I think resolutions, you know the self-pledges millions of us TRY to keep every year, are bull-shit!
Each years beginning, we pledge: ‘This year I will try to lose weight, start exercising, go back to school, pay down a debt, move to New York and become a model.‘ Then we also remember the resolutions of the past year: Try lose weight, start exercising, go back to school, pay down a debt, move to New York and become a model.
Like clock work, we begin the cycle & set ourselves for yet another chance at failure and we, inexplicably, postpone the latest version of our resolution until the actual New Year – per the “rules” I guess. Whatever it is you’re trying to accomplish, can’t be done the rest of the 364 days, so you try to wait till midnight of the 365th. Then you start, and go do it for a week, or a month or even a few months and eventually stop.
Try again next year, sucker!”
Don’t you realize this is just an exercise in futility? As the saying goes, don’t do the same things & expect different results. So why do we persist? Continue reading ‘to resolve or NOT’
Published by Nolawi September 14th, 2007 in Advice and Noteworthy.
After the much awaited Millennium chefera in Ethiopia, the next deges has to be in South Africa.
On May 15, 2004, history was made as it was announced that South Africa will host the 2010 Fifa Football World Cup. History was also made as I started a savings account.
Thanks to a new policy to rotate the event between football confederations, the world’s premier sporting event will be held on African soil for the first time in the history of the great game. South Africa, the home of Nelson Mandela, out voted Egypt, Libya, Morroco and Tunisia to win the great honor.
Besides the inevitable dent in my bank account, sold car and arrata beder, I can only thing of the positive effects of this momentous occasion. The world cup is only the most watched event in the world ( yemen olympics?) not to mention the incredible socio-economic benefit. For a change, the world cup will put Africa on the map for something positive! Continue reading ‘Kuas Enechawet’
Published by Meron September 11th, 2007 in Current Issues.
I remember after the cruel never ending month after month of cold winter and short hours of sunlight, I like the rest of the Swedish population used to be determined to experience every minute of the warm weather. As you may not know the sun hardly sets during the summers in Sweden and it is one of the best and wicked experience especially when leaving the club 3 in the morning and see the crystal blue sunny sky. You almost get this guilty feeling for going to sleep when it’s that sunny outside.
But my much loved times growing up in Sweden and still is involves around “Fika“, it is a word used to describe having coffee. The coffee shops are one of the best known symbols of Swedish lifestyle. It is more than a place to drink; it is a meeting place with friends, acquaintances that maybe one day will become friend.
The casual “lĂĄt oss Fika” is a very Swedish tradition, it is an entire cultural institution and like everybody I am happy to have my “fika” at any given time of the day. Did I mention that Sweden is considered one of the top coffee consumers in the world per capita and it’s so popular that many workplaces actually have institutionalized these Fika breaks, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Even McDonalds has “Mc CafĂ©” Continue reading ‘Fika Rast’
Published by DawitK September 7th, 2007 in Personal and Social.
1958 was the year Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah first visit the the united states. He wore Kente Cloth, which I happen to have seen at a recent wedding I happened to be present at.
Kente also known as nwentoma, is the traditional and ceremonial clothing of the Ashanti tribe of central Ghana.
Kente is one of the world’s best-known and most widely revered textiles. It is produced in greater quantity, exported to more places and incorporated into a greater variety of forms than any other African fabric. Kente is a hand-woven, narrow strip cloth — often in bright, primary colors with richly patterned motifs at regular intervals. Long strips are pieced together to create the large toga-sized textile that has long been a part of traditional Ghanaian society and ritual culture.”
I was familiar with the colors, the colors combinations which I had always associated to be part of all of Sub-Saharan West Africa, is actually not West African rather Ghanaian, and it grew in popularity post colonialism.
Few years back I went to an African American Baptism church ceremony on a Sunday morning and the Paster, who is African American, was wearing.
I never thought about it then but I now assume it was a symbol for him, a symbol of history pre move to the new world. I assume! Continue reading ‘Kente’
Published by Nolawi September 3rd, 2007 in Design and History.
I love dabo very much, that is why I prefer to get a sandwich to a plated meal.
I eat a sandwich at least five a week I think, whether it’s a philly cheese steak, to a chicken pesto with roasted red pepper in olive bread panini. They have one called the Manhattan in Georgetown; I used to eat daily when I had worked nearby.
Grilled roast beef, fresh spinach, bacon and cheddar cheese on a French baguette with a touch of house dressing”
The dressing comes on the side, and you pour it on, before you eat, spinach with hot cheddar who would have thought. But it’s actually the baguette that I love, soaking it hot cheddar cheese and spinach and dressing, it’s actually my sister who got one for me some 13 years ago.
The whole family loves food, and they fight to say who found what. Anyone can find a fancy restaurant, but can you find a 5 dollar sandwich you don’t mind eating everyday?
In college, I used to get ambasha and eat it for two days. All I have to do is boil water in the microwave put the earl grey tea bag and I had lunch and dinner. Continue reading ‘Dabo’
Published by Nolawi August 30th, 2007 in Childhood, Personal and Social.
