| Some 2K10 Goals by God's special grace n power |
- Paint entire house
- Set up entire downstairs including garage
- Reduce credit card debt by at least $2k
- Pay off any miscellaneous debt
- Most definitely get into a committed relationship
Most definitely send money to mom for a new car- Take time to develop relationships
- At least, 2 patents
- Aggresively work on developing iPhone App dev skills
- Create a webpage for DJing
- Expand my career breadth
- Visit London
- Join Toastmasters
- Create a will and a Power of Attorney 4 Healthcare
- Take complete control of soda drinking
- Work on taking a CPR class
SO, HELP ME GOD!
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| Some 2K7 Goals by God's special grace n power |
Finally buy some Nyja stocksGet a loaded Thinkpad or Sony VaioJoin MentorPlace n consistently mentorPut at least $2K in stocks apart from investment club contr. & 401kTake complete control of coffee
SO, HELP ME GOD!
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| Some 2K6 Goals by God's grace |
Have a white paper publishedWork on increasing payGet to the next band at workHelp renovate mom's placeGive mom n bro at least $*K each for weddingFinally visit Nyja!!!
Take a real estate class
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| My Videos |
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Go Getta. R. Kelly
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| Music I'm Feeling... |
- 2Face
- Ebenezer Obey
- KWAM 1
- Cassandra Wilson
- Pharell
- Ne-Yo
- T.O.K
- Don Moen
- D4L
- Teddy Pendergrass
- ColdPlay
- DMB
- Notorious B.I.G
- Delirious
- Dem Franchise Boyz
- Frank Sinatra
- Evanescence
- All-American Rejects
- Billie Holiday
- Seal
- Obesere
- KEM
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| Books I'm reading... |
Zero DebtThe Millionaire Next DoorThe Street Lawyer- African Women: Three Generations
- Communication, Sex & Money
- The J2EE Tutorial
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| Cities I Have Visited |
- ATL, GA
- Austin,TX
- Detroit, MI
- Houston, TX
- Charlotte, NC
- Corning, NY
- NYC, NY
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006
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JTOL
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Word Up!
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
~ Ludwig von Mises
 Wheew! It's a wonderful day! Thank God! Went to see Chris Tucker last weekend with a couple of friends and for anyone that hasn't been to his comedy show, it's not a bad idea with a date or a better-half. Funny jokes and stuff many of us can relate to. It's amazing to see that I grew up in Nigeria and many stories from African Americans about how their parents (especially their mothers) raised them are surprisingly the same. They sound so familiar to me. The spanking, the scolding, the dinners with extended family, the grannies, the you-better-sit-your-ass-down-there way rather than the please-johnny-sit-down-please style, the eye talk, etc. ok. maybe, the eye talk is not that common here but some people surprisingly had that here too. That one evokes memories in me. I remember the eye talk. You go to a party (owambe) with your mom. Some other kids are there playing around and you decide you want to get up and join them and bam, that look shows up on mom's face. She looks at you with that Margaret Thatcher/Angelina Jolie look and you damn well know you better not move an inch. Or for me, the one I always remember, is going out with my mom and someone tried to give me money as we are leaving (which was a tradition in Nyja. I hope it is still a trad), and next thing, I look at my mom's face to get the approval glance. The funny thing is she smiles and says awwww thank you to the person, but guess what? Somehow, I could still see a hidden message under that smile. I could still see a different glance beneath the seeming approval glance. It was the you-better-say-no-thank-you OR the Don't-you-dare-take-that-money message. Won bi e da ko gba owo yen! If you know your name is ..., take that money and see what happens! I knew not to take it for sure. Who born monkey! Mehn, those were the days...
And my oh my, wassup with this heat mehn. WTF! The heat is just unbearable. The heat in recent days just makes me nervous about what the future holds. These temperatures are getting higher yearly. And the humidity? That shit is no joke! Even at night, it's the same thing. Came out of the theater earlier this week and I felt like someone took a very hot and damp towel and was massaging my entire body. Not a good feeling! It was like being in a hot oven with extreme moisture being rained down on you concurrently. This was at 9.30pm for Christ's sake! One would think the night breeze would have taken over. But for where! I just really hope as time goes on, we won't starting burning into pure chaff while walking on the streets as the decades go by cos statistics show that the temeperature has been getting progressively higher each year all over the world and apparently, doesn't seem to be abating at all. Next thing, we might just see people walking on the street and being War-of-the-Worlds. I think environmentalists are sometimes very annoying. I can they, somehow, negate development from some persepectives, but I think they were right all along about the ozone layer thingy. Maybe...
And this whole Isreali-Lebanon thing is just getting out of hand. The Qana incident, the border clashes (or war actually), the Syrian and Iran's intent to be there for Lebanon and shit, the 190 rockets in one day! Na wa o! The Qana case is the worst so far. The pics of those kids and women's bodies was definitely and unspeakably gruesome. But one thing I know for sure. It is more of Hezbollah's fault than anyone else. I believe they were using those folks as human shields. They intentionally lodged their launchers in the midst of these people in order to protect themselves and their launchers. Of course that was going to provoke Isreal. WTF! They knew Isreal would blow them up and they could use the consequence to amass both sentimental support and otherwise (weapons et al) for themselves from the Arab world and at least sentimental support from the world as a whole. No matter how justified any group of people is in their bid to destroy the ooposition, killing of women and children will always generate an destructive sentiments towards them. Hezbollah definitely succeeded at that cos all of a sudden, more people want to volunteer to join their fight, the whole world is comdemning Isreal and looking at them like barbarians, Syria's president comes out saying he will help to defend Lebanon. My own thing is this Hezbollah group is not even the offical army of Lebanon. Rather than use the Qana incident as an opportunity to validate the impression of a villainous Isreal, why can't the Lebanese president and all the Arab leaders do that which is very simple. Very easy! The obvious! Tell Hezbollah to release the Isreali soldiers they picked up from the border and stop these self-triggered killings! Simple! Or so it seems, obviously, right?
I have to acknowledge the fact that Isreal's reaction was definitely too extreme. How do you decide to start blowing up buildings in a country because few of your soldiers have been kidnapped by an illegitimate army. But the way I see it is that Isreal was already a ticking time bomb and just needed a trigger and bam, that's it. Though, one might say that it is very insulting for some foreign looneys to come into your own territory and kidnap your soldiers. WTF! I know Isreal has been nothing to write home about when it comes to their treatment of the Arabs but do something else. Kidnap Isreali citizens in Lebanon or something but don't violate Isreal by going into their country to kidnap their citizens. Mehn, I could go on and on but I just don't know...
I just hope this crap doesn't go out of hand cos I just don't know.... Isreal wants to crush Hezbollah, but I don't think that's possible especially when they are being supported by Iran and its cohorts. Those guys will use all their oil money to fund Hezbollah if need be cos Isreal is a common enemy to all Arabs. And the more Isreal tries to destroy Hezbollah and find out that they they are not succeeding at it, the more frustrated they will get and possibly resort to extreme violence which will possibly ignite an all-out war against them by the Arab world. Let's just hope for the contrary...
Ok. Enough of my Israeli-Arab ramblings. Heard some news about some artists volunteering to perform at a concert that was free for everyone that attended - Boost Mobile RockCorps Concert. Each attendee had to volunteer a certain amount of community service in order to get tickets to the concert. I thought that was a very great idea. They had performers like Paul Wall, Slim Thug, The Game, Lil’Wayne, Keyshia Cole, Young Jeezy, Big Boi and Nick Cannon, the presenter. Afeni Shakur was also there to grace the occasion as she celebrated what would have been the late Tupac Amaru Shakur's 35th birthday. I believe this is the second one they are having. More HipHop artists definitely need to get involved in this. It encourages volunteerism which I believe is extremely important. Very necessary!!!! I just wish I could sing too. I will definitely be volunteering to perform at such a concert cos I think that's a brilliantly generous idea for the community, but oh well...volunteering to sing in the shower has never been a problem for me. : )
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omo,
I'm puzzled at how you know for sure that it is Hezbollah's fault.
Consider this for one minute.
Why did Hezbollah capture the soldiers? (not kidnap, but capture). did they just wake up one day and decide to capture the soldiers? nope.
It was in rataliation for the Hezbollah soldiers that Isreal has captured. (you don't hear that on the news do you).
They've been doing this along the border for years.... you capture mine, and to date, there are thousands of hezbollah soldiers sitting in Isreali jails.
number 2.
On the very first day of the conflict, Isreal blockaded Lebanon via land, sea and air. Bunker busting 1 tonne bombs and guided missiles were used to strike at infrastructure, roads as well as villages. Can you even begin to compare that type of bombardment?
Can you even begin to guess what the payload is from an F16 military fighter jet?. how many rounds of rockets does it deliver per minute?.
We are talkiing about David versus Goliath here and in this case, Isreal is Goliath.
Why do you believe they used folks as human shields? when have they ever done that?. Let's remember one thing.
in the first few days of this war, everywhere Isreal has said Hezbollah was, they weren't there. They bombed villages, No hezbollah, they bombed the airport (to prevent people from fleeing) as people fled their villages they bombed them. they bombed known UN buildings even when told by a UN officer who was with the Isreali army that those buildings were UN buildings. The Isreali army co-ordinator, said.. their intelligence maps showed otherwise.
They bombed the place and what did we find out... It was actually a UN building and they killed 4 UN officers along with women children and men who were sheltering in a bunker.
Qana
The pictures which the Isreal army has broadcast around the world have been questioned. It seems the pictures were old pictures and do not tally with the date and time that Isreal is saying it did. If the pictures are old, then again this is fudge work.
Would you say that Isreal is using it's people in the villages along the border as human shields?. Because that's where it's military is stationed.. the same logic applies for Hezbollah.
You don't have to agree with Hezbollah, but let;s not get carried away and imagining that they have qualms about what they do.
One thing you forget is that Hezbollah is an elected party in Lebanon. they are part of the government. The people elected Hezbollah in the South for many reasons which are too tedious to go into but also because of protection from Isreal. Check up on your war history and you will find out why Hezbollah was formed.
So saying the lebanon and the arab governments should deal with hezbollah, is not really as straight forward. Why should they get involved in the conflict.
The issue of Syria.
If you recall it was only about 18months ago, that Lebanon with the help of the US, rallied and removed Syrian military from it's border. The Syrian army has been defending and working in Lebanon at their request for years, then someone assasinated Habibi and fingers were pointed to Syria. Syria denied it's involvement, but everyone including the US asked syria to leave Lebanon and you know what. Syria left Lebanon. They took their army and they withdrew back to their country.
When this first started Syria didn't say jack. the only people who mentioned Syria were the US and the UK.
Everyone kept trying to draw Syria and Iran into this conflict.
Syria and Iran are neighbouring countries and have had a mutually beneficial defensive program for years, similar to the thing you and Canada have, or US and the UK.
All Syria said was, if Isreal attacks Iran, then it will get involved. and that is that.
If you want to talk about who is supplying Hezbollah, I don't really care?. Cos somebody is supplying Isreal with top of the range fighter jets, subs, tanks and illegal bunker busting 1 tonne bombs and that country is the US.
you say why can't the arab leaders tell hezbollah to release the Isreali soldiers, well why can't the world tell Isreal to release the Hezbollah soldiers? or the palestinians?
Things have never been that simple. I am on neither side in this war but the propaganda is beggining to get on my damn tits.
Issues which are happening right in front of our eyes are being lied about. When this crisis started bush and blair were over heard at the G8 summit, refusing to ask for an immediate ceasefire until Isreal was ready.
You suggested that Hezbollah should kidnap Isreali citizens in lebanon!!!!.
Well thankfully Hezbollah believes it should only fight the army and will only threaten Isreal as a whole if it is threatened. You actually advocating that Hezbollah do what is considered pure evil when unprovoked, I would hope that you just siad it and didn't really think about it.
Finally,
what do you do when your opponent has world class weaponry, fighter jets, subs, bunker busters, nuclear tipped armament and all youhave a long range rockets and passion.
Isreal lost this war before the war even began and not for the reasons you listed.
bare in mind that the plan for this 'war' has been in motion for over 6 months now. this is not something that just snowballed. It was planned, the only thing not planned was the response of Hebollah.
Somebody somewhere thought that they would still be funny little arabs, disorganised and afraid of Isreals massive arsenal.
They forgot that if you trap an animal and give it no route to flee, the animal will fight you with everything it has until it's death, and sometimes.... the animal might take you along with it.
In anycase, I could say a lot more, but whats the point?. Many people have made up their minds anyway, and even though they can see what's going on right in front of them... they will still turn a blind eye to it.
*sigh*
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Nice blog bro..
Men reading thru and felt like u were talking abt my mum for a second.I remember when i was in primary 3 or smthing like that and someone gave me 5Naira.Kept it and the 1st day of hols like this.I was like Donald Trump o.
Bought every junk I could buy and was donating to my friends and guess what,that was the highest whopping I have even had in my life till 2day o and I still remember clearly thinking why did I get the ass whopping cos it is my money now.
Who dash monkey money...come and see post hard looks after that when u r been dashed money.
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to Soul:
I feel you anger for real, but I need you to know I don't really support any side. I know Isreal has been "kidnapping " Hezbollah guys on the bother for years. And Isreal has the Western media on its side. And all that. But this is the way I currently see it. At the moment, Isreal is killing too many civilians becos of this kidnapping. If Hezbollah cares so much about its powerless and innocent civilians like they have shown in times past by providing several social amenities for the Southern Lebanese citizens, I think they need to do whatever it takes to preserve the lives of their civilians which might include chopping their pride and letting the guys go and fight the Isreali army some other way without putting their innocent civilians in arms way...except they are not innocent themselves too.
I am just sick and tired of them letting their civilians die for nothing. Face Isreal fire to fire (yes the difference in fire power is entirely incomparable) and stop using your civilians as human shields. WTF? Isreal sends out warnings to their civilians when Hezbollah fires. They don't put weapons in the midst of their citizens for Christ's sake, in order to possibly stop the enemy from firing at them. If I was the enemy, putting yourself in the midst of civilians might hinder me from firing at you for a little while, but after a while, if that doesn't stop, I will fire. Sad to say, but that's war. That's the part that is infuriating me in the whole mess. I hate that! Everything else, I don't care. Isreal and Hezbollah can fight for the rest of the century for all I care, but they should make sure they don't use innocent humans as shields. That just really pisses me off...for real!
to naijabloke:
thx o! I feel you on that one. The days when 5 naira meant a whole lot. Hmmm....good ol days. : ) I knows those looks like the back of my hand and I admire parents that teach their kids how to recognize it. Not a parent yet, but practised a little bit with kids in the past myself cos I just hate unruly kids. : ) Enjoy mehn!
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omo,
I'm puzzled at how you know for sure that it is Hezbollah's fault.
Consider this for one minute.
Why did Hezbollah capture the soldiers? (not kidnap, but capture). did they just wake up one day and decide to capture the soldiers? nope.
It was in rataliation for the Hezbollah soldiers that Isreal has captured. (you don't hear that on the news do you).
They've been doing this along the border for years.... you capture mine, and to date, there are thousands of hezbollah soldiers sitting in Isreali jails.
number 2.
On the very first day of the conflict, Isreal blockaded Lebanon via land, sea and air. Bunker busting 1 tonne bombs and guided missiles were used to strike at infrastructure, roads as well as villages. Can you even begin to compare that type of bombardment?
Can you even begin to guess what the payload is from an F16 military fighter jet?. how many rounds of rockets does it deliver per minute?.
We are talkiing about David versus Goliath here and in this case, Isreal is Goliath.
Why do you believe they used folks as human shields? when have they ever done that?. Let's remember one thing.
in the first few days of this war, everywhere Isreal has said Hezbollah was, they weren't there. They bombed villages, No hezbollah, they bombed the airport (to prevent people from fleeing) as people fled their villages they bombed them. they bombed known UN buildings even when told by a UN officer who was with the Isreali army that those buildings were UN buildings. The Isreali army co-ordinator, said.. their intelligence maps showed otherwise.
They bombed the place and what did we find out... It was actually a UN building and they killed 4 UN officers along with women children and men who were sheltering in a bunker.
Qana
The pictures which the Isreal army has broadcast around the world have been questioned. It seems the pictures were old pictures and do not tally with the date and time that Isreal is saying it did. If the pictures are old, then again this is fudge work.
Would you say that Isreal is using it's people in the villages along the border as human shields?. Because that's where it's military is stationed.. the same logic applies for Hezbollah.
You don't have to agree with Hezbollah, but let;s not get carried away and imagining that they have qualms about what they do.
One thing you forget is that Hezbollah is an elected party in Lebanon. they are part of the government. The people elected Hezbollah in the South for many reasons which are too tedious to go into but also because of protection from Isreal. Check up on your war history and you will find out why Hezbollah was formed.
So saying the lebanon and the arab governments should deal with hezbollah, is not really as straight forward. Why should they get involved in the conflict.
The issue of Syria.
If you recall it was only about 18months ago, that Lebanon with the help of the US, rallied and removed Syrian military from it's border. The Syrian army has been defending and working in Lebanon at their request for years, then someone assasinated Habibi and fingers were pointed to Syria. Syria denied it's involvement, but everyone including the US asked syria to leave Lebanon and you know what. Syria left Lebanon. They took their army and they withdrew back to their country.
When this first started Syria didn't say jack. the only people who mentioned Syria were the US and the UK.
Everyone kept trying to draw Syria and Iran into this conflict.
Syria and Iran are neighbouring countries and have had a mutually beneficial defensive program for years, similar to the thing you and Canada have, or US and the UK.
All Syria said was, if Isreal attacks Iran, then it will get involved. and that is that.
If you want to talk about who is supplying Hezbollah, I don't really care?. Cos somebody is supplying Isreal with top of the range fighter jets, subs, tanks and illegal bunker busting 1 tonne bombs and that country is the US.
you say why can't the arab leaders tell hezbollah to release the Isreali soldiers, well why can't the world tell Isreal to release the Hezbollah soldiers? or the palestinians?
Things have never been that simple. I am on neither side in this war but the propaganda is beggining to get on my damn tits.
Issues which are happening right in front of our eyes are being lied about. When this crisis started bush and blair were over heard at the G8 summit, refusing to ask for an immediate ceasefire until Isreal was ready.
You suggested that Hezbollah should kidnap Isreali citizens in lebanon!!!!.
Well thankfully Hezbollah believes it should only fight the army and will only threaten Isreal as a whole if it is threatened. You actually advocating that Hezbollah do what is considered pure evil when unprovoked, I would hope that you just siad it and didn't really think about it.
Finally,
what do you do when your opponent has world class weaponry, fighter jets, subs, bunker busters, nuclear tipped armament and all youhave a long range rockets and passion.
Isreal lost this war before the war even began and not for the reasons you listed.
bare in mind that the plan for this 'war' has been in motion for over 6 months now. this is not something that just snowballed. It was planned, the only thing not planned was the response of Hebollah.
Somebody somewhere thought that they would still be funny little arabs, disorganised and afraid of Isreals massive arsenal.
They forgot that if you trap an animal and give it no route to flee, the animal will fight you with everything it has until it's death, and sometimes.... the animal might take you along with it.
In anycase, I could say a lot more, but whats the point?. Many people have made up their minds anyway, and even though they can see what's going on right in front of them... they will still turn a blind eye to it.
*sigh*