This past weekend was an eye opener and a catalyst to many discoveries that took place in my Cape Town visit. I went to redeem myself and promised to repent from my ways which were none satisfactory and was the bane in my almost lost relationship. After damage control and much convincing and ice melting we merged as better halves and more like husband and wife after therapy. We reconciled our differences and went as far as talking and sorting out our finances. What irritates my better half more than anything is how I go about using money; not to say that I spend on worthless things but he hates the debt trace I leave behind (I figure he knows in the end of the day he has to clean up behind me). There is a difference in how we were brought up, his family is more privileged than mine and depend not on him. To me it’s amusing when I say I have problems, bills more than my salary to pay and you say “oh, I have to buy paint for my finished (newly built) home”. PAINT yes and NO not just any ...

Last Friday I decided to take a breather and free myself from my usual tight schedule of studying and been broke. I went to visit a friend which introduces me to more friends. We had a blast, it was wonderful… I got a bit irritated an uncomfortable when one of my friends’ friend’s girlfriend started taking pictures of us. And my reason is- she did not ask and some how you feel violated when someone just surprises you by snap shooting at you holding a glass and not posed. I am one of those people who are picky when it comes to taking pictures (you them people who believe a person has a good side of their face or body for a snap shot). I’m not really photogenic but I surely love the camera when used by me or agreed to be taken a picture. Some people see no harm in just randomly taking pictures forgetting that we come from different worlds and what you find “cool” might be the opposite to me….lol. Anyway… here’s a killer – still same place, we were having Pizza and one of the guys says he...