25 Random Things About Me

1. I'm left handed and am one of 7 kids at home (trust me to sneak in a 26th fact, yeah, thought no one would notice)
2. I've been in Gauteng for 6 years but still don't feel comfortable enough speaking anything but Zulu & English (eish, guess that thing abt Zulus is true)
3. One of my secret hobbies is sitting alone at a Sushi restaurant, eating sushi with chop-sticks and drinking a Castle Lite (wondering what people think of this weird phenomenon... black chick, in a japanese restaurant, drinking beer, now that's just crazy!)
4. I honestly, truly, really really don't believe there's such a thing as a 'bad person', even Mugabe has his endearing qualities (Like that Hitler moustache he's got going)
5. I think Chris Rock is the philosopher of our time, that man is deep shame…
6. I once drove to another province by myself, booked into a hotel and went to a party… by my self.
7. A big part of me still doesn’t believe in sex before marriage, stru!
8. I never missed a single day of school after Standard 3. Until matric I had full attendance (guess I really was a geek)
9. I think baths are kinda disgusting, who wants to sit in dirty water and claim to come out clean…
10. When I was 19, I almost got married (we went to the magistrates court with our ID’s, had the witnesses on stand by… bt the magistrate kinda told us to F* off, thank goodness!)
11. A real fear of mine is going into a club with fluorescent lights (the kind that makes white clothes shimmer), wearing a white item and it not shimmering. So, just in case, I replace white t-shirts often… and swear by Jik.
12. I didn’t know until I was in matric that I had light brown eyes (when a certain someone wrote me a poem called ‘brown eyes’)
13. 90% of the time, I play Gospel in my car, and the other 10% it’s hip-hop / house.
14. I love the smell of a man who’s just had a cigarette.
15. I don’t believe in any form of violence, no hitting kids, no slapping cheating girlfriends/boyfriends, none of it.
16. 2 ply tissues, spring water, flavoured condoms and Listerine are not luxuries, there’s no other way to go.
17. I think wearing more than 3 colours at a time should be a crime. My no.1 rule: accessorise, accessorise, accessorise. (Yes, there’s the odd exception though, like traditional wear, where it’s ‘the brighter the better, but looking like a pack of Niknacks doesn’t work)
18. I think the saddest type of person is an ageing black woman with all the money in the world and no family / man to share it with (…and this comes from a real feminist who thinks men are just there to carry stuff)
19. When I think of going broke, the saddest part is how I imagine down-grading from Dunhill Menthol to Snuff.
20. I would love to produce the South African version of ‘Cheaters’, imagine a Zulu man going: ‘Yes, she’s my girlfriend… and? Hamb’ ekhaya uyek’ uk’tetemuka nabelung’ abapheth’ ama camera. My food better be ready when I get there!’
21. I think make-up doesn’t fool anyone.
22. I think proof that Christianity is the real thing is that it’s the only religion with a real opposition, the other ones are probably on the wrong track anyways… so no one bothers them.
23. I wonder what the guy who came up with Sponge-Bob Square-pants was smoking. ‘So we take a sponge, right. Put it at the bottom of the sea, and dress it in pants…’, but it’s a sponge so it has to wear square pants… I know! Sponge-Bob Square-pants…! Why Bob, why not Sponge-George / Sponge-Phillip?
24. I sometimes sit and look at my huge book collection with the same pride and admiration one would have when looking at their kids. It’s one of my most prized possessions.
25. I think the most unforgivable human characteristic is hypocricy.