People who don't vote

It Voting Season here in SA. Quite frankly people who don't vote because , they don't feel like it, don't see the point, or a...

9:33 PM
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Pen

Ok, I have a confession to make. " I'm an Architect" Nothing on earth is more annoying than correction on drawings which ha...

9:30 PM
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Life...

Well this ones not Really original, but still so true. Stop looking at your phone and go live your life. 

9:28 PM
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Bottling Plant

Weird stuff that goes on in my head. My Husband Wayne, is a home Brewer the Brixton Brewers club, they want to go a bit more pro and have...

9:26 PM
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Anual Stress Leavels

Well around this time of year, when your in the building industry, suddenly one fines that a) everyone has a project they want to start i...

9:24 PM
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Moles of Debt

What ever is wrong with a Nation that's has a hired debt ceiling than its current GDP. It is balancing on a very thin financial base...

2:04 PM
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Poo

There are many things they didn't tell you at Archi-school. The biggest of them being that your basic role is to take crap form all ...

1:56 PM
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Public Planning

The C.O.J is basically planning to bulldoze my neighbor hood. Well unless we can do something to stop this indiscriminate densification s...

1:52 PM
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Out Sourcing

Don't get me wrong I love to be useful, and a contributor to society. sometimes however I wonder is some people have out source cert...

1:47 PM
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Some Days

And thus, on some days. One finds all one really wishes to do after having ones opinion and expertise compleatly ignored by by the client...

2:04 PM
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Ruler

You might be able to tell that I've spend a goodly portion of the last year, locked away in-front of my computer working on drawings ...

2:01 PM
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Darki-teckt

The Darkitiect strikes again. Done you just LOVE it when the architect designs something which just doesn't work as planned and then ...

1:56 PM
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Job satisfaction

On the topic of job satisfaction. One find the longer one is required to perform such simple and dull tasks as changing the roof height l...

1:54 PM
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Focus

Some people may say the current generation of youth; That being under 35's show a distinctive lack of focus and dispirited work ethi...

1:51 PM
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Step Monster

Sometimes I wonder, if there is a stair monster. Owing to the massive avoidance of level changes in buildings. I mean honestly, why?

1:55 PM
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I see Smart Builders

Well yes, it HAS been one of THOSE weeks. How amazing would it be if there was any point to the X number of drawings issued to site wher...

1:53 PM
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Stop Muttering and Go do something about it.

And for something Different - here's a link to some tunes about life, and love and being better. Because well the world needs people ...

7:19 PM
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Clouds

Ever wonder what cloud think about?

10:23 AM
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Other people can think

So apparently, Google rates people according to where they live, what devise they are using , past search history, so that when you type ...

10:21 AM
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Building Costs

I was recently struck again by the enormatiy of rising building costs. Having spent the better part of the last 10 years dealing with th...

9:07 PM
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Reef

So, Reefs Johannesburg and coastal by Durban right? 

9:05 PM
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Mixed use development for homeless Guatemalans.... or stuff i found in my trash can.

Well Frank ( Gehry ) Just release 3d renderings for some tower of something or the other in Toronto. Same the poor souls. I know many of ...

6:02 PM
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End Well...

If your not a South African, or not a reader of the news you may not have heard, That Nelson Mandela is gravely i'll and has been fo...

5:41 PM
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What pregnant woman think of

Now too all my wonderful friends who are and have been pregnant in the last little while don't get mad. You know its true. Your Fetus...

5:30 PM
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Telesales

A new Trend I've discover when answering random phone calls is an automated message telling me about some new banking product I just...

5:23 PM
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And other things i'd rather not know

Now, I work in an all Woman office, which is great - Since in the past I've worked in an all Male office which is less great in certa...

5:19 PM
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Energy Levels

With my work load being what it is, last week I thought; Excellent idea, let me help with the Holiday club this year. The Above is what I...

5:14 PM
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The Hills are Alive...

Hi all Sorry to have kept you all waiting for so long, its been a busy few weeks -and thus the Hills are Alive .... with the sound of scr...

5:12 PM
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Man Flu Prognosis

Now woman, for those of you ignorant of the potential prognosis of "MAN FLU" ........

7:53 PM
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Learning curve

Some times when your life seems to consistently end up in the same place over and over, consider that there MIGHT be something to need to ...

7:50 PM
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cesspool of anger

One of the few certainties in Life is that life will NOT go according to plan. And you are allowed to get angry. However it is usually ad...

7:48 PM
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To the Hills

I Guess its been one of those months.

4:45 PM
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Air on the brain

Some people i wonder, if they have anything besides air in their heads.  You know the type only ever talk about themselves in a completel...

4:44 PM
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Talk to the coffee

4:39 PM
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Hiding from Reality

Some times it would be nice.

4:38 PM
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Put your Big Girl Panties on

You know the sort, there's probably one in your office. The work wont be done because they've got PMS, or they've had a tiff o...

4:36 PM
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Apathy

You know. The honest truth is that i really don't care.

4:32 PM
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National Burns Awareness Week

3:27 PM
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Melville Junction [church]

For those of you who've been wondering why posts have been erratic the last few weeks this is what I've been up to. Melville Junct...

3:21 PM
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An Award that should be handed out

This is an award that should be handed out, to people who pay their rent, insurance and electricity in the same month, who make food for ...

1:05 PM
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How to annoy your employees

I don't know what it is like in your industry, but in the Architectural world, there is this general rule of paying your employees on ...

12:58 PM
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I Believe in Life before death

I Believe in life before death. In other words least you cry "heretic" , if you don't like the way the world is, do somethin...

11:34 AM
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Charting Normalcy

I'm always fascinated by the concept of 'Normal' one hears such things as 'that's not normal.' But what does any o...

11:30 AM
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Life

Life as always, it depends on how you look at it.

7:58 PM
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Holy Tooth brush

And right onto Religion - so if everything you do it holy, and everything you do is acting towards the renewal and reconciliation of God t...

7:57 PM
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Bad things happen to good fish

Hum, clearly its been a bit of a philosophical week or two. Less books more TV. But one does wonder...

7:54 PM
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Dangerous Fruit

Bet you didn't know, know that ! Although apparently its not very much and your body pretty much cancels it out.

7:53 PM
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Critical thoughts.... Not

Yes Well, Enough said. Strange stuff goes on in the old noggin some times.

7:48 PM
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Woman are people NOT Possession

I have been thinking about this a lot recently, possibly main due to news and what, not. Not to mention some thought on Woman's role ...

7:46 PM
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Life

I Believe this is Rather cynical. However, for the most part this is all most of us do now anyway. Admit it. Accept It. Or Do something ...

5:19 PM
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