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!!
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!!
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!
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?
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!
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!
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?
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
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......
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!!
(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
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........
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!
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?
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!!!
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?
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!!
