<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181</id><updated>2012-02-16T17:17:45.951+02:00</updated><title type='text'>net.hier</title><subtitle type='html'>Die Strand. School. University of Stellenbosch. Journalism. Bloemfontein. Volksblad Daily newspaper. Cape Town. Magazines. South Korea. Randomness: Vietnam.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>36</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-520299415482021672</id><published>2009-02-12T13:56:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2009-02-12T14:34:09.063+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Beijing, CHINA 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQWBz_zYKI/AAAAAAAABVw/OzMQKuM1S3c/s1600-h/IMG_0181.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301886881715413154" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 230px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQWBz_zYKI/AAAAAAAABVw/OzMQKuM1S3c/s320/IMG_0181.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQWBb4_29I/AAAAAAAABVo/fxvyvYfHJ-A/s1600-h/IMG_0141.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301886875244420050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQWBb4_29I/AAAAAAAABVo/fxvyvYfHJ-A/s320/IMG_0141.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQWBWQGqLI/AAAAAAAABVg/ZW6VglxZY0I/s1600-h/IMG_0019.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301886873730721970" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 212px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQWBWQGqLI/AAAAAAAABVg/ZW6VglxZY0I/s320/IMG_0019.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQWBGPBCQI/AAAAAAAABVY/T8WcrspeffE/s1600-h/IMG_0047.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301886869431191810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQWBGPBCQI/AAAAAAAABVY/T8WcrspeffE/s320/IMG_0047.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQWA94_CtI/AAAAAAAABVQ/eonDHp5MNoA/s1600-h/IMG_0068.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301886867191302866" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 160px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQWA94_CtI/AAAAAAAABVQ/eonDHp5MNoA/s320/IMG_0068.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQTrxmv5eI/AAAAAAAABVI/RxYHjQruvBQ/s1600-h/DSCN0900.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301884304093079010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 229px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQTrxmv5eI/AAAAAAAABVI/RxYHjQruvBQ/s320/DSCN0900.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQTrnZjtnI/AAAAAAAABVA/zjIT4QjPXLs/s1600-h/DSCN0886.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301884301353399922" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 229px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQTrnZjtnI/AAAAAAAABVA/zjIT4QjPXLs/s320/DSCN0886.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQTrrsx2gI/AAAAAAAABU4/cb8hbZ569xc/s1600-h/DSCN0806.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301884302507760130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 229px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQTrrsx2gI/AAAAAAAABU4/cb8hbZ569xc/s320/DSCN0806.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQTrS1bjPI/AAAAAAAABUw/JSUzFEAsg9g/s1600-h/DSCN0838.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301884295833160946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQTrS1bjPI/AAAAAAAABUw/JSUzFEAsg9g/s320/DSCN0838.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQPWrPXgWI/AAAAAAAABUo/hQCs1ndUyPA/s1600-h/Beijing+067.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301879543560634722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 209px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQPWrPXgWI/AAAAAAAABUo/hQCs1ndUyPA/s320/Beijing+067.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQPWoIEl9I/AAAAAAAABUg/Xa1eRqYp5Ig/s1600-h/Beijing+048.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301879542724728786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQPWoIEl9I/AAAAAAAABUg/Xa1eRqYp5Ig/s320/Beijing+048.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQPWXlJuKI/AAAAAAAABUY/UEM1U6bLI3I/s1600-h/Beijing+032.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301879538283296930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQPWXlJuKI/AAAAAAAABUY/UEM1U6bLI3I/s320/Beijing+032.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQPWKrqkGI/AAAAAAAABUQ/fq3pJhkT22E/s1600-h/Beijing+017.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301879534820954210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 172px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQPWKrqkGI/AAAAAAAABUQ/fq3pJhkT22E/s320/Beijing+017.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQPWCh8X2I/AAAAAAAABUI/T-IXe784a4Q/s1600-h/Beijing+013.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301879532632694626" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQPWCh8X2I/AAAAAAAABUI/T-IXe784a4Q/s320/Beijing+013.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-520299415482021672?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/520299415482021672/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=520299415482021672&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/520299415482021672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/520299415482021672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2009/02/china.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SZQWBz_zYKI/AAAAAAAABVw/OzMQKuM1S3c/s72-c/IMG_0181.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-7399007471670400896</id><published>2008-11-11T15:18:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T15:26:38.632+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:180%;"&gt;Autumn in Central Park&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"&gt;Bundang, South Korea, November 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Autumn in Korea is cold, but colorful. Best enjoyed with long walks in the park or numerous hiking trails in the mountains surrounding Seoul.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;These photos were taken in my town, 15km south of Seoul.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267389647787663314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SRmG-hH0H9I/AAAAAAAAAGA/HP7CK0GTSlg/s400/IMG_2004.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SRmG_OXYxeI/AAAAAAAAAGI/3EcwK0dxNS0/s1600-h/IMG_2009.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267389659932575202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SRmG_OXYxeI/AAAAAAAAAGI/3EcwK0dxNS0/s400/IMG_2009.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267389667510660914" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SRmG_qmJLzI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/H5qy6gfKvjg/s400/DSCN0237.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-7399007471670400896?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/7399007471670400896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=7399007471670400896&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/7399007471670400896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/7399007471670400896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2008/11/autumn-in-central-park-bundang-south.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SRmG-hH0H9I/AAAAAAAAAGA/HP7CK0GTSlg/s72-c/IMG_2004.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-3508199334626565671</id><published>2008-11-08T05:09:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2008-11-08T05:25:00.341+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:130%;"&gt;Zero defect&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;There is one place in the world where the decades old quest for zero defect (thanks Panasonic) will bare fruit. This place is Asia’s growling, but sometimes tame, Tiger – South Korea. And it will bare a lot of fruit – square tomatoes and apples the size of Zumas head (post-trial) for the most part. At least it’s food for thought.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Korea is perfect in many ways. Innovative public transport – who needs a car? Fastest internet in the world and definitely one of the highest populations with a university degree. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;But perfection comes with a heavy price – to name one: boredom. Just ask the Swiss.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;See the perfect apartment buildings: space-saving-high-rise apartment buildings that conform to one simple building plan – no need wasting time on creativity or catering to the individual’s needs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266119304645654194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 214px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SRUDm0I7NrI/AAAAAAAAAFg/SKFUVtEHu5k/s320/IMG_2103.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Beautiful popstars, tv stars, movie stars who’s faces and bodies are sculptured to conform to the much wanted European body shape.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266120452025231730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SRUEpmdiKXI/AAAAAAAAAF4/Z86k8JB26ik/s320/IMG_3695.JPG" border="0" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;The perfect S-curve (the line formed by ample booty and booby). Eyelids, perky nose and wavy hair. Plastic surgeons make money here. And if you can’t afford a plastic surgeon you can pop into your local 7/11 and by eyelid-stickers. Stick it on and voila – instant eyelids for a pretty night on the town. Padding for your booty and bra are also available.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;So, what gives Korea character? Because they do have character – a character that sets them apart from the West. A character that makes me want to be Korean.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;They enjoy the little things. Here, being cute, is a good thing. Girls are cute. Guys are cute.&lt;br /&gt;Okay, don’t mis-judge this cute-fad and go buy yourself a Hello Kitty purse or Doreamon socks. Those are for the kids.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266119921960019618" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 294px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SRUEKv0I5qI/AAAAAAAAAFo/iaR1WE19iRE/s320/IMG_0076.JPG" border="0" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Koreans are cute because they can laugh at themselves – loudly. They are fun people – they kid around like they’re everyoung teenagers. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Watch an MC Mong or Wondergirls music video and look closely at their popstar dance moves. Go to any club tonight and as soon as one of those songs start playing at least 18 Korean guys and girls will pull-out all the stops and mimic those moves perfectly. Bless them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Public shows of affection might still be scarce – heaven forbid you should kiss your girlfriend in public. But Korean men and women pull-out all the stops to show their affection in other ways – gifts, corny cards...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;I met one guy who phones his girl before she goes to bed, so he can sing her to sleep.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Watch a Korean game show – they do foolish things, like trying to out-run a row of plastic pillars that are quickly falling on each other, domino-style. He didn’t make it and ended up being crushed (lightly) by three pillars that came down on his head. Good fun.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5266120191568600002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 208px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SRUEacL1W8I/AAAAAAAAAFw/8fQ_DtiFxtk/s320/IMG_0077.JPG" border="0" /&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;And men slapping each other on the butt, holding hands in public? Totally normal and a sign of good friendship.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Say what you will of the communist-style apartment buildings, the strange fashion, the obsession with plastic surgery.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;Koreans are unique in a way we might never be. And you should love them a little more for it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-3508199334626565671?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/3508199334626565671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=3508199334626565671&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/3508199334626565671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/3508199334626565671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2008/11/zero-defect-there-is-one-place-in-world.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SRUDm0I7NrI/AAAAAAAAAFg/SKFUVtEHu5k/s72-c/IMG_2103.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-6018253224806358600</id><published>2008-08-18T14:52:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:15:19.623+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;"&gt;Seodaemun Prison&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Inside the History Hall of (what is left of) Seodaemun Prison&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235840043344142050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SKlwx1xLHuI/AAAAAAAAAEA/ShP4cionhJ4/s400/Seodaemun+Prison+August+2008+4.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;"&gt;The prison was designed according to a Japanese prison design style. For maximum control over the prison, three cell blocks (or rectangles) flare out from a single central control point.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prison life&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;In northern Seoul, a tall red brick watchtower rises above an urban area of modern businesses, homes and a subway stop.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Seodaemun prison, a century-old relic of the Japan colonization and terrorization of Korea, uncomfortably tries to blend in with the sprawling city that surrounds it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;It is here where, a hundred years ago, the Japanese imprisoned, tortured and executed Koreans. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;In the early 1900's members of the Korean Independence Movement were working hard to gain Korea's independence. The Japan colonists didn't agree with this rebelliousness. They built dozens of prisons throughout the Korean peninsula - remember, this was before Korea was split in two.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Seodaemun Prison, in northeast Seoul, housed some 40 000 Koreans who were part of the Korean Independence Movement. As the prisons filled up, prisoners were crammed into tiny rooms. Sometimes 7-8 prisoners shared one cell. The cells had one small window, no toilet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;About 400 of these prisoners didn't survive their time in captivity - most starved to death. Thousands others survived, but with permanent damage to their health.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From schoolgirl to heroin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;An orphaned 20-year old Korean girl became one of the most famous former-inmates of Seodaemun prison. Ryu, Gwan-sun's parents were killed by the Japanese. In 1919 she was arrested for protesting with the Korean Independence Movement at Aunae Marketplace. She was first imprisoned in Gonju Prison before being moved to Seodaemun. Shortly after being imprisoned Gwan-sun rallied fellow prisoners into a full-scale prison demonstration against the Japanese. Gwan-sun was moved to solitary confinement in an underground cell, where she was tortured and starved.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;You'd think a girl who, at a young age as this could already inspire people to follow her and rise up against their suppressors, would have a bright future ahead of her once Korea gained independence. Unfortunately, the Japanese tortured Ryu, Gwan-sun to death in 1920.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235852558303682530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SKl8KToC3-I/AAAAAAAAAEI/Om12px7dX9s/s400/Seodaemun+Prison+August+2008+5.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;With a rich, heroic history such as this, Seodaemun could offer an emotional visit to tourists and Koreans, alike. But the prison has lost much of it's sense of realism and has gained a sense of absurdism and the macabre.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;While the red brick buildings still look much as they would've looked 90 years ago, this is only on the outside. And althought the wailing tree outside the execution building tells you more of the suffering of Koreans than any re-enacted video could ever do, this is not enough to save the experience from being over-the-top.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;Lifesize puppets resembling inmates have arms and heads that move with robotic grace. Tape recorded screams sound from speakers as you walk past these puppets who are in the act of being tortured by a Japanese puppet. Pink blood is splattered over the cell wall, the puppet's hair is out of place and patchy and their faces are frozen in expressions of agonizing pain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The video hall shows a re-enactment of how the Japanese tortured Korean inmates. The Japanese guy screams and cracks his whip (so to speak) a lot, and gives an evil cackle as he flips the switch to electrocute the Korean who's already bleeding from his nose and ears.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;There's also a room where you can experience "torture". In a dark the room you sit on a small wooden chair, stare into a small hole that looks into a dimly lit room where a woman (puppet) is bent over double in pain. Blood stains on her clothes. And then the tape recorded screaming starts. A few seconds later the lights go on, the screaming stops and you feel a little queasy and well, tortured. But not for the right reasons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;The museum is well worth a visit, if you can look past the fairground attractions and rather focus on the historic aspect. It is also cheap, getting you a full pass for $1,50. See the bottom of this article for more visitor information.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235854146287956450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SKl9mvU_8eI/AAAAAAAAAEg/3FS0utmVD9o/s400/Seodaemun+Prison+August+20083.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The watchtower and red brick wall of the prison enclosure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235853429681507826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SKl89BwtTfI/AAAAAAAAAEY/g4T8HxfUE0c/s400/Seodaemun+Prison+August+20082.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The female inmates were imprisoned in these underground solitary cells. Inmates were interrogated and tortured here - these cells were named Ryu Gwan-sun cells after the independence movement's heroin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5235859460459418098" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SKmCcEKNUfI/AAAAAAAAAEo/aOtwxwyfrR8/s400/Seodaemun+Prison+August+2008+13.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;The wailing tree outside the execution house. On the way to their death, prisoners would hold on to this tree crying, before being dragged off to the house where they were hanged. A hidden tunnel behind the house was used to secretly dispose of the bodies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VISITORS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Opening hours:&lt;/strong&gt; Mar - Oct, 09:30 - 18:00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Nov - Feb, 09:30 - 17:00&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Closed on New Year's Day, Full-moon festival, and every Monday (if the Monday is a public holiday, then the museum is closed the following day).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Get there:&lt;/strong&gt; Take line 3 (Orange line) to Dongnimmun station, exit 5. Walk straight for two minutes. The prison and Independence park is on your left.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sscmc.or.kr/"&gt;http://www.sscmc.or.kr/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-6018253224806358600?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/6018253224806358600/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=6018253224806358600&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/6018253224806358600'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/6018253224806358600'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2008/08/seodaemun-prison-inside-history-hall-of.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SKlwx1xLHuI/AAAAAAAAAEA/ShP4cionhJ4/s72-c/Seodaemun+Prison+August+2008+4.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-8451205066864832832</id><published>2008-05-22T16:51:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2008-05-22T17:07:50.700+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;Africans un-unite!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Afro-pessimissm&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;n&lt;/em&gt;.) - &lt;strong&gt;1.&lt;/strong&gt; the perception of sub-Saharan Africa as a region too riddled with problems for good governance and economic development.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Is this what I'm feeling," my friend asks from Cape Town. She's worried. This feeling does not sit well with a native of Africa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Afro pessimism. That's what we're feeling. And dammit, it's not like you want to!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And to be in a different country, safe and far away from all the doubt and speculation in SA, you feel a little like a pansy. Like you've become one of those people who left SA because they're running from a horrible place with no future.&lt;br /&gt;And I don't believe that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But here I am. In Korea. With a perfect transportation system. With a capital city that is the safest in the world. I've seen one homeless person - and he looked reasonably happy, eating a can of tuna with pretty chopstix on his warm blanket in the subway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I want to go back home eventually, but now I'm a little scared to do that. I'm scared to send money home before I've seen the outcome of the next presidential election (what will it do to the exchange rate?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I partly blame the media - the only time news from SA is important enough to air, it is bad news. So, that's all I hear.&lt;br /&gt;Partly I blame afro-pessimism. If you believe something bad is going to happen, it probably will - eventually. And you did nothing to prevent it.&lt;br /&gt;But mostly I blame bad government. But this could be a good thing, because governments are changeable and fix-able.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, speak up, change, keep the most beautiful country beautiful and don't lose hope. But most of all don't be a pansy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"&gt;(* Afro-pessimism's definition was found here: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://science.jrank.org/pages/7475/Afropessimism.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"&gt;http://science.jrank.org/pages/7475/Afropessimism.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;"&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-8451205066864832832?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/8451205066864832832/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=8451205066864832832&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/8451205066864832832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/8451205066864832832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2008/05/africans-un-unite-afro-pessimissm-n.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-442978992912084179</id><published>2008-05-15T17:47:00.006+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-19T14:16:24.801+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;How do you spot a South African in Seoul?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SKq4Q4DgGLI/AAAAAAAAAFY/R30SsBYFdjc/s1600-h/IMG_0193.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236200116836112562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SKq4Q4DgGLI/AAAAAAAAAFY/R30SsBYFdjc/s400/IMG_0193.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Well&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, he’ll be wearing a green apron with a Springbok proudly emblazoned on the chest.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;As you near him the smell of boerewors braaiing on an open fire will get stronger and the sound of boeremusiek will envelop you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;And, of course, you’ll recognise him by the humungus South African flag hanging from a lamppost behind his braai area.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a true story.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;This is how I spotted my first South African in South Korea. There were three of them and they were braaiing in a backstreet of Itaewon. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Boereworsroll, 'seblief?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;My Korean friend was showing me the pubs and clubs in Itaewon, the foreigner part in Seoul, when my nose picked up the familar scent of a Sunday braai.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;When I saw the braaiers in the distance, my first instinct was to walk up to them and say ‘Howzit, kan ‘n man ‘n boereworsroll kry, asseblief?”.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;But then I realised, us being near an American military base in a part of town that is a sattelite city of America, they would probably be practicing the North American art of BBQ’ing. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I walked around them to avoid hearing the BBQ-men’s thick North American accent which would invade my pleasant daydream of a Sunday braai with the family in the Strand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;But then the music got to me. I stopped walking, took two steps back, listenend closely...yes, surely....yes, he did, he absolutely did!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The guy on the CD sang “meisie, meisie”! And I knew – these ‘okes were homegrown. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;And so was their boerewors, by the way.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236200113385993426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SKq4QrM7dNI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/qCy9JOsLOEU/s400/IMG_0191.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mom's recipe goes far&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Made according to an age-old recipe passed down by Moederlief to one of the braaiers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;In their home in Seoul they also make biltong and droewors to order by homesick expats or foreigners who came to love the dry, salty meat snack. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Unfortunately the next time you’ll be able to walk into the Seventh Heaven that is their boereworsstall, is after the rainy season.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;They don’t do this every weekend. It was part of the international food festival held in Itaewon that weekend. The next one will be in August. Keep your eyes on the Hi Seoul website for more information. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Now, let me turn off this computer and get a piece of locally produced biltong from the fridge...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-442978992912084179?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/442978992912084179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=442978992912084179&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/442978992912084179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/442978992912084179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-do-you-spot-south-african-in-seoul.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SKq4Q4DgGLI/AAAAAAAAAFY/R30SsBYFdjc/s72-c/IMG_0193.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-4177227517350504078</id><published>2007-12-13T11:53:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:17:34.706+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Michelle's back...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;what i have been up to this past year (see below).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Baai-baai volksblad&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EDUlhK2OI/AAAAAAAAAAM/C7k-AoJ1iqI/s1600-h/Braai+038.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143395901637318882" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EDUlhK2OI/AAAAAAAAAAM/C7k-AoJ1iqI/s320/Braai+038.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Hallo Cape Town!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EDU1hK2PI/AAAAAAAAAAU/fS8PqJSK9Zc/s1600-h/Kampsbaai+sononder.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143395905932286194" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EDU1hK2PI/AAAAAAAAAAU/fS8PqJSK9Zc/s320/Kampsbaai+sononder.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;mmmm....Clifton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EIhVhK2eI/AAAAAAAAACM/cgl627C5thU/s1600-h/Clifton+4+barry+rayno+jaco+stefan+en+janine.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143401618238790114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EIhVhK2eI/AAAAAAAAACM/cgl627C5thU/s320/Clifton+4+barry+rayno+jaco+stefan+en+janine.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EIiVhK2gI/AAAAAAAAACc/e6HXlwRnM34/s1600-h/IMG_0229.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143401635418659330" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EIiVhK2gI/AAAAAAAAACc/e6HXlwRnM34/s320/IMG_0229.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EIi1hK2hI/AAAAAAAAACk/b5eQEA-eCKM/s1600-h/IMG_0235.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143401644008593938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EIi1hK2hI/AAAAAAAAACk/b5eQEA-eCKM/s320/IMG_0235.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EFZ1hK2QI/AAAAAAAAAAc/0lukiOi6Ucs/s1600-h/Kampsbaai+ek+gabi+en+ilde.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143398190854887682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EFZ1hK2QI/AAAAAAAAAAc/0lukiOi6Ucs/s320/Kampsbaai+ek+gabi+en+ilde.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EIh1hK2fI/AAAAAAAAACU/HsuYQ3WqOeQ/s1600-h/IMG_0224.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143401626828724722" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EIh1hK2fI/AAAAAAAAACU/HsuYQ3WqOeQ/s320/IMG_0224.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vida coffee and jazz-Sundays&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EFaVhK2RI/AAAAAAAAAAk/hfy5ofjNcqw/s1600-h/musikante.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143398199444822290" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EFaVhK2RI/AAAAAAAAAAk/hfy5ofjNcqw/s320/musikante.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Hikes &lt;/span&gt;- Table Mountain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EFa1hK2SI/AAAAAAAAAAs/UEP1f2JVgJ4/s1600-h/Bo-op+michelle.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143398208034756898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EFa1hK2SI/AAAAAAAAAAs/UEP1f2JVgJ4/s320/Bo-op+michelle.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EFblhK2TI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Wkv_Twt9wsE/s1600-h/Waterval+-+michelle.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143398220919658802" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EFblhK2TI/AAAAAAAAAA0/Wkv_Twt9wsE/s320/Waterval+-+michelle.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lion's Head&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EFb1hK2UI/AAAAAAAAAA8/EaORl-9nqvY/s1600-h/Leeukop+op+pad+af.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143398225214626114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EFb1hK2UI/AAAAAAAAAA8/EaORl-9nqvY/s320/Leeukop+op+pad+af.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EGHVhK2VI/AAAAAAAAABE/Elg3cIrhywU/s1600-h/Leeukop+geitjie.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143398972538935634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EGHVhK2VI/AAAAAAAAABE/Elg3cIrhywU/s320/Leeukop+geitjie.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EGHlhK2WI/AAAAAAAAABM/fEujj_MX-0Y/s1600-h/Clifton+op+pad+bome.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143398976833902946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EGHlhK2WI/AAAAAAAAABM/fEujj_MX-0Y/s320/Clifton+op+pad+bome.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Camp's Bay&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EGHlhK2XI/AAAAAAAAABU/LUujShS_hhM/s1600-h/Kampsbaai+mich+en+wyn.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143398976833902962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EGHlhK2XI/AAAAAAAAABU/LUujShS_hhM/s320/Kampsbaai+mich+en+wyn.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EGH1hK2YI/AAAAAAAAABc/c9hRwR0mfj0/s1600-h/Kampsbaai+ek+en+rach.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143398981128870274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EGH1hK2YI/AAAAAAAAABc/c9hRwR0mfj0/s320/Kampsbaai+ek+en+rach.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Kirstenbosch&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EGmFhK2aI/AAAAAAAAABs/NlQsNdhuxNc/s1600-h/Kbosch+mich+neem+foto.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143399500819913122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EGmFhK2aI/AAAAAAAAABs/NlQsNdhuxNc/s320/Kbosch+mich+neem+foto.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EGmVhK2bI/AAAAAAAAAB0/Sh8jgXRvH4M/s1600-h/Kirstenbosch+marigolds.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143399505114880434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EGmVhK2bI/AAAAAAAAAB0/Sh8jgXRvH4M/s320/Kirstenbosch+marigolds.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/R2EGmlhK2cI/AAAAAAAAAB8/4DAiGZMC1Bw/s1600-h/Kirstenbosch+piekniek+plek.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143399509409847746" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/158/405458358_76dde086ee_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/405458356_c9977fb01f_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/169/405458356_c9977fb01f_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Camps Bay Sunday, from the left: CP, Letje, Reino and me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-7781399513424664564?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/7781399513424664564/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=7781399513424664564&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/7781399513424664564'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/7781399513424664564'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2007/03/kampsbaai-sondag-van-links-cp-letje.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-8789396340968994116</id><published>2007-01-05T16:59:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:48:22.039+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:180%;color:#33cc00;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;********&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#6666cc;"&gt;Summer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;********&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Half a month&lt;br /&gt;Two weeks&lt;br /&gt;14 Days&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;a&lt;/strong&gt; long coastal holiday. one of the bests so far.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;it &lt;/strong&gt;began one Christmas Eve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;it&lt;/strong&gt; started in Onrus and then Rach and I headed to Mossel Bay, but every Christmas holiday starts with a Christmas story. So let's start there&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/346650011_6a022bd186_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/160/346650011_6a022bd186_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Christmas table, Christmas dinner&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;see&lt;/strong&gt; the wooden doorframe in the background, newly lacquered?&lt;br /&gt;that was how I entertained myself one Saturday night at home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/165/346650027_6dd3c88835_b.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;mom's trifle. dad's last drop of whiskey and cape velvet.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/346650018_bed06777a9_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/346650018_bed06777a9_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;prezzies&lt;/strong&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;******&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"&gt;Michelle andRachelle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;******&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Onrus...N2...Mosselbaai...Stanford-flyby...Onrus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rachelle&lt;/strong&gt; was visiting from Korea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;our &lt;/strong&gt;parents' homes and holiday homes were our holiday HQ.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/346648049_bc1750fa0c_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;halfway to mossel bay on the N2.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/346648054_037df51a5c_b.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rachelle &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;100m &lt;/strong&gt;after turning off the N2 to take the backroad through Stanford. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/123/346650021_73f1c61eaf_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;nuns don't need luck. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/346644211_d2fcbdc8e7_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gouritsriver bridge... a.k.a BriDgE SwInG a.k.a that which turns big men into big babies...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hermanus&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/154/346644217_540c0ced17_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/346650029_19f2d521e2_b.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;rach at the car that wouldn't go into reverse. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/346648045_bf4d8b401d_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/346648047_6c7442bcd5_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the descent... horisontally on Hoy's hill&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 382px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 195px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" height="180" alt="" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/154/346644222_f050f53238_b.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;not too spooky...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;The grave site of Mr. and Mrs. Hoy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-8789396340968994116?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/8789396340968994116/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=8789396340968994116&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/8789396340968994116'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/8789396340968994116'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2007/01/somervakansie-n-halwe-maand.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://farm1.static.flickr.com/165/346650027_6dd3c88835_t.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-116593709799323691</id><published>2006-12-12T17:19:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:49:31.722+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;color:#000099;"&gt;Animals&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/125/320507192_a81172e651_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;the longer you pat the harder she purrrrs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.flickr.com/133/320507198_6bc68f0ee5_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/133/320507198_6bc68f0ee5_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.flickr.com/133/320507200_78501621f7_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/133/320507200_78501621f7_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; Rooikat&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-116593709799323691?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/116593709799323691/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=116593709799323691&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/116593709799323691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/116593709799323691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/12/die-diere-hoe-langer-jy-die-cheetah.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-116204121685444829</id><published>2006-10-28T15:03:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:50:50.684+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Battle of the Bands - Kovsie campus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.flickr.com/115/281271304_7f5eb33d2d_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/115/281271304_7f5eb33d2d_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/87/281271310_463911eb0c_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt; &lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/80/281271307_3c467a1324_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;in the architecture faculty between sets. thinking of better light settings and keeping Anine out of work.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.flickr.com/122/281271312_9fa0cdaef5_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/122/281271312_9fa0cdaef5_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-116204121685444829?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/116204121685444829/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=116204121685444829&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/116204121685444829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/116204121685444829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/10/naweekwerk-nah.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-116128745383130272</id><published>2006-10-19T20:10:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:51:55.053+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;color:#000099;"&gt;Oranje, blanje.. it's a tie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000099;"&gt;Currie Cup final 2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.flickr.com/105/273835014_89f618808e_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/105/273835014_89f618808e_b.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.flickr.com/102/273835021_378d7ccd17_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/102/273835021_378d7ccd17_b.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From left:&lt;/strong&gt; Jana, Alet, Anine and me in Vodacompark, Bloemfontein.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/115/273835024_346b0db8ec_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/101/273835029_c30b684c0f_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.flickr.com/91/273835017_5c699fe3f6_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/91/273835017_5c699fe3f6_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"&gt;Oranje, blanje blou&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;"&gt;Published: Volksblad, 14 Oktober 2006&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SOOS&lt;/strong&gt; jy vandag hier sit en hierdie koerant lees, is jy een van twee soorte mense. Jy is ’n mens mét ’n rugbykaartjie, of jy is ’n mens sónder ’n rugbykaar&amp;shy;tjie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dié&lt;/strong&gt; rubriek is vir die laasgenoemde soort mense bedoel. Of nog erger, vir die mense wat nou hul koppie vroegoggend-koffie eenkant toe skuif en wonder: “Watter rugby?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Want&lt;/strong&gt; jy bevind jouself dalk vandag in ’n stad waar hulle die paaie oranje sou teer, as hulle net vroeër daaraan gedink het.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In&lt;/strong&gt; die provinsie waar ’n man sy kar oranje geverf het, ’n ander man sy vark oranje geverf het en twee vroue in oranje-katpakkies vir rugbykaartjies in die plaaslike mall gebedel het.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;En&lt;/strong&gt; moenie vergeet nie van die man wat al sy lewensideale bereik het as die Cheetahs vandag die Blou Bulle vermorsel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So&lt;/strong&gt;, wat doen jy vandag as jy nie in die stadion gaan sit en rugby kyk nie? Wát doen jy?Wel, jy onthaal gaste. Familie, verlangse familie en die ou saam wat jy 30 jaar laas gesien het toe julle saam aangemeld het vir diensplig.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hulle&lt;/strong&gt; sal nie te veel moeite wees nie. Hulle het waarskynlik rugbykaartjies in die hande gekry (die sluikhandel floreer sedert Dinsdag – daardie rugbyunie doen darem iets vir werkskepping) en gaan die meeste van die dag ín die stadion deurbring.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000099;"&gt;Verraad....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Die&lt;/strong&gt; moeilikheid kom vir daardie Vrystaters wat staats- . . . . skuus, provinsiale verraad pleeg. Hulle wat Blou Bul- ondersteuners huisves. Sonde.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jy&lt;/strong&gt; kan nog jou goeie naam red van skande. Of oranje-vergelding.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lê&lt;/strong&gt; ’n paar huisreëls neer: geen Blou Bul-vlae groter as ’n poskaart word op jou erf toegelaat nie. En as hulle dit móét rondwaai, dan net binnenshuis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ingeval&lt;/strong&gt; jou bure snuf in die neus kry (want waar ’n rokie trek, ruik jou bure dit eerste), maak seker jy is uitgerus in jou oranjeste pakkie. En net om seker te maak jou kollegas gluur jou nie Maandag aan as jy vir werk aanmeld nie – neem ’n cheetah aan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Of&lt;/strong&gt; maak ’n groot bohaai van die skenking wat jy aan die cheetah-fonds maak. Bel die koerant om ’n foto te kom neem van die oorgroot tjek soos jy dit oorhandig. Sodat die hele provinsie kan lees van jou liefde vir die cheetahs – nuus versprei vinnig.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000099;"&gt;Kerrie, currie, wat?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As&lt;/strong&gt; jy nie eers geweet het vandag is dié Curriebekereindstryd op eie bodem nie . . . uhm, wel. Jou lewe sal waarskynlik aangaan soos gewoonlik. Of beter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dis&lt;/strong&gt; Saterdag én daar is parkeerplek langs die ingang van die mall. En jy kan 10 minute voor die fliek begin nog ’n kaartjie koop én kies waar jy wil sit, want jy is een van vyf mense in die kine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dit&lt;/strong&gt; kan lekker romanties wees – tensy jou ou of meisie 16:00 hul selfone afgeskakel het.&lt;br /&gt;Jy wonder wat hulle doen?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jy&lt;/strong&gt; ry in Dan Pienaarrylaan af en wonder waar al die mense is. Swenk uit vir ’n tolbos wat alleen oor die verlate pad waai.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nou&lt;/strong&gt; is jy in Nelson Mandelarylaan. Wel, jy dink dit is Nelson Mandelarylaan. Maar daar’s oranje-vlae, oranje-baniere en oranje-papier om alles gedraai.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Die &lt;/strong&gt;Prins van Oranje moet terug wees. Nederland is besig om ons in te val!&lt;br /&gt;Jy draai om en ry Tempe toe om die weermag te waarsku. Hulle lag vir jou.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dis&lt;/strong&gt; rugby. Waar is jy? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-116128745383130272?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/116128745383130272/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=116128745383130272&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/116128745383130272'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/116128745383130272'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/10/oranje-blanje.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-115995091965914213</id><published>2006-10-04T10:32:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-10-04T10:35:19.660+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://static.flickr.com/119/260485350_72e7269594_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/119/260485350_72e7269594_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-115995091965914213?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/115995091965914213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=115995091965914213&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115995091965914213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115995091965914213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/10/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-115981817643482951</id><published>2006-10-02T21:41:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:52:41.033+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.flickr.com/114/258945179_7cc1041475_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/114/258945179_7cc1041475_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:180%;color:#000099;"&gt;Woodstock the VIII'th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://static.flickr.com/114/258885313_1b9014a2ba_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/114/258885313_1b9014a2ba_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/90/258885321_d6e4dd281b_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/118/258945168_0919725df4_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/119/258885327_59ecb47d8d_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/117/258885335_10031751dc_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/112/258885331_8da722b419_o.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The bands are from top to bottom&lt;/strong&gt;: Fuzigish, 16 Stitch, The Finkelsteins and Fuzigish again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-115981817643482951?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/115981817643482951/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=115981817643482951&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115981817643482951'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115981817643482951'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/10/woodstock-die-viiiste-die-bands-is-van.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-115902964261775134</id><published>2006-09-23T18:37:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-09-23T18:43:02.203+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Is there such a thing as a human heart?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Well, if you listen close enough you can hear them break.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;- imaginary heroes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-115902964261775134?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/115902964261775134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=115902964261775134&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115902964261775134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115902964261775134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/09/is-there-such-thing-as-human-heartwell.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-115849585431646284</id><published>2006-09-17T14:14:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:53:12.475+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/supporters.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/supporters.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Rugby.. whoohoo!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From the left&lt;/strong&gt; Danél, Joy, Magdel, Jana, meme, Maradine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Province vs Vrystaat.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-115849585431646284?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/115849585431646284/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=115849585431646284&amp;isPopup=true' title='28 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115849585431646284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115849585431646284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/09/rugby.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-115704077473827387</id><published>2006-08-31T18:02:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-08-31T18:12:55.466+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/IMG_1570.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/IMG_1570.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;I'LL FOLLOW YOU INTO THE DARK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;- death cab for cutie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;Love of mine&lt;br /&gt;Someday you will die&lt;br /&gt;But I'll be close behind&lt;br /&gt;i'll follow you into the dark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;No blinding light&lt;br /&gt;Or tunnels to gates of white&lt;br /&gt;Just our hands clasped so tight&lt;br /&gt;Waiting for the hint of a spark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;If heaven and hell decide&lt;br /&gt;that they both are satisfied&lt;br /&gt;Illuminate the nose&lt;br /&gt;on their vacancy signs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;If there's no one beside you&lt;br /&gt;when your soul embarks&lt;br /&gt;Then i'll follow you into the dark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;And catholic school&lt;br /&gt;as vicious as Roman rule&lt;br /&gt;I got my knuckles bruised&lt;br /&gt;by a lady in black&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;And i held my tongue&lt;br /&gt;As she told me 'son,&lt;br /&gt;fear is the heart of love'&lt;br /&gt;So I never went back&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;CHORUS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;You and me&lt;br /&gt;Have seen everything to see&lt;br /&gt;From Bangkok to Calgary.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;And the soles of your shoes&lt;br /&gt;Are all worn down&lt;br /&gt;The time for sleep is now&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;There's nothing to cry about&lt;br /&gt;Cause we'll hold each other soon&lt;br /&gt;In the blackest of rooms&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;CHORUS&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#666666;"&gt;Then I'll follow you into the dark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-115704077473827387?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/115704077473827387/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=115704077473827387&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115704077473827387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115704077473827387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/08/ill-follow-you-into-dark-death-cab-for.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-115677061198578806</id><published>2006-08-28T15:03:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:55:14.847+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/ARMY15.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/ARMY15.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Army...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Media &lt;/strong&gt;military spent the day together.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here &lt;/strong&gt;we are on our way to the Oryx-helicopter that would take us to a military exercise 14km's outside of town.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Courier New;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/ARMY11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/ARMY11.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-115677061198578806?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/115677061198578806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=115677061198578806&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115677061198578806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115677061198578806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/08/army-toe.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-115183298014934243</id><published>2006-07-02T11:24:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-02T11:36:20.163+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/20060701_Skater_kind.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/20060701_Skater_kind.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"Vreesloos", sê een toeskouer.&lt;br /&gt;"Pret en ’n uitdrukking van vryheid," sê die &lt;em&gt;skateboarder&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Die geluid van talle &lt;em&gt;flips&lt;/em&gt; en &lt;em&gt;grinds&lt;/em&gt; het die naweek vanaf Mimosa Mall in Bloemfontein se parkeerarea opgeklink toe &lt;em&gt;skateboarders&lt;/em&gt; van "&lt;em&gt;all&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;over&lt;/em&gt;" bymekaargekom het om mekaar se vernuf in die Billabong/Revolution Skating kompetisie uit te daag.&lt;br /&gt;Skateboards is geknak, ’n staalramp is gebreek en ’n hele paar bloukolle en skrape is opgedoen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;to be continued... moet eers koffie gaan maak, sorry. Sondagoggend by die werk..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-115183298014934243?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/115183298014934243/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=115183298014934243&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115183298014934243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115183298014934243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/07/vreesloos-s-een-toeskouer.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-115107832481275278</id><published>2006-06-23T17:54:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:54:56.099+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/MrBottomley.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/MrBottomley.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;Mr Bottomley enjoyed a healthy cup of steaming coffee in the local Wimpy situated near the N1 outside of Bloemfontein. We met there for some nostalgia, nicotine and caffeine.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-115107832481275278?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/115107832481275278/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=115107832481275278&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115107832481275278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115107832481275278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/06/mr-bottomley-enjoyed-healthy-cup-of_23.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-115011504570475737</id><published>2006-06-12T14:19:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:56:47.567+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/Kovsiegeldinsameling.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/Kovsiegeldinsameling.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; Kovsie-Jool fund raiser&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-115011504570475737?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/115011504570475737/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=115011504570475737&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115011504570475737'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115011504570475737'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/06/kovsie-jool-geldinsameling.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-115011067680041267</id><published>2006-06-12T13:02:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:58:00.812+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/SwartWitvoorflat.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/SwartWitvoorflat.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"&gt;In front of our Bloemfontein flat. I was sitting on the staircase with a cup of coffee, a beanie on my head, gloves and a suede jacket with sheep's fur. And I was still cold.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-115011067680041267?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/115011067680041267/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=115011067680041267&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115011067680041267'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/115011067680041267'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/06/my-kamera-kan-in-swart-en-wit-skiet.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-114950562681028596</id><published>2006-06-05T13:04:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:58:19.985+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/20060605_0314.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/20060605_0314.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Voyeur &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;home&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-114950562681028596?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/114950562681028596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=114950562681028596&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114950562681028596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114950562681028596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/06/voyeur-tuiste.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-114950517238743348</id><published>2006-06-05T12:56:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:58:38.265+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/20060605_0329.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/20060605_0329.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-114950517238743348?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/114950517238743348/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=114950517238743348&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114950517238743348'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114950517238743348'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/06/selfportret_05.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-114950473909482283</id><published>2006-06-05T12:49:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:58:49.500+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/20060605_0307.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/20060605_0307.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-114950473909482283?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/114950473909482283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=114950473909482283&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114950473909482283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114950473909482283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/06/selfportret.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-114882185084724642</id><published>2006-05-28T08:49:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-06-04T18:14:35.366+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;color:#990000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gotiese potjies en swaar metaal op die plotte&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;Goths maak 'n &lt;em&gt;mean&lt;/em&gt; potjie.&lt;br /&gt;Een met aartappels, baba mielies, mini sampioene en 'n bietjie beesvleis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;Nie tong van 'n likkewaan, vlerke van 'n vlermuis en bloed van 'n &lt;em&gt;newt&lt;/em&gt; nie. Gewone, stoere boerepotjie. En dis smaaklik.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;Hoe het ek (ligte hare, dra pienk, groen en blou klere) by 'n Gotiese potjiepartytjie op Bloemfontein se plotte uitgekom, wonder jy seker (jy beter WONDER).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;Wel, die aantreklike persoon van die teenoorgestelde geslag (ja, hy is toe nie net redelik aantreklik nie) het my van 'n vervelige Saterdagaand gered toe hy my na 'n braai saamnooi.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;"'n Braai? Cool, dit klink lekker." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;Want dit doen, dit klink lekker. Dit klink 'n bietjie normaal en &lt;em&gt;white picket fence&lt;/em&gt;, maar wie is ek om te kla oor 'n Saterdagaand vol nuwe mense en heerlike braaivleis?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;Daar was nie 'n &lt;em&gt;white picket fence&lt;/em&gt; nie. Daar was nie eens normaal betrokke nie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;Wat daar was, is heavy metal skreeu-my-keel-gaar musiek, flitsende neonligte, 'n &lt;em&gt;bonfire&lt;/em&gt;, 'n swaar metaal kruis en 'n tuisgemaakte middeleeuse swaard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;Tussen die lang maer mans in stywe swart leerbroeke, rooi visnet spantoppies, swaar stewels en "hey, Neo soek sy jas terug" tipe jasse het ek so naby aan &lt;em&gt;Care Bear&lt;/em&gt; gevoel as wat 'n 23-jarige, 1,76m lange fleshy mens kan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;Vier Gote, vyf heavy metal junkies en 'n Ben Harper-aanhanger staan om 'n &lt;em&gt;bonfire&lt;/em&gt;...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;Ons klink bietjie soos 'n grap, maar die potjie was lekker, die &lt;em&gt;bonfire&lt;/em&gt; het die ergste Vrystaat-koue verdryf en heavy metal is 'n interessante genre waarvan ek nog baie kan leer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;Gote is nie vreesaanjaend nie - ek het dit besef toe langeraat-in-swart lugskimme met sy swaard aangeval het op die plot se groot plat grasperk (o, die plotte is amazing. Dis buite die stad. Van die &lt;em&gt;bonfire&lt;/em&gt; kyk jy oor 'n lae muur en op die horison sien jy die stadsliggies blink. En bo jou is 'n fees van sterre en melkweg. Pragtig).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;So, Gote vergete het die heavy metal entoesiaste my die res van die aand vermaak. Ek het meer tuis gevoel by hulle as by 'n kuier saam met die plaaslike kerkkoor in Rustic (oulike mense - regtig pragtig, maar ons het net so min in gemeen). Die metal luisteraars - ons het nie noodwendig meer in gemeen nie, maar dit was lekker. Goeie mense, met passie. Ek het respek vir mense met passie - dit hou jou aan die gang.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;My metal-opvoeding kry stadig maar seker pas. Dit sal nie my oorspronklike passie vir die musiek waarna ek tans luister oorrompel nie, maar dis interessant om "the road not taken" te kan verken.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;En iewers binne in my skuil 'n heavy metal verslawende - Sepultura is 'n great band. En ek doen al my laataand werk saam met AC/DC (dis blykbaar ou skool metal, maar ek gee nie om nie.).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;"&gt;Rock on!! (of is dit nou Metal Voort!!?!)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-114882185084724642?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/114882185084724642/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=114882185084724642&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114882185084724642'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114882185084724642'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/05/gotiese-potjies-en-swaar-metaal-op-die.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-114796133168110901</id><published>2006-05-18T16:01:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-18T16:08:51.693+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/936/2529/1600/allright2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/936/2529/320/allright2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-114796133168110901?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/114796133168110901/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=114796133168110901&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114796133168110901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114796133168110901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/05/blog-post_18.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-114736706990547036</id><published>2006-05-11T18:58:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T16:59:32.126+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/20060509_0052.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/20060509_0052.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Langenhovenpark.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"&gt;On the way home. It almost looks like Table Mountain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-114736706990547036?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/114736706990547036/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=114736706990547036&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114736706990547036'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114736706990547036'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/05/langenhovenpark.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-114736411487129175</id><published>2006-05-11T18:05:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2008-08-18T17:01:25.082+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/20060511_0112.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/20060511_0112.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Early morning the sunrays aren't yellow, they are pink.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;I found this out the hard way. At 6am on a winter's morning in Bloem. Shooting pics for a lifestyle supplement to the newspaper.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Like &lt;/strong&gt;JT always said:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#993300;"&gt;"Die wêreld is 'n mooier plek vroeg in die oggend."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#333333;"&gt;"The world is a more beautiful place early in the morning"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-114736411487129175?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/114736411487129175/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=114736411487129175&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114736411487129175'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114736411487129175'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/05/die-oggend-se-eerste-sonstrale-is-nie.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-114675070017978653</id><published>2006-05-04T15:39:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-04T16:17:51.253+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/DawieGroenfontein2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/DawieGroenfontein2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/DawieGroenfontein2.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;Groenfontein.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-114675070017978653?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/114675070017978653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=114675070017978653&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114675070017978653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114675070017978653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/05/groenfontein.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-114667289000602259</id><published>2006-05-03T18:12:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-03T18:14:50.090+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/Gil_Crop.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/Gil_Crop.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-114667289000602259?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/114667289000602259/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=114667289000602259&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114667289000602259'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114667289000602259'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/05/blog-post_114667289000602259.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-114667270734219891</id><published>2006-05-03T18:10:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-03T18:11:47.406+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/Nommer2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g283/michelleviljoen/Nommer5G.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-114667252832359770?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/114667252832359770/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=114667252832359770&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114667252832359770'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114667252832359770'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/05/blog-post_03.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-114658303647843537</id><published>2006-05-02T17:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-03T09:42:09.386+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;Jong Stemme rubriek in &lt;em&gt;Volksblad&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;Nuut in die Vrystaat...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;’n Vriend vir ’n bier ná werk. ’n Vriend vir ’n goeie koppie koffie voor klas. ’n Vriend vir twee keer ’n week gaan fliek, en nog ’n vriend vir as jy net wil oppak en weggaan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En dan stuur hulle jou sielalleen weg om in die vreemde te gaan werk.&lt;br /&gt;Een oggend word jy wakker, in die hartland.&lt;br /&gt;Enkeling, vreemdeling.&lt;br /&gt;Ontwortel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jou enigste vriend die groot swart tas wat jou altyd op vakansies vergesel.&lt;br /&gt;Opgesluit met herinneringe aan die goeie ou dae.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wat kan jy doen? Jy het jouself vir drie of vier jaar in ’n pragtige, eikbelaande dorp (30 minute van die see) bevind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baie gemaklik gelewe op koffies in polistereenkoppies teen R2,50 (R4,50 as jy ’n nagraadse student is en saam met al die ander vierdejaars in die &lt;em&gt;lanie &lt;/em&gt;kampusplekkie gaan koffie drink), boksies rooiwyn teen R10 en koshuiskos op jou (ouers se) studenterekening. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naweke kon jy al vroegoggend buite ’n koffiewinkel gaan sit. Hier het jy jou koffie gesit en drink onder beblaarde eikebome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Agterna kon jy in die tweedehandse boek- en CD-winkel gaan snuffel vir vergete musikante, of dalk nog ’n versteekte kopie van daardie Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band plaat vind, soos die een waarmee ’n klasmaat die vorige week kom af&lt;em&gt;-show&lt;/em&gt; het.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maar aan die einde van dié maand gaan daardie vensterkoevertjie jou naam dra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En jou waardevolste besitting is die (oorspronklike) Kook &amp;amp; Geniet wat jou ma vir jou 21ste verjaardag geskenk het.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As die prys van buskaartjies op die kanariegeelbus met die turkoois sitplekke skielik daal, is jy eerste in die tou om ’n retoerkaartjie Kaap toe te koop.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Op jou laaste dag daar is dit ’n heerlike 40 grade Celsius warm. Hulle trek jou met geweld uit die see uit sodat jy kan gaan pak vir die terugslag.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Maar dan, een onsinnig koue aand in die vreemde, die Rosestad sonder rose, deel jy ’n bottel rooiwyn, ’n paar grappies en ’n vuur wat nie regtig die koue verdryf nie. ’n Paar dae later bel ’n ou skoolvriendin: “Ek woon ook nou in Bloemfontein”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Die Mystic Boer se &lt;em&gt;renovations&lt;/em&gt; is klaar en dit maak uiteindelik weer sy deure vir die publiek oop. Dit lyk baie soos die een op Stellenbosch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As jy onder die Andy Warhol-agtige prent van die boerekommando-lid met die welige baard staan, raak mens nogal nostalgies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maar wie wil nou heelaand onder ’n bebaarde ou oom sit en kuier?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die goeie ou dae word nie verniet so genoem nie. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dit was lekker, maar dit was nie lekker omdat jy op Stellenbosch was nie. Dit was lekker omdat jy omring was deur goeie mense – wat weer gesorg het vir goeie tye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En goeie mense is skaars, maar wyd verspreid. Jy kan hulle enige plek vind. Of hulle vind jou. Hang af hoe baie geluk aan jou kant is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So dis ’n eenvoudige resep: gaan enige plek, oriënteer jouself sodat jy nie die fout gaan maak om in ’n drie-baan eenrigtingstraat op te ry nie. Of om in die Mall klere te koop as hier ’n menigte Chinese klerewinkels met groot winskope is nie (jy moet net mooi soek).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dan is daar Naval Hill met sy kameelperd-familie. Blykbaar een van net twee natuurreservate binne-in ’n stad. Tafelberg het springbokke en Stellenbosch het eekhorings, maar nie kampeelperde nie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Die moreel van dié storie? Geniet die andersheid. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-114658303647843537?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/114658303647843537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=114658303647843537&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114658303647843537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114658303647843537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/05/jong-stemme-rubriek-in-volksblad.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24395181.post-114286892483417940</id><published>2006-03-20T17:27:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-02T16:59:20.126+02:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;Afrikaans is plesierig&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;DIS op T-hemde, op aansteektekens, dit pols oor CD-spelers en vloei oor die lippe van die jeug.&lt;br /&gt;Afrikaans lééf, skryf&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Michelle Viljoen &lt;/strong&gt;in Volksblad&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;SOMMIGE meen dis ’n Afrikaanse herlewing - groter en sterker as die vorige een in die tyd van die voëlvry-beweging of met die Oppikoppie-feeste in die laat jare negentig.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#3333ff;"&gt;Afrikaans is ’n lied&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“Afrikaans is uniek. En dis ons eie. Iets wat oukei klink in Engels, klink gewoonlik soetsappig as jy dit in Afrikaans probeer sê. Maar as jy dit op ’n nuwe, oorspronklike manier in Afrikaans kan sê, is dit ’n treffer.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Dis hoekom hul soort Afrikaanse musiek so gewild is, sê Bertie Coetzee, lid van Zinkplaat, kontemporêre Afrikaanse musiekgroep. Hy sê hul musiek is vir jonk en oud bedoel. Volgens hom het die gewildheid van Afrikaanse musiek te doen met ’n soort trots om Afrikaans te wees. As jy raakgesien wil word in Afrikaans, moet jy dit kreatief gebruik.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Chris Chameleon, voorheen lid van die monkipunk-groep Boo!, het verlede jaar Ek herhaal jou, ’n CD met toonsettings van Ingrid Jonker-gedigte, uitgereik. Die liedjies is natuurlik net in Afrikaans, maar die CD is hoogs gewild. Hy het dit al in Nederlands vertaal en dit het “goed af gegaan op toer in Nederland en België”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“Die mense wat van die musiek hou, het ’n liefde vir Afrikaans en ’n beskermende gevoel teenoor Afrikaans. Afrikaners voel beleërd oor hul taal en snoer saam. Dis een van die redes waarom die Afrikaanse mark tans so gesond is.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Paul Sebolai, ’n tydelike bestuurder by Musica in Bloemfontein en Kovsie FM-omroeper, sê die Afrikaanse musiekmark lyk sterk. Veral kontemporêre Afrikaanse musikante soos Karen Zoid en Zinkplaat se CD’s verkoop goed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#3333ff;"&gt;Afrikaans is ’n illustrasie... wat verkoop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Nie net Afrikaanse musiek is gewild nie. Dit lyk of Afrikaans ’n nuwe mark geskep het waarin entrepeneurs hulself kan uitleef met Afrikaans se sterk visuele trefkrag. Wie sou kon dink iets met die produknaam “Trouvrou” sal soos soetkoek verkoop? Natasha Taljaard, ontwerper en stigter van Trouvrou Produksies, ontwerp en verkoop T-hemde en aansteektekens met Afrikaanse woorde daarop. Die gewildste Trouvrou-T-hemp is een waarop ’n koei met ’n leë uitdrukking vir jou kyk. Onderaan staan die woord “Woef!”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Taljaard glo haar produk is ’n sukses, omdat dit mense wat ’n sekere tipe humorsin deel, bymekaarbring. Sy sê Afrikaans is die enigste taal wat die “lekker” tipe woorde het wat ’n mens kan gebruik in dié “grappies”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“’n Mens kan net in Afrikaans ‘trouvrou’ of ‘bitsig’ sê. Dis lekker om onderskei te kan word en deel te voel van ’n groep wat lag vir sekere tipes grappies. As jy die T-hemp dra, wys jy vir mense jy is deel van dié groep. Dis ook ’n goeie gesprekspunt.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Am I collective, ’n groep grafiese ontwerpers, skryf hul unieke ontwerpe toe aan die Afrikaner-agtergrond waaruit hulle kom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Ruan Vermeulen, een van dié ontwerpers, sê jong Afrikaners het weggebreek van die konnotasies wat dikwels aan Afrikaans-wees geheg word – dié van “taal van die onderdrukker”, verkramptes en so meer. Hy sê dit het ’n “Afrikaner-revival” teweeggebring. Die Afrikaner moet nou ’n nuwe identiteit vir homself skep. En dit laat baie ruimte vir kreatief wees en eksperimenteer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“Ons as jong Afrikaners is gatvol om ge-label te word deur die verlede. Ons soek ’n nuwe identiteit en is meer trots op ons taal. En as jy trots is, kry jy selfvertroue, die selfvertroue om te eksperimenteer. Jong Afrikaners is nie bang om te sê wat hulle wil nie.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;"Daardie goed, soos 'gatstamp-musiek', en die wanpersepsies oor&lt;br /&gt;Afrikaners broei in 'n mens."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“Ons kyk 7de Laan – ek is mal daaroor – maar ons kan nie met daardie karakters en daardie lewenswyse identifiseer nie. Daardie goed, soos ‘gatstamp-musiek’, en die wanpersepsies oor Afrikaners broei in ’n mens. En dit vind uiting in ’n soeke na oorspronklikheid. Dit kom soms uit in ’n aggressiewe toon, maar ons as Afrikaners moet skok om raakgesien te word.”&lt;/span&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Is die herlewing in Afrikaner-kultuur nie net nog ’n modegier wat gaan kom en weer gaan nie?&lt;br /&gt;Vermeulen glo die herlewing kom al ’n lang pad aan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“Toe ek in 1998 in matriek was, was die Oppikoppi-musiekfees huge. Valiant Swart was een van die min Afrikaanse kunstenaars, maar hy was gewild.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“Toe neem dit ’n dip vir so twee of drie jaar en nou is dit terug met ’n vengeance. Die herlewing is baie groter as wat dit ooit was. Ek dink nie dit gaan vir ewig hou nie, maar dit lyk of dié goed in siklusse kom. En as die huidige een so groot is, sal die volgende een selfs beter wees.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Vermeulen glo ook ’n “eksterne faktor” - Afrikaans wat deel word van ’n multikulturele raamwerk - bevorder die kanse op voortbestaan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#3333ff;"&gt;Afrikaans: van toeka tot nou, en verder?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;In ’n kommersiële sin is daar nou ’n groot mark vir Afrikaans. ’n Nuwe mark waarin jy kreatief met Afrikaans moet omgaan, maar wat van die ou taalstryd? Gaan die gewildheid van Afrikaanse musiek en Afrikaanse slagspreuke die Afrikaanse taal ’n hupstoot gee?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Annette de Wet, Afrikaanse dosent aan die Universiteit van Vrystaat (UV), sê op die oomblik is Afrikaans ’n gewilde “feestaal”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“Mense gebruik Afrikaans meer spontaan. Dit is die in-ding om Afrikaans kreatief te gebruik. Waar jong mense jare terug eerder Engels sou gebruik het, gebruik hulle nou Afrikaans.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Sy sê dit beteken ongelukkig nie dat jong mense die taal noodwendig suiwer gebruik nie.&lt;br /&gt;Daar is taallojaliteit, sê De Wet, maar die taal word nog nie oorgedra na die “hoërfunksies” nie, soos om dit in die akademie of in die regering te gebruik.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“Engels is om praktiese redes die taal waarin Afrikaanse studente hul opdragte doen. Dit maak byvoorbeeld jou werk beskikbaar vir ’n groter gehoor.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;De Wet sê die taalvaardigheid onder Afrikaanse studente is oor die algemeen swak. Om na Afrikaanse musiek te luister help nie noodwendig jou taalvaardigheid aan nie. Hiervoor moet mense ook Afrikaanse boeke lees, “maar dis iets wat jy van kleins af moet leer”.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Riaan Bosman, ’n eerstejaarstudent aan die UV, sê dis ’n gewilde neiging onder sy vriende om Afrikaans op kreatiewe maniere te gebruik, maar “ons meng steeds soms ons taal”. Hulle doen dit egter nie so baie soos in Jackie Nagtegaal se boek Daar’s vis in die punch nie, sê Bosman.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;“Ons besef Afrikaans is nie ’n ou taal nie. Jy sien dit meer raak op T-hemde en Afrikaanse musiek van kontemporêre groepe soos die Melktert Kommissie raak gewilder. Ons as Afrikaners soek nie meer ingevoerde goed nie.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Afrikaans is vir baie jong mense nie meer ’n outydse, vervelige manier van kommunikeer nie. Dit blyk dat eksperimentering met die taal die gebruik en gewildheid daarvan verbreed. Dalk moet ’n mens Ruan se siklus-teorie in gedagte hou wanneer ons oor die toekoms van Afrikaans tob.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24395181-114286892483417940?l=nethier.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/feeds/114286892483417940/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24395181&amp;postID=114286892483417940&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114286892483417940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24395181/posts/default/114286892483417940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://nethier.blogspot.com/2006/03/afrikaans-is-plesierigdis-op-t-hemde.html' title=''/><author><name>mich</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/07579701469591505743</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PQniAObZTYY/SuKW1OhGL8I/AAAAAAAABt8/bWHRXT09uS0/S220/DSCN1815.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
