ergo!...

Eye 1ne-2wo remember 2 research more about seating ergonomics, 4 Our Concept furniture Biz. PRACtical because both moi & JUSTIN sat with back-ache after all-niter in front ov the neon-tube/'puter screen.

stay-OVER

Me & JUSTIN pushed Our lIMIts Last Nite. "Oui" both stayed UP thru thee nite, & shacked UP IN Class (evading Security Officers) 2 finish our Project hand-ins due this Morning... He fell asleep tho'.

(IT waz Xtremely Nice spending X-tra t[eye]me with Him. Eye force-fed Him sum MADONNA & Peter Gabriel. IT's Hi t[eye]me He acquires sum taste [lol]... "Oui" chatted All-Nite. Our TeamMate, TAKUNDA who Worx IT IN the hotel restaurant smuggled in Food 4 US. Super-Cool... He's struggling with xenophobic attacks; BEing threatened, displaced while Working & Studying & Still considers US - Amazing!)

This Morning "Oui" discovered that thee Campus haz shower facilities for Students (U simply have 2 Charm thee front-desk 4 thee Keys!). Sooo GREATfool, otherwise IT wood B US stinking UP Our Class - that woob B degrading. IT's silly that "Oui" only stART taking advantage ov these opp.s so close 2 thee END ov Our course.

DreambOOk...

Az pART ov our Course-work "Oui" r Xpected 2 record Our thoughts in a Journal...

These R sum Mind-maps &

Brain-Storm exercizes We purr4med in Class.

yoU SPARKle!!

TONIA Overmeyer DEMONstrated thee IMPORTance ov DIStinguishing Ur ENTERprize.
"Oui" BEgin thee session wit A WARM-UP Game wearIN EveryBODY haz 2 X-Plane watt MAKEs Them "SPARKLE" IN Life. "Oui" R ENcouRAGEd 2 INcorp.orate Our PASSION IN Our Life-WORK.
She sez : "CUSTOMerz DOn't bye PROD.uctz, They bye SOlutionz".

heART cANDy! ...

GODFREY bOUGHT thee kNEW MADONNA AlBUM...
EATs A LISTening pARTy, "Oui" bOTh LISTen IN10Tly GOing aROUND Our chores @ HOME... Eye'm kNOT very IMPressed butt eye NO EAT WILL gROW ON "mOI" EVENtuALLY.
Eye Love thee cOVER butt whassUP wit kNOW lyrix [very SEAL!]. She SOUNDz az If She's imit8ing All Her SUCCESSor Divas.

bOOKKEEping

2dae "Oui" received a Lecture 4rom an interesting presenter, Hiz name is PAUL Maughan & He'z an delightful MIX ov Jock, Brainiac & radio PERSONality...

Eye was 1nce again reminded ov Qabalah'z focus on Balance=BEAUTY. Eye had this intimation ov Humans giving with 1ne Hand & Taking wit thee Other... Eye KNOW "Oui" have 2 incorporate this in2 Our Business PLAN, Our code ov Ethics & CUSTOMer relations policy.

Quandary?

Eye was escorted bi 2wo young, female Prostitutes & Their young Bodygaurd/"pimp" on thee Train this Mourning ... Eye have absolutely NO Objections against SEX-WORK. all eye can HOPE is that They take Good Care ov Themselves. 1nce Upon a T(EYE)ME Temple Prostitution waz Sacred WORK. They ov Course displayed world-conquering mouth & Attitude.

young WoMAN'z BUSY-ness...

Sum stewDENTs IN Class ATT.ended thee Global EntrepreneurSHIP MonITor rePORT, HOSTed bi thee CENTre 4 INnovation & ENTREpreneurSHIP ON thee Protea BreakWATER Hotel IN thee EVE.ning.

EAT waz VERY enLIGHTening (SIGNifiCANT reSEARCH waz DOne among feMalez) butt eye had 2 leave EARly 2 CATch A tRAIN HOME.

fURNitURe BIZ!

Eye met Our CONcept Biz' FURNiture-Maker 2dae. JUSTIN's step-Dad, BASIL ease off-sick nursing A cold & DVD-watching "300". He'z VERY Friendly & Enthusiastic. Hiz WORK-mates drop bi 4 A check-UP & Talk UP A Storm. BASIL ease sooo Ambitious & Optimistic, He'z AlREADY CONsidering UP-country OUTlets.

Neither ov US could confirm WORK-Shadow dates 4 2dae, SO "Oui" Made thee BEST ov A Bad SITUation & ORGanise Our potential REAL-World Biz.

MentorSHIP

Our WORK-Group Fin.ally met Our ASS.igned, MBA PROGram Mentor. His Name ease DUNCAN Harrison - He's HANDsum, young, relatively short, butt VERY Present and A Good demeanored Alpha Male. His BACKground iz IN thee Navy & He's WELL-travelled.

He TEACHes US About Strat.egic PLANning -
Step 1 = the Plan : BrainSTORM Ur OBJECTives & Mission;
Step 2 = ORGANisation : ASS.igning TaskX 2 DIFFerent ppl;
Step 3 = ACTivation (Thee ACTual Event);
Step 4 = Control, SUMmarizing watt WORKed! / watt didn't WORK?.

A.C.Kerman FAB!

Mr.RAYMOND Ackerman gave a lecture 2 Us, His sponsored Class. Eye think that eye had a healthy disrespect 4 Big business-men, butt Hiz soft-spoken demeanor & attentive carriage convinced moi that "Oui"'re dealing with a genuine, conscientious Man - He thanx Hiz Wife (in absentia) in a very endearing Way.

Mr. Ackerman sed that Ppl in modern Society r powerless against the Powers ov Big Business & government. IT's the future Business Leaders' responsibility 2 defend consumer Rites."Customer iz Queen," He sez.
Listening 2 Him eye felt connected with a sense ov History - Now, if Space-Time curves "Oui" should BE able 2 sensibly navig8 fwd. & backward/reminisce or Travel All over Thee Place/Time...


He made Hiz Business Vision - of consumer empowerment & non-profiteering - & modus operandi seem like a medieval knight's Quest. Eye guess IT iz so when well-done. Eye feel very privileged 2 have attended hiz Course. Eye take this Learning away after Our encounter : Respect Your Audience/Customer (eye also encountered IT in a PRINCE innerview eye read this afternoon).
Support Your Supporters.
("A.C.Kerman" eye've heard az a snide, Bourgeois-Coloured comment on Hiz discount stores Name.)

Eye AM Now a Fan.

sOOper-DOOper ...

Thee Super-Hero theme seem very topical currently... Cape Town's GAY PRIDE march had the theme ov secret identity with thee Parade all where-ing Zorro masks.

Eye LUV'ed comic books growing UP, especiaally SUPERMAN.

[1ne ov thee Course deliverables 4 Our secondary WORK-Groups iz a MARKeting CAMPaign 4 Our Campus & eye was Thinking ov using the SuperHERO az motif 2 rePREZENT Entrpreneurz - TONIA REmindz "moi" ov X-Men'z Storm, B-cause ov hER LEADersHIP & HILDA REmindz "moi" ov Jean-Grey, B-cause ov hER MENTal/EMOTional facultiez (may-B eye'n ethnic STEREOtyping 'tho?)... eye GUESS then Mr Ackerman ease "Professor X". eye HAVEN't prod.Uced anyTHING, yet tho'.]

Olde j.o.b.; New-W(Y)ork!

Thee Place wear eye Job-shadow resembles m(eye) olde Office. Eye use 2 Work (IT) in an old engineering/manufacturing firm. "Oui" made space-age Carbon fibre products under Apartheid work conditions.
This new Studio is a sophisticated design/branding & manufacturing Company.
Thee 2wo Places' lay-OUT iz practically identical - from seating arrangements to 'puter set-UP & overloaded central drawing table. Synchrony?

(above, view 4rom m[eye] olde factory Office. seaside Strand, Helderberg mountain range after snow-fall [1st in yrs.]. Eye felt sooo priveleged, OVERwhelmed, appreciative )

HELP?

Eye read an article 2dae about an initiative 2 aid previously incarcerated Youth re-Integrate in2 working Society. IT was a HOPEful Cape Town-based NGO that had their new premises (offering menial labour in the creative trades with up-skilling opportunities 2 disadvantaged, alienated offenders & young, welfare Mothers) opened bi Mr. NELSON Mandela.

Eye think white-collar crime degrades Society more than petty crime... Eye knead 2, & eye think Our Women often more-so knead 2 grow "thicker Skin" & "longer Nails/claws". Eye believe "Oui" have 2 Take Back Our streets...

Chill-laxin' with The Boyz on MOTHER'z dae...

GODFREY'z Son spent the weak-end & We were all watching videos - Precious. We watched "the Incredibles" & "Treasure Island" and Madonna's "Re-Invention" & "Confessions" tour DVD's.
M(eye) MOTHER was sick in bed with flu. She didn't even attend church-service SUNdae - very unusual 4 Her. WE were ALL huddled in her Master-Bedroom watching videos. The only video/DVD player in working order iz in Her Room. IT was Mother's dae, SUNdae & GODFREY spoilt the household by making a huge SUNdae lunch, and we had pizzas all weak-end & desserts followed bi more desserts. Eye haven't been so filled in 4-ever. (He was also splurging 2 celebrate his last unemployment insurance pay-cheque 4rom hiz previous employer - He's Now a full-t(eye)me Student, stARTing hiz own Arts initiative NGO.)
GODFREY bought "moi" a 2nd-Hand copy ov PRINCE's "One Nite @ the Aladdin" - IT didn't Play ALL 2 Well, butt eye Made them suffer along thru m(eye) jubilation.

thief in the nite

Last nite Our HOUSE's outside Water-tap was stolen, presumably 2 B sold az scrap 4 It's Worth of copper. WE were awakened bi a Friendly neighbour warning Us 2 close Our Water mains & a fountain gushing OUT the side ov Our HOUSE. It's hell struggling 2 flush the toilet with Water We borrow 4rom next-door.

CELLing SOUL

MIKE Herrington 4rom our related Centre 4 INnovation & EntrepreneurSHIP Lectured Us 2dae About . He sez That "Oui" should Emphasize CONsumer Sovereignty IN Our Bizz-niz DEALingz. He Also sez That PPL. DOn't bye PROD.ucts B-cause ov their FEATurez butt B-cause ov Their supPOSEd beneFITs. "Oui" were MADE aWARE ov thee NOTion That Super-MARKets ACTually cell SPACE. He LEFT Us wit A Chinese PROverb "DOn't ATtack WALLed CITIes."

Biz AID organi-ZA-tion

Our B-Groups Had 2 deliver A PRESENTay-shun 2dae About A Bizz-niz supPORT ORGANiSAtion That "Oui" had 2 GO OUT & Inner-vue. M(eye) B-Group had 2 reSEARCH CapeGateWay. Our ORGANiZAtion 4 This PROject waz VERY HapHazard - PETER & LAWRENCE Ms.'ed meatingz BEcause ov trance-PORT diffiCULT-ease; SAM waz preVENTed 4rom ATT.ending B-cause ov diffiCULT-ease wit Her Pregnancy (She Still conTRIBUTEd Most ov thee Text 'tho). "moi"; NOMA & SIYA had 2 WALK 2 TOWN 2 COLLect thee INFO.

lavender reign

"PURPLE RAIN" was on South African public TV this past Monday nite. Eye'm a life-long Prince "fam" butt eye used 2 think that this movie was just the Artist's coy posturing. Eye'm liking IT very much more, Now.
Eye think he tries 2 convey the content ov his artistic statement with those long, doe-i'd, emotive stares.

Balance-Sing bOOx

Our acCOUNTing LECtureZ, deLIVEred bi JACKIE Kew this Past Moon-dae reMINDz "moi" very much ov Qabalah's focus on thee Emanation of Beauty/Balance .

She taught Us About COSTing BEhaviOUR & thee Break-EVEN Pt. ....

Sci-Fi train ride -. -. -.

Sundae evening eye took a l8 night train-ride back home from campus. On m(eye) way eye was very sleepy. Every1 in the carriage dozed off. IT was eerie when eye opened my i's between stations - like a scene in a sci-fi movie with every1ne asleep, cryogenically frozen. Like in "Pitch Black" or "Aliens" - Black windows reflecting inward, the carriage furniture rattling while it's hurtling along the rails with the odd spark from the overhead power lines exploding blue flashes outside.The lights dim intermittently - South Africa is experiencing a power-supply crisis. Modern poetry.

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4our sQuare ...

Our Skool's adjoining underground lecture Halls have an overhead glass Pyramid. Eye like standing underneath meditating when eye step-in every morning.

Likewise, Cape Town Central's Golden Acre has an enclosed pedeastrian court,next 2 an escalator well, with a massive overhead glass Pyramid in the centre - Eye Love meditating on the Directions underneath Its apex, with all the commercial traffic humming around ... (Haz any1ne noticed how much this Pyramid echoes Our Devil's Peak mountain in IT's background - makes U Think "Cape-2-Cairo".)

Higher-Skool

M(eye) higher-Learning institute located in Cape Town's old Break-Water Prison remindz moi ov HarryPothead'z Hogwarts.


Inside Ours are overhead stare-cases, and eye can just imagine them shifting Space... Eye LUV meditating on thee Idea ov Bridging Gaps - IT's very topical in our Modern/Post-modern worldview & essentially Qabalist.



Now how do eye find and manifest the Magic in m(eye) Class-mates, who've elected moi az their Class-Leader - Eye AM a Soft-male , even if eye'm sumt(eye)mz cast az an Alpha-male, butt eye'm trying hard 2 B a Servant Leader & give subtle direction, withOUT negative manipulation.
(How to remain POSITIVE, when we have so much regressive inertia?).

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tick-tock ...

Eye genuinely believe that: Important Things
are timeless.
Eye do not think that Cronos - the Goddess, TIME - is necessarily martial. She doesn't march as much as She dances.
TIME, eye think iz elastic and malleable. She does Yoga (LOL) ...

[PS. Eye find R.J. Stewart's meditational exercises for "Stilling Time" <http://www.dreampower.com/extract.html> very useful. His book "The Miracle Tree (Demystifying Qabalah)" iz Beautiful. Perceptions & Realities are altered... ]

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off the tracks

This passed weak-end a MUSEical Group Project was cancelled due 2 all the contributors withdrawing... Eye'm still mulling over the lack-lustre outcome & How To Fix This Lost Situation.

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