Category: life etc.
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Farewell, Oscar de la Renta
Last week Tuesday morning I woke up to the very sad news of the passing of one of the greatest designers who ever lived; Oscar de la Renta. He died from complications of cancer. Mr de la Renta battled cancer for eight years. May his soul rest in perfect peace. The words that have been used…
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Two Men On Board A Train…
The world hasn’t gone to shit yet, all hope is not lost. We are going to be okay. How do I know? Because we are human beings, we feel, we behave, we misbehave, we grow, we learn. We change. Yesterday I was on the train from work home, everyone in that carriage must have had…
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Vogue Being An Ass…per.
So…US Vogue, has declared having a butt, a thing. I mean, it MUST be right? Now that the “bible” has declared it. Right? “The world is thoroughly ready for the jelly” the parting line reads from the article, and much of it suggests that until the moment it was published butts were this foreign phenomenon…
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FERGUSON
Last week whilst watching the news about the on goings in Ferguson Missouri, someone asked me why I cared about any of it. Her reasons; I don’t live in America, I am not American, so why should I care about what is going on there. How she walked away unscathed I don’t know, but my…
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The World Is A Mess
It’s not often that I agree with Donald Trump, actually I never do, but he tweeted something poignant the other day that summed up our feelings on the global situation right now. “We are now at a time perhaps more than ever when the world needs GREAT leadership” Truer words have never been tweeted. In…
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Lupita In Vogue
Bloody hell, I’ll probably have to buy this copy of Vogue, maybe several copies of this Vogue because ya know, one Lupita Nyong’o is on the cover. We saw this coming duh! I would’ve preferred the September Issue, but I doubt it would have made a difference anyhow because of that other cover. Let’s speak frankly, when…
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Free Gift With Purchase
I used to be a regular subscriber to various magazines until sometime last year when I cleared the decks and went on a cancellation spree because I noticed that I hardly ever read what dropped through my door flap. The content was often too generic and borderline boring, rehashing of old stories, uninspiring trend forecast,…
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Ms Lewinsky
After over a decade of silence, in an essay titled “Shame and Survival” in the June 2014 issue of Vanity Fair, Monica Lewinsky is finally speaking out about the nightmare that became her life in the wake of a trial that put her sex life on blast. Where were you in 1998 when the most powerful man in…
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Bring Back Our Girls
Last week, at midnight, Islamist extremist invaded a boarding school in Chibok, Bornu State, the north-eastern region of Nigeria and kidnapped more than 200 girls and young women. Some of them were recalled to sit their exams after schools had been closed for weeks due to security threats in this area. The terrorist group Boko Haram, whose name translates…