I have Been Living Here The Past(8) Eight Years,Arriving Here On The 29th Day Of Oct.1999,First Was The Port City Of Karachi,Moved Around To Bolton Market And The Hotel Metropole, For Business Meetings,Found It A Little Bit Lonely,Bought Myself A Little Sony Cassette Player,To Steel My Mind,To Remain Sane,Which Was Then Beginning To Revolt,I Had Food Problems,This Was During The Month Of Ramadan,A Different World,From The Hustle And Bustle Of Lagos,Nigeria Where I Came From,After Two Weeks,I Made A Move To The Ancient City Of Lahore,In The Province Of Punjab,Here I Felt Warmer,Because I Was Able to Connect With Few Africans Then,Who Warmly Wellcome Me And Gave Me African Food ,Which Were Prepared Using Melon Seeds Which Had Been,Crushed,Turned Into Paste For Some Serious African Soup,My Experience And Interaction Were Increasing,Due To My New Found Confidence,In The Midst Of My Brothers,Was Able To Shop,Especially In The Twin City Of Rawalpindi,Adamjee Road(Sardar)One Striking Similarity With The Bazaars In India,Like The Palika Bazaar Or Connaught Place,Is That You Find A Lot Of People,Moving And Shoving,Both Sides Of The Way,You Will Have A Lot To Buy,From Traditionally Crafted Clothes,Decorative Items,Handi Crafts And Many Gift Items Crafted With The Design Of The Ancients,Here In Pakistan Punjab,You Will Find A Lot Of Food,Variables,Because This Is The Cultural Capital Of Pakistan,My Favourite Being Shashlik,Maghas,Nan,Mixed Vegetables,Biryani,And Things Are Really Opening Up,More And More,With Internation Food Chains Like Macdonald,Nando,KFC And Many More To Chose From,The Shopping And Dining Avenue Is MM Alam Road,And For The History Minded ,A Visit To Lahore Forte,Shalimar Gardens,Will Reveal To The Visitor,How The Kings That Ruled India And Pakistan,Lived,With Their Courts,Fountains,Still Being Maintained As They Were In The Days Of Their Kingdom,A Visit To Lahore Will Be A Good Experience Also,The Weather Is Good Also,Spring Is Good Here,They Have A Spring Festival Known As Basant,Its Very Hot In The Months Of June,July,August,Until Late September,By This Time,The Weather Is Beginning To Cool,As The Month Of Winter Approaches,Pakistan,And India Are Good Destinations,But You Must Have A Friend Here In Pakistan,To Be Able To Savour The Joy Of The Visit,And The Capital City,Is One Of The Fastest Developing Cities,I Have Seen,Here In Islamabad,Life Is Easier Than In Lahore,But Lahore,Has More Historical Importance!

Here you are
Here I am
Here they are
We are here

In this world
Full of sorrow
Full of war
Full of injustices
Full of half truths
Lacking reconciliations

But we have to move on
So we here
The voices of reasoning reckoning

But do we hear
As the wind full of cries pass
The cries of young children
The cries of our mothers
The cries of our neighbours
The cries of our sisters
The cries of our brothers
Oh! The list is quite long

But wait a minute
How did it all start
It is true we have to put off the fire
Then enquire
How it all started

Now the fire has stopped burning
How did it all start
Well it was some injustices
It was some lack of truth
It was the robbing of the hope
Of many young people

But does it justify
The blood bath we are seeing
The loss of property we are seeing
The loss of livelihood we are experiencing

We need to come together
To save the world
But also note that
PEACE without JUSTICE and TRUTH
Will never be sustained for long
But PEACE with JUSTICE and TRUTH
Is as long lasting as eternal life
A message of peace for the bleeding Kenya

Being a student is one of the mostwonderful and fulfiling thing in any ones stages of life depending on how best you utilize your time in school or collage. Personally, my own experience in school evolved around organizing awareness campaighns and involving fellow students on events that could change their lives in one way or another. I am now just about to graduate in November 23rd 2007 and contrary to what people used to say that my deep involvement in these activities would cost me my class work, I am happy to say that I am going to graduate with very good grades which makes me feel that you can do something as a student and still pass your exams. CHEERS to all the students!!!!!!!!

Eid Mubarak to all Muslim brothers and sisters in TIG.

As the world commemmorates the World Habitat Day, I would only like to ask ourselves, the youths, one question; are we proud of our efforts to be proactive on the issues regarding crime, violence, poverty, education etc.

Just thinking of you as one of the people living with HIV/Aids is one thing that should make you ask the following question, "How would you feel if you are shunned by friends because of your status?" It is disheartenning indead. During my encounter with some of the PLWA during the training, I came to realise that we need to come together to realy fight the stigma. May be this time it is your neighbour and the next time it is your brother or sister. We need to do a lot of work to remove the stigma and embrace these angels into our society because it is not their fault that they are HIV positive.

On 25th September will be ONE whole year on the Network. What I am trying to ask myself is this, have I made a difference to my fellow TIG community members? I would like to have a comment from people and know whether I need to do more in the next period of another one year. Thank you all for the support I have had with the TIG community.

According to the Advanced learners dictionary, second edition LOVE is defined severally as:-
*to have strong feelings of affection for another adult and be romantically and sexually attracted to them, or to feel great affection for a friend or person in your family
*to like something very much
*strong liking for
In the same dictionary, hatred ot "to hate" is also defined as:-
*to dislike someone or something very much
*an extremely strong dislike

It therefore goes without saying that these two words (Love and hate) are the two extremes of LIKENESS.
In the course of human development, man (and certainly a large variety of other animals), LOVE has been (and still is) displayed using all sorts of COLOURS. This behaviour in humans is seen for example during festive periods (Christmas, Sallah celebrations, Valentine, Easter etc) when LOVED ones buy cards, flowers and other forms of gifts adorned in different COLOURS.
Houses are painted in varieties of colors to enhance romance, show affection etc. Vehicle colors are chosen in response to romantic moods. It is now virtually impossible to name a particular human behavior that does not recognize the beauty of colors.
There are so many videos, pictures and written documentation attesting to the responses of many animals that show their courtships are made using displays of colors, one of the most popular of which is the display of colorful wings by the peacock.
However, the spectrum of color goes from one extreme of total BLACK to total WHITE, meaning that the two extremes of colors are BLACK and WHITE! One would therefore wonder why the color of the skin at the two extremes of the spectrum of colors would be anything to hate each other for.
Or is it that at one extreme of LIKENESS there is LOVE and at the other extreme, there is HATE therefore COLORS, the most utilized medium to show LOVE, at one extreme of which is bright (white), should also be used to symbolize HATE at the other extreme of which is dark (BLACK)?
Is this the main cause of RACISM....? somebody help me!!

“When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin to grow again so you can skin them again.” – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s advice to British businessmen in 1961.

“A thick skin is a gift from God.” – German statesman, Konrad Adenauer in The New York Times newspaper, December 1959.

“It ain’t enough to get the breaks. You gotta know how to use them.”-Hue P. Long, US Politician

“Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others change their principles for the sake of their party” –Winston Churchill-

“Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first” –Ronald Reagan-

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office” -Aesop-

“Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have election is to find out if the polls were right?” –Robert Orben-