Oladipo Ademola Esq

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[Making the rounds -ed.]

CEO –Chief Embezzlement Officer CFO– Corporate Fraud Officer. BULL MARKET–A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius. BEAR MARKET–A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex. VALUE INVESTING–The art of buying low and selling lower. P/E RATIO–The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing. BROKER–What my broker has made me. STANDARD & POOR–Your life in a nutshell. STOCK ANALYST–Idiot who just downgraded your stock. STOCK SPLIT–When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves. FINANCIAL PLANNER–A guy whose phone has been disconnected. MARKET CORRECTION–The day after you buy stocks. CASH FLOW– The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet. YAHOO–What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share. WINDOWS–What you jump out of when you’re the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share. INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR–Past year investor who’s now locked up in a nuthouse. PROFIT–An archaic word, no longer used.

[Culled from http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/09/Jan/market_terms.html]

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Earlier this week, a friend e-mailed me an audio clip of a voice mail left at a bank in Lubbock, Texas, by a woman who had been notified her car was about to be repossessed. The woman, as you would imagine, was agitated. She angrily reprimanded the bank for not understanding she wasn’t rich. That is — she wasn’t rich yet. She ended the voice mail by proclaiming this year she WOULD be rich because Barack Obama was now president.

Putting aside the sad fact that it would appear a segment of society presumably voted for Obama under the belief he was going to give them the keys to Fort Knox, this woman is a prime example of the entitlement issues plaguing the world today. This is the year she finally gets to be rich.

I first became aware of this wave of entitlement when I became a teacher a few years ago. Students who did not pay attention in class, misbehaved and didn’t study felt they deserved passing grades. Their parents felt they deserved passing grades, too. More than one parent-teacher meeting was spent discussing what the teacher was going to do to help little Johnny pass instead of what Johnny needed to do. I refused to play this entitlement game, stated so, and soon retired from teaching.

These days it’s impossible to throw a rock out a window and not hit an individual who believes he’s entitled to anything and everything (including everything you own since you just “assaulted” him with a rock). A finance article, of all things, expressed my thoughts perfectly:

(The) relationship between optimism and hard work has been lost in some quarters, thanks in part to the self-esteem movement, which gave everyone a trophy regardless of his or her effort.

The recent season premiere of ‘American Idol’ provided an example. One of the men who auditioned, Randy Madden, dresses like Axl Rose but works as a salesman in a cubicle (calling himself “a rocker in a box”). When he met the judges, he admitted to having no musical training and never playing in a band, and then proceeded to butcher my favorite Guitar Hero song, Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer”. He teared up for the camera, proclaiming, “I just want someone to tell me I’m great.”

Here was a man utterly unprepared to get the thing he wanted — so he simply decided he was entitled to it, demanded it, and set himself up for a rather spectacular fall. He is not unlike those who took out mortgages they couldn’t afford, cashed out and squandered their equity, piled on credit card debt and home equity loans, then teared up, proclaiming, “I just want someone to tell me I’m rich.”

None of us are entitled to anything unless it’s specifically stated in the Bible or U.S. Constitution. And neither the Bible nor Constitution state we are entitled to be rich. Neither states we deserve a trophy just for playing the game. You want to be rich? Work for it. You want a trophy? Practice, get better and earn a trophy.

You want your car not to be repossessed by the bank? Get off your butt and stop expecting riches to fall from the sky and into your lap.

Of course, if Obama really does end up handing these people buckets of cash, boy is my face going to be red.

[Culled from http://specialkindofstupid.com/2009/01/29/entitlement-the-silent-killer/]

Just some days ago, I blogged about Eldee’s clothing line. I visited the site today, and sold out. 50 pieces does go fast. Congrats Eldee.

Oh, and I have got the album.

I dont have much words today, I just watched Estelle’s video featuring Sean Paul. Come Over or something like that. I tried and tried, but I just couldn’t see the song, Estelle’s breasts were in the way.

Same in No Substitute Love

I am daily bombarded with adverts for Daarsat HD service primarily because the only watchable station on my television is AIT. I am not bothered about other stations because I am not so much in television. I’ll rather spend my day starring at a computer monitor.

After the continuous stream of visual harassment I got from AIT, I decided to research their Daarsat service to see if it is even worth it. Approx cost of decoder is NGN40,000. Monthly subscription: NGN5,500. Number of channels: 51.

Now wait a minute, what channels are they offering. I’ll give you the list in “HD”. Their site doesn’t have much information except for the downloadable “brochure”.

I took a look at the channels listed and I just cant find enough channels to justify the investment. MBI? Gateway TV? Gamzaki?

The only stations I wouldn’t mind include Fox Entertainment, BBC World, Fox News, Africa Business Channel, CNBC Africa.

Can you imagine the “horror” of watching Primetime Africa for 24 hours non stop? Excuse me, while I go get a rag to mop up the puke from the floor.

Only a few artists in Nigeria actually use tech to their advantage. Some have websites, just because others are having websites. Dare Art Alade (or rather his management team…whatever) has gone ahead and set up his blog at his url – http://www.dareyonline.com/

I love it. I desperately love and will definitely subscribe. I only hope they will continually update it and not let it become stale like a popular website that had the same look for over 2 years.

I am looking forward to the new album. I love the “Not the Girl” track. Awesome.

I must commend http://www.g-raff.com on a lovely modification of wordpress. Big up guys.

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I was high one day and was listening to “Boyz II Men” track, “I’ll Make Love to You”. I love the chorus.

I’ll make love to you
Like you want me to
And I’ll hold you tight
Baby all through the night
I’ll make love to you
When you want me to
And I will not let go
Till you tell me to

Still high, I thought, what would it be like if Obesere remixed this song? It would probably go like this…

Emi a do e pa
Bi iwo se fe
Emi a di e mu
Baby, fun gbogbo ale
Emi a do e pa
Bi iwo se fe
Emi ko si ni fi e le
Tigba ti iwo ba so

Yoruba reading folks should understand, if you not, ask someone.

People, please, do not ask me for how to get into the Gulder Ultimate Search program. I am not their staff nor do I do any work for them. I only made a post about the poor quality of the program.

It seems like the fake Interswitch site has been taken down. The original interswitch site is http://www.interswitchng.com

And to think that Trybe records started in Nigeria. Now Eldee is a “big boy”, his trybe gear is only shipping to US destinations.