DORAMP

Now there is this part or seat in a taxi that people don’t usually like to sit if they had their own way. Only on occasions where they have no option that people usually sit at that side of the taxi. Older people actually think the younger ones should be the custodians of that part of the taxi so much that they see the younger ones as showing disrespect when they don’t owe that part and sit there. It’s especially interesting when you form a long and unmoving queue all in the name of waiting for a taxi home, and then finally a taxi comes around and people are actually choosy of where to sit and begin to quarrel if they do not get the exact place they wanted to sit in the taxi.  It’s funny because these same people were some minutes ago complaining of being tired of standing in a long queue and hoping that even a ‘rickety trotro’ would appear from somewhere and pick them home. Funny life! It gets funnier when someone refuses to board the taxi because he/ she didn...

Walking is actually not something most people like to do even if the distance is just a stone throw away. Except on occasions where you are in the group of people or friends and are chit chatting, laughing and teasing, does walking become desirable. Walking gets extra annoying when the trotro pulls up at the point where you don’t intend to get down but you are forced to because the driver says he won’t stop again…lol So is walking away from some life choices or events or things that you believed so much that they will work out or be a success. Right before going to bed, you think, plan and strategize what to do the next day and commit them into the hands of God. You wake up in the morning full of the previous day’s plans and with so much strength for execution during the day, but then you turn out to walk away from those plans painfully with an unachievable result. Walking away especially from ‘great’ ideas, plans, friendships or relationships might be very sad, pain...

My excitement kept growing that at a point i thought i will explode out of excitement as my birthday approached. Deep within i felt some joy that i don't remember ever feeling when  my birthday was approaching. As to why or what i was excited about, i cant tell. All i knew was that, my birthday was gonna be special. I woke up in the morning, determined not to remind my family about my birthday cuz i always did. I picked up my phone and switched my mobile data on as i usually put it off before sleeping (thanks to the Yellow mobile network that 'steals' your credits even when the phone hasn't been touched for hours...lol) and read a message from my lil sis who was sleeping ryt next to me, wishing me a happy birthday. I smiled at her and replied, thanking her for starting my day ryt. I picked a dress out of my wardrobe and leaped to go and iron it so that the lights do not betray me. I then made ready for my friend's wedding at 11 am. I was excited about the wedd...

Rapture has always had a spiritual connotation and most people have also always tried to avoid hearing that word, especially all the meanings associated with it. Interestingly, each and everyone does experience some form of rapture in their life in one way or the other. Or better still most people experience a ‘rapturous’ moment in their lives but have not thought of that experience as a rapture that took place. Probably because there were no thunder, lightening, magical or magnificent events surrounding those experience. Right from our childhood to our adulthood, some things that we hold dear or special or profound are usually taken away from us. Do you remember the neighbourhood where you grew up and with so many other kids that it was fun throughout but that fun had to cease because daddy got a new job and so your family moved away? Do you remember that school where you started your studies at and made so many friends and played a lot after school that it took you 1 hour to...

It was a beautiful Friday morning for me because my boss had travelled out of the country and wouldn’t be at work and so I could steal some time and be late for work. I entered my office with so much confidence and aura of peace even though I was very late for work. I could care less because the ‘man of the office’ had travelled. I know it’s a bad corporate attitude...lol Some few minutes after sitting down on my seat at the office, I had a call from Mega (as I usually call him). He asked if I was in the office and I said yes. Then he went ahead to tell me that he was driving towards that direction and so would pass by to say hi. Then I knew it was gonna be an adventurous Friday for me because there is always an adventure with him. Within some few minutes, Mega and I were planning our ‘adventure’. He was to go to Tema to deliver a document and I saw an opportunity in going to visit a friend at her office in Tema. The only string attached to that opportunity was to buy fu...

Friendship has always been said to be the best way of living out the stressful life. Life has been full of stress, challenges and difficulties which are usually released on people we call friends. And friends come in diverse forms; parents, siblings, school mates, church mates, etc. Friends have been the bedrock upon which we take comfort and inspiration. Sharing ideas and relieving each other of the stress is imperative in friendship among others. Friends have been a source of support through life’s changing scenes. Notwithstanding, there are times when friends become the cause of the stress, challenges and difficulties we are running away from in life. It’s true that friends are mainly the ones who cause pain and heartbreak to us but I believe these should be occasional. So therefore, what is the point of a friend or friends who is or are constantly causing you so much pain and difficulties in life? Friends who only give you some few minutes of stress-relief and then add...

Eunice is the other ‘E’ in the GEED. And it’s very difficult to tell exactly what she is but I will try lol. I must say that Kukua (as she is usually called) is the one who brought G on board. G and her were course mates and became friends as a result. Kukua has a subtle way of doing things and pleasing herself in the process. She is more like the ‘if you bring it on, I will bring it on too’ type, thus, if the friendship is going wayward or silent, she wouldn’t bother or go heaven and earth to bring a resolution but would be at ‘her somewhere’. More like unconcerned but if someone takes the initiative to bring some restoration then she would come around. She has also contributed her part to the beautiful friendship and has equally ‘enjoyed’ rounds of petty quarrels with G lol. It appears she is the first person to taste the ‘enjoyable’ rounds of quarrels with G and they release a bulge of the quarrel once a while which I think it’s too much of love for each other hehe. I can...