Issue #005, McDonald's free veggies at selected branches
I discovered, by accident, that Mcdonalds' offered free vegetables at selected restaurants. Therefore the purpose of this story is to quench my curiosity about the final outcome and the burning question is, 'If extra vegetables on your burger are free why do some branches charge?'. It's not about the money but the principle which leads to more questions like, where do I find a McDonald's with free veggies?.
It all started early one morning about 1 am, just knocked off the night shift and passed by Mcdonald's for the cheapest and most filling item like a happy meal burger only and they come standard bun, cheese, and patty so I asked for additional lettuce, tomato, and gherkin and was told
that extra veggies are free at
Mcdonalds, which totally blew my mind. The information came to me I didn't go looking for it.
When I remember, I order my special at McDonald's but I prefer the chilli cheese or big mac burgers but on this particular day the McDonalds 'T' started charging and I thought the free veggies season had ended. The folks in my life didn't believe me and I thought I should record it the next time I get the opportunity to win the debate with my family.
Boomshaka! the opportunity appeared and I remembered to do everything. On the 27 Feb 2022 at McDonald's 'S' while it was a heavy day for all of us and we ordered some happy meals because we couldn't eat much and I remembered to ask for extra veggies and they charged me. I had the chance to grab a voice note and the manager said it is because of the renovations and the other branches have not yet moved over to the "Experience the future" theme as they did and the new system doesn't allow for complimentary veggies, therefore all items must be paid for.
The free veggie season is over, life goes on, Covid was hard on us all. I still order extra lettuce, tomato, and gherkin for my happy meals it just makes the burger juicer, and surprisingly on the 12 Mar at the McDonald 'N' and I received them with no hassle and no charge. I asked the manager the same question and her response was different, all branches should be more or less the same but maybe they are 'owner operated' and is different in various areas, she assumed.
On 18 Mar back at McDonald's 'T' we received a receipt and confirmation from the manager that each branch is operated differently and some prices might be different depending on which outlet you go to. Now we just need to build a database of where to go in the city to get extra free veggies.
But I had to do some due diligence and decided to go further because I’m curious as to where all this will lead to and queried with Macdonald's head office and it took some time to figure out how to use the chatbox on the website and decided to email customer care instead and take it from there on the 15th,
So I did and I was excited to get a response. The consultant assisting me needed additional information and I forwarded it to her but she didn’t call back. I phoned on the 17th the customer care line and requested for the consultant by name to set up rapport but no luck. that was the last we liaised.
On the 24th I sent another email with the same questions as before. Here's the big question or rather questions.
1. Does all Mcdonald's South Africa offer free veggies? If not, I would like to promote the ones that do because they can be trusted to uphold the principle of it all.
2. If the branches are 'owners operated' independently, will I still expect the same protocol and system at all restaurants?
3. Finally, the kids want to know why there aren't any more books in the kiddie's happy meal? They received books once at McDonald's near us and would like to encourage more reading initiatives.
But the questions were not attended to. Since then I have been searching for free veggie McDonalds and so far my list has 2 McDonalds that charge for extra veggies. I can’t eat a lot of take-outs so this research will take some time to complete.
On the 24th at 15:38 more or less, I called Macdonald's head office and finally managed to get a proper response from customer care and confirmed that some branches are 'owner operated' and you can expect a price difference depending on the outlet you choose to use.
So that concludes my curiosity drive and the big question is answered. Now the hunt begins to find the Mcdonald's that has that special touch of free veggies.
If your area has a Mcdonald's please order the extras and see what they will offer you and if you have any similar information regarding this topic please leave a note in the message bar below.
**See you now now.**
Posted on the 30 Mar 2022
1st reading random articles on read.cash
From a look at professional choices to cryptocurrency and tokens with a random thought at the end. Three randomly selected articles were chosen and two of them were from the 'Just Write' community.
**Khairro** **- Our professions our future** https://read.cash/@Khairro/our-professions-our-future-7d5030f3
After a brief introduction, I was excited to learn about the requirements of different professions and skillsets although the heading was not about the general thought but was about a group of friends and their selected career choices which were informative overall.
We are taken through the first profession of a historian as taken from the life story of the writer's friend. When 'Araling Panlipunan' was mentioned I thought it was a specialized requirement and after googling it I discovered it meant 'Social Studies' which is important to the curriculum.
The second subject was BSED which means Bachelor of Science in Education, I never knew, and it seems to have two of the group's friends participating in these studies. Now the historian was deemed smart and the BSED student was more intelligent out of all of them and chooses to be an educator, using her talents to better the world.
Followed by a psychologist who wanted to be an Architectural student, sounds like deep-rooted issues that stir up in the future but she is well respected by her peers for her career choice. Next is a group member studying financial management and excelling in the field which you have to have, from the talent to the passion for today's age of business.
Fifth on the writer's list is a Civil Engineer and come to think about it, there's some common ground between the group such as architecture and civil engineering apart from their unique personality. The next friend's ambition is to pursue nursing, our front-line heroes and this circle of friends show a lot of compassion and desire to help others.
Finally, our writer, who is studying commuter science and you know the perfect team needs the IT person making this an amazing group to have on your side with special skills that will benefit any community. Read the article on the following extension and be inspired.
https://read.cash/@Khairro/our-professions-our-future-7d5030f3
**Amazing-grace** **- The six types of crypto tokens** https://read.cash/@Amazing-grace/the-six-types-of-crypto-tokens-ad16648b
The writer relates to us from the start and assures us that there will be clarity as we proceed through cryptocurrency tokens vs coins.
The six topics are as follows:
1.) **Coin**, virtual currency, and how the writer brings clarity to the term is good and the use thereof in relation to 'fiat currency' which I googled and discovered controls the print of money, learned something new, thank you.
2). **Payment/utility token**, from what I understand I need to swap the tokens over to coins in order to use them on the cryptocurrency market, I might have to do a deep search on the topic but I never would have thought about it till now.
3). **Security tokens**, my interpretation of these types of tokens is that they have a more secure method of use because there is a particular protocol and system in place.
4). **Governance token**, is more a community-controlled token, if I assume the correct thing, having the people decide the direction gives all of us a voice and become part of it.
5). **DeFi** which is known as (Decentralized Finance)Token, and out of the writer's selections, I think DeFi seems a very interesting token to work with and I should do a follow on this token and find out more about it.
6). **NFT(Non-Fungible) Token**, is something that I personally want to operate in but haven't seemed to find the time for, and the writer has done well in describing it. Some have made a suitable income selling NFT's. Read the article and decided what tokens and coins interest you.
What I liked as well was being introduced to a new plagiarism checker that I will enjoy using.
https://read.cash/@Amazing-grace/the-six-types-of-crypto-tokens-ad16648b
**Aschatria Sva Amedhya** **- About futuristic food solutions and some random stuff.** https://read.cash/@AschatriaSvaAmedhya/about-futuristic-food-solutions-and-some-random-stuff-9e741692
An article about random personal observations related to vegetables, I expected food dishes suggested with a futuristic touch but the first paragraph came over a bit strong and very angry as though the writer was aggressively approached and the topic shifted to the plants because of a personal preference towards how they feel about plants and life.
At this point, I would like to know what plant is being mentioned because there is a lot of disappointment so I assume, the writer is angry at the plant for causing harm but deeply respects nature in its entirety. We discover that even though the writer is a vegan there is a hint of meat in their previous diet hence the argument against artificial meat whereas real meat has the same required protein, which we assumed is being implied.
I guess the plant referred to in the beginning is the soy and grains but was wrong when I realized that it was about what all is being eaten because it took a twist from not being amused with plants to wanting to photosynthesis as plants do and avoid having to eat plants or anything for that matter.
Closing off with the question of, If it is possible to live without eating and for how long?. I personally say, up to 5 days before being spiritually relocated and certain veggies are difficult to eat but I have a balance of all different types of food groups as best I can with a chicken salad once a week and a burger cheat once a week while in-between I enjoy life. Read about the article for yourself and see what you discover.
https://read.cash/@AschatriaSvaAmedhya/about-futuristic-food-solutions-and-some-random-stuff-9e741692
Thank you for reading and I hope it was informative and delightful.
Part 7, Blogging my failures Phase 1
I didn't blog because of the work and the weed-smoking, which is a disappointment after being sober for 5 days and I avoided speaking about it, but I have to face the fact that I failed myself and failed to blog daily.
When have I started and where I'm at
28 Feb I posted a blog after, I think, was close to a year ago and back then I just wrote from time to time. This year I wanted to really "Almighty Push", if you get it, and grow in the community of blogging. Now last month it took me a while to complete and post one article but this month I manage to complete 10 and still working on other blogs in the process.
I haven't created a following which is my fault for not engaging with other readers and writers and building a relationship. What goes into blogging? from my research:
Good content even if you have a niche that readers can follow along and relate to, the content has to be good enough to create subscribers.
Uploading daily, based on the advice from other bloggers, they recommend a daily feed of content while others post once or twice a week and still manage to make a profit.
Engaging with your readers. This point is emphasized by every influencer and blogger I read and watched. Building a network requires a relationship of common interest and communication.
Consistency with information especially informative material that helps in some way or feeds the reader's mind. After a while of not hearing from you, I assume people move on and get hooked by other bloggers.
Appealing images, I've come to learn about this in my journey on read.cash and it makes the article very attractive. I still have a lot to learn but this blog is just a follow-up and a "must do" before the week comes to an ends.
Moving on from here.
Do you remember the energy I spoke about earlier and how when applying yourself to one aspect of life another opportunity opens up unrelated to the first one because of the energy you emit brings back a similar energy.
I've been trying to do so many things as my previous blogs describe and even though some failed, like the recording for my youtube videos, totally stopped during recordings. I've hustled on the street and selling second hands goods with no luck and my ESL job hunting hasn't produced anything fruitful. yet still I got good news.
I was commissioned to draw up a business plan for three businesses and the one got canceled today while the other one is for an existing business that needs the paperwork for funding. The third one is my special project which sounds like a good idea and I hope will work out for me.
That's it for now.
No images because today just seems like a plain application day and I've seen articles just so plain and yet well-received. Probably the content, which was good or the subscribers, which are many or a reason I don't yet know but will soon learn about as I go along.
See you now now.
Posted on 20 Mar 2022
Issue #004, Giving is essential to good energy
In every religion, culture, and lifestyle where charity is practiced, there is good energy that flows and produces success in life. Those who desire to see good in this world find good along their journey in life.
**Why do we, personally give?**
We know what it feels like to ask for food and money. To pawn your goods for medication and pay more to get them back while owing money to too many lenders. Back then we lack the knowledge and education we have today and realized that it was the support that carried us from struggling to assisting others.
During these drives and of giving to those who truly need it I observed a signature of good in the life cycle of givers that not only helps others but themselves in the process, unexpected and unintended energy of good finds its way to those who act upon their passion and choose to do good.
Poverty doesn't care about race, gender, age, or history. It just fears knowledge and hates action.
We went to a mixed-race squatter camp and gave out vegetables as well as bread and to top it off we gave toys to the kids and self-hygiene packs for teens with hot Sunday dishes to boost for everyone. This is not our first charity drive and it wasn't our last but on this particular day, we encountered so many coincidences that we were enlightened and understand more on how important helping each other is.
**Businesses and organizations are onto something.**
Giving back to the community is driven by individuals who respect the importance of generating goodwill into the world that businesses are following along. Organizations are created for the pure purpose of benefiting humanity and the reward comes back to them not because they arranged it that way but due to the good energy they generate.
Some are corrupt and the bad they emit are hurting them in some form or fashion. Crime lords and people with evil intentions are tripped by their own actions. Negative people tend to hurt those around them and live frustrated and angry all the time.
**It was an emotional day for all**
Some people cried because they received enough food for the week while others were overjoyed with the sanitary packs because they've been using the same face cloth and toothbrush for years. It reminded me of the time we just moved in 17 years ago on our own and struggled to make it through the month and my mother brought us meat for the week, I felt like crying the whole day.
Since then we had support from positive people around us and that energy has driven us to be better at who we are and what we do. At this charity event, I engaged with people who think less of themselves and are surrounded by friends and family with the same mentality. No one encourages anyone and believes that this is their destiny, to suffer and die but it's not true. We are what we tell ourselves and can overcome any trial we set our minds to.
**Saving sociaty with more good energy**
Our act of kindness has impacted a family who decided that they had enough of the struggles and set their hearts towards succeeding which they did. Our ways will inspire or discourage those we are around and it bounces off them to others and back to us. We choose to be good because we can testify to the unexplainable results that occur in life through being a creature of good.
I hope this has motivated you to go out and change someone's life through your action, it might not work out the way you thought it would but you'll see the ripple effect it has created and how it has bettered your life.
See you now now
**Posted on 16 Mar 2022**
Issue #003, Elephant Sanctuary
From the get-go I want you to know.
I get goosebumps whenever we have to touch animals and I get scared of their sudden reactions, especially the ones that bite or attack. I love nature and animals but not to work the garden or see a bird in a cage, I feel the creature so sorry because it needs to be free and own the skies but if it falls down I'll use a box before touching it.
**We took the advanture to the Elephant Santuary.**
The main entrance was amazing with a large passage and wooden live edge counter and tables I think are oak, not sure though. The reception was welcoming with an efficient system during the covid phase and new regulations. They divided us into two smaller groups for a better experience.
**We fed the elephants and rubbed their tummies.**
The guide started our walk through a small portion of the monkey sanctuary and it reminded me of a dream I had where I got hit by a monkey on my head. Facing my fears just makes my faith stronger because after that walk I could handle the elephants.
After a brief introduction and background story on the four giants, we were given a chance two by two feeding them from the bucket. Some kids were so brave and fed them by hand and the elephant's trunk operated like a hand at the same time while breathing in and out with tough hairs on it.
**Walking along with the elephants.**
I aimed to stay in the middle of the group as we walked to the designated area of the nature reserve where we were told more about the grazing habits and had the opportunity to feel the hard tusks, large ears, rough knees, and more with a closeup look at the inside of their huge mouths, it was a wow moment.
During the walk with these majestic beasts, I hardly heard their footstep and later were told why. There were no hassles at all, the elephants are graceful creatures and very intelligent. The caretakers speak English to the elephants while instructing them but Shona to each other and the elephants understood over time.
Discussing the biology of the elephant.
Elephant feet have soft meaty padding that helps to support their weight, as well as preventing them from slipping and dulling the sound of their footsteps. As a result, elephants can walk almost silently, despite their huge weight.
They have six sets of molar teeth and sad thing is that if they lose their teeth they will starve but if all goes well they live up to 60 or 80 years. You expect a 6000kg being to live longer but they extraordinary at remembering every path they've walked. Imagen walking a distance of 200km a day while being pregnant for two years, that's the strength of a female elephant also referred to as the matriarch.
Was it worth it or not
I kept asking myself why was I afraid when it turned into a wonderful experience and enlightening because I was under-informed at how amazing these animals are from the Asian elephant to the African elephant and they are being hunted by poachers for their ivory. We need to consider and respect the life around us even if we don't have a passion for it, we should still recognize the value it all brings to our planet.
Thank you for your support.
see you now now
Posted on the 15 Mar 2022
Part 6, Blogging my failures Phase 1
13 Mar 2022, The target is 1000 of everything.
With only 1 video uploaded on Youtube a few days ago, I'm still way behind. I posted 2 clips on Tiktok a couple of days back and I got the most views I have ever had. I missed my blogging target by half of the target of 1 a day, (which means I should have had 13 articles by now). I have only completed 7 blogs so far, wait didn't I say 3 blogs a day in my previous article, I need to check that.
**Failing to pay attention to my body**
I didn't exercise at all since since (repeated intentionally) and last week I was doing so well until laziness kicked in. My appearance still hasn't had its fair share of attention from treating my face to dressing more elegant and smart. Procrastination! is my Achilles heel when it comes to learning a new language which I should seriously start focusing on.
**From healthy to unwealthy**
I'm earning something from blogging on read.cash and working small tasks on Appen but still not hitting the mark that makes me feel like, like I can order food without looking at the price. I have goods to sell but the profit will be less than a happy meal and I have dreams of owning a fast food shop one day, stop, I'm thinking small. I have dreams of owning a restaurant, now that sounds better. https://connect.appen.com/qrp/public/jobs?uref=2c541994e5017f1bce74d940e3fa1089
Now for the part that I was so excited to say.
I didn't smoke weed for 4 days, woohoo! and during that time was on fire with productivity, **Boomshaka**. I completed 8 easy tasks on *Appen* that took me about 2 hours and I'm looking at a possible $20 to $30 if approved. Projects are based on availability and quantity, the pay rate is different as well. https://connect.appen.com/qrp/public/jobs?uref=2c541994e5017f1bce74d940e3fa1089
In my soberness from being high, I managed to complete 2 blogs which is amazing for me, and to top it off I have submitted 7 no 8 articles, including this one, considering last month where I did 1 only for the whole month see https://read.cash/@Parkins/blogging-my-failures-phase-1-part-1-b3809a5d
I managed to upload Tiktok clips and Youtube videos, wow, being clear-headed makes a big difference, and the biggest encouragement of the day was the sponsor on read.cash, Someone found my material interesting and decided to support me and I truly appreciate it, thank you for motivating me.
See you now now.
Posted on the 13 Mar 2022
Issue #002, Urban to Rural Adventures
There was an emergency and we had to take off.
Rushing down to be there on time before any more bad news because the hospitals in the rural areas are underfunded and far from the local community. We had a 4 hour's drive ahead of us with panic in our hearts but this article is not about my personal dilemma but rather about the rural environment.
**Urban vs Rural everything, okay somethings**
I don't know why but it's warmer this side than at home, wait it's freakishly hot to the point that lotion just sweats off. The air is fresher and there's a constant aroma from the plants in a certain area to the livestock. We drove past open lands and farms, crop farms, cattle farms, and an orange farm that looked so cool because of the way the trees were arranged.
Back in the day, the toilet use to be outside in a single unit building and no flush. This time around the house is complete with everything, basic, in the house which is a major save apart from the chicken in the backyard. Red sand and grass patches seem to be normal until you realize that red sand stains and I can smell the grass or is it the avocado tree or mango tree and any of the multi trees all around.
Community difference and mannerism
Being close to the city has its advantages but a crowded community leads to an untrusted and rude confrontation at any given time. Meanwhile visiting the farmlands or close to it we are greeted politely and everyone helps everyone. The kids play outside. Every city folk around the world is amazed now because our modern-day kids are device crazy. They are screen junkies and in-home dwellers, not all kids but it feels that way. Rural kids are playing with soccer balls and plastic bags balls or pretending balls and they enjoy being active.
**Nature can be uncomfortable and smelly**
The heat, oh!, the heat is too much as though the sun fell on us, please consider that I am an indoor kinda guy. I deal with the regular toxic smells from a congested traffic flow and an aroma of cologne and suddenly hit the fresh air and manure apart from the plant smells it's not that bad just unusual.
***Had to take a photo of this chicken, I felt it sorry.***
What's up with mosquitoes and flies and why are they bigger? yes, these insects are just annoying and persistent. If you like little critters then the rural oasis is your paradise from centipedes to millipedes and creatures I have never seen before.
Cows in the backyard and chickens on the rooftop are nothing compared to the dogs who don't bark unnecessarily, in fact, they are so passive compared to our urban dogs who never stop barking and attacking.
Will I ever return? I probably will.
I personally don't like the outdoors or touching animals but the serenity and peace were calming and I currently don't know my neighbors because they are so rude and having a respectful community feels safe because everyone knows everyone and helps each other out which seems perfect but I only know these people for a day and there might be secrets below the surface.
Thank you for reading this article.
See you now now.
Posted 11 Mar 2022
Part 5, Blogging my failures Phase 1
2 days sober and I ended up smoking weed again.
10 Mar 2022 and for the last few days, I stumbled back into bad habits which caused me to lose the time and energy that I could have applied to this blog and the work at hand. While I'm on that point I haven't written for the last 2 days and I was planning to write out 3 blogs a day which I totally failed at.
There are no followers or views which suppose to be a bad thing but I feel liberated because this blog has become my personal space that has motivated me. I write what I want to do and how I didn't do it, hence the name 'Blogging my failures' and the "*energy of action*" has manifested the results I desired.
**Next point. Did you ever try posting on Youtube?**
Do you remember what I said in the previous blog 'Part (something) to Part (something, something)' that I plan on posting videos onto Youtube? Today I managed to upload my first video which took some time to learn.
This is what I discovered.
The size of the video is affected by the length of the clip and the quality of resolution and if you have a slow internet connection, you will, as I did, wait a long long time for the upload. I found some errors and had to reload, so check and double-check before going ahead to the next step.
Your content in the description panel needs to have SEO keywords. Honestly, I just wrote down the information and went with it because I'm not (as yet) clued in on SEO stuff. I did however learn about time stamps on the video and it is added on through the description section by typing in the time code eg.
00:00 Intro
01:35 Running into danger
and so forth. Don't forget to add the 00:00 in the beginning and after you post it the number will highlight and the viewer can jump to that section in your video. I found it to be cool.
**Click on** **Appen** **and get paid.** https://connect.appen.com/qrp/public/jobs?uref=2c541994e5017f1bce74d940e3fa1089
**Target**: complete 3 projects a day - **Results**: 1 project completed after a week.
Haha, sorry I have to laugh at myself because I earned $90 and $135 with a lazy effort, while other users earn up to $1000 or $3000, and now that I'm trying to focus and work hard I'm only on $12. I managed to complete 3 tasks today and that will reflect on invoices later this week.
I can't speak about the projects or what they entail but I can share my experience. There are some projects which required time to just figure out. Contacting support has a lead time of a few days or weeks depending on the type of job but they do get back to you, until then use all possible intelligence to get the job done before it comes to an end.
Please follow my link (**Appen link**) because I will actually help where I can, good luck. https://connect.appen.com/qrp/public/jobs?uref=2c541994e5017f1bce74d940e3fa1089
**That's it for now.**
I'm not going to talk about the exercise or learning a new language section of my life because, guess what, I didn't do it, big fail. I did manage to sell goods again but ended up smoking it away so sad face for me concerning cash in pocket.
Thank you for reading and following, your energy is felt and appreciated.
See you now now.
Post on the same day 10 Mar 2022
**Boomshaka, well done to me.**
Part 4, Blogging my failures Phase 1
Failed again, don't ask me why.
7 Mar 2022
I'm going to tell you why because it's the requisite of this blog even though it's hard for me to talk about because I wanted to brag about my success but I hardly have any hence the title of this blog.
Firstly let's talk about energy.
The energy I have been emitting has opened up opportunities for me. I think I need to explain in more detail. I have done so many tasks in order to have content for the blogs at the same time those activities have to succeed so that I can speak positivity and talk about the progress. On the other hand, I receive phone calls of encouragement from people I hardly speak to and I'm approached with positive opportunities that are not related to the project I'm doing and I strongly believe that the energy you emit is the energy that returns to you.
**Believing in something and living it is completely different.**
I have been failing because I haven't been putting in the work and now that I am giving it my best and I see results and I noticed that my best is weak and I need to improve on that. My action, speed, and perfection are under question by self and my personal judgment compels me to do better.
Secondly, I can't do it, it's too hard.
The work is too much and the frustrating part is when you spend hours on a project just to discover that something is missing or wrong or doesn't load, save or finished on time and you need to start all over. Nothing is uploaded, all the content is created but important minor details are missing which delayed the process. Wait, forget not that I have too much on my plate and that might be the reason for my exhaustion but it is the thrill that has me pumped up for action.
**Let me center myself**
I need to build a network and it seems to require a lot of content which requires time, so speed needs to be the focal point. I realized that there are more
requirements than just building a following, the maintenance and attention that is needed are far greater than the current work I'm crying about. I should start taking this process as training for what is to come if I stay focused.
I'm not going to go into detail about the different sections I'm currently exploring at once. you will have to read about them in the following articles.
https://read.cash/@Parkins/blogging-my-failures-phase-1-part-1-b3809a5d
https://read.cash/@Parkins/part-2-blogging-my-failures-phase-1-6bbb875b
https://read.cash/@Parkins/part-3-blogging-my-failures-phase-1-e1e3c7d0
The only reason for this blog today is for the win. I will have succeeded if I wrote a blog and posted it the same day.
Thank you
see you now now
Posted on 7 Mar 2022
Part 3, Blogging my failures Phase 1
Suck on that personal blog.
*6 March 2022*
I made it, I completed some tasks that I set out for myself and it feels great. I showed the "Blog" that I can do it. To top it off I managed to write 4 blogs in a week including this one, compared to last month. (check out phase 1 part 1).
****Brake down report on the successful part of my mission****
I woke up and exercised which is a total win for me but I feel like crap now because my muscles are aching and I'm exhausted. It will be worth it when I achieve that super body and post that motivation video.
Created videos to post on youtube but unfortunately didn't post it as yet because there is content that still needs to be added which I failed on.
Pubg recordings went sideways but I kept on trying to record the screen and hopefully use it on Tiktok and youtube but the speech is a bit broken and the game wasn't that interesting. Failed in posting it.
Tiktok what do I say about it. I opened the app with the intention of creating something and then got lost in watching videos, when I finally started making a clip I was confused with the gears from which effect to use and sound to choose to timer settings and lighting. failed in posting as well but I created something which is a win, (Kinda).
APPEN (does pay) but I've been slacking so this month with this blogging series motivating me, I hope to complete as many tasks as possible. I completed two today and if they are approved I will be paid, ***boom shaka***, so happy for that. The main focus is to do the work daily and if I don't I have to write my failures in this series of "Blogging my failures". https://connect.appen.com/qrp/public/jobs?uref=2c541994e5017f1bce74d940e3fa1089
The street hustle
I offered my services as a typist to help with a spreadsheet. Now I was helping someone who always helps me, so I couldn't say no because it's disrespectful to refuse the person who's there for you. I couldn't charge even though she can afford it because she assists me without charging, but it was nice being needed again.
**Appearence in my holistics list**
The way I dress is not bad but lately, I've been admiring the composure of a well dress person with good features. Not sexy or handsome no, I mean well looked after face and hair. My business look needs more flick or seriousness and I should fall in love with a shaver and face cream.
Thats it I'm tired and writing late at night well tired invites mistakes and I'm determine to complete this blog on the same day I started. Let me close with this.
It's been 2 days since I last smoked weed so that is the biggest win for the day, take that personal blog woohoo!
Thank you
See you now now
**Posted on 6 Mar 2022**
Issue #001, Blogging Adventures
I'm scared but I did it.
Horseback riding or is it horse riding, don't care😎 because I'm not an animal touching person, although I care about nature and I'm pro-life but not to engage😖. I'm good with admiring from a distance. Not today, we have to climb the horses and ride out the trail with a pungent smell in the nostrils.
😷My morning started at 3 a.m. because I couldn't breathe💨. If you read my blog yesterday, phase 1 part 2, I mentioned the exercise I forced on myself, and that lead to chest complications because of excessive smoking. With my asthma inhaler close to empty or was it already empty?🤷♂️. I medicated myself as best I could and told no one what was wrong because they might have canceled the day and I didn't want that to happen, I literally could have died from the asthma attack,💪 haha living on the edge.
🚗Driving onto the plot we felt lost until the next sign appeared 🏳and even though we could see the stable with horses🐴 in them I still needed to make sure we were in the right place. Now I tried to postpone our ride to 30 minutes later because I needed medication urgently🙏 but we couldn’t. So with straws of hay and noisy flies all around us we continued on.
What everyone was feeling.
The Lioness, the one we call the queen was first to mount with a touch of fear because her horse was feisty just like her and it seemed calm to us but the sudden shakes unnerved her.
The immortal, as I call myself because I could have died on a range with the hospitals and clinics about 45-60 min away. It was scary at first but I kept calm to keep the horse calm. (feel me)
Aloevera, he asked to be called that, why? 🤷♂️No reason but there was so much excitement and in his action but confusion on his face. Not paying attention to the instructions but ready to go.
TheFairy Princess, was nervous and lost as to what to do as she was being told what to do. We expected her to avoid the horses all in all but she sat with her back up straight and confident.
As we rode along
With our guide at the helm on foot while we towered above him on our horses with a beautiful landscape around us, while the horses named Baloo and Norman lead the trail ahead. Our Lioness had the stubborn Delila who just grazed along the entire trail giving Lionsness a huge struggle to control her.
Dalila being at the back of the trail changed paths and the guide had to change the whole trail to a new route through tall grass where only the top part of our bodies could be seen and nothing of our short guide holding the leads of Baloo and Norman, very calm and well-trained horses.
I kept calling my horse Stan which wasn’t his name but it felt right to me and falling behind made me talk to Stan even more and rub gently while pulling him away from grazing. Scary cat me started feeling confident and "one with the horse" and I tried riding Stan faster which never happened, I think the horse was just lazy or I wasn’t kicking and making the right sounds.
Aloevera seemed to be so relaxed but struggled steering Baloo and found myself heading straight into the tree head first.😂On the other hand, our guide had to attend to Dalila. We looked back waiting for Lioness and not paying attention to Fairy Princess galloping away with Norman. We all started shouting “pull back, both sides, keep your arms low and pull hard”. I wanted to ride like the wind after her but my thighs were screaming like the wind instead.
**Pros and Cons**
👍Whats bad about riding horses, nothing, it was an amazing time and thats coming from someone who doesn’t like the touchy😖 feely part of animals.
👎The smell of livestock was offsetting and the horse flies were annoying.
👎If there are four riders and one guide it’s a bit unsettling when all riders are new. The guide was on foot and had to walk back and forth between horses and couldn’t stop any unwanted reactions from the horses.
👍The trail went smooth even though some horses ended up doing their own thing, no incidents or excidents took plaace and no one got hurt.
👎My inner thighs got sore and my legs felt like jelly afterwards, good thing I wore jeans and sneakers.
👍 Overall good
The freedom of the open field and the fresh air was a relief. The energy from the event was revitalising and our concept of horse riding has changed forever and the fear thereof gone. We finally ticked it off the bucket list. 😊
Cheers
See you now now.
Posted on 5 Mar 2022
Part 2, Blogging my failures Phase 1.
Reporting back
*3 Feb 2022*
Firstly I managed to write part of the blog, didn't fail that section and squeezed in some **exercise** and a **dance** step with **prayers** as well, and I managed to pull myself together to do some **Appen** work even though it wasn't fruitful.
Maybe there’s bad💨 energy emitting from me because the simplest thing seems to be failing at my touch 🖐and I was lazy💤 this week because ended up smoking😡 too much and not sticking to the schedule.
*4 Feb 2022*
*Fell asleep yesterday, back to the report back.*
I had things to do but no deadlines to it and the thing that has me most motivated is this blog because I can't write about failure if I don't attempt anything,
I watched a video by **Ali Abdaal** and the thing that stood out for me was the 1000 benchmark when social media and ads payouts truly begin to make sense. My interpretation was that I need to do a thousand of each project to begin yielding minimum results.
I can't even do 5 shucks! flip the script ha,
So far it's :
Appen, test failed and I didn't complete the photos and it's the 4th I should have done 1 a day. If can complete at least 3 tasks a day with 26 days left to go I’ll reach 78 paid projects with a profit of $100 to $500 maybe more.
Selling for the day went sideways with second pots because I missed the big spender and ended up settling on a small profit.
Created the whole setup for Tiktok videos but ended up not completing it or posting it.
The same goes for Pubg games which I played but didn’t record and upload.
As far as the **music** goes I am struggling to understand the app but I downloaded a new one through the annoying yet captivating ad on youtube.
What next?
What do I write about now because I haven’t achieved much and it is nice to talk about your wins for the day but maybe I have too much on my plate and I need to trim it down?
Taking it back to basics, I started this blog to build a network. But I asked myself the question.
Why not build a following on all the platforms?
If I had **one** *niche* I would then create content for one passion and launch that out onto different platforms. I discovered another problem in me, I can’t stay focused on one thing and follow it through. Thinking back on the advice of one influencer could be applied to me.
He encouraged users to create anything and everything until you discover what works for you, so maybe I’m on the right track. Sorry, (to myself) this blog is not as long as I would like it to be but it is the second addition to a project I thought was dead last month already but I manage to do something👏.
I’m doing these tasks just for the blog, currently. This project has motivated me to take action and I hope it grows because it is having an effect on me that is healthy. What if I included smoking and drive myself to have a better lifestyle. All these activities are done on different platforms and is only spoken about on this blog and site.
Thank you.
Posted on the 4 Feb 2022
Blogging my failures phase 1 part 1.
**The Brainstorming section,**
The heading is funny to me because I tend to fail a lot, which is not a laughing matter, come to think of it. Instead of writing about my success after I reach it, I decided to jot down how I constantly disappoint myself and not do the things I should do.
*Started writing* 8th February 2022,
Who feels like whenever you do something you need to avoid certain people who speak down or against or simply just nasty towards you and they’re around you all the time.
Those types of toxic elements seemed to be constantly around me and the words of judgment were so heavy on my head to the point that I just hid away trying to keep myself afloat in the financial pool of debt. Without any money, it is difficult to spend time with people and do the things you really want to do. I’m frustrated and acting out because I’m poor.
So I got an idea. Blogging about my personal journey from rags to riches (**ha ha ha**) seems to be a good idea but stays a dream if I continually fail because your content needs to be consistent in order for this to work.
We all like to follow a good story or know what to search for when we think about the type of channel we’re feeling.
I did a thousand of these but never followed through with one of them and I can’t even say **“until now”** because I’m not sure if I will get to see the full cycle of this project.
That brings me to my blogging venture for the sole purpose of making money through affiliate marketing and all the other online monetary methods and platforms available which I don’t know about. I need traffic which I don’t have because I’m not a social media active person.
So this is the plan, build up a following/network kinda ish. But, once again, how! I have no niche I can invest my time in because I’m too dam versatile.
**Loving too many aspects of life without doing something about it is daydreaming.**
The biggest problem is I’m lazy, yes I procrastinate way too much and I was constantly sad because I failed so many many times. I tried sales over and over again and don’t let me mention the online English tutoring that went well for a short time and stopped,
plus all the online remote tasks and investments that paid out well until they ended. If I had to save all the thousands I spent and lost on trading forex and stocks I would have had a car by now. I do have call center and retail management experience but the door for that job hasn’t opened again for a long time now.
*21 Feb 2022 continued writing.*
Like I said I procrastinate and I did so again with a small profit I made and ended up smoking it away on weed, smoking has demolished my looks and body, and most of all it swallows my time with me being unproductive. Moving on, as I was saying I'm Brainstorming.
**The online plan**
Write a blog in a way that gets me motivated to keep pushing for something more in life. Use snips from my blog to feed other social media mediums and start building a network to use as an advertising platform.
Creating videos for youtube namely **1**) How to videos, **2**) Pubg mobile training videos, **3**) Turning my blogs into videos **4**) Food **5**) Exercise and dance vids, **6**) Affiliate marketing clips **7**) Business talks **8**) Making videos for my odd tunes,
Feeding TikTok **1**) Heady **2**) Music **3**) Pubg **4**) Food **5**) Exercise **6**) Affiliates **7**) Business aspects **8**) Online jobs **9**) Dogs.
Annotation jobs such as Appen.
Trying to land an English online job
Finally something I just can’t seem to understand, E-commerce
**The street plan**
Collect second-hand goods and resell them which is a small amount for hard work.
Sell a product but that requires focusing on the administration, financials, sales, clients, suppliers, staff, products, dates and times on everything from logistics to productivity and all the unmentioned in-betweens.
Services have been a mismatch at the moment but I will find a window in and get paid for what I can do.
**The holistic plan**
Exercise - I need a follow-along video for motivation.
**Currently unfit**
Linguistics - learning a new language helps mental growth.
**Currently, speaking 2 languages**
Appearance - Facial, Personal, Social and physical.
**Currently, I look untidy and the smoking darken my appearance**
Music - The songs are constantly in my head and never ends
**Currently, just singing it to myself while daydreaming**
Dance - just to check off the bucket list
**Currently, still embarrassing myself**
Wealth - becoming financially secure for the rest of my life through to my grandchildren's lives
**Currently, have a double-digit account with 2 primary school kids**
Spirituality - There is powerful supreme energy out there greater than us and controlling the universe and finding that essence is only possible while in this form and dimension.
*25 / 02 / 2022 continued writing.*
This blog should have been written in one day or one week but I procrastinated and laid it off which resulted in a month-long failure and all my plans unaccomplished. I don’t know when I will do a follow-up or develop consistency for readers to follow the story.
Until the next whenever, cheers.
Thank you
Posted on the 28/Feb/2022
The day I died.
The day I died I saw something.
From the 11:30pm 19 July – 12:00am 20 July 2014
I wrote about this many years ago and recently decided to share my experience online with others who have had similar encounters because I searched for similar stories and found a few. This is not to change your life or create believers it's for the sake of knowledge and thought-provoking information.
On the 19th of July, I worked at a fitment center where car fumes and tyre dust filled the air, forget not that I am asthmatic and I was a smoker at that time. So on that day I had a tight chest and yet I still smoked both weed and cigarettes even though I knew it was wrong according to my religion 'Christianity'. I would argue with Christian peers over the fact that the bible has no verse for smoking and I was content with the statement that once you become a Christian you are saved for life. I also believed that saying the sinner’s prayer before I died would get me into heaven but what I saw in my death and what I heard from the Holy Spirit changed my whole perspective. On that day I had a slight flu and my son had a constant cough as well and we made a hospital visitation to my father in-law after his surgery. My son and I went home earlier to take some medication and a warm bath while my wife, her sister, and nephew went shopping.
So after the exposure to so many possible triggers to an asthmatic attack and what could possibly cause it, I don’t know. That night from 10pm my chest felt tight and my son did something to irritate me and the lack of oxygen just made me snap and my emotions caused my asthma to spiral out of control. Immediately my awesome wife did the basics such as switching on the fan to provide more fresh air in the stuffy room, massaging my feet to bring about relaxation, and water to drink. Yet it still became worse and at the moment I told her “call my mother”, not for physical help but for prayer. My wife rather tried calling her cousin and asked her younger sister to call my older sister. My older sister got to our house within 10 to 15 minutes, the average time is 20 - 25 minutes via the highway.
I started saying the sinners' prayer and asking Jesus for forgiveness and making promises of evangelism while walking to the car and sitting in the back seat and waiting for my wife, I passed out.
WHAT MY SPIRIT SAW
In the 10 minutes that my sister and her husband were traveling to get to us, in those short minutes my wife was trying to resuscitate my dead body. I found myself in a pitch-black environment as my eyes adjusted to the darkness I could see people heads shape against a dim light but not a light, I saw these silhouettes of people next to me and in sudden fear I tried closing my eyes and in my imagination I saw my wife and family in clear tangible vision as though I was not dead, but I knew it was not real because the touch wasn't warm as in emotional warmth. So I open my eyes and stared into the black pit of tormented souls, as though standing on a hill looking over other hills upon hills, I started seeing thousands upon thousands of souls moaning as they came to the realization that they were not on earth anymore.
Dead in the car
Before making the phone call to my sister my wife was busy making a 3 point turn with the car in a small yard. While calling my sister she noticed that I stopped breathing and my body was not moving.
She came to the back seat to apply CPR but foam came out of my mouth, my body pulled stiff releasing all waste matter from urine to feces while my hands and knuckles tighten with an open palm. There was no movement, no response from my eyelids, no pulse, no breathing, no asthma attack taking place, it all just stopped. My wife attempted heavier compressions to the center point on my chest and punching it. As the final air escaped my lungs through the foam barrier and the sound of groaning and noticing that my body was not moving she tried to apply more CPR.
My wife kept praying relentlessly while applying CPR and just before my sister arrived God gave air back to my lungs. My wife and my sister were arguing about how to drive the car that was stinking of my discharges. As they reached the top of the road the paramedics finally arrived. Instead of moving me over they strapped an oxygen tank to my face and followed the ambulance to the Southrand hospital, when we arrived I stood up as though nothing had happened went to the toilet to clean myself off, and went looking for my family.
My life didn't change but my mindset did.
Many times in my life after an asthma attack I would be weak and frail but this time I was strong as though God has touched me when he breathed new life into me. I thank God that I am married to this woman and we have the kind of love that makes us fight for each other.
I learned that the sinners' prayer and the belief in Jesus is like a marriage vow, it only works if you live accordingly and can be broken. We as Christians believe we are going to heaven because we tell ourselves so but live horrible and hypocritical lives. Why didn't I see heaven, why did I see a pit of souls and a darkness that made me fear the night for months thereafter.
Now I believe that we are judged by the"intention of our desires". Before we desire it what's our intention, what intention created that desire. Before we act out our desires what's our intention in our action and finally when we do what we do is it for good or selfishness and God will judge us based on all that and more in Jesus.
Respect, we need it now more than ever.
Respect is needed no required
If thieves had to respect the system of getting paid for their work they wouldn’t steal or politicians respecting their promises which affects their integrity resulting in actual community uplifting progress. If all police officers showed respect to every person they talk to the community would show respect and not fear or anger towards law enforcement.
***Respect*** - Admiration felt or shown for someone or something that you believe has good ideas or qualities.
*“Men are respectable only as they respect.”* **Ralph Waldo Emerson**
A virtue that is lacking in society and you notice it almost everywhere. Walk into a store and you hear a rich person speaking out loud with a vulgar attitude “Do you know how much this cost, more than your life” and life is priceless but the approach of disrespect is accepted. If we took a moment to stay calm and show self-control wouldn’t the problem be handled quicker with less complication but no, customers storm in looking for the manager and starts shouting.
*“Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.”* **Gamaliel Bailey**
Back to the gangster perspective. I was surrounded by thugs growing up and when it comes to judges and doctors they have very polite speech patterns but as for the rest of society, gangsters choose to talk with disrespect. They throw things around and swear at whatever they can with an angry attitude the whole time to display dominance like a gorilla in the jungle. If they respected people they wouldn't point guns at their faces or walk in the house slamming does. They wouldn't sell drugs to kids or use kids to sell drugs if they respected the youth.
*“I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.”* **Jackie Robinson**
I can go on and on with multiple comparisons on respect vs disrespect and how a simple virtue can change our society. Pollution is ignored when one person litters but becomes a worldwide problem when 10 million people are doing it all the time but if those very same mass of people respects nature our planets pollution levels will drop overnight. The pandemic was a perfect example of it, during lockdown when half the world was inactive and the mist of smoke cleared up so much that a collage of before and after photos started trending on the internet.
*“Respect other people’s feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.”* **Roy T. Bennett**
Do we even bother to teach children to respect not through shouting but through lifestyle? Shows on the internet and television display kids that speak with disrespect while the adults look on in confusion. No awareness is brought to the issue that the child is telling an adult “shut up” but then again the adult is screaming at the child “shut up”. Even the churches are telling people that Christians have the right to be rude because they are children of the king and therefore must act like it.
*“Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given.”* **Hussein Nishah**
**Respect**
A virtue needed in the time of covid-19. Please respect the fact that I would like to wear a mask and respect your health situation if you have contracted the virus. If world leaders respected the severity of this pandemic then it would have had a better impact on their nation. If society respected the severity of the virus then the infectious rate wouldn’t have been that high resulting in a lower death rate.
*“If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.”* **Maya Angelou**
Need I say more if fact it is endless the amount of disrespect we observe from our own bosses and managers to our colleagues. Pay attention to the way they talk about the business and their superiors. Take a moment and look at your friends and family and what they laugh at, what they find funny and begin to see the underlining negativity tolerated as humor, see how strangers reacted when they get angry if there is any self-control. Look deeper into the entertainment we enjoy and see how disrespect has been normalized for society's acceptance.
*“If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.”* **John W. Gardner**
It’s up to the virtuous now, those with ethics and integrity to inspire the world to be respectful. I wanted to say it is up to you but I don’t know the real you. Maybe I met the pretentious you who puts on an act for the public eye, ***wait***, I think that is what’s needed. Yes, you, please pretend to show respect, your act will motivate the next person to make that attempt and if it doesn’t then simply ask them or tell them, if need be, to be respectful to all in every given situation and change the world from the inside out.
*“It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration, and respect.”* **Hermann Hesse**
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Kicked out and need to make a plan.
So it's time to move out of the house, maybe you've come of age and feel you old enough or just got kicked out, I'm leaning towards booted and you got no idea what to do, this is your lucky day, neither do I and I'm laughing because we were in the same boat. 😂😂
No, on a more serious note it is scary having been told you must pack your bags and go. Your stomach sinks and your head pounds while your eyes start burning before your heart beats faster and faster and your breathing escalates. What do you do? and where do you go? Well, these are my pointers that might help you or at least widen your perspective.
Apart from having a bag packed and finding a place to crash you need to face the reality that there's life beyond moving day.
Make a list of what all you need. Now my angle is from a broke poor perspective.
You need **money**, cash or bitcoin cash
A **source** of income
Place to stay
Food
Data and airtime
Transportation
Accounts
Clothing
Toiletries and cosmetics
Utilities
Detergents and cleaning products
Medication
Saving and investments
Furniture and appliances
Emergency fund
Now my list is not in order or complete but it gives you an idea of what you need to focus on when looking after yourself. All these items require **money**, meaning you’ll have to spend a fair share of your earnings or savings on them. If you don’t have enough or any start making a plan to earn it and try your best to avoid borrowing.
Have a list of people you can rely on and that means building a good relationship with those around you. We all need help and no one should be an island. At the end of the day, you need to do what you need to do, just choose good for good to be returned to you.
Time management is a necessity from the morning through lunchtime into the evening including midnight activities, example:
Wake up at 5 in the morning to prepare for work or the hustle but most important clean up because insects and rodents will be an additional problem in life.
Making time to clean the night before you go sleep to avoid a huge load cleaning on the weekend and eliminate the rotten smell and pest infestation.
Plan your day so that you budget your expenditures and maximize your productivity. There are things you have to spend on daily like bread, transportation, etc.
Stick to your schedules and appointments with family, friends and business so that you don’t overload yourself or cause disappointments.
Be prepared to be overworked especially if you the party type because cleaning and studying never ends and takes up half your day.
This is the part of life where responsibility really kicks in for yourself and the actions you take regarding your money and choices. You are responsible for what your kids and pets eat and how they will live and it's all based on your desires and decisions.
Finding a place to stay is challenging, you need to look at the location and affordability followed by food, electricity, water and maybe even gas. It comes down to what you going to spend your money on and what you prioritize from important to unnecessary. I just made a few points but the order is up to you.
If you haven’t moved out as yet then start preparing now for the inevitable, if your life is heading in that direction. **Money** is key, unfortunately, you’ll need a lot of financial help to pull through. Create a list of what you want and what you need with the price to everything and get in the habit of looking after yourself especially following a budget.
Good luck and I hope this article helped you out and stay positive.
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**Why am I promoting Bitcoin Cash?** so that you can donate BCH or BTC towards my campaign.
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If you decide to contribute in bitcoin or bitcoin cash allow me to explain something about this particular cryptocurrency. I went through the internet and gathered some information for a simple explanation and a brief introduction.
**What is bitcoin?** If you don’t know by now it is virtual money you can earn or buy online and transfer it to your account to withdraw it as cash or whatever else you want to do with it. There are bitcoin ATM’s in certain countries that allow you to deposit and withdraw cash and selective stores that support bitcoin.
**What's all the hype about BCH (bitcoin cash)?**
It’s an awakening to the realization that Bitcoin Cash believes in the original vision for Bitcoin by Satoshi Nakamoto. A fast, secure, worldwide peer to peer electronic cash system with low processing fees.
**What's a peer to peer transaction?** A peer-to-peer transaction means that a transaction is sent directly from the sender to the recipient, without a service provider regulating your limit or charging interest depending on the amount.
**What's the difference between Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin?**
Bitcoin Cash comes from the same mill as Bitcoin. They share the same white paper, a similar supply, the same mining algorithm and possibly the same reward system.
Both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash aim to be a worldwide accepted digital currency, but there are some important technical differences as both communities have differing views on their solution to scalability.
Technical differences
****Features**** -BTC **-BCH**
****Start**** -2009 **-2017**
****Founder**** -Satoshi Nakamoto **-Bitcoin Unlimited**
****Block Size**** -1MB **-32MB**
****Transaction size**** -3-7 pers second **-Over 100 per second**
****Transaction fee**** -$0.01 **-$2-$50**
****Considered to be**** -Digital Gold **-Digital Cash**
****Scalability solution**** -SegWit, Lightning Network **-Increased block size**
Although Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash may partake in similar mining algorithms, they do have a different adjustable level of mining difficulty.
Like I said this is just a summary to give you an idea of bitcoin cash. There's still a lot attached to cryptocurrency such as blockchains, node, faucet and more which require deeper breakdown. But I would like to focus on a BCH awareness such as:
**Did you know that your government can print more money creating a huge inflation problem?** Bitcoin Cash prevents this by having a predictable creation schedule. No one in the world can decide to say that tomorrow we'll have to create a billion new Bitcoin Cash. It's impossible. Some very advanced math guarantees it.
**Did you know that your government and bank can freeze your account and not apologize if they made a mistake?** With regular money this situation is possible, with Bitcoin Cash this situation is impossible. You control your money at all times and nobody, except you, can move it. Not governments, not your bank, nobody but you have excess.
**Did you know that your bank can limit you or even overcharge you for an international transaction?** for example, let's say your friend is in another country. How much would it cost to send the money there? Usually it's about $20 more or less. How fast would it be? Probably about 3 workdays. With Bitcoin Cash it's less than one US cent and immediate, in some cases the recipient of the money would need to wait about 10 minutes for the money to "settle" if the amount is big enough.
If fact here’s some key points that can benefit business owners.
**Bitcoin transactions are not fully anonymous**
A far as I know, you don’t need to share your identity to attain a digital wallet, it’s more private than a bank account. However, Bitcoin is not a privacy coin: the blockchain is public to everyone, meaning that all transactions can be viewed.
If you like to keep your Bitcoin transactions extra private, use a different address for every payment. To do this in your wallet app, click on create a new address in the send and receive tab if you’re the one sending or receiving the Bitcoin.
**How Bitcoin Cash payments boost your business**
***Lowest fees*** - No matter the transaction size, Bitcoin Cash payments cost less than a cent making high payment processor fees a thing of the past.
***Zero chargebacks*** - Every payment in Bitcoin Cash is permanent so, unlike with credit card chargebacks, you have the right to make refunds at your own discretion.
***Immediate payment*** - Never wait on payment processors again. Bitcoin Cash payments are received in seconds, ready for you to save, spend, or convert into your local currency.
**| Where to start?**
Create a wallet. A wallet is an online cryptocurrency site whereby you can exchange your local currency into cryptocurrency and visa versa. Click on bitcoin.com or use **Luno** (I use **Luno**) but there are many more out there. Fill out all the required information and you are good to go. The wallets will provide a lot of direction and help to most of your questions. https://www.luno.com/invite/W479K
**| Final words.**
So now that you have a small idea of what bitcoin cash is all about do me the courtesy and **donate** towards my campaign that will make a difference in the kids' lives and an impact in ours. We have been donating towards underprivileged kids for years and we made it happen through all complications and this time around we need assistance with one major challenge you can help with.
Please read more about it here - https://read.cash/@Parkins/bch-bakkie-crowdfunding-d4622421
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****What are we truly capable of and why don’t we become it.**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/what-are-we-truly-capable-of-and-why-dont-we-become-it-1e857761
****BCH my new wonder, it stands for bitcoin cash**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/bch-my-new-wonder-it-stands-for-bitcoin-cash-55ac8ea7
****Teaching English Online, how I did it**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/teaching-english-online-how-i-did-it-79b4546d
****Earned BCH from noise.cash and read.cash since January 2021**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/earned-bch-from-noisecash-and-readcash-since-january-2021-7688f065
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****5 pointers for a stay at home dad from a stay at home dad.**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/5-pointers-for-a-stay-at-home-dad-from-a-stay-at-home-dad-16d5a6cf
****Don’t be suicidal, wait for tomorrow.**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/dont-be-suicidal-wait-for-tomorrow-5d70f9a0
****How much do you love her or him?**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/how-much-do-you-love-her-or-him-2ac7b484
Hero wanted to be a hero but lost at the end
From the get-go it didn’t work out for him, shame, maybe it’s from watching too many Batman shows to following the Marvel movies, he was obsessed with being a superhero. He read quotes like:
Another definition of a hero is someone who is concerned about other people's well-being, and will go out of his or her way to help them -- even if there is no chance of a reward. That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero.
STAN LEE
If you’re a comic book fan these words will inspire you to the moon especially if it is from a well-respected producer. So he decided to do something that would make Batman proud and Iron Man impressed but it didn’t go as planned.
It all started when Hero had to take his cousin to a place around the corner, not far, so he said. The place had a big dark skin guy with a black tracksuit jacket in front of it chewing a match stick while pacing up and down. “I’ll be back soon, stay in the car, ” his cousin said as he quickly went in. Sitting there watching another short guy in shades further up and opposite the road from him two ladies trying to offer a sexual service. Three boys came out of the flats his cousin went into with laughter and stupidity as they looked down into their hands.
Hero started getting curious and decided to go after his cousin, so he walked past the one-man guard and met a group of gangsters wanna-be at the door.
“What are you looking for?” one dude asked him.
“My cousin” Hero replied, gazing at the cold-hearted eyes and sneaked a peek through the burglar bars and the crack of the door to notice his cousins sniffing drugs while teenage girls were sitting in the corner with frightened and hungry looks on their faces.
Now his brain started working overtime because he was in a place he has never been and witnessing a scene that he never imagined he would and so the hero mentality kicked in and he wondered.
“How much for a hit? I got grand in the car” Hero asks with a smile on his face
“Bring the cash, ” the skinniest guy says while lifting his head and keeping his eyes low.
As he walks over to the car he starts booking an uber to collect his car in 15 minutes. As he climbs in he opens the glove compartment and starts calling his friend and asks her to call the police in 10 minutes no questions asked while tracking his location on Whatsapp.
Grabs a lighter and a spray can out with the coca-cola before closing the door and starts spraying himself as he walks back to the flat making himself look like a doofus and the boys start laughing as they open the burglar gate and everything feels like it’s moving in slow motion at this point. His cousin's face turns sour and the music plays louder, he nods at the ladies and observes the guns on the waist of the drug dealer asking him “ what do you want?”
“I need to piss, ” Hero says and starts zipping down his trouser and hands the dealer a 200.
“This way” a half-dressed chick answers “do you need help?”
“Maybe” responding with a sarcastic dead tone Hero pushes through and observes all windows and exit points.
As he stands in the toilet that looks disgusting with brown stains and a sticky floor smelling like a dump. Starts pulling on the toilet as much as he can and continues on and on and notices a loose bar in the window frame but keeps on pulling and takes some of the newspaper to start a fire in the bath creating smoke. Banging on the bar and loosening it up Hero breaks it off and uses it to break off the second bar but he didn’t pay attention to the smoke build-up with the heat of the flames rising.
“What the hell is happening?” someone asks from the other room. Meanwhile, Hero tosses clothes into the flame to make it bigger and opens the door.
“Somethings burning! Something's burning!” The girls start screaming and the drug dealers are taking out their guns and going to investigate the smoke.
Hero removes his short sleeve shirt and dips it in water to wrap around his face and crouches at the frame of the door waiting for them to get closer.
“Open the gate boss, what’s going on” the boys start screaming on the outside “open boss open”
But they are too invested in going after Hero who shakes the coke into the face and while trying to block Hero pulls him into the fire. The other guy starts shooting through the smoke but hits his partner instead because Hero was dipped down and pulls the second guy by the waist and twists him into the wall.
Now the screaming gets louder and the boys on the outside are shaking and banging on the gate screaming, “Hey!,Hey! open up, open up”
Hero gets shot in the shoulder by the boss man walking out of the bathroom with his jacket on fire. Hero leans against the wall and slides down onto one knee but reacts by taking out the spray can and lighter and starts burning the two together creating a flame thrower and runs into him pushing him down. Hero goes back into the bathroom and tries to climb out through the window.
Police sirens can be heard and flickering of blue lights start bouncing off the walls and Hero hears the sound of runners heading towards the front gate but he decides to jump the back wall. A black pitbull attacks him and he blocks with his arm and having the dog locked onto him is not good. He still needs to get out of the yard before he gets attacked by the residence. Hero swings the dog into the pool and the animal lets go, giving him time to jump over the front gate. Landing face-first onto the sand he gets a message, Your uber will be here in 1 minute.
One of the more braver prostitutes starts searching the boss’s pockets for the key because he passed out, possibly dead, from the smoke inhalation and opens the gate and they all rush out. Police running in with their firearms pointed forward and started screaming, “on the floor, face down on the floor” and they all complied but the group of men who stood guard were long gone by then.
Hero unwraps his head and tries to stop the bleeding in his shoulder but then wraps his arm and jumps into the back seat of the uber request while the two men give him a silent yet shocked stare.
The driver asks, “Are you okay man?”,
“Yes, don’t do drugs” he mumbles as he throws his head down “my car is in the road, take a left and left again”. As they drove closer, Hero peaked up and said “that’s my car parked over there”. While the co-driver jumped out to collect his car he watched as the police officers had them lined up next to each other on the ground faced down and zipped tired. His cousin was part of those arrested and thrown in the back of the van. Hero gave his friend another call “thank you for being there for me, no I’m not fine you’ll have to get me at the hospital.
Within the next hour she walked into his room with excitement and relief in her voice, “Hero are you okay I heard on the news what happened close to where you were, are you alright”.
“Yes I’m fine”, Hero moans with a husky voice, “Just got bitten by a dog and maybe shot, what did you hear?” he coughs out.
She started rambling “The news reported about saving 15 teenagers rescued from sex traffickers and they apprehended close to R20 million worth of drugs” she paused for a moment “Are you responsible for all this?”.
The monitor starts beeping faster and faster, “Hero are you okay? Hero” and suddenly a nurse pulls her back and says, “He’s going into cardiac arrest from internal bleeding” and starts using a defibrillator three times but no recovery, and the flatline continues with the worst sound that nobody wants to hear followed by tears after the nurse called the time of death.
Hero died a hero.
You can read some of my other articles such as:
****What are we truly capable of and why don’t we become it.**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/what-are-we-truly-capable-of-and-why-dont-we-become-it-1e857761
***BCH my new wonder, it stands for bitcoin cash*** https://read.cash/@Parkins/bch-my-new-wonder-it-stands-for-bitcoin-cash-55ac8ea7
****Teaching English Online, how I did it**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/teaching-english-online-how-i-did-it-79b4546d
***Earned BCH from noise.cash and read.cash since January 2021*** https://read.cash/@Parkins/earned-bch-from-noisecash-and-readcash-since-january-2021-7688f065
****It’s hard if you are born different.**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/its-hard-if-you-are-born-different-e0f75b0f
***5 pointers for a stay at home dad from a stay at home dad.*** https://read.cash/@Parkins/5-pointers-for-a-stay-at-home-dad-from-a-stay-at-home-dad-16d5a6cf
****Don’t be suicidal, wait for tomorrow.**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/dont-be-suicidal-wait-for-tomorrow-5d70f9a0
***How much do you love her or him?*** https://read.cash/@Parkins/how-much-do-you-love-her-or-him-2ac7b484
BCH my new wonder, it stands for bitcoin cash
BCH my new wonder, it stands for bitcoin cash
How to earn bitcoin cash? I only know about two methods in my half-hearted (because I can find more if I tried harder) search and that is read.cash and noise.cash both owned by the anonymous creators whom I love and appreciate. Can you like someone you never met or don’t even know? Well, I’m there now (Thank you ladies and gentlemen who made these fantastic websites). https://read.cash/r/Parkins https://noise.cash/u/Parkins
https://read.cash/r/Parkins
If you know of another way to earn bitcoin cash please let me know in the comment section below. This article is my opinion and not fact so I might (possibly) be wrong with some aspects, cool bananas, okay let's start.
**Passive Income recommendations**
Now there are ways of earning bitcoin but I use a very passive method that is scary in the beginning because you are not sure if they are legit or when they will crash but I have been confidently paid from the following sites: fxsuccess, cashfx and beurax in bitcoin (I use LUNO wallet) but they don’t pay for activity but investment called bitcoin lending and some of them paid my rent during the lockdown. https://fxsuccess.co/register?link=81432596 https://Parkins.cashfxgroup.com https://beurax.com/en/?rid=980099540642445 https://www.luno.com/invite/W479K
As for an alternative income I would recommend read.cash and noise.cash for writers (there are other sites but for now I'll focus on these two). lol, what's funny is that I am not a writer, I just tried my luck at something new, let's break it down. https://read.cash/r/Parkins https://noise.cash/u/Parkins
**read.cash**
In read.cash they pay you for your short stories and articles, more like the community and **TheRandomRewarder** who finds your writing interesting and informative. In the beginning, I only received about $0.10c to $0.040c but I have grown to $2 - $3 and that is dependant on the quality of your material. I have seen some articles get $10 - $45 from their followers which I only dream of achieving. https://read.cash/r/Parkins
I'm not on social media
You see the difference is that I am not a socialistic person physically and online. I don’t chat or post on twitter, facebook, instagram, I can go on and on, so finding friends and followers is a bit of a mission for me. Over the last month and a half I’ve gained 10 subscribers (lucky me) and I am so grateful, thank you to all those wonderful people supporting my writing, you are amazing. I hope you become successful because I speak blessing over your life.
I noticed that you need a long article filled with wholesome material and possibly gains attention, so pour your heart into it and add some pictures and questions. I also noticed that people want to read about BCH and cryptocurrency or money, earnings, related articles. Wow, a lot of people are suffering out there. As for me, I write about my thoughts at the moment.
**noise.cash**
As for noise.cash you can earn between $0.50c to a dollar and that all depends on what I assume is the subscribers, content and freetips. In the beginning I was getting close to $1, $1.50 but I have been cut off from free tips and that could be for several reasons. Firstly they give you the option of percentages to tip from 20% to 80% which I couldn't reason with because I found it unfair to tip one person 30% and the other 70% which I disagreed with after tipping, so I stuck to a 50% all round which could be the reason I got cut off but there is more to it. https://noise.cash/u/Parkins
The rules for noise.cash are as follows:
**No begging for tips or subscriptions**, which I never did
**No eroctic or porn content**, I agree with that
**No obviously illegal content**, makes a lot of sense
**Stay polite**, I liked this part
**No content intended to disgust users**, this is why I like this site.
**No extremism, calls to violence or glorification of violence**, I totally agree with these rules.
Which I didn’t violate but it must be the free tips rules which go as follows:
“Free tips are occasionally given by us to some random nice users. You can not withdraw them directly, but you can give them to other users and take a percentage yourself. Give it to great interesting users and we might give you free tips more often. If you give it to spammers, to your own accounts or take too much to yourself, we might never give it to you again. Have fun!”
So the last time I got free tips I tipped too big and to the usual supporters because people are tipping those who tip them, which makes sense, but maybe it was my percentage and spammer tipping that got me cut off.
Bottom line
I still get tipped even though I don’t get free tips because of the system I have in place. Now other users just focus on what niche they have. Some have 300 to 500 subscribers others close to 1000 or 3000 subscribers (Impressive). But I feel bad I can’t tip great post anymore and there are some motivational and mind-blowing material on noise.cash https://noise.cash/u/Parkins
I’m diverse and I don’t get free tips so this is what I do:
Some motivational and inspirational quotes, because that is popular followed by some cryptocurrency information because the majority are looking for that.
I go over the post of the subscribers I follow because I can’t see who is following me, unfortunately, but I try to keep up with the tippers and comments.
I then implement my own interest which is marvel and business followed by an exploration of current and possible new posts.
Some users rarely post and just comment and tip and they have a lot of followers and subscribers.
Now I use to tip some great posts from both subscribers, subscribed to and 'explores' which I can’t do and I got tipped in return so be careful not to lose that privilege because it cut down my income from $1 to $0.50c, give or take.
This is not big money but creates awareness for BCH (wow BCH is amazing), one person got $100 in 8weeks and another $20 in 10 days as for me I only got, to date $30 to this point for my start date including read.cash and that might not be a lot to you but it’s free for chatting and writing your thoughts which is a win for me.
**Remember**
We are not all the same, your contacts and material might caterpillar you to the best possible standard or hold you back from the fullest these sites have to offer. Coming from a noob with no experience I see the potential of reaching greater heights in the coming year.
BCH is the ... (can't swear profanity not allowed)
You can read some more of my other articles such as:
***BCH my new wonder, it stands for bitcoin cash*** https://read.cash/@Parkins/bch-my-new-wonder-it-stands-for-bitcoin-cash-55ac8ea7
****Teaching English Online, how I did it**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/teaching-english-online-how-i-did-it-79b4546d
***Earned BCH from noise.cash and read.cash since January 2021*** https://read.cash/@Parkins/earned-bch-from-noisecash-and-readcash-since-january-2021-7688f065
****It’s hard if you are born different.**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/its-hard-if-you-are-born-different-e0f75b0f
***5 pointers for a stay at home dad from a stay at home dad.*** https://read.cash/@Parkins/5-pointers-for-a-stay-at-home-dad-from-a-stay-at-home-dad-16d5a6cf
****Don’t be suicidal, wait for tomorrow.**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/dont-be-suicidal-wait-for-tomorrow-5d70f9a0
***How much do you love her or him?*** https://read.cash/@Parkins/how-much-do-you-love-her-or-him-2ac7b484
What are we truly capable of and why don’t we become it.
When we read the Guinness book of world records and see what people are capable of, something inside us makes us believe we can achieve something unique. We hear stories of people who have done the impossible and we don’t believe or rather we tell people we don’t believe meanwhile deep within we are curious about how they did it so that we can do it ourselves. Ministry stories of healing and miracles captivate us and we become followers because it is taking place right in front of us or in front of someone we trust. How about the monks who are stabbed but not pieced or stand in a fire but not burned.
Humans are capable of reaching unexplainable heights in life. Read success stories and discover where they came from at the beginning of their journey when they showed no potential of becoming anything worthwhile in life and now we idolize them for working hard. Let’s look at two common yet inspirational stories, **Steve Jobs** and **Tyler perry**. If you don’t know about the two then you need to do some research. *Steve Jobs* became the well-respected billionaire who created and developed ‘Apple’ the most dynamic computer and software system of our times. Lost control of his company and later took it back and made it better than before.
*Tyler Perry* has been doing theater for so long that it seemed as though he will only be a stage actor and nothing more until his determination took him to the point of creating movies and owning a multimillion-dollar studio or studios rather. From a nobody to somebody that inspired so many young and old black entrepreneurs to achieve their dreams in music and acting.
That's dynamic and encouraging but what about the possible impossible, such as magicians and preachers. There is Chris Angel a magician who levitates from building to building or how about pastor Chris Oyakhilome who prayed for cancer out of bodies. Now, you can call it false because you are not around it or not personally invested in their theatrics but yet it happened whether we believe it or not something unexplainable took place.
You, what is within you. Maybe not the unexplainable or the unachievable but something that will require work is deep within you. Let’s ignore your age and pretend you don’t know how old you are and you begin to set goals for a year (exactly 12 months) and we list them as follows:
**Exercise**: extreme workout, running 10 kilometers / 6,2 miles or defining your body with weights and gym.
**Language**: learning a new language or three to a fluent standard.
**Finance**: practicing savings and exercising earnings through multiple incomes.
**Spiritual**: discovering your heritage and completing your inner journey to a leadership position.
**Education**: Mastering what you already know and learning something you have set in your heart.
**Self-development**: Doing what you always wanted to, that’s not on this list but in your heart
What will you achieve?
What will happen when you become greater than what you imagine, I, personally, don’t know but I assume you’ll be great beyond expectation. I can’t talk from personal experience but I assume you become more successful than you think. I wrote this down for my personal encouragement and I decided to post it because I needed to post something for the platform and it found you. Maybe, most possibly, it was not written for the writer but the reader. You will achieve entities that the writer of this article will never see but creates the desire you need to fulfill.
I am great but you will never understand my greatness unless I tell my story but why? My wife and kids are living the dream life because their dad and husband have sacrificed for their happiness and not public approval, my power does not need to be showboated but for personal accomplishment.
What are we truly capable of and why don’t we become it, depends on how hard you are willing to work towards it.
You can read some more of my other articles such as:
****Teaching English Online, how I did it**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/teaching-english-online-how-i-did-it-79b4546d
***Earned BCH from noise.cash and read.cash since January 2021*** https://read.cash/@Parkins/earned-bch-from-noisecash-and-readcash-since-january-2021-7688f065
****It’s hard if you are born different.**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/its-hard-if-you-are-born-different-e0f75b0f
***5 pointers for a stay at home dad from a stay at home dad.*** https://read.cash/@Parkins/5-pointers-for-a-stay-at-home-dad-from-a-stay-at-home-dad-16d5a6cf
****Don’t be suicidal, wait for tomorrow.**** https://read.cash/@Parkins/dont-be-suicidal-wait-for-tomorrow-5d70f9a0
***How much do you love her or him?*** https://read.cash/@Parkins/how-much-do-you-love-her-or-him-2ac7b484
Teaching English Online, how I did it
**How was I introduced to teaching online?**
I stumbled upon it in an interview for an admin position and the recruitment agent recommended teaching English online. I’ve been unemployed for a while and after she explained the terms I went for it. The training was provided for three days and thereafter demo classes for two days followed by the final assessment and I was hired.
**Before I tell my story, for those interested here's a quick, ‘What you need’.**
***Device***: desktop computer or a laptop, Windows or MAC it all depends on the platform the company will use.
***Camera***: I bought a HD external camera, most laptops these days come with an in-built camera.
***Headset***: Logitech was my choice headset with a microphone for clearer communication and omitted background noise.
***Internet***: you will need a fast Internet connection to teach English online. Between 4 Mbps to 10Mbps more or less but uninterrupted.
**Certificate in either TEFL or TESOL**
***TEFL***: A *Teaching English* as a *Foreign Language* certification is an internationally recognized qualification to teach English abroad and a critical component of your international teaching job application.
***TESOL***: *Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages* – a term that is used to distinguish English language teaching as a professional activity that requires specialized training.
***Props***: charts, flashcards, toys, or common word props making it easier for your student to understand through visual learning.
***TPR***: *Total Physical Response* is a method of teaching language or vocabulary concepts by using physical movement to react to verbal input.
**My journey from the call centre to the home office.**
I started in a call centre which meant I kept office hours during the day. We had the option of working a night shift because of the time difference which I took advantage of. Eventually, change took place within iTutorgroup and they required their teachers to have a degree and I didn’t thereby losing the job.
**Working from home**
I started searching for ‘teaching English online’ jobs and I found **DaDaABC**, based in Beijing they employed native speakers with experience and certificates in teaching English. I enjoyed teaching with DaDaABC because of the platform and teaching material, both user friendly and understandable. Unfortunately, I was dependent on a landline that got stolen throughout our block which resulted in a penalty fee and a warning. After the criminals stole our telephone line for the second time I lost my contract with DaDaABC.
**Conclusion**
Teaching requires patience especially with kids and I loved teaching the kids because of their energy. Be punctual and show enthusiasm while in a lesson, your students can pick up on your authenticity. Prepare your lessons in advance, most institutions allow time for preparation and provide the lesson materials ahead of time. Don't worry, every company I worked for has paid me well but you need a quiet environment and lockdown has made that part difficult for me.
Overall if you wish to teach online do your research and have fun.
Earned BCH from noise.cash and read.cash since January 2021
**$22 dollars**
9th January and I discovered noise.cash which led to read.cash and I got paid $22 by the 9th February for chatting and writing articles which for me was just a desperate attempt and some sort of ‘online income’ but led to an amazing journey.
**What I discovered.**
This is what I learned about noise.cash so far. The mysterious creators of read.cash have developed a quick and easy social media platform called noise.cash. The punchline is that we get free tips which we can tip other subscribers with. The only known contributor towards or BCH funds is Marc De Mesel.
**How much do we get?**
In the beginning, I got 1-5cents every now and then, I think hourly not sure, at one point I got close to 12cents, since then lower and it makes a lot of money by the end of the day, close to a dollar on a good day. You also get tipped by other users between 20%-80% of what they decide to tip, the same goes for you when you tip other users.
**Appreciation**
I’m grateful on so many levels to the team of noise.cash for creating this wonderful world by which we get BCH for writing our thoughts and allow good statements we find inspiring to be rewarded. I am truly thankful for the kindness from Marc De Mesel for the donations making a huge impact in our lives. Finally, I appreciate how noise.cash has inspired me to write and introducing me to read.cash where I wrote even more on my rough thoughts of the moment.
Thank you to the team.
**Why stay**
I haven’t been a social media follower on facebook or twitter but with noise.cash I have found a like-minded community with positive energy and an encouraging vibe. I have met and continue to meet mind-blowing individuals with a passion for what they love and what they read. Because of the noise.cash users' criticism and support I believe I can take my writing to the next level. Thank you to all of you who read my post and read my articles. Your tips and donations have positively changed me.
**In closing**
You come for the cash but stay for the outstanding impact it has on your life. You start off by trying to find out where you belong and discover that you are surrounded by friends. The key is to engage with subscribers and new members, post wholesome and meaningful material, reply to your tippers, and overall stay positive.
It’s hard if you are born different.
Society has this ugly tendency of rejecting what is different, they fear the unknown and show disgust at the unfamiliar with an open expression thereof.
In the so-called normal communities, a boy gets judged for not being interested in girls at a young age. A girl is told she won’t be loved if she doesn’t submit to either cosmetics or superiors.
How much worse are the words to someone who looks or acts completely abnormal.
Robert Hoge, author of the book ‘Ugly’ made an amazing statement at TEDxSouthbank “Own Your Face”. Born with a deformity on his face and legs he went through many reconstructive surgeries to finally realize that he is amazing from within and even though he doesn’t look like Chris Evans he has become successful because he moved away from social acceptance.
How do you change the mentality of a community set to discriminate against the unwanted? Being insulted for being the only LGBTQ in your circle in today’s age is so disappointing and embarrassing that there’s no maturity, no mental evolution, we are still dealing with racism, How much more someone born with a missing limb.
Nick Vujicic my personal role model when it comes to self-motivation. Born with no limbs he became limitless as a motivational speaker and today has a family and wonderful life when people thought he would amount to nothing. Imagen the insults he had to endure because he was born different and yet he chose to become what he desired and not was forced upon him.
The bottom line is to stop judging from a preconceived standpoint about someone you have yet to meet.
Don’t be shell shocked by a society that thinks of you as different. If you bad then bad will come to you, if you are good then good will find you. To those that do nothing, they will get nothing but those that give their best will be rewarded for their hard work.
Society is influenced by clans and clans are directed by leaders who are outspoken individuals. If you don’t fit in then it’s time to stand out and lead your life and allow your light to shine so brightly it changes the way we think.
You won’t read this but …
You won’t read this but I want to scribble about you and the way your smile holds my attention hostage. I’m fascinated with your laughter and its symphonic tone.
Is it okay if your skin makes mine goosebump? I shiver with nervousness but I’ve known you for a long captivating time.
I’m flustered when you kiss me, if you’ll kiss me, when will you kiss me, It’s been a while, well not that long ago maybe now now you’ll crisp me with your lips.
When you touch my hand I’ve never had a touch feel so romantic in silence after years of companionship.
Are we friends or more than friends something deeper than deep, can I call you my best friend.
I haven’t stopped thinking about you after pondering about you, you’re the majority of what I reflect on. You what I reflect on.
5 pointers for a stay at home dad from a stay at home dad.
If you are at home because of a lockdown or you lost your job or you started a business and it failed. I can go on and on but whatever the reason is you find yourself at home looking after the kids and it feels like the kiddy noise will never end. I compiled a few pointers for a 'stay at home dad' and I'm not an expert just sharing my opinion.
**Have a schedule for the day, especially in your head.**
The kids are little people with no plan for the day so waking up early is not one of them. Get them bathed and fed as soon as you can because the whole process will take time and you need as much time as possible.
Breakfast, Education, Playtime, Lunch, Creative arts/ Education, Afternoon nap, Free time and when you look again it’s supper time and you had a controlled day.
**Smile and compliment for everything with the kids.**
If you have the kids at home with you as it has been during a lockdown remember to smile for all their ‘show and tell’ demonstrations. You might be busy job hunting or working online, probably trying to sell something or start a business and suddenly a page is blocking your view or stone with a dot on it shoved into your face by your child, just compliment with a smile otherwise you'll be dealing with tears and a sad child which is 'drama' you don’t want to deal with.
**Pay attention to everything, read all the information related to your kids.**
Listening carefully to what your kids have to say, through the rambling of their stories they will tell you about what really happened, the true story. I personally ended up missing vital information because I never read the side notes which my kids had more knowledge about and I totally messed up.
**Be a strict dad and a fun dad.**
Balance it out because a fun dad will not be taken seriously and a strict dad will not get hugs and you need your child to be open to you and honest especially with a huge mistake that could result in a horrible outcome. Be a dad they respect more than fears, someone they can laugh with when they had a bad day and scared to disappoint.
**Don’t give up on yourself.**
This is very important because your pride and ego is damaged in the process and your circle of men can degrade you if they are the insulting type. Keep planning and working behind the scenes, stick to your dreams and try again. You are not less of a man because you look after kids, in fact, you are more understanding and equipped to handle a business and a household and it's an added skill that illuminates your true greatness.
**Final words in closing.**
Wake up and shower, dress smart and smell good. Shave everyday and make yourself presentable, the energy you emit will come back to you so love yourself and quit bad habits, you are never too old to change.
Don’t be suicidal, wait for tomorrow.
Don’t be suicidal, wait for tomorrow. I kept telling myself this over and over because my emotions took over my brain.
**Why tomorrow?**
Something different happens every new day, you don’t know what to expect and it is never like the day before it is never the same. What might seem like your whole world is destroyed becomes your blessing in disguise the next day. I had a year of endless horror day in and day out mainly due to my actions and negative feelings about myself, but recently my life is better than ever before.
**Can we control our feelings?**
I don’t know, they’re just so overwhelming. You literally lose yourself in the moment and no matter how much you tell yourself not to do it again, boom you do it again.
But I believe you can control it by telling yourself you can control it, and when you feel like you can’t wait until tomorrow, that’s what I did because it felt embarrassing having people watch me cry even worse watching myself cry, the emotions are just too powerful at times.
**Do you love yourself?**
I moved from hating myself to loving myself because I stopped trying to fit in. Shame that I learned it at a late stage in my life. Trying to speak as they speak or do what they do when you don’t specifically like it is inner torture and overdoing what you like is a bit embarrassing. Finding a balance is sort of a key to many aspects. Balance in relationships, balance in finance, balance in everything is required that’s my opinion.
**What if there’s a horrible afterlife with no return?**
Think about it, there are so many reports of people witnessing an afterlife, some even coming back from the dead. Religious believes describes a dimension from which you enter in death and never return to any normal life of ice-cream and kisses. What if that world is real but horrible and you are bound to the worse regret of your existence.
**Final thoughts,**
Some people were nothing and nobody to society. Now they are remembered as life changers and heroes. There were drug addicts with no potential becoming role models.
The bottom line is that the future can be whatever you work hard towards, everything is hard until you succeed just hold on.
How much do you love her or him?
Are you willing to change for the one you love so much? and why should you change is that a bit unfair but on the other hand having bad habits is not something anyone should live with or accept just because of a feeling, such a good feeling.
But you can't deny the way it makes you feel flustered and energetic. You can't pick yourself up in the morning but the moment that SPECIAL PERSON calls your name you immediately have the energy to clean the whole house inside and out.
You love who they are and not how they look like or what they did before you came along, you accept who they are and what they do, in fact, you adapt to their lifestyle by doing some things they do and maybe even changing some of your habits because of the way you feel around them.
You just want to touch them the whole time and hug and kiss until forever and every moment flies past like a second, it feels like a second but it's been the whole day maybe two. You study their face and skin how they move and what they like to say and then ...
you get hurt by some stupid decision they made or you made any way you just embarrassed and in pain and so you want to hurt the person you loved so much bringing us to the question
How much do you love her or him?
enough to forgive them and don't get me wrong forgiveness does not mean tolerance you don't need to tolerate the disrespectful person once you forgive them, just forgive and move on,
but are you willing to forgive and continue loving them as before?
What if you can't make love anymore (sex) as before or at all? will you still love them? will you still miss them what if all the money is gone and suffering is your daily exercise? will still love them with passion?
If you said yes it must hurt day in and day out and not feel the same energy in their response giving your fullness and receiving emptiness.
If no, just move on, let go and move on.
If you found your perfect match then why ask the question, go and love them as though the day might be the last.
Netflix, “Outside the Wire” Review by Parkins
**Outside the Wire**, Lately, when you see Anthony Mackie in a movie you expect to see some knockouts. In the role of Captain Leo, he doesn’t disappoint, in fact, he pulls some moves that make goosebumps pop out all over your body. Thrown into the future with robots all over the place he becomes a super artificial intelligent android trying to outsmart humans.
Damson Idris acts out lieutenant Thomas Harp, a drone pilot you’ll likely compare to a desk soldier of sorts, very wimpy when it comes to combat, and is sent into the field because he defied the change of command or was he requested by the android, I would say both, you decide. Once Thomas discovers that Captain Leo is 'advanced' technology in biomechanics he begins to feel uneasy.
Captain Leo’s program is governed by commands within his code and needs to find a way to bypass them. After recruiting Lt. Harp they go on a secret mission to find a way of infiltrating the enemy’s organization and disarming nuclear rockets. Like most undercover missions they need to take part in unauthorized activity questioning their ethics or rather Lt. Harp is.
Robots are used as soldiers with futuristic technology in play yet the scenery is very modern compared to warzones such as Syria or Iraq. Dealing with refugee camps run by the resistance brings out the compassionate side of Cpt. Leo and while he keeps a stern, cold composure you feel as though you can relate with him.
The frequent encounters with the militia attacks harden Lt. Harp and making him more proactive and less fearful creating a vibrant and determine soldier at the end. Meanwhile, we get to see Cpt. Leo (Anthony Mackie) in action with skills that seems impossible, every time Cpt. Leo gets in a fight he produces moves we haven’t commonly seen.
Being a sentient android made him dangerous and Lt. Harp discovered just how much but too late. Cpt. Leo becomes independent from his initial programming allowing him to achieve more, whether it was for the good or bad of mankind is up to you to discover.
Hope you enjoy the movie as much as I did.
Netflix, “Finding Ohana” Review, by Parkins
I love the way the twist is **unexpected**. In most *tomb raider* movies we can judge the next move or outcome but “**Finding Ohana**” captures your interest with every turn. https://www.netflix.com/n/1e44003b-075c-40f5-8a73-4d289b475961
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The treasure hunter team of young students consists of one determined individual pulling the rest into a *mysterious* comical adventure. Having to adjust to their new environment affects them as it would all us; with an uncomfortable start before settling in which only takes place at the end of the journey.
Since the days of *Indiana Jones* we have come accustomed to the old traps working as planned but “**Finding Ohana**” answers the real questions we all asked, “**How can something so old still last**”, making the journey feel authentic. https://www.netflix.com/n/1e44003b-075c-40f5-8a73-4d289b475961
The introduction of **culture** intertwined with **history** allowed me to connect to the roots of Hawaii and see **majestic mountains** and beautiful scenery. The map is based on a diary handed down through the family lineage and finally gets unraveled by a young girl learning about her **heritage** and discovering the family secret.
*Stubbornness* and *rebellion* from being raised in New York get Pili and Loane on their way while the *patient* and *respectful* attitude from Casper and Hana makes them feel out of sorts and they act ridiculous. The attraction and repulsion between characters had me questioning the chemistry between them, will they be friends or not.
They had to face many **phobias** throughout the journey and together they *encouraged* each other with a touch of comedy along the way especially the **storytelling** part which played a big part at the end. The obstacles were far from *conventional* and yet they found alternative methods that made it **captivating**.
**Respecting** the dead stood out **strongly** as it is part of the culture of Hawaii natives and the involvement of **ghosts** was scary but not frightening with a comforting outcome making it suitable for kids to watch. The adventure through the caves and many close calls to **failure** keeps you sitting on the edge of your seat.
10-minutes reset at 10:01 “From fearful to fearless in a flash”
Two unique individuals were given the opportunity to relive the last 10 minutes of a life-changing event transforming their inner perception forever.
Four shady characters are up to no good, one driving while three in the back of a white Nissan np200 bakkie with a canopy on top; discussing how they will rob the next student walking down Destiny street; a quiet road. They drove around the block twice and on the second round they spotted Veasna, a well-built caucasian girl who played hockey with the hockey stick hanging over her shoulder and wind blowing through her short brown hair and school uniform while fiddling on her phone and paying no attention to her surroundings not even the red flash of power.
The youngest of the four has so many doubts due to the fact that he doesn’t want to be there but is forced to due to the circumstance. Jevon, a matriculant, only came along because his friend Rene was experimenting with drugs for the day and it’s not what he agrees with. If you are familiar with small township customs majority of the community knows each other and often assists especially in relation to transport. Jevon thought it would be cool to take a ride with his brothers drinking buddies up to the shops on top of the hill while avoiding Rene’s drug adventure and it was a bit better than walking.
“Hey, young one,” Julius with his dark gangster-looking face called out bringing him back to the moment, “ Don’t worry we’ll be fast, grab and go”.
**10:01,**
Displays on the phone as they start getting ready to steal it from their victim. The driver moves the car slowly pass as though he is about to stop. Two houses ahead and Danisa, a tall dark skin subservient fellow jumps out and walks towards her and snatches the phone instantaneously and begins to run away yelling out “go go go” and the driver pulls away but Danisa misses the hand of Julius resulting in a tumble and roll. Veasna screams frantically at the top of her lungs alerting the neighbors around them and grabbing the attention of the uncle across the road. The driver brings the car to a screeching halt while Danisa was running to catch up and knocks his head upon entering as Julius pulls him in.
The uncle runs to assists Veasna and comforts her but she is too stunned,
“Are you okay, hey miss can you hear me, what’s your parent’s number?”
“00663 224 224 312,” she keeps stuttering the number.
The uncle shows her the digits he punched in and asks, “Is this it?”
Tears are pouring out uncontrollably as she shakes her head to indicate yes.
“Come inside let me make you some sugar water,” he says as the phone is dialing.
Shivering all over his body Jevon is petrified at what just took place and scared to say anything worried about what would happen to him if he did. Confusion filled his head as to why, why did they need to do it and the more he thought about it the angrier he became,
“Why?” He asked with his eyebrows pinched together and his golden honey skin tone flustered red.
“We needed cash, we broke and gangsters got to make a plan,” Danisa laughed as he spoke.
“That was wrong so wrong,” Jevon bursts out at him.
Julius starts shouting, “Don’t keep yourself innocent,” and pushed him on his chest backward, “we all sin”.
Jevon’s eyes went wide open in fear and immediately resorted to silence watching the houses flash into a single streaked line.
**10:05,**
As she stares at the time on the clock the uncle started talking.
“Your mom is on her way,” touching her shoulder, “and she called the police, don’t worry your phone is being tracked and lucky for you your mother is well organized so she will call the network provider and give them the IMEI number and will follow up with the police, I don’t know, it all sounds complicated but she’s seems to have a handle on things”. The uncle stares at his phone while speaking, “How are you feeling dear?”
“I don’t know what to say,” Veasna spoke with a quaver, “They came out of nowhere and surprised me and who still steals phones these days but the eyes of the guy in the back haunts me as though he was kidnapped and in shock just staring at me.”
**10:07,**
Two blocks away and they drove up the hill to a squatter camp where houses were build-up of zink sheets meant for roofing and wireframes for a fence barrier around them and different gate parts to complete it, a used tyre with a few bricks on the roof. The deeper you go in and you’ll find Rene’s house a drinking area called a “Shabeen” to purchase alcohol and that was the plan. Julius with his blonde tip black dreads first stared at the police van at the bottom of the road before he ran in and swapped the phone for a case of beers. Greeting as he went pass everyone he noticed Rene drooling from the intense drugs and was tempted to take a hit before leaving. The driver quickly spat away as soon as big head Julius climbed in and moved higher towards the top of the hill.
**10:09,**
Jevon looked at his watch as he lifted his head to the sound of the police siren with blue lights flickering. They started driving towards the shabeen and jumped variously out of the van with intent to harm, within a minute they dragged out the suspected perpetrators. Shouting could be heard all the way to the top as they argued fiercely with the officers. Guns pointing in every direction and the images got smaller and the sound fainter but Jevon could see Rene stumbling as he was being dragged out and thrown to the floor, through all the hustle and dust two shots were heard and one went straight through Rene.
**10:11,**
Jevon suddenly feels the world drawing close to him as he watches his friend bleed out. A sinking feeling from his chest to his stomach made him nauseous and he started to struggle to swallow, his eyes start burning and became blurry as he looked at the red light.
Goosebumps with a vigorous shiver overtake his body, humming in his ear coming from his head pounding. Disorientated and close to a fit, his body shakes while sweating as though he has a fever on the spot; grabbing his head and curling into a ball from the universal pressure on his outer and inner flesh.
**10:01,**
Jevon is breathing heavy and clothing soaked in his sweat as he looks out the back of the bakkie and sees Destiny street again as the car slows down he jumps out before it can stop and runs towards Veasna fiddling on her phone and not paying attention. Meanwhile, Julius and Danisa were distracted by a red flash of power.
“Hey hey, watch out!” Jevon screams and bumps her over.
“You rude troll what’s your problem,” Veasna responding with an angry tone.
Danisa bangs on the top of the canopy and goes after him but tumbles and rolls upon exit.
“Hola boy, take the phone,” he shouts out as he struggles to get up.
Jevon starts screaming frantically, “Help, help” looks over to the uncle and throws a stone at him missing his face.
“What’s your blady problem” The uncle screams at them, “I’ll beat the hell out of you, hey what’s going on?” he noticed the bakkie reversing and a nefarious scene unfolding.
“Stop it, stop what you doing?” the uncle opens his gate.
Danisa stares at Jevon and Veasna with a stern face and grabs the phone and turns and knocks his head against the bakkie. The driver took that as a signal to drive and screeched away dragging Danisa’s feet along the tar as Julius' short arms struggle to pull him in.
“Are you okay?” Jevon tried to comfort Veasna
“What’s your parents’ number?” the uncle asks
“I got to go,” interrupts Jevon.
“Wait, what just happened? they stole my phone” shivering Veasna explodes with the realization.
The uncle on the other hand is dialing the police while Jevon is running after the bakkie and Veasna grabs her hockey stick and quickly follows suit.
“Do you know those guys?” complaining behind him.
“No, maybe, in a way but I do know a shortcut through the squatter camp I need to save my friend,” Jevon says as his pace picks up speed.
**10:05,**
Staring at a clock in a small zink framed shack with a small table from which Rene picks up his glass of beer and walks out to sit in the yard with his heading spinning from the drugs and alcohol. He fought with his best friend about changing his habit in order to break away from his suicidal talks. Frustrated and annoyed with his thoughts he grabs his head firmly with his elbows on his knees staring at the ground and decides to sniff another dose of drugs.
The uncle gives a vivid description of the white Nissan bakkie while explaining the scenario he witnessed, described the action of Jevon as a kidnapped victim fleeing from his captors and describing Julius and Danisa as though he was an artist.
**10:07,**
The two of them weaved through the maze of shacks with Veasna holding tight onto Jevon’s hand. Out of breath from the rush and hustle Jevon notices the bakkie in front of the shabeen.
“W w where are we going?” Veasna stutters as she tries to catch her breath leaning against a rusty old windowless VW beetle.
“We already here, just stay behind me,” said Jevon as he pushes through the back door to come face to face with Julius.
“You blady snitch” Julius shouts as he reaches for his back pocket. Jevon immediately tackles him down through the front door.
“My phone,” Veasna screams as it lands on the table and cracks.
“Get out of my house and stop your nonsense” the dealer starts shouting at all of them.
Jevon quickly gets up and grabs Rene to drag him back through the house but Julius has him by the belt and pulls him back out. Veasna throws a bottle at him but knocks Rene instead causing him to stumble and drool all over the ground.
**10:09,**
The police officer stares at his watch and listens to the radio of a white Nissan np200 with a canopy that seems to match the image up the hill with perpetrators similar to the report. Without hesitation, he flips on the lights and siren and swings into the road.
Julius takes out the gun and Danisa sees the police van heading towards them and beats of the divide "go go go,". The driver pulls away with haste further up the hill.
Jevon picks up Rene and continues to drag him into the house but Julius fires a shot that goes through Rene's hand causing them to stumble over the table.
The police officer brings the van to a screeching halt and jumps out viciously with guns pointing in every direction.
“Drop the gun, drop the gun!” the first officer screams at the top of his lungs for everyone to hear.
“On the ground; lay on the ground,” commands the second officer as he moves in closer.
During the whole chaos, Jevon and Veasna make their escape through the back door. Rene gets thrown into the back of the rusting old VW beetle; crying and whaling as he stares through the hole in his hand with blood gushing out. Veasna jumps in the front seat and starts wrapping the hand while Jevon attempts to push it down the hill.
**10:11,**
Julius gets fired through the chest for resisting an arrest, as though in slow motion, the bullet heads towards Jevon as he was staring at Julius sinking to the ground and Jevon drops his head to push the beetle down the hill. A red flash of light catches everyone's attention and Jevon feels and hears the bullet pass through his hair.
The car starts to roll down the hill and Jevon clings to the back screaming “Hold tight”. With no brakes or method of steering, it seems as though they are destined to crash and they did, into an ambulance on route to an emergency call.
The impact was on the back end of the ambulance causing the VW to spin twice while they all screamed in the moment of panic. In silent unison they stare forward with blank faces.
Jevon whispers, “who would have thought we’d survive, miraculous right”
“I had a dream about this” Veasna replied.
They all breathe out as the 10-minute rush ends.
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