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Posted March 10, 2008 · Idiare Atimomo
The pages turn, leaf to leaf they rustle. Fine prints, small fonts, recycled paper, double space, and indented paragraphs: they constitute the citizens of a page. The parchments of old were rolled as one page while modern books are an aggregation of several pages.
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Posted August 31, 2007 · Idiare Atimomo
Air is everywhere and everywhere is air. Fire and Water consists of air. You cannot escape from air except you desire nothingness, except you desire to cease to exist. Air has several components – oxygen, carbon monoxide and other gases in the atmosphere.
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Posted August 3, 2007 · Idiare Atimomo
On the 1st of April 2004, I was awakened from sleep by my aunty who played an April fool’s day joke on me, I fell for it and we had quite a good laugh.
Later on at night, precisely 9:50 pm, I was reclining in the comfortable arms of the living room couch when I saw my aunt walk past the living room door with both her hands placed on her chest and the look on her face was like that of someone who had just seen a ghost. I paid little heed to her and turned my attention back to the telly.
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Posted June 20, 2007 · Idiare Atimomo
The horse snorted and feigned tiredness but Napoleon egged her on. The battle had been long and weary but ride they must, if they would reach the safe point before dusk then ride they must.
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Posted April 30, 2007 · Idiare Atimomo
We stepped through the trough, slowly meandering through a moon-lit patch of road between a bridge and an abandoned house. I had passed there alone on many a dark night, fearful that a mugging would occur but none of such came my way.
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Posted April 11, 2007 · Idiare Atimomo
My people (thats how the politicians greet us now!), hope alls well with you and yours?
The last write up provoked some interesting responses which led me to think of doing a follow up on it but…..some new thoughts have taken an ascendancy in my mind.
I read somewhere that we are in the Age of Talent, the next fronteir when the skills of persons and nations are the commodities of exchange. Looking at the fount from which i drink i.e. the Bible, i noticed the importance Jesus placed on the word ‘Talent’.
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Posted March 2, 2007 · Idiare Atimomo
When I was in university, my room mates always teased me about the way I wrapped my towel around my waist. It would be wrapped with a big in-folded knob on my left hip. Their interest in the way I tied my towel was just a big irritation to me (why do you bloody care?!). Unknown to me they were on to something.
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Posted February 25, 2007 · Idiare Atimomo
One of our claims to superiority over the apes is the ability to gauge and measure the most sublime differences in the phenomena that intrigues us. What a giant leap forward it was to discover the thermometer to measure temperature and the ruler to correctly gauge the length and breadth of an object universally!
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Posted December 28, 2006 · Idiare Atimomo
When strength is applied unto any given task, success is almost assured. It is therefore very important that we know exactly what it is we hope to achieve before we begin any activity.
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Posted December 1, 2006 · Idiare Atimomo
One of my earliest thoughts of childhood was a day I returned from school and made a straight beeline for the TV. My mother quickly derailed that journey and herded me to the room to change and do my homework.
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