10 Feb 2015

As the month of love has enveloped society, hearts and flowers dominate conversations and smileys of all sweet nothings punctuate smses. 

BOPA peeps into the minds of four celebrated guys to get their idea of Valentine’s Day.

BK Proctor, producer and vocalist

KM: How will you be celebrating Valentine’s Day?

BK: I have never gotten to fully understand the actual meaning of Valentine’s Day but from what I have seen over the years, many people exchange cards, gifts, flowers, candy with their loved one. However for me it is a day just like any other, I spend it home cooking, watching movies and spending time with family and friends.

KM: What is the best advice you ever got on love and women?

BK: It would be understanding that; You choose to give away your love and no matter how long you have been waiting, the woman God has for you will not surpass your expectations. You will meet her when God says so. Not a minute early, not a moment later.

KM: How would you impress a lady you really like?

BK: I personally think that most men feel a very powerful desire to impress women but I believe the secret to really make a long-lasting impression on a woman is to keep the humour going. The most important thing a man can do to impress a woman is to make her feel a powerful emotional attraction for you. So that is what I will do.

KM: What personality traits do you look for in a partner?

BK: She has to be confident, intelligence, good humoured, supportive, accommodating, patient, sensual, and honest, open minded and health Conscious.

KM: What is the one thing you would never understand about women?

BK: I cannot really recall exactly how old I was when I learned that I would probably spend the rest of my life trying to understand women! And to-date I still do not understand why women take everything out of one bag and put in another bag, and they do this all the time. Seriously, why not just have one purse?

KM: Describe your perfect date with your ideal partner?

BK: I believe it would be something unexpected, original and romantic, something elaborate that we can both enjoy, something that caters for both our tastes. If we are both having a great time, laughing and having plenty of opportunity to get emotionally and physically closer, it would be an ideal if not perfect date

Lizibo, afro soul musician

KM: How will you be celebrating Valentine’s Day?

LIZIBO: I would defiantly book my lady a massage, bubble bath in my room as I will be performing that night meaning I will be her misuse for the rest of the night after singing for her all night long, but since I am single that is what I would defiantly do for her.

KM:What is the best advice you ever got on love and women?

LIZIBO: I was taught that a true woman loves who you are not what you are.

KM: When you write your songs, is it for the ladies or both ladies and men?

LIZIBO: Ha ha ha…essentially for the greatest gift to mankind which is “WOMAN.”

KM: How would you impress a lady you really like?

LIZIBO: I would most likely be myself so she falls for the real me, I am the type of guy who loves to see a woman smile so I would make her laugh.

KM: What personality traits do you look for in a partner?

LIZIBO: I look for sense of belonging in a woman, one that understands that God is love, one that believes in family and most of all one that understands her culture, .big turn on!

KM: Describe your perfect date with your ideal partner?

LIZIBO: My perfect date if I was dating……would definitely some Michael Buble playing in the background, slow dancing under the stars with candle lighting, sipping on some white sparkling wine as we cook a meal together ending the night with telling one another the staff we love and appreciate each other for.

Ribcracker, comedian

KM:How will you be celebrating Valentine’s Day?

RIBCRACKER: I celebrate my Valentine at my comedy show, ‘Cracker Nite Comedy show’ which is annually held at President Hotel.

KM: What is the best advice you ever got on love and women?

RIBCRACKER: The best advice I ever got on love is not cheat….love your partner and do not snoop through your partner’s phone a robetse or a ile go tlhapa…haha!

KM: What personality traits do you look for in a partner?

RIBCRACKER: I want a natural looking woman…no mascaras, no twerk pants, no hair weaves. All we guys need is love

KM: Describe your perfect date with your ideal partner?

RIBCRACKER: I am still playing with ideas for when that moment comes….that perfect date will come one day with that ideal partner!

KM: What is the one thing you would never understand about women?

RIBCRACKER: Women are very difficult to understand, even Google is still trying to search what they really want. Today they trim eyebrows, phakela ba tshwantsha ka make up…you just can never understand women!
 

Dipsy Selolwane, retired football player

KM:How will you be celebrating Valentine’s Day?

DIPSY: I normally work, and not sure if I will have time this time as well

KM: What is the best advice you ever got on love and women?

DIPSY: That love finds you and the past does not matter!

KM: What personality traits do you look for in a partner?

DIPSY: Loyalty and someone who is family oriented.

KM: What is the one thing you would never understand about women?

DIPSY: Ha ha ha….I would never understand what it is exactly that women want!

KM:Describe your perfect date with your ideal partner?
DIPSY: Sunset dinner with 1990s rhythm and blues playing on the background.

KM: Does the woman you with have to be athletic and/or a football fanatic?
DIPSY: She does not have to like sports. She has to love me and not what I do. Sport does not define the man that I am! 

ENDS