The Lone Writer

When you reach the End....you start to think about the Begining and if it was all worth it

Take it back to zero, not one but Zero
The Lone Writer

Whats next ? Macbeth and the Deadly Ninja's ? And you can buy it from Exclusive books for R128.00. Must be Honest im very tempted to get this

Another sporadic post ! Months without a thought and then boom I somehow find the time to post a rambling or two. I'm sure no one really waits with baited breath for the next literary "gem" I will produce after months of hibernation but hey what the heck I'm going to post something whether it be noteworthy or not because "its my blog and ill post if I want to, post if I want to" (ala Cyndie Lauper)

So this is my 100th post ! Wow I can't believe it and I'm shocked and all the usual jazz people say at acheiving a milestone. A year or so back when my bloging was on top form 100 posts would have been a walk in a park but nowadays where life has gotten too hectic time is a rare resource. Though an addage somes to mind whenever I tell someone that I never have any time, "How can you have time if you never make any time?". This does ring true but for some of us who are mere mortals it seems an impossible task, but I am working on it.

Now that I've gotten the happy 100th celebrations out of the way with the grace and poise of "Migrane Boy" (those familiar with MTV during the 90's will be familiar with Migrane Boy) I shall move swiftly to the point of annoyance.

I think for most South Africans our experiences at stop streets or traffic robots is the same; we stop and then a beggar of varying age and disrepair appears at our window asking for something or washing our windows....am I right ? Yes I am. Now I understand that we become annoyed at the constant requests for change and help that pour our way but why throw common decency out of the window. I've noticed it a couple of times where drivers don't even make eye contact with the indigent in question and merely shift their car a bit forward or in one case actually swore at the beggar. Now I'm not saying that you should give them something all the time. All I'm saying is atleat give them the decency of looking them in the eye and then telling them "no" that's the least they deserve. I think we very easily forget that these peeople are in fact just as human as we are and that they are not sub citizens or ghouls to be shunned at. So please if you can't help atleast give them the charity of a smile. Ok so that was my point of annoyance which to me made sense but may in fact be a load of BS !

I shall return hopefully sooner rather than laters, don't hold your breath.

This was typed on my phone so I apologize for any spelling or grammar problems.



There is always shadow when there is light
The Lone Writer

So Ive been tasked with listing the my top 25 movies or the top 25 movies ive enjoyed the most. Now this is a ridiculously impossible list to compile and by all rights I should be allowed to refuse to comply ! and thereafter form a small resistance movement and take over durban ! However since my man MJ asked me to I shall oblige.

Firstly i would like to make a confession.......

Hi my name is Mohamed and I Am a movie addict !

There is said it ! Are you happy now ?

Ok this is going to be a tough list to compile but here goes nothing.....Queue the Charlie Tuna voice over and SHOW ME THE MOVIES !

25. Transformers
Freakin Robots !

24.
Silence of the Lambs
Hello Clerise !

23.
independence Day
Will smith and aliens !

22.
Dark Knight
Why so serious !

21.
Chocolat
Chocolate does change lives

20.
6th Sense
I see dead people

19.
Gladiator
Shadows and dust!

18.
Forest Gump
Life is like a box of chocolates

17.
Wedding Crashers
Are they built for speed or comfort?

16.
Goodfellas
Do i look funny to you ?

15.
Event Horizon
Sam neill's best movie and the most underated horror film in my opinion

14.
The Green Mile
My name is John Cofee, like the drink spelt differently

13.
Grease
Grease lightning !

12.
Nightmare on Elm street
One, two freddy's gonna get you!

11.
Terminator
ILL BE BAAAAK !

10.
Scarface
SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND !

9.
Jurassic Park
Freakin Dinosaurs !

8.
Saving Private Ryan
Sticky Bomb!

7.
Memento
Who am I ?

6.
Crash
Lives do come crashing down

5.
Godfather 1
Ill make him an offer he cant refuse

4.
Star Wars (episode 4 5 and 6)
Princess Leia "I love you"
Han solo " I know"

3.
Pulp Fiction
Check out the big brains on brad

2.
Fight Club
His name was Robert Paulsen

1. Shawshank Redemption
Need I say more.

Just looking at this list ive left out so many great movies! A top 100 would be just as difficult. What do you think ive left out ?

Written in a lecture on my phone
The Lone Writer.

Does this sound familiar to you............

Can you believe this utter crap !!!

Now I've shortened the pamphlet and only included some of the skills that these "herbalists" claim to have. I received this pamphlet at a robot on William Nicol Drive, and I haven't laughed this much in a long time. Now Ive received these types of pamphlets before better never in this area (which is considered upmarket) and to my amazement these herbalists have opened a "practice" in Sandton. Yes in the heart of financial opulace in Johannesburg, surrounded by towers of glass and steel you can find these men who can solve any and all of your problems........so why are we in a financial crisis and why do people around the world suffer every day? ...hmmm I wonder

I just cant believe it and I think whats more suprising is that people actually support such con-men, how else would they pop up everywhere and now even in Sandton. Honestly who believes these guys? who actually goes to these men for help? Are the masses that Gullible to be lured by these con-men who prey upon the down trodden and steal from the poor? It would seem so. But then I thought to myself that ok maybe these people are so desperate for any assistance that they would go to these parasites. So we cant blame ignorance...can we?

These men who claim to have divine powers should be charged with fraud and arrested. I know that alot of South Africans believe in traditional Healing and it is regulated by the government but these men are just fraudsters.

I'll ask them to make my blog the most read blog on the planet, I suppose since they can do the above in 5 days my request shouldnt be a problem.

Maktub
The Lone Writer

As the dust settles on yet another whirlwind month into my articles I am faced with another month that promises to be just as crazy, frantic,surprising and educational as the last four, I voluntarily turn the other cheek. With illusions of "Legal Grandeur" shattered and the images and expectations created by televisions shows like the Practice and Boston Legal cast into myth I finally begin to see a clearer picture of what my future may look like. It's a future of hard work, determination and the ability to get up when you get knocked down over and over again, never surrender ! The world of high powered suits, court room struggles and the blind justice to an extent is not as glamorous as it appears to the laymen who.....and this is a gross generalization.... believe that lawyers are only fit to swim in the river styx and prey upon the innocent like a serpent in the grass.

Ive finally... and four months may seem a long time...gotten use to the stresses and the reality that there is never enough time in the day. Days seem to merge into each other. the one indistinguishable from the other, before you know it deadlines creep up on you and so do clients calling you every 24 and a half minutes asking for an update. Things you set out to do on x day never get done because p,q,r ,s and even the square root of s crop up and have to be dealt with. However im trying to believe in the adage that states that "if you never make time how will you ever have time?" (or did i hear that in a movie?)

Everything a budding lawyer has to deal with is "URGENT", "IMPORTANT", "IMPOSSIBLE" and somehow whilst being pulled in 15 different directions you have to find some way to get it done. There is no such thing as "sorry sir but I couldn't do this", you either a South AfriCANT or a South AfriCAN ! and in today's world the latter of the two keeps their job.

Am I enjoying the law and its practice? well i havent quite decided yet......I could honestly do with some more Eli Stone days where the entire office breaks out into song to the tune of George Micheal - Faith....or I walk into a court and exclaim that I am DANNY CRANE and thereby automatically win a case. ! But unfortuantely life does not go according to a script which you and I can understand now but a script that will only be understood after we become the men and women we are meant to be.....Lets alll hope that we do.

Until we meet again
The Lone Writer