poetry
August 27, 2019
Ode as dirge
In the memory of innocent meats
Trees and grasses that died from roots
During the fire razing Amazon
I write on to continue to live on.
Writ on the beauty of African women
© Jodekss Gloatkenf
Showing posts with label higher institution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label higher institution. Show all posts
Friday, June 21, 2019
higher institution
June 21, 2019
Another Truth about Professional Courses [NYSC as inference]
I would want to believe, I am here, more interested in particular about the experience I am undergoing at the moment. I mean, I am a NYSC (National Youth Service Corps) member serving currently in the far East. I have so far so good seen nothing too wrong, today, about the initiative from the then Head of State, Yakubu Gowon. He introduced the programme in the late 1960s in order to bring about unity in the country due to its pluri-lingual nature and the bloody Civil War as a prequel which ushered in distrust among Nigerians. Ever since, the programme lasts 12 months by default with the finale being issuing of its certificate of service.
However, beginning from the 21 days orientation programme in the camp and after, there are sorts of programmes which corps members are being exposed to and majority of them are based on PROFESSIONAL COURSES with different professionally conspicuous tags. This they emphasise a lot to the extent one could even dream it while in bed. Could this be a good thing, a bad thing or are there areas where there are misconceptions which could on a long run be detrimental for a corps member like myself?
Professional courses are now the order of the day to help make the CV fuller in content. With that evidence youths are encouraged the more to add skills and values to themselves through these professional courses. Different institutions hence keep emerging and they give hundreds more reasons why the professional courses are needed. But then, I spot a big problem which majority might not be conscious of having been carried away by the sweet talks persuasion to consider the professional courses as the way out into that dreamed shining office. I found out that the primary reason they give is that it gives us an hedge over colleagues during interviews or while applying for job vacancies. But is that actually the whole fact?
If I took about four professional courses and I applied for a job in a company then I got to meet other people there for the same job with TGE, same knowledge, same certifications, in the professional courses I did. Now, do we call that an hedge?
Some do not even attend the lectures well enough and are yet certified (as long as they have made full payment).
Moreover, the cross is, professional courses cannot practically speak for a job seeker but the proficiency or the competence of the same job seeker, the quality of what the job seeker can offer as performance. Hence, It is false to believe that only professional courses will automatically guarantee a job seeker the dream job. This is where SELF DEVELOPMENT comes in. As a matter of practicality and efficiency and professionalism, a job seeker has got to be resourceful in practice for real as documented in the document, even beyond, as element of surprise. I mean, in my room, at NYSC, I had bunk mate who studied Computer Engineering in one of the subregion countries but could not identify a mouse. He studied a 5 or 4 years course in few months and that was it. Again, he could not point to a mouse vividly. Whereas, we could have primary school pupil who could run a programme brilliantly - that, now, shows, self development, commitment and being practically efficient beyond a written document. Efficiency embedded in a job seeker is what any firm would want to employ to bless the same better in the competitive market. I do not say professional courses do not have any benefits at all or use in all, what I mean to emphasise is for an individual to develop self in the profession and outside the profession such belongs to without relying wholly on the awarded certificates of professional courses to get them there.
These days, some corps members are noticed going about in kilter in order to take professional courses as they are almost rounding off their service year and with the believe that as long as they have these professional courses' certificates and attach their tags on their CVs, employment has been heavenly sealed. Well, there is much more to that in the market world. All one needs is reasoning and one would agree.
It is what one really knows and can bring to the table that would eventually give one a worthy employment opportunity but not just the few weeks of lectures and the hype the certificates are the means to every portfolio end. It is YOU who can make that job become yours for a long time if you really are efficient through self development, consistently.
Edited by JOWES - 08135633977
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
marriage
June 12, 2019
The Change (Nigeria's Democracy Day)
Our state be... factual --
being beyond phantasy
shore -
The ray's race,
in paces be so scorchy
The Breath we breathe,
be tagged choky -
too cheap to buy
Life's ne'er been, being
this gowned gore
Death being coldly nigh,
caressing us n'
calling, too touchy
To rebuff 'cause,
''we are hungry,'' too tired
to guy
The more arduous
we moil and toil
The graver their
policy posits man
dis-ease,
Crude's so... cost, pepper
n' tomato are... lost.
This mantra things in act,
actually boil
To self, in pragmatic, aeon
change be stealth to ease
Comes hard slowly - crying
for sacrifices in killing cost
There be dearth nay,
black clouds loosed on hold
On our comatose land,
feeling feebling to bold
In tarry, cirrus'd come up in
on the longed morn
And our land fertile again,
shall be proud n' give us
rich cocoa n' corn.
©2014 Jodekss Gloatkenf
Tuesday, April 30, 2019
The Journal of a Pengician
April 30, 2019
How to answer Query Letter by Jodekss
One of the things which might safe 🅐🅝 🅔🅜🅟🅛🅞🅨🅔🅔 the stress which comes with getting 🇫🇮🇷🇪🇩🔥 without notice and running about in kilter looking for another job is responding to queries a͟p͟p͟r͟o͟p͟r͟i͟a͟t͟e͟l͟y͟.
Life is full of eventualities, which come as different circumstances.
And life doesn't care if one is an employee or a job seeker. It just let things happen to us as it sees fit leaving us to handle them as we could.
So, as an 🇪🇲🇵🇱🇴🇾🇪🇷or for the sake of who are more affected, an 🇪🇲🇵🇱🇴🇾🇪🇪, at times, even without intention, we go against the institution's 🅡🅤🅛🅔🅢 🅐🅝🅓 🅡🅔🅖🅤🅛🅐🅣🅘🅞🅝🅢, which would then make the authority to serve a 🇶🇺🇪🇷🇾 letter.
In what areas do we mostly get queries from from institutions?
Well, the commonest are:
ʟᴀᴛᴇɴᴇss, ɴᴇɢʟɪɢᴇɴᴄᴇ, ɪɴsᴜʙᴏʀᴅɪɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴏʀ ᴀʙsᴇɴᴛᴇᴇɪsᴍ.
Any of those could see you fired but you can save the situation by apologising for such misconduct how?
A well 🇼🇷🇮🇹🇹🇪🇳 🇷🇪🇸🇵🇴🇳🇸🇪 to the 🇶🇺🇪🇷🇾 served.
An instance of what could make an employee to be absent is ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴏʀ ɪꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʜɪʟᴅ sᴜᴅᴅᴇɴʟʏ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴍᴇ sɪᴄᴋ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀʀᴇɴᴛ ʜᴀD ɴᴏ ᴄʜᴏɪᴄᴇ ʙᴜᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ɪɴ ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇxᴘᴇɴsᴇ ᴏꜰ ʟᴇᴀᴠɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀssɪɢɴᴇᴅ ᴅᴜᴛʏ ᴀᴛ ᴏꜰꜰɪᴄᴇ...
And the boss would have begun to heat up 😠😡...
Getting prepared long lines of questions as 🇶🇺🇪🇷🇾 letter not knowing what was happening actually.
Bosses or General Managers are human beings too, 🇹🇭🇪🇾 🇫🇪🇪🇱, cut them they will bleed.
Yes, the boss, he or she, might be hell mad for being absent, but yet, a good response to the query served might even make him or her pity and assist the matter betrer.
🇳🇴🇼❕❕❕
There are 5 things, prepared, for us, no how to go about writing or answering a query politely and correctly.
Understand the message.
This will get you to know how to respond effectively and not beating around the bush. Bᴇᴀᴛɪɴɢ ᴀʀᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴜsʜ ᴍɪɢʜᴛ actually be seen to connoting you don't value the job at all. And then, even if the boss wasn't ready to fire, the thought would begin growing.
Understand the content to know angle from which you have to come in through.
Understand the tone depicted in the message. Responding in calmer tone would help.
Even if it is an accusation of what you don't know about, let the response be professional, direct and on point.
Have a rough sheet beside you, you'd. Analyse or put down the points you will like to use in the writing.
Don't dare sound arrogant or lousy i͟f͟ y͟o͟u͟ h͟a͟v͟e͟ n͟o͟t͟ g͟o͟t͟ a͟n͟o͟t͟h͟e͟r͟ j͟o͟b͟ o͟f͟f͟e͟r͟ s͟o͟m͟e͟w͟h͟e͟r͟e͟ e͟l͟s͟e͟. 😐
🇶🇺🇪🇷🇾 is served in formal setting. Therefore, it is expected to respond with formalness either. Remove all sorts of familiar remarks and sound so off as if you don't actually have any familiarity with the boss in case there is one with him or her. The business is real and serious.
This is so as your absenteeism, for instance, could cripple the whole establishment completely.
Don't argue.
The 🇫🇮🇷🇸🇹 🇹🇭🇮🇳🇬 that must begin the first paragraph must be acknowledging you are at fault.
Back that immediately with concrete evidence of why the absenteeism happened if you have one.
Again, don't beat around the bush.
It is also a formal letter, we are not expected to bore the very busy General Manager with long tales.
Straight to the point with action words but yet with mild tone and somber mood.
It is expected to be succinct and grammatically okayed.
At this point.
Let me hint that @ Jodekss Writing and Editing Services owned by me, we could write you your 🇶🇺🇪🇷🇾 response, provided you are busy or something else.
We could help and 🇵🇷🇴🇴🇫🇷🇪🇦🇩 or 🇪🇩🇮🇹 as well for grammatical perfection.
The following is the sample of the arrangement with an instance as typed by me on my MS word.
You would see clearly how it has been arranged. That is how a 🇶🇺🇪🇷🇾 🇷🇪🇸🇵🇴🇳🇸🇪 should be done.
Here are the content:
The General Manager,
Jodekss Company,
P.O Box 9999,
Buhari City.
Dear Sir/Ma,
RE: RESPONSE TO YOUR QUERY LETTER FOR ABSENTEEISM ON 25TH APRIL, 2019.
My misconduct on absenteeism on 25th April, 2019 was not deliberate. I left home early as usual in order to get to office on or before 8:00am, but around 15 minutes past 7:00am, my car broke down at the middle of the road. I tried to inform the permission officer but his lines were not active at the moment. I was though able to reach out to him 3 hours later, after I had managed to tow the car to a safe spot. Attached are the screenshot of my call log in the morning on 25th April, 2019 and the photo of where my car broke down at.
Through this organisation, I have been in a position to develop my career and be efficient as and when due.
I promise to always be punctual by leaving for office even earlier henceforth, in case such repeats itself, so that it would not stop me from getting to office on time to carry out duties assigned me.
Thank you!
Yours faithfully,
(Your signature should be here)
Emmmanuel Muhammed.
If there is any questions, sᴜɢɢᴇsᴛɪᴏɴs, ᴀᴅᴅɪᴛɪᴏɴs, ᴏʙsᴇʀᴠᴀᴛɪᴏɴs, ᴄᴏʀʀᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴs,...., ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ᴋɴᴏᴡɴ through the comment box below.
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Tuesday, April 9, 2019
story
April 09, 2019
Skit
🅜🅐🅡🅨: Good! Welcome dear friend! I was just thinking about you. How much was it this time around?
Ⓐⓢⓐⓚⓔ: Uh! Nothing this time around.
🅜🅐🅡🅨: Nothing? And you let go without a knock. I actually learnt of no noise coming from that angle this morning. My friend, you are being too light.
Ⓐⓢⓐⓚⓔ: Ehn ehn! How do you mean? Knock him and use nail to nail his back to the wall so that he can't go to work yes? Let....
🅜🅐🅡🅨: Ah ah! What sort of question was that? Wouldn't deceive you.
Ⓐⓢⓐⓚⓔ: Shuuuu! Is that so? How much did he give you this morning?
🅜🅐🅡🅨: Ah ah! Just as always. More than enough to...
Ⓐⓢⓐⓚⓔ: Is that so?
🅜🅐🅡🅨: Come on why emphasising this... Let's talk about something else please....
Ⓐⓢⓐⓚⓔ: Ehn ehn, not so fast. Let me educate you. The money given you was the reason my husband could not give me anything today. Your husband visited again early in the morning to borrow, a...gain. Now you see why I should not k͟i͟l͟l͟ him right?
🅜🅐🅡🅨: Ah! Ehn ehn...
Ⓐⓢⓐⓚⓔ: Ehn....
Which one is Àṣàkẹ́?
©Jodekss
Sunday, July 16, 2017
varsity
July 16, 2017
Abúlé Ètàn by Jodekss Gloatkenf
Act one Scene one
[Enter]
Oba Jagunlabi, Jungunnu, Opéejíje, Jangbalajugbulu.
Crowd:
Eemo reeeeee o, Kabiyesi Come outside
Óyá, come out now o,
Wa wi tenu e…
Jangbalajugbulu:
Wait… Kabiyesi, e duro sibeyen
It is you they have issues with not me
Let me talk to them
It is my duty.
[Exit]
Oba Jagunlabi, Jungunnu, Opéejíje
Jangbalajugbulu:
[Sighs]
People… people… calm down
Ani e calm down na
What is the problem huh?
One old man from the crowd:
Wait… Enough of your pretence Jangbalajugbulu, don’t
We respect you but now it seems you have even joined those rubbers
The crowd:
[Shout]
He has joined them.
One old man from the crowd:
E calm down na.
…
Ani e calm down… Let us be calm and things shall come to light.
Another rugged voice from amidst the crowd:
[Shriek]
Shut up!
You, shut up!
Who are you to tell us to calm down?
Kuro…
Look here chief, we are active-minded indigenes of this big village and we are no tomfools. Go in. Tell the Oba Jagunlabi to come out now and tell us how much he or they or whoever bought the òkò.
Crowd:
[Shout]
Abi o… who needs it!
Thieves. Yéyè…
Jangbalajugbulu :
Jungunnu, don’t just stay there calm looking like Èfó… Help talk them down na…
Ahem!
E take it easy. Let us be civil, please na. About what was bought, I can exactly tell you I know nothing about it.
[Re-enters]
…
Ah… ah…
Kabiyesi o… Kaaaaara o le o…
I thought I told you not to come out. I am handling this.
Oba Jagunlabi:
[Hisses]
It does look like the opposite.
Go away, I’ll take it from here…
Ahem!
Good, great and ever conscious people of Abule Ètàn.
I am sorry for delaying you this far. I had to see the geography of the palace.
I will answer every of your question but would like to start with the hottest one. I can see your faces boiling hot.
Okay, the ókó [we] bought at 29 cowrie.
Crowd:
That small infertile land… Yeh…
[Crowd began climbing the scaffold] [shouting]
But Opéejíje, he said… 25 cowrie…
[Exit]
Oba Jagunlabi, Jungunnu, Opéejíje.
Crowd:
[Sing]
Awa o ni gba
Awa o ni sun
Awa o ni wo…
Awa o ni gba
Awa o ni sun
Awa o ni wo…
Awa o ni gba
Awa o ni sun
Awa o ni wo…
Abule Ètàn
Act one Scene Two
[Enter]
Gbòungbòun, Igbáládogí, Akòkò.
Igbáládogí:
Good morning everyone here
As this is a formal gathering, let us try and be formal…
[Shouts from the crowd at the market square]
Please… please… please… let us maintain decorum
One house please…
Thanks.
I… Igbáládogí, your humble representative… am here now to do exactly as you have sent
This matter is not the only one at hand, you’d know.
Crowd:
[Exclaim] Yes…
One of the few adult in the village:
Yes… that witch must be dealt with too o.
Olé ni…
“Like husband like wife”
Igbáládogí:
We cannot just deal with anyone without following and or consulting the oracles.
Crowd
[Shout]
We have done that…
Igbáládogí:
Where was I?
Gbòungbòun, Akòkò, where was I?
Akòkò: At that moment…ahem… ehn…
Igbáládogí:
What is all this ehn? Just go on, tell me, where was?
Akòkò:
Awe…right. Three meetings held right after you were beaten into coma.
Igbáládogí:
I was down for days real? Whoa…! wait… wait… getting the flahes now…
I was beaten and done close to death where a snake climbs a sign post for pills.
Igbáládogí:
I told that before sir…
Aye… you were in sick bed.
Oya o sha, don’t just sit down there…
Gbòungbòun, Akòkò:
You are the one still having the floor na…
Thoughts from among the crowd:
[Aside]
The gods are being nailed to earth
By bigger gods, o, or by the checkers in their declaring wigs
The youngs to come here in disarray
And past god we worshipped is being bunt on the way.
Gbòungbòun:
[Chuckles]
Ahem… These are the troubles filed against her majesty
She should show up lest she should be dealt with
Any hands for this should be cut
Any hands stain from you all here at the market square must remain forever tucked.
…
Mm…
Appearing… appearing… she’s to come and answer these questions… when she appears. She must…
Why she had take our cowrie and lavish it selfishly for kangaroo services ah!
Another voice from the crowd:
Beat her to stupor…
Beat her as we beat the king…
Beat her… chastice her at her butt…
Female rubber…
…
Crowd:
Female rubber…
Female rubber
Female rubber…
Female rubber
Female rubber…
Thronging crowd:
Gbòungbòun…
Female rubber…
Female rubber
Female rubber…
Female rubber
Female rubber…
[Shouts continue]
Ehn hey…! He’s passed out o…
Some voice from among the crowd:
Carry him again, he is weak too…
We shall continue to take our left
Tell him to wake up
Give him a hot slap
Pour him hot water
Overly cold water or some scary shouts…
Wake him and make him explain…
[Enters]
Opéejíje
Opéejíje:
Let us be civil… I…
The leader from the left:
Shut up.
The sitting had had you held dangling for 2 moons…
If guilty of the so called ókó you and your king had.
That would be very bad
For judgment shall role its dirty wrath side on you both next.
Leave us…
[Exits]
Opéejíje…
Thoughts out loud from among the crowd:
The good old god is about being nailed in a bad land
The good god who’s mighty hands fed us well to give vast life, hope and living sessions to run….
Other gods are to be blamed. They are not to be blamed. Things like this takes time. At times moons to shine many nights and sun to grow thousands of maize for towns.
Mm…
The king and his purse on hold.
The gods we fear and perhaps loved before rested on the quizzing words of checkers…
Abule Ètàn under ètàn as usually.
Act one Scene Three
[Enter]
Ìyàlapèrè, Jangbalajugbulu, Jungunnu
Ìyàlapèrè:
Jungunnu… Ah! I don’t seem to grasp how the oracle thinks… He was not around and his acolytes took charge for him abi beeko ehn…. Sòrò now Jungunnu?
How many cowrie did I collect sef….
Is it not to breathe blessings and bliss and cleanse our new servants?
Talk at this juncture… This one ehn that you are as somber as dead brook is becoming something else jare…
Ah ah, mo think pe you know how to argue ni na ah ah!
Argue na… Abba ah ah ehn!
Jangbalajugbulu:
Wo… take it easy!
Wo… we will have to go together nani. You have to come now face the Oracle again… ehn!
Leave him let hi…m…
Jungunnu:
Eduro jor…
E wa, ki le fi mi pe gan na…
Sey that I did, no, that I am doing critical topics and arguments in our first moon means I must contribute in what you caused ehn?
Look here, I know what I am doing and I am not going beyond my office as people did try and put me there to…
Ìyàlapèrè:
Gbe gbogbogbogbogbogbo gbogbo enu e soun jor… Alailojuti alagbada osi, ole funfun….
Ehm, thank you jare for your words.
Jangbalajugbulu:
Eh, did you hear that?
[Exit]
[Re-enters]
It is about our past gods o…
The immediate one before the god over us today.
Jungunnu:
So… ehn ehn ki wani?
They are to cut take away his shrine away from our town.
He doesn’t merit that. The god is a good one and life went on well with us then as we all knew.
Jungunnu:
So… ehn ehn ki wani?
Jangbalajugbulu:
[Hisses]
Ehn…
Let us sha go, the three of us. Let us not keep the oracle waiting too long lest he…
[Exit]
Ìyàlapèrè, Jangbalajugbulu
Jungunnu:
Awon alakoba osi…
You want to implicate me ehn
Critically I have seen through these darkly lights
There would be nothing she can do even if she fought fights
Fights very well for her rights she shall put to rest
Mm… investigation is still boiling on.
Should the food be done and there is a bit poison in the taste.
Then the ókó we got shall come to halt and our reign shall commence to be irrealis abi…
Me I like this robe o ish…
[Exits]
Jungunnu
[At the palace of the oracle with all his bits of powers there]
[Noise]
Hello, you, you and you. Be calm and we shall get to the bottom of tall this…
A voice not belonging to the Oracle’s power:
Yay… this is the garnering of vipers and chameleons taking the charge of ropes
To help the the poor like us be and have our tattered wears
Upon which we lay them for fun. Chameleons came comely having loaded high and shite on them again to make bad the worse
And as we wear them the vipers crawl out and gaze into our houses in the mid of the night and bite us all down
Making us all satisfied with venom's vile's worth.
Young bananas who whom he nurtured till maturity came upon them so
The bananas we buried in the soils to feed upon they pluck and eat to aught
And the remnants they smash into bits and boo us to the face to come back.
You have to understand.
[Exit all but the voice]
[The voice continues]
Another thief with three hollows down there has been put to sopor
And noises of confusion crawl in and continue to crack the grounds and floors for the future now.
And with our gods. The past gods I mean.
To do good is good as you would have seen
It is different to be there, just there and poured contempt like yaw
But fervour has found its course around Elú, god’s jaw
As the procession of the world worked their various paths to meet like 1
And shame cruises the devil’s back as he later won
Let us leave God of god curse the universe to turn into water and fire
And fire every head, little or much, 1 or bunches wanting to spoil his retire.
[Exits a voice not belonging to the Oracle’s power]
To be continued…
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Hello, I am Jodekss Gloatkenf --my penname. I am a professional writer, ghostwriter, researcher, editor, blogger, podcaster, artist, thinker and lightworker. I believe in creativeness, diversity and uniqueness --my definition of art.