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F is for …. Finished!
16/08/2013 by Nikita reading, reading, reading, reading
reading, writing, writing, reading
more reading, more writing and even more reading
reading books, reading journals, reading bits, reading blobs
reading reading reading reading
writing writing writing writing
and more, and more, more, more and more
I can’t stop reading, writing and reading
I’m going mad, I’m going crazy
I love the reading, but not the writing
Finally, I’m finished, finished, finished
with my assignment, assignment, assignment
off to hand, hand, hand it in!
enjoy, enjoy, enjoy, enjoy the music!
I need to get back to normal
off to hand in my assignment
I am finally finished
I can stop myself now from reading
I can stop myself now from writing
I think I’m back to normal
Back to my old self and ready to relax!
F is for… Friday!
Got a B for my assignment – very happy me! Advertisements
Posted in music | Tagged nothing | 24 Comments	24 Responses
on 16/08/2013 at 09:02 | Reply Eugene
on 17/08/2013 at 14:35 | Reply Nikita
on 16/08/2013 at 17:31 | Reply Clive
Maak of jy mal is en praat (skryf) oor alles! F=AK It refers to your “F” for Finish and my “Amper Klaar” of the boek I’ve been writing for more than 4 and a half years now, about the Great Trek. . I’ve inserted more than 222 of my own drawings re. the places and activities of interest along the route of the Great Trek and 31 maps never published in any book about the Voortrekkers, in the history of South Africa AND 28 tables and diagrammes. This book will consist of 600 pages plus and is about a family that took part in the daily activities of the GT. For example they got their coffe from the USA (Blue Bean Coffee), many of their older generation wore reading glasses, door mats were available on the open market. Then there were the merchants who visited the Trekkers and the things they traded with the Voortrekkers. For example the battles of Mosega and Kapain are only mentioned and not a single detailed map is available anywhere about the happenings there. For to many years inaccurate maps and data have been presented as the “truth” regarding these 2 places, I am pleased to say that many such inaccuracies regarding the GT over all have now been elliminated.
I enjoyed every moment of writing this book. My research took us to very interesting places and we met very interesting people all expressing their own interest in the GT. From farmers to tour guides to professors at UNISA, University of Stellenbosch, University of Bloemfontein, University of Grahamstown and University of Pretoria ~ to ordinary folk just interested in the history of the Voortrekkers.
I am starting with the English and Russian translations of this book and I hope all 3 books will be ready to go public middle of next year.
on 17/08/2013 at 14:38 | Reply Nikita
Hi Clive! Great to hear again about you and how far you are with your book! Seems like you’ve done a lot of study – which is important of course – and I wish I was the one to have met all those people!! I can imagine what precious ‘stories’ you collected from all those people! I believe that you will be donating a signed copy to me… I promise an entry about your book! 🙂 [just saw yesterday that my blog is in the top 5 of SA blogs on amatomu….by ‘reads’ and by ‘posts’ – if that’s going to help…. 🙂 ]
on 17/08/2013 at 12:13 | Reply Eugene
(in disbelief) Clive what do you mean by “the English and Russian translations”, esp. “Russian”? Do you mean you are writing the three versions at the same time? Where did you pick up Russian?
on 17/08/2013 at 14:41 | Reply Nikita
Eugene, I can imagine how curious YOU are NOW ….. lol
on 17/08/2013 at 18:13 | Reply Eugene
Curious is the wrong word. Opgebrand! Kom aan, Clive, confess!
on 17/08/2013 at 19:34 | Reply Nikita
on 17/08/2013 at 23:14 | Reply Clive
The answer is very easy. I speak and write Afrikaans and English fluently and my wife speaks English fluently and she is Russian. So since I’ve finished the Afrikaans text and am starting with the English my wife does the Russian…… Simple. A shocking truth that showed its “ugly” face again since I did the last batch of maps is that unless I verify a map with at least 2 others I can draw something that doesn’t exist. So much so that I am now using road maps only as a first step as it gives only a very generalized (including the mistakes) perception of an area. My 2nd step is to verify the locations (geographical positions) by means of the 1:50 000 maps I buy in Pretoria from the Govt Printer. The 3rd step would be to confirm this data with Google Earth’s photographical maps. Therefore drawing a map is not just a copy of something. It is a whole process. And sometimes we visit certain parts of the map, physically so as to clarify the lay of the land.
on 17/08/2013 at 23:25 | Reply Eugene
Jislaaik. ‘n Russiese vrou! Kwaai, man, hoor. Hou jy van borsjt? Jy moet nou al 🙂
Sjoe, ek wens ek het ‘n Afrikaanssprekende vrou. Bv. Nikita (terloops, sy’s regtig MOOI!).
Ek skryf ook. In Afrikaans. Trouble is, however, dat Nikita my skrywery net plek-plek verstaan. Too bad. 🙂
on 17/08/2013 at 23:42 | Reply Nikita
Hi Eugene [and Clive]
Jy raak nou ‘stout’ hier op die blog, lol…. jy jok ook boonop, ek verstaan baie van jou Afrikaans en jy skryf GOED in Afrikaans, jy het my amper oortuig dat jy wel eintlik Afrikaans is en nie Russies nie!
You will enjoy Clive’s book in Russian and I will have the Afrikaans one. 🙂
on 17/08/2013 at 23:47 | Reply Eugene
(sug-sug) My Sarie Marais is so ver van my hart…
on 18/08/2013 at 00:11 | Reply Nikita
lol, Jou tannie Sarie sit daar onder in die lande by die groen mielies. 🙂
on 18/08/2013 at 18:01 | Reply Dan
Well, now you have some time, just as I am leaving for Minnesota. Story of my life lately. 😦
on 18/08/2013 at 18:35 | Reply Eugene
Сlive, ek dink jou boek sal in Rusland verkoop.
on 18/08/2013 at 18:07 | Reply Clive
Haai julle 2.
Ek het verlede week begin om my webwerf vir volgende jaar reg te kry. Om nie geld weg te gooi nie het ek ‘n konsultante gekry om die sakie vir my te hanteer want daar is heelwat dingetjies wat ek daarop wil he^ onder andere ‘n voorbeeld van die boek in Afrikaans, Engels en Russies. Dit moet ook as ‘n “blog” kan werk sodat ek met die ouens wat die boek wil koop lekker kan kommunikeer en sommer net gesels.
Ek wil ook die boek beskikbaar stel as ‘n e-boek sowel as ‘n klassieke (gewone) boek. Ek het al klaar die voorblad ontwerp en die drukker is tevrede daarmee. Maar die bal sal eers begin rol sodar ek met al 3 klaar is.
on 18/08/2013 at 19:27 | Reply Nikita
Hi Clive [en Eugene]
Dit klink na ‘n puik idee, Jy moet vir ons die link stuur sodra dit gereed is. Ek hou van wat Eugene se, dat die boek in Rusland sal verkoop. Dit klink vir my daar is tog ouens in ander lande wat geinteresseerd is in ons geskiedenis. 🙂
on 19/08/2013 at 22:50 | Reply Clive
Hulle se^ daar is ‘n 1000 miljoen mense in die we^reld wat Russies praat ~ of dit heeltemal soveel is weet ek nie, maar dis waarom ek oorspronklik besluit het om die boek ook in Russies te laat vertaal. Dis ‘n braakland wat hunker na iets soos die boek!
Eugene, hierdie vraag is vir jou: Hoe bring jy jou Afrikaans-sprekendheid en jou Russiese “claim to fame” bymekaar?
Om terug te kom boek toe: ek beplan ook om die boek internasionaal, dis nou in Engels, te versprei. Ek neem aan daar sal heelwat uitdagings wees maar nou ja, die een wat uitdagings aanpak en wen is die mens wat sy eie lewe op sy eie manier kan leef. Maar ek sien uit daarna. So ook met die Russiese vertaling. “Hulle” se^ daar is +- 400 000 Russiese mense in Suid-Afrika. Ek beplan om die boek self te bemark en te versprei want sou ek dit deur ‘n maatskappy doen dan kan ek so min as R10-oo (rand) tot R20-oo vir ‘n boek kry. En verspreiders (uitgewers) is nie baie entoesiasties as dit by boek adverteer kom nie. Daar is een “groot” aankondiging en sodra ‘n nuwe boek verskyn dan is my boek reeds ou nuus. En die volgende boek kan ‘n week of ‘n paar dae later verskyn. En dan is dit neusie verby.
Nikita ons moet dalk gesels oor die “links” Groete
on 20/08/2013 at 21:22 | Reply Eugene
Clive, ek volg jou nie. Ek’s ietjie dense. Jammer, man. Watse claim to fame?
on 20/08/2013 at 21:29 | Reply Nikita
Hi Eugene, Ek dink Clive bedoel dat hy wil weet waar jy ‘inpas’ met die Russies. Clive weet nie dat jy eintlik in Rusland bly, Russies praat en besig is om Afrikaans te leer nie. 🙂 Laat ons hoor wat Clive se? [jammer, my kappies/deeltekens wil nie ‘werk’ nie. Sodra ek dit wil gebruik, verdwyn my boodskap en maak ‘n nuwe bladsy oop – uiters frustrerend]
on 20/08/2013 at 21:34 | Reply Eugene
O. Snap. Dankie, Nikita.
Clive, ek’s ‘n dense Rus, sien?
on 25/08/2013 at 15:35 | Reply Clive
Dis uiters interessant dat jy so flink Afrikaans praat Eugene. Mense in Suid-Afrika sal jou baie maklik kan volg. Maar vanwaar die belangstelling in hierdie taal? Weet jy van die groot poging wat Rusland onderneem het om die Boere gedurende die 2de Vryheidsoorlog teen die Engelse te help in 1899 – 1902? Eugene jy weet natuurlik dat beide moderne Russies en Afrikaans dieselfde “moeder” het, naamlik Hollands? Toe Karel die Grote in Rusland beheer oorgeneem het en hy sy vlote in Rusland volgens Hollandse planne en maniere laat bou het, het hy uit die aard van die saak 1000de Hollandse vakmanne na Rusland laat kom. Sodoende is daar baie Hollandse woorde wat ver-russies is en Afrikaans stam baie beslis van Hollands af. Russiese woorde soos byvoorbeeld (sien hier onder), klink amper soos Afrikaans:
a) halstoek = nekdoek (das)
b) balkon = balkon
c) botterbroodjie = toebroodjie
d) koepel = koepel
e) broekie = broekie
f) fatoek = vadoek
ensovoorts…. ens….. ens…..
Daarom klink dit amper soos Afrikaans as twee Russe ‘n ent weg Russies met mekaar praat.
on 25/08/2013 at 15:48 | Reply Clive
O gits ~ ek het ‘n blabsie gemaak: Met Karel die Grote het ek eintlik Pieter 1 of
Pieter die Grote (Peter the Great) bedoel.
on 25/10/2013 at 10:01 | Reply Eugene
Clive, ken jy dalk genl. Louis Botha se presiese woorde ten effekte dat al daai Europese vrywilligers wat aan die Boere se kant geveg het, òf geëksalteerde idiote òf blerrie skelms was? 2. Wat Nederlands as moedertaal betref — nee man. Dieselfde as Frans is nie Afrikaans se moedertaal is nie, al het dit duisende Franse loonwoorde. Dat Russies het ’n paar honderd Dietse loonwoorde maak hom geen kindertaal nie.
3. Toon hierdie skakels vir jou vrou:
Sy kan hul nuttig vind as sy jou boek na Russies vertaal.
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