Untitled Ramblings...

So this weekend was a long weekend coz of yesterday's holiday (I don't even know what holiday it was, human rights or something). They shouldn't call it a "long weekend" coz of an extra day after Sunday. The weekend is never enough, but I managed to get up to a few things.

I tried to make over my bedroom but i never finished. Please tell me I'm not the only one that gets excited about doing something for the first few hours, days or months then the enthusiasm just wears off, hence i have so many thing undone in my life in general. I need to fix that.

But I did my hair and my face. No i don't have long hair, but I shampoo and condition and all that stuff. Its natural and I'm trying hard for it to grow healthily. I try use natural products and its works miracles for my kinky coils. I enjoy doing my hair. I loooove the refreshed feeling I get. I know its not interesting but let me share my routine for those who care to listen. So I use some cheap Palmolive Egg Shampoo and Conditioner, Apple Cider Vinegar, and Olive Oil.


On my face I put "dhaga", i don't know what its called in English. But its that soil like substance that pregnant women love to eat. It looks like clay but it isn't. If you know the name in English, holla. I only know the shona version. Anyway I made a mask with that stuff and yah, i had a mini pampering just for moi! Beautiful I tell you. So effective.

Enough girl talk!

Sometimes when I am going home, I have to use a taxi. My usual means of transport will not be available at that time. (A taxi is kombi by the way, they call them taxis here in SA). In total I use 4 of them. I HATE using taxis by the way. I hate it. Its squashed and there is always that random person that smells like they have never heard of a bathroom. The same person asks if I can please close the window, WHATTTT THE HELLLLL! Then there is that man that is too close for comfort. When he is reaching for his money in his pocket, he stands up and his bum is in my face or if this person is not standing in a moving taxi reaching for their pockets, they are nudging my freaking boob! Coz they are trying to get money from their purse or wallet. I DESPISE TAXIZ! I should just get a freaking licence and save for a car.

So after my 2nd taxi, I get to Jozi. I walk to my 3rd taxi. So while walking, the streets smell like hell. Men are peeing everywhere. People are just walking bumping in to you. And you have to hold your hand bag close to you or else you will walk thinking you still have it when its long gone. But what really bothers me is not only the street vendors that are frying their chicken and cooking pap in the most disgusting unhygienic of places but also the porn magazines and DVDs that are sold on the streets. There is lots of young kids that pass through the place I pass also and for me its unruly. Its not healthy for young minds and its disturbing. I have more to say on this matter, just no time to do so. Let me get back to work.

An email I got - Laws Newton forgot to state


LAW OF QUEUE: If you change queues, the one you have left will start to move faster than the one you are in now.

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LAW OF TELEPHONE: When you dial a wrong number, you never get an engaged one.

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LAW OF MECHANICAL REPAIR : After your hands become coated with grease, your nose will begin to itch.

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LAW OF THE WORKSHOP: Any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner.

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LAW OF THE ALIBI: If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

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BATH THEOREM: When the body is immersed in water, the telephone rings.

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LAW OF ENCOUNTERS: The probability of meeting someone you know increases when you are with someone you don't want to be seen with.

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LAW OF THE RESULT: When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't work, it will!

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LAW OF BIO MECHANICS: The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.

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THEATRE RULE: People with the seats at the furthest from the aisle arrive last.

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LAW OF COFFEE: As soon as you sit down for a cup of hot coffee, your boss will ask you to do something which will last until the coffee is cold.

Have a blessed week ;)

Mishaps and haps < (if there is such a word)

Before I start.

Its dawned upon me, when I titled the post, that the word "mishaps" (meaning accidents, mistakes, etc) must be derived from "mishappenings". Then some intelligent geek decided to shorten this phrase to mishaps.. So I figured if there is such a word as "mishaps", then how come there is no "haps"? It only makes sense, well in my head that is.



Just had to share the senseless things that happen in the mind of me. Nerd? I love the term nerd!! I like being called a nerd. Infact if you really want me to love you, chant "nerd, nerd, nerd" over and over again. lol, I cant explain my obessesion with the word (maybe its my glasses). Now let me tell you, my email buddies (SA, Zim and Nairobi) are a bunch of nerds. All of them are Zimbos. They dont like to be called nerds but who cares right, i still do. They come up with the most weird yet intellectual discussions ever. It can even be about the most stupid thing! One of the dudes once said to me that actually most Zimbabweans are nerds. Seriously! I can honeslty stand up and say, if given the platform one day, that 80%, if not over that, of Zimbabweans are very intelligent! There I said it. And its true. So big ups to ZimNerds! Blog raSekuru vaTawanda is one example among many. If aSekuru happens to read this, sorry zvenyu.



Next in line is the fact that I have had three different consecutive colds for the past three weeks. All different flavors. ewwww? tell me about it. This week I have had a nagging cough, thats mild during the day and at its climax at night. Im taking Woods and rubbing Vicks. I love sneezing but I hate coughing!



So tonight I have organised to go see "The Book of Eli" with Mr. Man. It must be an intresting movie. He doesnt know that we are going, but we are. After all its his birthday month and our annivesary month so he gets to get spoilt a little (and Denzel is hot! even though he is a bit old now)








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Any who to round it all up, I wanted to share an email I got. I laughed my head off! Enjoy. (Sorry for the people who aren't Shona). It doeant look organised coz I just copied and pasted it, but its easy to make sense of :)

Hwindi: Yakuzara yakuzara iyi!
•    “Garai 4-4 semapiritsi e-TB!”
•    “Vabereki pindai mukati musangomirizika kunge mweya wetsvina”
•    “Haina kuzara kombi iyi vaberekesi, pindai tiende, mukashaya pekugara muno simukirwa nadriver “
•    “Vabereki ngatisakotamei pa-door, hapana ari kubaya jekiseni pano?”
•    “Musamire kunze vabereki. Zarirayi mukati senhumbu!”
•    “Pindai mese vabereki! Yamudhara haizare, inenge bhawa!”
•    “Vabereki bhadharayi. Isu hati tambe pabasa sa-Macheso”
•    “R5 yako ndeye kuterera music, kombi ndeyemahara”
•    “Vabereki ngatibheje mari dzedu tione kuti mota inotisvitsa kwatiri kuenda here iyi”
•    “Farirai kukwira kombi yenyu iyi vaberekesi! Ndimi maka isakadza!”
•    “Mdara handei, unokwanisa kugara pa'kadoma'(behind driver) apa! Unenge utori bho! Unoto tangira vari kubhek siti kusvika asi mabhadhara mari yaka fanana.
•    “Ah iwewe gara pa'kadoma' apa kana kuti rembera(stand up)!
•    “Hamudi back seat, pane asina kupfeka here ikoko?”
•    “Tinoda hwani asina makuhwa!”
•    “Eh ambuya garai nehalf tikwane tese!”
• “Ngatigarei takabatana semagaro vabereki!”

Standing Passenger (Vano rembera!)
•    Vabereki, ngatifarire kuenda kwatinoroja. Mirai musana nedumbu ngazvigumane.
•    Ah iwewe gara pa'kadoma' apa kana kuti rembera(stand up)!
Commenting on Passengers

•    Hwindi achiwanzira ma-rasta maviri anga ari mukombi—“Aah inga marasta akuwanda kupfura vanhu!”

•    Hanzi mwana wahwindi akabvunzwa kuti kana vanhu vawanda vanonzi chi-i, akati SHURA!

Passengers
•    “Mukwasha mandigarira!”
•    “Mukwasha, bvisai ruoko rwenyu ipapo!”
•    “Mukwasha, ndisiei pa 'no stopping' mukwasha!”
•    '”Mukwasha ndisiyeiwo pama sewage”
•    “Kombi imarii mkwasha?" Hwindi: "Munogona kuitenga here kombi iyi mbuya?"
•    “Hwindi kuna driver 'tsika chepakati (brake) shamwari, paita shura!”

Final Destination
•    “ Mari yenyu yaperera pano vabereki!”
•    “Ngatibatanidzei vabereki nevaberekesi!! (pay time)
•    “Ngatiburukei vabereki kombi yasungwa iyi”
•    “Vabereki musaite kunge ma-tourist itai muchiburuka”
•    “Chii chirikuitika umo, ehh vabereki pedzai kugeza vamwe vapindewo?”

Have a blessed day

xxx