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[quote author=ekt_bear]Nigerians may look on white people as advanced humans, but both Nigerians and white people look upon ekt_bear as the greatest hope of mankind

The man the prophesies said would come one day[/quote]

Ekiti polar bear. Bawo ni? Se alafia l'o wa?

this is bloody tiring. this is like the 2nd or 3rd time i've voted - and the list keeps getting longer instead of the 'finalists' getting fewer how many rounds is this thing? the most tedious endless election process known to man. i'm done. phew!

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]girl stop being sinister.

It's hard enough having that ediot follow me around like a shadow.[/quote]ok. pardon me. i meant "you and ezeuche." lol. ok i'll stop. but you used to be friends. dig way down to find the love once again. i'm convinced he's harmless sha. sugbon, mo ti gbo. i have stopped.

i am still trying figure out what all i need to do to ensure twins (in the very near future). Yams is on top of the food list. not sure if beans helps - this thread is confusing and i'm not re-reading it. lol.

P.S. The 'sinister' word sounds too much like spinster. i reject it.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Ugliest babies I've ever seen.


I prefer my state's yam I'm praying for twins [/quote]the baby on the left is wearing tiny earrings, but the other one isn't. girl and boy? that could be you and fstranger during your terrible 2s nau. what's so ugly about those babies?

me too i'm praying for twins. i wonder who's more likely to get hers first. the one calling poor sweet babies 'ugly' or . . .

hope the below isn't considered spam o. i'm just trying to share AND give credit where it's due. btw, i don't like the title, but there's something to be learned from the main example in the tale.


Improve When Others Are Not

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One of the more interesting experiences of my life occurred when I was about 13 years old and I was on an airplane headed to Spain to study for the summer with a group of high school students. The airplane had literally been held up about 20 minutes because of me. I was so much younger than the other travelers that no one was too interested in spending much time with me. Consequently, I had mostly been left to my own devices up to that point in the trip. We were traveling from Detroit to New York and I was almost left in New York. I was eating some food in a food court in Kennedy Airport when I heard my name called over the loud speaker. The first time I heard my name ring out, I thought I was hearing things and simply kept eating. Then I heard it again and I remember putting my food down and looking around for a few moments before getting back to my fast food. Then, at some point I heard my name again with direct instructions that the airplane was leaving. So of course I immediately ran towards the terminal.

I was fairly excited about this trip to Spain. At the time I was going to a public school in Grosse Pointe, outside of Detroit, and had become a pretty bad kid. I was so bad, in fact, that I remember on one math test I took the teacher subtracted three points because I had not spelled my name right. One day I had been walking down the hall in school and saw a giant magnet the size of my hand lying on the floor next to a locker. I picked up the magnet and started playing with it. I remember throwing it to a friend of mine and we started playing catch in the hall with it between classes. My friend thought it would be funny at some point to turn his back and not catch the magnet. The magnet kept flying and ended up hitting the biggest stoner in the school in the head. The stoner overreacted and he was actually excited about this because we did draw some blood.

”Dude, I am going to be able to at least get out of the rest of the day,” he told me as we sat together in the principal’s office.

The strangest thing ended up happening that day. I went into the principal’s office and he started telling me about how I was going to get suspended for throwing this magnet and how it was ”assault” and all sorts of things, and then he asked me where I got the magnet. I took him to the front of the locker where I found it and when he opened the locker he found more magnets (stolen from the science lab) and also drugs. The police ended up coming to the school and everyone completely forgot about me. Apparently, several other students ended up getting involved and when I walked by the principal’s office at the end of the day I saw the stoner, with 5 or 6 other students, still sitting on a chair waiting to talk to the principle and a bunch of police.

That is how I almost got suspended from middle school.

The worst thing about my experience in public school was the dress and grooming habits I picked up. This was in the day of Members Only jackets, Sassoon and Jordache Jeans, and big male hair. It was the 1980s. One day my best friend and I went to get haircuts. He ended up getting a perm and the same place figured out a way to blow up my hair so it was three times its normal size, parted down the middle. I remember my friend’s mother actually beat him up over this. She brought him over to my mother’s house the night after the bad haircut holding him by the back of his shirt and telling my mother that we needed to be sent to military school. She then called up the hair salon and yelled at them. I think she may have sued them in small claims court. I also started picking up language that was intentionally grammatically incorrect, but in that environment various phrases and things like that were considered cool.

My grandparents had met while living and working in Paris and were fairly cultured people. I think it was them who made the case to my father (and they may have paid for it, if I remember) that the condition I was in culturally and in other ways was horrifying. They convinced him that I needed some sort intervention and that it needed to happen internationally. They were horrified by the United States and what people like me represented to them.

At the time I was only taking Spanish in school because it was the easiest language. I did not care at all about school. I will never remember something one of my incredibly snotty relatives said to me when I was choosing between French and Spanish:

”Why would you want to take Spanish? Look who speaks Spanish–it is all peasants. Look at who speaks French–it is the intellectual leaders of the world.”

As far as I am concerned Spanish was, and is still, my language.

Because I could not be sent to France for culturing up, the decision had been made to send me to Spain. I was sent on a high school field trip for Seniors from private schools in Detroit, despite the fact that I was only in 7th grade.

The airplane was about an hour into the trip when all of the students started requesting that the leader of the expedition, a Spanish teacher at Cranbrook Schools named Senor Gomez, tell the story about how he escaped from prison. Gomez was from Spain but apparently had been held in prison in Cuba for some sort of political crime involving his dislike of Fidel Castro. He was not violent and had never done anything bad. However, whatever the political crime he was held for, it was considered serious enough that they had planned on holding him for many, many years.

A huge group of teenagers gathered around Gomez and they became seemingly entranced. I was still sulking and had endured plenty of mean stares from the passengers since I had delayed the airplane for who knows how long. Gomez sat down next to me and began telling a story that I have modeled my entire life on.

He said that he was thrown in a prison cell with around 50 other men. The cell was meant to hold no more than 20 men. He said that the men in the cell would smoke all day and sit around doing nothing. If they could get their hands on drugs they would use the drugs. They would eat all of the food they could. They would not keep themselves clean. They would get depressed and they would spend all of their time talking about how horrible their circumstances were. They would fight with each other and worry about lots of unnecessary things.

In contrast, Gomez said that he looked at his time in prison as among the most important times in his life. He said that he looked at it as a time to get fit. For several hours a day he ran in place. He did as many push ups as he could do each day. He read and meditated, and kept his mind active. He did sit ups. He did not smoke. He traded food for razors so he could consistently be shaven (the other men all grew beards). He cleaned himself several times a day using a small sink in the prison cell. He made sure he kept a clean pair of clothes at all times.

”You are crazy!” the prisoners said to him. The prisoners would make fun of Gomez for his exercise and taking such good care of himself and not enjoying himself like the other prisoners.

Gomez said that many of the prisoners ended up going crazy in the time he was in the prison cell. Other prisoners killed themselves or were killed. They lived their lives like they were in hell. They focused on the negativity, suffering and evil around them. Many became addicted to hard drugs. They gave each other tattoos. Many got diseases, because they were not healthy.

Gomez, on the other hand, continued his ritual of exercising several hours per day, looking very good and keeping himself up.

One day Gomez was taken to the infirmary in the prison for a check up. He put on his clean shirt and pants, which he had never worn. As he was waiting with several other prisoners to see the doctor, Gomez realized no one was guarding the prisoners. There was one other door that did not lead into the infirmary in the waiting room. Gomez got up and walked into a room where a bunch of prison officials and others were standing around smoking. A few people looked up at him, did not say anything, and assumed he too must work in the prison in some sort of administrative role or other capacity. In contrast to the other prisoners who were run down, strung out and tired, Gomez looked like a million bucks. He did not look like a prisoner. Gomez then walked through another door and came to a guard station and the guard smiled at him and buzzed him through a door. Within a few seconds, Gomez was standing on a busy city street in Havana. He blended right in and managed to completely escape the prison.

”I am free today because I took care of my body and mind when others did not,” Gomez concluded to the students gathered around him on the airplane.

Think about your own life. You may be surrounded by people who have literally thrown in the towel on their lives and are allowing themselves to go to hell. They may be so depressed about the economy or their jobs that they are drinking more than they should, smoking to alleviate stress, not shaving, gaining weight and not taking care of themselves. They may be wallowing in how bad things are, and feeling as if they world has ended.

When confronted with difficult and seemingly unjust circumstances, people will often simply ”give up” and feel as if there is nothing that can be done. They will ”throw in the towel” on life and allow themselves to feel bad about the way things are.

How many people have you seen do this? I know I have seen an incredible number of people do this. Some people do this earlier than others. Some people have thrown in the towel on their lives by the age of 20, and others by the age of 30.

Yesterday I saw a man speak, Ray Zahab, who had been a pack-a-day smoker until the age of 30. He had been sedentary and lived an extremely unhealthy lifestyle. Just last year he set a record for being the man who did the fastest trek (without skis) the South Pole. He could have stayed on the track he was on with his life and his health, but instead he chose a new track.

Lance Armstrong got cancer, fought the cancer and came back to be the greatest bike racer in the world.

How many people when confronted with incredible challenge decide that they are going to rise above this challenge and be transcendent?

You need to be transcendent, too. You need to be the light in the world when others are not, and cannot, be. People do not realize how important it is to be a beacon of light, hope and possibility and to keep your wits and mind about you constantly.

If you have lost a job, if you have ever been in a position where you are in a depressed economy and do not see hope, if you believe that there are serious issues and problems you should be confronting, what you need to do is step forward and improve yourself. Get in shape physically and mentally and step forward into the world as someone who has taken charge of the world around them and their circumstances.

If you do this, everything is going to change for you. Make the most of yourself and never stop improving. Be a beacon of light, shining for the world to see.

THE LESSON

When faced with difficult times, you must develop the ability to transcend the trouble around you instead of giving up or assuming that nothing can be done about your situation. Keep your wits about you and take charge of the situation, and you will find yourself on track for constant improvement and career success.

http://www.aharrisonbarnes.com/improve-when-others-are-not/

GenBuhari: . . . we are very scared.

My brother,
I hope and pray everything is well with your wife and child. Please take care of yourself and each other, and don't give up hope.

bilaya: Sexkillz is an utter arsehole.He should definitely be banned.I have observed his attitude since he became a moderator.He behaves as if he is God.He bans people for no reason and he once banned a girl cos he asked her for a date and she told him off.He is an arse

There is a major war and power struggle going on over there. I am betting on the regular Romance section posters to win out over SexKillz. He'll learn the hard way - right now, he's still drunk with power. lol. Nothing new under the sun, ma friend.

Spirit of Okija: Did you really expect this thread to see daylight?!

You are lucky you havent been banned and this thread deleted..

Apart from Mukina who can be unecessarily hardassed some times, most other Mods are douchebags..

Muki ke? She be pussycat o.

I have applied severally to be a mod, and they turned me down.. I knw that apart from Ileke Idi (whom I will ban and if possible imprison), I would be a fair mod.. But I guess since I am Igbo, I stand no chance.

You're looking for trouble, old man.

ifyalways: I thought its only seun, his wife mukina( ) boriswole and yamakuza that can ban?

I believe all mods can ban individual posters from their section now.

For example, the 'mod' Justwise is one of the most deplorable posters on this site. He attacks people needlessly without prior provocation, and breaks the rules by insulting posters, sometimes even casting aspersions on their parentage, but he responds spitefully by banning posters (not me) from his section when they fight back. Now, these are the sort of powers that the Supermod should check.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Same for this MOD

https://www.nairaland.com/931002/cultural-political-attire-different-states#10757239

After being corrected, he still continued on with his tribalistic intent. Seriously, the cultural section needs another Mod who is impartial to its members.[/quote]Odumchi is a good kid. I checked out the linked thread last night, and saw no evidence he meant any harm. Maybe I missed something - I was scanning quickly.

"Poll: Vote for Mr. Nairaland *criteria is based on brains and looks* Nominees"

Brains. And Looks? No contest. Dobosky all the way.

P.S. WTF! I can't vote. pfft!

oh please.....they are not wanking all over pirlo for the penalty
they are awed by pirlo's contribution in the match for 120 mins.
who hasn't seen a paneka before in england? did zidane not use
it against buffon in 2006 world cup final?

The English have very short memories. Very. That's why they repeat the same mistakes over and and over and. . .

I think Scholes could have been persuaded out of retirement.

No, he should not have. Scholes is given to making lousy 'red-card' tackles, and the last few internationals he played, the same foolishness repeated itself. Same with Carrick. Yes, 2 to four years ago, shortly after joining Man.U, he was on top of his game. Didn't he suffer a drastic loss in form for months now? Unless he overcame it and is now playing regularly and making superior contributions like before.

I was rooting for England to win that penalty against Italy. Tough luck, mehn!

Around the time - same week - this thread was started, I accompanied a friend to her first check-up after confirmation of pregnancy. She was 6 weeks along. I actually thought I had shared that here, with the caveat that the post was not about me, but a friend. Since I can't find my post, I must have gotten busy and forgotten to post my message.

I found out last night that things did not end well. I had exchanged only one e-mail with my friend since the check-up and had not spoken to her on the phone since. I knew in the back of my mind, she complications might develop since she had previously had issues, but her announcing to family and some friends while we were still at the doctor's led me to think she was safe this time. Also, I was preoccupied with my own problems, and simply waited on her to contact me if she needed me - afterall, out of all her family and friends, I was the one she asked to come along on this important and anxiety-ridden day. Little did I know. . .

I called to check on her last night and got an email directing me to her 'diary' (blog, which I hadn't read in a couple of months) since she is too upset to talk. Needless to say, it was a hard read. I felt bad for her. I have messaged her asking why she didn't simply call me so she wouldn't have had to go alone to all the follow-up medical check-ups that she was frightened so of. She will fill me in later.

The below link is my friend's blog. She is a real person. I hope her heartbreaking story helps or educates others.

http://www.thenotsorealhousewife.com/2012/06/month-of-may.html

PointB: Please for the avoidance of confusion, the Eze Ndi Igbo Nairaland Newslettter sign-up page is here:

http://igbolist.tk/

Goof site, but some sections have way too tiny font.

odumchi: Although we would naturally conduct our affairs in the Igbo language, we have decided to consider those around us. In order to avoid the marginalization and ostracization of Igbo sons and daughters who aren't literate in Igbo,. . .

They should start learning the language. Today.

Due to our desire to make this thread acessible to all friends of Ndi Igbo, whether Igbo or not, we have declared that there is absolutely no ethnicity requirement for participation in discussion.

Good move welcoming the contributions of Naijas of good will regardless of ethnicity. A little bit more of this togetherness in the country at large and I can realize the dream of my nephew becoming a governor of Lagos state in the next 20-30 years! By that time, he might not even be the first elected Lagos governor with an Igbo last name.

bored.

Idowuogbo: Omg!

Who are d ragga muffin excrembres dat dabarued dis thread?

Kats I blame u!

That's the pot cauldron calling the kettle black.

Badosky, my butt!

Katsumoto: What did I do? Na wa o.

Don't mind her. He/She is a self-confessed 'agbero.'

Brixtonyute: Nah, not that. Just too many betrayals in my life, and it's basically difficult to trust anyone again. Trusting people almost cost my life on several occasions, and everyone I've ever trusted let me down. I made myself who I'm today, I had to fight many battles, won some, and lost some; but trust always betrayed me. Hence, why I'm so messed up!

heart-breaking, to be honest. but if a girl loves you, i don't get how that doesn't help somehow.

Katsumoto: Hahahahahahahahahaha

I need a smiley that shows me laughing with my hands and knees on the ground, choking like I am drowning @ aka Dobosky.

Japo-Spaniard-Naija-Afghani-Portugeezers are kinda funny. I'll be doggoned!


[quote author=Kilode?!]It is becoming hardcore here o [/quote]Polygamists "have hijacked the thread."

blacksta: una no dey tire - stuff fluffing - all these Yoruba people sef

You're back!

PS: oam4juice is doing a yeoman's job o. omg! you totally deserved that 'best moderator' award.
https://www.nairaland.com/963220/bianca-ojukwu-appointed-ambassador-spain/4#11104193

Oga Jaybee! May I please read the blinded posts? I mean, how can a whole moderator start a thread and hide half the posts from concerned peeps?! I tire for NL o.

Idowuogbo, they're missing you on the [other] thread. Polygamists have taken over. (you know who they are.)

Seriously, this couple are blessed. Stay together, and look forward to your shining new baby. What's the problem? The guy loves her; so, it's only 4 months. . . you don't need years to fall in love. For some, it's a moment in time - Kismet, baby. And just because he has no job NOW doesn't mean he won't be in good shape later on. To people scoffing at his predicament, remember 'reversal of fortune.' Things can always turn around. . .for anyone. . . when you least expect it. Do not kill your baby.

naijababe: Didn't someone say this poster no dey follow 'stroking' and such talks. Maybe she can tell us the meaning of the bolded.

I do not censor my interview subjects. I barely got a "Yes" "No" from that recalcitrant Bond-James-Bond character. And you expect me to edit the one meaningful answer he gave?! pfft!

BTW, Part 2 is going to be even less revealing more chuck-full of revelations and quotable quotes!

[quote author=isale_ggan]The long-awaited illuminating Katsumoto interview that all Nairalanders have been waiting for!

Interviewer: So, Katsumoto, you are a very popular and respected poster on this fast-deteriorating site. We'd like to get to know you. The number one question from your fans is "Is it a fact that your are not Yoruba?"
Katsumoto: Oh boy![/quote][quote author=isale_ggan]Yeah. Mukinatudeen They f@*%&ng banned me after I tried to help a fellow naija with streaming links on the Poland-Greece footie thread! [/quote]Who is this? Please don't copy me. Thanks.

Conversely the referee is having an aging heart-attack inducing match. Fortuna.

That was a great opening for him. All that pressure and to make a save too.

[quote author=Kilode?!]OAM4J, pointing blunt knives at . . . [/quote]

. . . And in Nairaland bunker, Oga OAM-4JU just smashed the BAN BUTTON! The user name Kilode?! has been reduced to dust. Bless his suicidal heart.

Katsumoto and Seun will miss you. Debosky/Kosovo not at all.

[quote author=Kilode?!]walahi, this post has been hidden[/quote]That's a whole 'noda level of censorship o. lol. The walahi says it all.

P.S. Thank you for your thoughtfulness, 'Oga' Kilode?! You know there are vulnerable women and innocent children reading this site.
Pssst! Post the message in white font and I'll naijababe will decode it later.

I am sure Katsumoto sincerely meant to speak seriously of the authentic classic Maikoko Hakuna Matahari Musume whatchumacallit sword he's always bragging about. It was Oga Oyb Oyinbo that turned the discussion all prurient-like. . . . .

https://www.nairaland.com/590933/buzugee-nairaland-want-talk-living/40#7852062

Yeah, right!


p.s. all you 'arrogant' Yoruba peeps may wanna checkout this thread and help out our yoruba-admiring brother from uruguay. https://www.nairaland.com/934908/yoruba-people-considered-arrogant

GEJ declares 3-day mourning

Nigerians already mourn every day for what might have been.

gbadexy: If confirmed that the indian management insisted the plane in question fly after being advised against it by the station manager,then I think indian companies activities in nigeriua must be reviewed. They tend to have the habit of cutting corners.

True. If you've ever had the misfortune to deal with them, you'll know they're cheap b@st@rds.

pendo89: This made headlines even in my country so sad.

Didn't know you aren't Nigerian.

RIP o. Any figures for those affected on ground?

alj harem: The culture that teaches that a king could become a slave and a slave could become a king in their midst and that the way a child is born is the same way a slave is born put the Yoruba culture up front amongst world cultures. . .

http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvnews/91592/1/why-yoruba-culture-accommodates-success-in-outside.html

B'a se b'eru l'a b'omo. Great saying. Always remembered that.

DailyNews: Just be a good lady, be distinct, distinguish yourself in all ways u can- don't follow the popular female lifestyles just to feel belonged & classy, be real, be committed to God & pray with faith, there are plenty good Nigerian guys who snare at all these useless lifestyles of our today ladies, and they are seriously searching for unique, reliable & dignified ladies to love for real & forever, but most cant find any cos evil is fast spreading more than good moral conduct amongst our ladies of today. Fear not, just be real & faithful to God & u will be distinguished from the chaffs!

100% truth.

AjanleKoko: England will surprise all of us this time around

England are forever 'choke'full of surprises:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZEzn1Xnziw

Off-camera, in the 46th second mark, Fabio Capello lost his will to live.

Ola one:

Hmmmmmm. I think this is about your blog.

Hahahahaha. What blog?

mukina2: [size=16pt]pretend not to see the Arsenal bit [/size]

OAM4J: BTW, nothing is wrong with you volunteering to moderate the section. Seems you know better the moderation NL needs now. Am also thinking of leaving politics for you to moderate in addition. Say yes and I will recommend you to Seun

I got a beef with Seun! (Darn that evil beaf, I almost mis-spelt a simple word.)

P.S. You can't leave Politics section o. Those rowdy boys and all the Ekiti people, who are ALL rowdy without exception - present company excepted - will miss you like mad.

OAM4J: Isale gangan leko ile, how are you doing? I should be having a meeting with your dad and our kabiyesi soon and I intend to make them an offer that cant refuse.

OAM4J: Chill baby, Isale gangan is my sister from Lagos island, her family house is a stone throw to mine. The offer I want to make is over some family possessions that I plan to take over, not about cheating at all.

Why would I wanna cheat on you, my one and only beauty. You are more than 100 women to me jare.

Am only drunk with your love baby

The Return of the Player Mack!
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mack