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2020: One way to die in the West

  Suspense filled, I’ll say that was 2020 for me. I had (what people would call) “a mortal peril” at some point, and quite a lot of interesting/daring situations. 2020 was the most fun year so far.  I appreciate the new connections made this year and the oldies who kept contact. My virtual social interactions ebbed lowest this year. I grew unconsciously distant from others and engrossed in tasks and activities through which I made new connections, making most of my interactions offline. My ‘thinkings’ were most divergent and atypical this year. I encountered situations which I hadn't imagined or only visualized in movies. I engaged in projects of good stats and read quite a lot of books, both academic and non-academic. A ton of academic books and papers I’ll say. I thank God for the years before this which got me prepared; and my parents and ‘dads’ for working me on to handle things alone and build strength in & on challenges, never to fret, go gloom or beg; and God’s spirit fo
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Scale & Jacket

The snake, a symbol of cunningness. Calm deceitfulness, known for rebellion. It sheds of its skin occasionally, revealing a new demeanor occasionally rebellious, sometimes surprising. It's real personality. That's a snake, that how you spot the snake, it holds all that in & eventually let's them out. To adapt, man puts on a jacket to prevent the cold from coming in. He becomes a new person with that jacket on. Taking on dirt & all foreign that his atmosphere drops. But at sanctuary, he becomes whole again. At home, he becomes himself. Dropping the jacket which is not him & finding peace in himself. At sanctuary he feels sanity, sanctity, serenely. He becomes him. Until he works outside without the jacket he remains another man to the world except for those who can dig within. So his flesh got to metamorphose. That's the difference, that's what distinct man & snake. There's scale which is body, there's jacket which is foreign.

Review of Children of Blood and Bone

Reading Children of Blood & bone . The narrative & descriptions felt so real. Whenever I got lost in a fantasy world of panthenaires, lionaires, maji, kosidans and magic I never wanted leave. Those moments felt like I lived the fiction & I wanted no escape. "Kwame brushes past me, running for the heart of the battle. He grips a dagger tight in his hands. Then he slashes open his palm. Blood magic. Horror settles into my bones. It’s like the world slows to a stop, stretching the seconds between this moment and the last Kwame will ever have. His blood glows with a white light, splashing as it hits the ground. In an instant the ivory light surrounds him, illuminating his dark skin like a god from above. When it reaches the top of his head, it seals his fate. A fire explodes from his skin. Smoldering embers rain from his body. Flames blaze around his form. The fire erupts from every limb, shooting out of his mouth, his arms, his legs. The blast towers meter

Book Exsect 1

Hear the wild dogs out there in the night. They howl & wail because they are lean with with hunger. Yet feed them and what do they? Fight & strut. Then fight & fight some more, giving no thought to the morrow that will surely come. Just so it is with the sons of men. Give them a choice of gold & wisdom -- what do they do? Ignore the wisdom & waste the gold. On the morrow they wail because they have no more gold. Gold is reserved for those who know it's laws & abide by them. *The Richest Man in Babylon: 5 Laws of Gold*

NYSC Post Camp Experience

A little prattle to all those white fouls that have just been displaced from camp.  The 1st few weeks after camp could be the most difficult and also a defining period. Some will just walk into their PPA, receive their acceptance letter and even enjoy 2 weeks hols. While some will just go there and get rejected straight away. Some others will be told to go and come back the next day and the next and the next to nauseating extremes until they luckily accept or to your agony reject you. While some will even go and discover their PPA doesn't exist. There'll sure be some that'll will be posted to 1 useless PPA that they're not paying or doing anything and will have to beg for rejection. Amongst these ones, some will be rejected, others wouldn't. Then amongst these corpers, some will just go home and not know what to do with their lives apart from eating and sleeping. While some might even go to lengths such as paying for rejection. NYSC Kit Corp members coul