Interview 7

Name: Leatile Sedabadi

Age: 21

Hometown: Tonota

Favourite Musician/ Band: Jay-Z

Favourite Book: The Partner by John Grihsman

Favourite Food: Rice and red meat (seswaa, serobe)

Hobbies: Watching television, playing video games, criticizing stuff.

Faculty: Medical and Health Sciences

Major:  Bachelor of Medicine/ Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)

Year: 2

ZT: Describe what you study.

LS: Human Anatomy, structure, physiology, function of the human body, pathology (abnormal functioning and treatment of those abnormalities), statistics, analysing data and research. Basically, a lot of things based on the biology of the human body.

ZT: What do you intend on doing on doing after graduating?

LS: Working as an intern for a year, then 2 years as a Medical Officer and hopefully back to school again to study internal medicine

ZT: Would you recommend your course to others?

LS: Yes. It’s exciting, knowing the unknowing and playing God.

ZT: When you were around the age of 8, did you ever dream of doing what you’re doing now?

LS: No, I wanted to be an inventor. I used to ruin all my toys trying to invent something super!

ZT: Any hidden talents?

LS: I’m very manipulative.

Tangled

Rating: 5/6

Okay, I admit that I'm a sucker for Disney movies. This was just awesome! Funny and awesome, just what I needed to lift my spirits. It's full of colour and magic and texture and wit! I think it's already on DVD now worldwide, but it just finished at cinemas in my country so...way to be behind, eh?

I'll see you next time!

To Clone Or Not To Clone?

Hello

So we were discussing in a genetics lab the other day...okay, more like arguing! Is it right to clone people? In biochemistry, people clone animals. It's become a natural habit to make exact copies of animals, like diary cows for example, so as to increase the yield or milk produced. This is based on a particular trait they have in their genes, like being capable of producing this many litres of milk per day or something. Now what if it were done on people? Let's say your beloved is killed by a freak accident or an illness...your child or your spouse? The good people in the world like Nelson Mandela or Albert Einstein? Would it be right to make exact copies of them? I mean, it is possible to do so.

You want to know what I think? You can clone someone, be it your child or what not, after they die; but you'll never actually get them back. You can engineer the same person genetically, and they'll come back exactly the same- image wise- but they'll never be that person you're trying to imitate; be it personality and behaviour. Another thing, it's morally wrong to try and clone a person, it's so unnatural and there's no purpose for it!

So, what'd you think?

Interview 6

Name: Lone Segajane

Age: 21

Hometown: Serowe

Favourite Musician/ Band: 50 cent

Favourite Book: I hate reading

Hobbies: Driving, playing cricket (I practice with the national team), and drinking

Faculty: Engineering

Major:  Architecture

Year: 1

ZT: Describe what you study.

LS: My course involves drawing and modelling houses or buildings; studying and analysing them.

ZT: What do you intend on doing on doing after graduating?

LS: I’d like to continue with school in the faculty of business or doing something business related.

ZT: Would you recommend your course to others?

LS: No. The market is very saturated. To get a job you have to go to the government and they only look for skilful architects. In order to be independent in the field, you need masters. Another thing, this course is hard. You need to be creative in their way. All they do is to guide you to be creative but they don’t tell you how to.

ZT: When you were around the age of 8, did you ever dream of doing what you’re doing now?

LS: No. I’ve always had a business mind and wanted to be self employed.

ZT: Any hidden talents?

LS: Hmmm....

Conrad's Fate

Rating: 6/6

Author: Diana Wynne Jones

Brilliant! This is what I like to call “Brilled to perfection”. I mean there’s nothing more to be said, that could further enunciate the genius behind this book. I couldn’t put it down all weekend! My conscience kept on telling me to put it down and study, but my curiosity wouldn’t let me.

Okay, this story is about a young Conrad Grant. He lives with his Uncle Alfred, mother and sister in a bookshop located in a place called Stallchester. He’s a very good willed boy, but things are always going bad for him in his life. So his uncle Alfred, who’s a magician, predicts that he has bad karma, from his past life. This is because he was supposed to get rid of someone in his past life but failed to. So he’s sent up to Stallery Mansion, a magical fortress which has power over the whole town, to find the person whom he was supposed to kill in his past life, and who is ultimately causing his bad fate.

Are you with me so far?

Well, he goes up to the castle where he competes for a job as a footman in search of the person he’s supposed to kill. He meets another young boy, Christopher Chant, and they embark on an adventure, to try and figure out the weird things that happen in Stallery which ultimately affect the whole town of Stallchester.

Now, this story was quite intelligently written. The way things turn out in the end; it’s a mind blower, I didn’t expect any of it. There are also quite interesting magical terms and ways that are quite creative and had me in awe of the author. Now if you are like me and you think that anything fantasy related that is quite excellent, ends with Harry Potter or whatever your favourite fantasy book is, check this out because you’re wrong!

There are more books which are sort of related to this one available, and I’d like to get myself acquainted with them. You see, the author has created a universe with many worlds. They are given the name “Related Series”, I think, and they are labelled Series 1 to 12. This book occurs in Series 7...I hope you understand what I’m trying to say here. Anyhowzer, go out there and get yourself a copy if you are into this sort of stuff.

Byeee!

Trompies

Hey and hey.

Today I’m taking you to the ‘90s southern Africa; right when kwaito music was the ‘it’ thing and everyone’s radio was jamming to these unique tunes. Do y’all remember Trompies? No? Oh I loved this kwaito group more than anything. They had a super cool flare about them that truly agreed with my musical taste at that time. Originating in South Africa, I remember their song Ga senna ; I think that’s the name anyhow and Sweety lovey (we played this song in my marimba band). Quite the entertaining background if you ask me. Now, I’m pretty sure that we all have our fondest memories of the ‘kwaito era’, so I hope I brought back some fondest memories J. Mine involve this particular group. So where are they? I tried to research but there’s no distinct info on their whereabouts but as it turns out, they are still quite successful in what they’ve ventured into. Some of them are music producers!

I’ll see ya real soon! 

In The Department!

Hey.

Guess who got their driver's license? Yep, moi! Me, me and me! As you can remember in the post Driving Lessons, things seemed all hopeless for the faithful Ziggie, and I was even considering taking on the fact that I was a bad driver. Anyway, now that I've joined the "Department of those with a driver's license", I need a car!

But first, I need to go and take my picture for the card thingy. Unfortunately, as luck would have it, I have a huge knocker (zit), on my right cheek. I mean if anything was possible, it would grow a mouth and talk to me. So I have to wait for it to go away.

I'll see you next time!

Interview 5

Name: Tshiamo Tsebe

Age: 19

Hometown: Serowe

Favourite Musician/ Band: Chris Brown

Favourite Book: The Sky is Falling by Sidney Sheldon

Favourite Food: Anything bready

Hobbies: Socialising

Faculty: Agriculture

Major:  Soil and Water Conservation

Year: 2

ZT: Describe what you study.

TT: My course basically involved a wide range of things including computer studies, engineering design, construction of buildings using AutoCAD, principles of irrigation, sprinkler systems, writing programs.

ZT: What do you intend on doing on doing after graduating?

TT: Getting a job at Water Utilities designing pipelines

ZT: Would you recommend your course to others?

TT: Yes. It’s exciting as it covers a wide range of things.

ZT: When you were around the age of 8, did you ever dream of doing what you’re doing now?

TT: No, I wanted to become a journalist

ZT: Any hidden talents?

TT: I can talk non-stop!

The Georgia Nicolson Series

 Rating 5/6

Author: Louise Rennison

Georgia Nicolson is an English teenage girl, living with both her parents and her little sister, Libby. Her life through out the series basically revolves around boys, makeup, snogging and boys! In a nutshell, she makes it her mission to find the perfect guy, but her expectations are in the wrong places. It’s very hard to explain what happens, but she goes on a rollercoaster of boyfriends and snogging extravaganzas, until in the end, she finds her man. Oh, and she has a close nit friendship with other girls and they call themselves ‘The Ace Gang’.

I have to say, these books are partly responsible for my interest in reading again. Oh what fun! I learnt crazy words in there as well, like Fabnosity, Basoomas/ nunga-nungas (boobs), gadzooks, gorgey (gorgeous), nudey pants, nippy noodles, arvie (afternoon), etc.

There are ten books in the series, and out of the ten, I feel the first one, Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging, was the funniest. The following 3 as well, were quite a laugh, or funnier than the rest. I’ll have to be honest though, I was quite disappointed with the ending of the last book- the finale - ‘Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?’ I mean I’m all for suspense or leaving it to the reader’s imagination, but I was so disappointed. Maybe I was just sad that I’d come to the end of a wonderful adventure, but everything felt so rushed!

I recommend that you - if you haven’t started on these yet - get on to the bookstore or wherever, and grab yourself a copy. OMG! Now, I find it really hard to laugh when I’m watching stand up comedies, but reading these books had me laughing so hard, sometimes I seemed mental to the normal human. These books are funny and quite ‘educational’ for the average growing teen. If you need a man or want to have mindless fun, then get a copy and learn about how it should be done! Please go read these, you won’t regret it. J

Win

Hey. 

For this month's compo you stand a chance to win these wonderful earrings. I am aware that these are not very CO-Ed but hey, if you're a dude, you can win these for the lovely lass in your life.

All you have to do is be a follower of this blog, and this month I wont be asking questions. Just drop a comment on your thoughts about the recent natural disasters happening around the world. You know, the tsunami, earthquake, floods. What's the world coming to?

Deadline: 31 March 2011

Yellowcard

Happy beginning of the week, Talkers!

Yep, mine’s a bit blue but that’s nothing new. (Hey, did you sense that rhyming too?)

Anyhowz, today I am profiling Yellowcard. This was a request from a reader and as of such, I’ve never really heard of them. But hey, a request is a request. I got to sample some of their music earlier this week and I have to say that they were not half bad. In fact, they kind of reminded me of that early 2000 kind of ‘punk’ scene.

So, what happened to them? This group, which was formed in 1997, released many major hits from the album Ocean Avenue, which was a huge success. The band went on a hiatus in 2008, but has set to tour and release a new album sometime this year.

So, now you kinda know what happened to Yellowcard!

The Usual

Hey.

I’m really sorry for not posting anything for the whole week last week. In my defence, I was on holiday and there was no internet connection where I was...it made me feel bad because I’d abandoned my duties.

Anyways, nothing’s changed really. Everything’s pretty much the same in my life. First of all, my mom is such a genius! I hope you remember the My Solo Act post I made about a song I wanted to learn on the electric guitar. It’s a long story, but I asked my mom the name of the song and she got it. I didn’t hum like I’d anticipated; the song was actually playing in another movie we were watching together and it popped up. After I’d asked her what song was playing, it took a while to find out the artist.

She said, “I have it somewhere in one of my albums. Hmmm, it’s a dessert or something. Let me see, eh...chocolate?”

My sister was also there to help; she came up with the name. She said, “I know the song is called ‘Sunshine of your love’.” Which was correct.

My mom then went, “Is it cream, perhaps?” Bingo! She got it right. That's the song I have to learn on the electric guitar...after I buy it, that is.

I have to say though that whatever may be the case, I have the coolest mom ever; for her to know so much of her music.

Away from that, I had a really weird morning today. I had a lab at 7am and as soon as I entered, the lab demonstrators began laughing away at me...well, I don’t know what they were laughing at, but what would you think if you entered a room and people started laughing while looking at you? I adjusted my lab coat, but I thought, they might as well be laughing considering the dream I had last night. I was conducting ‘experiment 9’ today and last night I had a dream about it. In this dream, experiment 9 involved fighting with Bunsen burners; my lab partner and I. The Bunsen burner was like those Star Wars swords...what’re they called? Yes, Lightsabers. The flame was set in such a way that they were Lightsabers and I was sword fighting with my lab partner. Crikey! I think I need to put my imagination under control.

Interview 4

Name: Thato

Age: 22

Hometown: Lobatse

Favourite Musician/ Band: Trey Songz

Favourite Book: Hmmmm. I don’t read much.

Favourite Food: Pizza

Hobbies: Playing Soccer

Faculty: Business

Major:  Accounting

ZT: Describe what you study.

T: Accounting involves a combination of courses like finance, management and economics.

ZT: What do you intend on doing on doing after graduating?

T: Get a job as an accounting assistant. In future, I’d also like to continue my studies and go into ACCA and CIMA.

ZT: Would you recommend your course to others?

T: Yes; the market for jobs is quite diverse. So if you like to work with numbers, you’re in for a good deal.

ZT: When you were around the age of 8, did you ever dream of doing what you’re doing now?

T: No. I wanted to be a policeman!

ZT: Any hidden talents?

T: I love composing songs and writing poetry.

And the Winner Is....

Congratulations to Nthabiseng, for being the winner of the Win a journal compo. Please send your details to the Ziggie Talk email address so I can send it you!