Random Scenes

@Somewhere in New Jersey, I love it there as it was one nice and fascinating place

Here I was for festivities only to realize that the rain was few minutes from pouring, that's somewhere in SV,NY

This house right here belongs to the Cooper family, some of the 19th-20th century wealthiest New Yorkers. If you can recall the college, Cooper Union in Manhattan, then you should know about this family. At Cooper, if you get accepted there to study be it Engineering, Architect or their other technical professions, you don't have to pay a dime for it, they are rich enough to take care of all your expenses as far as your education at that institution is concern. That is awesome, isn't it?

Mr. Smiley:) every day is a gift from above and we ought to always forget about our bitter past and be happy. This was somewhere in NJ, it was so pretty such that I didn't want to leave after the purpose at which we were there was fulfilled.

My dream Castle, that was the only reason why I took this photograph. I don't know if you understood what I'm trying to convey to you. In life, we must always take chances and carry with us our dreams that are mightier than ourselves and mine is more than the size of the planet. hahaha!!

A super relaxing evening at my Polish friend's house. "Ronald, pose right there for a picture" she said, and I gave her my almost perfect smile.

And that wasn't all. When we got indoors and as part of the entertainment, she said, "go and sit on that chair, now time to make you a King". Of course I couldn't help it. But somehow, we are all in for Kingship, and indeed we are all kings/queens because our Father in Heaven is a King for our good. So, hail me King Ronald,hahaha!

These flower caught every attention of mine, they were so appealing to the eye

I was on my way to work that morning, "the boola man", that is how we call folks in Ghana whose responsibility it is to take care of garbage. Oh yeah, this young man was all by himself with his huge truck and energy, emptying every garbage pails on the streets. What a nice way to dispose waste? and I bet the young man emptying those bins would be entitle to hefty sums of cash for his job than a bank manager in the developing world like mine. Our sanitation situation in Africa is nothing but deplorable and we must learn to handle our waste in such a nice way by first, inculcating in our people the spirit of discipline as far as waste handling is concern, educate our people on clean environments and its benefits, good remuneration for employees of waste management and the last but not the least, government should make this issue their number priority

Look and you shall see the beauty of this picture, it was almost 9pm by the way. Remember in summer, the day lights are longer than the night.

In case you don't get this, that is Mr. Obama, taller than his opponent Mitt Romney. And never on earth would Obama get this stomach or his wife Michelle will kill him. Oh yeah, she is anti-obesity just so you know. Courtesy the Economist magazine.

Eat good, drink rich, and read the best books you can lay your hands on and you together with your spirit will be powerful, yes powerful enough to constantly call for Socratic questions anytime you are engaged with others. I know many of my pals think this is a really boring habit, but happiness doesn't necessarily come from only money, power, fame, and sex (the number of beautiful woman one has). Those can actually come together as catastrophe and haunt if you don't know how to handle such. "Be wise my son", that was the voice I heard in a dream long time ago.

Why we fight 2005

Our Happiness depends on each other

Our actions must always be on a look out, we ought to be mindful of what we do and say to others because we might end up not only hurting ourselves, but others as well and that is where the ripple effect comes in.

Don't cheat, and the other partner cheated and that was where problems began

I had a nice day last Sunday; went to church, shopping, and hanged out with a great friend. On my way home, I decided to root-in on a friend in his house. When I got there, he was very high, higher than the clouds in the sky and I don't know if you really got it, but he was really high. Besides how high he was, he wasn't happy as he often appears anytime we see each other.

Of course I had to make some inquiries to why he was in such a dilapidated mood. At first he didn't want to say a word or in other words, he was trying to ignore me. But as I dig into him with curiosity and in my own nice way, he began to open up.

So tell me, what’s wrong with you man? I asked and he said well, his girlfriend he hasn’t seen in few days promised she was going to visit him the previous day but she didn’t and as he was working in the afternoon, he received a text message from her that was meant from another man. He said he couldn’t go further in details to tell me more about this so call text message but it indicated that he was being cheated upon by his girlfriend with another man.

I tell you dud, I have never seen my friend in that mood before and the way he spoke I could feel some pains in him and it convinced  me he was seriously hurting and that is why I meant by our happiness depends on one another. There is something about love that many people don’t understand. But when you are in love, you are in with all of your being. Your heart can’t be an exception so it is painful when you see how unfaithful your partner can be to the extent of going an extra mile to cause you so much emotional trauma. The actions of my friend’s girlfriend automatically caused him some sever pains and he could hardly handle it. But before his friend could do such a thing, he was often happy when she visits him, the friendship and companionship was enough to make him happy. Therefore we can’t stand alone or be happy completely by being isolated like islands. One of the reason why God created Eve according to the book of Genesis in the Bible was that, Adams who was the first man to be created was lonely and God saw it and made him asleep so that, He took Adam’s rib and made a woman from it and when Adams woke up, he had a woman as his companion. So if you have a girl friend or a wife and get to have her cause you such emotional pains, then it is worthy of putting off  a sad face and the worst being suicide. I have heard time and again the number of people who had to take their lives simply because their partner has betrayed them in a form of cheating and other things.

It is a sad analysis but I believe many people often fails to reason before they act. The evil we do will always live upon us or haunt us in one way or the other in future. See what happened to my friend’s girlfriend, she cheated without her friend’s notice but God been so good, she sent the text by mistake to him instead of the man she cheated him with. She devastated him and devastated herself because she wanted the whole affair concealed without her friend’s knowledge. Why did she intend to hide? She did so because she wanted to keep deceiving him that she loves him. This is again where light comes in as the truth and unfortunately, no partner will have the courage to go out and cheat and be able to come back to tell their spouse the truth. But the truth will always triumph in the end. So the earlier we embrace the truth and desist from our crooked ways the better. When we learn to live on mindfulness, we will know that others lives depend on ours, and when we misbehave they suffer besides our own suffering all as a result of the fact that we failed to think before acting. See Thich Nhat Hanh (The Buddhist Monk), his fascinating book, The Art of Power

So my dear readers, it is my believe that no matter where we are and what we do, we will always have people around us and we there not play with other people hearts as we can easily damage them for life. Life is precious even to the murderer.

Talking about murder, earlier this week, Sunday to be precise, a young man in his 40s believed to be a White Supremacist invaded the Sikh l temple in Wisconsin and made a way with 6 lives and many others wounded. This came at a time when another gun related killings is still pending court hearing in Colorado, yes that happened exactly 16 days before this one also happened.

We must learn regardless ones gender, race, class, religion, we are all one in the sense that we all have the same feelings and want to live in peace, freedom and live our daily lives without fears. The pain and loses those people will have to bear will automatically spill over to all around them. So it is a high-time men of wicket intentions and mean-spirited learn to be mindful and think deep beyond their own truncated desires and selves. This is where someone could chip in to call them egoist and not to misplace the word on someone who works with others day in and day out to make sure they succeed.

God have mercy on the lost souls.

Our invisible admirers!

As I was headed home after work yesterday, I ran into this old mate of mine. The real Ronald is always happy to bump into someone he had classes with. It does feel great and I don’t know about you. The truth is, once you sit in the same class with someone for a whole semester or two, you get to see something and some part of their real selves. So as we began to recall memories of folks in class who used to make fun of some key people in class, we paused and began to talk about ourselves. Here comes our conversation;

Ronald: So tell me, how has your summer been, it looks like it is fast zooming to fall?

OC: Yes it is and I can’t imagine how fast that is. And yeah! My summer has been pretty good. I went on the cruise with my family to Jamaica last month and it was a total blast.

Ronald: Really? That is super awesome and I’m very happy for you.

OC: Thank you Ronald.

Ronald: You’re welcome and was that your first time of going on the cruise?

OC: Not at all, according to my mom, I went on the cruise with them (my parents) when I was somewhere 4 years old and personally I can’t remember that.

Ronald: That’s ok, I probably couldn’t recall that either. But wait, you said when you were 4?

OC: Yes, haha!! Why?

Ronald: I was wondering how old you are now, but didn’t want to go into it because some young women like you don’t like to tell people their age.

OC: That is true to some people but not me, I don’t care. I’ll tell you if you ask.

Ronald: That is good to know. You must be somewhat different then.

OC: Come on Ronald, remember we all sat in the same classroom for an entire semester and I don’t see you as a stranger. Well, I’m 23.

Ronald: Wonderfully said, some people regardless how long you might know them will still try to act weird towards you with their personal info and I respect that. We all love to keep private certain things about us and sometimes age counts as one of those. You mean 23 years? You look amazing and one could easily mistake you for a teenager.hehe!

OC: “hahahahaha”,…… she laughed hysterically, something hit the good spot right?

Ronald: Anyway, where are you headed?

OC: I’m going home. I was here today to sort things out,ha!.

Ronald: Oh!, you used to always seems to be doing stuff in class.

OC: You are right, just like I used to see you with all those girls around you.

Ronald: No way!, it wasn’t me. I rebuked like the singer Shaggy in his song in title “It wasn’t me”, when she was probably speaking the truth.

OC: Come on Ronald, you got nothing to deny here, I saw you so many times besides, we shared a class together.

Ronald: that probably doesn’t say anything my dear friend. How is he doing? Haha!! I did this to escape her grip.

OC: Who?

Ronald: him of course,….haha!! I meant you bf.

OC: I thought you could only joke sometimes in class but here we go again. I got nobody to know how he is doing.

Ronald: oh yeah! If I had known all this while, I would have submitted my application long time ago. Is it too late?

OC: hahahahahaha!!!You are really funny Ronald. And let me tell you, I had such an incredible crush on you that semester. You never gave me an ounce of attention and I wish I could one day walk to you and say or do whatever I wanted to. But then I didn’t have that courage. I thought you had a girl friend or let me put it this way; girlfriends, haha!

Ronald: Are you kidding me?

OC: Not at all. I meant every word. Listen, my car is at maintenance shop and my mom is just pulling in for me. Take my number and we shall talk more later. I’m really happy to see you.

Ronald: likewise, you made my day. When I walked out of work, I was praying that I should see somebody I know so I could talk off some stress and God being God answered that prayer.

OC: hahahaha!! You are interesting. My mom is waiting. Here is my number; 845……..text or call and we shall take off from there. Bye Ronald!

Ronald: Bye OC.

So that was my hit and run conversation and now tell me, what do you think, especially the latter part of our conversation?  I think it is shocking how you walk out there with people admiring and falling for you without your notice. But the funny thing for me is that, this has been the 3^rd time someone actually said something like that to me. But the truth of the matter is that, when I’m out there, I carry myself in a very positive and lovely way though I could be having a bad day. This probably makes people tend to be more incline to me with a mere or casual encounter that I hardly recollect.  It could be you, and you might not know, people observe us all the time and that is why it is not a smart idea to goof off when in public. Always be mindful in everything that goes around in your world. But with my friend OC, I’m yet to hit her.

Happy weekend to you all my great readers both here in town and abroad. I have been keeping track of your visits to the blog through my traffic monitor. Your love for this makes it possible for me to always have the desire to sit and write.

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