Smell that?

The house warming went down well. Everyone had lots of fun and we even got some presents 🙂 There was lots of food. My brother braaied a yellow tail, which was tasty. Leons’ girlfriend made us the most delicious Glühwein.

Leon woke up to find some stranger in his house doing some illicit morning shopping. He (They?) made off with his camera and his girfriends’ laptop with all her research work on . We had a lengthy chat about crime in general, and everyone has been affected by it in one way or the other.

But hey, we have nothing to worry about with such fearless leaders as minister of safety and security, Charles Nqakula, who just two months ago, while addressing the national assembly said there was nothing strange about the levels of crime in our country and suggested that those who had a problem with it could complain until they “were blue in the face” or leave the country. Suddenly a mere two months later he is launching an amazing new plan to fight crime, which is a lot of the same old promises and putting fat part of the responsibility on the public to report crime. You, sir, are an idiot!

We went to go and see Ultra Violet and Pirates of the Caribbean on Friday. Milla Jovovich is a babe, pity the movie sucked. There were some cool elements but the gravity defying bike scenes and bad CGI just sunk the whole movie. The sound also died on us towards the end of the movie, leaving just the front speakers operational. Needless to day Sterkinekor, like their website of late, were utterly useless. They could not find a person of “authority” to take my complaint and reimburse me. So I had to write my details on a piece of paper, with the promise that “someone” would call me on Saturday. Think I got that call yet?

Anyway so it was off to Seattle Coffee Co. for some hot chocolate and a pecan nut pie while we waited for Pirates of the Caribbean. It was 100% pure entertainment and Johnny Depp was brilliant as always. Keira Knightley can also be filed under hottie in my book.

Saturday we popped off to the shops. I was exceptionally impressed, while at Cape Union Mart, as the assistant placed the credit card receipt on the counter for me to sign I received an SMS to say the transaction had been processed (my copy of the receipt was still printing at the time!). Technology rocks!

Saturday afternoon it was off the the folks for dinner and a sleep over. We watched a few episodes of Bones, which I though was pretty cool. We went for a quick walk on Sunday morning, which went past the sight where a whale had washed ashore and, more recently, been set alight. I was expecting a white rib cage lying on the rocks. Instead it was just a smouldering pile of ash, with a reek that only seriously enterprising (read shady) fish ‘n’ chips shop owners could match.

My boss is back on Monday, which means I should have my camera shortly. I can’t wait!