The Nigerian Immigrant

I can confidently assert that personally, 2010 has been the best year of my life. A lot of wins, victories in every direction, lots of tears of joy and few loses. I don't know what i have done to deserve any of it. I do understand that there are many people out there with no homes due to recent floodings, I do understand that a lot of innocent and guilty people have been involved in accidents over the Christmas period, some of them have died and some of them are spending the foreseeable future in hospitals. I do know that thousands of divorces occurred this year, millions of hearts were broken, people's futures were destroyed and my cousin passed away. I do understand however that there are still a lot more to be thankful for, globally that is, for instance, the strong Aussie dollar, and yes people are divorcing daily but almost in the same rate are people getting married, if you weren’t in a flood or involved in any natural disasters you have a lot to be thankful for. A very p...

Just recently, the world was shocked by the suicide of an 18 year old American student whose roommate secretly recorded him having sex with another man on the Internet. It's been argued that if he was having sex with a woman it would not have been recorded. However, that's not what I'm here to talk about. I am here to decipher and perhaps better understand what gave this roommate the right to invade the privacy of another. It seems as though gay people do not have the right to show affection both openly and secretly. Just recently i experienced the most baffling moment of my adult life. It was 28 past 8 at night and i was on the train home. A couple walk in and are holding hands, you know, all smiley and exuding lots of happiness and i thought "first love how glorious thou art". They sit behind me all lovey dovey and before i could say Jack Robinson they are kissing and touching and grabbing boobs. Its not anything i haven't seen before so i go "aw, ...

Colo in Nigerian pidgin English simply means crazy. There are lots of things that make us want to scream. Some would say that war made them Colo, others could say world poverty and hunger made them Colo, to still others corruption, and sometimes simply men who cheat on their wives or vice versa, drug addicts etc. The list is unending.There are a few things that make me Colo and numero uno at the top of my list is WAR RAPE! This isn't just about the killing of enemies during war, it is about stripping unarmed, unsuspecting people of their humanity, taking away all they have- joy, family, life...dignity. In the process, women and children are raped and killed, some who survive this arduous ordeal will have to live with the horrible prospect of being pregnant due to the callousness and idiocy of these non-human human beings! Having a child of such a brute will be the greatest curse known to humanity. Sadly, the list goes on since victims can contact STD's and even the grand father...

On my home today sat a little cutie in his pram his glorious smile made his little chubby face glow the object of his attention... an old Chinese lady dressed in a long, over sized black coat hunched in a sitting position, she looked a tad overweight for her age her hair seemed to have lost its original colour-black in its place sat a mass of white silvery hair i could have sworn her hair shone under the intense blaze of the sun she had an old red scarf draped across her tender little frame it looked worse for wear, managing albeit hardly to hang onto the blend of cotton and wool the material was made from the large coat she wore looked a century older than the lady looked the bags under her eyes were moist and so big, it was a life of its own the wrinkles adorning her face was immense, Olay's anti-aging cream couldn't have made a significant difference her fingers as you would imagine were thin, sore and gangrenous but little baby chubby face didn't seem at all phased by t...

Its almost unimaginable that a person can love you forever and ever, flaws and all. I guess I'm just not that much of an idealist. Its one of those things that sounds almost too good to be true. The love that can never be broken. The devotion that no power, no circumstance can pull apart. The world is full of divorcing couples who vowed "for better or worse" and now, cannot stand the sight of each other. The world is full of mothers who ditch their kids and run, who sexually abuse, prostitute and even murder their children. That was the real world. The world i live in. A life full of hurt, pain, disappointment, uncertainty, hatred and angst. Isn't forever love the kind of love that exists between pets and its owners, children and their parents? Its a much more simple...almost desperate kind of love. It doesn't care so much about what i look like, what my voice sounds like, it doesn't care whether i like toasted sandwich for dinner and KFC chicken for breakfast...

Happiness to some people is scaling mountains, to others its having mountains of cash.To still others its having a big family or independence. And to yet another kind of people its being needed, being loved. Some very weird people just love the thrill and satisfaction of controlling, dominating and making other people's lives miserable. We can never understand what makes people do things or put simply what has made a person the way they are. When you meet a person there isn't a manual on how to handle them. No body has "handle with care" written on their foreheads or "dangerous substance, beware", what we do have is a modern society which has laws governing the way we treat each other, what we should say to each other, norms and etiquette's. If there is ever a breach of that policy, there are severe repercussions. If this law ever turns its back on the society even for a moment, our perfectly poised selves will turn into green eyed monsters ready to crus...

A broken heart they say heals with time, what they failed to mention was that every single occasion, misadventure or memory awakens that same fear and hurt. The death of a beloved flattens and dulls everything. Mountains and sky scrappers are brought to eye level, life looks different, unimportant. Important events lose some of its glow, and suddenly you're the ghost, you see everything and everyone and yet no one See's you, you cry your heart out in a full packed train filled with loved up couples and stoned young people and no one hears your heart beat or the sound of your heart being torn in shreds. At that moment people's opinions are dead, God is invisible and life...life is for the living...for those that do not give a rat's ass about what you feel! My cousin is dead and life...well life will go on, what if that wasn't the case? What if the world stops for a few seconds when someone dies, not for everyone of course, just for the people that cared for them-to m...

Life is a constant dose of irony You fall in love with a person, yet that person barely acknowledges you and falls head over heels in love with another. You love somebody but sometimes you feel they don't love you enough. Sometimes you're way out of your mind with loneliness and grief. Grieving over a love that is still alive, but its flames does not flicker as much. In relationships, the ones that should get married don't, the ones that shouldn't get married can't wait to run off with each other. Haven't we all heard the phrase "the good ones die young"? I've been forced to believe it myself, not only because it does seem true, but because i lost my father and his brother young. They were the most humble and respectable people I've known. They would have given up their lives for other people...they were selfless individuals. Some people will say life is a lottery. Some of us have brains, some of us don't, some draw cancer, others win car a...

Life is a constant withering of possibilities they say. Through our quick drift as mortals, certain things seem to characterize our life. They were people and thoughts. Thoughts occupy no space, people do. Some times life just places people in our paths to guide us through a difficult situation, sometimes these people are also there to strengthen and encourage us especially in very trying moments of our lives. They have a profound effect on our lives, people who leave their mark for better or worse. Most times after the storm is weathered they disappear with it, leaving you with the memories of their kindness. I'd like to think that on my death bed i will be able to recall every face that has meant a thing to me, every single act of kindness from anyone, both the ones that stayed and completed their destinies in my life to the ones that left such an indelible presence in my life. But then again why should i have to wait until my dying bed before i remember voices from the past? ...

I am fuming with rage, anger, resentment, malice...(is there any other word to describe the fire that is threatening to erupt my very being?) I had a pretty rough day today, although this is not the reason i am this provoked. Well why should i? Why would anyone be angry if their youngest brother spends $100 from their credit card despite giving them the permission to spend $23! This matter was solved of course, however, this current state of mind is directed at Australia's retail giant Big W. Technological advancement is at its peak as we all know. In fact, it has gotten so good that I'm toying with the idea of buying me a sexy robot man if ever i become available :). Since Technology has become this unstoppable force, why is it that each time you leave a store, they ask to search your bag. This is the most humiliating aspect of shopping i must confess. I have the most horrible hand bag to look in you see, however, i just love the feeling of walking straight up to security and ...

You know what i find the most amazing about life? Well the fact we don't understand the importance of the things around us. The things we are able to do we simply do not acknowledge. The fact we are able to eat and swallow, that we can laugh, cry, use the loo, sing, love and tell someone we love them is so much looked down upon and disregarded. If only we'd realize there are people out there that'll give just about anything to have the opportunity we have, then maybe...just maybe we'll count our blessings. Today's documentary on obesity had a 600 pound morbidly obese man say he would give anything just to be able to walk down the streets again. Thinking about it, i just walked in from the shops and didn't give it a second thought...why should i? It's just something i should be able to do! (note: heavy sarcasm) Haiti has lost 100,000 people and counting from the earthquake that rocked the city of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital city. Imagine that numb...

I would always says that even if you lie about your deepest and truest feelings to everybody else around and pretend you don't give a rat's ass about the things that unfold around you, the one person you can never lie to, the person it'll be a crime to lie to, the one person you should never lie to is none other than yourself. One driving force in my life has always been the desire to be famous, be a household name you know, be rich and wealthy and influential just like Oprah. A very wise man once said "there is no smoke without fire", this desire to be rich, famous, blah blah blah was unleashed by the death of my father. I thought to myself "when i die i want the whole world to mourn my death". I didn't want to die like my father who had a quiet ceremony while the rest of the world went around their business oblivious to the passing of not just my father but the passing of a great man. Being ambitious isn't bad, we always hear about stars u...

On Christmas Day Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab a 23-year-old Nigerian attempted to blow up a US passenger plane by setting off a high explosive called PETN sewn into his underwear. A few people have called and messaged me regarding what i think about this very unfortunate incidence, except for a very special someone who would rather not hear me vent my anger (i seem to have so much of that recently...thanks to you Umar), he tries to shut me up each time i bring up this topic...not cool Cooley:). I decided what better way to start 2010 than shedding some more light on this very matter. Before i start writing about this topic i have to start by saying that i am deeply ashamed of his actions. He is a disgrace to Nigeria, he is a disgrace to Africa as a whole and he is a disgrace to the human race. The only time i get to read news online is at work for some reason. When I'm home I'd rather be on Facebook than log on to any news sites. To my credit i don't miss the news on tel...

Wow...the year 2009 is over thanks to all of you that made it worth it for those that stood by me been there for me read this blog made me smile given me a reason to wake up each morning and most importantly kept me both alive and safe i say thank you the memories we have shared will be forever green in my heart 2010 is the aggressive year the year we take a bold step and claim what is ours 2009 was the end of pushovers end of loneliness and sadness end of pain and self pity In 2010 we shall find laughter In 2010 we shall find love In 2010 we shall find peace today is 2010 laughter, love and peace begins today.