Life in Joburg
So the predictions El made last year some time have come true.
In chatting about this year (back then it was ‘next’) during September 2005 we tried to figure out what life would be like living and working in Joburg.
El joked about how when we both had decent jobs, we’d spend the majority of our free time (on weekends) in malls and shopping centres.
He also said that we’d spend (waste?) most of our cash on new clothes, books and eating out. I dismissed these ideas. “No ways man – we’ll find cool stuff to do”.
And I was wrong. Totally and utterly misled.
He was spot on. It happens almost every weekend. We buy clothes. We buy books and (expensive) magazines. And we spend Saturdays in a mall – either in Centurion, or somewhere in Joburg (hell, sometimes we even go to Roodepoort).
Friday nights usually consist of a ‘visit’ to News Café or similar venue which serves large amounts of beer. Many a chilled Friday has been spent at Cobblestones at Monte.
At least its not bowling club, bowling club, bowling club Friday after Friday as was the case in December.
I’ve been thinking about what I spend weekends doing and thought that we should try and do more random type things. And fest is coming up which’ll be a nice change.
People have been asking me (both on the blog and off) to blog more often. I’m trying – but the past six weeks have been torridly hectic at work. Now that all of that is over, I can start doing stuff I enjoy again. So there will be more blogging. And I’ll post random stuff I write for Moneyweb on here every now and then (there's a column I wrote last week down there somewhere >> ).
Now (STILL) listening to: RHCP Stadium Arcadium Disc One (its been six weeks - non-stop!)
In chatting about this year (back then it was ‘next’) during September 2005 we tried to figure out what life would be like living and working in Joburg.
El joked about how when we both had decent jobs, we’d spend the majority of our free time (on weekends) in malls and shopping centres.
He also said that we’d spend (waste?) most of our cash on new clothes, books and eating out. I dismissed these ideas. “No ways man – we’ll find cool stuff to do”.
And I was wrong. Totally and utterly misled.
He was spot on. It happens almost every weekend. We buy clothes. We buy books and (expensive) magazines. And we spend Saturdays in a mall – either in Centurion, or somewhere in Joburg (hell, sometimes we even go to Roodepoort).
Friday nights usually consist of a ‘visit’ to News Café or similar venue which serves large amounts of beer. Many a chilled Friday has been spent at Cobblestones at Monte.
At least its not bowling club, bowling club, bowling club Friday after Friday as was the case in December.
I’ve been thinking about what I spend weekends doing and thought that we should try and do more random type things. And fest is coming up which’ll be a nice change.
People have been asking me (both on the blog and off) to blog more often. I’m trying – but the past six weeks have been torridly hectic at work. Now that all of that is over, I can start doing stuff I enjoy again. So there will be more blogging. And I’ll post random stuff I write for Moneyweb on here every now and then (there's a column I wrote last week down there somewhere >> ).
Now (STILL) listening to: RHCP Stadium Arcadium Disc One (its been six weeks - non-stop!)
posted by BOb at
11:08
1 Comments:
dont worry,life in cape town tends to be the same, you get into a routine and before you know it 6 months have gone by and you cant realy say when last you've done something really out of the ordinary..but when we do get those moments of boldness, it reminds us how awesome it is to be alive..staduim arcadium is totaly worth it huh!!glad your blogging again:)
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