I used to write quite often about bad service in South Africa, yet quickly realised that I would have to hire a team of people to keep up to date with just my experiences as South African service is so bad.
Over the last few weeks many experiences have got me “up in arms” but I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'out & about'
Question for Kauai - Do you want to negatively affect your brand for only R2?
January 27th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Tags: out & about · what i'm thinking
Return on Effort
July 12th, 2007 · 5 Comments
How does one measure Return on Effort? Today was one of those crazy days where a quick Vida coffee meeting turned into a tornado.
It started with a facebook conversation where I sent a message to someone I didn’t know but wanted to know - within 12 hours we had sent a number of messages back [...]
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I’m FAMOUS & Oceans 13 is…
June 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments
Oceans 13 kept me entertained the whole night. I would vote Oceans 13 one of the most entertaining movies I’ve EVER seen, but Ilana thought it was the best of the 3 Oceans Movies, but not incredible.
Perhaps it’s because I was more enthralled by the scams they were using that she was! I wonder if [...]
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Blogger & the Bullard
June 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Today I finally got to meet the legendary columnist & wannabe blogger, David Bullard, when Gavin met me at the Cape Town Book Fair which ended today.
David Bullard was managing a panel along the lines of “Does the South African wine industry have anything to worry about?” (seems like they have a vast number of [...]
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50th Party Punchup @ the Extreme Hotel
May 6th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Protea Hotel’s Arthur Gillis celebrated his 50th birthday last night by taking over the whole of his Extreme Hotel, continuing with a Pajama party for a few hundred guests this morning.
After a few hours sleep, I wandered downstairs in my eSquared Robe and you have to picture the scene. People everywhere in Pajama’s eating breakfast.
So [...]
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Mind Reader Larry Soffer knows I was thinking BOBBY
May 3rd, 2007 · 6 Comments
I was one of 3 called up on stage for one of the acts tonight, and this is what happened:
1. Larry Soffer gave me a small piece of white paper
2. He told me to think of a PET’s NAME and write it on the piece of paper
3. I thought of a small dog called Bobby [...]
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Fairview Goat or Evanescence
May 2nd, 2007 · 2 Comments
I enjoyed the Workers holiday yesterday by doing a day trip with some friends to the wine farms around Stellenbosch.
We visited Fairview, Zandwyk, Backsberg and Waterford.
Fairview: An amazing wine farm as they also specialise in cheese, a number of which are Kosher (one of our group only eats Kosher so we tried to go to [...]
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Gayton McKenzie inspires Eric Edelstein with “The Choice”
April 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment
On friday morning at the V&A Waterfront, after watching the movie “Perfect Stranger” (which I haven’t blogged about, but is worth catching), my JHB friends Ilana & Lara, wanted to do some shopping at woolworths.
Within 5 minutes I was bored, and told them I’d meet them at CNA. While browsing the magazines, my eye caught [...]
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