Hi guys and girls,

I just wanted to pop-in and say “hi!” No, I am not dead. I have experienced so much problems in the last 30 days, I do not know where to begin. One of my starting positions is that I am not blogging from my own PC (anymore? Read on more details below) so this will be a rushed blog post so please mind the misspells and grammer errors. (The misspells will be due to this keyboard -- I am still deep in wonder how the owner of this PC actually types with this keyboard; it is aweful!)

My dad runs his own business from home and his PC broke down. I suspect it is the motherboard and right now, I am waiting for the dead PC to be picked up... it just simply does nothing when the power goes on (it is not the power supply -- it was tested as my dad's trade has to do with electronics/electricity). Guess whose PC had to be 'stolen' to replace his? Mine but I gave it up willingly: my life has been too hectic to even get behind my own PC and do my own thing... what I have done in the last 25 days is log-in, fetch the email and respond to the very urgent ones, then log off... and do some research into some subjects. I have no worries after when this chaotic phase of my life is over: I am waiting for a transaction to come through to my bank account and I have my eyes set on getting a heck of a NICE PC.

Since becoming an MVP, a lot of oppurtunities have opened. I can't talk about what is possibly going to be coming down the tubes as yet because it is not all finalized. All I can say is that I should be at Sun City (an international holiday resort for all of the non-South African readers) right now, enjoying the Tech-Ed conference, but my highest priorities just couldn't allow that. And to ensure that I took the bitter pill is that all of my study material was completely exhausted this morning, shortly after one hour of being awake (I usually wake up at 05:45 ever since the beginning of the exam “term”). I feel that I know my work for the next four exams -- from tomorrow onwards, I will be writing Maths (algebra), Technical Drawing (geometry), Computer Studies (theory) and just before the weekend, Maths (geometry and trignometry). After getting those exams out of the window, it will be smooth sailing until November the 10th.

One of my duties now with the very unbiased (for my future's sake) prioritizing, I have missed a contract deadline and I have to write THAT email. I told them that I would not be able to start from November the 11th and yet they insisted that I should do one “quick thing” for them. I am not putting blame onto them -- I just blame myself for taking on something that I knew that I would not have the time to do it. The last 30 days was completely impossible to get ANY coding done (and I am suffering from withdrawel symptoms ;-)). I am going to write that email right now whilst I have time...

And just for your information, I will return soon to answer some questions asked in the previous blog post. (At least 10 days).