Away from the first two depressing posts of this year, here’s really how this decade will begin on ktravula.com: fun.
Hat tip to Bukola O, a regular commenter on this blog from Aberdeen, Scotland, who sent me this lovely song, along with a mail of appreciation, and who called me her favourite blogger of 2009. What can I say? It has been good for me as well. Thank you so very much.
I have downloaded the song from iTunes and is now on constant replay on my laptop.
Re-reading oneself can be such a boring chore that I’ve always tried to avoid because of the emotions it inevitably brings back. Most times, one is just too glad to be rid of the overwhelming feelings that make one write in the first place to go back at will. I’ve just finished looking through all the poems that make up my first collection of poetry and all of a sudden I’m back with the overwhelming nostalgia of pre-University and University life. Maybe this year would be a good time to re-issue the collection into the public after five years of hibernating fermentation.
I am now officially looking for publishers for the electronic and print reissue in America, Europe and in Nigeria. Here, below were the lines I penned for the year 2000, written a few hours into that year while I sat in church on that December evening, bored to my bones.
The Year of the bug
It’s a new dawn because a year is born, But are hours years for zero to mark one? Men have flown to realms of high imagination with anxiety and snippets of loose contrite illusions. Of human clock, a stroke of the thin long second hand, Or the gradual droop till the final grain of sand Marks a whole new start – a thunderous landmark. And new time commences, yes it remains dark. Here begins a new dull span of restless days Of ends unseen, unsure even when one strongly prays. Called it a new phase, named it a new rolling life – new day into pay; new life into more human strife. And yet remains too cryptic and strange remnants of words, thoughts, fears and imagination parts, And of pregnant signs, sights and sighs unblown – of things not yet seen and yet all unknown.(c) All rights reserved.
in all their 10 megapixels glory.
In lieu of promises of things I would do in the new year (which had, by this morning, included dropping the abbreviation LOL from my 2010 vocabulary, getting a better camera, making more savings, kicking my Papa John’s pizza eating habit, and drawing up new itineraries of new places to visit in the US), I now present my new year resolutions, which are in fact however resolutions from 2009, courtesy of my Canon Powershot SD 1200 IS camera. Some of the photos I’ve shared here before. Some not. For those interested in my photography, let’s catch up on Facebook. But note that I will not confirm friendship with people without profile pictures themselves, except we have known mutual friends. Sorry. :D.
With these, my 2009 is done at last. I may not have been the best Fulbright FLTA this year, but I sure had the most fun.
Enjoy.
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You may want to read Ten Reasons To Be Thankful for 2009 here first before you continue.
10. That idiot who tried to blow up the plane is from Nigeria.
9. The healthcare system in Nigeria is still in a comatose mode. The president is unhealthy and can’t be treated within the country. There is no sadder reminder of the state of our healthcare.
8. Climate change is not waiting on the signatures of the world leaders. It is a grim reality.
7. The swine flu infected and killed so many people this year. And we’re still in December. It can always get a lot colder.
6. I did not get to write as much as I wanted. And read as much as I wanted.
5. We do not yet know how much nuclear weapons are in the world at the moment, or in whose hands they are. So, it is safe (no pun intended) to say that we’re not totally free yet.
4. I lost my Grandmother.
3. I didn’t have enough time or funds to go around as I wanted to.
2. I didn’t see the Avatar (yet), Old Dogs and Sherlock Holmes.
1. On the other hand, we’re now closer to 2012!
