“Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read” (Frank Zappa) – Comment

Oh my gosh, I have no clue for this statement. When I google for information on this topic I got to see he also has other funny quotes that don’t not make senses at all. He seriously needs someone to help him. I think Mr Frank Zappa is insulting the rock community and they are the ones that provide us with music. If I understand this statement correctly, I think he is saying all the people that are into rock they are useless and the fans are loss as they have no idea of what is going on the music industry. The whole world must laugh at this man. He is the one that is lost and us (the fans). Mr Zappa, if you want us to respect you than you must also respect us, the fans. Respect comes from both sides.

Being in a music industry is not easy as what you thing. It is very tough, that’s why you sometimes see an artist releasing one album in one year and the second one is release after three or four years. South Africa needs more Kwaito, Hip - Hop and Rock and Roll music.

Mr Zappa can say what ever he wants to say. He can use freedom of speech to his advantage. The sun won’t shine on him only but to everyone. Being famous does not mean you should hurt the fans through words. Let’s respect each other, Mr Zappa.

Stay cool when difficulties test you

Occasionally, when we are faced with tragedies and our needless suffering, our hope grows dim. Unexpected hurts, such as the loss of loved one, or major disappointments in life may leaves seeking answer to many questions that arise in our mind. We have to be calm and remember that God’s ways are not our ways and our ways are not His. We have to carry in faith and trust, even though we may not find the answers we seek. It is always a struggle to try to figure out why something has happened.

Sometimes we need to put our shattered dreams back together and work even harder to achieve them. Failing should not break us, but make us stronger in overcoming the obstacles that stand between us and succeed. Every person expects certain things from life. That is why we want to achieve me.

My pastor always says every journey that we start is already finished and concluded to Him. We are destined to proper in every situation, and the journey is not over until we have overcome difficulties.

That is why some things unfold as we travel through life. If giving up is not an option, we need to find alternative ways to reach ways to reach our destiny. There is no need to panic and become so anxious that we cannot move forward.

Education is the key to succeed

Of course education is the key to succeed. The reason why we are at tertiary level is because we want to succeed in life and leave a better life. Education is considered basic to one’s life. Education makes man a right thinker. It tells man how to think and hoe to make decision. I personally say education is for the mind.

The first thing that strikes me about education is the knowledge gain. Education gives us the knowledge of the world around us. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build opinions and have view on everything in life. My little sister asked me a question saying is education the only thing that gives knowledge. I answered her saying yes and my friend that I was with said education is a process of gaining information about the surrounding world while knowledge is totally different.

Education is important because it equips us with all that is needed to make our dream come true. In this case all public relations students want to be in public relations industries and become manager and some want to run their own companies. If it was not for education there won’t be anyone thinking about this beautiful ideas.

Without education it will be hard to succeed and those of us that have an education let’s make use of it and make a difference in our lives.

Gratitude

Every day I wake up complaining about this and that. Is that normal? I always think of getting a job in a mining company that pays me good. I never feel that what I have is enough because I’m always in the fast lane, wanting something better.

Most of us we expected things to happen quickly, and want things to come our way as we ask for them. It’s difficult to not want the success and the” good life” because we have so many opportunities and choices to be and so whatever we want. God has planned our journey and experience. Many people have become such selfish beings that we find it difficult to be still, look around us and appreciate the things that we are blessed with because we are always chasing things. People feel they never have enough. I know how difficult it must be to show appreciation when you are going through a difficult time, especially in the recession.

Be grateful that you still have people around you to make you happy and no matter what they are there through thick and thin, unless those people are not your true friends. It’s the little things that we take for granted but it’s those little things that make so much difference. Remember to show gratitude even if life seems unfair, be grateful that you still have a second chance to make things right.

Keeping my identity

I cannot tell you how much friends I have heard or seen moving in and out of relationships in the last few months. Please people don’t get me wrong, I’m happy always happy when a friend of mine is happy and even happier if the happiness is from deep within.

What I have observed for the past years is that the best way to start my relationship is by having a perfect relationship with yourself. Once the relationship with yourself is flawless, then you are ready to include others in your personal space.

We tend to look for someone who will complete us and even when you are get married, the partner is called the “better half”. It will take many people a long time to reach this stage where and not looking for completion. One of my belief is that we should not go look for happiness elsewhere, because if we are not happy with ourselves.

We have tendency to hurt for a person we believe will rescue us from ourselves. Through out my life I have grown to understand that is whole” I am looking for someone who is going to make me happy” is something that we grown up believing when are not happy with ourselves.

When one is happy, you attract happy people around you.

Forgive & forget

I’m just thinking of the recent things happening in Namibia. Managing Director of Nampower made a silly comment about the newly formed party. He thought he was protesting the new party but actually insulting them. He apologized last week to the public.

We can all learn something from this drama. We can choose to continue being angry or we can choose to forgive and forget. Many people say that they can forgive but they can’t forget. What a cliché. Part of forgiving is forgetting so that you can start a fresh and keep moving on your journey called life. My mother say forgetting is like a would that covered and heals, but leaves a scar. We need to learn to forgive, and tried and tested way is to forget yourself first. This task is very difficult as we are often hander on ourselves than we are on others.

We are face many issues every day, and we burden ourselves by seeing everything that happens a weapon out to destroy us and our dreams. We tend to take everything personally and cannot tell the difference between attacks and constructive criticism. When you forgive you are doing your part to make the world a more peaceful and better place.

10 most unexpected consequences of being online

I like being online as I get to learn many things. Being online helps people to communicate to their love ones. When people are online they for get that time is money. In fact, there are unexpected consequences of being online. They are as followed:

1. Seeing my father and mother on facebook. It will be even worse if they add my best friend.
2. Getting involve in a e-mail scam
3. You can make new friend and build a good relationship with them
4. The funny thing is that someone is always watching you. I hate that.
5. People become addicted to facebook and twitter. They don’t have time to chat to people that aren’t on facebook or twitter.
6. Meeting wired friends and having nothing in common
7. Finding that you share a name and surname with someone that you don’t know
8. People use facebook to hurt other people
9. It can transform into getting or finding a job
10. Spending money to use internet in meanwhile you have nothing to eat

It is import to be aware of those things that I mention because they can happen to any one on this planet. They seem to be simple but take them into consideration.

Andy Warhol said, “In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes”

Well, I never thought that in the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes. It took me a while to think about it. I thought to myself that God made me different from other people and I’m unique in my own way. What will stop me from being famous for fifteen minutes? I should not waste my talent that God gave me. I have to make use of it or else I won’t be famous for fifteen minutes.

Public Relations is my career and I’m happy that I chose this field. Public relations is all about publicity which mean I will be in the public eye. If I have to make a speech on behalf of Namibia on BBC television I will be world famous for fifteen minutes. The Good part is that people will still remember me and I will use it to my advantage.

Being world famous for fifteen minutes allows you to be on the red carpet and be like other famous people in the world. You need to work hard to be famous and make money because you will be in the public eye. Being famous and having money is part of being a celebrity.

Personal autonomy – how far does it extend?

Personal autonomy is being independent and able to speak for oneself. We are all raised by different parents with different religious and different back grounds. In other word, we are different from one other. I believe being independent one can achieve his/her goal because he/she does not depend on other people. Being independent is not bad at all as long as you know what is right and what is wrong. Being independent, you also need people’s ideas so that you can learn from them.

Personal autonomy goes as far as the rules and regulations. After Jacob Zuma became a president, many people thought they are free to do what ever they want. They forgot that the government won’t allow that. The government has rules and regulations that we all need to follow. No one can change rules and regulations, not even the ministers and or communication. We all have to obey them.

Money makes the world go round

Oh my goodness, this statement is very true. The statement basically means money is the root of all evil. There is no way to survive without money because it feeds us, clothes and keeps a roof over our heads. If I decide to travel from point A to B, I will need money. To some people money is not evil, but the love of money is called the root of all evil.In other words we can't live without money.

We earn money in order for us to fulfill our needs and responsibilities. If we use the money wisely, it will enable them to live a happy and a blameless life, and will not do them any harm. All too often, however, money takes over people’s lives, and they become obsessed with acquiring it by any mean, fair or soul. The reason that makes people to love money is the power that it gives to enjoy sensual pleasures.

These days people especially women they do anything just for money. Some women they sell their bodies and some they go steal other people’s things that do not belong to them. That is why people say money is evil.

Money makes the world go round because we think of money every time and when we have money. We don’t thank God. I think this is unfair. We should learn to thank God and he will bless us with more money.

Please people let us not put money before God. We must learn to work hard so that we make money and not to depend on other people. Money is evil.

Watch this space

What is coming? Keeping an open eye and mind, it is a call to staying aloof and aware of what is coming as in keep a bookmark in your mind to act as a constant reminder of that particular topic. In general terms one could use the upcoming 2012 craze, which highlights the idea of a new age of a conscience human being, a changing world where we as humans are moving towards a era of homo Spiritus as we become more conscious and spiritually inclined.
Other ways in which the phrase watch this space is used is in magazines and newspapers (print media) where an allocated part of the publication is specifically for a certain organization and they publish announcements or advertisements for their establishment and they would then at times print “watch this space” in anticipation of an upcoming big event that the organization would like to keep the public aware of. The purpose is to build up anticipation, excitement and a sense of wonder and to keep the mind enquiring, with that organization in mind.

From my experience when I click on vacancies at Rossing Mining Company (the company that i'm dying to work for) website. It always says watch this space. It motivates me to go on the website every to see whether there are vacancies in public relations or communication.

Conventional is a good fallback

I would disagree with this motion as conventional would mean that one would have to act and in turn be what is set to be the norm of society. One leads towards convention as a sign of laziness or in fear of non – acceptance. How dull would it be if the world was constructed along the lines of convention instead of individuality? Where individuals live in their own light and not according to what is accepted to be truth or right in society’s light.

A colorful, kaleidoscopic fallback based on individually motivated reasons is a good basis for a fallback if ever. The Motion of conventional being a good fallback might seem to some as better as when ideas are bought up they would seem to be too much or rather decorated in ways that would seem excessive and conventional would always be a decent place to fall back on cause one would claim that it is what is already familiar and has some sort of longstanding tradition to know that it works. This is a rather conservative point of departure that is not really enthusiastic about change and the development of new dynamic, modern ideas.

Conventional is rather settling for something. Some would see it as laziness as ideas are forever free flowing and there is so much space to maneuver, such freedom for creativity whether of thoughts only or of thoughts that manifest into actions. We as living, breathing organisms that form part of the organ called humanity should stay true to ourselves and develop of personal individual choices and not settle to what has been developed by society and has become accepted by many as the standard to live by or the conventional way of life and embrace difference and the diverse, steering away from convention.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one idea.

Ideas are the result of a thought process that one goes through, be it creatives in a brainstorming in a professional setting e.g. Art directors in advertising or be it in a personal capacity sitting in a train in silence surrounded by strangers. The thought process could be sparked by something one might have seen, starting a chain of thoughts leading to an idea one might have. Individuality is a key aspect of an idea as even though the thought process might have been sparked by someone else, the thoughts that follow are completely one’s own being aided by one’s character.

Background, experiences and culture would play a role in the formation of an idea. As isolated as an idea is, it draws from various aspects of life, passed, present or future. Think outside the box is an expression constantly used in professions that are art orientated or creatively motivated, this is an encouragement to take the point of departure in terms of the topic or concept and not to only think of ideas which are in close relation to it. One could for example then take something conventionally seen as unrelated and find it somehow making sense to group together.

In the case of only having one idea, the danger comes in when it is worked into ones ideology and way of life, you only see everything in one light, nothing else is considered. An example could be that of an extremist Muslim, they would only see one way and have one way of doing things, it’s either that one way or nothing else, if one doesn’t fall within the confines of that ideal that the extremist has in his mind then you could pose as a threat to him and might cause him/her to label you, the enemy. Danger exudes when sense or an alternative direction of thought in a new light cannot be instilled.