The sound of one hand clapping

The sound of one hand clapping is the sound of the other hand, the absent or invisible hand that claps because one hand cannot clap, there can only be two hands clapping. One hand cannot clap without the other. The one hand is made complete only by the other, so that even in its individuality, the one hand claps with the other. One cannot praise their own work, but other people are there for that. The sound of one hand clapping is weird, its impossible and most definately not a happy sound.

By Simphiwe Otto

Gone but will never be forgotten
Blog dedicated to my late cousin Patrick David Mahima

I remember very well the first day I was introduced to my cousin Patrick, we were only three years old but I can still remember everything as if it all happened yesterday. From that day we were inseparable, he became my brother, my friend and my protector. Our mothers are sisters, also raised in the same house by the same mother and father.

Bigger and strong than me, Pepe was always there to protect me from the rough hands of children who were rough. I never liked the game of soccer, Pepe was more than a fanatic, he knew the game from an early age it was just amazing watching him converse with other people about the rule and ethics of this game. As little boys we got into trouble together and got out of it together.

From when we were young my cousin Patrick was a fair-player, never lied about anything and always kept a smile and comforted me when we got punished by our parents. We shared everything, wore the same clothes, took a bath in the same dish, ate from the same plate, had the same friends, and grew up under the same house. We were inseparable and loved each the way brothers should. I remember sitting with him on the edge of the high-way watching cars pass by and dreaming of driving down that high way one day with the those luxurious cars. Both our mothers were single parents, who worked to support all of us with the little money they got from doing domestic working. We never felt that we were poor, both of us felt loved and were brought-up under a very strict and disciple house. The most important lesson that our parents taught us was to love and protect each other.

We all share a four-room house, I had three sisters, and he had three with one brother. Our grandmother and both my mother and my aunt (Patrick’s mother) all lived in the same house.

The First time that we separated was when my mother bought her own house. We started primary schooling in different schools. For the first time I was alone and had to start making my own friend and he also had a chance for the very first time to make his own. Through-out our teenager hood, we still made time to be together but each of us learnt to live separately. It is not until our working life that I got a chance to live in the same house with my cousin Patrick again. We both started our working life in the same company; we worked together and shared the same room. As adults, we learnt just how much we both mean to each other.

It was clear to other people that we were raise under the same rule, and we had a very stranger bond that very few cousins had. As an adult, Patrick was as gentle as he was when we was a little boys. I do not know any father who loved his child the way he loved his child. We got even closer as adult than when we were young. It is not until the day I decided to leave my first job and move down to Cape Town and we separated for the second time.
Patrick sadly passed way on the night of the 27th March 2010, leaving behind his mother, three sisters and his only brother. All that is left of him is the good memories of our childhood and everything that I have learnt from him: respect, compassion, understanding, his great smile and perseverance.

“LALA NGOXOLO MZUKULWANA WAKA MARIDILI”

How do you step from the top of a 100-foot pole?

“Whatever goes up must come down”, do you agree with this statement? Well I agree with it partially, I believe that there a force of gravity that attracts everything back to earth. Sir Newton started the theory while he was sleeping under a tree and an apple fall from the tree down and hit him. He then started a theory which we still use even today “the force of gravitational force”. This doesn’t only apply to objects but also to human beings, although with human beings this law changes a bit. Whenever goes up must come down, but only that which goes up and never remember how it feels to be down, the force of gravity will then take its cause and pull back.

How do you step from the top of a 100 depend on how you got up to the 100-foot pole. Remember the people who brought you to the level you are on in order to proper even more and get up to the level greater than 100-foot pole. There is a Zulu say that say “a person is a person because of other people”, indeed for one to get to the top you need other people to hold the ladder for you to climb. When you get to the top remember to hold the ladder for people below to also climb to your level, because you will need them to help you hold the ladder so that you can climb to even greater height.

Three things about me

impatient
energetic

confident

My Horoscope!!

Well I opened up my email today and read my horoscope from the other day. It said that a past lover will come to me in a dream. it will be vivid and he may actually speak to me. He could be trying to tell me something, trying to get a hold of me. It also could be telling me something about my attitude towards love. hope its all true!

Fish falling from the sky

People expect everything to come from the sky above and fall into their plates. Back in the old days, people never expected the government to do anything for them. A farmer would wake up early in the morning to take his cattle to the fields and Fisherman would sail out to the cold deep blue sea to fish. We South African people, we are amongst the laziest in the world and expect everything to fall from the sky above. Would it help us to have everything fall from the sky? Will it make us better people? An eagle is known for being the bravest bird every. When its little babies are ready to fly, it will take each one of them with claws and fly up high into the sky. When it reaches a certain height it would then drop the little baby eagle for it to fly on its own.


A good parent will do this to their kids, give them a good start by taking them to the right height and let them fly on their own. Same applies to the government, people should be given skills to develop themselves and then felt to blossom on their own. Fish shouldn't be falling from the sky because there ocean is made to carry fishes and there are millions of fishes in the ocean waiting for the earlier fisherman, so make you way to the ocean and start fishing because the fish will never fall from the sky!!

We are what we do

We are what we do
“The present shape the future”, indeed it does! What you do today will determine your tomorrow. People make perceptions about other people based on what they see and what they see is was the other person is doing. This goes back to the old cliché “what you put in is what you get out”, and that “a good turn deserves another”. To have a good future you need to start investing on your present and make sure that you put in only the good and nothing less. This is not only a human phenomenon but also organisations have to deal with this issue on daily bases. This is a reason why companies spend fortunes on good PR and Publicity, because they want to invest the best in order to get the best, the problem that most of us face is that we normally don’t care to give the best in the beginning and yet expect to get the best at the end, it is highly impossible to get your desired if the ingredients.