The Hour -->> 1850hrs!

And on the 6th day, after God had made man,  football was! A sport among many, but one that transcends all, and without discussion, the best! "Football, I mean, Tennis has to be the best game to ever be..." won't be a surprising response from even Djonkovic, the Tennis king! And you guessed it right, its my sport too! I play, talk, and watch the game, but for now, am just gonna talk about it!

A few weeks ago, after Real Madrid put their nemesis behind them at Camp Nou in the race for the top Spanish Football diadem, the now 100-points-a-season champions  without a doubt announced their arrival to the scene that had eluded them since the last decade when Pep Guardiola's army took firm charge. And such an arrival sure deserves 100, plus +9 points to boast about; The big question however, remains... does that mean a downfall for the Catalans? You might be tempted to think so, considering that they have lost their football genius in Pep, trail Madrid by 9 points on match day 38, and lost to the ECL champions wannabe - Chelsia! Well, can't wait to discover the next Barcelona...but as long as it has the little wonder thing in Leo, all is not lost!

As far as Spanish football goes, that is all there is to talk about...Madrid and Barcelona! Everything else, needs an overhaul! Its this bad: A mid - table team in England like Swansea, could comfortably compete for a champions league slot...mmmh!

I think Juventus too deserves a mention here! Having fought for its life from the red zone, a.k.a relegation zone a few seasons back, they managed to pull the unbeaten stunt! one, that hitherto had been, and still is (since there is not anything else to show) every Arsenal follower's all time best punchline! At times I just enjoy messing around with Arsenal fans, for nothing else, but just to hear this; there go the game changers now!

Ladies and gentlemen, come with me to where every kick of a ball holds a chance of making or breaking any team, and every team means business on any given footballing day ->England, the home of English football; the EPL!

The EPL footballing arena today finally came to a befitting close. Arguably, the best season ever, at least in my footballing lifetime! The day was tense, especially for the bottom five, slot number 3 contenders, and of course, the table toppers! Am sure if the Octopus were still alive today, he would have been strangled to death for refusing to identify the winning colors!

The phrase, "It ain't over until the fat lady sings" finally made sense to me! The Manchester teams have definitely stood out this term, and they almost pulled the Spanish Madrid-Barcelona stunt (in fact they did; you might consider having a look at the table again, though it looked more of a Madrid-Madrid stunt!). These two have just but been something else.You never knew when they were gonna stop, until that hour that every Manchester fan would rather not hear a mention of - 1850hrs, Kenyan time! black Sunday the 13th, when England came to a stand still!

Until then, the pendulum had been swinging more to the red side, and had almost stopped swinging, until **** happened! When you are 2-1 down in the 90th minute of a 90-minute game, unless you practice sorcery, or at least believe in magic, or you are this guy ->> then your world stops, especially when you need to win, to count!

5 minutes have never been longer than they seemed, or at least, football has never been played that fast in 5 minutes! 1845 - 1850 hrs are the minutes I'm talking about! At this point, I wished the football officials were for once strict with the 90-minutes allocated to a football game, and blow the final whistle, and my faith was all time highest, that even the best fortune teller could not let the pendulum start swinging the blue way again!

My joy was so short lived, that I didn't even get to see the scorer of the equalizer, until I saw this;



Because of this;
Amazing what one man's foot can do to another's soul and emotions!

The scoreline read 3-2 in favor of Manchester City, and the time read 1850hrs! And just like that, the pendulum had started swinging, stopped at blue, and fallen there, all in 5 minutes, giving City this!


And now, this man just can't believe what just happened;

Someone then whispered this to him: "Sir, am sorry to report that for now, the Cham19ons would do, and the Champ20ns have to wait just a little longer. The new swag in town is Champ3ons! Don't worry though, you are still 16 better than the Champ3ons" The harder the struggle, the sweeter the victory, and that couldn't be more clear than today!

That said,  MANCHESTER CITY deserve an applause for the mission well accomplished; They played well, scored goals, kept a neat home record, brought home the self-exiled majestic Tevez, and stuck with the wayward Balotelli! Without discussion, they have had the best squad in England...by far even in Barcelona's standards! And when you have a squad like that, you should not stop at anything, and that includes winning even the world cup!

It remains to be seen if its a new dynasty that has just been built in Manchester, and brought another one down! However, with a squad of such depth and breadth, only a goal difference of +8 to show for the crown is just not good enough! A lot more was expected, but you are vindicated for now, and declared champ3ons!

In other news, AW feels cheated for winning a trophy he never received! A good number of the City-winning squad belonged to Arsenal, and once an Arsenal player, always one, but thanks to the Etihad money! Maybe its time for AW to find a money well too, if he can't get back his players, he can at least buy the trophy...!

French Computers

A language instructor was explaining to her class that in French, nouns unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine.
"'House,' in French, is feminine - 'la maison' and 'Pencil,' in French, is masculine 'le crayon.'"
One puzzled student asked, "What gender is 'computer'?"
The teacher did not know, and the word wasn't in her French dictionary.
So for fun she split the class into two groups appropriately enough, by gender and asked them to decide whether 'computer' should be a masculine or feminine noun. Both groups were required to give four reasons for their recommendation.
The men's group decided that computers should definitely be of the feminine gender ('la computer'), because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for possible later retrieval; and

4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine ('le computer'), because:

1. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on;

2. They have a lot of data but they are still clueless;
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you'd waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.

Take time before you act!

Before you Speak, Listen
 Before you Retire, Save
  Before you Die, Give
   Before you Invest, Investigate
    Before you Write, Think
     Before you Spend, Earn
      Before you Criticize, Wait
       Before you Pray, Forgive
        Before you Quit, Try!!!

You are the heir!

A discouraged new convert once came to talk with a Chinese Christian Watchman Nee;

“No matter how much I pray, no matter how hard I try, I simply cannot seem to be faithful to my Lord. I think I’m losing my salvation."  Nee said, "Do you see this dog here? He is my dog. He is house-trained; he never makes a mess; he is obedient; he is a pure delight to me. Out in the kitchen I have a son, a baby son. He makes a mess, he throws his food around, he fouls his clothes, he is a total mess. But who is going to inherit my kingdom? Not my dog; my son is my heir. You are Jesus Christ’s heir because it is for you that He died."

So live like a bona fide son of the King...God bless!

Lesson 1

Lesson 1

Lessons to humanity from the wild!

I am often fascinated by the life in the jungle. A dynasty where the life governing rule - survival for the fittest, or if you like, God for us all, but each individual for themselves - supremely reigns. Every creature from huge to the tiniest is always on the look-out for an unprecedented source of prey, which is for sure imminent at all time.
That said, picture this; a hungry lioness in a hunt for prey, decides to go against all nature's design and expectation, and adopts the little orynx that should have constituted a sumptuous meal like no other, that later meets its death by starving! (okay, I added the last part!). Nothing but world wonder material in my view.














Despite all these instabilities of existence, creatures in the wild thrive in their respective rights as designed by the Almighty Powers! This in the sense of nature keeps the ecosystem balance, in perfect tandem with the law of natural selection: "Nature selects individuals which are best fit and lets them survive, while the frail die off and/or fail to survive (read- are eaten up!)"

What fascinates me the more however is the symbiotic relationship that is accrued from this 'curse' - as the lesser animals in the preying pyramid would think! This too extends to the plant kingdom.
In their diversity, the animals keep each others' existence alive, with acts that are intended to annihilate others from the scene - what a conundrum!

Take the elephant's feeding habits for instance; it is a pure herbivore, that feeds on a variety of greens virtually all day, with breaks to water its system . Upon quenching its thirst along shallow waters, it thinks of no tomorrow, so it leaves along its heavy droppings by the same waters, some of course sinking deeper into the water. Upon the landing of the dung, the fish say a quick little thank-you prayer and get down to feasting on the rare nutrients that are contained herein. And at the shallow end, the lower placed herbivores that can't swim nor graze search for their nourishment. This process excites a swam of insects that follow what to them is the 'aroma' from the elephant dung. As they do this, the agility of the birds lands them at the scene for a catch from the feasting insects. Before long, the seemingly lazy baboons hanging around for their time, walk in to the 'unwatching' birds, that consequently makes their meal along with the hyenas and vaulters - what a sequence!

This only tells me one thing; God is in control of his creatures the best way he knows how! among the millions of species He created, He assigned each a role to play to better the life of the other, and through this, the ecosystem is maintained!

Imagine then for a moment...the humans of the SAME SPECIE!!! How well do we co-exist among each other? The lion and the orynx were created not to see eye to eye, but man was created for exactly the opposite of that...to support each other, but here are reversed roles, where animals are outdoing us in our own game!
Instead of embracing the privilege of the precious diversity bestowed upon us by the Almighty, we concentrate on our ethnicity, race, skin color... so much that we begin to see ourselves as each others' enemies! and true to fact; what the brain considers through a considerable duration of time, it later considers true, and adopts, thereby making habits, and as it were, the forces of habits are initially too weak to be felt till they are too strong to be broken. So we concentrate so much on that which divides us instead of looking on the bigger picture that we are all the homo sapiens, and that right there unites us all under its umbrella!
This is the disease that ails humanity!

All is not lost though,  we can borrow a leaf from the life in the wild and how diverse creatures co-exist to make amends to procreate a united race.This can as well begin with you...remember the power of one!