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Credit cards are a menace. I bought these two because I finally succumbed to the bank and took its credit card. Starbucks is a rogue. They display all kinds of trinkets you can touch while waiting to place your order. Chaaayi ! I understand Starbucks’ new management is trying to spice things up (not with eggnog). Apparently, one of the strategies is to bring back the sharpie. What is a sharpie? It means you don’t buy coffee but, feel free to do your own research. Good luck to Starbucks for trying to revive the brand but I have bad unsolicited news. We are the problem, both real and pseudo customers. Our life is a mess. That is why we use Starbucks as a living room, a patio or the basement where we hide, when “your kids” are tearing down the place. We are the problem because we have offices in the office block down the road, but we prefer to interview potential managers and sales assistants inside Starbucks. When you come to think of it, we are anti-human. Period. We prefer to be alone

Who will inherit your bass? INTRODUCTION Yes indeed. Your will should include passwords to your devices. When last did you update your will? First things first. There must be a will, to be updated. Here are some of the excuses for not having a will. “I don’t have a will. I don’t have anything to leave for anybody.” “I don’t have a will. I’m too young for die.” “I don’t have a will. The divorce settlement will take care of it.” You have a phone. Therefore, you must have a will because phones and laptops are included in wills. I was looking for some documents yesterday when I found my will. It’s not long, just two blocks, not 20.  Do I look like Mark Zuckerberg the Facebook (Mehta) chief, to you? So, I re-read it and I saw this, about the trustee, the person who will take care of things the ‘deceased’ left behind. I guess that would be me. I’ll have a new name, the deceased. 1.  To access, modify, delete, control and transfer my digital assets, and 2.  To obtain, access, modify, delete

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. America will wait for his death bed confession. How did voters who broke their previous early voting record, vote for Trump? What did Raffensperger do for Donald Trump in 2024, he refused to do in 2020? Democracy Deferred December 7, 1941: Japan attacks U.S. fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii January 6, 2021: Donald Trump commandeers the attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop Joe Biden's certification as the winner of the 2020 election October 28, 2024: "I have a secret," Donald Trump tells the Madison Square Garden rally November 5, 2024: Donald Trump wins the presidential election Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

Nahanni Fontaine, Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in Manitoba, waving. Happy to see the photographer. Are we? The eyes of a human being are the only constant part of the face. Hair is not a measure of beauty because we re-engineer it, with brown dye or shave it completely. Poor girls in Africa spend over $20 000 (in local currency) buying what they think is blonde hair. No. I don’t look at the hair. I look in someone’s eyes for answers. Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

Donald Trump promised America he will weed undesirable elements when he returns. The Constitution, is the first thing on the chopping block. He will be aided and abetted by the U.S. Supreme Court.  Photo : pocket book constitution from another country. ZULU LESSON: Weeds What is your favorite summer color? Green. Weeds also love green. That is why they are most buoyant during the summer. They are uninvited guests. They are called ukhula in Zulu. It comes from the verb - khula  which means to grow. Weeds take the whole field but they don’t have a plural in Zulu. They are called one thing u-khu-la , singular. You say the first part like uber , the second like cool and the third part like last. What was interesting about British education in Africa, was being taught about your country through English eyes. The school system taught us that weeds are foreign invasive plants. As Africans, we did not understand the foreign part. Who brought them and how did they travel? We knew about weeds u

WHERE? : A classroom in the land once called, the U.S.A. "Excuse me Sir." "Yes Pyramid." "The Constitution Sir. I don't understand it." "It's very easy Pyramid. Look at this photo." These ladies wanted to go somewhere but most roads were closed because of a march. The police officer explained what was going on and gave them alternative routes.  Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

  I suppress the urge to cook pasta because of the cleaning up. Pots and dishes everywhere. Chicken or turkey is no problem because I rub it with olive oil-based salad dressing, cover it with foil and push it in the oven. Pasta looks dry but no problem, the apples in the carrot salad will provide the juice and sweetness. Bon appetit , as they say in Quebec and France. I'm not French. I'm "wish she could" to quote Keon Coleman, wide receiver for Buffalo Bills. Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

  November 15 accident. Why the same spot, as the previous blog below? Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

  When you outgrow your friends. "She thinks she's better than us." I don’t eat banana with the skin on . It’s a death sentence for women when men refuse to use protection at night. Women allow it out of love or having no choice, because they are married. Some men step out a lot but still refuse to protect wives from diseases they collect in the wilderness. Mothers become infected, die and leave orphans behind. Nature wraps fruit in skins to preserve the goodness inside. Animals know the secret. That’s why they don’t peel fruit, just unleash the chomp chomp chomp! It’s not necessary, unless it’s pineapple or kiwi. I don’t have time, otherwise I’ll do research and see if the Guinness Book of Records has any person who has eaten pineapple without peeling it. I love oranges but I think twice about eating them. Messy comes to mind, from cutting them to taking the first bite. I also avoid wearing white tops because orange stains are stubborn. What is funny though is that I don

Phone companies advertise the TV, cellphone, house phone and internet service combo in full throttle just before Christmas. That is why almost everybody in a home can have a phone. An untold fact is that it has made life very difficult for women, because they keep the home fires burning. Full time dads are very few and if they exist, they write books about the experience. Women of the world shrug their shoulders when they watch these authors on television. Because of the cellphone, family members don’t listen to women. They get irritated and mouth painful phrases like: What mom?   Some mothers are downright scared of their teens. Women cook and eat alone around a table of four or more. Kids no longer do simple chores like washing up after the mother has cooked. They do not make their own beds and clean bathrooms. Forget laundry. They don’t have time to toss their clothes in the washing machine, so mothers pick up the slack. In a nutshell, because of the cellphone, mothers cannot reach

School assignments? Copy stuff from the internet or talk to your librarian. Your choice. Librarians know sources, not just books. Some community librarians are volunteers and have a wealth of life experience, which is what you are studying. Assignments prepare students for the real world. Which is? Finding information you need for survival, not serving someone. I will feed you wrong information if I want to keep you under my thumb. That might lead to prison. There are three races whose kids are seldom in prison, because they are nurtured in: remember, don't repeat and, prepare to rule not to clean. It's all about information. What is artificial intelligence? Stolen thoughts, photos, videos, recipes, blogs, jokes, music, how you speak, all fed into a computer. Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

Friend : “How’s he?” Mother : “I don’t know. He doesn’t want me to visit him in prison.” Mothers’ eyes should be a deterrent to crime, but they are not, because the immediate is committing the crime and how to make it fool-proof. Thanks to T.V. crime drama and movies, we know how to go about doing that, including killing another human being. Men who control drug routes internationally and locally don’t get their hands dirty. They hire professionals. What does your daddy do for a living little girl? He’s a cleaner, a night cleaner. Some prisoners don’t want mothers to visit them because of the kaleidoscope of questions in a mothers’ eyes. She cannot ask them so she chooses easier ones like. “Are they treating you O.K.?” The answer is yes, even if the son is raped every night and guards starve him on the regular. Some prisoners don’t want to see mothers because they might break down and cry at seeing women who raised them against all odds broken, shoulders thin like coat hangers. Mothers

Winter handbags are mobile closets because of the situation. We don’t carry one pair of gloves. We have thick gloves in there, preferably snow gloves and a lighter pair made from wool. Why two? In case the weather changes its mind mid-stream. Same with scarves. We have a scarf around the neck, and a cotton one for when we get to the meeting or class. How about snow goggles? Good point.  We don’t mind snow. It comes with the territory but we have no control over its mood swings. One minute, it is snowing respectfully, then it becomes war all of a sudden, blowing snow mad at someone, or something. But, is it possible to carry all this in one bag? Yes indeed. Tote bags. Does that ring a bell? Don’t point fingers at me. You never showed me what you have in that back pack you carry 24/7. I changed handbags last week to travel light, something my shoulders appreciate. The problem with the switch is the ecosystem inside. There’s a place for keys, wallet, facial tissues and the phone. I forgot

Greetings can never be old school because of human nature and its protocol. Kids greet elders. Subjects greet the king.  Ministers greet the Prime Minister. Gangsters greet the head of the gang.  In some societies, women greet men.  Poor men greet rich men or celebrities. Nurses greet doctors. Greet and meet. Right? Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

We are loved. We were loved, once. We’ll continue to be loved and appreciated. Because of the internet, we ourselves, opened the drapes/curtains, to let the world see what’s happening inside the four walls. What was once a home, is now an open office plan. Therefore, I cannot blame the audience from the other side of the world to think we are not loved. It will be a tragedy to conclude that the beautiful gift that is our men, does not love us. We are the millions of women that do not walk the red carpet but we are loved. We are not tenants of Instagram, Facebook, Tik Tok, YouTube and other social media, but we are loved. We shun public places like restaurants because we cannot afford them, and we are better cooks. We also don’t believe in show-and-tell. We prefer to touch, feel and bask in no-reason smiles. You haven’t lived if you’ve never received them. Two of us in love is a beautiful thing to see. Has anyone ever stopped the two of you on the street and said:  “Excuse me, are you b

North Carolina Hurricane Helene wrath. We got caught up in the election and forgot the September-October natural disaster destruction. Do we have an update on missing persons in the following states hit by Hurricane Helene? 1. Georgia 2. Florida 3. South Carolina 4. North Carolina 5. Virginia 6. Tennessee States have stats of people who lost their lives, but how do you assemble a list of missing persons? I cannot imagine how parents and families feel, when they think about missing relatives. Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

Q to Q, quarterback to quarterback. Shedeur Sanders and Caleb Williams. Podcasts are the now media, but writing is still important. Can students write four paragraphs about any topic? Artificial intelligence, convenience stores going out of business, players dying young 20-24, memories of grandma's house etc. Writing Tips   1. Writing is a house call. You knock. Somebody comes to door, lets you in because you are expected, and offers you a seat. The same with writing. You cut to the chase. ‘ My name is Tim Timmini from TM Recycling. I’m here to show you how we can recycle plastic from your 34 offices.  That’s the hook. It shows you’ve done your research. 2. Writing is also a house. It is difficult because it has different rooms but it is one house. These are things to take into consideration when writing for a website. You might have a target audience in mind, but you are still throwing seeds in the air with the hope they will land on fertile soil and germinate. 3. Writing goes han

  Building in the middle, opposite a bus stop is almost empty, like most downtown buildings. How is your city? Architecture students are probably the only ones that visit downtown to see unique buildings. Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

  That call can wait until you park, otherwise you will spend three months in the hospital, after losing both legs. Drivers you hit died, for obeying traffic regulations. Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

Riding a bike and talking on the phone is cool I guess, but what if an accident happens and injures mom and the baby? We don't care really. We only think about them election time and vote to control their bodies.  Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

  Freeze beans in small plastic containers. Family members can warm them in the microwave after school or work. Eat with dinner rolls or bread. Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

  Should City Hall provide 'blue' bins for recycling books?  Well! It would be another colour, brown perhaps? Pic: Local shopping mall holds its annual book market. Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

Women want strangers (boyfriends and husbands) to validate them. They forget that the extended family and neighbors have always said: Wamuhle sisi ( meaning you are beautiful sister). In Zulu, a two year-old is a sister, 10 year-old is a sister, all ages. It makes little girls belong, at that tender age. Thanksgiving is  a national holiday associate d with families and patriotism, but maybe we can also use it for self-improvement, when you thank your beautiful and healthy self. Health is #1, the rest will follow. I seldom thank me, myself. I don’t think I appreciate myself enough because I’m always looking across the river, envying people who live there, who have done that, have all that, will do that and look like that. Thanksgiving me, myself is not 360 degrees selfishness. It means often patting myself on the back although the hand doesn’t reach there. Women care more about other people than themselves. Well! That’s what I read in one magazine. If they see something nice, they want

We love T-shirts but do we believe in what we are marching for, or is it just, "Honey what are doing next weekend?" The constitution says we are free, but we prefer tight spaces with a narrow mouth, sealed with a cork. What are you talking about? Uniforms. Nurses, courier delivery, bus drivers and pilots have no alternative. They wear uniforms because of the job. We wear uniforms voluntarily because we love being inside a bottle. College football stadiums are packed to the rafters with one colour. It might be red, blue, green, white etc. Weddings have themes, which means all the 300 guests will be wearing purple or whatever colour is the theme. Celebrities, like the ones that attend P. Diddy’s baby oil shindigs love ‘white parties.’ They’ve become the norm, which means they have closets full of white outfits. Because we love tight spaces, we wear fashion uniforms. Say what? Fashion has bottles. That is why we wear the same clothes and carry same handbags to show that we belon

Money has traffic rules, that cannot be broken. Men who tried died mysteriously. Others ended up in a P. Diddy situation.  Poor people call it money. Men who created and control it use a subdued name. They call it international finance. Money is called different names in different countries and situations but all of them use the same colours you see on traffic lights: GREEN : means go AMBER : means caution RED : means stop right there These are not traffic lights, they are the right of way international finance uses to move the product smoothly and safely on its way to the next stop sign. International finance does not need a common language although England and its former colonies think English is the banking lingua franca . In fact, despite the volume of guess work (trading) the New York Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange handle, America and Britain do not know what is happening in international finance because they speak one language. International finance is a gentleman’s nod

  Sanders, my name's Shedeur Sanders. Sanders, my name's Shilo Sanders. We are pleased to make your acquaintance.  Protect Shedeur Sanders Colorado Buffaloes quarterback? From sun-up to sun-down. Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

Thanksgiving 2024. Two voters. Countries that have Thanksgiving as a national holiday, celebrate something. They are the only ones that know what it is and can easily describe it to someone from outer space. What is it exactly? Happy Thanksgiving in a few days time. Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

Security companies made money hand over fist in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic, because we were highly monitored. At the mall, security guards stood at the entrance to make sure we pump the sanitizer bottle. They gave us blue masks if we didn’t have any. They checked vaccination passports on our phones. They did more than their job description, which is providing security to shoppers and stores. This is 2024 and security is still a lucrative business because the world is unstable. The January 6 invasion of the Capitol by Trump’s supporters proved there is no safest place in America. Kids are not safe in school. We talk to ourselves at the car park: but I left my car here . Car gone. There’s no guarantee we’ll come back to the mall in one piece. Not all condos are in buildings. Some are on the ground like houses and those are heavily guarded. Setting Up a Security Company 1.  Come up with a company name that is unique like 10/10 Security. Ha! Ha! It has been taken. Just kidding.

Going to the movies. Before we started watching movies on laptops and phones, we bought tickets and popcorn, sat down in movie theaters and watched a story made before cameras, in a film studio in California or New York. Technology has lowered the bar literally, because we make our own movies now, shoot on streets and beaches, lay in sound, titles and distribute it, courtesy of the internet. Hollywood invented something called ‘stars’ men and women expertly made up with powder and lipstick, not a hair out of place, not a speck of dust on shoes (no sneakers then) beautiful clothes for women, and the kiss. Early movies were shot in studios where directors could control light and get impeccable sound. Studios also controlled content, which led to perceived right and wrong. Hollywood gave women red roses and diamond rings to demonstrate love. We still do it today.   Hollywood created the ritual of men going down on their knees to propose to the girl. African women insist on it because of s

I once had a reversible coat I bought at Holt Renfrew in Toronto. It was truly reversible because it didn't have a label behind the neck. What happened to it?  Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

Tim Walz Minnesota Governor and Kamala Harris' running mate connects easily, with the audience. Also, congratulations to all speakers at the 19-22 August DNC in Chicago. Shout out to Republicans that came to support Kamala Harris. They are on the right side of history, which is being written as we speak. Parents can play games at home that will encourage encourage public speaking, a skill that will come in handy later on in life. Let’s hope your kids don’t want to wade in the murky world of politics but if they do, they must be confident on the campaign trail. Public speaking used to be human to human, the speaker addressing many people in a room. Centuries come and go and this century is digital. Kids are already familiar with video, which has been the unofficial teacher for quite some time now. It’s only that parents don’t want to admit it because they regard reading and writing as the real education. Podcasts and YouTube are public speaking in a way, although it is talking to a

"Donald Trump will sell this country for a dollar," Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Congresswoman, 2024 DNC in Chicago. If banks are running scared because of online thievery, thuggery and volunteered burglary, then the problem is bigger than we thought. Volunteered burglary? Yes m’aam. Common sense went on vacation and never returned from Bora Bora. That is why I give my money to a total internet stranger, for some bogus investment. Banks periodically remind us about the ‘highway robbery’, but warnings have become frequent. There must be a problem. This one arrived recently. "Scammers have become more active on social media, trying to trick people into investing in Ponzi or pyramid schemes and crypto scams. They promise significant returns, like doubling your money in a very short time. Some pay initial returns, enticing you to invest more until they stop paying you. Others disappear as soon as you’ve paid over your money.” What is a Ponzi scheme? Never mind. Banks s

Kids! Don’t touch this. You turn your back and they touch the candle or two-bar heater. Wailing in the next room! You rush to scene and the little explorer is clutching her finger. You blow it to make it better and take her to the medicine chest, for the appropriate ointment. In rural areas, grandmothers have herbs for it. Blowing the finger works in the little mind. Tears stop and she rests her head on the mother’s chest. You think it’s not scientific? Stop it! Don’t give science a bad name. Must everything be pulled apart, stripped bare like corn? What is important is kids believe it works. If the father asks about the incident. The little genie will report that she is feeling better because her mother blew the pain away. The wound will disappear in no time and she will never touch the candle or heater again. Adults are not so clever. We relish things that give us pain. We know the consequences but do them over and over again. Just one more time, we say. There’s an online ad about st

Maya Angelou with Oprah Winfrey. "If someone shows you who they are, believe them."  Maya Angelou, African American poet, historian, filmmaker. Rest in peace (R.I.P). Things are falling into pieces in the land of the living. Nonqaba waka Msimang Blogger Without Borders

Climate change? "Not now please. I have more important things on my mind." Change for the better? Not the environment. I don’t have time to monitor the extent of climate change. In fact, if it hadn’t been for the pandemic and wearing masks, I would not have noticed that the air is contaminated. I’m too busy you know, making money, trying to make money or having sleepless night about money, to notice signs that climate change is here, dividends from our investment in change, all kinds of change. Money is the change agent. It enables rich men to change wives or go and buy temporary ones on the corner, when they feel like a change. Money makes change possible: the car, boat, house, air conditioners, humidifiers, facial cream to arrest rude ageing, Botox affected areas, buy new phones, laptops, television, microwave ovens, fridges and clothes. Change for the better doesn’t apply to climate change because it has a multiplier effect on other things humans need to survive. Nature ha

In religious societies, it is uniform dressing. In free societies it is what women feel comfortable with. " You’re too old to dress like that.” Don’t ever say that to a woman you don’t know. You might lose a limb. How about friends, can they be frank? Definitely not. Lies are the grout that keeps friendship tiles together.   Which brings me to age as a barrier. I’ll never forget the friend who poured cold water on my dream. Toronto, Ontario at the City Hall skating rink. I said I would love to learn how to skate. He said I should be careful because we were at an age, where bones do not heal as fast as they did when we were young. What kind of a friend says that to another friend? Honestly. Is there a universal measurement of age? Is it related to ability? Fine, that friend disrespected my bones, but what about ability? Surely, I can learn chess. It’s not age specific, is it? Surely, I can be the next U.S. President after beating Joe Biden and Donald Trump in November 2024. How old