Check out the video from the VW Date Drive a few weeks back :) Also featured is Tracy McGregor, Dan Nash and Dylan Jack. Check out the other date drive videos live on the website too.
Entertainment and culture showcase CapeTownLive interviewed me a few weeks back. Here’s the link to the interview on their site.
This week’s article is about when girls cling. It’s not cos they LUUUUUUUUURVE you SOOOOOOOOO much. Promise. Read here.
CTG’s favourite fashionista La Muse names CapeTownGirl as a ‘blog she loves’ - what an honour! Check out popyacollar here.
Mangirls, check out CTG’s latest shopping guide on GQ.co.za
So our trade from last week is still in play – we were up to R600 profit this am, but it’s dropped and have now made a R250-odd profit thus far and Ollie tells me he is happy with the way things are going so we’re letting it continue (even though things were looking quite bad at 2am this morning, when we were just breaking even, somehow the numbers did their thing and balanced out by the time I got the call from Globaltrader at 10am this morning). Good news! Feeling encouraged. Feeling like not a total numbers dufus.
Anyway I have been doing some of my own ‘fundamental research’ (where you look at the business as a whole, it’s past, present and future, it’s ethics, what its staff say about working there, etc) and I asked Ollie about buying some Naspers shares (will tell you why later), and I sent him to this link and asked if he thought it was a good idea. He then drew me this graph, and used it to help explain why he thought it was a good idea:
How funky is this graph? Wish we coulda done this in school. Would have made ‘how to be a mogul’ classes so much more fun. Anyway here’s what Ollie explained: you see that grey block? It shows that Naspers stock has been trending upwards. Which is a good thing. He was slightly worried however, because the graph has ‘broken through’ at the bottom there (where the little white line falls out of that uptrend grey block). So what he recommended is, instead of just buying it right out, to put an order in (which you can do from the Global Trader desktop app) to purchase shares when they hit a certain price. In this instance, a good price to buy at would be R359,05. So that’s what we’re doing.
That Stop-Loss of R350.89 in red letters - that is like a trading ‘trip switch’. You put a stop-loss in to make sure you don’t lose too much money. So when the share price falls below R350.89, the trade will automatically be closed, preventing a future where I ‘eat catfood from tins’ and ‘live in the alley behind the Louis Vuitton store at the Waterfront’.
Ollie will let me know as soon as the order goes through so we can start watching the Naspers shares.
Well, they are an SA company whom I find interesting. They own like, over half of China’s internet. Their CEO fires people who can’t move with the digital times with rampant abandon (I respect that, I would do the same in my own company) and they’re pioneers in the publishing industry, which I respect, too.
If you look at publishing in this country without any sentimentality, you really have to wonder how any of the magazines still make money, since most of them are failing to even acknowledge the fact that the internet now delivers new trends in fashion and popculture daily, making the traditional magazine contents page largely redundant by the time it lands in your postbox. And the rest? Another article about how to deal with the office bitch? Really? Um, scuse me while I go read a 10-page investigative journalism piece on How Lady Gaga Rose To Fame on NYmag.com – nothing personal, it’s just more interesting. SA media houses largely don’t seem to accept that they need to change what they do in order to make themselves relevant again. Naspers, however, is all over that. So they get my money.
PPS. Just got a text telling me my order went through. I’m now a proud Naspers shareholder. 100 shares. Mine. God it feels good!
PPPS. Click here to sign up with a Global Trader Simulated Account and practise trading until you feel confident to use real money. It’s really not as hard or complicated as you think it is! Plus you could win R10 000 to trade with. Win-win, as they say.
Twitter - for people without smartphones.
Gotta love this little ‘Twitter News’ printout that MEJ brought me from La Vie. It seems so strange and useless, but also useful, at the same time. It’s about time someone did a ‘best of twitter’ – it does get a bit much in there some times. CTG even made the cut – Dave will appreciate this :)
I think I received the compliment of the century from Hugh Zefner himself, editor of watkykjy.co.za in this interview. Yoh but I feel pretty now!
Photo by Warren Rasmussen
So we had a fabulous time at the SA Blog Awards at One & Only Cape Town this weekend. We did a slow build up with an outfit coordination evening on Thursday night, and then we cruised through braai day into Saturday and then suddenly we were late for the Blog Awards pre-drinks, where we posed for pics.
CTG was a finalist in the Best New Blog category, which we didn’t win. Well done to Simply Delicious who did. Highlights of the evening included:
- Mumz the MC: he was on fiya with the geek jokes
- Helen Zille’s speech: Hel knows how to work a crowd. Did you know that she was the first to have a verified Twitter account in South Africa? Now you do.
- the mojitos.
- the mysterious blank envelope that vexed the MC trying to announce the Best New Blog award, and then the organisers fumbling all over the stage to find out who’d won the category – hilarious! What a mess! Clearly no auditing went down.
- JP Naude dissing previous SA Blog Awards shows as circlejerks (not his exact words) and stating that this year’s awards were ‘the proper awards’ - lol!
- 2oceanvibe’s speech (read by Jessica Rabbit in his absence) tuning all the brand-haters, stating (truthfully) that this strange hating of bloggers working with brands is a uniquely South African tick, and that 2oceansvibe was no longer going to be a blog, but rather a ‘preferred news source’. Big news!
Photo by Warren Rasmussen
- the dress I wore, from Pepe Jeans - as chosen by YOU guys (thanks for your input!) – I am in love with this grecian goddess cut, super comfortable but also elegant. And warm! It was freezing on saturday. I wore it with big gold earrings and a gold bangle and black pumps. I also love the print.
Thanks everyone for all your support! We had a great time. And well done again to all the winners. Full list here.
And if you’d like a little perspective on the SA Blog Awards you can read what one of the judges had to say.
And here’s a pretty solid account from an industry member.
What a lag!
**BONUS BEHIND-THE-SCENES MATERIAL**
Check out this interview CTG did with PD & LA 2 nights before the SA Blog Awards in which they discuss topical issues such as how they’d feel about winning, losing and what dresses they’ll be wearing.
Girls, are you reading PopYaCollar yet? It’s the blog of a fashion buyer at Woolies – La Muse – and I love her stuff because she doesn’t just ’show pretty things’ – she actually knows her shiz. You know, when a new trend comes in, you don’t always know the background of it, or why it’s in, or where it comes from. Suddenly, you just know that everyone is wearing stripes, and you must, too. But then La Muse comes along and tells us that ‘Coco Chanel who first saw a fisherman wearing stripes and turned them into a fashionable trend’. And I love knowing that!
I also love this stripey skirt
I also love her overview of Menswear for Spring. Ladies, you know you have to be a little clued up on stuff like this so you can guide your guy in his buying behaviour. Let’s face it – men don’t care about this stuff as much as we do, and sometimes it shows. So how great to be able to get an overview like this and maybe pick up a tweed scarf for your guy on your next shopping trip. And maybe some yellow harem pants on the next one. Guys like to argue with us about how we dress them (or rather, when we give input as to how they dress) but now with La Muse on your side, you just say,
‘well PopYaCollar says yellow harem pants are in right now and they must be worn with a tweed scarf and espadrilles’
and there you go, takes the indecision and doubt out of the process, which is half the problem. Your guy can feel secure in his fashionability, and you can enjoy stepping out with him, knowing he looks stylish, but not so stylish he looks gay, the stylishness being an ADDED BONUS anyway because we love our men for who they are inside. Right? Right.
(…Unless they drive Tazzes)
Kidding! Check it out.
