tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759875518017104442024-02-07T09:13:36.519+01:00Feel my pulse and tell me what it reads.P.E.T. Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06221822233883521488noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575987551801710444.post-19080628430478606952012-11-02T16:24:00.001+01:002012-11-02T16:24:29.184+01:00Catching Up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Today, I am just hungry – for food, for knowledge, for work. The settling process in my new office is slow, they say it’s so one doesn’t become overwhelmed too quickly. I thought the honeymoon stage would be over, but no. Apparently, it isn’t. Ironically, I work till 8pm!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">I know you all have dropped your jaws right now, I don’t understand it either. My tasks are time consuming not so mentally demanding – yet. I have been spending 14hours at work and I’m not complaining – yet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">I have become some sort of a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Champion; my Line Manager (LM) thinks it’s a soft landing while I get acquainted to the modus operandi of the real departmental business. I have also been on the research team, doing a lot of policy tweaking for the group business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">For knowledge, I continually seek. There’s a long list of trainings one can sign up for and I just keep going on endlessly – Credit, Change Management, People Management, Relationships/Marriage, Etiquettes, Salsa, Tango etc. Although, it’s not feasible that I get on all of the courses (there’s real work, meetings and deadlines to deal with) I look forward to getting on as many as I can.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">For everyone who’s been asking, the days I spent in Malaysia, Singapore and Dubai have been some of the best days of this year. The different people, languages and religions, the beautiful malls, crappy food and; funny <s>smell</s> fragrances all added to the joys of the trip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">I feel very selfish because I won’t be sharing my pictures, but I hope I’m able to describe my experiences well enough for you to imagine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Thanks for sticking with me through my <s>NEPA</s> inconsistent appearances on blogosphere, I’m not promising to get better, let’s just join hands and go with the flow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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P.E.T. Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06221822233883521488noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575987551801710444.post-16548170822025235072012-09-25T13:30:00.000+01:002012-09-25T13:30:04.951+01:00Since I've been gone...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Sorry I’ve been away for a very long time... 2 months to be exact. This is not a real post, more like me on the road trying to distract myself from all the work I should be doing. Quite a lot has happened in the time I’ve been away; I wish I could tell you all of it...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">My last post was on 25<sup>th</sup> July. I was quite happy while writing that post, unfortunately, that day also brought tears. I was on the way home from work when a text announced my sister’s passing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I was broken, angry, speechless and completely torn apart. The days and weeks after were tough... confusion and pain were two of the emotions I felt. Those who know me say I have still not hit the breaking point and that I am still in denial. I really don’t know, all I’m sure of is that I miss her and a lot of things have changed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">In my last post, I mentioned being in a happy place and balling... well, that’s because I got another job! It’s a more tasking role in a different industry; the opportunities are mind blowing although there’s a lot of long hours and brain storming sessions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m trying to settle into the new work schedule, although it’s not been easy, the rewards of the time and energy dedicated are motivating. I’m happy about the turn my career has taken, I love my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Special thanks to everyone who has come knocking on my online cribs, God bless you real good... and Toinlicious and everyone who’s asking, I am in Asia!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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P.E.T. Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06221822233883521488noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575987551801710444.post-29338594229823561192012-07-25T14:31:00.000+01:002012-07-25T14:39:17.000+01:00Mutual Friend Rescue Marriage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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something comes up and it’s like the reset button is on permanently?! Yeah… if
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well in June and looked forward to balling in July, then the surprise landed
and it’s been a roller coaster ride since then! Don’t go eeya, aww on me… I’m
actually enjoying it all, I’m happy even though I see a lot of late nights and early
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Yes… I know those two paragraphs have told you nothing
but relax, it will unfold soon enough. Meanwhile, every other thing is still
the same, 3<sup>rd</sup> mainland bridge is undergoing repairs, I still endure
traffic by making up imaginary conversations and scenarios (sometimes), I’m
still single and you’re still visiting this url!</span></div>
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comfortable in that arena; you know, a state where you can afford most things
yourself, and where asides God and your family, there’s no one else to be
accountable to. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">I’ve thought about it long enough to know it’s both
true and false; I’m gradually achieving all I’ve dreamt about and unconsciously
raising the bar on certain things, however, deep down there, I know I want to
be swept off my feet, fall in love, get married and live happily thereafter. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">On the other hand, there’s no rush to these things, I therefore
wonder why some people are suddenly trying to be more catholic than the pope. In
other news, being single is expensive… <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gist
for another day!</i></span></div>
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a discussion in which people admitted that they have an arrangement/agreement with
a close friend of the opposite sex, under which if at a certain age they were
both unmarried, they’ll upgrade their friendship by getting married to each other?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Whether you believe it or not, there are groups of
people with this agreement, and although it’s not written (hence not legally
binding), they both agreed on a particular age. E.g. Theresa and Thomas have
been ‘best-friends-forever’ for awhile and for some reason haven’t had
successful relationships with anyone, they would both agree that to save
themselves, when they both clock 30 and 33 respectively, they’ll walk down the
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Personally, I think it’s strange. While I wouldn’t knock
anyone for decisions they make, I’m curious as to why they both won’t venture
into a relationship now if they are that close, and only consider each other
good enough as last resort? Isn’t that just a union of pity?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">If you’ve got answers for me, or you have such
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Finally, if you have the time, check out <a href="http://mp3skull.com/mp3/2face.html" target="_blank">Chinese freestyle</a> by 2face on youtube or on <a href="http://mp3skull.com/mp3/2face.html">www.mp3skull.com</a> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">(it’s the 3<sup>rd</sup> song from the bottom of
the page)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">, I really don’t understand
what was going on there with the language but its 2face… <a href="http://www.blogger.com/2face_ft_jp_%28from_china%29_and_bebe_sumtin-chinese_freestyle%3Cbr%3E%3Cembed%20type=%22application/x-shockwave-flash%22%20src=%22http://www.4shared.com/flash/player.swf?ver=9051%22%20style=%22%22%20id=%22ply%22%20name=%22ply%22%20quality=%22high%22%20allowscriptaccess=%22always%22%20allowfullscreen=%22false%22%20wmode=%22opaque%22%20flashvars=%22file=http://www.hulkshare.com/dl/l7xzf1njzh3y/2face_ft_jp_%2528from_china%2529_and_bebe_sumtin-chinese_freestyle.mp3&amp;volume=50&amp;%22%20height=%2220%22%20width=%22200%22%3E%3Cbr%3EPowered%20by%20%3Ca%20href=%22http://mp3skull.com/%22%3Emp3skull.com%3C/a%3E%3Cscript%20type=%22text/javascript%22%20src=%22http://mp3skull.com/embedcl.php%22%3E%3C/script%3E" target="_blank">enjoy!</a></span></div>
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and lost. It’s been raining in Lagos
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Work’s uninteresting these days – receive notices of
bids, run around to get the documents together, attend meetings in-between,
follow up with colleagues to ensure every ETD is met, meet submission
deadlines, knock them off at the presentation, get the contract and start the
process all over again! Oh, I forgot to add get pissed off by colleagues and
the She boss!</span></div>
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shake it up to be – meeting with client in Manchester, lunch date with my
favourite stylist afterwards, a quick stop to see Man Utd beat Chelsea/Arsenal/Man
City at Old Trafford, celebrations afterwards, stay up in the hotel room the
next day preparing charts and answering calls from my French boss who’s using a
dictionary to translate every word. Then pack up my bag and head out to Sao
Paolo to represent my office at the BRIC intelligence summit!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you can't see me with the laptop having lobster, its because you aren't looking with your mind's eye! :P</td></tr>
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has to send in an entire team to set up an administrative office in Rio de Janeiro,
for which, of course, I’m head! Fast forward a few months, I’m flying across
continent to Milford Sound for a surprise birthday party for the love of my
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dear Future Husband, can we add Milford Sound Lodge to the list of honeymoon spots? Thank you.</td></tr>
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today, day dreaming as we (my boss and I) sat waiting for the M.D. of a
particular company to arrive. My boss couldn’t be bothered about why I was so
engrossed with my laptop; so I decided to share with you a little bit of what
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with the remote in one hand, scooping chocolate ice cream with Eminem’s Go to
sleep hitting from the stereo and watching
highlights of past Olympics on TV with
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">If you’re still wandering where I’m going with this
post then you’ve missed the point. Blogging doesn’t always have to be serious, it’s
Friday and I’ve let my hair down. You should too... afterall, YOLO! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">BTW, I couldn’t think of a title so what you see up
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I have been tagged severally for these rotations (<i>isn’t that what they are?)</i>. There’s an
excuse for not doing it sooner, I have been living in the real world where
there are deadlines and contingencies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Thanks to everyone who tagged me, I can’t remember
everyone (covers face) but I remember those who <s>hounded/hunted</s>
specifically came knocking on my door Toinlicious and SingleNigerian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><span> </span>Now that I’m
here, see below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><span>1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I love football... make that sports. I instantly
become one of the guys on and off season; however, I’ll never go to a viewing
centre just to see a match, NEVER!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><span>2.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I love plantain ****PAUSE**** oh, I said it before?
Really? Where?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Oh... here right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">That means you know the other things?! Let’s move on then,</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">The questions are:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><span>1.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Last
book I read</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">: Insights to help you
survive Peaks and Valleys by T.D. Jakes</span><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";"> (It’s been a busy year for me, I have been reading this book for weeks now,
not because I am that slow but because to really survive peaks and valleys you
have to drop the book and actively pursue goals... and I have been doing that)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></div>
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Blige </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";">(it spoke to me in one of those phases and I have refused to let it
go)</span></i></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Countries visited asides from my awesome country Nigeria</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> would be NONE... yet!<span> </span><i>(soon,
I’ll set out to explore the world)</i></span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">If I could have any job in the world with all the resources I need</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">, I would be a Counselor/Teacher. I just find
peace and fulfillment in making others feel better!</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">Why do I blog?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> I started because I wanted to improve on my writing. However, it’s
beyond that now. I have realized that with this e-house of mine I can
achieve Pareto Optimality! </span></li>
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everything I set my heart to (with the God factor ofcourse) and to take
responsibility for my (re/in)actions.</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">My favourite part of the opposite sex would be</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"> the brain, there’s just something sexy about
a brilliant/witty/intelligent man!</span></li>
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to assume I know what you were trying to ask so, my answer is, I’m not an
only child. I have a closely knit nuclear family and a large extended
family comprising of some gorgeous people I still haven’t met and some
dramatic ones I don’t look forward to meeting. So there you have it – my relations!</span></li>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">****THE END...
well, until I found out I didn’t answer SingleNigerian’s questions, so here we
go...</span></div>
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watching you</i>) </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">I don’t
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thinking... what would a single girl do with a hall pass? Especially one
who calculates the long term implications of her actions... forget it,
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</div>P.E.T. Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06221822233883521488noreply@blogger.com25tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575987551801710444.post-27849228537345641742012-04-20T01:30:00.000+01:002012-04-23T00:13:48.532+01:00Who has seen Jacob?!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">So I decided to attend a midweek service recently, I've been feeling bad about being a Sunday-Sunday Christian but it’s all because my boss won't let me close at 4pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I always end up getting there after the last amen, usually between the announcements and people's retreat to their cars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I was out of town visiting my family recently and I decided to go to church - their church. Now I've always known the service schedule but I wasn't aware things had changed a little, so off I went and ended up in the 'indigenous service', well that's not exactly the name but the deal was, different services were held simultaneously using the 3 major Nigerian languages – Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba and one pidgin session.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">At the entrance the ushers helped me choose the right auditorium; apparently the essence was to teach people to read the bible and pray in their mother tongue. So with my English bible, I settled in, ready to prove to myself my B in the language at WAEC was well earned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">All was going well with my note taking until the preacher asked us to turn to Jacob Chapter 3! I know all the books of the bible off script and there’s definitely no Jacob on the list or so I thought. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I waited for him to correct the slip but he said it again and again; I quickly looked around and when no one was looking worried, peeping into their neighbour's bible or<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>murmuring, I knew the exact reason why that B wasn't an A grade!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Officially, I was stranded. I quietly recited the bible books to be sure Jacob had not sneaked into the midst of the 66 other books while I wasn’t in church! After almost ripping my bible looking for Isaac’s favourite son, I heard him read what translated to “Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing...” in English. At that point I knew the book of James was where I should have been all the while! *whew*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">How couldn't I have known all this that? Anyway, I've decided this would never happen again so I'm taking time out to get friendly with a Yoruba bible. BTW if you know any apps for bibles in Nigerian local dialect, do share. Thanks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Finally the preacher said we think in our first language / mother tongue and the brain translates into the lingua franca for the mouth to deliver, I found that funny but then it’s probably why you hear things like 'who open the door down?', what's doing you? </span></div>
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people,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Happy
*sneezes* excuse me, *sneezes again*<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Good Friday hope you all have had a beautiful day thus far *sneezes*<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">So,
this day in history: Judas Iscariot had concluded plans to plant that evil
kiss, I just wonder if he remembered to brush before leaving home that morning?!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">And finally a new week begins. We are back to normal programming! Last week was all sorts; ‘Valentine’s Day’ week must be the most pretentious all through the year! People going beyond their means to surprise/please their lover/spouse/friend with benefit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">It’s more likely that people worry about the possibility of adding one dress size or more after all the merriment without even taking into consideration the effect on their health. It’s no longer news that people who are seemingly happy and fit can collapse during the least stressful activity and consequently pass on, why then do we pay more attention to our fashion statement and bank statement while our health takes the back bench?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">When last did you get yourself examined? Blood pressure, blood sugar, dental checks, and for you in Nigeria, malaria, typhoid? Do you conclude you’re fit just because you multitask; combining work, education and home making? Do you even know that your exercise regime, no matter how strictly you adhere to it doesn’t preclude you from certain ailments?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Ladies, have you ever done a Mammography? Or do you find such process intrusive to your privacy? In that case do you do the monthly physical examination?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you know that exercising may help you keep in shape; but it doesn’t reduce your blood sugar level?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Medical doctors advice that certain tests be taken quarterly, half yearly and others yearly from a particular age. They say it’s important to also identify ailments that are hereditary in one’s family and begin to guide against them early. An example of such is diabetes and hypertension. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">If there’s any ailment one or more relations from the generation(s) before you are battling, it would only be wise to have yourself checked. You may come out with a clean bill of health and then embark on the journey of prevention; if not, you’re better off knowing and managing it before it gets out of hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Cost is one major reason people shy away from these tests, however, they really do not cost an arm and a leg. Most companies have HMO plans for their employees; don’t just decorate your wallet/purse with the card. Plan a visit to the hospital, get checked, ask questions and start living healthy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Go a step further, make friends with doctors (they are everywhere, even on twitter), eat right, exercise and do not forget, when it comes to your life and health, all the wealth you’re working so hard to amass would mean nothing if you drop dead or become incapacitated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">There’s always a new idea for a blog post every now and then, but I’m probably in some meeting, walking through the crowded streets of Lagos Island or half asleep. The workload during the day is overwhelming I hardly have time to eat let alone prepare a proper post; I know this is bad blogging behaviour but what do I do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">My day starts as early as my eyelids open – put that somewhere between 4am and the next o’clock – and between that time and 10.30pm, I’m involved in one energy sapping or mentally tasking activity or the other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">In the midst of all this I realise the reason this is proving tough is because of the OVER syndrome. Once upon a time, I was in a group discussing SWOT analysis. I mentioned that my weakness was the perfectionist syndrome and everyone practically laughed and ‘commended’ me. I didn’t think too seriously of it until a friend recently mentioned it. For me, it’s okay to ignore the comments of random people but when someone who should know you a little more points out a trait – in this case a flaw, then work must be done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">It is important to be <span style="color: red;">thorough/detailed/meticulous</span> at work and in daily decision making, but when the word ‘OVER’ (overanalyse, over scrutinize etc) shows up too many times, there may be trouble. While I do not have problems with meeting deadlines and producing excellent results, I am almost never satisfied with the face value of anything. I always want to think decisions through over and again, creating many more options than needed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">A clear example is the <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">previous</span> paragraph, one of the words in red would have sufficed, but my brain thought up about 5, I ended up typing those 3 just so you see what I mean. The end result is a body that never gets enough rest because its operating system (the brain) is constantly multitasking!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Yes, I know I’ve been MIA for quite awhile, there has been so many issues to deal with within every 24hours – work, state of the economy (Nigeria), traffic, personal development programme etc. I haven’t had the time to catch up with you all – my apologies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">This week started on a bright note for me, hope rising in many directions, I’m just happy for where my life is heading right now, no one, not even the rogue who made away with my phone this morning can rain on my parade! My contacts, my notes, bookmarks, devotional articles, semi-finished blog posts etc all gone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">My colleague says I’m too calm for someone who was robbed; what should I do? Some people lost their lives trying to get to work via the same route! In case you’re wondering, I’m referring to the chaos caused by hoodlums (a.k.a area boys/agbero) around the High Court (Igbosere Street) and Moloney area of Lagos Island. Kam Salem House (Police Headquarters) was only a stone through away, this didn’t stop them from shattering windscreens, burning shops, breaking bottles and attacking people with machete.</span></div>
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</div>P.E.T. Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06221822233883521488noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575987551801710444.post-22021390675723176472011-12-29T15:32:00.000+01:002011-12-29T15:32:04.556+01:00Happy Holidays<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRJtNRTFTB8OYtqNEt1_3BaG35h60vRxvt8VBsOhjRRzmF1iq8N1wPsG5uOs2gvhKrhcZBygZyXEuYJ7GLff2KjglvB8J0FEMU1EkMbcPvrVw1RkmPK0Qgg7yvTfyjWkd_M-9XI2Fz7-zI/s1600/dep_3997879-Couple-in-love-with-black-umbrella.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" rea="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRJtNRTFTB8OYtqNEt1_3BaG35h60vRxvt8VBsOhjRRzmF1iq8N1wPsG5uOs2gvhKrhcZBygZyXEuYJ7GLff2KjglvB8J0FEMU1EkMbcPvrVw1RkmPK0Qgg7yvTfyjWkd_M-9XI2Fz7-zI/s320/dep_3997879-Couple-in-love-with-black-umbrella.jpg" width="303" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Off they went to the General Post Office and then the Bank; while she moved from desk to desk exchanging pleasantries, Lady T sat quietly in one corner doing all she could to avoid the stare of the afro spotting Teller behind the counter. Moments later they were back on the streets making their way back to the office when shouts of excuse me rang through; it was the afro guy from the bank. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Good morning</span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">, he said, almost breathless from the chase.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Yes</span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">, good morning, she responded in giggles.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Excuse me, can I talk to your friend</span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">, he asked, looking across her shoulder towards Lady T who was standing within earshot.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Me</span></i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">? Came her reply, a little bemused too.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Yes, you. I just want to introduce myself, do you work around here?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Getting a little uneasy she responded in the negative, gave him a rather vague excuse and began the return journey to the office, leaving her partner behind. Later that evening, an uninvited guest showed up at the office – it was him again, afro guy! That snitch had told him where she would be!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Against her wish, he walked her halfway home that day, telling her his life history and how he liked her appearance and would want to <s>date</s> marry her. Many more after-office-hours strolls later, defying the Aguda Vs Saro marriage taboo myth, they tied the knot on 29<sup>th</sup> December that year – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;">yes, your calculations are right, 3 months after. </span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Over 3 decades later, Lady T and Afro guy are still happily married with yours truly and the rest of the Charlies Angels to show for it. And that is the end of my story.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Happy Anniversary to my parents!!!</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt;">*</span><span style="color: #fabf8f; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themetint: 153;">*</span><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt;">*</span><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt;">*</span><span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-themecolor: text2;">*</span><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt;">*</span><span style="color: #b2a1c7; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt; mso-themecolor: accent4; mso-themetint: 153;">*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Happy holidays to you all, thanks for sharing my thoughts through the year. Hope you all found your points of elevation during the year? If you didn’t, not to worry, delay is not denial, those goals can still be achieved, only if you do not give up.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Here’s to a more rewarding 2012.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Cheers!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 6pt 0cm 12pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Have you noticed the new addiction in cyberspace? It’s the horoscope! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Years ago, you could have bet people just read those things in the Vanguard, Daily Times, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Concord (what happened to these papers BTW? Gist for another day)</i> laughed at them and moved on!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">It’s quite different these days, not a few people now make it a/an <s>daily</s> hourly ritual to find out what the sun/moon is saying about their lives! Correct me if I’m wrong but since when did we become planet watchers, psychics and astrologers? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDe9OZMEeSbnftBOdKEiIsapjZbpo_ddEA1usdJSrJopK2TWpDDXkLCS3JSDgUBXTwyHjAyiV5cCRQ40EpRh-NvmW_t805XjwFa6ThwGZ_gz980Z_r-37tRgJn3SagdVVSX6TKAw_ZGQp_/s1600/Corbis-42-15795592.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" nda="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDe9OZMEeSbnftBOdKEiIsapjZbpo_ddEA1usdJSrJopK2TWpDDXkLCS3JSDgUBXTwyHjAyiV5cCRQ40EpRh-NvmW_t805XjwFa6ThwGZ_gz980Z_r-37tRgJn3SagdVVSX6TKAw_ZGQp_/s320/Corbis-42-15795592.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Before you argue about how right or wrong the predictions are, have you looked around <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>long enough to find out that as different as our DNAs are there are behavioural similarities we exhibit as we cohabit together either as family members, friends or even colleagues?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Similarities in our morals/belief systems; cutting across tribes and religions? Certain things happen based on pure coincidence. If I detest boastful people and you do too, it’s probably because we were brought up to understand the benefits of humility, why then would you sing praises to the astrologer who says it’s because you’re a Gemini or an Aquarius? For some of you who took psychology classes or even those who read Tim LaHaye’s ‘Why you act the way you do’ didn’t you deduce that the temperaments have features that cut across one another? Hence, the fact that you’re Sanguine doesn’t make you less of an ambitious person! Aren’t those temperaments actually developed through a combination of family background, upbringing, education, exposure etc? Why then do some people look to the moon and stars for instructions on how to live?</span></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Young lady, that guy’s got a bright future not to talk of being TDH + more; why wouldn’t you date him? Ohhhhhh, Cancer moon opposes Pluto hence your Aries body can’t mix with a Pisces loving? #EpicFail! When your younger sister’s last child starts calling you grandma, the mist would clear from your <s>glasses</s> eye!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 18pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Let’s not get carried away by the tides of foolishness, if you must read those things, do, for the fun of it, don’t let them dictate what you can achieve or who you are; afterall you and I can cook up stories inspired by the many Hollywood movies we’ve seen. Live, don’t just exist and stop allowing ‘horo’ to ‘scope’ you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(if you know what I mean)</i>!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 18pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Finally, Librans like to make money, fall in love and live happily ever after! *yinmu* who doesn’t?!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchetms; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Let’s go down <s>Wisteria lane</s> memory lane, shall we?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchetms; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">A year ago, I was X years old, now I’m X + 1 = X + 365days years old. Before you grab a calculator please finish the post!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchetms; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Ok, so this very day last year, I published my first post! It’s my BLOGVERSARY!!! So yeah, it’s double celebration. That day, I fell off the stairs too *sigh* but it’s all good, I didn’t break a leg, only a sole!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchetms; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Like yesterday, I remember inviting what turned out to be you all to come feel my pulse. I wasn’t sure I was going to be getting comments, but it didn’t matter! For many months prior to that, I had followed Q Money and LG as they took us through marriage and everyday life respectively. Their blogs were my go-to place when work became boring or traffic too horrible! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchetms; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Imagine the excitement when LG showed up to (in her words) ‘disvirgin the blog’, closely followed by Myne and from then on, the comments just kept coming, and so did the followers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchetms; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">I’ve been here long enough to see people fall in love, accept proposals, plan weddings, get married, make babies, birth ideas, leave without contact details or saying goodbye yet, most of us are still keeping on. Between the sleepless nights in school, horrible bosses at work, horrific traffic and political hullabaloo, we all have kept each other sane. Thank you all for the love.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Please poke all those who went to bed singing Green Day's hit... wake them up, September has ended!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">In case you're wondering; while you slept, we cried, played, sowed, talked, loved and hoped a little more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Its October 1, the first day of the rest of our lives, a day we celebrate the beginning of the next 50 years as a nation. 50 years that once again present the options to either push for greatness or turn up the volume on complaint speakers!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">As we begin the last lap in 2011, we remember our tears - over the loss of dear ones, over unfulfilled dreams, over the failures of a potentially great nation, over the many stumbling blocks we face on the pathway to prosperity. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">We shed tears because our hearts feel pain but I invite you to come with me into the rain, let it wash away your grief, depression and disappointments. Let it wash away every cloud hindering you from seeing the way forward. Let it not just be rain, let it be SHOWERS OF BLESSINGS!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">92 more days to the New Year. It’s enough time to get a new job, make a major breakthrough in your business, conceive an award winning idea, sow a seed of kindness, seek for forgiveness from the one(s) you've hurt, forgive the one(s) who've hurt you, fall in love, propose/accept a proposal to/from the one you love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">POSSIBILITIES... Endless possibilities abound. Tap into it for a brighter, better and befitting future or wait on the side line, murmuring and complaining of the things that have gone wrong. It’s your CHOICE, the FUTURE begins now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Receive the baton of a new day, a new grace, a new path; take off into EXCELLENCE.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Happy Independence Day Nigeria (ns)!!!</span><br />
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</div></span> </div>P.E.T. Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06221822233883521488noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575987551801710444.post-63820212502266356102011-08-27T01:59:00.000+01:002011-08-27T01:59:08.061+01:00Expatriate in the Building<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I really do not know what the situation is like in other parts of the world but I have evaluated quite a few businesses and can conclude that our customer care/service delivery in this part of the planet is distasteful. From the roadside hawkers to our telecoms service providers, the banks, the hospitals and unfortunately even in the hospitality business.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">The (mostly) women who handle this positions surprisingly share the same characteristics – ill tempered, uncouth and impatient! Only a few of them deliver impressive service that make you want to get familiar with them. Majority simply treat you like they are doing you a huge favour by responding to your enquiries/complaints. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I got one of such treatments recently at an industry conference. Add the above traits to male chauvinist behaviour and you’ll have the description of the protocol officer! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #5f497a; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">BTW, if you (or anyone you know) work for that airline that offers cheap rates for domestic flights booked in advance online, kindly tell the management team that the services are crap. The only reason we still patronise you is because we <s>are Ijebus</s> like to support the proudly Nigerian initiative. Soon, we may get tired of your cancellations, delays and saucy helpdesk operators and embrace Virginity! </span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I arrived early to get my accreditation done, I had all the documents as stated on the invite but for some reason, Mr Protocol Officer couldn’t find my name on the list! I wouldn’t have been angry if he had offered to do a thorough check and rectify the error, but instead he concluded I was impersonating! What rubbish!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I had never met the man before yet he believed I was trying to impersonate someone! So I’m subjected to series of ‘irrelevant’ questions... ‘What is your name? Middle name? Spell your surname? Who registered you for this conference? May I point out that at this point he was holding on to all my documents, driver’s license inclusive; guess he was trying to figure out I was really trying to use usurp someone’s slot!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Tired of standing and stretching over the counter, I sat and began fiddling with twitter, only to be jolted back to reality about an hour later! Mr Protocol Officer announced he’ll be closing in about 45minutes but still couldn’t find my name.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">At this point, I’m thinking, should I ask to see a superior officer or make a call to the help line on the acknowledgement mail; before I could decide, an elderly woman intervened, speaking in Yoruba, she reprimanded him for making no efforts to get me accredited to which he responded also in Yoruba: don’t mind all these small small girls, I know the type of people that come to this conference, they are top people (hiss). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">You can only imagine how I felt, having someone say such about you in a language you understand! I totally ignored, leaving the elderly woman to deal with him. Minutes later his supervisor made an appearance. Nice lady I must say.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Within minutes she searched through all the lists and there it was. Apparently, they had 2 lists; one for participants from different organisations within the country and the other for Expatriates (prospective investors).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Now, the truth is, my name doesn’t give an insight into what tribe I belong, infact, it appears entirely foreign; but that’s no excuse. That I was registered in their books as one of the expatriates is a sign of inefficiency; my forms clearly state my nationality. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Finally, my pass was handed over but I wasn’t ready to leave just yet. I needed to have the last laugh so I turned to the supervisor and told her how she needed to have her staff trained. I told her they needed to know that not every young woman is sleeping her way to the top. A few of us are working hard and getting recognised for our efforts, bla bla bla... and for maximum effects, I said it all in Yoruba; imagine the look on Mr Protocol Officer’s face, dang! All he did was stare.</span></div></div></diP.E.T. Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06221822233883521488noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575987551801710444.post-22185639132173530612011-08-13T22:47:00.000+01:002011-08-13T22:47:38.975+01:00Today, I cried...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Today, I cried. No, I wasn’t flogged but I cried. I cried for the many times I had encountered near deaths, illnesses and other unpleasant situations and through it all God brought me out unscarred. I cried because I realise how ungrateful we all are sometimes. Because we complain about the lack of mundane things and fail to show appreciation for the essentials handed to us on a platter of gold.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I think about all those mornings I snooze for an extra 10minutes a total of 3 times before I finally get out of bed thereby saying so short a prayer I cannot remember once I jump into the bath!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I think about the many times I witnessed accidents on 3<sup>rd</sup> mainland bridge and many of the other death traps we refer to as highways. I remember the journeys I have made within and outside the city, times my flight experienced turbulence and through it all I am still here.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">The last 4 weeks have been really eventful for me. I have been happy, sad and indifferent; but isn’t that what life’s about. An acquaintance from my undergrad days passed away a day before she was to resume at an oil company in Lekki; she had been job hunting since 2008.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" closure_uid_yn7bai="158" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Sadly, last week we had met and spoken briefly at the airport in Abuja. Her mum found my card in her purse and called to inquire if she owed me as the family wanted to settle all her debts before the burial.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span closure_uid_yn7bai="110" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I’m just reading the story of <a href="http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/when-is-medical-negligence-/96171">Olajuwura Amoo-Onidundu</a> and that’s what made me cry. Last month I had some medical issues to deal with but I was strong enough to get into an argument with the nurse. She had cut open the syringe before my entry into the injection room so I insisted a new one be used. When the matron intervened she said, ‘it would amount to waste of resources’, I then retorted with an indifferent look that if my HMO plan can’t cover the cost of an extra syringe then I’ll pay cash!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Since the introduction of HMOs, healthcare delivery seems to have nosedived even at the so called ‘good private hospitals’. A colleague was recently asked if he wanted silver, gold or platinum treatment after being diagnosed of malaria at the hospital. Apparently, the class of treatment he chooses would determine the type of drugs to be prescribed, recovery timeline and ultimately the bill!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;"> I won’t even mention government hospitals where you have to run around to buy everything from gloves to syringe and injection, drip etc; God help you if you’re in labour and there’s no family member in sight; well, you can tip a student doctor to help you. I know this from a friend’s labour experience at LASUTH/Ayinke Hospital.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">All in all, I believe we, as a people, as a nation still have a chance to get better. To correct the anomalies, seize the future and make it truly ours. You and I can start by being truthful and faithful in all our dealings.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">N.B</span></u></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">The original post for today EXPATRIATE IN THE BUILDING would be up next week! </span></i></div></div></div>P.E.T. Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06221822233883521488noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575987551801710444.post-270300694225415502011-07-19T16:50:00.000+01:002011-07-19T16:50:59.150+01:00Honestly... would you?<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I was helping my cousin address his wedding invites when I saw Mr & Mrs Cobhams Asuquo, instantly I bombarded him with questions of how they met, if I could come along to deliver the card etc. Unfortunately, he didn’t let me but explained to me that Mrs Asuquo used to be a colleague; apparently she resigned a while ago, I’m not sure if it’s for private business or for another job but I haven’t been able to stop thinking about her.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I wonder how much of a brave woman she must be, I imagined she must really love him to look past the disability and sign the lifelong contract. Asides from Ojuola (Cobham’s wife), there are a few other people known to have braved the odds. I have raised this issue among friends and while quite a few beat their chest to being able to go that lane, I’m still not sure I can.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It is not about being selfish or insensitive but honestly, it’s not as easy as it seems. If you’ve ever been a caregiver to a sick relative then you know a bit of what I’m talking about. Often times you end up ill from the stress of cleaning and caring for them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For someone who likes to internalize issues and be realistic about things (I’m not against optimism oh!) I wonder if I can cope. There are those moments you want to act like a child around your partner, just milk a situation (e.g. pregnancy) and demand some extra TLC, there’s when you want to play hide and seek around the house, or on the beach, there are certain times you expect him to scoop you off the floor into his arms... wouldn’t these expectations be selfish if he was in a wheelchair?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">How easy would it be to have to run home from work to make the meal and clean up, help with the kids’ school work all alone, everyday without the help of wifey who is physically challenged? Can you honestly say frustration wouldn’t set in at some point? Especially when there are those low moments at work?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In the first case, you must have weighed the conditions well, separation/divorce is no option here; at least you were fully aware of the peculiarities before signing the dotted lines. In the African setting, family members may object to the union at first; if you eventually convince them, the burden becomes yours except off course your family understands. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Case 2 buttresses why everyone must marry someone they truly love. Sudden disability affects quite a number of things in the family – sex, career, finances, role-play and sometimes communication. I imagine that sudden disability in a partner will rock a relationship leaving the chance of its survival to the quality of its foundation. It would take sincere love and God’s matchless grace to avert a separation or even resentment.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I once read the story of a guy who attributed his success in life to his ex-girlfriend’s decision to leave him. They had been dating for about 5 years at the time but he never really showed any commitments to her, unfortunately he was involved in an accident that confined him to a wheelchair. He recounted that the lady was patient enough to nurse him out of the hospital and then left him thereafter stating she couldn’t deal with his lack of passion for anything.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Before you condemn her as heartless; imagine yourself in her shoes. Through the 5 years, she probably gave him all the signs that she was ready to be proposed to; I assume he kept promising without any concrete plan. She must have thought: if a guy is never serious with anything what are the chances he’ll not be completely helpless and slothful as a disable? In the end, she figured marrying him would be mortgaging her future hence she left and moved on. Thankfully, he learnt from the experience and has now made something of his life; but do these stories always turn out this way?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">I guess this is why everyone must ask themselves if they can live with ‘the one’ when the worse befalls him/her, we must be sure we understand the clause ‘through good and bad times, in sickness and in health’. Most likely, a partner who’s always pessimistic about every little cloud would swing into full scale depression when it rains and probably log out on life if there’s a flood.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;">The question therefore is; would you marry a guy/girl with disabilities? Are there perhaps some forms of disabilities you can deal with and others you can’t? </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></span>P.E.T. Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06221822233883521488noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575987551801710444.post-29113675289996410362011-07-06T13:23:00.000+01:002011-07-06T13:23:34.207+01:0015 Minutes on the Toilet seat<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Dear God,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I trust and believe in you. The scientists have said all sorts of rubbish about you but that’s their problem. It’s funny how they can never agree on something real; even when one of them got a ‘revelation’ to buttress YOUR existence, they still didn’t believe, well a lot of them are high on substances so *shrug*</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I had fun in June but right now I’m kinda broke and that’s because the bosses have travelled again without handing over our pay check. The thing is, there was fathers’ day celebration and then you put my sisters’ birthdays 11days apart and so I spent a little more than I should have. Could you please touch their hearts and make them do the right thing? Thank you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Heavenly father, I’m grateful for all you’ve done for me lately, the tears and disappointment of February has since given way to this new hope I have. I’m happier now, not because I have all I want but because you’ve shown me that you’re working on my case. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I’m happy because now I have really let go of the pains caused me by my ex and the Human Resources Manager.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m grateful for the lessons I learnt, who would have thought I would be helping the HRM with her school work? I knew I had forgiven her, I guess the forgetting part is now accomplished. I wish you could help me to reach out to her a little more, to teach her how to be kind to others, to make her understand that she doesn’t have to be mean, inconsiderate and miserable just because she’s single and 30+.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I need you now more than ever before, first to help unlock my heart because I know you have the Master key. After the last experience, I locked it up and put the key away, now I can’t find it because I’ve rearranged so much and the only thing I see is work, movies, food, health and books. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Secondly, I know I once said I was tired of chasing my dreams and that I wanted them to just tell me where they were heading so we could meet up there. Well, I apologise because that came out wrong, what I wanted to say was I am sure you’re with me on the journey and that I know I won’t miss the path once I keep following your lead. Please help me not to stray.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Lastly, I need to see some signs, ones that won’t be confusing, so I can know for sure if this new friendship is what I think it is. If it isn’t, please help me to pick the vital lessons and focus on to what is important. I’m asking because he’s fast becoming a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Weapon of Mass Distraction</i> and I do not want to lose sleep over a flash in the pan.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Thank you for the grace and favour, I have to get back to work now, I will talk to you later.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Amen.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>P.E.T. Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06221822233883521488noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575987551801710444.post-67292485920515454192011-06-28T17:42:00.002+01:002011-06-28T17:52:45.580+01:00Planking (Laying Out) My Thoughts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif';">Disclaimer: If any part of this post is ambiguous or completely missing it’s because I’m blogging on the move, while trying to process official and personal thoughts.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s been a while since I last came here,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I almost don’t know why or maybe I just don’t care.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I am beginning to face the truth; I really can’t stay away forever,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Sweet or bitter, I’m ready for whatever,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">If I get hurt I know I’ll recover.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">It isn’t so bad all the time or maybe it is,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">I have been hiding for so long,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Behind the wall I put up so strong.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s time to break it down and give it a try,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">But wouldn’t I be creating room for people to pry?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">*** 2 meetings and 3 hours later ***</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%;">*** Back to the office ***</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">The world seems to be experiencing momentary imbalance the offshoot of which is seasonal madness expressed in different form. While I was trying to rap my head around windeck and comprehend Cabo Snoop’s style, he shot us with Prakatatumba. I still think that dance is a mockery of a feat of epilepsy; anyway, you all haven’t seen the last of crazy things.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">This morning I woke up to ‘Planking’ all over my timeline. There’s no definition for it. It’s neither a sport nor an exercise. I guess people just need to burn excess energy. But then I hear it’s the Australians that came up with the name after the English invented it so I can imagine their brain was freezing over at the time. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For everyone who’s still wondering what Planking is...</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Prior to now I had my stash of provision in the last drawer - biscuits, milk, sugar, corn flakes, cashew nuts etc. They were there to save me from starving on those days I get too busy to step out for lunch. I would freely share these things with those who ask, however recently, some people have been helping themselves to it just cause they know where to find it. They've become so confident that they emptied a 450g of milk in the 2 weeks I was away from work! Isn't taking someone's belonging without their consent stealing???</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">If you're not sure you should have asked instead of assuming my love life needed intervention! So you've decided to 'collabo' with your husband and you think the cell leader is right for me? Haaa..... Good choice, he's a 'loaded', spirit-filled brother after all; but shouldn't you have told me before giving him my 'case file'?</span></div><div style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">Growing up was so much fun, we drank Tandi Guaraná, Dr. Pepper, Afri Cola, Fanta Ginger Ale etc. There was also Planta, Cadbury Chocolate Spread, Fan Ice (a.k.a Yoghurt), Walls Ice cream and SAMCO, Bubblegum. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 150%;">BTW, what’s the lowest price you remember buying Coca Cola?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: 150%; margin: 0cm 0cm 2pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt;">Happy Children’s day to the young and young at heart!</span></div></div></div>P.E.T. Projectshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06221822233883521488noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-575987551801710444.post-85955123395495549902011-05-20T09:27:00.001+01:002011-05-20T09:35:29.537+01:00Keep your Identity<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">As human beings we strive to make an impact either in our immediate environment or in the world. While working towards being a force to reckon with, there are a lot of forces that try to sway us. To succeed, we hold on tight to our beliefs and focus on the goals to be achieved.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">I have noticed that most successful people rarely ever change the winning formula. Manchester United for instance has won more trophies and accolades from football lovers and critics worldwide because they’ve been adjudged consistent. They have a tradition which they guard jealousy. The British Monarch is also revered, respected and thought to have no equals, simply because it sets its own standards, creates rules and compels everyone who must interact with it to comply, be it individuals or nations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Unfortunately, same cannot be said for some of us. A common saying amongst our parents in this part of the world is ‘remember the child of whom you are’. They say this because they are well aware of the challenges we face during our daily endeavours, because they know that the greatest and strongest of men have lost their identity just for a moment of pleasure, while being distracted by the most mundane things.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Samson lost his sight to a woman and Esau sold his birthright for common ‘Asaro’ (pottage), other great men in history have also lost their fame, fortune and integrity on account of their lack of self control.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">Your identity doesn’t end with your name, social security number, personal data or DNA. It extends to your culture, beliefs, value system etc. It is not enough to chant the ‘I am African’ mantra. Show the world you truely are. Some people travel out of Nigeria and after a few months they rename themselves, bury their manners and sometimes disown their parents, all because they want to belong. You cannot be more English than the British!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">A few others go off to study and become so wild one would wonder if they ever heard the word. This identity denial is also evident on our blogs. Why would you agree to things that are against your personal beliefs just so you gain another follower? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">I, for instance have personal views about certain issues – no to violent/abusive relationships, no to friends with benefits set ups, no to office romance amongst others – I make these known as I comment on people’s blogs. I’m not asking that you adopt my belief system, you can hate me for it, that wouldn’t change my stand; in the end, you’d either block me or unfollow me. That wouldn’t change the price of tomatoes at Mile 12 market!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;">If you spend all your time following the trend and trying to become a mirror image of others, <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">you’ll only end up publicizing their achievements while your own dreams die. </span></span><span class="ft"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Haile<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b></span>Gabriel Selassie d</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">idn’t become a long distance race champion because of his handsome face; </span></span></span><span> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Chimamanda</span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ngozi <span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Adichie didn’t need a sexy name to win the Orange prize. I can almost bet the members of the review board cannot even pronounce her name! Taiwo Ajayi-Lycett didn’t have to go nude to achieve the enviable records she had in the movie industry. I’m sure some of you do not even know she once acted in the popular sitcom Frank Spencer.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 11.5pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Finally, all I’m just trying to say is, be true to yourself, your little beginnings would metamorphosis into a phenomenal future if you keep working at achieving your life’s purpose. </span></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">*This post was inspired by Beyoncé’s new video (Run the world). Although I’m not a fan, I’m disappointed in this new person I see. She seems to be infusing too much of Lady Gaga + Nicki Minaj spirit into her style; do you think she’s feeling intimidated by them? That yellow dress is such a disaster... the green one too.</span></i></em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">On the bright side, it’s nice to see the African dance style. I particularly love the neck twisting/shoulder jerking one in 1:15min, I’m sure you remember it from 2face Idibia’s Nfana Ibaga video. </span></i></em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 200%;"></span></i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: justify;"><br />
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