Jan-done

Hahaha

I've waited long enough.......

Sun Feb 9, 2014 - 7:00 PM

Civil Twilight

Kirstenbosch

Cape Town, South Africa

Soul destroying

We all have our issues.... some more intense and harmful than others.

Guilt is a cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes—accurately or not—that he or she has compromised his or her own standards of conduct or has violated a moral standard, and bears significant responsibility for that violation "many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, no argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest period, and from that they derive their intensity."[5] This may be linked to what Les Parrott has called "the disease of false guilt....At the root of false guilt is the idea that what you feel must be true."[6] If you feel guilty, you must be guilty!   Sometimes what we allow to consume us, can ruin us..............  Even in doubt, we always have a choice. And that onus is our own cross to bear.......

Mad monday mornings....

Paranoid people

If I don't understand - My mind overthinks to extreme overreaction - Those thoughts lead to paranoia on the thing I don't understand - I react badly...

The more I understand - the better I feel - the better I feel - the better I react.

It's not rocket science... It's in my make up. I need to understand things to remain calm about them. It cannot be helped... I've tried. I don't think I'm mad for this reason, I merely believe that I am one that needs to know processes of things in order to feel safe and trustful of them. Whether it be a machine, an ailment or a situation in my life. They're all processed the same way in my mind... So when I ask questions... it's because it helps me stay sane. Hahahaha.

Makes or breaks you

We never take the time to remember, or maybe even realise the crazy shit that goes on for other people in other places in the world. Yesterday I watched a video on youtube that just gave me chills about the way some people experience their days vs how I spend mine.. People are wild and their histories and upbringings are hectic (a word perfectly described). There is so much underground stuff that we are shielded from by the media because it's actually just too intense for regular news (ie murder, other crime and politics which we are now so numb to hearing about, that the severity of those articles have lost all comprehension in our minds)

Well just this morning here are 2 articles that we have been informed of, equally "wild"

A Japanese soldier who hid in the Philippine jungle for three decades because he did not believe World War II was over, has died in Tokyo aged 91.

Today is the deadline set by Al Qaeda captors for a 3-million dollar ransom to be paid for the release of South African teacher, Pierre Korkie, or he will be killed.

Crazy stuff out there...

The reveal

Fun times..

Easy separation

Thanks again Yuppiechef............................ Excited to use this. Love getting stuff in the mail :) Kitchen gadgets, what more does one need? Hahaha, kidding...........

A True Legend..

It's strange, I'm not one to associate any of my feelings when it comes to someone famous that I didn't know that passes away............. But I can't get rid of my goosebumps. I keep going cold with every song, every tribute, every voice clip they play, it's really more overwhelming that I imagined it would be. Anyway rest in peace Mandela, I was eager to watch the movie and read the books because freedom fighting and slavery issues affect me to the core for some reason, they always have....... So in his honour, with not much else going on, I think this weekend I will go watch the movie. A Sombre, bittersweet day.......
 

9 days..

キャリン

Shopping.......................!

While some are excited at Zara, I am excited at Le Creuset and Typo and the iStore.

iStore - super convenient - we needed this forever ago - gadgets - need I say more?
Le Creuset - kitchen dreams...aaaah...
Typo - Well quite simply, I should own this shop.............. there's no confusion I'll need a lot of time in here. Hahaha... It's basically like Big Blue.
Cotton On's pretty amaze too......................

See you soon Walmer Park............. I'm guessing................

PE disappoints my passions yet again

Dear Bastille

I am so sorry I will miss you in Jan @ Kirstenbosch gardens.


Sincerely
Bleak Caryn

 

Red Bull - crazy talk

Red Bull Racing takes the Constructor's and Vettel his 9th consecutive win, winning 13 overall for my first season of actively watching Formula one. No surprises with Red Bull winning though, so I'm hoping that next year when things start to even out as far as the car spec goes, they'll still remain ahead of the pack. Was really cool to watch, though I'll admit the excitement levels aren't at a all time high for me during the race. But nonetheless, totally addicted!! Haha. Mark Webber is out, so Daniel Recciardo is taking his place... Which makes sense seeing as how he's sponsored by them. I was trying to fathom that whole scenario of Red Bull sponsoring drivers other than the drivers of the red bull racing team. All makes sense, so yeah keen to see that next year, wonder how he'll fair in comparison to Mark. Anyway....................... it's all over, another 111 days before 2014 F1, so yeah, I'm keen to follow a full season! :)

Gotta love Channing

This video's gone viral...............--> Volvo's new ad.......

.....but check out Channing Tatum's response vid..

WTF Wednesday

WHAT THE F****************CK IS GOING ON TODAY?? SERIOUSLY!!!
Over it

One the best things I've read (The response to this picture)

Dear Melissa,

I have to hand it to you. That pic of you sitting gloating triumphantly behind the huge male lion you killed has gone viral.

I’m not saying that people aren’t admiring your big strong teeth or even your big strong breast implants. But your timing was all kinds of special. A week after we hear that the black rhino is officially extinct, you post this picture of yourself on all your social media sites. Now you are front page news in many countries. Even the comedian Ricky Gervais has weighed in. He thinks you are a great hunt. Typo.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. What then do we call a person who shoots a wild animal? Not for food, or even for their pelt. Just for pleasure.

Help me on this. I want to understand what frisson of pleasure do you get when you see a creature toppling to its knees? Which do you prefer? A crocodile? Or a giant bear? Which turns you on more? Heaven knows you have killed enough species to be an expert.

Do you have any feelings at all? Apart from vanity, that is.

I see from all your pictures, you wouldn’t dream of going on a hunt without heavily mascara-ed eyelashes, a piece of statement jewellery, your glossy hair, neatly braided…
Perhaps that adds to the revulsion people feel when looking at you with your ‘trophies.’ Because you see, sweetie, equality of the sexes, like Communism, is great on paper. In reality it is something else. Biologically a woman is the giver of life.

When she takes life it is an aberration. When she takes life for fun it is perverse.
Your utter disregard for animals and nature is breath-taking.
I read that you desired to kill an adult male lion as it is the most sought-after trophy by wealthy foreign hunters.

The Maroi ‘Conservancy’ gang – Hannes, Laurens and Julious (sic), did your bidding and imported a lion to the area so that you could kill it. I know that you know that this is called canned hunting.
Trophy hunting is an obscenity beyond the obvious one. Trophy hunting for lion is killing healthy members of an imperiled species.

Do you know or even care that when an adult male lion is killed, the destabilization of that lion’s pride can lead to more lion deaths as outside males compete to take over the pride? Read National Geographic and learn a few things. I know I did.

Once a new male is in the dominant position, he will often kill the cubs sired by the pride’s previous leader, resulting in the loss of an entire lion generation within the pride.

Trophy hunting by definition is counter-evolutionary. It is based on selectively taking the large, robust, and healthy males from a population for a hunter’s trophy room.

These are the same crucial individuals that in a natural system would live long, full lives, protecting their mates and cubs and contributing their genes to future generations.

See why everyone thinks you are bloodless, callous and recidivist?

Your grinning happily behind a dead lion has shocked people in a country that is almost unshockable.

In South Africa rape and murder are commonplace. Let’s be more explicit. Baby rapes are prevalent. But it took your narcissistic exploits to energize a country that is compassion-fatigued.
Amid the sad and irritating news which leaves the populace numbed by your career of legalized poaching – murdering – animals touched raw nerve ends. Hunting for sport is bloody and antiquated.
In a mere four days the Stop Melissa Bachman Facebook page has had over 95,000 hits.

You awakened a vast tribe of anti-hunters who are intent on urging the international animal protection community to muster support for the plight of animals and the environment.

For that I thank you.

The website of the Maroi Conservancy – your enablers – has crashed. When the site was up there was some feeble defense along the lines of ‘providing employment to the locals’ and ‘conservation’.
Since when does killing an almost endangered species count as ‘conservation?’ You’ve been drinking too many Klipdrifs and coke with the manne.

The money that does come into Africa from hunting pales in comparison to the billions and billions generated from tourists who come just to watch wildlife.

According to National Geographic, despite the claims that trophy hunting brings millions of dollars in revenue to local people in otherwise poor communities, there is no proof of this.
Even pro-hunting organizations like the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation have reported that only 3 percent of revenue from trophy hunting ever makes it to the communities affected by hunting.

National Geographic published a story in which Jeff Flocken, the North American director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare wrote; The United States government is considering whether to add lions to the list of species protected by the Endangered Species Act. Such protection would ban the importation of dead trophy lions into the U.S.

A recent study led by a scientist from Duke University showed that as few as 32,000 lions are left. Approximately 600 lions are killed every year on trophy hunts – 80% are killed by Americans.
A few years ago I read about a South African woman who was attacked by a male ostrich. She engaged it in a fight to the death with her bare hands and managed to strangle it. An ostrich has a kick stronger than a mule and their toe-nails are sharper than a serpent’s tooth. She was knocked to the ground several times and suffered a couple of broken ribs and a punctured lung. Perhaps the whole of the human race would have celebrated your “victory” if you had been attacked by the male lion and managed to kill it with your bare hands.

I don’t know if you have ever heard of a bloke called Mahatma Gandhi. I don’t think his name comes up a great deal in the bomas you hang out in after a good day of killing. He once said “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

Given this premise I am afraid you and your animal killing chums are egregious, recidivist and morally bankrupt.

Yours etc. Jani

P.S. Isn’t it deeply ironic that “Melissa” means honey and sweet

Idle hands... must make things :)