Friday 8 November 2013

Time-lapse transformation of homeless vet makeover to see the potentials in people we ignore everyday. (Video + pix)

If there is one thing that'll make you cry in a feel-good kind of way today, it's this.
A 25-years-old American local video producer, Rob Bliss, has set out to prove that potential exists even in the people we ignore in footage that has quickly spread across the internet. The clip features a homeless U.S. Army war veteran, Jim Wolf, who struggled with poverty and alcoholism for years. While these internal struggle can take a long time to cast off and reverse, it took only a few hours in a saloon chair to change wolf, an homeless man, into an incredible handsome man with potentials.

Rob Bliss, the video producer, said he did the transformation because he was trying to get himself into doing things for a better purpose. "If I can only get people to look at any homeless person on the street and see the mirror image of them - the image of someone who would look socially acceptable - realise that potential, that 'what if,' and root for their success," Bliss said.

Since his makeover, Wolf will soon move into his own apartment and has been attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

While this transformation was for one man and the video encourages people to donate to a specific, local ministry, it also contains messages that reach much further.

One is that "an outward transformation is important, but an inward one is more important and the other is that hopefully, it will help to change stereotypes to give people a perspective that "everyone is worthy of being treated with dignity and respect."
See more photos and watch the video after the cut:

Wednesday 30 October 2013

Inspirational courage of black teenager who saved Nazi-tattooed man at KKK march from angry mob (Photos)

This amazing image of humanity and selflessness was taken in Ann Arbor, Michigan, during clashes between the Ku Klux Klan and anti-clan protesters in June 1996. It is an image of a black teenage girl shielding a supposed white supremacist from an angry mob. 

In June 1996 the Klan held a rally outside the city hall with a small group of Klansmen dressed in white robes and hoods. Police dressed in riot gear and armed with tear gas were also present to protect the Klansmen from an estimated 300 people protesting against them. While the peaceful protest was going on, a large crowd of anti-clan protesters spotted a man with an SS tattoo and a confederate flag T-shirt and identified him as a probable Klansman; then a woman with a megaphone shouted, "There's a Klansman in the crowd." In a split second the crowd turned from peaceful protesters into an angry mob baying for blood.

Friday 17 May 2013

Exchange A Service For A Hug, Help Someone & Make The World A Better Place Like Anthony Cymerys.

Today, i want to share a little story that inspires me a lot and makes me think really deep. It's about a treasure, an awesome and selfless man, who in his little way contributes greatly to lives and put smiles on people's faces.

I'm writing about an 82-years-old Anthony Cymerys in the above picture, who is also known as Joe the Barber. He began offering his service as a barber 25-years ago after he retired from a career in business.

Every Wednesdays, Anthony sets up a chair in the shade of an oak tree in Hartford's Bushnell Park. The homeless, longtime clients and those just passing by on luck had their haircut for just a token. The fee is always the same; A HUG FOR A HAIRCUT.

Isn't that just awesome? Now you understand why i called him a treasure. He is a rare gem and a treasure to our corrupt and selfish generation. Can you imagine what he exchanges for love? An hair cut.

Relationship Issues: Dissing To Naija Guys & Babes Who Marry For Names & Money. (A Must Read)

Don't mind this picture oh....Nigerians will photoshop anything photoshopable lol... but i love the concept sha. 

The issue i want to hint on is about some of our naija guys and ladies who have nothing to write home about but they want someone to love them for who they are. Uhm...this is not funny oh..If you are one of such, REPENT!

Guy, before you ask a lady to love you for who you are, you should know who you really are. 
You don't have a job, you have got no vision, no burning desire, not even an ambition, yet you keep saying you need a lady that will 'love you for who you are'. Uhm...Who are you anyway? Do you have an identity? I beg identify yourself and don't ask anyone to go on a suicide mission.

If all you have got to offer a lady is your SURNAME, uhm...i pity for you because your name will eventually become a SOURname if the lady mistakenly marries you for your father's name. #Trust naija women with their bad mouth#

Friday 26 April 2013

Ladies, do you really know what you want in a man?


Oftentimes,when you ask a lady what she wants in a man,her response is always "i want an honest,faithful man…a man who will love me for me" (I'm not exempted lol) I think we are so shallow minded when it comes to making the right choice in a relationship or going into the right relationship. We are so caught up in our fairytales land and we forget that there are other factors we need to put into consideration because love is just not enough to make a relationship work.

Factors like:
Does he know your birthday?
Does he understand your moods?
Does he know your weaknesses and strengths?
What are his own dreams?
What is your role in those dreams?
What kind of person is he?
Does he smoke? Why does he smoke?
Does he drink? What makes him drink?
What is his lifestyle?
How does he fund it? What does he do for a living?
What does he want to do for a living? What does he want to do for a better tomorrow?

Friday 29 March 2013

Touching Video: A companion to the forgotten.

Today being Good Friday, and the week of the remembrance of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, what are you doing to live a Christ-like life?

How are you showing love to those in need of it? How are you living according to the word of God about giving? 

I'm not referring to giving to your pastors or lovers here, rather, i'm referring to giving to those in need, bearing your neighbor's burden, sharing the little you have with those that have nothing....

The bible ordered us to give to the needy and less privileged in our society....
In Proverbs 22:9 - Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

1st John 3:17-18 But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Proverbs 14:31 Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

Isaiah 58:10 If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.

Proverbs 28:27 Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse.

There is a gratification and a blessing that goes with giving, one does not need to be a christian for them to give because we have all got 5.5 litres of blood running through our vains and we are all human. 

Below is a touching video of a selfless man. Happy viewing and Happy Good Friday!

Wednesday 27 March 2013

Are there still sincere people around?

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I saw this on Facebook and decided to share because it's so me. I can deal with and forgive a person that's wrong as long as they are sincere. 
In the world that we live in today, finding sincere people is as good as impossible. There is always a selfish interest behind every gesture and no one wants to tell the truth but they all want to hear the truth. What a world we live in!

Tuesday 26 March 2013

A MUST READ: Ladies, marriage is not a DO or DIE affair.

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This lady was beaten blue/black by her husband and she is in coma....no one knows if she will make it.
This whole violence against women is deafening and a law should be put in place to castrate any man who raises his hand against a woman. I want to use this avenue to diss the ladies who still think marriage is for better or for worse. 

Few days ago, a friend of mine asked me for advice, her husband is what you will call a 'dog', he goes after anything and everything, he keep telling his girlfriends that he is not married, then promise them marriage and even goes ahead to impregnate them; Whereas he has a wife and child at home. Now, my friend is scared because her husband might end up contacting her with STDs, even at that, she still thinks marriage is for better and for worse. 

I didn't ask her to leave her marriage, i only asked her to choose between her life and her marriage. If her life is important to her, she will leave the marriage and take care of her child but if the marriage is more important to her, she will get infected with STDs and another woman will help her train her child. 
How can you sacrifice your life for someone who doesn't even know the value? 

Wednesday 20 March 2013

Everything in life is Vanity!


Sometimes, i wonder what people think when they feel and act like the world is under their feet, when they act like they can do anything and get away with it, when they intimidate the less privileged as if there is no end to this life.

For example, when Blackberry first came out, it was an hot cake and most people intimidated others with it; but now, everybody use it. 
Camry was once the car for the big boys, but now, it's being used for public transport.
Plasma screen TV was only owned by the rich, but now, it's used in every local restaurant to watch football matches. People used to go out with the Ipad for swag, but now, it's too heavy to go out with.

Some so called big girls used to intimidate other babes with their brazilian hair, but now, even secondary school girls are tired of wearing human hair.
You form big girls/boys because you go to UK for vacation, but now, real big boys/girls buy first class ticket just to go buy ice cream in London.

What i'm trying to get across is that we should stop acting like there is no tomorrow because the things we place so much value on today will fade out like ABA jeans; and just like what we call Tortoise car today was once a big man's car yesterday.

Everything in life has an expiring date; even the life we have is a borrowed one.
No matter what you have, be humble and always be thankful to God for whatever he has given you because aside God, all of these material things are just plain vanity.


Sunday 10 March 2013

Start your day with this thought and be inspired.


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Don't give up, try again!

Guys, love her the way she needs to be loved and not the way you want to love her.

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Sometimes, guys tend to be selfish with their love by doing whatever they want, even when it hurts their women. 

They knowingly hurt their women and later come back to say 'baby, i'm sorry, i'm trying my best to love you'. Uhmm that's really sad and funny. 

How can you try your best to love someone if you keep lying and cheating on them? 

How can you say you love someone but your attitudes show something else? 

If you don't feel comfortable when the person you love hurts you because of their selfish interest, then you would stop hurting your women and start loving them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.

Saturday 9 March 2013

Ladies, learn how to love your man.

Most time i think women unfairly or unknowingly put men through unnecessary stress either because they want things done their way or because they are too self centered and selfish to even notice that they are not the only one having a bad day and that their men need TLC too.

Do you know why your man comes home every day at the close of work? 
Uhmmm....maybe you need to know what goes on at work first..... :-)

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Your man goes through all the imaginables like....
*Noise Chaos
*Stress
*Insults
*Laughter
*Jokes
*Ridicule
*Temptation
*Seduction
*Salary arrears
*Instructions
*Deadlines
*Food
*Boredom
*Excitement....and the list goes on & on

You are sure to succeed if only you don't give up.

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Here is a little tipoff if you know nothing about the most talk about man not only in the history of America but in World history.
He wasn't only the messiah that put an end to slavery, his whole life was also a total inspiration.


Abraham Lincoln lo­st his job in 1832
Failed in business in 1833
Lost his wife 1835
Had a nervous breakdown 1836
Was defeated for speaker 1838
Lost bid for congress 1843
Lost nomination to congress in 1848
Was rejected for land officer 1849
Was defeated for senate in 1854
Lost nomination for vice president in 1856
Defeated for senate in 1858 and was finally elected president of the United state of America in 1860.

Do not give up on your challenges until they give up on you. Be consistent, you will succeed if only you don't give up.