Dear Pal,
i checked my mail sometime today and *bingo*!
truth is, i've had this investment thing called MFUND and EPACK with the company called Databank since i was in school and i've not bothered even checking on either of them because the monies are peanuts really!
wait a minute, let me rewind to about two weeks back: out of nowhere comes an email from Databank with the time stamp Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:43 PM. and the content read:
"Dear Valued Client,
Kindly find attached the end of year(2008)annual report for EPACK, MFUND & BFUND.
Kind Regards,
Client Services"
i read it and told myself okay okay okayeeeeeeeeeeee! i wasn't bothered about the import of the mail. but something *funny* caught my attention. on the "To:" (the addressees) list were a number of email addresses that clearly belonged to a bunch of individuals who work at Databank. pause! now i'm feeling all mischievous and i want to paste the whole list here for your enjoyment but not so fast, me! i have a funny feeling i've not got my back covered well enough for that kind of mischief so let's just say there was this list. clearly someone forgot to respect the "BCc:" option.
so i asked myself who the hell is doing this reckless job and hasn't the sense of care to ensure individuals privacy is protected. oh no, shame! so then i thought of emailing the company. pal, i've this disloyal erection i keep telling you about but my first reaction to issues is to think through solutions after clearly identifying a problem. so i wondered. i even have contacts there i could reach. i tossed the idea a bit here and there but i dropped it without even knowing i did till next comes a more reckless revelation.
somebody sets up an email list for Databank clients and forgets or ignores or just jumps out in a huray for a bear or a nocturnal dance without minding to put in a moderation! so all clients on the list ended up receiving a reply from one of the clients called errmmmmmmmm, let's call him Potato (there are a lot of strange names in this word and i decide on this) for safety first. That reply was intended *clearly* for the consumption of Databank but not everyone on the list. and the reply read:
"thanx"
that was all. this fellow wanted to show Databank appreciation. that's all. and i wish he had rather hit the "Reply-All" button instead of just "Reply" as he obviously did. i wish so because whoever is in charge of client services at Databank would have then seen what ignoring the BCc can cost perhaps.
but wait again. that was not all. and of course i did not expect it to be the end. i had still not emailed the company but i was no more toying with the idea like i did earlier. but that reply from Potato clearly had me smelling how a bomb the flatulence from Databank was and i couldn't help laughing out loud. i enjoyed the moment!
but i was later to feel sad with a smile on my face. and i wish i had emailed the company earlier! somebody or the company as a whole met to decide to play a fast or slow or an *ignorant* one on clients. yes pal! and back to the very beginning of this narration. fast forwarded back to today. I recieved another email from Databank in reply to Potato's email and it read (note my editing some part of it):
"Dear Valued client,
We humbly apologize for the email response from ...*Potato's email*, a client of Databank Financial services.
Going forward we entreat you to send all your enquiries to
clientservices@databankgroup and not fundclients@list.databankgroup.com.
We are available to answer your enquiries and apologize once more.
Kind Regards,
Databank Client Services"
so clearly someone or Databank as a company by some foolishly smart move wants to make Potato look like a dumb ass. Databank thinks we are all just dumbs perhaps so they can get away with playing 'foolishly' smart with us.
1. Databank sets up mailing list for clients without adequate moderation but they don't acknowledge it.
2. Someone at Databank *broadcasts* email addresses of individual staff of Databank to clients on the mailing list and that fault is not even mentioned.
3. a client who hit's the *reply* click (perhaps unknowingly) has his individual email address being broadcast to all clients on the mailing list and he is not apologized to publicly.
4. Databank apologizes "for the email response from... a client of Databank Financial services." hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! really???? smart move? i think stupid! someone call me *stupid* Obama! (Obama said the Cambridge police's action was stupid). these Databank guys don't have the decency to take responsibility! they are blaming the poor guy i elect to call Potato. i disagree with anyone who thinks Africa's disease is blame game. of course we must blame but it must be proper blame!!!
so Databank might just get away with their deceitful apology. in fact i bet they will. but as for me i'm not bought one cent! and i wish they couldn't get away with this smelly flatulence of theirs! i really wish someone out there at least screams their name to shame them enough to an awakening. but i know my people to a good extent!
Pal, i pray this matter doesn't end like this!
Amen!
Monday, July 27, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
havoc cruise
Pal dear,
we are on the havoc cruise still.
and i remember all the bullying that characterize our boarding schools. before i went to boarding school, i knew this 'thing' existed but i don't remember if i ever bothered too much about it back then but of course it all came to life once i got to the boarding house!
"hey you, come here!", such was the command and your name was useless whether known or not! once a junior, you were a non-entity! no questions. "look boy, obey before complain!". you would be barked at!
so my first day at St. Peters School was eventful! "form-one boy", "hey form-one boy"! those calls came from all directions to mark my arrival. "hey, stop there!" the weight of that command jolted me to the realization more than ever that my uncle had long left me with a goodbye!
the senior who called walked up to me looking all man, tall and muscular! i had to raise my face skywards to have a peep at his hard face! "good afternoon!" i thought the right thing to do was greet with a smile! he ignored my greeting. his face was straight. "what programme are you here to study?" "science." i answered. "small boy you want to read science heh? look up at the sky and tell me what you see". i looked up and told him i could see the sky. "is that all you can see?" this time the tone clearly sounded like gritted teeth! and i knew instantly was in for trouble! "look up again!" i did. "what do you see?" i was about bringing my head down to tell him the sun was up there too. "come on keep you head up, what do you see?" "i see the sun". if only i knew i wouldn't have said so maybe. "uhuh, good, now look at the sun and tell me what you see"!
"what?" i asked myself. of course i couldn't muster the courage to put that question to the senior. it was burning hot! and thus my experience with bullying took a different dimension in my life. others were to experience worse like being asked to fill a bucket with water using a spoon from our school pond which was about half a kilometer away from the dormitories.
Pal, these were the memories that came back to me when i heard the news about the GBC boss Mr. Ampem Darko being asked to do the absurd by parliament. and you may read for an insight for yourself here LINK.
for all the bullying me and my year mates suffered at school, it was very instructive that by our final year when we had had the opportunity to also met our our fair share of bullying to our juniors then the authorities decided to implement a number of reforms. so our wings were 'severely' clipped. but i'm sure we turned as one of the very best leaders of the school if not the best! we adopted different and more humane approaches to finding solutions to insubordination and they worked. we did not have to resort to infringing on human rights! (aside isolated cases lol).
so pal, i wonder why would our parliamentarians be more concerned about doing the absurd than passing legislation that would deal with our many societal ills. This is the 21st century and our parliamentarians are more concerned about demanding respect than working to earn respect. such things pal, make me angry!
but i'm not angry!
we are on the havoc cruise still.
and i remember all the bullying that characterize our boarding schools. before i went to boarding school, i knew this 'thing' existed but i don't remember if i ever bothered too much about it back then but of course it all came to life once i got to the boarding house!
"hey you, come here!", such was the command and your name was useless whether known or not! once a junior, you were a non-entity! no questions. "look boy, obey before complain!". you would be barked at!
so my first day at St. Peters School was eventful! "form-one boy", "hey form-one boy"! those calls came from all directions to mark my arrival. "hey, stop there!" the weight of that command jolted me to the realization more than ever that my uncle had long left me with a goodbye!
the senior who called walked up to me looking all man, tall and muscular! i had to raise my face skywards to have a peep at his hard face! "good afternoon!" i thought the right thing to do was greet with a smile! he ignored my greeting. his face was straight. "what programme are you here to study?" "science." i answered. "small boy you want to read science heh? look up at the sky and tell me what you see". i looked up and told him i could see the sky. "is that all you can see?" this time the tone clearly sounded like gritted teeth! and i knew instantly was in for trouble! "look up again!" i did. "what do you see?" i was about bringing my head down to tell him the sun was up there too. "come on keep you head up, what do you see?" "i see the sun". if only i knew i wouldn't have said so maybe. "uhuh, good, now look at the sun and tell me what you see"!
"what?" i asked myself. of course i couldn't muster the courage to put that question to the senior. it was burning hot! and thus my experience with bullying took a different dimension in my life. others were to experience worse like being asked to fill a bucket with water using a spoon from our school pond which was about half a kilometer away from the dormitories.
Pal, these were the memories that came back to me when i heard the news about the GBC boss Mr. Ampem Darko being asked to do the absurd by parliament. and you may read for an insight for yourself here LINK.
for all the bullying me and my year mates suffered at school, it was very instructive that by our final year when we had had the opportunity to also met our our fair share of bullying to our juniors then the authorities decided to implement a number of reforms. so our wings were 'severely' clipped. but i'm sure we turned as one of the very best leaders of the school if not the best! we adopted different and more humane approaches to finding solutions to insubordination and they worked. we did not have to resort to infringing on human rights! (aside isolated cases lol).
so pal, i wonder why would our parliamentarians be more concerned about doing the absurd than passing legislation that would deal with our many societal ills. This is the 21st century and our parliamentarians are more concerned about demanding respect than working to earn respect. such things pal, make me angry!
but i'm not angry!
Friday, July 10, 2009
crises: talking obama in ghana
yes pal,
and i think it's just ok and not ok! (be assured of deliberate use of words here!)
Obama? he sure is a star! some Americans call him a rock star! whatever! he sure got the crowd following him just like Michael Jackson! what is left is for Obama to start having a skin collour change (he's almost there by nature and now's time for the artificial too!) and maybe get plastic for a nose and chin! MJ sure did have a hold on the world. POP star!! yeah!
so i have nothing special about the flimsy fantasies pal. Obama is human like me and that is fine! i remember the very day he announced his interest in the Democratic ticket and i stuck with him straight on having already warmed up to him while the background checking on his potential was ongoing! so i supported Obama against Hillary and the rest of the pack. and i remember my delight when i stayed up to the suffer of heavy-eyes in my hotel room that fateful morning in Rabat after watching and listening to Obama 'accepting' the Democratic ticket!
i'm drawn naturally to this man pal. i'm because he marks such a sharp difference from what Bush the bush gave this world. i share a lot in common in terms of thought with this man! and i respect him more because he is ready to admit that all the ideas he espouses are very much age old (check his inaugural speech). that we must not embark on 'foolish' (my word) wars like in Iraq! that the US must engage rest of the world in talks to reduce threats to life (nukes babe!). such things pal, such things make me respect this man! and he even inspired me to write FLAME!
but this same man has shit up his head. he says for example that Americans must not apologize for their way of life (check his inaugural speech still). and he reaffirms such 'block-headed' support for Israel against the Arabs which i believe is nothing but stupidity no matter how it may be a good game plan to win support from the Jews! how could Americans claim not to care a hoot about their way of life! IS THAT NOT EVEN A CONTRADICTION FOR ALL THE CHAMPIONING OF GREEN ENERGY BY OBAMA HIMSELF??? how could they when the amount of fuel they alone consume is a big telling on global warming! how about the savagery of the slave-trade of yesteryear from which they benefitted greatly. even the Whitehouse where Obama has his office was built by slaves with hard labour???
i did not surpport Obama because i believe in the Democratic Party. no pal! i did not support Obama because he's (half) black or because the wife is fully black. no pal, i'm no racist! the collour of the skin don't mean the collour of the shit! right???
surely i wonder how many people would have been so gay (ass loving really!) if Kwame Kilpatrick was the prez of US visiting Ghana instead of Obama for all his ills????? and so therein lies the hard truth and irony!!! i would have probably held up a placard to demonstrate against him. for all the foolishness of our authorities i feel sad i wasn't able to do a thing like that against Bush when he came to town! that man deserves worse than shoes! a nuke up his bottom would not even suffice!
so Obama is president of the USA now and he has come to Ghana! he's delivered his much awaited speech and what a brilliant speech for for saying the west is not to blame for Zimbabwe's woes! surely part of the blame goes there especially UK.
meanwhile, there's been a lot of nonsensical talk. fantasizing o babe! some say he should have visited Kenya first (much like Mills visited his home region to be crowned 'okunyi'). others say he should have visited Nigeria first!
and still some like Elizabeth Ohene would spew more shit by saying it is Ghana he is visiting first in Africa (does she know the map at all???) because the Egypt trip does not count; because he did not sleep over (but Clinton did not sleep in Ghana when he visited and it was a visit) and that he did not go there with his family! such shit! and such insult to the Egyptians and all who understand that Egypt must not be maligned foolishly. Egypt is a founding member of the OAU (now AU)!!! and there are moslems all over African and in Ghana too! so what's this former minister's point there??? she deserves a whip on the bare... this instant!!!
and just listen to these ones too talk uselessly about Obama's colour here:
KUFUOR speaks but does not seem (yes seem!) to know his own nature here:
listen to the audio but too bad pal; if you don't understand Twi. it was better for our past president to use that medium of communication else he would have rendered to us such things as: 'upholded' instead of 'upheld'. the grammer and diction sometimes is better than mine! other times too, hmmmmmmmm! so you too learn some Twi!
my dear Kufused sure knows how to bid time to release whatever bothers him for attention (Obama is in town and world media is reporting live and dead)! so Kufuor comes to ask us "what is per diem?" claiming his pay for the first 4yrs of his terms was so small compared to other presidents in Africa. he even says we should consider his law training and that even if he was so dumb he would have earned a lot lot more in the law profession!
Pal, theres no excuse to be made for any dick, tom or harry who chooses to serve the public! definitely we did not go begging anyone to lead us! Kufuor chose to elect himself for us to elect him as president! we did not force him. so why would Kufuor be telling us about the inadequacy of the Osu Castle to house his 'multitude' of grand-children and for which reason he deemed it unfit for his housing and therefore chose to live in his own house! why didn't he leave us alone to go looking after his grand-kids instead of hanging in there wasting our time???
at what cost was it to the taxpayer??? he should do the calculation and tell us all including himself! he should tell us how much fuel he consumed by just traveling from his home to the office and back!and this man tells us that it's not in his nature to be ostentatious??? what was he doing with motorcade after leaving office??? what was he doing with presidential vehicles after leaving office???? what in God's name did he buy those gold chains he awarded himself for??? Kufour obviously, either does not know his own nature or is further Kufused or that he does not know me! which one pal?
i want Kufuor to speak more but he does not! that's ok! but he must not try to water down his failures! those were gigantic failures indeed on his part! damn! the man lost a great opportunity to raise the bar and that's what i'm talking about! so then why won't Mill's and his Mutanka be thinking they can give us a 'chichinga' Muntaka clearance and we should be ok. nonsense! Mills better buck up now and verily verily right now!
so Obama has spoken to Africa! all the call for democracy is right! but i'm not one of those who think Obama must come from America before we learn to uphold democracy! Bostwana is not doing bad. SA is not bad and so Tanzania. we just need now push the rest in same/similar direction! i believe DR. Congo admidst all the chaos have the potential to rise and so too Ivory Coast and Kenya and Zimbabwe and Nigeria for Yar Adua's enthronement and Somalia and all!!!
so Obama would continue to have the crowds following him but Africa must rise now and now or else a great thunder and lightening and earthquake and tsunami and hurricane and typhoon must all combine and descend on the land!!!
Africa!!!
and i think it's just ok and not ok! (be assured of deliberate use of words here!)
Obama? he sure is a star! some Americans call him a rock star! whatever! he sure got the crowd following him just like Michael Jackson! what is left is for Obama to start having a skin collour change (he's almost there by nature and now's time for the artificial too!) and maybe get plastic for a nose and chin! MJ sure did have a hold on the world. POP star!! yeah!
so i have nothing special about the flimsy fantasies pal. Obama is human like me and that is fine! i remember the very day he announced his interest in the Democratic ticket and i stuck with him straight on having already warmed up to him while the background checking on his potential was ongoing! so i supported Obama against Hillary and the rest of the pack. and i remember my delight when i stayed up to the suffer of heavy-eyes in my hotel room that fateful morning in Rabat after watching and listening to Obama 'accepting' the Democratic ticket!
i'm drawn naturally to this man pal. i'm because he marks such a sharp difference from what Bush the bush gave this world. i share a lot in common in terms of thought with this man! and i respect him more because he is ready to admit that all the ideas he espouses are very much age old (check his inaugural speech). that we must not embark on 'foolish' (my word) wars like in Iraq! that the US must engage rest of the world in talks to reduce threats to life (nukes babe!). such things pal, such things make me respect this man! and he even inspired me to write FLAME!
but this same man has shit up his head. he says for example that Americans must not apologize for their way of life (check his inaugural speech still). and he reaffirms such 'block-headed' support for Israel against the Arabs which i believe is nothing but stupidity no matter how it may be a good game plan to win support from the Jews! how could Americans claim not to care a hoot about their way of life! IS THAT NOT EVEN A CONTRADICTION FOR ALL THE CHAMPIONING OF GREEN ENERGY BY OBAMA HIMSELF??? how could they when the amount of fuel they alone consume is a big telling on global warming! how about the savagery of the slave-trade of yesteryear from which they benefitted greatly. even the Whitehouse where Obama has his office was built by slaves with hard labour???
i did not surpport Obama because i believe in the Democratic Party. no pal! i did not support Obama because he's (half) black or because the wife is fully black. no pal, i'm no racist! the collour of the skin don't mean the collour of the shit! right???
surely i wonder how many people would have been so gay (ass loving really!) if Kwame Kilpatrick was the prez of US visiting Ghana instead of Obama for all his ills????? and so therein lies the hard truth and irony!!! i would have probably held up a placard to demonstrate against him. for all the foolishness of our authorities i feel sad i wasn't able to do a thing like that against Bush when he came to town! that man deserves worse than shoes! a nuke up his bottom would not even suffice!
so Obama is president of the USA now and he has come to Ghana! he's delivered his much awaited speech and what a brilliant speech for for saying the west is not to blame for Zimbabwe's woes! surely part of the blame goes there especially UK.
meanwhile, there's been a lot of nonsensical talk. fantasizing o babe! some say he should have visited Kenya first (much like Mills visited his home region to be crowned 'okunyi'). others say he should have visited Nigeria first!
and still some like Elizabeth Ohene would spew more shit by saying it is Ghana he is visiting first in Africa (does she know the map at all???) because the Egypt trip does not count; because he did not sleep over (but Clinton did not sleep in Ghana when he visited and it was a visit) and that he did not go there with his family! such shit! and such insult to the Egyptians and all who understand that Egypt must not be maligned foolishly. Egypt is a founding member of the OAU (now AU)!!! and there are moslems all over African and in Ghana too! so what's this former minister's point there??? she deserves a whip on the bare... this instant!!!
and just listen to these ones too talk uselessly about Obama's colour here:
KUFUOR speaks but does not seem (yes seem!) to know his own nature here:
listen to the audio but too bad pal; if you don't understand Twi. it was better for our past president to use that medium of communication else he would have rendered to us such things as: 'upholded' instead of 'upheld'. the grammer and diction sometimes is better than mine! other times too, hmmmmmmmm! so you too learn some Twi!
my dear Kufused sure knows how to bid time to release whatever bothers him for attention (Obama is in town and world media is reporting live and dead)! so Kufuor comes to ask us "what is per diem?" claiming his pay for the first 4yrs of his terms was so small compared to other presidents in Africa. he even says we should consider his law training and that even if he was so dumb he would have earned a lot lot more in the law profession!
Pal, theres no excuse to be made for any dick, tom or harry who chooses to serve the public! definitely we did not go begging anyone to lead us! Kufuor chose to elect himself for us to elect him as president! we did not force him. so why would Kufuor be telling us about the inadequacy of the Osu Castle to house his 'multitude' of grand-children and for which reason he deemed it unfit for his housing and therefore chose to live in his own house! why didn't he leave us alone to go looking after his grand-kids instead of hanging in there wasting our time???
at what cost was it to the taxpayer??? he should do the calculation and tell us all including himself! he should tell us how much fuel he consumed by just traveling from his home to the office and back!and this man tells us that it's not in his nature to be ostentatious??? what was he doing with motorcade after leaving office??? what was he doing with presidential vehicles after leaving office???? what in God's name did he buy those gold chains he awarded himself for??? Kufour obviously, either does not know his own nature or is further Kufused or that he does not know me! which one pal?
i want Kufuor to speak more but he does not! that's ok! but he must not try to water down his failures! those were gigantic failures indeed on his part! damn! the man lost a great opportunity to raise the bar and that's what i'm talking about! so then why won't Mill's and his Mutanka be thinking they can give us a 'chichinga' Muntaka clearance and we should be ok. nonsense! Mills better buck up now and verily verily right now!
so Obama has spoken to Africa! all the call for democracy is right! but i'm not one of those who think Obama must come from America before we learn to uphold democracy! Bostwana is not doing bad. SA is not bad and so Tanzania. we just need now push the rest in same/similar direction! i believe DR. Congo admidst all the chaos have the potential to rise and so too Ivory Coast and Kenya and Zimbabwe and Nigeria for Yar Adua's enthronement and Somalia and all!!!
so Obama would continue to have the crowds following him but Africa must rise now and now or else a great thunder and lightening and earthquake and tsunami and hurricane and typhoon must all combine and descend on the land!!!
Africa!!!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
and so this dance!
Pal dear,
i'm torn between two evil choices! so i wrote the poem 'and so this dance'. enjoy it while i continue to divide myself between the two evils.
and so this dance!
-----------------
and this dance
you bring
beckoning me
dazzling me
charming me!
do i have liberty
to deem it as i see
the motives of your mazy motions?
and what if…?
what if
this dance you dance around me
is only a trap you bring to ensnare me
enslave me…
make me bow at the snap of your fingers
before your temple!
poor soul me
you scare me!
OR
do I take it without
question
i’m just such a master drummer
so much so
i drum you beats
caressing the pulse of your soul
unleashing the flow of rhythm in you
with such dexterity at my finger tips
you canNOT resist!
so you come!
you come rolling your eyes at me
staring me a dewy-morning gaze
from the corner of your eyes
and so you come!
you come with the call of your glossy-lips
teasing me
seducing me
and leaving me
and leaving me
HOLY
with the lingering wriggle
of your hips
you!
you sex me!
i'm torn between two evil choices! so i wrote the poem 'and so this dance'. enjoy it while i continue to divide myself between the two evils.
and so this dance!
-----------------
and this dance
you bring
beckoning me
dazzling me
charming me!
do i have liberty
to deem it as i see
the motives of your mazy motions?
and what if…?
what if
this dance you dance around me
is only a trap you bring to ensnare me
enslave me…
make me bow at the snap of your fingers
before your temple!
poor soul me
you scare me!
OR
do I take it without
question
i’m just such a master drummer
so much so
i drum you beats
caressing the pulse of your soul
unleashing the flow of rhythm in you
with such dexterity at my finger tips
you canNOT resist!
so you come!
you come rolling your eyes at me
staring me a dewy-morning gaze
from the corner of your eyes
and so you come!
you come with the call of your glossy-lips
teasing me
seducing me
and leaving me
and leaving me
HOLY
with the lingering wriggle
of your hips
you!
you sex me!
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