July 26 - the birth of an Eagle!

As at 12.00am today, the 26th of July 2007, I have successfully began seeing the last day of 25, 365 days…that is approximately 8900days! Whoa! I have been around for quite a while hah!

I suddenly don have much to write contrary to what I thought but maybe I could attribute that to sleepiness. We’ll see at sunrise if the zeal returns. Not seeing ‘family’ for about four (4) years now has really crippled me and I ma do ma best not to increase that count. Call me a narcissus but, I hold high respect for the month of July….much more for the twenties of the month. It is a very unique month in the history of human struggle for independence, freedom and self sustenance; I will not delve into that for now.

For the first time I met someone who shared the exact same birthday with me…I have always wanted to meet such but, suffice it to say that this particular human was way of out ma league – I wont give the relationship a name but, calling it ‘levels’ will just do. Maybe I will shade that trash and give him a hug! It is not a common thing to be born on July 26 you know!

The purpose of ma being around is to put smiles in the face of many and liberate nations. That is ma sole responsibility here on earth and this wasn’t ma idea or maps. It was fore-planned. Two nations were celebrating liberation from the qualms of colonial masters the day I was liberated from a nine months incubation period. My star was already shining bright. Liberia in July 26, 1847 received independence and went on to become the first African Independent nation to be a republic.

On July 26, 1965, Maldives also gained independence from former British colonialists! I will not continue to blabber about July 26 events……a lot of resources abound online.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_26 should be a practical resource.

July 26 according to ma personal research is a month that singers, film icons, revered public figures, renowned writers, psychics and the likes, were born. I must make ma own mark! There I go into astrology…psychics bullshit about it tho but, star, sun positions and all that crap in relation to births are forreal! they even biblical...or what ever 'good' books folks use.


In summary for my fake-arse babbles, I wanna give a SHOUT OUT to GoD! I am ever so grateful to ma MAKER for programming the timing this day for ma birth. I am more grateful that I can see it in good health, vigor, enthused, sane and bleh!…..It has added a kick to ma ‘uniquity’- sic. If nothing else happens today, I shall be even happier that I spent some time with him and committed ma history to his craftiness…..HE knows what I mean.

Sometime, I will go down in history too as one of the ‘strong’ men of July 26…the world is waiting for ma revelation!

A SHOUT OUT!

Yesterday was the future disguised
Struggling to live as life slipped by
Vague became dreams
Hope became hoaxed
Will was wasted with wishes
As fate played its solemn dirge

Swimming in a sea of delusions
Making sweet connotations
Love, lust and much staring for opening
Yet, Intent lured just plain cognitions

The stage was set for cessations
Admirers so oblivious
That game had long ended
But none cared or dared
That heartthrob was headed for the gallows

You say you’re a bridge from Him to me
I say you were a star to re-ignite a glow
An illumination so intense,
Those dark days wore white veils

So shall the story be
That she nursed an ailing dream
Healed albeit ignorantly
Re-birthed a honorable cause
And made family an apparent destitute

-Ub


HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRIS!!!

Water flavoured water!

Did you know that the mouth has got poles? Yeah, I said it! In the course of my conversation with somebody about some stomach complications that I had, I was told that maybe, a ‘scope’ has to be done. Goodness, gracious me! What the heck is a scope done on a human being? That has to be disgusting and boy! I was right. It is something where an Analyst has to ‘scope’ some tissue of the human body for test. This is done they say by putting stuff into one or both of the human mouths. I have always known that humans had just one mouth except for the ones that are ‘limited special Editions’.

It is natural that when I learnt that one of the mouths is termed ‘Southern’…Geez! And the mouth was a polar organ too? Well, southern mouth happens to be located somewhere in the ‘human posterior extension’ aka, the Arse, ass, anus, passing-motion-outlet, fart-valve, shyter, itid-uruan, buttocks…etc. What the heck is wrong with them doctors and the issue of confusing patients with vocabulary?

Ininghe said en-course chatting that she was drinking Grapefruit-flavoured water! What in geeez name is that? Shouldn’t that be like Grapefruit juice? Well, an argument ensued. Needless to say who won? Water is water, anything added changes the name. It only then becomes an Ingredient….hahaha...my philosophy is toosh! Why don’t we go ahead and can call every other drink water-flavored? I mean we have water content in any drinks so to speak.
I shall not dwell more on that. My brain output capacity is saying that I accept things the way it is for the time being and maybe, go out and shop for some flavoured water. Maybe that could make me want to drink the eight-glasses-a-day quota.

..a sequel, .Diddy and a 105˚ highness, howz that!

Call me a prophet of doom but, I tend to smell things as far as I can see them! – Whatever that means.

I was pretty positive that I would return with updates about the 2007 THISDAY music festival in Nigeria. This time guess whoz sick this time. Uncle P. Diddy! Dig that! This bruda got sick! Of what? FEVER! Ignore the exclamations. Im just almost bewildered that my predictions are almost becoming sleek. Graciously, this one got hit with a 105˚ ‘they’ say back in the states but, fortunately, Nigerians again are basking in the glory for getting Diddy that ‘high’! Itz kindda ironic that with that level of 'highness' we are not hearing about a lawsuit for arson...hmmm.

Rounds of ‘beefs’ has it that, it is an aftermath of the terrible hangover after consuming our iconic Local Palmwine in gracious quantities….that shit is a bummer! Its sweetness and high vitamins contents, trick you into 'bingeing' like a bitch till you are sweetly high. Other sources say that they must have took warnings about dangers of drinking local water on National Geographic so seriously that they ended up dehydrated like camels in Saudi Arabia. The overall success of the whole event which I was looking forward to learn has been albeit temporarily hazed by news of ‘getting high and fainting’. How did Legend do? Shakira - yu supposed to be the one doing the shakin! UB40! Missy, hope she aint gonna mess up too, argh!

...hope this distractors go off air for a while so we can hear story.

We had ‘hard’ men in the likes of Snoop, Jay Z, ‘to the left, to the left…’, among other stunts render a almost hitch free concert in the maiden edition last year. What happened to this breed that was much more promising? Was the vaccination and quarantine sections of the US and Nigerian Immigration too busy involved in organising the festival?

I must confess that I was taken aback! The news of mischief that I was kindda rooting for was along the line of poor management, logistics, audience control and maybe, NEPA! …but, WHOA! We are rising over trademark setbacks and renting the stage in exchange for foreign income…talk about entrepreneurial psychics and celeb-drama in Nollywood!

beautiful wealthy, violent rich?

'...Beautiful women obtain wealth and, violent men become rich..' prov 11:16(NLT)

After reading that phrase in THE book, My mind went wild...as opposed to violent-kindda-wildness anyways! I was like ...'WHAT'! What concept did this Solomon David of a guy try to promote? For sure he couldnt just have meant to promote thuggery and gangsterism and all sorts of other social vices that violence is traditionally thought to be related to.

Well, looking at it objectivally, I had a 'perspiration'...nay, inspiration! The book of Proverbs ( Im not promoting religion now, I actually dont have one....like I always say, I believe in God, and I believe in Jesus.); allows me to belief that it is a very clear-cut guide to any young person who is trying to 'get-smarter' in this smart-arsed world. I always thot of THE book as a very religious piece until I begin finding sayings like that on its pages. It gives counsel about almost any/everything to any/everyone....(babblers and psychos....run your mouths now...its ya game from here)

I am fond of digressing, a serious setback! .....now, about the 'perspiration' I received after reading the phrase, I found maself asking, what is beauty, what is wealth, what is violence and what is rich? The answer 'intuition' gave me to this question, gave me a very invaluable insight. I didnt need to use the dictionary and would suggest that similar seekers of this answer refrain same when getting answers.

When I showed this phrase to one of my ever persistent-analyser-debater-nonbelievinginshit housemate, his response displayed not just usual human 'narrow'-mindedness but the need for him to, albeit superlative-human-intelligence-and-mindset, 'ask and answer'!

I feel that anybody that was perplexed as I was about such an advice found in a holy book would receive similar or broader enlightenment by answering same.

.... and about violent men being rich,......argh! I love them riches!

and Kelly Rowland had to faint in a Nigerian music concert!...psst.

I have been putting my ears to the floor in anticipation of the outcome of the just 2007 THISDAY music festival that was held in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria. I wouldnt deny the fact that I wasnt expecting mischief even in the slightest disguise.

Well, ma hopes were confirmed today when it came in the news that singing beauty, one of my favourites, Kelly Rowland fainted on stage while performing! Why do these people always have a way of making us famous!

For Heaven's sake a doctor should have performed a 'medical' on her before letting her even sniff the Mic especially when she would be doing that in a 15000 people capacity facility in our great NIGERIA. Itz almost like the media must always have a run for news when Nigerian hosted events are involved.

On the bright side, that an International icon of her status should be resusitated in a medical facility in Nigeria and not flown abroad in one of those standby private jets is a benchmark achievement/event!....We need to hear out her hospital ordeal too, maybe that might warrant a commendation on the hospital...who knows? The world needs to know that we have modern hospitals....and doctors...not just witch-doctors.

...and Kelly, next time you are perfoming in a concert in a tropical climate, PLEASE consume a lot of fluid, our local palm wine coulda given you the vocal edge plus stamina....besides, satchets of 'pure' water in Nigeria only cost like 5 Nigerian bucks! (the equivalent of 0.04USD)...doesnt anybody tell our 'sing' models these kindda things! for goodness sake, among those breeze of hunks who pose as personal security, you could employ one or two that took first aid lessons as doubles and save our dear Nigerians the embarassment next time as well as give them a run for the N50,000 bucks the paid to appreciate your talent.

....and, I still love you.....thank you...for giving me something to run ma mouth for. I might return with more festival updates.

...for the Right-brained

With the enormous work-load of things that I plan to do today online, I sheepishly found the drive to follow a tickle link with their endless tests. This one caught ma interest, It would tell me If I primarily used my left or right brain to think.....guess what, Im RIGHT_BRAINED!

Well, what the heck....im am right-brained so what! They went ahead to prophesy. said something about maths but, i think geometry wouldnt be ma forte when it comes to mathematics, im more of a equations person. Iactually agree with them on me seeing things from a totally different perspective from everyone else...but, isnt everybody that unique!

well, ....the link for this tickle shitz n' stuffz explains it all, I'll try in ma little effort to save bandwith. Check it out!(http://web.tickle.com/tests/brain/result.jsp?PREMIUM=Y&test=brainogt)

..a shoutout to The Matthews'!

'...love, a word that comes and goes.....yet, only a few folks really have a grasp of what the heck the word means...'

Browsing through ma personal files in ma luggage lately, I was able to personify and paint a picture of what real love could/should look like. It came in the form of letters....yeah...painfully hand-drafted missives with postage stamps on it! ow much more could you personify love in this info-age!

I was just looking for some old audio tapes i had to listen to some cherished vibes but spent the entire evening reading and re-reading and sobbing intermittently at how bad life has made me be. Those beautiful correspondence should never have stopped...not even with a 24 hour internet connection at home and all the instant messaging and emailing jifferies.

Once in a while, one needs to go open the mail box and actually find some hand written letter from a loved one and not just some junk shitz from over-zealous sales-people.

I remember reading one from one of ma kid-bros, I have three handsome bros and three swwwwwwwwwweet sisters and havnt seen them in what seems like ages.

There was this phrase that made me feel like a very bad person, yet, made me also laugh hysterically...it said something like,....'what has got into you that has made you so proud that you never have written me personally?......' It was so authoritative from ma bro who was just a growing hunk when i left home.

Those letters are treasures, when I begin to weigh the trust and hope that my family and relatives have on me, I dread to mis-behave....this has been ma 'check-bit' while I am away from family. I am not gonna dissapoint any of them.

The fact that I have not been communcating with you guys often is not intentional, I know y'll feel what im trying to say but it is no excuse to so-to-speak. I will find a way to make up and promise to catch up with you guys on all these years that dreams has robbed us of.

I love all of you very much

• Ememobong - girlfriend, i miss you like crazy...have you ever thot of getting your intl passport fixed, dont you think itz time to do some travelling?
• Enobong - your name says it all sweet, you are truly a gift to the family. Stop at nothing in excelling to the shame of haters..did you go for the THISDAY music festival in Lagos? I wouldnt wannaa miss that!
• Abas - tight man! Im feeling your waves from here. Thank you for walking in ma shoes. you will be looked up unto...never let the dreams die, it tarries but is sure to manifest!
• Ib boy - man, you should come online sometime letz talk....forgive me...about yur football dreams, im with yu 100%. im gonna send you soccer boots as a soon as I can ship 'em.
• Nsikak - Dude! we share the same birth-month and I believe in you as a GREAT man, no matter what!
• Uyime - babegurl, I heard you grown into a tall beautiful damsel, how could life make me miss that!

Mama and Papa, you guys are the best in the whole world, I ma make you guys proud of me...I feel so save and secured when I think of how much times you guys are in your knees talking to Jesus about ma well-being. He is taking good care of me, dont worry much. May God continue to bless yu with wealth and health...

the shoutout also goes to all The Matthews' lovers al over the world..you guys are gems...may GOD make you tight....Amen

2007 music festival in Nigeria...

It is an auspicious day in Nigeria today and tommorow (150707 and 160707). At the 15000 capacity Lekki Events center in Lagos with a big ass 5000 cars parking lot, a consortium of super and local stars will be gracing the 2nd THISDAY music festival. The roll call includes folks like,

• Shakira(what kindda equipments did she have to bring that made her use two planes to fly into Nigeria? bringing equipments in with an Airbus! geeez! money power..)
• P. Diddy - A private jet!hmmm...
• UB 40
• Rihanna
• Kelly Rowland
• John Legend!....I wanna hear this one!
• NeYo...did I get that one right! whoa!
• Tuface - our budding international champion
• and a host of other emerging local artistes

Not only this brighthen my smiles that Private bodies are doing tha quota in promoting Music and tourism in Ma dear Country, It also makes me marvel at the calibre of artistes that are performing at this event.....This is raw 'WADADA'! Not even the 50000, 25000 and 10000 naira range of tickets justifies the means of housing all these icons under one roof. The ticket sales should not accrue to anything less than 200000000 million Naira ( about $1.6million USD!) all things being equal.

and then for the event to be opened by the vice president of the federal republic of Nigeria as well as the Lagos State governor..I wouldnt expect anything much less tho...banks are even open on a sunday to sale tickets...wtf!

Last year's maiden festival had the likes of Beyonce, Jay Z, Snoop Dogg, Missy Elliot, Ciara amongst others featuring.

For all I know....Lagos is HOT now...very HOT!

12 bucks...

I was a victim of an organised scam today....guess what! It wasnt the famed Nigerian scam but a consortium of Malaysian 'go-gos'.

After walking the perimeter of the supposedly the Biggest shopping complex in south east Asia, looking for a shop to fix ma broken guitar, I chanced upon a Mega sales in one of the departmental shops and decided to take a pip.

Well, the first ploy was that I had to get a 'member's' card before I was allowed entry! I couldnt even bloody 'look' at them 'hot' deals if i didnt pay, whoa!

well,....I obliged...I wouldnt let 12 bucks ruin any top-flight bargains that might be lurking around in this SALES. The first mistake the folks made was to print ma name wrongly on ma discount card. On a good day, I'd overlook it but not after I am coaxed into getting a discount card that I might not need much...the bummer is that I would have to pay 12 bucks yearly to renew it....not an issue!

Those kindda shopping sprees are crazy and the faint hearted should not attempt trying to look at the prices, at 70% minus all the business and political bullshit, most of the prices of things in ma opinion were ridiculously low. You could see chains of queues trying to give their hard-earned dough to the stakeholders of Jusco Shopping center...I bet many woulda fought just to be allowed to pay for their merchandise.

Well, ma legs were almost giving in on me after the long stroll, with limited funds and a maxed card, I was in a dilema deciding what to buy...everything seemed a pretty good deal but I would not let ma good jugdement stand in the way, I was gonna be very meticulous for once in a lifetime!

I ended up making it a 'shoe' day! some deals were too good to think twice, I went away with two pairs, football boot plus miscellanous items that included a table tennis set! The 12 bucks that will be 'stolen' from me yearly now goes to a good course when I look at the stack of ma shooping bags...I hope future sales can carry 100% discount tag and be pre-empting enough to grab the attention of innocent chaps like me unawares.

Well, I can walk around in ma shoes and play table tennis while figuring out how to live through July now that I am officially broke at the beginning of the month.....may God help us feeble-minded.

...salient reflections..

'.... a youth who sleeps away the hour of opportunity brings shame...'

I suddendly confirmed that i have the fetish for success and would dedicate much just to see it come to pass. The days of boredom are almost over. There is too much for me to do now..The problem lies in the fact that things that manufacture dough is not yet running, so, entreprenuers might call me a time -waster.

I am a self-acclaimed opportunist....today, i got the shock of the month when i saw that particular phrase while browsing through the good book! '... a youth who sleeps away the hour of opportunity brings shame....'Proverbs 10:5b(NLT).That was a bummer! something I want to ponder upon....wonder how many hours of opportunities that i have slept away! I gotta be extra alert if I want to retain ma title as an opportunist and live it out with viable evidences.

This holiday is bitter-sweet, it will be all-sweet if I am able to get on that plane before things get crazy again. It is pure-undeflied fun to get up and sleep at whatever time yu desire....I have to readjust ma body clock so i dont do any permanent damage. Im like a confirmed nocturnal being now...thanks to 'ininghe...' sometimes, I am up from dusk till dawn till morning......doing all sorts of crazy things.

Scrabble has successfully become my new-found passion...the game gets sweeter and sweeter by the day, despite the fact that I am yet to win my first game. Im playing with a 'self-acclaimed' pro and, apart from using up too much time inbetween playing words, I aint doing so badly afterall! I dont care if this dude has been playing all his life, and I started playing like, three days ago, I just wanna beat him silly...that is the kindda stock that I am made of...always wanting the spot-light especially when wits are involved...never finding solace in failure....not matter how disguised she is....god help me...

I got a bummer when I read in the 'good book' about summer and how shameful i'd be if i slept through hours of opportunities.

I wouldnt say that I have wasted too many opportunities this summer break...I have tried to play hard and embark on these self-improvement stunts so I can stay on 'check'.

The activities lined up are enormous. This period of 'chilling' has slowly began to see make me see ma forte, I doubt that 'engines and circuits' are top of the list. Despite the fact that everything screams 'dough!'.....I will wait until ma change comes....

......Of NiGerIA and HOPE!

It is slowly becoming a habit, everyday I slowly turn on the computer and load google and do three things….

1. type ‘nigeria’ into the search window and start ravaging news about ma homeland from almost every source that cares to report shitz n' stuffz.
2. type ‘akwa ibom’ – the name of my beloved state into the search window and digest the news that contains.
3. type ‘godswill akpabio’ – my state governor in which I happen to believe very much in into the search window and beging ma day dreaming and analysis.

I can then do other things in peace like check mails, chat and research and lately blog. I always find it very frustrating though reading news from home ever since the election period. There is never enough news especially about my Akwa Ibom State. Itz even more frustrating when I read about Nigeria and find that the news is saturated by reports of kidnapping which previously was an excuse to getting attention and is slowly turning into lucrative business for hungry and maybe, lazy boys who want to do ‘…..what a man’s gotta do in order to survive’ Just get a few boys, arm them with ammo, get them to kidnap any foreign oil worker and demand for a ransom of 60Million Naira. I hope the government will have the discernment to nip this problem at the bud before it becomes another ‘Nigerian myth’ – we have a handful already with the alleged ‘Nigerian email scam’ and all!

It is like everyday I wake up and hope that there will be a MIRACLE particularly in my state and Nigeria as a whole. I dream of my state as a paradise which I will be able to proudly show off to ma foreign friends that I meet as I travel around the globe and even other Nigerians from other states. I think of it as a model state with will synthesize and spearhead the economic and infrastructural development of Nigeria as a country. when I think about the fastest way to m ove Nigeria forward, I shudder because the method would be drastic as it would take a lot of waste of time and resources to get 140 million folks and counting of diverse languages, customs and religious inclination to agree to a 'foul-proof' method of moving our nation forward. Like I will always say, we have a lot to Learn from Malaysia. We should literally 'copy and paste' Malaysia...in ma sick opinion. but, as my favourite quote says '...hope is a good thing to hold on to...'

I refuse to think that all the natural resources that God has endowed us with are curses…we are meant to manage and enjoy them to the best of our ability. I can slowly see patriotism and politics sneak into ma blog, but, what-to-do! Maybe this is what the stuffz is about in the shitz n’ stuffz, maybe vice versa.

Hope is the best thing that I do for Nigeria now, I hope to contribute to laying a strong foundation for my dreams about Nigeria to be realized in the nearest future by supporting a model to evolve through which others will learn from and Follow suit – Akwa Abasi Ibom State!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NSIKAK!!!

Yesterday was a great day, most of my worries were abated, today is a better day, tomorrow is the best day!

One of the benefits of living in south-east Asia is that you get to see what other parts of the world will only begin seeing about 6 to 7 hours later or more. You know how folks make fuss outta every single incidence that has any significant undertone? I was alarmed to find out while browsing throught he pages of one of the national dailies that tomorrow, today is 07 -07 – 07.

That would have totally skipped ma mind had it not been posted in the papers, It could have been cruel to forget because, in may whole family, the only person that shares the same birth-month with me is my last brother who is turning I think 19 today!. Wow! He a big boy now…I cannot believe that ma baby brother is actually 19! Well, HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROH!!! You were born in a great month and it is spectacular this year 070707. May yu grab all the luck and favor that a day this special can bring to a single human being all things being unequal…MAY YUR WILDEST DREAMS COME TRUE….and make you into a formidable force that will take up your generation by force. Amen.

..and I heard this fussing about the new seven wonders of the world being revealed today 07-07-07 after a series of worldwide votes casted by millions of people in the world through various media. The program which is hosted by a Swiss company is aiming to outphase the previous seven wonders which many argued was not voted ‘wonders’ out of a unianimous agreement, hence their quest to make this new list a people’s list.

It’s a shame that I cant boast to be able to memorise all the soon-to-phase-out seven wonders of the world, It doesn’t really matter anymore does it? I will save some space in memory to commit the new list while hoping that no body comes up with an ulterior list any time soon. Just for record sake, the wonders I just looked up http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/list.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_World are;

1. the great pyramid of Giza – Egyptians
2. the hanging Gardens of Babylon
3. the temple of Artemis in Ephesus
4. the statue of Zeus in Olympus
5. the Mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicanassus
6. the Colossus of Rhodes
7. the Lighthouse of Alexandria
   
   Some of these ‘must-see’ sites are man-made structures with utmost classical antiquity. While some are still standing as at date, others have been eventually destroyed by natural and man made mistakes.
   
   Seven is believed to be a wholesome number – a number of perfection and completion for those that are into this shitz n’ stuffz, so, being from a beautiful family of seven kids, I just cant wait to count the blessings that are gonna be poured out on me and me kids n folks them. Hope is a good thing to hold unto. Nsikan Matthews, you are a very favoured and blessed child, yu are a perfection and completion, my your horn be lifted this day forward and forever…Amen! HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGAIN! Grow SmArT! God bless you!

belly talk...

'...Yu delivered me from the valleys of the shadow of death.....and kept me from evil...'

Life is a journey, itz an expedition, heck! Itz a mystery! Other wise, why are there so many questions that don’t have straight up answers? We tend to study and predict, indict, contradict, and extinct the laws of common sense. Nobody is just wise, experience is the best wisdom teacher, study all yu want!

Digression! I don’t tend to want to indulge in that thot, it could be a thesis.
While on the last lap of solving Mr. Rubix’s cube, I got so frustrated that I decided to hit sack, it never happened, all my projections was marred by pain, excruciating abdominal pain I mean. It has happened to me in that at three instances in my sojourn here on earth, I vividly remember each instance on the back of ma fingers, therez nothing I wouldn’t want to do to take the pain away – not even surgical operation!

Doctors have cooked up intelligent names for it but none could find the reason or an answer, it remained a guess game, some wanted to name it Appendicitis but the symptoms proved them wrong, Gastric was also ruled out. One wanted to dissect me for same anyway, thank God for making the stubborn type, itz been useful sometimes!

One Dr. Viji, an Indian guru, almost healed me by engaging me in a biological talk about the issue, explaining all the organs in ma digestive system, how they function and attempting to draw it on my prescription note. I swear! Memories of Mrs. Ukpong Ma Biology Professor, started pouring into ma thots stream, she coulda been proud of me now, I was more literate than I am known to be. As therapy, suggested that I eat breakfast, avoid spicy food, curry, and most of all that I should think about my girlfriend and I will be just fine – what ever made him feel that I had one…..(ininghe should read this one!) - HOW COOL IS THAT FOR A DOCTOR!
You, all that doctor terms, ‘passing motion’ – for goodness sake! that thing is called ‘Shitting’ or ‘Uduan’ if you are the more polite type. (Akwa Ibomites would appreciate this joke more).

When the medical bills were surging in a private clinic, I decided to go and bear the rigors of the Public funded hospital, which was of course by the recommendation Dr. Viji when he projected too when he witnessed the pain that someone might just need to cut me open and find out what the heck causing this horrendous pain to this sweet boy…… Dr Ahmed was nice too, same old shitty tests, blood, urine, temperature, x-ray, and nothing is wrong with me! Dr. Viji also commented that in India I woulda been a specimen for medical students….I almost believed him!

I could also count the number of times that I have tripped to a hospital in my entire life, it was bare - x-ray for college medical tests and the fact that I was born there were the only incidences I remember prior to visiting Asia. I dunno what it done to me, now; I am advised to lay off most Asia cuisine, how cruel!

The funny thing about me having this abdominal crushes is that it makes me into a baby - yeah, I said it! Folks might be wondering, this dude with all the muscles being this smitten, even sicker folks had to wait for doctors to jab some morphines into ma ass to alleviate the pain a lil bit.

The fact that I wanna write about this shit is amazing, the point is that I am ever so grateful to God who has been healing me all this years and keeping me healthy and kicking even when I can be so careless at times in regards to my wel-being...and Doctors can at least find a name to whatever is manufacturing pains in there.

To also appreciate those little and big angels who do one or the other to keep me alive including the ones that give me free medical lectures as a healing therapy. This helps me continue to carry out my earthly functions which include putting lasting smiles on faces of people that I meet daily amongst other functions. Tusen Takk!!!

Mr. Rubix

Waking up everything is more a routine now, at times wondering how to make the day worthwhile occupies ma thots the whole and I end up doing just that, ‘figuring out’. I keep telling maself to get ma lazy butt up and doing and yet, ma body says, don’t yu need a break? I tend to agree to disagree. Life had been a drag for the past couple of months…itz been pure-rough-thug-hussler living. Hope has been word for some ‘bout now.
I quest of in-toto body work aka self improvement has caged me like a wild animal. For once, I am learning things that would actually be useful in living life in today’s world. Business language, Business creation, Opportunities, ‘Ininghe’s’ Language, the guitar, the keyboard, the Rubix cube, African History, body sculpt, Emotional Intelligence, and other miscellaneous shitz n’ stuff.
Itz been a journey, one of self discovery and appreciation to ascertain how ready I am to formally join the corporate world formally.
I might be what folks used to term as ‘Jack of all trades’, the cliché is that I am actually in the process of mastering some!
I went to a friend’s sometime fix last week and immediately I stepped in, I set ma eyes on a Rubix cube, something I always wanted to explore after watching Will Smith fix the Rubix Cube puzzle in a scene in the film “ The Pursuit of Happyness’. How ironic! I am also in same chase. That influence and the challenge from my man ‘Ek’ that I would never solve the cube in two weeks got ma adrenaline pumping and nothing was gonna stop me from doing this ‘colored’ cube, not even time! Itz kindda hilarious because even when I started trying to fix it, I had no idea what the ‘cube’ thing was called, some dude had to help me out with the name to commence the research.

Today, the 6th Day of July, 2007, I, Ub Matthews fixed the Rubix Cube, now, howz that for a record! Hahahahahha. It took me exactly one week and approximately more than 72 hours amidst other activities to put this ‘CUBE’ together. Itz been research, itz been permutations, logic, frustrations, but all that don’t weigh to the joy that permeated ma world when I turned the last level of the cubies and they just fell into place! I was ecstatic, and slowly let out some screams and squeaks. If yu would ask me, I would say that I am HAPPY!..I looked forward in ma vain life to this day…hmmm. all thanks to http://www.chessandpoker.com/rubiks-cube-solution.html, i found incredible aid from this site.

I’ve have this picture in ma mind for so long to start and complete a project for once that determination gave me needed edge. Been cursing and stuff each time I neared victory and blew it, all that was for the mastering, I might just embark on that sometime.

The Rubix is a rotateable cube that has nine (9) colored squares that make up each side of the cube (cubies). It was invented in 1974 by Erno Rubix who became the richest dude in Hungary, his country at that time; I hear the dude is still alive and kicking up weirder games. The objective is to rotate the cube until same color of square appears respectively on the six different sides of the cube. There are so many ways of solving it and that makes it kindda frustrating to fix, any wrong rotation, twists your ‘gray matter’ only just further, one should expect cursing slipping out if yu are as meticulous as moi is.

july 4th musings

The sweet/irritating sensation of an itchy eye coupled with irregular sleeping patterns and ‘Ininghe’ has been ma time machine for quite some while now; waking me up in the wee hours at every stroke.
There are like a thousand things to be done of a sudden, the quest for knowledge is really having a toll on me! Does anyone know have a clue on how captivating, frustrating and time-consuming this feat might be? Especially when yu think yu’ve got it all under control.

Mr. Rubix suddenly decided to join forces in tormenting me and my intellect is being taken on a wild goose chase. I am almost conducting a research on all the possible ways of fixing this ‘damned’ cube and will make so much noise on completion…..believe it or not! Many bitches and high, have all concentrated loads of internet pages to offer ultimate guided solutions to unraveling the mystery of the Rubix cube but, I am either quite distanced from this pool of wits or this solutions are not intoto. The frustrations involved in fixing this ‘shithead’ cube clearly explains why the lowly art/design dude, Mr. Rubix back in the days was shot in fame and impeccable wealth with his invent – the Rubix cube. Lord! This shit made him the richest chap in communist Hungary back in the days…tsk tsk tsk.

With the advent of the worldwideweb, information becomes very readily available, talk about ‘google!’ itz like literally having ‘em do all he complex thinking now and having ‘good-‘ol’ brain take a sabbatical! Perfectly defining a summer holiday. I kindda underestimated the efficacy of the www, limited it to searching for ‘desserts’ until I found a whole collection of ‘main-course recipe’ in its pages.

Now, I ‘google’ for literally everything – random names, old college mates, countries, images - dont get that twisted…., world news, weirdos, revolution of Nigerian politics and democracy, akwa ibom news/development, shitz n’ stuffz, itchy eyes….name it. Yeah, recently, I ran google on 26th July! Can yu dig that! Yeah, itz ma birthday and I am so obsessed with it. It was a Monday…precisely at dawn, as a cute/healthy 3 pound baby was given the first breath of his own, the Rolling Stones were celebrating this birth in the Wembley Stadium in their first ever performance there, I recall my mama tell me this some years ago.
Been searching offline for people and events that occurred on this date to connect with little success. The book I am currently reading, ‘The state of Africa by Martin Meredith, happens to be enlightening me of the many many interesting events that happened in Africa in July, 1982 to be precise…how obsessive!
This search nonetheless gave me very lovely buddies, I mean I was an instant buddy of anything July! If it came close to the 26 the better!

I could babble about this for ages but yeah, the first thing that struck me on the google pages was the subtle fact that July 26 also happens to be the independence day of Maldives and Liberia...how cool! It also happens to be a date in the Cuban and Indian history. It struck me however, that when I looked up answer.com for events on July 26, 1982 to be exact, it was ‘conveniently’ missing…there was always a skip between 1981 and 1983….and that tells me that ma name waits to be engraved in the annals of time, the question is, one what avenue?......hmmm…time will tell!

July 26, 1982 is not a very auspicious date but the salient events occurred that will shake the nations captivates me….call that obsession, narcissism or whatever, I am one of those ‘shakers! Oh shit! Today is July 4th and, owing to my current location, I happen to live and see the Independence Day of the most powerful nation on earth before folks over there does! They wont be seeing the strike of this 'sweet blessed' day in anything less than 5-6 hours later.

I will have to research more on this subject - July. It is quite much written already, I thot I could post about my itchy eyes but don’t wanna post such long boring details all at a go. I’l have to do this again soon…..shalom!

Poiema

The brilliance of full moon illuminates
a beautiful skyline of lover's day
the rays of the night-sun reveals a shadow
hiding sarcastically from love and life

The wind whistles hope
anopheles' sing freedom,
silence listens to reason
occasonally, laughter steals a moment

The emotions are high
tears are tired
words are sowed
a sweeet friendship is sealed

The time has timed
and love has soared
though we are thought as nought
we have tried to be tied

The full moon weans another
a reminscence trails a story
i count the stars and wish on it
that so much may your blessings be.

-Ub-