Monday 28 November 2016

Nestle Ideal Dessertfest Pop Up Event Sets Matchless Record

Yvonne Okoro and Sandra Ankobia
The Cake Fair "pop up" event christened the Nestle Ideal Dessertfest which happened over the weekend brought life to the Osu Oxford Street mall as hundreds of dessert enthusiasts throng the venue.

The main organizers, Yellow October and VoiceAds pulled off another top-notch event at a venue most event organizers considered dead for any successful stories.

Kekeli and Kati G - The Cake Fair Organizers
The matchless dessert themed pop up show witnessed another record setting in terms of the crowed it garnered and the early sell outs made by some vendors before the close of the fair.

Sixteen vendors including two beverage makers, dessert accessories and equipment suppliers, and over 1, 500 cake fair attendees participated.


The Nestle Ideal Dessertfest had more than just belly sweetening cakes to dazzle participants: from apple pies to vegan brownies, cheesecakes, cupcakes, and tongs of ice creams, patrons were left asking for more.

And just like this year's July 30 first maiden edition of the cake fair, A-list radio and TV personalities including Yvonne Okoro, Sandra Ankobia, Farida Bedwei, Fiifi Folson, Kokui Serlomey and Dzifa Grey gave the event a celebrity touch of splendor.

Fiifi Folson hugs Kati G
The dessert themed event which came of this Saturday, November 26, is a series of pop up shows to be organized before another maiden cake fair event next year with the aims of providing platforms for owners of start-up foodies to network and expose their businesses to new clientele.



This event is proudly sponsored by Nestle Idea and powered by VoiceAds and Yellow October with media partner support.
Source:cmcghana.blogspot.com/Crabbe Nathaniel 

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Thursday 24 November 2016

Trump's Election Win Is Not God's Voice

You cannot use 1 Corinthians 1-27 "But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong" to justify Trump's victory.

US President-elect Donald Trump

By now you have moved on - may be not!

If you have - perhaps you deserve a spa treat at the last floor of a Trump tower, pass a stool on his golden toilets or a world tour in his private jet for being among the many people with gladiator-shock-absorbers.

Reality check: millions are still alarmed and in fear by the foul rhetoric of US President-elect Donald Trump during and after the presidential election campaigns - many or none of which he has still not disavowed and appears determined to pursue.

You should be terrified too!

Or I hope the many of you twerking to a Trump victory isn't only about the Democratic Party's [Hillary Clinton] pro-women's right to abortion or pro-gay rights.

Shocker!



"It's law. It was settled in the Supreme Court...they've been settled, and I'm fine with that", U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump is quoted by The Hill to have said on the issue of gay marriage.

While this reported pronouncement may have put to rest some fears - lawful protests across the U.S. is evident that thousands continue to remain jittery of a Trump presidency: his bed-reddening win left the world markets tumbling - the Internet also reacted in shock and in disbelieve.

For millions Trump's ascension to the United States' presidency is an overwhelming victory for bigots, racists, misogynists, chauvinists and white supremacists. His vitriolic verbal attacks especially of Muslims and Mexicans - women and blacks is beyond heart sickening.

 It is anti-Christ!



It therefore strikes a jolt of paralysis to read and listen to a Calvary of so-called Christian voices literally ascribe President-elect Donald Trump as "savior" of the "Free World" who would cleanse the world of its sins: I cringe and "curl up". Not with a good book.

With a pen and paper to ask you to SHUT UP. Which is overly being mild and extremely kind: your ignorance is toxic, dire, and deadly and deserves far more tongue-lashing and ink-bashing. It makes it very difficult to react to your ill-informed logic with any sort of respect - after your poor attempt to equate or justify Trump's win with biblical quotations including 1 Corinthians 1-27 "But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong".

Don't be silly; Trump is neither weak nor foolish: he is a U.S. billionaire business mogul with a great deal of assets which makes him one of the most strong and influential people on the world stage with ties to prominent world leaders - possibly those of Russia.

Just so you know - the nuclear-like challenges threatening world peace, economic stability and human existence or lives including poverty and hunger, fair trade, narcotics, injustice, terrorism, racism, unequal rights for all persons, global warming, ongoing wars and the looming threat of a Third World War are far dire than your pursuit to push your beliefs and values down people's throat. 

May be you should be more concern of the drop-dead reality that we all could be wiped out in minutes without prior notice. And not about who's having sex with who who or what some women want to do with a pregnancy.

Your misplaced confidence of arrogating to yourselves some form of authority to act as God's spokespersons is upsetting: Because I'm still trying to find out where in the Bible white supremacy is promoted.

Because more than divisive rhetoric [us versus them] and resentment [darkness] appears to have won. While you reserve the right to gyrate - you are cannot posit that most of Trump's vile rhetoric on Mexicans and Muslims personifies the Holy Bible.

I can relate to sexism and slavery though.

Your reason for hailing Trump's win is well within your rights and perhaps understandable: that the Democratic Party [Hillary Clinton] supports anti-biblical policies including women's rights to abortion and gay rights - not with standing - does not make Trump a quarter of half an inch close to being the-would-be savior" of the U.S. or God-elect.



Don't confuse political correctness with true character or beliefs: mentioning Jesus Christ/Allah or God's name on campaign platforms does not qualify one as God's own elect to be leader.



Else leaders in my native country, Ghana, are God-sent-sons to rule.

Theocracy is extinct: people choose their leaders in the 21st century. You do not know what God wants for the American people - God may work with who ever the U.S. electoral collage chooses.



So yeah - SHUT UP!

And allow people to heal from the offensive and divisive rhetoric from both sides during presidential electioneering campaigns.

Which I doubt would be anytime soon.

And to any one super-anxious about the future due to an eminent Trump presidency - let me reecho parts of what President Obama said he briefly told his daughters Malia, 18, and Sasha, 15, about Trump's victory during an extensive profile by the New Yorker, which gives an inside look at Obama before and after the election: "...people are complicated. Societies and cultures are really complicated... This is not mathematics; this is biology and chemistry," Obama told the New Yorker's David Remnick.

"These are living organisms and it's messy. And your job as a decent human being is to constantly affirm and lift up and fight for treating people with kindness and respect and understandings...at any given moment there's going to be flare-ups of bigotry that you may have to confront, or may be inside you and you have to vanquish. And it doesn't stop... You don't get into a fetal position about it. You say, 'Ok, where are the places where I can push to keep it moving forward'", Obama said.


By Crabbe Nathaniel

Saturday 19 November 2016

Trump's Election Win Is Not God's Voice


You cannot use 1 Corinthians 1-27 "But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong" to justify Trump's victory.

US President-elect Donald Trump.

By now you have moved on - may be not!

If you have - perhaps you deserve a spa treat at the last floor of a Trump tower or a world tour in his private jet for being among the many people with gladiator-shock-absorbers.

Reality check: millions are still alarmed and in fear by the foul rhetoric of US President-elect Donald Trump during and after the presidential election campaigns - many or none of which he has still not disavowed and appears determined to pursue.

You should be terrified too!

Or I hope the many of you twerking to a Trump victory isn't only about the Democratic Party's [Hillary Clinton] pro-women's right to abortion or pro-gay rights.

Shocker!

"It's law. It was settled in the Supreme Court...they've been settled, and I'm fine with that", U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump is quoted by The Hill to have said on the issue of gay marriage.



While this reported pronouncement may have put to rest some fears - lawful protests across the U.S. is evident that thousands continue to remain jittery of a Trump presidency: his bed-reddening win left the world markets tumbling - the Internet also reacted in shock and in disbelieve.

For millions Trump's ascension to the United States' presidency is an overwhelming victory for bigots, racists, misogynists, chauvinists and white supremacists. His vitriolic verbal attacks especially of Muslims and Mexicans - women and blacks is beyond heart sickening. It is anti-Christ!



It therefore strikes a jolt of paralysis to read and listen to a Calvary of so-called Christian voices literally ascribe President-elect Donald Trump as "savior" of the "Free World" who would cleanse the world of its sins: I cringe and "curl up". Not with a good book.

With a pen and paper to ask you to SHUT UP. Which is overly being mild and extremely kind: your ignorance is toxic, dire, and deadly and deserves far more tongue-lashing and ink-bashing. It makes it very difficult to react to your ill-informed logic with any sort of respect - after your poor attempt to equate or justify Trump's win with biblical quotations including 1 Corinthians 1-27 "But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong".

Don't be silly; Trump is neither weak nor foolish: he is a U.S. billionaire business mogul with a great deal of assets which makes him one of the most strong and influential people on the world stage with ties to prominent world leaders - possibly those of Russia.

Just so you know - the nuclear-like challenges threatening world peace, economic stability and human existence or lives including poverty and hunger, fair trade, narcotics, injustice, terrorism, racism, unequal rights for all persons, global warming, ongoing wars and the looming threat of a Third World War are far dire than your pursuit to push your beliefs and values down people's throats.

May be you should be more concern about the drop-dead reality that we all could be wiped out in minutes without prior notice. And not about who's FUCKING who or what some women want to do with a pregnancy.

Your misplaced confidence of arrogating to yourselves some form of authority to act as God's spokespersons is upsetting: Because I'm still trying to find out where in the Bible white supremacy is promoted.

Because more than divisive rhetoric [us versus them] and resentment [darkness] appears to have won. While you reserve the right to gyrate - you are cannot posit that most of Trump's vile rhetoric on Mexicans and Muslims personifies the Holy Bible.

I can relate to sexism and slavery though.

Your reason for hailing Trump's win is well within your rights and perhaps understandable: that the Democratic Party [Hillary Clinton] supports anti-biblical policies including women's rights to abortion and gay rights - not with standing - does not make Trump a quarter of half an inch close to being the-would-be savior" of the U.S. or God-elect.



Don't confuse political correctness with true character or beliefs: mentioning Jesus Christ/Allah or God's name on campaign platforms does not qualify one as God's own elect to be leader.



Else leaders in my native country, Ghana, are God-sent-sons to rule.

Theocracy is extinct: people choose their leaders in the 21st century. You do not know what God wants for the American people - God may work with who ever the U.S. electoral collage chooses.



So yeah - SHUT UP!

And allow people to heal from the offensive and divisive rhetoric from both sides during presidential electioneering campaigns.

Which I doubt would be anytime soon.

And to any one super-anxious about the future due to an eminent Trump presidency - let me reecho parts of what President Obama said he briefly told his daughters Malia, 18, and Sasha, 15, about Trump's victory during an extensive profile by the New Yorker, which gives an inside look at Obama before and after the election: "...people are complicated. Societies and cultures are really complicated... This is not mathematics; this is biology and chemistry," Obama told the New Yorker's David Remnick.

"These are living organisms and it's messy. And your job as a decent human being is to constantly affirm and lift up and fight for treating people with kindness and respect and understandings...at any given moment there's going to be flare-ups of bigotry that you may have to confront, or may be inside you and you have to vanquish. And it doesn't stop... You don't get into a fetal position about it. You say, 'Ok, where are the places where I can push to keep it moving forward'", Obama said.

Crabbe Nathaniel is a Freelance Journalist - Blogger - Publicist - Poet.

Monday 7 November 2016

“Love On My Lips”


My love is wine
Fresh - so fine.
My love is as baileys
flowing from the valleys.

My love is melody
sweetly song in harmony.
So deep in love am I; that should the earth roll into the sea
My love for you will never cease

Dear, should the sea go dry
my love for you will never die.       
My love is red wine
served in glass: cheers to your love and mine.




"Ridiculous"

Caution: this piece contains graphic words, image and meant to sound ridiculous as  possible



Pussy said: It gets loud

Dick said: Nay, just whispers.

Pussy said: Up, black-dark cloud
I hear voices.
                                                                 
Dick said: True, just whispers.
       
Pussy said: Wait, it pauses
Alas! Walking heads
There, you missed
There go shadows
Here, three heads.

Dick said: What, demons?”

Pussy: [Sighs] Hmm, eyes rolling

Dick said: Fixated and watching”

Pussy: [Shouting, screaming] Demons, demons!
Again you missed”

Dick said: Nay, three heads

Pussy said: You seem calm

Dick said: True, just heads

Pussy said: Feel my palm

Dick said: Nay, it’s gay

Pussy said: I like gay

Dick said: Well we've all got choices...
loud voices.

Pussy said: Wait! Steps approaching

Three walking heads

Dick said: Walking heads? Ridiculous

Pussy said: True, there, approaching

Dick said: How, where, heads?

Pussy and dick:[Shouting] Alas! Walking heads

Walking heads? Ridiculous!

This poem was written  in 2012 and updated in 2016. And written to sound ridiculous as possible with few exceptions. It's to be  performed by two person.

By: cmcghana.blogspot.com/Crabbe Nathaniel

Feature: Yetrama Personality for the month of November

Samuel Amissah

Born in Cape Coast on October 26, 1988 - Samuel Amissah is a director of music, teacher, songwriter/composer and performer. At age ten – he started learning to play the trumpet at the first Cape Coast Company of the Boys Brigade, Ghana. And rose through the ranks to become the Central Regional Band Instructor of the Association of Methodist Brigades at twenty-two.

From 2003 – 2006, he studied Music, History, English Literature and Geography at Mfantsipim School and won the Best Music Student Award in 2004. He was one of the students that started the famous Mfantsipim School Regimental Band in 2003.

Currently - Samuel holds a Master of Philosophy Degree in Music from the University of Ghana, a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana and a Diploma in Computer Studies from IBB Centre for Computer Studies in Cape Coast, Ghana.

He represented Ghana at the Global Musician’s Conference 2011 organised by GLOMAS and GLOMUS, and the Music Composers’ Workshop 2014 in Ghana organised by the Royal Hague Conservatory of Music, Holland.

Samuel also holds professional certificates in songwriting, music production and music business foundation from Berklee College of Music, Boston.

Samuel’s interest in music composition perked up when he took up the responsibility as the principal organist of Oguaa Youth, Cape Coast in 2011.