LORD SUGAR TALKS “VALUE FOR MONEY”

My Lords,

I’m delighted to see so many of your Lordships joining this debate. Government procurement is an important issue. After all, it is we the taxpayers’ money that is being spent every day, and I think we have the right to ensure we are getting good value.

Before I move on, I would like to state that pursuant to the code of conduct, I have registered with the Table Office any relevant interests that may arise from those listed in my name in the House register of interest.

Government expenditure was in the region of £238bn on procurement. I believe this was spent on a whole range of items and services from, say, paperclips to guided missiles.

Happy New Year

One of my resolutions for 2012 is to blog frequently… I wish all my loyal readers a Happy and prosperous new year…Leap hurdles and conquer your world

 

 

Love, Samuel

John Sentamu on Christmas

THERE’S an old joke about a young boy who desperately wanted a new bicycle for Christmas.

Having just played a vital role in the school Nativity play, he thought rather than writing to Santa he would write a letter to the baby Jesus.

 

So the boy went to his room and wrote: “Dear Jesus, I have been a very good boy and would like to have a bike for Christmas.”

 

But he wasn’t very happy when he read it over, so he decided to try again. This time he wrote: “Dear Jesus, I’m a good boy most of the time and would like a bike for Christmas.”

Seizing the moment

I’ve been away for a while and the blog has been the latest victim from my busy schedules. Well i havent been obama or sarkozy busy but i’ve been quite tight and held up in a couple of things.

I have also been mourning Steve Jobs and my best friend in these times is the Walter Isaacson autobiography of Steve. Its a brilliant piece and i recommend y’all to get one.

I’ve also been listening to a minister of the gospel lately. His name is Tudor Bismark…He’s Zimbabwean and preaches real good. I’m being blessed each day i listen to him. He’s been sharing a couple of deep materials in his sermons. I recently learnt about the Israelites, Egypt and the Scarab Beetles and the Seven levels of revenue. Honestly, they have been very insightful.

i’m sharing three things from one of his sermons about “DOORS”. There are so many doors in life and we have to know the major doors and how to approach them.

The first is the LOCKED door – This particular one is entered by holding a special key that is configured or designed to open that particular door and not any other. Example is the one on your house…Those are typically the ones we see each day.

The second is the PRESENCE door – This door allows entry when you get closer to it. Any person in proximity to the door is responded to. U just have to be in close proximity and the door will open. Example of these doors are the ones on the banks and shops where u have to just get closer for it to open automatically.

The third is the TIMING door – This is a very different kind of door that opens and closes at a particular time. You can only enter the door when u seize the moment it is open. The example is sort of weird but think of it as a musician and his band. The musician in order to successfully enter the song has to time his entry else he messes everything up. The door opens and as soon as it opens, it closes…..And this is particularly true of a door that most of us encounter.

We should therefore stay smart and be alert of whatever door we find ourselves standing in-front and find how to enter …Remember LIFE is FULL OF DOORS

1955 – 2011 STEVE JOBS

I cant recall the first time i heard about him, but i will forever remember the day he caught my attention. I always knew he was the brain behind the apple brand and that’s where it stopped. Apple to me, at the time, was just another company. Just another one making products and offering them for sale.

Then i heard him open up to a group of students from Stanford who were graduating. My affection for him after the speech was instant, It was as if i had known him for so long a time. I followed him – scouted for his audio and video files on the internet. He never seized to amaze me…whether at D5 with Bill Gates or during the WWDC or the product launches, he was always phenomenal.

I wished he had stayed around for a few more decades, but the Maker knows best

 

RIP STEVE JOBS

Damirifa Due

Aboard a world of Bliss, 9.9.99 T.I.P to ACC….A family meeting

Deciding to visit London, England in December 2009 was met with raised eyebrows from parents and friends. My parents at the time thought it was mostly a cold time to visit the United “Queendom”.  And when I later discussed my choice of flight with a friend, he had lots of reservations.

Genuine as their reservations were, I thought visiting the UK in December was a good time. I had never encountered the minuses of temperature and seen snow…hitherto I was a summer traveler. I also thought by flying Afriqiyah, I was getting a “too good to be true” deal on a travel ticket and use up the excess money for some other stuff. I had my mind made up and turned up at Kotoka, went through the routine departure procedures and boarded into the Afriqiyah Airbus A330 as scheduled.

Same as I do on most flights after boarding and every one seated with the gates shut, I play up the assumed conversation between the control tower and the pilot…I have spent years playing Microsoft Flight Simulator and I think of  myself as a pilot – only on PC .

Dr Victor Osei on QUITTING BAD HABITs

Any regular reader of this blog will know who the Doc is…he is a minister of the gospel whose ministry is having a good deal of positive influence on the people who “sit under his feet”

He always dresses sharp. He is in a class of his own.

Yesterday, he preached a message about BAD HABITs and quitting and in a summary i discuss them

ADMIT TO the Habits – Confess it to someone else

AcKOWLEDGE there can be FREEDOM

SEPARATE From the weight that besets you

REPLACE the BAD Habits with good ones