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I've got a brand new blog - of this great one I ran for a year - which is now available at:
www.robynsilverstone.com
Pop on over and let me know what you think.
See you on the flip side :)
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Monday, January 10, 2011
Taking it easy
The song Taking it Easy by Good Luck is rocking and it's all South African goodness.
Check it out below and try hit some of their upcoming gigs, wherever they may be...
Check it out below and try hit some of their upcoming gigs, wherever they may be...
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Twitter and real life
Think about your Twitter stream and the people you follow. How many have you really met, if you take out your friends and colleagues? In my case it's around 40% that I've been lucky to recognise, meet, or bump into at industry events or around the town.
I sometimes think it's amazing at how one can knock down all walls on Twitter and have conversations with strangers yet when it comes to real life, those walls are built as high as the Empire State Building. The honesty, openness and directness to Twitter conversations is mind-boggling. People aren't afraid to open their mouths whether it's to congratulate or hate - loudly - online... yet I'm sure if they met face-to-face, would they really have the guts to be that direct.
Real life 2.0
I know I wonder what some of the people I follow and converse with are like, especially those who I have a lot of respect for. So when the opportunity came up on Monday night to come meet some of them, I grabbed it by the horns... or balls, considering it was one ridiculous 'sausage fest' as the tweetup organiser, Paul Cartmel called it in reply to me.
Long story cut short, Paul from New Media Labs and Mike Sharman decided they were going to attempt the R60 000 challenge at Caprice after the d-list celebrities; Lee-ann Liebenberg and Nicky Van Der Walt got into a huge PR mess with Caprice the week before.
Mike: "@PaulCartmel are we bevving this week - you around?"
Paul "@mikesharman fo shuua, should we klap R60k at Caprice ;) - perhaps @raouldejongh @lifeissavage @mrtuckbox will join us?"
Lots of back and forth between people and Paul's realisation: "Oh god how sad, I think I've organised a tweetup" *&%$
After following Paul, Ben Wagner from Native (Stonewall) and Life is Savage for a while, I got to meet them, along with some other pretty cool people like Mike Sharman, Liesl De Bruin, Secret City Project, Gaby Rosario and Murray Legg. It turned out to be a great night, full of laughter, lots of talking, ridiculous dance moves and being the people we are, snapping away and tweeting the hilarity that ensued.
A little later, I noticed a tweet from the awesome, Life is Savage, where he said this...
"My faith in meeting twitter folks in real life has been restored. What a group of stellar people. #goodtimes"
I couldn't agree with him more.
Let me know what you think?
I sometimes think it's amazing at how one can knock down all walls on Twitter and have conversations with strangers yet when it comes to real life, those walls are built as high as the Empire State Building. The honesty, openness and directness to Twitter conversations is mind-boggling. People aren't afraid to open their mouths whether it's to congratulate or hate - loudly - online... yet I'm sure if they met face-to-face, would they really have the guts to be that direct.
Real life 2.0
I know I wonder what some of the people I follow and converse with are like, especially those who I have a lot of respect for. So when the opportunity came up on Monday night to come meet some of them, I grabbed it by the horns... or balls, considering it was one ridiculous 'sausage fest' as the tweetup organiser, Paul Cartmel called it in reply to me.
Long story cut short, Paul from New Media Labs and Mike Sharman decided they were going to attempt the R60 000 challenge at Caprice after the d-list celebrities; Lee-ann Liebenberg and Nicky Van Der Walt got into a huge PR mess with Caprice the week before.
Mike: "@PaulCartmel are we bevving this week - you around?"
Paul "@mikesharman fo shuua, should we klap R60k at Caprice ;) - perhaps @raouldejongh @lifeissavage @mrtuckbox will join us?"
Lots of back and forth between people and Paul's realisation: "Oh god how sad, I think I've organised a tweetup" *&%$
After following Paul, Ben Wagner from Native (Stonewall) and Life is Savage for a while, I got to meet them, along with some other pretty cool people like Mike Sharman, Liesl De Bruin, Secret City Project, Gaby Rosario and Murray Legg. It turned out to be a great night, full of laughter, lots of talking, ridiculous dance moves and being the people we are, snapping away and tweeting the hilarity that ensued.
A little later, I noticed a tweet from the awesome, Life is Savage, where he said this...
"My faith in meeting twitter folks in real life has been restored. What a group of stellar people. #goodtimes"
I couldn't agree with him more.
Let me know what you think?
Monday, January 3, 2011
The list
We're trying something different this year with a friend's to-do list where we can all hold each other accountable - for the lack of a better word - on resolutions or things we want to achieve and experience together.
Below is the list, written in my new Moleskine (always wanted one).
For those that cannot see the image:
Below is the list, written in my new Moleskine (always wanted one).
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| Excuse the my writing |
- More outdoorsy things like adventures / hikes - so getting our asses outside more
- Baby vacations once per quarter - Getting out of town more often on mini breaks
- More personalised dinners at home - instead of eating out, rushing and on budget, we will eat at home and have quality nights
- Less lunches, more brunches - We found the breakfast / brunches totally chilled us and gave more time in the day
- More going out - self explanatory
- If you're having a bad day, pick up the phone
- More Cape Town events
- Road Trip - depending on our personal holidays
- Volunteer work
- Take up a new hobby - photography, golf or mountain biking as examples
- Book club
- Take a risk - getting over a fear or doing something brave
- More Jewish events - I worded that point weirdly but attend more events and make an effort
- Be less judgemental
If you made some plans, put some ideas on paper or want to let me know what you think, holler below :)
Monday, December 20, 2010
Weekend of happiness
What a weekend. Filled with love, laughter and everything else including 2 weddings for two very special people.
Sometimes words aren't enough so it's probably best that I post a few pictures to better illustrate the wonderful weekend. What did come out of this weekend was something clear: two sets of couples who are completely and utterly in love with each other and the same phrase coming through in the speeches. "I'm marrying my best friend". I hope everyone gets this opportunity to find that someone special and commit to them in whatever form you may choose; marriage or another.
So... lets begin
The bridal table before the wedding obviously involved a lot of good food - being Jewish has it's perks - and lots of photographs. It was beyond special and we were involved during every part of the process, which made it even more special.
Awesome. Just awesome!
Sometimes words aren't enough so it's probably best that I post a few pictures to better illustrate the wonderful weekend. What did come out of this weekend was something clear: two sets of couples who are completely and utterly in love with each other and the same phrase coming through in the speeches. "I'm marrying my best friend". I hope everyone gets this opportunity to find that someone special and commit to them in whatever form you may choose; marriage or another.
So... lets begin
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| Friday sunset |
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| New puppy |
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| Wedding #1 @ St George's Cathedral w/ the lovely Anthea and new hubbie |
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| Wedding #1 venue |
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| Wedding #2 Bridal table :) in Yon's garden |
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| The Chuppah at Suikerbossie |
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| Table decor - Vintage |
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| Bride and Groom |
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| The cupcake cake |
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| Croquet aka hockey and golf |
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| Mr Jones |
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| Photobooth with Root |
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Awesome. Just awesome!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
How to drag flick
This was our last match of the season where the legendary Jess - after practicing the whole season against me in the box - scored one of the most awesome drag flicks ever :)
And then, we won the season after 11 years of a Maties stronghold on the title.
And then, we won the season after 11 years of a Maties stronghold on the title.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Lived to tell it all
The great thing this week will be bringing, is more happiness and smiles to everyone around me, including me. Yes, it's wedding season and after counting about 7 bachelorettes dancing the night away at Tiger Tiger on Saturday night's not-so-debaucherous-as-I-thought party, we are on the way to a great upcoming wedding weekend. (Did that make any sense?)
After a month or two of planning, we were able to see whether all this hard work (majority my friends) really pays off. We pitched up at Dr Yoni's house to prepare the food and set up all the decorations. Our dear inquisitive friend was starting to sneak her head around the corner or out the window, where we were hanging up the giant penis piñata. But after I threatened to come upstairs and break her new pair of Pradas in half if she peered one more time, she didn't make another peep.
Piñata hung - excuse the pun - and sweets and decor looking superb, we bought her downstairs to the celebrations. First up was the surprise guest and no, not a stripper. All those bits flying around didn't sound like a good idea, so instead we hired a bellydancer. She arrived, dressed our bride-to-be and along with the 2 dances she did as an intro, she taught all the guests bellydancing basics for 45 minutes. Tons of laughter, booty shaking and abdominal exercises later, we sat down to the next part... supper then questions.
Last Monday, we interogated Steve with about 20 questions about him and Dr Yoni. Obviously we filmed this and then set it up to film her answers. Turns out these 2 people actually know each other. Can you believe it. In all honesty, the video was tons of fun to prepare, interview and watch again after some amateur editing done by Fat Pam.
Our last victim was a piñata that was hanging outside filled with sweets and accessories Dr Yoni had to dress up with for the night out. Two minutes later there was absolutely nothing left of the pinata and all the sweets on the ground the girls swiftly helped clean up and dispose of.
Toiger Toiger bound we were and 5 hours later after dancing on every part of that dancefloor to the speakers to hanging out - what felt like the entire time - at the shooter bar, we left and head back for toasted sarmies and cheese cake at 04:00.
What our Dr Yoni appreciated? She didn't throw her name away and she will remember her bachelorette party, which for her was the best outcome of the night. And... well the little whisper to me while we were sitting at the table eating our cheesecake: "You know what Robs, I'm very very lucky to have Steve" put a big smile on my face
Lyrics: Oh Darling - Happiness
After a month or two of planning, we were able to see whether all this hard work (majority my friends) really pays off. We pitched up at Dr Yoni's house to prepare the food and set up all the decorations. Our dear inquisitive friend was starting to sneak her head around the corner or out the window, where we were hanging up the giant penis piñata. But after I threatened to come upstairs and break her new pair of Pradas in half if she peered one more time, she didn't make another peep.
Piñata hung - excuse the pun - and sweets and decor looking superb, we bought her downstairs to the celebrations. First up was the surprise guest and no, not a stripper. All those bits flying around didn't sound like a good idea, so instead we hired a bellydancer. She arrived, dressed our bride-to-be and along with the 2 dances she did as an intro, she taught all the guests bellydancing basics for 45 minutes. Tons of laughter, booty shaking and abdominal exercises later, we sat down to the next part... supper then questions.
Last Monday, we interogated Steve with about 20 questions about him and Dr Yoni. Obviously we filmed this and then set it up to film her answers. Turns out these 2 people actually know each other. Can you believe it. In all honesty, the video was tons of fun to prepare, interview and watch again after some amateur editing done by Fat Pam.
Our last victim was a piñata that was hanging outside filled with sweets and accessories Dr Yoni had to dress up with for the night out. Two minutes later there was absolutely nothing left of the pinata and all the sweets on the ground the girls swiftly helped clean up and dispose of.
Toiger Toiger bound we were and 5 hours later after dancing on every part of that dancefloor to the speakers to hanging out - what felt like the entire time - at the shooter bar, we left and head back for toasted sarmies and cheese cake at 04:00.
What our Dr Yoni appreciated? She didn't throw her name away and she will remember her bachelorette party, which for her was the best outcome of the night. And... well the little whisper to me while we were sitting at the table eating our cheesecake: "You know what Robs, I'm very very lucky to have Steve" put a big smile on my face
Lyrics: Oh Darling - Happiness
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