blogified postcard posties

Love it!!

2007-10-23T13:10:00.000+01:00

He is awesome!

updating in progress

2007-10-16T12:35:00.000+01:00

Yes folks, your eyes do not deceive you! You are ACTUALLY reading a post that is recent. Sorry for the lack of comms as I do not have internet at our house because BT sucks! And oh SKY does SUCK too. It's been three weeks and BT STILL have not fixed our phone line which they thought was working but is not. How many phone calls do we have to make to get the blinking line fixed!!! Without our Bt line we can't have broadband and our full sky package!! ANNA-OYING!!!

So I have moved house, moved in with three other people. Oliver, Rhys and Steph. All is going well and we have our housewarming on Saturday, which also happens to be the world cup final. So we having a housewarming slash world cup final. England are in it, how i don't know but so are South Africa, and as much as I don't like both countries my support lies with the Southern hemisphere country that is SA! So come on the BOKS!

Work we are rebranding at the moment. The task is turning out to be bigger than I thought and so there are days where I stare at the screen not knowing what to do as I don't know where to stop but it's all good. Jancie (also known as Janice :0) keeps me entertained which is good, is nice having someone to laugh with (and at :-D) makes work time go faster and more enjoyable. Here are some funny photos of her that she will probably kill me for putting up but hey! here are some funny office pics!
The day Janice was craving sushi, so we went to the golden mountain for lunch!! ahah
1000 to fold - hi ho hi ho it's folding off we go! :-D
Cool dude steve!! ahahahh
Janc think you have something on your face!

Right last quick one. I HAVE A NEW NEPHEW!! His name is Taurai. Here's a picture of the two little munchkins! So Swet. Right so I must go but will try to keep you updated!! and will add photos!!

P.S Miss Lippett is back in town! Saw her briefly at church and gonna have a good catch up but WELCOME BACK NAE!!

whoda thunk it?

2007-09-12T22:52:00.001+01:00

I know I haven't blogged in like, well forever but i felt that it was necessary to do so now

Zimbabwe sent shockwaves through the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup in
South Africa as they recorded a remarkable five-wicket victory over
Australia in Cape Town.
http://www.skysports.com/cricket/match_report/0,19822,11066_14225,00.html

Seriously

2007-07-05T21:01:00.001+01:00

WHY IS THERE NO SUN?!!!! WHERE THE HECK IS SUMMER?!

Really?!

2007-05-25T11:12:00.000+01:00

Tom Baldwin in Washington

Rock crushes scissors, scissors cut paper and paper covers rock. But nothing beats an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas and a shot at winning $50,000.

What was once a game to settle playground disputes has grown up to be on the verge of recognition as a global sport, with this year’s finals of the USA Rock Paper Scissors Tournament bringing together more than 300 contestants from all over America.

Matti Leshem, the national league’s self-styled commissioner, has already petitioned the International Olympic Committee to make it an event. Now he wants to bring “the greatest competition ever to sweep the USA” to Britain.

“I’m in talks with broadcasters in your country. I’ve a sneaking feeling that you guys will be good at it,” he said yesterday. “Some of your young people are quite athletic.”

Nor does his ambition for RPS, as he calls it, stop there.

“This is a sport which creates harmony – we should get out of Iraq and start throwing RPS instead. I want to set up the RPS Foundation which promotes this sport as a simple method of conflict resolution.”

Sunday night’s final was the culmination of more than 300 regional heats involving, said Mr Lesham, “hundreds of thousands of people”, all of whom beat their fists twice in the air (three times in Britain) before revealing one of the symbols.

The $50,000 prize went to Jaime Langridge, a Texas nurse.

Paramedics were on hand in case of “wrist or shoulder dislocations” while each bout took place under the careful gaze of trained referees. Fouls include the vertical paper throw, known as “the handshake”, deemed illegal because it resembles scissors – as well as the horizontal scissors throw, outlawed for the opposite reason.

More legitimate techniques include “cloaking” – concealing your choice until the last possible second – or “shadowing”, where players pretend to choose one symbol and then change at the last second. Some players use special fingerless RPS gloves.

“A lot of people tried to cheat. They throw early and then roll their hands,” said Mr Leshem, 44, a Hollywood producer who clearly understands the value of hype. “We had the world’s greatest RPS referee in Phil Gordon [a well-known poker player] and he made some big calls. There was a lot of controversy, but we went back on the videotape and he got it right every time.”

The USARPS league is burgeoning largely because of its sponsorship from Bud Light, which sees it as the perfect bar-side competition.

RPS is beginning to creep into other parts of American life. Last year a federal judge in Florida settled a case by ordering the two sides to play RPS.

And when Takashi Hashiyama, a Japanese executive, could not decide where to auction his firm’s collection of Impressionist paintings, he told the US divisions of Christie’s and Sotheby’s to match off in similar fashion, saying: “This is the best way to decide between two things which are equally good.”

Mr Leshem is scathing however, about a rival organisation – the long-established World Rock Paper Scissors Society.

“They try to claim the sport was invented in Britain! RPS has been around for centuries. They even played in Stone Age times – but then it was known as Rock, Rock, Rock.”

Hand signals

In a three shoot game, there are 27 variations, but these gambits - the “great eight” - have become famous

Avalanche: Rock-Rock-Rock. A “devastating offensive manoeuvre, which requires bravado bordering on recklessness to execute”.

The Bureaucrat: Paper-Paper-Paper. Formerly known as Confetti, “the deadpan delivery is the ultimate in passive-aggressive play”.

The Crescendo: Paper-Scissors-Rock. “Slow-building gambit” with the devastating rock delivering a “coup de grâce”.

Dénouement: Rock-Scissors-Paper. “Uses a cooling-down approach - when used in tandem with the Crescendo the result is often a baffled opponent.”

Fistful o’ dollars: Rock-Paper-Paper. “The rapid switch from offensive to defensive play can force an opponent into a vulnerable spot.”

Paper dolls: Paper-Scissors-Scissors. “An extremely effective gambit against the unwary”.

Scissor sandwich: Paper-Scissors-Paper. “Its main purpose is to unsettle the opponent through use of the concealed scissors”.

Toolbox: Scissors-Scissors-Scissors. “Requires steady hands and steely nerves. Given the puerile popularity of Rock, this gambit is not suggested for use against beginners.”

too funnny

2007-05-24T15:39:00.000+01:00

Best bit is at the end!!

Gutted...AGAIN

2007-05-19T17:57:00.000+01:00

So my team has just lost the FA cup from a last minute goal by panzy diver, annoying good football player, Drogba. Because we lost doesn't make me love my team any less it just sucks! Big time!

What is one to do?

2007-05-17T19:38:00.000+01:00

When the country you were born and love, is disintegrating in front of your eyes.....
When everytime you look at the news about Africa, Zimbabwe is in the headlines (not for something good)......
When inflation is 3000% (highest in the world).......
When there are so many people starving to death....
When there is only power for 4 hours a day in the whole country.......
When you are far away from your family who still live in the country.....

What is one to do?..........................
Pray!

untitled?

2007-04-17T00:05:00.000+01:00

Half full or half empty?

2007-04-16T23:22:00.000+01:00

Everyone who reads this MUST do this, it's great honest and isn't one of those naff things people get you to do so do it OK! Good, here it comes...

Go to Google Maps, .Com though not .uk!

Click Get Directions.

Type in New York as departure destination.

Type in Paris as your destination.

Hit the Get Directions button again to bring up the results.

Now check line 23.

Isn't that hilarious?

Manchester United (and me) in 7th Heaven!

2007-04-11T14:02:00.000+01:00

So ya Hi me again. It has been 9 days since my last post. Remember when I said that I would post more regularly?! Well I lied! hahaha Anyway so Happy late Easter! Hope it was a good one! I went down to Exter and hung out with my friend Lily! Was awesome.We went out in Exter, went to Budleigh (spelling?), then to Exmouth and hung out with Lily's family! I had a really good time! Was Awesome actually! AND it was sunny the WHOLE TIME I was there so wore my board shorts much tbout all the time, although the night times were pretty chilly.

Here are a couple of pics wil put the rest on my flickr account. Theres Exmouth sunset. Lily, laura, myself. Lilly and Katryn. And Lily and me.

Then yesterday I went round to the awesome Clays house! We watched Manchester United absolutely demolish Roma. 7-1 and the seven goals weren't regular goals either and to be fair the Roma goal was pretty spectacular to!! the goals just kept coming! Anne and I were talking bout the game before it started just saying how we were pretty nervous as it was a tough game last week. But Man U turned up and boy did they show Roma!! Was a really good evening. Anne cooked an awesome meal and as usual the evening was filled loads of laughs, I do love hanging out with the Clays!

I'm still on Easter holidays we go back to uni on the 23rd but got work to do in the mean time!

Not fallen off the face of the earth

2007-04-02T23:11:00.000+01:00

Okay so maybe some you might think that I have fallen off the face of the face of the earth, but I actually haven't ALTHOUGH I was tempted to jump many a time when I was trying to get my dissertation done. It seems a distant memory but this time last week I was running on 3 hours sleep as I had stayed up till 5 in the morn finishing off the diss. But that's all in and we are on our Easter break. It's not really a break as we have work to do but it's nice having a deadline that is far away!

So what has Miss Mud been up to the last month?! WORK, WORK, WORK. I'm sure many will chuckle when they read my name and work in the same sentence as it is a very rare occasion that this happens or that I do any work! But yes it IS true! I DO work (sometimes!) :-)

I turned 23 last month! Crazy I tell you. It was a really good day. My friends and I went out as mexicans, sombreros, ponchos and all here are a few pics. Theres one with the gang, one with Jon my housmate, Helen and myself, and one with Matt my housemate as Nacho Libre in his recreational clothes! (if you have watched Nacho Libre your missing out!! NAAACCHHO!)

So that was cool and then from my small group I got an awesome present! A personalised Manchester United shirt!! Was awesome! With the number 23 on my back. I was like 'ah awesome you got 23 thats my hockey number! Then it dawned on me that it was ALSO the age I had turned!! DOH!

So I have just been watching cricket world cup and filling my days with nothing. So its all good. I'm going down to Exeter for Easter will be good to hang out with my friend Lily. I went to the station to buy my train ticket and on my way back got onto the bus (big mistake) The bus driver was like, actually he was a driver from hell. He was roaring round the bus route. I was standing which made it even worse as i had to grip for dear life and he did his wheelies (not really but it felt like he was trying) round the round about! What made me laugh though was when we were approaching a bus stop he sped up and then screeched to a halt having past the bus stop like 100 meters behind and opened the doors to let people in. He proceeded to cut out the bus engine because he stopped so quickly!! I was so glad when i stepped off the bus. As always i said thank you!....(and under my breathe i sed)..... for not killing me!! haha was funny!

otherwise that me. If I haven't spoe to you sorry..send me a rude email or phone call and will defo get back to you! :-D Will prob be posting more regularly! Don't hold your breathe though as you may pass out!

Oh ya one more thing found out today that my brother and his wife and my little nephew are expanding their family and there will soon be a new addition to the fam. So I will have a new little nephew or neice! Awesome. Congrats to them.

Really funny

2007-03-03T00:47:00.000Z

Check this link out! It's really funny!! A piss take of Air Zimbabwe (If you arent Zimbabwean you may not get the jokes!!) But it's still hilarious

http://www.hi5.com/friend/video/displayViewVideo.do?videoId=3118615&ownerId=48069689&smid=20070302_4002_CB3sLr0z7a30BgB8QY93326143578

You will need to copy the link and paste it (sorry)

week-end

2007-02-28T23:07:00.000Z

This weekend my very special friends came to Cheltenham. It was so very nice to see them and spend time with them. Made me remember how much i actually missed them!

Elisabet and Magnus (finally got to meet him)

Lily and Myself

Elisabet, Lily and myself

AMAZING

2007-02-21T12:51:00.000Z

I wanna learn how to play like this!! I think it's amazing!! Eric Mongrain is awesome!

My song of the moment

2007-02-19T23:38:00.000Z

Okay so instead of doing my dissertation, which happens to be due in 1 week and 6 days!! I am watching Youtube clips of my fave song.........would someone slap some sense into me!! PLEASE!!

Anyway here you go. It's a pretty old song but I do love it. Jason Mraz makes me laugh and I Love his voice!

Sorry the sounds and their lips goes out of sync but its all good towards the end!! ENJOY

In shock

2007-02-13T00:07:00.000Z

So i log into msn and a msg comes up and it's my friend Kelly, she's like "MUDZ!! So glad you logged! I'm thinking huh? When did Lana get engaged?"

This is crazy was only home in January and she wasn't engaged!! I mean i have one friend who has been married for ages. But we always knew she was going to be the first. You know when your at school and you go round the group guessing what everyone will be doing in like 10/20 years? Well bernice was the married first girl!

Then found out just recently that my friend Kirsty got married last year! ( you probably thinking well she must not really be your friend, coz she would have told you!! :-) ahahaha no kidding i KNEW she was engaged, just not married!

I guess I am growing up, friends (my age) getting married and engaged left right and center!! CRAZY i tell you........sorry still in shock from news!!

Top snow tip

2007-02-09T22:26:00.000Z

If you ever want to play in the snow for a very long time and want warm hands but want to keep them dry............MARIGOLDS are the answer!! Put your gloves under them and then you can play, play, play!!

It works a treat!!
Other snow pics on my Flickr account

More now pics

2007-02-09T22:24:00.000Z

Here we are in our HI-VIZ jackets sitting on Cindy!!!
Alice is directing Cindy that she wants to go THAT-A-WAY!!.......

Top of the hill....CINDY is formed

2007-02-09T22:17:00.000Z

We climbed up this slippery road to get to the hill. Oli and Alice went sledging, i couldn't walk anymore i died from the previous one so i was determined to build a snow man. I was gonna build Chris Moyles from radio 1 but Alice came up with a Genius idea and we built a SNOW CHICKEN!! OH YES you read right!! check it out!!

Stage 1

Stage 2 (body and head formed!)

Stage 3 - Here you have it!! Our very own SNOW CHICKEN.......we christened it CINDY!

What's going on?

2007-02-09T22:03:00.000Z

Okay so I haven't posted in a very long time!! (just thought i would state the obvious, as you probably have noticed that i haven't posted in a long time!?)

Okay so what HAS been going on? Well last week friday and thursday, i went to work for Owen! It was awesome and pretty cool 'going to work" everyday! Had to be ready for 8!! It felt like i was walking through a thick mud pool, that was me for the first half an hour before i actually got myself together and was alert. Unfortunately i'm did not manage to go to work this week, only for one day because it suddenly ( well not really but i like to think it was sudden) that I have a dissertation due in just over 2 and a half weeks!! (If you are a kind soul and like writing essays, please let me know and will gladly give you work!)

What else well we had a SNOW DAY...........on the day i had decided to sit down and work on my dissertation.........it had to SNOW??? So the diss went out the window and Oli, Alice and myself went sledging. We first went to Cleeve hill but that was FULL of people so went to prestbury and were the only people on the hill!!

Here are funny things that happened before we even got to hill.....
1. Oli tried to drive up the slippery, muddy slope and nearly grounded his car on a hump
2. Us getting ready and Alice saying "Oli your car IS MOVING!!!" It was the funniest ever. We were outside the car and his car started sliding away Oli ran and grabbed the boot to stop it. The funny thing was the handbrake was on so it was the ice melting under his tires!! (ahhahaa we joked that when his car would be in Cleeve by the time we came back from playing in the snow because it would have slid away!!

Genius

2007-01-31T09:56:00.000Z

Okay so this video is so funny. I had top post it quicklythis morning before i rush off to Bristol to play hockey! It is So funnybecause it is SO TRUE! It's called BRAAI etiquette! Thats a BBQ for pommes and australians.Will comment on it when i get back just had to put the video up! Enjoy!!

So funny!!

2007-01-28T11:14:00.000Z

hahaha nothing quite like scaring someone!! :-)

FFFFFIIIIIGGGHHHTTT!

2007-01-24T02:54:00.000Z

Snow balls ready?.......AIM........and.......FIRE!!

Heres Matt and myself having a snowball fight! (oh by the way....i WON :-)
okay i must go to bed.....3 AM aaaaaggghhhhh!!

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

2007-01-24T02:33:00.000Z

Oh the weather outside is frightful
But the fire is so delightful
And since we've no place to go
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

SNNNOOOWWW!! okay so maybe its not alot and a little powdery but we still managed to have a snowball fight!!!
Here's pics of our 2:30 in the morning escapade today in the snow...........oh by the way Matt is the Hoff fan not me!

My favourite song of the week

2007-01-23T15:20:00.000Z

I think i'm gonna start a weekly tune of the week? :-) Feel free to let me know what your song of the week is and i'll put the song up on my blog if i can find the video.............Whats your tune of the week? Let's see what music is out there?

BUY BUY

2007-01-23T00:00:00.000Z

So today my friend Melody leaves the Land of Eng for the Land of Wallabies and Koalas (sad face and a sigh)

I can't wait till she lands in Aussie, sleeps off her jet lag, sorts out her broadband and connects to skype where i can chat to her and find out all her news!

"Formula forecasts sadness on Jan. 23"

2007-01-22T23:50:00.000Z

My housemate told me about this but i didn't believe her and so i went to my reliable and always ready keeper of all knowledge (Google) and looked it up and the first article i stumbled upon was this one.......

"Oh, woe is us -- the gloomiest time of the year is looming dead ahead. Stay under the covers and wallow in comfort food on Monday, Jan. 23 -- it's the most melancholy day on the entire calendar, at least said a British psychologist who backs his claims with a scientific formula.
Forget the Ides of March. Beware [W + (D-d)] x TQM x NA, cautions Cliff Arnall of the University of Cardiff in Wales.
"The formula uses six immediately identifiable factors: weather, debt, time since Christmas, time since failing our New Year's resolution, low motivational levels and feeling a need to take action," he said yesterday..............."

If you wanna read the rest of the article heres the url (sorry don't know how to post it as a link as i am bit slow :-)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20060109-115631-4762r.htm

I am assuming that this day is tuesday 23 for 2007. I hope your Tuesday is anything but gloomy! Try stay warm, as it is going to be very very very cold!!!

You will however be happy to know that we have only got 164 days to go. The happiest day is Friday, June 23 this year!

Question?

2007-01-22T11:35:00.000Z

Why is it that people have the power or are able to make you question who you as a person, and make you unsure of yourself?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

2007-01-22T00:49:00.000Z

Arsenal 2-1 Man Utd

............still top of the table though!

New photo's on flickr

2007-01-21T13:30:00.000Z

New photies

New toy

2007-01-20T00:07:00.000Z

So the door bell rung.....well it was actually a knock on the door because we don't actually have a door bell. But i got a new toy in the post. My dear brother bought me an A3 printer. For those who are in graphics this is a very exciting thing and for those who aren't, this printer will basically let me print out big peices of work that are bigger than A4.

It is a bit of a danger because when i did not have a printer i used to wake up early, got to uni and work and print off stuff there but now i ACTUALLY don't have to leave the house!!! Going to have to be very very disciplined!!!!

Anyway so here it is in all its splendour!!! My Canon Pixma IX5000 and yes it does take up A LOT of space on my desk...try 3/4 of the desk! :-D

open printer

closed printer

What's that i see

2007-01-19T23:47:00.000Z

So i've been back from in England for.........(just counting the days).....6 days it is and things are going swimmingly. I've been into uni for a 45 minute tutorial and that's it for the next week because our tutor is away next week so dont have to go into uni!! Crazy i tell you, also we have an extra week for our project which actually has to be the best thing ever!!

I've just got back from Mel's house. Went over for pizza with Ruth, Janine and Helen. The evening was filled with so many belly aching laughs and tear laughs. It was such a fun evening but on the other hand it was also a sad goobye evening (or a see you soon evening) because Mel is off to Australia on Tuesday which really sucks!! Am really going to miss her!
It is funny, i have been saying goodbyes for a while now to many a friend who have moved away. You think it would get easier, but it doesn't.

This got me thinking to how i used to think about the past and wished i had done things differently, spent more time with family and friends. But we all know you can't change the past (if you do know....share the secret :-) and so i am appreciating NOW more than ever! Like the vodafone strapline...."make the most of now." Also with my degree nearly coming to an end, i am just realising how important NOW is! Enjoying where you are in life, enjoying the friends you have in your life now and just enjoying! Whether all this thinking is me growing up or just a thought i don't know but if it is growing up i look forward to the rest of 2007 and growing up more......

Blog-Tagged

2007-01-16T09:33:00.000Z

I have been meaning to update my blog for a very long time and Owen gave me a reason to do so he blog-tagged me.

"The object of the game is to reveal 5 things about you, which most readers probably don't know, then nominate 5 friends to do the same."

Thing number 1
I wore braces (on my teeth not suspenders on my trousers) for 7 years of my life. My teeth were really messed up when i was little and so the dentist had to cut out my last milk tooth that was hanging on for dear life, to make space for my permanent teeth. I wore a retainer in junior school (which i lost many a time in the pool) then proceeded to wear railway tracks in high school (all i can remember was the pain when the orthodontist would tighten them!!). I still wear a retainer to bed to keep my teeth straight!

Thing number 2
When i was 12 we had a guard dog that we only used to let out at night after everyone was home. And the one night it was let out early. I came home (in zim), got out of the car and the dog came for me....i remember standing then suddenly being on the ground. I was rushed to hospital and the wound was bound. Then i came to visit my sister, who was at Bristol university at the time when my wound went funny, i was rushed to hospital in Bristol where they had to operate on me. I had dead skin tissue so my wound wasnt healing. Thye left me with a mssive scar and 12 massive stitches on my leg! All of this happened over Christmas day!

Thing nmber 3
Now this one is a very recent one. i used to hate gerkins but during the summer when i was visiting my brother i was watching the food network and a programme came on tv, on how gerkins are made! THEY ARE JUST pickled BABY CUCUMBERS!! i SO didn't know that till i watched the programme! Now i like gerkins! hahaha

Thing number 4
I can play the harmonica. Is it geeky? well some people might say it is but i dont think so :-) I am trying to teach myself how to play the blues!

Thing number 5
I have six toes on one foot! Grosse hey! ahahh KIDDING!! (i'm struggling to think of the last thing people won't know about me! )
Oh okay here's one. Out of my siblings (two older sisters and two older brothers) I was the only child born in Zimbabwe. Although we all live in Zimbabwe now. My family lived in Zambia for a while before i was born then moved to Zimbabwe in 1983 then i came into the world in !984!

There we have it folks, hopefully 5 intresting facts you did not know about me.
I now have to struggle as i dont actually have 5 other people to tag so will do as man as i can think of!!

I Blog-Tagg: STEVE CLARKE, JESS, DAN, and any other two people that re reading this and have a blog!!

Ola hope ur enjoyin gur holidays ver mucho

2006-12-21T18:59:00.000Z

(warning this post will not have much punctuation. so if you get annoyed from lack of punctuation, stop reading now!)

hey thought i would send my greeting from across africa. i've been home for about 2 and a half weeks and its been good. i arrived to a kinda overcast sky but then it was a pleasant 18 degrees C, at 7 in the morn so it was all good. a brief run down of what i've been up to include going on a week long camp. it was awesome. i was in charge of the baby dorm they are 12 and 13. there photos of my friends spike on the trampoline, my friend laura at the dairy next to the sweetest baby cows (every morning we went tot he dairy to get milk for breakfast at camp), all the leaders on camp in red shirts and a funny pic we took with us under the car!

it was cool i swam in dam, went tubing, ate lots of yummy food, laughed till my stomach hurt and had alot of fun . that was fun. and now i'm back home preparing for Christmas. its a bit weird it being hot coz last year was a cold Christmas but i aint complaining. i spend my days hanging out in the sun with my friends , having coffee and generally enjoying being home. saying that there are a few hang ups like having powercuts for a very long time. longest weve had is 2 days with no electricity!! (drove me crazy!) the cellphone network not working so you cant really get hold of your friends immediatley but you have to try for like 10 mins. gotta love it all (not really)

kay well enjoy your Christmas and New year. i pray that it is a Happy and safe holiday.
Happy Holidays folks

love from me

Leaving

2006-12-04T23:16:00.000Z

Hello my furry friends!

Just taking a break from packing and wanted to say that i fly out 2morrow back home for Christmas. I might post while i am away but that all depends on how fast the snail-internet back home. Otherwise if not will post once i return to the Land of Eng. But hope you all have an awesome Christmas and New year and i'll be on msn and email if you need to get hold of me!!

Right back to packing........

Friends

2006-12-04T00:39:00.000Z

I have been thinking a lot about the special people called friends. In small group this week we looked at proverbs 27 and talked about our friends, how we should and would like to treat them, how they should treat us and a load of different other things. It was pretty cool because they boys split off into their own group and the girls were in our own group. It made it easier to be more open with answers and questions.

It got me thinking at how special friends are. At times i know i've taken many of my friends for granted but this week i have really been able to appreciate all my friends do for me and been reflecting. I think it could be the fact that i have met up with everyone because i am leaving early for Christmas. I had a sleep over on friday with Melody (mermaid) and Ruth (ducky). It was the last one with Mel before she goes off to Aussie land. Mel and i went to watch flushed away at the movies and like 3/4 through they had a fire scare and we had to be evacuated out of the building and we got complimentary tickets, to which i am going to use to see another movie, even though i did not finish flushed away. We went to Hungry for God and then we went to collect our giant Dominos pizza and went home to watch the rest of the lost episodes. (Ducky fell asleep!! can you believe it?) Only got to sleep at about half four felt pretty shattered the next day.

I then went to Steve and Mins to say bye and had supper which was delicious! That was Sat night Rachel came along too was good to see her and catch up. We watched Home Alone!! Oh yeah!!! It brought back loads of memories!! Then we watched Cars.

Today i went to the pub after church and had a drink with friends and people from small group (they are also my friends! :-)
Managed to whip Oli's ass at table football!! It was just sitting round the table that i thought again, looking round at everyone that i'm pretty lucky to have friends in my life. In my 22 years i've had to say bye to friends as they have either moved on or moved away and i have thought how it sucked (which it did) But then i think that i am really glad that i had that time with friends to get to know them and stuff. The laughs, chats, tears and all.

So i just wanna say if you reading this your probably my friend (if not ummmm thanks for reading......i guess :-) Thanks for being my friend and know that you are very special to me!

Happy 4th of December

2006-12-04T00:20:00.000Z

So it has been a while since i last posted because i noticed the blogging has changed and i have just spent an hour converting my blog to beta version and now i am ready to roll! So what has been happening in the life of Mudiwa Ezmeralda Zamchiya? (kidding middle name isnt Ezmeralda, i don't even have one!) I've been getting on with uni. My last year has been flying by like a blimin concorde. Seriously time has been disappearing so fast. Its Christmas soon and i am going back home to Zim on tuesday! I actually can't wait. Will be good to see the Family and also the SUN !! Looking forward to going on camp which starts on Sunday. Thats a week long and involves looking after teenage girls, leading worship, giving talks(mine is on how to live a wholehearted life for Jesus) and oh skiing (on water), game viewing, abseiling (which i will watch and not do, its the heights). Basically its a week filled with loads of fun and awesome times.

This last week has been pretty hectic! I have been forced to do some work and ACTUALLY think and do work on my Dissertation. It's all good i went to library and got a stack of books, now i just have to read them aaaaaggghhh!! I dont know whether i want to take them with me, when i go home because they weigh so much?

end of an era

2006-11-15T23:38:00.000Z

It seems that the 15th of November is the end of an era! My ipod has died. I have tried everything to revive it but NOTHING works!! I can't believe it. I woke up this morning excited (not) at the fact that i had a 2 and a half hour mini bus journey to plymouth to play hockey and be able to listen to my chunes! Going to take a trip to the apple store and see what they say. I've had my baby for two years, well not really one year then that one died and i got a new one under warranty but still. To part with it is just sweet sorrow. So i might just think i have to say good bye to my old skool ipod!

oh and we finally won today in plymouth 7-0!! woohoo st pauls hockey team!!!

Thought

2006-10-31T00:21:00.000Z

I got an email from my sister the other day. It was an email that she had recieved from a lady who works at Barclays informing us (the family) that they had finished working on fixing up a run down ward at a hospital near the area my late Dad was raised. Barclays (my dad was on the Chairman of Barclays Zimbabwe) are giving my mum and the Zamchiya family an award and have also dedicated a ward ,that they fixed up in Chipinge in honour of my Dad's continous work in helping the people in the area with his time and donations. The ward is called The David Zamchiya Ward.

It makes me pretty damn proud that after four years after his death, one man's work, my dads work, is still being recognised for his input into the area and other areas. It makes me want to strive to be the extraodinary person he was. It then makes me think what do i want to be rememebered for when i die and what do i want to accomplish with my life?

weekend

2006-10-30T23:56:00.000Z

This weekend i think, actually i know i had the most fun weekend in a long time! (somehow that sentence doesn't quite sound like correct english..........oh well, back to the funnest weekend ever)

Friday i had my first sleepover of the new semester. Melody and Ruth came over. We went to the movies and watched The Gaurdian which we all really enjoyed, even though it was kinda predicatable. We now adpoted the names Senior Commander Mermaid (Mel), Senior Commander Duckie (Ruth) and Senior Commander Marlin (Me!) Our salute involves saying your S.C followed by your name and 5678! It was awesome. Notice how all our names have something to do with water. That's because the movie was about coast guards you see. So after that we came back home and orders Dominos. Let me just remind you that i live bout 2 minutes from Domino's. when i answered the door, the delivery man had a sort of 'i can't believe you just ordered this pizza and did not walk to collect it...lazy' look! Anyway pizza was yummy. I nearly managed to con Ruth into thinking that i had lions roaming around free back in zim and that i lived in a mud hut. I was so nearly there till Mel made me laugh!! It was a very funny moment! We then had a four hour Lost season 3 marathon!! Ruth is no longer a Lost virgin!! Mel filled her in with every detail!! Was pretty amazing how much detail that girl knows. I usually just watch an episode then forget!! Anyway after that we all packed into the lounge to sleep, which we didnt and ended up chatting till quarter to 4!! Was a really good night/day. Here's a funny pic. Its the best of the lot!!! I kept cutting my head out!

Then sat i got to see Paul and Laura who were over from Bristol! Got to watch X factor at alices house, then we went to waitrose to get some grub and ended up watched Anchorman. (Not a Will Farrell Fan...not at all)

So that sums up my really enjoyable weekend!.......Here's hoping for loads more fun times!!

Man Utd 2-0 Liverpool

2006-10-22T15:15:00.000+01:00

Paul Scholes scored on his 500th appearance to set Manchester United on their way to a deserved victory over Liverpool at Old Trafford.

Happy Wednesday!

2006-10-18T08:41:00.000+01:00

Happy WeDnEsDaY folks!! :-D Have an fantabulous day!

Flavour of the week

2006-10-17T12:37:00.000+01:00

Here's possibly my best song.....of the week. Maybe even month. It's by James Morrison, he's been around for a while but been listening to his album and love his voice. Anyway here's his latest single....It's a wonderful world (don't you think i should be a dj? I introduced that like a pro!

adventure week

2006-10-16T00:35:00.000+01:00

(I just lost the original entry i typed for this when i closed the window by mistake!!!! GOSH!!! so this one isnt as funny and as intresting as it should be. But i tried to remember what i originally wrote!!)

I'm going to name this week adventure week! Why you might ask, well coz i can and also that my housemates and i are going to have a fun filled week. We plan to explore. We decided that seeing as it's our last year at uni we are going to do as much as we can and we are starting with BOWLING!! OH YEAH!! how fun. Anyway that's gonna be first, top of our list then we are going to see our neighbouring town of Gloucester.. I'm keen to go to H&M and see what it has, i need a pair of trousers actually!! We are also going to go ....wait for it......wait for it.......are you waiting......BINGO!! (read in a Napoleon Dynamite voice) YESSSSSSSSSSS!!! YIP!!!! Gonna be awesome! But we aren't going to go to Bee eye en gee o this week coz it would just be too much excitement so we are saving it for another week, but reast assured i will be taking loads of photies!! okay so i better get back to work now as i have had a 35 minute break and it's 00:35!

Countdown

2006-10-16T00:07:00.000+01:00

So i sit here SUPPOSED to be working on my current project. It's 00:05 (that's 5 past 12 for all of you who don't understand army time) I was happily doing my work (yeah right) then i got an email saying i had a coment on my blog so got distracted!! (Thanks for the distraction Nae :-) So i have decided to post. It's titled countdown. Why countdown i hear you ask.......well my furry friends, it exactly 70 days till Christmas!! Can you believe it?! That's like 10 weeks or 100 800 minutes or 6 048 000 seconds, or 6 048 000 000 milliseconds. Okay when you put it in milliseconds it seems like a lifetime away. But ya its crazy, CRAZY i tell you, the shops have their Christmas stuff up and Christmas specials up already and it isn't even November!!

So keep posted i shall be doing a countdown every so often so if you wanna know how long till Christmas check here!!! :-)

My flickr photos

2006-10-13T01:06:00.000+01:00

Here's the add to my flickr photos will figure out how to add it to my side bar tommorrow i think!! Click on the link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mudiwa

The return of the "Mudz"

2006-10-13T00:21:00.000+01:00

So i guess the honeymoon period is over, in terms of my enthusiasm with my blog. That would probably be the best explanation as to why i haven't posted anything!! I do find myself in a bit of predicament really. Being a graphic designer, i find my blog design rather boring and un-engaging (i know it's not a word) okay not engaging but i will put some work in and get it sorted!! Scoutess honour! I will also update my photies to my flickr account for you to have a gander! As i sit writing this i have to chuckle though because , i am actually talking to myself then i post my post in hope that somebody reads my posts. Anyway i post on!!

What has been happening? Well i have been to uni. We have a new brief for a clothes company called Howies. The brief asks us to do t-shirt illustrations with the the theme of Hope. Third year is all good. It is nice to be at the top of the graphic design department in terms of year! But then again it is rather daunting at the prospect of having to going out into the BIG-BAD-WORLD, to actually find somewhere to live, get a job and provide for myself. I know that it is bout 9 months away but it is still scarey and on my mind. I don't have a dissertation title either!! I know iw ant to do something to do with packaging but i need to narrow it down and think of something intresting that i can argue about......any ideas?!

I am starting a business called GRENADE! Along with two of my friends on my course and they also happen to be my housemates. I am trying to get my head around all the mumbo jumbo that goes with registering a company, gettting web space, business cards, website etc. IT'S ALL GO!!! Launch date end of October, stay tuned!

otherwise i think i'll leave you with this image of a t shirt that made me chuckle

Still alive

2006-10-05T23:20:00.000+01:00

So you are probably reading this thinking that I arrived (that we all know from my last post), and have been sitting in my room doing nothing for the past two weeks! That's close to the truth, if you throw in a couple of hours here and there of uni time. But yes I HAVE been breathing and living even though I haven't posted anything but that is soon to change, actually it already has with this post. More to come after I finish watch the American version on the Apprentice.

Arrived

2006-09-23T00:31:00.000+01:00

So i got back to the land on Eng yesterday from the U S of A. Flight was ok, i did not get upgraded like i did on my way there, departure time was half an hour later but we made up for time because we had a tail wind. i have my flight ritual which starts with me getting onto the plane of course and then getting to my seat. I then proceed to pick up the inflight entertainment guide and depending on the flight time i then choose the number of films i am going to watch, in my case it was a six hour flight so that makes bout 3 or 4 films and music channels. On this flight i chose my movies in order of preference, only to find that they had not changed the movies to 'flying to UK'!! i was annoyed becuase that then made me have to flick through that set of movies and quickly pick movies i had not read reviews on. So i chose and was pleased because they had Nacho libre (which comes highly recommended by my brother). I settled in my seat read to watch the movie only to find that the channel did not work properly and kept flickering!!!! Now come on British Airways i know i am only flying world traveller (economy) but you could at least give me my moneys worth!!! I ended up watching Wah Wah and listening to the Futureheads new album and the new Snow Patrol albums (really good) for the rest of the flight!!!

Turbulence was a little rough over the Atlantic but i made it through after a couple of white knuckle moments (in my case would be brown knuckle i guess?) Undoubtably the best part of the flight was when we literally flew into daybreak. I unfortunately did not have my camera but found this image that is identitcal to what i saw. It just made me appreciate the earth we live in, being able to see and breathe life and the time i had just spent with my brother, his wife jen and my little 5 month old nephew 'mr chu'

chunes!

2006-09-18T17:47:00.000+01:00

Is it just me or does itunes 7 make my music seems better and more exciting to listen to. I find myself wanting to open up the new version on itunes and listen to my beats over and over again. It could just because it's a new version, that looks tighter and cleaner, because i know it's the same music i had last week when it was the old version! Whatever the reason. two thumbs up to Apple for the new design!

music week-all this week

2006-09-18T17:23:00.000+01:00

morning music listener!! Just after my last post, i decided to make this week, music week! So all my post this week will be me sharing my favouritist artists and some not so good. Aswell as all things related to music!! Woo hoo!!

Here he is Mr Cool himself, with a capital C. Mr Ben Harper at bonnaroo 2006. It's a really good acoustic song and the guy playing the djembe is Leon Mobley (awesome!). It is just a badass song with really good lyrics and the sound is awesome!! I've watched this video many a time and i have another version in my itunes library where he sings with Jack Johnson!

Shweet music!

2006-09-18T16:55:00.000+01:00

Have to say i'm over excited with his new cd. Who you may ask? John Mayer of course!! It is awesome.

A treat for your ears and eyes, here's a live performance he did earlier on this month on NBC! You can't help but smile when he sings.......well i can't!

Just a thought......

2006-09-17T18:21:00.000+01:00

Right so i was told to act 22 by my brother in a conversation slash slight disagreement. To cut a long story short he told me to go out and do stuff by myself in dc. Think he wanted me to explore! Anyway it got me thinking. How does a person act their age? I understand that you can act imature and realise that, but when all you are is living your life as a 22 year old. Are you not being 22? I think one can only say act 22, 33, 18, or whatever you are once you have been that age because you have learnt and realised what you should and should not have done!

Funny

2006-09-14T17:23:00.000+01:00

they always crack me up!!

Learning

2006-09-12T03:39:00.000+01:00

So here it is another week, I have 9 days left in the US of A (I will post a summary of the summer run down), till I get back to the UK and back to getting my brain into action again. Over the weekend I went to a barbecue and tried root beer. Never had before so opened the bottle and had a swig. Not too sure whether I like or not, the jury is still out on that one. I sipped about 3/4 of the bottle, you would think that I liked it if I had nearly the whole bottle! But every time I had a sip I tried to work out the flavours and whether I liked it and before I knew it 3/4 of the stuff had gone. I think it tastes too much like a perfumed drink, rather than a refreshing drink.

www.pandora.com probably my best find of the week! What is it? Free web radio, but its a little more special than that. What you do is type in your preferred music artist and the station chooses other artists that are similar to yours and all you do is sit back and listen. It will play 5 songs or so then ask you to sign up which is free. One snag though, it requires a US zip code but we all watched Beverly Hills right?! :-)

Still trying to get blog to look like I want to, think I might have to get off blogger so I'm not limited. So to any blogging veternas out there who don't mind giving me advice, it's more then welcome.

The lucky and the not so lucky!

2006-09-09T18:26:00.000+01:00

Everton 3 - 0 Liverpool
just wanna say chin up to my brother, bongai and any other Liverpool fans for the loss today. better luck next time :-D

Man U 1 - 0 Tottenham

and to my fellow Man Utd folks the air is good up here at the top of the table!!

Blogging Expeditions!!!!

2006-09-09T00:19:00.000+01:00

Right so here is where it all starts......for me and my blogging expeditions! This will be my attempt at keeping a digital diary, where I will post my thoughts, to which I have to add a WARNING to because some might be a bit random! But I shall strive to provide interesting reading for y'all!! You may be wondering who I am as you read my blog in which case I want to say hi. I'm a 22 year old graphic design student, trying to figure out who I am and what life is all about! My post may be regular and at times a little sporadic. Enjoy and thanks for reading!!