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Who am I?
Tough question! how about I just tell you some
things about me... I was born in 1981 in a South African city
called Pretoria. I lived there until about the age of five, needless to say I
can't remember much about that period as consciousness seems do take
some time to dawn upon us. My new home was and still is in Cape Town,
a really beatiful city set in a Peninsula on the tip of Africa, with a large
flat-top mountain right in the middle of it. ( pic. 1, 2, 3 ) I was thirteen when
the country's first general elections were held and was a bit
young to understand what was really going on. But I do remember
a feeling of social and political uneasyness. But as it turned out
things weren't bad at all. I can speak two of the thirteen official
South African languages, English and Afrikaans. Afrikaans is basically
a derivative of Dutch with British and French influences. My mother
is descendant from French and Dutch settlers whereas my father
has British roots. Although I should point out that these connections
go back a long way... a few hundred years, so I guess I don't think of
myself as being European.
I attended primary and secondary school at the local suburban school and later
graduated from the Univercity of Cape Town with a batchelors degree in Physics.
My school days weren't too bad, but I was troubled for a lot of of that time
by some social and emotional difficulties and generally that
strange state of transition from childhood. As for univercity even though my
experience was limited in a sense due to my demanding course and not staying
on campus, I think it gave me a unique perspective on some of the great things
that might be in store for South African's in the years to come. Currently I am
planning to study programming and work for a while in London as a programmer.
Vital Statistics:
- Favourite Book: William Golding, Lord of the Flies
- Favourite Movies: 12-Monkeys, The Usual Suspects
- Favourite Poet: W.B. Yeats
- Favourite Album: The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
- Favourite Game: Starcontrol 2
- Favourite TV Show: The Simpsons
- Favourite Food: Lasagne
- Favourite Drink: Draught Beer
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