Fantasy It’s Valentine’s Day. I have woken up single and I have to work. It’s just an ordinary day. But I do have something to look forward to: the slab of chocolate in the fridge and tonight’s trip to the cinema. I have decided I need to leave the house to really cement my “IContinue reading “Can he make your dreams come true?”
Tag Archives: Thoughts
A statistic
I think it was some time in 2020 when I first thought, “I live my life counting two weeks at a time”. In the flurry of alerts and guidelines and rules of “best practice”, staying at home for two weeks to monitor your symptoms is what stuck with me. Every time I coughed (likely becauseContinue reading “A statistic”
When is it my turn?
Waking up this morning, I realised that I was still bitter about something I heard at lunch yesterday. A group of women chatting over decadent (but slightly bland, in my opinion) food about… men. Get-togethers like that are wonderful but they don’t hold up to the Bechdel Test. The general themes this time were: “datingContinue reading “When is it my turn?”
Tired
I can’t believe I have to be my own emotional support. I am legally an adult. I have had jobs. I graduated university. I am the Eldest Daughter. But still, there are moments in the day where I just stop what I’m doing — typing, reading, scrolling, chewing — and just think, “Oh no. WhatContinue reading “Tired”
Updated from the trenches
I want this to be me but… I don’t know how to date.Those who have been here for some time know that I have been struggling to figure out relationships for the better part of the last ten years. I have gone from being confused by and even fearful of boys and men, to beingContinue reading “Updated from the trenches”
[Film Review]: Bypass is A Brilliant Local Medical Thriller with Heart
What lengths would you go to, to protect the ones you love? This is a question poised and then beautifully answered in Bianca Schmitz, Diane Vermooten and Shane Vermooten’s Bypass. Dr Lisa Cooper (Natalie Becker) one of the country’s top surgeons, is the mother of young Sam (Joel Brown), who is in desperate need ofContinue reading “[Film Review]: Bypass is A Brilliant Local Medical Thriller with Heart”
[Review] The Perfect Find – Tia Williams
In The Perfect Find, Tia Williams gives us the story of Jenna, a former top fashion editor who finds herself out of work, out of love and out of place in a world where gifs are hot currency (even if, to her, they are “like bad acid trip hallucinations”) and magazines are losing ground toContinue reading “[Review] The Perfect Find – Tia Williams”
[Review]: Why Not Me? – Mindy Kaling
I am a fan of Mindy Kaling. I started watching The Office after getting hooked on season one of The Mindy Project – and I still believe that the premiere episode of the show was one of the best TV episodes I have ever seen. As Mindy Lahiri, she says all the crazy stuff IContinue reading “[Review]: Why Not Me? – Mindy Kaling”
[Recap]: Films I Liked at the Joburg Film Festival 2016
The Wedding Party In The Wedding Party, Kemi Adetiba has produced a film which captures the joy and chaos of a big Nigerian wedding beautifully. Amid the drama of snobbish in-laws, stubborn exes, bumbling groomsmen, a tightly wound wedding planner and a selection of uninvited guests, Dunni (Adesua Etomi) and Dozie (Olubankole “Banky W” Wellington)Continue reading “[Recap]: Films I Liked at the Joburg Film Festival 2016”
[Review] – A United Kingdom
When I first read about Seretse and Ruth Khama earlier this year, I was taken by the way that their story really proved two popular sayings: “love is blind” and “love conquers all”. Not only was their love one that disregarded racial differences, it was also one that withstood the pressures of international political machinationsContinue reading “[Review] – A United Kingdom”
Nkhensani Manabe 