Grammy in Ikenne

Yeah I'm back. And it's with a lot of joy.
For those that wanna know, the anniversary was BAM as expected. All the stars that adorned the color of the great institution came around. Many of them, even the first set (1956) were around.
The only set of fuck-ups were that digital camera, Baba Iyabo & Gbenga Daniels. Madam wasn't around though ( u no fit call arugbo fuck up now, except you don't wanna dagba!!!). The camera suddenly became crippled like the Teranga lions. The heat of the environment was too much. Oga Udeh and Mr. Achampong (Champon) are still kicking it there. Baba Aiyedun has been exiled by irate (ijaw :D) students. Messrs. Kolawole & Taiwo are unwaveringly present like constants in a mathematical equation. I hear Dugo died sometimes ago. Big Michael (as permanent as Mayflower) also graced the occasion.
All past principals : Messrs Kujore, Odubanjo, Osiboye and even Morafa were present.
Grooving started with bonfire on the school field ard 7:30 pm. I went to B4 to rest when it was around 2:30am. Others were still kicking it hard at that time. I just had to go take some nap jare! I couldn't take it anymore.
So up I wake on saturday morning as early as 5:30 (2hrs 30 minss after I slept) to charge my camera batteries which suddenly got a mind of its own when it got to Ikenne. I went to Junior school to charge dem. No amount of charging brought the mind of the rechargeable batteries back. It stills baffles me what came over both the batteries and the camera. I managed it sha.
Joined the students in drinking Ogi and Moinmoin ( the thing was sweet oh, they even put sugar for kids of nowadays) around 10 before heading for town to buy batteries.
All the way up, past Uren river, greeting Pa Kolawole Oronti in front of his abode to St. Saviours towards Central mosque and we eventually found a shop where we
could get fresh batteries. Uhh, relieved. But the relief was only for some time. I later discovered that the batteries werent powerful enough to last minutes **Oh,no**. Ex-Mays had started cruising in and we met some at Iya Wosila (regular food joint where we used to sneak from school to long time ago). I couldn't believe this woman is still doing food business. This woman ought to be the McDonalds of Nigeria oh!
Then we went back to Second Home to make sure we don't miss any event that happens at all.
Ex-Mays started trooping in. Old friends (& wicked seniors) and those who bring happy tears to one whose childhood days are past. I couldn't bare seeing people I've long parted with. After a couple of minutes, I just fainted............












Good old Gbongboro, Tasere's 1st abode & Bush Library

Reunion

Hey all! How has your week been? Typical one, enh?!
Thanks to the good Lord it's friday.
I'm linking to the good old days this weekend. You know how it usually feels connecting with the past. Reunions and anniversary are always very interesting, seeing old friends how they've grown. You'll get juicy stories when I'm back.

Happy 50th Anniversary Exmays.

By the way, Nfana ibaga!

Nothing is hidden

This should be very funny.
One shouldn't always keep too many secrets.



Mouthy parrot 'reveals sex secret'

The very best weekend

This weekend marks off the beginning of a very promising year, going by all the wonderful things that happened in it (for those of us that were able to see our loved ones again). You know how it feels to have good people back around you. It's like a bottle of chilled coke in the Sahara.
Well the weeks starts off on a very nice note, Liberia's finally getting a chance to build her life again. Ms (or Mrs., only God knows which one's appropriate) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf got sworn in yesterday. A woman also won elections in Chile. I think this year is already going to the women. It's your turn women, do it well.
And then the president eventually, in his characteristic unwavering (we call it strong-head, which pays us most times though) manner, rests the hammer on 14 banks who failed to meet capitalisation deadline. Some call it a milestone for Nigeria's economy, others see it as mass job loss for those in the banking sector.
Talking about job loss, it's gonna be mass one this quarter of the year with the revocation of licences. I already have a few colleagues in other banks affected (poor them) who at first were very confident that their jobs were secure. And all of a sudden, poof it went! That's the way it is, some people will definitely be affected when wrongs are been corrected.
I even got one who was asked to leave few days after he got married. You should know what the family of the bridegroom will say about the bride - harbinger of bad luck. The lady herself isn't that kind of beautiful, which spoils everything. She's not someone with the temperament that smiles at least once in a week. She's always carrying a long, stone-cold face. To crown everything up, she's FAT. Not slightly fat...no. I mean blind-man-can see-it FAT. So you can picture the rest. I'm just sorry for the poor guy who used to be the toast of all babes in the vicinity.
One sure fact is that the western world ought to brace up for the teeming crowd of 'displaced' bank-workers. They definitely will not wanna stay in Nigeria to try their luck. Some have even been talking about somewhere as far as Australia! It's one of the low sides of reforms.
One thing that comes to mind is that all these losses will not happen if people did the right things when it was necessary for them to.

Myopia

Well, it has to be on a lighter mode - no matter how pressed I am to tackle issues headlong and with the wholee of my energy. Everything has to be on a cool, smooth, laugh-it-off platform. A platform where burning issues are treated with calmness and less adrenaline to remove/reduce heart stress.
Like a minister for maximum enjoyment and utmost pleasure, I bessech you to frequently ease out stress and tension from your great workload and daily upheavals.
I've had so much to blog on this day - so much that I feel very pained to blog something with great tenecity but after a few paragraphs, I remember it always has to be "On a lighter mode".
Well....considering the present happenings across the globe, it's pertinent to let our views be known. Situation reports shows that President Idriss Deby of Chad (West Africa) is towing his nation in the path Nigeria has been through. The path of clouded and clandestine oil-renevue sharing. The government has , contrary to its agreement with World Bank, decided to share it's revenue from it's just discovered oil-reserves in another way. This other way favouring present needs of the youths. The government says it's allocating funds for the present hungry generation and not putting coming generation first.
To me, it's more of a myopic way of planning life that has been plagueing leaders of this age.
It's the same thing with the slogan/principles/legacy of the political god-father of Oyo state (Western Nigeria) Lamidi Adedibu. He said he's practising Amala politics. Amala politics, in his term, is that type of politics that you base all your agenda & plans/manifesto on your ability to eat/grab/grub/consume/devour everything you can when at the helms of power.
This view is shared by many people in many races and generations. It runs through many minds. Even in that of the investor - grab your profits fast now and log out. No one wants to wait for long-term profit anymore, understanding that anything can happen at anytime. No pharmaceutical company wants to invest in research on malaria 'cos if drugs that can totally annihilate it are produced, how much will Africans pay for it? In their eyes, they deem it worthless to invest huge sums of money into its research only to get maybe 3% profit (if they're lucky) on it. They would rather do that of AIDS cause many rich nations fall in that trap. I wonder why African nations can't adopt the use of DDT and 'darn the consequences'. There's an addage that says that 'a man dies only but once.'
Even Shakespeare said 'Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.' Why not fight malaria once and prevent yearly deaths and loss of millions of dollars. Truth is you don't prevent death by signing for iminent future deaths and waste of money together with it. It's because many of them profit for purchase of malaria drugs.
People fail to understand that driving profit in everything we do should also have to do with conscience.
Well, so much for them! May their pot-bellies enlarged with profit burst when full.
Please remember that you need not stress ypurself, these people will continue to do things that perk at your temper and make you wanna explode. It definitely has to be on a lighter mode.

Fast changing world

Ever wondered how fast, and even how smart, kids nowadays grow? You can't just imagine that a kid of about 8yrs knows so much! U'll be stupefied to discover the amount of information in their brain. At 8yrs, I've seen kids who knew everything about sex. I mean everything. The things they don't know might be very few.
A kid was once asking his uncle, who was mesmerised by the figure of the lady he was talking to, if e wanted to go inside his room with her :).He asked the kid he would go in to do with her. The kid smiled sheepishly and said with giggles all over him 'don't you know what men and women do in the room?'. At 8! Imagine that.
I was woken up by my little nephew one day during the christmas holiday who lamented about the match Chelsea played around that time (I've forgotten the other club now). He said he wasn't happy with the configuration of players Mourinho used. He said that was why Chelsea won by a lone goal. If he had not substituted one particular player for the other (I've forgotten their names), the match would have ended with more goals - considering the fact that the strong-man in the midd-field had been sustituted with someone weaker, hindering increase in attack mounted on the opponent. I was dazed. I tried wiping my face if I was still dreaming. It was live! No film-trick or dream. I just sat there motionless on my bed for a while. I couldn't comprehend where a kid of 6yrs got great insight and understanding! He spoke like someone who had mastered the game and understood what was necessary for a win.
A man was complaining that he doesn't bother hiding things from his 10yr old boy again. It's just like taking a course in rocket science or cryptography if you dare it. He can fathom everything going on in his dad's head.
Kids nowadays come with a Pentium VI processor and 2048MB RAM. Hard disk size should be like 2.5 Terabytes.
If you visit homes where kids are, u'll find out that it's everywhere. Their heights and sizes are immense. A 15yr old boy will pass for an adult of 40 yrs when viewed from the back. Don't even talk about girls of that age.
At their age, we were racking our brain trying to memorise London bridge and 12 times table. God seems to be fairer to kids of this age 'cos they have the capacity to do so many things that you wonder if they are as young as their ages tell you. I'm thinking this metamorphosis is due to genetically-modified (GM) foods produced nowadays. They sure contain fertilisers.
Imagine what the world will look like when they grow old!

Growing addiction

Yeah, yeah. It's the first week of a new year and I'm trying to stick to my resolution. I've been trying to be a bookworm, research dedicated techie like the scientists at IBM or Bell Laboratories (or even Microsoft Research) with their white robes on and always sticking around their offices (boring isn't it?). At least that's enough excuse for not blogging.
And barely 6 days into the new year, I just can't do without one'a my addicted habits. Went to the movie shop and got a collection of Anthony Hopkins. I was really embarassed to lookup the silence of the lambs to find out that such a classic has been out since 1991 and I haven't gotten just a preview. Where do all the good films go? And what's with Hannibal Lecter that Mr. namesake can't just play all his part in one movie? He rather likes to spread that cast through a couple of movies.
I guess this addiction is becoming quite negative considering the fact that I didn't even keep a pen to write down new words or phrases. I just sit there consuming every part of the movie, giving it my utmost attention like I was preparing for PhD. What differentiates me from a junkie if my addiction isn't bringing positive results to my life at the long run? Well, they say not all addictions are bad (at least Bill Gates has showed that clearly), I'm just gonna have to make it work for my good. But I don't wanna dump my new year resolution for nothing. I guess I'll just have to cut the time I waste on other stuffs to accomodate this addiction, since I consider it a good one. And it's close to the Oscar month and u don't wanna miss the streams of movies that inundate movie shops just because they wanna win. U'll be sorry if you do.
Now I got like 700 pages to read and assimilate in 17 days. God help me! It's not easy being the best in the areas of life you choose to. It's more of sleep-consuming (that's if sleep isn't ur area of specialty like my kid brother).
Well, I still got the good old recitals of Dr Tai Solarin ringing in my head - 'The heights that great men reached and kept were not attained by a sudden flight, but they while their companions slept kept toiling upwards through the night'.
By the way, have you seen Dogma? Please don't drink any form of liquid when watching (not even water), u cld spew it all over the place, or even get it smuggled to your medula oblongata while laughing. And if you're a clergy, it's good for you.

You ain't seen nothing yet

Happy new year all.
It's so nice to be alive. How was your holiday? I hope all went well.
It's good to realise that we have the opportunity to see another year. A year of opportunities, enlargement, increase and success for those who believe in it. 2005 was a year many will not forget that easily. I doubt if 2006 will be any different.
Truth is that the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
For those of us who are positive minded, it's gonna be our year. Justice, equity, fairness, success shall befall us this year.
Please sound it on the rooftop and the closet that this year is a year of wonder & new things.
Fasten your seatbelt 'cos You aint seen nothing yet.