Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

     Lamar Odom is in a coma, fighting for his life.
Piers Morgan wrote an article for DailyMail, where he blamed reality TV for the steady decline in Lamar's professional and personal life. Read it here
    There's been a lot of mixed reactions trailing this article.

Exactly my point. Kardashians relish it, others get chewed up & spat out by same fame game. https://t.co/4tVzO5zE9i

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 14, 2015

@piersmorgan Just read your brilliant, insightful article on Lamar. Tragic really. Not everyone is capable of flying too close to the sun.

— Nick Vale (@nickvale13) October 14, 2015

Must read: So heartbreaking but so true. 😢💔 The price when you make your life TOO public. @piersmorgan on Lamar: http://t.co/0ZQccRpM2H

— Bianca Gonzalez (@iamsuperbianca) October 14, 2015

@HessicaGonzalez @piersmorgan @DailyMailCeleb Could not agree more Jessica! Awful choice of words! So insensitive and heartless!

— paul elian (@spte1905) October 14, 2015

   Lets all pray for Lamar's recovery.
   What do you think about the article?

Whatcha Say?

My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you`re a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That is the way to get an idea - Andy Rooney.

So, here I am, waiting for inspiration and I see this. I agree, wholeheartedly.
In line with this agreement, I will be talking about the multiplicity of Mother's Day celebrations all over the world.

Mothers are phenomenal human beings. The whole process of motherhood is a lifelong tenure of love, extreme selflessness and tenacious support. Why then can we not agree on a universal date to celebrate these awesome people? The morefold dates for this celebration lend to confusion. I actually feel that Mothers Day should be a public holiday; so families and children everywhere can without hassle acknowledge their mothers.

However, this apparently the season of Mothers Days'. Hence, with great admiration, I say
HAPPY MOTHERS DAY.

What do you think? Would love to hear from you.
Toodles.

Change

 Nigeria has got a new direction. General Mohammed Buhari is the President-elect. #BabaNowThatYouAreHere. A cursory look at Twitter shows that the masses are ecstatic. #ChangeforBetter

Happy New Month people. Its the time for short-term resolutions. Remember to learn from the past and look to the future. Toodles!!

EONS.

What can I say? Well, for starters: Sorry. Been working on my project. Finally, i'm a graduate. Thank God.

Been long you saw me.

  "I can explain"
 This has got to be the most over-used starting line for excuses or, to put it in a more believable way, reasons. However, I can justify it. Kinda.
  Its really simple: I'm working on my research project.
 My topic is: Multinational Oil Companies and Corporate Social Responsibility in Nigeria: Favour or Friend?
       YUP, IT'S CRAZY!!!!

Scrumptious

 

  Click here to get the recipe from Health.

Reviewing Blended

     As a film viewer, I enjoyed 'Blended',  I personally feel that all Adam Sandler roles are similar, so if you are fairly conversant with his movies, you oughtn't to be shocked. Also, the film is filled with young actors and as A.O Scott put it," their résumés will outgrow this embarrassment."
     Most people who see the movie will probably recommend it for its lightweight comic athmosphere. However, it did poorly  terribly poorly in reviews. After reading, A.O Scott's review, (see it here) I discovered that the job of a film critic is tedious. It could lead a person to confuse the objective of a movie with the features seen in the movie. As seen in this review, he seemed to assume that the movie was aiming for a higher intellectually endowed crowd. I am of the opinion that the producers of Blended were aiming at financial gain. I also disagree with his advise to parents that the movie would make their children stupid. I believe it would make them geographically and culturally poor not stupid, probably idiotic, but definitely not stupid.
      I agree with him on some points though. He notes that Blended has its retrograde gender politics; its delight in the humiliation of children; its sentimental hypocrisy about male behavior; its quasi-zoological depiction of Africans as servile, dancing, drum-playing simpletons. The last is the bane of my problem. After watching the movie, I was utterly disgusted with how they portrayed the african culture. Africa is not a 'kumbulu kumbala' region. this movie makes people come out of the cinema with the impression that African people are similar to animals, speaking  in RIDICULOUS accents, and dancing to songs which they assume show african style. Not to be too sentimental and go off on a tirade, I will state that the propagation of the 'Africans live with animals in close proximity and behave like them' notion was very wrong. This was emphasized in the Lion King where that land was regarded as Africa.
    The greatest insult of the movie in terms of the African disregard, is that the movie was actually shot in South Africa. A cursory look at the nominees of the concluded BET awards, show that African music is nothing as was portrayed in the movie. The likes of P-Square who are signed to Akon and are internationally recognized for hits such as Chop my money and Personally, Tuface Idibia who even just released a song with T-Pain (widely remembered for African Queen), Tiwa Savage who is signed to Sony Records, Ice Prince and M.I who are famous rappers, amongst a host of others show that African music is global and of a higher level than shown in the movie. Even Mafikhizolo, who can be considered as leading 'African cultural' artistes seeing as they sing in swahili, still use beats and tunes that are of a higher nature than seen in the movie. This is terribly disappointing.
    I therefore rate Blended as a one-star movie and this is just for Terry Crew's acting. He finally played a role that I feel would have been challenging for him.
   

Funny Picture of the day

Today's tip.

Taylor Swift's take on haters.

 

         
   Taylor is releasing a new album, 1989, which is the year of her birth. Her hit single, "Shake It Off" is already arousing much criticism musically and politically. All in all, I was ecstatic to learn that Taylor had released a single and video, because she plays around and there's a lot of fun involved. As expected, Taylor didn't disappoint her viewers regarding the video. There WAS a lot of play/fun in it.
    I think the problem comes from the shifting of perspective. I hear complaints such as; Oh, here's this good girl, i-tell-my-life-in-songs girl moving from country to pop. An all-pop album. Not that there is anything whatsoever wrong with pop, but then that's shocking. HATERS GONNA HATE.
   Also, Taylor is trying out different forms of dance in her video. Why? She should stick to one instead of releasing a dance mashup video in which she does poorly in all? HATERS GONNA HATE

    I however happen to just have ONE problem, Taylor. If you really don't like what people say isn't it easier to keep quiet than shake it off. Now i'm going to be the front runner for the 'shake-it-off' campaign when it regards lies and people who want to get you down. But, when a person tells her whole life to the world via songs and social media is it really alright that she then play the victim when those people give her a piece of their mind?
   Now if this song had been addressed to helping the rife problem of depression due to all causes,(may Robin Williams' soul  rest in peace) I would jump on the bandwagon of love, but by the tense used in the song and the categories of haters mentioned; the heart-breakers and players, it shows that Taylor is talking about none other than herself.
   Anyway, all opinions don't matter as she's just going to:




SHAKE IT OFF. Because:
 

  

            Click to here watch the video.

Apologies.

 The speech by J.K Rowling in the previous article is to the class of 2008. It is an error and is regretted.

"What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure."

    This is a quote from J.K Rowling's speech, "The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination." She made it to Harvard's 2004 graduating class.
     It struck a chord within me as I read, and I consider it quite interesting.

          "So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure
           meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself
           that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy
           into finishing the only work that mattered to me."

 Click here to view the full artcle.

Understanding Ebola

  So right now, the most important issue is Ebola. Common knowledge shows the major reasons why:

• Its a virus so is harder to control eg HIV
• Its got no vaccine and no cure
• The corpse of an infected person can still transmit the disease
• Its transmitted by direct contact

  With all these information swirling around, the internet is rife with people's opinions and loads of diverse medical knowledge on the issue from very highly respected medical personnel. As such, a good start should be the thoughts of Michael Van Rooyen. As said of him on Harvard's website:

       "To better understand the disease and the threat it presents, the Gazette spoke with

         Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), which

         works to improve humanitarian response to disasters around the world through

         training, research, and by developing tools that put information at responders’ fingertips.

        VanRooyen, a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public

        Health and vice chairman of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s

        Department of Emergency Medicine, has extensive experience responding to

        humanitarian crises, from the Rwandan genocide to the turmoil in the eastern

        Democratic Republic of the Congo to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, when HHI and

        physicians from Harvard-affiliated hospitals erected a field hospital to handle the

        injured."

Click here to read his thoughts on this fast spreading disease.

   

Lamentable

  I know! I know! I'm the culprit and you're the victim. So sad!
In my defense my laptop had some technical issues and had to be repaired and that took awhile. Also, my internet subscriber has been a pain for a while now. I sincerely apologize and utterly regret it.
  Whatcha say?

Motivational Quote today by Jennifer Lopez.

   She captioned this photo; Skies the limit... #dreambig #thinkbig #lastdayofvacation #backtowork #timetotakeover #letsgetit

    True talk. So come on, let's get it.

#OnThisSunday

 

The demise of the pen.

    A catchy title right? Anyway its true. The relevance of the pen is depreciating with each passing day. Now, this dude says the last time he saw a pen in his home was 2 months previously. Its not that bad yet here. I mean at work, you use pens all the time. Furthermore, Internet banking hasn't really caught on here, so pens are used in the banking halls too.
     But the pen is dying, and we know it in our hearts. Steve Jobs called the finger the best pointing device. It is now more than that. Click to here read this author's farewell to the pen.


 

A legend returns

Didier Drogba has signed a one year contract with Chelsea. Do you think that's for better or worse?

Its National Dance Day....

 As Gina in Brooklyn 99 says: 'Dance, Dance and Dance.' Dance is universal and as such, its more of an international celebration.
      Thus I will be sharing this pic of me doing just that, many MOONS ago.

 
    That was such a long time ago. Anyway, remember to dance.