Thursday, July 29, 2010

Bring out the inner climber...

Looking for something adventurous? Weird how everything you're looking for is at the last place you search...

Somewhere deep inside of us all, there's a couple of personalities. Most of us like to bring out the inner child or the inner idiot, especially when something doesn't go your way or your daughter has a new boyfriend... (I feel for you, new boyfriend. Patience is a virtue...)

And some of us like to bring out our inner lawyer on the road,"You should NOT be driving!". But all of us like to get away sometime, just take a break from the slow and easy-going life we're all living, and go out on an adventurous experience!

Something fun to do, is to act like a monkey and go kloofing! and NetFlorist is offering you an experience of a lifetime! Kloofing in the Drakensberg! Prices starting from R460, be sure to check this out!

Thursday, July 22, 2010

8 Crazy nights!

Travel, who doesn't like it?

So, for all you playboys out there, pack up all your golf gear, a week's supply of sunscreen, some stuff to do on the airplane and combine the beauty of Cape Town with the glamour of Sun City for a whole of 8 nights!

Just make sure to practice your swing before you hit the Sun City golf course. There's always someone watching, and you don't want to show off your tantrum skills in public when you had a perfect swing, but the golf ball's not travelling at all, but just sitting on the tee and laughing at you.

Also, check all your golf gear and make sure to play a little bit more golf than usual, just to get your game up to par and not have the poorest handicap when you arrive at the course.

So, next time if you're looking for a great way to enjoy South Africa and have alovely game of golf, you know where to go!

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

The pro...

Ah yes, the gentleman's game...

Golf, some of us love it, some of us love watching it, and some of us only try to hit the ball instead of missing it(that would be me included...)

Still, there's not alot of feelings which compare to that of a perfect swing. Especially when all your friends are watching!

It's not one of the cheapest hobbies out there, but what is cheap these days? And once you've started, you just want to play more golf, which means you have to buy some golf gear. And then you need to get that swing going, thank goodness for driving ranges!

Usually, when I drive past a driving range I anticipate one unlucky guy's swing, and as he's about to pull through, I lay on my car's hooter and watch him perform the most unique swing in the world. Everyone's hooter swing is unique, and girls like to throw in a jump or two as well.

It sure is relaxing sometimes to watch or play golf, and that feeling will never die.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

SOUTHERN CROSS SCHOOLS FUN GOLF DAY


You are cordially invited to join us at our annual SOUTHERN CROSS SCHOOLS FUN GOLF DAY. The event is part of a fund raiser directed at our sports facilities. Playing Spaces are confirmed on a “first paid – first confirmed” basis………………

Date: Saturday 31 July 2010

Where: Drakensig Golf Club, Hoedspruit, Limpopo.

Time: 08h00 – Registration
09h00 - Tee off - Shotgun start

Format: Four Ball Alliance
(2 scores to count on all the holes except the Par 3's where all 4 scores to be counted.)

Handicaps: Affiliated Players – Official Club handicaps
Non-Affiliated Players – Ladies - 24 handicap/Men- 18 handicap

Price: R250 - Per player – includes golf, curry and rice lunch at the Halfway house, evening braai & Entertainment
R45 - Per non-player for dinner - includes a braai pack for one, salad and rolls

(Caddies available at own costs – players to provide food and drinks for caddies.
Food and drinks will be sold on the golf course by the PA during the day)

After Party: 17h00 - After the golf we move to the Southern Cross Schools, Founders’ Circle
For the braai and entertainment. A cash bar will be available, so no cooler boxes please.
18h30 - Prize giving
19h30 - Dinner & entertainment in the Founder’s Circle at Southern Cross Schools.

RSVP: To book your place as Player and/or Sponsor please contact Tracey Salvadori on africats@iafrica.com or Derry Machardy on africadm@iafrica.com or call 015 793 0811 during office hours. All payments to be made into the PA bank account (details below) by 20 June 2010. Please state your name/business name and fax proof of payment to 086 546 9811.

Bank: First National Bank Account: 6215 166 1892 Branch no: 270652 (Hoedspruit)


CHILDREN WELCOME AT EVENING BRAAI. Don’t forget to bring extra cash on the day to buy raffle tickets for our famous wheelbarrow, competitions and extra drinks.

Investment 101


Good day to all the people who love money, which is practically all of us...
Strange how money makes the world go round these days. I wonder what we'd do without it? Go back to riding ox wagons and horses and living on farms? How boring life would be... ;)
Now, as some of us can agree to some extent that we always want to invest in something, because one day your investment would smile back at you and say,"Hey, I'm worth a lot more now!!", we get to the question of what do we invest in?
There's a couple of choices these days, small businesses, personal investments like cars, high end guitars, etc. Some of us even like to invest in ourselves, for example to take out life insurance. That way, you'd leave some money behind for all your kids and grand kids to "put to good use".
Everything needs to get insured now a days, and insurance companies get smarter by the minute. Which means we must go and compare insurance quotes. This one will give you some of your money back if they don't have to do anything for you for four years, I think they call it a "no claim bonus"? That's like driving into a petrol station with a sign that says,"We'll give you free petrol once every year if you don't use our services!". And then there's the guys who are very proud of it that they have fewer staff than the rest,"Cut out the middleman!!".
But still, life is too risky to go about without any insurance, because it's a jungle out there and all we have to protect ourselves, is just money.