NOT BEEN

havn't been here for so long
And for how long i'll be i don't know
i learnt, during my sojourn, a song
Whose meaningi don't know.

today, i look free
maybe i'm not as free

hmmm
just keep it blowing
...the breeze

MI

also means MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

/UTS2/: POLICY AND INTERNET

The Policy Studies Organization (PSO), the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), and Berkeley Electronic Press calls for submissions for, what they call, the first major peer-reviewed journal investigating the implications of the Internet and associated technologies for public polic: POLICY AND INTERNET.

Papers submitted would be expected to report on innovative research into any aspect of the implications of the Internet for public policy.

The journal's first articles will be available in summer 2009.

BLOGOGRAPHY:

http://www.bepress.com/pso_internet/

CHANGE-A-LIFE LAUNCH

The 7th Edition of the Change A Life ProjectWatch Live Broadcast on NTA Network & LTVSaturday February 21, 20097pm.

For further information please contact
Eniola Harrison
Phone: 08057710212
Email: eniola.harrison (AT) gmail.com

BLOGOGRAPHY:
http://felameetsabba.blogspot.com/2009/02/press-release-change-life-foundation.html
http://mutiuokediran.com/blog/2009/02/change-a-life-foundation-launch/

um. . .i'm thinking

I'm thinking. What shouldn i blog? What can i blog? World Politics, say Obama? some self-taught psychology? self-thought philosophy? self-learnt ideology? What? I'd have loved like most others to write some thesis on Obama, Kenyans and/orAfricans. But nay i won't.

I'm still thinking. What then will i blog.


bla bla bla got no ideas for now. Better to wait till later for some brilliant brainwave. After all silence is golden, init. Maybe tomorrow. Yea. Tomorrow.

been a while

finished First Professional Exams few days ago-terribly demanding-the whole of Med Schl-haven't had the time to blog- i browse but don't blog- let's see what happens in the future-coz now i'm not exactly resting- got pharmac, micro, etc on my neck- merry xmas in advance y'all

'musing

been thinking:
don't, can't comprehend how women got to decide that to dress beautifully 3/4 of your bossom has got to be exposed. Funnier thing is they spend hours wearing dresses that are even "challenged" in terms of dimensions. I mean do you expect someone wearing a full well-sewn aso-oke dress to spend lesser time dressing up compared with someone wearing something close to a glorified singlet?

GOD STILL DEY

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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.

ME TRYING TO SPURT OUT RHYMES.SPONTANEOUSLY!

Thanks Solomonsydelle:
all's well
that ends well
No reasonable bo
dy wants to go to hell
or end up in the bo
ttom of a well
so, plus the pains, we play it cool
we don't lool
we watch the Euro 2008
at 8
without hate
here in Idiaraba
Lagos state
Nigeria.

BLEND

Forget your rights
Forget putting up a fight
Forget the light
And sink into the night
-weeping will only endure the night-
Tomorrow will be alright
-'cos joy comes in the morning.

Light is an inconstant
element that constant
ly puts a red card
to all we plannd
to do at night-
then we start this old new talk about
Nigeria-everyone's jugular jutting out-
that sustains until everyone's fagged out.

We wake up in the morning
there is still no light- then
someone makes a comment
about Obasanjo's 10 million dollars
(abi na billion) into NEPA
only able change NEPA's name to PHCN!
the old new talk starts again a-new
just as of old we talk it for hours
laying its bricks till it's as high as the Two Towers.


We think of our Incourses
Go to read, for classes
Return to cook to eat 'cos there's now light
then there's no light
And the Indomie on the hotplate grows cold
We sigh, gasp, almost weep till we sleep.

I KNOW LITTLE OR NOTHING . . .

. . . about the South African rampage and what it has to do with Nigerians and Nigeria. Now, don't you blame me about that. The reason is "many reasons" (do you get?). There ain't light in my Med School here in Lagos, Med School o!, Water disappears anytime from now or then, etc. . .

TO BE CONTINUED

I WANTED TO WRITE...

ABOUT THE BRAIN DRAIN.

But i changed my mind.
I've been down and out 'cos of chickenpox
for a while now:One of the contributing factors
to my not blogging.
Now, as a Med student living in Med school
with a Teaching Hospital right under my nose
It would be unwise for me to bath with spittle
when i live beside the sea.
But spittle is exactly what i used, bros.

The Doc. recommended just Calamine Lotion
for a pox that almost turned my face into a
Soldier's camouflage uniform. . .

Anyway, i gat something different on my mind
-I'm thinking furiously of learning some computer program
And i just discovered there are free ebooks online.
PERL is what i plan learning.
I'd brief you as i learn more.

PERL is the third most used program
in the world.
One of those prime tools for BIOINFORMATICS.

TECH UP!

GONE!

Had a long, frenetic day of having to cover (i'm exaggerating) a whooping million pages (oops!) in preparation for my Anatomy Incourse. Been busy all day long doing just that, Yeah. But sneaked in here to blog a line or two t'nite and what do i get in return for my act - the server refuses to log me on to my dashboard and agrees, anoyingly, to do that just when i've 4 minutes left out of 1solidhour. There's no cash to buy more time and no time to type more words. All's GONE!

BUSY,STILL BUSY

Despatched to a shadowy corner in a cybercafe; straining my face close to the keyboard with my nose almost typing letters for my hands - bear with me for typos, if there are any. . .and the incoherence . . what with my condition . . .Was supposed to have an Incourse tomorrow: the most challenging, Anatomy.

It was adjourned though and now i'll be having it next week: Thursday and Friday. The knowledge of that in your consciousness is like having the Sword of Damocles hanging threateningly over your head. And then comes in the middle of that the result of a previous Incourse in Physiology. . .made a close distinction. . .

. . . Reading good ol' Solomonsydelle's comments also evaporated ideas. 'Twas a wonder having as many as 3 comments on one post with her's embedded inbtw. . . the great YoRUba people like to say iru e la o maa ri ( na dat kin thing na im we go dey see ) . . .

I'LL BE BACK!

ANOTHER DAY

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/UTS/UPSET THE SETUP: UBUNTU

When i started blogging 'twas hard doing hands-on or head-on typing, i mean typing straight from the mental flow of ideas in the head, no pre-parations (in some storage device), nothing. Now it's easier. 'Twas also harder then 'cos i tried blogging political issues like i was some Funmi Iyanda or Jeremy (Naijablogger) or Solomonsydelle ( former mother of 2.5 or 3.5): Making logical, objective political arguments is tasking, i dropped it and waited for my head to grow. It's grown and still growing. Now it's easier and i write firsthand experiences, elucidations are coherentER and more articulate. I've decided to try my hands/head on some other stuff - tech, books, arts, culture, writing, femininsm, religion, IT -

While trying to look for some real stuff on, i think, tech, i slammed into that title on someone else's page -on of his links actually-and someone else's blog title. It picqued my interest. Upset the Setup: that's what i'm trying to do.

The title is a perfect example of pun that unintentionally does motivation, it indirectly tells you "Frustrate tradition with your Creativity, Do something New, something diFFerEnT."

UBUNTU something dot zero something

*Ubuntu, my first IT post, i remember seeing EBA, MOINMOIN, etc. as programme names on an Ubuntu CD ROM some time ago. Meaning a Naija man probably wrote them:somthing different from the setup:


Ubuntu is a community developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. Whether you use it at home, at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you'll ever need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools.

Ubuntu is and always will be free of charge. You do not pay any licensing fees. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business for absolutely no price. . .

CHECK: ubuntu.com