I’m not sure how many times I’ve said this before but anyone who describes themselves as “cool” is not cool!
Being cool is an attitude and the way how you come across to others. It’s not your interpretation of how you come across to others! If you are actually conscious about how you come across others [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:14 on July 31st, 2007 in Lifestyle
No Comments »More and more I’m bumping into people of African descent (Black people!) who feel that in order to be accepted by their white colleagues they have to prove/show how similar to white people they are. This is a continuous source of bemusement for me!
I know I’ve already touched on a similar topic about fitting in [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:10 on July 30th, 2007 in Lifestyle
No Comments »Rather reluctantly I have forced myself to update my audio-visual gadgets!
In recent weeks I have acquired a number of stuff and the list has not ended yet! Actually owning them is not the buzz for me: it’s the process of how I get them which is the key thing!
I won’t go into this process except [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:59 on July 29th, 2007 in Lifestyle
No Comments »You already know how much I hate the smell of bacon and anything that comes from the pig, right? Well, on Wednesday my sense of smell was assaulted by the stinking stuff wafting up from my neighbour’s apartment below.
The only way I could prevent myself from throwing up was to leave the building and go [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:11 on July 28th, 2007 in Lifestyle
No Comments »Talk about speed! I pre-wrote a blog entry titled Hard To Write for July 25, 2007 and set it to become public at precisely 08:00 a.m. that morning. By around 08:25 a.m. when I checked it online Google had already trawled the BlackMag Blogs site and picked up the blog entry! What are these guys [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:09 on July 27th, 2007 in Technology
No Comments »I think some governments, local authority councils, boroughs and judiciaries exist only to extract as much money out of ordinary people as they can, without really helping them.
This thought ran nakedly through my mind as I sat in my car watching a traffic warden enjoying his job putting a penalty notice on a motorist’s car.
What [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:26 on July 26th, 2007 in Society
No Comments »Discipline is one of the key traits that anyone who desire to be a writer needs to have if they are to succeed in this business. This is especially true if you’re attempting to write a substantial project which requires perseverance as well as continuous slog in order to complete it.
Typical examples of this would [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 08:00:28 on July 25th, 2007 in Writing
2 Comments »I have tried not to look back on those situations I found myself in where I was looking directly at my enemy who was pretending to be my friend. I reasoned that I was playing fool to catch wise, to quote a famous Jamaican saying.
Maybe it was simply a case of me keeping my enemies [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:00:24 on July 24th, 2007 in Lifestyle
No Comments »Maybe it’s the way of the world now that almost every big company, famous individual and upcoming débutante is announcing their intention to go green! It’s getting so nauseating that I really want to vomit all over their little show!
It’s not that I am anti-green; far from it. In fact it’s precisely because I believe [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 22:00:10 on July 23rd, 2007 in Society
No Comments »I must be one of the few people alive who have not ready a Harry Potter book! However, when it comes to the films I have to admit I have seen around three or four. My mind is confused because I have this tendency to get two of them mixed up!
I went along to see [...]
Posted by BlackMan at 17:54:59 on July 22nd, 2007 in Lifestyle
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