Tsotsi Gab !

Found this on Facebook.. so funny i gotta share haha.. best bestest..

You know u r in Africa when.. or u know u miss Africa when..

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...you fear for you life while riding in Combi....anywhere!
...you call everyone older then you uncle or aunt.
...you'd rather be barefoot
...every toothpaste is colgate.
...every soap is surf.
...black outs are nothing new to you.
...40 degrees is cold.

...four cars are driving parallel to each other on a one-lane road.
...The smell of freshly rained on mud paths/tarmac is comforting.
...being an hour late equals being "on time"
...you can bribe a cop and get away with it!
...You know that the police isn't always the safest place to go when you're in trouble.
...Cramming 7 passengers in a 4 passenger taxi is really not a big deal.

...you invite people for a get together at 7 and they all come at 9. ( funkar osso for chilenare)
...you cram 24 people into a 14 passenger Combi and have never felt closer to your African friends.
...you spent countless hours cleaning your sneakers when u know very well that by the time you get to the taxi stop, they'll be covered in dirt!

....you have another name in Setwana.

...you remember being so confused about how you could pay for something with a visa.

...you know you are from Africa when you have put Vaseline in your hair to be like your African friends..and your Mom has to take it out with OMO and Kerosene! ( true story, not that my moms had to wash it out but my hairdresser put Vaseline in my hair n I cudnt get it out for dayysss)

...you've been proposed to while walking down the street
...you know what true hospitality and generosity is...when those who have almost nothing still welcome you in with open arms and are willing to share everything they have with you - even though they barely know you!
...someone asks you how much your sister costs.
...your brother tries to sell you to his college roommate for 36 cows or goats... ( not in Africa but in Chile )

...You call a person you've never met before uncle or aunt

...None of your friends informs you that they are coming over for a visit.

...something that would normally take half an hour in the Western world takes a few days or weeks...and if it didn't it just wouldn't be fun.
...you find it completely natural to have burglar-bars outside your windows
...you know the DSTV channels by heart ( 322 my favorite)

...you can smell the rain before it comes
...you can look up at the sky and see every star clearly
...the sunset is something to look forward to

.....you spray 'Doom' in your room before going to bed ( UB love)

......you think of giving up trying to convince people of what it´s really like - even though they really do try, they often just don´t understand.
...having mud-orange feet is normal.
...instead of being greeted with "good morning", you're greeted with "Are you here / awake?"
...the rain back "home" feels cold.
...you learn quickly that pedestrians DO NOT have the right-of-way



hihi...

Yes yes yes yes u can call me Auntie Gab double up .. .

My brother and his Valeska had a beautifullllll baby BOY..  im the proudest auntie of the babys big sister Nathaly already, joy double up . .

Let me introduce to you! The heavyweight champion with his 3.9 kg . .

ZION CASTILLO  9/6 - 2008   

Joyful day, he was born on a sunny sunny day !

Rebellious tsotsi baby ZION.. welcome to the world !

Tia Gaba te ama y te manda muchos besitos!

Ok ok, this weeknd must have been one of the most hectic in a good while, eish started on Thursday,  had a photo shoot for Lapologa Mag, went to Khwest after work with Kitso, to chill hit one one, well friends showed up n the good music n vibes started.. well one one became like five five and a couple more, we rookd the floor free drinks n the good energy.. anyways, we decided to continue the night at Lizzard Lounge, well I got there realized I was broke, left the gals there,  went for the Shebeen instead, a new club where some of my people ( from our label) where performin, well sat down, the traditional whistles came on and the room started spinnin.. time to go home !

Well babalast Friday, half slept my day through work, didn't do to much revolutionizing work that day.. well later on I went home , with one item in my mind, my bed, get home, the label people suggesting we go to Gabane, a village outside Gabs to promote our new artist, I think, yessuurr people out house to myself boyfriend thinks yessuur finally my girl comes with, quality time.. noossuurrr... well, his puppy eyes got me n I found myself sittin in a combi with 20 traditional dancers, ( if u only new my love for ehm traditional music this would surprise u haha) .. Well Vee is launchin his new album, we crash the place n put our guys on stage.. roudy n raggy place bt that the fonk im with family rite haha.. home n sleep around 6..

Saturday, Slept slept slept all day, people out on promotion tour n boyfriend at work.. was thinkin for a split second to join by boy for work, u know solidarity work amongst the cds but naaa the bed was to cozy .. well I slept until 1, watchd a movie, had a friend ova , chill chill chill.. around 7 I decided to take control ova my life again and hit town, well Khwest again.. Girls nite out apparently, well didn't really work, hooked up with Caliano, Dziki, Space n some other folks at Khwest, hit a couple n left for my house in Pax to hit Fashion Lounge afta, well Fashion wasn't happnin n we left for Gabs again..

We hit Lizzard Lounge n this is whr out nite starts , eish mathatas n a half . . O didn't get in cuz he was wearin shorts, my girls lets call her Mase wasn't feelin Lizzard n decided to go to her cabin I went in, bought a Savanna, had a couple of zips n wnt out again, sumn told me to do that, well I found Oracle outside kinda pissd, find my girl Mase cryin and bruised after a heavy fight with the babydaddy on the parkin lot, eish lets just say, we had to call the cops, haunt her babydaddy down, go to her house,  go around all the blocks waikn relatives up, me n the babydaddy beefin thru a gate.. mama wudnt be proud of the words that came out of my mouth .. but eish wifebeaters ... sumn snapd in Ora n Space My head.. I feared the worst after sein them in the house.. well to make a long story n cold n long night  short - it ended ok, cops didn't do nuthn, they feared a electric fence n the fact that they cudnt jump ova..  Space n the guys droped me of at the house n I passd out..

Sunday, I love Sundays, the days me n my husband only leave the house to buy food at the shops, n dat is only if were nt feelin like nandos delivery food, well after 3 hectic days was feelin lyk not even leavin bed, me my boy n our lovely Fong Kong movies, gots to love the 28 in 1 with Chinese subtitles.. Well woke up n my boy feels like goin shoppin, whhuuu.. fonk, I get hyped n agree.. we hit game city, don't really find anythn, nice lunch at Mug n Bean thou.. later on, we split up, he to see his boys in Gwest n me to see my girls in Block 9.. chilled at Lesegos place and went to the new bar to get some drinks, eish not even Sunday was drinkless this week.. im getting to old man, no joke.. my body told me properly by givin me a proper flue today.. oh happy day.. well Oracle n his boys joined us, we went to Red Dot, hookd up with the my man n his bwoi.. I ditchd my people after a good couple of Savannas, n went for the movies with my man.. SEX N THE CITY.. finally, been wanting to see the movie for a good while now.. haha got in the cinema finding just couples in the mid 20 haha, fun stuff.. well the movie knockd me, its was so sad, I was feelin her pain, thnk my boy passed out somewhere in the middle like all the boyfriends around ( u could just hear the chicks laugh n cry around me ) well, good movie anyways, I want to be St Louise !  good good good movie bt the evil side of me wantd another ending..

Well freeezzznn like nobodys business, drove home n cuddled up n passed out nicely..

Monday: So far so Bad, damn this flue is killin me.. im sittin in my office hidin from my boss, blogging and waitin for a call from Sweden..

YESSUURRR,, The NEW Castillo bebe is hopefully cumin today.. My brother and his gal Valeska left for the hospital this morning.. YEAYY.. all the best n love to my family!

Well thinkin bout leavin the office n go n check on some friends by lunch bt this country is to cold, the heater in my office is my new love J

Naaaa let me get some work done.. Fundraisiin suks hard, n its borin..

Love love love n no flue my friends!

Lupe Fiasco - Paris, Tokyo 

Jr Gong - One loaf of bread
Lupe Fiasco feat Matthew Santos - Fighters

Nas - Getting Married

John Legend - Ordinary People Live

Asha - Eye Adaba

Illstar - Tus Besos

Stephen Marley feat Mos Def - Hey baby

Lupe Fiasco - Hip Hop saved my life

Maxwell- Pretty Wings
Slum Village feat Dwele - Call Me

Talib Kweli feat Musiq - Oh My Stars

Aint no Sunshine - Bill Withers

JR - Gata Lenna

Real Magosi - yeee I know but its vibey

Collie Buddz - Blind to you
Buju Banton - Sound Killa
Lil Wayne feat Jay Z - Mr Carter
Knaan - Smile



Listen n Love

The May list:

The weather: Cold n very sunny. .

The music:  Slow Jams heavy ones. .

The dreams: New Castillo bebe, boy or girl?

The missing: Nathaly and the bellybebe

The hope:  Health for Valle n bellybebe

The hope2:  Me in Sweden by Midsommar

The hope3: Sponsorship from Sony Ericsson

The struggle: Fundraising for my projects

The hustle: Findin partners for above

The love of today: Antibiotics

The love 2: Mommy in Spain

The word: Xenophobic attacks

The solidarity: For Zims struggling peeps

The movie: Indiana Jones

The book: The Quran

The book2: Dinner with Mugabe

The fundering: Name of bebe?

The fundering 2:  M Jacksons comeback, eish . .

The Mag: Lapologa - ratpack represent

The ass kick: All the rich stingy Indians in Gabs

The track: Illsomnia - Illstar

The surprise: the dub track - illstar freshness

Yessurr...  chaooo . .

This last weeknd of May . .

Well, this weekend eish.. i wasted nada energy at all.. I had the worst halsfluss n flue of the century.. Fun huh? Just me n my John Legend n my new dvds quality time . . so there isn't really to much to tell,  nice thou that I had the house to myself.. all the 104958458349058904 peeps stayin in my house, where out on shows n promotion n stuff.. happy times..  I have kinda nice friends huh, a boy of mine, drove alllll the way out to my place from Tlokweng ( typ Lund - Limhamn) to drop of some oranges from his garden to speed cure my flue, another  brought me movies . . yessuurrrr appreciation

Well what else, I got some worried emails from u at home about the xenophobic attacks in Johannesburg,  im in Botswana,  like 3 hours from Jossy n u have to cross a border n evrythn.. no worries ..

Eish the situation is hectic in Johannesburg, 45.000 internally displaced refugees , almost a 100 killed, thousands injured..   I don't know how much they r coverin this in Sweden, but  it's a very sad situation for the Zimbabwean and Mozambiquan  regugees in South Africa, they r being shipped home and staying in tents, police stations and even the mayor  Park Station hall in Joburg, imagine, u been stayin in Joburg for  18 years, built yourself a decent life, got a job, kids in school, nice house, even citizentship, but jst cuz u come from Zim, they trash evrythn u have, steal everythn u have, burn down yr house, throw u n yr kids out in the middle of the night.. N yr supposed to go back to Zim, a country u havnt seen in 18 years ( true case) , same thing happened to a South African Lady, the issue with her was that she has a son that was half south African and half Tanzanian, a kid that never seen his dad, wonderin why his house was gone and he had to stay in a refugee camp outside joburg? WHATS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?

Its scary that these terrorist are doin the same tests to this refugees as the whites where doin to them during apartheid, n what these Zulus don't know, that many famous South African leaders, the same people they look up to  now,  r either Zims or Mocambiquans or stayed there during apartheid.. maannnnn ignorance.. what happened to the African unity n helpin fellow Africans in needs, that's just a bunch of crap in South .. and now they r apparently threatening  Botswana citizens schooling in South . .

Naaaa let me start work, have a nice week eurrbaddeehh . .

Love n Light!