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Chocolates For All Those Days Until Next Easter

Easter 2010 is already just a fading memory, but luckily for all chocoholics out there, our favourite sweet treat is also packed choc-full of antioxidants that are beneficial to our general health and well-being all year round. So provided that we indulge in moderation and stick to the dark, genuine stuff, we need not deprive ourselves until the Easter Bunny hops around again.

As South Africans, we are lucky enough to live on the continent that produces the highest amount of cocoa in the world. On a happy, between-Easter hunt for chocolates, we stumbled upon a local chocolate maker who is taking full advantage of this fact by creating chocolates with a high cocoa percentage.

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Snap Up Rarely Worn Women’s Designer Duds

A stunning and always stylishly feathered little birdie told us about a fabulous fashion sale coming up this Thursday, 25 March 2010 in Cape Town. Not in the Mother City? Or even in South Africa? Trust us, skatties; this sale is so totally worth hopping on a plane for.

The second Rarely Worn sale will again offer exclusive designer goodies at bargain prices. Now, we realise that the word ‘bargain’ is a bit of a relative one that often has vastly different meanings to different people, but in this case the word is actually an understatement. Case in point: at last year’s event, one lucky shopper reportedly scored a pair of genuine Versace sunglasses for R100 – and no, you do not need to get your eyes checked, because you really did not overlook a few zeroes!

So wipe away those happy tears, because that’s not all…

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Review: The Grand

‘I am not a huge fan of Camps Bay to be honest. You fight for parking. You fight for a seat. It is all Ed Hardy, Guess and silicone. Normally if you are in good company you can have a good time anywhere, but unfortunately the company I find  in Camps Bay are hardly your run of the mill chilled South Africans!  These are the guys with unquenchable thirsts, wallets that never run dry and loud – in taste and volume.

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Peak experiences

The global financial crisis and ensuing recession of 2009 and can be regarded as a global peak experience. Peak experiences refer to these types of events that stand out in our mind, affecting us deeply and in most cases, changing our thoughts and behaviour patterns: 9/11 was a similar global peak experience. What the crisis and recession has done is made us more aware of our actions (their impact and responsibility we need to take), to our business practices, the planet and our fellow human beings. It has shifted our thinking from a self-centred “me” era, to an era of “us” and “we”. As a result, people are looking for deeper life experiences, as well as brand experiences (product and services) that stand out. Brands and corporate companies need to adapt quickly to this changing consumer mindset.

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Wonki Ware: Too Pretty To Be Plates

Diet? What diet?

If one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to throw more brunches and dinner parties for your friends – not that we’d know if it is one of your resolutions, because you were all too terribly coy to tell us what resolutions you’ve made – we have something that will definitely beautify your table.

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New Year’s Revulsions

Over the years, human beings have come up with an increasing amount of ways to inflict physical and emotional torture upon themselves. And once a year, like clockwork, the most masochistic among our species resolve to subject themselves to any number of agonies at once. The most common of these miseries are deprivation (otherwise known as ‘Dieting’ and ‘Quitting’) and strenuous and repeated physical torture (which also goes by the shudder inducing alias of ‘Exercising’). Collectively, it is called ‘New Year’s Resolutions’.

Luckily this particular strain of annual madness is an extremely fleeting condition for the majority of sufferers. Mere days – but often it only takes a few hours – after drunkenly/giddily vowing to yourself (or, regrettably, to one of more others) that you’ll give up all your vices on New Year’s Day, most people return to their slothful, gluttonous and addicted ways.