The Cardiologist's Creed (a poem by my Dad)

Some people have stone where their heart should be

Callous, indifferent to the suffering of others

Others have their heart where their stones (Jewels) are

Greedy lovers of money and Killers for it

The ailments and worries of the heart are many 

Endocarditis, atherosclerosis, cardiomyopathy;

Anxiety, fear, depression, apprehension for the future

But of all heart diseases; heartlessness is the worst

When a cardiologist put a 20 year old heart inside a 90 year old body

Of course, sparks flew and exhaustion ensued

Check yourself- Do you have any heart condition?

Are you weighed down with sin, sorrow, sickness, sadness and shame?

Good news! - There is a cardiologist up there

He has the best cardiograph to read your heart

The sharpest scalpel for its surgical needs

And the surest prescription for all the damages

Why don't you give your heart to him today?

He is the best person to renew your weary soul

He can even give you a new heart for free

He is the greatest and the original Cardiologist

WWE

When I was young, maybe about 9 or 10 years old, back in Nigeria. I was a very ardent fan of the WWE. Back then it was still the WWF and of course I didnt know the fights are staged. Friends and I would watch Hulkhogan and the Ultimate Warrior's matches and at the end we would wonder why the belts they are fight for were so important to them. Eventually we'd conclude that the belts were made of gold, or why else would grown men beat each other up senselessly if it just an ordinary belt like you could by on the streets.

This is a Tosin's poem that I think is just brilliant

How can I walk alone
How can I dance alone
How can I swim alone
How can I advance alone
How can IHow can I know you offer your helpWhen you don't show your hand
How can I know you are readyWhen you don't stand from your sit
How can I know
How can I know you will walk with meWhen you are not by my side
How can I know you will dance with meWhen you refuse to move
How can I know you are ready to swim with meWhen you refuse to look at the water
How can I know you will fly with meWhen you took and cut off your wing
How can I know you are ready to advance with meWhen you have already find a resting place in the past
Now am walking, dancing, swiming, flying and advance aloneAnd you are calling, to join my butAm not God, it is too late.

Just a Gloomy Look at LIFE

 

There is no complete happiness in this life

No matter how successful we get

We always want more

So, what is the point of success?

Why do we struggle each day?

It’s an innate instinct to never quit

Always struggle and hustle

Until the day we die

 

Life is like a race

Only there is no finish line

We all start from the same starting line

Yeah! Right from the blast of the whistle

From the day we are born

We start racing!

We might stop to catch our breath

Or take a sip of water now and then

But, do we ever really stop running?

 

One success leads to another struggle to keep that success

Until that day that we cant struggle no more

That is where the only rest lies

In the graves, or in heaven if we make it there

It is therefore true that, “Ojo iku lojo isimi”

Retirement is in death

 

This is a rich man’s world

And life is a bitch, but it’s all we’ve got

Love helps us deal with life’s pain

But when Love fails, life overtakes and punishes us

Life’s struggle is like a race against a vacuum

You better keep running, or you’ll get sucked back in

Sometimes, life could feel like a punishment  

21 reasons

21 Reasons why kids born and raised in African Villages can survive anything:-
1. We survived being born to mothers who worked and walked in the Ultraviolet sun during pregnancy.
2. As infants we lay and crawl about with all kind of insects around us. We might have even eaten some of them that look delicious.
3. Now as little kids we walked miles to playgrounds and school, with no school bus, minivans or even bikes to carry us.
4. We are contented with just seeing cars ride by and waiving at them.
5. After playing for hours, we drink water from the flowing springs, no Gatorade or any form of purified drinks.
6. We share a bowl of dinner with the whole of our family. Might we have been sharing germs too?
7. We grew up on foods like fufu which are mainly carbs and we still aren’t overweight. Because we are always burning carbs working and playing.
8. Our play area is an average of five mile radius and we still would not get lost.
9. Since there is no weather forecast, we get soaked playing soccer too many times to be counted.
10. Without map-quest, we learn our ways around town by trial and error.
11. We farm around snakes and scorpions.
12. We did not have Play stations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms.......WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
13. We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth so many times and our parents did not file any lawsuit or get compensations for these accidents.
14. We dropped our foods on dusty and muddy floors, picked them up and eat them again, and we still did not die.
15. We wrestle each other on concrete floors, in the bush and on dusty grounds with no helmets or mats.
16. As teens, when we are out of the house, there is no cell phone for our parents to check if we are O.K.
17. When we act out in school, we get 12 stroke of the cane instead of detentions and suspensions.
18. Our parents, instead of suing the teacher for flogging us would actually side with the teacher and give us 6 more strokes of the cane.
19. And as newlyweds, our in-laws visit for as long as they, not we wish.
20. We learn to live in big cities, even though we were born in villages.
21. We survived all of the above.

Nigeria, Africa and the War on Terror

The cold war has ended and the war on terror has begun, but the basic tactics of the US foreign policy remains simple and the same. You are either friend or foe. A friend of our friend is a friend, while an enemy of our friend is an enemy. It is that cold war mentality that if you are for the communist you are an enemy.
Recently, Nigeria agreed to a nuclear deal with Iran in which the Iranians would provide information on nuclear technology to Nigeria. Nigeria has said that she could use a nuclear plant since its no news that Nigeria has power issues. The US on the other hand has said that a country like Nigeria could not handle Nuclear Technology. How are we going to deal with the cancer causing wastes? One might think how nice of the US to be very concern with Nigerians, but the US interest in Nigeria is big. The United States has 2 major interests in Nigeria, one in the North and the other in the South. The southern interest has to do with the Niger-Delta and it is Oil. The US get more than 10% of it oil from Nigeria (Niger-Delta), and we all know what happens to oil prices here if some Niger-Delta militant does as much as sneeze. It’s no secret that the US is addicted to oil, President Bush himself said it. The US is like a crack addict with lots of big guns. He’ll do whatever he can to get his fix, especially if the crack dealer refuses to sell to him. The politicians are beginning to recognize this. They know that a continue addiction to foreign oil would bring the country nothing but unnecessary wars. Because, think about what the crack addict in my analogy above would do with his guns, especially if the crack dealer only have knifes. He would grab one of his big guns, maybe a double barrel and pay the dealer a visit. He would first blow the knob of his door, ransack his house until he found the stash and shoot anybody that try to get in his way. This is why the democrats are looking for alternatives, since they are anti-war and all.
The northern interest for the US is about the war on terror. Since the northern population is mainly Muslim, it would be easy for the Jihadists to turn them against the US. So, the US had to guard against this. The Iranian on their part enters into this nuclear pact with Nigeria to antagonize their enemy (The USA) and counter their influence in Nigeria, and also to prove their point that all nations have the right to this technology.
From here, there are 2 options for Nigeria to follow. We can either become pro-US or continue on this path of provoking the US by making nuclear deals with their enemies and refusing their intelligence stations (AFRICOM) on our soil. Their classic response to this as history has shown would be a regime change attempt. They might succeed as it happened with the Abacha regime. They would remove the hostile regime and put a pro-US guy like that former Abia state Governor: Kalu. Regime change is one of US favorite weapons against smaller nations. I remember telling someone that Mugabe would be long gone if Zimbabwe have oil like Nigeria or Iraq. Although, it might be impossible even for the mighty USA to remove a regime backed by its people, the people power can not be underestimated. Even though the US was backing Samuel Doe, he was still defeated by the people. Even in Iraq where majority of the people oppose Saddam, it all had to result in a war for regime change to happen.
In this post-9/11 war on terror, the US has anti-terror interests all over Africa, especially in the horn, because of their closeness to the Middle East. An Obama administration would automatically deliver Kenya completely to the US side of the War. Somalia on the other hand would remain a battle ground. Sudan is pretty much anti-US, and Egypt seems to be in the center. Pretty much all of West Africa is pro-US. Qaddafi seems to be doing his thing in Libya. He use to be very anti-US, helping Charles Taylor and his men defeat the US backed Samuel Doe. His influence in sub-Sahara Africa is bigger than most people might think. I remember a story I read in a Nigerian newspaper years ago. The President of Togo had asked Obasanjo for money to pay his workers. Obasanjo denied him, saying that Nigerians needed the money. So, he went to Qaddafi and got a fat check. Months later when Togo was hosting some kind of African summit and all African leaders were present; Obasanjo was treated like shit, while Qaddafi received a hero’s welcome. Togo’s President had told his people the story and had basically told the workers who paid their salaries and who had denied them money.
A US assistant secretary of state had once said that when it come to dealing with Africa, he had to do what his best for the US even if it hurts Africa since it is the American tax-payers that pays his salaries and not the Africans. I wonder why many of our leaders don’t feel the same way, after-all they are embezzling all of our money. There is a Yoruba proverb that says that wherever two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers the most. How many bombs were dropped on US or Russian soil during the cold war? How many was dropped on Vietnamese and Koreans? This time, it is the war on terror. I think Africans should be asking ourselves weather we want to be the grass in that Yoruba proverb.

styyle

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