Anybody made his/her resolutions yet?
At this point I remember a cartoon about a dog that resolved to stop chasing the cat and stop scaring the birds..... But after a while when he's being taunted by the cat and the birds, he thought to himself and decided he will still not break his resolution, he will not chase the cat and scare the birds, but he will chase the birds and scare the cat...lol.
Well as good as the resolution thing is, as it helps you to highlight the goals you want to achieve for the year, it is usually hard to follow through, especially resolution on things you want to stop doing. In times past people have resolved to either quit smoking or stop womanizing, students promise themselves to limit their play and focus on their studies etc but before the month of January runs out, everything is back as it used to be... You find yourself smoking even more, or some extremely charming ladies start flocking around you and you find them hard to resist and so you end up dating even more women than you previously did. This is probably due to the fact that you have starved yourself of these things in the first few weeks of the year and so you voraciously try to catch up with what you've missed.
I for one don't observe it anymore but that doesn't mean I don't have goals or habits I want to shed, but rather anytime I decide on something, I keep them in mind, try, and if I break my resolve, I try again. That has worked for me better than doing the traditional New Year thing and then when it doesn't work, you feel the year has been tainted already and then you wait till next year to try again. With that, it's very unlikely you'll achieve any of your resolution. If at first you don't succeed, try and try again. Wishing everyone who reads this a Blessed New Year full of Achievements.
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Wednesday, 29 June 2011
NDE-New Horizons Rip-off
Went for a job fair recently organised by New Horizons Computer Learning Center in partnership with National Directorate of emploment NDE with the theme being; ICT: Pathway to your dream job.
There were lotsa stuff promised such as full ICT taining scholarships and job placements, on the spot interview, certificate of attendance, e-learning dvd, iPad, Blackberries and Laptops to be won. They also added that "Admission is Free" These things made the whole thing sound mouth watering and people trooped in in hundreds. A man even came all the way from Ondo State.
But to everybody's chagrin, we realised that it's a bogus ploy to get a big turnout of desperate job seekers to swindle.
After some Less-than-educating nor entertaining, sleep inducing lectures, they pulled the 'rabbit' out of the bag, saying that just 25 people will be eligible for the scholarship and that you need to Join a freaking 'forum' with 5000 Naira before you can qualify for the raffle draw to win stuff or pay 1000 Naira to get just the DVD and certificate of attendance. It was then that it dawned on us that we were in for a Rip-off. I think the name of the company should instead be New Ho-RIP-zons. The final blow was dealt when the names of people that qualified for the aptitude test were called as it appeared they were preselected.
Everybody left giving a piece of their mind on the hoax.
What infuriated me the most was that I skipped breakfast to get there early and I starved throughout the whole thing.
Well, that's another lesson learnt and as the saying goes; "If you don't buy at all for the fear of buying fake, you'll never buy when the original is paraded" . PEACE
There were lotsa stuff promised such as full ICT taining scholarships and job placements, on the spot interview, certificate of attendance, e-learning dvd, iPad, Blackberries and Laptops to be won. They also added that "Admission is Free" These things made the whole thing sound mouth watering and people trooped in in hundreds. A man even came all the way from Ondo State.
But to everybody's chagrin, we realised that it's a bogus ploy to get a big turnout of desperate job seekers to swindle.
After some Less-than-educating nor entertaining, sleep inducing lectures, they pulled the 'rabbit' out of the bag, saying that just 25 people will be eligible for the scholarship and that you need to Join a freaking 'forum' with 5000 Naira before you can qualify for the raffle draw to win stuff or pay 1000 Naira to get just the DVD and certificate of attendance. It was then that it dawned on us that we were in for a Rip-off. I think the name of the company should instead be New Ho-RIP-zons. The final blow was dealt when the names of people that qualified for the aptitude test were called as it appeared they were preselected.
Everybody left giving a piece of their mind on the hoax.
What infuriated me the most was that I skipped breakfast to get there early and I starved throughout the whole thing.
Well, that's another lesson learnt and as the saying goes; "If you don't buy at all for the fear of buying fake, you'll never buy when the original is paraded" . PEACE
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Analysis: Presidential election preview
GEJ owns the whole of South-East, most of South-South, he's going to share the South-West with ACN, CPC will also have it's bite. He's also going to share the North with CPC as he owns a large chunk of North-Central and North-East. You do the math. This looks more like a done deal to me
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