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Good to be back, holidays are here. Get ready for festive season and the longest holiday. For those who have written their final exams, it is time to wind up and chill as January will bring anxiety waiting for results.

For those still continuing with schooling, enjoy this holiday and know a lot is in store for you in the coming year.

The good thing about Christmas is that, like a thunderstorm, and we all celebrate it together.

For those who have been to school — I mean boarders — there have been a lot of trendy things happening with some of them strange.

One thing I also like about teenagers of today is they are fast and easily adapt to situation.

Here it goes…

Few recent trends have been quite as disturbing as the bathroom selfie.

As we spend our days fretting about the Government’s access to our private records and worrying about being spied on, we will fully give up our last bastion of privacy by taking pictures after we take a dump.

Even if you don’t consider the bathroom a private place, think of those who will see your selfie.

Why would anyone want to look at a picture of you in the bathroom?

Don’t you have a garden or a back patio that would make for a more intriguing background?

Hell, even a nice brick wall is more pleasant to look at than your shower and your porcelain throne.

I beg ‘The Game’ started the prick at the gym.

If you go to the gym regularly, people who know you will notice the results. Whether you are out at the club, working in the office, or attending a stamp collection convention, your body will be on display.

‘90s Gwen Stefani hairstyle back or what?

At a time when every other chick in music was bubblegum, Gwen Stefani was fishnet-tops and fuzzy-bikinis — how-the-hell-do-you-pull-that-off-straight-up-and-down-cool.

Do you remember when we were young and impressionable?

The colour shades rocks back. CLS can only allow you to tint your hair this season.

While Gwen today is the picture of classy hounds tooth perfection, girls will be paying respect to the ‘90s girl she used to be and probably still is beneath that blonde hot-mum quiff.

Let’s see how the social media buzz will go.

The Drake Sweater

Where to buy the sweater (and other stuff) Drake Wore in the “Hotline Bling” Video

Recently, when Drake quietly uploaded the new video for his single “Hotline Bling” to Apple Music, most people homed right in on the grey ribbed mock-neck sweater he wore in it.

The roomy Acne Studios piece looks plenty cosy and falls right in line with the other knitwear the rapper owns (like the much maligned cream sweater he wore to a Raptors game around a year ago, or another mock-neck sweater he uploaded to Instagram late last week). It’s also bang on-trend for fall 2015.

Perhaps for these reasons this sweater took the focus of the conversation around the video, along with just how much Drake’s dancing looks like the awkward, slightly drunk father of the bride at a wedding.

But the other outfits deserve some attention too.

You can check them at Avondale and Borrowdale Sam Levy Village, it’s going for $40, sort of cheap in Zimbabwe considering it’s summer time.

On to big screen

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 review: ‘scorchingly tense’

“Mocking Jay” is back and it is living up to its billing. We have been waiting for it — guess its not another mock.

Here is a snippet of the movie and catch it at SK theatres at Westgate and Eastgate

Jennifer Lawrence and Philip Seymour Hoffman — in his last film — “end the Hunger Games” series with an electrifying, high-stakes final showdown

Even five years ago, it would have seemed unlikely that Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final screen role would come in the fourth instalment of a science-fiction serial. But there’s something about Hoffman and “The Hunger Games” that just fit.

The late actor’s face is one of the first you see in this scorchingly tense and stylish final chapter of the young-adult franchise. Hoffman plays the Machiavellian power-broker Plutarch Heavens-bee — who in the last film became the de facto handler of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), the rebellion’s increasingly wary young figurehead.

The series is committed to bright, politically aware storytelling that’s unafraid to talk to its young target audience straight in the eye, performed by a brilliant, unobvious cast. In addition to Hoffman, Mockingjay — Part 2 groans with the collective talents of Donald Sutherland, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson — and of course Lawrence herself, whose own budding stardom came into bloom over the course of the franchise.

After the subterranean sluggishness of the last film, too thinly spun out from the first third of Suzanne Collins’ final book, returning director Francis Lawrence restores the series to its characteristic high gear. Katniss is leading the rebels’ final push towards the stronghold of President Snow (Sutherland). The leader of the rebellion, President Coin (Moore), is confident of victory, and the Capitol is on the back foot. Yet Katniss still finds herself nagged by doubts: in the heat of war, the side she’s fighting for no longer seems that different from the tyranny she always hoped to overthrow.

The scale and stakes of the mission are both prickingly palpable, and bit-players each add their peculiar tang to the infusion (I loved Natalie Dormer’s pugnacious director of ‘propos’ — the short propaganda films used by the rebels to galvanise their ranks).

There’s so much I’ll miss about this deservedly successful, genre-defying franchise: from its blood-chilling allegorising of reality-TV culture and the way war impacts on young minds and souls, to its dazzling world design and costumes, which are something like Schiaparelli by way of Harajuku. Here’s hoping its dissident spirit will live on in blockbusters to come.