anthony is dating janine, and her mother is lynette, and lynette is my mom-in-law's first cousin. (this was the only connection we knew of, prior to actually meeting anthony.) then we found out that anthony just so happens to be the son of my dad-in-law's best friend from south africa in the '60s. anthony's dad has a brother, terrence, who happens to have immigrated to vancouver a long time ago, like chris' family. (terrence and my dad-in-law are good friends.) terrence's son, wayne, would obviously be anthony's first cousin, and it just so happens that wayne works at the same company as me :-) so i thought vancouver was small, but it turns out that every chinese south african knows each other or is in some way shape or form related to each other. weird!
i have to admit it, i'm a sucker for ppl with accents. i'm particularly fond of british accents (depending where they're from), south african accents and australian accents. i can't explain it. so tonight i was just hanging onto anthony's every word, loving the way it all sounded :-) whenever he said anything "south african" i would giggle like a schoolgirl! it was like hearing a foreign language, and i needed a translator. the funniest was when he talked about getting a ticket for a robot (or something to that effect). turns out a robot is a traffic light....i thought it was an automated traffic ticketing system :P
i also found out that basic cable in south africa consists of only 4 channels. hmmmm, i don't think i could survive on 4 channels of tv. sometimes i get bored with my 100+ channels :P i learned that crime in johannesburg is getting worse all the time. apparently criminals now hang out at the airport, and then follow the locals back home and then rob them either en route, or as soon as they get home. i had heard of other bad stories from chris' family, as they have experienced some of it first-hand. how terrible!
anthony came bearing a gift from south africa for chris. a biltong chunker. now what's biltong, you ask? well, it's basically the south african version of beef jerky. i like to eat it when it's fairly dry, but still has some moistness to it, and i like it sliced very thin (kind of like deli meat). chris prefers his biltong dry and in chunks. so now instead of using a butcher knife to cut his biltong into pieces, he can now use his biltong chunker (a.k.a. the guillotine) :-)
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