My last 10 facebook status messages…. I wonder what that says about me. *thinking deeply* lol! Its amazing how much fb lingo has crossed over to blogsville…Has it always been like this? Please note that numbers 5-10 were put up during Nigeria’s quarter-final match against Zambia on Monday night. Was watching clips of it while [...]
Archive > January 2010
My first visit to the Cinema
Mo lo wo cinema o! (Yoruba for “I went to the Cinema” though its literal meaning “I went to watch cinema” cinema pronounced with a thick yoruba accent) Cinema meaning film or a really cinematographic spectacle , such as people fighting (Yes this is Lagos!). Actually I went to the E-Centre Cinema at Yaba. My [...]
Random words…spoken often!
1. Oluwa sanu mi! (Yoruba for God have mercy upon me). If you’ve been with me for any length of time, the chances that I’ll say it 5 times in 10mins is 100%. I smile now as I had not realised it until several people pointed it out to me…It has become habit. What am [...]
Not a thief!
The ongoing travails of formerly respected Nigerian bankers is nothing new. A cycle that has been repeated before and will be repeated again in the near future. Men and women suddenly plunged from the top of their empires to the mire of dunghills. Their names which were yesterday printed in gold now conscripted to the [...]
5 Years!
June 7, 2010 my blog (I started out on blogspot) will be 5 years old! Waow! 5….just thinking about it makes me smile… I’ve been thinking about what to do and I’m thinking of a BLOOD DRIVE! To celebrate there’ll be a number of posts (before then) to enlist a large number of people to [...]
Pink or Blue ?
I remember clearly (I use the word remember a lot) coming home from hospital still in pain after a painless delivery but almost botched and fatal after-delivery session and being welcomed back by a visitor with “Ahhh the next one will be 2 boys”. I was stunned, my 9-months of ‘pre-labor’ and surgery that almost [...]
Sleeping trouble…!
Trouble dey sleep, yanga go wake am! One phrase which in pidgin English connotes the fact that ‘yanga’ (now what is Yanga in English o?) emmmm, shakara, hmmm, ako!. What exactly do these words mean? In English ‘airs’, conceit or arrogance usually displayed with exaggerated body movements. (think Head held high, nose in the air, [...]
The day after…
The day after a paper is submitted, I start thinking of what book to buy. I purchase a book after every examination and after submitting assignments. Its the cherry on top of the cake for me, the meat after the meal! It gives me something to look forward to and makes me realise I’ve achieved [...]
9jeria!
“I love my country, I no go lie na inside am I go live and die”… I remember singing and dancing to this jingle when I was much younger. Maybe the song did something to me because I do not consider going outside Nigeria to live for any length of time and when the good [...]
