Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Useless


My inspiration has to come hesitantly. Even if I cap my hands above my eyebrows as if it were a visor, I can’t see a thing to do(hooo).
And then, the phone rings.
Delighted with this change of fortune, I look at the screen. An unknown number. Yes!
And it's, oh confound it, the dentist.
The assistant asks if I can come in today for my appointment instead of tomorrow, because the dentist has a gap today? All of a sudden my day gets this useful filling, that hopefully isn’t for my teeth and just as I’m about to laugh about this 'not the best joke ever', I realise that I’d better hurry and brush my teeth.

Wednesday, 1 February 2012

Nutteloos

Het moet van ver komen. Zelfs als ik mijn handen boven mijn wenkbrauwen vouw als een soort zonneklep, zie ik niks.
En dan gaat de telefoon.
Verheugt kijk ik op het schermpje: een onbekend nummer. Yes!
En het is, oh deceptie, de tandarts.
Of dat ik nu kan komen in plaats van morgen want de tandarts heeft een gaatje? Althans, die waanzinnig goeie grap maak ik naderhand. In mezelf. Ik moet er nog om grinniken ook en net als ik denk, zal ik ‘m anders aan iemand vertellen, want waarom niet, ik heb toch geen ruk te doen verder, bedenk ik me dat ik wellicht beter mijn tanden kan gaan poetsen.

Monday, 30 January 2012

Male things


During our holidays in the Netherlands I was given an iPhone 4S. One without a simlock and without a SIM card. Once back in South Africa, I wanted to put my new SIM card into the new phone. But this new phone, so it turned out, only fits a very tiny “gnomisch” SIM card. A typically ‘made in China’ card. In Chinese factories, where 8000 tiny Chinese laborers worked through the night after a cup of tea and a biscuit, to manufacture this early launch April 1st product.
The SIM that fits my iPhone 3G is: ra-pa-pa, way too big to fit the 4S!
So what could I do, I tried it anyway. These actions were categorized as hopeless, but you still want to test whether your assumption is based on facts, right?
It didn’t fit.