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Packing checklist…

2 Comments// Posted in Random by on 03.24.10.

1 x BlackBerry charger ☑ 1 x MacBook Pro (with a collection of DVDs, movies and series on standby for after surgery) ☑ 1 x iPod (on standby for after surgery) ☑ 1 x Notebook, pen and pencil ☑ 3 x Books to read (and I’m still adding books) ☑ 2 x Sets of pyjamas [...]


Can you say Laminotomy and (Micro)Discectomy?

No Comments// Posted in About Me, Random by on 03.23.10.

The surgery I’ll be having on Thursday: Laminotomy and Discectomy The traditional way of treating a herniated disc is to perform a laminotomy and discectomy. The term laminotomy means “make an opening in the lamina,” and the term discectomy means “remove the disc.” This procedure is performed through an incision down the center of the [...]


A story of irony, coincidence, fate or whatever you want to call it…

No Comments// Posted in Random, Thoughts by on 03.18.10.

In August last year, we took Zeen’s mom’s to Hermanus for a weekend away as her birthday coincides with National Women’s Day. She’s very proud of that fact, by the way. Anyway… when we left to drive back home, we stopped to pick up some fruit and I ran into a Bargain Books, I mean [...]


Some Rumi…

1 Comment// Posted in Random, Thoughts by on 03.16.10.

Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself


A “Mad Hatter’s Tea Party” baby shower…

7 Comments// Posted in Life, Random by on 03.15.10.

The baby shower turned out to be a lovely, intimate affair filled with fancy hats and loads of laughs. This will be my family’s first grandchild and I think the immediate family really enjoyed this pre-celebration to the arrival of a little girl. We set up a little tea party in my mum’s garden. There [...]