กูกำลังจะแต่งงานพรุ่งนี้แล้วนะเว่ย มึงเป็นเพื่อนรักที่สุดของกูเลยรู้ตัวป่าว
รักกันก็ต้อแต่งงานกัน มีลูกด้วยกัน เฮ้อ นึกแล้วหวงความโสดว่ะ :
มึงรู้มั้ยมึงเป็นคนที่ทำให้กูได้มีวันนี้ มึงทำให้กูได้พบกับเอื้อย
ที่ผ่านมา มึงเป็นทั้งเพื่อนทั้งพ่อกูเลยนะสัส วันพรุ่งคงจะเป็นวันที่กูมีความสุขมากมาย
สุด ๆ เลยกับเรื่องราวที่ผ่านมาระหว่างมึงกะกู ทั้งลุยทั้งบู้ ทั้งสุขทั้งเศร้า
มึงรู้ป่ะว่าถ้าไม่มีมึง กูคงไม่มีวันนี้ กูคงเป็นคนเหลวแหลก ติดยาไปแล้วแหละ
จะมีปัญหากับเอื้อยจะทะเลาะกับเอื้อยกี่ครั้งกี่ครามึงก็เป็นกำลังใจให้กูตลอด
ไม่มีสักครั้งเลยที่มึงจะทิ้งให้กูต้องจมทุกข์อยู่คนเดียว ขอบใจนะสัส
มีมึงเหมือนมีพ่อเพิ่มอีกคน แต่กูก็ยินดีว่ะ
วันพรุ่งนี้โปรดแต่งตัวหล่อๆมาเป็นเพื่อนเจ้าบ่าวกู ห้ามมึงหล่อแพ้กู สาวๆคงกรี๊ดสลบแน่มึง
ลบภาพหนุ่มเซอร์วันนึงและกันนะ ;]
หายหน้าไปแบบนี้กูเป็นห่วงนะ มึงไม่ห่วงกูเหรอวะ พรุ่งนี้ไปนะ
ไปให้กำลังใจกูเหมือนที่ผ่านมาตลอดไง
จากนี้ไปมึงกะกูคงไม่ใช่ปาท่องโก๋เหมือนทุกวันที่ผ่านมา แต่มึงก็รู้นะมึงยังเป็นเพื่อนที่กูรักที่สุด
ใจกู ไม่อยากให้มึงไปเรียนต่อเลย เกิดกูทะเลาะกะเอื้อยกูจะปรึกษาไครวะ แต่ยังไงก็ตั้งใจเรียนนะมึง
กูจะเป็นกำลังใจให้มึงเหมือนที่มึงเป็นกำลังใจให้กู
รักเพื่อนเหมือนที่มึงเคยพูดอ่ะมึงลืมเหรอวะ
มึงอย่าไปทั้งๆที่ไม่ได้ทำความเข้าใจกันนะ
สุดท้ายแล้วมึงก็รู้ว่ากูคิดยังไง
หัวจิตหัวใจมึงไม่คิดจะให้อภัยกูเหรอ
ใจ………มึง…
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Janet Jackson may get custody of kids.
Apparently Janet Jackson is the lead runner for the Michael Jackson kid custody sweepstakes. Man, Joe Jackson and Debbie Rowe must feel wonderful about this. Apparently the kids with weird names enjoy Janet reading to them. I wonder if her nipple slip incident will hinder the case for the kids? Hmmm…
“All three want Janet to read to them at night,” a Jackson family friend says. “They just melt into her arms when she walks into the house.”
The feeling is mutual, adds the insider.
“Janet has completely bonded with those children in the last two weeks,” the friend continues. “She has been their rock. It’s clear to everyone that they are looking to her for comfort and guidance.”
One concern raised is that at 79, caring for three kids might be too much for Katherine, a problem eased by Janet’s presence.
“Janet is not only willing to raise those children, she is also the only relative who knows how to protect them,” the insider tells OK!. “Janet knows the value of a private life and knows how to keep her personal life out of the news. She is determined to do that for Michael’s children. She is saying that he would want no less for them, pointing out how far he went to shelter them.”
“All three want Janet to read to them at night,” a Jackson family friend says. “They just melt into her arms when she walks into the house.”
The feeling is mutual, adds the insider.
“Janet has completely bonded with those children in the last two weeks,” the friend continues. “She has been their rock. It’s clear to everyone that they are looking to her for comfort and guidance.”
One concern raised is that at 79, caring for three kids might be too much for Katherine, a problem eased by Janet’s presence.
“Janet is not only willing to raise those children, she is also the only relative who knows how to protect them,” the insider tells OK!. “Janet knows the value of a private life and knows how to keep her personal life out of the news. She is determined to do that for Michael’s children. She is saying that he would want no less for them, pointing out how far he went to shelter them.”
HomeDirectoryAbout EcoStreetGetting frugal and staying green
by Tracy Stokes
The global recession has finally caught up with us here in South Africa and we are starting to feel the pinch. I’m putting some work into finding ways to cut our expenses, all the while staying green, and in some aspects, becoming even greener.
Here are some ideas I’ve had for cutting back spending that will directly influence our carbon footprint.
Electricity
We have beautiful intentions of taking our home in Claremont off-grid as far as electricity is concerned one of these years (i.e. when we can afford to), until then, Eskom is pushing the electricity price to the limit and we are going to have to cut electricity usage to keep our bills under control.
1. Don’t use the tumble dryer.
2. Remind the husband and children that chargers use electricity even when the device is not attached unless switched off at the wall.
3. Close curtains and blinds at dusk to retain heat.
4. Put on a jersey before switching on the heaters.
5. Replace remainder of incandescent light bulbs with low energy bulbs.
6. Switch from using the 30′C cycle on my washing machine to cold wash.
7. Switch off the lights when there’s no-one in a room.
8. Give all worn clothes a good look-over and sniff before despatching them to the laundry basket.
We already have a few good things going for us as far as energy usage goes.
1. We have installed EconoHeat wall heaters in all bedrooms.
2. We run low energy use oil heater on wheels for the rest of the house and the occasional fire in the fireplace.
3. Our roof is very well insulated.
4. The majority of our light bulbs are of the energy saving variety.
Food
Since I stopped working outside the home and am a full-time errant housewife and mother, I have more time to cook, garden and plan. For us this is a big plus while we’re looking at our income dropping.
1. Get our home food garden in full swing. We’ve bought a whole bunch of fruit trees (apple, pear, plum, mango, naartjie (Clementine) and pomegranate) and I’ve sown spinach, chard, lettuce, carrots, onions and peas for winter growing. I will be putting some extra hours into the garden to boost food production and avoid shopping trips.
2. Complete cut out convenience foods and cook from scratch, cooking up double batches and freezing half for easy ready-meals later.
3. Eat meat only once a week.
5. Make a packed lunch for Pete and the kids the evening before.
6. Always take reusable bags to the shops to avoid paying for plastic bags that are bad for the environment.
7. Make my own household cleaners out of bicarb. of soda and vinegar.
8. Buy in bulk. I’m going to chat to a few friends and family about bulk buying and sharing non-perishables once I’ve been to Makro to check out what’s available and compare prices. Buying in bulk is better for the planet because there’s less packaging and fewer trips to the shops in a car.
Transport
When we chose our family car, we decided to buy a car with both 2×4 and 4×4, and it’s a diesel too, making it quite economical on fuel. We only need to use the 4×4 when we’re visiting our holiday place in the mountains, or when we’re away on holiday having adventures.
1. Cut back on trips out to save fuel. Plan shopping trips with collecting children from school and dropping the recycling off at the same time.
2. Use my bicycle more for local trips.
And a few more ideas that don’t fit into the above categories:
1. Sell our clutter. We moved into our new house a couple of months ago and have a store room full of stuff that we aren’t using. Some of this stuff will be despatched via Gumtree or the like.
2. Buy secondhand clothes rather than new. This is something that I often did in England, but haven’t been doing here in SA. But I just came across this great resource for vintage and secondhand clothing shops in Cape Town, and I’m going to give it another bash.
3. Use the library instead of buying books.
It’s the winter school holidays here at the moment, and Piper and I are really enjoying spending some extra time together. I’ve spent less time on the blog of late because there’s too much fun to be had off-line with my darling daughter.
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Rainy Day Kids’ Activity: Sowing winter veg
June 25th, 2009
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Piper and I have been sowing seeds for winter vegetables this afternoon. It’s fun to do with children of any age when outside is stormy and wet, and inside is a much nicer prospect. Northern hemisphere folks sow summer veg for a school holiday activity.
Learning to grow vegetables is a valuable and important life skill.
10 Easy Steps
1. Find something in your recycling that will make a suitable plant pot. Suggestions: bottom half of plastic milk bottles, yoghurt pots, bottom half of egg cartons.
2. Fill the receptacles with compost. Get organic compost from your local nursery/garden centre or use sifted homemade compost.
3. Plant seeds. Suggested for winter: Swiss chard, spinach, some lettuces, some carrots, onions, peas.
4. Water.
5. Admire.
6. Put in a sunny window.
7. Water daily or when dry.
8. Wait.
9. Harvest.
10. Eat.
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Local is lekker, imported is bad for the planet
June 24th, 2009
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Posted in EcoFood, Sustainable Lifestyle by Tracy Stokes
Spinach seedlings, cos growing your own is as green as it gets.
Mark Berger put into words a couple of weeks ago something that I’ve been thinking since being back in South Africa, and that is that South African’s appear to be suffering under “a massive countrywide inferiority complex.” One particular area that I’ve noticed this, and one that Mark didn’t include in his blog post, is in South African products vs. imported products. There is a conception here that imported equals better than local.
Inclined as I am to buy local (I like to keep my carbon footprint as small and neat as possible), this idea that buying imported goods (including food) is somehow better (and a whole lot more expensive too, usually) is just preposterous.
If we want to buy local and eat local, it’s super easy here compared to trying to do the same in England, for example. We are spoilt for choice in Cape Town, a veritable locavore’s paradise. So why are we still buying Kerrygold cheese and butter from Ireland, strawberry juice and calamari from China, New Zealand lamb, prawns from India and Woolies snoek from, wait for it, New Zealand??? There’s no rhyme or reason to this silliness when we have beautiful local (and in many cases free range or organic) meat, fish, vegetables, fruit and dairy products right on our doorsteps.
One way to take charge of the food that you eat is to grow your own, but the truth is that not everyone has the spare time or inclination to do that. There are alternatives. If you live in Cape Town you could join the Slow Food Cape Town CSA (before 30th June 2009). Or order an organic veg box from Abalimi Bezekhaya.
Wondering what a CSA is?
Slow Food Cape Town CSA Winter ‘09 – in a nutshell
A weekly bag containing six vegetables supplied by organic small farmers Erick and Eric
Two jars of surprise preserves made by a community project will be included over the course of the CSA
Farm visits organised to meet the farmers and see the farms
Additional resources include weekly email updates and recipes, and a blog
Collect your bag after 1pm on Tuesdays at: Jaqui Daya Good Food Store in Newlands, Millstone Farm Stall in Pinelands or Deer Park Café in Vredehoek
Runs for eight weeks, from 30 June through 18 August
Costs R462 in total: this must be paid in advance
Some local supermarkets stock a wealth of really local South African produce. This morning at the SuperSpar in Rosmead Avenue, Kenilworth I bought cheese from George, cream from Durbanville and stone ground flour from Heidelberg. It’s worth frequenting supermarkets who bother stocking really local stuff, and you will need to make the effort to look at labels and seek out the food from closest by. It’s an effort worth making in my opinion, not only to lower your carbon footprint, but also to support local producers and ensure food security in your neck of the woods.
Other ways to reduce your consumer carbon footprint is to buy South African household appliances (DEFY), South African made clothing (Woolies stocks some or Mnandi Textiles in Station Road, Observatory to name just two), locally made furniture (one example I can think of is Right (the bloke’s name) at the Montebello Design Centre in Newlands Avenue), and for gifts and treats there’s Montebello again, Neighbourhood Goods Market (at the Biscuit Mill in Woodstock) and the Craft Markets at Kirstenbosch and Rondebosch.
We are truly spoilt for choice, so these are just a few options. If you feel there’s something that should be mentioned here that isn’t, please leave a comment.
I’ve just signed up for the Winter CSA, thanks to Pia’s regular prompting.
Our vegetable garden is coming along nicely, we should have Swiss chard and spinach to eat in about a month or so.
The global recession has finally caught up with us here in South Africa and we are starting to feel the pinch. I’m putting some work into finding ways to cut our expenses, all the while staying green, and in some aspects, becoming even greener.
Here are some ideas I’ve had for cutting back spending that will directly influence our carbon footprint.
Electricity
We have beautiful intentions of taking our home in Claremont off-grid as far as electricity is concerned one of these years (i.e. when we can afford to), until then, Eskom is pushing the electricity price to the limit and we are going to have to cut electricity usage to keep our bills under control.
1. Don’t use the tumble dryer.
2. Remind the husband and children that chargers use electricity even when the device is not attached unless switched off at the wall.
3. Close curtains and blinds at dusk to retain heat.
4. Put on a jersey before switching on the heaters.
5. Replace remainder of incandescent light bulbs with low energy bulbs.
6. Switch from using the 30′C cycle on my washing machine to cold wash.
7. Switch off the lights when there’s no-one in a room.
8. Give all worn clothes a good look-over and sniff before despatching them to the laundry basket.
We already have a few good things going for us as far as energy usage goes.
1. We have installed EconoHeat wall heaters in all bedrooms.
2. We run low energy use oil heater on wheels for the rest of the house and the occasional fire in the fireplace.
3. Our roof is very well insulated.
4. The majority of our light bulbs are of the energy saving variety.
Food
Since I stopped working outside the home and am a full-time errant housewife and mother, I have more time to cook, garden and plan. For us this is a big plus while we’re looking at our income dropping.
1. Get our home food garden in full swing. We’ve bought a whole bunch of fruit trees (apple, pear, plum, mango, naartjie (Clementine) and pomegranate) and I’ve sown spinach, chard, lettuce, carrots, onions and peas for winter growing. I will be putting some extra hours into the garden to boost food production and avoid shopping trips.
2. Complete cut out convenience foods and cook from scratch, cooking up double batches and freezing half for easy ready-meals later.
3. Eat meat only once a week.
5. Make a packed lunch for Pete and the kids the evening before.
6. Always take reusable bags to the shops to avoid paying for plastic bags that are bad for the environment.
7. Make my own household cleaners out of bicarb. of soda and vinegar.
8. Buy in bulk. I’m going to chat to a few friends and family about bulk buying and sharing non-perishables once I’ve been to Makro to check out what’s available and compare prices. Buying in bulk is better for the planet because there’s less packaging and fewer trips to the shops in a car.
Transport
When we chose our family car, we decided to buy a car with both 2×4 and 4×4, and it’s a diesel too, making it quite economical on fuel. We only need to use the 4×4 when we’re visiting our holiday place in the mountains, or when we’re away on holiday having adventures.
1. Cut back on trips out to save fuel. Plan shopping trips with collecting children from school and dropping the recycling off at the same time.
2. Use my bicycle more for local trips.
And a few more ideas that don’t fit into the above categories:
1. Sell our clutter. We moved into our new house a couple of months ago and have a store room full of stuff that we aren’t using. Some of this stuff will be despatched via Gumtree or the like.
2. Buy secondhand clothes rather than new. This is something that I often did in England, but haven’t been doing here in SA. But I just came across this great resource for vintage and secondhand clothing shops in Cape Town, and I’m going to give it another bash.
3. Use the library instead of buying books.
It’s the winter school holidays here at the moment, and Piper and I are really enjoying spending some extra time together. I’ve spent less time on the blog of late because there’s too much fun to be had off-line with my darling daughter.
Photo credit: Birdieann
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Rainy Day Kids’ Activity: Sowing winter veg
June 25th, 2009
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Posted in EcoFood, EcoKids by Tracy Stokes
Piper and I have been sowing seeds for winter vegetables this afternoon. It’s fun to do with children of any age when outside is stormy and wet, and inside is a much nicer prospect. Northern hemisphere folks sow summer veg for a school holiday activity.
Learning to grow vegetables is a valuable and important life skill.
10 Easy Steps
1. Find something in your recycling that will make a suitable plant pot. Suggestions: bottom half of plastic milk bottles, yoghurt pots, bottom half of egg cartons.
2. Fill the receptacles with compost. Get organic compost from your local nursery/garden centre or use sifted homemade compost.
3. Plant seeds. Suggested for winter: Swiss chard, spinach, some lettuces, some carrots, onions, peas.
4. Water.
5. Admire.
6. Put in a sunny window.
7. Water daily or when dry.
8. Wait.
9. Harvest.
10. Eat.
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Local is lekker, imported is bad for the planet
June 24th, 2009
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Posted in EcoFood, Sustainable Lifestyle by Tracy Stokes
Spinach seedlings, cos growing your own is as green as it gets.
Mark Berger put into words a couple of weeks ago something that I’ve been thinking since being back in South Africa, and that is that South African’s appear to be suffering under “a massive countrywide inferiority complex.” One particular area that I’ve noticed this, and one that Mark didn’t include in his blog post, is in South African products vs. imported products. There is a conception here that imported equals better than local.
Inclined as I am to buy local (I like to keep my carbon footprint as small and neat as possible), this idea that buying imported goods (including food) is somehow better (and a whole lot more expensive too, usually) is just preposterous.
If we want to buy local and eat local, it’s super easy here compared to trying to do the same in England, for example. We are spoilt for choice in Cape Town, a veritable locavore’s paradise. So why are we still buying Kerrygold cheese and butter from Ireland, strawberry juice and calamari from China, New Zealand lamb, prawns from India and Woolies snoek from, wait for it, New Zealand??? There’s no rhyme or reason to this silliness when we have beautiful local (and in many cases free range or organic) meat, fish, vegetables, fruit and dairy products right on our doorsteps.
One way to take charge of the food that you eat is to grow your own, but the truth is that not everyone has the spare time or inclination to do that. There are alternatives. If you live in Cape Town you could join the Slow Food Cape Town CSA (before 30th June 2009). Or order an organic veg box from Abalimi Bezekhaya.
Wondering what a CSA is?
Slow Food Cape Town CSA Winter ‘09 – in a nutshell
A weekly bag containing six vegetables supplied by organic small farmers Erick and Eric
Two jars of surprise preserves made by a community project will be included over the course of the CSA
Farm visits organised to meet the farmers and see the farms
Additional resources include weekly email updates and recipes, and a blog
Collect your bag after 1pm on Tuesdays at: Jaqui Daya Good Food Store in Newlands, Millstone Farm Stall in Pinelands or Deer Park Café in Vredehoek
Runs for eight weeks, from 30 June through 18 August
Costs R462 in total: this must be paid in advance
Some local supermarkets stock a wealth of really local South African produce. This morning at the SuperSpar in Rosmead Avenue, Kenilworth I bought cheese from George, cream from Durbanville and stone ground flour from Heidelberg. It’s worth frequenting supermarkets who bother stocking really local stuff, and you will need to make the effort to look at labels and seek out the food from closest by. It’s an effort worth making in my opinion, not only to lower your carbon footprint, but also to support local producers and ensure food security in your neck of the woods.
Other ways to reduce your consumer carbon footprint is to buy South African household appliances (DEFY), South African made clothing (Woolies stocks some or Mnandi Textiles in Station Road, Observatory to name just two), locally made furniture (one example I can think of is Right (the bloke’s name) at the Montebello Design Centre in Newlands Avenue), and for gifts and treats there’s Montebello again, Neighbourhood Goods Market (at the Biscuit Mill in Woodstock) and the Craft Markets at Kirstenbosch and Rondebosch.
We are truly spoilt for choice, so these are just a few options. If you feel there’s something that should be mentioned here that isn’t, please leave a comment.
I’ve just signed up for the Winter CSA, thanks to Pia’s regular prompting.
Our vegetable garden is coming along nicely, we should have Swiss chard and spinach to eat in about a month or so.
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