One & Only

Camera, lights, action! Glamour, sassy, chic, and cocktails!

Many young people dream of that mansion, convertible cars and good hot partner to share it all with. Well I have to say as a young man, an up and coming publicist. I never really thought that i could pull it off. I decided to throw a cocktail party to celebrate my birthday at One & Only Hotel at the Waterfront. I only dreamt of a small thing but the turnout was remarkable. When people heard i was having a party at the One &; Only Hotel, they thought OMG that means we have to go all out and buy all these expensive clothes and man they all looked great.

If i can get people to go shopping and buy all those brands just for my birthday, think about all the birthdays coming up. It only boils to Big, Glamour, and Fabulosity in the years to come. It all depends on what i decide to do with myself in the future, do i put myself out there and become the next top publicist and definitely not going the Khanyi Mbau route or maybe i will. But i promise you i will do whatever ko se mandleni (in my power).

  

Anyhow without deviating away from the topic! One &; Only Hotel. Anyhow so the party started at 7:30pm. Right from the start it was such a ball, as i have mentioned people came rocking their Jimmy Choo and Valentino just to name a few. Oh just so you i had my pants from Mr Price, but i still looked good.

When it came to cocktails and nibbles, am i that awesome to have olives, bread sticks and some that i cannot pronounce  and top of the class cocktails for my friends. You know how some places can be greedy with alcohol, well of all places i’ve been in Cape Town, Vista Bar knows how to make the best cocktails and because they are so great, you keep on asking for more.

So i would like to give thanks to all my friends more especially to start with Keshia, Mpingana, and Raymond for taking me out for Lunch and Maneh for joining us that afternoon for 2 for 1 cocktails. For Princess for landing us her stove and private space, and last but not least Seth and Dennis, if i could i would name you all. But just know you guys hold a special place in my heart.

The view at night is amazing!

I had to see it myself!

City lights

When i was approached by my fellow amazing friends to go hiking on the lions head, i was a bit sceptical but ended up going. I was only told the after while cruizing around Cape Town that we are going hiking! Anyhow we went up there, it took us approximately 45min to get up there. I am not the hiking type but this time i just had to go, simply because its in the top 100 things to do in Cape Town.

Trig beacon

You know what they say about Cape Town is such a small world, i was shocked to see how many people i knew along the way up. Anyhow so as we went up the mountain i couldn't wait to get there. Now the fun part was when i had to climb up using a chain, one mistake i'm done. Some heavy lifting was made along, i hated it but i survived the climbing.

The other thing i noticed was how when you looking up the mountain it seems really far but i tell you it is worth it. If ever you in CT and you want to do something challenging just go hiking. I know it does not seem so exciting and challenging but it is!

admiring the view

The narrow paths, man i hated them because then at most time i had to let the first person in only to find out that there are 12 more people coming down on the same route. I just had to be patient because i was nearly there. So we get up there and the view was so amazing. i like it how you have all views, from Camps bay, Sea Point, City to Table Mountain. so we setup our little spot, took loads of pictures. 8pm hit we were still up there and by then everyone had left. Nevermind us we were enjoying the quietness and view more especially at night. Time came for us to go back down, smart we only had one touch and cell phones. There is 5 of us. Four out voted the one and we had to spend the night on the mountain.

Posing

It was not fun at all, i was cold and uncomfortable. We found and rock and slept underneath it, i could not sleep at all. I was up all night and the next thing i knew it was 3.45am and i could not take it anymore, so we all head down. Thank God there was a full moon out at that time. So we went down and when we got down there was a sign that said NO CAMPING. how funny was that? So yes, hiking was fun and the not prepared for camping was not. other than that it was great!

Camps bay site

about to head up

HQ is for Head Quaters

So we decided that come Friday we are all going to HQ in town. We all dressed up and headed straight; damn did we all look great or what! I must say I was pretty shocked when I arrived to see that there has been couple of changes made. The vibe is different to what it used to be. Not so though. This time HQ has decided to add a live collaboration between drums and music. I like the idea. I can definitely say HQ is a place for people who like clandestine shindig. This place attracts people of high rank, diffidence and self control. I was pretty shocked to see the kind of outfits, gents in their D&G Jackets, Paul Smith shirts, Ladies in their stilettos with a touch of red underneath. You know it is the real thing if it’s Red underneath.

I also came across a guy wearing what it looked like Dsquared2 pants, just wasn’t sure but they sure did give the impression of being Dsquared2. I could be wrong. What I’m trying to say is the likes of people who visit HQ are working class, business minded fellows, Fashion beauties and Fashion gurus. I liked the place apart from bumpy-bumpy situation we encountered. There is a peak time, when everyone decides to go on the dance floor and there is time when people are sitting down enjoying the glasses of wine.

Karabo & Keshia

The music is astounding, people have respect for strangers, and no smoking allowed inside which is great. If you want a night out with your work mates look no further than HQ among the list of my favourite places in Cape Town. It is funny how every where you want to go in town, it is swamped with students dancing and throwing themselves all over the places. HQ is for decent people, who know when they’ve had enough to drink. I am not generalising, don’t get me wrong. Talking from experience.

So before I walked in, I decided to wait for my friends coming from the car. I waited at the main entrance next to the boom when some guy pulled over and asked me if there was still parking space left... Hello do I look like I work here. Other than that I had fun, you should try it out. The one thing I walked away was I met so many people I have never met in my entire time out at social event.