Om te onthou – to remember – Toerien

29/01/2013 by Nikita

I have received a PDF document from my sister with the words, ‘…you will be interested to follow up the links in this document and read more, as you like to write as well. I think it runs in the family.’ Well, yes, I like to ‘write’, but where is the time if you haven’t got it? I wish I had all the time in the world! When I read the following paragraph about what AP Brink said about Barend Toerien, I thought by myself, hey, but this is me too! I love mountains and hiking in the mountains – I’ve done several trips in the Drakensberg and the Wild Coast. I am a qualified librarian teacher, who LOVES libraries and books! Last, but not least, I’ve done some translations… not really something to get excited about, but at least one poem that got published… Barend Toerien grew up in Porterville, the ‘home‘ of my Grandma. It’s great to know about your relatives and what they have achieved, it makes you feeling better about yourself ….hehehe!! Ok, I am proud of him, to be honest.

Please click here to access the PDF, which is in Afrikaans only. This PDF contains a number of news articles from various newspapers about Barend Toerien and MC Toerien. Both were writers/poets.

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on 29/01/2013 at 22:29 | Reply Eugene

BJ is een van die (tweede or derde) mees vertaalde Afrikaanse digter in Rusland. Weet jy hy het eens Rusland besoek?

Hm. Ek het nie geweet nie jy and hy is verwant. 🙂
- on 29/01/2013 at 23:13 | Reply Nikita
  
  Hi Eugene… Sjoe, dis nuus! Wow, watter gedigte? Ek sal graag wil weet. Ja, ek is bewus daarvan dat hy in Rusland was. 🙂 Wens ek kon gaan. Ek is nou nie die ‘wereldburger’ soos hy nie. Tyd ontbreek [ en geld – hehe]
  - on 27/01/2017 at 20:05 | Reply Sjoe!
    
    Ek moet Eugene Witkowski vra. Hy weet presies omdat dit was HY wat vertaal het 😉
    - on 27/01/2017 at 20:38 Nikita
      
      hi Eugene, Dankie! Ek is geduldig. 🙂
- on 31/08/2016 at 22:06 | Reply Nikita
  
  Hi Eugene! I’ve got the book now – by Toerien: Augustus in Moskou. I just need to start reading! 🙂
  - on 27/01/2017 at 20:42 | Reply Sjoe!
    
    Ek het dit nou ook. Het dit verlede Augustus — presies 25 jaar na die gebeurtenisse in Moskou! — via die Internet in SA bestel en nou net ontvan. Het dit nog nie gelees nie. 🙂
    
    Ek was toe by ons landhus. 😉
    - on 27/01/2017 at 20:52 Nikita
      
      Hi Eugene, Wow, ek’s bly! Hy is seker opgewonde! ‘Landhus’? is dit ‘n huis? 🙂
    - on 27/01/2017 at 20:55 Sjoe!
      
      Ja, vir seker, “huis”. 🙂 (Btw, “landhus” is korrek in Sweeds.)
    - on 27/01/2017 at 21:03 Nikita
      
      hi Eugene, Dis interessant – Sweeds. Dus, ek kan so bietjie Sweeds begin leer ook. lol
    - on 27/01/2017 at 21:10 Sjoe!
      
      Vir seker. Vanaf Afrikaans kan mens ALLE Germaanse tale bemeester en beheers! (Dis presies wat ek besig is om te doen. Nederlands, Duis en Sweeds.)
    - on 27/01/2017 at 21:21 Nikita
      
      hi Eugne, Duits is nogal maklik – een van my susters het dit op skool gehad en ek het so bietjie deur haar handboeke geblaai, ek het nogal daarvan gehou! Sweeds klink nou interessant – hoe lank studeer jy nou daaraan?
    - on 27/01/2017 at 21:43 Sjoe!
      
      Minder as ‘n maand. Dit was een van my nuwejaarsvoornemens. 😉
      (Saam met Latyn). 😉
    - on 27/01/2017 at 21:45 Nikita
      
      Sjoe! Is dit maklik? Jy het seker hooo-pe tyd? 🙂
    - on 27/01/2017 at 21:48 Sjoe!
      
      Twintig minute per taal per dag is nie baie nie. Ek weet. Ek praat reeds drie vreemde tale, dus ken ek die proseduur 😉
    - on 27/01/2017 at 21:54 Nikita
      
      Liewe Aarde! Ek was so pas op Babbel – en die eerste fase van Sweeds deurgewerk! Hej! 🙂 Tack!
    - on 27/01/2017 at 22:07 Sjoe!
      
      Gaan aan! Moenie ophou nie. Twintig minute per dag. 😉
    - on 05/02/2017 at 11:57 Nikita
      
      hi Eugene, Ek het net sowat 3 min per dag om dit te doen. 🙂
    - on 05/02/2017 at 12:07 Sjoe!
      
      Dan moet jy moet sewentien minute minder slaap. 😉 Sewentien minute is nie baie nie. 😉
    - on 05/02/2017 at 13:05 Nikita
      
      Jy is nou baie tough met my! 17 minute is vrek baie vir my! 🙂 Ek neem omtrent 20 minute om 1 boek te merk – met al die werk gedoen in een dag. LOL
    - on 05/02/2017 at 14:58 Sjoe!
      
      Dis eintlik vrek min; oukay, dan moet jy eet ‘n bietjie goer om 6 minute per maal te spaar 😉
    - on 05/02/2017 at 15:19 Nikita
      
      🙂 ek eet alreeds my bord kos in slegs 6 sekondes, as gevolg van die baie merkwerk haha
on 29/01/2013 at 22:43 | Reply Chris Sheridan

I think it’s very cool that you received this information about your relative, and I also impressed by someone who gets any type of book published.

Hmm… I seem to remember something about those Drakensberg Mountains you’ve explored. Now just what WAS that? Seems to me, that it involved a dragon holding a Princess hostage, with the cruel heat of his dragon breath causing her to wish for the relief of air conditioning… Or maybe it was all just a dream.

Lol 🙂
- on 29/01/2013 at 23:14 | Reply Nikita
  
  Hi Chris! Thanks, I’ve thought so too and appreciated that my sis was thinking about me. 🙂 You are sooooooooooooo right about the Drakensberg Mountains and that Princess….! lol… Edit: It is only 1 poem that got published – not a book, I think I need to make that one clear. 🙂
  - on 29/01/2013 at 23:39 | Reply Chris Sheridan
    
    You’re welcome! 🙂 So that Princess wasn’t just a dream, then. Is she still hot? Hopefully not… unless she’s hot in a good way, which I’m sure she is, when she’s comfortably cool 🙂
    
    One poem published, is one more poem than I’ve ever had published, so I’m still impressed, and also impressed with you for making the issue clear… that you clearly have talent.
    - on 30/01/2013 at 18:54 Nikita
      
      Hi Chris – if you go to this link, https://chessaleeinlondon.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/drakensberg-mountains-movie-2/ you will find a ‘movie’ I put together and you will see why this mountain range is called the ‘Drakensberg’ mountains [Dragon-mountains] 🙂 That Princess is really hot [2x] with all the dragons surrounding her, so you will need to take all your magical powers, wisdom and the Royal Knights and Guards to rescue her from all those dragons! 🙂
    - on 30/01/2013 at 23:58 Chris Sheridan
      
      I just watched your movie, and I can see that those mountains, while very impressive and beautiful, would be the type of place where dragons would be found. But this Princess who is really hot, and then really hot again, makes me twice as determined to mobilize all my magical powers combined with my great wisdom, and form a massive army of the most courageous Royal Knights and Guards who are fierce warriors and men of honor and valor.
      
      Our mighty army will storm the dragon stronghold, and if the dragons do not immediately free the Princess, they will be sprayed with 100 giant fire extinguishers, and not only will all their fiery dragon breath be permanently put out, the dragons will look ridiculous when covered with all that white flame retardant from the giant fire extinguishers. And there’s nothing more that dragons hate than looking ridiculous, since they are such vain creatures.
      
      So let this really hot {2x} Princess know that the day of her rescue from all the dragons will soon be at hand, and she will no longer be hot, unless she chooses to be hot in a way that she really enjoys, to celebrate her rescue. 🙂
    - on 02/02/2013 at 16:12 Nikita
      
      Hi Chris
      I’m glad you watched the movie, but you will only come to understanding of those mountains – as to how they really link to dragons – when you visit them! [lol] They do look a ‘little bit’ huge in the movie or on pictures, you need to go THERE…to experience them yourself to get the real ‘dragon’ feeling. 🙂 Meanwhile, the Princess is waiting for those in command to storm the stronghold of dragons. But for you, not knowing really what those dragons can be like, you will have to triple your ‘party’. The fact that they might be Royal Knights, shouldn’t put you at ease, unless you triple your numbers – just a ‘quiet, early warning’ [hehe]
on 30/01/2013 at 08:33 | Reply Eugene

Ek sal later Eugene Witkowski — jou Oom Barend se vertaler — vra. Jammer, hy is nou ‘n bietjie siek.
In tussen, kyk hierna: http://152.111.1.87/argief/berigte/dieburger/1990/01/09/7/2.html
- on 30/01/2013 at 18:47 | Reply Nikita
  
  Hi Eugene, Baie dankie! Dis ‘n baie interessante link! Dit lyk na ‘n bloginskrywing – met jou hulp 🙂 Ek sal geduldig wag en dan die inskrywing doen – ek hoop Eugene W raak sommer vinnig beter.
on 05/02/2013 at 20:07 | Reply Dan

“I am a qualified librarian.” Well, so am I. 🙂
- on 09/02/2013 at 12:22 | Reply Nikita
  
  Hi Dan – you are a ‘librarian’? didn’t know it. 🙂 thought you were only working in the Library.
  - on 09/02/2013 at 15:12 | Reply Dan
    
    Well, what did you think I did there? I know, nothing! 😀
    - on 10/02/2013 at 11:03 Nikita
      
      That’s what you always said, ‘nothing’ – just ‘watching’ and reading maps. 🙂
on 05/02/2013 at 20:29 | Reply Eugene

Speaking of books …

http://versindaba.co.za/2011/01/19/frances-lubbe-die-koms-van-die-kindle
- on 09/02/2013 at 12:22 | Reply Nikita
  
  Hi Eugene, Thanks for the link!

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A people are what its women are. The woman is the conscience of her nation as well as the measure of its values. The moral life of a nation is controlled by the women and by the women can we measure the moral condition of the people. - Postma
Descartes: cogito ergo sum (ek dink, daarom is ek)
==The stupid neither forgive nor forget, the naive forgive and forget,the wise forgive but do not forget--Thomas Szasz
Wanneer jy groot dinge dink, groot dinge glo en groot dinge bid, gebeur groot dinge - N V Peale
Mense sonder boeke, is soos arende sonder vlerke-G.D.Labuschagne

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great. -Joshua Reynolds
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Jou beeld is 'n verflenterde foto in 'n skewe, versplinterde raam en 'n sestal geskommelde letters spel jou tweelettergrepige naam Jou woorde is dor manuskripte vir die motte bewaar op die rak en ons dae 'n kralesnoer syfers op 'n outydse muuralmanak. - Koos du Plessis
Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life.
Einstein:Chess grips its exponent, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom and independence of even the strongest character cannot remain unaffected.

Die woord 'skaak' kom van die Persiese woord 'sjah', wat koning beteken. Ook die woord 'mat' is Persies en beteken 'dood'.
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2010!
If chess is a science, it's a most inexact one. If chess is an art, it's too exacting to be seen as one. If chess is a sport, it's too esoteric. If chess is a game, it's too demanding to be just a game. If chess is a mistress, she's a demanding one. If chess is a passion, it's a rewarding one.
If chess is life, it's a sad one-Unknown
Anand vs Topalov 21 April 2010
Book of the moment: In Search of South Africa by H V Morton

Don't Quit
by: Unknown Author

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit.
Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns
As every one of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out:
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are.
It may be near when it seems so far:
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

"Vrome vaa'dre,fier en groot!
Deur vervolging, ramp en nood
was hul leuse, tot die dood:
Vrijheid, Vrijheid!
Op dan broers, en druk hul spoor,
voorwaarts, broers, die Vierkleur voor
laat die veld ons krijgsroep hoor:
Vrijheid, Vrijheid!"
Jan FE Celliers

'He who knows not and knows not he knows not, is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not, is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows and knows that he knows, is a leader/wise - follow him.' -

Chessalee

Everything/Anything and…Chess…"Despite the documented evidence by chess historian HJR Murray, I've always thought that chess was invented by a goddess"–George Koltanowski: from the foreword to:"Women in chess, players of the Modern Age"