Bitch, Please! I’m Ayanda Mbadlanyana.

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YES, YOU HEARD ME RIGHT. Oops! Not my words, Khanyi Mbau’s (I was just being cute). ‘Bitch, Please! I’m Khanyi Mbau’ is the self-acclaimed book title of the ‘Queen of Bling’, which is currently in bookstores nationwide. This is a girl, well more of a mature woman seeing as she’s way ahead of herself (her face that is, definitely not brain!), whose controversy has entertained us, angered us, frustrated us and had us in knots.

One thing is certain, Khanyi brings credibility to the term ‘DIVA’. No offense Miss Mbau but as for me getting a copy of your book it’s a NO NO! What I managed to is get a snippet from your book to share with my readers. Khanyi on Sugar Daddies: “I saw nothing wrong being looked after by an older man who loved me, I was tearing down walls, breaking taboos. Because of me, younger girls now have the confidence to walk around holding hands publicly with their sugar daddy” And how has this changed humanity and our social fiber again?

Different strokes for different folks, if Lesley Mofokeng has balls enough to put Miss Mbau’s name behind his writing career, so be it. Personally, I wouldn’t be caught dead reading this book! Reading is cool, but whatever I read should make me look even cooler!

Bitch, Please! I’m Ayanda Mbadlanyana and for that reason, and that reason only I’m not reading your book! Toodles!

The Best Beauty Secret: Flirting

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'I’m such a flirt’! These were words running through my head after helplessly flirting with a colleague last night. Sure, he is quite handsome, charming and oozes confidence, which is such a turn on in a man. However, it was not the idea of him that I was smitten by, it was the sensuality and sexiness attached to flirting with him and other men in the background. Lol! After doing some digging of my own on the joys and wonders of flirting, I compiled ten sweet reasons to flirt.

Flirting Unloaded:

1) Flirting is a light, happy mood enhancer.

2) There is no risk in falling pregnant or getting an STI, as you don’t get to sleep with the guy (unless you intend to).

3) It can lead to a walk down the isle or to the local bar if the relationship doesn’t work out!

4) Have you ever flirted with the postman, neither have I. But the point here is you don’t have to look your best to flirt.

5) One of the coolest facts about flirting is nobody gets hurt unless you make something out it.

6) Self confidence booster, enough said.

7) Well its great practice for being the best flirt once ‘Mr. Right’ comes around (like never!).

8) It’s a whole lot of fun fun fun…

9) You become a sultry slut without bedding the entire village, we all have our ‘tarty’ moments.

10) And finally yet importantly, flirting is FREE which means the guy doesn’t bend over and feel stressed by impressing you with expensive lunches or five course meals.

                 What you waiting for! Go flirt your radiant self away.... I DEFINITELY AM ;)

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one idea (Alain)

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Plan A and Plan B may not be identical, yet they go hand in hand. Any plan can never be a success on its own, there always has to be a ‘Back-up plan’ or in this instance idea. What pushes our ideas to succeed is the fact that we are assured that should anything go wrong (without being pessimistic!), there is still something to fall back on.
Having one idea is like going to the Matric National exam with only one pen, or being crazy enough to walk the streets of the Cape in August without an umbrella! Like having one girlfriend and not having ‘any on the side’ (the perfect gent ideology!) or even worse having one idea is like making preparations  in winter to attend a spring wedding and having only one dress not two. Dress number two of cause being the one most likely to be worn after the endless calories consumed in the previous dreadful season, WINTER!

I could make a million and one examples yet one thing remains nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one!

Have you figured out the second head fake?

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This reminds me of Greek Mythology when one would witness visuals of double-headed snakes ‘Lernaean Hydra’ I think, The Greek Snake with Multiple Heads. In reality though the second head stands for our imagination, well according to my own interpretation anyway…

Our own imagination and fantasies can be seen by many as fake and fickle, people like to think that the only way to keep abreast of things and sane is to always be realistic, which is great unless you’re permanently in your own world! But honestly speaking where we would be without some imagination and ‘dreams’.

The secret of our two heads: reality and fantasy is balancing the two. A realist is fearless yet always on edge, a dreamer is a seeker yet always afloat somewhere in cloud nine with their heads in the sky with all things ‘marvelous’ which of cause is unrealistic unless you’re an God’s Assistant.

Simply Put: The second head is there to make the first one to place things in order and make sense of Everything.  

Happy Womens Day

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August the 9^th in 1956 saw 20 000 South African women march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria for the abolishment of The Urban Areas Act (Pass Laws Act) which entailed for every black woman to carry a mini docket wherever they went or else face the ugly face of the Apartheid Judicial System.  Over 100 000 signatures were signed and placed at the then Prime Minister J.G Strijdom’s door. Mr Strijdom pissed so much in his pants that day that he never wanted to see another Dom Pass ever in miserable life and the women won, no more Pass Law.

|If it were not for the courage of Lillian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Albertina Sisulu and Sophia Williams-De Bruyn, we probably would not have witnessed the liberation of South African women as is today. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma would not have been the Head of the AU, Phumzile Mlambo Ncuka would not have made history as the First Woman Vice President of South Africa, Mangwashi, Victoria Phiyega would not have been our very first SA Police Commissioner and so the list goes on….

Surely we have a long way to go in having more female board members and CEOs in SA, more women engineers, doctors, scientists, judicial figure heads etc… But one thing is certain we’ve come a long way and as South African woman  and are still yet to make much  history in this country and the rest of the continent. 
Oh! And I cannot thank enough my extraordinary Media Studies 3 Lecturer Marian Pike for her vast, rich, in-depth knowledge and wisdom. Without you I would never have it Simply Put!

Happy National Womens Day to all the Amazing women of Southern AfricaJ. Wathint'Abafazi Wathint'imbokodo "you strike a woman, you strike a rock".

I AM...

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A lot of things really! But have made a realistic list on introducing you into a bit of the person behind ‘Simply Put’.

I Am a very an extraordinary being.
I Am eccentric and exotic ;)
I Am a realist yet a dreamer.
I Am a happy and generally positive being.
I Am a person who looks at the good in people, as I too have my own blemishes.
I Am an aunt, sister, lover and the last born (A mommy’s girl)
I Am a creative being, who loves fashion and all things lovely!
I Am a weave girl can never be spotted without one!
I Am a sucker for the colour purple.
I Am someone who always wants to contribute in the well-being of those around me.
I Am a writer.
I Am a future wife and mother.
I Am the next ‘Oprah Winfrey’ And yes, I’m dead serious.
I Am a Leader.
I Am an Achiever.
I Am a star in a galaxy of life and love.
I Am the daughter of a loving Father in Heaven.


                                                                        I AM ME…

The lady in blue

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 Well she was more in navy and very dull! Yes, last week I went for my driving license test for the first time ever and I unfortunately failed. Not because I’m a reckless ‘yet to be official driver’ but because before I even set foot for my test I had a ‘feeling’ I was faced for a not so good result.

My test was in the Traffic department in Khayelitsha which is notorious  for setting up ‘treasure  licenses’ you basically give your driving school instructor R2000 rand and there you have it:  a brand new license to hit the road. By the time I got to the driving test I was   greeted with a not so pleasant look, anger  and an aura of negativity as I was the stupid girl who did not bribe anyone for a piece of precious plastic, and never in a million years was I going to. My nerves and unfriendliness of the Traffic Officer took the best of me and I FAILED.

Nonetheless was not discouraged, I’ll make another appointment this week at a totally different Traffic Department! And hopefully after my test I’ll be all smiles this time around…