2oceans Vibe

Gee whiskers! I don’t know if I should tell everyone that I cracked a mention in this month’s Cosmopolitan Magazine’s Editor’s Letter, or if I should keep it quiet so no one finds out I bought the mag before I heard about it!

Not that you can blame me for buying it. Try this cover out for size..

Cosmopolitan Magazine – June 2009
Featuring Scarlett Johansson

Cosmopolitan editor, Vanessa Raphaely chose this month’s Letter From the Editor to let off a bit of steam about men…. in general. Kicking off with this line:

“Why are you always so kak about men?” asks Mathew, The Guru’s sidekick, who has settled into the best spot in the TV room.”

And off she went about her various pet male peeves; from the way they smell to the fact that they don’t get pregnant. It’s pretty hilarious and you’re gonna have to buy the mag to read all of it. But what I will give you for now is the second last paragraph where she gave Daddy Cool a mention.

Check it out:

Seth Rotherham is Vanessa Raphaely’s weakness
FACT

Aah, Vanessa, if you were here right now I would hold you so close to my body you’d think you were back in the womb.

And you know it’s true! My love for the Raphaely sisters is well documented (here, among many others) and I must say I’d be hard-pressed to choose between the two.

Mmm.. Julia..

[drifts into a day-dream filled with fields and meadows and lavender-lined pebbled lanes - Chris Rea's "Julia " playing in the background]

Whoah! Sorry about that. I’m getting ahead of myself and I think it’s time to go!

Before I sign off I just want to add that this month’s edition includes viewing for both men and women. Like this story, for example:

I know!

What is that guy doing to that woman’s leg? Cosmo is OFF THE CHARTS at the moment! I should make mention of the fact that the very same article even features some inside sex info from Colin Moss. No, I am not spicing you!

It’s pretty radical. Check it out. Then also click HERE to check out their website.

And a big kiss to you, Vanessa.

MWAH! X

[squeezes bum, lowers shades to reveal eyes, winks]

Well, just like the previous 2oceansvibe Weather Girls, this week’s show is killer! We are joined by the delicious Gabriella Demetriades who was one of the IPL beauties and also came second in this year’s FHM hottest angels in the world vibe.

And what’s more, she’s LOADS of fun!

Gabriella Demetriades
Killing it..

Gabs delivered the weather beautifully at Boo Radley’s restaurant in Cape Town (62 Hout Street – go there if you haven’t already) and it looks like we’ve got a cold front of sorts coming through this weekend!

Enjoy!

Remember local shmocals to PAUSE for a bit to let it load up a tad, then PLAY!

Nothing wrong with that!

Catch you next week from The South of France..

Have you ever watched the TV series Heroes?

You know the one girl, Hayden Panettiere, who plays the character Claire?

Ja, that’s the one.

She’s recently been photographed in Cannes.

Ummm..

I see..

Not really my vibe..

The King lives! Incredible, I had NOidea!

Whilst we haven’t received photographs OF Elvis Presley, there is no confusion as to where he currently resides.

These photographs taken at the top of Strand Street, at the traffic lights AS you turn left into Ocean View Drive.

Unreal!

Right here in Cape Town!
Who would have thought?

Well done to our intrepid photographer, but I think first prize would be a pic of Elvis Presley as he goes into or out of his residence.

Elvis, Cape Town welcomes you!

[thanks ilan]

I found this on Chris Rawlinson’s site (here), and thoroughly enjoyed the interesting facts. We’re not opposed to weed, here at 2oceansvibe and Cape Town in general, so I thought it would make sense to show this to you. It was made as some kind of promo for the TV series, Weeds.

Oh, so George Washington was fine with it? And the Queen, did you say? And the model-T Ford was MADE out of hemp? Good Lord!

Speaking of hemp, have you spotted the new Hemporium store on Long Street? I’ve been buying stuff from them for years! All of it made out of hemp! My favourite winter socks are the pair I bought from Hemporium about 5 years ago. they’re still going! And no, you can’t smoke them.

And now they’re even easier to get tp – check out the store at the “210 on Long Street” Mall.

Also have a squizz at their website here – http://www.hemporium.co.za/

And on THAT note, I think I’m going to roll a little PRZ and kick back..

You get a lot of quality when you deal with the insta-rich white trash female side of football. ie. the WAGS – Footballers Wives and Girlfriends.

So anyway, Spurs star JAMIE O’HARA’s girlfriend, Danielle Lloyd got into a bit of a barny yesterday, which resulted in her needing “emergency plastic surgery.” I know – pretty radical. Not that it’s the first time she’s been in a scuffle, there was this incident a few weeks back where she was punched in the face during a brawl over over her £9,000-a-week Spurs star boyfriend.

Let’s get a quick visual of Danielle before yesterday’s incident.

Danielle Lloyd
Then

Nice, a bona fide pro, it seems. But that unfortunately is not how she looked at the end of yesterday evening.

Let’s get in there. This, from The Sun:

SOCCER Wag DANIELLE LLOYD writhes in agony outside a nightspot yesterday -tended by fellow clubbers splattered with HER blood after a savage brawl.

Spurs star JAMIE O’HARA’s girlfriend – notoriously caught up in the SHILPA SHETTY race row on Celebrity Big Brother – was left needing emergency plastic surgery.

Danielle Lloyd
Now

A spokesman for Danielle today revealed the extent of her injuries and confirmed surgery had been a success.

He said: “Danielle sustained a serious wound to her back which required stitches upon arrival at hospital.

“She went in theatre yesterday afternoon and stayed in hospital over night.

 

It’s tough at the top

 

“The operation on her leg was successful.”

Danielle was pictured leaving private Wellington Hospital in north London, right, on crutches this afternoon with O’Hara and the seriousness of her injuries was clear due to the seepage of blood from her leg wound.

The model screamed and sobbed as she bled on the pavement before an ambulance rushed her to casualty.

Last night Danielle – whose string of footballer lovers include ex-England star TEDDY SHERINGHAM, Spurs ace JERMAIN DEFOE and Birmingham’s MARCUS BENT – was recovering in hospital.

[more here]

I’d also like to know if Jamie possibly had her on the Chardonnay that night, rather that the Savignon?

Makes a difference.

She’s doing this to herself though, let’s be honest. I mean, what’s with the string of footballer boyfriend? I’d HATE to imagine this chick’s vibe at home with poor old 22 year old, Jamie.

She needs to downscale and simplify her vibe.

You know, find herself a blogger boyfriend and settle down.

She’s a very spicy character, old Victoria Silvstedt – the 34 year old Swedish fashion model, former Playboy Playmate of The Year and star of the appalling reality show “My Perfect Life.” No, I’m not kidding – that’s what it’s called. Watch that if you get a chance.

We’ve featured Vicks on 2oceansvibe before, if you cast your mind back, say, 105 weeks – you’ll recall she hit the scene at Tuesday Tabs #28.

But here she is right now! This, taken from one of her earlier Playboy shoots.

Geniedit.

CLICK HERE for NSFW image

[de niro scowl] - Fine…. I’m absolutely fine with that. Very impressive.

What’s even more impressive is her incredibly loose behaviour when on tour. I trust you’ve seen these pics here and here?

And, of course, those rumours of a little sideline that her and her fellow Playboy Playmates were indulging in here and here.

I’m sure that’s all nonsense, although I did make up a saying a few years ago which makes you think when it comes to these rumours going around. It goes like this, “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.”

Get it? Because smoke doesn’t just come out of nowhere – it has to come from a burning ember of sorts i.e. FIRE. Don’t you agree?

Exactly! Pretty cool saying, hey?

Thanks. Use it, don’t use it.

We have done very well, people. We have a full set of Cape Town’s rarest number plates, from CA 1 to 5. This was achieved after receiving this little gem:

CA 5 – on a Land Cruiser
Stealth Wealth..

Pretty cool to pop CA 5 on a Land Cruiser, I must say. ESPECIALLY an old school Land Cruiser! Stealth Wealth – nice, I like it.

And then, just to recap on the lineup of CA 1 to 5. Click each registration below for the article:

CA 1 : A Toyota Prius

CA 2 : Searle’s SL600

CA 3 : You know where that is

CA 4 : Jaguar XF owned by The Roofer’s Godmother’s husband!

CA 5 : Land Cruiser stealth wealth

[thanks bruce]

It’s been a whlie since we had a Britney Spears checkup. So I thought I would present you with this pic of her taken in the last week.

Britney Spears – coming along nicely

Fine!

A definite improvement. You see what happens if you cut down on donuts and dairy?

Keep it up angel – 2oceansvibe is very impressed.

There’s this very cool website called OverheardInNewYork.com and readers login and quote little sound bites they stumble upon whilst going about their day in New York. The quotes end off with a description of where exactly in New York the quote was heard. They’re all pretty cool and often very cute.

Like this one I stumbled upon today:

Dad to kids on freezing day: Who wants to go in this jeans store to get warm?
Preteen girl: I love jeans!
Slightly younger girl: I love jeans!
Little brother: I hate jeans! (starts to cry)

–Broadway & Spring St

[check out others here]

Nice, I like it.

It reminds me of that time we went to that party in Camps Bay and The Laywer went up to the DJ duo (brothers) and asked if they could play some 50 Cent. The one DJ leant over the DJ box, shook his head and shouted, “The Lashinski’s don’t play hip-hop!”

“The Lashinski’s don’t play hip-hop.”

That was when The Lawyer andThe Interior Decorator (who had just pulled up beside her – equally oiled) looked at each other, pulled faces of utter disgust, looked back at the DJ and screamed, in unison, “WE HATE THE LASHINSKI’S!!!”

Pfwaah!

That was some funny shit.

Wednesday 27th May Caprice will be hosting the UEFA Champions League final. Ja, that’s right.

Final – Wednesday 27th May

Basically, this is THE biggest club football tournament final in the world and the final is being held in Rome and will feature the two best teams in the world currently: Manchester United vs Barcelona.

Manchester United v Barcelona
Every hooligan’s dream

Football verskrik fans will tell you that this could be the last game for Ronaldo in a United jersey as he is being touted to got to Real Madrid for close to 70 million Euros, but this is a continuation of last years off season drama. Carlos Teves of United also has not settled his agreement with the United board and he looks certain to leave United. Players from Barcelona to watch on the day will be Lionel Messi and Iniesta – they have the ability to change a game single handedly. Barcelona are suffering with some injuries at the back and both teams have 1 player each that are suspended who will not take any part in this game.

Sick!

Caprice will have 6 flat screens around the place so no-one will be without a view. There will also be full sound and of course it would not be complete without the famous 2 for 1 burger special .

[*cough* number one in google for "caprice burger special" *clears-throat*]

The game starts @ 20:45 but it will be advisable to come early if you have not booked a table.

To book please call Mike 082 660 2129 or Caprice office on 021 438 6444. Book asap if you want a table as they have already taken a number of bookings.

I think now would be a good time to tell you that “my” side is Liverpool. Just to get it out there.

There, now it’s done.

GO DOLPHINS!

Don’t forget to make the game even more fun with a bet on SA’s biggest online sportsbook

www.greatodds.com

[thanks si]

I stumbled upon enough VIDA E coffee vouchers to sort you out every working morning for the next TWO WEEKS!

Free Vida e coffee every work morning
for two weeks!

If you want them, then you will need to do the following:

Go to Boo Radleys restaurant, 62 Hout Street, Cape Town on Tuesday 26th May at 13h15.

I’ll be there having lunch.

The first person to find me and say the words, “Aah, Meester Rotherham, I thought I might find you here” will get the vouchers. Extra points for the most Bond-villain like accent.

It’s that simple. The FIRST person to manage this hilarious act (from 13h15 onwards – NO earlier) will get the vouchers.

And no, I have NO idea where that idea came from. But I think it could be fun.

Good luck.

ps. a competition this intricate may well end up with no entrants. That said, you’ve got a pretty good chance..

pps. if there IS more than one of you there, I suggest you work out between yourselves who was there first and then waltz in to deliver the line smoothly after 13h15..

Some mornings I wake up (like this morning) and I worry that there will be nothing to write about. I fear that it will all end and I’ll have to hang up my space bar.

But then I get a link from Iron Mike , who directs me to this marvelous video which contains a wholly inappropriate Channel Nine TV eyewitness account of a Moran-style open-air shooting in Kings Cross, Australia. And now it seems everyone has gone mad for Clare ?Chk Chk BOOM!? Werbeloff!

Please, just enjoy this angel

Somewhat unrefined, I thought. Do you agree?

Just in case you missed it, here’s a transcript:

“There were these two wogs fighting,”

“The fatter wog said to the skinnier wog, ‘Oi bro, you slept with my cousin’. And the other one said, ‘Nah man, I didn’t for shit, eh’, and the other one goes, ‘I will call on my fully sick boys, eh’. And then pulled out a gun and went ‘chk-chk boom’.”

Just to fill you in on what she means by “Wogs,” I found this definition:

Wog ? derogatory, but increasingly reclaimed, term for Italians, Greeks or other immigrants from the Mediterranean. (Contrast with British usage, where the word usually refers to people of Middle Eastern or South Asian descent).

Charming!

If you want to find out about the ACTUAL news story – CLICK HERE

You’ll also read that Clare is now denying that she saw anything. Which I would probably also do, now that the savignon blanc has worn off and it has become clear that the killer and his buddies know exactly what I look like.

Some boys involved in Cape Town Tens and UCT Ikeys Tigers Intervarsity shenanigans have come up with another brain child – a petition to get rugby to the Olympics.

www.olympic-rugby.org

Did you watch and 7s this weekend? Ja, well, just imagine that in a 90 000 seater stadium packed full of mad rugby fans like at the Hong Kong 7s. Epic!

Check, check, check it out:

The petition to get Rugby to the Olympics

Rugby is competing for inclusion to the Olympic Games with several other sports, like Karate, Golf, Squash and possibly even underwater Chess, Tug of War or something similarly exotic. In 2005 the International Rugby Board failed to get rugby in the Olympic Games 2012 in London. The olympic-rugby.org petition aims to swing the vote this time and generate as much publicity and momentum for the cause as possible, before the decision gets made in October 2009. Rugby is a team sport, so we must team up, scrum down and make it happen. Crouch, touch and pause – Engage!

What exactly do olympic-rugby.org do with the petition signatures?

The IOC, the International Olympic Committee is meeting in June 2009 to discuss potential new sports to be included, Golf, Karate, Squash all being serious contenders. In October a decision on the Olympic Sports Program for 2016 will be made at a meeting in Copenhagen – there are two vacant slots! The National Olympic Committees (NOC) will send their representatives to decide at the conference. You and everybody else is free to contact their country’s committee member(s) and make a case for your sport’s / rugby’s inclusion. The NOC’s and their members can be found here: http://www.olympic.org/uk/organisation/noc/index_uk.asp Olympic-rugby.org is simplifying that process and provides a one stop platform to channel the combined forces of the rugby world towards the IOC by sending the petition signatures and motivations per country to each IOC member and the National Olympic Committees. The olympic-rugby.org Forwards maul perfectly off the lineout, strong pick and go and they are over the line, delivering 8 million signatures on the final whistle to win the game!

Sick!

At the time this is being sent the petition has been online for 96 hours, attracting 3632 signatures from 89 countries – Please check on http://www.olympic-rugby.org for current figures.

Add you name and let’s make this happen!

We end off with this awesome piece of rugby history. The USA playing France in the Final of the 1924 Paris Olympics. Take a look at the crowd, the place was absolutely packed! Unfathomable that rugby got excluded from the Games shortly afterwards!

Head over to www.olympic-rugby.org RIGHT NOW and do the right thing!

GO DOLPHINS!

Our surfer readers will be happy to receive this latest mondo wave action, captured just down the road at “Dungeons” – courtesy of The BombSurf.

That’s Chris Bertish – he’s a 2oceansviber and he also gets this week’s “Double-Thumbs-Up” award. Nice, Chris.

Check out the rest of that slideshow (and many others, including The Twigster) by clicking here.

Sorry, not there – here.

Locals only.

No kooks.

You see? It just goes to show that you’re never too old to start blogging. Or stop, for that matter!

I thought you might enjoy this story about the world’s oldest blogger whose physical hard drive crashed recently, at the age of 97. She’s from Madrid, Spain – which is where I’ll be in a few weeks time before I arrive in Ibiza and play with Goldfish, during the 2oceansvibe 2009 Strenthening Ties Tour (I leave on Monday and will tell you more about it later this week).

Back to Maria (source – iol) :

Maria Amelia Lopez
Before she logged off for the last time

Madrid – A Spanish great-grandmother who billed herself as the “world’s oldest blogger” and who gained a global following on the Internet, died Thursday at the age of 97, local officials and reports said.

Maria Amelia Lopez, who was introduced to the world of blogging by one of her grandchildren, used a mix of humour and nostalgia to recall life during the long dictatorship of Francisco Franco and give her take on modern life.

“Today it’s my birthday and my grandson, who is very stingy, gave me a blog,” she wrote on her first post on amis95.blogspot.com on December 23, 2006.

Her blog quickly soared in popularity after the media reported on it, having seen more than 1.5 million hits, and it earned Lopez a meeting with Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who she openly supported.

In summer, Lopez would write from her seaside home in Muxia in northwestern Spain, where she was born in 1911; and from the Galician farmhouse where she lived with her grandson Daniel during the rest of the year.

Her posts touched on personal health problems, from trips to the doctor to bouts of dizziness, to her opinion on current events; from the violence of the Basque separatists to Iran’s nuclear pretensions.

She blogged sporadically – sometimes once a week, sometimes daily – with the aid of her grandson because cataracts impaired her vision.

In recent months Lopez was increasingly posting video messages on her blog instead of written texts.

In one of her last posts made in February, she enthused about how the “Internet amazes me more and more” after her grandson Daniel introduced her to the social networking site Facebook.

She promptly set up a group on Facebook to defend old people’s rights.

“One day soon I am going to die. All I am really scared of is losing my mind. In the meantime, I’ll carry on,” she said in an interview with Britain’s The Guardian newspaper in September 2007.

[more here]

Maria, Maria… she reminds me of a West Side Story..

Great vibe. Very cool.

I should mention at this point that my grandmother has been emailing and texting for the last 8 years.

No spice.

[thanks carryn]

Displays of pure and utter class continue as we witness these stunning visuals of a completely broken Paris Hilton and her boyfriend/toy, Doug Reinhardt, gaaning aan in a club, somewhere in Cannes.

Classy..

Charming..

Composed..

I reckon this pair could go the whole way.

You can just see it – they’re PEREFECT for each other!

True love is alive and well, my friends..

It’s not often that I present a prize to someone who has brought their OWN green screen to the event! For those of you who don’t know what a green screen is – it is placed in the background of a picture/video and allows you to replace everything green with whatever you want, AFTER taking the picture/filming the scene. It’s what they use on the news for the weather report. Although we don’t use one when we do the 2oceansvibe Weather Girls – that’s not how we roll – we’re all heart.

Ja, so anyway, Alex van Tonder, winner of this week’s PlayEuroMillions 3G iPhone competition, brought her own green screen to Wembley Square this week, where I presented her with the awesome prize.

So, here were SOME of the end results!

At the track

At the aquarium

There were quite a few more, including one PARTICULARLY naughty one. So to check them out, as well as her iPhone article, clickity-click here. You should have a poke around her site anyway – it’s very cool. In future just go straight to http://mybrandedlife.wordpress.com

But please, make sure you check out what she did with that green screen – here.

I think I know a very naughty little girl..

Naturally the Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix would include some 2oceansvibers. People living within “the vibe.”

We have The Big H chilling on the yacht in Cannes, doing what comes naturally.

[aside : harry, are you in London for the 'strengthening ties tour 2009?' I land on the second of june and leave on the fourth for south of france. let me know. will stay with you or the inside centre or the uk showbiz guy]

The Big H
Slightly pornographic but
still suitable for work viewing..

Let’s get a wider shot of the yacht our boy was on

Then, of course you will remember 2oceansviber, Alewyn Vorster (here) who opted to live the holiday a few months ago. He started that website The Wall Street Business Report this year and look at him now… KILLING IT!!

Here’s a little video of his maximo respecto view of the F1 action, from the yacht in Monaco.

He writes:

This is where I am now! The dream continues !!

Worked at Cannes party on monday, mad party with Paris Hiltion, Penelope Cruz, they are all fine.

Cheers

Al

God, I’m proud of you!

You SEE, gang – it’s THAT easy!!

Work is a sideline, Live the holiday.

You see it in movies but it never ACTUALLY happens. I mean, have you ever REALLY thought about what you would do if the bank by mistake dumped R51 million into your account? Some of you may have had this moral dilemma with smaller amounts, but, really, what would you do in this case?

Of COURSE we would report it, because the other option is ACTUALLY going through with it and CHOOSING to live a wealthy life ON THE RUN. That’s basically what we’re dealing with here.

No one ACTUALLY chooses that in real life.

Except this beautiful couple.

Spotted in the “traditional media”
Should be a headline..

What a wonderful vibe! They actually went and did it! They followed through on that childhood dare of excitement and a life full of mystery and adventure.

Great vibe, guys.

Enjoy the wild ride.

Send us a postcard.