Moving On...

Today I made some major acknowledgments about myself. Based on this, Ballad of a persistent soldier will be migrated to ...In the pursuit of Happiness & Fulfillment. You can get it on www.chikenwogu.blogspot.com.

Welcome On Board!

It's a New Day so today I start

I just read an old friend's blog...There was no special stories and stuff but no blog had moved me this much ever before, he never wrote more than 10 lines but always had lots of pictures. He has been to so many countries, he loves travelling, I think the thing that moved me more was that he was living a type of life I always wanted to live...

I'd stopped trying, now I will continue...I know I will make it! When you look back you could see every stage of his life clearly by just flipping through the blog. 

I want to have just that, so today I start blogging again.I will buy a camera during my UK trip so be sure to see many pictures.To my esteemed Friends and well wishers(readers) stay tuned!

Long Time No See!!!!!!!

It's Been A LLLOOONNNGGG Time since I was here! But not to worry, I'm finally putting some order in my life so despite my busy and eratic schedule, you'll be seeing a lot of me around here these days.Don't touch that Dial!! PLease Stay Tuned :)

How Does It Work for Ya?

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
Abraham Lincoln

I read this today about Abraham Lincoln, some time in the past I also read about his popular letter to his son where he advised him not to give up until he made he last effort and not to make his last effort until he was sure it would yield the wanted result. I’m a strong believer of this principle, I’ve lived it several times in my life, and however the trend of things in the last six months leaves me with no further saying to consider but the one right below.
Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.
Anthony J. D'Angelo,
I‘ll spare you the details of it. But it all brings to mind the controversies about Destiny and ability of prayers to change the course of things. Do these things really work???? I’ve never been a spiritual type, and I have all intentions to stay so. This leaves me with just some wise words from a guy I did not really admire his personality but always adored his words. I am talking about a one time Governor of one of the Northern states in Nigeria who once said the “Downfall of a man is not the end of his life” Ironically this man’s downfall which came a week after passing this comment turned out to be the end of his life. He fell from a Horse back and broke his spine. If the power of words is anything to go by, I’ll definitely wish for some thing different. I at least have this very fundamental understanding of life. I see it as a continuous struggle, the day you stop struggling...you’ll stop being. Seen from a different perspective, it’s all about falling and rising again. It takes a fall to appreciate a rise and that’s the most interesting thing about it all, uncertainty about which comes next, a rise or a fall, I guess life would have been miserably boring if there was absolute certainty about when we’ll rise/Fall, it’s like knowing the score of the world cup finals even before the qualifies kick off. I’ll let you to scale up/down the effect of being in perfect control of our destiny through prayers etc. It’s all up to your imaginations.
I see life as not just about the number of times you fall but the number of times you rise after falling…I can at least make out a fulcrum between Abraham Lincoln and Anthony J. D’Angelo’s Views…But I’m surprisingly not able to offere a good explanation about the destiny part of it and the control we have over it (be it through prayers or other wise) What do you think about this or rather how do you see it ????

Home Sweet Home! There’s No Place Like Home!

Today is exactly a week and half since I got back home. It’s been really intense meeting up with old relatives and friends that I saw last about a year and half ago. Things did not change as much as I expected, things looked very much like I was never away for 14 months. In Lagos the prize of every thing almost doubled, it was really shocking for me, besides Lagos things looked very much the same in Owerri and Nsukka, I guess it’s been the same in Abuja, I’ll be heading to Abuja over the weekend. I feel very much like I have been home, surprisingly no Italian feeling J

It feels really nice with everybody coming around to see me; there is this feeling of importance that comes with it. In my University, it was overwhelming. Like I expected, I kept on buying drinks for old friends, I expected it so I was prepared. Actually this era was extremely short-lived because just after my arrival, most final years finished their final exams so the reason for asking for drink now changed from ‘’Chike you came back from International MC in Italy’’ to ‘’You Just graduated’’ you are now a super lion (as people who graduated from my University are addressed) you have a B.Sc Nig or B.Eng Nig (a title no other University in Nigeria can offer… really prestigious), so I turned from the person offering the drinks to the person accepting the drinks, that’s one good thing about Nigeria, the drinks will always come around, even if you do not have the money, the people seem to have a perfect understanding of this.

This evening it felt really good sitting around and having beer with so many University friends. It brought so many University memories back. There were fresh graduates, people who just finished the compulsory Youth service corps, and others who just came out from an extremely stressful exam period.

It appeared that AIESEC in Nsukka (my LC which is the newest LC (came up from the splitting of Old AIESEC Enugu LC) has been recruiting both goats, chickens and human beings, every guy or girl that came around was introduced to me as an AIESECer with the usual funny name like AIESECer Fungus or Bat or Aziza (Broom Stick) it also reminded me of the old tradition in my LC of giving funny names to individuals as their AIESEC names, anyway these names always depicted something about the individual in question. For instance I am AIESECer Bomboy (which is something like baby boy) you can figure out why I have this name yourself. They were always introduced to me, as ‘this is 5 Star General Bomchiano!’ From the look on their faces, I bet they’ve heard a lot about me, it appears that I have become an important element for AIESEC Positioning in my LC. That feels really good J

Th eEpilogue...

Willkommen Malpensa zum internationalen Flughafen... I kinda heard this announcement by the croaky voiced Pilot despite being asleep, after 2 visits to Germany I can now understand this one German sentence, It actually brought a lot of memories pouring out. I immediately remembered the day I arrived Italy. I also thought that in less than 24hours I will hear a similar announcement but this time not 'Malpensa International Airport' but 'Murtala Mohammed International airport'!

Yes! I never felt so happy about this before, but I am extremely joyed by the fact that I'll be heading home after my 13 month sojourn in Italy.
In as much as I am happy, I am equally sad, I am about to conclude the most remarkable Chapter(so far) of my Life! This reminded me of the 5 exceptional individuals who were with me althrough these 13 months or maybe 12.This is an Adieu going out to you all, you now have an indelible part in my heart. I remember each of you for a particular thing about you!

OGA
Nice guy, really intelligent and extremely Generous, you were like a brother man!You always watched out for me.




Onye Mmuta
I guess I've told you this before, but I really admire your absolute Openness/bluntness in communication and importantly your Charisma, I guess AIESEC Italia made one of the best decisions when they chose you to lead them.


Kirigbo
You remind me so much of my Eldest Brother, I still clearly remember the day we got stuck in the elevator, the other guys panicked, you did not, I did not too,I knew that you will always find a way out. You know some people watch things happen while some others make things happen, you make things happen Man!

Agu!
You were like a Sister, my troubles were yours, you were always there to give some emotional support! It's Kinda strange because I had a hard time with you in the begining,It kinda agrees with the saying that 'Good soups cost a lot' I appreciate every bit of it, I really hope that we can stay close to each other.

Ego Adiro
It's Kinda funny, your level of english is the lowest in the Team, but I learnt Italian most from you. I still have the Post It of your Telephone Lesson.I'm really happy that we were finally able to connect despite the Language barrier



Like the Spanishs say, 'Mi Casa E Su Casa',I'll be more than Glad to have any of you in Nigeria or any part of the world where you can catch me!


I do not even remember exactly what home will look like, anyway,I'll find that out in some hours time! And about the Next Chapter....Please Stay Tuned!

...A Nigerian National...Citizen of The World...

Yes! I can finally pride myself of being a Citizen of the world, if you think it's easy, try living in 3 different continents out of the 7 that exist. Yes! I'll be heading to the Ice Hockey Country real soon!
each time I think of It, I have goose pimples all over me, come to think of it, the temperature goes as low as -30(I'm not really scared of Low temperature but not as low as -30, I can't even imagine what it's like), I'll be about $3500 away from Home(round trip Nigeria - Canada) about 1000Euros away from Italy where I now have a lot of friends.
I'm going to a country the only thing I know about is that it is extremely diverse, so diverse that you can not even tell who's Canadian and who's not by the physical features! Anyway, like the saying in Igbo(my mother tongue) goes, ''it's the supreme being that scares the flies away from a cattle without a Tail'' All these have increased my level of suspence. That feels interesting!
I putting on my seat belt, the ride will start any moment from Now!!!!