Just Another Day

Quote of the day:
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
-Bill Cosby

I long for that moment of joy that uplifts me beyond those grey clouds up in the skies.

I long for everything good in life beyond the everyday problems of the human race.
I reach out with my fingertips seeking, probing in the dark not sure of my steps but still proceeding forward all the same,like a baby taking it's first steps...

I am a traveler without borders.

I am not limited by orders.

I am a bird building a nest.

I am the master key out of the rest.

The only one that opens every door.

For you and I life still has much in store.


Current Listen: Brian McKnight- Not Alone




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New Week Plans

Quote of the day:

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
-W. Somerset Maugham

Hello guys. Great weekend to y'all and hope it's being spent well.

So i had a nice week..i'm sure you did as well. Second week of the month of November- and time just keeps racing away...reason why you need to make the best use of it before the year finally ends as i'm sure there are events and accomplishments that you'd like to relate with 2009.

So push yourself to the limits...you know you can do it!


Plans For The Week
1. Plan ahead.
2. Keep a notebook of ideas.
3. Be determined to succeed always.
4. Yes to my priorities. No to distractions.
5. Work on new design projects.
6. Eat healthy + workout.
7. Embrace new changes,perspectives and ideas.
8. Call a friend just to say hello.
9. Read more. Blog more.
10. Be the best i can be.


Looking forward to having an awesome week. Remember....When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Have an awesome week!!




Current Listen: Adele- Cold Shoulder



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Paintings and Artworks

Quote of the day:

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.
-Sydney Smith

Paintings & Artworks



Odds Against Tomorrow by Rom Isichie


Yes! I can see by Rom Isichie.

The Levees of my Inspiration by Nike Okundaye.
Acrylic on canvas

Meditation by Joseph Eze.
Oil on canvas

Peace in Concord by Nike Okundaye.
Acrylic on canvas

Village by Muraina Oyelami.
Oil on Board

All images via -NikeArt.com (Artist and Designer Nike Davies Okundaye)





Current Listen: Femi Kuti- Truth Don Die



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Basketful of Worries

Quote of the day:
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson

It's quiet outside.
But still i hear the unmistakable sound of a plane flying overhead....

People often say...everything will be fine-do not worry. But still i chose to worry. I have to worry. I always need to think things through you know what i mean?

If you've never gone through what i have gone through-why give me advice?

Why tell me how to do something...when you've never done it yourself. So i choose to worry,because you know why? Worrying is not all that bad. To you worrying is a complete waste of time. I'm sorry if i don't share the same sentiments as you do...

Don't worry about things you can't change they say.

But what if they had been wrong all along....?
What if worrying is all that was needed in the first place to start a change process.

Do i worry about things i can't change? Yes.
See i worry about the world...and how to make it a better place.
I know i can't change how the world is by worrying...

But i can certainly try.




Current Listen: Bob Marley- Redemption Song



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Those Eyes

Quote of the day:
He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. - Lao-tzu

Came across these close portraits...liking those eyes...
How is the week going for you guys....have a great one!

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All images-Mike Mogul Photography.



Current Listen: The Cardigans- Love Fool


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More Of Me

Quote of the day:
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The higher i go.
The smaller smaller things seem.
Irrelevant like a shadow in the sun's reflection.


The more i read.
The more my knowledge grows.
Relevant like a tree growing from a little seed.


The more i seek.
The more i can proudly say 'I am able'.
Constant like the air that i breathe.


The more i forgive.
The more i can look forward to a rebirth.
Expectant like a mother bringing life into the world.





Current Listen: Kid Cudi- Day & Night (Instrumental)



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Plans For The Month

Quote of the day:
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
-Whitney Young

So i say welcome folks to a new month, and oh what a year it's been.
It's a month of reflection. A time to go over goals not yet achieved for the year....time's fast running out-but hey it's not too late to achieve more things.

By the way how did you spend your week-mine was not that bad. Did the best i could on those plans of mine and in the end i achieved about 80%....

It's the start of a new month, and i have some plans.


Plans For The Month
1. Review my plans for the year (2 months to go)
2. Focus. Fix pending problems.
3. Goodbye 'old me'. Welcome 'new me'.
4. Work on personal projects.
5. Seek the company of wise friends.
6. Make plans for the holidays.
7. Read, blog more, and tweet.
8. Enjoy the rest of the year.
9. Give to charity.
10. Dream and dream Big.

So here's wishing y'all a very prosperous month!

Current Listen: Blackstreet- No Diggity


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Reading Weekend

Quote of the day:
When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

Spent part of the day outdoors.
Now indoors and getting some reading done...

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How are you folks doing...? Great weekend yea!

Current Listen: Linkin Park- Faint



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Fireflies

Quote of the day:
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.
-George Aiken

I would give anything.
To see you smile.

I would give anything.
For you to stay a while.

I would give anything.
For us to be together.

I would give anything.
To be friends forever.

I would give anything.
To carve these words in stone.

I would give anything.
To be with you and not be alone.




Current Listen: Owl City- Fireflies


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Week of New Plans

Quote of the day:
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Greetings folks.

Hope your weekend was well spent, yea.
Past week went along just fine...success with all that i had planned and more. I'd like to think i achieved a lot more this week-100% success!!

How about your plans -were you able to achieve all that you had planned..? Well you have done all that you could do, so focus on this new week-another chance at getting more things done.

Book read during the week:
23 minutes in Hell by 'Bill Wiese'. In this book the author shares his unforgettable experience during which God allowed him to see and feel the agony people endure in hell...for 23 minutes..
Pretty intense story about hell,check out the book if you can.

Other books lined up: Mary Mary by 'James Patterson', and Bleachers by 'John Grisham'.


Plans For The Week
1. Have more quiet times.
2. Be open to new ideas.
3. Help someone in need.
4. Network,make new friends.
5. Read,blog,tweet.
6. Work on some projects.
7. Stop worrying.
8. Do something new,different.
9. Workout/eat healthy.
10. Keep On Dreaming.


Here's wishing y'all a fantastic week ahead.
Remember...Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could!



Current Listen: James Morrison- Please Dont Stop The Rain


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Possibility In Me

Quote of the day:
We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible. -Vince Lombardi

Nothing is impossible.

Isn't that line of thought way much better than just thinking, 'this thing can't be done'...?

One empowers your thinking process, while the other just pretty much shuts down the brain. Possibilities and impossibilities.

You can't do much when your are not thinking straight. You can't make much friends when you keep alienating everyone around you. You can't achieve much when you keep seeing obstacles as impossibilities...when you don't ask questions concerning life, nature and history. Bring up a child not to ask questions, and what do you get? An adult that sees only impossibilities....

Thing is we accomplish more in life when we carry everyone along, when we tolerate others seeing past their flaws and mistakes, their failures...

It's about time we start seeing things in a different perspective.
Seeing solutions instead of problems.
Seeing opportunities instead of obstacles.
Making friends instead of enemies.
Adding value instead of making damages...
Making peace instead of war.


The possibility is in me. The possibility is in you.


Current Listen: U2- Beautiful Day



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Vagabond

Quote of the day:
What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.
-Confucius

VAGABOND.

I fear no one.
Elements drill into my cone.
I'm at the highest peak.
My voice echoes when i speak.

Veins.
It's raining blood.
Forcing these legs to run in vain.
A flood that drowns us in rain.

Fetching thoughts out of hidden places.
Fallen angel where is your grace.
I grimace out of sheer fear.
Sinking with this backstabbing spear.

The end is near.
The beginning is here.
The drums outrun my fear.
The sun dries out a tear.


I wrote this today,it's how i feel right now....



Current Listen: Lenny Kravitz- Don't Go And Put A Bullet In Your Head




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PORTRAIT

Quote of the day:
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is,
in fact, a return to the idealised past.
-Robertson Davies

PORTRAIT

A gaze far into nothingness.
your leaving has left me in loneliness.
sometimes I'm high.
memories of you bring me down.

It's hard to just live for the moment.
when thoughts of you seem so ancient.
yesterday's past drifting into the present.
a look, a smile is all on this portrait.

A tune, a sound is all in this song.
so many hours and minutes.
sometimes we stare but we see nothing.
bracing against challenges coming.

Silence makes no sound.
this portrait i have found.
I'm free to view the world.
through another's eyes.


Wrote this a while back...



Current Listen: Kings Of Leon- Closer



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Plans For The Week

Quote of the day:
There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
-Albert Guinon

Hey folks.
Great week i hope. So i made no plans,but you can guess that at least i got some things done nevertheless.
So had me a great weekend of rest, hope y'all did too...

Immersed myself in a book which i've found hard to put down. Titled: 'The Last Templar' by Raymond Khoury. So if you liked Dan Brown's 'Da Vinci Code' then you ought to check this book out. It's a fast paced read,trust me...


Plans For The Week

1. Always be on time.
2. Get enough rest and sleep.
3. Read tons of books. Err,make that one or two.
4. Eat healthy/Workout.
5. Call a friend to say hello.
6. Work less. Do more.
7. Talk less. Think more.
8. Eat out. Go out with friends.
9. Change my attitude towards life.
10. Dream like never before.


New week, new oppurtunities out there for you to be a better person.
Make the best of it. Nice week!



Current Listen: Fort Minor- Where'd You Go


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Design Friday

Quote of the day:
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Market Hall project in Rotterdam by Dutch Architects

Project includes: an open air market, 246 residences, that form an arc that covers the open market area, catering area on the ground level and first floor, a 1,800sqm supermarket and an underground car park for 1,100 cars, etc.

Project by: MVRDV


Have a great and memorable weekend folks!



Current Listen: Moby- Extreme Ways (Bourne identity Ost)




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Smile For Me

Quote of the day:
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -Benjamin Franklin

Smile
Through pain
Smile
Even when in the rain.

Smile
At your inner fear.
Smile
At everything you hold dear.

Smile
At the whispering trees.
Smile
At the waves at sea.


Smile
Never let it retreat.
Smile
To always feel complete.



Current Listen: Tupac- Smile



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Week Of No Plans

Quote of the day:
Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.
-Don Wood

Hello people.
Everything alright,yea? I'm back and hey missed some of y'all on twitter. Also, thanks for all those comments on my last post...

Previous week went alright, plans all done. Weekend was real busy all through, trying to arrange things and all.

As y'all must have noticed -I've got no plans written down for the week, so i'm just going to let things roll and at the end of the week, lets see how things work out.

We make plans, but sometimes we just gotta take a chill pill and watch things work. I shall be doing just that this week....oops that's a plan of it's own right? lol.

How are you folks out there? Guess life is treating you just fine.
Nice week!!


Current Listen: Jamiroquai- Space Cowboy


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Red Becomes Blue

Quote of the day:
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
-Dorothy Parker

I am running.
Backwards in time.

Tick tock of the clock is distant.
I am resistant to you.

Life is a twist.
A waterless pool.

I'm ashamed to ask...
But don't you feel my gravitional pull?

You sparkle like a jewel in the sun.
Fist in the air, a radical son.
Far-reaching are my ways.
I disect my way through days.

Days
Feel like minutes..we run when we can walk.
We keep silent...when we should talk.
Deny things that are true. Red becomes blue...

Pay up my one tenth.
You are 99th on my list of problems.
Maybe someday you'd be first.

Maybe when red becomes blue.


Current Listen: Three Days Grace- Lost In You


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Plans For The Week

Quote of the day:
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
-William James

Hey people how are you guys doing today, great no?
So past week was kinda busy and all for me. Had a lot of personal stuff to take care of and not to forget the plans that i had written out. I was able to accomplish 100% of that, save for blogging which i didn't get around to doing much of...

How about your own 'to do list'...hope you got things done like you set out to,eh?


Plans For The Week
1. Alter my mind positively.
2. Work on another business plan.
3. Be open to new ideas.
4. Be thankful, and worry less.
5. Never let my star lose it's shine.
6. Get some research work done.
7. Live a healthy lifestlye.
8. Workout more.
9. Make new contacts.
10. Do something fun.

So there.
That's my top 10 list, be sure to write out yours and if you need help with that i'd be glad to help out. And hey remember you can alter your life. It all starts in the mind...

Have an extraordinary week,yea!



Current Listen: David Sides-We Be Burning (Piano Cover)



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Freedom:::

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Hi folks.

Just had to put these up real quick. It's been a real busy day...

So Happy Independence to you all.
And hey one day we'll all be truly free..so never stop believing.





Some quotes
1. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

2. The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
-Aristotle

3. Only the educated are free.
-Epictetus

4. Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything.
If you're a man, you take it. -Malcolm X

5. You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has
his freedom. -Malcolm X


I still believe...Happy Independence!!



Current Listen: Lisa Gerrard - Now we are free



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