East ward bound - a call of the sirens...

A pull by a force so strong - some people call it necessity...
A pile of money yesterday, scattered to the forewinds today - some people call it 'The here today, Gone tomorrow...' concept!
It's like some kind of liquid, you can't grab it and it just slips through your fingers... Money is a necessary evil, you don't have it you cry, wail and bang ya teeth against the wall - you get it and suddenly calm rational flies through the window... In the end you still feel like you lost out on something important... Not enough value for your money you say...

welcome to the class room called Life - a one way trip with no return ticket...

Dan's traditional wedding (that ancient ritual practised by 'Primitive' African tribes that binds a man to his wife with a whip cord...) is for saturday - the 23rd of April, 2005.
I spent bucket loads of sweat, blood and limited sleep time trying to fashion out a way forward - which means that i should be in the east before saturday, to join in the work and toil required to send one of our own into the mortal embraces of the institution called marriage... (I see the word "MARRIAGE" as Marry and Age or My Arragement)
I hope that as many that know of it will show up to support this adventurer, this hero of an age long gone... here's to success in the institution(Chidima & Dan), Long and abundant life, prosperity of material and physical proportions... (Toast!!!)

The white wedding proper - 30th of april, roughly a week after the traditional rituals should do what planning and time have never allowed - A reunion of friends from far and wide, all brought together for the sole purpose of support on the D-day...

To the ladies who have lost a rare gem in the world of men, weep not! the world is not empty yet and your prince eagerly awaits you...

I should be back before the ink on this 'sheet' dries...

Ciao mi precious...
Mist that is me...

Hello fellow blog readers...

I recently started perfecting the art of wait for this; "Limited multiplexing"
A term that i consider to mean the ability to do a number of things which share no connection amongst themselves, in am almost sequential manner.
For example I am currently read two different books during the same time period, instead of one after the other...
After all, no form of knowledge is lost and no one ever said that you have to read one book after another even though you can sometimes straddle the line between genius and insanity when you try this technique.

You will know whenever you reach this critical point because the five minute madness rule starts to apply at just about this point...

Research has even shown that women excel at this better than men, apparently this has something to do with the ability to use both sides of their brains or just a natural ability to multiplex - have your pick...

I am currently reading another book by my now beloved Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of power), incidentally - he wrote the laws o seduction, which I would like to recommend to one and all - Go out and grab a copy!
I am so facinated by the theories he's propounded in both his books and the proof provided via various historical texts.

Human nature like every other process follows certain laws that must be decoded and applied - apparently, the secret to success is to remove emotion from the equation of thought - be as objective as you can but know the options required to play people against each other or against their very selves...

Abuja is really hot - I came out this morning at about nine and I almost changed my mind - God should make it illegal to be this hot anywhere...
I would pass a legislation encouraging nakedness - the problem would be who to allow to go naked and for how long... Imagine pot bellies, sagging waist line, white hair, cellulite, flabby body tones and ... (do i feel a shudder anywhere...)

kay, i have reached the point where the law of reverse fortune has started to apply - my thoughts have run dry and my mind appears to have lost the thread of my discourse...

So ciao, mon cheery...
Regards as always from the mist - that intangible something.

Sunshine up the arse... light up your life!

hey...
Good news all the way - after one of those prayer sessions that has me on my hands and knees praying to God with a passion that was almost sinful... Thanks to a long absent friend Ugochi - mother of my darling pet soso, who sent me a list of sites to check out- alder was one of them and was by far the most entertaining... An essay titled: To think is to differ! Boy did that essay get me thinking...

Even the fat drops of seat on my forehead where strained in the thinking exercise... i wrote, rewore, cut and paste and generally rearranged the whole essay until I sent it off for appraisal and a response...

Things are moving towards an untold goal, that's what God told me but I have been worried ever since I got back from my trip to the east... My finances have been a mitigated disaster waiting to happen until, God used the good person of mr patrick onoja, an elder brother figure who provided away by allowing himself to be a utility of God, to render assistance...

"poverty of pocket if not carefully monitored leads to poverty of mind"
Men, my liver cut me... I look dey left, look right and was burning the little money I had, as if I was setting it on fire...

To God be the glory or All glory to God (please have your pick), for those of you who worry about my agnostic tendencies once in a while, I believe that this is ample proof that I'm as into God as the next man... (please don't hold me to this statement firmly...)

good news all around - things are looking up, I definitely have to pray some more...

Till I place mouse to blog site and start my typing once more - i remain that mist of thought hovering around ya head...

Chinedu

Long time... is that a hail of stones I see coming?

dear audience...

Absence they say creates fondness - I risk getting a broken head by my last phrase but what can I do? I have been back for sometime (one week plus) and have been trying to settle into my life in abuja before I get that itch to elope to the east again...
For now, i am wrapped up in the means to define the question of how to finance my trip back to the east?
I had some private runs lined up but the financial aspect appears elusive - I don't plan to worry too much, apart from my teaching job (with a verbal agreeement - I tried to shy away from naming a price), there are other options...

Guess what?
Nwanneka is around - apparently, boredom has gotten her so tied up in activity that she has decided to run rings around the country or at least a part of the country - her route appears to be Lagos ----> Enugu ----> Abuja...

I haven't actually seen her but I wish to assume that she's fine and settling in to her new environment...

By the way, the pope's dead and buried and the body of cardinals have gone into conclave to select a new pope... I wonder where the choice will finally settle...

Also, i long time friend while in the university makes a sudden reapperance, I'm suprised beyond words and cannot believe it - I'm still waiting to decide if it's one big dream...

Also, my friend - daniel's wedding is still looming ahead of us... I find that I'm a bit frightened but I think the chap knows what he is doing so there goes that...

Hope to keep my pen moving at a later date... Till then, people
This is me, signing off...

chinedu