here we go again

I knew I hadn't posted anything new in a while but not since March 20th! I didn't realize I was that bad. I had been think about restarting again (I've had a few complaints) but I got another little push from Leslie, so here we are.

I have a habit of naming people and things, sometimes due to the fact that to pronounce a person's name would be futile for me (when you have two distinctly different clicks in your name there's no real reason to tell me I will never in my wildest dreams be able to repeat it) and sometimes you just don't have a name to call them. I have several people that provide me my breakfast essentials, the muffin man, the coffee guy and the croissant dude. This morning none of my breakfast consortium were around! Three different people at three different location and they all disappeared. I did manage to get myself fed but not what I wanted, I realized the muffin man was gone and settled on the croissant dude only to be disappointed again. So I made my way to the coffee guy deciding that I needed a real coffee this morning since I would be going without my pre-determined breakfast, he wasn't there but at least he has others to cover for him so I got a coffee just not made by him and it wasn't as good.

Something that I have realize I really enjoy is the market shopping. The problem which I outlined above, is that you can't guarantee that the market people will be there when you want them or what stock they'll have. But instead of going to big chains or malls the markets can fulfill your every need. I am careful when I go to the major markets because with the accent I have to fight to get a decent deal (I suck at bargaining). I avoid tourist season in the market or go to the ones not so frequented by the tourists, and I go at the end of the day because if it hasn't been a very lucrative day they are more likely to let the price go a bit lower. I wish I would be able to even fake a have way decent SA accent, but there is no hope for that at all!

It is one of the weirdest accents, usually I can at least pick up a sentence or two in another accent (i.e. British) but not the SA one, I've lived here other a year and I could not for the life of me even say one word with the accent. The problem, you can not put your finger on what makes it different. I saw the preview for Blood Diamond on TV a little while back and I realized that Titanic dude was trying to do a SA accent, it sounds absolutely ridiculous, they should have just let him do another one and forget about the 'authenticity' or you know maybe get a SA actor its not like there's a short supply.

I do want to see blood diamond but movie get released to theatres here much later than in other places so basically as soon as a movie leaves the theatre its available for rent so why spent 4x as much when you only have to wait a week or two. Its winter which means rain (hopefully not to much) so I think its best that I've waited for a few movies to go to DVD I wanted to see so I don't have to leave the wonderful confines of my flat.