Questions : Those really big ones..

they fascinate me, endlessly. I would suppose a lot of people would go "Duh, they've been in the minds of a great number of what's considered mankind for a very long time."

After a spell of unwellness stomach this afternoon, I'm currently sitting in the kitchen of the house where we live with my cousin, her bf, his brother and their friend, and since Tuesday another new housemate. Looking through the nice glass door to the outside where it's raining, and has been since about 4pm this afternoon around. Not thundering down in buckets, but that same kind of Cape Town soft patter against the windows all around the house, the kind of weather that makes me miss Cape Town this time of the year over the weekends. Weather that forever gets me into this... can one call it : "Thinking mode".

We've been in London since end of Jan this year, and relatively speaking I don't see that as a very long time. My expectations for being in the UK were/are to have gotten a nice, decent paying job, and to use London as a base for some travel ( however the plans are to do a lot more of that in next year rather than this). I want to build up a bit of a network, and have already done so in a fair amount, to be able to do creative business ventures and see what markets work here that haven't been, either created in SA or are being used effectively in SA. Sounds very business like.. and a lot of people would go : "That's not Zodan, what did you do with him and where have you taken him ? ".

And yet, having already started this journey, by being a contractor for a leading broadcasting corporation in Waterloo, I find myself doing the thinking thing tonight, as I have for a while now.

I envy my life companion (cause she's more to me than just a girlfriend). And one of the reasons why I envy her, is because she's always known where she's wanted to go with her talents, and where her talents lay as well. And come Jan 2008 we'll be taking ourselves back to Cape Town, getting a flat somewhere close to campus and she'll start with her M.Sc in Marine Biology. I, on the other hand, have always been one that ... explores to where I am ( if I may say so myself).

I studied at Maties, and heck I'll never regret a single second of it.. got my degree and then took a 90 degree turn (in the books of most who know me), and did webdev, (which I am still doing to this day... a long almost 3 years later). And not to blow my own horn to loud, I'm not half bad at it, but I still feel that I'm nothing as good a coder as say Octavo is, just because I know he's a great master of the art that we both enjoy using it. ( And coding is an art, he'll be nodding his head if he's reading this, it's being creative with solutions). Neither am I as good with SQL than Mr G, who I believe to be a really good DBA, currently enjoying his time here in London as well.

I know that I'll hopefully be coding for the most of the time that we are abroad here in the UK, and I have no problem with that, as it seems the wave of companies and private investors are looking to make the comparatively level playing field of e-commerce, all the more the way the world is going to run, and with that in mind I stand at a point where I can become involved in those oppurtunities, and I have already begun to do that, very recently actually. This has brought on the fire of own business ideas that I have, of which I am going to try and set up as many as possible over the next 2 years, in partnerships with people who I believe have the same kind of business ethics as myself.

Seems I've taken a wild turn away from what I started this post about, and I haven't really reached it yet either. Back to the point. Blah blah blah.. why ? Cause I can, and I like to talk, not because I like the sound of my own voice, but because I love writing my thoughts down.

Nope, lost the train of thought, not really keen to pick it up again.

Oppurtunity is a rare thing, and sometimes it doesn't turn out entirely the way we wanted it to, but grabbing onto it, and not letting it go is far better than the perceived security of the known.

A new phase starts soon... watch this space.
Z