SPURTING RHYMES

When i was a kid
I was told of all God did
That he created Light
Secreted the Day and the Night
He made Man
And Woman
He gardened them in Eden
Where nothing from them was hidden
Not even the fruit forbidden
Everything was paradise
Until his commandment they despised


When i was a kid
I saw all that God did
I saw the trees and grasses so green
And admired our flag's Green-White-Green
I saw the sky so blue
Not just once in a moon so blue
I saw the cattle egret so white
And thought of God so so WHITE
I recall this song,
Not too short, not so long:
Leke Leke
Eye Adaba Bami Leke
Even the egret's dung was white like snow flakes
Everything still was paradise
Despite his word which we spiced with respite


Now i'm grown
Everything seems to have away flown:
The white, the blue, the green, the egret-
Everything's gone and there seems to be no regret:
The egret's white
Is a camouflage of stains so unwhite
Its neck stick out so long
From suffering, seeking food for so long
The ball of its head
Bald like the vulture's own head.


The world ain't like it used to be
When i was kid, a man-to-be.

APPLE: 3G iPHONE

Apple's 3G iPhone finally was launched last Friday, the 11th, amidst much anxiety and, maybe, pomp, in 22 countries. Human queues, longer than anacondas, stretched from block to block, especially in Asia, eager to grab the new phone: an index of the 3G's wide acceptance.

3G technology gives iPhone fast access to the Internet and email over cellular networks around the world. iPhone 3G also makes it possible for you to surf the web, download email,watch video even while you’re on a call.

MIKE WENDLAND says on his blog:
My bottom line assessment is ... who needs a laptop? This iPhone 3G has let me do everything I need on the road.In fact, most of the notes for this post were composed on the iPhone and then e-mailed to one of my accounts, where I pasted them in a special application needed by the Freep.I could have done it, though, all on the iPhone, had I had time to set it up before leaving Saturday.

But he doesn't forget to mention BATTERY LIFE which doesn't seem to be long enough. That notwithstanding Apple seems to still be ahead of competitors. They hope to launch in about 70 countries.

CAINE PRIZE 2008

This year's Caine Prize has been won by Henrietta Rose-Innes from South Africa, with her story ‘Poison’ from Africa Pens, published by Spearhead, an imprint of New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2007.

To read this year's shortlisted stories, please click on the following link:
http://www.newint.org/publications/fiction/jambula-tree/

EVER THOUGHT OF THE BAD SIDE OF HAVING TO DRINK WATER AFTER A GOOD MEAL?

I eat better these days - sometimes, the meal doesn't necessarily have to be better - most times, it's rice we eat, as students, here in Medilag - we've probably eaten more rice than any Japanese - more than three times sometimes. Food is good for the body. Of course, without food your mental and physical growths are hamper'd: everyone who isn't a rocketscientist knows that.

Yesterday, after having one of those pretty scarce good delicious meals. I decided to wash it down with a satchet of pure water. That decision was painful. WHY?

The water, in a silent evil manner, washed down every memory of that meal from my mouth. And that was real painful.

To make issues worse it left a bad taste in my mouth.

Minus that my day was FABULOUS!

HAVE A HAPPY LAST HALF OF THE YEAR.