simply oroque's view

i remember the post i wrote many years back on children's day and the commercial venture it has become. well, time has passed and i'm in a different place now...plus i took a lot of heat for my last post so i better say something nice about the kids today. its great that we have one single day in a very busy year, to consciously slow people down from their intensely fast-paced lives to give a thought for children. the media frenzy and marketing push leading up to the day is really wild and must be costing altogether close to half a billion in the marketing budget of manufacturing countries around nigeria. not bad for the economy, not bad for the kids, unfortunate for the parent's pocket but an overall worthy exercise. the flipside of this celebration, as with all celebrations, is that it over-emphasizes the necessity of having children by persons old enough to conceive. its funny how much more aware i am of the many people who have been trying for kids for years on end ...

you know, i've been listening to a lot of Chris Rock on my ipad lately...and it has been a liberating experience. apart from the fact that the man talks a damn lot, and uses the "f" word pretty easily, the more you listen to him, the more you couldn't agree with him more - that human beings do a lot of crap, and other human beings are too polite to call crap what it is, i.e. crap. so whilst on that subject, i'd like to rant about my latest pet peeve. babies. yes, you heard me right. babies. you know, those tiny, stumpy limbed, fat cheeked, usually overweight, miniature versions of real life adults who so happen to be their their parents? yeah, those. now, don't get me wrong. i love babies. i, like everyone else, thinks they're cute, innocent and greatly overrated. but thats not my pet peeve. its the parents that i have a problem with. so just the other day i was going to and fro through my BB list looking for whom to disturb and i noticed that i couldn...

is it just me, or are black people tired of acting boring like white folk...suddenly everyone from kanye to diddy is breaking out in mad dance...african style! i'm feeling the rhythm... yeah, i feel like dancing today...sue me. see y'all around peeps!

"Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth: Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from [your enemy]" - Proverbs 24 v 17-18 I have no sympathy for the man who played God and sought to right the wrongs he perceived to be manifest in the world. I respect his courage and tenacity in pursuing what he believed in till his dying day. I know not enough about him to analyse his actions or condemn his beliefs...but I do know for a fact, that his death is not the beginning of world peace. it is but a temporary sense of safety and triumph of the popular over the misunderstood. May God have mercy on us all.