Music - Nobody Needs Nobody?

Ok so do you all remember that song alooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg time ago by Playa Fly called "Nobody Needs Nobody? Yes? No? Maybe? Let me refresh your memory for a second.  WARNING, before you click, this song is very vulgar. One of many reasons I didn't like it!

Click HERE ......................

So now that you no what I'm talking about, just tell me one thing. Why is he lying? More like contradicting himself. Clearly if you are singing a song about how you don't need anyone, why would you add "all I need is me and my dawg"? That disturbs me a bit.

It's obvious that everyone needs somebody. At least one person, right? My thing is, if you are going to make a song saying you don't need anyone then do that. Don't say, I don't need anyone, but all I need is me and my one other person because that means you messed the whole message of the song up!

I have periodic ranting moments about the less important things in life. Enjoy!

Internationally Known - Paris, France

The Eiffel Tower

Bonjour everyone. That's about as far as I go with the French lol. However, welcome to Paris. Yeay! So in my previous blog, (Internationally Known - London), I stated that we went to Paris during my trip there. We went by train. It was only a 2 hour ride so it wasn't too bad.

I'm in deep thought on this train ride. Very deep thought lol.



Day 1-Wed- Paris here we come! We got there and checked in and shopped for years. However my cousin and I were starving, but her mother was in "shop mode" and we couldn't get her out. On our adventure, I think there was some French guy trying to holla at me but he was speaking french and I didnt know what he was saying. But I'm pretty sure he wanted my number lol!

We ate at Le Comptoir Ducommerce. The food was great! Yes I ordered a burger and fries in Paris. Lol. Our waiter Jeremy was so cute. He is from the Islands. He didn't speak English but we got through it. After that, we headed for the Eiffel Tower. Oh y goodness is all I can say. The view was soooo amazing. It was interesting too because you take the elevator thingy they have to each floor and on each floor, they have souvenir stores and they was jamming to Beyonce lol.

 

 On top of the Eiffel Tower. Great View!

I was so up there.In my own little world. The most amazing feeling/experience ever. We were there for a nice little while and afterwards, we went to Cafe Etienne Marcel. It was too late to eat so we had drinks. I had water! LOL! After we left there, we got lost. We forgot where our hotel was or the name of it. Somehow, we managed to find our way back. We took the subway. We read it in french. LOL! Imagine that! Once we got there, my cuz realized she had the hotel info in her pocket the whole time. MAN! We still made it happen in Paris baby!
                                                                                                     Beautiful, isn't it?

 

 

 

So I have no Earthly idea what that says, but it was in French and it looked cool. LOL!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day 2-Thurs- We woke up and took a shower the best way possible. Yeah we spent the night in Paris and the bathroom is unexplainable. The breakfast they had was just unheard of. Continental breakfast baby! Are you ready?........ Bread and coffee. LOL! If you wanted juice, they sent you to the vending machine. What? Yeah, I'll pass. That's just like not even eating.

 

 We got to the train station and how in the hell do you miss a train while you are there? We got there early and still missed it! LOL! So we had to wait for another one and then we left. I slept the whole ride back. Got back to London, ate some Mickey D's, came back to our apartment and we chilled! I watched 2 episodes of Targat SG1. Then we met some more people and ate at Nakhon Thai. Good food there. We stayed there for like 5 hours. Time flies when your having fun. Went back to apartment, watched Family Guy the movie and lights out!                               

                                                                                    I'm pretty sure this says Train Station. Maybe
                                                                                    something to do with a train station? I have to
                                                                                   get my French skills up! Lol.

 

Internationally Known - London, England

 

 


Welcome to London, England! This was an experience of a life time. Best 8 days ever. I mean how many people actually can say they've been overseas and mean it? I had my little accent going and everything. But seriously though, there are a lot of different things going on over there than in the US! Like currency. They go by British pounds. So like 7 pounds would be like $14. Expensive isn't it? And their Mcdonalds has a deli! Oh and they don't sell biscuts with chicken. (KFC).  








Day 1-Fri- My mother dropped me off at the airport. Bye mom! My flight left at 9:05 am. I met my cousins Vonique and Harriet in Houston. We left from Houston to Chicago. We were late getting to Chicago and almost missed our flight to London, but we made it within minutes. Close call! All together, that was like a 12 hour flight. MAN!      



 Day 2-Sat- We arrived in London at 8am! Finally! So we get there and no lugage! Remember how I said we almost missed our flight? Well it seemed as though they did not board our lugage. Those punks! So we get to our apartment (not a hotel but apartment) >>>>>>>>
and with the same cloths on from yesterday! But that aint gon get us down. Oh no! We went and bought some things like soap,
underwear and etc until our lugage came. We went out to eat with a few friends at Dover Street (Jazz Cafe). The food was so cute and good! LOL!

Day 3: Sun- Still no lugage! Wait, a phone call saying our lugage will be here at 4:30 pm. YEAY! But with the same clothes on from Fri, we was still making it happen. LOL! And no we did not stink. Yeah, we took baths and made it work cuz we got it like that. We went to a spot called Piccidilly Circus. Thats just the name of the area. It was a lot of shopping areas and resturants up and down that area. It was great! We ate at Henry's for lunch. We also ate at Cafe Concerto for dessert. Man it was so good. We get back home and YES we have lugage! Now things can really get popin'.

Day 4-Mon- Happy to have lugage! Very happy! We went to Oxford Circus. Same as Piccidilly. We went into a mall and a place called Harrod. My cuz Vonique and I lost her mom, Harriet. So we went throughout the mall and no sign. So we go to customer services to leave a note and we waited. We waited for a good little while before she decides to show up. LOL! But it was still
great! We also went to Tottenham Court, another shopping strip. Von had on hills that day and we walked for years! LOL! Bet she won't do that again. We walked about everywhere. Took the subway and walk for hours. It was great! It was about dinner time and looked for years for this make believe resturant that my cousin say she ate at once before called Harris, but no one that we've asked has heard of it. LOL! Yeah we never found it. It's ok cuz, I still love you. We end up eating at Giovanni, an italian resturant. Went to our apartment, watch Identity and went to bed.

Day 5-Tues- I had Mickey D's for breakfast/lunch. Woke up late! Had to see what it was like. Man! Deli! Then we checked out the Tower of London, (pic up top) took a mini criuse and saw the EYE! That's like a farris wheel but its huge and it goes around very slowly >>>>>>

 Like it would take some hours before you got down! Notice I said we saw it, we did not get on it. LOL! At the Tower though, you know they have the guards standing around and they can't move or talk. Von and I took a pic with one and we tried to make him laugh but it didn't work. I bet he was like "These foolish Americans". It was great! LOL! I would've had pics with them but my cousin lost her camera :-(

Later that night, we went to a meeting or like a get together or something. My cuz Harriet had to speak. She was awesome. Great speaker! I met a lot of people. There was this one guy, Shane, he is blind as well, but he was so cute. (He is the british twister) LOL! And this other guy, Obie a.k.a Sisqo. LOL! It was a great conversater. We exchanged numbers and emails. He's kinda cute too. :) I got me a british man, LOL! After that we all
went out to a bar. I didn't drink anything, don't worry mom! We went back to the apartment where Harriet was on the phone trying to interpid English to English because she is an American! LOL! (thats an inside joke) We watched Kung Fu Panda and then lights out.

<<<<<< My british boo! Yes Lawd!!!! Yes I got the digits. Don't quite know how to use them, but I got them lol.




Day 6 and 7 we went to Paris, but I'll save that experience for another blog. We took the train. Another once in a lifetime opportunity there.

Day 8 - Fri- Time to go! Made it to the airport and our driver took us to the wrong terminal! He needs to get it together. But we had a 10 hour flights. I watched like 4 movies. It was great, but I was ready to get off after that last movie. LOL! Finally made it to Houston. We all departed and went our seprate ways. Bye guys! Then my flight back home was suppose to leave at 7:10pm. First the flight got changed to another gate and would leave at 7:45pm. Then the plane wasn't there and then when the plane got there, the crew to fly the plane wasn't there. They got there at like 8:10. Then I couldn't leave because of the storm and had to wait til that went away. I didn't leave til like 9ish. Got home at 11:09pm when I was suppose to be there at 8:44pm. See that's the kind of stuff that makes me not want to fly. I'm already afraid of flying thrn you wanna come and do this. What type of foolishness? 

Thanks for hanging with me in London bloggers. See you in Paris :-)

Poetry - the wrong focus

Written by: Zebonique Petties

screaming for answers, crying for reasoning
trying to understand why this is happening
a cold front so deeply connected
to the pain in which i'm enduring
i can't stop the hurt

past experiences i'm dreading dearly
keeping me away from future promises
the present I can't seem to focus on
stuck in a time zone that should've been left alone
and yet struggling with the "let go"

voices in my head calling out to me
remembering things unexpectedly
suffering from what i thought i'd forgotten
scared of things that has yet to happened
where is this coming from

strangely lingering...... on the "already done"

the "already done"................

NO! to a burden I shall no longer claim
i rebuke this foolishness in Jesus name
happy i shall be, a future i will see
my own life is a determined key

i hold the power to make this go away
God give me strength as I continue to pray
for healing and direction
for knowledge and protection
let thy Will be done.......

Music Styles

Everyone has their own style when it comes to music. It's like music has its own moment. Some people listen to get pumped up. Some listen to calm down. Some listen for the sound of the music. Some listen for lyric purposes. Reguardless of what you listen to or for when listening to music, the point is music is here to stay.

I enjoy all types of music. Everything from country to rap. I guess my favorite genre is Christian and Country. Nice combo isn't it? Lol! Don't really have a favorite music group or band or singer. Lately, I've been listening to Christian music, or as the local radio station here calls it, inspirational music. There's this one song by Jason Castro called "Only A Mountain" that I have fallen in love with. Previously, I posted a poem I wrote called "My Mountain Knows My Voice". The lyrics to this song describes perfectly what my poem was stating. Check out his video below. Listen to the words. So inspirational.

The Can vs The Bottle

My favorite drink of all times is Pepsi. Pepsi rocks. Woot woot! Ok but my thing is I like to drink it.......wait for it........from a can and not a bottle. I don't mind drinking it from a bottle, but I would go to the ends of the Earth to find a can first before I think about a bottle. Why?

 

 

 

 

Maybe it's because a can gets colder than a bottle? It tastes stronger in a can than a bottle and that's with any drink (in my opinion folks). So let's check out the pros and cons of a bottle.....

 

 

 

Pros:                                                                                                         Cons:

It gets cold                                                                                   It takes longer to get cold

You can save what's not finished                                   Once opened, loses its fizz after a while

It has a top

 

Now lets check out the can................

 

Pros:                                                                                                              Cons:

It gets cold quick                                                                                  It doesn't have a top

You can save what you don't finish                                                  It may not be good to save

 

 

Well my active mind will not allow me to conjuer up any more interesting pros and cons on this topic. However, it looks like the bottle has one more pro than the can. I still prefer the can just because it does get colder and I like to hold it lol! It's cute..........

                                                                                                     



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Spaghetti Controversy

Side dish or main dish? Can it not be both? Where I'm from, we eat it as a side dish and I just thought it was a "down south" type of thing. However, it has been brought to my attention, from other southerners, that it is not a side dish but the main dish. Ummmm...... So now to my understanding, its not a south thing. Just a Memphis thing lol!

I can see it being a main dish. Add a salad to this pic and boom! We have a meal!

 

HOWEVER

 

I can also see it as a side dish as well! Yes that is fish and spaghetti.

 

Now to some, you may be thinking, "Fish and spaghetti? That's like 50 different meats." Lol, that it is my friends, but you can't really down the idea until you actually down it. Get it? Now personally I don't eat fish. (that's another blog) I do like chicken and yes, we do chicken and spaghetti as well. Side dish!

 

I also did research, google, and to my surprising alot of people don't know whether it's a side dish or a main dish. Well, I'm here to tell you it can be both. It's just all up to the eater. Take it as you please!