Hi

[always_losing]

Hey i am still pretty new around these parts, I am 19 years old and from south africa. Been training for about a year. Just started an HST workout after spending my first year with a conventional a muscle once a week sort of split. Wanna maybe get into powerlifting, had some good strength gains with minimal weight gains.

Dont know if many of you will know rugby but thats my game. I am a second year BSc student at the unversity of Cape Town.

Hoping to learn alot....Get huge(er) and very very powerful....

[fen2zla]

:hello: Welcome

[JD77]

Howdy. Welcome to WBB. Good luck with your goals.

[Anthony]

Welcome! I used to live in Cape Town. :)

[JustinF]

Welcome, good luck with your goals.

[always_losing]

Where do you live now?

[Anthony]

Canada. :D

[Maki Riddington]

Africa eh? Nice, good to have ya here.

[Gyno Rhino]

Welcome. :)

[always_losing]

but you were born here?

[Anthony]

No, I'm originally from Canada. I was only in Cape Town for 5-6 months.

[ericg]

Welcome aboard

[always_losing]

I am not from here, moved her to study, love cape town sooooo much. Dont you miss clifton sometimes?

[Anthony]

I'd hate to see the city you are from if you love Cape Town!! The only things I miss are Mr. Delivery, Kauai, Nando's, the minestrone soup at Theo's. Oh, and white grapetiser. Honestly, I didn't enjoy Cape Town at all. I mean, it's a gorgeous city (if you ignore the townships), but the poverty, disease, violence, and racism far outweigh the scenary. As for Clifton, I never swam there because of the pollution from that sewer near Sea Point/Mouille Point.

[Jezmason]

Hey dude, don't mind a spot o rugby meself, good fun, but bad 4 ya head lol. :whazzup:

[always_losing]

Its pretty true all that stuff, you never see it or hear it, but you know its there, stalking the happiness of this city.

What is also true is that the nuances of hope, the inuendos of love in a previously divided country are whispering more and more loudly everyday.
Whispering for peace and for the recognition of beauty that we are so immesurably blessed with.

Honestly, Cape Town is incredible, it has no parallel you just cant look at it like you look at New York or London, it takes intuition, it takes heart but first it takes the courage to see what you're not supposed to see, the courage to open yourself to a notion that what we are all taught about what makes people happy isn't neccesarily true.

All of this takes a brave man, especially if your heart isn't buried deep within this countries'.

[Anthony]

Well, actually, I did see some of the bad stuff first hand.

Now, I don't disagree with you - Cape Town has potential - it's absolutely beautiful. When I woke up in the morning, I saw Lion's Head from my kitchen window and the ocean from my living room window. Amazing stuff. But there is a lot that needs to be done. The truth is, there are other cities that are just as beautiful without all the negatives. Now, I know people from South Africa are EXTREMELY proud people and I respect you for that. But when you grow up in a different environment (like Canada), you have a different opinion of what is acceptable and what is not. Everything is relative. Don't take this as an insult ... I met many great people while I was in Cape Town and perhaps under different circumstances I would have enjoyed it more. As it stands, my time there was not very enjoyable. :(

[always_losing]

Do you know Port Elizabeth? I grew up in a little village just outside of it, one of those no poverty, no crime, pristeenly beautiful places. So i was raised in a different enviroment and all the bad things in our country might just as well have been very much further away and i dont see any of this as a question of acceptability, we dont have the luxury of black and white (not racial terms) here everything is pretty grey.

I couldn't agree more that lots needs to be done because our gov etc is ludacris. No buts.

If you ever in SA again let me know, i will be round here prob and i'll try show you why i love this place sooo much.

[always_losing]

I must go sleep now, be strong for tomorrow, this is afterall a bodybuilding forum. All i actually still wanna say is that i am sorry you didn't enjoy your time here, that makes me angrier than anything else, being extremely pround and all. All i can ask you to is give her another chance someday, dont write her off for ever, she has too much good for that.

[Jezmason]

London sux lol

[rookiebldr]

Welcome to site. :)

[Shane]

Howdy

[always_losing]

;)

[VasDeferens]

welcome and please change your handle.

[Saint Patrick]

please change your handle.

What's wrong w/ his handle?

[Anthony]

This morning I woke up and the first thing I thought of was, "Lecker ... it's Friday" ... reminded me of some South African slang, so I thought I'd come say "howzit?" :)

I'm not familiar with Port Elizabeth, I only went as far as Mossel Bay (there's a game lodge between Albertinia and Mossel Bay). It does sound like a nice place, based on your description. :)

I guess what I meant about growing up in a different environment is that most people in Canada never hear about the hardships in South Africa, let alone see or experience them. Although your village may have been withdrawn from the crime, poverty, disease, rape, and so on ... I am certain you were still aware your neighbours were experiencing this. I can promise you will never see a prime time television commercial in Canada explaining that "sex with a virgin will not cure aids." Yet this was something I saw frequently in SA. It's just a very different world than what I knew while in Canada.

Is it acceptable that some companies won't hire "colored" people? Is it acceptable that half of all women are raped by the age of 21? Is it acceptable that HIV is so rampant the government has stopped releasing statistics because tourism is already suffering? Is it acceptable that doctors can be bribed to diagnose someone with tuberculosis instead of HIV because it's more socially acceptable and very similar from a diagnoses point of view, therefore skewing the already alarming statistics of HIV? Is it acceptable that forgery of negative HIV certificates (required for marriage) is a booming business? Is it acceptable that car jacking is so bad you will sell your car if it's on the top 10 car jacking list? We both know I could go on for days. The point is, inside South Africa these are all things you are forced to deal with - which is not the case in Canada. Now, like I said before, I know South Africa is in transition and hopefully these problems will be cleared up in time. I still think it's an absolutely gorgeous country ... but I could not imagine raising a family there. Not when there are other beautiful countries with less problems. Life is hard enough!

Hopefully some day I will have the chance to visit. I can say I'll never live there again, but I would like to see Kruger National Park sometime. :)

[bill]

hi , have finally started doing legs consistent and getting stronger again and contribute this site for much of my motivation since training alone you can get pretty complacent.

[VasDeferens]

What's wrong w/ his handle?

always_losing sounds a bit depressing.........unless he is on a fatloss mission, in which case it is appropriate.

[PeterParker]

welcome to WBB

[Maki Riddington]

Welcome aboard.