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MY MAMA WANTS ME TO SLEEP EARLY Dear Ed, My mom is making me go to bed early tonight (I’m supposed to be asleep right now. She says she’ll spank me if she catches me up, but I don’t believe her since she hasn’t spanked me since I was six). She’s punishing me because she says I threw a tantrum in the store today. I admit I MIGHT have raised my voice and I shouldn’t have called her a bad word and I certainly shouldn’t have thrown a shoe at her, but this punishment is so stupid! She says I’m cranky because I’m not getting enough sleep because I spend so much time reading novels. Do you think it’s fair to put me to bed early? I’m 14, for God’s sake! (If you’re wondering the tantrum was becuz I wanted these shoes and she wouldn’t buy them for me so I threw them at her). Yours truly, Anisa
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PLAYAZ AND TEXTING
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ell me something nice.” Send this text message to me again and I swear...! Anyway, we all know of those people whom we wonder how their names made their way into our phonebooks. We know them for sending the most annoying messages. Ladies, a simple ‘k’ sounds like an insult, especially after a brother has sent a lengthy text. Anyway, straight to the playa texting text book. HAVE READY TEXT MESSAGES Always have text messages that are suited for every situation. Be it for comforting needs, pranks or anything to make her smile. Be on top of the game such that whenever you get a text message written “I am bored today”, you can instantly respond with one from your drafts. ASK QUESTIONS Don’t make the conversation boring and tasteless. Throw in some questions in between. This will ensure you both have content to discuss as well as get to know each other better.
Dear Anisa, No, throwing a shoe at your mom is not right. You should apologise to her. You need your mom and you love her, don’t you? I know novels are great. Even I had that phase. But it will pass, also you are being hormonal. Your hormones are taking over you and making you behave like this. Everything that happens to you while a teenager might seem unfair but you need to learn how to rationalise with things. So I suggest you just sort things out with your mom and try to stay calm. I hope my response helps. Yours truly, Ed
NO NAMES Yeah, yeah. Don’t you all get surprised, it happens. Sometimes we forget some of your names. So fellow playaz, don’t create the habit of including the names of the people you are chatting with. You know what happens when you call a chic your ex’s name...*! #!!* MASTER YOUR KEYPAD You definitely don’t want to be that guy that misses some words in between your romantic messages or in your punchlines. A simple omission or addition of a letter can bring a whole different meaning to what you want to say. Check out the following: You want to state “Itakuaje sasa?” but because ‘S’ is in the same button as ‘P’, ‘Q’ and ‘R’, you accidentally typed ‘R’ instead of ‘S’! What a shock it would be to the chille. BE WISE You never know who you are chatting with unless you see them. It might be her mom and you end up embarrassing yourself for life. And every once in a while, send her her text message from last year and see how it means the world to her. *Logged out*
tions e? Send your ques ms and need advic ble pro be ba g vin Ha ent, Mr T9 to: to the Playa El Presid 200 x 51634, Nairobi 00 Bo PO m, co er. yd yuaholla@theins 5 or call 0714 888 55 26 | The Insyder Magazine - August 2013 | www.theinsyder.com