My Life, Your Opinion (Part 2)

3. So Who Am I?

You have to read the first part of My Life, Your Opinion to better understand this story. If you have not FOSST would mean nothing to you. I have to check this blogger setting. I thought people would get to read this once i post it. Apparently, i was wrong. Let me look around. You can read on about my life below.

F,O,S,S,T. they have all come and gone. Well almost. I still have T to at the tail. Lets see how it wags.

We are all going to spend our lives discovering who we really are. Until we understand ourselves, we really can’t understand others. I did not do so fairly with T (&S2) so I really should not complain.

Let me now tell you who I am based on the people that have passed through my life. Lets start with the bad news. Shouldn’t that be the only news. How else would you explain my numerous losses.

• I am definitely not so so sensitive though this is probably unintentional.
• I like female company and I do identify with a relationship.
• I must be attractive and husbandable. Shakespeare please take note. Microsoft Word can paint it red for all I care. Or maybe boyriendishable. A slight modification.
• I guess I am not that predictable. Is that good or bad.
• I can talk my way out of problems. If I choose to change my ways then it can surely make things happen. In a condescending description, lets just say “I can beg”. That’s basically what I have been doing. That might also be good or bad.
• I am probably interesting.
• I have good looks. I think I already said that. It probably is true. Opinion again.

I think I have combined the good with the bad here. I am either hiding something or the bad out weighs the good. Or maybe good & bad means different things to different people. I talk my way out of a problem or I beg. Good or bad? Opinion is yours. Beg means I am humble and admit my faults. Talk means I am a go getter and I think on my feet. It could also mean that I know how to create a mess on a regular basis.

So that is who I am? Insensitive, Inteligent, Funny (I never used that word). Maybe I used “Sense of Humour”. If I did not well I am. Great looking. Define great as you wish. I loose focus and intensity. I probably have fears of the future. That’s probably why it is five and hopefully not counting. I read somewhere that a pessimist is someone who waits for all the lights to go green before setting off to work. That wont happen. Maybe in Nigeria though. The lights all don’t work whenever you choose to set off. I have to agree that Nigerians just might be the happiest people (on the road). So am I a pessimist? I hate to admit but my analysis seems to point that way. I am looking for the perfect green before setting off on my trip through matrimony. It obviously won’t happen. I am ambitious. That is what some say. Ambitious & Pessimistic? Talk of Yin & Yang. I guess even the successful might be both. Or how do you explain Microsoft’s fear of the Open Source movement. It is the proportion that counts. We all have fears of death. So I guess we are all pessimists. In other words, we all fear tomorrow. In fact, we fear the next minute. Nepa might just strike. T thinks I am great at night. S2 lied. Hopefully. I guess that is opinion as well. Isn’t life all about opinion? It is the most used word in this story. Maybe I should title it opinion. But who would buy it. Hey, look at that book. What does the title mean. My publishers would hate that title. And if they use it then they would surely hate me.

4 . So who do I want to be?

The truth be told. I am happy to be me. Don’t get me wrong, the bad sides have not made my life what it should be but that has been me. The best I can do as well as you is change the bads to good and improve on the good. Well that is what my MBA class says. What course is that? Financial Management or was it Marketing strategy. All those courses feel the same. Basically it says, identify your strengths & weaknesses (SW). And also opportunities & threats (OT). I think we focused more on the SW part in my experiences.

Looking at OT, lets say S2 was an opportunity for a great dream and T was a threat to getting it. Maybe vice versa. Don’t mix SW & OT with the people I have met. This ones are just management slangs. Infact they are my jargons. My teacher calls it SWOT in full. This is just a breakdown for my convenience.

So they say you identify the Ws and convert them to Ss. Do you get the point. That’s the whole idea. So if you have been doing those analysis without the appropriate conversion, what a waste of time that was for you.

For instance, I am not attentive so, start being attentive. Is it that simple? Maybe it is. I just never knew that is what this MBA thingy was all about. Thnigy? Not my invention. That is how T pronounces “Thing”. Beware of ladies pronouncing “thing” “thingy”. Maybe we need to watch out for ladies pronouncing any words wrongly. Wouldn’t that be fun?

Thinking of the MBA thingy. I should be doing my financial management (FM) and marketing strategy assignment right now. I know when I get to the bridge I will submit it. Supposed to be predicting the dividend payment for a company named I. actual has two other characters behind it. Guess guess guess. I hope you are having fun. I hope all that calculation study is really worth it. I have lost so many times in the stock market game. At times I think it is a lottery. I hopefully would think otherwise when my prediction are right to the kobo. The kobo by the way is Nigeria’s euivalent of a British penny or the American cent. I mean in description and not in value. It is a hundred times weaker. I am being conservative here but weaker is really opinion of the ignorant. It is still the greatest country in Africa (by population for certain). There is some magic going on to make it almost equivalent to the dollar. I mean the Naira this time. Hope you are not confused? Naira is equivalent to Dollar and kobo the cents. That’s magic because I did not know we could easily do that. MBA has a lot of questions to answer. Zimbabwe needs to do this urgently. Consult Nigeria, you really can make it equal to any currency you so wish. Mugabe for life. Hurray.

I also have MS assignment. Sounds more fun and realistic. Also seems like a lottery. There are elaborate marketing plans that fail and there are non-existent marketing plans that make a big bang. I am supposed to do a study on a product or service (there is a difference) and see how the organisation I work for plans to create awareness. Something like a penetration strategy. I can’t even remember the question. I am in big trouble. I think there is a part about the consumers perspective on the penetration of a product or service. I am thinking of …. Let me check out what I wrote. I just wrote it yesterday. My short term memory again. It seems to be getting shorter. I wrote it yesterday.

Got it. For my organization, I would write on the introduction of the Online Video Conferencing. And from a consumer perspective, I hope to write on SMIES. That is confusing talk for Small, Medium …. Let me check the net. It is on the Central Bank of Nigeria website. It means “Small and Medium Enterprises Equity Investment Scheme”. That is SMEEIS. The acronym has changed. Acronym? Abbreviation? They actually mean different things. Which is it?