How to chill out with Lungelwa

Lungelwa, a Journalism student, studying at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, is 21 living in Khayelitsha with her sister, 31 and cousin. Her mom passed away when she was ten years old.

One would think that a 21 year old student  would be partying up a storm, painting the town red, but you are mistaken if you catagorise Lungelwa this way. This 21 year old spends most of her time at home watching TV and going to church, as God is of high importance in her life. Lungelwa has never been clubbing before, and has never dated a boy either. She doesn’t find any interest in this type of lifestyle.

Lungelwa does a lot of window shopping searching for the perfect item to purchase. She doesn’t enjoy the fast life, but the essence of life and being with family, bonding.

Lungelwa is a Born Again Christian; she enjoys singing at church, but would never take it up as a career as she admits “I can’t sing to save my life!” Lungelwa also admits that she hasn’t danced before in big crowds but only to gospel music. She is an introvert, isn’t attention seeking and keeps to herself.

Lungelwa enjoys Gospel concerts, because they uplift her spirits, and is attending a gospel concert featuring the best selling gospel group called Ncandweni, in Khayelitsha on 28 May 2011.

Lungelwa also known as Lungi, states that she doesn’t have enough time to watch as many movies as she’d like to, as she finds interest in movies. Her favourite movie is, The Diary of a Mad Black Woman. She enjoys Tyler Perrys’ movies.

The Standoff book Review

This book is for lovers of the thrill of life. Anything and everything that can go wrong, will go wrong, a typical Murphy’s Law novel.             

In this novel, chaos reigns. This story concentrates on the action taking place without much character build up. We aren't made aware of what is going on in the character's thoughts. “The Standoff” is more like a very lengthy newspaper report than a novel.

"The Standoff," the first novel by Chuck Hogan, describes the complexities of crime scenes, negotiating and the intense feelings of anti government feelings that exist in some areas of rural America. It seems as if the author is looking on as an outside observer to present legal aspects to the decisions that the law enforcement officials make at the time of crisis.

I’m not one for this type of fiction, yet Hogans style of writing made this an easy read yet extremely mind gripping. “The Standoff” is definitely under the list of good reads.