bucket list

So, as of the 02 December 2010, this is my bucket list.


Before any of these can happen, I must first relinquish the chicken in me.


1. Do the Inca Trail - and arrive at Machu Pichu on the 21 Dec 2012

2. Travel to India and live in an Ashram

3. Live near the beach - as in, open my french doors and roll out onto the sand *sigh* That would be lovely.

4. Be at peace with the world i.e. myself

5. Own three dogs, a chiuaua, a labrador and a great dane. Named small, medium and large (i kid)

6. Find my passion

7. Trad climb Table Mountain

8. Go scuba diving and or snorkelling in the Great Barrier Reef

9. Paraglide off Lion's Head on an awesome summer's day

10. Become a yoga master

11. Stay vegetarian

12. Invent an awesome tasting cupcake recipe that doesn't make you fat

13. Same as above but with chocolate

14. Grow a beautiful garden

15. Design and decorate my own house and interiors - obviously super green :)

16. Earn a living doing something that I love.

17. Oh yes, of course, fall in love with an awesome dude who will worship the ground that I walk on. And possibly have a child, or adopt one or both. And not kill each other in Gugs!

Ok, that's it for the moment, will be updating and editing as I think of more.

Also, I've done a couple of things that would have been on my bucket list. They are the following.
Travel to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.
Be in a huge storm at sea in the middle of nowhere and survive. :)
See the Grand Canyon
Put my feet into the Pacific , Indian, Atlantic, Southern Ocean and the North Seas.
Live on an island and look after birds, turtles and cetaceans.
Live in London and walk the streets singing "I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien"
Travel to Europe - still lots to see though
Travel to Canada - still want to live in Montreal

road ragamuffins

So i was on my way to work this morning, merrily dodging oncoming traffic when I found myself glancing at a van with the company name displaying "Knobs and Knockers"! wtf? (and i don't men what the frikkadel). It made me giggle for half of my journey. Thanks going out to Knobs and Knockers!! :)

i love cape town tv!

so i was watching this documentary last night about farming and how genetically modified seeds are being used more and more these days. a specific seed "manufacturer" owns a specific gene of these plants!! this is mind-boggling! i am currently researching this and will blog about this in much greater detail. it was just too shocking to not share immediately. and yes, cape town tv was the broadcaster of this documentary! :D growing more love for this tv station day by day. (this morning, they had a doccie on why chocolate is good for you!!)

if there's one thing that you should teach your child, it should be...

...confidence to unleash his/her potential.

what would you say?

quotest of the mostest

"i am a genius and i apply my wisdom" - dr j demartini

we come in alone and we leave alone

this is a note to myself
no expectations
no judgement
no cynicism

the lingering manuscript

i hate research! there, i said it!!! i have studied for about 7 years, only to realise that i hate research! i mean, i LOVE everything that is the natural world, but for the life of me, i don't want to disect and try to understand every little thing. i mean, isn't it just taking away from the awe or the magic of how everything functions. i mean, this is to say that we can actually understand everything correctly...

ag, anyway, so i am more and more drawn to the idea that the root of the problem of global climate change is greed and that people are searching more and more for comfort in the things that they own. they compete and compete to get things at the expense of each other and the planet and once they get what they want, they want more and it goes on and on. they are never satisfied cos they material things that they want do not fill the "gap" in their souls.

so basically what i'm saying is that, and what many people have said before, that these people need love, unconditional love. i think there should be more and more focus on spiritual deepening and meditation, in order for people to really understand who they really are, the reflection of love.

just a few thoughts, practically speaking, i think it would be a one person at a time thing but hey, i think oprah made a big impression in this light. :) er, yeah, that's all my ramblings for today. i know, garbled, not well constructed but im working on that. for now, it's just getting things out of my head and down on the screen.

the point of this post was actually to say that i am still finishing off my manuscript...