Sankofa

This will be a revamped blog. I decided to start over. It probably won't be as personal as the first one.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Lyfe Jennings SEX

Luckily I waited till I was ready but not everyone was able to make that decision for themselves or are confident enough to decide.



Lyrics

Eh yo you
Now see most cats, would take advantage of you right now
But I aint gone do that yo
Imma give you the game, right
Imma give it to you because
I would want somebody to give my little girl the game
When she done found her S.E.X

Life’s a trip
Heard you just turned 17 and finally got some hips
Hustlers on the block go crazy when you lick ya lips
But they just want relation
They don’t want relationship(welcome to the real world)
It ain’t the same
Fellas old enough to be ya daddy know ya name
Everybodys talking’ ‘bout how much that girl done changed
Can’t quite put ya finger on it
But you feelin’ strange
Like its fire in your veins

[Chorus]
Girl it’s just your
S.E.X.
Ain’t no more secret
And Daddy gone go crazy when he finds out that his baby’s found her
S.E.X.
Take a deep breath
And think before you let it go (let it go)

The block is packed
Baby gotta attitude and proud to holla back
Momma’s givin’ advice but she ain’t tryna hear that
Not because its wrong, just her delivery is wack
(Shay get ya behind in this house, if I see you with another boy, I swear)
Life is rough,
You say that you’re not ready for sex, but you’re in love
He says if you’d really loved him, you would give it up
Mamma says that’s just a line guys use to get ya stuff
Which one will you trust?

[Chorus]
Girl it’s just your
S.E.X.
Ain’t no more secret
And Daddy gone go crazy when he finds out that his baby’s found her
S.E.X.
Take a deep breath
And think before you let it go (let it go)
Eh yo Lyfe, she may take it better coming from a woman
(Give it to her)
See he’ll tell you all kind of things to get in your pants, yeah
Baby it’s a fact, that once it’s gone you’ll never get it back
(never get it back)
Hold on, to your innocence
Use your common sense
You’re worth waiting for (You’re worth waiting for)
Be strong
Honey don’t give in
Blessings come with patience
Until we meet again, I’m praying, for you

[Chorus][Repeat 2x]

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Luxurious

This kind of life is getting expensive we know how to live baby luxurious like egyptian cotton
work so hard every night and day and now we get the payback
tryin so hard saving up the pay and now we get to lay back

Luxurious by Gwen Stefani to the music of Biggie's Juicy which sampled the song by someone I dunno.


Men until you get a pedicure don't knock females for getting them every two weeks. As you can guess I got my toes done and they look wonderful and I was so happy after, its weird the small things that give you a boost. Those strong hands kneading and massaging my feet and calves felt so....so D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S.

So on the walk home I had to stop at Rite Aid of course I did the usual walk the aisles looking at stuff I had no need for but hey I wouldn't mind getting it; of course they were all beauty products Sally hansen stuff for your nails, blush, bronzer (I'm seriously thinking about that one my legs have gotten ridiculously light and combined with that some left over mosquito bite scars need to get covered up...looks like I had an ankle operation) baby oil gel to make the legs look luscious, lip gloss, try a new brand of mascara, or those eyeshadows they sell that are creamy and not powdery or maybe a metallic eyeliner or even an eyelash curler. So after 20mins walking around and chatting on the phone with my mom she called to commiserate about the game and we chatted about other stuff too; its funny my freshman yr I would call her a lot but she would hardly call maybe she was trying not to be clingy but clearly I wanted her to be clingy so it wouldn't be a hang out conversation...whats going on in school, how are your grades, taking ur vitamins, do you have enough money, some annectodes about my new american friends a la different world Brandi the black panther and mirror image of Freddy I would say my roommate was Whitley Gilbert etc etc ad nauseum, I would have prefered to talk about home but there wasn't much of that.
Imagine I found out only this week that Mappio the snow cone vendor died. Yes there was only one where I lived and he was the most popular and he rode that damn bike everywhere he even would put the lil ears on the snow cone. Yeah Mappio lived not in my village but the next on in the same general area. He lived near someone I knew so I saw him as he started building his family's house piece by piece and the day they did the casting was a big event, then columns for the front porch, cupboards and they moved in,,,then it was unpainted for a longgggggggggggggg time then one christmas it got painted.
RIP Mappio the snow cone man.

So back to Rite Aid, so I'm in line and the two cashiers are almost done but the dude speeds up and motions for me to go to him. So me cherry smile saying hi as usual.
LOL he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and lean his head to one side.
KY jelly
batteries
cocoa butter stick
That was the sum total of my purchase. Life is too funny boy.

Oh and how on top of the world did I feel when the nail ladies were like:
dose yaw real nails... werry strong wow ching chang wang wang wang etc.

I was almost tempted to get a mani with my pedi but that would have been $50 bucks gone and I have my cell phone bill plus etc etc etc to pay.

Yay so that was my day along with tiptoeing around office politics. It's a summer job I ain't salaried I don't care.
Next!

Big up to ma FoxBoogie fam yall keep me in stitches
Stan
Fem
Death
Tuck ya dick between ya legs
Smoke my nutsack
Where's ya proof ugly?

So vile but thats my guilty pleasure...you know how the English language has evolved and there is ebonics, slang, internet slang, tech slang this board seems like it has its own language when I'm on other boards I have to restrain myself from typing in my FB persona.

Oh yall I have friends as much as I convince myself no one cares I had someone today who I spoke to about something that was bothering me a little bit. Lucky for me I think I would have gotten carpel tunnel syndrome instantly if I had tried to type what was in my head. I don't just tell something I have to give justification for each conclusion I come to about something esp someone's character, I don't like speaking badly of someone without something solid to back it up. Part of the reason why I think I'm always write.

Did syndrome and instantly make you chuckle a little bit.
How can a syndrome be acquired instantly.

Geekdom
Holla!

Sunday, June 11, 2006

No USA, No thanks

Ok that was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy too polite

No fucking way.
If I want to think about politics, I'll go research on the internet or whatch the news but while I am watching football talk about lil history tidbits or the players what clubs they play for their strengths and weaknesses and I know yall cant resist the lil sob story so talk about whose dad died before world cup who was actually born in Brazil but plays for Mexico....but I don't wanna hear you talk about the frickin nuclear arms race and Iran's President etc etc.

Steups. U know I switched to Univision right I was sooo vex.
So my Spanish football vocab is expanding:
la peleota
izquierda
derecha
equipo
zero
gol
otra vez
nadie
cabeza
quarenta minutos
buscando
centro
ahora

Question where is England's feed.

I badly want to see USA get their ass thrashed but I don't think I could stomach the commentary.
I mean I'm accustomed to this bullshit from watching the Olympics but seriously this whole stranglehold on broadcasting has to end its driving me crazy...just hearing the American accent makes that vein on my neck start to pulsate.

And of course the world cup ads on Univision are wayyyyyyy better.

Ok I'm done venting back to Mexico and Iran.

Seriously I hope in life that USA never ever wins the world cup it will be sacrilige even if the entire team is black or imported from Brazil and various European countries....even if Freddy Adu gets on the world cup team I still want them to lose and lose BADLY.
Of course right now I am guilty of the same bias as them, but really and truly like the banner in the ad says USA YOU DONT BELONG and there isn't a single pitying awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww that accompanys that, more like a deep belly laugh like when I saw the Swedish fans holding their heads in disbelief, disappointment and anguish yesterday.
hahahahahahhahhahahhahahahahahah

Friday, June 09, 2006

I'm so sad

Ok so there was heavy rain this afternoon but then the sun came out. So I'm walking and in front of me there is this patch where I guess the rain was so heavy it beat the flowers down from the tree and the sidewalk was still a little damp.

Well since I had this on....









I crossed the street.
Bwwwahahahahhahahhhahaha
I am sooooooooooo sad.
Thank goodness I wasn't walking with anyone that would have been difficult to explain.
Mind you these shoes are about 5 months old but still fresh because I still do the things I described above.

Thursday, June 08, 2006

Anger Management

Ok I have anger management problems or thats what I thought b4 I completed my thought process before I came online and started posting, now I think I just need counselling.


Ok so at work I'm in charge of this "project" for want of a better word and about 4 ppl are helping right now, I'm to hire more and today one woman get me so vex as she was talking and I was listening I could literally feel my heart rate double, my hands get clammy, and I had to restrain my self from twitching and accidentally hitting her in her face, and of course I was chanting to myself no verbal diarrhoa don't say what you are thinking right now. I'm sure if I could turn red, I would have been.


So instead what I did was not cross my arms, they were folded on my knee, my legs were crossed but towards her not blocking her off, my voice was well modulated and didn't get high, I never made any hand gestures, the only thing that probably gave me away were my dilated pupils...I'm sure they were huge.


But do I need help simultaneously while she was sounding off like an ass I just sat there and listened, I didn't trust myself to respond also I purposefully did exactly what I did above with my body language to avoid the situation intensifying.

Isn't that a lil psycho being so calculated?


People who harbour stuff and get all tight then start with attitude seemingly out of the blue are so whack.

I'm laid back as long as the work gets done. I have never indicated I had a problem with your work.

Why be dissatisfied with something get all tight then come to me with an attitude?
Tomorrow is Friday so I really dont care.

Plus the whole thing is if thats your job its your job.
If your job is to mop the floor at macdonalds you cant say oh i'm bored doing this I wanna work the fries....
It doesn't work like that hun. As monotonous as it is...this is your job, I'm nice so I let you do something else.
I have a plan how I want this project to go.

When demands are being made the project is my baby when supervisors want a progress report its all on me yet when I try to assign tasks you have a problem.

I listen to your suggestions even though I really don't have to just to make it a calm work environment minimize conflict if ppl think they are being listened to and are working independently.
So In return if you have a job to do then do it.
I need to step back and realize not everyone is like me; not everyone just does what they are supposed to do and keep it moving. (yes self praise is not praise but I speak the truth I am a hard worker).


God allowed me to get this job.

Rather fortuitious actually but it is a mixed blessing
Briefly:

used up my last bunch of $$$ on rent and bills and I have no job
One day finally decide to get off my ass and go on campus
I see a sign for grad students to inquire within
Job app is a resumeI have my jump drive so I go to my friends office/job on campus print and was back in 10 mins
Two hours later I get a call for an interview in two days
Go to the interview
Started the next Monday
Started doing a monotonous job and did it for an entire week hey thats what they hired me for (and the job pays pretty ok)...got it done and they put me in charge of everyone
Week 3 I'm producing results and you are hired...we are both the same pay grade but I am in charge.
We are the same level in education but apparently you are 30+


Yes it is great I found a job but it makes me very clear on what I don't want for a career, it makes it clear that I dont want to be 30/35 and be working a summer job not having a career. A plus is that I've realized that I have good management skills. That chick at my job may not think so but I'm not being conceited now I'm fair and I know I was not in the wrong.


god curse the day I made that deadpan joke about not having friends. Cuz I know she believes it now.
I know she probably thinks I have control issues, OCD, and am anal.
I just know what I want done and how...I mean she herself was like ummm thats too much stuff for me to take in.
I explained it 5 separate times, 5 different ways with no attitude, I mean I can take my time I've been a tutor, but she can't multitask and I like completion.
Then when I try to give her something simpler to do she accuses me of giving her work that I don't even want to do. WTR! (what the rasshole) that was just so baseless and for her to expose thats how she thinks...permanent lock off.


When ppl ask for a status report they want XYZ not XYZ but this and this well except for that....it doesn't work like that
Keep it going you dont want to get to the top of the hill then realize you left the sandwiches at the bottom of the hill.
That's madness like constantly starting over.


Thats why I don't agree with ppl at work fraternizing unless you are all doing the same thing and one isn't managing the other.


Good job Taj always guarded so when bullshit like this happens you don't have to worry what personal stuff you may have told someone all in the effort to make friends.
They would never know how different I am outside of work. That suits me just fine.
As I always say....I forgot (5 mins later) ooooh I remember: I have enough friends!hahahahahah


Then on the way home I stop to call a house for rent advert sign that I see and a guy strikes up conversation cuz he actually called and got a price quote and we walk and talk about housing etc till I get to my place.
So simple.
I'm a nice person and considerate....I think she was probably hungry cuz her attitude was totally uncalled for.

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

kaj designs....talented.....blessed


This stuff is from last yr though. He was featured in the paper on Sunday. (still need to find the articles)
I wish you could see the bamboo earrings they are totally fab-u-lous
you can see better with the link
Sometimes I really feel like not only do I know everyone but also that I have had a connection with them. I am really proud of Kevin the skill he has developed and that he can live his dream and basically produce what he sees in his head. He is going to be featured in caribbean fashion week.




LOl its funny for an entire school term he was my secret admirer and I had no clue it was him...and we didn't even go to the same high school. It probably would have helped if I knew the courier was his cousin...actually no that wouldn't have helped.
Very passionate words. (not sure if I kept the letters)
Really cute gifts (teddy bears, earrings) and great chocolate.

It really puzzled me for a while cuz we were friends and belonged to some of the same organizations and were around each other a lot.
It's only when he put his nickname in one of the letters I was like "oh snap" Mumrah.....was he the bad guy in Thundercats? I think it was Thundercats and no he isn't ugly I can't even remember how he got that nickname I think either PG or Devon gave it to him.
Anyway it was then I realized why he was secret for so long 1. I had a boyfriend at the time and 2. they were friends and we all hung out in the same circle.

So I had to have the whole I'm with someone now and am not about to ditch them to start another relationship...after that we were cool but in a very sterile way like he was going out of his way to be totally transparent in his actions and words. I kinda missed my carefree friend that said anything, but he would always be there if I needed to talk, wanted encouragement or was begging for compliments ; )
Kaj proof that not all designers are gay. (why did I say that)
He is super talented and a genuine sweetie....unless he doesn't like you...hmm who knows maybe he has mellowed with age.
Isn't it funny when your mom gets tight with someone who used to have a crush on you. She was one of his first customers when he started out with applique shirts, tie-dye and other made to order designs now he can do sandals, earrings etc its just amazing.
So thanks mom for calling back and giving me some better news on Sunday. Fortuitious that he was the reason why you told me to hold on ( I was getting heated my mom could put me her daughter...overseas on hold, but since it was for Kevin with his news she was lucky).

Saturday, June 03, 2006

Goodness

Thank God I have swift hands I was flipping through channels and Million Dollar Baby was on...and it was just at that point. If you have seen the movie you know what it is it takes you completely by surprise and rips your heart out. Its been a while since a movie has done this to me.
Anyway I had to switch the channel because some movies are only meant to be seen once.

Oh and some great news Sanaa Lathan is gonna be a regular on one of my favorite shows that I put all my friends on since the 1st season. NIP TUCK...I mean when I had no cable I had people tape it for me religiously every week and it would win out against all the other TV shows I watch if they are in the same time slot so yayyyyyyyyyyy for Sanaa...I wonder which doctor she is gonna hook up with, hmmm or maybe it will be a wife. What I do know is that her role will be scandalous cuz there are no safe characters on this show. Hey if the son could do a hit and run, sex a 40 yr old woman then realize that she was transgender, fall into a downward spiral concerning his sexuality, finally have a girlfriend that turns out to be a white supremacist all while finding out his dad isn't his dad...his godfather is really his dad who happens to be the best friend of his "fake" dad since college and they both opened a plastic surgery practice together...
Whew and thats the partial story arc of only ONE of the characters.
Then there is the Carver the unknown serial killer.
Damn I'm salivating now I can't wait for the season to start esp. since Sopranos is playing the ass having a two part finale...one part now and the other maybe in fall or even next year after we had to wait two years for this season and its been blah to say the least when you take into consideration all the stoppage time in between and the fact that they cribbed notes from movies having their own Brokeback Mountain story arc on their show. It was spicy but hardly original.