Pal,
today, i pause!
i've really been enjoying the bombastic rhetoric between the US (Bush especially) and the countries like Iran! for me it all shows how stupid human beings can be! it's sickening to still be bedeviled with threats of war, removal of teeth with a pair of pliers and chopping off of heads with hack-saws! and then what?
the world has come a damn long way! from the days of BC to AD. from the days of Solomon and his countless concubines to this present day King Nswati and his annual parade of virgins! from the days when almost the whole of Europe was at war because of Religious doctrines - beliefs???? (Catholic vs Protestants) to these present day's Rwanda and Bosnia!
we are even told that we are to blame for the death of one Jesus! JeeeeeeeeeeeSUS!
and yet, we have come from civilizations which even today we hardly can fathom how developed man could be if only our energies are harnessed properly! I talk about the Pyramids of Cairo's Giza! and man is wonderful indeed!
So today i share a thought for Neda, and i share a thought for Neda not because of the post-humorous publicity she's suddenly gained but because she represents a case in history just as millions and millions of others who died for making their voices know!
and at this juncture, for a juxtapose; aah! I REMEMBER!!! i remember Galileo Galilei who could not stand his ground for the fear of his life. i don't fault him, for my grandmother used to tell me that "to listen is better than to sacrifice"! whatever that means! peace on that man too, but surely a thought for Neda!!!
Iran must rise!
Iran must kick those religious foolish heads out of town now! and if it means many more Neda's will die, so be it! why sacrifice a whole nation of 'varied and different' (yeah, that! those two words put together must carry something) people of different perceptions of this same world.
who at all is believing that he or she must control the spirit of men and women lest they face the whip????????? which whip Pal?????? i don't know even!
but a people will revolt, and it's just a matter of time! Pal, the nonsense is just too much and my head reels. oh no! another 'bloody' revolution before the human beings will learn sense? let it come!!!
Iran must rise, a people must survive!
Neda!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
killing the system
Pal,
it's easy, get a Nuclear or an A bomb! else get a gun, or a club even!
just start attacking everything in sight! something would be eliminated! or at least, something would give! eeeezy?
how about building the system instead, taking a second or two to think through an idea, pause even, assemble needed materials and tools that would get you through! actually start the work! and there you are! eeeeezy?
so today, i had an intercourse with a chemistry lecturer! first i was with two other guys! and Chem lecturer is wondering how come the two guys are on industrial attachment from KNUST (first year)! he thinks they should have waited till 3rd year before making any such 'move'!
so i tell Chem man, "look"! (lol, well, i didn't start like that, cos i'm supposed to respect the elderly and sure the harmless word look would have been in contrast to the spirit of respect.... and how we fix ourselves pal. me i'd make my kids tell me "Look" someday soon!
but i told Chem man; that it was a good thing for these young men to start seeing some things early! Chem man says noooooooooooooo! "you see, i'm speaking as someone who has been in the teaching field for over 20yrs and i know when a student begins to grasp a subject. by the 3rd yr you could be sure that when you make them go out they won't go and blow-up a manufacturing plant"
GadDamIt...!!! i said to him, but in my head!
I said, "you see, i believe you should review your policy so that students start getting earlier exposure to industry".
"you don't understand. Chem man says. "we keep getting complains everytime even about those who complete their courses and take up employment in these companies"
and i, yours stubbonly, insists that "exactly the reason why the exposure must start early and that even if you give 20yrs some might just not come out good. but me make a point which i picked from my chaplain in secondary school: "we should not be afraid of making mistake; we learn from them".
but Chem man too is stubborn, he goes on the tell me the experience of some student in Germany! this student gets a degree in Chem but ends up in Germany without knowing how to switch on the computer! at this juncture! Chem man looks me up in the eyes almost like what pregnant women give their husbands for attention. and he was giggling and obviously expecting me to laugh out loud perhaps! then he asks through short breaths: "doesn't this surprise you?"
i would have told him like i tell everyone around me that the last time i got surprised was way back in secondary school when this unassuming junior of mine ended up being caught in armed-robbery and his name came in the newspapers! GadDamIt...!
I told Chem man: "no, i'm not surprised! and i'm not surprised because really, the computer is just a tool like the farmer would have a hoe and that the student could just learn this quickly. no big deal there!"
Chem man is more stubborn than i am maybe! he disagrees forcefully! he insists it is shameful while i was left to wonder where all the shame could be coming from! but i did not want to start chasing any shadows of shame now! so i let him continue with all those self confusing tales as i see it. it was time to live sadly!
Chem man was still talking 'round and round the about' as i made for the door. i only listened and laughed some off. and when we finally said Good bye, Chem man would just let me go like that. he tells me: "you have to change your thinking".
but pal, in all honesty, This Chem man is not the only notorious one! me too i'm notorious! so i declare i won't change my mind on this matter!
why should i when the world is moving on faster and faster! when little kids are playing with technology elsewhere and coming out with ideas that a lot of folks on this side buy and either keep in their rooms as a sign of wealth or carry around as fashion!
i can't be tied down with such dogmas about letting someone grow up before being given the opportunity to learn! learn pal. just opportunity to learn, not lead!! but following instructions and learning and 'doing' some under adequate supervision! just this! and i'm being told that one must wait for some yrs before??????????
Pal, you may choose to help build the system or just start knocking it all down, little by little!
Regards!
it's easy, get a Nuclear or an A bomb! else get a gun, or a club even!
just start attacking everything in sight! something would be eliminated! or at least, something would give! eeeezy?
how about building the system instead, taking a second or two to think through an idea, pause even, assemble needed materials and tools that would get you through! actually start the work! and there you are! eeeeezy?
so today, i had an intercourse with a chemistry lecturer! first i was with two other guys! and Chem lecturer is wondering how come the two guys are on industrial attachment from KNUST (first year)! he thinks they should have waited till 3rd year before making any such 'move'!
so i tell Chem man, "look"! (lol, well, i didn't start like that, cos i'm supposed to respect the elderly and sure the harmless word look would have been in contrast to the spirit of respect.... and how we fix ourselves pal. me i'd make my kids tell me "Look" someday soon!
but i told Chem man; that it was a good thing for these young men to start seeing some things early! Chem man says noooooooooooooo! "you see, i'm speaking as someone who has been in the teaching field for over 20yrs and i know when a student begins to grasp a subject. by the 3rd yr you could be sure that when you make them go out they won't go and blow-up a manufacturing plant"
GadDamIt...!!! i said to him, but in my head!
I said, "you see, i believe you should review your policy so that students start getting earlier exposure to industry".
"you don't understand. Chem man says. "we keep getting complains everytime even about those who complete their courses and take up employment in these companies"
and i, yours stubbonly, insists that "exactly the reason why the exposure must start early and that even if you give 20yrs some might just not come out good. but me make a point which i picked from my chaplain in secondary school: "we should not be afraid of making mistake; we learn from them".
but Chem man too is stubborn, he goes on the tell me the experience of some student in Germany! this student gets a degree in Chem but ends up in Germany without knowing how to switch on the computer! at this juncture! Chem man looks me up in the eyes almost like what pregnant women give their husbands for attention. and he was giggling and obviously expecting me to laugh out loud perhaps! then he asks through short breaths: "doesn't this surprise you?"
i would have told him like i tell everyone around me that the last time i got surprised was way back in secondary school when this unassuming junior of mine ended up being caught in armed-robbery and his name came in the newspapers! GadDamIt...!
I told Chem man: "no, i'm not surprised! and i'm not surprised because really, the computer is just a tool like the farmer would have a hoe and that the student could just learn this quickly. no big deal there!"
Chem man is more stubborn than i am maybe! he disagrees forcefully! he insists it is shameful while i was left to wonder where all the shame could be coming from! but i did not want to start chasing any shadows of shame now! so i let him continue with all those self confusing tales as i see it. it was time to live sadly!
Chem man was still talking 'round and round the about' as i made for the door. i only listened and laughed some off. and when we finally said Good bye, Chem man would just let me go like that. he tells me: "you have to change your thinking".
but pal, in all honesty, This Chem man is not the only notorious one! me too i'm notorious! so i declare i won't change my mind on this matter!
why should i when the world is moving on faster and faster! when little kids are playing with technology elsewhere and coming out with ideas that a lot of folks on this side buy and either keep in their rooms as a sign of wealth or carry around as fashion!
i can't be tied down with such dogmas about letting someone grow up before being given the opportunity to learn! learn pal. just opportunity to learn, not lead!! but following instructions and learning and 'doing' some under adequate supervision! just this! and i'm being told that one must wait for some yrs before??????????
Pal, you may choose to help build the system or just start knocking it all down, little by little!
Regards!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Ogoni: the spirit
Pal,
i seek peace!
but in pursuit of peace i'm much aware of the fact that the quest for justice above all reign!
and so therefore i'm much aware too that peace and violence are only manifestations of what we breathe on one another as human beings! these are by-products!
what could the bible mean by God being just???
so today, i am here and i'm feeling the weight of the spirit of a people! Ogoni!!!
The toils, the sweat, the blood of a man Ken Saro Wiwa lives on! i feel it! i feel it like i feel the pulses in my veins...the breath of a people!
no matter how deep deep down the belly of the ocean they try foolishly too, to bury the truth, Justice will germinate!
and let my words cut like a sword
for these are not my words
these are weapons that destroy in mass
the evil we inflict on our own skin!
these words would cut off your limbs
you!
these words would dig into you like daggers
and rip you into pieces
they would hang you!
unless you be true to your brothers and sisters
these words would bury you!
Ogoni! the spirit!
a people would rise to the dawn of a new morn!
Ogoni!
Saturday, June 6, 2009
mafia? go Gomorrah!
Pal,
i like to hold men in leadership by their balls and the women counterparts by their breasts! square!
let men and women in leadership profess allegiance to something! something! or damn, they themselves come telling you without prompting they 'swear'! "zero tolerance for corruption".
else if the men turn out to be eunuchs and the women perhaps have suffered some bad fate such as breast cancer that results in the removal of the sensitive pair then i look at what age old principles apply to all humans and bring it before them!
mirror, mirror on the wall... reflections, reflections in their faces... wrinkles??
so what is Prez Mills waiting for?
the man Muntaka Mubarak himself has confessed in his own written response to buying pampers with our money! flying a lady secretary of the Majority leader in Parliament (he claims she's not his gal, yet he was the one who sought permission for her righ?. yeah right!) and landing with fees at our expense to have a jolly time perhaps with 'chance' condoms... orgasms on our behalf. o yeah! do it again babe! shit...!
This is Prez Mills who did not even allow Asaga for his saga to be vetted by Parliament. coitus interuptus, if you want. Thus how round the balls of the president. I'm holding them, pal!!! This is same Prez who has just 'commissioned a commission' to look into the Ghana@50 dealings that stink so bad we all know. and this is same Prez. Mills under whose watch Mpiani of Kufuor's fame is being interrogated by the BNI to cause even respectable men like Dan Botwe to dare sink low! what the heck pal.
so what the fuck (parental guidance is required!) is Mills waiting for??? what investigations would turn out that Mubarak's own admission to commissions of impropriety were a frame up and therefore absolves him from wrong! shit, pal. let Mills not waste our time.
if Mills feels up to the weight of his own balls then let him remove that Mubarak with retrospective effect. it's been long overdue pal. only a retrospective dimensional dismissal of the sports minister would be tolerated by me! i don't know about you and i don't really bother what you want cos i have Mills by the balls.
now, there is talk of a mafia group at the ministry! tell me pal, where in this world you don't have folks whose actions, either individually, or as a 'crook' group don't ring the mafia bell??? folks are too much into dreaming mysteries into daylight and nighttime robberies by leaders and it makes me wanna squeeze these rough pair that i hold some more! more...
and those like Ayariga who claim the media is trying the minister better shut the hell up! why is the media always your cheap target??? such as you just don't get it that the media is only a medium. let the media do their trial if that is what you call it. doesn't change a thing. you tell us what you owe us! period!
meanwhile, i'm not much of a fun of movies! but pal, if anyone wants to tell me about mafias at the ministries, then i'd rather go Gomorrah! damn, that's mafia. not this, naivety of infantile proportions! and by the way, whose duty is it to deal with whatever mafia at the ministries???
look, you Mills man, better sack this Mubarak man, or i squeeze!!!
Pal, tell him.
i like to hold men in leadership by their balls and the women counterparts by their breasts! square!
let men and women in leadership profess allegiance to something! something! or damn, they themselves come telling you without prompting they 'swear'! "zero tolerance for corruption".
else if the men turn out to be eunuchs and the women perhaps have suffered some bad fate such as breast cancer that results in the removal of the sensitive pair then i look at what age old principles apply to all humans and bring it before them!
mirror, mirror on the wall... reflections, reflections in their faces... wrinkles??
so what is Prez Mills waiting for?
the man Muntaka Mubarak himself has confessed in his own written response to buying pampers with our money! flying a lady secretary of the Majority leader in Parliament (he claims she's not his gal, yet he was the one who sought permission for her righ?. yeah right!) and landing with fees at our expense to have a jolly time perhaps with 'chance' condoms... orgasms on our behalf. o yeah! do it again babe! shit...!
This is Prez Mills who did not even allow Asaga for his saga to be vetted by Parliament. coitus interuptus, if you want. Thus how round the balls of the president. I'm holding them, pal!!! This is same Prez who has just 'commissioned a commission' to look into the Ghana@50 dealings that stink so bad we all know. and this is same Prez. Mills under whose watch Mpiani of Kufuor's fame is being interrogated by the BNI to cause even respectable men like Dan Botwe to dare sink low! what the heck pal.
so what the fuck (parental guidance is required!) is Mills waiting for??? what investigations would turn out that Mubarak's own admission to commissions of impropriety were a frame up and therefore absolves him from wrong! shit, pal. let Mills not waste our time.
if Mills feels up to the weight of his own balls then let him remove that Mubarak with retrospective effect. it's been long overdue pal. only a retrospective dimensional dismissal of the sports minister would be tolerated by me! i don't know about you and i don't really bother what you want cos i have Mills by the balls.
now, there is talk of a mafia group at the ministry! tell me pal, where in this world you don't have folks whose actions, either individually, or as a 'crook' group don't ring the mafia bell??? folks are too much into dreaming mysteries into daylight and nighttime robberies by leaders and it makes me wanna squeeze these rough pair that i hold some more! more...
and those like Ayariga who claim the media is trying the minister better shut the hell up! why is the media always your cheap target??? such as you just don't get it that the media is only a medium. let the media do their trial if that is what you call it. doesn't change a thing. you tell us what you owe us! period!
meanwhile, i'm not much of a fun of movies! but pal, if anyone wants to tell me about mafias at the ministries, then i'd rather go Gomorrah! damn, that's mafia. not this, naivety of infantile proportions! and by the way, whose duty is it to deal with whatever mafia at the ministries???
look, you Mills man, better sack this Mubarak man, or i squeeze!!!
Pal, tell him.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
jokers
Pal,
i'm slowly picking up the rhythm of life back in my bones and muscles. 'sickness is a pain' indeed.
so what is our government up to on education? they call up a bunch of folks and say let's deliberate on whether secondary education should span 3 or 4 yrs?
meanwhile Pal, there's a joint right on the labadi beach road called jokers! i've always wondered why that name cos none of my visits to the place resulted in me witnessing any sit-down comedy! forget what they call 'stand-up' comedy! is that the same as what is called 'gye na hor gyi?'
trust me Pal, this place called Jokers is too serious a place. my last visit there was all about the enjoyment of an atmosphere of bizi looking folks. bizi about nothing amidst a flood or call gals that breeze you by with perfume that could stain your nasal passage! breathe pal!
so our government and some folks who call themselves stake holders think that the solution to the myriad of problems engulfing our educational system lies in playing out 'lottery' with the numbers 3 and or 4??? JOKERS indeed!
what breaks the bile in me is what some want us to swallow down as fallen standards of education. and they claim the old system that made you spend a whooping 7 yrs on secondary plus some 10yrs on primary education was far better than the current system. how foolish could a man or woman be in conjuring up such a mindset that is as baseless as the word!
folks have forgotten that the population of human beings have increased with time first of all. JOKERS!
i was privileged enough to sit in same class at the university with some of the products of the old system and God knows that all the many years they had to spend before undergrad did them no magic! so why all the joke???
me say pal, we should have a long term plan for secondary education and it does not matter the number of years really so far as the content could be delivered with enough comfort! so let's say let's plan for the next 50yrs!
ACTION PLAN:
1. revert current number of years to 3 'as it was in the beginning'. This is so because nothing significant has changed to take care of a 4yr programme.
2. massive infrastructural and human (teachers) advancement should be made for the next 5 years bearing in mind that we would get back to running a 4yr max programme. meanwhile the educationists should do proper review of the curricula.
3. plan for a 4yr programme that would make room for anyone who feels up to it to write the needed exams after 3yrs (even 2yrs is not bad) to jump to university! there's no need to wait if one is up to speed enough!
and we must plan for a four year programme because the system must be flexible for the masses to be able to have enough time to obtain secondary education which must sooner than later be a must in this country!
meanwhile Pal, there are a lot more jokes with the educational system. there is that shit thing called 'school feeding programme'. look let whoever get rid of that thing. the money should rather be channeled into providing science resource centers for the schools.
There's another one that is being made noise of lately again called 'Baah Wiredu's one-laptop per child' programme and i wonder when will the jokes come down to the minimum! whoever thinks it's the way to go is serioulsly joking! if they could provide one laptop per child, why not identify the tertiary institutions and help out students pursuing computer science programes??? just another joke. someone is going to end up littering this nation with junks as computers for kids. let that programme be scrapped. and if the whole idea is to push for the memory of one-time-man Baah Wiredu, then someone must think better! he himself was a part of this junk and it's time to rethink for the best!
yes Pal!
i'm back and alive!
i'm slowly picking up the rhythm of life back in my bones and muscles. 'sickness is a pain' indeed.
so what is our government up to on education? they call up a bunch of folks and say let's deliberate on whether secondary education should span 3 or 4 yrs?
meanwhile Pal, there's a joint right on the labadi beach road called jokers! i've always wondered why that name cos none of my visits to the place resulted in me witnessing any sit-down comedy! forget what they call 'stand-up' comedy! is that the same as what is called 'gye na hor gyi?'
trust me Pal, this place called Jokers is too serious a place. my last visit there was all about the enjoyment of an atmosphere of bizi looking folks. bizi about nothing amidst a flood or call gals that breeze you by with perfume that could stain your nasal passage! breathe pal!
so our government and some folks who call themselves stake holders think that the solution to the myriad of problems engulfing our educational system lies in playing out 'lottery' with the numbers 3 and or 4??? JOKERS indeed!
what breaks the bile in me is what some want us to swallow down as fallen standards of education. and they claim the old system that made you spend a whooping 7 yrs on secondary plus some 10yrs on primary education was far better than the current system. how foolish could a man or woman be in conjuring up such a mindset that is as baseless as the word!
folks have forgotten that the population of human beings have increased with time first of all. JOKERS!
i was privileged enough to sit in same class at the university with some of the products of the old system and God knows that all the many years they had to spend before undergrad did them no magic! so why all the joke???
me say pal, we should have a long term plan for secondary education and it does not matter the number of years really so far as the content could be delivered with enough comfort! so let's say let's plan for the next 50yrs!
ACTION PLAN:
1. revert current number of years to 3 'as it was in the beginning'. This is so because nothing significant has changed to take care of a 4yr programme.
2. massive infrastructural and human (teachers) advancement should be made for the next 5 years bearing in mind that we would get back to running a 4yr max programme. meanwhile the educationists should do proper review of the curricula.
3. plan for a 4yr programme that would make room for anyone who feels up to it to write the needed exams after 3yrs (even 2yrs is not bad) to jump to university! there's no need to wait if one is up to speed enough!
and we must plan for a four year programme because the system must be flexible for the masses to be able to have enough time to obtain secondary education which must sooner than later be a must in this country!
meanwhile Pal, there are a lot more jokes with the educational system. there is that shit thing called 'school feeding programme'. look let whoever get rid of that thing. the money should rather be channeled into providing science resource centers for the schools.
There's another one that is being made noise of lately again called 'Baah Wiredu's one-laptop per child' programme and i wonder when will the jokes come down to the minimum! whoever thinks it's the way to go is serioulsly joking! if they could provide one laptop per child, why not identify the tertiary institutions and help out students pursuing computer science programes??? just another joke. someone is going to end up littering this nation with junks as computers for kids. let that programme be scrapped. and if the whole idea is to push for the memory of one-time-man Baah Wiredu, then someone must think better! he himself was a part of this junk and it's time to rethink for the best!
yes Pal!
i'm back and alive!
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