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NO WORK FOR TOMORROW!!!

[Wednesday, March 21st (Human Rights Day) is a public holiday!!!!]

That’s only in South Africa though – SORRY FOR THE REST OF YOU, see you on Thursday!!

I was listening to the radio this morning when they mentioned the mummification process. I’ve always been intrigued by mummies – the eeriness of it all. Whilst being in London I visited the British Museum’s “Ancient Egypt” section which was absolutely amazing. Mummified humans, cats, and even alligators. And though I knew bits about mummification (from the History Geographic channel – lol), I never knew (and still don’t know) the full extent of it all.
I heard the steps on the radio, and looked it up on Wikipedia again tonight, here’s how Egyptian mummies were made – is gross, but very interesting.

Embalming
The body is washed with palm wine.
The body is rinsed with water from the Nile River.
A small cut is made in the left side of the body.
The internal organs which are the liver, lungs, small intestines, and large intestines, are removed.
The brains are removed. A long hook inserted through the nose will pull the brains out. (The Egyptians did not know what the brain was for, so they removed it.)
The body is covered and stuffed with natron. This is known as the drying stage.
Wait forty days for the body to dry.
The body will be washed with water from the Nile River.
The body is covered with sweet smelling oils.
The body is stuffed with dry things, such as sawdust, leaves, and linen.
The body is covered with more oils.
The internal organs are put into the canopic jars.

Wrapping
The head and neck are wrapped. The fingers and toes are wrapped.
The arms and legs are wrapped.
The sacred amulets are placed. The Isis knot, and the Plummet.
The spells from the book of the dead are read.
The arms and legs are tied together.
A scroll is placed between the hands of the deceased.
The full body is wrapped.
The body is painted with liquid resin as glue.
A cloth with Osiris painted on it is wrapped around the body.
A large cloth is wrapped around the body.
Linen stripes are wrapped around the body to hold the cloth in place.
The mummy is put in the first coffin.
The mummy is put in the second coffin.
The funeral is held.
The opening of the mouth ceremony is performed.
The mummy is put in the sarcophagus.
The mummy is put in its final resting place, the tomb.

Images from Travel Channel & Wikipedia

I’ve got a passion for cutting. Cutting paper specifically.

Strange that I can cut out better pictures than what I can draw, though these images are way beyond what I could dream of cutting.
I found the pictures below whilst stumbling, and thought them worth sharing.

Makes me miss the times when I felt that everything worthwhile could be cut from a piece of paper.

Source of images: Knuttz

Ever heard of the “Flash Mob”? I haven’t, till I opened IOL tonight. Maybe I’m just a bit uninformed, but this really intrigued me…

Here’s what it is: In modern usage, flash mob describes a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, do something unusual for a brief period of time, and then quickly disperse. They are usually organized with the help of the Internet or other communications networks.

Flash mobs did the rounds in Europe in the summer of 2003, and apparently this strange phenomenon finally hit South Africa. Here’s the summary article from IOL

Saturday shoppers at the V&A Waterfront were gob-smacked when about 150 people arrived at the area near the amphitheatre and staged a lively mass pillow-fight.

At precisely 12.07pm on Saturday the area was invaded by a horde of pillow-wielding young people who spent about a minute energetically beating each other about the head and face before collapsing briefly, then scattering.

The incident, organised by Brandon Matley, 20, and Andrew Kerr, 20, was described by Matley as a flash mob event following a global trend of similar occurrences. During these events a group convenes in a public space, briefly does something unexpected or random then swiftly disappears.

Pretty weird, huh? I find it even more weird that I’ve been left in the dark about this for so long!

Sources: Wikipedia & IOL

Today is the 1st of March, and I started thinking about the poor leap babies who didn’t have birthdays this year. I’m not one of them, but I do know a ‘leap baby’, and he celebrates his birthday on the 28th.

I read in an article how one is suppose to calculate when you should celebrate your birthday, here’s what they suggested…

To figure the right day to celebrate your birthday, you add 365 and one-quarter days to the hour of your birth. Suppose you were born February 29, 1972 at 10 PM. Then 365 and one-quarter days went by and behold, the first anniversary of your birth hour came on March 1, 1973, at about 4 AM.

That somehow just seems like too much effort though – I like the idea of celebrating on the 28th of Feb, as its at least still in the same month.

So here’s to all the leap babies! Hope you had a splendid birthday, whether you celebrated yesterday or doing so today!

Quote Source: Yahoo! (Answers)

ATTENTION

ALIENS ARE COMING TO ABDUCT ALL THE GOOD LOOKING AND SEXY PEOPLE.
YOU WILL BE SAFE, I’M JUST POSTING TO SAY GOODBYE.

[I will try to post a decent post a.s.a.p. ]

I’m often intrigued by people’s passions. How one person can spend their life training horses, and another can be ecstatic about painting dreamy landscapes. How some people’s creative go way beyond my wildest dreams – entering a faerie tale like world.

Tom Chudleigh is one of those people with outstanding creativity. He builds “Suspended spherical tree houses“, also known as “Free Spirit Spheres“.

Looks more like a caravan on the inside than a treehouse! Don’t know if I’d like to stay in it though – I’m a bit scared of heights!

The pictures you see above is of Eryn. This is the second Free Spirit Sphere that Tom has built – the first being Eve.Based in Canada, Tom decided to start this interesting hobby (or job then), as a way of providing other people with a holiday breakaway they will never forget. Quoting from their website “Uses for these Spheres are limited only by ones imagination. Healing, meditation, photography, canopy research, leisure and game watching are just some of the things you could do.”

For more photo’s or details, visit the Free Spirit webiste.
Source and copyright: Free Spirit Spheres

People are always going on about “Timbactoo“, and I myself am guilty of using this word just because everyone else does it. I don’t know if referring to “Timbuktu” (Correct spelling) is just a South African phenomenon, but its become such an often used term in our language, I’d have thought it could be an idiom! In case its just a South African phenomenon, let me explain when this name is most often used. One would use this to explain how far, or unknown something is, like, I’m so tired feels like I’ve walked to Timbuktu and back. Or if you don’t know where something is, like the airport lost your luggage, and its probably on its way to Timbuktu (as I referred in a comment to my previous post).

If you had asked me before I’d probably have said that Timbuktu was somewhere close to Jamaica, but for interest sake I decided to Google it up. I found that Wikipedia provided quite interesting information about it. Timbaktu is a West African city, located in the country of Mali.

After looking at the photo’s on the National Geographic’s Website, and some other beautiful photo’s which I came across on Dan Heller’s page on Timbuktu, I realized that all these years my picture of Timbuktu was so wrong. I didn’t even have the vaguest idea that it was in Africa!

It is such beautiful country. Though poor and typically Northern African, it is still mysteriously beautiful.

PS. I still won’t wish for anyone’s luggage to get sent here by mistake.

According to Mitchell Brown a heat wave is “a period of time which consists of more than three days of maximum temperatures at or above 32° C”, which means that we’re not in the middle of a heat wave at the moment, as the temperature is just below, at 31° for today, and the couple of days ahead. But the ice cream van below tells a different story… What a calamity, isn’t it?

This is such a funny pic!!

By the way, is it just in South Africa that they play thát tune?

Yes, its true, I have nothing more to say but write quotes. Its sad I know

I got these quotes in an e-mail a while back, and I found it so funny. Also refer to the ass quote, one of my favourites!!

Here goes with the list for today…

… Money is the root of all wealth.

… Monday is the root of all evil.

… What you call dog with no legs? Don’t matter what you call him, he ain’t gonna come.

… Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate

… There are 10 types of people in this world: those who know binary, and those who don’t.

… The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

… Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.

… Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do.

… Hire a teenager while they still know it all.

… To err is human, to forgive is against company policy.

… If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?

… Everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another chocolate.

… Everyone has photographic memory; some just don’t have the film.