October 2009
15 posts
“I never leave the house unless I look like Cindy Crawford the supermodel. If...”
Special request #1
Please… do me a favour, and stop teasing me. Please refrain from winking at me with that cheeky grin on your face. You know it paralyses me, and I don’t like feeling defenseless.
“I’m a mirror…If you’re cool with me, I’m cool with you, and the exchange starts....”
– Jay-Z
Dialogue #1: Bathroom Baiting
KB walks into the bathroom. Chooses a cubicle with an actual toilet bowl as opposed to the open-plan urinals. KB: (walks out of cubicle, washes hands) Guy at urinal: Hello sweetheart <insert bedroom eyes and flirtatious voice here>. KB: Hi there. How’re you doing? Guy: I’m good, thanks. KB: (walks out, pauses momentarily at the door, walks back in) Listen… can I...
The 10 Things Students (I) do for Pizza during...
We (I) wake up 15 minutes before the delivery order cut-off time.
We (I) make the call without first checking how much airtime we have available.
Our (my) airtime runs out before actually getting our order across due to the receiver of the call essentially talking too much (i.e. wasting airtime).
We (I) frantically run to the convenience store to purchase some more airtime and an energy drink...
“Who really wants to be loved unconditionally? I’d like to think we would...”
– Siya Biniza
“I’ve nourished myself enough times and I’ve touched myself enough...”
– from the poem Intimacy by Langston Baldwin
So I may keep saying that I don’t need a man, that I’m okay with being single . Truth is, I’m not. Not by a long shot. (Somewhere I hear Madea saying, “What you gon’ do with a man if you ain’t know how to be by yourself?”) I hate sleeping alone in rainy weather. I hate not having the option of sleeping somewhere outside this wretched college. I hate not...
I like how I’ve grown to feel comfortable in my own skin. Back then, I couldn’t even go to the corner store without making sure my hair’s perfect and that my lips are nice and moist. Nowadays I don’t mind rocking up there looking like I’ve just eaten a brick and washed my tresses (can black people refer to their hair as such?) with steel wool. Oedipic? Not quite.
“Mama, ke a itse gore o rata lerapo la hao, mara please, toe?”
– something Chappies thought of saying while watching her mother showing a piece of chicken who’s boss
“There is a word for women like her, and it’s rarely used outside of a...”
– character played by Annette Bening in The Women 