Sometimes you are unsatisfied with your life, while many people in this world are dreaming of living your life.
A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of flying. But, the pilot on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of returning home. That's life!! Enjoy yours.
If wealth is the secret to happiness, then the rich should be dancing on the streets. But only poor kids do that.
If power ensures security, then officials and made-men should walk unguarded. But those who live simply, sleep soundly.
If beauty and fame bring ideal relationships, then celebrities should have the best marriages.
Live simply. Walk humbly and love genuinely! All good will come back to you!!! It is not the means of exit from earth that matters but the destination.
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Sunday, May 18, 2014
LIVE
Don't exist, LIVE
Live for those tired of breathing,
Give out of your banquet of hope to ease the pain of the condemned,
Live for the expressions that captures truth with no chains,..
Bring together an harmonious weather for those without a sky,
Live for the essence that never clogs the wheel of progress,
Live,it is sacred to live,
Live and let live...
Friday, August 30, 2013
Martin Luther "50 years anniversary of Keeping the Dream Alive"
Been a while I came around... lotta things keeping me outta here.like my various social responsibility projects and working our jobs on www.aboutcsi.blogspot.com (you probably know that already). Just thought I should share this though. You obviously know the Martin Luther Story and the vision filled "I Have A Dream" Then you should like this
50 years anniversary of Keeping the Dream Alive
50 years ago, a vision filled speech was unleashed to transform the Black and Blessed Race
I have a dream !!!
What you might not know about the speech .....
"I have a dream this afternoon that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that I came up within, but they will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not the color of their skin."
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these words in 1963.
King spoke these words in Detroit, two months before he addressed a crowd of nearly 250,000 with his resounding "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs on August 28, 1963.
Several of King's staff members actually tried to discourage him from using the same "I have a dream" refrain again.
As we all know, that didn't happen. But how this pivotal speech was crafted is just one of several interesting facts about what is one of the most important moments in the 20th century in the United States:
MLK's speech almost didn't include "I have a dream"
King had suggested the familiar "Dream" speech that he used in Detroit for his address at the march, but his adviser the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker called it "hackneyed and trite."
So, the night before the march, King's staff crafted a new speech, "Normalcy Never Again."
King was the last speaker to address the crowd in Washington that day. As he spoke, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson called out to King, "Tell 'em about the dream, Martin."
Then he paused and said, "I still have a dream."
Walker was out in the audience. "I said, 'Oh, s---.'"
"I thought it was a mistake to use that," Walker recalled. "But how wrong I was. It had never been used on a world stage before."
The rest, of course, is history.
Other Ten facts about the speech
50 years ago, a vision filled speech was unleashed to transform the Black and Blessed Race
I have a dream !!!
What you might not know about the speech .....
"I have a dream this afternoon that my four little children will not come up in the same young days that I came up within, but they will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not the color of their skin."
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these words in 1963.
King spoke these words in Detroit, two months before he addressed a crowd of nearly 250,000 with his resounding "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs on August 28, 1963.
Several of King's staff members actually tried to discourage him from using the same "I have a dream" refrain again.
As we all know, that didn't happen. But how this pivotal speech was crafted is just one of several interesting facts about what is one of the most important moments in the 20th century in the United States:
MLK's speech almost didn't include "I have a dream"
King had suggested the familiar "Dream" speech that he used in Detroit for his address at the march, but his adviser the Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker called it "hackneyed and trite."
So, the night before the march, King's staff crafted a new speech, "Normalcy Never Again."
King was the last speaker to address the crowd in Washington that day. As he spoke, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson called out to King, "Tell 'em about the dream, Martin."
Then he paused and said, "I still have a dream."
Walker was out in the audience. "I said, 'Oh, s---.'"
"I thought it was a mistake to use that," Walker recalled. "But how wrong I was. It had never been used on a world stage before."
The rest, of course, is history.
Other Ten facts about the speech
click here to continue...
Thursday, December 20, 2012
SHAVING THE BLADE!
SHAVING THE BLADE… Prof Fortune Omosola
Life is an abstract mechanism
powered by tales and fury
a functioning episode prevailing of humour
and prevailing ideals
a concept of horror powered by fute
and submerging infertile
temporal, disgusting yet revealing
occupying and transcending
life, what a mystery
deepened in colossal strength
of myth, aphorism and prejudice
For all words worth,
life is an harlot.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
DESTINY AND THE GOD FACTOR
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DESTINY AND THE GOD FACTOR
AYELESO TOYOSI
DESTINY AND THE GOD FACTOR
AYELESO TOYOSI
“Yea, though I walk through the valley
Of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil,
For you are with me;
Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
The human destiny is metaphorical to soap bubbles. While some never rise at all, some rise as though they don’t cause, they fall to the ground as soon as they rise and bust. In the same vein, there are some that rise and continue to move higher and higher till they disappear into heights. It is important to note that all the soap bubbles with their varying experiences are borne out of the same soap solution.
Now comparing it to human life, just as soap-bubbles are borne out of the same solution everyone born into this world is born with what I call the inbuilt ability to succeed”. This is a force that follows every human being that is born on the surface of the earth right from the period of labour. This therefore implies that everyone born into this world is supposed to be a success. Then, this could arouse this important question; “If everyone is born a success, then why is everyone not successful?
Interestingly, the answer is not far fetched and this is where the God factor comes in. The beautiful destiny of everyone that comes carrying success is born into this world, which is the valley of the shadow of death. This “valley of the shadow of death” which we call life is full of cosmic waves, which therefore tend to attack individual destiny depicted as the “soap bubbles”. Fortunately even in this valley full of cosmic waves that tend to blow up the soap bubbles so that they fall, how beautiful is it to note that some still end up rising higher and the sky happens to be their limit.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Full Text of President Jonathan's 52nd Independence Anniversary Speech
Beloved countrymen and women, on this day, fifty-two years ago, our founding fathers brought joy and hope to the hearts of our people when they won independence for our great country. Nigeria made a clean break with more than six decades of colonial rule, and emerged as a truly independent nation. That turning point was a new beginning for our nation.
Those who witnessed the lowering of the Union Jack and the emergence of the Green White Green flag continue to relish the memory, because that ceremony was not just about the destiny of a nation, but the future of a people.That future is here; we are the inheritors of a great legacy that goes even much farther into the past.
The worthy patriots who made this possible were young men and women in their twenties and thirties. They worked together to restore dignity and honour to the Nigerian people. Their resolve united a multicultural and multilingual nation of diverse peoples, with more than 250 distinct languages and ethnic groups.
In 1960, our diversity became a source of strength, and the new leaders resolved to carry the flag of independence for the benefit of future generations. They had their differences, but they placed a greater premium on the need to come together to build a new nation.
It is that resolve, and that glorious moment that we celebrate today. We also celebrate the patriotism of our heroes past: Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Sir Michael Okpara, Chief Anthony Enahoro, Herbert Macaulay, and several others who made the case for our independence.
We remember as always, their contributions to the making of the Nigerian nation, and the efforts of their successors since 1960. We also celebrate the unfailing optimism and resilience of Nigerians who remain proud of our national identity.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
THE HERO IN EVERY1
Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.” ― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
CSI Abuja/Lokoja Tour.
Team CSI embarked on a tour in preparation for the second edition of its purple party and dinner coming up this year October.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
CSI purple party (first edition)
Watch out for the pictures of Corporate Swaggz purple party coming soon!
Saturday, April 23, 2011
THE RESILIENCE THAT PAID OFF!.....Ayeleso Toyosi
“We are wobbling and fumbling,but we are wobbling and fumbling in the right direction.” - Bill Clinton
“To bestow... beauty instead of ashes...” – Holy Bible
“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude towards it, for that determines our success or failure.” – Norman Vincent Peale
On the cover page of the Sunday punch dated April 3, 2011 is boldly “INEC FLOPS; Nigerians Angry” with pictures of aggrieved residents of a particular state protesting seriously the postponement of the National Assembly elections. Despite the shift being regarded as a “national emergency” by the INEC Chairman, it seemed at that time that the much anticipated and hoped for election had become a flop or had been politicised. It looked at that time that we had once again disappointed the international world. Then the best of analysts brought facts about how they had followed the events that had characterised the planning for the election and they had since not been too optimistic about the whole process. From the clamoured removal of Maurice Iwu, the issues that emanated from the electoral reforms, to the demand for additional fund and time by the “INEC BOSS”, to the request for additional time to allow voters register, to the postponement of the election earlier slated for January to April in order to allow for effective and efficient readiness and now to the cancellation and “national emergency shift” of the election of April 2nd. All these seemed to analysts as the odour of the dead rat around the corner that insinuated that something was wrong. There were varying questions like why the man who had given the nation his word some four days before the election that all was ready had to suddenly come up with an excuse that unnamed “vendors” failed to deliver critical materials such as the result sheet as scheduled, not withstanding his “appeal to all Nigerians for their understanding at such a difficult time”.
Alas, before he completed the press briefing, different comments had rot the media, from calculation of the loss of the cancellation to over 3 billion Naira, to the request from some parties calling for the resignation of Attahiru Jega stating that he was too much of a gentleman to anchor the ship of Nigeria’s long awaited 2011 elections and at that time it looked like prophet T.B Joshua’s prophecy had been fulfilled, that the election would be postponed. Thus the usual dichotomy to be expected; thee PRO-JEGA AND ANTI-JEGA
One of the analysis I wouldn’t forget in a while is one made on Focus Nigeria that this seeming insurmountable monster could have been surmounted if it had all been intellectually calculated. She stated that if a wedding was to hold on Saturday and by 8pm of the Friday preceding the wedding, the groom’s plane had not taken off from Japan, it was a clear indication that the wedding wouldn’t hold and concluded that Jega did not have to push Nigerians to the polls April 3rd before giving such address to postpone the election.
However, amidst all these discouragements, Nigerians remained unperturbed, discouraged yet determined, and resilient to make it work this time around. Fortunately so many circumstances surrounding the 2011 elections indicated it was on the road to fairness. From the upright and “antecedently” truthful Jega, to the free hand given to INEC by the presidency, to the strategies put in place by Jega to show openness. But all these I think are boosters to the fact that Nigerians at this time are desperate for a change that involves due process. The resilience allowed for patience and made them unperturbed despite the postponement and even the failure of the election to hold on Monday. The resilience that made Nigerians troop out again in their thousands on April 9, that made the electorates go after persons in Zamfara State who came to snatch the ballot box , beat them up, return it to its place, return to their line and continued voting. The same resilience that made a head to be cut off in an attempt to carry the ballot box in a south-south state in the Country, that made security agents almost jobless as the electorates were themselves ready to secure their votes and that resilience that made Nigerians strong-willed, optimistic happy, hopeful and unrelenting in their desperation for change despite been bent, stretched, pressed, disappointed by pathological electoral experiences is commendably the definition of TRUE RESILIENCE. This definitely is enough to create the “IMPRESSION” that Nigerians have brought about that change to Nigeria.
Kudos to the presidency for allowing INEC so much independence in running their own affairs which was evidential in the fact that even President Goodluck Jonathan heard about the postponement like any other Nigerian and Jega for always being available to give explanation in line with his promise that his leadership would always be truthful with Nigerians. However, the resilience that made Nigerians accept such truthfulness in so much good fate and turn out en-mass “April 9” to cast their vote, defend their vote and made sure that their vote counts seriously requires commendation.
Permit me therefore to rephrase the last paragraph in Dixie Jane Sokolik’s article “Unstoppable” in Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen’s “Living Your Dreams” by saying; “All thanks to Nigerians, a people with sufficient spirit to set out on a difficult path, ample courage to follow her dreams and enough determination to even cause a change”. This simply could only have been done by a resilient Nigeria and like Clinton said “...we are wobbling and fumbling in the right direction”
“To bestow... beauty instead of ashes...” – Holy Bible
“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude towards it, for that determines our success or failure.” – Norman Vincent Peale
On the cover page of the Sunday punch dated April 3, 2011 is boldly “INEC FLOPS; Nigerians Angry” with pictures of aggrieved residents of a particular state protesting seriously the postponement of the National Assembly elections. Despite the shift being regarded as a “national emergency” by the INEC Chairman, it seemed at that time that the much anticipated and hoped for election had become a flop or had been politicised. It looked at that time that we had once again disappointed the international world. Then the best of analysts brought facts about how they had followed the events that had characterised the planning for the election and they had since not been too optimistic about the whole process. From the clamoured removal of Maurice Iwu, the issues that emanated from the electoral reforms, to the demand for additional fund and time by the “INEC BOSS”, to the request for additional time to allow voters register, to the postponement of the election earlier slated for January to April in order to allow for effective and efficient readiness and now to the cancellation and “national emergency shift” of the election of April 2nd. All these seemed to analysts as the odour of the dead rat around the corner that insinuated that something was wrong. There were varying questions like why the man who had given the nation his word some four days before the election that all was ready had to suddenly come up with an excuse that unnamed “vendors” failed to deliver critical materials such as the result sheet as scheduled, not withstanding his “appeal to all Nigerians for their understanding at such a difficult time”.
Alas, before he completed the press briefing, different comments had rot the media, from calculation of the loss of the cancellation to over 3 billion Naira, to the request from some parties calling for the resignation of Attahiru Jega stating that he was too much of a gentleman to anchor the ship of Nigeria’s long awaited 2011 elections and at that time it looked like prophet T.B Joshua’s prophecy had been fulfilled, that the election would be postponed. Thus the usual dichotomy to be expected; thee PRO-JEGA AND ANTI-JEGA
One of the analysis I wouldn’t forget in a while is one made on Focus Nigeria that this seeming insurmountable monster could have been surmounted if it had all been intellectually calculated. She stated that if a wedding was to hold on Saturday and by 8pm of the Friday preceding the wedding, the groom’s plane had not taken off from Japan, it was a clear indication that the wedding wouldn’t hold and concluded that Jega did not have to push Nigerians to the polls April 3rd before giving such address to postpone the election.
However, amidst all these discouragements, Nigerians remained unperturbed, discouraged yet determined, and resilient to make it work this time around. Fortunately so many circumstances surrounding the 2011 elections indicated it was on the road to fairness. From the upright and “antecedently” truthful Jega, to the free hand given to INEC by the presidency, to the strategies put in place by Jega to show openness. But all these I think are boosters to the fact that Nigerians at this time are desperate for a change that involves due process. The resilience allowed for patience and made them unperturbed despite the postponement and even the failure of the election to hold on Monday. The resilience that made Nigerians troop out again in their thousands on April 9, that made the electorates go after persons in Zamfara State who came to snatch the ballot box , beat them up, return it to its place, return to their line and continued voting. The same resilience that made a head to be cut off in an attempt to carry the ballot box in a south-south state in the Country, that made security agents almost jobless as the electorates were themselves ready to secure their votes and that resilience that made Nigerians strong-willed, optimistic happy, hopeful and unrelenting in their desperation for change despite been bent, stretched, pressed, disappointed by pathological electoral experiences is commendably the definition of TRUE RESILIENCE. This definitely is enough to create the “IMPRESSION” that Nigerians have brought about that change to Nigeria.
Kudos to the presidency for allowing INEC so much independence in running their own affairs which was evidential in the fact that even President Goodluck Jonathan heard about the postponement like any other Nigerian and Jega for always being available to give explanation in line with his promise that his leadership would always be truthful with Nigerians. However, the resilience that made Nigerians accept such truthfulness in so much good fate and turn out en-mass “April 9” to cast their vote, defend their vote and made sure that their vote counts seriously requires commendation.
Permit me therefore to rephrase the last paragraph in Dixie Jane Sokolik’s article “Unstoppable” in Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen’s “Living Your Dreams” by saying; “All thanks to Nigerians, a people with sufficient spirit to set out on a difficult path, ample courage to follow her dreams and enough determination to even cause a change”. This simply could only have been done by a resilient Nigeria and like Clinton said “...we are wobbling and fumbling in the right direction”
Saturday, January 22, 2011
mercy johnson's new look
loooooooooooool... its in her new movie where she acts a widow. she really looks it(..D
Friday, January 14, 2011
with this; it all seems like nollywood is finally getting it right
Since hitting the Cinemas in July 2010, ije the multiple award winning movie has grossed over N50miillion at six cinemas across the country. The movie has also been described as the longest running movie in Nigerian cinema... In fact some cinemas are still showing it and people are still watching..
Monday, May 31, 2010
DESTINY AND THE GOD FACTOR AYELESO TOYOSI
DESTINY AND THE GOD FACTOR
AYELESO TOYOSI
“Yea, though I walk through the valley
Of the shadow of death,
I fear no evil,
For you are with me;
Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
The human destiny is metaphorical to soap bubbles. While some never rise at all, some rise as though they don’t cause, they fall to the ground as soon as they rise and bust. In the same vein, there are some that rise and continue to move higher and higher till they disappear into heights. It is important to note that all the soap bubbles with their varying experiences are borne out of the same soap solution.
Now comparing it to human life, just as soap-bubbles are borne out of the same solution everyone born into this world is born with what I call the inbuilt ability to succeed”. This is a force that follows every human being that is born on the surface of the earth right from the period of labour. This therefore implies that everyone born into this world is supposed to be a success. Then, this could arouse this important question; “If everyone is born a success, then why is everyone not successful?
Interestingly, the answer is not far fetched and this is where the God factor comes in. The beautiful destiny of everyone that comes carrying success is born into this world, which is the valley of the shadow of death. This “valley of the shadow of death” which we call life is full of cosmic waves, which therefore tend to attack individual destiny depicted as the “soap bubbles”. Fortunately even in this valley full of cosmic waves that tend to blow up the soap bubbles so that they fall, how beautiful is it to note that some still end up rising higher and the sky happens to be their limit.
As in the extract above the only factor that can save the human destiny from the cosmic waves present while we walk through the valley of the shadow of death is the “YOU” as depicted in the extract above, which incidentally is the “GOD” factor. This is a pre-requisite to the success of any individual because He alone can control the cosmic waves with his rod and staff.
Finally, let me end on this note that everyone could be a success with the God factor being in mind, and when one brings in to walk with him, then not just success will come into the picture but good success.
hey there...
Compliments to all my readers out there. Sorry I've been away for so long, it's being due to my very tight schedule, lots of codes to write, meetings to attend to and all. It's been a beautiful year so far. Hope yours too has been beautiful. I have a long list of posts lined up for this year which I'd try to post as soon as possible.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Think Like A Millionaire.........
SAY TO YOURSELF "I model rich and succesful people."
"I associate with successful people."
"If they can do it, I can do it!"
Touch your head and say...
"I have a millionaire mind!"
It has worked for some, it can also work for you.
"I associate with successful people."
"If they can do it, I can do it!"
Touch your head and say...
"I have a millionaire mind!"
It has worked for some, it can also work for you.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
The Change We Need
IF YOU CHANGE YOUR THINKING, YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE AND MOVE THE WORLD. THIS IS TIME TO EFFECT JUST "THE CHANGE WE NEED" - AYELESO TOYOSI.
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