https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/not-so-serious-stuff/ Recent content in Not-So-Serious-Stuff on A Geek's Life Hugo en Mon, 21 May 2012 16:36:11 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2012/05/21/eight-things-i-wished-i-knew-eight-years-ago/ Mon, 21 May 2012 16:36:11 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2012/05/21/eight-things-i-wished-i-knew-eight-years-ago/ <p>Eight years ago, I was a wee lad, barely 23, fresh off my year of <a href="https://archive.rustgeek.me/2012/02/that-nysc-year/">serving the nation</a> in the foothills of Sango; with the mellifluous, if unintelligible, sounds of the music that consistently wafted upwards from the traders that surrounded my very modest lodgings at Maraba still ringing in my ears. I was none the wiser of the ways of the world at the time – like the good son of my Mother that I still was, in addition to being the pitifully shy, introspective bloke, I still greeted older males and females as ‘Sir’ and’Ma’ - a predisposition which perhaps made me <a href="https://archive.rustgeek.me/2012/04/in-which-i-recall-my-memories-of-being-a-new-hire/">fall prey to the shenanigans</a> of a couple of police men on my first day at work.</p>