It was the day of the big move last Saturday... all I can say is it ain't easy trying to move from one apartment to one room. There are still many boxes waiting to be unpacked and I am just gonna take it easy now. I am still getting used to having housemates around but since it's a 2 storey apartment, I think I should still be able to find some personal space which I have come to value a lot in the past 2 years.
World Cup fever is everywhere, and a lot of departments in our office are all having their own World Cup Sweepstakes. Of course we in GEM had to jump onto the bandwagon. Last Friday was the draw and I got team Germany! whew, I know Germany's a good team, having won the World Cup before. Askar says it's because I have some affinity with Germany haha. maybe that's why. Colleagues who got lesser known teams looked pretty disappointed for as you know, people want to get Spain, Brazil, Argentina.. and so the rest tried to encourage them with straight faces saying "great team! They will go far..." it was really quite funny. But it doesn't matter because I have the winning ticket in my hand! hahaha The prize is GBP50, not a lot but still worth a nice meal. A very nice meal actually. Everyone's really excited.. all the TVs around us in office somehow end up showing the matches instead of the usual news channel. My colleague who moved to our Jburg office told me proudly he managed to get tickets for 6 matches at local prices.. lucky him. I hope he gets used to the vuvuzelas. Liandi is both excited and confused why they would have matches at her hometown of Rustenburg. Apparently it's a poor platinum mining town which in her words "Even south africans won't go there."
I am not a football fan but somehow I have been influenced by the hooha around me and I have watched quite a few matches so far.. it's great that there is not much time difference here as the evening ones start at 730pm. See actually the main thing is not about these matches. It's all about finally having a TV in my house.. I can finally be a couch potato now! Happiness :)
*Go Germany go go go!!*
World Cup fever is everywhere, and a lot of departments in our office are all having their own World Cup Sweepstakes. Of course we in GEM had to jump onto the bandwagon. Last Friday was the draw and I got team Germany! whew, I know Germany's a good team, having won the World Cup before. Askar says it's because I have some affinity with Germany haha. maybe that's why. Colleagues who got lesser known teams looked pretty disappointed for as you know, people want to get Spain, Brazil, Argentina.. and so the rest tried to encourage them with straight faces saying "great team! They will go far..." it was really quite funny. But it doesn't matter because I have the winning ticket in my hand! hahaha The prize is GBP50, not a lot but still worth a nice meal. A very nice meal actually. Everyone's really excited.. all the TVs around us in office somehow end up showing the matches instead of the usual news channel. My colleague who moved to our Jburg office told me proudly he managed to get tickets for 6 matches at local prices.. lucky him. I hope he gets used to the vuvuzelas. Liandi is both excited and confused why they would have matches at her hometown of Rustenburg. Apparently it's a poor platinum mining town which in her words "Even south africans won't go there."I am not a football fan but somehow I have been influenced by the hooha around me and I have watched quite a few matches so far.. it's great that there is not much time difference here as the evening ones start at 730pm. See actually the main thing is not about these matches. It's all about finally having a TV in my house.. I can finally be a couch potato now! Happiness :)
*Go Germany go go go!!*
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