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This is a narrow view and som people actually live and die not able to attain these stuffs.

A new car: N5m+
a new house: 5m+
a new wife: some m's+
children raising cost: some m's

But my view of success is tht u use ur gift to the fullest. From d use of ur gifts will com d fulfillment but it corresponds to how many lives u touch and problems u solved 4 others using d God given gifts u were born with.
Som ppl are/were not rich (by some standards) materially but lived a rich life . E.g som people were so gud at playing chess , they created unique techniques others studied. Chess playg was their gift. They perfected d gift thru their life and d gift openned up rooms for them and brought them b4 great men!
Others its music- they sing well, one track they sang broought them money fame etc but they developed their musical skills for years bf it brought them fame
peter drucker , was a management icon,his theory on management changed corporate culture in many many countries - tht was his gift. But he developed it by going to school,
and developing himself, but after he hit d management scene it was like others didnt exist!
He was still consulting into his 90's!
Wat of cicero, in julius ceaser?
He was a natural born orator.
Wen d murderers of ceaser let him 4 a moment speak 2 d crowd, the were shooting themselves in d foot.
Cicero stirred d crowd up with words!
Summary: ur gift makes room for u.

1 Emachine cpu casing
1 lg dvd rw (brand new)
(still in carton )
1 dvd r drive
1 cd rom drive
extra 1 power pack
(1 in the casing bringing total=2).

The disc drives are internal.
Price: n10k.(not negotiable).
Excluding transport cost.
Reason 4 sale: cpu mother board acting up, i bought d lg dvd rw thinking the former writer was dead.

Contact: uzetime@gmail.com
0703 802 5173
location: abuja

secondary sale:
(the secondary books are in neat condition.
)

physics:
senior secondary school physics (1 - 3)
senior secondary chemistry ss1 (by bajah et al. The cover is faded but content wise d book is untouched.clean and new)
principles of physics - nelkon
further mathematics project
(1-3) (pink color )

further mathematics for senior secondary schools (longman green book)

physics: 4 books
chemistry: 1 book
further maths:4 books
secondary school books: 9 books

gmat books:
i bought these books online in 2011 (barnes and noble ) to prepare 4 d gmat.
I also bought 2 locally , the local bookshops had no gmat books so
i wudnt hav been able to practce without d online purchase.
The new gmat has a new section (integrated reasoning) otherwise content wise my collection is proper prep material.

Gmat books:

-official guide 12th edition (800 practce questions) (red book)
-quantitative review(green book)
-gmat verbal review (blue book)
-kaplan 800 (for those who want to make perfect scores)
-cracking the gmat princeton review 2011
-nova gmat math prep course
- kaplan gmat premier 2010 ( locally bought)
- mcgraw hill gmat 2009 ( locally bought)
(the gmat books are in decent condition some show very signs of usage others show more visible signs of usage e.g the "red book"
)

gmat textbooks : 8 books

other texts:

accounting theory fifth edition
(by michael van breda, eldon s hendriksen)

- financial accounting (A.R jennings)

- Dictionary of financial and Investment terms

- understanding financial statements
(lyn m fraser, aileen ormiston)
(this book is lean and targeted at lay people with an interest figuring out accounting statements. So it aint academic looking or sounding.


engineering textbooks:

- fluid mechanics 4th edition
( jason f. Douglas et al )
- engineering thermodynamics : work and heat transfer 4th edition
(gordon rogers and yon mayhew)

others:
-toefl barrons cd for toefl practice

- official ielts practice material (+cd)

costs: secondary school textbooks (N5k for the set of 9 books. )
(gmat: N20k for the set of 8 books)
(engineering books: 5k for the set of 2 books )
(toefl cd + ielts bookncd: N3k )

other books: contact me.

any interested party shud contact:
email: uzetime@gmail.com

bought the following books to prep for d gmat in 2011.

1.) official guide to gmat review 12 ed. (red book)
2.) official guide 2 gmat quantitative (green book)
3.) official guide verbal (blue book)
4.) kaplan gmat premier 2010
5.) princeton review cracking the gmat
6.) kaplan gmat 800
7.) gmat math prep course , nova press
8.) mcgrawhill, gmat 2009

asking 150 usd/N24k
uzetime@gmail.com

davidylan: unfortunately as long as you live in her house, she has the[b] right to control[/b] you.

renew ur thnkg and stop supportg satanism in d house hold.
The bible said man, dominate d earth,subdue it (gen1v26).
Not fellow man. The bible says train up a child.. (so tht at a future time, the child will b self sufficient-independent of the trainer - to live his life. ).
He ddnt say make them perenially dependent on you so tht u can feel like som God.

som dwnrght typical manipulatv statements are the norm like:
"i want to have my grand children" or "i want more grand kids". (ur children arent married for ur sake respct tht).
- forcg , shamg child into marraige...
- "ur parents know better"
(to a grown adult. Parents hav
run lives wth ths statement)
- " but they did it cuz they luv u"
(yeah. Ths is d justfctn 4 brutality, psychologic traumatztn, etc)

solution:
"God hasnt given parents a spirit of fear but of love of power and a sound mind".
When parents feel tht fear grip them tht their grwn up children wont b able to manage their
lives without them, they shd attack d fear instead of giv in and try 2 run and control their children's lives.

It's as if parents want to sate their power cravgs by outrightly rulg their children. Statements like "u'll always b a child even if you are 50" , such stupity is uttered by this som1 called a parent. It's so indoctrinated dat ppl beliv it.
In a nutshell parents crave somtin tht shd only go to God, Worship, by their children.. It gets pathetic wen they see the tides turng as they get old and feeble. This is a sinful cravg i see in any tango. Boyfriend craves wrshp frm gf , friends crave wrshp frm co-friends the entire society structure is set up to create som form of human wrshp of sorts. Pop stars, billonaires , presenters, politicians ar presented as extra human and all that 4ck society and its sick structure. Respect and reverence is very ok, even d bible recognizes honor and human promotion but theres a satanic tradition practiced where som ppl ar psychologcally manipulated into acceptg tht theyre inferior to others. Based on some mundane criteria like amount of money in the bank, cars they drive, education,dressing, physical appearance, etc. It's even in d church. Sick human segregation and d bible condemns it roundedly. This culture is sadly imbibed and practiced in d most home.

ther's a verse in d Bible sayg. Parents do not offend ur children lest the b discouraged ( i never hear dat verse ever uttered by a parent. They skip over it. Never heard it in church. ). Theres a verse tht says parents TRAIN up a child in d way he shud Go ... Many mistake ths for insult,debase,contrl a child etc and som parent will justify this.
Many parents control evry aspect of their childrens lives esp the rich.
Their children ar mor like their puppets . Its a terrble charade. If a child gets outspoken and tries to thnk 4 himself, he is labelled rude stubborn he is warned tht it will not b well with him.. Most children bcome ridden with guilt alone and backdown. The manipulation continues...
It's chronic in rich homes, families.. If child doesnt marry Parents pick threat cud b - disownment, open cursing, makg life diffcult 4 d child, removg his name frm their will etc.
Manipulation atrocities and it's all ok! Some screwed thnkg adult called a parent will try to tell me y it is ok. It's sickeng.

@op
you really vented. Ar u wrtg somwat from personal xperience?
Thank God for d internet and d opportunity, its given ppl to air their minds. The world as a whole has suffered 2 long frm oppresion of truth.
I wantd to create a post titled: Parents d greatest Manipulators On Earth- based on personal experience and the charades i see played out in society. Some of these set of ppl called parents are outright devils. Satanic tools of manipulaton. And som hav wrecked their childrens destinies.
Their atrocities ar always justified because theyr parents. Parents like ive seen want docile goats dat obey them unquestioningly, wen yung som children hav been drilld to obey mum n dad either thru merciless beatg , still is d case in som homes.
Or shame/guilt inducemnt :
harrasment. Disgracg child in public etc.
Threateng child either with disownment(removg name
Especially in afrca, this satanic culture is accepted as d norm,
some mothers will stupidly try 2 use d pregnancy thng to manipulate.. (i carried u for 9 months. I cud hav divorced u bla bla bla )...
If u ddnt hav a child u'd b puttg in prayer requests and calling God unjust.

@2sexy @ moreeni @all thanks for the encouragement.
I really had doubts about sharing my story cuz it lookd too terrible.
and people kinda retreat from the unlucky like they do the HIV positives.
but if it will encourage i'll share it.
no matter what happens i do thank God i've not committed suicide cuz i do pine for the lost years.
But the days of pining are over. I just have to move on.
man is an eternally hopeful creature-
after devastation and war , despite all losses , he begins to rebuild.
there's nothing else to do but build on.

@2sexy
yes, i've considered I.T certifications.
and i plan on taking them this year - in computer computer programming , i have 5 years experience in it ,i'm self taught and its the only productive diversion that i indulged
in when my life was on pause.
my only limitation is the Money thing - i'll grovel and beg to get it - since i have no
job. (i'm in the process of liquidating a bequeathment. my inheritance.its not much at all.)
Thanks for trying to reach out to me. God bless you.
God bless "lifted","moreeni" and all.
we've got to move on. this is life shi.t happens.
@lifted
I share your pain,in the sense that i can in some form empathise with you, so please move on. infact, let the dissapointment serve as greater fuel for a more intense bounce back into success.
P.s
Maybe if things turn up better for me- i'll post here on the turn around.
if things dont go well and i never recover fully, well..

somebody said a man with no shoes wanted to hang himself
and climb up a tree to eat his last bunch of banana's before
putting on the fatal neck tie.
but below the tree was a man with no legs eating the peels
the suicidal man was the throwing down.
the rest is obvious.
You say you are completely broken.
you say you are more than depressed.



in 2001 , i was rounding up my studies - i was in my final year.
great.
i was 23 then.
my grades wouldn't be stellar, i knew that.
But i never knew i wouldn't get to have my result until 2009.
i lost an extra year and ASUU strike took its toll yet i still plugged
on.
determined to finish what i started and move on.
Did anybody tell me that for 6 years(2004-2009) I'd be on the road
asking my university to compute and release my result to me!?
i got my result at age 31
( too old for nysc! how can some1 who ddnt start school late,
didn't drop out,wasn't rusticated,
etc)

I've been at home for 4 years with no job prospects!
which brings the total number of lost years to 10!
you said you lost 2 years etc. 10 years of my life has
been decimated!
You have a 2.2 i have a 3rd class.
how old am i ?
I'm 35.

I've suffered irregular heart beat, high blood pressure,
ulcers, severe depression, psychological trauma,
i now have a medical condition i can't explain.

I asked out of honour that I sue for damages - but i had no money.
parents said no!! -
You are looking for graduate entry job - great.
I cant even dream of applying for a 2.1 job, or an entry level job.
my years have been eaten off by the canker of delay,
and my grade is a write off.

My labour was to upgrade the paper. and i could have done so by
now even topping it with 2 papers (degrees ) long ago but
for the delay.

35, 3rd class. leaving with parents. no job. perennially broke.
when i started year one, my sibling was in primary school.
now that one has held down 3 jobs!
When people hear of my story , i posted for advice here in 2010 or so,
they instantly take sides with the university.
how do you issue a students result to him/her 6 years late and not
ruin his prospects!
at age 25 i had written my project(thesis).
my result should have been issued to me the next year(2004) but
the department was run by shit heads.
yes i bagged a 3rd class so what?
compute my result and give it to me!
it took the retards 6 long years to do so. and in the process
they made me look like the one delaying the result, fools of lecturers
call you non-academic material, they say they're just pitying you,
stupid fools think they're doing a favor graduating you!
I don't want to enumerate the implications of such time loss on
an individual.

When things were getting to a head, i took toefl and ielts scores
applied to a school that was sympathetic to me,in asia,
the admission was contingent on my university degree- i was sure that
that year I'll have it issued to me so i took the risk.
behold, i was wrong, simple thing of gathering and computing my
result, had to take the department forever.
needless to say the prometric test scores all expired.


This wasn't how life was suppose to be.

people who took jamb with me at age 19 aint looking for entry level
jobs!?


I don't have a job. I don't have a source of income. no form of cash flow
whatsoever. just petty trifles that trickle in once in a long while.

We are in a new year - but it means nothing to me.
Because - there's nothing i can do to make my year better.

People tell me to just look for something to do?
like what?
say i present my c.v , where - the good places are taken,
where do i present to , what are my prospects!?
it will be the most menial and low class jobs that
I'll have to settle for then what.


how to do you tell a 19 year old taking jamb that his life would end
up like this.
that at age 35 he'd still be in a hopeless condition.
How do you reason with parents who should have helped you and come
to your defense clutch their purse strings!!
how!
i know there's no future in any menial low paying job.
so I'm not fooling myself.
some jobs are dead ends.

. It could have been worse, as you can see from my story.
my story is true not fiction.

cite source u copy from instead of passing of some1s ideas as your own. Its called courtesy, honesty, integrity.

look into cissp or so (google it).

@chamber2 You are trying to make a point but ur examples are skewed. If there was no google or the like what lucrative outlet wud they b for the igbo/yoruba grad!!? Use regional examples that are typical. Total pays those graduates you mentioned 100k usd/annum.Such salaries are typical at the international level so what proportion of maths/history grads will mnc's employ to pay such when the regional best is the N100k u mentioned !? Use reprsentative examples to make ur points.

thanks for your comments.
please i really need more suggestion - my question is about
permissive embassies and what their take could be on my age.

@ajanleko.

i had lots of capital - then i could hve considered entreprenuership

barring that, i think a lot of knowledge could help salvage the future.

i think once i get better degrees , i'll be able to
improve my lot.
then i could salvage some more time.

@sagamite
you make mighty sense there. thank you.
as for employment and how i'll make a living i really don't know.
certainly i'll fail age cut tests , but
typically thinking leads to blind spots.
lets really look at it.
poor first degree - , high age equals what?
this is life. sometimes calamities strike like a dirty slap at your blindspot delivered
by an adversary that knows your weak points. only after the tragedy are you wiser.
think of u.s.a before 9/11. they didnt see it coming.

8000 or 10 000 pounds is no chicken change.
but i'm thinking - if i have to live up to age 50 or 60 , how would i salvage that time.
what if i live to be 70 or 80?
the education if for the future years i got left and i think it pails in comparison.
i'm not shaken or of low esteem because i believe your mental and physical properties
don't alter from their true form e.g you'll look the same facially 40 years from now,
einstein would still be einstein - his physical properties - at any age
so would wole soyinka still be able to write kongi even if he sufferd a 30 year set back
and winston churchill would still be himself even if he graduated late
so looking at age now and opting out - because after all i'm age x - is not smart.
jobs and money aint everything. sure i've suffered a terrible loss. but i think with better education i can still salvage the remaining years of my life. and i think the future is worth saving.
i just need to get out of this sick country into a conducive atmosphere where i can study and move on in life.then i don't care where i end up after that.

@ ccollins
its like u write your project in year 1 pay off your house rent that year
and travel to school next year hoping to spend a week - cuz you just want to know
when you'll b posted for service - with hopefully
from that day in year x it takes your uni 6 years to get off their arse
find your result compute it collate it and prepare a result for you-3rd c.
that's how my uni did me in-those bastards. looking back i should have or could hve
bullshitted the whole thing and started all over again .thats what people ask me.
but it was alway like this year i'll get my result ,this year i'll get my result.
i got fixated on getting my result - because i had worked hard for it.
ironically,the year i decided this would be last time i ever went to school for my result
is the year the university approved it! i was already 31 then. too late for service (nysc)
.

about cyprus - they have an age limit . above 30 need not apply .
i would love to try sweden. i really don't want to migrate really- but who'll believe a
33 year old saying that? I think U.S will be too expensive for my people o. e too cost.
but if they'll give me visa - maybe i may give it a try.
please give me list of other countries you know off.
i'm determined to get past this problem even if i have to take 3 years to tackle it.
thanks please give me feedback.
i never thought i'd be this old still on square one. thanks all.

i'm a quandary here.
situation hyper critical.

i have a 3rd class (poor result)
i am 33
i have no job experience( formal employment)

i have no nysc certificate (got my result late)

this is the hurdle before me.

to surmount them i've decided to go the education route
get anoda degree - abroad.(masters or undergraduate)
it will cost me and my family and arm and a leg but its to salvage a dire looking failure.

then maybe i'll be able to face the future.
at least i'm looking at the far future


the issue i face is -
i'm told i wont get a study visa at any popular embassy because
of my age.
i have correspondd with schools who say age is no problem
i'm now concerned about the embassy issue.

i would take any country - particularly out of Africa -
but i need a low cost , high quality education country. not a 3rd world entity
trying to make money thru education. i also need somewhere i can work.

i didnt go to school late , but uni did me in ,and i have to pay the cost for the damage. took the jamb that got me admission in 1997 and never dropped out of school ,but like i said university did me in.
don't want to talk about the unsavoury experience.

I have no intention of migrating - not at all.
i believe i can salvage my future with educational qualifications -
especially those with international calibre.

enough said. need advice on the visa issue . thanx. please respond.

i'm a quandary here.
situation hyper critical.

i have a 3rd class (poor result)
i am 33
i have no job experience( formal employment)

i have no nysc certificate (got my result late)

this is the hurdle before me.

to surmount them i've decided to go the education route
get anoda degree - abroad.(masters or undergraduate)
it will cost me and my family and arm and a leg but its to salvage a dire looking failure.

then maybe i'll be able to face the future.
at least i'm looking at the far future


the issue i face is -
i'm told i wont get a study visa at any popular embassy because
of my age.
i have correspondd with schools who say age is no problem
i'm now concerned about the embassy issue.

i would take any country - particularly out of Africa -
but i need a low cost , high quality education country. not a 3rd world entity
trying to make money thru education. i also need somewhere i can work.

i didnt go to school late , but uni did me in ,and i have to pay the cost for the damage. took the jamb that got me admission in 1997 and never dropped out of school ,but like i said university did me in.
don't want to talk about the unsavoury experience.

I have no intention of migrating - not at all.
i believe i can salvage my future with educational qualifications -
especially those with international calibre.

enough said. need advice on the visa issue . thanx. please respond.