Marathon

The date for the Accra Milo Marathon is out!
A week from today.
But I'm ill-prepared and scared to take part.
1. What if I can't finish?
2. What if I'm jostled out of the way by all the 'veterans'?
3. What if I faint or fall in a cringe-worthy manner?
Hmmm, we will see what the week brings.

City Sighs

Last Friday, I spent 4 hours on a 4km stretch of road.
*Big Sigh* I wish I didn't have to ply my trade in the city.

What are they learning in school?

8 March 2011, 2100hrs

Traffic moving at 20

Janelle Monae crooning from the radio

Cruising home

I catch a glimpse of people on the sidewalk

I look again

What?

JHS? pupils clad in their uniforms and backpacks

Looks like they are from school

I muse, what on earth are they learning till this late?

Unless 1 + 1 is no longer 2,

Unless ‘subjects’ and ‘verbs’ no longer have to agree

Unless plants no longer use photosynthesis

They are just skiving in school…for 12hrs.

28th February -v- 14th February

63 years ago -v- 1515 years ago

Happened in Accra -v- Happened? in Rome

Celebrating the beginning of a revolution -v- Celebrating er… love?

Revolution brought forth our independence -v- Er…er…ummm

One accurate account of events -v- Many inaccurate account of events

No mention of today until... today (on page 3) -v- 14^th February fever launches as soon as Christmas is over

I wish the Ghanaian media would make more of a fuss about our veterans and how they (servicemen) fought (and still fight for us) than they do about er… umm... 14^th February. 

Happy Veterans Day.

Revolt

Revolt

Fiery, Gutsy

Marching, Chanting, Fighting

Libya firing into riots

Turmoil

Truth

Truth

Naked, Factual

Speaking, revealing, boldly

Always sets you free

Candor

KIA SOUL

I’m in love with the KIA SOUL

The edginess

The unpredictability

The almost rugged sexiness of it!

Love it!

Colony names

My partenal grandparents were called;
William Percival Brown-Orleans & Berthod Eliza Jones! Yikes.
Hahaha. I just can't stop laughing and I don't know why.
It must be NYA's 'Silly Tuesday!'

My friends have interesting thoughts about marriage!

* Chris says Mendelsohn’s Wedding March is every girl’s ‘victory song’.

* Ellis says marriage is like law school, everyone who gets in complains that it’s hard. Yet every year hundreds of people struggle to gain admission.

* Ekua says marriage should be a contract renewable every 7 years.

* Nii wonders how two people who once loved each other could write such spiteful things in divorce petitions.

* Amma says (talking of marriage) the grass is not greener on the other side, so stick on this/your side and water it till its green too.

* All these comments were made in different scenarios, at different times and mostly unprovoked! J With whom do you agree?

Pet Cemeteries in Accra

My puppy died last night

It happened as soon as I got home

I wasn’t particularly sad

I did not cry

(BTW, I bawled when my dog of 10 yrs died in 2000)

I wasn’t really attached to it

So I proceeded to dig a hole

To bury his tiny lifeless body

In the backyard

My mum said to me, “We do not bury pets at home!”

Whoa? Superstition? Tradition?

I don’t know.

So I buried him on some vacant land

I wasn’t in the mood to argue

But I wanted to prove a point

So I asked her, “Where are the pet cemeteries in Accra?”

She couldn’t tell me.

Do you know? Have you heard of this “superstition” before?