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Girls With Boys for Best Friends, Beware!

27 Jul

It’s becoming unbecoming (the favorite line of a great teacher from a distant past), boys are reeaalllly devising the most subtle and ingenious ways of wooing girls. I find it unethical when it’s done with the girl ‘blindfolded’, sucked up in the deception that this guy is in for counseling sessions about some other girl who so coincidentally has so much in common with the Miss in question.

Yes, the system has gotten tight. Though the census people claim there’re more females than there are males, they’re unable to tell us that the quality girls are in fact, short in supply. So whilst I advocate the most worthy guy ending up with her, it must be done with her eyes open and her mind sober. Not when she’s drunk on false impressions and is vulnerable to unexpected surprises. That’s why I’m writing this, for fair play.

Ladies, are you fun to talk to and be with? Are you desirable to any/all categories of guys (dolu, spirito, yo yo, akata, sharks, broke, rich…)? Then please, shine your eyes, see the absurdity in a guy coming to seek best-friendship with you. Even if he’s not the kind of guy you typically attract.

Yes, there are some few, guys who just have your interest at heart. They’ll massage your sprained ankle and not linger to your calf even if you were tipsy. From the ground floor, they wouldn’t look up your skirt as you descended a staircase, even if you wouldn’t catch them sneaking a peek at what’s hidden from the carnal eye. If your towel dropped, they’ll hand it to you without needing to cross their legs to conceal a stiffening of sorts. They’ll spend countless hours wiping your tears, smiling to your incomprehensible blabbering and actually be happy when you tell them you’re in love -with some other guy. However guys like that are rare. They’re either gay, or have realistically confronted the damning result of entertaining amorous interests in you. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Don’t Wait Up For Me

22 Jul

A certain sweet girl liked me amorously some years back. But it was at a time that I was a sucker for commitments. The thought of being exclusively tied down to one person made me cringe. She was great you know, and I wanted a way to explain why we wouldn’t work without coming off as a jerk (mission failed). I wrote this, but never sent it.

So to all of you who’ve been loved by people you couldn’t love back, for reasons ranging from silly to nonsense, here goes…

Dont Wait Up For Me

It’s too early in the day

And there’re so many games to play

There’s a party right next door

And a drink-up at the mall.

 

I’m not ready to go indoors

And do all those committing chores

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My $30,000 Corporate Lesson

19 Jul

Real estate in Ghana is a gold mine, for the seller, the agent and everyone but the buyer (unless he has sub-leasing plans). My first job out of uni was part real estate. One Thursday, a banker friend called to tell me about a Nigerian business woman client of his who was looking to buy some property in Accra. He gave her my number, she called and confirmed his story, adding more flesh to the nature of her highly profitable salt and oil business.

We set up a meet. Note, I asked her what to call her, and she said I could call her Nene, her first name. That was mistake number one. Never call a rich elderly Nigerian by their first name, even if they say you can. Either Oga or chief or Madam or Title, then last name. Forgellabout the fact that you call your boss Dom, or Stan or Ama, when you’re dealing with International clients, be careful you don’t offend them by something as avoidable as what you call them. Anyways, back then, I didn’t even know it was a problem to her.

At that point, I still wielded some control over my excitement, though I barely managed to keep all ten toes on the ground. I said a prayer telling God that “Yo pops, you know the steward of great wealth personality we’d always talked about making me? Well this’ your chance. Make wild o, aah.”

I called up a friend who knew of some lavish properties for sale in the plush East Legon residential area. I told her we had a potential franchise client here and we needed to get our act together. So she borrowed her dad’s posh car and we drove all the way to the Spintex road guest house the client and her associates were lodging in. It was there we made our second mistake; waiting for two hours for her to return from somewhere she claimed was ten minutes away the first time we called her.

Why was it a mistake? Well, no matter what’s at stake, if an agreed meeting time is breeched by 15 minutes (or 30 at most), each extra minute you wait gives me an indication of how needy you are of our business arrangement. I can use that to throw my weight. It’s very risky, when there’s a lot of cash at stake, but I learnt that good money chases the diligent and the time-conscious person.

Anyways, we waited, me and my colleague. Nene finally came and told her I’m sorries and we set off to see the $1.4 million cluster of properties in East Legon. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Me & The Old Testament Boys Boys ii

13 Jul

So me and Solo ‘dems’ are still at the Accra mall food court having our swell convo. Last week, you saw a bit of it, but i didnt get to ask about their heart breaks (o yeah, they had relationship wahala) and what it took for them to be so successful, they tell us this week. And who am i to keep stalling right? So without much i do ado, here you go;

Me: one very important one; Success’ a big deal these days. Guys doing 419 and sakawa. Women doing ashawo and armed robbery. How did you guys manage to get so filthy rich with no back doors?

David: You gotto be ready mehn. When the right time comes, you gotto be ready. Cos with me, I had learnt how to play the harp and fly the sling way before Samuel showed up. When Saul started getting his fits, he sent for me because of my harp-playing skills, not my looks or my anything, but my developed talents. Later when I asked to fight Goliath, I already had some of his trust you know. So you gotto be ready. Obedience to God is a given.

Solomon: True, and you gotto know how to ask for stuff. You must know the person you’re asking something from, know what he’s passionate about and connect your request to his passion, I mean that’s what I did with God. Then you’ve gotto be generous and serious about God’s work. Cos that temple wasn’t easy to build. I gave it my all mehn, and I gave, I was really generous, and I don’t mean that in a naughty way, ask the Queen of Sheeba.

Me: Joe?

Joseph: Well, I guess, in everything you gotto keep your eye on the bigger picture. I mean there were countless times I came close to giving up. I’m an ex-con for crying out loud. But you gotto keep faith. And you’ve gotto believe in God and love Him. Not just for a breakthrough, because if you start to think he’s delaying you either question his omnipotence or his love for you. And that’ll make your relationship with Him, unsustainable. You’ve gotto decide that your allegiance to and love for him is unconditional.

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Your Boyfriend’s User Manual- the sequel

07 Jul

Ok people, this’ just a head’s up; My boss’ boss just became a fan of Goldinwords o. So that marks the end of all boss-lashings for us. If you’ve got any boss-bashing comment, inbox instead (said in whispers). lol, Sed’s cool, he knows what’s up and identifies himself as ‘young at heart’.

So on to the main course, shall we?

Your response to the first part of this post blew the roof off my expectations. This sequel is way overdue. I’m kick-starting this, by stating a hard fact. Your boy could be with you either because you’re generous with your body, he’s too lazy to start a new relationship after half a decade of being with you, he was there when your single father died tragically, so leaving you’ll be heartless. Or because he loves you dearly and wants to spend the rest of his life with you. It is possible to work your way up to the latter.

For starters, build memories. Build beautiful memories that’ll permanently etch you in his mind, even if he wills it not to. Do silly outlandish things once in a while. In F.R.I.E.N.D.S, Monica shows up in Chandler’s apartment wearing a thanksgiving turkey on her head and dancing to an Indian song. Find out what makes him laugh and do something to induce it. If you can, do several things to induce it, because there are times when a laughter-inducing memory becomes a rare gem. With me, I love accents, so when we do role plays and I’m the Ashanti bogger introducing you as my Chinese wife to my conservative family, and you do that funny forced-Chinese accent, you could crack me up big time. It shouldn’t be as often as the day comes though, that ruins it.

Few guys wear their hearts on their sleeves, but some things really touch us. Right now, I’ll tell you one thing that’ll touch even a brick-hearted guy to the core. If he calls you in the middle of the night (preferably) or sometime during the day and asks you the infamous ‘What’re-you-doing’ question and you answer “Praying hun,I was praying for you”. Myyy goosshhh!!! That’s a slam dunk! Praying for me? Of all the things you could be doing, you’re praying for my future and wellbeing? How unselfish and wifely of you, do I even deserve you??!

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Me & The Old Testament Boys Boys

05 Jul

Hands up! Anyone who’s wished for the chance to ask Eve why she bit the Apple, or Cane why he killed Abel and lied about it to the Guy who has an eye in every square inch of space.

Hands up, anyone who’s wanted to ask Noah what he’ll have done if the flood never came, or Lot’s wife what she saw before turning into a pillar of salt. Okay, then you’ll envy me when you find out I actually got the chance. No jokes, I did. I really really did. But I just met up with three of them; David, Solomon & Joseph. Our chat was ttiigghhtt!

The twist is, when we met up, they all looked twentyish, irrespective of their chronological appearance in the Good Book. David looked kinda smallish. He had a gentle cut and his loafers, black three-quarter pants and sky-blue lacoste gave him a d-bee look.

Solomon had kept his hair, so it was tied in a pony. He wore a Woodin short-sleeved shirt over black corduroy pants and leather slippers.

Joseph was the finest of them all. He looked like Taio Cruz in a leather jacket with a white undershirt and stunners coming off some motorbike bi.

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