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Philipp Kohlschreiber/Andy Roddick

what a game!
in my opinion, d best game so far!
ha

seems to be an evening of ' how the mighty have fallen'
as Andy & Amelia take d exit

wow!

Oby1:
cool at my end and i hope you're too. Thank God is Friday

That d best part, i woke up with a smile because itz friday
im kool too here,thnx.

wonda where Lawyer dey

opari o
Aunty May Kelly, we no understnd u oo!


Oby how u dey?
Pamperme, sup

Oby1:
all because of wife

tell dem
e be like say d two brothers no understand d differnce btwn wifey and woman, imagine

ebos:
Oby, see I no dey as u think o. Even if na wife wey I don already mary better for another man and that my wife come say na him he want. Opari - me go say no problem. Come be the one wey una wan bring for me. That one go even better so that I go quick comot hand before another man go come shoot me for wetin I no dey drag with am. Na my life be that - true talk.

shuo!
inshort

contract hereby terminated!
Abasi! so u no go fight , break some bones for the love of your life
may be even loose one eye for am?
oti o! , i hereby take your lovely missing rib back
you wld have made a lovely couple

Pamperme, sup bro
im still not feeln u oooo
say somethn more
abi your Chairman still dey stress u?

Oby1:
Talk true Ebos, you sure sey na from your mind? what about if e come happen to b d very one wey u dey find. You fit risk am?

Billion dollars kwesun!


Ebos that was really nice
chei sometimes i really feel this my girl dey lucky


might as well start now: LOVE U GUYS!

ebos:
Oby, I don't play with my night. anytime from 10pm is sleep.

really? do u use MTN?
abeg gv me ur no

ebos:
If Carlosein say na that one him go want - no wahala afterall he is my brother and I will demand fro another one. There are many pretty girls in Naija. Just post the pic

ha!
Oby, did u hear see that?
ha! again
u neva even marry d girl u don dey talk of oda fyn chicks for Nija?
and i knw chicks too dey lik ripe paw paw almost oyibo men
w need assurance say u go take this chick as your one and only abeg

Carlosein:
no i am not. who do you think will win?

sori, i went to the AO thread on sports
i knew Baggy will win because d injuries Safin went throu has kept him off form
Baggy worn in 5 sets, was a good game
far beta than Sharapova/Davenport game.

Oby1:
Work is fine not stressful like yesterday

pele

ebos:
So, Viee know the truth na him you wan go bring me wife wey wan change him mind because I dey run marathon loss.  Abeg, post the pic of the person wey you say you don bring for Retired Chief ebos.  Na fair or dark girl wan change mind?  Make I know whether me go make amend or still stick to my decision

lol
shebi d spouse need to have somethng before we go support
D end of discussion na real end of discussion,
african queen
miss world/tourism/model just name am she fit
your earlier decision don change already,trust me
post her pic
bia, dnt u knw carlosein is still single and he neva get agent?

sup dino

really bin a while
howdy?
nah! im all for Marcos,
4-1, 5th set

Carlosein:
okay viee, though i hate long posts, the above was quite inspiring.
thanks.

glad u like it, was inspiring to me too
how work?
_{are u following d AO?
Safin/Bagdatis is on
real battle goin on there}

Oby1:
That was a wonderful and interesting post. Learning the techniques to prepare me ahead of mine

exactly!
also a lesson for those already married
how work now?

hollandis:
Why do you guys post nasty comments?Are you justifying the inclusion of div 1 and 2 players?Berra hold you peace before I pour my venom on you.
Nigeria will wobble,stumble and fumble.When we have an array of stars all over the world.Vogts,for reasons best known to his apari head,decided to look for div 1 players.
If we don't retain our feat at the last nations cup ,I will blame no one but me(for being a die hard Nigeria supporter)

are u ok?

nyways, guess u wld expect Julius Aghahowa to be included as well bcs he plays for Wigan

folahann:
Al we need to is to build a team the personalities of players does not play a part in this.

exactly my point, it is all about building a team at the end of the day not which division they play
besides, Quaresma plays for Porto which isn't d best league around dsnt mean he is not good enuff does it?
Ogbuike plays for second divsn side in Germany, but we all knw his quality. . . . . . . . opportunity i think it is called.

dnt mind a 5th set here

dayokanu:
Safin vs Baghdatis is on,

now thats what im talking about!
Safin is now beginn to make it look more like a game!
still think Baggy will win thou
nice game i gotta say

Uzzys response dsnt need more clarification at all
i couldnt have written what she wrote beta.

my post on the other just took it a step further.
if you see it as over reaction, fine
it will make sense to pple who want it to make sense to them

i also hate long posts myself but i can't help but put this here as well
pardon me
it makes intresting readin to me, hope u will enjoy it too



To Be Free to Love
by Father Paul Campbell, LC
Resolution: Pray Psalm 51 for your loved ones and yourself. 

January 17, 2008
Thursday of the First Week in Ordinary Time

Mark 1:40-45
A leper came to him begging him, and kneeling he said to him, "If you choose, you can make me clean." Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, "I do choose. Be made clean!" Immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. After sternly warning him he sent him away at once, saying to him, "See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them." But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.

Introductory Prayer: Lord, thank you for this time together. I need you in my life and the life of my family. It is easy to let activities overwhelm me so that I lose track of you. You fade into the distance, and sometimes sin grows closer. I love you; increase my love.

Petition: Lord, help me to love others as you love them.

1. If You Choose A leper approaches and falls before Jesus. “If you choose, you can make me clean.” This leper couldn’t free himself from his disease any more than we can free ourselves from our sin. Leprosy was a fatal disease. It separated a man from his family and drove him outside his village to lonely places. Leprosy is a symbol for sin. Sin separates us from God and from others. We need to approach Jesus with that same humility and trust we see in the leper. This story is for us, to show us Christ’s heart. It reveals his love and his desire to free us from sin.


2. I Do Choose Jesus chose to heal the leper. Not only did he heal him, he touched him. He reached out to the loneliness of that man, and he touched his life to cure him of the disease. This captures Christ’s heart so beautifully. Our sin never drives him away from us. He is always ready and willing to come to our aid if only we would cry out for his help.

3. Jesus Wants Us Free Sin keeps us from being who we were meant to be. “Everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin” (John 8:34). Jesus was free from sin and so was free to love and serve others. He wasn’t compelled by greed or anger. He wasn’t moved by pride or impeded by laziness. He was free to love, and he loved to the extent of dying on a cross. Sin closes us in on ourselves. We get absorbed in ourselves, and others take the back seat – or no seat at all. How often do we say “no” to others and turn a blind eye to their needs? Isn’t it sin that blinds us and selfishness that impedes us from loving others as Christ loves us? Christ can free us from sin so that we are empowered to love as he loves.

Conversation with Christ: Jesus, I want to be free, but I need your help. Without you, I can do nothing. Help me to trust you and to turn to you. Don’t let me go off on my own as if I could keep fighting without you. Free me to love you. Free me to love others.

Resolution: I will pray Psalm 51 for myself and my loved ones.

Thought i shld share this with us all

Sanctity of Marriage
by Father Nicolás Schwizer

What is the fundamental attitude in married life order to achieve sanctity? What can motivate us to become saints within marriage?


I think the secret is this: to be always there for your spouse!

When someone becomes a Franciscan, the person embraces poverty. When someone becomes a Jesuit, he embraces obedience. When someone becomes a Schoenstatt Father, he embraces the Marian apostolate, and when people marry, what do they embrace? Their spouse, they are to embrace each other for eternity.

Being there for the other, although it may seem beautiful, is most difficult in life. To be there for the other means that I no longer have the right to think of my comfort, that I have to forget myself, that I have to be there for the other just as Christ is there for the Church.

My mission is, then, to support my spouse, to complement my spouse, to lead my spouse to heaven. This is not easy – you know it better than I do – because we are often selfish and narrow-minded.

If someone is able to maintain this attitude throughout one’s married life, “I am only there for the other,” this person becomes a saint. If it deals with canonizing a married spouse, then it will always be looked into if he/she was there for the other.

To be there as Christ is for the Church is to be there with noble and transparent love, not with love which asks that the other be there for me but that I may be there in return. The marriage will be a happy one according to the measure in which spouses live out this norm.

I should then know how to limit myself in my likes for my spouse. What if I like noodles and my spouse likes French fries? Am I condemned to eat French fries all my life!

I will bear it for one week. But will I bear it for 20 years, 30 years? What if God has given me the joy of 60 years of marriage? Perhaps you are laughing, nevertheless, here is the key to marital happiness or to marital tragedy:

See the positive qualities always
Being there for the spouse means to always be disposed, to always be conscious of the other, of the good qualities the spouse has. Never become accustomed to your spouse’s qualities however.

Be accustomed to many things, but you must not become accustomed to the good qualities of your spouse. On the contrary, every day you should learn to appreciate them more. I think this must be something which makes sanctity in marriage so difficult. One soon becomes accustomed to the good qualities the spouse has, and later only focuses on the bad qualities. It seems that the bad qualities increase and the good qualities decrease.

Therefore, marital happiness depends on the spirit of sacrifice, on the ability of letting oneself be crucified for the other. It is the way of true love which is really what is most difficult in this human existence. The German poet, Rilke, said it: “The most difficult, the most difficult task man has to learn is love.” Why? Because the hardest thing we can do is to forget ourselves and to seek the other’s best interest.

Questions for Meditation
1. Do I often sacrifice my likes, or do I insist on them?
2. Do I continue to see the qualities of my spouse or have I become accustomed to them?
3. Is it easier for me to see the short comes or the virtues of the other?

Todays Saint

St. Anthony of Egypt

The life of Anthony will remind many people of St. Francis of Assisi. At 20, Anthony was so moved by the Gospel message, “Go, sell what you have, and give to [the] poor” (Mark 10:21b), that he actually did just that with his large inheritance. He is different from Francis in that most of Anthony’s life was spent in solitude. He saw the world completely covered with snares, and gave the Church and the world the witness of solitary asceticism, great personal mortification and prayer. But no saint is antisocial, and Anthony drew many people to himself for spiritual healing and guidance.
At 54, he responded to many requests and founded a sort of monastery of scattered cells. Again like Francis, he had great fear of “stately buildings and well-laden tables.”

At 60, he hoped to be a martyr in the renewed Roman persecution of 311, fearlessly exposing himself to danger while giving moral and material support to those in prison. At 88, he was fighting the Arian heresy, that massive trauma from which it took the Church centuries to recover. “The mule kicking over the altar” denied the divinity of Christ.

Anthony is associated in art with a T-shaped cross, a pig and a book. The pig and the cross are symbols of his valiant warfare with the devil—the cross his constant means of power over evil spirits, the pig a symbol of the devil himself. The book recalls his preference for “the book of nature” over the printed word. Anthony died in solitude at 105.


Prayer:

Lord, I know in my heart that only you and your will for me offer true happiness for my life. How often I have experienced the fleetingness and even deception of other hopes. Yet still my heart seeks myself, and misses opportunities to invest in you. Help me, Lord, to find everything I long for in you.

Bla bla bla bla
question is who is a born again?
im yet to hear another phrase that has been so abused!
if you happen to know the definition of that phrase, pray tell are you one?

Catholics worship Mary, Catholics are demons, Catholics are anti-Christ,
since some of us are bible scholars and can tell how best to worship God
how has it impacted in your life?
the life of your family and friends?
the environment?

at the end it is just : bla bla bla bla

ebos:
Make una pity me o. I dey get marathon loss o.

eyaaaa, so sori
but wont it be beta if u relocate back to lag if that provides a beta atmosphere?
abeg ooo, make our new wife no come change im mind o

Carlosein:
you watch aussie open in the office?

i follow it on d website, every action
my pple hv been doin well so far

ebos:
Abeg, push the idea, that is nice of you

wrong number!

ebos:
So, na money come make you forget your own brother?

impossicant!, our brother is too dear to us not even money can put assunder
we sure say our brother get d intrest of our biz for heart
so dear brother pay up

Carlosein:
viee how u de?

my dear i dey ooo
im loving this month!
Australian open is on and so will ACN soon
mmhhhh, lots to cheer abt for me

how u dey?

sup house!
Carlos, wadup
Oby sup _{hp d work is less today?}
Pamperme, we still no dey feel ur presence for here, sup!
Ebos, sup! d revised copy of our quotation will soon reach u
lawyer, haba u neva wash cloth finish? report for here ooo

Oby1:
we agree sef sey u bi our brother, but agree with me sey some business no dey identify brother or sister.
But make i see if Viee go fit agree to this term.  Viee may be we go sorry for am.  Wetin u think?  

oby we go hold closed door meeting discuss am
brother and sister moves fit close biz for us oooo
abeg make we discuss in camera

dayokanu:
A good player has no business playing in division 2

not all d players who play in the priemiership are good enuff
at the end of d day, it is a question of the ability of the coach to use d players well
granted some playas hv exceptional ability but d TA still need to get them to blend with the style of play of d team _{isnt Sheva talented}
that i think is what we shld be hoping Vogts will be able to do with the Eagles really

Dickson Etuhu & Shittu are good players
i dnt quite like the inclusion of Makinwa because he seems off form
also Taiwo has been badly exposed but who can replace him?

but i think d team is quite ok.

Oby1:
Carlosein u no sey na Ibo man them get sense, u no see sey e dey dorge d side of pay

@ebos
You see what i mean, e don change music sey na just fun e dey take am make because pay don dey involved ebos! ebos!! ebos!!! na u biko. You get sense no bi small

Oby u see dis kain foul play?
Already i don find his missing rip sef but as he dey talk now
e bi like say we go review d trms and conditions even further
besides d chick wey go ansa Mrs. Ebos na end of discussion
and we did it in record time, so d terms must change oooo

ebos, we are submitting anoda quotation,
but dnt worry, ur end of discussion go be yours whn we sort ourselves out

Oby1:
Viee how u dey now, hope they r not stressing u much.

my sis ko easy o but i dey rough am
how body?

Oby1:
Lawyer hope you have improved in your cooking because u hv to learn it knowing that d world has gone global

because i no wan mak d guy dey mak andrews Liver salt scare for market, i don offer my services free of charge
for ebos, i no say ripe paw paw is a no no
while for lawyer, d babe go b beta Chef
armed with this powerful info and extra orisirisi wey we as agents know from experience, Lawyer's problem will soon be ova

bioye:
8[/b]th seed [b]Venus Williams advances to the 2nd round beating Z.Yan 6-2, 7-5

nice one Venus
wasnt an easy ride thou

bioye:
Meanwhile, check out Davenport vs Sharapova and Safin vs Baghdatis (2006 AO finalist) in the 2nd round! What do you think? I'll give it to Davenport and Baghdatis.

Sharapova/Davenport will be a good game, i think Sharapova will win thou
Safin/Baghdatis? i will be partial cos i lik Baghdatis so i will give it to him
nice to expect some super powers playn in the second round

where is PDF,Ruddie et al?
come run commentaries guys! its time
erm erm. . . . what of Gonzales sef?

dayokanu:
The British Number one is out already in the 1st round That shows how good they are. I can't say which sport the English are actually good at they are nediocre at everything they do.

its all media hype!
the British is good at a creating a media superstart:d English football,rugby and cricket teams,Rickky Harton,Murray d list is endless

davidylan:
I don tire for this qualifiers who wont just roll over and die.

LOL

davidylan:
I think Nadal needs this test now rather than in the later rounds.

with this serve he cant stand much chance aganist better opponents
i hope he gets better as the tournament progresses

davidylan:
Wetin dey happen?

i no understand!
this one don pass be careful
Nadal is excersing too much energy in this game
it is bound to tell in his next game

Moya out !

davidylan:
Stefan Koubek is giving Carlos Moya (16) a torrid time out here.
Na wa o

Na real wa  

davidylan:
Man Nadal will need to dig deep to beat this guy.

guess he heard u

ok Nadal im sure that was just a joke, u can quit d joke now
aint funny anymore

Carolsein, wetin Saint Viee come do now
Oby, my able PA , i see am oooo
na because i go charge am lik a friend he no come trust our tested services again _{if only i hired my PA on time}
i now undastnd what pple mean by friendship no dey for business

Oby, e like say we go review this contract o
wetin u think?