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 Family › Re: Introverts Lounge (Extroverts Pls Keep Off !!) by Hakeem12(m): 1:36pm On Feb 08, 2020*. Modified: 2:43pm On Feb 09, 2020 |
I knew a girl in University who everyone wanted to be around, despite being an introvert. Some of my old university friends still talk about her from time to time, when we reminisce about the good old days. This was what I noticed about her. No one really knew much about her. She didn't particularly stand out in looks, wealth, or smarts. The outstanding thing about her was her pleasantness. Pleasant to the point that nothing out of the ordinary about her was distracting. She was always the center of our gatherings. She would stare at you as if you were a celeb, a star she was interviewing. And she would proceed to ask you anything: "I saw you reading a textbook on psychopharmacology earlier, wasn't that hard?" "Wow, I love your shoes, I couldn't get them in Mayfair, where did you get them?" I think her secret may have been her undivided attention towards her audience, and not to herself. She was basically the investigative journalist, curious to know everything about you, basically the positives. And one would always walk away from conversations with her with a fresh and unifying self discovery that unites one's whole being. That I've always thought about, and concluded that: "perhaps, the greatest conversationalists are those who are able to tune in to other people with genuine interest and not flattery like most people do today. For the time she was around us, we all felt like stars. 5 Likes |
| Education › Re: After Graduating With A 2.1 In Engineering, What Next? by Hakeem12(m): 1:11pm On Feb 08, 2020 |
Mcslize:No single one though, I'm into data science, and I use Python and R |
| Education › Re: After Graduating With A 2.1 In Engineering, What Next? by Hakeem12(m): 11:53am On Feb 08, 2020 |
Go into IT, anything from Data science, to web design, UI/UX designer 26 Likes 4 Shares |
| Education › Re: What Was Your Craziest Answer To A Question In School? by Hakeem12(m): 11:02am On Feb 08, 2020*. Modified: 2:28pm On Feb 08, 2020 |
Back in jss1, we were taking question tags. The teacher was asking questions like: 1. He was there, and he would point out anyone to turn it into a question tag, which would be wasn't he? This went on and on. Then he made another statement: Seyi bought a car, and he pointed at kunle. The guy didn't disappoint. He replied boughtn't he? I laughed so hard, I nearly passed out. In another class, we were discussing rocks and this same guy, Kunle was staring out the window the whole time. The teacher asked him to name two varieties of rocks. He replied: "Examples of rock sir? Aso rock, Eternal rock of ages. Mine wasn't a question, I got carried away or something that day. The English teacher came in earlier than he was supposed to, using another teacher's time. He set his book on the table and said: " What is the agenda for today? " I looked at him and said: "it is what are the agenda, not what is the agenda, don't make me laugh." The whole class was stunned including the teacher, I was drenched in sweat immediately I said it. To add to my woes, he asked: "What did you just say?" Since God himself had turned his back on me that day, I replied: "A complete sentence without a single mistake Sir. ". I was flogged on the assembly ground. 20 Likes |
| Family › Re: Introverts Lounge (Extroverts Pls Keep Off !!) by Hakeem12(m): 11:01am On Feb 08, 2020 |
scave:This is so true, many people don't care for meaningful conversations. I've found that to get along with many people, I have to be willing to talk like they talk, by that I mean, talk about things like they do, even if the things they talk about are meaningless. I've also found mentioning people's name a lot in conversations helps, asking questions too, and listening to them well. 5 Likes |
| Literature › Chukwuemeka Ike: The Nigerian King Who Served Toads For Supper. by Hakeem12(op): 8:32am On Feb 08, 2020 |
Nigerian author Chukwuemeka Ike, who died last month at the age of 88, helped define Nigerian culture, but never received the international acclaim he deserved, writes the BBC's Nduka Orjinmo in Lagos. Ike will be remembered for his novels but his legacy will also live on in an important word in Nigeria's lexicon. Say "expo" to anyone here and they immediately know what you are talking about - exam malpractice. Ike helped popularise the term when he penned Expo 77, a novel based on the true story of how top secret school-leaving exam papers were leaked twice in 1977. Ironically, he was in charge of the exam board when the leaks happened, and chose to vent his frustration about the way society encouraged malpractice - from parents to students to school administrators - through his literary work. His writing gave voice both to contemporary concerns and also to a defence of African - and more specifically his Igbo - culture. While the literary themes of the time were focused on the conflict that existed between the West and Africa, he was one of the earliest writers to capture the tide of the emerging cosmopolitan Nigeria. He did not just excavate the ethos of Africa from bygone times, he also reflected the present: bringing to life everyone from the politicians to the prostitutes, and prophesied the palavers that were to come. Morphing into a leopard He was satirical, lampooning institutions with humour that was acerbic and he enjoyed it. He poked fun at the foibles of modern Nigeria. In Toads for Supper, his first book, he dealt with the theme of love in a beautifully humorous way that exposed the tensions in multi-ethnic Nigeria. Set in a Nigerian university in the west of Africa's most-populous state, it tells the story of a new student, Amadi, who is the first to go to university from his village in eastern Nigeria. The book captured what it meant to be an Igbo student in western Nigeria before the civil war, sparked by the creation of a breakaway Igbo state, Biafra, in 1967. Ike responded to the civil war - a defining period of Nigeria's history - with Sunset at Dawn. He would later try to distinguish between Biafra and Biafranism. He described the latter as representative of "those things that made us great in Biafra". Biafra: Remembering the war that many prefer to forget But in the book, he described the tragedy that unfolded through Fatima who is fleeing enemy planes with her young son. In the magical-realist Bottled Leopard, he managed to hold a generation spellbound. It was no doubt helped by the fact that the book was compulsory reading for secondary school students studying literature. It is the story of a schoolboy who has been chosen by his ancestors to bear the mystical power of his lineage: the power to morph into a leopard. Most people see Bottled Leopard as Ike's defining work, but this could be down to the fact that it was forced on a generation of readers. Achebe's influence Born into a royal family in the eastern part of Nigeria, Ike was a student at the famous Government College Umuahia, a breeding ground for the country's finest post-colonial writers. Literary icon Chinua Achebe was his senior at the school and Ike once told an interviewer that Achebe had inspired his writing. "In fact, I never thought of writing novels until Chinua Achebe published his Things Fall Apart in 1958," he said. Maybe it was not such a good thing to be an Igbo writer in the same generation as Achebe. Some believe this short-changed Ike and that his writing deserved a larger audience. The same could be said of the other gifted Nigerian writers of that generation: Cyprian Ekwensi, Mabel Segun and Elechi Amadi. Their brilliance seems to have been overshadowed by literary giants such as Achebe and Wole Soyinka. It was a generation of writers that had the difficult task of transferring oral aspects of indigenous languages into loose English translations with sometimes inchoate outcomes. It is in this regard that Ike's legacy cannot be denied, his place in literature stands as tall as the others. For he more than most, succinctly captured the conversation style of a people in a multi-ethnic, multilingual nation. He reflected their ability to switch from simple English, to bombast, to peer-group slang, to pidgin English and native language. In Expo 77, a policeman's reaction to a girl using a sanitary pad to help cheat in an exam, captured Ike's writing style fittingly: "'Jesu Christi Oluwa wa!' the assistant superintendent exclaimed. He was Yoruba. 'Jehova Witness dem people say Armageddon go come in five year time. 'E don' come patapata! Olorun!' He snapped his fingers." In 2008, he would go from defending his culture in the pages of a book to defending it on the throne as the king of Ndikelionwu in eastern Nigeria. He took the throne following the death of his father. Tackling animal sacrifice The Ike family has ruled Ndikelionwu for decades but his people were yet to encounter one who wanted to preserve the monarchy by changing things. In 2018, he asked his people to stop offering animal sacrifices to the land goddess Ala during the new yam festival. Instead, he wanted a Christian thanksgiving service at the Anglican church where a front row seat was usually reserved for his family. The writer, who spoke up for African culture in his work, and wrote about men transmuting into leopards, felt animal sacrifices should no longer be associated with his people and many of them agreed with him. As a king, he respected the egalitarian nature of his people and was largely democratic, working with a small council to reach decisions. They describe him as humble and the peace-maker who ruled with a firm hand. His people say he is not dead as a king does not die, but rather goes to be with his ancestors. They refuse to speak of his death, neither do they refer to him in the past. It is the sort of attitude that Ike may have been proud of. This king may be dead but he lives on in his writing. Source:BBC.com
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| Phones › Re: Fake 4g LTE Internet Providers by Hakeem12(m): 8:47pm On Feb 03, 2020 |
obalola007:This is true, I used to hate glo, but when I switched to 4g, it's been very fast. I downloaded a 1.5gb file in 10mins just yesterday |
| Politics › Re: "Will Osinbajo Join?" - FFK Reacts To The RCCG Protest by Hakeem12(m): 10:16am On Feb 03, 2020 |
Dumbass question 1 Like |
| Health › Re: Coronavirus: The 1,000 Bed Emergency Hospital Built In 8 Days In China (Pictures by Hakeem12(m): 9:55am On Feb 03, 2020 |
They built one in the 2000s in 6 days or so too. China is known for fast construction and advanced engineering that amazes even western engineers most times. 1 Like |
| Food › Re: Drinking Of Garri And The Poverty Stigma by Hakeem12(m): 9:57pm On Feb 02, 2020 |
Bad timing, let lassa blow over before tempting people with these pics 57 Likes 4 Shares |
| Health › Re: China Reports Outbreak Of H5N1 Bird Flu by Hakeem12(m): 9:56pm On Feb 02, 2020 |
Richdad50:Bullshiit, like China is the only country ever to suffer outbreaks, what about zika virus in the Americas, what about Ebola in West Africa, it makes no sense tying religion to this 4 Likes 1 Share |
| Celebrities › Re: Davido To Naira Marley: "Una Dey Do Jazz, All Una Music Dey Sweet" by Hakeem12(m): 7:15pm On Jan 29, 2020 |
Songs without content, the same B.S every time 11 Likes 2 Shares |
| Family › Re: Introverts Lounge (Extroverts Pls Keep Off !!) by Hakeem12(m): 3:08pm On Jan 29, 2020 |
DADDY2or3FISHES:This is a very dumb thing to say. Are you allergic to thinking or something? 2 Likes |
| Culture › Re: Some Straight Up Facts People Won't Swallow by Hakeem12(op): 3:16pm On Jan 28, 2020 |
Martinez39:We learn everyday |
| Culture › Some Straight Up Facts People Won't Swallow by Hakeem12(op): 9:57am On Jan 28, 2020*. Modified: 3:51pm On Jan 28, 2020 |
1.Society is shallow, people are shallow and you are shallower than anybody you have ever met. 2.If you are fat, people will hide the food away soon as they know you are coming 3.If you are a fat kid, you will be bullied and teased for your entire school life, this will overflow into your job and adult life 4.Sex sells, love it, hate it does not matter. 5.Racism will never go away, human beings are wired to be racist, even you are a racist 6.Nothing solved with a law, outlaw alcohol, you get bootleggers, outlaw drugs, you get cartels, outlaw prostitution, and you get them on every street corner. 7.In the event that you are involved in a violent crime, nobody will help you, better you know how to defend yourself 8.Following an ideology of any kind will eventually result in enrichment of the ones in leadership and to your ruin as a follower. Matters not what that Ideology is, Feminism, MIGTOW, Marxism, Communism… take your pick all lead to hell. 9.Never go begging in a suit, people are okay with helping you out but never okay with helping you up 10.If you share your goals with your friends, they will hate you, better to keep such things to yourself and if need be, your investors. Everybody else would rather see you dead than see you accomplish your goals. 11.Think whatever you want, but when in public act like everybody else, pretend to share his or her opinions. I.e. do not speak Hillary in a Trump crowd and do not speak Trump in Hillary crowd. 12.Sometimes you can get a Job offer because they boss enjoys looking at your ass; you have no idea how many jobs are secured this way. Therefore do not miss your workout, you never know what people are looking for when you applying for a Job. 13.If you are an attractive woman applying for a Job and you see the one who hires is also a woman and she is not as attractive as you are. Walk away, don’t waste your time. Yes, the world is shallow like that. 14.More men sleep their way to the top, and if ever found out, a great double standard that will play out. One where he is the hero, as a woman this is not the case. 15.There are people in the world who would kill you, your spouse and your kids for about $10. 16.Dog people tend not to like cats, cat people tend to like dogs, funny how that works. 17.Nobody cares about their health until their health fails them. 18.You are more likely to die screaming than die peacefully. Many die in car crashes and this usually involves burning alive. Not in the same way as burning at the stake where you are light up all at once. No, a few tiny flames burn you on random parts of your body and only a long time later is you consumed by the flames. 19.Having a government is a good thing, no government means no police, which means rape, and violent crime sharply increases. Anarchy is not a good thing. Do not let people walk all over you, if they do, eventually you will pick up a knife and stab them. You are a human being; think about that, you are the apex predator of the planet. Source:Quora 8 Likes 4 Shares |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Christians Sold American Church To Muslims, Rejected Club Owners' Offer by Hakeem12(m): 2:35pm On Jan 26, 2020 |
Kallmerb:You've got to be the most sensible person on nairaland in a while. |
| Career › Re: Meet Kogi Girl Who Do Wall Screeding For A Living. by Hakeem12(m): 3:50pm On Jan 23, 2020 |
Good for her. |
| Politics › Re: Rabiu Sulaiman Bichi Decamps To APC After Supreme Court Judgement by Hakeem12(m): 10:26am On Jan 22, 2020 |
"Purely based on principles and his personal conviction." Shameless fools. They just put labels on their parties to jump from one to the other. 11 Likes |
| Family › Re: Introverts Lounge (Extroverts Pls Keep Off !!) by Hakeem12(m): 9:13pm On Jan 18, 2020 |
NkShallom:This is relatable. Sometimes when i'm alone, I procrastinate until the final hour, but when I'm around people, I could go for hours on a task. Just being around them, not necessarily talking to them. 3 Likes |
| Politics › Re: FG Plans N97 Per Litre Fuel For Common Man by Hakeem12(m): 8:51am On Jan 17, 2020 |
Simplyleo:Mad o, even in heaven |
| Education › Re: 17 Year Old Intern Discovers New Planet by Hakeem12(op): 4:18pm On Jan 16, 2020 |
hakeem4:lmao...that's still a form of service in itself. |
| Politics › Re: Miyetti Allah: Amotekun May Deprive Southwest Of 2023 Presidency by Hakeem12(m): 3:15pm On Jan 16, 2020 |
The North remembers. Dullards dictating for the whole nation 9 Likes |
| Education › 17 Year Old Intern Discovers New Planet by Hakeem12(op): 10:48am On Jan 16, 2020*. Modified: 9:34pm On Jul 03, 2020 |
As far as impressing your potential new boss goes, discovering a planet on day three of your internship at NASA is up there. That's what happened to 17-year-old Wolf Cukier while helping out at the space agency in the United States. He was checking images from its super-strength satellite when he noticed something strange. It turned out to be a new planet, 1,300 light years away from Earth. News just confirmed by NASA. Wolf, who is now back at high school in Scarsdale, New York, has been speaking to Radio 1 Newsbeat about his amazing discovery. He explains that he landed the two-month placement with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center when school finished last summer. His job? To examine data beamed back via their Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) - a space telescope that looks for planets outside of our solar system. "I was searching for a planet that orbits two stars," he explains. He had to look for changes in the brightness of any stars that might suggest the shadow of a planet passing in front. So just three days in, when most of us would still be making the tea, he was looking at a solar system many light years away from ours and noticed something blocking the light of two stars. That was when he flagged it. "I took it to my mentor, we looked at the data from the stars and noticed two additional dips in light, so we started doing analysis to see if it actually could be a planet." His finding was enough to get other scientists involved. And further inspection revealed a planet that is almost 6.9 times as large as Earth. It's name? TOI 1338 b. Not very catchy but Wolf says he wasn't asked to help with that. "I don't get to name the planet. My brother had the idea of calling it Wolftopia but I think TOI 1338 b is sufficient." TOI 1338 b is not just any planet though, it's a circumbinary planet. That basically means it is orbiting around two stars, rather than the usual one. Fans of Star Wars might recall that Luke Skywalker's fictional home, Tatooine, was a circumbinary planet. This comparison is not lost on Wolf, who points out that he is actually wearing a Star Wars t-shirt today. "It's very much like Tatooine, at least how the stars would appear in the sky," he says. "So, it would also have a double sunset." But unlike Tatooine this planet is not habitable. Wolf explains that it is likely to be extremely hot and probably doesn't have a solid surface. So does his discovery mean he is guaranteed a job at NASA one day? "I've no idea about NASA's hiring practices but it can't hurt! It's a good thing to have on my CV," he says. He adds that the space agency has been "impressed" by what he achieved on his internship though. "My mentor has been very supportive and excited. I think NASA is surprised with the amount of attention this has been getting." Today, he wears his NASA fleece with pride (over the Star Wars t-shirt of course). Not a gift from the agency to reward him for his achievements, he explains, but bought with a discount in the employee shop. Worth it though, as according to Wolf it's a "nice jacket." The teenager definitely has a future in space in his sights. After graduating high school he wants to go to university. "When I'm there I'm planning to study physics and astrophysics," he says. "From there, a career in space research is appealing." But for now it's back to normality for Wolf although he has a little more notoriety among his high school friends. "I've had more congratulations over the past four days, than I've had over the past couple of years combined. Everybody is incredibly excited. It's a surreal experience." Source: BBC news
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| Christianity Etc › Re: If, Just If Jesus Was The Answer.. Will?? by Hakeem12(m): 7:40am On Jan 16, 2020*. Modified: 7:59am On Jan 16, 2020 |
budaatum:I don't assume my thinking is the right thinking, neither do I assume the thinking of religious people will lead them to a place I don't even believe exists. 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Christianity Etc › Re: If, Just If Jesus Was The Answer.. Will?? by Hakeem12(m): 8:06pm On Jan 14, 2020 |
I just read about a woman today born without a uterus who gave birth to a baby, this was achievable with uterus transplant from a diseased donor. An almost impossible feat till science made it possible. Science will and continue to do more for humans on earth than a fictional Jesus or Mohammad ever will. What has Jesus done for the wildfires in Australia? No amount of prayers seem to be working over there, the result of climate change, nothing else. The crises in the middle east is there, no amount of prayers or Jesus can solve that. There's so much going on in the world right now. I'm surprised people still preach about anyone being the way with how far we have come. The funniest and narcissistic thing about religious people is every one of them, no matter the religion they practice, believe they were born into the right religion. In their minds, others are going to hell, but them alone will make heaven. Come on, how stupid is that? If you are born in America, you are more likely to be a Christian, born in Pakistan, more likely a Muslim, more of a geographic thing. 3 Likes 2 Shares |
| Family › Re: Things Introverts Have Done To Avoid People by Hakeem12(m): 1:15pm On Jan 11, 2020 |
Bhadgirl:Yours is extreme 2 Likes |
| Family › Re: Things Introverts Have Done To Avoid People by Hakeem12(m): 1:08pm On Jan 11, 2020 |
Leviana:lol, I do this too. Some guys came to my place to preach to me last weekend, I was already drained from a meeting earlier in the day. Told them I'd like to go to hell and it's none of their business, the look on their faces was priceless. I had a good laugh afterwards. 5 Likes 2 Shares |
| Family › Re: Introverts Lounge (Extroverts Pls Keep Off !!) by Hakeem12(m): 10:42am On Jan 07, 2020 |
callmemercy:You've never been in one? 2 Likes |
| Family › Re: Introverts Lounge (Extroverts Pls Keep Off !!) by Hakeem12(m): 10:36am On Jan 07, 2020 |
JacksonMS:lmao, this guy ehn, mental illness ke? You be comedian? |
| Phones › Re: How Data Price War Hurts Telecoms Service Quality by Hakeem12(m): 10:05pm On Jan 06, 2020 |
Glo night plan can also be done multiple times. One could do 500 in a night for 5gb |
| Phones › Re: How Data Price War Hurts Telecoms Service Quality by Hakeem12(m): 9:54pm On Jan 06, 2020 |
iamblaze3553:why not try glo too, glo 4g is very stable on campus, better than mtn 4g even. |
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