...

It has been a while since I actively wrote. We'll that is a lie. I've started a novell and a TV Drama. Both are stuck at a spot where I need to discipline myself into researching it, working my way around a block, or simply just making time to write. Tonight I grabbed some of the books I purchased from Writer's Digest. The one 'Where do you get your ideas?' by Fred White and 'The Writer's Idea Book' by Jack Heffron. Granted both have been lying on a shelf with the rest of the purchase, which I am ashamed to say are market books for 2013! Yeah. Procrastination I am your master, or are you mine. I did a quick scan down the table of contents on both. Selected the Chapter 11 from the 'The Writers Idea Book' - Creating a short story from a news paper report. I read the first bit, got to the check list then skimmed along. I postponed that writing to tomorrow ... well the proper reading of that chapter and applying it. So why am I writing this? Jack...

It's with a lot of sadness this week that I parted with my Mercedes Benz CLK63 AMG. We had a blast the past eighteen months, but time had come for me to say good bye to it and take the reigns of, what to my mind is a 'sensible' car. Ugh. Sensible. Makes me feel suddenly very old. If it wasn't for the fact that my other car is in dire need of surgery, for which I am still waiting on quotes for - mostly just dotting i's and crossing t's - in replacing the gearbox, I would be driving it. As it stands I took delivery on Monday of my new BMW 320d. Mineral white with black leather interior. With the minimum additions from the optional extras list, I thought that adjusting to it would represent a hardship. Driving away from the showroom on Monday, the first angst beset me in adjusting to the cars totally different power and response curves, and a very new and unsettling auto stop start function. None of my other cars had this `feature`. Yes, I'm quoting that, since...

This is the new blogsy software. Really intuitive, and as the adverts said, something apple would have come up with. So far the work has been straight forward. Setup four blogs in less than two minutes, hooked in picassa as my media location for one. Still need to see how this works for Facebook, bit that too will come with time.  

Does AMG need a GT?  Look at this rear end and tell met they don't? It reminds of the French Va-Va-Voom, only this booty can shake it all on it's own. Fall in love with the Mercedes Benz AMG GT here Visit Car And Driver for a review of the 2016 AMG GT - Mercedes Benz's new Porsche 911 killer... Mercedes Benz AMG GT Web Special

Here we have the innocent look. Stark white. Clean lines. Quiet. Until you press the start button. Then your world gets notified that thunder comes in small packages. This one may only have a four liter V8 engine but the twin turbo charges makes it feel like you have a tiger by the tail. It literally wants to whip around and tear your face off. It's quick. Responsive. Nimble. It makes your blood race. Your ears sing. And you haven't even got it in gear yet.  Slowly you ease her out of the show room and into the lot. From the corner of your eye you see the salesman in the passenger seat reach up... there's no panic handle that will keep him from squirming soon. My inner minion is going bee-boo-bee-boo...BANANA! Why can't I test drive it in something other than urban bumper to bumper traffic. How to get this beauty to the freeway... if ever your think you have control over your inner psychopath, then never slip behind the wheel of one of these. You quickly f...

It takes class and elegance to pull off so many stunning color combinations. Mercedes simply rocks the world with their AMG range...

Here's a SICK Mercedes Benz C63 AMG Edition 507 Wagon! I can't get enough of the 6.2 L V8 Engine which produces 507 Horsepower and 631 N-m of Torque! My own car is a CLK63 AMG and I won't change it for anything...  A little mindless self indulgence.

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Review: ‘The Sellout,’ Paul Beatty’s Biting Satire on Race in America - NYTimes.com   Just finished reading the review from the New York Times books on Mr Beatty's new novel, and I must say, I NEED to read this...  Just searched Amazon and there's no Kindle version of this book. Bummer! Not that it is not worthwhile getting the hardcover, it's just that now I need to go and find a local book store to buy it from. Face the over inflated, over taxed pricing on that book. Since Americans brought 'democracy' to South Africa, the right of the masses to bleat and loaf about is far more important that delivering value and productivity to the community/economy.  So, simply ordering the book from Amazon and having it delivered to my door via out postal service, is no longer an option, since their right to strike outweighs my right to expect the service that they exist to provide. I'm now only getting my mail from last year, from the last time they went on strike.  Can...