About a month ago I heard that an aunt of mine died. I didn’t really know her but I felt really sad about it. It triggered the fact that one of my best friends died last year in February and…
Category: My Story
The Four Books I’m Currently Reading
It’s National Book Week between 3 to 9 September 2018 in South Africa. I had the opportunity this week to share the books I’m currently reading during a Twitter chat on Monday 3 September. The Twitter chat was done in…
31 Lessons I Learned in Life
It’s my birthday today and I’m 31 years old! Whoop whoop! I thought back of all the lessons I’ve learned during this year and here it is: ON LEARNING NEW THINGS 1. There’s always something new to learn and a…
May recap and lessons learned
June is my birthday month and all I want is to wear a ball gown dress and eat some cake. The ball gown idea came after I saw the Instagram stories of Swirlmagza. Then a lot of other women, like…
7 benefits of blogging
I got an invite by the television channel ITV Networks to come chat on their show, Let’s Talk about blogging. The show I was interviewed on, was pre-recorded and it aired on Saturday morning. I was pretty flabbergasted when I…
May life update
Okay, let’s hope it will be third time lucky for me at the Labour Department this week. I had to contact former employers (at jobs dated from 2010) to ask them to fill in UI19 forms. This is so that…
April life update
I’m excited because this weekend, the annual bloggers’ event #JoziMeetup is happening. This is my third year going and I always learn a lot from the more seasoned bloggers. It’s also a place to catch up with people you haven’t…
The ins and outs of my journey as a volunteer
Hello everybody, So yesterday I told you how I’m doing as I’m trying to learn how to code. It’s not easy for me, but what’s easy when you are venturing into something new, something outside of your comfort zone? Anyway,…
Learning to code is easy-peasy
The headline is not fully correct. I mean, nowadays there are a lot of avenues to learn to code. You get websites where you can access introduction to computer programming languages for free. Last Saturday at a GirlCodeZA workshop, one…
Finding a job is a job
Yup, I’m sure many people can relate to this headline – especially if you’ve been unemployed once upon a time. In this post, I’d like to share how I keep myself motivated during the job-hunting process. I read a blog…