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Comment on Trusting your Stock Market Platform by bushy

bushy — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:33:10 +0000

Slater and Gordon Lawyers (http://www.slatergordon.com.au/search/?q=sonray&p=) have joined the party. They are understandably saying that the administrators are taking way too long to solve the Sonray collapse whilst enjoying fees and fees as the days go by

Comment on Going backwards by bushy

bushy — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:19:38 +0000

Die baas vroutjie dink sy weet alles en niemand kan haar iets vertel wat sy nie alreeds weet nie. Drie ouens het alreeds ‘n ander job gekry in die laste twee maande. Katvol vir al die gesukkle.

So yes mate, it took me a couple years to figure it out. I might be sitting on another rock but dodgy supervisors and management still make manage to piss one off daily – no change. Wiser I now know it is best to “abandon hope and embrace reality” – “there is an endless supply of loosers”…etc.

Met al die probleme, was dit nogtans ‘n gooie idee. Die paaie is goed, die busse en treins werk, die “girls” is mooi, ek dinge net daar los en volgende dag,week die goed is nog daar, kan die vensters van die kar oop los want ek hoef nie te “worry” nie want min goed word gesteel.
En ja, ek is al ‘n landsburger geword. Ek het probeer om my SA password te “renew”, maar na twee weke se gesukkel met die SA embassy se telephoon operator “doubly rolled-R’ed afrikaans and no understandable english” het ek dit gelos. Ongelooflik dat die SA embassy so werk in ‘n engels country!!! Na ‘n paar minute op die net, meeting ‘n maand later was ek ‘n aussie. My se gesukkel so my later kos toe ek my ma in kaapstad sien. FNB + SARB het my accounts including retirement account gevrees.
So now I say f**** SA.

Nice earing from you mate!!!

Comment on Going backwards by Etienne

Etienne — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:07:04 +0000

liewe 4k, het niemand jou al afgedank nie?
genugtig … jou woorde is net soos JY dit kan se

hoe gaanit, leef jy nog? al landsburger geword?

Comment on Multiple Sclerosis and Diet by bushy

bushy — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 11:42:22 +0000

Late Friday afternoon, I felt like a beer. Hell, I’d worked like a beast the whole week – a “manly” drink was deserved. Tired, I grabbed the only beer that was available. A “light” beer. How thoughtful of management. An hour later on the bus, my stomach clenched up. Slowly the gut was a not. So, I have to add “light” beer on the avoid list ;-(

Comment on Broadband Internet Deals by bushy

bushy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:43:09 +0000

Internet in Australia is a tad expensive, but a hell of lot better than South Africa. Back in SA, you’d be lucky if your ADSL line averaged a 100k and for 1GB you pay US$30. At least in Australia the internet might be expensive but at least you’ve got some bandwidth that really works.

Comment on MS brain MRI by bushy

bushy — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:20:04 +0000

I went off Rebif in late December and haven’t had any relapses. Initially I was told with Rebif I might get a headache and flu symptoms – what lies! I’m sticking to dietary changes which really help. I’ve found my triggers in coke cola and dairy products. Still some tingling in my legs but all seems better. I have hope in finding the recovery without drugs.

Comment on MS brain MRI by mkns

mkns — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:57:01 +0000

I’m not on any treatment of that kind for my MS, yet. I’m on a very low dose of amitriptyline which is just attempting to stop things being up and down on a daily basis (it really works, though). I’ve so far not had any symptoms bad enough to make me consider disease modifying drugs yet. And I’m hoping it stays that way for a loooong time.

Sorry for not replying to your comment before, I hadn’t realised you’d replied to mine (d’oh). I read your blog within Google Reader which kinda hides comments from me…

Comment on Broadband Internet Deals by mkns

mkns — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:52:46 +0000

Hi,

I’ll tell you what I think. I think that the cost of broadband in Australia is worryingly high. Those prices are scary. $200 a month for 30GB of data? Ouch.

But it’s probably not worth moving half way around the world just to get cheaper internet connectivity. And you’d have to put up with crap weather, so maybe it all evens out…

Comment on Job Centre by bushy

bushy — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:19:02 +0000

G’Day Elsabe,

Trying to secure a job over the internet is a waste of time because you’re a migrant with no LOCAL experience or LOCAL REFERENCES. As an engineer with a masters degree I thought I’d just walk into a job – no such luck.

Employers here in Australia want to be able to see and touch the candidate or have the ability to ask some local previous employer about you. They also want to throw some skills tests at you – something which isn’t always practical over the internet.

Bottom line is this. Companies here in Australia are very fair – they’ll take anybody who proves that they can do the job. It helps to be down under!

As for your husband skills, I know that as a developer myself, C# is in demand and Sharepoint is starting to appear on the wanted skills lists. Chuck the CV out the window and write a well formed RESUME. A couple differences that sometimes aggravate employment agencies. Always send a resume in an editable format – never PDF or some other strange format. Be short and sweet to the point.

Hope this helps!

Comment on Job Centre by Elsabe

Elsabe — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:49:14 +0000

Hi Bushy,

How are you today?

Why is it so difficult to get a job over the internet? The jobs get advertised, and we apply, but no response. My husband is a software developer, no degree but long years experience. Will it be better to hop on a plane, go over and go for interviews then? Hubby’s brother is living in Oz and is very happy, says he’ll never come back to SA. We also want to live and work in Australia.

He is a specialist in Workflow, C#, Sharepoint, BizTalk, K2Blackpearl, .Net, VB.net

Please HELP !!
Have a good day
Regards
Elsabe