For our Friends

Yay. It's official I'm a friend of the Loading Bay. The LB, as I like to call it, has come up with an awesome concept of putting up a wall in the store dedicated to its loyal customers. Basically they've cordoned off a section of their wall and are putting up some tiles with the names of a few selected individuals engraved on them. There's a small fee that you have to pay, but it basically pays for itself as you get 10 free cups of coffee and discounts off everything for life...not to mention covering the cost of the tile itself.

I think the wall is limited to about 50 tiles at the moment and I'm one of the few that have reserved to be immortalized in the LB's Friends Wall. Watch this space because they always seem to come up with some new and exciting ideas.

Speaking of great idea,s they held a Lebanese themed evening last night, which show cased an all Lebanese food menu. Very interesting and very tasty too, I love trying new, different types of food and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think they've come up with this thing, where every Wednesday is a different theme and I've heard rumours of a champagne and crayfish evening...you'll bet your bottom dollar that I'll be there for that one.

After the LB, I went to FTV (what's with all the abbreviations in today's post) to thank the management team for their kind offer. After, I think, Marius read my post about how I'm a sad loser and never really celebrate my birthday; he sent a message to say that FTV would like to help me celebrate this Friday - sadly it was a little bit too short notice to get friends to attend. But in any case, I'm sure that FTV will be a great place to party this weekend - with or without me (I may suffer from delusions of granduar but I'm certainly not going to claim that I'm the life of any party). Thanks for the message though, much appreciated.

Going Down to South Park

Pretty impressed that after a big night, that I still managed to wake up relatively early to make it to the gym this morning! Was a rather unexpected evening out, but it turned into a great one, we started off at the Oblivion wine bar and restaurant where they threw a back to school party…I’m pretty certain however that schools don’t let their learners (not students by the way, as the South African government has categorically stated that this is not the correct term to use for individuals attending school at the primary and secondary levels) behave in the fashion that was to found at the party.

From Oblivion we made our way to Jade, where we dominated the dance floor. At one point I think I might have even pulled out some break dance moves. To end the night off, we moved to my old favourite hangout FTV. Quite a productive night of club hopping! So it was quite a surprise for me too, that my internal alarm woke me up.

After my gym session, as a reward I decided to just chill out and go down to South Park and meet some friends of mine. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are two of my biggest heroes. All through out varsity, I dreamt of being like them and create my own animated series> as it so happens I actually have a hamster character that I have developed and few scripts. The only thing left for me to do is actually sit down animate it and try get someone to buy into the idea. That of course is totally the easy part…

I’m a huge fan of South Park but many people think that it is just stupid toilet humour. The series is actually frightfully thought provoking and Trey and Matt are in my opinion the best satirists, ever. From current affairs, regarding politics and new lifestyle trends, they seem to stay on top of their game and rip apart and show how ridiculously serious we as society can take things. I understand where a lot of it can seem crude and can offend people but if you watch South Park with a pinch of salt, there generally is a pretty valid point behind each episode…Although for some episodes, this can pose as quite a challenge.