Tangled in the Internet

Its been a while since I have blogged. I have to admit when i first started doing think i never thought i would miss it, but i did. My main reason for not blogging was bad and expensive internet connection. Despite being irritated by how these factors had affected my access to the internet i realized how as a people we have become attached to the internet.

Its no breaking news the without the internet the world would collapse in more than one way. It also no breaking news how people are attached to the internet, but there is more to it than not having it completely. When you wake up in the morning check your emails, Facebook, Twitter and Whats App all seems well. however there is that moment you want to upload a picture on Instagram or Facebook and it takes forever, only to fail. That moment you wanna download a 10mb file and the browser tells you 45 minutes remaining, only for it to fail after you wait for 40 minutes, then you have to start again. The levels of frustration I felt when experiencing such things made me realise how comfortable we get with a service we can loose at any time. The only problem is that this has all happened in a casual way at a subconscious level so waking up and detaching ourselves from the internet is as good as waking up and detaching ourselves  from electricity. Surely not happening anytime soon. 

Rhythm and Love

I bomb atomically,   Socrates' philosophies and hypothesis can't define how I be droppin these mockeries, lyrically perform armed robbery. Flee with the lottery, ..

Its not everyday you hear something that will change your persona, state of mind and way you look at life. It is said that music is equally addictive as alcohol and drugs. I believe its not just any music that can have this effect. Everyone has a certain beat, symphony, rhyme, lyric, instrument that get them going. something that gives them that instant music high. For someone, maybe you the quote above does not make sense but for others it takes them to a certain place, a certain world, a certain time. I have seen over twenty people come from different parts of a hall, converge in the center and reciting those lines. So what is your poison. I found mine, Wu-Tang Clan's Triumph  The track from the 1997 album still sounds brand new to me every time it comes on my playlist. It is the song that made me a fan. It is the song that made me love hip hop. Now some people look at me crazy reciting lyrics and drawing Wu-Tang signs anywhere and everywhere i can. Maybe they have not found their drum. I think music is personal and touches us in different ways. Some more than others. I dont know about you but I wanna Rock right now!!!!

check out Triumph

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isumZjs3dKA

Harvest of Thorns

There are many writings in various genres that seek to document the Zimbabwean War of Liberation; but I think Harvest Of Thorns, a work of fiction by Shimmer Chinodya, is one of the few that tell of the transition between white dominated Southern Rhodesia, through the war of liberation to the new black regime in a vivid, yet simple narrative; candid, straight forward and engaging; a story that many of the past and present generations can understand, relate to, enjoy while actually learning something about why the war had to happen, how it happened, and what it achieved, against the backdrop of society’s general expectations; and finally, the effects of the war and the scars that it left.

Born in 1957, Shimmer Chinodya is an award winning Zimbabwean writer whose first work was published in 1982. Over the years, he has written many books, poems, stories and tales, and, though it appears his target audience is the younger generations, Harvest of Thorns is a book that will appeal to anyone because of the forthright way in which it is written. Harvest of Thorns was his fourth novel, and it won the Best Book category for the 1990 Commonwealth Writers regional prize. His other books include Dew in the Morning (1982) Farai’s Girls (1984) and Child of War. Over the years, he has written Short Stories, Plays and Poems for Primary Schools. Harvest of Thorns has also been used in Secondary Schools as an English Literature Set Book.

Harvest of Thorns is set in Colonial Zimbabwe, through the movement from the political passivity prevalent in Rhodesia, through the growing resistance against colonialism. It goes into the Liberation Struggle and ending in the aptly titled and very disappointing harvest of thorns. Shimmer Chinodya successfully takes the reader through these stages by the depiction of the lives of the Tichafa family; from the simple and humble background of Shamiso Mhaka, Benjamin’s mother, and his father, Clopas Tichafa. The book also depicts their courtship, their marriage, and their problem of childlessness that saw them seeking help from doctors and traditional healers; and ultimately turning to the Church that in turn strongly discouraged any political involvement. 

The story is told in a very straight forward, realistic and captivating narrative. The reader will definitely be transported back to the colonial and post colonial times. There is no finger pointing or blame, but it leaves the reader in a position to appreciate the reasons why war happened. It allows the reader draw personal conclusions about why people still ended up being disappointed despite having made painful sacrifices to gain their independence. Harvest of Thorns is an excellent book that is well worth reading. Captivating and irresistible, whatever one’s reasons for reading it, the book will not disappoint. Although it is set in a particular time, it remains a timeless read.

Verse 1: First Verse I recorded

https://www.reverbnation.com/faz
We aint new to this

My new disturb like Ludacris

Rap politics/ campaign result in violence

My philosophies/ prove your strategies useless

Flawless Lumz got you hopeless

My approach to this/ differ as I show my versatility

Deeper when i hit my fatality/ you feeling me

Lumknock university/ Hardknocking rap brutality

This development/ call it evolution/cause to the next revolution/we ready for action

Call me action Jackson but dont mention the Jackson

Otherwise I jack them/ otherwise I clap them/ realise we wreck them/we in em

I do things my way/ the harder way/ fade away like Penny Hardaway

Get away/ it a holiday/ I be Fazzy Hollaway

Melt away/ We cutaway

Sharp like razor blade/ Marked like a helipad/

Duck radiate/ run when we radiate

Pain we bringing it/ Lumz we killing them

SOMEBODY HOLD ME

Boredom

Boredom is defined as the state of being bored. Bored being a dull, repetitious, or uninteresting person, activity, or state, according to the english dictionary. Dull and uninteresting are uninteresting are all words that are open to individual opinion. this therefore means the only constant to boredom is repetitiveness. This means the as humans we can only take so much of routine. Do the same thing over and over sooner or later becomes boring. This is relevant also to things that may be be routine in particular. 
There are things we do at a random set place. These are people we see, checking our social networks and regular recreational activity. We may not have a set time and place to do these therefore we do not realise how repetitive they are. A good example is Facebook. As people discovered Facebook they become so hooked on it that there were on it 24/7. This resulted in people later claiming of "being bored of Facebook".  
Entertainment is the certified cure of boredom. it is created to rid our lives of boredom. How then do we proceed when entertainment becomes boring? We move from Facebook to twitter? And when twitter becomes boring, to Instagram? How long is it until we get nostalgic and miss Facebook? I find myself bored surrounded by all sorts of entertainment and interaction but I am still bored. How do i cure myself then from this state? I know someone will most likely say try something new. When people say this, they don not wait to think about accessibility, yes in another life i could go try sky driving or snow boarding.

Something in the air

So you chilling with a couple of friends, and another one walks in. As soon as they walk in, you realize that there is a change or scent in the air. Unfortunately it is not a welcome change, it is more odor than scent.  You do not make a big deal of it and before you know it, you cannot smell it anymore. 

Over time you realize every-time you meet that friend they have that odor. You also realize that it is shear sweat. So how do you play this one out? You are not in a position to tell them to invest in roll-on without offending in. There is also a possibility that they have roll-on but they are either resistant to it or don not use it . Any ideas on how to deal with what in the air?

                                                                                        image from sweatyamrpits.net

Paintball

I always wondered what it was like being a soldier. The adrenaline of being in battle is unimaginable. Upon realising I was not joining the army anytime soon or being an action hero I thought I would never know. This was until I went paintballing. Paintballing is an affordable, fun and safe way to get your adrenaline pumping while playing with guns. Although it does not have real guns, there is an immense sense of excitement and power. So you can round up your friends, break up into teams and go to war against each other. You can pick from various battlefields depending on how intense you want the battle to be. my personal favorite was the jungle one with no barricades,just trees and grass. it gave a real feeling of war. So you should take somee time and check it out.