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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! [...]
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 [...]
World Cup Draw
Hey Guys, over the world cup I will be running a World Cup 2010 draw. The prizes will be as follows: Winning Team: R1200 Runner-up: R600 Loosing Semi-Finalist Teams (2 Prizes): R300 Loosing Quater-Finalist Teams (4 Prizes): R100 Last Place in each Pool Teams (8 prizes): R50 32 tickets will be sold at R100 each [...]
Fedics Strike Update
Just a quick one to update everyone on whats going on. The strike is still in full effect, with the disgruntled workers currently ”picketing on the corner of Chapel and Main Road as they are now longer aloud on UCT property (See: Tugwell Invasion) The kitchens are currently operation normally, if not better than they did before the strike [...]
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 [...]
Tugwell Invasion
At about 12 o’clock today I was happily eating what was a surprisingly nice meal considering A, I was eating in res and B, all of the staff where striking. This is about the time that the striking Fedics workers decided that they had enough of being peaceful about their industrial action and came running into the Tugwell dinning [...]
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Fedics Catering Staff Strike
If you made it to breakfast today, you would probably have noticed that something was up. For one, if you are in Graca, your dining hall is closed, if you are in any of the other Residences you will have noticed that there where some new faces serving your food, you may have also noticed [...]
The Anton Taylor Effect
In an effort to explain the enigma that is Anton Taylor, as well as to cash in on the “Anton Taylor Effect” I have decided to show you the effect the man has on something like a blog: From the table above you can see the effect that this post had on my traffic. If [...]
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