A lil bit of HATE!!

Technically, I don't like hating unless its deserved, but I deleted a number of people from my Facebook friends' list and I think you deserve to know why: Looking through your wall, I just saw bitterness and bitchiness. That’s not in the list of things I’d like to experience, online or offline. Looking through your pics, I see you have a propensity for taking pictures without your shoes on. I like the socks, but I’m afraid the tendency might be telling of a psychological disorder I’d not like to be part of. I like the grass/countryside background though. Looking at your profile picture album, I see the same four sample pictures that came with...

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Early Monday Morning Rant

You know what I find impressive? That a perfect stranger can hold my concentration in chat for more than 6 hours without the conversation straying to that annoying topic of sex. Like going to the gym, its a fantastic thing to do but a lousy thing to talk about. I found that positively invigorating. Sadly, part of my life has to do with a community where few people are capable of actually engaging in social discourse for the sake of getting to know each other without discussing the very finite possibilities of what can go on in the bedroom. This is in stark contrast with the aesthetic qualities of the said community. Yes, I went there. Moving...

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Droid Sleep

I've never understood how I sleep, those moments of temporary extinction as H.G. Wells so aptly put it.  I constantly hear of people who suffer from insomnia or other sleep related problems. I don't. I can sleep on top of a concert speaker playing heavy metal........I've slept in Carnivore during one of those rowdy music sessions. I can also sleep under a 100 watt bulb, even a blinking one.  All I need to fall asleep is to decide that I'm sleeping. I used to say I have a contract with sleep, for which I can quickly get an order of specific performance via a quia timet (legal jargon for anticipatory) injunction under a certificate...

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50 Posts Later: Taking Stock

Today I have decided to take stock of my blog, for no apparent reason except common vanity and typical self involvement. I started it in a huff in November 2010 with three posts in one month. After that I could have sworn (without the debilitating thought that lightning would come out of God's black and blue sky and smite me in the nether regions for swearing falsely) that I did not have a blog until some creepy young man came out of the woodwork and made me develop it into a habit. Creepy amazing young man. Few can influence habit in me, I am, admittedly, profoundly stubborn. So on 24th April 2011, this journey begun again and I...

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De Ja Beau

Ever had that de-ja-beau feeling? Don't know what that is? It's when you suddenly realize that a few seconds before, you'd seen a pretty person but were too absent minded to take in all the detail. So you look round frantically trying to locate them. I get them all the time when I'm on the road or in malls. I hate it when that de-ja-beau feeling turns out to be false i.e. they turn out not to really good looking after all. Stop looking for meaning. There's no particular point to this post. I've had a random discussion with a bright mind just recently on a most interesting topic - me! Until today, I've been going around thinking I'm a realist,...

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Stuff Yoda says

Yoda once said "Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose" and "fear (of loss) is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. And hate leads to suffering" and "the dark side clouds everything, impossible to see, the future is". Basically, the little green old man was saying attachment is pure evil that complicates everything. And he's not the only one. Some half-wit wise-ass said "if you love some(thing)one, let them go. If they come back, they were yours to begin with. If they don't come back [get yourself a rowdy bunch of them muscle types and go beat the crap out of them]. Showing affection is a...

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What I want in my bedroom

Before I get to what I want in my bedroom, let me mention the things I appreciate about a weekend: 1. Sleep. One of the most constrained activities during the week is sleep. This whole unnatural business of telling your body when to wake up must be met with equal and opposing force during the weekend, and by this I mean sleep until your body is pissed off. 2. Friends. I never get to see enough of them during the week and as cool as my workmates are, there are parts of my social well being that they do not stimulate at all. So a friend or two will do, with just that little bit of compromise on preferred activities in order to accommodate them. 3....

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Now that's creativity

I've been watching a mini series by my favourite director/producer. Most good series are to be savoured on face value, with nothing deep or lasting to be learnt from them. Think of awe inspiring Heroes (first two seasons at least), rib cracking Boston Legal, suspense filled 24 or the Event. But trust this director/producer to weave something different. One interesting thing about this series is that it covers multiple generations with one concept. It spans five consecutive decades and four different generations, and centers on three separate families and yet one continuing event. It develops the story from absolute mystery to (less...

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Place irrelevant heading here

I had a dream. One of those funny ones about finding love. I smiled cynically, you know one of those smiles which is just that little bit tilted to one side. But of course one must never interrupt a dream, fears and hopes may be illusions, but they energize the soul and inspire the mind. I forget the details of the dream, but that's ok, you know I'm a firm believer in the devil being in the details. Productivity is at an all time low this week. I'm not busy. I've heard a few inspired moments of productivity but no emergencies seem to have scheduled themselves for this week so I'm lacking the inspiration that only that last minute has. What's...

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Early Sunday Rant - Please Do Not Read

Time is the yin and the yan of love, simultaneously it's greatest desire and it's greatest undoing. No, this is not a love post, just a thought that crossed my mind this Sunday morning. Those in love crave for time with their loved one, and yet it's time that eventually is their undoing. Til death do us part? In this day and age, it's more like til time do us part. Ever feel like life is a treadmill? Clocking miles but only hypothetically? Covering vast distances but the view doesn't change? Like jumping off is the way to freedom? Well, I don't have that feeling. My life's been very dynamic these last few years but I always wonder what life...

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The Most Peculiar People I Know

I've known a few weird people in my life. In no particular order of peculiarity or affection, they are: 1. Mr. Nice - this guy is so nice that I had try to find people who could hate him. As in everyone likes this guy, like some juju charm working over him. To this day I haven't found anyone who doesn't just adore him. It's so freaking annoying but I can't bring myself to hate him either. Not that I have any reason to, but I like being different, I hate the idea that I, like every other jack, fits into some cosmic emotional template. Loveable guy, this one. 2. Drama King - this guy is so blatantly attracted to drama that he almost salivates...

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Mount Doom

Another soul perishes of exhaustion in the quest to reach that heart, Mount Doom claims yet another skull to adorn its morbid decor. Go back mere mortals, for none yet lives that have trodden this path, and no finite eyes have laid hold of that sight. I have just woken up to reply to facebook, and to this macabre thought. How convenient of blogger to give us email bloggi...

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Que Sera Sera

Don't you love that feeling you get when you do something and finish it? I'm writing while riding out this feeling. There are moments when I have work to do which I feel I could delegate but at the same time I'm sure I won't like what I'll get back. You know, at times, to do something right you must do it yourself. I guess those are the moments when I see both the problem and the solution but I need to put that solution in prose (so to speak) so that the recipient doesn't take me for a lazy retard for sending bullet points, half processed thoughts and unformatted work. Some say substance over form but so long as you're dealing with human beings,...

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Gotcha!!!

The audacity of hope is to defy probability. Yesterday we recovered a friend's macbook which had been stolen from my place (I shared my distress here). We got the miscreant and just so you be aware, I have opted to disclose his identity (I trust that the report filed with the police will suffice to rebut any defamation claims made in this regard). I wish I could say it was CSI Nairobi but we were going up against a petty thief who seriously needs to use his "skills" to get an IQ so the challenge was short of titanic. We still needed the drive of an outsider. The owner of the laptop shares my lethargy for senseless pursuit of...

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The 7 (Technological) Wonders of the World - Art Droid's version

My seven wonders of the world: 1. Global Village - distance has been conquered. The ubiquity of communication technology is such that the only thing that distance and borders can deny you in social interactions is touch (with its many variations). I still wonder how they used to do it those days without instant messaging, instant emails, mobile telephony and social networking. Oh, wait, I think I'm old enough to remember. We really didn't do much,...

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The little things in life

Get your mind out of the gutter. Shower gel - the hot water rolling down your body and a carefully chosen scent wafting into your nostrils. Sigh. Signature Cologne - the concept of having a signature scent (that's not natural) and a mark left in the second-least common social sensory organ. They say smell makes for the strongest memories - one need look no further than animals to see the point. Clean sheets and a shower before bed - some of the joys of being single. Space - organized space. be it in the bedroom, living room, kitchen, office, car, parking, garden, restaurant or lounge. It's like the mind adopts the attitude of the space around...

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Sample social irritants

1. Live a little - yes, your life is fun and you are by far making more use of it than the poor lifeless folk around you. But who appointed you entertainment manager of the universe. Leave us be, maybe we find boredom fun, yet another social paradox like pain being pleasure or fear being entertaining or blondes being good in bed. 2. So tell me about yourself - now I like the sound of my voice and find myself a great topic for anytime any place but if it's a social setting, try and be more creative. Chances are that if you ask that question, you're either a veery boring person to be around or we're just not going to enjoy each others company. 3....

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8 classes of gay men

Now I must say this is not my work, I wish I was nearly half this creative. I came across it courtesy of a friend's curiosity. Makes for an entertaining read and make me drop my phone in bouts of laughter one one or two occasions. The Skinny Bitch This strain of Black gay is typically very young (”green”) but quickly rises in popularity in his newfound social circle because of his youth, pliability and quick mastery of shade. His goal is to accrue as many enemies as possible since he’s convinced that having enough people that despise him means he’s “doing something right.” He will spend an entire month’s salary on designer sunglasses because...

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Dream Drive, Vain Street

We all have our ambitions, and for most of us, the detail of our ambitions include a sub-sector of cars. This is my list, of what I have and what I hope to have. A tame little car which caught my heart and was within the reach of my wallet. The story of this car was the opportunity cost of a blue Toyota 111 from a friend of mine. I was about to seal the deal then someone advised to me to check out an open field local car bazaar. It was among the...

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Leaving

I'm on leave.....for just two days but it had me thinking. Leave is a word close to my heart, almost as close as no. Now I don't get to say it often enough.....mostly because I don't make too many mistakes and even the few ones I make are corrected by a no long before the word leave is necessary. So I'm boring? I know I don't live up to your idea of interesting. I'm sorry, I beg you forgiveness. I mean, how dare I? So very inconsiderate of me. What might come as an absolute shocker is that I find your idea of fun to be a catastrophic waste of time, tantamount to downright debauchery and equalled only by the most famous tragedies of our time....

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