The year 2010

Remember when it was the 80’s and the year 2010 came up in movies, everyone would be wearing strange, pointy metal outfits and flying around in cars that look like hot air balloons and we would have robots working for us….

So – here we are in the said year, and we are wearing the same clothes we wore in the 80’s - I am still doing my own laundry and the closest thing to a flying car that I have ever been in, is the race car in South Africa!  - So much for believing the movie people.


In December just before New Year, I spent a wonderful vacation time with my South African friends. We went to Vegas and LA and experienced all the joy and fun that one does in those parts! All the pics are attached, and I think they speak for themselves!

We saw a great variety show in Vegas, it was so entertaining and ofcourse, we ate like our lives depended on it!  Walks on the beach, dinners on Rodeo Drive, cocktails in the Lamboghini lounge.. what a nice vacation!!

Speaking of being a very random person and yet, a very specific person at the same time, I have been thinking about this New Year. What it means for me. What I want to do and accomplish this year with my life and with my soul, with the gifts and the brain I have been given. And I really feel like, I don’t want to waste any moments or opportunities. That is really the only concrete goal I have.

Going down the path of contemplation and inner reexamination yields an odd mixture of slight panic, insecurity and yet, remarkable peace and excitement for the things that have not yet taken place. I am very excited about starting my studies – I am a little disappointed that it will be through UNISA though. Not because there is anything wrong with UNISA. But I really wanted the experience of University and not just the task of it. I chose UNISA, because, well, it is about $200 cheaper per credit hour and since I am on a visa at the moment, I don’t get grants or financial aid for studies.. but nonetheless, I know they still offer a stellar education and so in I dive March 2010!


I am looking forward to some travels as well, but most of all, I am looking forward to making a big difference in the world. I have changed some ideas and thoughts about my life, what I do and who I am as a person. I have so many ideas and dreams and I plan vehemently things that roam around in my head, and it always seems that something interrupts my reverie. Not this year (and so said all of us!).

I have theories… I have thoughts…. I have ambitions.. everything about those are post-colonial, post-structural, political-liberationist-feminist hermeneutical, imaginative, contemporary, simplistic, cultural, complex, passionate, anti-consumerism (and the list goes on). But most of all – they are honest, undiluted and naked.


And I promise you – that will never change. I am moving from blogging to webbing (is that a word?)

I came to a point where I wanted to cave because of the critism of people because I so openly share my life "on-line"... and I wanted to shut off.. and stop sharing.. stop writing about me.  So, maybe I will ramble or maybe 2010 is the year Delise must be silent on the www. I don’t know yet. The universe will reveal my course to me.


But, however that goes.. I endeavor to be live and enjoy. I will sap life’s very last drop until mine is gone 