Of being lazy. :D

Hey people. I've been guestposting a lot. Ok not a lot. A bit. Lol. Here're the ones:

http://www.wamathai.com/2011/04/unspoken-brighten-your-day-the-softa-soda-way/ (courtesy of @wamathai)

http://www.frankierants.com/2011/04/guest-post-hate-about-kenyan-media/ (he of @mediamk)

http://bikozulu.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/guest-writer/ (the wonderful @bikozulu)

Go see. :o) :o)

tSN

Justin Timberlake,bitches.

Greenview had a fire today.

With any luck,it's burnt down completely to mere nothingness. Funny is that there's a fire (hopefully no one got hurt). Hilarious would be if the juice they fed me was incombustible and stood tall amidst the ashes in its ka-mtungi. I'd believe it.

I'm on karma's side,really. And clearly,mind-ninis for visualize-and-it'll-happen believe-you-can-achieve moving-things-with-your-mind-a-la-Matilda actually work.

This morning is turning out just dandy. :o) :o)

tSN

ps. Www.allwoman.co.ke.

Ps. If you missed Vagina Monologues,there's another one on Thursday. 730pm,Carnivore,5 sock.

You are what you let happen...

This is a not-so-happy fact found in UNICEF’s 2005 report, “Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting. A Statistical Exploration.”
Female Genital Mutilation has been inflicted on approximately 130 million girls and young women. In the 28 countries where it is practiced, mostly in Africa, about three million young girls a year can expect the knife – or the razor or a glass shard – to cut their clitoris or remove it altogether.
In a man, it would range from amputation of most of the penis, to removal of all of the penis. Short-term results include: tetanus, hemorrhages, cuts in the urethra, bladder and vaginal walls. Long term: chronic uterine infection, increased agony and danger during childbirth, and early deaths.

And you thought you had problems.

Pieces of literature that resemble this cross my path every so often. In my fourth year of high school, it was a book that my amazing brother got me by Waris Dirie called Desert Flower. Graphic, eye-opening, intense. (And then she went and ruined it with Desert Children et al, but whatever. People need to stop believing in sequels, unless it’s Lord of the Rings, or Pirates of the Caribbean, or Shrek.)

What reminded me this year was doing the Vagina Monologues. If you missed the one on Good Friday, there’s another this week at Carnivore on Thursday from 7:30, still 5 sock. Come early, it gets pretty packed.

Anywho, that Not-So-Happy fact was read, as it always is, during the Vagina Monologues, and it gripped me. It’s easy to read the Bible and think those idiots. Of course I would’ve known it was Jesus. It’s easy to read about other people’s situations and convince yourself that you would’ve done different had you been in their place. But that is obviously not the case - or is it? You can never know.

If I was one of those young girls, would I have run away from home? Would I even have known what severe pain as coming my way? Waris was mutilated at the age of 5, with a semi-blunt tool on a sun-parched rock. Her mother and her aunty told her it would not hurt that much, that girls didn’t cry, to prove their strength. Strength? She had no idea it would be so agonizing. The lady cut her and then stitched her back with thorns, leaving a tiny hole that her husband would then rip open on her wedding night. It would take her about 10 minutes to pee, and 3 weeks to have her period.

I don’t know who I would have become in that situation. But I guess seeing as you are shaped by experience, it would inevitably shape me…into what?

Let’s not let unnecessary cruelty go on. Let us learn from our experiences, and others. Let us remember that we are grateful to be who we are, where we are.

VAGINA MONOLOGUES. UNTIL THE VIOLENCE STOPS.

tSN

ps. www.allwoman.co.ke

Why breakups are awkward, 5.

Or being dumped/dumping,depending on what's awkward or not for you...

Forget forgetting. What's even worse is not getting. Your regular booty supply stops. You join the ranks of they who get girls drunk to chips funga/have to actually throw game to get action/blind online dating/going back to old squeezes because adding a number is just not happening/and possibly,even,self-service. It's hard out there when you're not getting any.

:D

So don't break up. It's unhealthy for your psychological and physiological well being,as is clearly outlined in this conclusive series. In the words of Lyfe Jennings (He would-should-know,right? His name is Lyfe,for Lyfe's-um,Pete's,sake) Let's...stay...together... (until at least we find a replacement/nicer way to break it off. Ooooh,not like that,naughty.)

tSN

Why breakups are awkward, 4.

The second-last and last part of this riveting series are going to be rather succinct,as they are pretty much self-explanatory.

Breakups are awkward because of forgetting. Now when you hear The Song,you have to stop yourself from going,oh,that's the song that we...or,that's the place that we...

Not getting excited as you walk next to the place you first kissed because you're standing with your new main squeeze and they're looking at you funny? Awkwaaaaaard.

tSN


ps. Www.allwoman.co.ke.

pps. Vagina Monologues,anyone?

Why breakups are awkward, 3.

You know,the thing about the end of a relationship is that you begin to question how much of it was true. Did he mean it when he said he'll love me forever? If forever is a euphemism for a month and a half. How about when she said she only had eyes for me? Not if she got with your friend 2 days after. But she said she didn't want kids...mhm,she's 6 months and counting. So the declarations of love are kind of a lie,simply because love is pure and humanity is fickle and thus the two can't exist in tandem...ama? And the thought that perhaps you should've seen it coming...well,my point is,post-breakup,there are 2 people who were once together,obviously,hence the post...anyway. One was either the naive idiot who believed everything,or the pathological liar who knew they were spewing muck.

So thinking you're either stupid or a bitch. Awkwaaaaaaard...

tSN

Why breakups are awkward, 2.

Now, I realize I leaped ahead of myself by starting with the breakup having already occured. Also awkward is the breakup itself. If you're the one doing the dumping,where do you do it? What do you say? Do you walk away after? Do you comfort them? Do you apologize though you're not really sorry? Do you start with the dreaded 'We have to talk' a day before so she/he gets a heads up?

And the dumped. If you don't see it coming,do you cause a scene? Do you beg for a second chance? Do you refuse,because you've been watching Dreamgirls and all those movies where the guy is deluded and the girl knows it so she refuses to let him end it? Do you now delete his texts,etc...ah,refer to episode 1.

I was once dumped after watching Transformers. For the first time. At the movies. And because that movie was so emotional, (don't ask) during it,I realized I loved him. !!! So maybe I'd've told him after,but he didn't exactly give me time. *sigh* That kinda sucked. (after TRANSFORMERS? REALLY? COULD YOU NOT HOLD IT IN UNTIL THE NEXT DAY??!! Timing is one of those things like common sense that just not everybody has. *sigh*)

In the space below, that bit that says post a comment? :o) Feel free to fill in your worst breakup experience. Release,closure-nah,not really. Just humor.

Being dumped after you realize you love him after an awesome movie...aaaaaaaaaaaawkward.

tSN