Music Corner - Aka - "Baddest"

You know how I love these Music Corner post because they mesh my 2 favourite things: writing and music (whoop, whoop!!)

So I go to thinking that I definitely have to plug more local artists (and by local I mean South African!) And here in S.A we have a saying "Local is lekker" (Afrikaans saying loosely translated to local is nice!) And who better to kick off our local spin than the biggest selling South African hip hop artist, the rap legend that is Aka!!! (And the crowd goes wild).

He has quickly become a legendary hip hop artist in South Africa, hell in Africa baby! He is even making waves in the rest of the world! (He just got home from the USA.) And although of late there have been so many controversial issues surrounding him (which we are NOT getting into because we only promote positive vibes here on #lifeluveverything) and besides this is all about the music...


E! News recently did a special about him (you definitely better go "Catch Up," "Google," "You Tube," whatever, to see the episode), because as big a fan of his as I am, even I learned some new ish about him watching that special.

But I must be quite honest that although I did listen to his music and had heard about him I wasn't really a fan. My fanship started about a year or 2 ago when my husband had the pleasure of meeting him (I'm so jelly now!!!) and after that (till this day, I kid you not) my husband can't stop talking about Aka or playing his music. So in my household its team Aka all the way, eeryday.

Now Aka has a ton of hits here back in SA, but my  personal favourite (although a bit old now) has to to be "Baddest" (which also features a host of other hip hop artists). You can find me cruising in my car on any given day and the first song on my playlist is this.

This song is just on a whole other level. The beat is sick, the lyrics are dope and the sound is unlike any you've ever heard. He deserves an MTV Music Award for it (although he did win a MAMA for one of his other songs.)

Yo Aka "You got me feeling like the baddest...."

XOXO T

Where Is She now?....What Has She Done With Her Life?

So social media has helped grow and evolve this blog (thank you, thank you and thank you again. Words would never be able to explain my gratitude for the love, support and appreciation everyone has shown #lifeluveverything.) Social media has also allowed me to meet alot of different people and one of them being the extraordinary Hilary Coombes.

@hilarycoombes and I have become great friends. We've talked about our posts, what we are working on (or thinking of working on), and our families. She has always championed me on from the moment she read my first post. About a little less than a year ago @hilarycoombes said that she was working on a book. I had also been toying with the idea of starting a book but wasn't sure how to go about it and she helped me out with some tips.

Well last week @hilarycoombes let me know that her book had just launched. I was so super stoked for her (still am, you guys should definitely go out and check  The Hen Party )

But in my elation for her, a sort of nostalgic feeling came over me...and it was a sense of what am I doing with my life?

Sometimes I really feel like I have become a waste of space, an oxygen thief. Alot of the time I feel like I am drowning (hell since I am being so open and honest, I've been having heart palpitations which are on the verge of panic attacks), because life just seems so overwhelming. (Does anyone else feel like this?) It also makes me think about the post I did of the Nicki Minaj song "Dear Old Nicki" (check blog post dated Sunday 1 November 2015 http://www.lifeluveverything.blogspot.co.za/2015/11/music-corner-nicki-minaj-dear-old-nicki.html )

Now look I have come to grips with the fact that as you get older things change, people change etc. I get it. But surely at my age I should be at some sort of settling point in my life. Either know where I'm going and how I'm getting there or damn well be on that path already!

But...nothing. I love doing this blog and I play around (in my head, sometimes on paper) with concepts, topics etc, but time just gets away from me, ALL THE TIME. I have the idea of going to study, something, anything. Even went online once to check out courses but that was the beginning and end of it.

My days consist of work and my nights consist of cooking, feeding my family, trying to spend a little bit of time with my family, watch some mindless tv (just to switch my brain off) and sleep. So you can understand why I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

Then I look around me at the people I know (coz for some reason I don't have much friends these days) and I see how much people are evolving, growing, prospering, maturing and achieving. And I always wonder what do people think of me when they see me (yes it's none of my business to know what people think) but still.

I mean me of past was the most vibrant person you could've found, the life of the party, the social butterfly, the one with the BIGGEST hopes and dreams, the one who would "make it."

So where is she now....what has she done with her life?

XOXO T.

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Adjusting to Big School

So the new year has come... I mean it's February already. And my what a world wind it has been!!

I feel like I have not had a moment to myself let alone, a moment to think or write.

So my son started at big school this year, Grade R. Yes we got into the school of my dreams but my what hard work it has turned out to be.

From getting school uniforms, to choosing extra murals, to him even making friends.

I thought this big school thing would be a breeze, afterall he had 2 years in pre-school to prepare. But boy was he not. He cried everyday for the first week and half of school. He had no friends and actually started saying that he hated school and wanted to go back to his nursery school. I was in total panic mode. I though I had made the biggest mistake ever! I even felt like a failure of a mom.

But the light came in the form of Granny. My mom came to visit for a week and managed to speak to his teacher and tell her about the lack of friends situation, and 2 days later he made a friend. (Phew!).


Then extra murals began and he was in his element. Afterall my son is the biggest sports fanatic I know. So now he is doing cricket and golf. (Golf, who would've have ever thought?) There are no more tears in the morning. He goes to school looking forward to whatever sport he will be playing that day.

I hope his love for school (actual school work) does improve because these are going to be the best years of his life.

I mean when I walked back into that school hall, 15 years later (after finishing there), it was like I had come full circle. My son continues the family tradition and for the first time ever I felt like an actual grown up (an old one :)  but an actual grown up nonetheless.

Here's to many many more years of being part of a school that is rich in history, family and great education.

XOXO
T.