so tomorrow i join with andrew of vaughan once more (as i did two years ago) and a bunch of youngsters from Christchurch, Kenilworth, to head up to and then down the river of orange (yes, it's my new thing, deal with it!) and i am very much looking forward to it... originally we were hoping that the beautiful val would be able to be there but sadly thesising and her old housemate's wedding will [...]
well i guess officially you could say it was late afternoon or early evening, definitely not nite per say but yes, in a complete thrashing of western province cricket club ('hockey team' i should add otherwise it might look like an unfair match-up, oh wait it clearly was) 8 goals to 2, i scored the last (and i like to think, defining) goal of the match. and it was great. i think it was the [...]
the world cup rankings have been released by FIFA and we came 20th out of 32 - not bad for a team that wouldn't have even qualified for the event if we were not hosting it - hopefully inspire us on to greater things - note the previous world champs down in 26th - go bafana! Fifa 2010 World Cup standings: 1 Spain, 2 Netherlands, 3 Germany, 4 Uruguay, 5 Argentina, 6 Brazil, 7 Ghana, [...]
Awesome SA is a site dedicated to the good news of what happens in South Africa that we seldom get to read about in the newspapers or watch in the news - they send out regular newsletters with testimonies of south africans living and loving large and helping make this nation the thing it truly can be - i encourage you to get connected 'Awesome SA is about encouraging South Africans to positively influence the [...]
so it's finally over i remember when it was announced that south africa would be hosting the soccer world cup and countdowns of four years or more and then 300 days and finally a few weeks and then it was tomorrow... we missed a large portion of the group games due to being on a namibia namrocking trip but we got to watch the opening ceremony and game in a restaurant called amazink in kayamandi [...]
so the other knight i had a way too intense discussion with a friend of mine on whether things like the Henry hand ball goal, the Maradona 'hand of God' goal, nicking behind and not walking in cricket etc etc are cheating or just incidents of luck and it's up to the ref to spot them and if not then ah well... and then the England Germany game happened and apart from me backing Germany [...]
five centimeters... from a huge upset and a big chance of Bafana Bafana progressing to the second round of the world cup which no white person predicted (let's be honest) - oh wait i mean expected cos i spent the whole week predicting a Bafana Bafana 2-1 win over Mexico and it was that close - just sent-to-meet-her's past the post to deny what would have been an incredible victory we decided to go watch [...]
[to the tune of 'I am Spartacus' and yes it's okay that most of you don't know who that is but let google be your friend - ignorance away!] so this last week tbV and mself had been invited to speak at the national Scripture Union staff conference held at Rocklands campsite in Simonstown. as we interacted with them on the first night and during the next day this one lady stood far out from [...]
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arr, so last nite of crew before baptist summer camp 1 (1000ish young people) arrive and my friend Craig Fincham leads a devotion/crew-building moment and confesses some stuff to the team and God who has been loudly whispering (well i have been incessantly converting His calls to a whisper so as not to pay too much attention to them) to me decides this is a moment of truth (MOT) moment to SCREAM at me - [...]