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The Chair-boy

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With the advent of my new and temporary idle state, things have been a little bit different. lately, i have taken notice of the unstoppable train of thought that run endless tracks in my head for the entirety of my awake period, but on few and seldom occasions the train hits the slow pedal while i focus more on what was happening. One of these few occasions was recently when i watched the hard work of a boy. The said boy is about the age of 5 or 6. I watched as he stacked white plastic chairs with the sole purpose of sitting on them and claiming instant although temporary rulership of the world. I smiled as i watched him struggled to get to the top of the stacked chairs, i smiled as he puzzled on why the stack of chairs of different sizes and shapes was not stable enough for him to get to the top of it. After another round of tries, he goes for the solution, i was impressed when i saw him drag a single chair and used it as a step to getting to the top. Finally, he was on top of th

I hate you but...

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I hate you but i don't want to hate you. It's not me, it's absolutely and definitely you. It's not about what you did or what you did not do, it's who you are. It's your ingratitude, it's your peanut-sized brain and your further smaller size of thinking, it's your non-chalant attitude, it's your lack of foresight, it's your unreasonable ego, it's your laziness, it's your stupid stubbornness, it's your unreasonable domineering attitude. I have tried all that is within my power to stop this feeling of deep disgust and irritation i have toward you, i tried to process the jargons that you splatter from your mouth, i stopped trying when i realized that you were only dragging me down to your valley of oblivion. I tried seeing things in your point of view but then i realized that you were too blind to have a point of view. I also tried giving you some insight, i tried making you see but after many rounds raised voices and heated arguemen

Attention MDCN!!! Attention NYSC!!!

Pls pass on, my daughter was a victim of this. ATTENTION – NYSC ATTENTION MDCN ATTENTION You. Please pass this on to the aforementioned if you know them. I'm a medical doctor who just finished my internship and I am supposed to serve with the present batch of the 2015 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Before internship, we doctors are given provisional registration and are issued temporary practicing licences with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN). These expire at the end of 24 months within which we are to find internship placement and are to be exchanged for the permanent registration and permanent practicing licences upon completion of the internship program. Now the problem: for reasons best known to it, the MDCN takes forever to process these permanent registration and practicing licences (ranging from 3 months to years depending on if you have "legs" that can hasten the process for you, and trust me, "legs" cost money). Alas, fo