The End of 2009...

Time has passed, things have changed. The sun will keep rising and d moon will continue to provide light at night. And as we close our eyes and open them, we realize that not only a day has passed but a new one has come. The beginning of a new day suddenly brings forth a new year...

A new year which we may not be ready for. For are we really ready to let go of the past? To look back on the sucesses and failures of the previous day, of the previous year? And as we hear in our hearts the beckoning of a future we cannot avoid, we realize that the past is just that; the past. So we have past the point where we dilly dally, and tally in hope that what we expected to happen may still come, but we run with hope, looking forward, we take the first step...

..The first step... We have to start by not making New Year resolutions. For a new year doesn't mean a new change? Do we have to wait 365 days to make a difference? Do we have to wait 12months to decide to change 'again'? Do we have to wait a whole year to make things better? The time to change is now...We are d voice of the future...

Besides...everyone knows that New Year resolutions are made to be broken!!! They're just a token of time gone by...a false attempt to attempt to try to make a change. A long range shot at a short range target. Why go so far, when what you want sits under your nose? It could tickle your toes and you still wouldn't recognise it. STAND UP!!! Like Dizzy Rascal said; fix up, look sharp!!!

...fix up, look sharp. Smile and be happy. Be grateful to God for making u experience a new year. Leave a good legacy for whether we like it or not, there's always someone behind walking in your every step, our every move, making the same mistakes we make...

So walk with care...make sure you admit your mistakes to the one who'd learn from you. 'Cos mistakes forgotten are usually repeated. And for those waiting for you to make those mistakes, well...screw 'em. They don't matter anyways. So smile and be happy. Live life like its golden. Hold your girl/man's hand. Stand in strength, and if you fall, get your ass back up. 2010...

...2010... Let's all come together and make that change in this generation. For what we do now is what the generation we create will come to meet... 2010, the year of a positive change. Happy new year people...

By The Capoeira Panda and Olamide Odukoya...

 

2009

Hey 2009.

I must honestly say, you've been a very different sort of year. You've brought things into my life which I didn't expect, and things that I didn't think would be leaving anytime soon... I've said my good-byes to, and I guess they're gone.

 

2009.

When you first began, I didn't exactly lay out a lot of plans, didn't write a seven point agenda of what my life in you was gonna be like, there was no plan to give a 100 day progress report. All I knew was that when you came to an end, I'd have achieved a few things, and I guess some of them...I have.

 

I'm a bit closer to God than I was a year ago, and I think I've learnt about my dependence on him...

 

I've lost a little bit of weight, and my capoeira's better than it used to be.

 

My grades in school aren't too shabby... [Real thanks to God for that]

 

I'm getting to understand that cantankerous old man I call my father, just a little bit better...and to me, that's a heck of an achievement.

 

"She" and I are concretely where we need to be...

 

My friends, are still very important to me, and I think I'm just as important to them [I'd start mentioning names, but I know I'll forget to mention someone and get yelled at, so I won't call names. They sha know themselves....But, I absolutely have to give a shout-out to some of the new friends that you brought into my life 2009. Like Tolu Aiyegbusi, Dammie Adetunji [my BlackBerry], Tosin Owonibi, Melody Alabi, Yoyin Banks....

 

Ahhh....2009....2009...

Through the good and the bad, in you I've grown. My eyes have been opened, and in some ways, my heart has been closed. I've learned to live and let live, and to love without caring; there's nothing worse than losing a love because other people can't accept it. I've learnt to accept the good; I've learnt to concede my faults. Defeat doesn't mean I've been beaten, and I'll grind hard till I get what's mine [big ups Andre Blaze!!!]. Not everyone is worth the time you take out to worry about them, and holding on to anger over those kinda people is totally ridiculous. I've learnt [and I'm trying put into practice] that the truth is actually the best thing to tell. As Aurora Monyei always tells me; "The worst a person can do to you is beat you for telling them the truth".

 

2009.......

I've found strength I never knew I had, weaknesses that I thought were non-existent.

I've found my City Love, and believe me...She is crazy...Not Like Crazy kinda crazy but... You get the point...

 

2009.....

We had a good run 2009. But then, all things must come to an end. I hope I'll have an even better time with 2010, than I had with you...

 

Goodbye, 2009....

This is what boredom does

It's been a while since I put up a blog. And I know I should have a lot more to write, but I think I've been too busy to let my thoughts materialize themselves.

Anyways, I went jogging one morning very recently, and when I got back, I had a lot of questions that didn't make sense running through my head... So I decided to write them down... I don't have a reason for writing this... It just came out the way it came out.

 

If I sat on a street corner, shedding tears till I shed weight,

Would you walk on by, or stop and ask what brought about this fate?

 

If I was a soulful ballad, to opportunities long lost,

Would you listen to me and learn?? Or change the track and tell me to get lost?

 

If I was the song "I Am Not Afraid" by that lady Jill Scott,

Would you listen to me and learn to love, true and through?

 

If I was that lady with no legs, sitting near Daystar Christian Centre and you were passing by,

If I pleaded with you for alms... tell me, what would you do???

 

If I was a glass of white wine, filled halfway through,

Would you vex and call me half empty, or sip and say half full?

 

If I was like Amy Winehouse, hopelessly hooked on crack,

Would you try to help me get better, or give up and let me fade Back To Black?

 

If I was a sexy saxophone, played from the lips of John Coltrane,

Would you still rush about doing irrelevant stuff, or sit still and hear me played?

 

If you said you loved me, but I wouldn't say it to you,

Would this make you hate me, or respect me for not lying to you?

 

If I whispered in your ear, the things I'd like to do to you,

Would your mind explode, or would you calmly tell me things you'd like too?

 

If I the 31^st of December, 2009,

Would you look at me and wonder, just what you did with all 2009?

 

If I was a blind man, going down a path,

would you go outta your way just to make sure I never stray??

 

And that's what I was thinking that morning. Anyways, I think sometime today I'll take time out to write again... But for now...

B. E. Z people!

O!!! By the way, Happy Birthday to the most important human being in my life... My girlfriend, Kemi Oluboba...