Reading Time: 5 minutes What’s up guys – how y’all doing? Hope everyone’s having a great weekend! The days are slowly getting longer which means we’re coming through the back end of winter, as we limp forward through the second half of 2018. How’s your year coming along? Hopefully it’s been productive and fruitful so far. If not – don’t fret, still some time left to get cracking! Sometimes though, I have this feeling that I’m spinning wheels for the sake of spinning them as opposed to actually gaining any ground. Know what I mean? These days, there’s a seeming badge of honour to boast as to how “busy” we…
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Go On, Reflect!
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last night whilst watching the 3rd/4th playoff of the World Cup – I found myself in an inadvertent quasi high-school reunion. There were 7 of us and more than half of the group I have not caught up with in years. What a pleasant surprise to see such old faces, all grown up! They say people change, but yknow honestly – I don’t think we’ve changed much, if at all – deep down, the same pimply, scrawny and adolescent schoolboys jostling each other, trying to one-up and cheer each other on. Boys will be boys. You know, it’s funny when you look back and remember your…
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How Does Your Earnings Compare With Other Countries?
Reading Time: 3 minutes CRAZY FROG RINGTONE PLAYS A young man, with imposing physique and streamlined facial muscles, wearily reaches for the snooze button. He misses. CRAZY FROG RINGTONE CONTINUES His wife, a most nubile specimen of her sex, is awoken from her slumber. “Wha…what’s zat… get it” she says, as she kicks out under the covers – both feet hitting their target. The impact has the ferocity of a wounded bull. The young man is suddenly wide awake. He sighs to himself, pulls the covers away and turns the alarm off, shivering in the early morning chill. It is 3:30am… …Who is our intrepid hero? Why it’s your…
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Attitude Not Aptitude Determines Your Altitude!
Reading Time: 3 minutes всем привет! How’s everyone’s weekend going, all ready and pumped up for Monday?!!! What’s happening on Monday? Nothing special, just the start of the working week – back to it WOOOOOooo! Why are you so cheery? Because it’s good to be ALIVE people! O…ok… Ha ha! Too much for you? Attitude not aptitude guys! Wait! Where are you going? Come back! You see, I haven’t “lost it” or cracked – I’m just really excited. What about? Well, about everything – work, life, love – whatever! I mean, do you really need a particular reason to feel excited? These days, if you walk on the street, talk…
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Half-Yearly Report Card, Goals Update and Verdicts – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly…
Reading Time: 5 minutes What’s Up Frugal Samuraites!!! We’re back again for another sitting of the Frugal Samurai. Hope everyone’s enjoying the wonderful warmth of Winter – don’t worry it’ll be over soon! Speaking of wonderful, how bloody insane has this year’s World Cup been eh? It’s the most alive and drama filled tournament we have had in DECADES. The quality, passion and emotions of the games has certainly lived up to expectations. So much so that the halfway mark of the year passed with barely a whimper. Wait… say that again? Seriously, HALFWAY already? That’s right – we’ve officially passed the halfway point for 2018, where did the time…
