Time

MARY IDOWU

Time; Tempus in Latin. Time isn't a strange concept to us as humans. We go through our lives based on time. We make plans and decisions based on time. But, what does time really mean, what happens when you are not on time, what happens when time gets to you?

According to Wikipedia; Time is the indefinite continued progress of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. That is to say, time spans continuously, it's the only factor that has witnessed the birth,  growth and death of events, generations, technology and so on.

Merry Christmas Zimbabwe

Previously on this column, we examined elephants, grass, nuclear warheads and two guys who are not BFFs. Read up pal! at Bend the Knee

On the 21^st of November 2017, 13:53hours, Christmas came early for Zimbabweans. Good ol’ Saint Nicholas and his 8 Reindeer and pulled sleigh transport decided to make an early stop in the landlocked Southern African nation.

How to shoot your shot (for ladies) - Part 1

I think a piece like this has been long overdue.

Let's face it. People meet each other every other day. And because a girl starts a relationship doesn't mean she's cheap or bad. However, some girls are just so bad at doing this, that it fails spectacularly. Like a bad comedy movie. The kinds that get 3% on Rotten Tomatoes.

I've had too many girls try, (if you can call them attempts) to "shoot their shot" and completely miss the mark. Conversations that seem like they may have had potential, end up falling completely flat.

I don't know if they were relying on their fine faces or robust curves to get me to fall head over heels, but I personally don't trust pictures I see on the internet. I've noticed that a majority of people look drastically different in real life than they do online. It's creepy. And frankly very disappointing. Now I have trust issues. Thank you.

Let our boys be boys, and our girls be girls

Now, I know that in the TRJ we promote originally and personal creativity more than anything, but sometimes there are some articles I see that just need to get out and be shown strongly to the rest of the world. This is one of them. Do take a soda and popcorn and enjoy this thrilling read.

British journalist and television personality, Piers Morgan has attacked the modern trend where transgenders can alter the natural order they were born with.
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I'm a man.

There, I've said it. At the risk of offending the world's increasing army of hypersensitive PC-crazed snowflakes, I am proudly and unapologetically identifying as a male.

I realise that for some people, this admission alone is currently tantamount to having me fired, arrested and possibly publicly executed.

Think I'm being ridiculous?
Think again.

Last night, popular US Teen Vogue writer Emily Lindin tweeted this to her 22,000 followers: 'Here's an unpopular opinion. I'm not actually at all concerned about innocent men losing their jobs over false sexual assault/harassment allegations.'

So yes, for some people like Ms Lindin, just being a man right now is enough to warrant a career and life being wrongly destroyed.

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DEATH!! AN ILLITERATE

He will find you

Reverend John Powell, a professor at Loyola University in Chicago, writes about a student in his Theology of Faith class named Tommy:

Some twelve years ago, I stood watching my university students file into the classroom for our first session in the Theology of Faith.

That was the day I first saw Tommy. My eyes and my mind both blinked. He was combing his long flaxen hair, which hung six inches below his shoulders. It was the first time I had ever seen a boy with hair that long.. I guess it was just coming into fashion then. I know in my mind that it isn't what's on your head but what's in it that counts; but on that day I was unprepared and my emotions flipped.  I immediately filed Tommy under "S" for strange... Very strange.

Tommy turned out to be the "atheist in residence" in my Theology of Faith course. He constantly objected to, smirked at, or whined about the possibility of an unconditionally loving Father/God. We lived with each other in relative peace for one semester, although I admit he was for me at times a serious pain in the back.

The Coming Race ( A novel by Edward Bulwer - Lytton)

Original cover of 1871 edition

               
             
About the book :

The coming race is a novel written by Sir Edward Bulwer- Lytton in 1871. It was reprinted as " vril, the power of the coming race  ". Among its readers have been some who say that the account to the  existence of a superior subterranean master race and the very powerful energy Vril, is accurate to some extent. All the same, the whole story has been accepted based on occult truth. Considering the fact that it's his very first sci-fi novel, it was taken very seriously  by the lovers of Atlantis. The plot of the book has also been recycled for various sci-fi movies and various crank theories.

The Flair

Among many wonderful grand things, I've been told by some people that I have a flair for the dramatic. The "drama king", they'd call me. The good kind of dramatic, I mean - not the overdo illogical drama screamers.

They say I walk, talk and pose dramatic.
(Do the pictures above, and below look dramatic to you? No, right? I know!! )

Bring Back The Old!!

By Mary Idowu and Jamike Ekennia


WhatsApp! One of the most popular and convenient messaging application ever designed by man. It's like God's instant messaging gift to our generation. It's easy to use, cheap, efficient - it has brought ease to our communications and has almost made text messaging obsolete. It's even cooler than text messaging! I mean; you can send pictures and videos! Cool right?! Yeah...cool, till they broke my heart!

Bad Addiction - 1

I was 16 when I first smoked marijuana in high school. Amid the highness, all my family problems, personal anxiety and insecurities disappeared. It made me feel very good and it pretty much numbed all the pain I was feeling. 

Like many teenage addicts, my road to drug dependence started with smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol socially. Until a friend convinced me to smoke weed, but I became unsatisfied with the highness, so I started drinking large doses of cough syrup. Now, I have become a dangerous addict and the once heavenly feeling has become hell to me... 

BEND THE KNEE!

Previously on this column: We talked...or well, I wrote and you probably read or stubbornly refused to open that link about Donald Trump's YOU'RE FIRED! anthem. Now open and read - or I cry. 

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“North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury, and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before” - President Donald Trump (United States)

"The Trump group's declaration of the reckless nuclear war exercises against the DPRK is a reckless behaviour, driving the situation into the uncontrollable phase of a nuclear war”- North Korean state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun

"Now that the DPRK's (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official name) capability to strike the very heart of the US at any given time has been physically proved, the US would find it more difficult to dare attack the DPRK"- the North Korean Foreign Ministry

The N Word

"My nigga!!"
"The realest nigga I know!"

Ahem* ...I'm sure you've heard "The N word" used once or twice before, if not numerous times on a daily basis.

Some people are comfortable hearing this word, while some aren't - especially from white people, because it's taken as a racial slur, due to the origin of the word, ie from the term "nigger" which is a derogatory term for africans (including African Americans etc)

Looking at the history of the word, you'd see that the word "nigga" is an attempt to rebrand the insulting term given the africans, to make it less demeaning. Like an attempt to turn chains into arm accessories. But irregardless of this, it's roots are inherently based in the enslavement of a race and an assault of the human spirit.

I personally think it doesn't matter who uses the word. It's still a slur, it doesn't matter if you change "er" to an "a".

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East of Eden (A novel by John Steinbeck)

Review:

East of Eden is a novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1952. It is a biblical recreation of Cain and Abel woven into the Salinas valley of California, which in a way depicts the garden of Eden. It tells the story of the Trasks brothers (Adam and Charles) and it is quite an east of perfection redefined.

Magic - 5

Trust me.

Everything you write is worth it. It doesn't need to have the best grammar, or be epic poetry, or the greatest story since "Half of a Yellow Sun". Write it for yourself. You will only get better with each thing you write, reread and revise. Your first may not be any kind of masterpiece, but it will be just as important as one. Open it up years later and you'll discover more about yourself, than you could ever believe.

I remember when I had a diary in secondary school. I read it up the other day, and I couldn't stop with the feels. I laughed, i felt sadness, i blushed, i felt things i thought had been hidden away.