REFLECTIONS

These thought-provoking comments of various personalities were sent by a dear friend a long time ago. Kept them long in my Inbox. Now I want to share them with you in Philkans Blog.

" REFLECTIONS "

“I made an agreement of peaceful co-existence with Time; neither he pursues me, nor I ran from him, one day we will find each other”. ( Mario Lago )

“Never walk on the travelled path, because it only leads you where the others have been”. (Graham Bell)

“Always there is a drop of madness in love, yet always there is a drop of reason in madness.” (F. Nietzshe)

“Time is very slow for those who wait, very fast for those who are scared, very long for those who lament, very short for those who celebrate. But for those who love, time is eternity." ( William Shakespeare)

“Many people lose the small joys, in hope for a big happiness.”
(Pearl S. Buck)

“Life can be understood only looking behind, but can be lived only looking ahead.” (Soren Kierkegaard)

“Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit.” (Bertrand Russell)

“If I could return to youth, I would commit those errors again, but a bit earlier” (Tallulah Bankhead)

“Nothing could be taught to a man; but its possible to help him find the answer within himself.” (Galileo Galilei)

“There are people who speak to us and we do not listen to them; there are people who hurt us and they don’t leave a scar; but there are people who simply appear in our lives and they mark us forever” (Cecilia Meireles)

“The true philosophy is to learn again to see the world” ( Merleau-Ponty)

“Love is the best music in the score of life. Without it, one would forever be out of tune in the immense choir of humanity.” (Roque Schneider)

“Love me when I less deserves it, because it’s then when I need it most.” (Chinese Proverb)

“ASK NOT WHAT YOUR COUNTRY CAN DO FOR YOU, BUT ASK WHAT REGULAR BLOGGING CAN DO FOR YOUR CONTINUED MENTAL HEALTH.” (Andy from Sumaila)

ADDENDUM :

In the heart of a Philkan, buried deep, so deep,
A dear little yearning, lay fast asleep;
"Wake," said Philkans Blog, "And creep to the light."
"Wake," said the voice, of the Master Tim Hop.
The little Philkan heard, and he rises to see,
What the wonderful World Wide Web
Of blogging in the “Net” might be !!!

DID YOU KNOW ? ( FYI Only )

During our time in Nigeria, they have only 19 states plus the Federal Capital at ABUJA, then under construction. I created an acronym for the states’ names because most of my students can name only five or six states. They were delightfully surprised at how easy it was to name all the states with my acronym. Here it is :

BOK-BOK-BOK-B - SPRING-CAL, which means :

BAUCHI, BENUE, BENDEL, BORNO, OGUN, ONDO, OYO, KADUNA, KANO, KWARA,

SOKOTO, PLATEAU, RIVERS, IMO, NIGER, GONGOLA, CROSS RIVER, ANAMBRA, LAGOS.

On August, 27, 1991, on what was called “State-Creation Exercise”, more states were created out of the original nineteen. BENDEL State is the only one whose name was not retained, out of which comes DELTA and EDO States. One new state worth mentioning is the JIGAWA State, that is carved out of our beloved KANO State.

My hunch could be wrong , but I sensed a Mathematics manipulation here (or superstition ?) , as if they are after a fixed number of states, (now at thirty-six plus ABUJA). The original nineteen states minus one (Bendel was not retained) equals eighteen. Nineteen more states were created, but DELTA and EDO count as one coming from BENDEL state equals eighteen again, that makes it thirty-six. Coincidence ? I think not ! You be the judge !!!

Here are the new nineteen states. I will not include anymore where these states come from :

ABIA, ADAMAWA, AKWA IBOM, BAYELSA, DELTA, EBONYI, EDO, EKITI, ENUGU, GOMBE, JIGAWA, KATSINA, KEBBI, KOGI, NASSARAWA, OSUN, TARABA, YOBE, ZAMFARA.

To include all these new states with the original ones in an acronym will really mess things up, so I decided to separate them, the old from the new, following the same pattern. Since BENDEL was removed, the old ones will just be
BOK-BOK-BOK, SPRING-CAL, after removing one “B” .

The new ones will be : Jig-KEA-KEA-KEA-E, NOT-BY-GoDZ !!!

Jig, of course, is for JIGAWA, three “K”s, four “E”s and three “A”s, then NOT-BY-GoDZ for the remaining states (NASSARAWA, OSUN, TARABA, BAYELSA, YOBE, GOMBE, DELTA, ZAMFARA). See the same pattern here ?

Sorry, guys, this may not sound interesting to you !!! Now, what about the fifty states of America ? How many can you recall ? Believe it or not, I started memorizing these states way back in my second year high school in US History. I just keep adding whatever comes as a new state.

Here it is : The number before each group tells the number of states beginning with that letter.

1. DR P. H. GULF - means there is only one state for each letter, that is: Delaware, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Hawaii, Georgia, Utah, Louisiana, Florida

2. KSTV - Kansas, Kentucky, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee, Vermont,Virginia .

3. CO - California, Colorado, Connecticut, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon

4. WAI - Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Alaska, Arizona, Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois

8. MN - Massachussets, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Nebraska, Nevada

If you have watched “Street Smarts” on TV , most Americans can not name even ten or fifteen states. Just try it. Close your eyes, use my acronym to see how many you can recall. Even if you forget some, you have a guide.

What about this next mantra ? Any idea ? It is recited by group of syllables, left to right :

WA-AD-JE, MA-MO-QUI, JA-VA-HA, TY-PO-TA, FI-PI, BU-LI-JO

GRA-HAY-GA, CHE-CLE, HAB-CLE, MAC-RO-TA, WI-HA, COO-HOO

RO-TR-EI, KE-JO-NIX, FO-CA-RE, BU-CLI-BU !!!!

What the ?#$@*& does this mean ???

Till next time, when I may give you a clue, sai an jima (Andy from Sumaila)

Sorry, I tried adding a map of present Nigeria but the Add Image icon is not working.

Fading Slide from Yosemite Pictures

This time I will not make the mistake of deleting it from Slide.com. Like what I have been saying, "Imagine posting YOUR own pictures in the Internet and let friends and relatives watch them anywhere they are in this planet" Isn't that awesome? It's no sweat, really ! Just play with it and you will have fun like me and Princess , heh, heh, heh !!! Okey, sai an jima again from Sumaila (Andy).

This is It !! The Second Time for a Fading Slide! Check it out!