A different prespective to Life

A while ago someone suggested “Let’s go out and celebrate my Birthday”. I said “Yeah, why not”. Although I do not drink alcohol, but I do not mind drinking orange juice or pineapple juice in a Pub. This is what I had at “The King’s Arms”, in East London. Drinks flowed freely, although I drank only juice, I saw myself restricted or restrained in my drinking. But for my colleagues it was a different picture this was time according to them to “let their hair down”. Bob a big ginger Irish man was in his full gale, it seems Guinness was a kind of fuel for him. Bob was normally quite but after 2 pints he became a chatterbox. He was a kind of guru in Star Trek, a Trekkie, he loved Voyager (I think he was watching it because of Seven of Nine, unixmatrix zero).  Seven Of Nine Jackie was reserved, a kind of ice queen, she was blond and had blue eyes, but after they started her on Bambi, she became less inhibited and seductive. I tried to leave but Harry was constantly ...

Conspiracy theory –noun 1. a theory that explains an event as being the result of a plot by a covert group or organization; a belief that a particular unexplained event was caused by such a group. 2. the idea that many important political events or economic and social trends are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public. As I was attending a certain event, I found myself among friends discussing about world events. As we were talking about the current economic situation, how things were extremely difficult. “Don’t you know that the current economical worldwide events have been orchestrated decades before by members of a top level organisation?” one said.  Well, I said “But isn’t it part of the usual economic cycle that every 30 years or so people get lack and believe they are the masters of the universe. Remove laws that are suppose to control financial stability, Brown said some years ago that it is the end of boom ...

Football, football it seems that almost everybody loves football, well in Nigeria at least. We do not take it to the extreme as in the UK, where it seems to have replaced the main religion. Instead of people going to churches on Sunday, they go to the stadiums. The population attending church has decreased while the stadium attendance has increased over the years on a Sunday. Empty Churches The number of church pews were becoming empty while the seats in the stadium were become filled. While the churches (non-pentecostal) are filled with a mainly female audience, with the average age being the late 60s. The stadiums have a mainly male attendance who are young and active who proudly wear their clubs colours. They fight, sing, shout for their clubs and some in a few instances kill. Filled Stadium As in everything else, there are those who take it to an extreme i.e. marry in the soccer stadium. They name their babies after key players and famous coaches. ...

Yesterday (Sunday, 30th May 2010), I visited Hyde Park, a park in the centre of London that covers about 253 hectares. I enjoyed the visit to the Park; it was a fantastic day out. The Park is easily accessible by different means of transport and has about 5 underground stations along its border. The stations are Mable Arch (Central Line), Hyde Park Corner (Piccadilly Line), Knightsbridge and Lancaster Gate (Central Line) stations. This is about the fifth time I have visited Hyde Park. I have been there with various groups from work, church, club, etc. The weather at the Park was beautiful, sunny, and without a drop of rain in sight. Hyde Park has a long history since King Henry VIII of England "seized" or "acquired" the land from the Catholic Church in 1536. It was said that one of the reasons for the English Reformation was that he needed money. Although the main reason for the split with the Catholic Church was that King Henry needed a male heir ...

Well personally I am an amala man (I prefer the one made with Yam not Cassava) , I love amala with egusi prawn soup but I do not mind ewedu soup. I prefer it with a combination of various meats from different animals with their internal organs (Eran orisirisi). Usually, I prefer this dish being served at a temperature that is hot enough to be steaming with a cold drink usually coke, that has just been removed from the fridge and it appears to be sweating (although this is just the solid ice turning into liquid water at room temperature). I would prefer to eat it with my hands after washing my hands in lukewarm water, although over the years I have learned to become proficient in the use of cutlery especially the fork to eat my favorite dish. Unlike many others that just push each bolus of food to the back of the tongue and use the tongue to push it to the back of the throat and then swallow it allowing peristalsis to take over. I chew each bolus with the soup in my mouth savoring the t...

A lot of people who watched this program displayed anger, towards the fact that the BBC zeroed upon what seemed to be the worst of Nigeria. They saw the film as being “offensive, degrading, dehumanizing, patronizing and insulting”. A lot of people were seriously angry that, why show a garbage heap and the slums, when the federal government has spent a huge amount on rebranding and Lagos state government has been spending billions of Naira on improving the very infrastructure that the film has been pointing out . Some people would say that the film brands Nigeria something it is not, but others would say that it brings out the best in Nigerians. However, I am personally surprised that in the program that it is said that slums constitute about 3/4ths of Lagos. Although I have visited, slept in Lagos often, I did not know that. However, it might seem to depend to a large extend on the film producer’s definition of what a slum is. Another thing that makes a lot of people...

Colonel Gaddafi When I was younger, I loved the thought of a focused individual who had his country's interest at heart. I also liked Che Guevara, a revolutionary who I saw as someone who wanted to get rid of the inequalities in his country. "Col" Gaddafi was in that line in the 1960s and 1970s. It seemed all he wanted to do, was get rid of corruption, bureaucracy, laxity in the system, etc. I admired Colonel Gaddafi for his Revolution ideology (his brand of socialism called "popular democracy") and the way he stood against the USA, UK (anti-imperialism policy), etc. When I was younger, I liked the cool shades and the beret or cap he used to sport when facing the press.  I just like the idea of him being radical for the good of his country. Like Julius Nyerere, who tried African Socialism (Ujamaa) and ran Tanzania, I later learned that only loans and grants from the World Bank and the IMF in 1975 prevented Tanzania from going bankrupt. But now I am older, I ...

An email had been in circulation for some time now. I have received it twice now. The first time I did not pay notice to it, but now in light of recent events, I began to see it differently. It goes like this “no matter the position you are offered in ANY organisation if your deputy is named "Goodluck", please decline... in case you think I am joking: Goodluck (Acting President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan) was an assistant head boy in primary school. The head boy got expelled, he took over. Goodluck was an assistant senior prefect in secondary school. The senior prefect died, Goodluck took over. Goodluck was deputy local govt chairman, the chairman got implicated in corruption and got removed from office, Goodluck took over. Goodluck was deputy governor to Alameiseigha. We all know that story. Goodluck was vice to Yar Adua (President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua). You may say it a coincidence, an, you know. A colleague of mine just called off his church wedding. Why? His best man...