I am still yet to come into understanding on why other people’s wealth excite some people. This entry was triggered by some post I came across on the net. The part that actually amazed me, is the provocative response to that particular post. They were actually arguing on who is richer and getting all stuck up with the vanity that enshrouds it. I really don’t get it, perhaps someone out there does? I would call it Vanity intoxication.
Brazil won the world cup in 1994. Before that they won it in 1970. Add 1970 and 1994, it equals 3964. Argentina last won the world cup in 1986. Before that they won it in 1978. Add 1978 and 1986, it equals 3964.
Germany last won in 1990. Before that they won in 1974. Add 1990 and 1974, it equals 3964. So going by this logic, the winner of the 2002 world cup was 3964 – 2002 =1962 world cup winner.
The 1962 world cup was won by Brazil, considering that the winner of 2002 was Brazil, and also 2002+1962= 3964 yet again, So using that logical formula, The winner of the 2006 world cup will be 3964 – 2006 = 1958. And the winner of 1958 was?
Do the maths 
So I guess we can deduce the winner of the 2006 worldcup.
On Wednesday, April 5, 2006, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 AM in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 This will never happen again in your life time .
I have been “busy busy” with school projects and other stuffs that I have not had the time to really seat my ass down and blog, but hec today is a Friday and I don’t have classes and I had a long chat with an old friend and that triggered this post.
My primary objective of wanting money is to make enough money to continue to make enough money. I can call it an Iterative constant. Would I say Money for its own sake? Yes and No, But I can say, I am quite selfish in that regards and I would explain my angle of reasoning precisely. This wants and need, is about me and my immediate family and my generation. The community also gets to benefit from this blessing as part of my pay back to what it has offered me. Someone asked me a question. The question was, you must have something you want to use the money for?
I want money for a comfortable lifestyle, freedom from “money suppression”, brought about by jealousy and greed of not been able to afford what you want or need. In fact lack of money is the root to all evils and I say that today because Nigeria for example has a troubling crime rate primarily brought about by poverty.
Rich kids do not have problems of having money because they can’t cope if they lose it, or because they can’t make it from scratch. Rich kids find themselves in that situation or should I say condition. So an aftermath shouldn’t be speculated of the possible vanishing of that condition. Nevertheless we shouldn’t forget the fact that poor kids suffer from depression and often get involved in crime if not properly trained and monitored. If you bring children to this world it is your responsibility to see that they are comfortable with the situation of this world.
A good example is inviting a guest to your house and denying the guest comfort just because they claim they do not want comfort as the case was possible to arise if your kids don’t want money. As I said it is a condition and they must embrace it just the way it is if they do not care about it. It’s not a nature, it’s a condition. Nobody likes discomfort. Humans have their needs and wants, so why would they fight against what they don’t care about?
Someone did ask me what comfort meant.
From my own understanding, comfort means, been contended with the situation in life due to the ability of meeting up to everyday needs and wants and been happy with it, and not wanting more than just that. This is without any regrets due to constraints brought about by the lack of a resource to satisfy any particualar need and want.
Comfort is a condition. You can only be comfortable when you have no immediate challenges in life that gives you discomfort.I understand wealth quite well and the need to get money. That I can go on and on to explain my beliefs an so far I have been successful in trying to pass my stance across. How about poverty? How many people can explain that state and maybe a reason to believe in that condition? One category I shouldn’t forget to mention is the “middle Class”.
The middle class actually complain more than the poor, yet they claim to be comfortable? Why are they complaining if they are comfortable? In fact their scale of preference accommodates the need for a better life which can be ensured by striving harder to earn more money. That perfectly explains why they celebrate a pay increase!! Or wish they could buy that car!! Or in some cases even invest in mutual funds to earn more, yet they claim they are “comfortable with their current state” which indirectly I can say infers that they are not interested in anything more than they currently earn or have?
Another interesting situation is “I can afford but I don’t want nor need, even though I might use or have a use for it”, it is call stinginess from the human general perspective but that actually properly explains an internal comfort with the current situation in life and to me that is been comfortable in a sense of when you want to believe in the aspect of staying within the realms of the middle class.
Richness is a condition that ensures comfort within the paradigm of needs and wants but been in the “middle-class” category does not bring comfort.
Most of us have done it in one way or another. Let our emotions get better of us in our e-mail. Perhaps emails should come with a disclaimer at the bottom? Caution: “May Inflict Injury or even “Sender might be loaded”. That’s because, even after years in which e-mail has been a common communications medium, many people still don’t seem to know how to use it.
Imagine getting an email of one page length from a customer in capitals? Or even the curt, insensitive and often downright rude e-mail messages that pop into my mailbox often regularly. I am far from being the sensitive type, but then again, the rate at which the emails come in, regularly, calls for questioning.
Well here are some suggestions on how to keep it less annoying.
(more…)An Indian discovered that nobody can create a folder anywhere named as “con” . Not only “con” but you can not create folder named as “aux” and “nul”. This is something pretty cool…and unbelievable… At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn’t answer why this happened! Try it out yourself…
Discrimination. Oh yes, thats what i would call it. But there must be a reason for that. I mean bloggers in general have mutated to become worse than even journalist. So, what is it with job seekers who also write blogs?
In a recent visit to chronicle careers, i came across this topic Bloggers Need Not Apply By IVAN TRIBBLE and i couldnt help but read through a very long article that went on to give examples of such instances whereby the employers actually went to Google to investigate the online activities of their applicants by tying the applicants name as the query. They employers actually use the content, to evaluate the job seeker, and that is really shocking.
I really do understand the stance of this employers, especially for the fact, that bloggers talk to much about themselves and their life on their blogs. We would discover that a lot of bloggers, just get the whole idea of freedom of expressing oneself wrong. Its the International network, for goodness sake. And anybody, infact everybody can read your stuff, whether protected or not, and things that are private should be private. And they should totally stay offline.
My advice to all bloggers out there,is if you know that you are going to be a “job seeker” in the future, avoid blogging on too personal stuff, especially things that are just meant to be private.
And here is a little excerpt from Chronicles to give you an idea of the degree of the situation here.
We’ve seen the hapless job seekers who destroy the good thing they’ve got going on paper by being so irritating in person that we can’t wait to put them back on a plane. Our blogger applicants came off reasonably well at the initial interview, but once we hung up the phone and called up their blogs, we got to know “the real them”—better than we wanted, enough to conclude we didn’t want to know more.
33 killed in London terror attacksAt least 33 people have been killed and scores wounded after four bombs exploded in London’s transport system today, British police said. “We were all trapped like sardines waiting to die,” said subway bombing witness Angelo Power. “I honestly thought I was going to die, as did everyone else.” [For futher reading >>]
What i cant understand and would never understand is why people are so barbaric. Is it in the name of religion as in “Islam” which normally is what this terrorist always claim to be the main reason for their cause?, although the religion itself does not support terrorism, or is it in the name of their selfish interest, as in terms of those barbaric Arabian individuals, that just think that by planting bombs arround the world, they could bring peace to the Arabian world?.
All i can tell is Al-Qaeda or whatever they call it is an Arabian terrorist organization, and has no link with “Islam”. Well security in America and the United Kingdom should be more tighter. But is this really the solution to avoid future re-occurencies?. I hope nobody has a family member that is a caualty of such a barbaric attack. And to all that happen to be, my condolences.Humans indeed are beasts.
Updates
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration raised the terror alert a notch to code orange for the nation’s mass transit systems on Thursday, responding to a spate of deadly rush-hour bus and subway bombings in London.[For futher reading >>]
lolz yeah thats what someone said (please hasnt he heared the adage that love yourself first before you think about others) , and yeah and also that i am worse than hitler, i think i am superior than others . heheh. well is it my fault that he has to feel inferior ??!!. see me see trouble oh ( as Nigerians would say), i know people dont like me, but the point is why should i care? thats their problem isnt it? not mine (i do have a lot of things to think about besides). whatever you think about me whether you are beign judgemental or not, i dont give a dem. And yeah sorry you got the wrong person, because i am still trying to be able to be sensitive to peoples comment about me, but it just isnt working and i am really trying hard ( what an a*******) you might say.
I keep repeating to aquaintances and they still dont get it. i am not a nice person, i dont need you to like me and i dont give a dem what you think about me. Its either you talk to me and accept me for who i am or just forget it. But they still dont understand the simple english sentences. I dont know why. well and yeah before i forget i know i am arrogant, yes thats me !!. And enough of that, well i have to go to a live teleconference from a proffessor in Japan at 2pm. Well i am outta here. stay cool and please guys dont be judgemental !!
And by the way i have find a way to really bring a halt to spammers spamming my blog. by moderating comments and using comment filters. Works currently very well.
Humanity !
Being lazy key to a long lifethis world is full of tooo much bullshit and wastage of time. i mean the researchers have too much funds that they dont have anything better to do? how can this be a line of research .and the most funny thing is many of such researches are funded by organisations or even sometimes government parastals. what a waste. all i have to say to this researchers is GET A LIFE.LONDON: It is the news that all sloths have been waiting for. Scientists in Germany have found that too much exercise is bad for you and that doing less could lengthen your life.
In a new book called The Joy of Laziness: How to slow down and live longer, Dr Peter Axt, a retired professor of health science at Fulda University near Frankfurt, and his daughter, Dr Michaela Axt-Gadermann, a general practitioner, say that everybody has a limited amount of “life energy” and that the speed with which it is consumed determines their life span.
They argue that high-energy activities such as pounding the treadmill at the gym, accelerate the ageing process and makes the body more susceptible to illness.
“A more relaxed way of life is important for your health,” said Dr Axt-Gadermann. “If you lead a stressful life and exercise excessively, your body produces hormones which lead to high blood pressure and can damage your heart and arteries.”
Dr Axt-Gadermann said one key difference between the lazy and those who exercise was that the more active body produces more “free radicals” – unstable oxygen molecules that are believed to speed the ageing process.
She added: “Laziness is also important for a healthy immune system because special immune-cells are stronger in times of relaxation than stress. During relaxation or “down time”, your metabolism is less active, which means the body produces fewer free radicals.
“If you do a lot of sport or are permanently stressed, then your body will produce more free radicals and that is one reason why your life could be shortened.”
Dr Axt-Gadermann, 37, and her 65-year-old father, who are both reformed long-distance runners, also say that laughing is healthier than running.
“When you laugh, your body produces the hormone serotonin which makes you feel happy and relaxed,” said Dr Axt-Gadermann.
The book also says that laziness is good for the brain. It says that exercise and stress can cause the body to produce the hormone cortisol, which can damage brain cells and lead to memory loss and premature senility.
To illustrate the theory that laziness equals longevity, The Joy of Laziness also suggests that early risers are more prone to stress.
“People who would rather laze in a hammock instead of running a marathon, have a better chance of living into old age.”
The medical establishment, however, is sceptical. Dr Vivienne Nathanson, the head of science and ethics at the British Medical Association, said that moderate exercise should not be set aside in favour of lazing around. – The Sunday Telegraph