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 [...]
Archive > 20 January 2010
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, [...]