I am...

I am a solid mass which can't be moved, at least without much persuasion that is.

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"Little Miss Stubborn is unstoppable and will do what she feels like doing, because that's what she wants."
Adam Hargreaves

Ayoba! vs Hot Shots

Two words: Dismal Attendance. The Hot Shots showed up with a team of seven players and so were forced to forfeit the game. A 5-0 win for Ayoba! was received with no complaints due to our position on the log, one below our steamy opposition, and as Bee was overheard saying, "thank goodness they didn't all pitch, we would have struggled to beat them." They might not have had loyalty and solid commitment like Ayoba! but some of those Hot Shots girls definitely had ball skills.

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Now as we say farewell to some of Ayoba! heading out on Rhodes Tour, I can only hope that the baby birds, not quite ready to leave the nest that is Cape Town, will band together and make Donne proud. This weekend's match will be a test of the longstanding Ayoba! vibe. Can the leftovers bring home some points!?

Starting something new

Anyone a fan of good music, and time spent with good friends in the water? Anyone a fan of the Up the Creek Music Festival? Well I'm a lucky girl on all accounts. I recently joined the Up the Creek team, working on their social media and marketing. We're trying to address a new target audience in a number of different ways and this means thinking out of the box, doing something different, offering festival goers a unique experience.

We're in the process of launching our new website so if you're already a fan of this festival, or you have no idea what it's all about, like our Facebook page 'Up the Creek Music Festival', follow our twitter handle @Upthe_Creek and keep an eye on our website. We'll announce the new website, all our competitions and our 2013 line up on each of these platforms.

Hopefully see you all there... Up the Creek with or without a paddle.

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Back to school, Back to non-reality.

I can't wait to officially enter 'Reality'. This inbetween place that I'm at, studying, is starting to become boring. However, I know I'll look back with longing one day, but at the moment the grasser just seems so much greener on the other side. As students we have this perfect image in our heads; weekends by the sea, evenings free of homework and full of wine and tv, but 'Reality' ain't so picture perfect.

Studying has become this inbetween stage for me. I feel ready to enter the big world, aka 'Reality', but I will also be the first to admit that I'm probably not as ready as I might feel. I love the idea of it; no more tests or assignments, no more waiting for classes, and no more homework. But 'Reality' has its own version of tests, assignments, waiting, and homework, and they go by the names of competition, tax, insurance, and overtime. So for the meantime I'll bide my time inbetween thank you very much, and hope that when the tax man comes knocking I will be able to part with my hard earned moola without shedding too many tears.

Yours,

Happily living in non-reality.

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"In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes," Andy Warhol

Why would I be world famous? Hmmm...

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Maybe I break a record and reach the highest word quota in one day.







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Or I could do something stupid, or even something heroic, and make the news. Who am I kidding, heroism is not a common trait of mine.

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I could even become world famous by doing something seemingly insignificant and changing the world. Think of the person who thought to add ties to long socks, without our hockey socks would keep falling down. Sock ties are seemingly insignificant, but they're effective! Although, I don't know who came up with that idea, so not sure if they count as being world famous, but they could have had their fifteen minutes of fame.




Whatever it is I do to become world famous I just hope it comes with benefits, I'd hate to be famous and not get anything other than fame out of it!

A skill set called leadership

Leadership is like a cake recipe, it's a combination of things, some aspects need to be learnt, others need to be bought, and some are just there, pre-programmed. When I first baked a cake my mum showed me how to whisk eggs and how to grease a baking tin, these were skills I had to be taught. We went to a shop and bought flower, eggs, sugar, and butter, all ingredients that needed to be purchased. When the cake eventually came out of the oven I knew how I was going to decorate it, no one had to show me how to decorate a cake. Leadership is a skill set just as a cake recipe is a combination.

Leadership requires a number of different skills, all of which differ according to the environment. A good leader is taught kindness and respect during their upbringing; skills taught to them from a young age. An efficient leader delegates work to the person best suited. A great leader will always lead by example not because they want to or because someone tells them to, but because they know its the best possible way. Leadership is a combination, like a cake recipe, and its a combination of skills; some that are acquired from others and some that are just naturally part of one's personality. Becoming a great leader is like collecting a set of rare game cards; it takes patience, practice and perception.

Patience, Practice, and Perception: A three-tier cake
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Frank Zappa on Rock Journalism

                    Frank Zappa once said in an interview, "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."

I don't subscribe to Rolling Stone magazine or anything along similar lines, but it would seem to me that if I did I would fall into Zappa's category of those 'who can't read'. Surely if I decided to read a magazine about rock music I would need atleast one skill. I would need to be literate. Now like academics and research professionals who break down hypotheses to prove them right or wrong, I'm going to do the same with Zappa's seemingly simple statement.

Starting at the end is always a good place to start, working backwards. Now we've established that I can read, I am literate. If I then read rock journalism it doesn't suddenley become another type of journalism just because I can read it.

Zappa then suggests that rock journalism is someone interviewing people who can't talk. But, how can you interview someone who can't talk? Interviewing is typically a conversation between two or more people, one person generally asks questions and the other answers. How can someone expect to conduct an interview with another person if that person can't talk? Have you ever seen an episode of Larry King where he interviews a donkey? No, because animals can't talk. So it stands to reason that interviewing can only be done with a person who can talk.

Finally I've worked my way back to the first part of Zappa's statement; 'Rock journalism is people who can't write'. Well this statement just seems bizarre, how can you put together an article or piece of writing if you can't write. All journalists can put together a sentence, if they couldn't they wouldn't be called journalists.

Zappa could read my argument against his statement's validity and argue that it is not journalism of the highest standard, or that these musician's are not always the most well spoken characters, or even that the stereotype 'Rolling Stone' reader is not usually the kind of person who would also read the New York Times. And at this point my rebuttal would have to be that his statement says nothing of standards or levels, it only uses the word 'can't' and for that reason alone I have proven your statement invalid.



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Champagne anyone?

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Internships aren't always what you think they'll be, but a two week internship celebrated with champagne, chocolate cake and a gorgeous gift? How could I not be happy at the end of my experience? When I look back at my time with Champagne Events I will always remember the way I was treated. Everyone valued my opinion, they gave of their time to show me how to fill in the status reports or how to design the venue layout, and I felt like I was really part of a team.




It didn't matter that I was only there for two weeks, I could have been there for months. I still would have been given the same responsibilities, the same opportunities to practice. Mandy, my boss, stayed true to her philosophy that one learns best through practice. I was given my own little project, a small wedding, and had to start right at the beginning. Although I won't be able to attend the wedding, I left knowing the bride was happy with my proposal.

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