ROOTS: KING ARCHIBONG DUKE III OF OLD CALABAR

Gosh! his face though! Lol! Both my body and my mind will agree not to come near this dude...

Anyways, this is King Archibong Duke III of Old Calabar. He is the first king to be crowned with a regalia sent from the Queen of England!. cool eh? imagine how he he woulda felt then...super fly!

Now look closely at the picture...Okay... quit looking at his face.. we all know its not friendly... look at his head and you will notice that there are two crowns on there. I didnt notice this until my cousin pointed it out to me. But Seriously! Why would a king decide to wear TWO crowns?!!! one ontop of the other... hahahaha!!! you blacks are just too funny :| *insert straight face here*

The next picture i'm going to post is going to give you a hint. And you will be amazed at what rumours i've heard concerning this.

Okay..Here it goes.

When i saw this picture, i felt really sorry for the girl standing at his right (no your other right :p) she looks.... sad, tired, miserable.... imagine what she must have been going through as a woman in those days.

okay okay okay, back to the crown.

But seriously! this guy is FIERCE!!!

Lol! the gist i heard was that the queen sent him two crowns yeah?, The other crown was supposed to be for his wife! but nooooooo!! as a proper african man that he is, he decided to where both crowns on his head. and his poor wife (assumed to be the lady standing) *sigh* you know the rest.
I laughed hard when i heard this one!..lol! it still has me laughing!. This is COMPLETELY REDUNCULOUS!!!!

The second gist i heard was errrr...not so funny tho... but it was that the people of Duke Town in Calabar Crowned him first then the Queen of England crowned him a second time. And so, our wonderful king decided to wear both crowns for this picture..


Please if you have any useful information concerning this lemmie know ;)

Who Am I?

Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 10:06pm


I've been thinking of this for as long as i can remember

And right now,right now at this very moment,...it's raining..lol...not exactly relevant yeah?

But right now, i wonder if every 'thing' on this planet know what they are

Does the rain know that it is "rain"?

or does it just pour ignorantly just cos it cannot control itself

Does the rain know how it came into existence? from evapouration to condensation and all that crap they taught me in secondary school.

I guess what i shud really ask is - does it even know that it exists?

What if it does?

Do the plants know that they cannot move?

That they are meant to stick to one spot for their entire lives?

Imagine yourself in that situation...what wud u do?

The thing is that, you wud accept it .... just lyk the plant did

It has no choice,no control over its own life...just like the rain

...Who doesnt decide where or on who or when to fall..

It just simply falls!

Now, imagine if the things of the world were really aware of their existence

All the natural things we call "things"..

What if they knew what they were and what they were capable of doing?

But just decided to remain 'humble' because they know their respective purposes for existence

Wouldn't you rather say that these things of the world are humble?

I mean, all that power and abilities... they are humble enough for us to take advantage of them

For us to use them for our own benefits, just cos they do not complain.

Life's Short

The time distance between life and death is immeasurable

Yes, a doctor can say that it will take two years for a cancer patient to live

How many days, hours, or minutes more does the person have to live?

I think technology has made it possible to predict some of these variables.

How many seconds will it yet take a person to live before he finally dies

How many heartbeats do YOU have until that final beat?

There is no measurement for that split second between being alive and being dead

That awfully short distance between life and death chills me to my bones

It only means that anyone can die at any time

You could see a man crossing a road one moment

And at the blink your eye, he could be laying lifeless by that same road, having been run over by a moving vehicle

To you, the time it took for you to blink was the difference between life and death

To the dead man, the time difference is too short to be measured

Just like snapping a pencil in two

What's the time difference between a pencil in its whole state and that same pencil in its snapped state?

 I guess we can liken this to the essence of our much-valued lives

After all, we are nothing but pencils in the hand of our creator.

And what is the moral of the story?

Appreciate life

Make the best use of it

Your life is a gift from God

The only way u know u are treat a gift right

Is when you know that the giver is pleased with the way you treat it

If I wrote every thing that encompasses the extent of our underutilization of this gift of life,

It wouldn't be satiated by all the paper and ink in the world

Again, life is too short to waste it on minute arguments

Life is too short to lose certain things you would have gained from that person

at that moment you chose not to talk to him or her

Sometimes I wonder to myself

"imagine what you would have gained from each other if u weren't keeping malice"

Yeah, Call me an opportunist

But I know you know its just plain fact.

Another question that comes to my mind as I write this is "Does life become death?". Is death simply the absence of life…just as darkness substantiates the absence of light?

I held up two of my fingers one from each hand. I labeled one finger "life"  and the other "death". I held them apart,  assuming that the gap I created between them was the initial distance between being born and dying. Life and death. As we live our lives, we move closer to death. Death does not come close to us! We actually do move closer to death! Little wonder that they say "we 'live' our lives"… and people 'meet their deaths'. Okay, :) … that was some sort of digression… back to the main story; So I slowly brought my two fingers to meet each other. And then I wondered if it was possible that life actually went into death and then death, into life such that life became death and life never went away. It really is just some random thought.