Sings for the moment

[Verse #1]
These ideas are nightmares for white parents
Whose worst fear is a child with dyed hair and who likes earrings
Like whatever they say has no bearing
Its so scary in a house that allows no swearing
To see him walking around with his headphones blaring
Alone in his own zone, cold and he dont care
He's a problem child, what bothers him all comes out
When he talks about his f**kin' dad walkin out
Cos he hates him so bad that he blocks him out
But if he ever saw him again, he'd prolly knock him out
His thoughts are whacked, he's mad so he's talkin' back
Talkin black, brainwashed from rock and rap
He sags his pants, 2 rags and a stocking cap
His step-father hit him so he socked him back
And broke his nose, this house is a broken home
There's no control, he just lets his emotions go
Come on...

[Chorus:]
Sing now, sing for the year
Sing for the moment, sing for the tears
Sing with me, just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away

[Verse #2]
Entertainment is danger, intertwine it with gangsters
In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum
Only you're unholy, only have one homey
Only this gun, lonely, 'cause don't anyone know me
But everybody just feels like they can relate
I guess words are a motherf**ker, they can be great
Or they can be great, or even worse, they can teach hate
Its like kids hang on every single statement we make
Like they worship us, plus all the stores ship us platinum
Now how the f**k did this metamorphasis happen?
From standin' on corners and porches just rappin'
To havin' a fortune, no more kissin' ass
But then these critics crucify you, journalists try to burn you
Fans turn on you, attorney's all gonna turn it to
To get their hands on every dime you have
They want you to lose your mind every time you mad
So they can try to make you out to look like a loose canon
You need to spew, dont hesitate to produce air-guns
Thats why these prosecutors wanna convict me
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Swiftly just to get me offa these streets quickly
But all their kids been listen'n to me religiously
So i'm signing cds while police fingerprint me
They're for the judges daughter, but his grudge is against me
If i'm such a f**kin' menace, this shit doesnt make sense, Pete
It's all political, if my music is literal and i'm a criminal,
How the f**k can i raise a little girl?
I couldn't. i wouldn't be fit to
You're full of shit too, Guerrera, that was a fist that hit you!

[Chorus]

[Verse #3]
They say music can alter moods and talk to you
But can it load a gun for you and cock it too?
Well if it can, then the next time you assault a dude
Just tell the judge it was my fault, and i'll get sued
See what these kids do, is hear about us toting pistols
And they want to get one, cos they think the shit's cool
Not knowin' we're really just protectin' ourselves
We're entertainers, of course this shit's affecting our sales
You ignoramus. but music is reflection of self
We just explain it, and then we get our cheques in the mail
It's f**ked up ain't it, how we can come from practically nothin'
To bein' able to have any f**kin' thing that we wanted
It's why we sing for these kids that don't have a thing
Except for a dream and a f**king rap magazine
Who post pinup pictures on their walls all day long
Idolise their favourite rappers and know all they songs
Or for anyone who's ever been through shit in they lives
So they sit and they cry at night, wishing they die
Till they throw on a rap record, and they sit and they vibe
We're nothing to you, but we're the f**kin' shit in their eyes
That's why we sieze the moment, and try to freeze it and own it
Squeeze it and hold it, 'cos we consider these minutes golden
And maybe they'll admit it when we're gone
Just let our spirits live on, through out lyrics that you hear in our songs
And we can

[Chorus]

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[Instrumental]

Very Badly Chosen Logos

Birds of a feather flock together - and crap on your car.

A penny saved is a government oversight.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat have gotten to be really good friends.

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

He who hesitates is probably right.

Did you ever notice: The Roman Numerals for forty (40) are “XL."

If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. For example I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.

Another Year Gone

Today is my birthday and i feel some what happy and some what down. Yet at the end of the day as down as i feel i look at the past year of my life as a learning year as i do every year. I was thinking of how much of a dull and boring day i would have today cause usually i am one of those people who tend to make a big thing about everyone elses birthday and never get the same in return but this year id say is pretty much different.

receiving calls, messages, emails etc from people i havent spoken to in months is what made my day so far a good one. this morning before leaving for work i went down on my knees and thanked god from bringing me thus far and asked him for guidance and protection as i continue to live my life and i think because i did that i look at today as unforgettable. the people i least expected to care showed that they actually do care.

To Myself i would like to give these few words:

A BIRTHDAY OPENS THE PATH TO ANOTHER YEAR!

Walk in the direction of the blue sky, not the grey, Choose the bright road where Sunshine brightens your way. Wishing you a wonderful Birthday, that takes you further along the paths of all your hearts desires and dreams

Well to everyone who has made my day so far a good and enjoyable one (even though it is raining over here) Thank you for being part of this day, thank you for being part of my life and thank you for being you and that is something special.

Arsenal

The Gunners of England

Last night this team displayed the outright meaning of team work. Everyone played a strong game and at the end of the night with the strength, determination to win, strategy and agility they won 3-0 against a good team from Spain, Sevilla.

Lots of rife was going on as to whether or not the team could excel after selling top player Theirry Henry to Barcelona. I think last night they proved that they are still a strong team with out him. Displaying that a team isnt made up of one person but of 11 other players that are perfectly capable of playing just as good as the other.

CONGRATS GUYS!!! I know its just the start of the season but a good start means good play for the rest of the season. I definately look forward to watching the next championship league match as well as premiership league match as they have been playing well on both leagues~~~~

Speech by Anna Quindlen

In light of the up coming women's day celebration that we will be having down here in South Africa on Thursday - 09 August 2007. I thought that this piece would share some up liftment in womens lives out there today!!!

This was a speech made by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen, at the 1999

Graduation Ceremony at Villanova University, Pennsylvania, at which she was
awarded an Honorary Doctorate.

I'm a novelist. My work is human nature. Real life is all I know. Don't ever
confuse the two, your life and your work. You will walk out of here this
afternoon with only one thing that no one else has. There will be hundreds
of people out there with your same degree : there will be thousands of
people doing what you want to do for a living.

But you will be the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
Your particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk, or
your life on a bus, or in a car, or at the computer. Not just the life of
your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account but your
soul. People don't talk about the soul very much anymore. It's so much
easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. But a resume is a cold
comfort on a winter night, or when you're sad, or broke, or lonely, or when
you've gotten back the test results and they're not so good.

Here is my resume : I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never
to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer
consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to
laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows
mean what they say.


I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would
be nothing to say to you today, because I would be a cardboard cutout. But I
call them on the phone, and I meet them for lunch. I would be rotten, or at
best mediocre at my job, if those other things were not true. You cannot be
really first rate at your work if your work is all you are.

So here's what I wanted to tell you today:

Get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the
bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much
about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in
your breast? Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing
itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in which you stop and watch
how a red tailed hawk circles over the water or the way a baby scowls with
concentration when she tries to pick up a sweet with her thumb and first
finger. Get a life in which you are not alone.

Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not
leisure, it is work. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter.

Get a life in which you are generous. And realize that life is the best
thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so
deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money you
would have spent on beers and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be
a big brother or sister.

All of you want to do well. But if you do not do good too, then doing well
will never be enough. It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours,
our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the color of our kids' eyes,
the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises
again. It is so easy to exist instead of to live. I learned to live many
years ago. I learned to love the journey, not the destination.

I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only
guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and try to
give some of it back because I believed in it, completely and utterly. And I
tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned. By telling
them this:

Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in
the back yard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of
life as a terminal illness, because if you do, you will live it with joy and
passion as it ought to be lived.

In Loving Memory

The 30th June 2007 marks the 11th anniversary of the passing of my brother

On Sunday night I sat at home and just got this overwhelming feeling come over me. I always wondered what this empty feeling i feel inside was all about. Thought maybe i have it cause i am single but realised it is not that cause even when i was with someone i still felt the emptiness. Then it came to me, even though my brother has been dead for 11years it was his absence that made me feel empty inside. That was shocking for me to discover but definately made sense after sitting there and thinking about it.

The death of a loved one or even someone close to you is never really easy and i think what makes it hard for us is the way we deal with it. Some people deal with the loss of a loved one by death and some people deal with it within time and then you have some people who just blocks it out and others who deals with it right there and then as it happens. Either way it is never really easy. I had someone ask me "Why do you still find the loss of your brother so hard after 11yrs?" and i told that person that i live my life the way my brother did and there are still many things that reminds me of him and its not just a feeling that i would just like to forget.

The day he died is still as clear as night but now i am starting to smile when i think of it. I think my time for mourning my brother has come to its end and i think my time for celebrating his life has started. I think of the one most important thing at this point and that is, i may have lost my brother on earth but heaven has gained another angel!!!!!! Even though he no longer is here, his memory still lives on and he will always be loved and 10years from now i will look back and say my brother is up there looking down on me and is here with me in spirit.

I will always love you

Dedicated to Clinton

Sep 1977-June 1996

Chatting

What is the difference?????

I find that on a daily basis people are complaining about online chatting and chat programs for your mobile phone or pc. Most of the time it stems from young kids ending up with sending naked pictures of themselves or married people ending their marriages cause they met someone online and prefers that person and the way they do things. Last week i received an email title "Mxit again" for some of you who knows this mxit is a chat software for your mobile phone. Well in the email was two pics of a 15year old girl posing in it which she had sent to a contact of hers.

I remember the person who forwarded the email saying how can we stop mxit from being used. Now my view is, is it mxits fault or is it the two teenagers in question thats at fault? i mean yes they are chatting via mxit and its their private conversation so clearly the pic exchange is private to, so now they choose to send each other these pics so i would say that is a personal and private choice right? so why bash and blame mxit? what is the difference between Mxit, Migg33, Bluepulse (these are all chat softwares for mobile phones)? Then also what is the difference if you go online into a chat room and invite someone to a private chat and they want a pic or two of you.

What is the difference? who is at fault? the chat programs and chat rooms or is it the way people use it? from personal experience, i have met so many people online its not funny really but you know what is amazing, every one is special in their own ways. How and what you do with the friendship or relationship is really up to you and that other person. If you chose to be more intimate with some and not with others , its your life and your choice. But always keep in mind that you have to be careful in whatever it is you do. i dont think the chat programs and chatrooms are to blame for what young teenagers and even married people are doing, i think its a personal issue and its personal choice. Its the people who do these things not the programs and that is one thing i think people need to realise...............

Friendship

There comes a time in ones life where you sit down and think how incredibly lucky you are to have amazing friends in your life. The question is do we take the time to thank them for always being there for you when you need them the most? Also are you as good enough a friend to them as well when they need you the most? Most of all how do you know that you have a good friend or a good bunch of friends? well the answer to that one is pretty easy, your bestfriend or friends define who you are. Most of the time only time will tell who your friends are and who isnt....

Last week i realised that little did i know i had a bestfriend who genuinely has the touch of a very good friend of mine. It boggled me at first cause of the way i found out but when i think about it i realise that its actually amazing. The person who i least expected to be a good friend ended up being just that.Let see i was depressed last week about something and whenever i am like that amazingly this person always calls me or sends me a message to find out how im doing. That is what shocked me cause the person never speaks to me at all but always pops up the second something is wrong with me. My friend says its a feeling that cant be explained but just knows that contact must be made and when its made the reason is revealed.

I now know what bonds i hold with all friends and i now know who are the close ones and who are not so much the close ones but at the end of the day they are my friends and im happy that i get to share my daily happenings and life with so many amazing people and i feel honoured that they feel the same way i do and think the same way i do. i think one should take the time once in a while to sit down and think of how valuable ones friends are and take the time to show them and tell them!!!!

Thanks: Fairy, Lollipop, Sassie, Daya, Nemo, Papi, $Force, T.I.Pain

My Love For You

I want us to be happy

Have you ever woken up and looked out your window up into the sky and seen the face of the one you love?Have you ever listened to a song on the radio and it reminded you of the one you love?

People always tend to ask the question, how do you know you love someone? and many try to answer it to the best of their ability. But the truth is all the different sayings and feelings about love is true and is real. A few months ago i met the sweetest guy in my eyes and so many he is the sweetest guy i know. Never did i realise that i would end up falling for him and strangely enough i did. Its funny how you can know and feel another person and it doesnt matter where that person is.

You know to me when you love someone, you dont matter anymore. That persons needs comes before yours. So when you think of it you love someone and they matter more to you then you do to yourself. With them they love you and you matter more to them then they do to themselves, that is what is called or that is what a women and man calls as "You complete me". Right now i feel complete and its a beautiful feeling, its a feeling that i want to feel forever.

To the man i love (and you know who you are) all i can say to you is My Love For You is like a desert rose!!!!!!!

Burn

A Loss

A friend of mine experienced something yesterday that i think no one would like to experience in life and that would be the loss of property to flames. He is a very strong person through this yet when you know him as well as i do the loss is killing him. Just as he gets his life back on track again after so many years of trying to sort himself out it all gets taken away by someone elses vengences to get even. Whats not right is that, that person seeked vengance from someone else and not from him yet at the end of the day he is left with nothing as his house burned to the ground leaving him with only the clothes on his back and the car he drives.

what is sad for me is that just knowing how hard this person worked to sort his life out its still shocking to know that everything he has worked for and hard for that matter is now all gone. yes i know materialistic things arent important but the hard work, sweat and tears put into that is what matters. so this is really a downer. i cant even begin to imagine how families who loses to fires lives must after that. this is one guy what about a family of four or even six.

i hope that there are people out there that can help others get back what they once had. Cause a loss to anything could drive someone to do anything they are not expected to do if they do not have the necessary or required support to help them through a tough time like this. One thing people should always keep in mind is that god has a plan for everyone and if losing something or someone is in his plan you will go through every emotion cause he will make sure of that. All one has to do when you are going through this is trust, believe and have faith that all will be well and go as it must........

The end

A dying friendship

About 8months ago i met this brilliant young man, initially when we met i had thought he was older then me cause when you sat and spoke to him you would think his at a good age. Well he was actually a year younger then me but that never phased us cause the friendship was good.

This guy ended up taking on a role of bestfriend and brother and me i actually took on the role of bestfriend and sister. Whenever he needed someone to talk to i was the one he ran to and when i needed someone to talk to i would always go to him. you always find someone in your path of life that you can really relate to and enjoy ever moment you spend with that person. Also you end up being so happy in that friendship, arguing and disagreements doesnt even cross your mind. But what happens when suddenly you get a message saying the friendship ends?

I for one felt crap but the reason that was given is understandable. what i think is really good is that still at the end of the day you not mad at that person but you actually grant them well wishes for the future. I just hope that him moving to another country is going to help him grow even more then he has and that when he is the person he wants to be again he will call me and say the normal "Hey sis hows it going?"

The loss of a person is never easy and how we deal with it isnt easy either but what doesnt kill you makes you stronger!!!!

Case of the EX!!

It all falls down

Recently i went through a break up which i thought was in my best interest to just cut my loses and call it a day and carry on with life and try to learn from my experience. As it was a long distance relationship and let me emphasize very long distance relationship.

As the person thats doing the breaking up you sit and try to think of ways to salvage what little is left from the relationship, just so that you dont end up breaking the other persons heart. Like me for example i was the one to end it cause i felt like more of a need then a girlfriend and some how someway he managed to turn things around and call me selfish for ending it and not giving us a chance. little did he know that all the warnings that was sent his way was me giving him chance after chance and clearly he didnt take note of that.

But what happens when that persons feelings turns into anger or rage? well they act on it and there are always serious implications. One thing i have learned is that no matter what people say break up is hard for the person doing the break up and the person being broken up with. At the end of the day they become your ex for a reason. I am a firm believer of people deserve second chances in life yes but when it comes to relationships in a romantic way there is just no going back, it is extremely hard to give that person a second chance, why?

Cause they will always hold you to your wrongs and thats why with a break up it should all fall down and end!!!!!

Win or Lose

Doesnt Matter What Its Still A Good Thing...........

I was sitting last night and chatting to a few friends whilst we were waiting for a soccer/football match to start. One of them looked at me and asked "So what if your team loses tonight and yall get kicked out, how you going to feel about it". I looked at him and smiled saying "It happens to everyone". He inturn replied saying "you have no enthuasiasm or convidence in your team them". I asked him what his point was and he couldnt answer me.

Eventually when the game was finished, it ended with a draw but my team was still kicked out simply because when we played the team two weeks ago they won us 1-0 so on aggregate they won us 2-1 to go through to the quaterfinals. he looked at me and asked me why i was smiling when my team who was in the finals last year was just kicked out before reaching the quarter finals what was wrong with me.

I turned to him saying, They may have lost and have been kicked out of one of the biggest tournaments in the world but they have gained something and that is knowledge and experience. They can now go back to the drawing boards and discuss what they did wrong, where it went wrong and how they are going to improve on it next season. He looked at me extremely shocked and said to me that for the first time i made sense.

At the end of the day no matter what the end result whether it be sport, work, life or love, you always have two options, two ways about things. Win or Lose you always gain something from it and one things for sure and i know in sport they have a brillaint saying that goes "Win or Lose, We Are Still A Team" and at the end of the day, that is all that matters still being a team at the end of it.

Enough of the rant im out!!!!!!!!

A Saying

The Calm Before The Storm

I always wondered what people meant by that saying the calm before the storm. Cause quite frankly who knows when the storm is going to start or end in the first place so how can they use this saying or term and amazingly it would make sense at the time of it being said.

Well as dippy as i am and can be i think i have come up with what i think is explanation for the saying. For example for the past few weeks i was contemplating ending a long term and very long distance relationship and i thought that was the calm cause i wasnt sure whether i should do it or not. So when i eventually made my mind up and did it, when he realised that it was over he blew up. So actually my contemplation of the break up was the calm before and the storm was his reaction to the break up. Am i right?

Anyways i thought that storm would never end but it has recently started calming down again and things are actually better now then it was last week and the week before. So right now my point is i finally know what the calm before the storm is and it was definately worth it cause i now think its great being single.......

Enough of my rant now, think its time to get back to work (which i never do anyways, lol)

Break Up

Have you ever just gone through a time in your life where you faced with the task of having to break up with someone? You end up wondering is it the right thing to do or is it the wrong thing to do. Yet you firmly believe that a break up is essential and you feel its the only thing to do.

Right so you end up doing it, whats the feeling you get once youve done it? maybe you feel shocked cause you cant believe you actually went through with it or do you feel relieved that its all over? So then a few weeks down the line you realise "ok well i think i made a mistake", what is it you do?

Point of the matter is, you always sit down and think what would be best or what the right thing to do as far as relationship, life and even work is concerned but is that really the right thing to do or are you just tryna convince yourself that its the right thing to do? You face different challenges everyday that has you thinking is this right or is this wrong. i think that a person shouldnt just says is this right or is this wrong.i say ride the wave and see whats at the end of it, maybe its a good ride maybe its not but you wont know until you actually try it!!!!!

2007

Its a brand new year

Like everyone else with a new year comes new ways, new thoughts and just new things. Yet so many things has been left undone from the last year. So what does one do? either you finish unfinished business or you just forget it and start new things. But will the new things however work and fall into place with the unfinished business? i doubt it!!

Well like everyone else i to have unfinished business and decided that this year will bring tons and tons of new developments and thoughts. Maybe move companies, maybe meet new people and the one most ladies constantly promise they will do maybe lose some weight (i think thats the hardest thing to do btw).

Just a thought, dont look at tomorrow as a struggle but look at tomorrow as a new lease on life, If finishing unfinished business is what is on your mind then maybe its there for a reason, to finish it. Who knows a great reward may come from that or a learning curve could come from it. Dont dodge what life has to throw at you but take the hit and work your way through it.

Anyhoooosss enough of my rant and rave, have an enjoyable 2007!!!!!