In the run up to the governorship election, it dawned on me that all the candidates were saying the same thing: top of the agenda is 'constant electiricity supply'. For a country with our resources and skills, it still bends my mind why electricity should be a promise carrot dangled in front of our faces in exchange for votes.
I've heard many arguments, but no matter the justification, the fact still remains that we are losing masses of productivity hours just because of this one thing. Not to mention the oppressive heat in the office because we can't have any air conditioning. I have taken to walking up the 14 flights of stairs to my office because i am petrified of getting stuck in the lift (elevator)!
It's been so bad that i have taken to working at night, when the generator in my housing estate is switched on, and sleeping late in the morning. Well, at least till 5:30 am because i have to be out of the house by 6 if i dont want to spend the whole morning sitting in traffic.
It's past midnight as i write this, and i'm glad today is saturday. Election Day. Maybe i'll get some sleep...
Saturday, 14 April 2007
Sunday, 1 April 2007
Ideas
I get a lot of ideas. I like to think they are good ideas. If i had a Naira for every 'good' idea that i've ever had, i'd be a very rich woman today. I had a very good one today.
Yet, no matter how special and unique i think my idea is, someone else seems to have the same idea. I know because they do something about it before i do and i HATE that.
Once i had a brilliant idea and spent a couple of months putting together a business plan. The day the plan was ready, i read a full page article of a man who had implemented my idea to the letter. So spooky...like someone gave him all my material!
I was stunned and hurt, but i sent him an email to say congratulations anyway. At least this time, i had not spent too much money before finding out someone else got there before me...like the last time.
I tried to stop thinking once...but that only lasted a couple of hours. I found i was thinking about how people who had too many ideas could take a vacation from their toughts :)
Yet, no matter how special and unique i think my idea is, someone else seems to have the same idea. I know because they do something about it before i do and i HATE that.
Once i had a brilliant idea and spent a couple of months putting together a business plan. The day the plan was ready, i read a full page article of a man who had implemented my idea to the letter. So spooky...like someone gave him all my material!
I was stunned and hurt, but i sent him an email to say congratulations anyway. At least this time, i had not spent too much money before finding out someone else got there before me...like the last time.
I tried to stop thinking once...but that only lasted a couple of hours. I found i was thinking about how people who had too many ideas could take a vacation from their toughts :)
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