THE GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME
Tuesday, 02 March 2010 19:36
JIMMY SHILAHO
I love great books. Sometimes I surprise myself but the need to share my opinions on truly great literature overrides every other intention at times. I am an avid reader and throughout my reading I have come across books that really changed my life, my thinking, my point of view, and I do consider them the greatest books of all time. They may not be bestsellers, they may not be amazing to read to the average reader, but to me, they are the greatest books of all time. The greatest books of all, not novels, not plays, not poems.
- The Bible – Everything about the bible just smells great. The teachings, the philosophy and the style just smell of greatness. I may not follow everything that it teaches, I may not agree with everything that is contained within those pages, but I have to admit it. It is the greatest book of all time for having changed my life, and my thinking, and probably the thinking of billions the world over. If this book was to be considered a collection of books, and I was to pick on one of the 66, I would settle for the book of Revelation.
- Das Kapital – It amazes me to this moment that a single human being could come up with all that stuff. Karl Marx had many great thoughts, and he wrote very good literature, but Capital is not here for any of those reasons, its here for the shear nature of its complexity. How he managed to come up with all that information still entrances me to this very minute. It’s no wonder that it follows the Bible in sales!
Last Updated on Tuesday, 02 March 2010 19:38
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WAITING FOR DEATH
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 19:04
Shilaho Wa Muteshi
He just came, a jolly young of about twenty-two or twenty-three. He had just gone through the education system of the colonial government successfully. Now was the time to pursue higher education – A diploma in a field that would benefit his community. He settled for Animal Health.
Like most young men of his days, he was lean, of ill health, and dusty all the way to the hair and perhaps his spine was just as dusty. He had obviously fundraised for his first pair of shoes, something that the government couldn’t provide, and perhaps the new shirt, and the pair of pressed khaki shorts.
On the way to college, something snapped. Bad luck must have visited upon him as he put it for quite an unusual occurrence happened. Just near the gates of Echton College of Agriculture, a swarm of live bees greeted him in the name of the dark lord. Perhaps. It was an unusual for the only qualifier from this backward part of the country to be stung by bees on the very first day of college life.
Last Updated on Saturday, 06 February 2010 08:06
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I WANT TO SING YOU A SONG
Wednesday, 02 December 2009 12:53
Were Bumbe
I want to sing you a song my love
A special song that will dance through your ears
To your heart of hearts
A song that will sing to the praise of your beauty
A song that will touch your breasts
And tenderly caress you
A song that will kiss your beautiful
Last Updated on Saturday, 06 February 2010 07:51
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LOVE ON A WINTRY DAY
Sunday, 31 January 2010 17:18
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Make Love on a Wintry Day
Make love, not war
Save on ammunition.
Also you can save on electricity bill
As a love session on a wintry day
Lasts much longer
Than on any other day
The longer it lasts
With love and foreplay
That much warmer
Will you both stay.
Last Updated on Saturday, 06 February 2010 07:50
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JOHN TERRY: THE POWER OF THE PRESS
Tuesday, 16 February 2010 20:04
JIMMY SHILAHO
Someone said the pen is mightier than the sword. This statement has never been so well epitomized than in the current saga surrounding the John Terry, the former captain of the English National Soccer team. Here is a great footballer at the height of his career who has given his everything to the game but made some mistakes of his own. He is a proven leader both at his club, Chelsea and for his national team of England. Until recently, few doubted his ability, his integrity, and his talent. But he met an enemy in the wrong people. The press.
Whatever it is that he did, and am not supporting his love affair with Wayne Bridge’s former girlfriend, but whatever it is, the English press has blown it out of proportion, and the poor guy’s life may never be the same again. It would have been better if Terry had done something real cruel, it would have been better if he had gone all out and done something to make history. But he didn’t do much. He cheated on his wife, something 90% of all men do, and this, not with his teammate’s wife, but with a former girlfriend of his former Chelsea teammate.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 16 February 2010 20:07
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