So guys, I'm trying to raise funds for lil Miss Stellia Mlangeni. Stellia is 19yrs old and comes from Chapananga in Chikhwawa District and happens to be an alumni of St Mary's Girls Secondary school (where I was 😝). Miss Stellia scored 15points in her MSCE & was selected to KCN
@iamisla_ And the Gen Z victimhood crisis continues. Both of these scenarios are highly dependent on the company you work for. Don’t like it, get a new job. Try growing up while you’re at it.
You cannot:
Work full time, raise children, keep a spotless home, show up fully in your marriage, maintain friendships, stay fit, build wealth, read books, pursue hobbies, serve only home cooked meals, answer every email, and still make the 3:30 school pickup.
That standard was created to keep you exhausted and blaming yourself. Let it go.
A woman mailed Michael Jackson a gun, her photo, and a letter telling him to kill himself at a specific time. The song he wrote about her is sitting at #1 on Spotify right now, 43 years later.
It started in 1981. She began sending Michael letters claiming he was the father of one of her twins. He had never met her, so he ignored the whole thing. The letters kept coming anyway. Then one day, a package showed up. Inside was her photograph, a gun, and a note instructing him to kill himself at a particular date and time. She planned to kill “their” baby afterward, so they could be together in the next life. The Jacksons later found out she had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital. That is where the line “the kid is not my son” came from.
The bass line you hear in the first eight seconds is one of the most famous in pop history. They almost didn’t find it. The bassist Quincy hired, a guy named Louis Johnson, walked into the studio carrying every bass guitar he owned. Michael made him play the same line on each one until they settled on a Yamaha. Then they layered a synthesizer playing the exact same notes on top, which is why the bass has that thick, almost glowing sound.
The drum sound took even more obsession. Quincy Jones told his engineer Bruce Swedien he wanted a sound so distinct you’d know the song from the first three drum hits. So Bruce actually built a wooden platform for the entire drum kit. He put a flat piece of wood between the snare drum and the hi-hat cymbal to keep them from interfering with each other. He also built a custom cover for the kick drum, with a small slot for the microphone. Michael had programmed the beat on a drum machine when he wrote the demo at home. When it came time to record the album, drummer Ndugu Chancler walked in and played the same pattern on a real kit. He nailed it in three takes.
Then came the vocal. Michael sang the entire main vocal in one continuous take. For the extra harmonies and adlibs on top, Quincy made him sing through a six-foot cardboard tube rigged up in the booth. Michael was also getting vocal training every single morning while they were making the album.
The song hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1983 and stayed there for seven weeks. Yesterday it hit #1 on Spotify Global with 6.02 million streams in a single day, the highest the song has ever climbed on the platform.
@kaymartin_iv@pimkie1145 You get used to not feeling like your normal self for 9 months so much that it becomes your new normal. Then once the baby is born you remember once again how normal actually feels ayi ndithu
One thing I can tell you, man believe in yourself. Don’t let people on the internet make you feel less. I remember in 2023 I was a topic on this platform, with people schooling me on how to run my own company, calling me names and making accusations.
Two years later, we’re the leading payment gateway in Malawi, processing billions in transactions every month, with two offices in Lilongwe and Blantyre, over 40 people employed, and trusted by big companies 🙌🏽
Divorce rates are high in this generation for just one reason, women today have stopped normalising physical and mental abuse post marriage. In past cheating, emotional trauma and abandonment weren’t considered a thing but now these are unacceptable. Other factors are secondary.
@sheillah43013@Brightmbughi030@KhivaIV Conditioned by the society. Also, my personal opinion, they're both responsible, the way you put it it's like only one party should be held accountable when they both should
@sheillah43013@Brightmbughi030@KhivaIV I guarantee you this, only one out 10 married women think about this when they hear their man is cheating. It's up to the MG2 to be ready for anything at this point