You'll be blown away

South Africa had a bomb scare yesterday! WTF!!


I'm not sure that the South Africa Bomb Squad get a lot of practical experience in this sort of thing. We probably haven't had a bomb scare in SA since the eighties.


Frantic caller: "Hello .... yes there's a possible bomb threat here in Eastgate Shopping Centre"
Emergency Operator: "Eish a bom-B"


The SA Bomb Squad were probably doing what they've done every single day for the past 15 years, sitting in their space with their feet up on the desk, when the call comes in.


Bomb Squad Man 1: "Haaaaibo, a bom-B!!"
Bomb Squad Man 2: "We've never had to deal with a real bomb ... you drive I'll get the 'how to defuse a bomb' file they gave us when we started.
Bomb Squad Man 2: "It says here we must look for something that has big red numbers that count backwards, this is a sign that this might be the bom-B. When it gets to "0" we've got problems.

Bomb Squad Man 2:"Ok remember when we playing with the wires, always match the SAME colours .... so red onto red"
Turns out that we do have a relatively efficient bomb squad, despite there being not too much real-life experience!

Made me think of this "Bomb Squad Practical joke" picture ....  hahahaha. 

Song of the day - Gus MacGregor "Under the Sun"

This is a very good mate of mine that I lived with in London.

This is the first single from his self titled album, the song is called "Under the Sun", if you like the music you can buy it from his website: http://www.gusmacgregor.com/ or on www.amazon.com 

How awesome is this video

I've survived a night away - camping with the boys. Only just.

The best way to get over the hangover. Lunch. Cocktails. Perfect.

Today's tune: "Mecha love" - by Hadouken. I found an awesome montage called "people are awesome" on YouTube which uses the song ... 

A Sun-Day before the weekend

After 4 days of rain and cloudy weather in the City of Gold, the sun is finally out. Lets hope it stays out for the weekend. Otherwise the camping trip with 20 lads, is going to be even more messy than its already planned to be.

A band I heard for the first time in the States back in 1998, and forgot about is Barenaked Ladies, today's song is called "When I fall" - I'm going to put up a few of their other tunes in the coming weeks.

Have a great weekend!

Song of the day - Keith Urban Long Hot Summer

Listening to this in the car all day yesterday .... good song for summer

A marketing fail

Sometimes the thinking is sound.

Sometimes implementation doesn't quite live up.

Cricket South Africa: "boy's we're in trouble here ... we've got a test series coming up and don't have a sponsor"

Sunfoil: "Right we've got some marketing money, lets throw a large amount of it at a sponsorship"

Deal done. Easy.

SA Cricket watcher: "Lekker new letters on the pitch there! WTF is 'Sunfoil'? "

The thinking to sponsor Cricket SA might have been a sound idea, but without a byline people are left to go online to find out about a product.

This is what you'll see if you go to  http://www.sunfoil.co.za/  (*here is a screen shot in case in the future Sunfoil wake up to their little blunder*)

If you're going to spend the time and money building your brand make sure that there's a call to action, or at least a website (maybe with your name??) where potential clients can find out about your product ...

I wish I knew this a few weeks back, I've now got a "Sun-Foil" that I bought online,  thinking I could use it to enhance my tan! 

Understanding the incomprehensible

Life is not easy. Just when you think you've understood something, you learn something new about the subject.

You need to keep discovering.

One thing which you should never think you've completely got a handle on, is how members of the opposite sex, think or rationalise things. 

From a male's perspective the same question, comment or remark to a woman, WILL always attract a different response. The response you get could be affected by any number of outside elements:

• Your effort around the house
• Phases of the moon
• Comments made by her work colleagues 
• Articles in magazines
• Rand /  Dollar exchange rates
• Politics in Cambodia 
• ANY other element

In the interest of "discovery" here is a a word of advice:

"The speed in which a woman says 'nothing', when asked 'what's wrong?' - is inversely proportional to the severity of the coming storm."

Homework.

Working from home today. Listening to some old albums. 


I've not listened to this David Gray album for ages. (Draw the line).This song is awesome so I thought I'd share it.

Kathleen:

Out.

"Just doing it"

One of the reasons I stared writing this blog. Was to make myself accountable for tough tasks which I sometimes procrastinate. The idea being that I'd write on my blog what I was going to get done and that would motivate myself to complete the tasks.

That created a bit too much pressure - so I now procrastinate writing my blog - simple.

A quick thought: 

Companies spend a lot of time and money developing company slogans and mission statements. In my opinion one of the best is Nike's slogan of "Just Do It".

Its simple and works well for the sports and leisure brand that is Nike. Those 3 simple words are very powerful for anything that you want to get done in your life.

Yesterday I got home and needed to go for a run. I was busy talking myself out of it:

Self-sabotaging me: "Whew rough day kid .... you deserve a break - take it easy this evening"

Motivated me: "Chom its Tuesday and you've done no training since Saturday morning - get it together and go for a run"

SSM: "You still have a little ankle niggle - if you head out now you could make it worse, then you'll be out of training for sometime"

SSM: "You're also quite fit already .... a machine really, you could have the evening off"

MM: "Get it together you little muppet - 'Just do IT' go and run!!"

SSM: "Whatever - I've warned you .... "

Trainers on. 

Out the door.

The warm summer evening was amazing, and 8km run flew. With 1km to go to home this "Dash Berlin" song (below) played on my iPod.

As I ran the sun was setting over the horizon, the sky was a bright orange and the combination of feeling good from the run, the amazing sunset and the words and beat of the song - really made for an amazing 40 minute run.

It's said that in life, some of the biggest regrets are the things that you DIDN'T do. - "JUST DO IT"