Powerful Words

I love quotes, I think they spark the mind to think of life from another angle that hasn't hit your mind yet, I find them so thought prokoving and they really make you sit down and think long and hard. Some are deep home truths, that we do not let our mind wander to, and others are just funny and make us giggle. Some are sad, some are happy. Some are about heart ache, others are about how we learn to love life and everything in it. I believe there are a million quotes for every situation but only certain ones can touch your heart. We must know that we are not the only people to survive life, the way we are. They're are plenty of people in the word, too many actually, that go through the same nonsense day in and day out. Whether it be, breaking up with partners, pondering about life and the universe, or even being totally, completely and utterly head over heals in love with their other halves. I never know for sure who said what, but here are some of my all time favourites that have stuck with me for the past few years.



"The God's envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovlier than you are now. We will never be here again." - Troy



"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they are afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your own reality. You should stand up for your right to feel pain." - Jim Morrison



"When the power of love, overcomes the love of power - there will be peace." - Jimi Hendrix



"Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to save the world." - Nelson Mandela





And of course, my all time favourite home truth of them all! *drumroll*



"Whatever you give a woman she is going to multiply. If you give her sperm, she will give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she will give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So - if you give her any crap, you will receive a ton of shit!" No idea who said it, but wise wise words indeed!!

What are they even famous for anyway?

Being drunk and involved in scandal?

Apparently, Paris Hilton is in South Africa. I don't particulary care, yet here I am writing a blog about it. The main purpose behind this blog is that there are so many celebrities nowadays and they are all so famous and a lot have a ton of respect from the public for doing good things, and others well are all we talk about. Here is a prime example of one, Paris Hilton, famous for what?

In a way, I do have to give it to her, I mean she could possibly start the next revolution, or at least a move towards the next revolution, since she is respected and disrespected by so many people, and is constantly in the public eye but to start a revolution you'd actually have to use the wonderful evolotion of thousands of years that our brains have undergone and it doesn't seem like any of these girls do use their brains, generally only their publicists. With that amount of exposure, what would you as an ordinary citizen do? Even if you did get famous and "known" for having a sex video leak of yourself?? Why not battle to solve one of the worlds major problems, instead of getting drunk and partying on tables showing your underwear or lack there of, Paris?

Sometimes, when I switch on the tv and the E! channel has been left on I find myself sitting there and cringing at the shit that they talk about, who cares who is knocking up who? Or who Miley Cyrus is dating? Or who's getting married/divorced and having babies and calling them after fruit and alcohol? I don't give a fuck, but there must be so many people in the world who actually do, for the fact that an american channel has reached South Africa, so therefore its not only the Americans that care, its clearly a large enough amount of the South Africans that actually care about the scandalous lives of the brats in America, who just influence small kids into being as slutty as possible at a young age. Let the kids be kids, don't let them be influenced by the crap that is that of the social lives of these people.

Oh well, enough about that... Thats my opinion, everyone has their own about people like this, and yes I'm making a sceptical of Paris, but she is not the only one, look at Kim Kardashian for example. They are the people that make a small minority of the models that I've had the (dis)pleasure of working with so dificult, because the models all think people like Paris, Britney, Lindsay, Kim, the list goes on are amazing, and guess what? They're just spoilt, over paid, brats.

Time Flies

I can't believe we're half way through the year already. I'm actually in shock that I'm back to wearing my most comfy winter clothes and snuggling up of a night time... I'm even more at shock at the fact that I turn 20 this year which scares the living daylights out of me... The reason I've been feeling so old recently is that my brother had a baby on the 28th of April, my brother, the guy that I think of being just turned 18 driving his car, fetching me from school and teasing me that I still had another 10 years of school left... That brother, my only brother, had a baby, is happily married and is turning 30 this year. It scares the living daylights out of me. I'm getting old, but he's always going to be those 10 years older than me, even though he still acts like the 18 year old that I think of, he'll always be 10 years older than me...

Age is a funny thing, like I said when I started blogging again... I started this blog in 2007, of which the majority of my blogs have been deleted and luckily - no one ever read it because it was so embarassing! I was back then such a loser... I know I am still a loser, but 2 years ago I was way off the loser scale, I was a monster. I am still a monster but I think I'm a much better behaved monster than I was then... Or possibly, I'm a even worse monster now, but I just don't see it. Wow, I'm confusing myself. I must shut up now.

I'm turning 20... have I achieved what I wanted to by now, 5 years ago? Nope, probably not but I must say that I do think I have a achieved a lot, but I know I could of achieved more. This year, I have a lot of things left to achieve, and I will. I started my DM course in 2008 in Feb, and I will finish it this year, even though now the majority of my diving is going to be through the winter... it'll make me stronger in the long run. I need to start training for my swims because I know I am currently so unfit its a joke! I also need to start diving again... I have a love for it, I definately do, just gotta grin and bear the annoyingness that comes with the training part. I'll do it. I'm writing it here on this blog for the world to see that I will do it, I don't care how hard, or how much blood, sweat and tears I shed, I'll really appreciate it in the long run.

My last exam is tomorrow. I've really struggled to study this week, I can think of a million more things more interesting than studying to do but as my Brett told me earlier I need to prioritise what is important. I tried, but I've possibly only done about 45mins studying the whole of today. I write early morning, so unfortunately will have to do at least an hour before bed and READ my textbook in the parking lot tomorrow when I arrive early. I can do it. I will do. I know I can. I must!

And in saying that, I should stop blogging, get off the net (which I will probably only do once I get the will power to switch my laptop off) but I should stop procrastinating, wasting time and my youth ;) and try do some more studying!

Peace, love & cupcakes!
xo
Flea

Seasons Wither 2010

Okay, so I finally did it. I finally went to Seasons Wither and truth be told it was not as great as I thought it was gonna be. It was on Saturday 29th May at Jet.... Which brings me to my first problem.

Seasons Wither is meant to be a metal/alternative music festival, of which I have a pretty extensive knowledge about and yet they hold it at one of the most preppy night clubs in Johannesburg. I'm possibly being very biased, I've never been to Jet before, but just walking into it - it looked like Ruby Blue used to look, extreme jock, preppy night club. I was not there all day like Brett and the rest of my friends. Brett and I left kakplaas at 9am to get there for just gone 10am as I had to do makeup for 3 girls in Boksburg from 12:30. We raced from Springs to Northgate to only find that we had left the tickets behind on the kitchen counter at Brett's place. We actually freaked out and started making alternative arrangements for me to pop past Brett's place after my shoot and race to Northgate again. Thank god we didn't have to resort to that because we found an internet cafe and did some printing and TA DAA - we had tickets which I had pre-ordered online for R80, compared to paying R150 on the day.

I got my wrist band, and onward to Boksburg I went, makeup kit in hand. I had such a fabulous time at the shoot that I actually didn't want to leave. I did makeup for 3 girls, and was having so much fun drinking wine, I even got roped into modelling for the 3 photographers because I was causing trouble. Modelling feels awkward, and I have no idea how people can model. Thats probably why I'm such a behind the scenes type of girl - photography & makeup. Leaving the shoot I got ordered to go buy alcohol for my friends who were all at Seasons. I eventually got there, 80km's later and we spent more time in the car lot, drinking, smoking, shouting at scene kids (you had to be there to appreciate the humour in that), going to mac donalds for food and generally just horsing around. I first went inside to see Haggis & Bong, who I had been looking forward to seeing but they were in such a confined area that the music from the bagpipes and the percussion from the drums sounded horrible because the roof was literally a few centimeters higher than their heads. So all in all, they were a let down. Then we went out to the cars again and only went back inside to see Hog Higgidy Hog, who I must say are definately one of my most favourite South African musicians - simply because they are unique. There set only started at 1am and I was really let down by the fact that a lot of the Season's goers had left. The Hog's performance, really was that, a performance and they rocked out. Definately the highlight of the day...

Seasons wasn't terrible, but it was no where near what I was looking for in a day festival. Despite the fact that it was meant to be over 18, and they had extensively advetised it - guess what. A bunch of highschool boys and girls got mommy and daddy to drop them off so they could come to Seasons... The drinks were way over priced and more fun was had in the parking lot because it was actually cheaper than drinking inside. Maybe next year they will actually do something worth the money.... We can always go watch Hog Higgidy Hog in Cape Town or at Back to Basix where they play a lot in Jhb... Not great organising and planning from the Seasons Wither organisers...

I didn't bother taking any photos... I was worried about pulling my camera out infront of a bunch of drunken children. I'm paranoid, but I don't have any money to actually replace it if anything happens to it. Better safe than sorry I guess!

Just hope they can improve because they have the potential be something great, especially with the following and fan base that they have.

Peace, love & cupcakes

xo

Flea

Let me give this another try!

So I randomly stumbled across this blog and was totally mortified of my behaviour as a 17 year old and what I published online. Those posts were deleted after much laughter of reading them. I even said in one of them I'm writing this blog to remind myself of how stupid I am/was. I suppose I at least knew something then. So much has changed since then, from me being totally and completely stalker-ish to Brett, and now he's been in my life for longer than I ever imaged... ha ha bet anyone that ever read this NEVER saw that coming... I sure as hell didn't! :]

I will keep this updated, I have no choice... it was too brilliant to read what I had posted here before and I hope to continue and in another two years look back and wonder what the hell was I thinking!

One more exam left on Friday at 1pm... been invited out already by some friends but I'm gonna spend some time with my man, after Season's Wither this last weekend, I need a chilled and relaxed weekend... even though I have a shoot on Sunday with Kirsten which I'm looking forward to. I haven't done a proper photoshoot in a while. I did the Image Direct, part of Dance Direct Productions mini shoot at Edenglen Highschool with Amber and Michael, which was only 5 photos each once they'd had their makeovers, and one before photo, but thats hardly a challeging photoshoot, even though I think the images came out great!

Amber's Transformation from school girl to glamour girl, courtesy of Image Direct, a part of Dance Direct Productions. And Below, is Michaels transformation from school boy, to gorgeous guy, courtesy of Image Direct, a part of Dance Direct Productions.

Also, recently I've done a puppy shoot for a model that I have had the pleasure of working with before, El. She is starting to breed Yorkshire Terriers and asked me to do some photos of her gorgeous puppies for her new website, which will be going live soon http://www.a2z-yorkies.co.za/ and I will upload some of the images once the website is live, so not to spoil the suprise of the gorgeous doggies and of course, if anyone is looking for a yorkie puppy, have a look at the website! :)

In the month of may, those are the only 2 photoshoots that I've done... I have done 9 faces of makeup for other photoshoots by Digi Dot Lee & Martinhus Odendaal, his wife and Allan Riedel (all of which are avaiable for shoots on Vivid Training). My makeup kit is slowly expanding and now I am able to do any skin colour as I have finally got the correct foundation for any skin colour... I am still learning with every face I paint, but I am really enjoying it as well. I hopefully will get quicker as I go along... Practice makes perfect, right?

Thats all for now, this is one super long blog post, compared to the ones I kept ;)

Peace, love & cupcakes
xo

Flea