Day #11

• I’ve found my favourite coffee @ Vida @ the Waterfront n’ it’s called a crazy mocha! (Crazy because I don’t want no cream nor froth!) They use Lindt chocolate… mmmMMM-
• My favourite sushi place, Willoughby & Co has a head chef that is Singaporean! How funny!
• Wang Thai is my thai food fix…
• The Mugg & the Bean (as Lucinda calls it) is my any-time-of-the-day food place! All day brekkie YEAH!
• No shopping so far ‘cuz I haven’t found anything that screams *WOW!* Haha…
• And I’ve watched one movie at 26 rand (=A$3.76 or S$4.70) or roundabout that ‘cuz I can’t totally remember…
• I’ve been to 2 Sundays @ church, 1 worship practice (no I still can’t sing or dance!) and 1 church picnic and have met probably hundreds of people!!! I’m still trying to remember names AND PRONOUNCE them right!
• My Afrikaans is still elementary with “jy is ‘n mal aap!”
• I have driven for 7 days and practised defensive driving!
• P.S bars have become my staple…
• And I have found my relaxation place

Pics to come! (I’ll try and remember to take them…)

7 days in…

n’ I LOVE IT!!!

I absolutely do… There are so many beautiful things about this country! The people for one are simply gorgeous!!! If you think that Aussies are friendly, you haven’t seen the South Africans! Or at least the ones in church are!!! SO SO WARM n’ LOVELY! And then there’s the mountains and the beaches! Unspoilt beauty…

When I walked into church for the first time last Sunday, it felt like HOME! It totally felt like I was walking into a Hillsong church… only thing was that there were different people there! I LOVED IT!!! We had passionate and very amazing volunteers everywhere and the warmth was totally palpable.

FOOD here is yummy! And the prices… even BETTER! So far I’ve eaten thai, sushi, nice brekkie and plenty of coffee. Haha! I just had to work out decent coffee places to go to! There’s Gloria Jeans and Seatlle Coffee Company here but I quite like the local Greens, Green Bean or even Mugg & Bean (yummy brekkie!). Haagen Daaz is here (YES!!!) but so far I have not found any substitute for the Lindt Cafe yet… Haha- And yes, they make my super super super crispy bacon to perfection here so I have no complains!!!

SHOPPING is a bit dismal… I have yet to find anything I really like here. But hey! maybe I’d save A LOT of money then. Haha! There’s Nine West, Aldo, Guess, Esprit and stuff but nothing quite like Sportsgirl, Witchery, Zara, Topshop… Any of my friends wanna send me some nice clothes?

DRIVING… While in Africa, drive like the Africans do! No one signals very much here! And at roundabouts… initially I was really puzzled since there seemed to be no rule or convention of what happens there… so now it’s fully whoever gets in first gets right of way!!! It’s generally been quite good driving around… up until tonight when I got lost soooooo many times while driving to this place where we have mid-week church activities! I was honestly rather freaked out this one time at night when I drove into this one road that seemed to wind up the mountain!!! Anyhow I’m safe and sound at home now so I’m thankful!

Anyway… it’s way past my bedtime so now that I’ve finally updated my blog, I’m off! ‘nite!

I love Cape Town!

i heart my church!!!

If you think that my frequency of trips to Starbucks n’ the shops are aplenty, then you’ll probably think that the amount of time that I spend in church is crazy! Haha…

I LOVE my church, which has been my ‘home’ now for the past decade, where I’ve had the pleasure of building great relationships and where I’ve been challenged to grow in every way. (So many mindsets broken by the Word of God!)  It has also been the place where I’ve been able to give of myself in service with my talents n’ giftings… To know that my contribution, together with the sacrifices of so many others, is bigger COLLECTIVELY and more able to bless MULTITUDES MORE than I could ever dream of really makes me feel like I’m a part of something BIGGER n’ MORE AMAZING than my self, my life and my wants.

I have so much more to say about this but I’m gonna get ready to go back to my fav place now

Hillsong Cape Town Launch Pics…

Will post more soon… Just spent over 4 hours getting the pictures just how I like ‘em on the site… Have a look here for more!

Mobilising the troops…

The violence in Jo’burg has spread to Cape Town… and now thousands have been displaced from their homes! Everything seems to be happening on a township-level (squatters) where disgrunted Saffas have started looting shops and homes belonging to immigrants (e.g. from Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique…)

The wider community is outraged at this recent spade of events as in the days of apartheid oppression, it was the African nations that allowed South Africans to find refuge in their land.

So in this time, the local churches are rising up to be the hands and feet of Jesus in the nation as coordinated efforts are happening right now to reach displaced foreigners in makeshift camps. We must do all we can!

Xenophobia or something deeper…

My dad has been keeping me up-to-date with occurrences in South Africa by SMS, not remembering that I am a chip of the old block when it comes to reading the newspapers! I am pretty much an information-junkie, so much so that I recently had to embark on a selective reading strategy to keep myself from absorbing a whole LOAD of “noise.”

Anyhow… long story short, the violence in Jo’burg has spread to Cape Town. It started with days of violence of Saffas against other black immigrants (from Zimbabwe…) and now the toll stands at 42 dead, 500 arrested and 16 000 displaced. The army has been deployed to reinforce the police and arrests have been made.

I do not purport to know the extent of what’s happening in SA… but these articles I have read seem to make some sense of it. Have a read…

Xenophobia and economics

Why do blacks hate blacks? SA a label manufacturer!

Just in case you’re wondering, I’m still going!!! Even though I do not have the deepest concepts of the culture of this nation and the experience living under apartheid and now in the post-apartheid years, I am firmly persuaded that Jesus is the answer and “the Church is not peripheral to the world but the world is peripheral to the Church.”

The Cause of Christ burns in my heart…