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On Artemis II mission

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Consider the enormity of earth from this Artemis II exploration. And the tininess of this dot from the above image. This universe is incomprehensible and I can't even begin to wrap my head over the vastness and our mere existence on earth. I saw a comment on Reddit about the Farthest documentary that a lady said that after the film, she went to flick a speck of dust from the canvas before realising that's our entire earth in an image. You can't help and wonder how minuscule, just infinitesimally small we are. Meanwhile, the ocean is about 70% of the earth's surface. Humans have barely tranversed 5% of the ocean and from what I saw online, about 80% remain unmapped. On the atheists on Reddit... I would describe them as insufferable more of... I mean I would wager the astronauts should even be more religious. Cos being out of this space makes the marvel of all that we are more incredulous. I can't even imagine seeing earth and not shudder on the magnitude of the unive...
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On Caroline Girvan's Influence

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Left: My trainer’s legs who has 20 years of workout experience. Right: My legs after following her programmes for 9 months now. I'm seeing my thighs definition (that's if WhatsApp haven't butchered the image quality). But my thighs were previously hanging/droopy thighs from excess adipose tissue. Now they're  firm and this is just from working out from home.  Caroline Girvan is the GOAT. I won't stop recommending her, she's the real deal. If you've been thinking of strength training and you can't afford the gym yet, start with Grow with Jo and progress to Caroline.  I'm very satisfied with my results with my measly 3kg pair and 6kg pair dumbbells. And I will keep progressively overloading the dumbbells when I get the financial capacity to do so.  Honestly, she is the only thing I kept consistent this March cos between multiple application rejections, being ill with malaria and house hunting, March didn't quite go well for me. But it's well. W...
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On Golden Kiss by Beguile by Ọma

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It took 5 years but here we are. 5 years for Seduction to have not just a competition but get itself knocked out of my being my favourite perfume. I got the new release by Beguile by Ọma, Golden Kiss. I wasn't really tempted to buy it first cos of the cost and I was looking at being financially prudent. But luckily I got some monetary gifts during my birthday and having come out of a malaria ailment and getting a few client gigs, I figured I should splurge on something. And the only thing I really had interest in getting is it. It's currently my most perfume spend yet but totally worth it.  How do I describe the scent profile? Literally, it's a sweet floral scent. But to evoke the emotions, it smells luxurious. Like you see those old money aesthetics and being put together. Like someone aptly described it, "it smells like the woman I want to be." That's the vibe it gives. The notes are giving vintage perfume vibes but not in that granny (coughs in Coco Channel...
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On What is Success for me in 2026?

I think I grew up too fast. I don't know, I suppose I reached a level of maturity in terms of intellect early cos it's surreal at 21, this was my version of success. I ended up winning best writing of the year for the same article I was referring to. Remember that thing I mentioned about envy being a fuel for me? I'm telling you, you need to start seeing envy as a fuel. I don't believe in it being sin and all of that bullshit. It's downright motivation for me. I had more audacity at 20 and 21 years old than I did at 24 and 25. Well, thank God for previous writings cos I go back to it and I get myself right back. I have mentioned I can't be more satisfied than I am daily. Nothing external can make me happier than I normally am. It's a state of being thanks to my younger self for reading Marcus Aurelius That's not to say I don't feel bad some days. The way I was venting to Ada yesterday, you'd have thought that woe is me and all of that. But that...
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On Certifications in IT

I used to wonder why people put certificates like PMP, CASP, SSCP, CISSP, CISM to their LinkedIn names. Until I went and took the most basic IT certification (CC). Not only was that one of the trickiest exams I've taken, it's supposed to be the most basic in this field.  The issue is not just the ambiguousness of the test. Not only that, just that the exam is adaptive in the sense that the questions keep getting trickier the more correct answer you give. So you can't change your previous responses. Also, also... a question can have more than one right answer but it wants you to select the one that's most correct for that specific question. Talk about mind games. For this one specifically, I genuinely wasn't confident that I'd scale through up until I got my print out. And this is meant to be the basic exam. Not to talk of the behemoth that is CISSP and the likes. No wonder people do Hallelujah challenge for those kind of exams. It does take critical thinking to ...
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On God

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Things you see and of course, no other choice than to believe there is an engineer (God) that orchestrated it. It can't have been by chance. It's not a matter of belief. There has to have been a being that crafted this so intricately that it exists as such... Why I never tilted to atheism. Cos this universe is so infinite that it doesn't even make sense how we exist. Like my brain doesn't comprehend the vastness of this world. So why doesn't God stop all this inhumanity going on. Well that's cos God has been here for eons.  What concern supernatural being and what we plebians are doing. If we want to destroy shit up, let's continue on that downward trajectory. When shit goes to naught, God will create new beings. Maybe ours are a bad experiment and he's just observing us so when we eventually blow up this universe, then some parts of the brain that causes us to be so terrible as humans will be removed. So I suppose I'm more apathetic towards religion...
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Happy Birthday

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My friends do know I have a love-hate relationship with my birthdays, it's usually filled with dampened spirit. But today, I kept waiting for the despondency to come, it didn't. I won't claim I've had the financial success like I craved, but despite the multitude of rejections I've faced, a good number of things have been going in the right direction for me. I finally have a semblance of career clarity that I have been missing. For the majority of the 3rd quarter of last year, I've been telling my friends, there is something I'm missing. There is something I'm missing. And it's moreso clarity which I think I've conquered to an extent. I no longer feel dread as the human anniversary numbers add up. Clarity of thoughts. Clarity of Purpose. We all need that. Also, pressure made me want to attain that clarity. I called it my quarter life crisis, cos my family and friends have this expectations of my success and I have to live up to it. I'll refer...
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