The Good Weekend…

I have this theory that everyone learns the truth eventually… some earlier than others… but eventually you’ll learn it, reality will klap you hard if you dwell in ignorance too long…

That was a snippet of a conversation with QL on the fact that music nowadays is screwing up kids to think that bling bling and low morals and SEX all the time, instant gratification is the way life should be lived… Whatever happened to the 90′s angst-ridden, fight-the-power lyrics and music? Even the R&B love everyone, life-is-so-fragile stuff was better than today’s crap…
Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Alanis Morisette (got married, lost it), Jewel (Her old stuff, before she sold out), Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey (Before she became a Ho), NOFX, The Offspring, Propaghandi, Megadeth, Live, Lauryn Hill, The Fugees, 2Pac, Notorious BIG (his old stuff’s good, but he probably started this current no-moral trend along with 2 Pac)…

Our Generation got traded truth and now all that’s being dealt is Bullshit, Ignorance and a Culture marinated in Self-gratification. You better watch your kids/nephews/nieces closely… in the current atmosphere they’re bound to get fucked up in so many ways unless they’re grounded properly… this shit is hard to do.

The Weekend was Brilliant, I Love Jo’Burg… I don’t know what it is… when I was there this weekend, I just felt ONE with the concrete and Steel. The only thing beating it was the company, Saturday night in particular… brilliant.. started with a quick supper and run-around Fordsburg square and calling various people asking if they up for a night-out with a lonely Blogger from Durban.. anyway, Saaleha obliged constituting a coven of half blogger, half-normal people to convene for this Coffee and Conversation.

So we ended up at an obsucre Little coffe shop called Soulsa, where 5 of us rattled the night away on caffeine and this really cool Almond-yoghurt phyllo pastry with seasonal fruit dessert… Amazing Stuff… conversation went from Jacob Zuma to the Culture of Small Towns like Azaadville Shareef (hehe) and Laudium and everything else in between, also a little bit of analysis on blogging, and how people find time to do it. I’m still trying to answer that one. The time flew from 8:30pm Coffee & Phyllo to 1am Cappuccino and Strawberry and Mint water (another WOW! item on the menu and its free)…

For all the other bloggers who couldn’t make it… you better make it next time, because a night out like this where we connect with people we only ever connect with on an intellectual or emotional level is seriosuly enlightening. Sheer Brilliance. I was reminded by MJ that I shoulda invited him as he woulda came with me on my bus ride… Next time Bro :) Don’t worry.. I’ll keep you in mind :P

Btw, I’m blogging at Muslim Movie Reviews, check out my post on the movie “Gangster No.1″… more movie reviews to come!

UPDATE: I’ve committed a travesty by not mentioning The Constant Traveller (see the 1st Comment), whom I must say I had an Excellent Akhalwaya’s filled lunch with on Saturday… those WITS Specials Rule! Convo was on how we’re gonna Guerilla market the struggle for Palestine.. Lotsa idea’s, let’s hope they materialise!
Peace,

M.

Work & Babies.

Came across two newly born kids in the last week, two boys, unbelievably cute :) Making me rethink my stance of having kids later… (no no no, you still got some plans ahead Muhammad, hold that thought)

Here they are…

No, I did not make Little Yusuf Cry… he was hungry (or so i was told) and here’s another little cute kid… hover over the pic for details :)

Right… enough of the babies :)

Work’s got me going too, if anybody can tell me how to get my colleagues in Egypt to answer their phones and reply to message, please let me know… trying to do Marketing across an entire region is as bad as having a 2kg yoghurt enema at a siberian health spa. Aaargh.

Oh and my favourite work quote this week… “The project is a bit complicated due to all the simplification.”

Sounds like something from Dilbert, eh? Oh and I got a new Boss, had a big lunch thing after Jummah on Friday in which I went all aout ordering Sushi (I Love Sushi!) and a Kingclip and Prawns main course. (yUM!) This is making me wonder how I survived during Ramadaan… oi, I miss Ramadaan :( I need to get my ass back into gear, because I feel like I’m so close to being a hypocrite mainly because of the difference I saw in myself in Ramadaan and what I’m slowly becoming now. Insha-Allah this will change, I need to make solid effort!
Make Dua!

Wasalaams :)

Muhammad.

Of Haj, Ps2′s and Levi’s

The Al-Ansaar organisation holds this event every year, in which they take prospective Haji’s through the ins-and-outs of Hajj and and all the nitty gritty’s in between.

Anyhow from the picture above you can see that I decided to be useful and Insha-Allah gain some reward through feeding the prospective Haji’s… :) So there I was dishing out Deg’s (that big silver pot in the pic) of Chicken Biryani (Lunch) and Chicken Kalya (Supper). Like a hero, I decided to wear my best jeans and shoes for Lunch… bad move, spent an hour in the afternoon removing the accumulated dirt from it all and then pitched up to serve supper in torn jeans and old sneakers (got taught a good lesson! Deg’s of food and Skecher shoes don’t go too well.)

So was chatting with MJ (the guy with the grey hooded sweater on the right of the pic) after the seminar on all his little meanderings around the Islamic Broadcasting Council he’s a part of (representing the youth! but they ask him to bring the tea and take minutes :P) and also other stuff like.. “should we go watch a movie?” and the latest PS2 games in and around… I think he wanted some recently released in London Soccer game or some such thing (I know I look like an ignoramus, but I don’t have a PS2, a travesty for a guy my age… I know…but I’ll kick your ass on Mario Bros. Word.)

Right… so then afterward we did go catch a movie… “Click”, not a bad movie I must say, I always expect the worse from Adam Sandler, but the movie’s got a great message… Word. As MJ put it… it makes you wanna go home and hug your wife. Don’t know why he would say that since he’s not married… but I’d have to agree :)

Sunday was usual domesticity in action with the Monthly Shopping! and ofcourse running around trying to find Levis Jeans which actually fit me… everybody’s running out of sizes. And No, I don’t subscribe to brands because I like their imagery.. I don’t like Levi’s Jeans imagery… I like the way their jeans fit and no matter how revolutionary I like to think I am, Mr Price Jeans just don’t cut it. Anyhow, this part of the post reminds me… I need Slim Slice bread and Stork Coulinesse (disgustingly domestic, but hey, a brother’s gotta eat, right?)

To do List: Groceries, Learn how the hell WordPress works, Get Munich on DVD.

Peace,

M.

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