The Boone curse (Spoiler warning!)

 Ok, so before I start I have to confess that I don’t remember much about Lost, since I watched the first season years ago and I tried to keep up but I just couldn’t anymore. Lost fans will know why…They started killing off all my favourite characters! Yes, it started with Ian Somerhalder’s character Boone who was killed off too early!  (As a side note I realize I should probably stop talking about Ian Somerhalder so much before I get a restraining order!)

That was the first time in that sense I was cursed. My favourite characters would always seem to be killed off or removed from TV shows somehow and it pisses me off sooooo much! First Boone then Charlie then they took Ethan of 90210 from me! Seriously it wasn’t even a nice departure…He just left! I love Dustin Milligan (whose performance in the Ghostfacers episode of Supernatural is legendary) and he should be kept so much longer. Sure, the actors may have moved on, but how the fans? The story can never truly end the way it should. There is no closure.

That brings me to my next complaint. As much as I love mainstream TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy, etc I have always been someone who enjoys alterantive or weird tv shows that no one knows about and, because no one knows about them =the don’t get popular=thus they don’t ratings and get cancelled!  I HATE it So many of my favourite shows have been cancelled. Better off Ted, Mad Love, REAPER and don’t even get me started about Firefly. Heroes was cancelled after four beautiful seasons and the cancellation forced them to end of the series in the WORST possible way ever! (More on that later.)

That’s why I can it the Boone curse, because as soon as I start to like something they end it…But hey that’s life for you…just as you start to enjoy it, it’s over…

So don’t waste time and grab life by the horns, or whatever bull shit I’m supposed to say…

(PS I’m going to go re-watch Lost just to figure out what was up with that hatch)

Doing your part...

 Ian Somerhalder and I are at this very moment in the same country! Yes, a few hundred miles from where I am now Ian Somerhalder is hanging out. (Cue: Fan girl *SQEE*) Now, I use the term “hanging out” lightly’ because he is actually in South Africa to work with is charity, The Ian Somerhalder Foundation (don’t go there…). This foundation aims to improve the way in which human beings  (a) use our earth’s natural resources; (b) create energy and (c) treat animals. The foundation also aims to aims to empower, educate & collaborate with people & projects to positively impact the planet and its creatures.

 

[Ian started this foundation on his 32th birthday, claiming that he would rather have people joining the foundation than getting him gifts. See he is much more than a pretty face…and a hot body ;) ]

This foundation should particular call to South Africans who are against the oil fracking in the Karoo. For those of you that don’t know Shell, the petrol company, plans to excavate oil form the Karoo which might do great damage to the nature resource of the Karoo or contaminant the water sources in the area. So say “No Fracking Way!” to fracking in the Karoo.

  http://www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/News/news/Say-No-to-Fracking-in-the-Karoo/

A another organisation I want to talk about is Water.org, which is an organisation which is helping to build wells in poor areas and thus supply water to people in the town of Savann Tabak in Haiti who desperately need water. This project is partly run by Hank Green, so you know it’s legit. (I also kind of get this cause, because today they turned off our water.)

http://my.water.org/vlogbrothers/

Helping Haiti: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9xFCV-fjZ4

Thoughts from The Well:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG-hEOPQRlY

Last week was Gay Pride week so I found this organisation which looked worthwhile too. This protest was started against the bill Uganda had plan to put forward which allowed gay men to be killed and lesbians to be corrective raped. More than half a million people from across the globe stood together to protest against this bill! Join and also stand up so that this bill is NOT passed!

http://www.allout.org/

And since it’s coming to the end of Animal Rights Week I think that the Ian Somerhalder foundation and the Save the Wolf campaign also particularly apply. Go check out the websites and see if you would like to get involved. I’m not exactly sure yet how to get involved, but I’ll send in an e-mail and keep you posted. Save the Wolf campaign was started by Ian’s Vampire Diaries cast-mate Michael Trevino and it aims to donate money for The Wolf Mountation wolf sanctuary (I wonder why he picked wolves… Teehee)

http://www.isfoundation.com/

http://wolfmountain.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkGsKVa8ETY

There are many causes out there and even if you can’t get involved directly at least be aware of all the causes you can help with or spread awareness about them! Thank you!

(PS I’m totally doing the anti-fur march half naked next year...)

(PSS If anyone ruins the season finale of Vampire Diaries for me I will lose it! I wish I could use the excuse that one of the cast members is in South Africa to avoid doing work and simply just watch The Vampires Diaries the whole day.)

Prince Harry…

Suddenly Prince Harry is making waves in the gossips blogs these days. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who thought that Prince Harry and Pippa Middleton would make a cute couple! Apparently at the wedding when he was walking behind her Harry whispered to her: “You look beautiful today…seriously.” Isn’t that sweet!  But yeah, Pippa is in a serious relationship with Alex Louden, an English crickter and Harry has that rough on-and-off again girlfriend that would be prefect together. Unfortunately though apparently he had said to Chelsy at the wedding: “You’re next.” Please let that not be true! Speculations and gossip are going around, but truth be told I really wish I could have gone to the Royal After-party! Just imagine partying hard with Prince Harry!

Many women don’t see the appeal of Prince Harry, but for me if you are going to live in that fantasy of dating a prince then you might as well go for the fun one. He has often been called the “bad boy’ of the royal family and I actually find that SUCH a turn-on. Plus William’s looks have begun to fade over the years, but Harry has grown into quite a dashing prince with a cheeky grin plastered on his face almost permanently.

 (I’ve also always questioned Harry’s parentage. I mean seriously there’s no denying that he really looks like Diana, but doesn’t look like Prince Charles at all. Even though he took a paternity test the results don’t prove anything, ‘cause the Royal family might cover it up. Just think about it…)

Yes, you may argue at I’m being fully superficial right now, but hey I’m allowed to be once and a while…

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004OSQMC4/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwninten-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B004OSQMC4

Confident in your sexuality

Cougar town fans will know that Grayson once infamously sang a song that he wrote called confident in my sexuality. And I thought it a brilliant! While being at ‘varsity for the first the question of sexuality has come up for.

I’m straight and I’m confident in the fact that I am straight and into men, but I have somehow managed to make friends here with a few people who are in the gay and lesbian scene. It still boggles my mind how so many people can be so closed minded about the issue. Many straight people seem scared that gay people would hit on them or flirt with them and I don’t get this fear, because it’s logical to think that as a straight person they aren’t attracted to everyone they see then why would a homosexual person be attracted all people. Honestly not every moment in life has to do with sex.  Why does my gay friend have to hide who he is? Why does my lesbian friend have to be scared to talk about her girlfriends when we are all gossiping about our boyfriends (In my case I use the term boyfriend lightly.) Why can’t people open their eyes and see the truth…

A lesbian friend of mine recently came out to her father. You should have seen the joy on her face as she ran down the hallway to tell that her dad had said: “I love you anyway.” I know it’s not that easy for many other homosexual people. I know it’s hard and I see friends suffer, but I hope that I can pass on the message of acceptance to all. People use the excuse often that in the Bible it says that homosexuality is wrong, but it also, and more importantly, it says that God love EVERYONE and that you shouldn’t judge others.

It doesn’t matter who you love…It matters that you love…

Confident in my Sexuality video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcsfHPMtTVU

I miss you, Jimmy, and I don’t wanna miss a thing.

No, Jimmy isn’t the name of one my clandestine lovers. I was thinking back to the time when I had gotten measles. In my own style I don’t end up getting measles when I’m was younger like a normal person. No, I had to get it in my Matric year. Let’s just say that it was one of the strangest experiences of my life. I looked like a creature out of Lord of the Rings.

 Firstly I was naturally put under quarantine and was locked up in my house for almost three weeks during the holiday. My siblings were avoiding not only due to their fear of getting sick, but also because the inoculation injection bruises were still stinging.  So while my friends enjoyed their freedom I lay in bed wasting away and since I was locked in the house there really wasn’t much to do… that’s where the Jimmy thing comes in. That week was also the week in which South Africa’s lovely movie channel, Movie Magic, was airing “Blades of Glory” over and over again. Let’s just say that by the end of that week I could almost quote the whole movie from beginning to end. I probably watched it five or six times.

 I know it’s lame. I know it’s rude, odd and offensive, but honestly I was too sick to care. All I saw was Jon Herder in that shiny outfit and I laughed for days! Fresh to death! That guy is an acting treasure. The nerd look is in and he is rocking it! Will Farrell also somehow manages to pull of lines that actors wouldn’t be able to pull off.

·         Jimmy: Are you satisfied?

Chazz: I’m never satisfied. It’s a blessing and a curse.

·         Jimmy: I see you got fat. Chazz: I see you still look like a fifteen year old girl, but not hot.

·         Chazz: If we went to a Halloween party dressed as Batman and Robin, I'd go as Robin. That's how much you mean to me...

So while I was all hopped up on antibiotics and other meds and delirious from my fever all I remember was that I needed up doing a scene from the movie in which Will Farrell’s character is lying on the floor singing “I don't want to close my eyes, don't want to fall asleep cause I miss you Jimmy, and I don't wanna miss a thing” on the phone to Herder’s character Jimmy. And that’s where my siblings found me and took me to bed…

So here is the public announcement part of my blog (See, I can be serious when I want to be) please, please people, please go for your Measles inoculation! The risk of serious damage to your health is greater when you get measles after the age of 17.  So suffer the pain of one shot and escape the pain and delusions of isolation while in quarantine….

Did Marilyn Monroe have the right idea?

After reading other blogs written by classmates of mine from high school and I realized that I really don’t plan to write in-depth discussions about current affairs, but on the other hand I’m really not going to the one spewing off supposedly intelligent content, because I honestly hate pretentious crap like that.  

So, anyway, in a previous blog I said that from my experience guys aren’t interested in girls who talk about Politics and I found that quite strange since as South Africans we love debating about politics and the current political state of our country. That got me thinking about that weird moment when you see girls suddenly pretend to dumb around guys. A bright young woman somehow turns into a giggling, hair twirling, drink swirling bimbo in a blink of an eye. Now I’m not saying all girls do this, but even I’ve felt that strange urge to dumb down what I’m saying while talking to a guy. Most intelligent girls know how to suppress this urge, but so many still end up forgetting that they have a mind of their own.

The debate about whether men are intimidated by clever women is a debate that has been going around for ages. Many men confess that they like clever, yet so many still end up going for the Marilyn Monroe look-alikes. But the thing is Marilyn Monroe wasn’t dumb or dim-witted; she was actually quite smart and witty woman, who came off as someone who was completely confident with herself.

In the era in which women now have rights and opportunities to be educated- why do we have to hide the fact that we can think for ourselves? I’m not going to compromise my intelligence just to get a guy. There are enough men out there who are comfortable enough with themselves that they aren’t intimated by a strong, smart, independent woman. This may be a fantasy, but it’s nice to have hope…for now my self-worth isn’t dependent on finding a man.

Marilyn Monroe says it the best:

"Being a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing."

Collage Advice from An Expert

So I've talked about John Green before and this video simply proves why I love him so much. This video also kind of calmed me when was about to start my first year at university...I suggest that any who is nervious about university or collage should watch this... <3

Hears a link to the Video too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soDSzco-D08

Youtube and all its glory…

“Dude! Dude! I have to show you this hilarious video I just saw on Youtube! It’s the funniest thing I have ever seen! You have to see it!”

Sounds familiar?

Yeah, I bet it does…In my first blog I mentioned John Green, one of my favourite vloggers and I realized that I had to introduce you to the wonders of the Youtube. Those who know me well know that I have a bit of a Youtube obsession. Unfortunately many people also see Youtube as the website where you go if you want to see a video of a cat laughing or a video of stupid people falling on their faces, etc, but the Youtube community is so much larger than that. Did you know that Youtube was started by three guys who just wanted to share videos and now it has become one of the three most viewed websites/ internet programs (the others being Google and Facebook). The community has grown to extreme lengths and it’s truly amazing what the power of the internet can do once people begin to use it properly.

I first got introduced to Youtube the same way most people get introduced to Youtube. I was simply searching the internet for music videos to watch or trailers of up-coming movies, but one day my friend sent me a link to a certain video and from then on I was hooked…

That link sent me to a video by a certain British Youtuber going by the screen name Charlieissocoollike in which he sang a duet…with himself! Being totally enthralled by this young Brit barely a year older than me I had to find out more. The rest of his videos were just as funny and just damn entertaining. Pretty soon I started noticing that Charlie McDonnell had a friend hanging around in some of his videos…which lead me to the brilliance of Alex Day or Nerimon as the Youtube community knows him. Where Charlie is cheery and shiny, Alex is amazingly witty, crass, enthusiastic and brilliantly rough-around-the-edges.  

Alex and Charlie (whose friendship bares an odd resemblance to my friendship with a certain friend called Lisa Holtzhausen =D) started getting me into other other great Youtubers, such as Eddplant, Johnny Durham, RayWilliamJohnson, Sam Tsui, Kurt Schiender and Ryan Higa to name a few, but then I discovered the kings of the Youtube community: The vlogbrothers!

In 2005 John and Hank Green, two brothers, were tired of only communicating with each through things like emails, texts and the occasional phone calls so they started a vlogging project in which they would post vlogs on Youtube for the other one on alternating days. At first their vlogs were only meant for each other, but these vlogs were so insightful and entertaining that they soon gathered a large fan base- now called nerdfighteria, since fans call themselves Nerdfighters, because the brothers both claim to be nerds… Their videos are clever, funny, entertaining and sometimes even educational.   

So what I guess I was ranting on about is the next time someone sends you a link go check it out. Sure you might end up watching lame home prank or something, but you never know what you might discover if you don’t try…

Check out the history of Youtube:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_YouTube_personalities

Vlogbrothers: http://www.youtube.com/user/vlogbrothers?blend=1&ob=5#p/u/0/FyQi79aYfxU

Charlieissocoolike: http://www.youtube.com/user/charlieissocoollike?blend=1&ob=5#p/u/0/pVo-S9ns2_A
Nerimon: http://www.youtube.com/user/nerimon?blend=1&ob=5#p/u/12/HgW-xTosBTI

Global interactions

I assume that most people who have access to the internet or some kind of media medium knows by now that Osama Bin Laden is dead. I woke up yesterday and when I went onto Facebook I was bombarded by dozens of statuses informing me about the Al-queda leader’s death. So I downloaded my weekly HYPE podcast and listened along as Ben Schoen and Andrew Sims discussed Bin Laden’s death and the implications of it. The podcast ended with the statement Barack Obama made confirming Osama’s death.

Sure, this is big news for the American public and for the global community, since 9/11 affected a large ammount of people, but it got me thinking about what my response to all of this is should be. People claim that it is not morally correct to celebrate the death of a human being, but to be honest it is hard not to in this case. Bin Laden celebrated after 9/11 and there is evidence that states that he was happy about what happened during the attacks. I can’t argue what is right and what is wrong or whether it is morally correct to celebrate Bin Laden’s death, but all I know is that if I had lost someone in during the 9/11 attacks or in the Iraq War, I would be feeling some sense of closure or happiness right now.

We just have to remember that just because Osama Bin Laden is dead does not mean that the War is over. We must not forget about the people who died during 9/11 or about the innocent people from both sides who had died during this War. We should be thankful that we are alive and able to live our lives.

I don’t really want to talk too much about politics, since that would be a case of the blind leading the blind…(PS I have learnt from experience that impressing guys with your knowledge of Politics is a FAIL!) This blog isn’t going to be about too serious things; just the world as I see it…

One of the main points that I actually wanted to make with this blog post was the fact that the news of Bin Laden’s death spread so quickly and, as a Media studies and Journalism student, I find the power of today’s modern media so powerful. In less than 10 minutes a young women from South Africa can know a lot about an event that happened in a place halfway across the globe. It’s amazing how our lives have become so intertwined with technology and social media…If you disagree…Then consider what you are doing when you are reading this blog right now?

(PS I suggest you all do yourselves a favour and go check out Barrack Obama’s speech. Pure American patriotism at its best. I’m South African and I almost shed a tear. ( Is it  message of hope or a political power move?))

(PSS The Podcast I referred to is called HYPE podcast. I suggest you check it out too. (I listen to it during the long bas trips home from ‘varsity- Great stuff. http://www.hypepodcast.com/about-us/)

It was here...

The Royal Wedding frenzy and the way in which it got the whole world excited (well most of the world) made me think about how it felt when South Africa hosted the World Cup last year. I truly miss that feeling of unity my country shared. I guess that’s why I’m not rolling my eyes at the Brits ‘cause I know how it feels to be part of something which the whole nation can be excited about.

Since the announcement went out that South Africa was going to be hosting the 2010 Soccer World Cup my grade in high school called ourselves the 2010 Matrics. It was like 2010 hadn’t truly started until kick-off of the first game on the 11th of June. The build up to the opening was the most rousing part. My whole school even got time off so that someone could teach us how to do the diski, which was labelled the official dance of the World Cup.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaX7_GwhrtQ

Before the opening game my sister and I walked around our neighbourhood blowing our vuvuzelas and waving our South African flags wildly. The whole family and a group of our friends gathered around the TV and waited what felt like an hour (probably was an hour) for the celebrations to be our so that the game and thus the tournament could officially start. I remember jumping up and down as South Africa scored the first goal of the tournament and laughing as our team danced on the side-lines to celebrate.

During the following days I ended almost every day by settling down in front of the TV with a blanket and a cup of tea watching the games with my various family members and groups of friends. For one whole month we all forgot about the problems that our country faced and we all teamed together to support our team Bafana Banfana! Sure, we didn’t have high hopes for the team in the beginning, but for that whole month it felt like we were unified by one event.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I don’t blame to the British nation for making such a fuss about the Royal Wedding. In today’s world, and I’ve mentioned this before, there is so much negativity, that each nations needs something to lift the nation’s spirits. Things like that, national events, brings a nation together. I know it’s idealistic to think like this, but one event can solve all the country’s problems, but that’s not what I’m saying. Events like World Cup or the Royal Wedding make us forget about the problems and give us hope that for one moment things can be prefect….