A LATE REVIEW OF SKYFALL

 Due to the hype of Skyfall I decided to watch it (what a disappointment). I was very confused at what the directors wear thinking with some of the scenes. Firstly, they started with a scene that showed contradiction with our knowledge of MI6. MI6 is a secret intelligence agency and what we saw there was an amateur car chase as messy as a baby’s diaper. Secondly, remember the Bond girls James Bond has had in history? Unfortunately this time history didn’t repeat itself. The previous experience of the American actress Denise Richards in The World Is Not Enough to Halle Berry in Die Another Day compared to this year's Naomi Harris didn’t live up to the part. Thirdly, the movie took too long to start, I don’t know whether it was because of a deal they had with Adele because we probably listen to the whole song. After the long wait the only exciting thing was when Javier Bardem took his false teeth off, which was a minute out of a 143 minute movie. I’m truly disappointed that a person who won a Golden Globe Award directed a movie of that nature and that a woman of Judi Dench’s calibre can star in it. I've watched a 248 minute movie (The Lord of the Rings) that I am sure to repeat, but I shall not be caught dead repeating this one. I would rate Skyfall at 4/10; and only because it has Daniel Craig.  It is disappointing that 92% of the reviews were positive.

CAREER EXPO

Posted on Apr 30, 2012 at 14:33 Views: 35

A lot comes into making the choice of which degree/diploma you should obtain, the cost to obtain it, the availability of jobs for people with such a degree/diploma, your passion for the jobs such a qualification could get you, and the difficulty of the degree/diploma.

For quite some time I was of the idea that if I met the requirements for a degree I was automatically capable of doing it. Fast track three years later and a lot of moments of disillusion, and I’ve realised that this is not necessarily true. I’ve come to realise that one’s capabilities at high school do not necessarily translate into one doing well at university and I feel that this reality is not stressed highly enough to people leaving high school. This is why I think that intense career education is needed; to not only help the learners who at that moment have yet to make up their minds, but also to help those who have made a decision discover whether the decision they’ve made is in fact the right one.

At few months ago my sister and I had suggested to the KwaZulu Natal Department of Education that it holds a series of Career Expos for matric learners. At these Career Expos, learners would have access to information from different higher education institutions as well as qualified advisors, at their disposal. Although this suggestion was aimed at making information about the vast amount of options that exist out there available to the learners, it could also, with the help of the advisors, assist learners in making realistic decisions with regard to their future. By winning this competition it could help us jump start this plan and hopefully convince the government to lend us a hand. Please find a more detailed proposal by clicking on the link below.

Career Expo Proposal  

A proposal that my sisters worked on for our province, which is something that only private schools get the opportunity to experience.

PRIORITIES

A few weeks ago I published an article about priorities. Yesterday while reading an update of one of my facebook friends and I quote "They are jealous that we can spend our R1500 or R1800 which lead me into researching these facts an isikhothane also referred to as the born again spend R5000 on an outfit. Many of these children don't come from affluent background their parents don't have the best jobs and they aren't reach most of them are factory workers than you have to ask yourself the question why do they do this and they don't have an answer for this question. There is another scenario of the famous Mark Zuckerberg chooses to wear the same clothes everyday where by he is number 36 in the forbes 400 worlds richest people being worth $9,4 billion. After these situations I asked myself why do people invest so much on such a fast depreciating product. my heart aches for the parents that have to deal with children of this nature while knowing their financial status after all we are not talking about 10 year olds we are talking about 16-25 year olds. It is time that people got their priorities straight because a fad doesn't last as long as a classic.

CAN WE CHOOSE WHEN OR WHERE WE HAVE INTEGRITY?

John .C. Maxwell wrote the important ingredient to leadership is integrity. This is his and my perception of it:

The dictionary defines integrity as the state of being complete, unified. When I have integrity, my words are my deeds match up. I am who I am, no matter where I am or who I am with. Sadly integrity is a vanishing commodity in our society. Personal standards are crumbling (like the walls of Jericho) in a world that has taken to hot pursuit of personal pleasure and short cuts to success and that is how we get Ponzi skims. In  a cartoon in the New Yorker, two clean shaven men are sitting in a jail cell. One inmate turns to the other and says “All along, I thought our level of corruption fell well within community standards.” The White House, The Pentagon, Capitol Hill, the church, the sports arena, the academy, even the day care centre have all been hit hard by scandals. In every case, the lack of credibility can be traced back to the level of integrity of the individuals within those organisation and institutions. A person with integrity doesn’t have divided loyalties(that’s duplicity), nor is he or she merely pretending(that’s hypocrisy). People with integrity are ‘whole’ people; they can be identified by their single mindedness. People with integrity have nothing to hide and nothing to fear. Integrity is not what we do so much as who we are. And who we are in turn determines what we do. Integrity binds our person together and fosters a spiritual contentment within us. It will not allow our lips to violate our hearts. When integrity is the referee, we will be consistent, our beliefs will be mirrored by our conduct. We sometimes get confused by weighing our deception my sister once pointed out that we usually complain about corruption when it is harming us. It is the same thing as person complaining about how many millions the government is corrupting but then goes on and does the same thing by lying for financial aid whether it is saying your parents don’t work because they were once retrenched or it is lying about living with your gran mother when your parents are able to pay for your fees. God says all sins are the same whether you committed adultery or you didn’t love your neighbour as you loved yourself so you should ask yourself what is the name of a small fraud or a big fraud. It’s time to start living an honest life which will be something hard to do. Start by telling your teacher if they gave you extra marks.   

I COULD WAIT YEARS

Waking up this morning I feel sick as if my body is shutting down on me. Instead of being constipated my stomach is runny (darn those chicken wings) I should have had my periods two days ago which is unusual for me all this is happening before my morning tea (curse it). Well I thing I have the cause of all this mass distraction, in 08 days’ time I will be getting my results I don’t know if other countries do this but in South Africa every year in the beginning of the year results of students who passed theirs matriculation year are posted on the national paper for everyone to see if they know your initials and surname, that’s what I will be going through in 8 days’ time so I think my body is feeling that stress so it is acting out, I don’t know how many mornings I’ll have to deal with this but I just hope it doesn’t take long. Personally I wish my results won’t be on the paper without my permission but that doesn’t bother them. So I just going to hope, pray and cross my fingers that the results are good so I’m sure that waking up with natural tea extract and butternut squash mash (lol sometimes alliteration just comes up without intent) everyday will help cheer my body. What a way to enjoy your holidays right.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?

So today I was reading an article in True Love magazine and it was about the death of Osama Bin Laden, well being that I’m not American and I didn’t encounter the lose that some people did in the incident of 9/11. But I’m sure that as a South African and having only having freedom in our country 5 months before my birth I would say a lot of us had reason to rejoice in the death of our oppressors but we chose a different path, this is what the article about it’s about answering the question “Do we lose our humanity because of our brutal experiences?”. These are the exact words of Michael Moore ; “When I heard the news, I immediately felt great. I felt relief. I thought of those who lost a loved one on 9/11. I was thrilled that the Osama Bin Laden era was over. Being near Ground Zero that night, I decided to head over there and join the others who saw this event a chance of getting closure but before leaving I turned on the TV and what I witnessed was a frat boy-style party going on, complete the shaking and spraying of champagne bottles over the crowd. I completely understand people wanting to celebrate –like I said I too, was happy- but something didn’t feel right”. Americans pride themselves in the word of God, Jesus, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King the same way that we pride ourselves in the words of Nelson Mandela do you really think that those people would approve of the death of more than 5000 troops, thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan and also losing $1,2 trillion that could have bettered the country but it instead was used to hunt a person that after his death nothing changed. My intention isn’t to belittle what happened in 9/11 but it is to show the nation that allowed the Nazis to have a trial, the nation that is the head of the United Nations that they spent 12 million millions dollars in trying to find a person than rather insuring that the families that lost people during that incident felt that the country was with them but what happened was the same as the Prince of Scotland beheading Macbeth because he killed his father but this time Osama’s death was expected to give thousands of people closure which doesn’t make sense to me. Have we as humans lost our humanity that other man’s grief gives us pleasure. At the end of this publish I realised that this issue is debatable because even though as South Africans we chose to live in peace we are still living in fear of the fact of an  Afrikaner government ruling the country so I presume the only way that Americans felt safe in their own home was when Osama was killed but we also that Iraqis and Afghanistan natives experienced that feeling of not being safe at home because of the war Americans brought to them. Was there really a solution best fitting for everyone or was it just all up to who wins? Decisions that come out of situations like these make true legends.    

ORIGINALITY IS SOMETHING WE CONSTANTLY CLAMOUR FOR, BUT CONSTANTLY QUARREL WITH - THOMAS CARLYLE

As humans we worry about our originality or we lack it. We have wondered if people will accept our things if they are based on what has been said before. Which makes it hard to start a blog. Starting a blog is hard because you have these options you either become original and people appreciate it or they don't or write  about what is interesting to people at that time which leads to wondering if stats mean more to you than your material because after all originality is the ability to express oneself in an independent or individual manner. As a person who is fond of music I have always been strict on musicians. I didn't like bed rock because it had a line from "Face off" the movie with John Travolta and Nicholas Cage, I also didn't like heart boxing love because it had a line from "Not over you" by Gavin Degraw but today when I was going to bed I found myself thinking about my blog  whether it is original or not because a lot of posts are about current news not something I have wrote myself but things I have found in other articles, just now I published a poem by Thom Gunn and I only wrote a few lines that were mine. So I asked myself if I am going to take credit of other writers work or am I going to start to write what I Mmabatho Molefe feel and comprehend. So from now on everything you will read in this blog will be my heart felt work maybe inspired by other things but truly me. That I PROMISE!!!