What major events happened in 1987?

The first 3-D videogame was invented in 1987 along with Disposable contact lenses. The Simpsons were seen on TV for the first time.

Pieter Willem Botha was the South African President at the time. On New Year’s Day, the South African Defence Force was attacked in Alexandra; shortly after that a bomb explodes at the OK Bazaars supermarket in Eloff Street. There were lots of fights (little wars) in South Africa at the time, lots of bloodshed, people fighting for freedom from slavery, people fighting to better the country. Raids. Bombings. Deaths. This is what the South African Flag looked like back then.

Flag of South Africa (1928-1994)

In other news; Stock markets across the world fell in October, 1987. The world’s population was approximately five billion people. Tamil Tigers plant a massive bomb in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo killing more than 100 people. British Airways Merges with British Caledonian to compete with the larger US Airlines. Work on the Channel Tunnel joining UK and France began. 

Popular Films in 1987 that I currently enjoy:

Three Men and a Baby;

Fatal Attraction;

Beverly Hills Cop II;

Good Morning, Vietnam;

The Untouchables;

Lethal Weapon;

The Witches of Eastwick;

The Last Emperor;

Dirty Dancing;

RoboCop;

Moonstruck.

Popular Musicians in that year who I like and love:

Michael Jackson with “BAD”;

Lionel Richie;

Janet Jackson;

Whitney Houston;

George Michael with “Faith”;

Bryan Adams;

Bananarama;

U2 with “With or Without You”

(All my fasting Hindu friends would agree with me now)

That’s a toughie…so many great people have held the world’s attention for shorter and longer periods and at the risk of sounding negative…did it make any difference?

Preach about world peace; saving the youth from nameless diseases; save the planet from dolphin poop! But guess what, we listen, we’re inspired and we are filled with this energy to do so much good, but very few run the course to the end. We all (or most of us I hope…) have gone through periods in our life where we stood up for something good and something really worth fighting for, but are you still fighting for it? Hmmm… Shamefully I’m not.

I’d love to stand in the attention of the world, with a beautiful evening gown and say “If I could make one change in the world or give a gift to the world, it would be WORLD PEACE” People live to fight with one another! Face it! You, yes you over there, completely disagreeing with me…yeah, you want to fight with me now, don’t you? My point exactly!

I have a younger sister, an absolute munchkin but she has built up energy to moan about stuff – it’s like her reserve if she hasn’t fought with someone in the day, not that she’s a fighter. Some people I know, purposefully make life a challenge, a painful challenge, ensuring that the people around them are constantly worked up. The idiots who find themselves in front of me in traffic when I’m late for work; ooooooh you bring about the best in my French. Buying a loaf of bread in the evenings and the guy in front is counting all his pennies and then decides he wants a stick of gum so he counts more pennies, you wait patiently and then your body sends you an alert that you need to pee, so you’re doing “The Twist” in the queue thinking of why you didn’t go before you left work…oh yes, the Boss, came in to work with the shitty mood and had you do the most admin consuming pointless reports all day so you just dashed out the doors at first chance. No matter where you turn, there’s someone fighting some war.

This is my first plinky blog, you’ll soon realise the I tend to detour a lot, but if you’re still reading it means you’re enjoying it.

If I had the attention of the entire world for two minutes, what would I say?

I’d say, “CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE”

No point in crying over spilt milk right? The guy in front who clearly has nowhere else to be, except right there holding you up in traffic. Why scream, hoot and swear? You get all worked up. He thinks you’re an ass and drives slower. You swear more, you’re looking to cut between lanes and get around him. He is enjoying listening to what might be “the Barbie Girl song” and he knows that you can’t touch him, you’re just another disgruntled driver who left home 5 minutes too late. Oh, look! A clearing, INDICATE, OVERTAKE, “hahaha” you think to yourself *BANG!!!* Oops, you cut too soon and smashed into his car. Your insurance policy has just lapsed and he was cruising down the road in a new Jaguar and the bank happens you call you at that point to advise you to make payment before they blacklist you.  That’s quiet close to the worst case scenario but these things happen, all because you weren’t patient, but you needed to get to the office quickly to meet a client for this big deal going down, guess what, you’re going to be delayed for another hour or so.

How to change your attitude here?

The guy is delaying you, if you are on a single lane road and can’t over take, turn the radio up to your favourite song, open the window a bit so the wind freshens you up a bit and just keep with it. If you can overtake then safely do so. This way, you get to get to where you’re go but without increasing your heart rate, getting all worked up and taking it out on the poor temp receptionist who missed your bosses call.

That’s just one example, but it can be applied in so many ways.

If you change your attitude, your life just might be a little bit brighter; being a happy, positive influence to the world only brings you more happiness and positivity.

All you crazy people obsessed with diets!!!

Are you insane? Do you really think starving yourself and restricting your self will make you thin? Yeah, maybe for the moment but as soon as you savagely indulge in that juicy big beefy cheese burger, you’re body goes into shock at the sight of real food and stores it as fat just in-case you go into starvation again. Love you for you. Be happy with who you are, if you feel the need to lose weight, do it for yourself. Start changing what you eat. Don’t cut off all the choccies and cola’s. Instead, cut down and swap cola for fresh juice, snack more on vita snacks and fruits, it takes you so much further than a bag of chips or bar of chocolate. Half the amount of junk food you eat in the first week; cut out fatty meats. Cream cheese or Sour cream can turn the most boring veggies into a fantastic dish. By week 2 or 3, you should be eating healthier and less (if your problem was over eating). Maintaining this new eating plan will ensure that your body starts feeling better and losing weight, exercise, exercise, exercise. Throw away your TV remote and walk to the TV every time you want to change the channel. When you notice that your body has reduced the unwanted bits, slowly bring back the other things you liked eating but exercise, exercise and exercise some more.

Change your attitude towards yourself and the way you treat your body.

Change your attitude towards people, stop being an anal twat!

Be nice to the lady that held the lift for you this morning, smile and say hello. She could be going through a tough time at home but for that moment, you made her smile. The silly bunch of boys sitting on the bakkie in front of you in traffic, smiling and waving like idiots, instead of getting all peed off about it, smile and wave back. The intern traffic cop, directing traffic and he is really doing a pathetic job, why not wave when you pass him, he is trying ‘his’ best, you know.

A change of attitude can make the greatest difference in your life but if you choose to do so in a positive way. A suicide case might just think twice just because you were nice to him at the green-grocer. He has hope that something nicer is to follow. Sing, dammit, sing a song when you shower, make lots of noise in your house to pick up everyone’s mood.

CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE!!!