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SASI Swimwear 2009 cover girl

Posted on Oct. 22, 2009 at 2:12 AM - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

Her name is Catrinel Menghia and it's a metaphysical anomaly that the SASI covers don't spontaneously combust with all that hotness.

Catrinel leads all adoring SASI fans into freshwater pearl jewelry 144 pages of bikini bliss, featuring 11 supermodels and the queen of summer holiday destinations, Zanzibar. Some of the other hotties featured are Wonderbra wünderkind Elbe van de Merwe, SASI favourites Dominique PiekGenevieve Morton and newbies Lyndall Jarvis, Shashi Naidoo, Shane van der Westhuizen, Marzaan Kalis and Tanya Manganyi. So much skin, so little fabric...

Catch nugget pearl Swimwear TV on M-Net on the 20th of October at 21h30 and for behind the scenes footage of the magazine shoot.

Stop racism! You first...

Posted on Oct. 22, 2009 at 2:07 AM - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

I've just come back from a two-day transformation workshop, in which I was trained how to be tolerant, understanding and accepting others in the spirit of celebrating our diversity. Needless to say, it didn't work.

With the exception of most of the people on my cellphone contacts list, I still have the tendency to playground equipment see humanity as 99 percent spiteful moron and one percent trans fat. So I guess I'm still the same negative creep I was going in.

But let's avoid floccinaucinihilipilification of the process. After all, I get paid by the word, and I'd hate for you to go away thinking that you don't need no transformation, because to tell the truth, you probably do.

This is not to say that the average corporate training workshop affair doesn't make me want to inject mayonnaise into my neck. It's usually like stumbling into a Kafkaesque nightmare, only with tea and biscuits. Years ago I attended a team-building session where we were given glitter, glue and finger-paints, and told, "If the company were an animal, draw the animal it would be." I'm not kidding. I put a single dot in the centre of the A2 paper and said it was a flea.
"Why a flea?" asked the convener, dripping with saccharine fraudulence.

"Because fuck you," I replied. I'm surprised he didn't make me sit in the corner for the rest of the day, the condescending prick. The old corporate cliché, "There's no 'I' in 'team'” is one of the main reasons I'm a writer.

My one regret is that I never had the opportunity to cultured pearl do one of those "trust" exercises, where a colleague falls backwards, and you have to catch them. I'd step out of the way as they fell, and expect anyone with a heart to do the same for me. Let's not pretend for a second that anyone we exchange pleasantries with in the tea room is going to be there to catch us when we wilfully fall flat on our arses.

Back at the transformation workshop, a group of left-leaning, well-educated people went through the motions of discussing personal prejudices and an intolerance for others that was conspicuous by its absence from the room. We were shown a video of a discrimination experiment, in which a primary school teacher divided her class of tykes into blue-eyed and brown-eyed groups. For the first week, the class was told that the blue-eyed kids were superior, and the brown-eyed kids had to wear collars to pearl earrings wholesale denote their inferiority.

Almost immediately the brown-eyed group's performance plummeted, and the blue-eyed group turned into horrible little Nazis. In the second week, the roles were reversed, and predictably, the same thing happened. I would have been happy to conclude that all this experiment proved was that kids are horrible little bastards, but the same test has been carried out on relatively sane adults, with the same results. We're a thoroughly nasty species.

We were then divided into black and white groups, where we both compiled a list of what we were told blacks were like while growing up, and another list for whites. When the groups reconvened to compare lists, we saw that our results were almost identical: Both black lists were filled with negative attributes, and white lists glowed with superiority. Like the kids in the eye colour experiment, who ended their two weeks by ceremoniously destroying their collars of discrimination, we did the same with our lists. Most of the group felt this was a cathartic experience. I thought it was bullshit.

"Why are we tearing up these lists when this way of thinking is still a problem?" I said when we were asked to single pearl necklace comment. "We should be keeping them as a reminder that discrimination didn't suddenly end when Mandela did his cute little dance."

The convenor smiled indulgently, nodded, and moved onto the next person.

This is why I despise liberalism. In their permanent state of hallucinatory optimism, liberals seem to think a display of open minded understanding will solve all the world's problems, because God forbid they should get their well-manicured hands dirty by giving some racist fool a well deserved punch in the crotch. They're insufferable, middle-class peaceniks, whose closest brush with political activism is to leave a dinner party early when one of the guests turns out to be a homophobe. Those wusses deserve all the bullying we can throw at them.

But for most South Africans – and yes, of all races - liberalism would be a step up.

On the long drive back from the workshop, I heard an interview on CapeTalk with the University of the Free State's new vice-chancellor, Jonathan Jansen, defending his decision to drop charges against the four Reitz residence students who made the now notorious video, and allow them back to freshwater pearl necklace continue their studies.

Making all the right noises about 'despicable' actions and 'regretful' incidents, Jansen compared his decision to the TRC process, saying that it was part of his 'transformation' of the university, in the spirit of 'reconciliation'. (Okay, okay! Missed a spot there - the original article claimed he was white. And tempting as it is to edit it to call him a coconut, we'll simply apologise for the error and admit to it too - Ed).

Jansen may want to look into the idea of sending his students and their victims to a similar workshop – preferably together. Pseudo intellectual, useful idiots like me already know that discrimination turns everyone into victims, so we have to examine society at large to identify the effects of racism. The UFS eight would only need to look into a mirror.

Britney is Back Britney Spears’s sexy new music video is out and Nr 1 on the Billboard Top 100. Watch it here.

Posted on Oct. 22, 2009 at 2:01 AM - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

The music video for her new single, "Three" is an “instant Britney Classic” according to Rolling Stone Magazine. Both the song and the new music video are breaking records and it looks like the Pop Princess might be ready to game machines take back her throne.

Britney is the first artist outside of the American Idol camp to claim the #1 position on the Billboard Hot 100 since Lauren Hill’s “Doo Wop (That Thing”) in 1998, according to Billboard magazine.

"Three" will be the only new song on her yet to be released album, The Singles Collection, which is said to hit shelves on 10 November. The album is made up of "Three" and 17 of Britney’s classics.

“I want to thank my fans for making “Three” the # 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100,” Britney said in response to cultured pearl jewelry the news. “I am truly blessed with the greatest fans in the world and I am so happy y’all love it because I do this all for you. I can’t wait till you see the video.” The video for “Three” will soon premiere on Britney.com, Britneyspears.com and her other official web properties.

See the video promo for "Three" and her The Singles Collection album here:

Inglourious Basterds

Posted on Oct. 22, 2009 at 1:57 AM - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

Inglourious Basterds is a movie of moments. But we're not judging on your highlights reel, Quent.

What it's about:

As the Nazis prepare to host a propaganda film premiere in a Paris cinema during the German occupation of France, The Basterds, a crack team of Nazi-killing American Jews and defectors, attempt to wheat pearl infiltrate the event and assassinate Hitler.

What we thought:

Usually "indulgent" is the word we look for when a director makes a 2 hour 45 minute-long film. But for all its swagger, for all its side-tracking and zaniness and golden Tarantino moments, Inglourious Basterds can perhaps be remembered as the movie where Tarantino didn’t indulge himself enough.

It’s when he really cuts loose – those moments that film school professors will be snorting disgustedly or hiding the party in their pants – that Basterds is at its most watchable. The typical Tarantino badass Col Stiglitz (Til Schweiger), for example, is introduced exactly the way we would expect to cultured pearl jewelry meet Shaft – with a huge, funky logo and an over-the-top backstory involving buckets of blood.

We have Kelly’s Heroes, we have Saving Private Ryan already, why couldn’t Inglourious Basterds just dispense with plot altogether and let its maniacal characters have free roam? They’re a wonderful bunch, to be sure. Brad Pitt’s hammy acting somehow befits the self-proclaimed white Apache, Lt. Aldo Raine. Daniel Brühl is disarming as the Nazi sniper-slash-actor Federick Zoller, while Mélanie Laurent is a fiery and determined Shoshanna, a vengeful Jewish heroine.

Christoph Waltz must be singled out, however. The man deserves an award if not his own movie for his portrayal of the creepazoid Gestapo officer, Col. Hans Landa. Ruthlessly efficient, the officer known as "The Jew Hunter” can be accused of many things, but let it never akoya pearl necklace be said he doesn’t offer service with a smile.

Expect spectacular violence. Expect long, winding conversations (and interrogations) about this or that. Expect to be sucked into Tarantino’s wacky pseudo-historic world and its grand finale. Inglourious Basterds is entertaining, just not relentlessly so. It’s all about reining in your better instincts – for the audience, to enjoy this schlocky caper, and for Tarantino, to really hit it out of the park the next time round.

A guide to great kissing

Posted on Oct. 22, 2009 at 1:47 AM - 0 Comments - Post Comment - Link

Knowing when to kiss for the first time:

    * Break the ice by greeting your date with a kiss on the cheek. When it comes to wheat pearl the time for the "real" kiss you will both be much more relaxed.
    * Touch your partner throughout the evening. Don't hold the touch too long, however. Use your judgment.
    * Wait for the moment to present itself.
    * Look for cues from body language. Is your partner moving into you?

Step-by-step:

    * Tilt head, close eyes (enhances the sensation of the kiss)
    * Kiss lightly with silver pearl necklace soft lips and a slightly open mouth.
    * Savour the smell.
    * Gently move your whole body toward your partner, if he/she is responding, press your chest towards him/her, then your waist and finally move your hips.
    * Feel your partner's rhythm, match it.

Tongue:

    * Gently move the tongue in, exploring the inside of the lips, move in a little more paying attention to your partner's motions and rhythms.
    * Take turns exploring each others' mouths.
    * Play with the tongue.

Kissing do's and don'ts:

    * Don't slobber - The amount of moisture should remain the same as your normal state.
    * Don't tense up your lips - allow your lips to cultured pearl relax, not sloppy, but loose.
    * Do Tease - be gentle at first. Give your partner a chance to come after your lips, want your lips.
    * Use all your senses to make love with your mouth.
    * Be aware of your oral hygiene. Smell and taste can be the most potent of aphrodisiacs (or turn-offs).
    * Don't press your lips too much into your lover's lips. Squashing your lover's lips is not passionate, it just hurts and makes it difficult for them to respond.

Tips to make it special

    * Ear nibbling - lightly little nibbles, alternating with light sucking of the lobe is an effective technique.
    * Cherish the bottom lip. Gently suck the lower lip between your lips for a second before you let it go. Even nibble gently.
    * Use your hands. Hold the face, caress hair, slide your hand down the back. Each one will enhance the kiss that much more.
    * Enhance the senses - Connect your lips and then don't move. A kiss that will build your anticipation for everything else as it builds intimacy.
    * Be creative - Develop you own special kissing style. Don't stick to button pearl one thing. Explore, enjoy the senses.
    * Get into it. Your lover will be able to feel your involvement. Enjoy your senses.
    * Allow the tongue to dance together, teasing it, melding with it, moving together, and apart. Let your lover take the lead once in a while. Allow his/her tongue to set the tone, follow it where it goes.
    * Lightly lick the neck, use your soft hot breath to linger over the ear.
    * Move your soft lips down the neck to the very sensitive area where the hairline stops. Lick and nibble.
    * Use chocolate, honey, mint candy or wine to make your lips taste sweet or pass it between you to share the flavour and enhance the senses.