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Temporarily Painless



She comes over feeling like she wants to fly;
Riding in the red nose reindeer;
She didn't even want to stay, but I think she wants to leave;
Looking so dangerous, but temporarily safe.

I brought forth a shot of Vodka;
Maybe it could clear off her grumpy Vocals;
She squeezed the cheeky face;
'nd rumpled the pink lips ovally.

A quick flash of my Ex came into play;
Just how fast she staged the fight,
Leavin' like a bolt;
Turning my lightness in to darkness;
Making my whole world revolve.

Shakin' off the snow flakes off 'er coat;
I held her close to my soul;
Kissin' her to the speed light of the train,
She fell off in 'y arm, resting her to the couch in the coach.

Like she knew my weakness;
She smiled as I watch her sleep,
I couldn't just blame her,
Makin' me want to take away my day dream.

All I could think of is getting to meet her in life;
As it dawned on me that I had been sleep walking for hours,
Waiting for a day like ours.
Now we know life is all an overload of Love;

Waiting only for a Perfect time to Love.
Even though its dangerous;
Falling for a stranger,
No need to justify; Lookin' for someone to love?
I need somebody, You need somebody too.


Written by Teni
A Computer Scientist || Lazy Blogger || Model ||

Friday 2 December 2016

Chapecoense plane crash: Survivor 'may play football again'


Photo taken on 28 October, 2015 shows Neto of Brazils Chapecoense celebrates after scoring against Argentina's River Plate during their Copa Sudamericana football matchImage copyrightAFP
Image captionDoctors said Neto would be able to resume his career, according to the player's father
A Brazilian football player who survived a plane crash in Colombia on Monday is recovering and may be able to resume his career, his father says.
Helio Hermito Zampier Neto, a 31-year-old defender for Chapecoense, was in a stable condition, doctors said, after surgery on a lung, a knee, a wrist and his head.
Five other people survived the crash, which killed 71 people.
Colombian officials say evidence is growing that the plane ran out of fuel.
Miguel Quiroga, the pilot of the British-made Avro RJ85 aircraft, had been warned by an official at Santa Cruz airport, in Bolivia, where the plane took off from, that he might not have enough fuel, Bolivian Deber newspaper said.
But, despite the official's concerns, he went ahead with the flight to Medellin. The country's authorities have not yet commented.
In a leaked tape, the pilot can be heard warning of a "total electric failure" and "lack of fuel".
The flight missed a planned refuelling stop in Cobija, on the border between Brazil and Bolivia, because the airport did not operate at night, Brazil's O Globo newspaper reported.
The pilot had the option to refuel in Bogota, it said, but headed straight to Medellin.
Bolivia's aviation authority suspended the operating licence of charter airline LaMia, which was part-owned by the pilot and two other aviation officials.
Map of aircraft's route
Two of the survivors, crew members Ximena Suarez and Erwin Tumiri, were said to be in good condition. The four others were still in intensive care.
Neto's father, Helam, said on Facebook that news of his recovery was giving the family "renewed hope and faith".
"My son is getting better and better. He has just undergone surgery on his leg and doctors say he will return to football," he said.
"We shall continue praying because we still need his discharge from hospital to see him closely."
Fans pay tribute to the players of Brazilian team Chapecoense Real at the club's Arena Conda stadium in ChapecoImage copyrightGETTY IMAGES
Image captionTributes have been paid at Chapecoense's stadium where a ceremony will be held on Saturday
Doctors said 24-year-old goalkeeper Jakson Ragnar Follmann would not lose his left leg, after having his right one amputated.
Defender Alan Ruschel, 27, had spinal surgery, but his movements were not affected, they added.
Journalist Rafael Henzel was listed as stable.
The bodies of the Brazilian victims are due to be flown out of Medellin on Friday. Many of the victims were players and staff of Chapecoense, who were due to play in the final of the Copa Sudamericana against Medellin team Atletico Nacional.
In the squad's home town of Chapeco, in southern Brazil, temporary structures have been set up in the football stadium for an open-air wake on Saturday.
The plane's flight recorders are to be examined in the UK. A full investigation into the crash is expected to take months.

Selena Gomez is revealed as Instagram's most popular celebrity in 2016

Selena Gomez
Selena Gomez has been the most popular celebrity on Instagram in 2016.
She has more followers than any other star, has had eight of the 10 most-liked celebrity photos and seven of the top 10 celebrity videos this year.
Releasing its figures for the year so far, the photo-sharing site says young female celebrities are the most successful users.
Selena Gomez has more than 103 million followers, more than any user except Instagram itself.
The 24-year-old is ahead of fellow pop singer Taylor Swift, who has just under 94 million followers.
She was 2015's top star on Instagram, which is owned by Facebook.
After them are two more singers, Ariana Grande and Beyonce, and then reality TV star Kim Kardashian.
The most followed man, at number six among celebrities, is Portugal and Real Madrid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.
It's been a difficult year for Selena Gomez, who had to cut her tour short to tackle her depression, which was caused by her struggle with lupus.
She attended the American Music Awards last month, where she urged fans to be true to their inner feelings.
"I don't want to see your bodies on Instagram," she said.
She also revealed in a Q&A that she "recently took 90 days off" from social media and didn't pick up her phone.
The singer also had a high-profile argument with ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber on Instagram, who then shut his account down after arguing with his ex.
The Canadian singer recently called Instagram "hell".
Selena Gomez's most liked photo on Instagram was a promotion for Coca-Cola.
This is her second most popular picture on the site.
The most Instagrammed day of 2016 was Halloween and the most-used emoji in posts was the heart.
Hip-hop was the most "buzzed" about US music hashtag and key top moments included tributes to David Bowie after he died in January and fans mourning Prince after his sudden death in April.
Kendall Jenner had 2015's most popular photo.

Gaga backs gay rights in Trump's America

Media captionLady Gaga discusses LGBTQ rights in Trump's America
Pop star Lady Gaga has called for an "harmonious" and "intelligent" response to Donald Trump's presidency.
Mr Trump's cabinet includes conservatives who oppose gay rights, and Gaga said she would work to protect advances made by the LGBTQ community.
"[We] are going to do everything that we can to protect the social progress we have made over the last eight years," she told BBC News.
"Political progress cannot happen unless there is social progress.
"You can create lots of jobs, you can create new policy - but those things cannot work unless people like each other, unless people are kind to one another.
"We need to stay in a kind place and we need to bond during this time, and be as harmonious as possible, and intelligent in the way we approach this."
Lady Gaga (and her mother) spent the Thanksgiving holiday at a shelter for LGBTQ youth in New YorkImage copyrightLADY GAGA / TWITTER
Image captionLady Gaga (sitting next to her mother Cynthia) spent the Thanksgiving holiday at a shelter for LGBTQ youth in New York
Although Mr Trump has called himself a "real friend" of the LGBTQ community, several of his appointments have caused alarm within it.
Early in his career, vice President-elect Mike Pence opposed same-sex marriage and appeared to advocate diverting government funds away from HIV treatment in favour of gay "conversion therapy". His spokesman recently denied this, telling the New York Times that Pence neither "supported or advocated" the practice.
More recently, he signed into law a controversial Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Critics argue the law discriminates against the LGBT community by allowing businesses to refuse service over religious beliefs.
Under national pressure, he later signed an amendment stating businesses could not discriminate against gay people, drawing criticism from conservatives who said they felt betrayed by the revision.
There have also been concerns over the appointment of Jeff Sessions as attorney general. The Alabama senator opposed lifting a ban on openly gay people serving in the military and voted in support of banning same-sex marriage.

Role model?

Lady Gaga has long been an advocate for the LGBTQ community, and spent part of last week's Thanksgiving holiday visiting a shelter for homeless LGBTQ youth in New York.
The star, who campaigned stridently for Hillary Clinton during the election, also protested outside Trump Tower when the results were announced last month.
But she accepted that not everyone would see her as a suitable spokesperson on US politics.
"I've done a lot in my career," she said. "I'm sure there's many people who would say 'Lady Gaga's not role model. Did you see this performance? Did you see that performance?'
"But the truth is that when I was younger... I didn't quite understand the amount of attention that I had [or] the amount of people that would listen to me.
"I am older now and I am aware of my voice in the world and I want to be as much of a role model as I can be through my music as well as my performance.
Lady Gaga performs in LondonImage copyrightINTERSCOPE / POLYDOR
Image captionGaga performed an acoustic concert in London on Thursday night
"With my album, Joanne, the intention was to focus on family and focus on friendship and focus on kindness and vulnerability and the release of pain, the revealing of pain.
"This album, for me, is a reminder to care about one another, care about your family and heal the wounds of intergenerational tragedy."
Gaga was speaking to the BBC ahead of a secret gig for 65 fans in London.
She performed from inside a giant "snow globe" on the roof of the Westfield Shopping Centre, playing acoustic versions of her songs Bad Romance, Joanne and Million Reasons.
"It's a very holiday-like, warm experience," she told the BBC.
"I love my London and UK fans so much, and performing my new music for them in such an intimate and spectacular location was the perfect way to celebrate the holidays."

100 Women 2016: Zoleka Mandela, survivor and granddaughter

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Media caption100WOMEN 2016: Zoleka Mandela on her troubled past and battling cancer
Zoleka Mandela grew up in the spotlight that came with her grandfather's iconic global status. And yet her life has been far from easy. Aged just 36, she has survived abuse, addiction and breast cancer and buried two children - but she is a survivor who campaigns to help others. She told the BBC's 100WOMEN season her story.
When Zoleka was 10 years old, her grandfather was released from prison. She had only ever known him as an incarcerated man, so when he was released she was just excited he was coming home.
For Zoleka, there was a slow realisation that the man she called her grandfather was a man who made huge sacrifices for the good of the country. Home life changed as his strict rules and curfew came in to place. Outside the frontDOOR, South Africa was changing too, as the end of the apartheid era was negotiated, and within a few years, Zoleka's grandfather became the country's first black president.
Nelson Mandela in 1990, raising his fist on release from prisonImage copyrightAP
It was a time of extraordinary hope and change in South Africa.
But in Zoleka's personal life, things were different. When she was still a child she was sexually abused, setting off a chain of difficult events in her life. She went on to struggle with alcohol and drug addiction. Two of her children died, and she has been diagnosed with cancer twice.
Now sober, she campaigns for causes close to her heart, and has shared her story to try and help others. When the BBC meets Zoleka, she says she hopes her grandfather Nelson, who died in 2013, can see her to know she "has gotten it right finally".

Darkest days

Being abused as a child was difficult to accept, for Zoleka and for her whole family.
The self-blame and anger she felt drove her to look for ways to numb the pain, and she had her first drink at the age of nine. By 13 years old she was abusing drugs and alcohol as a means of escape. She only disclosed her addiction to her family aged 21. By that time she was a mother to a daughter, Zenani. A son, Zwelami, was born six years later.
"I was not a fit parent," she says. "I was not the parent my children deserved."
Mandela family together in August 2009.Image copyrightHANDOUT
Image captionZoleka (top row, right) and her daughter Zenani (bottom row, left) in August 2009, when Nelson and Zenani were still alive
In the midst of her darkest days of addiction and depression, Zenani - then aged 13 years old - was tragically killed returning from the 2010 World Cup opening ceremony in Johannesburg.
The driver of the car she was in was drunk and crashed into a safety barrier. Zenani was flung from the car and killed instantly.
On the night of the accident, Zoleka herself happened to be in hospital. She had been there for 10 days already recovering from an attempted suicide. It was the darkest and most painful period of her life.
She says she constantly asked God: "Why did you not take me? I am the one that needs to go.
"My kids don't deserve a mother like me."
On the death of her daughter, Zoleka hit rock bottom.

New phase

Two months after the crash, she checked herself into rehab. It was the start of a new phase of her life, but not necessarily one devoid of its challenges.
Aged 32 years old, Zoleka was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a devastating diagnosis for a woman who had already survived so much.
At first, too scared to face this new trauma, she refused treatment. But eventually she had a double mastectomy and chemotherapy.
Shortly after treatment, she got pregnant. She was overjoyed as she had been terrified the cancer would mean no more children.
But her baby boy, Zenawe, was born prematurely and only survived a few days. Zoleka once again had to bury one of her children.
She remained in remission for 3 years, in which time she met her fiance, Thierry Bashala, a Congolese man, in Johannesburg. They had a baby and life could not have felt better.
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In April of this year she found a new lump in her chest. The cancer had returned, this time more aggressively. Zoleka was devastated. She and Thierry had been wanting to have another child and just move on with their lives but it was back to chemotherapy.
This time, she shared her journey on social media, hoping to inspire and educate others on similar journeys as hers.
"I feel like this time around it is much easier to deal with," she says. "I feel like I have already won the fight."
Zoleka has set up a foundation in her name to raise awareness on road safety and in honour of her daughter Zenani. And now she is a cancer awareness ambassador too.
She says: "It is important for women to speak out, get tested, perform their own examinations.
"Silence cancer before it silences you."
And if there is one regret in her life it is that she could not make her grandfather proud when he was alive.
Her final words are: "I spent so much time abusing drugs and alcohol and choosing that over my family and loved ones.
"I just hope where he is with my daughter he is looking down and thinking she has gotten it right finally."