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WOW – The Newcastle agenda crossed the 95% milestone last Friday.. Weeks of nail-biting suspense came to an end.. and when it did it was anti-climatic.. The weeks of palpating excel spreadsheets and evaluating various scenarios came to an end more in a puff of smoke than a roaring volcanic eruption.. I’d skipped work, chartered a cab to Calabar and only arrived just in time to catch the last Arik Air flight to Lagos from Calabar… Flight was eventful, rather bumpy but safe… And then when the brown envelope was in my hands, i only felt a cold, calm detachment.. ...

Finally worked up the nerve to start blogging about my prospective Newcastle odyssey…. By my excel spreadsheet estimates I’ve crossed the 78% milestone, paid my fees, booked my accomodation, self registered for school, moved my pounds into my dorm account - the works.. Currently waiting on the chaps from the High Commission to make a statement on my application to finally cross the 90% milestone.. As for me all I’m doing is twiddling my thumbs and waiting for the manifestation of the day.,, ...

WOW – spent my first weekend in Port Harcourt for the first time in nearly two and half years and boy did I thoroughly enjoy myself!!!! The gist was great, the kids were awesome and just being around some really cool friends made my weekend.. Didn’t know I still enjoyed being around kids that much…Great start to my birthday month….

Spent May Day listening to the likes of Fred Thompson, Sharon McPherson, Ibukun Awosika, Leke Alder at the platform (www.theplatformnigeria.com ) .. Fred seems to be big on this TQM thing – Meeting specifications, meeting expectations and providing excitement.. Maybe there is a fourth quality – operating at a more fundamental level — but none the less critical – quality of thought…

Russ Bush: A worldview is that basic set of assumptions that gives meaning to one’s thoughts. A worldview is the set of assumptions that someone has about the way things are, about what things are, about why things are. St. Augustine of Hippo: True faith is bound up with reason James W. Sire (The Universe Next Door): A worldview is a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic make-up of our world. ...

WOW – Been almost a whole long month that I’ve ben away from blogsville – Granted i was never the consumate blogger but i did manage to pop in from time to time to see what was grooving around blogsville.. But this last run was awful - first my ISP was struck by lightning inone of those freak tropical thunderstorms and their equipment got fried.. Then its taken the better part of threee weeks to attempt a fix - Awful - even by Nigerian Private Sector standards.. Only NEPA/ PHCN is more abysmal… ...

Phew – I’ve survived another year – Another year of living and working in 9ja with all its attendant issues. I had several close shaves with death in the past 1 year - two car crashes that almost claimed my life (the last one finally totalled my 2001 3.25i BMW and left me with a cut on my head), a massive re-org at work that left 160 people considering what might have been if they’d opted for a different first job instead of tying up with an Oil & Gas major, two flights to and fro Lagos every month inspite of the real issues with the 9ja Aviation industry, several gruelling trips to Benin City from my enclave in the 9ja Delta (a 16hr round trip every 2 months) and most importantly another 1 year of surviving inspite of Mama’s phone calls.. ...

Phew – The “danger” of documentation was brought home to me very forcibly a couple of days ago.. A friend of mine stumbled across an old year book from my campus fellowship (from which I graduated in 2002). First off the “me” in the picture was several pounds lighter, with bushier hair and the talk – gist of launching my very own ISP wthin 10 years of quititng campus, writing songs and all what not – was a far cry from what I’d actually gone on to do .. Only my name connected the picture of the scrawny 20-something year old guy with the “buff” guy I’d become.. ...

Found Al Mohler’s (www.albertmohler.com) precise distillation of the essential qualities of would -be husbands and fathers over at Boundless (www.boundless.org). Couldn’t help asking myself if indeed my house was in order.. 13 critical dimensions of manhood from a Christian worldview - a must read for Christian men and the women who love them.. Read the complete article at http://www.boundless.org/2005/articles/a0001093.cfm

Na wah o!!! Just saw my man ‘Pescara’ nearly trading blows with an ‘Okada’ rider on the road o.. The issue? A hand trolley pusher on the road had strayed off the kerb onto the road and the car he was in had to stop suddenly.. As a result the motor bike behind the svelte 406 he was in slammed into the car’s rear end and fell on the ground.. Rather than the bike man to accept he was wrong and apologize, he launched into a tirade in the local language about ‘people who use stolen money to buy cars and then consitute hazards to other road users" ...