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Let Google remind you of your Facebook events by sms

Anastacia Haddon — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:54:14 PDT

Step by Step instructions on setting up a solution to help you remember events to attend – especially the tons of event invites you get from your Facebook friends! I could never remember such a lot of gigs, it's actually not rocket science – I don't remember them, I let my calendar remember them and then [...]

New gadgets reviewed

Anastacia Haddon — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:40:17 PDT

It was my birthday month in May, so I decided that it was "Spoil Anastacia" time. After about a month or so of using the gadget, I think I can give my two cents worth about each of them. Mouse: Logitech MX 518 Optical Gaming Mouse When it comes to computer items, I am all for [...]

Can we just have an ADSL line already…PLEASE!

Anastacia Haddon — Fri, 07 May 2010 09:03:37 PDT

A rough calculation using our bank records gave us evidence of how much money we actually have been spending on Vodacom airtime in the last two years. It was because of this reason we decided to have a Telkom ADSL line installed – this was back in February 2010. So we applied at the Telkom shop [...]

Touring Cape Town Stadium

Anastacia Haddon — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 07:24:27 PDT

The visitors center at the stadium reopened and tours are once again available to the public. We managed to get a booking for Tuesday 16 March at 2pm. there are three holding cells – one for males, one for females and one for juveniles – this is inside the police station that is available at the [...]

RAMFest IV review

Anastacia Haddon — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:21:35 PST

I couldn’t believe that Boo! were getting back together and performing at Ramfest IV. I remember reading the line-up on the event page on Last.fm. back in December 2009 and commented “Boo! ????? Are you sure?”. So yes, the reunion of Boo! is what interested me in the festival this year and it’s the reason I had SUCH great [...]

Boere Hip Hop

Anastacia Haddon — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:35:15 PST

Songs all sung in Afrikaans – Proper Afrikaans, but they covers of commercial hip hop tracks. I have no idea where I got this from but found it in my collection today and just HAD to share it. . . Listen here

New word I made up

Anastacia Haddon — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:12:28 PST

The ability to pretend that nothing happened (with a straight face) and still be confused (yourself) as to whether it actually did happen.

My feel good day

Anastacia Haddon — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:55:29 PST

Few things that really made me happy today include: got a call from a night club owner to meet with him tomorrow (yay) heard from my UK mate re the parcel I delivered to Durban … he’s now the owner of a Rudimentals DVD also just heard from a friend in Mexico who will confirm later re his [...]

SAMA nominations for 2010

Anastacia Haddon — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:00:01 PST

The 16th annual MTN South African Music Awards will be held on Saturday, 17 April 2010. To qualify for entry for the award, the album must have been released between 29 November 2008 and 27 November 2009. Nomination entries will open on Monday 2 November 2009 and interested participants will have one month in which to [...]

Where my passion lies & heart wants to be…

Anastacia Haddon — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:22:04 PDT

Twenty seven years old, business background for schooling /tech level, but accidentally got into academic administration at a tertiary institution and been stuck doing that since 2002. It wasn’t a complete waste of time as it gave me insights into many opportunities and gave me lots of experience – but the challenge is no longer [...]

one city, many cultures

Anastacia Haddon — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:05:50 PDT

On Sunday I was invited to lunch at a friend’s parents’ home -It was her birthday the day before and so celebrations continued the next day. (now for typing’s sake, I’m abbreviating the word Portuguese to read P…okay?) Where I grew up, I never had a P friend, never had a P class mate nor did [...]

it’s mine and I’ll keep it if I want to

Anastacia Haddon — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:34:11 PDT

I really don’t know what it is with me, but I find it hard to part with my body parts after it clearly has no more purpose and has been detached from my body. Well small body parts not limbs (yet..lol) I do remember keeping all the following as listed below: extracted teeth (at least two) my dreadlocks that [...]

Always Believe in Yourself

Anastacia Haddon — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:35:13 PDT

The world is filled with so many convincing, lying, story-telling, false people! Today was yet another reminder of how wary one should be of those who claim to be your friend, they act nice and behind your back, they talk crap about you. Shame on my landlord’s husband for convincing her that I [...]

test of faith

Anastacia Haddon — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:29:24 PDT

a delayed destination, a lunch and a dinner

Anastacia Haddon — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:17:08 PDT

@ch00n’s car was being moody all weekend so we couldn’t go anywhere. Today we just HAD to do something about not having transport. Like an angel, my landlord came down and suggested we go out for lunch – he drove. We had to sit through a really torturous slow drive that normally takes us 15 [...]

updating lastfm profile sidebar + creating widgets

Anastacia Haddon — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:03:39 PDT

Made a new last.FM image chart using the chart builder. The my recently played tracks can be seen in a chart style and updated automatically. The purpose was to have a image chart inserted as html onto the sidebar of this site; instead of a plain rss on as previously. A preview of the image [...]

Taste-eee Mondays at Jamaica me Crazy

Anastacia Haddon — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:36:19 PDT

Nearly two years since I first went to see what the buzz was about at this Caribbean restaurant down the road. I remember driving by that place (that was once a house) and seeing all the renovations being done and wondered what the place would eventually turn out to be. Was thrilled to hear that it [...]

washing the dishes

Anastacia Haddon — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:22:15 PDT

If there’s one household chore that is my pet hate, it’s doing the dishes. I was chatting to a friend on-line telling him about how I spent most of my Saturday washing up my dishes; I have already washed up three racks of dishes and there’s still more!!! also dried up those three racks full [...]

using AnyFont for WordPress sites and posts

Anastacia Haddon — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:40:45 PDT

I have been using the AnyFont WordPress plugin for a while now and I think it is by time I raved about it. At first I was irritated by the amount of updates that became available but these days I can’t wait for the next update, as each time there is a newer, better, more easier [...]

Service Numbers & more for ZA Mobile

Anastacia Haddon — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:23:34 PDT

There are currently four Mobile Network Providers in South Africa namely Vodacom, MTN, Cell C and Virgin Mobile. The services offered are alike; so are the service numbers. It can be quite a tedious task trying to remember or finding out which is the correct three digit number to use for whatever mobile service, you wish to use [...]

Ever forgotten a birthday?

Anastacia Haddon — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:55:53 PDT

I tend to forget birthdays and depend on a list or some sort of recuring appointment in my Google Calendar, to serve as a reminder. In turn the scheduled event will send an sms reminder to my mobile phone. I found a way to add birthdays from the Facebook Birthday Calendar application, to your Google [...]

iMobile

Anastacia Haddon — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:28:39 PDT

My first ever contract mobile phone … *daydreaming* . . . ah yes! October 2007, I will never forget the day I saw my ex with this exact phone and me saying “Aw it’s cute, I also want that” .. SUCKER! Cause two weeks after signing, I already hated the damn phone but it was [...]

Aweh my bru

Anastacia Haddon — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:21:07 PDT

‘Aweh’ pronounced ‘Ah-wear’ This South African word, in real context would mean: Newsfusion describes it as A Greeting “Aweh my bru” (Hello my friend)also “howzit“, “yooit“, “hoesit“, “yo“. Urban Dictionary describes the word as A South African slang word used to acknowledge something or greet someone. (Hey guys) , “Oh aweh man!” The other day, I ordered my [...]

Exploring what coUld be in store for Humanity

Anastacia Haddon — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:59:12 PDT

Two great documentary releases, Zeitgeist: The Movie and Zeitgeist: Addendum, is currently screening at the Labia theatre in Cape Town. As reviewed by the Labia theatre “…is the mind-blowing documentary by Peter Joseph, and is the most viewed motion picture on the internet …The award-winning movie takes a staggering look at the lies [...]

Film: The Prodigal Son

Anastacia Haddon — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:17:09 PDT

As the annual New York African Film Festival draws to a close, I realise I have not blogged about this nor congratulated a friend who’s film premiered at the festival this year. The 16th annual film festival, was held 08 to 15 April 2009 and will continue again from 22 to 25 May 2009. The 2009 New [...]

SA Music Industry on Twitter

Anastacia Haddon — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:42:52 PDT

This list is provided under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 South Africa License, meaning you may freely copy and re-post the information below for any non-commercial purpose, provided that full credit is given to the original author(s) along with a link back to this page. Please feel free to contribute to this post by using [...]

what is your easter egg made of?

Anastacia Haddon — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:00:29 PDT

A colleague offered me one of her chocolate marshmallow eggs the other day. I politely said thanks but rejected the offer as likely the ingredients would contain eggs and I am vegetarian. Unconvinced, she starts to read the packaging to prove my point. Not long after that, “never mind the egg white, there’s bovine gelatin in [...]

Are ATMs designed to rip you off?

Anastacia Haddon — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 15:01:43 PDT

If you ever wanted to withdraw cash from an ATM and in response you get a “insufficient funds” reply… read furtherHow come the bank is able to tell me that I have insufficient funds and then end the transaction (THAT I PAID FOR) ; and then I obviously would want to see how much I [...]

ha ha another pot head!

Anastacia Haddon — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:12:51 PDT

The daughter of the mayor of the city called Tshwane (Formerly known as Pretoria) in South Africa, got arrested… Not only that, she got arrested for possession of weed… and it gets better.. ..she bit the cop while being arrested..oops! and … ..it was actually her mum that suggested to the Police department that they start searching on [...]

working from home

Anastacia Haddon — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:24:16 PDT

Today I been up since after 07:00 and started working at around 07:30 at my desk at home. I am still on sick leave because of the operation yesterday. It has just gone 09:20 and I now only feel like breakfast, a cigarette and a shower. All things I would have needed to do two hours [...]

The needle valve stuck in my hand

Anastacia Haddon — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:42:03 PDT

This after my operation today. Nothing major. I am fine. Am still in a bit of pain, but okay. This valve / needle into my hand was only removed approximately 5pm, about three hours after I woke up from being under a general anesthetic. Thanks to Ryan for taking the picture with his mobile phone.

Vodacom I hate you

Anastacia Haddon — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:57:11 PST

I connect to the internet using my prepaid Vodacom sim card and I purchase Vodacom airtime which I convert to data bundles. It costs me and R on average about R2000 per month for internet and all this for the pathetic unapologetic services that we get from Vodacom. This entire week, Vodacom has been buggy and [...]

Flying roaches

Anastacia Haddon — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:05:35 PST

I hate flies, insects, spiders, cockroaches, centipedes, worst of all I hate geckos! Well that is what I thought until I met my worst enemy of all. . . I think the heat in Cape Town was something like 34°C (Celsius) this weekend. All sorts of creepy things come crawling out on hot days. I especially keep [...]

in denial about my pants size

Anastacia Haddon — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:22:11 PST

Went shopping today and found this lekker† three quarter pants that I wanted to buy. My brain told me I’d fit into a size 32 waist but my heart wanted me to fit into the size 30 – so I took along both to try on in the changing rooms. In the changing room, I bravely tried [...]

shopping bag storage solution

Anastacia Haddon — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:33:24 PST

If this is what you drawer is looking like after stocking up too many plastic shopping bags or packets as it is known in South Africa, then read further. As far as I remember, years back, my aunt showed me this method to help tidy up my clutter in the kitchen drawers; I have since only [...]

heavy traffic warning dates 2009

Anastacia Haddon — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:14:00 PST

Just when you thought traffic is becoming a breeze in the mornings, you are normally hit with that one Monday morning, where everything is just pure chaos, and naturally you would be late for work on that one day and happen to have an important business meeting scheduled. So whilst browsing the South African Department of [...]

DONT be fooled by the word BARGAIN

Anastacia Haddon — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:29:41 PST

I went to Obs Holistic fair yesterday on a hunt for new pants . So I came across these pants that I have looked at before when I was at the fair some months back. Point is they’re rare pants and they cost R140. Usually I won’t go buy something just like that and would [...]

‘OK’ programme’s advertisement

Anastacia Haddon — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:44:22 PST

Imagine you watching your DTV, you sitting watching those boring adverts, adverts showing you snippets of upcoming movies or an interesting documentary or whatever, and while the advert is playing, you grab your remote and hit the OK button to programme that movie being advertised , via an interactive TV schedule. Wouldn’t that be tight! ? [...]

Which party?

Anastacia Haddon — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:37:32 PST

My inbox rolling with party invites and reminders for events happening around Cape Town for New Years Eve. What’s the big deal anyways? I used to be big on the celebrating – guess I have outgrown that now. I used to go to Synergy parties that used to be held at the River Club in Observatory. [...]

What you been up to?

Anastacia Haddon — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:16:19 PST

A common question these days… What are you up to? For once, enjoying the no alarm clock, waking up when I wanna, getting showered whenever, relaxed, muscles not tense, smiling, happy. Yes I am on leave and the answer to the question is sweet nothing …today that is. It’s after 5pm and I am still chilling in [...]

Marks Processing Rant

Anastacia Haddon — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:15:34 PST

End of November; I’m supposed to love this time of year? Bonus month, Sunny days, Year end…but annually, I complain about this at this time! For the last three years I have done so! It’s not worth it I tell you. This is gonna be the last! One of my responsibilities at work is to upload [...]

Things that make you go…bwaaah ha ha ha

Anastacia Haddon — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:14:54 PST

I need to set the mood for you firstly… Its a Wednesday morning, 10:45, you on your way back from the tea room/kitchen at work, that cup of filter coffee in hand that you been looking forward to all morning, a deadline next week, you tired, miserable, its a beautiful day and all you can think [...]

the Value of Free Music

Anastacia Haddon — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:34:01 PST

If you love listening to music, and if you really are quite in touch with the music industry, if you’re an artist or part of a band, even if you just have gigs and gigs of music saved to your hard drive, please take a moment to just read through my thoughts … Do you : support [...]

Protected: His 28th birthday on the 29th

Anastacia Haddon — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:06:29 PDT

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

Festival season has started…yay

Anastacia Haddon — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:11:33 PDT

When I see strawberries on sale, the avocado’s are priced at under R3, the South Easter wind starts blowing … then I know it’s time… festivities has started … Summer is here people You all ready for this yet? Ready for coming out of hibernation? Yes dear friend, it’s time to put away your winter blankies, [...]

Not so fresh after ‘Fresh ta Death’

Anastacia Haddon — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 05:58:09 PDT

After a miserable day yesterday where nothing was going right, I made my way to the ‘Fresh ta Death’ party in Woodstock. If you are familiar with the size of Don Pedro’s in Roodebloem road; you’d be a bit worried about pulling such crowd of friends into such a tiny place especially if its a farewell party to a [...]

THAT dreaded day has arrived

Anastacia Haddon — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:21:28 PDT

In the past, I considered myself to be (i) quite slender; (ii) a physically active individual regardless of not exercising regularly; (iii) have a relatively healthy diet and managed to stay a vegetarian for the past ten years. Society raised me to be very aware of the fact that one day, just one day IT will [...]

“MY” content and rights to it

Anastacia Haddon — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:04:37 PDT

I take photographs of things, people, places , anything. Yes I am VERY holey over my photographs but I normally share my picture uploads under the creative commons license but for non commercial use only. I just don’t think that one should be too protective over a photograph of something that can easily be either duplicated [...]

Muizenberg rediscovered . . .

Anastacia Haddon — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:44:15 PDT

I honestly never explored Muizenberg any further than Beach Road and the Main Road, I think it’s called Muizenberg Road? Went to a gig last night in Palmer Road Muizenberg – thanks to openstreetmap, we were able to find the place. The motivation to get to that particular road was to see Blaqpearl live… My, my, [...]

Congratulations ‘HHESA’

Anastacia Haddon — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:13:55 PDT

Yeah exactly. That was my first question too; What the hell is hip hop education? No! It’s not that latest infomercial on TV attempting to sell us an exercise video; its some hip hop movement exercise. The Faculty of Hip Hop is a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town that uses hip hop culture as a tool [...]