Oasis album review

Yet another journ assignment has me promoting my work, and this time it is a review of the most recent Oasis album Dig Out Your Soul. So follow the link provided and check out my lovely, informative and well written review in the form of a blog post on the Soundcheck blog on Posterous.com.

xxx Jamay

The Air planes got out noised, what is that.

Having nothing much to complain about lately, I mean apart from the usual things like work, this road-collapsing weather, the state of the current economy and the governments complete failure to, you know... govern, I decided that today I shall talk to you about a band. Not just any band, I have a specific one in mind, its called Your Version, My Story, YVMS for short because like, what a mouthful. So this is a local PE band made up of 6 guys, one of them being my beloved little bro. (Sup Bruv!) The guys are Ben Price on vocals, Tom Price on lead guitar, Dill Jones on rhythm guitar, Dan Tucker (my bro) on bass guitar, Glenn Perry on drums, and their newest member, Jonny Leyland on the Synthesizer /Keyboard. They started off just jamming around with my dad and his friends, and then the band just sorta happened. They used to practice in a hanger near the runway at the PE airport but got kicked out because apparently they were making too much noise... at the airport. yeah. The air planes were getting upset cause the band was being rowdier than them? I don't think so, damn airport politics, I'm just saying. Anyway so since then they've really gotten their act together, written a fair amount of songs and played a couple of gigs around various PE venues. So if you're a PE dweller look out for their next gig, and if your lucky enough to have escaped the clutches of festive, vibrant and ever exciting Port Elizabeth then you can check out their songs on their Facebook page. Enjoy:)

xxx Jamay

Some pics of the band:     

Ben Price (far right)

Jonny Leyland

Dan Tucker

Dill Jones

Glenn Perry

Tom Price

Check out my homework

I recently had an assignment for my Journalism class. My tut group was given the topic,"Faith" and were told to plan and write an online story related to this topic to be posted on Grocotts Mail Online, My Story section. Part of the project is to promote my article in several ways, and what better way but to post it on my blog? The article is about a local churches involvement in the Grahamstown community, so please check it out if you have a minute. Here's the link: Jamays awesome article 
Much love!

xxx Jamay

Exams make me super tidy

End of year exams are coming up soon, which means hitting the books and the loss of any form of social life whatsoever. We all know how exhilarating studying can be. I find that during exam time my room stays exceptionally tidy, no dish goes unwashed, no bed unmade and absolutely no clothing can be found on the floor. The reason for this? It may sound crazy but tidying up my room is just more fun than cracking a book. We all have our delay tactics and ways to procrastinate, and I find cleaning my room becomes just that much more important during exam time. Come visit me any other time of the year and its another story.  Ironic since exams are the time of year that people visit the least.
Good luck with your studies and varies procrastinations everyone.

xxx Jamay

#Stop Saying Hashtag

Something that irritates the sanity out of me is this thing that seems to have infected the minds of the world's youth, and even some of our more senior members of humanity. Hashtagging, it sounds like a fishy, marine type term, not a craze of the social network. I don't have a problem with it when people use it on Twitter, because obviously that is what it's for, and I'll admit it's a pretty ingenious way of tracking and creating trending topics. When people started using it on other social media such as bbm, whatsapp and Facebook it began to get mildly irritating. On the irritation scale it was probably  at level 5, that's around the same level as those terrible news readers that can't speak English properly and mess up the grammar and pronunciation of, lets face it, really simple words. So that was irritating but still bearable. Recently though, people have actually began to say "hashtag etc etc" during a conversation. Honestly, what is social discourse coming to.This development greatly increases the irritation level, taking it waaay off the charts. It has now reached a degree of irritation to rival that of say... James Blunt's voice or Julius Malema maybe. Has the standard of conversation dropped so drastically that we have reduced ourselves to saying a key word or phrase in the place of an actual coherent sentence??

xxx Jamay     

Who stole my damn participation star?!

In my res here at Rhodes we have this thing called a participation board. The name pretty much says it all, it tracks the students in my res'es participation in res activities. These activities include inter res sports events, community engagement and other similar things. Now myself and my friend that lives in the same res as me, we aren't really 'participation people'. We went to the same high school and school spirit and taking part in school activities is just something that was not drilled into us, and therefore something we are just not accustomed to or interested in. So where other students in our res were racking up the stars next to their names on the participation board, the spaces next to our names remained blank, and we were okay with that. This, however, changed recently when it was made compulsory for everyone to make at least one trip to help out at a children's home for community engagement. My friend and I made the trip to the children's home as was required of us, and for this we earned our first (and most likely last) participation stars. My friends from other residences had considered it hilarious and, quite frankly, typical that we had no stars, and even more hilarious when we were awarded our single stars for the trip to the children's home. Although I had no problem with my lack of participation, and therefore stars, I was pleased that we did receive a star for our community engagement as we did put in the work for them. So I was severely pissed off the other day, when I discovered that someone has removed the star from next to my name on the participation board. Seriously?!?! Who frikkin does that?? I went to the children's home, I did the participation, so give me back my damn participation star. Talk about a petty crime.

xxx Jamay

Below are pics of the participation board

The Participation Board

My lonely and hard earned star (the blue one)

The star goes missing

If you don't book a slot, you can damn well wear dirty clothes.

We have a system for booking washing machine and tumble dryer slots here at res. There are 2 of each machine and a booking sheet with time slots for each one. One slot is for one hour of machine time. At res, you plan your life around your timetable, and your washing slot. So when some fucker decides to jump the gun it really pisses me off. On several occasions I have walked happily into the washing room with my wash basket full of clothes, armed with Sta-Soft and bio Classic, only to find my carefully booked washing machine filled with clothes, clothes that are not mine. How silly of me, to think that I would be able to do my washing in my washing slot, honestly. It's different when someone takes your tumble dryer, because you can simply stop the machine and throw their trespassing clothes out, but when someone steels your washing machine... that shit is serious. You cant exactly stop it in the middle of its cycle while its filled with soap and water and the clothes are sopping wet. What kind of morally unstable person steals someones CLEARLY BOOKED washing slot anyway. Either they're blind, stupid or just a bad person... take your pick bitch.

xxx Jamay