Blog Tag

Dave Gale is playing tag, and apparently I’m one of 5 ‘its’. I have to divulge 5 dirty little secrets and then ‘tag’ 5 other bloggers to do the same. Heck, why not.

Here goes – 5 things you probably don’t know about me:

1. I worked in a church as a youth pastor for a year. I still do work with teenagers, mostly around personal development. Also as a musician, which brings me to point two…

2. I play the drums. I have since I was 16, started largely because I had a crush on a girl at school who played and figured it was a way in. Have played in church bands, punk rock bands (have shared a stage with some awesome SA acts) – met many cool people (Parlotones, Marlowe, Wonderboom) in the band days. Really miss playing.

3. I have worked some other interesting jobs. I’ve sold remote controlled cars, welding machines and earthmoving spare parts.

4. I am a raving lunatic SA sports fan. I’m obsessed with cricket and rugby but will watch anything on the telly except for show-jumping and swimming. I play cricket and golf, but pretty much suck at everything else (I try nonetheless).

5. In April 2005, 19 months ago, I’d never heard of a blog. I was still selling parts for Caterpillar machines :)

My five tags are:

Dave Duarte
Carl Spies
Scott Gray
Peas on Toast
Max Kaizen

16 Responses to “Blog Tag”
  1. Marketing Geek 12 December 2006 at 6:19 pm #

    Heck Mike… you mean I can only confess to five?

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  2. Max Kaizen 12 December 2006 at 6:22 pm #

    Ahem!! thought these were supposed to be dirty little secrets Mike :-P

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  3. thescott 12 December 2006 at 10:22 pm #

    i’m afraid i have no secrets. except that i lie sometimes.

    Reply
  4. Dennis McDonald 13 December 2006 at 3:54 am #

    I’ll bite — what is “show jumping”?

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  5. Mike 13 December 2006 at 8:14 am #

    Show jumping is horse riding, over poles. I think.

    Reply
  6. peas on toast 13 December 2006 at 8:27 am #

    Hello Mikey!

    Thanks for your tag old chap!
    I’ve already done the 5 dirty little secrets thing, so I’ll conjure a slightly different tangent if you’ll allow me: how about 5 dirty little things I’ve done?

    Reply
  7. Nic 18 December 2006 at 12:47 am #

    Hi Mike, enjoy reading your blog. Must admit that over a year ago I only used the internet to Google things, occasionally. Thanks to alot of people I’m an addict!! Loving the blogosphere and read your blog often.

    I am however somewhat confused about this tagging thing that is going on.. could you maybe shed some more light on it for me? Thanks.

    Reply
  8. Cosmetic Surgery 11 December 2008 at 10:02 am #

    Excellent site guys! great work!

    Reply

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