Haha… snort.

Swine Flew (thanks 2OceansVibe)

According to a survey prepared by Mercer Consulting, Port Louis MAURITIUS is one of the best cities to live in in Africa. In the top 2 actually. The over all winning city is Vienna, having knocked last year’s champ Zurich all the way down to number 3. The USA also had fairly disappointing results, with Honolulu cruising in at an unremarkable 29, although not as disappointing as Baghdad, which is officially the kakest city on earth. For the second year in a row.

Vienna showing off

The survey is based on a points ranking system, where 215 cities are rated in terms of infrastructure and quality of living. And apparently, Port Louis is one of the best.

Not too shabby Port Louis

Middle East and Africa

Dubai (77) in the United Arab Emirates and Port Louis in Mauritius (82) are the region’s cities with the best quality of living. Dubai’s transport facilities have witnessed improvements, with the development of its road infrastructure and expansion of its international airport, and the city is up six places in the ranking.

Cape Town in South Africa, previously the city in the region with the best quality of living, has dropped substantially in this year’s ratings (from 80 to 87 in 2009). This move follows violent riots in South Africa’s main cities in 2008.

Baghdad (215) retains its position at the bottom of the table, though its index score has increased (from 13.5 to 14.4 in 2009) due to some slight improvements in its infrastructure and steps taken to encourage investment. Nevertheless, the lack of security and stability continue to have a large impact on quality of living and the city’s score remains far behind Bangui (29.3) in the Central African Republic, which is second to last.

In the city infrastructure index, most of the region’s cities rank below 100. The exceptions are Dubai (35),Tel Aviv (55) Jerusalem (70), Abu Dhabi (72), Port Louis in Mauritius (92) and Cairo (93). Baghdad (215) is again at the bottom of the list with a city infrastructure score of 19.6, while Port Harcourt in Nigeria is at 214, scoring 30.5.

Read the full press release here.

So not only did we get quality of living, but infrastructure too -  nice one PL, high five!
Nothing like a good gloat to start off the long weekend. Sorry Cape town, what? Still raining?

Mmmm smell that? Delicious! The spa manager is coming over for supper and as she is a WELL classy gal, we thought we would treat her to our famous Beer-Up-the-Bum-Chicken. Quite a mouthful isn’t it? And you haven’t even tasted the chicken.

It’s a recipe that goes back for miles in my family, all the way  to last Christmas when my dad found it on YouTube.

Yeeeee-Ha! I love it. The lightin’ the fire with parafin (fire-lighters are for pansy-asses), stuffin’ the onions in the cavities… Delicious.

So, you work at a big corporate, huh? And you’re not allowed to use Twitter… Wouldn’t it be awesome if there were a Twitter tool that looked just like Excel? Welcome to Spreadtweet.

sneaky

Use it wisely my children.