Banking.....

so I went to bank today to make use of the 'free' points I've accumulated but havent used.. 

didnt wait too long until I was helped by a really friendly and knowledgable assistant - great start...

she helped me change details and reset passwords (including copying pages and having me sign in a couple of place) all within a matter of minutes

I thought I was in the twilight zone it all went so smoothly..

then I asked her to help me redeem some of those points and she was more than happy to turn her terminal around and navigate and help me eventually purchase a virtual voucher which would be sent via sms to my phone..

by this time I was ready to sign over any and all banking to this bank - it was amazing!!

I then asked how long before I got the voucher

"2 days"

...............................??

ummm, 2 days?? why 2 days??

"because we have to verify everything"

??seriously???? 

you just did everything

in the bank

at your computer

with my id plus copies

and me in front of you! 

for a virtual voucher

to be sent to my phone...

- but it's still going to take 2 days

seriously.................

#bank #fail

Excellence is achieved not in the doing of extraordinary things - but by doing ordinary things extraordinarily well...

Excellence is achieved not in the doing of extraordinary things - but by doing ordinary things extraordinarily well...

Excellence is achieved not in the doing of extraordinary things - but by doing ordinary things extraordinarily well...

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer with machine shop tools - Robert Hughes

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself - Leonardo da Vinci

 


Lets try this again without the picasi-fication :)

Hubby Creche

 

A brilliant advert for a local pub

 

A panorama shot of the gSouth Africa that was held in Cape Town. Awesome day, great speakers and brilliant ideas all round.
Thanks Google!

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"Its impossible" said Pride..."its risky" said Experience..."its pointless" said Reason..."give it a try" ... said Faith

Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. - Juliene Berk

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile, initially scared me to death - Betty Bender

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile, initially scared me to death - Betty Bender

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile, initially scared me to death - Betty Bender

Unless someone like you

cares a whole awful lot,

nothing is going

to get better. It's not.

Dr. Seuss

Busy does not equal important; measured does not mean mattered - Seth

Never confuse movement with action - Ernest Hemingway

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. -- Rita Mae Brown

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scale - Aesop

It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.
G. K. Chesterton

we are all made of sunshine...

...a search for identity in an age where the truth is oftentimes irrelevant...

Quotes

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love" - Mother Theresa

I think this is such a beautiful quote

Eid Mubarak! Slamat to all who made it through Ramadaan.. may you be blessed today and always...

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. - Lee Iacocca

I accept chaos.. I am not sure whether it accepts me. - Bob Dylan

Playing more games

There's a kids game that's called 'I went to the beach..'

You start off with one person say 'I went to the beach and I took a...' and then lists a single item that they took with them.. the next person then says exactly the same thing and adds on one item that they took with them, and the next person has to remember the previous two items and add on one of their own... and so on..

in my house, however, it's played slightly differently...

me: I went to the beach and took a towel
1: I went to the beach and took a towel and a beach ball
2: I went to the beach and took a towel, a beach ball and a dinosaur car....
3: I went to the beach and took some sushi and an eye, and some hair, and a arm, and a teddy ball......(at this point we're laughing so hard he just carries on)...and a racing car, and a mommy, and the dog, and...

eventually we stop him, explain the rules of the game and then try again.... with the same results.. it's become a bit of a game in itself to see whether he actually mentions *anything* that anyone else did in between laughing so hard about it all :D

Seth

I only found out about Seth Godin around a year ago and I've been smitten (for a better word) ever since. The other thing I've been quite taken with in roughly that same year is the TED talks. Now I know I'm certainly not alone, but I've started trying to figure out why everyone is so eager to hear what Seth or any of the other TED talkers have to say and I think it's because there are a lot of people who are not just getting smarter, but they're starting to see the world in a different light...

this is a good thing and it resonates well with me... so much so that I often feel I can change the world after reading one of Seth's pieces... :)

so a quick thank you to Seth - who inspires many of us to be more than the box we've put ourselves in..

Playing I-Spy

I recently taught the little ones to play I-Spy which we now play in the car but when it comes to the three-yr old, the game goes in a totally different direction:

1:I-spy something beginning with 'b'
2:bird
1:nope
3:bag
1:no
2:bucket
1:nah-uh
3:book
1:nope
(then it starts getting a little out of hand)
2:bear
1:no
3:bangkok
1:nope

3:ok, we give up, what is it?
1:a racing car!
3:a racing car starts with a 'r' not a 'b'
1:ok, I-spy with my little eye something beginning with 'r'
3:a racing car
1:yes! you got it!

.....and this happens over and over and over and over again..... lol!

so hot...

I dont get why people complain about the weather..
if it's hot, then it's hot..
if it's cold, then it's cold..
everyone complains though, they want it colder/hotter/drier/wetter...bleh

just enjoy the weather that you get
if you're hot, appreciate the fact that your body is sweating to cool you down (gasp, appreciate sweat?!)
if you're cold, appreciate the extra jacket you can put on to warm yourself up


just stop complaining about the weather..

Baby...uhh... stuff

I'm a mother of 3 boys, so I've been through the run of baby things a couple of times and I love to hear about how other people go through the wilderness that is having a baby... so I loved coming across this article about someone just walking into a baby store and the most incredible inventions that were there...

 

http://moralfibre.co.za/antonyadelaar/2010/02/17/baby-products-bewilderingly-useful/comment-page-1/#comment-2

 

of course, that got my creative cap fired up and this was my response:

I would love to invent something that could clean the floors while the little darlings crawl around, or a big plastic sheet that goes around all plugs and lightswitches cos heaven help me they get dirty.. also a couple of 'timeout' points throughout the house could be handy – when they just get unmanagable, clip their harness (did I mention an all purpose harness?) onto the timeout point which will auto disengage after however old the child is (in case you feel like over-using it)
…
I could continue for a while on this… 

 

haha! I really dont know where I come up with some of these things.. :)

 

til next time

..K

testing ping.fm.. something doesnt seem to be working quite right...

More kids stuff..

Each time I tell the little ones to put their pajamas on, my 3yr old keeps referring to his as 'jaramas' :)

Just Do It...

So some smart alec ;) today told me "people talk nonsense when they say they don't have time - there's always 2 - 4am  ;)"

and for a minute, I thought, you know, maybe he's right, not about the 2am to 4am bit :) but about the 'never having enough time' bit..  here I have been putting off blogging day after day, week after week and month after month, because I'm such a perfectionist, I would want to get it all *exactly* right instead of just getting it done.. so I start, and then dont carry on.. and then start again.. and stop...

And then of course I watched the latest Nike viral vid http://creativity-online.com/work/nike-human-chain/18909 with still probably the best tag line in the world - Just Do It.. 

So now, I'm just going to do it 

I'm going to get it done :) 

There will be mistakes, foot-in-mouth instances, blatant story telling and even a bit of plagerism - ALL unintentional (thats a disclaimer right there ;) but now it'll get done :)

Oh and another post I read said that one of the main things people DONT want to read about, is someone blogging about blogging....

So I've just made my first mistake :D

hahahaha!

til next time

..K