Always be at your best *Be on point

…as the old saying goes, always be at your best for you never know who is watching or listening. In my travels I’m always on the 1^st flight out or the early evening flight, too early or too tired for small chats. However I had a change of behaviour on this specific day, although in the a.m flight I did the usual- as the plane hit equilibrium I pulled out my earphones and tuned my ipod then slept. But as we descended the Joburg sun was out though I expected it to be cold… and from there the conversation started with the guy next to me…

He spoke about his wife that had quit her job to pursue her passion and they had been struggling for over a year but things were now looking good. Interestingly, she runs her  business from India although she is still based in South Africa but the moral of the story was that they run a design and décor company which supplies big retailers like Woolworths…we exchanged contacts and promised to stay in touch.

on this note of design -
Congratulations to Cape Town for winning the World Design Capital!

On my way back in the afternoon I saw this tall, dark lady with orange hair – yes orange! Beyond that, I saw a confident woman (one of my colleagues would later say to me – “she’s very loud” ... he knows her via other business ventures *it’s a small world). Anyway, I was reading a very interesting book so I carried on minding my own business whilst waiting for the flight. When I settled on my seat I saw this exotic lady again.

Liz Ogumbo - http://www.lizogumbo.com/

She sat next to me, pulled out a book – “God is my CEO” –damn! I had to talk to this woman. She was from Kenya, a wonderful soul, down to earth and very ambitious. We spoke about love, friendship, work and the future. She was very excited about her wedding in May 2012 and the future prospects of relocating.

So I later discovered that this woman I was talking to is an international model, musician, stylist/designer and an owner of an international modelling agency.

My Sol Plaatjie’s feature for this post - Justice Mukheli

This South African mjita is an artist of many facets - he has spun my world for the past couple of months; I cannot go a day without a dosage of his potent content (mainly photography) from his blog http://www.justicemukheli.tumblr.com/. I am totally obsessed with his work! …or maybe even him or his twin - it can get quite confusin' - my friend Dorcas would know. I spent a Saturday in Jo'burg hoping to bump into him and ask for an 'autograph' -yeay right! ...but really ...to pick on his brain but my friend spotted 'him' first... although it was his twin - Innocent, I was still so star-struck I took a pic of the floor ;)

Check out his work, I won’t blame you for falling inlove with the measure of his eye.

He inspired me so much that for the love I posses for photography I decided to start my photography blog - http://sindiswamachi.tumblr.com/