Mom is such a dictator; she rules with an iron-fist. How can she do this to me again? Do I even have control over my life? Do I even have a say? First I was told to pack my clothes and come here… I have absolute no regret about that. Best move ever! But I can’t take this anymore.

This ish of being pushed around like a slave and told what to do, when to do it and how to do it! I am not going to entertain it anymore. Mom is treating me like Sim, a suitcase. She organised my night without my consent. She is taking me to a women’s month celebration combined with a “cancer-charity-do”

Who the hell gave her the right to be my P.A? Now I will have to listen to depressing anecdotes of how women fought for liberation, as if I care (I am just not into politics)! Seriously I wouldn’t be going if it wasn’t for the cancer-do. Cancer is a serious disease that needs to be addressed in our communities, especially in the rural areas.

Here is what the statistics say,

Cancer is the second most common cause of death among children ages one to fourteen years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.

1,320 children died from cancer in 2009.

Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in women, and the seventh overall, with an estimated 530 000 new cases in 2008.

More than 85% of the global burden occurs in developing countries, where it accounts for 13% of all female cancers.

That’s a lot of numbers, right? It might sound confusing, but what it really means is that cancer is a killer! That’s the important part — finish and klaar! as mom would’ve put it.

Until recently I thought that people who are suffering from cancer are smokers; but there is more to cancer than smoking e.g. cervical and breast cancer. Some can even be inherited from family. And just for the laughs of it, did you know that even men could be diagnosed with breast cancer? Lol! I sound like I have all the fact thanks to Google and the houses genius, Sim.

As for mom, she better not get used to tampering with my schedule without talking to me first, again, it’s enough that dad does that already. To her defence mom said it’s because she wants to spend more time with me and get to know me. Isn’t it a little too late though or is she trying to win me over to her side? I wonder…

And now I have to cancel with Sebastian tonight. This is so boring with a capita l B!

But in the end it’s for a good cause.

ZZ xxx