Category Archives: The Real reason we are at UCT
Down go the Athlone Towers…
Just a quick post to show you all the best video and the best pic so far of The Athlone Cooling Towers imploding… The video: And the picture: Congrats to @brauteseth for taking such a great photo! Sadly I wasn’t able to get anything, because as I was focusing my camera, they suddenly went down! [...]
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SRC Elections 2010!
Guys! It’s SRC election time! Have you noticed?! Get excited! *vomits with excitement* Or, if you’re a normal person, who has things to do and more important things to worry about (like studying an actual degree), you may not have noticed the DA DASO people sitting around looking bored on plaza, you may not have noticed [...]
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Generic Greeting
So you’re back at Varsity and you are seeing friends that you haven’t spoken to in ages, its great! You’re floating on a high, strutting across Plaza like it nobodies business(it probably isn’t… Also, stop strutting, it looks weird) when suddenly you get blindsided by and “acquaintance”! Oh no! What will you talk about? Panic! [...]
Night Shoot
Since I bought my shinny new Camera about a month ago, I have been absolutely itching to find myself a tripod and do some night shots. Then a good friend of mine, Chris Thomas took this amazing photo of Soccer City the night before the game: I just know I had to get out at night [...]
My week in Kruger
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so without further a du I give you my longest post ever! All 8000 or so words of it! So trip to Kruger = Great Drinking before 8 in the morning = Awesome Driving down no entry roads and getting lost (refer to last point) = Superb Having [...]
The Mystery of the “Missing Tickets”
I’m sure most of you have noticed that there are empty seats at most of The World Cup games, the number of open seats can range from just a few (last night a Soccer City for the Brazil v Côte d’Ivoire game) to a whole lot of open seats (think and game at PE). The [...]
Bad bad blogger…
So I haven’t posted anything of substance in a rather long time, and I blame that mostly on exams and the fact that I left my name on the wall of Scrumpy Jack’s in Observatory. They decided to leave it there because I managed to drink 5 liters of beer. Next time I think 7 [...]
Walk About
With 2 exams still to go today I had a crazy urge to just get out and and have some time away from res/books/uct/everyone. So I took a drive up to Table Mountain, drove along Tafelburg Road until I reached a boom stopping me from going any further. I quickly discovered why the road was closed: It [...]
The end is nigh!
So I have good news and bad new for you all! The Good News: All my sources (cool hey, i have sources) are saying that the strike is going to be over by tonight, i.e. meals will resume tomorrow at breakfast. The Bad News: The strike is going to be over tomorrow… That means no [...]
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