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@all, How una dey ?

Long time.

Great Job you guys


[size=14pt]PAK is Back[/size]


Men, its been deadlines all along, infact its a miracle that am not DEAD
right now. Anyway sha, God dey.

I have to say thanks be to God who leads us into triumph, if no be God.

For me April has been a confirmation of the 84th song of psalms.
I have really seen His Grace and Glory

To all the gunners my advice for your young boys is that - ' if at first you dont succeed,  better try next season '

A joke came to my mind recently about atheism and decided to share it with you guys


A primary school teacher who was an atheist, was trying to convince his pupil that God didn't exist.

Teacher: "If you know you have touched God before, raise up your hands"

nobody did.

Teacher: "Has anyone seen God before?"

still, all hands were down

Teacher: "Okay, have you met anybody that has seen God before?"

all hands were still down

The teacher finally said: "So you see, simply put, there is no God."


The whole class was quiet with everybody looking confused until . . .

the smallest boy in the class stood up timidly and asked

"Has anyone seen our teacher's brains before?"

there was no response.

"Has anyone met anybody who has seen our teacher's brain before?"

again nobody responded.

the boy finally concluded: "So you see, simply put, our teacher has NO BRAINS ! "

Has anyone been following the public hearing on the power sector, its really been a revelation, I had the opportunity of listening to Gov. Imoke on monday and though I dont know much about the probity of his tenure as a helmsman in the power sector but I was really impressed by his speech and responses, the guy almost sounded like a genius.

Wonder why the members of the probe committee were beefing him so much, the guy was giving a standing ovation after his speech yet the committee members seemed as if all they wanted to do was to tear him apart, poking holes at places where I felt were unnecessary. Anyway let us see how the whole thing will end.

As for the common man, his own view is 'After all the talk, talk, let NEPA (Sorry PHCN) sha bring light'.

@all how una dey?

@Kuwena, AlfaPrime
As per our leaders, without wanting to sound harsh or unnecessarily judgmental, I think they have failed us, they have put the country in a quagmire and I dont think they have any idea of how we can get out of it.

Actually my major fear now is for the coming generation - 'Our generation'. Will we disappoint God and the people that will be looking up to us, those coming after us?

I can not forget a phrase I once heard from AlfaPrime - 'You will become, what you are becoming NOW ! '.

If this is true, then there are some things I have seen and am seeing that gives great cause for concern.

Anyway, I must not fail to acknowledge the positives I've seen along the way in some people I've met. Even God admitted that if he had found ten righteous men, He would not have destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and then Jesus turned the entire world around starting with just 12 men, so there is definitely hope that those of us with vision for our country and for our lives can turn the fortunes of our nation around, if and when given the opportunity, if we sit up.

anietie01:
Are you not tired of always running after employers? Let the employers run after you for a change. Post your CVs at Exood by clicking here: http://exood.com/jobs/index.php it afford the employers the chance to find you fast. Its purely Nigerian and is free. No registration charges.

And do you know that for the time you spend surfing the web, you can make $10 for each mail you read? Its no scam and it cost you nothing to start but your time. sign up for a free account by clicking the link here http://rolex-mails.com/pages/index.php?refid=martluther3 they pay you $250 for signing up and you get $10 each time they send you a mail and you actually read the mail and visit the sites. You don't get to pay nothing.

I just withdrew a $1000 dollars into my paypal account and i will testify that it is real. I joined four weeks ago.

Wonders shall never end !!!

I thought 'Come and see. . .   American wonder' ended in the '80s

How far guys?

all the best for the cming weekend

Alfaprime's take on wealth reminds me of an article in 'The answer' version of the Bible. I saw a modified version online recently but it was just as funny. Here is it


What's success?
An American businessman was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellow fin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.

The Mexican replied, "Only a little while."

"You're such an excellent fisherman," said the American. "Why don't you stay out longer and catch more fish?"

The Mexican said he had enough to support his family's immediate needs.

The American then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?

The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take a siesta with my wife, and stroll into the village each evening, where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life, senor."

The American scoffed, "I am a Harvard MBA, and could help you. If you spent more time fishing, you could buy a bigger boat. Then you could buy several boats. Eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman, you could sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then L.A., and eventually New York City, where you would run your expanding enterprise."

The Mexican fisherman asked, "But senor, how long will this all take?"

To which the American replied, "15 to 20 years."

"But what then, senor?"

The American laughed and said, "That's the best part. When the time was right, you would announce a public offering, sell your company stock to the public, and become very rich. You would make millions."

"Millions, senor? Then what?"

The American said, "Then you could retire. You know, move to a small coastal fishing village -- where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siestas with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."

@Alfaprime

How now?
I'll try linking up over the weekend.
Wonder if you are back in lagos

opokonwa:
Kai! No be wrestle we dey wrestle
People like you, someone go insult your God join
You go reply am with AC Milan

@skeelo
The poet
You sound like someone who will make a good husband but its just a pity say I no get junior sister.

O God, please let Obama win the party nomination. It would make me feel swell. Please, God.  

@Kuwena
Well, I think your prayers about the democratic primaries might just be answered,
but does it matter anyway, whether Hillary or Obama wins.
Senator McCain might likely be the next American president especially
if the GOP can pull of the 'Collin Powell for VP nominee' coup.

@Aniffy
I have not sat down to give the definition of wealth a serious thought but
I can sure define prosperity - It simply is the fulfillment of God's puporse for
one's life and the ability to maximize the gifts, talent and opportunities God
places at your disposal.
It might sometimes involve the acquisition of stupendous wealth but that is not an
essential factor - cos in Luke 12 v 15 the Master says 'Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesses'.
I think a man's prosperity is measured by the extent of his ability to accomplish his mission on this side of the divide.
but then that leads to another individual question.

What is our/my puporse here in this world?

@Alfaprime
You dey jaw me?
You never answer my ques,
I said which Uni u attend and where did you serve?

@Opoks
You brilliant no be small.
but wrestling for fit u well, well.
The way u always battle kuwena to the ground never ceases to amaze/impress me.
Anyway there's nothin like sayin some home truths.

Anyway my reccomendation for milan, do away with the old hags and recruit fresh and 'young' bloods like danny shittu,
obinna nwaneri, etuhu, eroimogbe, Utaka, Apam and Olofinjana. With such you can never go wrong.


@Tommyex
I was being sarcastic.
I was just using the opportunity of milan's downfall to have a dig at Naija playas.
The only person probably older than the guys I just mentioned is Paolo maldini and
then even that is disputable

Kudos to the gunners, though am not an arsenal fan but u guys really, really deserved the victory and in Cesc Fabregas, you got a true world class champion.

Despite AC Milan's legendary cummulative team age, they fell to inexperience - Pato's and Kalac's. Wonder why Ancellotti pulled of Inzaghi instead of an out-of-sorts Pato.
Pirlo was uncharacteristically miserable yesternight, made me wonder whether dem give the guy akamu drink before the game. He made a hash of most of his possesion and passes.

Anyway it was and ominous end to a dreadful season for milan. Oh how AC missed Seedorf especially in the first half.
Well this might just mark the end of 3 different eras -

one, Kaka might just have lost his chance to retain the WFY crown he won last year (wonder who's next?)

two, definitely the end of the Ancellotti era (step in Jose Mourinho or maybe Lippi)

and finally, no more 'grandpa' soccer. When you are marking someone less than half your age (Maldini -> Wallcot),then
there is a problem, infact the sage was a full 21 years older than 'child abuse'.

Anyway my reccomendation for milan, do away with the old hags and recruit fresh and 'young' bloods like danny shittu,
obinna nwaneri, etuhu, eroimogbe, Utaka, Apam and Olofinjana. With such you can never go wrong.

My advice for the gunners, concentrate very well on the champion's league cos no show for EPL.

@Alfaprime
was wonderin if u could answer just 2 ques

where did u serve?
and what school did u attend?

@Alfaprime
That line of reasoning, the writing style, the expressions all sound very very familiar. . ,

@tommyex
[size=20pt]Happy birthday 2 u[/size]

@all
welcome to the week.

Kenosky Sorry O!,
e be like say the tremor affected you a wee bit
why are you thanking God for Friday on a Thursday?
Softly O my brother

@all
How una dey

@Kenosky
I was shocked by the news of the earth tremor
infact I initially found it hard to believe.

thank God it was just a tremor and not a earthquake.

and also thank God you survived, I heard some people
died (at least if you no survive, u no go fit post )

this world sha, the event just underscores the message of my
previous post

Solemn Thoughts

Why am I writing this post?
I really can't say for sure but I can make some guesses.
First, the renewed vigour on the thread might have sparked off some interest again in me.
then I have just finished reading Kuwena's pain.doc article (to his brother chima).
but thirdly and most importantly, the last bit of info I got from NTA Network news at 9
just brought out that solemn, deeply introspective side of me.

Listening to Lara George's melancholic classic 'Ijoba Orun' in the background and being so alone
I feel some things just have to come out.

Anyway the news I heard was the sudden death of Brig. Gen. Solomon Giwa-Amu,
Obasanjo's ex-ADC and the Director of the Directorate of Army public relations.
Most of us might not know him and I don't know him much either but I had one chance encounter
with him earlier in the year.

Not to bore you with stories, I met him after a presentation we (my comp & IBPLC) made at the
army headquarters Abuja on the 4th January, 5 days away from my Bday.

He was a very amiable man,charming and unusually intelligent for a soldier (my impressions)
I remember him singling me out after the chat and asking if I had his business card (I was quite
taking aback). I told him no. So he reached out and gave me one (I still have the card in my bag right now,
and that was the first thing I went for after the news of his demise).

I was shocked to the marrows and was once again made to wonder the futility,vanity and fickleness of this
life. It makes you wonder, why are things always so uncertain?  we are here today and gone tommorow.
what could have killed a man, who survived the shells and bombs of Sarajevo and other war zones,
at such a young age.

What really matters, what endures at the end of the day? After all the running around and 'achievements',
where does everything end up. The man who got 10 Phd's, the man who became the president of his country,
the one who got richer than everybody, the one who was the best man at this and the first to do that,
does it really matter, do all these matter once we are cold and down, six feet under. Is the richest man any
better than the poorest begger at the point of death.

One enduring memory is the day I paid a condolence visit to the family of probably the greatest person
I have met closely in person - Kola Fasanya.
Kola was already a lecturer at 24/25 and at 25 he was regarded as one of the most
brilliant lecturers in the whole school and was already handling a faculty wide course.
but at 26, Kola was gone, gone to be seen no more, the only son of his parents.
He was snatched by the cruel hands of death.

We stood there as his personal effects was being burned by his junior sister in their backyard
(A yoruba tradition) and I saw his results going up in flames. 4 point this and 4 point that.
The vanity of it all dawned on me, what mattered were not his 4 points but the lives he touched.
Three years down the line we had a group project in my dept and had to present a binded written
report. At the end of the day, more than half of the groups dedicated their project works to Kola
Fasanya, not because he was the only person that had died in the school or because he was
extremely brilliant but because of the way he poured out his life into others. I wonder if he knew he had
so little time.

What really matters, to borrow the words of Oponkowa
'is about leaving a good mark, leaving a good impression, about leaving people and places better than you met them'.

What you call achievements today what makes your heart beat like crazy now, what you place so much esteem
on right now will fade away the minute this 'borrowed' life is over.

Life is a vapour, our wordly pursuits are as worthless as air, they will vanish as soon as we think we have gotten
them (that is if we ever get them in the first place). I don't have to beg but I will, Please touch a life,
reach out and hold someones hand, make a face happy,
improve someone's life, those are the only true achievements we can make in this life
and most importantly LIVE FOR GOD.

'Aiye loja, Orun ni ile' (The world is not our home, its a market place, heaven is).
The cars, the houses, the blings and what have you, make no meaning in the final
analysis.
Just remember we are pilgrims passing through this phase of our existence for a brief period.
we will all one day, whether our lives are long or short, be called to give account of what we have made of our journeys

N.B.
@Kuwena
Just went through your mail to your brother and I must confess you have a rare gift. Do you write fiction?
I mean stories not poems. I think you got talent there.
I don't know if you could send me your email.
there are some things I would like to say to you that I believe are better
passed across confidentially and not on the pages of the thread.
but I'll respect your wishes though.
mine is xxxxxxxxxxx

opokonwa:
I will not always be around. Life is not about being around the same person or same people all the time.
It is about leaving a good mark, leaving a good impression, abou leaving people and places better than you met them.

VAYA CON DIOS!
(GO WITH GOD!)

Great words Oponkowa,
Great Words!!!

Hey! congrats guys, especially to Kenosky Adebayor and Kuwena (for starting the thread in the first place)
just wantd to have my signature on the 100th page.

Here's a little nugget for the new week


< - - -
I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from whence comes my help.

My help comes from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keeps thee will not slumber.

Behold, he that keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.

The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.

The LORD shall preserve you from all evil: he shall preserve your soul.

The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
- - - >

Have a blessed week ahead
You can achieve anything you set your mind to.

Yeeeaaaaa!! its 2 - 0 already and we'v not reached the half hour mark, una go see meme today.

U think its easy to rub shoulders with your senior brothers? ehen!

To all MUFC faithfuls,
enjoy the next two hours, as we drag those small boys in the mud (hope I wont be eating my words !)

@aniffy
Yeah bros, years back Stephen King was a runaway favorite in my list of writers, the guy was sort of . . . . off  the hinges. Did you ever read 'stand'. The no 1 apocalyptic fiction from my point of view.
Next in line was 'Lord of the flies'.

@kenosky
nollywood no wonder u dey jump up and down for dream

Kuwena, PGM et al
I hail Oooooo.

@Opoks
Hey my brother, how u dey?
Next time you get on a blog try reading the text before allowing your eyes to stray to the pix, OK 

(modified: continued from previous page, at last we don reach 94)

And y'all may not believe this but its true
Later that day while speaking with my sister on phone, she told me she got a letter fron nlng stating I was unsuccesfully at the assesment centre.

Well, at least, I have a consolation, of all the nlng hopefuls that missed the boat to bonny , I am the only one that knows why he was not picked.

and the moral of the story . . .

. . . next time you hear run, don't wait to tighten your shoe, just bail like [size=13pt]fire[/size]

if the shoe no gree you, remove am.

and for Kuwena, never, I repeat never wear a t-shirt to work or an interview or an assesment centre or anything of that nature again, either in real life or in a dream.

To all, wishing you a blessed weekend and in case you have a juicy dream
don't forget to drop a post.

enjoy and don't do what I wouldnt do.

yours 'dreamily'
PAK

[size=14pt]I WOKE UP[color=#990000][/color][/size]

Yes o , Part2

I turned and realised that one of my fellow 'runners' was a guy I served with and with the 'knowings' or dreams, I knew that the guy was an expert marathon runner. I couldnt have been more discouraged.

And trust dreams, to tighten shoe lace turn to wahala, it kept comin on and off until I sha somehow finally managed to get a grip.

And when I was about to start my own olympics, I realised my tie was still on, there was no way I could run round such a massive building 5 times with a tie on my neck . I started struggling to pull it free, by this time my other guys don go faaaaar.

At the moment I was set and ready to bail like wind guess what happened . . . .

Hey how una dey?

Since nobody wants to tell a tale I think I'll step up to aniffy's challenge and write (for the first and probably the only time)
about  the true story behind my not being picked for the nlng recruitment.

Well, it was all revealed in a dream

Actually am not a habitual dreamer (at least my middle name no be Joseph) and infact I somehow hate them but once in a blue moon I somehow have one of those crazy late night film shows that goes off/on in the mind/brain/soul/spirit /wherever (take your pick depending on your beliefs).

Back to the muscle of my story.

We (the group that were once nlng hopefuls) were in an assesment centre kind of setting, but this time around we were all standing in a line facing the invigilators/judges/panel and waiting for those whose names will be called out from the list as successful. If you've ever seen any episode of 'Americas next top model' you'll get the picture am painting better.

Anyway I saw a guy there who I knew to be Kuwena (how I take know say na kuwena be that, I no sabi, but trust dreams). But surprisingly, he wasnt dressed corporately, he was putting on a T - SHIRT !!!

After so much fuss they started calling the list and we all waited with baited breath hoping our names will be the next. The voices of the panel droned on for a while and my name was not called (I actually can't remember any of the names that were called out) and suddenly the they got to the end of the list.

well we (the unlucky/uncalled/rejected guys) stood there dissapointed until a member of the panel called out and said that they still had four more vacancies to fill and they were going to shortlist eight of us from which the four lucky guys will be picked. Then they started looking at our faces closely as if physically appearance had suddenly become the major criterion for selection(check out the post that started the famous Kuwena/Opoks civil war  - which by the way later degenerated to 'which way nlng world war Bleep'. Indeed dreams don't lie )

Miraculously I made the eight man list, and then they started callin out the four lucky ones and alas my names was not among them.

Just as we were packing our travelling bags in dissapointment  (what were we doing with travelling bags in the first place ).

The ever indecisive nlng panel guys came back and told us that they actually had two more final spaces left and they were going to pick from the remaining four.

This time around the physical scrutiny was more intense, it was as if the answers were on our faces. Finally they picked one of the contestants ( yeah, we were more like contestants) my guy immediately jumped up with uncontrollable joy.
though its been months now and my memory of the whole thing is getting fuzzy but I still think the happy - go lucky guy was either Kenosky or Kenosym. (at least now you know why you were picked  ).

Then came the cliff hanging moment to make the last choice. the invigilators had to even stand up and inspect us (e be like say physical attributes counted more at this stage). They were so unsure that some even circled round us, checking us out, and then one of them suddenly came up with a 'brilliant' idea, the three of us remaining would run round the building 3 times to determine their choice  . Another suggested that it should be increased to 5 times.

the die was cast. It was time for the race of my life. We were ushered to the door and about to step out and start when i realised that I had to tighten the lace of my shoes. So I asked the Invigilator turned umpire to give me a minute , only for the bad guy to tell me that it was not the business of the other candidate/contestant that I was wearing a shoe with lace and they would have to start while I did that.
I bend down with the speed of light , and just decided to take a glance at my other rivals only to realise \. \. \. .



[size=13pt]Heeeeeeey I don tire, let me take a break , story to be continued shortly.[/size]

@Opoks
Hey how far!!! long time