Dear Mr Price

05 Sep 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in WTF, a good cause, fashion, hilarious, shoes, 0 Comments

WHAT IN MIUCCIA PRADA’S NAME IS GOING ON HERE?:

I see what you’re trying to do. Really, I do. I know that this is a mass market take on this Vivienne Westwood shoe:

But… IS IT REALLY??

Forgive me, I must sit down.

Dear Mr Price, I know some great fashion buyers if you guys are struggling. Hell, this design I did while I was on the phone earlier would probably work better than what you’ve got going on over there. You are welcome to use it. You guys can have this one for free, but next one you pay, okay?

A shoe design by CTG

Sincerely,

CTG

CTG a finalist in the SA Blog Awards

01 Sep 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in CTG recommends, a good cause, bloggers, blogs, cape town, kindness of strangers, 3 Comments

Thank you to all who nominated CTG for a Best New Blog Award in this year’s SA Blog Awards. Very nice of you! Would bake you all cupcakes but I don’t bake cupcakes, I just eat them. Same goes for macarons. I just create the demand. Anyway, you can now be a part of the voting process - click here and it will select CTG from the list and you can cast your vote for me in the Blog Award Finals. Or you can just click on the massive blog awards badge on the top right of the page. Hopefully we can take this ‘chick blogger’ thing to a whole new level! Maybe even ‘release my own fragrance’ (smells like Macarons) or ‘design a limited edition range for a department store’ (smells like Macarons) or ‘release an album’ (all about Macarons..)

Thank you again. I really do appreciate the support.

Sincerely,

xxCTG

How to use a lift. Again.

01 Sep 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in CTG, The Rules, WTF, a good cause, 4 Comments

CTG goes to great lengths to ensure a pleasurable every day life experience. This includes living in a pleasurable apartment block, close to a pleasurable place of work, surrounded by pleasurable shops and food and people, ignoring all that is not pleasurable in the slightest way. Generally this works really well, but sometimes things happen that we cannot control. Very vexing, confusing things.

One such thing happened yesterday morning.

As I was stepping out of the elevator this morning, Vida & Crush fruit salad in hand, the lift doors opened and before I could step out ANOTHER WOMAN STEPPED IN. Stepped in, before I could get out. She might as well have asked me to slowdance, since I was moving out, and she simply couldn’t wait a SECOND longer to get in the lift, so she ended up moving towards me, effectively thrusting us together in some form of fumbling, flourescent-bulb lit embrace. Um. Can anyone say ‘awkward turtle‘?

I know I have covered this before, but I understand that change has to happen incrementally, so here’s another attempt to convey sound personal space principles. Basically,

WAIT FOR THE PERSON INSIDE THE LIFT TO GET OUT BEFORE YOU GET IN, or:

Why, you ask, wringing your hands in perplexed agony. WHY CTG WHY??? WE DO NOT GET IT??? WHY DO YOU HAVE THIS STRANGE PHOBIA? WHY DO YOU HATE PEOPLE? WHAT DID I DO?

Allow me to explain. If you get in before the person inside has got out, you effectively BLOCK them from getting out, and you create an awkward situation where I must do a little dance with you in order to shuffle myself to the exit while you shuffle yourself even further in. Adding to the confusion is the ‘which side to go???’ dilemma, which sees the two of us smashing into each other, touching each other way more than 2 strangers should ever have to, and me, the poor soul who is JUST TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE LIFT must make complex social and spacial calls in order to ‘get through’ this situation without having my personal space completely invaded.

So you see. Please. Just wait for whomever is in the lift to get out before you get in. I don’t think this is complicated.

Is it? Why do people do it???

So glad those yucky towers are gone.

23 Aug 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in a good cause, cape town, lifestyle, south africa, 3 Comments

Quite enjoyed this ad from the City of Cape Town on how Cape Town would look if we don’t slow down on our endless energy consumption. Turn off something somewhere right now. You’ll be doing good by keeping our city pretty.

have a laugh, help a kid see the sea

20 Aug 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in Celebrity, Parties, a good cause, cape town, radio, things to do, 1 Comments

Guys, we all remember this wonderful video where SA comedian Don Packett pretends to be the Head Parlotone and swings around his chicken leg. Well you can catch him and Jon Vlismas – who is also hilarious – at the Breadline Africa comedy show at the Grand Daddy Hotel on 2 September 2010. It’s being hosted by ridiculously good-looking Richard Hardiman, whom you listen to every morning on 2oceansvibe radio, no doubt.

(Hey does ANYONE listen to ‘old radio’ anymore? Like over the ‘airwaves’? Gosh, that’s right up there with ‘dialup modems’, yes? Hey remember when you actually had to ‘fiddle with a knob’ so you could ‘get a signal’? Mindblowing!)

Anyway Breadline for Africa is a charity that is close to CTG’s heart, and hilarity aside, the funds raised from this will go to sending 120 underprivileged kids to the Breadline For Africa Annual Seaside Party. This gets held every year and they take kids who have never seen the sea, to go sea the sea. Which is a very meaningful initiative. Please just imagine never having seen the sea?

The sea. You've never seen it.

And this. You've never seen this either.

Ja, I thought so. Get yourself a ticket for R250 by clicking here. See you there! xx

What to do with your Vuvuzela? Wozela has the answer. And a few more.

28 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in a good cause, hilarious, south africa, 0 Comments

The 'Shee Pee'

Been having a quiet chuckle at this rather naughty way to use your vuvuzela now that the World Cup is over. Check out Wozela – they have a whole BUNCH of innovative uses for old vuvuzelas. You can even submit your own! Maybe more fun than recycling but remember, once you’ve had your fun, recycle!

Monday’s Muse: Christina Hendricks

05 Jul 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in Celebrity, a good cause, fashion, girl stuff, gym jabber, 0 Comments

“I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say, “I feel fat.” Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, Oh, I look like a woman. And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, ’cause I loved it.” – Christina Hendricks (that HOT chick from Madmen)

CTG rocking some VC style

29 Jun 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in CTG recommends, a good cause, iphone, kindness of strangers, technology, 3 Comments

As a seasoned member of CT’s blogville, having been blogging for 7 billion years and having been a multiple recipient of 18 thousand blogging and blog-related awards in the field of bloggable blogging, I pick up a few things, namely that SA digital entrepreneur bros are looking for cash injections, the ever elusive Venture Capital. Well, on that topic, my dear friend @swartperd recently made me aware of a fantastic, bite-sized VC site called Kickstarter, which allows the everyman to invest in the everyman’s dreams. I love it and have thus far invested in a couple of projects, including The First iPhone 4 Cinematic Film as well as a South African collection of bicycle portraits. Pretty sweet. Looking forward to seeing the fruits of my small but meaningful donations. Go check it out – there’s something very special about watching a project grow when you have a little vested interest in it. I imagine this is what having children is like, just less mission and more reward.

the rules of the road leading into the Petrol Station on Orange

22 Jun 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in CTG, What utter nonsense, a good cause, cape town, lifestyle, south africa, 6 Comments

As a seasoned Capetonian, my life is very carefully arranged so as to cause me Minimum Effort and Maximum Awesome. I live 5 seconds from where I work, I shop 5 seconds from where I live, and if anything takes me longer that 5 seconds to get to / do, I simply abandon it. It’s a maxim to live by. Try it. This morning took an unusual turn in that my petrol light was flashing, so I thought, let me just swing past the petrol station (NOT a BP), also 5 seconds from my front door. Swing past. In, out, off to work. Totally plausible, but only in a world where there are no floaters.

I have discussed floaters before. They are the bane of the 24-hour Engen on Orange Street. They drive into the driveway, and then, instead of turning left or right or nipping into a petrol bay, they simply stop and… float. They float, and they back up the traffic into Orange Street, causing near-pile-ups and much screeching of tyres, swearing and hooting, gnashing of teeth and abandoning of religious beliefs. All of which is totally unnecessary at 9am in a city that generally looks and feels like this:

Blissful.

Can you see how this would completely FUCK with the pretty?

This morning we had a very special floater. Not only did this floater drive in and, predictably, float and cause a traffic jam, but she also dropped the cigarette she was smoking out of the window. She then made everyone wait (and hoot, and screech, and rev engines and pray that cars do not drive into the back of them around the semi blind corner) while she handbraked her car, opened the door, got out and retrieved same cigarette (she clearly dropped it by mistake – it wasn’t finished! heaven forbid she miss out on that last drag! the world might just end! ) and then get back in her car while she fiddled around in her handbag for dog knows what – a lighter, some lipstick, a tampon to stop further braincells bleeding out her nose? You’re smoking a cigarette at a petrol station? Jesus…

Listen up floaters: Drive into the Engen, and decide. Do you want PETROL, or do you want a PIE? For PETROL turn RIGHT. For PIE, turn LEFT. But whatever you do, DO NOT STOP AND FLOAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD. PLEASE.

Please.

please.

Getting silly at the Sunglass Hut Totally Wired Auction

10 Jun 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in CTG, a good cause, sponsors, 0 Comments

Photobooths - what a great idea

Went to the Sunglass Hut Totally Wired Auction last night, held in aid of raising funds for OneSight.org, a charity that helps out people in need of visual aids (ie. a large portion of this planet). It went amazingly well – they managed to raise over R20,100 in under 15 minutes! Very cool. MC Nic Rabinowitz was hilarious, and the glasses they were auctioning off were utterly incredible, this pair being my personal favourite:

Hilarious!

Although I quite enjoyed these too…

Fab darling! Perfect for kick-off on friday, methinks...

ALL the schlebs in Cape Town turned out. Richard, Raoul and myself got a little carried away with the silly in the photobooth though…

Silly billies

Just too fun to stop!

Seriously now, well done to Sunglass Hut for putting on an awesome event that supports such a worthy cause.

CTG