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I miss the Kids!

I had an awesome day (21/09/2013). Griiinnnnggg! my phone rang. Mum was calling. At the end of the call, I realised I had not made any concrete plans for the weekend. Mum had asked what my Saturday was going to be like and i replied saying I needed to get my clothes from Azubuike's place. She needed someone to drop off her kids at the Foursquare Gospel church at Yaba, the headquarters' of the organization. 'Let's talk about it together at home' came my reply. The only reason I'm writing this here is that I had this feeling of something gone as I sit at the car park of our church at Igbosere. Some one hour ago, i prayed with the kids and told them to go home. It's a feeling of emptiness. Not that I feel bored. It just that they bugged me all the way, disturbed me like I've never been disturbed. Was it the time when I wanted to share the Beloxxi biscuits and the la' Casera drink? They would say give me now, No later, over and over again. Was it...

one more week to go

NAPTIN ends...Transmission sector offers the jobs to other Electrical Engineers. Phew! I almost said. Why did I want the job anyway? why did I feel left out? Not like I loved the transmission way past the other sector. To be true, the transmission has been the most boring of all. Wheeling out power form the generation plants to the distribution companies without some form of automation involved has been 'dry'. I wasn't enthusiastic about the whole parade when I had a stint there for two weeks. Then my question again. why did I feel left out that I wasn't taken? Could it be that I felt if anyone was to be taken in Kogi state, that I had to be the one? Was I better than the others? Did I know what they had gone through, their experiences and education? What was special about me?    Did I feel my life so far in the Electrical sector was going to suffice the requirements for working there? The question I answered and couldn't answer as I discovered that tex...