Took a chilled weekend and hit up the UCT wakeboard club party or something to that effect at Zeekoevlei, that very clean expanse of water that we are fortunate to have. You know…when bodies aren’t floating around.

It was like another world, with R10 double vodka and Red Bull, and R5 beers. Crisis!

It was pretty standard UCT stuff, with dildo funnels and a boat on fire, awesome! Let’s check some photos:

Then Saturday night was spent at Tiger, then Sunday we cruised through to the Hout Bay villa and just did nothing. Played some beats and watched the sun say “Adios…bitches”

I also got into a discussion with myself over a Rubik’s cube. I’ve never ever solved one because it’s stupid.

Hair looking clean

I hate the smug look people get on their faces, talking in a condescending manner to me when describing how quickly they solved a Rubik’s cube.

Well done toolbox, you made each side a solid colour, do you want a Noddy badge for that?

Would you like  a UN Peacekeeper outfit?

Do you want to be knighted by the Queen?

Well I’ll tell you what, all you’re going to get from me is a hole punched in your face because you’re an idiot. The Rubik’s cube is the most irritating thing on the planet! It’s impossible to solve and when people eventually do, it gives them a superiority complex like you have never seen before in your life.

And now I’m watching my brand new Nirvana: Live At Reading DVD and it is rad. And I’m rad.

This is a group worth joining on Facebook, because it tells people two things:

You live in the best city in the universe.

You’re awesome.

And we will all agree that you do not need much more in life!

We don’t really need to talk much more about this, you know you have to join.

Click here to join.

So I’ve had a bit of time this weekend where I have literally bolted myself to the couch and caught up on some old Entourage. It’s been absolutely glorious! I sat back with Entourage, the lap top and my awesome hairstyle, and just took it all in.

While I was doing that I decided to look into what Tumblr is all about, and I’m going to put it out there…I love it!

It’s not a traditional blogging platform but I’d say it makes perfect sense for those of you who signed up on Twitter, got a few followers and were then like “I’m completely OVER 160 characters!”

Tumblr is like Twitter on cocaine, it’s super charged, buzzing and it’s a lot of fun. The only difference is it won’t help you lose weight like the Runway Diet of champagne and cocaine. Moving on…

I find Twitter way too confusing especially once things start getting retweeted, and links are thrown in, and links to pictures are given. I prefer seeing a straight up blog page where everything is there. I’ve never really gotten into Twitter and what I may start doing in the futre for mobile blogging/micro blogging, is using a Tumblr account for SLXS. I won’t say for sure if I will do it, but I will definitely be choosing Tumblr over Twitter.

You can post videos, links, quotes, pictures and anythintg you really want and it all shows up like a real blog. Best of all is that it is free to sign up so it’s the same as Twitter, only much better. You can follow people the same as you do in Twitter which is also awesome, and you can even put your Twitter feed on your Tumblr page.

It’s ideal if you’ve started on Twitter, but now home school is over and you want to graduate. Tumblr is for you then.

Once you’ve set up an account, you can even grab some cool themes for your Tumblr page instead of the stock ones available.

O-Box Design have a cool gallery of designs available, at only $25 each to supercharge your Tumblr page so simply click here for their premium Tumblr designs.

What your Tumblr page can look like…sick!

Then if you need any more convincing (As if…), then click here for 24 reasons why you’ll love Tumblr.

Seriously guys and girls, if you’re over Twitter, you’ll be into Tumblr, it’s sick.

Don’t you hate it when some trend comes along and then you buy into it, and 6 months later no one is wearing it anymore? It’s a bit of a bitch!

Like a couple of years ago when everyone was buying Dior sunglasses the size of frying pans, and then those hugely oversize sunglasses just died. Look, wrap around will always be cool, but within reason. Wearing ski goggles or a space suit mask are just over the top (OTT) and are liable to receive a kick from me. Although I did once see a dude walking around in gold Adidas ski goggles, which in a way is cool or he was just on drugs. Yeah, probably that.

Anyway, one way to beat wasting money on trends is to only go for classic clothing that never out dates, something Country Road seem to be punishing at the moment. If I only wore Country Road clothing for the rest of my life, I’d be extremely content. They’re all about v-neck t-shirts, simple print t-shirts in earth tones and muted colours, leather boots and boat shoes, straight leg denim, linen, cardigans, light knit sweaters and anything that never ever goes out of style. And there is no polyester, it’s all quality cotton and soft leathers, the stuff that is comfortable to wear without turning you into a static electricity atomic bomb.

And I love it.

So you’ll probably notice that not much new stuff has arrived at Country Road lately, but fear not, because I’ve been browsing their online catalogue and it’s looking good. Sexual. Check out some of the stuff that should be arriving here soon (I’m guessing)

Black Cropped Peacoat R1,099.00 MOW181W136
Mid Charcoal Collared Cardigan R899.00 MKN397U082
Safari Dust Marle Henley R349.00 MTS818C290
Raw Denim Coated Jean R599.00 MPA394I028
Chocolate Belstone Lace Up Boot R1,299.00 MOE00395

Grey Marle V-Neck Cardigan R699.00 MKN390H612
Safari Dust Marle Henley R349.00 MTS818C290
Greystone Window Pane Check Scarf R299.00 MSC00153
Vintage Denim Vintage Wash Jean R499.00 MPA482I036
Deep Ginger Leather Stud & Eyelet Belt R299.00 MBE00275
Chocolate Belstone Lace Up Boot R1,299.00 MOE00395

Grey Marle Urban Cotton Knit R449.00 MKN393H612
Vintage White Scoop Self Stripe Tee R249.00 MTS819C417
Black Carbon Union Houndstooth Pant R699.00 MPA477AA21
Chocolate Northwood Oxford Toe-Cap R999.00 MOE00392

Dark Indigo Shawl Neck Cardigan R799.00 MKN396N123
French Navy Scoop Self Stripe Tee R249.00 MTS819C417
Washed Charcoal Slim Leg Utility Pant R649.00 MPA481C401
Chocolate Belstone Lace Up Boot R1,299.00 MOE00395

How awesome will you look wearing that stuff?  And the best thing is, it’s not even expensive. If there were to be a clothing line to sum up my lifestyle, Country Road would have to be it. It’s laid back, easy going clothing that you can wear anywhere and anytime and you are going to look good. Or God like.

I’m particularly excited about the cardigans, leather boots and raw denim coated jeans. And if you drop the ‘o’, it’s Country Rad.

Check out the Country Road stand alone store at the V&A Waterfront and also check out the Country Road range at Woolworths stores.

Click here for the Country Road website.

I think I read this in GQ possibly, but I can’t quite remember anymore. But it’s simple, when using a hair product such as wax or paste, you are going for a natural look and so you want the product to shape your style, but you don’t want the product to dominate. So, you simply rub the wax/paste into your hands and run it through your hair from the back, so the front has the least amount of product and looks the most natural. In this way you also have less chance of the front style collapsing (The front is generally, in guys, spiked up)

Now I’ll be honest, I have been referred to as a “Hair Whore” which is only natural, considering the outrageous number of hair products that I own.

Some of the collection…OMG

Products I highly recommend are:

VO5 Extreme Style Matt Clay

Paul Mitchell Dry Wax

American Crew Fiber

My whole thing at the moment, is to combine three products, awesome!

By the way, DO NOT use a product called ‘Dominate: Toffee’ from Clicks(Pictured above). I thought it was going to be like Fudge Hair Shaper but it’s not. Once it’s on your hands it turns into glue which is cool, but then it flakes in your hair and makes it look like snow is falling down…from your head. NOT what chicks dig.

Because my hair tends to be fine and flat, I dry my hair after showering (Don’t bother washing your hair too often) and then apply a small amount of VO5 Matt Clay to give it some texture. I apply it from the back, then just pull my hair back and forth so the product gets right in! Then after that I use a small amount of Paul Mitchell Dry Wax which gives your hair an awesome lived in look and I mess my hair up, pulling it back and forth again.

Finally, to make sure it doesn’t collapse, I finish it off with Tresemme Hair Spray. Even your chick doesn’t have this many hair products! But when getting stuck into a serious hair product addiction, the tendency is to push the limits as far as you can. Plus, let’s be honest, when your hair looks awesome, you feel awesome.

And I pay for awesome with a massive collection of waxes, sprays, pastes and God knows what else.

YEAH!

I was just going through Gazza’s photos on his iPhone because we were testing the camera quality the other day, LITERALLY taking photos without looking and naturally, as teenage desire luck would have it, we got some little darling carrying her La Senza bag. At the moo-vies. Oooooooooh you make me feel so naw-tee!

The chances are she has a boyfriend/is married and there will be the usual threats that I’m used to but I do these things for the greater good.

And this reminded me that everytime I see someone with a La Senza bag (Except a dude carrying his birds bag) I kind of wonder…I wonder what is in there?

Maybe there are little hearts on the panties. Maybe they’re regular underwear, nothing special. Maybe they’re lacy. Black or red?

Maybe it’s something really cool that I don’t even know about?

(This just popped into my head, I was in Cavendish the other day just scoping it out and seeing if anyone was keen, when I saw the cutest thing. There was a girl, walking arm in arm with her mom, but she wasn’t like a kid, she looked in her mid twenties and it is possibly the cutest, and hottest thing I have ever seen in my life. Is there anytihng more cute and awesome than a girl walking arm in arm with her mom? I’ll tell you, I was completely shattered.)

The fortunate thing is that La Senza caters towards a market, that, shall we say is ‘fit’ so once you see the bag you immediately know “Ooooooh fit body” and then you just need to do some facial recognition and you’re good to go. Generally though, every woman I see with a La Senza bag is a bit of a smoker. They know they’re hot so they just casually walk around with the bag and they buy their underwear first, so that for the next three hours, they have guys walking around pitching tents in the shopping centre.

Which is embarrassing for us guys!

I mean it’s fine if you’re a girl walking around with a nipple stand, but do you know how hard (Literally) it is to walk around with a stout kabout? It’s flippen’ embarrassing! And it’s not like a nipple stand where people are like “Awesome did you see that nipple stand. Ok are we going to Nando’s or Steers?”

With a tent pole in your pants, it’s bloody difficult for people to take it lightly. They’re like…

…”OHMYGOD check that oke, whaaaaaaa haaaaaa ha!” And they’ll follow you around, taking photos for their blogs and videoing you like you’re some sort of experiment. It’s also embarrassing because it makes you look desperate. A nipple stand doesn’t necessarily mean you’re aroused, you could just be cold. I definitely don’t get wood when I’m cold so that’s no excuse. I mean you can tuck it up into your waistband, but the best thing to do is roll it with confidence. Maybe tuck it down a little bit so it’s pointing at those marvellous tiles in Canal Walk. And then strut.

Str…

Stru…

STRUT!

Not as subtle as a nipple stand

People will be TOTALLY confused as to what is going on and I may or may not have done this. You see people looking at their friends, stretching their arms out and you read their lips (Facial), and they’re going “That guy is jungle…jungle…jungle is MASSIVE!”

Because people assume that you don’t have wood and that is just how your boy sits. You see, it’s so confusing that they think no one would walk around a shopping centre casually with a wood, so they assume you just hang low like that.

It does wonders for ones street cred! After that you roll into a night club, and word has spread, and chicks are falling all over you, asking for a ‘light’ and immediately descending crotch side to feel ‘just for your lighter, sorry I’m a bit drunk’ It’s actually amazing and street proven.

It’s best practiced at the local malls such as Canal Walk, V&A Waterfront, any boutique shops, Constantia Shopping Centre (Bang a MILF) and Cavendish. Don’t even bother attempting it at KC (Kenilworth Centre) because someone will assume it’s your gat and they’ll shoot holes right through you, and bullets shatter wood.

I thought this was quite cool, caught it on the Cape Town Tourism Twitter feed.

Click here to check it out.

It’s a pity they didn’t take that on a day I was there, the unmistakable white Speedo, Aviators and a Mexican tan would have made the picture worth a lot more if one were to sell it to Hello! Magazine or something similar.

Whatever you do, DO NOT watch Did You Hear About The Morgans? because it is a shocker! Brothers is awesome, Sherlock Holmes too. And them there are some movies coming out that I’m really keen to see, write ups below on what these bad boys are about:

The Wolfman

In cinemas on the 12th of  February.

In this Joe Johnston horror thriller Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) is a haunted nobleman lured back to his family estate after his brother vanishes. Reunited with his estranged father (Anthony Hopkins), Talbot sets out to find his brother…and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself.

Talbot’s childhood ended the night his mother died. After he left the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor, he spent decades recovering and trying to forget. But when his brother’s fiancee, Gwen Conliffe (Emily Blunt), tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns home to join the search. He learns that something with brute strength and insatiable bloodlust has been killing the villagers, and that a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline (Hugo Weaving) has come to investigate.

As he pieces together the gory puzzle, he hears of an ancient curse that turns the afflicted into werewolves when the moon is full.

Now, if he has any chance at ending the slaughter and protecting the woman he has grown to love, Talbot must destroy the vicious creature in the woods surrounding Blackmoor. But as he hunts for the nightmarish beast, a simple man with a tortured past will uncover a primal side to himself…one he never imagined existed.

Valentine’s Day

In cinemas on the 12th of  February.

Because chicks dig it!

Veteran director Garry Marshall helms this ensemble comedy featuring multiple overlapping storylines revolving around five relationships set during a single Valentine’s Day in Los Angeles.

Kate (Julia Roberts), an army officer is on leave from Iraq on a flight to Los Angeles. On the same flight is a gay man (Bradley Cooper) whose lover is a closeted football player.

The owner (Ashton Kutcher) of a flower shop proposes to his girlfriend (Jessica Alba), only to realize he is in love with his close friend (Jennifer Garner), who simultaneously discovers her boyfriend (Patrick Dempsey) is married.

A happy retiree (Shirley MacLaine) confesses a long-ago affair to her husband. An assistant (Anne Hathaway) working at the biggest talent agency in town is dating a mailroom assistant, while a publicist (Jessica Biel) who is unlucky in love finds that she has no date on Valentine’s Day.

Up In The Air

Currently in cinemas

Starring George Clooney in the lead role and directed by Juno’s Jason Reitman -  the comedy drama Up in the Air is based on the novel by Walter Kirn and tells the story of a corporate downsizing expert who happily lives his life moving from job to job, sleeping in endless hotels and racking up countless air miles in the process.

Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) makes his living firing people. Wherever and whenever companies need someone to come in and deliver the bad news of retrenchment to a bunch of bewildered employees, then Bingham is their guy.

He is perfectly suited to bear the anguish, hostility and despair of those he has just let go and has even developed a false compassionate face with which to best deal with it.

And while the endless journeying from place to place in order to do their jobs would get some people down, Bingham considers his lifestyle to be ideal.

However, Bingham soon finds all this threatened when his boss back at head office hires upwardly ambitious young executive Natalie (Vera Farmiga) who has developed a method of video conferencing that will allow for the termination of employees without anyone ever needing to leave the office again.

Determined to stand his ground and show the new girl the error of her logic, Ryan takes her on one of his cross country firing expeditions, and just as she starts to realize the disheartening realities of her profession, he begins to see the drawbacks of his way of life.

Dear John

In cinemas on the 19th of  February.

Because chicks dig it!

This compelling and deeply moving romantic drama from director Lasse Hallstrom ( Ciderhouse Rules, Shipping News, Chocolat) and screenwriter Jamie Linden brings to the screen an adaptation of author Nicholas Sparks’ novel about a young soldier who falls for an idealistic college girl.
Soldier John Tyree (Channing Tatum) is home on leave when he meets beautiful and conservative college student Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried). The pair start to date and as their relationship blossoms they decide to marry.
However, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks John decides it is his duty to reenlist in the military and, instead of going home and starting life with Savannah, he redeploys to a distant country.
Over the course of the next seven years, when each deployment seems more treacherous than the last, the love letters that Savannah sends to John are some of the only things that keep him going.

However, those loving and heartfelt correspondences ultimately yield consequences that neither the brave soldier nor his one true love could have ever foreseen.

So those are the ones that I’m keen to see, remember to book your tickets at Ster Kinekor by clicking here.

I received an e-mail from Cape Town alive yesterday about the relaunch (I was wondering why it wasn’t working a while back) and there are some cool new features which are going to make the experience better. Check it, straight from Cape Town Alive:

So, the big question is, what’s new? There are a couple of new interesting features waiting for you. Here are just a few of them.
City Guide

The city guide has been consolidated into one simple system. You can now find anything you need in Cape Town with ease. Some new exciting features include:

Interactive Google maps with directions
Dynamic image galleries
User reviews and ratings

Community

There have been many feature additions to the community, as detailed below.

1) Photo and video support for groups

Group members can now upload photos and video to be shared among the group members. Obviously, group admin can decide to enable or disable this new feature. Group admin can also decide either to allow members to upload videos or photos, or to limit it to just the group admin.

2) Featured Content

Cape Town Alive will now be able to highlight certain content within the community. We can ‘feature’ any user, photos or video to give it a little more exposure.

3) Sharing is caring

Easily share any pages off your content to any social bookmarking services, or you can have it email to anyone easily.

4) Photo tagging

You can now tag your friend in any of your photos!

5) Activity comments/likes

Activity comments and likes now let you expand your social experience and intertact more easily and quickly with your friends.

6) Video uploads

You can now upload your own videos and share them on Cape Town Alive and promote them to the world!

7)Instant Chat

The instant chat now includes the functionality to have chat rooms, send files to friends and a option to select a theme for the look and feel of the bar.

Click here to check out Cape Town Alive, and be sure to register while you’re there to take full advantage of what is new.

I spotted this on Twitter, and basically, this is going to happen! Copy/paste…This is from the Cape Town Travel Blog or whatever it’s called now, it’s a bit confusing:

Popular website Forbes.com has published its list of the “World’s Most Beautiful Cities” for this year, and Cape Town has been included, along with cities such as Paris, Vancouver, Sydney, Florence, Venice and London.

The website states: “Since beauty is subjective, we surveyed city specialists from a range of fields, including urban planning, architecture and sustainable development.”

According to the website, Raymond Levitt, director of the construction programme in civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, and one of the judges, said “open spaces” were what made Cape Town special.

“Renowned English sea navigator, Sir Francis Drake, once referred to Cape Town as the fairest cape in the world. The city houses the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, while the top of Table Mountain offers a breathtaking view of the city from roughly 3 500 feet above sea level.”

Levitt said that Cape Town is a “manageable size” and leaves a minimal ecological footprint as a result.

The world’s most beautiful cities according to Forbes.com:

1.Paris (France)
2.Vancouver (Canada)
3.Sydney (Australia)
4.Florence (Italy)
5.Venice (Italy)
6.Cape Town (South Africa)
7.San Francisco (USA)
8.Chicago (USA)
9.New York City (USA)
10.London (England)
11.Cambridge (England)
12.Tokyo (Japan)
Via

And remember, if you’re interested in the real news of Cape Town (Not the riff raff news that I bring you) then be sure to check out the Cape Town Travel Blog over HERE. It’s got some really cool stuff, especially the Flickr picture of the day.

Wickie wow!

Check it check it!

UCT Rag will be hosting their annual fundraising gig in aid of Shawco at Kirstenbosch, featuring the legendary Soweto Choir and the Rudimentals.

The legendary SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR and the brilliant RUDIMENTALS will be perforforming at an afternoon concert not to be missed. This year the UCT RAG concert will feature the two-time Grammy award winning SOWETO GOSPEL CHOIR. The choir has toured the world extensively, performing at prestigious venues like Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House and Royal Festival Hall in London as well as at high profile festivals such as the Edinburgh, Adelaide and Hong Kong Festivals. They have collaborated with a wide range of great artists including Celine Dion, Josh Groban, Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Peter Gabriel—always to huge acclaim. Now home in South Africa from a successful tour of Japan, our concert will be their first performance at the beautiful Kirstenbosch Gardens.

Expect earthy rhythms, rich harmonies, acapella numbers, alongside energetic dancing and vibrant, colourful costumes—the mix is awesome. This young dynamic choir performs both traditional and contemporary music, as well as local and international favourites adding its own unique feel and interpretation.

Soweto Gospel Choir founded its own AIDS orphans foundation, Nkosi’s Haven Vukani; to date they have collected over R4million for their foundation and perform for a variety of charitable organisations. All proceeds raised from the UCT RAG concert will be contributed to SHAWCO, one of largest student-based NGO’s in the southern hemisphere.

Additionally, Cape Town’s very own THE RUDIMENTALS will open our concert with their popular ska/reggae/afro-beats.

Enjoy this high quality entertainment with the chance to relax and picnic with special friends—all made possible by the generous sponsorship of Old Mutual and Vineyard Hotel, who are generously hosting the artists.

“(The choir) has a cornucopia of remarkable voices: sharp, sweet, kindly, raspy and incantatory leads above a magnificently velvety blend…..the music was both meticulous and unstoppable…..the songs were both spirited and spectacular”
The New York Times

Click HERE to buy your tickets.

So people were telling me they stayed up late on Sunday to see some sort of Superbowl and to be honest…I’ve never heard of it. I think it might be an offshoot of the major sporting event of the year, the Lingerie Bowl. It’s the only thing I can think of. We all know the Lingerie Bowl, and if we don’t, let’s recap:

“Hut…hut…two twenty two…two twenty two!”

That’s not Reggie Ray?

Mild

And the only other thing related to Superbowl that I personally know of is the celebrity football match. Where Marissa Miller (My ex) made an appearance:

And that is literally, physically, and sexually EVERYTHING you ever need to know about sport. Aaaaaaaaand…I’m falling in love again.

Marissa Miller Images Via Dailymail

Lingerie Bowl Images Via Sport24

It’s quite weird that people are even still asking me what I’m doing next week. Chicks saying “Yeah we still didn’t do that dinner…” and guys saying “Yeah like check it bru how do I pick up kiff chicks?”

I made all that rubbish up, but the point is (And this is true), people are asking me what I’m doing next week. And at the rate my luck is going, the only thing I will be doing next week are players from the Lingerie Bowl and sunsets in Hawaai.

The only person that features in my world after tomorrow, is me. I won’t let anyone know I have left the country, their only clues will be the photos I send them. The photos will be of my feet, some sand, a coconut and vast expanses of open ocean because I will be living on the beach in Hawaii. I won’t tell anyone I’m going, I’ll just go. I’ve always wanted to live on the beach, and I mean literally on the beach and Hawaii seems a good option. I wouldn’t need anything because the beach has always been enough for me. When I’m there I literally want nothing and I miss nothing. It’s where I need to be!

Which is what is happening tomorrow when I close this rollover for good at R80 million.

R80 million AKA Sean Lloyd

It’s been going on a while now and I’m ready to claim it tomorrow. Look, don’t feel left out because we’ll still give away R1 million in cash or prizes, I’m not sure yet. But make no mistake, it will happen.

And I’ll be clever, not like a super-chav called Michael Carroll who blew 9.7 million pounds on drugs, hookers and some other stuff (For real, HERE).

A-Grade Tool

Which is remarkable really, because my lifestyle would not cost nearly that much. Tanning oil and a Speedo would be my greatest excesses and we’d keep crack cocaine and strippers for when we go to Vegas (With baby Carlos in tow)

It is actually beyond phenomenal that some tool can spend all that money in 8 years. You actually cannot begin to comprehend how stupid chavs really are. I sometimes call friends stupid because they’ll drop something, or whatever, but I don’t really mean they are stupid as such. But chavs are stupid, and even ‘stupid’ doesn’t do justice to the amount of moron swirling around inside them. Best of all is Michael “Superknob” Carroll saying this:

But he insisted he is just as happy getting £42 a week in jobseeker’s allowance.

He said: ‘The party has ended and it’s back to reality. I haven’t got two pennies to rub together and that’s the way I like it. I find it easier to live off £42 dole than a million.’

‘It’s a bit strange going on the dole again because that’s what I was doing before I won.’

‘I’ve lived the high life but I want my job back and to earn a normal wage. I’ll do anything to earn a pound or two now.’

Carroll’s jackpot win in 2002 disappeared with astonishing speed as the tattooed self-styled ‘King of the Chavs’ lavished several million pounds on family and friends and hundreds of thousands on drugs.

By the end of 2003, he was smoking £2,000 of crack cocaine every day and hosting drug and drink fuelled parties at his £325,000 home, the notorious Grange in Downham, Norfolk. (Via)

You literally cannot scrip stuff like this. It’s beautiful, yet it makes me want to cry buckets. Anyways.

So you can enter the lottery tomorrow and scrabble for the small amounts that are left over, but don’t get too excited about the big one.

It’s got my name all over it.

Our buddy Marc from O-Box Design has recently kicked off his new blog called “Wish You Were Here” and the idea is simple, but the entire blog is essentially driven by a passion.  Here is what it’s about:

Wish You Were Here

…because being an athlete isn’t all pain.

We want to share some of the sights & views we experience on our little journey every time we step outside. It’s half the reason we hurt ourselves in the first place!

And that’s it, very simple but it’s image driven and while only just launched, it’s showing some awesome images. We all know that dreaded feeling of being in a gym, staring at a TV, or a wall and thinking “Surely there is more to life!”

And then there are the other people who spend their time exercising in the great outdoors, the ones who summit that peak only to see the sun setting over the lake, or the waves crashing on the shore. These are the people who know what exercising is all about…they ‘get it’ It’s not about trying to follow the newest Mens Health tricks to get ‘cannonball guns’ or ’6 pack abs’ It’s about those moments that take your breath away and have you coming back for more. It’s those moments that dissolve the pain. It’s those moments that have athletes coming back for more and more, and it’s the lack of those moments that have people not sticking to gym programs.

And this is what I Wish You Were Here is all about. Trust me, there will be no photos of the inside of a gym on that site! Check out a few that have been featured so far:

Rad!

It’s really awesome and you can contribute as well, with photos from your adventures. Simply click HERE to check out Wish You Were Here.

Some things cannot be explained or put into words, and I’m not sure if the Top Gear Live tickets are sold out for Joburg, but guys and girls, go see the show. I didn’t write on it because you can’t justify the show in words because there is too much awesome.

I stole this photo from Taz because this is how close we were to touching Jeremy and Richard.

Look, don’t get me wrong, I love the ladies, they rev my engine but they do not belong in the newsroom!

Sorry…got lost there. Seriously though, you would be a fool to miss this show.

The only problem is that your life will seem very average afterwards. I’ve been battling depression ever since.