I dunno bru. What is it about me that makes me the friend guy. What makes me that guy? Man i don’t get it. Lets see you are pretty darn fly, got a personality on you, you have a few guys hitting on you here and there, what makes me not fit into that box of those guys, what makes me the guy to be your friend?? I think the other week i got hit with 3 of those. Totally my fault though because i know these lasses are off limits in one way or another but alas, shoo bra, haven’t been on dates ever in my 33 years on this Gods green earth, so decided to give it a bash, its been helluva fun...u know i think i know what it is, i must change my dress sense, from now on only wife beaters and toothpicks and afro combs in my hair, oh wait no afro comb, you need hair for that and nature decided to be my barber ...ya man wife beaters and toothpicks....in summer cos its pretty darn chillos in Jozi at the moment...Yaw’s happy season. I used to think that guys and girls could be friends but the more i think about it the more i kinda doubt it, or maybe its just me, but alot of the girl mates i have, i have either had an episode/short story with, wanted to have one with in the past and got over it/had to get over it or am hoping to catch a gap sometime ;)...it is what it is, where do u fit. Ar ar ar.

Yip, i have been pretty scarce lately, just haven’t really had much to say lately, nothing really exciting going on to blog about. You know the usual, work, home, eat, family, mates, oh growing up what a bore .
Oh wait forgot to add this one. I have this girl mate of mine and yes i screwed this one up cos i crossed that friendship line you know the line that u cross and sometimes becomes near impossible to cross back over. Well anyway she told me once, Yaw, I am going to pay you the biggest compliment i’ll ever pay anyone. You will be my friend forever, because i want you in my life forever...if you could see my face you would see the expression of bemusement and confusion even as i write this a good few months later, i was like forever...for ever ever??? Not quite, but i did ponder how in Wolverines name that was a compliment...hey oh my dawg u will never be any more than a friend but u will at least be my friend??? I am quite a simple man so sometimes i need someone to draw pictures for me . But alas we move on

Oh wait I really don’t mean to be so vorentoe (forward)/vain, but i hit the big time a few weeks ago, got my first radio interview about the internet on the continent http://www.classicfm.co.za/talk/the-internet-economy/podcasts/reuben-talk-to-habari-medias-general-manager-yaw-peprah-about-their-push-into-africa. I had to go for special elocution lessons to learn to speak like that so don’t mock the accent see ;)

Anyway here’s something for you. A few weeks ago i am out with some peeps and we have dinner, once done with my dinner, i.e. plate is clear, not even a grain left, even a blind man (no disrespect intended at all) could see i was done, but alas my fork and knife were not together. This lass i am with gets a hissy fit and starts telling me how rude it was to not have my fork and knife together, this she says with her elbows on the table...I am like please if you are going to throw this aristocrat bull my direction you cant pick and choose which ones are ‘ruder’ than others no? Or am i missing a trick again? Its almost like someone telling me no Yaw you can rob that store but you cant kill those people...That’s the first part of my dismissal of her attempt to colonise this young African lion...hardly, focus Yaw focus...the second part of my argument is that in as much as it is good table manners and all, its pretty darn archaic and really serves me no purpose.

My folks did try and get me down the straight and narrow and for many years it worked till i realised all these prim and proper things aren’t just my thing. Don’t get me wrong, if by some miracle I am blessed with offspring, they too will learn all this to help mould them into ‘model’ citizens but when they are on their own, they are just that...on their own. All this stuff like making your bed, polishing your shoes, packing your clothes neatly into the cupboard, washing cars, mowing the lawn, you know the chores that some of us had to endure whilst growing up. All of them i think go a long way in developing as a young man, if nothing at all you learn discipline which i think is a necessary grounding, but when you get older you pick and choose which of these teachings are applicable in your life, kinda like learning Biology and Woodwork all at higher grade during school and you end up being an accountant...how the hell is knowing where or what the hypothalamus is or how to do a dovetail joint is going to help me when i have to calculate and report on the revalued financial instrument...oooh just got the shivers, be gone IFRS, be gone 

Ok thats 2 pretty interesting things, next thing Africa Day, I have written about it before but anyway it came and just as quickly as it came it went. It was on the 25th May, but hardly a whisper was said. Valentines day...from the roof tops its heard, Mothers day...Fathers day...Americas independence... Guy Fawkes day...Halloween we all know way too well about these days, but nooo not 25th May, the day where many of us should be celebrating our continent we claim to be so proud to born of. Yes the continent has not reached its full potential and frankly it may never will if we persist with some of the leaders we currently have. But man isn’t it just sad, that a continent as rich in everything, people, cultures, diversity, resources, fails to ‘grow’ a people proud to be born of its soil. Africa Day, whatever...and so it continues. And that attitude of apathy and disinterest is all part of the reason why we allow leaders to rule for 43 year, thats how many years the late Omar Bongo of Gabon ruled for, how is that ever healthy, and its also reported that his son will take over the reins, think i missed the episode when the powers that be said this is Gabon, aka Bongos playground. The sad thing is that we keep on letting it happen, Gabon, Zim, Libya, Ghana, Malawi, Congo, Zambia, all countries that have had rulers who ruled for at least 20 years, how is that a healthy state of affairs?

Anyway, thats me for another little while or not, who knows, thanks for indulging me again. But right now i think my pillow and CNN are calling me. You all be safe and excited about life now you here, cos you only get one chance at it, so Carpe Diem and as they say, better to do and regret than to regret not doing...

Birthdays
24th Amrain, Rich Marshall
25th Inge
26th Sharon
27th Monica
28th Nielfaar
29th Delia, Lauren Wick, Brett Keyser
31st Rachey S, AC, Dear Cous Nana Yaa
2nd Mame Ekua
6th HQ, Jill
9th Ivan
11th Ameer
12th DC, Samantha, Eckmar001
13th Fifi

Well once again it has been fun, till next we e-speak, let me embrace our diversity and sign off by saying Shalom!

Mad love!!

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