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Saturday, February 19, 2011
How safe is your car?
I know all the troskie people are probably saying in their heads, “waa look, e get car sef wey e dey wan’t complain”. It’s true, I mean, you hardly get caught by armed robbers when you have a car, you can get to places on time, use AC (if you are lucky), its far easier to catch a woman (if you are a guy) as well as intimidate walking men (ladies). I mean, having a car is good. Unless you remember Fifi’s 30% which is causing some of us to spend over GHS 400 a month on fuel … did you know that troskie people?
Just the other day I did a great service to myself, as well as the world at large, and locked my key in my car. In fact I felt very stupid since I had done this same thing less than a month prior to this momentous event. I stood by the roadside for a few minutes looking for people with similar cars to no avail. Fortunately I know an excellent metal worker whose office was just a 10 minute walk away. So I walked.
I met my friend and we both walked back to my car holding in total 3 items, a large screwdriver, a crowbar and a long, flat, curved piece of metal. Wanna know how many minutes it took to open my car? Not a moment over 2, yes not even 2 minutes. I stood there in horrific awe of my friend’s skills and vowed never to leave anything in my car again. EVER. At least not in a public place.
Now my car is not the newest of cars, nor does it have central locking, or an alarm system but people with cars that fit the “el-cheapo” segment are not the only ones in danger. If you have a “fresh” car, you may notice that the door automatically unlock when opened from the inside. Well tough luck, your screwed too. “But my alarm system works!” well I hear there are parts under the car that you can cut to disconnect the battery, no battery, no alarm, go fish.
So what do you do now? Is nothing secure enough? Well for all intents and purposes a cars security measures are designed to slow the thief down as much as possible but they are not fool proof. So we the human beings who own the cars have to wise up, and here are a few tricks.
The first one is not a trick. If you dont want someone to steal something from your car, don't leave it there. PERIOD.
1) Make sure nothing is visible in the car: Don’t allow a thief to use your car for window shopping. If you have a boot use it, if there is a package then put it under your seat. One of the first things that attract thieves to a car is seeing an object in plain sight. So don’t forget to remove the face-plate from your stereo. Oh and please hide the things BEFORE stopping, if all the thieves are watching you stuff a million cedi’s into your boot when you park there’s not much use in that.
2) Carefully choose where to park your car, for example if you are parking at the mall, go the extra distance and trouble and park in front of the banks, there are always a security guard there.
3) Inscribe your VIN/chassis number everywhere on your car. You can use the VIN number to track down a car, it’s difficult in Ghana, but often times if you have hidden an inscription of your VIN number somewhere people don’t check (like the interior of the wheel arch) you might just be lucky and find your car (if the whole things was stolen and repainted)
4) Make your car look secure, even if you don’t have an alarm, feel free to put a sticker in the window saying that it does, chale everything counts. Getting a steering lock is good. It makes your car virtually un-drivable without a heavy duty metal cutter, which most average Ghanaian thieves don’t have.
These are just a few things I was thinking about when I had to break into my own car. Let’s keep our pride and joy safe!
Monday, February 14, 2011
,The great debate: to VAL’S or not to VAL’S that is the question.
Good day readers, today we bring you a massively interesting debate on whether or not to celebrate Valentine’s Day. I know that many of you are reading on to justify receiving gifts (women) or to get out of buying them (men)! Other may stay tuned for a myriad of reasons but whatever the reason may be, you might just learn some interesting things.
We have three speakers on each side and will be starting with those “For” the motion! Just as a reminder this is Ghana and as such homosexual activities are prohibited by law and as such are BANNED from discussion in this debate. Also the Bible clearly informs us that homosexuality is unnatural and sinful, Romans 1:26-27, Leviticus 20:13, Leviticus 18:22, 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, I’m sure there are more but that is a talk for another day...
For speaker 1
Good day judges, ladies and gentlemen, I am here representing those who are for the motion that Ghanaians should celebrate Valentine’s Day. I honestly believe that we are the majority, and will now explain why.
One may ask, what is Valentine’s Day? Let me enlighten you. Valentine’s Day falls on the 14th of February and is a celebration of love and affection between couples. It was named after one or more Christian martyrs by the name of Valentine or Valentinus. The most interesting of which was a priest who ignored a marriage ban and wedded young couples, he was caught and executed and the couples he had wedded wrote him letters about their love and how it was better than war (which was going on at the time). Thus the celebration and the giving of cards started!
It has so many benefits, including, strengthening relationships between couples and acting as an avenue for expressing ones feelings. But one important thing is that Valentine’s Day allows people who are busy all the year through to set some time aside and spend it with the person they ‘love’.
The celebration of Valentine’s Day is a good thing and should be promoted.
Against speaker 1
My good friends and moderators, greetings. I am here to represent the majority of people who find that Valentine’s Day is just not necessary, even troublesome perhaps.
Just in case you do not know the first celebrations that take place on February the 14th were pagan in origin. There was the Roman pagan festival of Lupercalia which was associated with purification and fertility rituals. There was also another pagan festival of the Greeks, celebrating the marriage of Zeus and Hera. Yet another was based on the worship of the roman queen god Juno. Even Val’s days favorite mascot, Cupid, is a Greco-Roman god who also goes by the name “EROS” (sound familiar?). If you read Deuteronomy 12:29-31 you may find something very interesting about adopting or “overtaking” customs other people use to worship their foreign gods and not the true God of Heaven (whose kid is Jesus Christ).
Even from the so-called Christian background, a renegade priest marrying couples against the law? Was he the inspiration for Las Vegas? The Church does not even recognize Valentine's Day as a Church holiday anymore.
Let’s move from its origin to its practice. Valentine’s Day is miserable for single people. If you are not involved in a romantic relationship during that season, contemporary Ghanaian society makes you feel ‘unlucky’. Even the term ‘gnashing’ when one does not receive a gift on Val’s Day is derogatory. What good is a public celebration if it causes others to feel left out?
It is a hard day for poor Ghanaian men who are pressured to perform, and/or to give gifts. Already Atta’s 30% is still hurting us, and now we must buy girls gifts? Chale!
Also for those in “complex” relationships (i.e. more than one), Val’s day can be the day that finished them off completely. How can one man juggle 3-12 girls if they all want attention on the same day? It is virtually impossible and only the best of “bad” men will escape with their lives. We should consider them small. They are human too.
Then there is the generation of massive post-valentine’s day waste. The day itself is wasteful enough, all the diabetes-inducing chocolates, drinks, paper greeting cards, most of which are discarded within the week. Hmmm.
For Speaker 2: Rebuttals
Judges, audience; I think the “against” speaker is vehement because he does not want to spend his meager salary on women. Please my friend; let us not be so cheap!
First of all the day of February 14th was chosen to overcome those so called pagan rituals and not because that was its origin. The early Christians made it a celebration of romantic love instead of eroticism and sexuality. So your argument holds no water, or chocolate for the matter... In fact it is so porous one might think that it was a sieve.
Valentine’s Day’s love is not limited to romantic love, it is about the expression of true love, which the bible graciously defines for us in 1 Corinthians 4-8a. Who would not want to celebrate such a wonderful thing?
Now, no one forces men to do anything. Is anyone holding a gun to a man’s head, making him buy jewelry, candies, clothes, cars… ahem, or anything else for the lady he likes? The answer is NO! Valentine ’s Day is a day for expressing feelings, if you have none, then no need for expression! After all is the ONLY way to express ones feelings through gifts and money spending? Of course not, our venerable Ghanaian ladies are more caring and considerate than that!
People who are in "complex" relationships are not in the right so any exposure would be good. In fact if that was the only factor in this celebration it should be celebrated 12 times a year!
Just because other holidays are wasteful does not mean that the fact that Valentine ’s Day MIGHT be wasteful is not an argument worth considering, the same level of “commercialization” is done during Christmas, so please, some things are from the exuberance of business men and cannot be avoided.
Against Speaker 2: Rebuttals
Greetings Judges, fellow contestants and the general public; my opponents saying that Valentine’s Day is about true love might be true but the only publicized part of Valentine’s Day is for romantic relationships between men and women. That is the case. Need I continue?
And on behalf of men, there is MASSIVE emotional pressure by women to receive something on Valentine’s Day. In fact, even if they do not say a word, they may be intimidated by all their friends who have received “showers of blessings” and then look at their “chisel” man in a new light.
Val’s day is one sided. In many cases it is just about men doing something for women and hardly ever vice-versa, at least the women should participate small.
For Speaker 3: Closing Remarks
My good friends, let us do what is right and pure and consider Valentine’s Day for what it is, a day from expressing true and unfiltered “authentic” love to all. May you have a wonderful Valentine’s Day and may love be with you.
Do not be poisoned by those who are against Val’s, they are boring and dry and broke to boot!
My love goes out to all of you. Thank you
Against Speaker 3: Closing Remarks
I feel that the “for” speakers closing remarks are very insulting. The only reason why he is talking like that is because he is too black to have a girl and as such is free to do what he pleases today!
Let us consider the dubious roots of Valentine’s Day and how it has been reduced to a glorified erotic holiday. Let us boycott the celebration of this unnecessary time and money waster and focus on more important things. Like world peace. Thank you.
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Anyhow, this is just a small debate to get people’s minds working. As for me “NO COMMENT”.
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