1st of (hopefully) many...

It has finally happened. After months ( more like weeks though) of getting use to the UK, finding out a whole bunch of stuff I suspect I should have known before we came over, and getting down and dirty with how the real work seaking world works... I got my 1st pounds, in the bank, and cleared... and last night the HSBC internet banking went into full swing.

Now unlike the G-unit that's here mine was none to do about buying gadgets [ja, I'm jealous. That Wolverine is one meen machine man]. A few ill investments last year had put me on the road of debt, and thus a big wad of the pounds I had done 3 weeks worth of work for, has been put on the road to SA. 1stContact is a company here in the UK that organises stuff for SA (and other) ppl who come over here. From things like opening a bank account and setting up a limited company (wish I had known about that, they charge less than the current consultancy that I work through, although the current one does take out indemnity insurance of up to £1m for me), to helping with the getting of a shenglen visa (to travel the EU basically).

Anyways, after finally being able to transfer the rent to my cousin's account, pushing a hefty sum over to SA (still in the process, normally takes 3 working days, so should be there by Thursday night hopefully), and paying some of the UK creditcard off ( everything having being budgetted in advance though, well in advance) there is still a bit left to spoil my lady with, and so hopefully today I'll be able to do that :)

Truth be told I'm hoping to slash my month travelling costs by getting my butt back onto a bicycle in the near future. A few reasons for that. 1 : I really love cycling, and there's a bit of a story there. Back in the day (and because it is around 10 years ago.. gosh I'm getting old ), Jerry and I used to hook up on Sunday afternoons at his place, check that the two bikes over there were in some state of road-worthyness (a very loose definition about the state of the bicycles but anyways, and there's a whole post on it's own there as well), and then we'd ride out to Kuilsriver to go pick up some VHS (ol' school) movies from a video rental in the main road there.
Thinking back to it, little did we know the things that would happen about 2 years later, hey Micon ? :) The vid shop was about 300 metres away from Riette's place :) Ahh, them good old days huh :)

The normal Sunday routine though ( to get back to the point) changed after about 3 months of doing this every week. We kept on telling everyone that we were cycling to Kuilsriver, but we skelm-ed out to TygerValley instead, to go have ice cream every Sunday. Now the ice cream aint the skelm thing, the fact that we went through some of the most traffic ridden streets to get to TygerValley, that right there would have had the parents (on either side) put a nice ban on Sunday get togethers.

This is going to be a bit region specific : This all happend back in the day when the banking court in T-V was still the putt-putt course, and the general open area was full of wood (sleeper) benches and tables where we'd used to sit down and chat about some arb stuff while we enjoyed the prize of Marcel's frozen yoghurt in a big sugar cone. Man good memories are awesome epinephrine.

That being a long explination for reason 1. Reason 2 : I need to get fit. No seriously, I need to get my cardio vascular going a bit more than I am at the moment (which at the moment is being done by walking to the tube station every morning from home, and not taking the DLR (which 9 out of 10 times at that time of the morning is over crowded anyway, and just makes for an unpleasant start to the working day).

And so, with that in mind I'll be purchasing my 1st bicycle in a decade ( previous one was bought when I was either 13 or 14, can't really remember, and as far as I recall I didn't buy it either)

As things go I believe it's time to get my lazy butt out of bed and get something into my stomach.

Good day to all, and hopefully a great week for all as well :)
Hope you enjoy the new job Oct, think you start this coming week, correct me if I'm wrong...

Z