Monday, March 21, 2011

I Still Hate Politics

Of recent, my facebook status and comments is on Politics, and mostly about the candidacy of the incumbent, President Goodluck E. Jonathan.  Until now, even at the time of writing this, I aint into politics, and would never will, because I cant stand the double dealing, carpet crossing, back stabbing etc, some of these clearly put me off.
I was however pushed into supporting the candidacy of GEJ by my facebook friends who mostly believed General Muhammadu Buhari and Prophet Bakare which they termed (BB) were a better candidate than GEJ.  Each time I logged in to my facebook account, it is one noise or the other about how he is the next best thing. The noise is so deafening that, they invented captioned like, 100 reasons why BB is the answer, why they dont vote Buhari in the past etc.  As a GEJ supporter, I began to run away from such post and chant. Then I decided to fight back, now a lot of people believed I am some kind of card carrying member of PDP.
Let me set the record straight, I have never met Mr President physically, nor do I belong to PDP, but he is my President, and I believed in him. I believed in his candidacy, but I am not his agent or that of PDP.  someone was so pissed off with the way of my strong defence for GEJ that he put it in his Status in capital letter that I am GEJ agent. I would love to, it is an honour, but I aint.
Who doesnt want to be linked with the President, no wonder I am with Dbanj as regard the Interview the President granted him on Silverbird TV. I used to tell people that, if it were to be Buhari that adopted that kind of style, Dbanj will receive lots of applause from the BB supporters. The condemnation was so deafening because most of BB supporters are elites who are online, mostly on facebook, twitter etc. Dbanj should ignore them, they will seize the opportunity if Buhari ask them to come and anchor that kind of programme for him too.
so, pause and ponder, with my recent recalcitrant posture on candidacy of GEJ, does it really look like am into Politics, while in actual fact, I hate politics with a passion.?

Monday, March 14, 2011

When Domestic helps are Dubious

When i was young, I used to viewed it seriously the act of making someone an househelps. I used to go like, I wouldnt want my child to be one, so why would i used someone else child as one.  My orientations changes later in life when I discovered that they are necessary in one daily life. I agreed to this concepts even though I make sure they are treated best in my entire household.
Experience had shown that when seeking househelps, the agents are dubious, so also are the househelps too. The agents will want to supply to highest bidder, while the househelp themselves will come with just the cloth they are wearing, as if they dont have more than that one.  When they travel for holiday, they hardly come back, they prefer to try a new ground where they will be treated as fresh, and then get a new set of clothes and wages.  All these point to one facts, they are dubious and can never be trusted.  The househelp business is becoming a 419 sort of, all the parties involved are so dubious that it is very advisable to have the underlisted tips in mind.
The other day someone sent me a broadcast message on my blackberry, it goes thus:
1. Get your domestic helps to provide 3 guarantors each. Know these guarantors.
2. Call home several times a day preferably to a landline
3. Get to know your neighbours and try to be on good terms with them. Chances are they may report suspicious activity.
4. Have a close relative over as much as possible. Your sibling or parents is unlikely to harm your child.
5. Do not deliberately extend your hours at work. sitting idle in the office waiting for traffic to subside might not be such a good idea.
6. If you really dont have time to be a parent, then dont be.
7. Teach your child (especially your daughter) the parts of her body that are off limits to anybody except you or a doctor.
8. As early as possible, your child should know your name (not "mummy" or "daddy"), your address, where you work, and your telephone number.
9. Be kind to your domestic helps. whether you like to admit it or not, for some people, these helps do more parenting than parents!
10. Pray for your kids and be vigilant.
Pause and ponder, dont you think these tips are highly necessary?

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Is Facebook and Twitter killing Blogging?

Gone are the days when net crawlers like me will be refreshing Blog aggregator to get updates on bloggers.  You want to keep abreast to what happens around the world first hand through the inspirations of bloggers. Bloggers making waves back then are Chxta's world, Grandiose parlour, Akin's blog, Omodudu, Jeremy's blog, Funmi Iyanda's blog just to mention a few.
But with the advent of Facebook and Twitter, seems blogging is becoming history, as updates of blogs by bloggers is dying.  Take for instance, this year alone, and we are in march, Grandiose Parlour and Omodudu both only had  one updates, Funmi Iyanda hasnt updated since October last year, while Chxta's world updated last in February. Akin's blog and Jeremy's naija blog however  updated their blog regularly.
Yours truly also performed poorly in this regards, as my 2 blogs - Nollywood photoblog and this one had not seen updates in a long time.
While I am not saying categorically that Facebook and Twitter seems to be the only reasons, they may however contributed since in a few words, it is easier to capture whatever one need to update on the blog.
Pause and ponder, is this what is going to happen? I stand to confirm my worst fears on this in a couple of years. Meanwhile, this is a wake up call for me, as I am not determined more than ever to update my blogs as and when the need arises, twitter or facebook notwithstanding.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Taking Advantage of others

One way or the other, we stand to take the advantage of others, knowingly or unknowingly. In the course of my life, I had learned that if you dont have a hard stern on some matters of life, people will take advantage of you. If you have a weakness, they will take advantage of you as long as your way of life will help them in their selfish interest, they will take advantage of you.
Now, there is this general saying that people used to say, I am me.  To me, it is the best way to live one's life. Be yourself, even if what you get from it is people taking advantage of you, in the end, you will know you live your life a fulfilled man.
One noticeable traits about my life is that, I had never and ever make a mockery of my friendship with women, to the extent that I would be taking advantage of them, I let them take advantage of me, and unknown to them, it gives me great satisfaction, and it pleased my conscience than me getting away with a seeming action of mine that would seem like I took advantage of them. The same with my fellow men.
My reader may pause and ponder whether this is right or wrong of me, but the truth is that, I am me, and I enjoyed being me.