tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28631939034887995702011-12-12T09:54:37.402+02:00My Life is a MusicalScenes, songs, soliloquies and mostly monologues of my quarter life journey thus far into eternity. Unexpected twists and turns as the plot thickens but eventually the light prevails over the darkness, as it always does.Liezolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17752715512931122377noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863193903488799570.post-61977449318035737952010-01-05T08:53:00.000+02:002010-01-05T08:53:47.872+02:00Sunset @ BloubergLiezolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17752715512931122377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863193903488799570.post-44563371364304747802009-12-07T17:22:00.000+02:002009-12-07T17:22:14.092+02:00My Life is a HolidayOne week of holiday is not enough. My employer may argue that I am much needed in the office, that they cannot go 'short- staffed' for longer than a week. I beg to differ. It's my second week back and I'm still not working at my 100% productivity level. Not at all. My first Monday back I cannot remember one constructive thing I did. Unless you count loading 2 photo albums of my holiday on FB Liezolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17752715512931122377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863193903488799570.post-65387937230954960652009-12-03T15:09:00.002+02:002009-12-04T11:32:28.675+02:00SA's Got TalentI've got talent show fever. SA's got Talent has me hooked on the semi-finals this week. I wonder what makes us so intrigued by talent shows? I watch people, in all shapes and sizes either blow me away with an astounding performance, or I cringe at how super embarrassing the act is, or at its worse the act is mediocre. I suppose I'm fascinated by the guts it takes to even dare go up on stage in Liezolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17752715512931122377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863193903488799570.post-23068583363836778212009-10-26T23:36:00.003+02:002009-10-27T00:04:32.212+02:00Retrenched but untouchableI have been retrenched. Not news, I was retrenched 4 months ago, but now I'm really retrenched. This week is my last working week with my current company that is officially closed for business on the last day of this week. I read, I think it was in a Men's Health supplement that Retrenchment is really traumatic and you go through a whole gambit of emotions, from anger and blame, self loathing to Liezolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17752715512931122377noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863193903488799570.post-11580388270252409902009-10-22T11:58:00.003+02:002009-10-22T12:47:40.491+02:00Ok, Ok, so I didn't have the follow through to go through all 40 days and blog about it. It's just that structure and routine is not going to work when writing. A learning curve. I did read up to day 23 (about). But lots has happened so when I see the book looking up at me with a longing, puppy dog face, while its sits all lonesome on my bedside table I just shrug and say, tomorrow buddy, Liezolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17752715512931122377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863193903488799570.post-24727803766883689022009-09-23T09:25:00.002+02:002009-09-28T14:59:24.482+02:00Day 6: Life is a temporary assignment. Wow, temporary ain't never felt so long. Grappled with this a little because it makes it seem as though life on earth is shallow, peppered with religious acts and rules, stay poor so you can be rich in heaven. Ok, in all fairness that's not exactly what old Rickster was saying but it made me feel uncomfortable, all religious-like-kind-of (definition: driven Liezolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17752715512931122377noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863193903488799570.post-40375955355842649642009-09-23T08:58:00.006+02:002009-09-23T09:23:24.107+02:00Lethargy blended with perplexion, procrastination and lame excuses is the cause for not posting for a week. I have however been faithfully keeping to my day by day contemplation and meditation of the Purpose Driven Life. I suppose I was kind of internally processing some of the ideas that Rick Warren put to me. I am the kind of person who thinks before they speak. If I don't I almost always Liezolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17752715512931122377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863193903488799570.post-39909076234573768972009-09-16T22:16:00.005+02:002009-09-16T22:38:14.709+02:00Day 4: There is more to life than just here and now.I am preparing for eternity. That song by Brooke Fraser, 'Hosanna' has a line that says 'as I walk from earth into eternity' Whenever I sing that line of the song, I stretch my arm out in front of me as if eternity is in that direction but I know my mind's eye cannot fathom what it really is to walk into eternity, to be in direct fellowship withLiezolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17752715512931122377noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863193903488799570.post-2600667487489967822009-09-16T07:33:00.012+02:002009-09-16T13:26:51.740+02:00Day 3: What drives your life?Let's see, approval, fear, the need to provide for my family. But I think fear is the biggest one. Look, it's not easy to admit that I wake up in the morning because the alarm of fear is ringing in my ear. Fear that if I follow my dreams I will fail. Fear that if I disagree with popular opinion I will be rejected and persecuted.My experience of the corporate Liezolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17752715512931122377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863193903488799570.post-11513424272090979322009-09-15T14:06:00.002+02:002009-09-15T14:12:04.615+02:00Dance sequence: drag your feet hiphop/tap choreography. Dancers dressed in powersuits juggle their oversized PCs, briefcases and giant blackberries while dancing in sequence to the beat of a clock that ticks at twice the speed.Liezolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17752715512931122377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863193903488799570.post-65762155846515912112009-09-15T07:15:00.001+02:002009-09-15T15:54:48.492+02:00Day 2: I am not an accident. Question to consider: Knowing that God uniquely created me what areas of my personality, background and physical appearance am I struggling to accept?I've always wondered why I have skew teeth. There was an attempt to straighten them but it never really worked out. I think one day I will still try to do the whole adults with braces thing but my skew teeth are no Liezolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17752715512931122377noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863193903488799570.post-18167894810750757602009-09-14T11:47:00.000+02:002009-09-14T11:59:36.234+02:00an Extract from the script "Climbing the Corporate Ladder"-A figure sits on a lone chair in the middle of the stage, back facing the audience and slumped over in physical misery.We hear the voice over, 'Only Monday. Only 11h47 and already I know I don't have the strength to go on submitting to this. Feels like what torture would be like if it was internalised. From my own strength into God's. Liezolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17752715512931122377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2863193903488799570.post-7657905395684680182009-09-14T09:09:00.000+02:002009-09-14T12:23:37.463+02:00To begin with a cliche, I start my 40 day journey on a Monday. Technically I started on Sunday night but I am spending all day today, pondering the first question put to me on discovering my purpose. More specifically, the purpose God has created me for.See, I'm working in a job that I am really trying to be passionate about. The 'trying' part is very tiring since you have to work extra hard Liezolahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17752715512931122377noreply@blogger.com0