SOS : Six and Molested.

There are a lot of incidences that occur to people everyday that indicate that the world is ailing and would still be, but it doesn't mean that nothing should be done about the world's ailments.

*Funsho who is not able to cater for the education of all his children turns to his siblings for help, and his idea of help is scattering his children across his siblings' families so as to get them educated. *Queen moved to stay with her aunt when she was Four years old so she could get educated, but she has been handling responsibilities far from her age's capability. Now she returns from school everyday to wait for hours outside the house, hungry and unattended to, till her aunt returns from her shop with her cousins who attend a different school and are dropped to be with their mum till they retire to their home. *Queen is now Six years old and not just waiting after school unattended to, a neighbor has sighted her in the mallam's shop being molested by the pervert. *Queen denied it when she was asked what happened.

I've not been so settled after hearing this story, these happenings are the foundations of the promiscuous girls of tomorrow. I wondered if there was a rescue operation body out there that can save Queen from the neglect and abuse she's experiencing everyday..

You can say this is not my business, but I'm on her case would still be on her case till there's a way out for Queen.

How many more bent trees do we have wait to get from twisted saplings?

"What Do You Say?"

Remember when you were growing up and learning manners, when someone gives you something and you receive it in your mother's presence, seconds after you hear her ask "What do you say?" and then you reply "Thank You"?



I've been trying to write a post on gratefulness and gratitude and I'm still on it, but this morning I came across a Facebook post shared by one of my contacts who shared someone else's thoughts, so I decided to share it with you. What does that make me? :)

All protocols duly observed as I post exactly what I saw how I saw it. I think it's okay I don't share his picture at least you know that this is genuinely from fb.

Omotola Afolabi Abimbola

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• Freddy Ogugua Esenwa wrote: (I also strongly believe)
  
  This is one of the nicest e-mails I have seen, and it really puts things into Perspective..
  
  I had a dream that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, ‘This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received.’
  
  I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.
  
  Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section..
  
  The angel then said to me, ‘This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them.. ‘I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth.
  
  Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. ‘This is the Acknowledgment Section,’ my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed ‘How is it that there is no work going on here?’ I asked.
  
  ‘So sad,’ the angel sighed. ‘After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments .’
  
  ‘How does one acknowledge God’s blessings?’ I asked.
  
  ‘Simple,’ the angel answered. Just say, ‘Thank you, Lord.’
  
  ‘What blessings should they acknowledge?’ I asked.
  
  ‘If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy .’
  
  ‘And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity.’
  
  ‘If you woke up this morning with more health than illness … You are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day .’
  
  ‘If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation … You are ahead of 700 million people in the world.’
  
  ‘If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world. ‘
  
  ‘If your parents are still alive and still married …you are very rare .’
  
  ‘If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you’re unique to all those in doubt and despair.’
  
  Ok, what now? How can I start? If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.
  
  Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you want, pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are....and indeed we really are blessed!

  
  

  

  
  

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  That's it. Touche. How much of what Mummy tried to teach you then is being practiced by you now?

Actions Speak Louder Than Intentions.

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We were preparing Sunday lunch, and I'm still trying to recall how the discussion started. 

Ok! Triple A stepped into the kitchen wanting something to snack on before lunch was ready, he asked if the cereal was for our nephew who was around with his mum.

Mobbie said it was for everyone.

Triple A thought out loud that it was adult food that the baby would still grow to eat.

Mjady said if it was for our nephew, it won't be bad for him to eat it, that he would just be eating ounje omo (I don't know how to translate that to English in two words)

Triple A replied that it was okay for a child to eat the food for adults but not the other way round, and the same thing with clothes.

Mobbie and Mjady argued with Triple A playfully, that it's just ounje omo, as a parent you would j'ounje omo, especially as a mother, what if the baby doesn't finish the food? You wouldn't throw it away now, and there's no big deal in it afterall.

Triple A retorted that we were wombiliki, wobia. Then he opened the door of the refrigerator, picked up the half drunk up Caprisonne he saw and sipped, then asked to whom it belonged.

Mobbie replied that he was taking ounje omo , we laughed at him.

Then he said "You see that's how life is o, people don't see your intentions, they only see your actions."

WERD!! (Pun intended)

When you stand for something and you've bragged about your standing, you may fall into traps that make your actions contradict your intentions.

Let he who stands take heed...

Making Your 2013 Resolutions Work.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! HAPPY 2013!

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At the start of each year, we perceive new beginnings, we give ourselves new opportunities to be better at one thing or the other. So we set goals called 'New Year Resolutions'

You may have set new year resolutions in the past and not seen yourself accomplish them, so you have given up on the 'resolution' thing. But hey, if you aim at nothing you would hit it every time.

So here is a simple way of setting goals and achieving them.

Be aware of your thoughts and eliminate negative thoughts by not paying attention to them e.g Don't think I would not be sick, think I am healthy.

Write your goals as a list of things that you want, instead of a set things you MUST do. Adding necessity introduces pressure and fear. After all goals are a finish in sight we would love to see.

Don't shortchange yourself, dare, take risks, go out of your comfort zone with what you want.

Don't be afraid to plunge in and take opportunities in achieving these goals, in the process you would learn from your successes and failures.

Cultivate the habit of gratefulness, see every goal as accomplished and give thanks to God everyday for them.

Try these method faithfully and you would be happy with the results you get.

This year I want to be unsensationally sensational. Watch me as I get there.

Mjady.

Celebrate By Reaching Out To Others.

Her husband died last year and her daughter this year. Anna was not sure of how the year was going to end for her, because she has three more children to stay alive for.

Surviving everyday has been nothing but God's grace, living from hand to mouth from the petty sales of snacks and drinks to auto mechanics. Anna's business can hardly grow bigger than what it is because of her overwhelming responsibilities.

Truthfully, it saddens me to hear that reservations for an entertainment event cost a fortune that could be the answer someone else's life problems. We go ahead everyday living like, 'since situations like Anna's do not affect us directly, they are not our business'.

Circumstances like Anna's may not be our problem but we can be their solution. We could be an arm of comfort for someone whose child within has been threatened by life's storms.

Am I a sadist who says people should not invest in entertaining themselves? No.

Six couples paid Anna's family a visit and provided her with food stuff and her children with schooling materials that they need. They spend almost half a day with her family sharing material and immaterial things. Afterwards they head for the beach to have more fun.

Anna is truly grateful some aspects of her burdens have been lifted by people who decided to be an outstretched part of God's hands.

Celebration is what we should do everyday for one reason or the other, but we are not to be oblivious of the sufferings of those we pass by everyday wherever we may find them.

Reach out this season of celebration, put more than a smile on a family's face, make someone keep their hope alive and grateful that you exist.

I hope you take a cue.

5 Ways To Win Your Private Battles

"You will not have a glory without a story, no victory without a fight. The surest ingredient for expansion is adversity. Until you are tested, you can't be trusted. Trials bring triumphs and giants are signposts to Canaan. No Goliath, no king David!"

 

This is a quote from someone's post on a social media platform and it just spoke to me so much that I wanted to share my thots on it.

 Before public victories are won private victories have to be won first. There are territories in your life that you have to take over before you can confidently fight to win and be an attested conqueror. 

There are certain territories you have to win privately, they are:

1. The territory of external influence: Coming to place where you are in control of what force and giving access to forces that influence you in one way or the other.

2. The territory of perspective: This is the way you see yourself, others, what you desire and situations that bind you and these things in one way or the other.

3. The territory of fear: I guess you have heard that courage is not the absence of fear. It is the dwelling on our fears that brings what we fear to reality.

4. The territory of thought creation: This is a lot of work but it is expedient for the winning of any battles at all, because battles start from the center of our thoughts. That's why winning the territory of external influence is important too. Thoughts create what you see and the truth is you can control your thoughts to aid your journey.

5. The territory of persistence and perseverance: This is continual action in other words, this is not easy but all these territories are intertwined and have to work together.

Tests and examinations come before certificates. Read the quote above again.

These are thotstoshare as I live learn and love.

TURN THE LIGHTS ON: LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX

Do you think something that is addictive is a problem?

The assumption in today's world is that sex is just another biological drive that must be gratified, and everything is beginning to center around sex.

I would like to know, has anyone ever died from not having his sexual urges satisfied?

It's either condom use or masturbation that is encouraged for those who can't abstain. A good stand on abstinence is avoided like a plague in anything that is supposed to influence people's lifestyles as in everything like fashion, electronic and paper media.

Everything is centered around sexual gratification and perversion is more convincingly seen as nature

Not because I'm confused or not sure about my stand on this, in fact it's very far from that.

I just want to know, if man is so weak that devices have to be created to always cushion the weakness.

Must everything center on human sexual gratification?

TGIF! : 3 Places To Be This Weekend.

This would be a fast one. I asked for suggestions on what to do last Friday and didn't get one response, well I can not vex and decide no to talk to you again. So, here are a few suggestions of how you can unwind this weekend.

1. The eXperience : The annual gospel music concert that holds every first Friday in December at TBS, Lagos, started in 2007, showcasing both local and international gospel acts and an opportunity for citizens to intercede for this country. It's happening today. It is an 'all night' music concert that hosts the largest crowd for a show of its kind with no gate fee required. So get prepared to, go early so as to save a good seat, deal with the crowd, go with a survival kit and be security conscious too. It's always an event to remember, it's always an experience.

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2. Go Christmas shopping at 'Lost In Lagos Live' : This is the best part and I'm starting with it. A lunch buffet will be available for those who get hungry after all their shopping!
Date: Saturday 8th December 2012 – Sunday 9th December 2012

Time: 12 noon – 7 pm (on both days)

Venue: Federal Palace Hotel, Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Tickets: FREE!

You should check here for more details.

3. Daystar Christian Centre Christmas Carol by 5 PM on Sunday 9th December 2012, the theme is 'Rejoice', the venue is Plot A3c Ikosi Road, Oregun Lagos, and its free. This is a carol concert you would not like to miss, don't be told. It's the best ever.

I hope you engage yourself with good stuff and have fun this weekend, not just on the owambe side.

Catch ya leyrra,

Mjady

Aluta Against NEPA! : Should We Keep Silent

I knew I would not be able to cook anything at home since there was no water, so I branched to the nearest canteen on my way home from the office. I also left the office with the thought of how to get water to have my bath tomorrow morning, at the back of my mind.

What happened?!

It should be about two months or over now, when my sister said she received an SMS from the electricity service provider that there would be erratic power supply for some days for the reason they stated in the text message. So for once, we started believing that maybe this could actually mean a transformation in the operations and the service rendered by NEPA , the accustomed name for electric power authority in Nigeria though its name has been changed to 'power holding' instead.

They sent an SMS the last time right? Now I'm wondering if that won't be the only SMS notification we ever get from NEPA , because this time 'they' just took the light like 'they' normally would at any time of the day and since then electricity was not returned for six days straight.

Because our 'better pass your neighbor' generator can't carry the pumping machine and even kept developing fault, we could not pump water too. When we were done managing what was left in the water tank, meruwa (Northerners who fetch and sell water in Jerry cans) became a very pleasant face to see, became king in place of the customers patronizing them and made one to think of starting the business too (That's a joke).

Almighty OAU! Who does aluta like no other, I know this kind of rubbish would never be condoned on OAU Ile-Ife campus. Even with a memo about the situation. Anything that causes students all around hostels to have to search for water for more than two days or have erratic power supply for about that time is taunting them for a protest. Before you know it, you are hearing the bugle for you to join the 'struggle' with explanations in thick political vocabulary.


If electrical power did not return by this evening it would have been a week NEPA took our electricity without explanation. But no, God saved them 'they' returned our light last night.

Like the same thing that happens in OAU was going to happen here too *scoffs*. I'm sure people who know the aluta drill and participated in their time, live in the same area I reside, but don't even have the guts to do so now and I wonder why. Is it 'Bystanders effect' or what?

They returned our electricity and I'm glad I don't have to smile at meruwa (for now) because I want water.

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But should we actually keep silent for the way we are being treated by NEPA?

Have You Seen ASA's New Video?

Last night I was informed of Asa's video release for one more song in her sophomore album 'Beautiful Imperfection' .

The release of the new and official video for the song 'The Way I Feel' on Youtube is not a day old yet and has had over eight thousand views already.

You can take a look at the video and share what you feel about it. As in the interpretation of the whole song, lyrics, the theme and if you like it.

Then I stumbled on the live performance and I'm thinking you have to see it too.

Don't forget to post your thotstoshare on these two pieces.

One Love,
Mjady.