New Adventures 12th - 19th.

Friday

Friday morning Justin, Gareth, Stacey and I went through to UCT to hang out and watch aKing play. The day didn't get off to a good start. After sitting in traffic for quite a while, we got to UCT only to find out that Gareth had missed two of his first classes, thinking they only started on Monday. We met up with one of our friends, Lauren, and walked around getting the times of all of Gareth's classes for the coming week, still hoping to see a good band and meet up with some other friends.

I called my good friend Matt, only to find that he hadn't gone in that day, so we decided to head through to find out when the band was playing. To our surprise nothing was set up and it wasn't looking as if a band was arriving at all. We asked around before deducing that the band was playing at an event in the evening, and we wouldn't see them at all.

Justin then called one of our other friends, Melissa and we decided to wait for her before we could have a chat. We hung out for about an hour having a good chat and meeting some cool new people.

After a disappointing adventure we went home and got ready to go to the cricket, which was also a bit of a fail. The Dolphins batted really well, but the Cobras failed to impress, resulting in an unsurprising defeat which put a bit of a dampener on an already below average day. The evening wasn't a complete failure though, as Justin and I got to meet up with an old friend from school, Cassandra.

After cricket we all headed home and had a two games of dota, both failures because while Matt, Justin, Donovan and I did well the fifth member in our team lost the game for us twice. All in all, a bad day redeemed by meeting new people and old friends.


Saturday

Saturday was a mellow day for me. I had a good discussion and then went with the Jizzer and Gareth to Canal Walk where we sort of hung out and walked around doing things all guys do. Shop. Ok, that's a joke but we did go shopping. Good times.

After that we organised lifts and then went through to a friend's valentine's party, which was fun. Callie is a great girl, and we all went through to hang out and have a braai with a bunch of mostly single people. There were a few couples, but no one was hanging on anyone else, looking as if the world were about to end and they needed to make the most of their time now, which I appreciated.

It was there that I had my wonderful chat with the guy, Scott, from New York. He's a really great guy who has very similar interests. He's a thinking kind of person which I really enjoyed. But he's also very practical, giving Matthew (and everyone else) a lesson in 'manscaping'. He and Lee (his boyfriend, also one of the greatest people I've ever met) really knew what they were talking about, and it was a lot of fun.

Feeling the need to prove his manhood, Donovan taught Janice and I how to play 'Death Rock-Paper-Scissors' before proceeding to play and thereby inflict extreme amounts of pain upon one another. I don't think we can hold Janice full responsible for his actions, because he was poisoned at the time. You see, Janice took a Styrofoam cup filled with some sort of vodka mixture and put it on the braai. The cup proceeded to melt, releasing 'poisonous fumes' into the liquid. Seeing the melting Jan decided that he should immediately down the rest of his drink. I don't know why but he did. Hence his poisoning.

At about 01h30 we all piled into my car and headed home after having a great time.

I would like to thank Callie for a great party, even though I know she hates my blog and won't read this.


Sunday

Sunday was a fairly good day. We played dota all afternoon, then went to Common Ground where we heard a less than impressive sermon, and then went home and played another two games of dota. The first one was a fail because I had a fool in my lane who fed a Tidehunter who then proceeded to kill me while I tried to save the fool. Donovan and Justin also fed a bit, but to be fair it was a very difficult lane. After that it was gg, with the entire team fed there was nothing we could do.

The second game was far more successful, all of us choosing appropriate heroes and then working well together, we pretty much raped the opposition team, ripping them a new one, no qualms.


Monday

Monday was a fail day. I drove around all day getting stuff together for my job application, then later finding out that I can only go on training in June. Not great. After that I got a new cellphone, which was already broken. Damn thing won't charge. Then my mom asked me not to go out, for no apparent reason. Good times...


Tuesday

Early start to the day, which I didn't enjoy, and a lot of driving made Tuesday a rather long and tiring day. In the end I drove about 150km, a lot of it during peak traffic, which really wasn't fun.

At the end of the day my car started smoking and there was a burning smell. I took it to the service place only to find that the car was simply missing its oil cap. I don't know why or how, but it was gone and I had to get another one.

Then we had an average game of dota, and I played Lion for the first time and didn't fair well, but I reckon I can learn him eventually.

After dota I had an interesting conversation with a rather funny girl named Brianna. Funny 'haha' not funny weird, although she could turn out to be weird in the end. I don't know.


Wednesday

For some reason my mother invited about 15 people to my house on Wednesday, without thinking about what they were going to have for dinner, when she was going to get of work to prepare the said dinner, or who was going to clean the house. I don't know how or why, but I ended up spending a lot of the day cleaning, driving around fetching things and generally helping.

When the guests arrived I ducked out, and went to see a film that I regret paying for: Seven Pounds. It was shit. Don't see it, ever. The first hour of the film, the characters don't develop in any way and there's just a lot of crying. Then there's more crying with an emotional connection between two of the characters, and then the entire story is told in 10 minutes at the end. I was sad I'd seen that film, really I was.

After the film we, being Donovan, Justin, Matt and I, went to have a drink with Johann. We ended up talking about tv shows, dota and relationships. Anyone can guess which one the Jizzer is winning at, as well as which one Matt is winning at...

After a good chat Johann told us that he's an avid D&D fan, and that we should have a game. I've never played, but have wanted to for a long time, so I'm really keen. Pierre also plays so it'll be good fun.

After hanging out for a while, I went home and watched a film named 'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang' which was really good, and in comparison to 'Seven Pounds' it looked even better. So if you have a choice, watch 'Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang'.