Friday, 21 April 2017

Dirty Clothes

"Despise" is the right term. Yes, I despise washing clothes with my hands. It hurts my skin and my nails terribly. My skin is just too fragile jor. Lol!
I've tried the mildest of detergents and soap but there has always been a but and with my kind of person, I could rinse 1 cloth 4 times just because I want it sparkling clean.

I'm sure you'll say washing machines are available. Yes they are but if you decide to do your laundry and our Nigeria PHED seize power? Your guess is as good as mine.

Please join me put on your imagination cap for 20seconds. Imagine a heap of dirty clothes you've worn for a month. You used most of this clothes to cook, walk under the scorching sun and the heavy rain amongst others. Think of how untidy it will make your place look, imagine the smell or disgust feel you'll have if you had that in your room or closet. 
That's how it is when we pile up things we need to do but look for excuses not to do them.


There are some tasks we need to carry out, places we need to go to, people we need to meet with etc but for the fact we don't like the task or like the environment or like the people associated with the people we need to meet, we push it for later and this ends up turning it to piles of undone things hence drawing us backward from achieving what we are supposed to achieve.

My point is, let's try to do a little of that thing we don't like to do but we know we need to do to get to where we want to be either daily or weekly as this helps prevent heaps of dirty clothes that would stink at the end.If you can't do it all at once, do it gradually. There's nothing wrong with taking a step at a time, it's part of the process.

I rest my case.

My Thoughts.
©Ala O. Wilcox.

































Monday, 10 April 2017

On Learn Me today

stick–to–itiveness
(noun)  stick–to–it·ive·ness \stik-ˈtü-ə-tiv-nəs\

Popularity: Bottom 10% of words


Definition of stick–to–itiveness

:  dogged perseverance :  tenacity

Origin and Etymology of stick–to–itiveness

from the phrase stick to it
First Known Use: 1867

stick–to–itiveness
Synonyms
decidedness, decision, decisiveness, determinedness, firmness, granite, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, stick-to-itiveness

Antonyms
hesitation, indecision, indecisiveness, irresoluteness, irresolution, vacillation

Related Words
doggedness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, obstinateness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, stubbornness, tenaciousness, tenacity; certainty, certitude, confidence, sureness; alacrity, eagerness, gameness, readiness; backbone, fortitude, grit, iron, pluck, sand

Near Antonyms
doubt, incertitude, indetermination, uncertainty; aversion, disinclination, indisposition, reluctance, unwillingness

stick–to–itiveness
(noun)  stick–to–it·ive·ness \stik-ˈtü-ə-tiv-nəs\

Definition of stick–to–itiveness for English Language Learners

: the quality that allows someone to continue trying to do something even though it is difficult or unpleasant.


Source: www.google.com/meriamwebster

Do Your Part

"Let me go, take off this lock!" Kunle aggressively said to Kehinde. Kehinde who was expressively confused looked at him with his mouth ajar. He was more confused about the fierce look on Kunle's face as much as he was getting offended by the abuses and accusations Kunle was laying on him. Not minding him, he stepped out of the house. Few days later he came back and to his surprise Kunle repeated what he did the last time, ignoring him, he left without saying a word.
A week later, he decided to come back to see if Kunle had gotten over whatever had been eaten him up. He was wowed to see Kunle in the same position he left him the last few times but this time he had had it up to his neck. He had to speak before Kunle would start calling him names. 
Kehinde simply told Kunle to put his hands out the protector and take off the padlock holding the gate against him cause it was opened. Kunle, trying out what Kehinde said to his utmost surprise realized all this while he had been free but he caged himself without knowing. He foolishly stayed there blaming Kunle without even trying to reach out to the lock on the gate. He was ignorant of the fact that the gate was open.
Kunle feeling discomfited, apologised to Kehinde and thanked him for opening his eyes to the truth.

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The message is simple. 
Most of us are like Kunle, always putting the blame of what is not working for us on people, things, witches from our village, government, economy, the system, church, etc not knowing that we are the ones who chose to be ignorant on taking those steps to release us.
Our problem usually is us. 
Get your hands out there and unlock those fears keeping you from moving forward. When you have God, you need not fear. 
Do your part and He will do the rest.

I rest my case.

My Thoughts.
©Ala O. Wilcox

#doyourpart

Saturday, 1 April 2017

Old but new story...

Did you know that the OED is updated four times a year? Every March, June, September and December.
Yeah! Yeah! I know this is not totally new but it is for some individuals.

The material added to the dictionary includes revised versions of existing entries (which replace the older versions), and new words and senses both within the alphabetical sequence of revised entries and also across the whole A to Z range.

Published quarterly since 2000, the updates make up the Third Edition of the OED.

March 2017 update

More than 500 new words, phrases, and senses have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary this quarter, including hate-watch, pogonophobia, sticky-outy, and things aren’t what they used to be.




 hate-watch,

a 21st-century verb meaning ‘to watch (a television programme, etc.) in a spirit of mockery, as a form of entertainment’.

pogonophobia,

a jocular term for a strong dislike of beards that was coined in 1857 but may be more relevant than ever given the current proliferation of barbigerous hipsters; and heliopause, the astronomical term for the very outer edge of the solar system beyond which the solar wind is undetectable, a boundary traversed by the touch of humanity for the first time in 2012, when the Voyager 1 spacecraft crossed it to enter interstellar space.


Sticky-outy, adjective

The charmingly colloquial adjective sticky-outy means ‘that protrudes or sticks out’, elaborating upon the form of the synonymous earlier word sticky-out by adding an additional –y. The OED’s first citation comes from a letter written by the Australian composer and pianist Percy Grainger to his mother in 1921, lamenting ‘My hair has taken a wild fit, all sticky-outy in ends.’ Indeed, Grainger’s hair was notable for its sticky-outiness, as photographs of him from this period attest.


Things aren’t what they used to be,

English-speakers have been lamenting that things aren’t what they used to be, expressing the idea that circumstances or standards have deteriorated over time, since at least 1847, but the phrase enters the OED for the first time today. The entry’s quotation evidence reveals the term’s contradictory connotations. In literature, this statement of nostalgia for a better time in one’s youth is often put in the mouth of an old-timer depicted as speaking regional or colloquial varieties of English, so the quotation paragraph for OED’s entry includes nonstandard versions of the phrase, such as ‘things ain’t now as they used to was’ and ‘fings ain’t wot they used T’be,’ as well as formal versions like ‘things weren’t what they had once been’.  However it was uttered, by 1926 the wistful expression of attachment to bygone days had become such a well-established trope that it began to be used to critique nostalgia rather than express it: ‘Things aren’t what they were!.. They never were!’


That's it for now. In further posts, I'll enlist the new words added to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Happy New Month to you.

Source: www.google.com/public.oed

Did You Know?

Did you know that a 60-minute nap can improve alertness for up to 10 hours? The most widely accepted record for going without a nap—or any sleep whatsoever—is 264 hours (11 days).

Now you know😊.
Please endeavour to nap when you can inorder to stay healthy.


Source: Google

On This Day In History

1789 -First U.S. House of Representatives elects speaker.

1952 -Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow.

1970 -Nixon signs legislation banning cigarette ads on TV and radio.

1976 -Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California.


It's 41years already for Apple.
I was just wondering what it would have being like if Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak didn't take the bull by the horn and start from where they were.
Start from where you are..👍👍

Culled by Ala O. Wilcox
Source: Google.