Brother Heart

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Distance kept us  apart/
Put an end to almost-obsession with you
Oceans created a gap/
Time filled with treasures

I learnt to go on/
And thought, none of you

Endless nights/
Toss and turns
Wondering how mutual these feelings are

Made myself to accept/
You can't be in my life
Already belonging to another/
You are scared shitless of that fact

Your soul bared to me/
I took you as a brother
And quelled ripples in my heart
Better off I am for it/
I've gained a brother.

Shopping 4 A Dictator

                                             I want a dictator for my country

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Oh come on, dictatorship is not that bad

(if you elect the right 'dictator')

Someone who is willing to rule for one term only

(one term is all that is required)

It is guaranteed that majority will not want a second term for that person.

I want a dictator for my country

One who has integrity and is willing to let heads roll (not literally!)

When things are not done the way they should

Such a person must be surrounded by like-minded people

A dictator who can manage my people well without stretching the truth too much

(I know I am asking to be lied to but isn't lying part of the game of politics? Name one truthful politician)

Should you be willing to be elected

Know this,

I am not shopping for a saint (they are of the limited variety)

The head I am searching for must be willing to carry grey hairs,

Use an almost military style of rule,

Be willing to bear

Insults that fly from all corners,
Satire of sayings
Caricatured images

Almost-successful-assassination attempts,

Coup d'tats will be stumped

Your family will not be spared.

Nepotism will not be tolerated

One who will implement feasible ideas with the long haul in mind

One who says and no one dare counters

Cos I thought about this and came to this,

Dictatorship will be good for my country; for awhile anyway.

National service will consist of six months military training

To instill discipline in everyone.

Then six months industrial internship.

See what that will accomplish

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I know one such person who would have made a fine dictator

Alas! he is dead

Before he died he did much for my country

Yet in exile he dead.

Should you be willing to take on this role

Know that such death is what awaits you.

This is not for the faint-of-heart.

Any takers?

NB: So which one did we finally settle on, Founder's Day or Founders' Day?

Wise One

You mustn't call your leaders stupid
After all they went to all these fancy schools
Got all the attaches to their names
In order not to be stupid

What about you,
O wise one
Who has all the knowledge there is
Yet choose to butt-sit on
Furthered cushions softer than a babe's bottom
Oh, did I forget to say,
We have done all the criticizing there is
NEWSFLASH:
No one is listening
We are talking way too much

O wise one
I wish you were at the helm of affairs
I am sure our kids will have no need for school
Just like the olden times
Our life will be a forever case study for them to emulate
And since the devil finds work for the idle hands,
We will bestow hectares of land upon their wily bodies
To amass food that will feed the whole populace
Best of all we will grant free everything to all
With come-hither

When they call you stupid fool
Call me
I will hold your hand

In The Rain

Hold me in the rain/
Don't let me go/

I will, in the storm/

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Won't let you go/

Let us shiver with cold/
Enfolded in tangled limbs/
Lost in mind with thought of want, need/

The wetness/
Sense of numbness/
Encased in clinging clothes/

Winding moves, made on badger feet/
Dance with me darling, just dance

Murphy's Computer Laws

I came across  Murphy's computer laws while reading this and wanted to share. It is too long so I am just posting this. For more, visit Murphy's site.

Good news; I got the results of the certification exam I took.....hmmm I PASSED! :) I am now awaiting accreditation as a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

Murphy's computers laws
•Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

•Any given program costs more and takes longer each time it is run.

•If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.

•If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.

•Any given program will expand to fill all the available memory.

•The value of a program is inversely proportional to the weight of its output.

•Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.

•Every non trivial program has at least one bug

Corollary 1 - A sufficient condition for program triviality is that it have no bugs.

Corollary 2 - At least one bug will be observed after the author leaves the organization.

•Bugs will appear in one part of a working program when another 'unrelated' part is modified.

•The subtlest bugs cause the greatest damage and problems.

Corollary - A subtle bug will modify storage thereby masquerading as some other problem.

•Lulled into Security Law

A 'debugged' program that crashes will wipe out source files on storage devices when there is the least available backup.

•A hardware failure will cause system software to crash, and the customer engineer will blame the programmer.

•A system software crash will cause hardware to act strangely and the programmers will blame the customer engineer.

•Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.

•Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

•Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers can not write in English.

•The documented interfaces between standard software modules will have undocumented quirks.

•The probability of a hardware failure disappearing is inversely proportional to the distance between the computer and the customer engineer.

•A working program is one that has only unobserved bugs.

•No matter how many resources you have, it is never enough.

•Any cool program always requires more memory than you have.

•When you finally buy enough memory, you will not have enough disk space.

•Disks are always full. It is futile to try to get more disk space. Data expands to fill any void.

•If a program actually fits in memory and has enough disk space, it is guaranteed to crash.

•If such a program has not crashed yet, it is waiting for a critical moment before it crashes.

•No matter how good of a deal you get on computer components, the price will always drop immediately after the purchase.

•All components become obsolete.

•The speed with which components become obsolete is directly proportional to the price of the component.

•Software bugs are impossible to detect by anybody except the end user.

•The maintenance engineer will never have seen a model quite like yours before.

•It is axiomatic that any spares required will have just been discontinued and will be no longer in stock.

•Any VDU, from the cheapest to the most expensive, will protect a twenty cent fuse by blowing first.

•Any manufacturer making his warranties dependent upon the device being earthed will only supply power cabling with two wires.

•If a circuit requires n components, then there will be only n - 1 components in locally-held stocks.

•A failure in a device will never appear until it has passed final inspection.

•Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

•A program generator creates programs that are more buggy than the program generator.

Fascination

I find myself looking up

In the direction the sound came from,

The rich baritone of your voice

I am fascinated by you

Try as I can,

I just can't seem to help myself.

I steal coy glances at you

In hope that I might catch your eye.

Are you that oblivious to my glances?

Have you realised?, I can't...

Look directly in your eyes for too long.

There is a tingling in my hands whenever I think of you

I dare hope you feel it too.

Breathe

You needn't tell me
I know what breathlessness is

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Tell me it will get better
Broda, it just went worse.

Your getup is not complete today
Why did you leave your smile in a safe?

Your 'friend' came here again
Tales were told
Don't ask me what

Are you here again?
Today  no 1 cedi for you oo,
Masa, go find some job do.

So you! this 'chosh' kenkey too you won chop some?

With grumblings in my head
I walk the world with a smile on my face.

Keep to the right, keep to the right
The left people are coming by.

I know BREATHLESS
I gasp that first breath.


broda: play on the word Brother
masa: play on the word Master
Cedi: Ghanaian currency
chosh: small