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STANDTALL THE-ACTIVIST
Cats on Tuesday: I met Lucky, I loved Lucky but is now goodnite!!!
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Lucky was there on Christmas day. She made me miss my cats so much but her friendliness attitude made my christmas dinner with her family worth the while. Lucky was a gracious, friendly and lovely. I played with her without her making me feel I was a stranger intruding into her life unlike her sister Fluffy who was ready to sratch the hell out of my hand for daring to touch her! But just 3 days ago, Lucky passed away from an illness suspected to be due largely to plant poisoning.
 This is painful! Lucky you are missed!!! Goodnite dear girl!
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| January 26, 2010 | 6:01 AM |
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Need not be nice but be fair to others
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Just taking a break from a Media training workshop for all the 8 of us on the African Leadership Centre fellowship programme/ Peace and Security for African Women. Handling camera like a pro and taking different shots of our experience in London came with a lot of task and challenges. Being in the London cold of today is not in anyway funny but can we complain? Today was probably better than yesterday...I should be taking a rest in fact be on my way home already but I have got a thing or 2 on my mind. I have being thinking of some steps I need to take personally on some personal as well as professional issues this year. I was not sure at first if I have got a resolution for this year but I think the resolutions are surfacing by themselves. I won't be given any background information or detail to why I am taking these resolutions that I will mention below but they are self-explanatory as far as I am concerned:Welcome to Standtall 7 points resolutions on handling issues and getting along with some kind of people from now on:- I don't have to be nice to everyone but I need to be fair to all.
- I don't have to let insensitivity of some people ruin my mood, I need to just learn t
 o apply "humour techniques" that I have learnt so far from Afrobabe and Vera [the birthday girl]. - It does not matter how truthful and considerate of others you might be, you will still get cross by others, your intentions misinterpreted sometimes but the guiding principle should always be about your conscience.
- You will sometimes offend others whether you are in the right or wrong. Be brilliant about when to say "sorry" and when to ask for one and if it is not offered to you, move on.
- Be strategic and economic with criticism, advice even help rendered to others, there may be need for others to learn from their own mistakes...
- It is not compulsory to get along with everyone, but it is necessary to learn how to work with even those you might never get along with.
- Always remember that the principles above are not meant to be static! Even the saints are not perfect and life is always going to be a work in progress.
My heart goes to the entire Haiti citizens and the victims of the recent earthquake that struck the country...
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| January 14, 2010 | 2:01 AM |
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Now that we are here...
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I don't know how I am fast becoming an occasional blogger. It is not me and it will not happen. The first resolution for this year is to try all I can to go back to "Interview Thursday" series. I have got a lot of fatanstic people to interview and I am the only one that is stopping this from happening. Reschedule girl.I will try not to rush things though as I need to still rest and get rid of this prolong cold I am battling with once and for all. I also need to gather my thinking and reprocess some stuff out of which Umar Mutallab is one of. I argued last month just 2 weeks before the unfortunate incident of Umar Mutallab that Nigerians might be many things but as an African, we will never partake in suicide bombing. Umar Mutallab proved me wrong!Now it's not about what we can do or can't, it's now about how can we change situations, how can we tiredlessly strive in 2010 to redeem the image of Nigeria, to change things back at home and to have a glorified African continent. I am still thinking and in my thinking, I still meet a stumbling block of impossibility but no, I will not let that thought destroy the effort needed to be made in transforming our lands...
Despite the cold or flu, I still had a wonderful xmas dinner in the house of one of the fellows on the peace and security programme after which I took a trip to Peterborough to see a friend and her family. I was there for a week and had a great time. Meeting and having time with their 3 Months old baby was nice. The fun most not end as I am back to my desk to start my busy but productive 2010...
 Above here are pictures of the xmas dinner and that of my friend handsome baby. And congratulations to our own FFF on the arrival of her cutie baby.
Happy new year to you all, I believe we shall conquer all negativities in oru lives and our continent.
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| January 4, 2010 | 10:01 AM |
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