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The modern family - A soccer fan's interpretation

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If you’re reading this, then that wanker Howard Camping got it wrong again (Idiot!) and the world did not end on the 22 nd of May. As if we don’t already know that the world will end in 500 million years when the sun begins to burn out, but with the string of disasters this year; floods in Namibia, Dead birds in the US, Osama getting shot in the head, Earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan, Local elections in SA, Rebecca Black’s Friday song and First Semester exams at Varsities all over the world. One can be forgiven for thinking the World was coming to an end. Families have changed overtime, but u still can’t choose your family. Most families are like sport teams, in the normal one’s it’s the kids versus the parents, in the almost normal families it’s one kid and a parent against the other kid and the other parent. In the really messed up families, everyone (kids, parents and even the dog) works together to get the job done. If we analyse closely most families are like sport teams

Chronicles from the metropolis part 1 - The New people of paris

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Have you been around new people you have just met and been a bit scared of them? To the point where conversation is akward and you try so hard to cut the silence with a totally lame excuse of a joke? They look at you funny and although they look harmless you just don’t trust them. Well I know that feeling all too well, I am scared of new people. I am not scared of meeting them, meeting and making acquaintances I can do very well it’s the getting comfortable with them part that literally drive’s me boggers. Unlike my blood brothers Immz and Alex, I am a bit of a socially challenged Geek; Call me paranoid but divulging information about me spontaneously goes against my natural protective instincts. Interactions with people are not my thing.  Which makes this rather interesting, how would I cope if there were virtually millions of new people and they where virtually everywhere? Well that particular nightmare has come to life and I have no choice but to face my fear of new peop