STRANGE WORLD OF ART - LADY OF THE LAKE

 This is the picture of 'Die Badende' (The Bather) by Oliver Voss, a German artist and owner of an advert agency. Names like 'Badenixe' (Bathing Beauty), Riesen-Nixe (Grand Mermaid)  "Lady Of The Lake"have been given to the sculpture which is four metre high above the waters at Alster Lake, Hamburg in Germany.  

The exceptionally well made up face is very endearing and captivatingly creepy. This sculpture has to be described as sultry, very sexy and beautiful female. One cannot help but wonder at what gave the inspiration for this project. It was like a mermaid relaxing in the waters. Inviting!

I was shocked at the sight of the sculpture, scared but strangely very drawn to it. It is usual to expect a female looking figure out of water to be a mermaid, except that in this case, the knees were peeping out and the knees were human.

This gigantic structure is 67ft long and weighs 2 tons. The reclining lady who could pass for been nude id actually a 3D reality advert for a beauty products' company, called Soap and Glory.  The lady is to promote bathing as an art.

The concept will no doubt could bring endless tourists to the lake, thereby generating fabulous revenue for Germany.

Art and advert. Would you not agree this is simply thinking out of the box?

LAFFS - SHE WHO LAUGHS LAST

There were eight very ugly ladies in a car, going for some funny blind date. Probably due to the blind nature the journey, they met with an accident. Unfortunately, they all died.

After death, they got to heaven, where the angel death discovered he killed them all in error. As a result the error, each must be compensated with a wish.

The first girl made a wish to be beautiful, and it came true. the next six quickly made the same wish upon beholding their beautiful friend, and it came true for them all.

The last girl immediately started laughing hysterically and the angel of death became angry, because there was nothing obviously funny. The angel asked her impatiently, to make her wish, and she sheepishly made a wish that all the girls become ugly again.

And it came true for her too!

LAFFS - BAD SHARP DEAN

One night, four university students were drinking till very late in the night and didn't study for the test already scheduled for the next day at school.

In the morning with terrible hang over, they came together and thought of a plan. First they made themselves look as dirty as can be. They actually look weird and believable with the grease and dirt.

Next they went up to the dean of the faculty and told him that they had gone for a wedding last night and that on their way back, their tyre bursted and they had to push the car all the way back to school. As a result, they were not in any condition to do any test.


The dean thought for a little while, and decided to let them go for that day but should return after three days for the same test. The boys were elated, thanked him and left happily.


On the third day, they appeared before the dean for the test. The dean explained to the boys that due to the special condition of the test, they would need to seat very far away from one another. To that instruction, the students agreed gladly as they had prepared very well in the last three days.


The test had 5 questions for 100 marks, and the instruction was 'All questions are compulsory, and any inconsistency on the answer to any of the questions by any of the four students will result in all the candidates scoring zero.'

Question 1 
What is your full name?  (2 marks)

Question 2 
What is the name of the bride and the groom of the wedding you attended?  (30 marks)

Question 3 
what is the brand of the car with which you went to the wedding? (20 marks)

Question 4 
Which of the tyres got bursted?  (28 marks) 

Question 5 
Who was driving the car on that day? (20 marks)

Afters: 
Is the dean fair or not?
What do you think their scores will be? 
What can their next plan be?

Sharing is Building

Share with me how you have helped humanity in recent time.

Do you know that many other individuals may learn from you and get motivated into helping mankind?

That singular act of your  willingness to share, can motivate scores of people at the least, and more to looking for a way to being useful to mankind.

Exposure for you, your organisation and your idea may come. Funding could follow.

Many will benefit, I assure you.

Please share your experience.

Labelling: Armed Robbery Suspects

I read in the local news that two boys, whose ages are between the age 20years and 22years  were involved in armed robbery. They were arrested with arms  and dangerous weapons.

In addition they had masks in the vehicle at the point of arrest. They took valuables and cash from their main victim, and on another occasion, they took a laptop from their victim. They would probably sell the whole stuff taken from the escapades. But for how much? Hazarding a guess, i would simply come up with the answer - peanuts.

The suspects are both in the university and one would assume that they would have been given adequate allowances to cover their expenses.  Most especially being that they are children of public office holders. 

Public office holders are of  direct relevance here because, most these noveau riche,  have a tendency of flaunting their newly acquired wealth. Many times, children of  such politicians use cars that could never be affordable to them, even if they had the best jobs and have worked for years.

What could then be responsible for the dastard acts these two boys got involved in? Could it be greed, could it adventure turned sour, could it even be a reaction to a broken family.

I got to know  that the young men  neither live with their fathers or mothers, as the true situation is that the biological parents are separated and the fathers live with different women  as it catches their fancy.

The boys have started living large and would surely want to keep up the image amongst their peers.  It may also be as a result of a funny practice among members  of some cults in our higher institutions. They carry out daring things, sometimes very harmful, to show off to their peers, that they are untouchable.

What ever may be the reasons behind the nefarious acts, they can not be justified. The tag or label the boys have acquired will reside with them and their families for a very long time, probably a lifetime. Quite unfortunate, i would say.

Why do children of the rich steal? I cant seem to fathom it

What do you think?

This Thing Called Love

I can't help thinking about love. Love is a beautiful feeling, or is it an excruciating pain. Love is pain or is it  pleasure. Can it be more pain than pleasure or more pleasure than pain. Love may also be full  of equal measure of pleasure and pain.

Beyond what I know

I woke up on this beautiful day and I find myself thinking back on happenings of the past few days.I met her about seven years ago, at first casually but later closely. She was a very likable girl. You might be wondering why i used "was" in my last statement. I can't help describing as such because of the change in the status of our relationship.


I will no longer be seeing her in our neighbourhood. Tall, dark skinned and very slim. A lot of people who have come around her, I mean who have had cause to relate with her on any occasion have found her very industrious.


I got close to her at the corner shop she manages. She was really in charge, taking stock, restocking, instructing suppliers and attending to her customers. She is a member of a family who are friends to my family. She was adopted over eight years ago. She was very well integrated into the family that one has begun to notice physical resemblance common to that family.


She trained as a hair stylist with little or no academic background. She could relate in English language fairly well and would escape notice of passers through and will be passed as with a minimum of secondary school leaving certificate. She had the comportment of an schooled young woman. This in particular reflected in the way she dressed and her face make up.


In spite of the facade, i have drifted into thinking of her background. I have often wondered about it and it raised a few questions on my mind, though i didn't consciously search for answers. She is obviously in her mid twenties and has spent most of her last two decade amongst strangers who have become her family.


Very smart and would convert anything to cash even humans if she was that inclined. I found out that she never had anybody come around to look for her. Her father became late recently and she travelled for the burial rites as expected in this southern part of Nigeria. She attended and related the event on her return as very quiet due to lack of funds. Her story was laden with regrets.

Her mother is a subsistence farmer who could hardly feed herself from her harvest. Of course that has to explain why her daughter could not live with her and has to live with strangers for the most of her adult life now. There seem to be no serious bond between the two.


Suddenly things started to change with her. Attitude was non- chalant, mode of dressing was loud and inappropriate, manner of approach to most issues was rude and unagreeable. She began to exhibit arrogance. On a few occasions, she decided to leave the family house without telling anyone. She left very early in the mornings and came back very very late. She didn't give any reason for her long absence from the house.


She was obviously systematically fishing for trouble. Why she was doing that was beyond me. I tried to think through why she could be doing that and I felt and could only come up with the reason that she was no longer feeling like a part of the family that adopted her. The crack was showing, and she made it a duty to show visitors that came to their home that something was amiss.


All those who tried to counsel her never really got close to what was wrong with her because she did not volunteer personal information about her and what was really bothering her.


That chance to start imagining began. Can the desire to get married or the desperation to be loved and love in return make a girl turn her back on the family that has supported her for over eight years. Can one just wipe out eight years of ones life without giving any significance to it. Would the experiences passed through within that number of years be meaningless. She rubbished the ties with the family when she wanted to severe it.


She moved out of the family house in a very rude manner and erased all means of contacting her. She simply got lost. I am lost for words myself.

Brouhahas | Authspot

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