Happy New Year!!

Yeah, I know Happy New Year isn't appropirate right now (seeing as we are approaching February), but I couldn't help saying it.

Been MIA lately, soo much going on. I'm rounding up NYSC in ~ 2weeks (YAY!!!). Thank God for seeing me through this past year. Not sure exactly what's next, it's all in HIS hands.
Right now I'm just enjoying 2010 as it comes my way.

Hope everyone out there is loving the new year. We prolly all have new year resolutions/goals. I don't do 'resolutions' anymore, I just set goals for myself for the year.

Have to run now, it's my last day at work as a corper (woop! woop!). I'll be back soon with details from clearance during NYSC and ...office drama!


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Closing Post for 2009

It's been a GREAT year thus far. I've been to new places, tried new things, made new friends, but best of all - I'm happy :)

2009 Highlights:

• Survived and enjoyed NYSC Orientation camp in Iseyin, Oyo state (didn't see that post coming lol)
• Visited one new country - Accra, Ghana
• Survived Lagos roads with no accident or theft experience for 12 whole months!
• Witnessed a miracle :)
  

All I can say is God has been good to me. As I enter into the new year, I give thanks to God for great family, friends (both old and new) and a sense of belonging.

For the new year, I have no 'resolutions' (stopped that a while back). I'm going in with a new and much more optimistic attitude. The only thing I'd like to improve on is getting closer to God and increasing my faith in him.

So people hope you had a good year and here's wishing u a VERY MERRY XMAS & WONDERFUL NEW YEAR!

Live, Love, Laugh & Pray

See you in 2010!

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Knowledge is Power

A friend of mine sent this to me:

1. Coca-Cola was originally green.

2.  The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

3.  The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

4.  The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

5.  There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

6.  TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

7.  Women blink nearly twice as much as men!

8.  You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

9.  It is impossible to lick your elbow.

10.  People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you

Sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

11.  It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

12.  The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

13.  If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze; you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

14.  Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.  "Spades" - King David; "Clubs" - Alexander the Great; " Hearts" - Charlemagne; "Diamonds" -  Julius  Caesar.

15.  111,111,111 x 111,111,111= 12,345,678,987, 654,321

16.  If a statue of a warrior on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has a all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

17. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common?

Ans. - All invented by women.

18.  Honey - This is the only food that doesn't spoil.

19.  A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

20.  A snail can sleep for three years.

21.  All polar bears are left handed.

22.  American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

23.  Butterflies taste with their feet.

24.  Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

25.  In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

26.  On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

27.  Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

28.  Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

29.  The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

30.  The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

31.  The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30-feet.

32.  Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

33.  Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

34.  The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

35.  Most lipstick contains fish scales.

36.  Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different

37.  And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow

...Ha! 90% of the people I sent it to said they tried licking their elbows. Please don't say you tried licking your elbows too LOL

 

...2010..

As we approach the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010, everyone from the kid next door to your hairdresser has plans for the new year. In my mind, setting targets and making plans - always a breeze, implementation and maintaining set goals - that's the difficult part.

One of my favorite sections in the Guardian is The Columnist. Various Nigerians submit their opinions on current issues in our nation. This morning while I was updating myself on world affairs, I came across this piece Why Budgets Fail in Nigeria. Also, Mr. Ovation himself (Dele Momodu) was quite hilarious and made some salient points in his article A Nation on Auto Pilot on Thisday Newspaper. Interesting articles.


In other news, what are your goals for 2010? Looking back on 2009 I believe I accomplished most of my set targets (thank God). My slogan for 2010 - Faith that moves mountains! ...be still and know that I am God. No more worrying or obsessing about the future, let Gods will be done :)



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Holidayss..

Hello all,

Guess it's back to work or school for everyone. It's always hard getting back to the normal routine after a long holiday. Mine was extra long....Wednesday thru Monday.

Why u ask?
Wednesday - CD day, so i'm usually not at work
Thursday & Friday - Sallah holiday (Thanksgiving for my American folks)
Monday - Couldn't get outta bed so, called in sick (boss wasn't too happy about it, but hey i'm a corper!!) LOL

Now it's back to work for me. I had a fabulous holiday though, spent the weekend at Accra, Ghana with my sis and her fam. Was nice hanging out with my sisters, as we get older and everyone gets busy it's difficult for us to spend time together. Spent time with my nephews, they are soo precious. Loads of work, but lovely kids.

Ghana was fun!! One thing I enjoyed constant- electricity and clean running water. Great feeling! We had just one black out throughout my 5 day stay and it lasted about 10mins. Incredible! That's unheard of in Africa!
...Light traffic, no huge potholes, friendly and patriotic people, sub-par night life, overall not a bad country.

I sure hope we get to their stage someday.

So, how was ur holiday? Hope you had a fab time!

Btw: Today's December 1st, yipppeee!! xmas is almost here :D

...p.s: did u know Nigeria recorded a 46.7% drop in new HIV cases? Interesting, you can read more about it here




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Check this out..

Came across this post today - CNN rates THISDAY music festival among the worlds best, thought it was interesting. We are actually ranked #6 in the list of top 12. Cool!

Hope

Hey all,

Hope everyone's great.

I've been a frequent subscriber of The Word Among Us daily spiritual readings for over 4 years, and I've always felt it was a great way to start my day. Todays reading talked about hope.
Referring to Romans 8:24-25:

"...for in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he already has? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently."

...and it got me thinking, as humans we should always strive to maintain or hope and faith in God. Believing in things we may not see because of our faith in God. Take me for example, I live in a country I like to refer to as 'developing', as opposed to 'under developed' and you may ask why the difference- it's because I believe that someday we will become a developed nation. Some day we will overcome the plight of corrupt leaders and our governments inability to implement laws.

I say this, because when I think of all the recent developments been made, it gives me one simple thing - hope. Take a look at the following:

• Lekki Free Trade Zone: An initiative which originated during Bola Tinubu (former Lagos state governors) regime. Though it may take a couple of years to reach their goal, the idea of our government coming up with such an initiative and actually working on it (yep, i've passed by the area and work is being done) gives me - hope.

• Road Construction and development: We all know our naija roads are below par. With the numerous pot-holes and weak bridges i've driven on, it's amazing i'm still alive and without backaches (lol) Anyhoo, that said we have Hi-tech Construction company and our good old friends Julius Berger working on about 60% of major roads in our country, and building new roads and bridges to help ease traffic. Check out the links and the current projects in the country. This gives me - hope.

• Bar beach project: Don't know if y'all have heard, but our government is currently working on reclaiming part of the sea in Bar beach, V.I. to develop Eko Atlantic City - The New Lagos. Check out the CNN Inside Africa video on this. Again, this gives me - hope!

For all my Naijas across the continent, who may feel little or no hope for our nation; hope (lol) this gives you a bit of joy/excitement knowing our government is working on such initiatives. Granted, we may not live to see and enjoy the outcome of these projects, but we know our unborn children, grandchildren and great-grand children will surely live in a developed Nigeria.

Keep the hope alive y'all!

P.S: if the links don't work or aren't correct, just google search the project listed. I'm sure you'll find something on it. Forgive me, dont mean to be lazy, didn't verify each link. The internet speed and connection here can be sooo slow and annoying atimes. lol

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