| Friday 27
November 2009 |
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VOTE FOR THE
YUMMIE BABES!
Things are heating up, with voting
in the FHM 2010 Models competition soon closing.
Two girls who have previously been featured in the
Yummie daily SA Girls gallery have made it to the
Top 100.
Irrespective of the outcome of that
competition, they each deserve their very own Yummie
Friday Gallery.
Next week Yummie features Cape Town
babe Antoinette Stassen, but for now it doesn’t
get more South African than Charné Jade Slee.
Born in Durban, schooled in Cape Town and currently
based in Johannesburg!
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| Thursday
26 November 2009 |
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AFFORDABLE RENTALS
IN CAPE TOWN
Most businesses today are killed
by high rentals.
Twelve years ago, I saw West End
and the Arena in the V&A Waterfront close because
the rent had become astronomical at over R70k per
month.
Just last year Manenberg was evicted because the
venue could no longer afford to pay the rent –
over R80k per month.
But, it seems that this is a thing
of the past and we can now look forward to affordable
rentals in Cape Town.
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| Wednesday
25 November 2009 |
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ORIGIN OF TABLE MOUNTAIN REVEALED
It looked like a very interesting article on African
culture and beliefs, myths and legends.
A whole website dedicated to this.
For a while I was intrigued.
As you would be too.
I have been living in the shadow of Table Mountain
all my life and not once did I bother asking ‘Where
did the mountain come from?’
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| Tuesday 24
November 2009 |
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FOKKEN BANDWIDTH
THIEVES DETECTED
Having taught myself everything that I know about
websites, I got a rude awakening.
Yummie’s readership has been growing steadily
over the past few months, so I did not raise an
eyebrow when the bandwidth used also climbed.
Two months ago I doubled the original bandwidth
allocation from 5000mb to 10000mb., and a month
ago I had to add another 2000mb.
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| Monday 23
November 2009 |
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OL' SkOOL RuLES.
OK?!
I had reached a point where I was
prepared to concede that I was stuck in a time warp,
and that the world that I come from is a thing of
the past.
Being a strong believer in progress,
I sadly accepted the fact that life as I knew it
had become antique.
But that stops right here and right
now.
There is no way that I will accept that eating out
of a toilet bowl is chic.
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| Friday 20
November 2009 |
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CHANTEL COLLEN:
YUMMiE FRIDAY GALLERY
This small town girl has big dreams!
Yummie reader Chantel was born in Uppington on 28
December, where she studied Tourism Management and
worked in the hotel industry for a while. She soon
got bored and moved to Cape Town, in pursuit of
her first love, the camera!
It is obvious why Chantel specialises
in swimwear and lingerie shoots. Her goal is to
work overseas, especially in Europe and the East.
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| Thursday
19 November 2009 |
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NEW DRIVE-THROUGH
ATM MACHINES
All major South African banks will
soon be installing new drive-through ATM machines
enabling customers to withdraw cash without leaving
their vehicles.
It is believed that this will decrease ATM fraud.
Special procedures have been researched
and developed to ensure that customers have a hassle-free
experience at the new machines.
A list of these procedures follows:
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| Wednesday
18 November 2009 |
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RECIPE FOR BOBOTIE
Bobotie is not one of my favourite
dishes, but I have received a few requests to post
a recipe. Who am I to argue with Yummie Readers?
The origin of Bobotie can be traced
back to the Malay slaves from Java, but I suspect
that the current Cape Malay version has evolved
since then.
The original recipe calls for dried
apricots, but you can use chutney as is common in
South Africa today.
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| Tuesday 17
November 2009 |
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HOW TO GET LAID
ONLINE
I find it hard to believe how gullible
some people are.
Then again, if one reads about multi-millionaires
losing millions in Ponzi schemes, I suppose everything
is possible.
A Taiwanese man was not looking
to prey on people’s gullibility to make a
quick buck.
Oh no.
He was after something completely different.
Sex.
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| Monday 16
November 2009 |
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BEAUTIES INVADE
JOHANNESBURG
If you were at OR Tambo International
on Saturday you are forgiven for thinking that you
had suddenly been transported to red-blooded-male-paradise.
113 of the 120 contestants in the
2009 Miss World pageant arrived in South Africa
on Saturday and OR Tambo and transformed the airport
into something akin to Hollywood.
Or the Playboy mansion on a respectable day.
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| Friday 13
November 2009 |
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LIZA BOTHA: YUMMiE
FRIDAY GALLERY
Born in Durbanville near Cape Town
on 13 February 1982, Liza Botha was scouted by an
American modelling agency in the V&A Waterfront,
when she was sixteen, and sent off to New York.
Since then she has worked in Iceland,
India, Spain, London, Malaysia and Bali to name
but a few.
Interior designer Liza has been featured in SI in
2001, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009.
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| Thursday
12 November 2009 |
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THE UNBIASED
RECESSION
You may think that the global recession
does not have much impact on the super rich.
It may not impact them in the same way that it does
you and me, but it is all relative, and even the
super wealthy find them selves having to scale-down.
And that is where most of us share
a commonality.
Because we allow ourselves to be
validated through possessions, and by others, scaling
down is embarrassing.
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| Wednesday
11 November 2009 |
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CRUISING INTO
CAPE TOWN
It may not be the largest cruise
ship in the world, but is certainly one of the largest
and most luxurious to have docked in Cape Town for
a very long time.
The nine-storey MSC Sinfonia docked
in the Eastern Mole of the city’s harbour
yesterday, on its maiden voyage to South Africa.
It set sail again last night, on it’s way
to Durban, and 600 South Africans have joined the
cruise.
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| Tuesday 10
November 2009 |
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A WORLD FULL
OF CLOSET CRIMINALS
On Thursday, Tony Musulin and his
three Loomis co-workers were transporting €11,6-million
(about R120-million) in cash, when his two colleagues
stepped out of the van briefly to run an errand.
When they returned, Tony, the van,
and the money had disappeared.
The empty security van was found three hours later
in an area nearby.
Tony had vanished off the face of the earth, with
49 sacks of bills picked up from the Bank of France
in Lyons....... and instantly became an online hero.
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| Monday 9
November 2009 |
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PARIS HILTON
AND CASTER SEMENYA
I pride myself on being open-minded,
and often cite my willingness to admit that I was
wrong, if I am proven wrong.
I now find myself in a situation
where two separate incidents are exactly the same,
but I have differing sentiments about them.
The problem is that I find it difficult to decide
which is right and which is wrong.
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| Friday 6
November 2009 |
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SHASHI NAIDOO:
YUMMiE FRIDAY GALLERY
We featured Shashi Naidoo as the
Yummie Lifestyle Covergirl in July 2007.
When she was featured on the cover of FHM earlier
this year, she hailed the feat ‘a victory
for nerds.’
Nerds International is now considering suing Ms
Naidoo for using their name in vain.
I don’t blame them.
There is no way that this chiropractor, model, TV
presenter and co-owner of Alushi Management dare
refer to herself as a nerd.
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| Thursday
5 November 2009 |
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CHOOSING THE
PERFECT STEAK
Cooking the perfect steak is an
art.
Before we even start talking about how
to grill the perfect steak, it is vital that
you know at least a little about the raw meat.
Here I will introduce you to the
raw steak that you are going to grill, and below
I will tell you exactly how to grill that perfect
steak of your choice.
There are roughly fourteen different
cuts of steak. Yes. Fourteen.
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| Wednesday
4 November 2009 |
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ACCENTS TO TURN
YOU ON
There was a time when a Frenchman
could ask for directions to the loo and women would
buckle at the knees with desire, and average-looking
Italian men would give the ladies the shakes just
by ordering a glass of Chianti.
Well those days it seem are ‘ow
you say..fini!
These days the accents that turn
women on have changed considerable.
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| Tuesday 3
November 2009 |
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PATTAYA. LOVING
YOU LONG TIME
For most red-blooded males –
and some blue-blooded females too - just the mention
of Pattaya evokes visions of nubile nymphs clambering
for the opportunity to ‘love you long time.’
But after reading this article,
I suspect that you may be a bit more wary the next
time you visit the sex capital.
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| Monday 2
November 2009 |
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ANTIDOTE
FOR A BLUE MONDAY
Cape Velvet Crème Brulee.
Make a whole batch of this delicious dessert, double
up on the alcohol ingredient, and take it with you
to the office next Monday.
At about 09h00, dish out the treat to everyone
in the office. Offer your supervisor or manager
and the boss seconds.
Insist that they have seconds.
Soon the whole office will be grinning and enjoying
a swinging buzz.
Guaranteed.
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