BOOT CAMP!!!

October 26. Ma first day of NYSC orientation camp. I really enjoyed the journey though it was crazily long. Imagine about 8 hours in a bus wiv zero leg room, no a.c, no dinning room, no bedspace...... Oh! Must have dozed off. Did I say bus? Anyway, apart from the terrible road, the journey was uneventful.
I saw the Niger for the first time and what a site it was!!! Simply beautiful to behold. Anyway, got to Minna, the Niger state capital around 3 o'clock. Emmanuel went for a haircut and we set about trying to find a cab to take us to the orientation camp in Paiko.
Paiko was interesting. Apart from the first day's mad rush with registration and stuff, it was ok. Wake up at 5:30, stand in a cold field till Nigeria wakes up at 6. Jog, do borin stuff, yada, yada yada.
Camp was fun sha and looking back now, I wished I had blogged it all. Mammy market, babes, guys, booze, MDGs training and all of it. Really had fun. Till next time.

Encore

Today's Sunday.
The first day of the week.
The last day of the weekend break.
It's also the last day of February.
It happens to also be my baby sister's birthday. She was born on a sunday, many winters ago on the last day of February. So today's her real birthday.
It's been quite awhile I blogged last; not because global warming has caused drought, nay, global warming hasn't toasted my neurons yet, although the heat of the past few days has often left me wan. Rather, a recent downturn in the economy, leading to a loss of projected earnings for the first quarter of the current year, necessitating corporate downsizing has impacted negatively on my ability to add new posts. In English, adsense hasn't responded to my application, so I'm on "strike", if you can say you are on strike when technically, you weren't appointed in the first place.
But since then, I've decided that even if adsense doesn't add me, I'm still gonna blog. I've spent the last several weeks scouring sites that offer free novels. I've devoured the creative commons policy, examined the gutenberg project. I've scouted wikihow, wonder-how-to and so many other sites dedicated to being human- stretching a helping hand everywhere.
I'm so overwhelmed by the sheer number of these site and the kind of advice you can get on these sites. I've learnt alot from these sites; things about school, how to be a better person, even how to be a gold digger, though I haven't found an avenue to turn that knowledge to power yet.
I know this post reeks of the same breath of my last post, that's why its titled encore.
But being a proper Yoruba boy, I believe you can never say thank you enough. I'd like to appreciate all the wonderful people in charge of these sites, the hosts, webmasters, authors and everyone connected to these sites. I'd like to also say a special thank you to people who contribute to these causes, people who give, no matter the amount to maintain these causes.

Thank You.

I decided to start bloggin 2 years ago but I just lack d get-up-and-go to do it, till Seyi started blogging and that gave me the impetus to go. Right from the start, I knew it will be fun, but I really have to admit that as easy and enjoyable bloggin is, it isn't a walk in the park. Despite being bombarded by so many possible things to write, or should I say type about in daily life, putting one's thoughts down isn't that easy. The hardest part, of course is deciding what to write about. With a blog like mine that isn't restricted to any area, I guess it seems a bit easier, but it also means that I have a harder time deciding what my next topic should be. Therefore I find myself deciding if I should do something on the mystery called Nigeria, or maybe about my dear Uniyonu, sorry, I mean Unilorin or just an article on any mundane topic.
I really couldn't make up my mind until 10p.m yesterday, and even then, I slept off before I could finish this. Anyway, I guess its o.k that my blog is starting on the 1st of February, being the beginning of a new month, and my anniversaries will be tucked between four birthdays, 2 on the 31st and on the 1st and 2nd.
For my first post, I've decided to dedicate it to every avid blogger around the world; men and women who've informed us about places and situations that conventional reporters can't report on, or don't cover, people who have uphelp our right to know, and everybody that has impacted others just by sharing their thoughts on the internet through websites, blogs, message boards and fora.
I want to specially appreciate people that have made this happen, providers of free blog site, free hosting and free advice and tutorials on various things, from gardening tips to how to be a better boyfriend and even how to be a gold digger.
All these people, from the service providers to the users have really, trully and faithfully been vangaurds in the push to a more enlightened world, and in my opinion, they are the miracles of the 21st century, because the've dedicated time and effort to making the internet what it is today. Thank you guys, you are tha' bomb.