musings

 I'm writing about coffee with a simple intention: knowledge sharing. I've always wanted to write about my interests. Currently, I've developed an interest in the nitty-gritty of coffee production, especially the Ghanaian coffee variety. You can go ahead and say it,  I have a coffee obsession. I don't intend to only write about coffee. I've spent a lot of time considering ways I can compile my observations in a more structured way because I tend to forget a lot of interesting things. Here goes... Most people in African countries drink tea, and Ghana is no exception. Typically, when we talk about morning beverages in Ghana, we have tea in mind. "Tea" as in Milo chocolate drink. I'm not criticising the way we think about our morning beverages, at least some of us take in a light breakfast.  Milo is the most popular morning breakfast here. Until Nescafe. Nescafe is an instant coffee that broke into the Ghanaian scene. Preparation of Nescafe is so convenie...

  A lot of millennials grew up watching anime. As a result, anime became part of our identities. A lot of us may have possessed  Dragon Ball or Pokemon paraphernalia. This is how influential otaku culture is to this generation. The problem is that the shounen formula became tiring as we grew up. Shounen anime is targeted at young boys, and the shounen formula always includes some form of struggle and solving challenges through camaraderie. Popularly known as the power of friendship. But it gets really annoying. Talk-no-jutsu is another anime trope that becomes terrifyingly dull. The protagonist literally "talks" the villain into defeat by signalling some virtue the mangaka wants to extol. In any case, lots of young people lost interest in following shounen anime that keeps running. Yes, we're looking at you Dragon Ball .  I loved One piece. It has stellar world-building, lovable characters and a marvellous story-line. The only problem is that One Piece has reached abou...

 I'm sitting in the kindergarten classroom. The girl sitting beside me is rubbing her saliva on the round table we share. I've been engaged in deep conversation with Dede. She tells me about a time she travelled and got stranded. She ended up spending the night with a complete stranger. As we're engaged in conversation, I'm getting judgy looks from the others in the kindergarten room. I just noticed they are people I know from my congregation, I wonder why my subconscious put them in the kindergarten with me. I leave the kindergarten block and dance all the way to the canteen. I don't have absolute control of my dream so I don't know why I need to dance to move from place to place. I meet Shadrach at the canteen. I haven't spoken to Shadrach in a very long time so I ask him to check out our old assembly hall with me. Shadrach accompanies me but there is a bit of a problem. I stop dreaming. I go back into the dream state. This time, I have a bit of control so...