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@vfsglobalcare @vfsglobalcare Please help! I have no idea what more I can do here 😭

@vfsglobalcare I have been trying to book an appointment for a Portuguese Tourist visa from Cape Town since yesterday. My account has been blocked (because the website kept timing out), I can't create a new account (it gives me an "Access Issues" error) or submit a contact form.

if i died and went straight to hell, it would take me a month to realize i wasn't at work anymore

Me when my man’s team is losing 🥺

"are you busy?" Me: "no" *incoming video call*

Black professionals aren’t given room to be introverted, and it’s exhausting.

It's 6 a.m, you wake up to the sound of the rain without worrying about school or work because you're in a mental hospital

when i'm having fun on a Sunday and it reaches 6-7pm

Your kid's piano teacher was reshaping their brain. A Harvard-led team tracked children from age 6 to 9 and found that kids who practiced an instrument at least 2.5 hours a week grew the corpus callosum (the cable connecting the left and right halves of the brain) by about 25% in the region that handles movement planning. Kids who practiced less or quit showed zero growth there. USC ran a separate study starting in 2012 that followed children from low-income LA neighborhoods. One group learned violin through the LA Philharmonic's youth orchestra program. A second did soccer. A third had no structured after-school program. Two years in, only the music group showed brain changes: stronger white-matter connectivity, faster maturation of auditory processing, and greater activation in networks involved in decision-making and impulse control. The soccer and no-program groups looked the same on brain scans. A randomized trial at the University of Toronto tested 144 six-year-olds assigned to keyboard lessons, voice lessons, drama, or nothing for a full school year. The music kids gained about 7 IQ points on average. Drama and no-lessons kids gained 4-5. That roughly 3-point gap showed up across every subtest, including reading and math. Now the language side. Bilingual kids outperform monolingual kids on task-switching tests (jumping between different sets of rules quickly), and it holds regardless of which second language they speak. Brain scans of nearly 1,300 children and young adults from a 2021 Georgetown and University of Reading study showed that bilinguals kept more grey matter (the layer where the brain's processing cells live) as they grew up than kids who spoke one language. The long game is where this gets serious. A 2025 Monash University study of 10,893 Australians over 70 found that people who regularly played an instrument had 35% lower odds of developing dementia. Bilingualism shows an even sharper effect. Studies across India, Canada, and the US consistently find that bilingual adults develop dementia symptoms 4 to 5 years later than monolingual adults. A 2024 door-to-door survey of 1,234 people over 60 in Bengaluru, India, found dementia in 4.9% of monolinguals and just 0.4% of bilinguals. Both piano and a second language work through a similar mechanism. They force the brain to manage competing systems at once, left hand versus right hand, one language versus another. That constant switching strengthens the frontal regions responsible for planning, focus, and filtering distractions, building what neurologists call cognitive reserve: a buffer that lets the brain keep working even as age-related damage accumulates. Those parents running their kids between piano on Tuesdays and Mandarin on Thursdays were basically running a two-front neuroplasticity program without knowing it.

When a coworker makes a joke about me but I act cool cause my joke would probably send me to the HR

*uploads resume* "Please enter job history below"

“Why are you not getting a promotion?” Me with my manager:

No cure for endometriosis. No proper management for menopause. No adequate symptomatic relief for menstrual discomfort. But let’s get handicapped sperm a wheelchair to make not so healthy babies because it would make men feel strong.

When the company didn't increase your paycheck but you promoted yourself by working less for the same salary

the streets of sea point are about to be so empty

Please use with caution if you have an IUD. You can literally pull your IUD out if you're not careful.

This is the most unhinged thing I’ve ever seen 🤣

This is the cause of a lot of Cape Town's congestion. Simply because people don't know how to do this simple thing 🙄