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Are You Laughing Yet?…Writers Quote Wednesday.
Always laugh when you can. It’s cheap medicine. George Gordon Byron
The writers quote Wednesday’s prompt for this week is laughter and I looked up that lovely quote above.
I love laughing. In my opinion, robust laughter is like a song to the ears that the soul dances to. I like being around people who have a good sense of humour and can make me laugh and who equally laugh at themselves. They don’t nitpick and take offence easily. Staying around grouches can be bone wearing and grey. At some point, we would all die, but while we are alive let’s live it with laughter on our lips.
Sometimes, especially during the weekends, I deliberately go on YouTube to look up comedians and enjoy a good half hour of silliness 🙂
When we moved here, I was initially taken aback by the number of serious, stoic faces that dotted the horizon. I even wrote a poem about it which languished in my draft. Some looked outrightly like people who had sucked on sour lemons as if it would hurt them to smile while some wore a grimace like they had a bad case of gas.
Over time, I started distinguishing them by their nationalities and realised that some of the tightness of the faces are due to upbringing and religion. Of robbing the minds of reasons to be joyful and to see a fellow human in suspicion or disdain.
Some reminded me of the staunch hard-nosed Church deaconesses whose lips are perpetually pursed in criticism. Some religious tenets sap some humans of the joy of living. Their belief that your hard faced stoic stance shows you as a serious Muslim or Christain or whatever, is so wrong. Laughter or smiling is beautiful.
No one expects anyone to go around looking like a clown, but life can be taken seriously without looking morbid about it.
Since we are all going to die anyway, I think I would look better with a smile on my face as I sign off on the last day in mirth.
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
FRAUDULENCE AND ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN BY PRETENSE!
It always makes me chortle seriously when I receive such spam mail with all sorts of enticing figures and ridiculous promises from total strangers. They’ve simply chosen the wrong customer.
It actually makes me wonder who the fools and unfortunate souls who fall for these scams are? They are GREEDY people!
Why would anyone become the beneficiary of huge sums of money out of the blues, when it’s not the open national lottery?
It’s only greed that will make a human want to harvest where they never sowed. It’s only avarice that will make a fool fall for scams that are as old as time.
People should beware of such mail. Don’t click or ever respond to it. Send it forever to the trash and don’t let the creep out.
I receive several each week and overlook them, but it dawned on me that so many poor, unassuming humans have fallen into such pit of rattlesnakes.
Below is a copy and paste of one of such mail.
Please feel free to chuckle with me or reblog if need be.
Regards,
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Hello my dear,
This is to bring to your notice the resolution of our recently
concluded Joint Committee meeting with the United Nations Secretary
General (Ban Ki-moon) and the World Bank Group President ( Jim Yong
Kim) with Agenda focused on investigating the unnecessary delay of
international withheld payments which was previously approved.
The Joint Committee discovered with great dismay that
your name with this email address is on the list of beneficiaries
whose payment has not been paid and unnecessarily delayed by corrupt
officials of the Banks in Africa.Following series of complain to the UN Secretary General (Ban Ki-moon
) over the discrepancies by Banks which has made it impossible for
people like you to claim their compensation / Inheritance funds, a
decision was reached by the Committee with the approval of the UN
Secretary General (Ban Ki-moon) under the authority of United States
to compel all Financial Institutions in Europe, Asia and Africa for urgent
release of all unpaid approved funds before the end of June 2016.The Good news is that an irrevocable payment approval has been issued
by the World Bank group to release your part – payment through MONEY
GRAM payment Scheme. The federal ministry of finance accredited payment
coordinator (Mr.Tony Jiaja ) will send your daily payment of $5,000 USD
to your name until your total payment is completed so urgently contact
Mr.Tony Jiaja at (wsucenter1@yahoo.co.jp) with Mobile (+229 653 615 95)
and reconfirm your daily payment receiver’s details below.(1) Receiver’s Name….
(2) Receiver’s Address ……..
(3) Telephone/ Cell# ……
(4) Test Question ……
(5) Test Answer ……..We will monitor and ensure that legitimate process is followed to
ensure that you receive your fund without further delay. Contact Mr.
Tony Jiaja who is currently expecting your contact, He will assist you
in transferring your funds, so make sure you give him your profound
cooperation to avoid undue delays or further hitches.Be advised you STOP all further communications with everyone regarding
this payment and keep this communication highly confidential to avoid
interception of information that might lead to double claim or loss of
any part of your approved daily payment as scheduled.Yours Faithfully,
Mrs Juliana Edgar
Featured Posts # 31…Let me share your post links.
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‘PLEASE KEEP SENDING IN THE LINKS.’
Today’s featured blogs are:
Reasons why you should save for the future simple everyday tips that can get you where you want to be financially.
Fan Mail LL Cool J’s skin glistens as Mo hopes 😉
Serene Saturday Phew! It’s hot in there. True eye candy for ladies 😉
Cruelest month a love and hate relationship going on here.
The Journey Begins A candid, refreshing view into a family’s walk with autism.
Captured Sarn get’s roughed up and beaten by an oak tree. I wonder what else will happen to the poor, bewitched boy?
Please visit their blogs and say hello. A few minutes may gain you a friendly support.
‘Do you want more eyes on your words?’
Well then, add your LINK INTO THIS LOOP.
P.S. Comments are disabled here to keep the loop tidy. Any comments or link you want to send can be added through the link in the post.
Thank you for your understanding and regards.
‘We create a cohesive community when we come together.’
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Potato spuds…Mundane Monday
Mundane Monday Challenge is created to find beauty in almost everything.
The challenge is simple : find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs.
I bought sweet potatoes for my three days menu plan, by the time I got to use it, it had started sprouting.
That gave me a little pause to dwell on the life cycle of a plant, or the potato as the case may be.
Life does not need us to happen all by itself.
The potato showed signs of not minding being replanted to yield more harvest.
Are you replanting something?
© Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
This Might Interest You…BE MY GUEST.
Are you interested?
a cooking pot and twisted tales
When I started my blog eleven months ago, I decided to take it a day at a time and see where the path is leading to.
I didn’t want to jumpstart far too many things and it would become difficult to get a grip on what exactly it is that I am doing here.
As each blogging day goes by, my vision for my blog keeps becoming crystal clear and I want to raise the bar a notch higher. It’s all part of the evolving and change. We have to keep aiming for growth.
My blog is a primarily a lifestyle blog and not just self-centric focused blog. I am a very community minded person and in as much as my blog is my voice in this space, it’s a space for all of us.
I am introducing a weekly GUEST POST (4 times a month) and Interview opportunities to…
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FEMINIST FRIDAY – Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
Have you had a chance to peek at the scoop? 😊
Please check out Bernadette’s inner look at Jacqueline.
FEMINIST FRIDAY – Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha
So here’s Bernadette’s diversity scoop about me below.
I get a warm feeling from the opportunity that she accorded me and would appreciate your time to read it a bit.
Comments are disabled here.
Please leave some comments on her blog and I am fishing for compliments 😄
My lady Bernadette, you are awesome.
CELEBRATE DIVERSITY
As a continuation of celebrating diversity in April, I would like to introduce you to my friend, Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha. One of the wonders of blogging is that it has expanded my vistas and allowed me to meet such interesting and culturally diverse people from all over the world. Jacqueline is a fellow blogger who is originally from Nigeria. Her blog is A Cooking Pot and Twisted Tales. She uses this platform to support fellow bloggers and to raise awareness of the many ongoing cultural inequalities and problems in the world. Here is Jacqueline’s story in her own words:
I like to describe myself as a Jacqueline of all trade and a mistress of nothing. Everything is work-in-progress in my life, including me. Nothing is finished for, there’s always room for more improvement.
If all is finished, then that means that I am done on this side of…
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Meet and Greet Weekend @ Dream Big: 4/8/16
Are you going to be at Danny’s ?
Spiking Blood Pressure!

I opened my overflowing mailbox and my blood pressure spikes in clicking anguish!
A mad woman in my head screams and runs off into the bushes to go and hide.
She just wants to ball herself in a fetal position and protect her head from the imagined boxes of thousands of mail being emptied on it!
Arrgh! I’ve got mail and I am swimming in it!
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