SA Rocks

Today I blog as a truly proud, motivated (and somewhat hungover) South African!

We all watched the game and if you didn’t, where have you been living?? I am not going to rehash the incredible 80 minutes of magic and accomplishment.

What I am going to do is ask everyone who has photos of their World Cup winning experience to please email them to me or post them on the SA Rocks photopool on Flickr.

I will then compile one massive post with photos of the world cup from around the world! I already have photos on Flickr from South Africans in San Francisco!

Please contribute with your photos, videos or any other media you can send in!!

GO THE BOKKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Update:

Here are some videos, reactions, blogs and news stories from around the world and South Africa regarding the Win last night!

Then read here, here, here, here and here.

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On my personal blog I posted a bit of a rant yesterday. Running this blog makes me question absolutely every action that I make and every word that I publish, anywhere.

Immediately after publishing the post yesterday I was pretty much asked how I could rant so much and be a “realist” when I run this blog?

Well that is a very tough one to answer for various reasons. This blog is not idealistic, it is more often than not quite factual. But, like the media, I choose my facts very carefully. I try to be as balanced as a positive South African can and should be. I like to know that there are good things going on in SA. I also read the news for my fair share of “balance” in the day.

It is extremely difficult sometimes to maintain a positive outlook all the time, non-stop. This is what is pretty much asked of me as the editor of this blog. But sometimes it is just impossible. When I say that I am not specifically referring to SA but to life in general.

Everyone has a bad day, a down time, a question, a thought or some reflection on the state of things. Yesterday was my day and I used it to express my feelings on a topic.

It’s funny, people read this blog and know that I run it and then automatically assume that I am this pro-SA bugger all the time, every day, all day. I’m not. I question my country, I live through what others live through. I firmly believe that this is why I have the right to be openly positive about SA; because I am always questioning my surrounding and reevaluating my position on things. If I was ignorantly blissful and blindly praising SA then I would be a fool.

So my questions are as follows: Have you had a bad day? Do the bad days outweigh the good days? And if they do, what are you doing about it?

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