Teacher making $2.1m a month had to sell sex to survive in Zimbabwe
Teacher making $2.1m a month had to sell sex to survive in Zimbabwe
Read here:timesonline
Laura speaks:This is really a sorry state of affairs. I hope our Bolehland will not reach such a stage. There are signs we are goin the way of this country…
I heard next month, prices of Chinese goods will up 20% and the stock market will fall.. This could be just rumours but unconfirmed.
Everything going up…..or if they dont go up, the contents would shrink..keke!
Suzie speaks: A truly sad story that shows the strength of the human spirit forced to absurd lengths in a bid for the survival of the family and self.It is an endless spiral,a pyramid scheme if I may use the term loosely.The people at the top are prospering from those at the bottom.
Ultimately there will come a time, when the poor will have no more to give.At the same time, the government wil have to take more and more harsh measures to remain in power as desperation in the population sinks in.
Also human values rapidly change and evolve as plain necessity kicks in the survival mode.Who are we to judge?
Posted in on July 1st, 2007 by suzie | |
on July 2nd, 2007 at 9:04 am
That was a very good comment. The vicious cycle of poverty while the elite grabs more and more of the country’s wealth for themselves and their kins while the general population suffers like what we are experiencing here now .Though have not reached that stage as in that country.
The new salary structure has kicked in and from now , you will see many prices will float up….
The private sector will be hard hit and business will all have to up their prices or sink….the rot has set in…..
on July 2nd, 2007 at 9:13 am
Reach for your stars…
Do not take anything as being forever,
because forever is only as long as today.
Know that the people who are the richest are not those who have the
most,
but those who need the least.
That we are at our strongest when life is at its worst,
and at our weakest when life no longer offers a challenge.
That it is wiser not to expect, but to hope,
for in expecting you ask for disappointment, whereas in hoping, you
invite surprise.
That unhappiness doesn’t come from not having something you want,
but from the lack of something inside that you need.
That there are things to hold and things to let go,
and letting go doesn’t mean you lose,
but that you acquire that which has been waiting around the corner.
Most of all …
remember to use your dreams as a way of knowing yourself better,
and as an inspiration to reach for your star.
~By Nancye Sims
on July 2nd, 2007 at 12:14 pm
…I don’t worry too much about their grades. I make sure they do their homework but I don’t push them too hard
Do you pushed your kids too hard ? Do you send them to tuitions and what nots so that he will do very well in his studies?Tuitions is a must for those ‘kiasu” (afraid to lose mentality) parents as they want their child to be the top in their schools. Whether, he will never enjoy his childhood or not is not important. It is performance and performance that matters to those parents. Children have no time to play or be like children.They are forced to grow up quickly to be like adults and to compete for everything. If they dont have a childhood and when they have children of their own , how would they know what childhood is .Some parents pushed too hard and their children breaks down and had to be send to the funny farm. All their life, these innocent children suffers because their parents are too conscious of the social status.
Some mothers even lied about their status of their children. Why is everyone so concerned about whether you are a grad or not? A grad does not mean that you will be succesful in life. There are many grads who are jobless or it would have been better if they did not get a degree because their degrees are useless and what they learned is not used or applicable to their life.
If your child is brilliant , by all means give him encouragements but if the child is just mediocre, no amount of tuition will make him a genious….He will be a genious in his own way…
on July 2nd, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Sometimes, I wonder why mothers seldom play with their childrens. Mothers are too busy looking after their babies that they dont have the time or find the time to just play with the little children.Some mothers are hard up for time when they worked outside and when they come home , they are too tired to play with them.It is left to the fathers to fool around and play with their kids.Maybe, it is one too many roles woman cannot accomplished ..Mothers need not be serious all the time. They need to let go and enjoy the fun with their kids too..Be like little children and not as mothers once in a while.
on July 2nd, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Overcome confusion..
by Louise Lague We live in an age of
choices, when something as simple as picking
toothpaste— do you want to fight cavities or tartar?
whiten your teeth? freshen your breath?— is
complicated enough to send us to the candy aisle for
comfort. So if you occasionally suffer from
indecision, rest assured you are not alone. In fact,
your confusion might be a sign of an
extraordinarily rich mind: Buridanitis, the term for the
mental gridlock we all experience now and then,
afflicted great thinkers like Socrates and Saint
Augustine, whose imaginations saw endless options and
opportunities. Contemporary philosophers have developed
a science to overcome indecision, the principles
of which are used by major corporations and
government agencies to decide anything from hiring
employees to allocating money. The good news is you can
apply those same methods to resolve everyday
situations. “People are afraid of making decisions
because they’re trying to find the perfect answer, and
there is no perfect answer,” says Gary Klein, whose
company, Klein Associates, Inc., trains high-powered
executives to make choices. He is also the author of
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions, for
which he interviewed firemen, nurses, and others
who are paid to make up their minds in just
seconds. People usually make decisions in one of
two ways: They analyze the pros and cons, or they
go with their gut instincts. In psychology and
business journals, writers who you’d think have better
things to do use up gallons of ink arguing about
which approach is better. Klein recommends a
combination of these methods, in this order:
Get in touch with your gut first. Once you start
listing pros and cons, your rational mind will drown
out your intuition. Klein defines intuition as
the accumulation of experience converted to
flash-fast thinking. “As you ponder that new job, you
might think about the way you were treated at the
interview and that may color your reaction,” he says.
“Even a bit of body language could instill some
discomfort that could be warning you off.”
To uncover your intuitive point of view, you can
even flip a coin—not to make the decision for you,
but so you can register your gut reaction to the
result. How do you feel when one option drops out? If
you’re disappointed, ask yourself why.
on July 2nd, 2007 at 9:03 pm
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