Archive for February, 2005

Friday, February 25th, 2005

Beautiful Cape Town

I spent the last week in Cape Town and I’m heading back to good ol’ Joburg on Sunday. My good friend Russell allowed me to stay with him in Simon’s Town and what a wonderful experience it has been. Sadly he’s boat is being painted and we won’t have a chance to go sailing or [...]

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

Chinese New Year: 2005 Year of the Rooster

For the last 2 years I’ve tried to join the celebrations for the Chinese New Year. This year instead of going to Cyrildene in Johannesburg I went to the old China town close to the old “John Vorster Square” now Johannesburg Central Police Station. My friend Judy Wicomb from Cape Town tagged along and it [...]

Monday, February 7th, 2005

Attractive Women Meet Men Online?

A great question I was asked a little while ago was “Why would an attractive woman living in a big city ever use the internet to meet a guy?”
On first glance, it DOES seem kind of bizarre. We all know that women are “hit on” in regular life, be it on their way to work, [...]

Thursday, February 3rd, 2005

Online Dating not just for computer geeks and couch potatoes anymore

?Years ago when someone mentioned online dating, visions of desperate, obese computer geeks typing away to each other came to mind as the rest of us cool people were out at smoke filled bars exchanging glances with drunken strangers raising our noses at the online dating idea. Years have passed and online dating is now [...]