LETTER FROM WHATSAPP SEASON 1.3A- NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

It’s a few days to Christmas; that time of the year where the conscious folks brainstorm about what they did right or wrong and what they could do different to change their lives for the better in the following years to Come. In my part of the world, we call it “NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS”. We identify, highlight, and resolve the issues of the current year, then restructure our goals and priorities for the New Year.

As far as WHATSAPP STATUTES go, these are a few New Year Resolutions you may want to take note of.

“Dear God, if sum1 hates me for my happiness, I pray dat you send dem happiness so they completely forget about mine!!” says Abena’s whatsapp status; Chai! My sister! You never met my enemies, like u don change this your prayer (Naija man’s voice). That’s a New Year Resolution prayer right there….  Learn to pray for your enemies as well, don’t be cursing them always.

Aforkor is “Celebrating good friends this December”, you could give her a call on +233 24 ######4; she might have an x’mas gift on standby just for you. But wait ooo!! Have you been a good friend this year? Are you worth celebrating?

Abigail says- “when life gives u a lemon, make lemonade out of it”… I wonder where you are going to meet life, but sure! We are not leaving anything to chance this coming year, even if it gives us ‘limes’ we will squeeze the letters into a ‘smile’.

“Nothing can change us…. We are who we are”, I wonder what my footballer friend -Adjei Lucio means by that. Im open to your views if you have any clues share on it.

My ever lovely Afia says –“Love is not built in a single day but in more days ahead of us”. See, if Love wasn’t fair to you this year, don’t worry there are better days ahead; wait for next year wai??!! Love will surely find you.

To draw the New Year Resolution curtains down, allow Brenda to motivate you with the status- “God has brought u this far, he will end with you”.

“All is well”- Cherry on top, Merry Christmas and kudos to you all.

Image of Whatsapp Statuses

This particular Blog post was originally written by Dromo Tetteh 

Bronya With Santa

This is very simple and relative to most of us in Ghana; in that a few years back say- the late eighties up to somewhere nineties, when its Christmas, it came with an extraordinary feeling and excitement. For some of us who spent most of our years growing up in family/compound houses, we were not acquainted to what and who Santa Clause was and when he’ll be coming to town or whatsoever! Santa is in town… Who’s that? And we never bothered to know too, so?

 bronya fever in the air  (Pic by Dromo photos)

Now the Santa we knew is and was our parents, 'hehehe' what’s so exciting than seeing your maa or daa (mum or dad… fyi that’s how we call it) returning from town prior to the festive season and all you’re expecting is your Christmas ‘already made’-outfit, accompanied with some toys or knock outs (Christmas crackers) for the boys then surprisingly enough they haven’t bought them for you yet emphasis on ‘yet’ because they’ll be bought but just that its delaying and one can’t wait until its bought cos other kids in your house are already discussing their Christmas dresses. Chale and you haven’t seen yours yet; eeii!! but yeah those were the moments some of us are missing already and I know for sure the d-bees who might happen to read this can’t relate to this that much. Never mind that’s for another day.

Yes yes yes  and you guys remember the only times we got to enjoy soft drinks thus coca cola, pepsi and the likes was on occasions and festive seasons like Christmas? With festive seasons like this- huh! you get to drink and chew all you can, cos chale! when it passes unless another occasion or ceremony like an outdooring (naming ceremony) or funeral and oh yes! in our part of the world we take these occasions world cup paaaa !

You all enjoy your Christmas and don’t allow your kids to experience what some of us experienced okay.

Let me not say all alone, kindly feel free to share with me your experience in the comment box… Thanks 

Letter from Whatsapp: Season 1.2

Hi there,I’m back again eerrm yeah so I’ve been wondering, “am I the only person who has come to the realization that whatsapp statuses are now the medium via which coded/indirect messages are shared; with loads of meaning thus, my need for explanations or maybe, I have just refused to understand what most of the statuses mean due to its somewhat ambiguous status. Recently I've come across some interesting statuses and like you know; I can't keep to myself, I have to share with you...Let me do this already before ‘dumsor’ visits me. For starters Amos shared this 'still house cleaning'... well, i can relate with this status, in that sanitation is key and it should start from home or probably if we don't clean this house there wouldn't be space to play or move around otherwise I have no idea what he really means. Hold on! Don’t be confused and surprised already, Binta says 'the axe forgets but the tree remembers....' eerh!! but the axe is supposed to chop off and forget, leaving the tree to remember whatever damage has been caused to it or? Well, anyway we'll see about that. ‘I am a business man, I work 3 different jobs just to keep being a great success in life' sayeth my main man Richie, but on a serious note Richie but why? You want to be the only successful person in Ghana? Sometimes you'd want to be sure of what people’s statuses mean, so that you don’t go mad, talking of madness Edith shared this 'i don't stay mad. I just eventually stop caring', but Edith, what really has caring got to do with madness? Ah but okay!! ... ‘Something’s moving, something's changing, see His glory, feels like #HeavenOnEarth' okay so i know this lyrics is from Micah Stampley's song; So Angie when will you write and sing your own song or use it as a status?

Letter from Whatsapp: Season 1

Well over the few years that I have been on whatsapp i happen to come across  lots of fascinating messages and quotes from my friends, some are funny tho whiles some gives u the opportunity to reshape your  thoughts about life. Here are some whatsapp status  you'll find interesting. Please thank me later okay let me start already...

In Ghana at most events we  proceed with prayer and  @arielgh made that simple for me with her status "Lord order my steps in your word". after the prayer we move on to @awittor  in no particular order tho yes his status said "what else can fire do to gold?" yes really what at all can fire do? Surprisingly @enoch4seth got me thinking he was like jfbskuescbjzldbgbfljskfh really? Enoch what did you mean by that? well lets me move on, this guy i don't know if he attended Shakespears lecture or not he had this to share "Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing its stupid" - Eugene. Well lets see what Abu has got to offer us he also says "Its about time i finally cut some people off" massa take it easy with us eerh? Lets end here before we're cut off Abigail says she's "available" what is she trying to communicate? well your guess is as good as mine.

Eeerm to be continued....

#TSOOBOE: TEMA ARTS AND FASHION FESTIVAL IS HERE AGAIN....

The Tema Art & Fashion Festival (TAFF) under the Ghana Art & Fashion Festival under the Ghana Art & Fashion Festival will be held for the second time in December this year.

The maiden festival held in 2014 saw very impressive response from vendors, artists, the consuming public and cross section of the media. Attendance was high.

This year’s festival dubbed “Tsooboe” is being held under the theme; “Harnessing Skills and Talents for Economic Empowerment”.

WHY TSOOBOE?

Tsooboe is a call for action.

The city of Tema is well known for its industrial drive in the Ghanaian economy; a city always on the move. Tsooboe is to depict the city’s vibrancy and the call to harness skills and talents for economic empowerment.

This year, we are fusing energies from the Past which defines our History, the Present which defines our Opportunities and the Future which represents our Hope, to create a vibrant culture at the Center of the World, TEMA. The focus of our art works this year seeks to depict these three eras.

COMMUNITY IMPACT PROJECT

As part of TAFF2015, we are raising support to put up a library and computer laboratory for the Community 2, No.4 Basic School.

DURATION OF FESTIVAL

The festival will run for a period of three days, starting from Friday, December 4 through to Sunday December 6, 2015 at the Chemu Senior High School Hall and the Street that runs in front of the school down to Afram Motors, Community 4. Location has been carefully chosen taking into consideration Accessibility, Security and Sales.

STRUCTURE AND ARRANGEMENTS

The huge S.A. Tenkorang Hall at Chemu Senior High School will be used as the central point for sales. A huge Screen will be mounted in the hall to advertise various vendor stalls. A fashion Runway Show will run from one end of the hall to the other. Vendor stands for food and other related products will be mounted at the Forecourts of the school; separated just by the wall of the hall.

The 3-day art and fashion festival will witness varieties of Fashion, Art, Music, Food, Runway shows, Street Dance and Rap Battle, Cycling, Skating, Traditional Games, Story Telling, Poetry, Street Processions, Drama, Movie Screening, Art and Fashion Documentaries, Lectures, Photography among others will be at their peak at this year’s festival.

PUBLICITY

We are glad to inform potential sponsors, vendors and the consuming public that, a number of media organizations including Television, Radio, Online and Print that are partnering with us to give full publicity for the festival.

In the coming days and months, watch out for our promotional messages across the media landscape.

It promises to be huge.

HASHTAGS: In order to keep track of all activities connected to this year’s festival on Social Media, we are using the hashtag; #TSOOBOE

BRAND ADVANTAGES

The festival provides a unique platform for individual entrepreneurs and corporate organizations to increase their clientele base and market shares. We are therefore calling on all and sundry to take advantage of this opportunity to do some sales and create lasting relationship with the consuming public.

We encourage you to join us as we provide the opportunity for young entrepreneurs to Brand, Market and Sell their Products and Enterprises as well as promote domestic tourism.

Thank you.

INITIALS & SIGNATURES LTD

Email: initialsghana@gmail.com   Taff2015@gmail.com Instagram: @taff_2015    Twitter: @taff2015

Facebook: Tema Art & Fashion Festival / Ghana Art & Fashion Festival

Call:          0266 743 130/ 0246 478 374 WhatsApp: 0266 421 291

Street Art Festival: CHALE WOTE 2014 (Part 2)

This year's Chale Wote will be presented in a different style from the fact that for the first time the art festival is slated to happen for four (4) days instead of the normal two days its been running for. The official mouth piece for the event has all the details in here ChaleWote2015

Bernard Akoi Jackson (pic below) an International Art person 

Can't wait to see you at Chale Wote 2015..
So tell a friend to invite a friend to tell a friend to see you there....

Street Art Festival: CHALE WOTE 2014 (Part 1)

This is it...the 2014 version of the Street Art Festival tagged CHALE WOTE

shadows of myself and couple of  friends 

 These are models in an act having cooked Banku and eating after its been prepared... {Left Picture}

This is just a gist of what to expect at Chale Wote 2015 but before that stay tuned and watch out for Part 2 of the 2014 Art Festival...