… the doctor will see you soon
It has been a very long time since I put up any thing on this blog. I am very sorry for that and I sincerely apologize. Let’s hope that this one kind of makes up for the long hiatus. By this time four days ago, I was trying to decide on a convenient and discreet …
... Between the oyster-beach and the greens… Sea and barren coast. Between tresses of dark silver and reels of danger… lonesome bird of the wilds! I spat on the world from between my gums, Shouted at the moon from between my lungs, Hooted at the chirrupy mermaid of the dusk… clever lad of a goddam …
For the better part of the past month, I have been locked away in the Orientation Camp of the National Youth Service Corps. I’m sure more than a few people are curious as to what I have been up to all the while. Here’s some of it. When it became evident that I would …
Say hello. Hello. I am at the bus terminal. Finally, I've received my posting for NYSC- the retrogressive and utterly stupid program for the service of the fatherland. I was posted to Sokoto. Yikes. I have been running helter skelter to see what I can do to ensure that I am redeployed as soon as …
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree and grow like the cedars in Lebanon. The year was 1998. I was a little boy. I had learned to read the previous year and was consuming every written thing- scraps of newspaper, grocery lists, pamphlets, novels, Children's storybooks and doodle collections, The Bible, dictionaries even, with …
Yesterday was not what I would call a busy day. I am currently taking a break from working, to rest and prepare for the National Youth Service Corps orientation camp, coming up sometime soon. Never mind that there's no timetable out yet for the millions of us caught in Stream 2. No statement, no communicae, …
I remember asking myself this question almost a year ago, when I'd just started my rotation in internal medicine. Theoretically speaking, that was my strong suit. I had buzzed through and aced every single test in that department during my time in medical school. I had the mind for clinical reasoning, or so I thought. …
I have been missing in action. For a very long time. And I am very sorry for keeping this place dark and ghostly. My last post on this blog was over 2 months ago. I do not even know what to attribute it to. True, I have been busy,but then, I have also written when …
I am quite naive. Perhaps therein lies all my problems. Something happened this Easter. Something I'm now writing about with mixed feelings. I went to church throughout the Holy weekend- hurray! I'm still a christian- nominally at the worst. The denomination I attend hosts a program annually starting from Good Friday through Easter Sunday, some …
... or is it? Sometimes, scratch that, many times, I wish I were dumber. And I mean that literally. Many times, I feel like a higher than average intelligence is a burden too heavy to bear. You'd ask, how do you even know you're more intelligent than the average person? Well, I finished medical school …
