Sunday, October 29, 2006

surprise homewarming party

last friday: so we planned for a nice relaxed braai evening with blakes family and beate, set up a nice table for 6 - and the evening turned out into a fantastic surprise homewarming party, organised by blakes mom. thanks for a lovely and enjoyable evening!
(except for the stolen car in our driveway - see earlier entry)
click for more pictures:

ian and andrew and sister


another famous skype picture... how to pose in london, while being photograhed in johannesburg ;o)

frühling

im moment blühen überall zu tausenden die jakoranda bäume mit irrsinnig kitschigen lilanen blüten... das foto zeigt eine typische strasse in joburg bzw pretoria. hübsch, gell?

Saturday, October 28, 2006

a stolen car in s-africa...


so the last guests want to leave the party, but the car was gone... it was parked in the brightest spot of the whole street - and we live in one of the safest areas in this town.
what followed was some very african experiences on how police in sa is dealing with priorities: "esch, you have a problem! *hang up call* --> next call: "you have a problem! we have lots to do! lots of dead bodies!"
however, since we needed a case number for the insurance, we went to the next police station (people with feet on tables and about 10 police cars parked outside). after the not so bright guy managed to fill in his 4 forms (took an hour) they of course weren´t able to issue a simple case number ("too much to do")
summary: it took 3 phonecalls to the famous 10111 hotline (police emergency hotline), the incident was reported at 1:30 in the night, it took them until the next morning until finally 2 policemen found their way to us... thanks god we have private security!
read the sign in the background of the picture... funny that there was no photograph on it...

Friday, October 27, 2006

Thursday, October 26, 2006

probleme die ich immer schon haben wollte


foto wurde während eines telefonats gemacht: antschi! Glaubs mir. Die eine palme hinterm pool ist ein bißchen zu schief, ich hoff die kippt uns nicht ins wasser!

ohne worte...



mit beate im wasser


das leben hier ist schon recht bitter :-) aber was soll man bei der hitze sonst auch machen. Ach übrigens: mit gwand auf den dingern zu sitzen erfordert skill, ICH blieb trocken...

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Cottage ist fertig!

Blake hat am Wochenende und in naechtelanger Murksarbeit das Cottage bewohnbar gemacht. Erster Gast ist Beate aus Bayern - und zwar am 26.10. - bestimmt um den oesterreichischen Nationalfeiertag mit uns zu feiern!



Tuesday, October 24, 2006

political correctness ... cultural awareness

while eating sweets and stuff at my desk in the office i kept on wondering why nobody around me would accept my little lekker things. until i figured out that ramadam and some indian fasting thing was taking place and many of my colleagues literally ate nothing during the sun was on the sky... there i am, well travelled and so cultural aware and everything and then this.
however, i saw this spot on tv. "nandos" is something like a south african mc donalds specialized on chicken. the spot is a bit on the borderline but still hilarious!

Hitzewelle in Joburg!


man beachte zeit und temperatur! das angenehme ist allerdings dass die hitze trocken ist und es tagsüber auch kaum mehr als 32C heiß wird

Monday, October 23, 2006

wedding of dena and stuart

end of september we were invited to the incredible wedding ceremony and party of dena and stuart (dena is a cousin of blake). the whole thing took place in a charming little town and a game lodge about 400 km south of johannesburg somewhere in the drakensberg area. even the ride home (with ester on the back seat) was special - but see for yourself:

Sunday, October 22, 2006

renovating our new home

what we did the first few weeks: renovating a house in africa is generally known as THE traumatic experience. it's absolutely normal that the process takes double the amount of time & money. we managed to do it in a world record time of 12 days (for the inside of the house) and after all the worst case scenario planning we spent triple the amount of our planned budget. and still: the outside of the house will probably take ... forever. we'll see.
however, have a look on the video - and visit us soon!

Julia und micha


Vor meinem tollen neuen k800i ist niemand mehr sicher!

Saturday, October 21, 2006

norby


und so sieht der liebe norbert aus 9000 km entfernung aus :-)

Friday, October 20, 2006

the office


jetzt habe ich mein neues und mittlerweile heiss geliebtes k800i soweit, dass ich damit auch bloggen kann! nachdem ich zuhause die fotos vom alten n70 mangels auffindbarkeit von technischem equipment noch nicht verwurschten kann, gibts vorerst nur aktuelle fotos via mobile. aber wird schon werden!
achja. das foto ist das office in midrand, wo ich jetzt arbeite. kein turm, aber auch sehr nett...

Thursday, October 19, 2006

So schauts aus!


Das werk von wochen voller blut schweiß und tränen! Ich werde ab sofort wieder fleißig updaten. Versprochen!