two pieces of me

i can't help but to think 'damn i'm lucky to be related to these two'

ohhh where would i be without them?

they are just as much a part of me as my big toe.

i need them. i'm blessed to have them.

i love youuuuu! <3

HelenaMaria

Rihanna, you better watch your ass!

This is HelenaMaria, twin sisters named Helena and Maria [duhhh]

My sister sent me this link & i'm impressed. lowkey sound better than Rihanna on her own song [not that she could really sing anyways]

Check it out =]

black power. ya dig

i've noticed that within the last year, i've become more afrocentric i guess you can say.

or maybe just more aware of the issues within my race or that my race faces.

i'll look at the Wal-mart and McDonald's commercials, for example, and pick at things about the black people in those commercials and how its marketed.

i'd even get a little mad at it.

all my life i've went to majority white schools, so i guess now my eyes are truly open. or maybe its a part of just growing up.

soo just warning you, if i have posts where i mention something about blacks being stereotyped or how white people look at us because of certain things, anything race related like that,

then now you know why =]

dancing fools

so i was reading Jeff's blog the other day and he had a video for a song/dance called the "Daddy Stroke." he said he think it might pop in parties and wanted to know what the readers thought. so i watched the video and thought "WHAT THE HELL!?"

this, sadly, is where some music has gone now days. we are the only race/ genre of music that makes up dumb ass songs for dumb ass dances. we have the stanky legg, swag surfin, flex, and now this... just to name a few.

now i'll admit, ive gotten caught up at a party and found myself doing some of those dances with everybody else. but then other times outside of that scene, i'd look at others doing it and just laugh to myself at how stupid they look.

i bet white people are lookin at us and just laughing too, in a small way proving the stereotypes involved in the minstrel shows. [& i dont mean this as saying that they're justified in laughing..i'm just throwing that out there]

its like anybody can get a record deal if they can produce a catchy song with a catchy lil dance that has no kind of depth or true musical talent involved at all.

yeahh, they're fun and catchy...but sometimes you gotta think about what you're listening to and doing.

but please let me know if you think i'm just thinking too hard into it haha

style for the youngin'

soo i came across this picture of Willow Smith while surfin' the web. she's so ADORABLE! i'm lovin the hairstyle [even though i couldn't pull it off] and this lil girl has a great style. just too many prints for me.

but unfortunately, there are a few people that think that she looks "too grown". being that the hairstyle has been one rocked by adults like Rihanna and Cassie. They believe with that hair, she looks too old for her age [she turns 10 in October]

well, i see nothing wrong with a young girl expressing her individuality through her hairstyles or clothing the way that Willow does. as long as she isn't dressing provocatively.

and how can a hairstyle be "too grown" for someone?? the hairstyle she chose eliminates the use of weaves [which might be a lil too much for a 9 yr old] and relaxers.

so i applaud little Willow. i don't think we have to worry about her much with parents like Will & Jada.

welcome backkkk!

it's been a while but I'M BACKKKK!

yeah i've been MIA for a good lil minute. can't really give a legit reason on why i stopped but i promise i'll be better =]

just writing this i'm starting to remember how relaxing it was to write on here [even though i never got into the real groove of it yet]

as said before, it probably will still be a bunch of randomness on here but hey, thats tiff.

<3

shhhhhh.

"the commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it"

so i started reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde because Barnes & Noble had a sale on classic novels ;)

anyways not even 10 pages in, i see that quote. the character Basil Hallward was telling Lord Henry about how he has come to love secrecy and how its the one thing that makes "modern life mysterious or marvelous to us."

that made me think of how our generation is becoming some type of 'obsessed' with knowing what everyone is thinking or doing at every minute of the day. we find them in the form of facebook, myspace [for those who still use it] and most of all twitter.

i remember seeing when twitter first started, they aimed it toward people letting like family members know what they were doing, like a worried mom or something.

then our society became even more fascinated with the lives of those who are famous, so we "followed" people like Miley Cirus on twitter to have a peak into her life.

Now it seems like facebook is following the train, with people updating their statuses multiple times of the day to receive the attention of their peers..some to make it seem like they're doing something every second of the day or that they are more interesting than they really are by thinking of a 'creative' status for everyone to 'like' or comment.

idk.. i'm just a little annoyed by technology now days and how it is taking over our lives. we're losing our sense of personal life or the secrecy of having one.

[i'm not saying EVERYONE is like that, just in general]

but thats just me.. what do you think?