Just Thinking Out Loud!: Life is not fair...for real!

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!

Some 2K7 Goals by God's special grace n power

~~Finally buy some Nyja stocks~~
~~Get a loaded Thinkpad or Sony Vaio~~
~~Join MentorPlace n consistently mentor~~
~~Put at least $2K in stocks apart from investment club contr. & 401k~~
~~Take complete control of coffee~~

SO, HELP ME GOD!

Some 2K6 Goals by God's grace

~~Have a white paper published~~
~~Work on increasing pay~~
~~Get to the next band at work~~
~~Help renovate mom's place~~
~~Give mom n bro at least $*K each for wedding~~
~~Finally visit Nyja!!!~~
~~Take a real estate class~~

My Videos

Go Getta. R. Kelly

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

Books I'm reading...

~~Zero Debt~~
~~The Millionaire Next Door~~
~~The Street Lawyer~~
African Women: Three Generations
Communication, Sex & Money
The J2EE Tutorial

Cities I Have Visited

ATL, GA
Austin,TX
Detroit, MI
Houston, TX
Charlotte, NC
Corning, NY
NYC, NY

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Life is not fair...for real!

You can't force it, but you can at least try your best, see what happens and possibly move on or see it work.
~ Eyan

Haven't written in a while as usual. Just too lazy. That's why I started this thing anyway. I really commend the people that write daily. For real!

That's beside the point. During last weekend, I went to check out some stuff and I remember seeing a book by Robert Schuller called, "Life is not fair, but God is good." When I saw it, I thought that title was incredibly the reality of so many lives and told myself I had to read it. However, that title couldn't have been made more true by any situation or circumstance than the Brazil-Ghana game.

I just got back to my desk after watching that game (though I must say that I saw only the second half) and I just can't imagine any other loss that could be more painful than that. This was a team that everyone thought Brazil would just ride over. But as the game started, Ghana proved that was not going to happen. During the 1st half, I was on IM throughout with a friend that was watching it and he kept me abreast of how the game was going. He kept on telling me how Ghana was playing a great great game! By the time I got to my friend's place to watch the 2nd half, I saw what he was saying. He couldn't have been more on point than that. I mean Ghana plaaaaayed! They played much better than Brazil played. And that was without Michael Essien. They played a great game for sure.

To me, they played Brazil with their own style. It was a great passing game, though they pissed me off really bad some of the times they were off on their passes and allowed Brazil to steal the balls, but hey...that's soccer. The first few minutes that I saw, I thought Ghana didn't even have a goalkeeper. They were in Brazil's Box 18 area for a while mehn. I was impressed. They did everything. The shots, the passes, the aggressive ball stealing, etc. But to no avail.

Got to admit, everytime the Brazillian team had the ball, it just looked like they were going to score. The way I see it is that Ghana played excellently and had Brazil defending most of the game but each of the few times they(Brazil) had a chance, they maximized it. Hence, the 3-0 loss.

Yes, Brazil scored the goals, but this was just one of those games that the final score did no descriptive justice to what the game was really like. Like my friend said, the Ghanians played the soccer, the Brazillians scored the goals. Very annoying! But that was just what happenned. Though the score seems to prove otherwise, Ghana did an excellent job with ball, but it just wasn't their day (kind of reminds me of Game 7 of the 'Canes and the Oilers). They showed that they were underdogs that could bark really loud, and that, with no empty threat. However, they just could not get the ball in. Ghanians should definitely be proud of their team. They played an outstanding game against Brazil and deserve a lot kudus for that. They made me proud to be African. The final score that everyone now sees is an indubitably diamteric portrayal of what the game was really like. It just really shows that the better team in the game doesn't always win. Though, next time, they need to work on their shots cos their shots were completely screwed; they were way off most the time. It's all good Ghana, Life is really not fair, but God is good. Like someone said, you guys are definitely in my hall of fame! And next World Cup is another one anywayz. ;)

posted by Just Thinking Out Loud! @ 1:24 PM

5 Comments:

At 6/28/2006 05:24:00 AM, Nneka's World said…

I know JTOL, they played an excellent game, i commend them for that. But brazil i thought could not be bothered to play a good game.

Your friend was right, Ghana played soccer but brazil scored the goals and in the world cup its the goals that matter.

Yeah i know about laziness and not updating your blog, dont worry you might get some inspiration soon.

Oh well lets see who go carry this world cup this year.
At 7/04/2006 07:35:00 AM, Bunmi said…

Isn't the point of the match to score more goals than the other side? Does it really matter who played better?

Meanwhile, you set some lofty goals for yourself O my brother. Well, I do hope you're getting them accomplished... :-)

"More grease to your elbows"
At 7/07/2006 01:36:00 AM, Anthony Arojojoye said…

I believe Ghana killed themselves. They didn't attempt to put the ball into the net after playing wonderfully from the defence through the midfield. Once they got to the attack, they were just clueless as to how to break Brazil defence.
That lazy spirit is everywhere oh!
At 7/10/2006 09:27:00 AM, chrome said…

Ghana played a "beautiful" game. the Brazilians were beatable just that Ghana didn't have the right game plan. Their moves were very good and they can only get better. African Cup 2008 just might be theirs.
At 7/10/2006 09:33:00 AM, Becki said…

Really like your blog, and I hope to come back here and visit regularly (incidentally, if you wan to swap links feel free!). I hope you blog again soon - the 27th was a long time ago!