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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
How does time fly?
It is amazing how quickly time passes by. It seems like only a few months that I was making new resolutions and challenging myself not to mistakenly write 2006 on documents and so on. Yet, a lot has happened during this time period. I’m about to fini…
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Monday, October 8th, 2007
Love–the appendix way, sort of
The body is an amazing creation, composed of little cells that act independently, yet are acutely aware of the overall goal or purpose of the body. There are very few parts of the body that seem to add no particular purpose to the body’s functioning-…
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
Independence Day Wishes!
Happy Independence Day, Nigeria!!Against most hope and indications, I wish you a new uncorrupted beginning. I wish you good social and economic health, but if you must be sick, then develop an autoimmune disorder that automatically disarms long-throate…
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Thursday, September 6th, 2007
The Game of Hearts
Not long ago, I learned that my poem, “The Game of Hearts,” has been accepted for publication in A Little Poetry, an ezine featuring the work of contemporary poets.As I re-read my poem, I tried to remember what inspired it, what my frame of mind was, a…
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
The homeless couple (part 2)
It is interesting that you rarely ever see homeless people or beggars in villages or rural areas, which, to city folks, are the poorer or more primitive (or both) places. Yet the cities, with all their bright lights, promises of brighter futures and li…
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
The homeless couple (part 1)
Note: I know that homelessness—like all ills of our society— is not a popular topic. But in my time here in Brazil, I saw something quite unusual that puts an interesting flavor on homelessness and what it means. I have broken this post into two pa…
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
A planned city–Brasilia
Two Wednesdays ago, I went to Brasilia—the capital of Brazil. I explored a little bit of the city, including a visit to “The Lúcio Costa Space,” where I saw the miniature plan of Brasilia, which is shaped like an airplane, and learned more about…
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
Beautiful Horizon
Belo Horizonte (BH; “beautiful horizon”) is a lovely city, not only for its parks, museum, and churches, but also for its people. At first, I found it strange that passersby often engage me in little conversations that they’ve freed from the solitu…
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Monday, June 11th, 2007
Being a tourist
Since I arrived in Brazil in May up until this past Wednesday (when I took a trip to Brasilia), I have been in downtown Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte (literally, “beautiful horizon”) is perfectly located to suit my pu…
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Monday, May 28th, 2007
My mouth is open again…
It has been a while. The past couple of months have been very hectic, and I missed posting to my blog. I personally don’t take posting articles lightly: I’d rather not post than post something without 100% of my concentration. But I am glad things …
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
The Fight Between Man and Disease
In the minds of medical researchers, physicians, and physician trainees (that is, medical students), this fight or race between man and disease is at the forefront. In the clinical setting, it is no surprise then that there are many battle or war metap…
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
My 55-word stories
Writing a 55-word story is challenging but fun. It is the perfect thing to do when one wants to write without committing one’s self to a full, drawn-out literary piece. Below are four of my attempts. I hope you find them interesting.(P.S. each story is…
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Saturday, February 17th, 2007
THE VOICE OF A BROKEN SPIRIT: A poem
This poem is inspired by the movie that I watched yesterday, Umrao Jaan (2006). The movie was about a woman whose life was “a saga of ill-fate.” I never cried so much over a character; I cried even the day after watching it! One of the painful things t…
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
Update on ‘07 resolutions
How are you doing in terms of carrying out your New Year resolutions? It is time to check (and it is the only time I’ll prompt you to check) if you made a reasonable resolution. If you did not, do not quit the whole thing; just modify it to suit practi…
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Monday, January 22nd, 2007
Happiness versus Joy
“Happy” or “happiness” is a word that has become so cliché; its meaning has become so very broad and vague, to the point of even usurping the seats of other words, for example “joy.” Still, whatever your definition of happiness, one thing …
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Thursday, January 11th, 2007
The New Year 2007
The New Year is here!!!So far, I have not made the usual mistake of writing “06” somewhere. Even though this year came seemingly too quickly, I feel I have been expecting it—I don’t know why exactly, but whatever the reason, it is a new year, w…
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
The female body and the woman
Important note: The physical appearance of a body is not always an absolute predictor or determinant of a person’s sex. For example, there are those who have a female body but whose particular internal organs or chromosomes dictate the opposite sex, …
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Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
Melancholy days
With the coming of winter, as the leaves enjoy the violent liveliness characteristic of something about to be temporarily extinguished, days like these—melancholy days—pay a visit or two. On this subject, I refer you to William Cullen Bryant’s gr…
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
The Bluest Eye Syndrome
N.B. This post is mainly a regurgitation of the comment I made on Lotus Reads’ blog. Enjoy!Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is a profoundly harrowing novel. I experienced a myriad of emotions while reading it, and none of these emotions were positive. …
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Saturday, October 14th, 2006
Becoming Abigail by Chris Abani: The Mind in Pain
Warning: This post is long, since I’ve approached this book from an analytical perspective. Also, I do give a lot of details about what happens in the book–consider this my spoiler alert.In Becoming Abigail , Abigail’s mother, whose name is also Abi…
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Saturday, September 30th, 2006
What are the signs of a good book?
As I thought about the answer to this question, I had to, of course, take a trip to memory lane to visit my responses to some of the books that I considered good books. Each person, of course, has a different appreciation of what to consider a “good …
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
A quickie
Hello, all.I just noticed that it has been almost a month since I posted. Many times I have thought about posting, and I have missed being able to make my hand dance on the keyboard as I indulge myself in an analysis of whatever might be on my mind. Ho…
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Tuesday, August 29th, 2006
How do you pick a good book?
(NB: I am talking about fictional works, that is, novels.)This post is the first of a two-part post on “What are the signs of a good book?” I decided to break the post into two (with one focusing on picking a good book and with the other (the next …
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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Our inherent power
Hearing that someone we know kicked the bucket invariably seems to drive us into an ocean of questions, questions that we anxiously direct towards ourselves. When a life is gone, we invariably think about our lives and the damages that would occur (if …
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
Goodbye, my uncle
I found out yesterday that a beloved relative, one who has been like an uncle to me, just passed away in his sleep. His illness finally took him. I’m glad that, at least, at the last moments, it took him peacefully.Yesterday, when my sister called to l…
