ONE BIG REASON

Am having a good laugh imagining  what went or is going through your mind upon seeing and reading the heading for this post, but I would fill you in right about now:

Simple but BIG reason if you ask me, reason for what? am talking about one BIG reason why I need to be making a lot of money, in other words, one reason why I need to get rich.

Seriously, I am unable to come up with that BIG reason but every indication points to a BIG reason. Maybe every other reason comes together to make that one BIG reason.

Maybe my PRESENT LIFE is the BIG reason; being broke on my birthday, being on LEAVE as a public servant and yet unable to go on a fun-trip, and even keeping up with the basic demands of a 21st Century life.

Chaley one thing is sure, and that is; I MUST DO SOMETHING. I hope am not alone in this dilemma, what do you guys think? or you think am worrying my head over nothing?

Please tell me something!

Troubleshuta

SO CALLED ‘WINNER TAKES ALL POLITICS’

I heard a tape of Arch-Bishop Duncan William on which as part of his sermon, he admonished or was admonishing the two big Political Parties in the country (Ghana) to find  a way around what he called ‘Winner Takes All Politics’.

He stated that he sees the practice as very dangerous to the sustainability of our Democracy, he explained by saying that the practice whereby a Political Party goes into election, loses out and has to stay four years in opposition amidst all the pain and hardship is untenable. He then in his admonishment called on the President, John Dramani Mahama, who was sitting in the congregation (I suppose), to think through the situation and find a way to bring others from across the political divide on board.

I wish to state that I appreciate the Arch-Bishop’s frustration because of how the Politicians have made the politicking to seem, but I dare say that the fact that we could agree or have agreed that it is a ‘Winner Takes All Politics’, is a wrong footing to take.

My take is that there should be nothing like a ‘Winner Takes All’ because there is not supposed to be a thing like that, the understanding that the terminology connotes cannot find space in our Constitution and should not be tolerated.

Think about it, what is ‘Winner Takes All’? Are Political Parties supposed to come to power to come take things? Are they not rather supposed to give? And what do they take or have to take? Are they not supposed to come provide or give good roads, good health, quality education, among others?

I think if our Political Parties do what is expected of them, that is, by thinking and working fervently to put the Ghanaian Economy on the right footing, irrespective of one’s political affiliation, one could do great in his business, profession or job. Political Power should not become a lucrative job-seeking avenue for political activists, it is supposed to be a service-giving avenue.

I hereby end by stating that the ‘Winner Takes All’ argument is a non-starter and must not be tolerated, Politicians are not supposed to come take anything, period!

Troubleshuta

THE HAND OF GOD

I once asked in a post for people to show me the hand of God in the affairs of Ghana, take a look at our Economic/Political history since 1957, we are where we are due to our actions or inactions, no hand of God anywhere, if you ever saw it, draw my attention.
Let me say though that if it is about going to heaven, i can understand, we should be thinking instead of sponsoring Pastors to Israel to go offer prayers to God.

Troubleshuta

A LOVE QUESTION (MASCULINIST)

A LOVE QUESTION (MASCULINIST)

It came to a point in my life where I concluded that ‘loving a woman’ is ‘slavery’. I felt so strong about this assertion to the point that I even espoused it to the lady I was ‘seeing’ at the time. I went like, ‘’…loving a woman is synonymous to ‘slavery’ in that you are ‘forced’ to do what you would ordinarily not do’’, I then made it clear I had that much love for her.

When you enter into a relationship with a woman you consider very beautiful; nice smile, tasteful figure, among others, at least according to your eyes, you would develop the kind of ‘slave’ mentality I mentioned earlier. I hope you concur.

So you begin to live the love-life, she is the only one, and ‘ceteris paribus’ you are the only one. You begin/continue to act your love for this woman, and from my experience, love is not blind, it is just a ‘spectacle’ or ‘glasses’ that helps you to see differently, most often beautifully.

Do not get me wrong, this write-up is not meant to show you how to love but rather to ask you a love question;

At what point could you say you have loved enough or have had enough of a particular love relationship and hence bring to an end the enjoyment in the ‘slavery’ of LOVE by calling it all off?

Troubleshuta

POST-ELECTION TOLERANCE MESSAGE (OPEN BROADCAST)

ECG NONSENSE!

ECG NONSENSE!

So my android phone is off, stew, ice kenkey, and vegetables wasted because my fridge is off, my television and radio have been taught a lesson, i can't even remember what an iron is used for, my computer's long lasting battery could only last so long, so it shouts for help as well in this utter nonsense by the Electricity Company of Ghana.

Have we not had this too many times? that the least reported damage to a VRA equipment or something of the sort throws the whole country into darkness. In this case, the Electricity Company of Ghana, operating in the Afram Plains only announced to the public the cause of the light out two days into this nonsense, and the explanation is that there is a problem with the VRA sub-station at Nkawkaw and that they are doing all they could to fix it. Now it is three(3) days and counting living in and with this nonsense!

It is interesting i hear the utility providers including ECG are eyeing an increase in tariff so as to improve on quality. My question regarding that attempt is to all of you; have we seen an improvement in service delivery from the ECG since they last increased tariff for same reason?

I know next to nothing about Power Generation and Transmission but i guess i can make one little comment, that ECG in particular should ensure some good level of 'proof', be it water, wind, or fire proof to some good degree, so as to spare us these frequent outages due to one change in the weather or the other.

I hereby conclude by thanking the World Vision ADP, Afram Plains, for granting me access to their privately powered Electricity to be able to put together this post even as i charge my phone, and finally call on the ECG to bring an end this NONSENSE!

Troubleshuta

　

　

BLOGGING AWARDS

So I’m here wondering, what does it take to win a Blogging Award? Is it the level of readership a blog enjoys, the content of the write-ups posted, or what exactly?
For me, I remember very well what got me into blogging in the first place; it was the fact that I felt very different and that whenever there was or is a social discussion, an event, or a happening of a sort, I almost always get to the point where my take on the issue is so clear to me and often very independent of what the masses’ take on the said issue is. So I felt, why not blog? It would provide the opportunity to express my opinion, even on issues that do not have to do with my immediate life circle and it could be accessed by all.
I therefore took to blogging and have since been speaking my mind. I got to know about BloggingGhana in the process, and it seems blogging is no joke.
Let me just end it here by emphasizing my feeling towards the Blogging Awards. I feel like, ‘me koraa’ how much blogging have I done to warrant nominating myself for an award? But I know one thing for sure; that Ameyaw Debrah has the passion that every blogger needs, he has shown that in his works and hence deserves an award. At least I see that, though from afar!

Troubleshuta

GOOGLE GOT ME INTO TROUBLE

'GOOGLE' GOT ME INTO TROUBLE This is it: i was on watsapp yesterday, 05-01-2013, and whiles going through my contacts i came across the contact, 'friend', then i asked myself, how? i saw the profile photo, it was female. Then i proceeded to find out how come i got her(supposedly, could be his) contact, so i 'watsapped' her. you can imagine how the "who is this" question was thrown at me right? fast, quick, and in short hands. I tried to explain but before i could finish, i had a real hostile response, then followed by 'whatever', which she shorthanded "waheva". i hear 'whatever' is the ladies equivalent for 'Fuck You', not sure though. Then the real deal began, before i could say Jack, i was called a "Sick Boy", never got angered, i was in a good mood and was with Kodjo, a 'Koti'(Police) friend of mine so we just laughed things off. But i said to myself 'aaaaahhhh', then i went to check the contact details, there i realised a 'g' attached to her number, then upon some few search i saw that it meant she was/is my google+ friend, how could 'google' do this to me? i do not remember asking google for android adding my nearby google+ friends to my watsapp chat list. How could you, Google! Putting the Google bit aside, what would make a woman go that hard or furious, is it stress, bad experience, nature or what? I hope though that it's not what am thinking. That was it ooooo, i bore you Google!