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BOY MEETS GIRL -This is NEW unchartered territory!!!

29 Jun

In my final Semester at Legon, I heard the most hilarious story. One time Vida and Asiedua; Two drop dead gorgeous friends of mine were having lunch at ‘Tym Out’- a popular eat-out on campus. Now in addition to being stunning beauties, they looked younger than their age, and were as a result hit on by immature greenhorns and freshers who’d spent the previous 3 years in single sex boarding schools fantacizing about coming to the land of beautiful women and letting some  testosterone lose every time any female-looking object was in sight.

These guys (like many other guys) were under the misconception that you could get any girl in Legon  by being the thug who had ‘swagger’ oozing from a beer bottle, ‘game’  dropping from his sagging baggy pants and ‘flex’ glittering in fake blinks pierced into ears and worn haphazardly as clothing accessories.

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Presec-Aburi Reunion- A post-graduate INTERCO

28 Jun

Many of my very fond childhood memories were birthed in Presec Legon. Those were the days when if you ‘shii oje’ (disrespected) or snubbed a senior and there was nothing he could do about it he’ll give you the sternest most intimidating look and tell you “WALK LIKE JESUS!!”, u dey kae?

The days when everyone eagerly anticipated INTERCO; the sports event that brought all boys’ and girls’ schools together to play games.  Dirty, notorious, indifferent boys stole the brand new Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Where My Power lyes & The Man In d Rain.

25 Jun

I’ve never done this before; giving you two for the price of one. But I was thinking; what the heck!! about time I became a bit more spontaneous- I hear it’s a rather attractive attribute for a man to have, true? Plus the most wonderful news came to me this week; I’ll be telling you all about it soon enough. Anywayz these are two of my veery favorite short love poems.

With the first one, well I’ve never been a particularly muscular guy, and I was thinking how people reach the greatest heights usually not because of the muscles in them, but to probably prove a point, or make a parent proud, be relieved of poverty, or even because of the inspiration a sweetheart gives. Love is about the strongest driving force there is. Where my power lies talks about that.

Where my power lies.

I’m strong,

In fact I’m very strong.

You cant see that strength on me

In the form of puffed-out muscles

Because you see,

Much of the strength I have in this world

Lies in you.


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Melting Moments

22 Jun

I just finished going through my picture gallery, each one indeed speaking a thousand words. In one of the pictures, I was an innocent-looking 8yr old boy with a boil on my right eyelid (yes, eye lid o), wearing a second-hand corduroy car-wash, with what looks like worn-out, oversized mummy leather slippers, posing on the white-washed wall of our old family house in Osu for an original Kodak moment. In the very next picture, I’m a dashing 23 yr old graduate, in blue denims, a coffee-brown army-like fitting shirt and a (made in Ciano) D&G leather belt. To complement the outfit I was in a blue-black trendy nike sneaker and Ray Barnes stunners acting like I wasn’t even aware a digital  picture was being taken of me.

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Home Is You.

18 Jun

The thing with love is it shakes up all your boring old definitions and you look at everything in terms of your sweetheart.

When we were together, between each time i visited her and the time i got home, my ex (4 lack of a better word) would call a zillion times and ask if i had gotten home or not. The issue about being home came up several times. So one day i got thinking funny; why do we call home home? can it be anything more than where we live with family? Could the people we love actually be our home? because i got thinking….maybe she was home afterall, lol, funny but nice

Home Is You.

If home isn’t necessarily a place you eat,

But where you get satisfaction.

If home isn’t really a place you live,

But where you find yourself.

If home isn’t necessarily a place you sleep,

But where you find rest.

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Guest Contributer Kwaku Dankwa:Fighting Fare!

16 Jun

Most trotro rides follow the same script. On my route I scramble in at Bridge, the mate waits for everyone to catch their breath while he shouts for a few more commuters (sells his seat when he can) and at the same spot every day, he organizes his coins, arranges and folds his notes longitudinally, counts a few for good measure, raises his head and says rather matter-of-factly, “Yee-eesss”. Time to pay up.

Usually, it’s without hassle, but every now and then, a few disagreements ensue over the little matter of change. More often than not the passenger shouts a bit, but backs down, shaking her head and muttering that these mates are all cheats. In the end, the mate wins. Most of the time. Nothing, I repeat, nothing, could prepare one mate for his date with destiny. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Goldin News!! Introducing; Kwaku Dankwa

16 Jun

The dynamics of birthday celebrations have changed in Ghana. From the times when your folks and friends organized a surprise party, and you entered to see just how many friends had conspired to surprise you, to the times (now) when you’ve got to throw the party and surprise your friends. My gosh!!

So yesterday having been my b-day, I’m throwing some kinda party that’ll blow you away, and my new-found friend; Kwaku Dankwa will help me do that. Kwaku has a fantastic blog called; The Daily Commute: from bridge to ridge which talks about the ever-exciting world of public transport In Ghana. I chanced upon a link to his blog one time on FB, and I was literally glued to it. Wit, humor and such a firmly comfortable control over the English language are just three of the adjectives that quickly came to me when I read his pieces. So I enthusiastically and rather spontaneously asked that he drop by Goldinwords sometime, and he agreed.

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I Wanna Be…

11 Jun

This is the thoughts of a person who misses being single. I wasn’t heartbroken when I wrote this, but there was a girl who was upsetting my priorities and turning my 6s to 9s. So one day I was like “see how messed up a turn this girl’s made my life take”, I became so different from how I was before, WITHOUT MY PERMISSION (which is usually d case). It was exciting and all, but at a point, I just wanted to be how I was before she came along, the simplicity, solitude, control….missed it all, so i wrote this;

I wanna be.

I wanna be how I was

When I thought love was the darndest thing

And only jerks fell into it.

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In Bed With Corruption- who carries the baby?

08 Jun

It’s only natural that when we’re used to a certain way of life and doing things, anything that has the potential of changing or challenging our not-the-best way of doing things (no matter if it’s from the Bible or the Qur’an), receives the stiffest resistance. Because of the content of this article, you might feel a subtle (but strong) urge to postpone or just stop reading, please don’t. You’ll find in the end that it was worth your time.

The days that sin gets the better of me, I develop an intrinsic ability to rationalize why I shouldn’t watch or read any ethic-centric, pro morality, for-Christ materials. I develop such a strong resistance to anything that’ll unveil my eyes to my carnal stupidity.

Yesterday at church, I heard the most paradigm-shifting, eye-opening account of a crusade my church (Charismatic Evangelistic Ministry) went on. Four times a year we(uhmm well technically the church) go on  crusades to deprived, off-the map, utterly rural areas to do 3 things; provide medical aid, distribute food and clothes, to reach out to the lost. The average budget for each trip is about GHC 70,000.00!!

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You Shine…

04 Jun

When I was in my first relationship, there was more inspiration than all the years before put together (doesn’t mean I like u less sweety). I’m certain it’s because it was my first time. You shine is an escalated impression I had of her, I thought she stood out, it really has a voice of its own.

You shine.

Now more than ever,

I see not the need for generators

Nor the fear for power failures

Cos you have enough power to blow any fuse

In that electrifying smile of yours.

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Guest Contributer Naa Lamiley:Reaching out to you…

03 Jun

Backdrop- if you’ve never  seen so much said in so few lines, in so simple English, you should read this! Naa summarizes the stages from when a a girl meets a guy, to when she’s afraid to lose him.

Reaching out to you…

I hold out my hand

and hope that you CAN see it

and if you can see it,

that you CAN touch it,

and if you can touch it,

that you CAN hold it,

and if you can hold it,

that you CAN grip firmly,

and if you can grip firmly,

that you CANNOT let go,

and if you cannot let go…

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Goldin News!! Introducing; Naa Lamiley Adamafio

03 Jun

You know how you can know someone for a long long time, and still be shocked when you find that they had a certain gift that you never knew they had? All of a sudden, the regular Joe you’ve always known your whole life is a maverick behind the piano, or a melodic wonder behind a microphone, a beauty queen on a Malaika stage.

It was like that with Naa Lamiley. We’ve been friends longer than it takes to get a first degree in legon. (even if u went on a year abroad programme), getting closer by the week, and I never knew she had it like that till she tagged me in one of her fb notes, I was wowed. First I thought it was a one-off, then she became consistent, then better, then I couldn’t help it anymore, so I asked “pretty please Naa, would you feature on Goldinwords? Everybody’s gonna love this!!” so today we have another first of many more (hopefully).

So, this fine Thursday, I present to you a very fine writer in her own rights (& who should’ve had a blog already!!!), very gifted with delivery, my very dear friend Naa Lamiley Adamafio.

 
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Let Go, Let Flow

01 Jun

I got an invite to speak at a certain event called ‘Soul Food’ some time back. It was organized to edify and kinda feed the souls of the audience through poetry and other artistic stuff. It was during the Christmas season.

So I thought the best thing to tell someone who flunked all his new-year resolutions and didn’t achieve as much as he’ld have liked to would be to tell him how beautiful a book can be just by turning the next page. I wrote Let go, let flow.

In a shop or a market,

You could bargain; ask for more, pay for less.

Give reasons, make excuses.

And the lady behind the counter,

Just might let you have your way.

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