I had no idea!

WOW!

Just checked my stats page on my website and noticed that I got some hits from this website. So, out of curiousity, I followed the link to see who it was that came from that site, only to find that it was some sort of design blog that outlines different design styles like the colours to use etc.

And as I scroll down on the archives page.

BAM! There it is. In all its glory, under the title... Black & Red Websites. I like it.

Whoever the site belongs to... thanks for recognising my site. Kudos to you buddy!

:P

Feels good don't it?!

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Definition of self

It seems Facebook is providing me with great material. Me likey.

Anyways...

Why are we defined not by our character but by our posessions? Our acquisitions.

Why can't I just be me? Why do I have to be Mxolisi, the guy who wears specs? Why? Granted it's probably because people see the material stuff before knowing the real person behind those specs.

But it extends even further. Let's say, for argument's sake, *Sbu Mpato buy a red GTI (considering how many of those already are in circulation) and you also happen to have a chipped front tooth. Somehting that has been your unique identifier for as long as you can remember. Have a couple of people know you're now a proud owner of a red VW Golf GTI then all of a sudden the chipped tooth takes the back seat.
You are no longer the guy with the chipped tooth, you're now Sbu The Red GTI Guy. It becomes who you are. It's no longer what you happen to own, apart from your great personality and the jokes you normally tell to get the ladies grinning. You're now the Red GTI Guy. Even after you change the car a few years later, trust me... you're still Sbu The Red GTI Guy.

Even if you get mugged and get robbed of all your clothes (you were just taking a stroll to a nearby neighbourhood on a fine summer night - they came out of nowhere). It's still "The Red GTI Guy" got robbed and was running naked across the hood. Seldom will you hear people say "Did you hear Sbu got attacked?" or "There was a naked guy running past here the other day". You have to be defined by what you have/had.

This is the way soceity is, and there's a pretty much not gonna change anytime soon.

Apart from being defined by material things. You also get defined by the bad thing that you did a good 6 years ago. Or even last night.

Nobody cares that you saved an old lady about to get hit by a truck while crossing the road. What they care about is the fact that you happened to scrap your best friend's new Lambo a few days after having bought it.

Sad really.

Why is that though...?



C'est la vie

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Just a thought...

Help me out here...

All I need you to do is help me out a little bit.

I need you to do two things... 1. Think of Scotland. Ok. Are you done? Great.

Now lemme see if I can correctly guess the Scotland you had in your head for those few short seconds.

It's probably the Scotland where there's men wearing kilts and knee-high white socks... right? Or maybe you even had some Scottish whisky clouding your vision. No one knows for sure except you. But that's not the point I'm trying to make here.

My main concern is not what you were thinking. I know. Shocking. I'm more interested in what you were not thinking.

Yes, what you were NOT thinking.

Here's what I was thinking... I was asking myself...

How come there are no women in Scotland?

Don't look at me as if I'm strange or something. You know I'm right. There're very few women in Scotland. If any.

I have never even heard a Scottish accent done by a female voice. Never. Not ever.

The first thing people (you included) think about when it comes to Scotland is the dress-wearing men, bag pipes, the Lochness, and maybe whisky. Never the hot sexy women of the Scottish highlands (if there are any - I stand to be corrected). Never. I bet you 300 000 Zim Dollars.

I don't think women like their men wearing skirts in public. Maybe they go in hiding, or migrate to neighbouring countries like Finland or Amsterdam (NB: I have absolutely no idea how near or far these countries are from Scotland. I'm just saying. Don't use this in your University thesis. You WILL fail.)

Anyway...

I think either the women have turned lesbian just so they can also get some recognition (by wearing skirts) from the rest of the world.

And it seems Google is in agreement with me. [click here] It seems all the women have taken up manly sports to get some sort of sense of identity considering the fact that the men seem to have completely overshadowed their existence. hence my (and maybe yours too) thinking that there are no women in Scotland.

:P

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Bin Laden Day - WTF?

OK, so somebody decides to recruit some turban-wearing idiots, and convices them they should master the skill of hijacking aircraft so they can crash into some landmark buildings. And these turban-wearing idiots agree.

Right, so over some months (or maybe even years) these guys decide they should execute this master plan. They manage to buy plane tickets on United Airlines headed to New York. Get on the plane. Sit thought the long flight, then with only a few more minutes to spare before the plane lands, they decide to take over and hijack the plane so they can seal the deal.

All this in the name of Allah/Jihad/Holy-War or whatever lame excuse they agreed to call it.

A total of 3 buildings get damaged, loads of innocent people lose their lives. People who most probably have absolutely no influence or input on whatever war was going on between the US and its enemies.
People who were merely trying to provide a better life for their families and those closely related to them.

Based on all this, I only have two fairly simple questions.

1. Why didn't the people hijacking the planes rather crash into the White House or only the Pentagon?
2. If these Middle Eastern countries are so rich from oil mining and so on... why then did they not build or even buy their own aircraft and go crash into whatever? Why still claim so many innocent lives in the process of claiming others?

Next thing the day is 'commemorated' as Bin Laden day or whatever. Though this is not the official name, it seems to have taken quite a liking to the ill-informed.
Why do have to give props to such criminal behavior? (does behavior have a 'u' ?)

Though the day is now been observed as Peace Day in some circles. Still not too sure if that's the official name for it or not. But anyways...

I know we can't keep talking about these things 7 years after they have happened, but I just wanted to get this off my chest.

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Socially speaking

Let's get right into it.

After some active participation on the social network, I've come to the realisation that Facebook is a total waste of time.

You have a large number of people you've only seen pictures of, and somehow ended up adding them as a 'friend' because they were recommended to you. Come on. In real life, stuff like this doesn't happen. Have you ever actually had a friendship recommended to you? No really. Think of it. Picture this... you're hanging with your friends, and then all of a sudden... out of nowhere, this one friend of yours mention that you should probably be friends with his/her other very good friend? Come on. Who does that?

I think the whole "social network" revolution has taken away from the human factor in a lot of things. For example... you no longer have to worry about missing your favourite band's performance, you can just YouTube it and watch it during your lunch hour. No sweat.

I'm no expert, but I think more and more people are spending time "social networking" than actually physically socialising. With other human beings.

We've become so swallowed up by the whole digitally connected that we're losing the human touch in a lot of things. I think as much as technology has come with a whole world of possibilities, it's also brought with it it's drawbacks.

Granted these networks somehow get people in touch and whatnot, but still. Would it kill you to actually go meet your friends than "meeting" every other day on Facebook?

Another something... I have around 56 friends on Facebook. 90% of whom I don't even know. People I've never even met. Not once. Of the 56, I probably only speak to 5 or 7 of them. The rest are either people I've "met" online. People I know nothing about. Except that we happen to be part of the same "social" circle.

anyways...

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