so, i have already made it clear that i am a tad bit talkative. I thought i would continue with this theme and perhaps explain a few things about me. At the moment, i am having a period of change in my life, i like to call it my Renaissance. I spent a lot of time throughout university and all my school years, doing well in my studies, getting the good grades and such. At the back of my mind i always knew that that was not what life was about and that someday i would have a chance to do the exploring that i so craved. So this is that time. 2003 was the start of it all. I worked in a corporate environment (i like wearing the heels and power suits, though an office environment is not the nicest itself!) and got very big into Brazilian culture and samba parties. Gradually i tried new things in order to tick them off or find what i enjoyed by a process of elimination. African drumming has started the final phase...rhythmn is amazing. Meeting new people got me interested in reggae, african music, more latin american grooves and all that. All of this as well as university has helped me to find things that i am good at.

so...what does all this prove? firstly, i love to just go to things that are a bit different..reggae, salsa, blues, music clubs where i can dance and just concentrate on that.interesting food restaurants, and other events like outdoor festivals..etc. At the same time, i am keeping my mind busy. Women's rights (i dont want to say feminism since that is almost always associated with whinny academics who analyse global media and ruin purely artistic expression by highlighting the unacceptable way that women are portrayed, in that, the artist intentionally was being anti-feminist!), is something i have recently discovered with the neo-feminists that are more pratical and pragmatic, not whinny and isolated in their ivory towers. Empowerment of people i guess is my main interest and where my interest in education of children and women comes from.(as well as my new interest in management information systems)
i dont believe that people should stand idly by whilst others plan and make decisions for them. i truly believe that people altogether, united by one purpose, becomes something alive and powerful in its own right. i see religions and cultures as other threads that join together to illustrate in glorious technicolour: "The Human Condition". i think that we all evolved the same way, and that once our consciousness was assured, that we then had different ways of expressing it... however the fundamentals of wanting to express ourselves, explain our world and structure our lives, underlie every theory, every religion, every action and explanation that we cluster under terms such as culture, customs, rites and ceremonies (hence the reason why geneology, anthropology and physics/engineering are also interests of mine). As you can see, i am a bit of an analytical soul and i am always able to get a more holistic, impartial perspective...i never like to take sides..someone always gets hurt and no one learns anything from remaining one either sides of the fence.

Besides empowerment, people themselves fascinate me. The way they express themselves, the features they inherit from whichever parent, or whichever dominate family line they have. Their language, their names and surnames.

hmmm, i have just discovered something new...i think too much!!!