why wait.

now is the time to take hold of your life & start to live it well. become who you want to be. never be frightened. make a move on the boy/girl you fancy. what’s the worst that could happen? go get that tattoo you’ve been wanting but have been to nervous to get because someone may not approve. spend that money you’ve been saving “just in case” on that trip you’ve wanted to go on for years. take your car & leave that city that’s been holding you captive. leave your job, you can always find another. leave your lover, you can always find another. go back to school, it’s never too late. buy an instrument & play with all your heart. do what makes you feel beautiful. stand up for what you believe in. fight. show your teeth, rattle their bones & never, never be frightened.

The day my world changed

Have to say "thanks" again to Tahlecia for making me watch this newly release human-vampire drama, Twilight.

Personally, I never enjoyed fictional movies/series about vampires.
From Blade to Underworld, Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Angel.

But I was told that for Twilight, the vampires are very different from the regular vampires. It's like a combined feature of vampires from other movies with a little personal touch added.

However, I have to say that the love drama in this movie is good. Almost 70% of the movie is about the love story of Bella and Edward, bringing romance into a level unachievable by humans.

But the thing that changed my life is the chemistry in this movie.
I have always believed in chemistry and I know when it happens, it is a force no one can stop.
So, to watch a movie (even when it is about vampires) that expresses the feeling I have had for so many years in me - well that completely changed my life.

So thank you Stephanie for doing an unbelievable job in writing the Twilight Sagas!

Let Me Sign

She was standing there by the broken tree
Her hands were all twisted she was pointing at me
I was damned by the light coming out of her eyes
She spoke with a voice that disrupted the sky
She said walk on over into bitter shade,
I will wrap you in my arms and you'll know you've been saved'
Let me sign, let me sign, can't fight the devil so just let me sign.

I was out for a drink in a soho bar
The air was smoked out liked a cheap cigar
She rose out of her seat like a painted ghost
She was the woman that I wanted the most
As she reached for my arm I gave her my hand
I said 'Lay me down easy let me understand'
Let me sign, let sign, can't fight the devil so just let me sign.

As I walked through the door she was still in my head
As I entered the room she was laid there in bed
She reached out for me all twisted in black
I was on my way down, never coming back
Let me sign, let me sign, can't fight the devil so just let me sign.
Let me sign, let me sign, can't fight the devil so just let me sign.

The Saturday Night Surgery Vol 5 Tour with DJ Roger Goode

How do you describe someone whose sole existence is for music

Under a dictionary definition you would find the words: Roger Goode

By now you should know that Roger Goode is a South African DJ who rose to local fame for his first single "In The Beginning", which featured on 5FM's Top 40, which later led to him being signed up with a local dance record label, SheerDance, under which he released his first album, Coming Up for Air.

He then went on to be nominated & won awards such as: 'Best Producer Award' @ the E-event Underground Dance Music Awards (The Gurnies) and 'Best Album' & 'Best New Dance Single' at the SAMA's.

In November 2009, Roger Goode returned with the 5th release of his very successful
Saturday Night Surgery albums – Saturday Night Surgery Vol 5: Party Karate.

With this latest addition to The Saturday Surgery series, Roger takes a more experimental approach of various sounds which signal the experience he has acquired over the years as both a club and radio jock.
This latest album incorporates most, if not all facets of house music. Be it lounge, techno, deep, vocal, tribal or electro, this album has a bit of everything which might relate to listeners of 5FM, the radio hub Roger sanctifies with his mix-mastery every Saturday night.

During his album tour, Goode also introduced a new addition to his brand:
The Roger Goode DoJo Girls.

Roger Goode & 5FM launched the fifth Saturday Surgery album – Party Karate Style! A nationwide search was done by 5fm searching for the perfect entourage to accompany him during his entire Saturday Surgery Vol5 Album Tour.
Out of hundreds of entries, 4 girls were chosen to be the Roger Goode DoJo girls:
Jade Hill, Kylie Costopoulos, Tahlecia Albertze and myself!

It was an unbelievable experience. It is true what they say, music is the soundtrack to your life and I believe in music the same way some people believe in fairy tales.

Thank you Roger for waking up the passion of music in me.
5fm for sponsoring this unbelievable 5 week tour and BlackBerry for our brand new BlackBerry 8900!

Something Inside You

When the one thing you're looking for
Is nowhere to be found
And you back stepping all of your moves
Trying to figure it out
You wanna reach out
You wanna give in
Your head's wrapped around what's around the next bend
You wish you could find something warm
'Cause you're shivering cold
It's the first thing you see as you open your eyes
The last thing you say as your saying goodbye
Something inside you is crying and driving you on
It's the first thing you see as you open your eyes
The last thing you say as your saying goodbye
Something inside you is crying and driving you on

'Cause if you hadn't found me
I would have found you
I would have found you

So long you've been running in circles
'Round what's at stake
But now the times come for your feet to stand still in one place
You wanna reach out
You wanna give in
Your head's wrapped around what's around the next bend
You wish you could find something warm
'Cause you're shivering cold
It's the first thing you see as you open your eyes
The last thing you say as your saying goodbye
Something inside you is crying and driving you on
It's the first thing you see as you open your eyes
The last thing you say as your saying goodbye
Something inside you is crying and driving you on

'Cause if you hadn't found me
I would have found you
I would have found you

It was your first taste of love
Living upon what you had

It's the first thing you see when you open your eyes
The last thing you say as your saying goodbye
Something inside you is crying and driving you on

Music and Fashion to the Power of 5

Spring is in the air...and the fashion season in full effect!

Join us at Fashion TV Village Walk on Friday September 18 to check 5FM DJs and some lucky listeners shake their stuff on the catwalk, dressed as our favourite music icons!

Just imagine Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Eminem, Marilyn Manson and more strutting to Music Director, Roger Goode’s hot beats!
To make it a real night to remember, The Goode Doctor will broadcast live before rocking the afterparty with 5FM’s Sasha Martinengo and Grant and Anele!

Fashion TV Village Walk, Friday September 18. From 7pm onwards!

Details at 5fm.co.za or www.ftv.co.za

It’s Music and Fashion…to the power of 5!!!

Dinner with Sasha Martinengo

5fm DJ Sasha Martinengo is inviting all ladies to join him for dinner and an awesome party on Friday 2 October at Fashion TV Sandton.

Come & share your secrets with him and stand a chance in winning fabulous prizes!
Dinner tickets R180 which incl...udes a 3 course meal, complimentary drink and goody bag worth over R1000!

Bookings essential! So dont wait!

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Do we really want to grow up?

There comes a point in your life, when you’re officially an adult.
Suddenly, you’re old enough to vote, drink and engage in other adult activities. Suddenly, people expect you to be responsible, serious, a grown-up.
We get taller, we get older.
But do we ever really grow up?
In some ways we grow up; we have families... we get married, divorced... but for the most part we still have the same problems that we did when we were fifteen.
No matter how much we grow taller, grow older, we are still forever stumbling... forever wondering, forever... young.

Chemistry

In human chemistry only one thing matters: either you've got it or you don't

It’s okay to let down your guard.

Deep down, everyone wants to believe they can be hardcore.
But being hardcore isn’t just about being tough.
’s about acceptance.
Sometimes you have to give yourself permission to not be hardcore for once.
You don’t have to be tough every minute of every day.
It’s okay to let down your guard.
In fact there are moments when it’s the best thing you can possibly do… as long as you choose your moments wisely.

Forgive and Forget

Forgive and forget.
That’s what they say. It’s good advice, but it’s not very practical.
When someone hurts us, we want to hurt them back.
When someone wrongs us, we want to be right.
Without forgiveness, old scores are never settled… old wounds never heal.
And the most we can hope for, is that one day we’ll be lucky enough to forget.

Love Addiction

It's shocking how many kinds of addiction exist.
It would be too easy if it were just drugs and booze and cigarettes.
I think the hardest part of kicking a habit is wanting to kick it.
I mean, we get addicted for a reason, right?
Often, too often, things that start out as just a normal part of your life at some point cross the line to obsessive, compulsive, out of control.
It's the high we're chasing, the high that makes everything else fade away.
Still, they say you don’t kick the habit until you hit rock bottom, but how do you know when you’re there? Because no matter how badly a thing is hurting us, sometimes letting it go hurts even worse.

Cameron's New Groove - V Magazine Interview

Ten years ago she stole hearts and lit up the silver screen with a slew of roles as the blonde and beautiful good-time girl, but even Cameron Diaz herself knew she’d have to hit reboot before conquering Hollywood again. Now she’s back with 2 challenging new roles that might just change the course of her career

Motherhood is a funny subject for Cameron Diaz. “I don’t declare either way if I’m going to have children,” she says one spring afternoon at the Chateau Marmont. “I don’t know what will happen,” she adds, with a laugh, “And I’m totally fine with that.”

Up close, Diaz’s blue eyes seem too bright and light to be anything but color contacts, and her smile, full of shiny white teeth, would give the Joker serious competition for width. All that, combined with her extra long, skinny limbs, makes her look slightly as if her Shrek character got stuck in a medieval stretching machine—but in the best way possible.

At 36, Diaz may not be rushing into actual motherhood, but Hollywood has already cast her in it. In her latest film, a drama called My Sister’s Keeper, she plays a mother for the first time. Indeed, it’s a departure from the romantic comedy parts that made her one of the world’s most bankable movie stars.

“It’s not like doing this movie made me think I’m not loving something as much as I can,” says Diaz, insisting that playing a mother didn’t make her feel any closer to wanting to become one any time soon.

In the film, an adaptation of a Jodi Picoult best-selling novel, Diaz plays Sara Fitzgerald, the devoted mother of a teenage girl dying of cancer. Her younger daughter, played by Abigail Breslin, was genetically engineered to be a perfect donor match(everything from stem cells to a kidney) to the sick girl, but has decided to become medically emancipated from her parents, with the help of a showboat lawyer played by Alec Baldwin. Diaz’s character is fiercely focused—arguably obsessed—with saving her daughter, even at the risk of ruining her marriage (to a man played by Jason Patric) and her relationship with her other kids. Heavy stuff—particularly for an actress best known for dancing and laughing her way across the big screen in blockbusters like There’s Something About Mary and Charlie’s Angels.

“I took over that warrior mentality,” Diaz says about her role, which she researched by interviewing mothers of sick children. “I don’t judge her. I don’t know what it’s like to be a mother who has a child who is dying of cancer. How do you say, ‘you’re trying to save your daughter a little too hard?’” Diaz did her best to keep her own life—particularly her devotion to her close-knit Californian family, including her young nieces and nephews—separate from the haunting role. “You try not to impose it on the people you love,” she says about the character’s circumstances. “That’s when it gets scary. You don’t even go there.”

Director Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook) was impressed with the range and determination that Diaz brought to the tough role. “I don’t know why other people don’t use her in dramatic roles,” he says, via cell phone, driving in his convertible through Los Angeles. “She jumped into a part that requires great emotional capacity and the ability to be sympathetic and not be pretty.”

Her costar, Sofia Vassilieva, who plays the dying daughter, felt nurtured by Diaz both on and off screen. “Cameron took care of me, fed me Holy Moly Guacamole, held me when I needed to cry, and always made sure I was okay,” says Vassilieva, who had to shave her head for the role. In the movie, Diaz also shaves her head—but it was really just a bald cap she wore over her hair during that day of shooting. “She provided this incredible sense of safety and security,” adds Vassilieva.

Twirling her hair, Diaz dismisses any notion that she took the role with Oscar hopes, insisting she signed on because she wanted to work with Cassavetes, an old friend. Plus, she wants to move forward in her career by taking challenging roles, rather than trying to direct, produce, or write. This fall, she will also star in The Box, a horror film directed by Donnie Darko’s Richard Kelly.

“I don’t make movies for my ego. I do them for my personal growth and to give something to an audience,” says Diaz. “I’m not going to be the 23-year-old ingénue again. If I tried to hold on to that, I’d be a pretty unhappy individual.”

Maybe everyone should do a drama about death. It certainly seems to have put Diaz in a good mood. Or maybe she’s always like that. What does the woman who has to workout to not get too skinny have to worry about? Sure it’s a bummer that she feels like she can’t shop or dine out in Los Angeles without getting hassled by the paparazzi, but she tends to bring the party back to her own home, which she’s renovating.

“It’s going to be such a girl palace for me and my girlfriends to hang out in,” she says, implying that she’s single, though she won’t say for sure. (Previous boyfriends include Justin Timberlake and Jared Leto). “It’s going to be dope!”
She had just cleaned out her closet, offering her castoffs to women’s shelters, and has held on to some scores she found buried in her own stuff. Such could be considered recession shopping if Diaz, who’s always at the top of the Forbes lists, had been affected by the economic crash. (She hasn’t). “I have all these badass pants and coats from ten years ago,” she says, mentioning a pair of Viktor & Rolf trousers. “I really want to go back to more vintage-y stuff. Not kitschy vintage, but some amazing couture from ten or twenty years ago.”

Even though she rarely shops anymore, besides a splurge at Bergdorf’s in New York last year, her closets are so full that she’s turning one of her bedrooms into a boudoir, where she can properly primp for events. Her reigning favorite red carpet outfit is the borrowed pink Christian Dior gown she wore to this year’s Oscars.

When it comes to spending her hard-earned cash on herself, Diaz likes to take her friends on trips and build up her art collection. She recently bought two photographs by Massimo Vitali and often fantasizes about designing a home in Hawaii. She also supports environmental and educational charities. A new cause that she’s excited about is the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA).

“For me, it’s really about empowerment,” she says of her philanthropic choices. “We need to live in a better world where people feel better about themselves.” As for how the public views her personal and professional choices, she doesn’t really give a damn. “I use my own judgment,” she says, sitting up a little straighter. “I don’t care how people see me. I know who I am and what I’m capable of.” Deborah Schoeneman

From a whisper to a scream

In some ways, betrayal is inevitable. W
When we betray each other, the path to recovery is less clear.
We do whatever it takes to rebuild the trust that was lost.
And then there are some wounds, some betrayals... that are so deep, so profound that there is no way to repair what was lost.
And when that happens, there's nothing left to do but wait.

Commitment

There are times when even the best of us have trouble with commitment, and we may be surprised at the commitments we're willing to let slip out of our grasp.
Commitments are complicated.
We may surprise ourselves by the commitments we're willing to make, true commitment, takes effort, and sacrifice.
Which is why sometimes, we have to learn the hard way, to choose our commitments very carefully

Guilt

I think that guilt is one of the most overlooked emotions.
We see guilt as black and white.
If one is guilty then one must have done something wrong.
But like most things in life it isnt that simple.
Emotions are complex and are perceived differently by each individual.

We are left with a choice.
Either let the guilt throw you back into the behavior that got you into trouble in the first place, or learn from the guilt and do your best to move on.

Time

Time waits for no man.
Time heals all wounds.
All any of us can wants, is more time.
Time to stand up.
Time to grow up.
Time to let go

Karma

Karma.
One way or another it will leave us to face ourselves.
We can look our karma in the eye or we can wait for it to sneak up from behind.
But karma will always find us.
Yet no matter how hard we try we can't escape our karma.
I guess we can't really complain about our karma. It's not an affair. It's not unexpected. It just... evens the score.
And even when we're about to do something that we know will tempt karma to bite us in the ass... well, it goes without saying. We do it anyway.