whaddup people?!!!
gosh, it's been one hell of a week end and week.
i've turned to an 'ajala' in my own right. it all started when i decided to dawn all consequences and travel all the way to my home state far north for my ma's thanksgiving. Now, this journey took 24 hrs. Wasnt at all sure i cud go cos i was unwell for most of last week . it took just a matter of minutes however for me to change ma mind, as i thot to maself, if i broke down completely, work wud still go on without me and i wont even be missed. Wat the hell, i packed a light bag thursday nite and brought it with me to work on friday , and jived str8 to board a nite bus. Been a while since i felt this gud wit maself cos i damned all, left ma desk and off i was and boy did i feel good!!
Back in the ''U.S of A'' like i like to call ma country home, it was sheer bliss. first thing i did was head for the kitchen and indulge. (e don tay wey person see food boku like dat) and as it was a big occassion, there were varieties. the thanksgiving itself was beautiful as i saw lots and lots of people whom i hadnt seen in a while and the camaradie btw these people made it all the more beautiful.
Living in a place like lagos, one tends to take a lot of things for granted , people are to0 be used and once done, u dump them until the next time u need to get something else done. but it was a different ball game (its always been any way), back here. People are ur greatest assets. the simplicity with which life is lived and more so without pretext is just wat's lacking in our more urbane societies. Ur neighbours, familiy, friends all got ur back and rally round u for watever thing ur involved in. My ma was shown so much luv as cooler after cooler loads of food , snacks, drinks and souvenirs found their way into ma home on the morning of the thanksgiving and from church, the no of people who trooped to the house showed just how much my ma had a supporters club in place .
to think i'm back at work after forgetting for 3 straight days that there was such a thing as a work place.
Godwas definately on ma side as i didnt have the necessary clearance to enable me leave work in the first instance to travel. Dropped off ma application and was off only to come back (having been a day late) and no mention was made of wat i'd done. infact, i'd call it a miracle as Mr. Talk-the-talk chose that time to travel as well so i didnt get to fall in to his trap. Anoda interesting part of the trip is the bit about me having to be stranded in the capital city....
more gist bout that 2moro.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
in retrospect...
...was reluctant to leave the house this morning cos my mum was leaving. she's headed back home. Saying goodbye is one of the hardest things to do especially where a luv'd one involved. We prayed and eventually had to say goodbye and had to head for work. Missing her already.
On my way to work was reading the punch newspapers (yeah, yeah, i know wat u think, i read the papers too).
i read with interest an article on Eritrea's president Isias Afywer who had walked away from foreign aid amounting to $200million. Whao, that must be some crazy fellow i thot, but on reading further im discovered that he was merely trying top grow the economy of the country and as he said that cudnt be done if he had to enslave his country in debt.'until we're able to grow our economy to full production and manufacturing capacity, we wud accept no grants and our borders will remain shut to imports). That got me thinking, if only Nigeria cud do the same! How long shud neo-colonialism thrive in our continent? accepting ODA's AND DEBT instruments give rise to foreign interventions by the western world who think they have superiority only because of technological advantage.
I think, Mr. etritrean president shud be given the chance to work at bettering the lives of his people in the long term tho the short term may be unbearable. We as a whole shud also look inwards and rather than always asking assistance from the same people who seek to further enslave you pertually by asking you to take more debt until it now gets to the point where they now dictate their terms to you and you cannot but accept.
Gotta go, got a long weekend ahead. Stay blessed!
On my way to work was reading the punch newspapers (yeah, yeah, i know wat u think, i read the papers too).
i read with interest an article on Eritrea's president Isias Afywer who had walked away from foreign aid amounting to $200million. Whao, that must be some crazy fellow i thot, but on reading further im discovered that he was merely trying top grow the economy of the country and as he said that cudnt be done if he had to enslave his country in debt.'until we're able to grow our economy to full production and manufacturing capacity, we wud accept no grants and our borders will remain shut to imports). That got me thinking, if only Nigeria cud do the same! How long shud neo-colonialism thrive in our continent? accepting ODA's AND DEBT instruments give rise to foreign interventions by the western world who think they have superiority only because of technological advantage.
I think, Mr. etritrean president shud be given the chance to work at bettering the lives of his people in the long term tho the short term may be unbearable. We as a whole shud also look inwards and rather than always asking assistance from the same people who seek to further enslave you pertually by asking you to take more debt until it now gets to the point where they now dictate their terms to you and you cannot but accept.
Gotta go, got a long weekend ahead. Stay blessed!
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
..What went down.
...Dont even know where to start from cos havent blogged in a while. o.k so let me just give highlights.
Now Friday was something else, was as if everyone who knew me or had something to do with me, chose dat day to call me or drop by the office. To say the day was C.R.A.Z.Y, is an understatement. From answering unending phone calls to attending to the 1001 client requests and having to send mails, whilst coughing and sneezing and sneezing all at once. in between, still found time to buy stuff from two different people (friends of mine) who'd brought clothes and shoes for sale. Can u imagine and urs truly found the time to still buy stuff in the midst of all the madness. (got to watch my spending cos hell my salary doesnt take me home and i've got a zillion and one bills to pay and need i mention i'm paying for a house as well). Didnt know how i survived it all and how i even got home that nite. All i know was i hit the snooze button and was off. Dozed the two hours it takes me to get home and was only woken up when i got to my bustop. when i hit the bed.... the rest, as they say, is history.
Saturday?! hmmm! woke up at noon with this blinding headache one gets from overindulgence in sleep (God knows i needed the rest). thankfully, i didnt need to think of having to fix breakfast cos that was waiting for me (thanx to a mum who knows how to care for her kids). When she eventually goes back, i'll resume my normal "spinster' lifestyle of just eating wat i can find in the fridge or making indomie. 'Got a brother who all he knows best is gobble up everything he sees with no thot to the next person (hey sometimes he tries sha, but only sometimes).
Good day, at least i rested except for the feverish condition.
Sunday..... Church and afterwards hurried home cos 'K' was coming to meet my mum. boy, from after church closed, visitor after visitor trooped in to see mummy after such a while of not seeing her. Had to play the perfect hostess while all the while i was thinking of the kind of reception' K' was going to get. Now over the years my mum's attitude to my boyfriends has been anything but encouraging. Her hostility to my male friends has cost me many a relationship and good friendships. so u can understand my anxiety at her meeting with someone i plan on marrying.
Had to involve Baba God here and ask that all wud go well, make she release me make i marry. (i don tire to dey pay house rent now)!
Finally, the ice was broken! Talk about a man's gift making way for him! He loaded gifts with him when coming and had on then most charming smile i had ever seen. (there is something about K's boyish, cute, ''youngish' & innocent looks that wud make u want to do anything for him).
He broke thru her and regaled her with tales of his country and everything under the sun they talked about.
Boy, was i in heaven!! didnt believe when afterhe left she kept asking that i call to find out if he was home alrite.( she was hooked on him already) !
Monday... Independence day! never had i ever felt so proud to be a citizen of this great nation. Was up early, had my bath and was out to be a part fo something that wud affect this nation. My church was distributing free copies of our daily devotional, over 2 million copies. We sang the national anthem, prayed for the country and here's the fun part... we were all dressed in the national colours green white green, had our faces painted the same and even down to the makeup, mascara and all...now how patriotic can u get?!
Had fun with the band giving it a carnival-like touch, us strutting , dancing down the streets and doling out these materials. Felt gud to be part of God's family doing all that stuff and i felt pretty sure God was smiling down at us all and enjoying Himself.
Tuesday.... was late to work cos didnt remember to put my alarm back on (the holiday was bliss, had to sleep without the annoying ring of alarm that woke you to go slave for another man)! And naturally, i ran into traffic and got to work late. thankfully, i wasnt the only guilty one; most of my colleagues turned in late.
Today?! woke up with this embarassing fever rash on my upper lip which i tried very hard to conceal with make up but at the end, i thot to myself, what the heck, it wont kill if anyone saw it, so i maintained.
Nothing interesting happened today (hence the "highlights").
so, there u have it, a lowdown on what went down. Peace!!
Now Friday was something else, was as if everyone who knew me or had something to do with me, chose dat day to call me or drop by the office. To say the day was C.R.A.Z.Y, is an understatement. From answering unending phone calls to attending to the 1001 client requests and having to send mails, whilst coughing and sneezing and sneezing all at once. in between, still found time to buy stuff from two different people (friends of mine) who'd brought clothes and shoes for sale. Can u imagine and urs truly found the time to still buy stuff in the midst of all the madness. (got to watch my spending cos hell my salary doesnt take me home and i've got a zillion and one bills to pay and need i mention i'm paying for a house as well). Didnt know how i survived it all and how i even got home that nite. All i know was i hit the snooze button and was off. Dozed the two hours it takes me to get home and was only woken up when i got to my bustop. when i hit the bed.... the rest, as they say, is history.
Saturday?! hmmm! woke up at noon with this blinding headache one gets from overindulgence in sleep (God knows i needed the rest). thankfully, i didnt need to think of having to fix breakfast cos that was waiting for me (thanx to a mum who knows how to care for her kids). When she eventually goes back, i'll resume my normal "spinster' lifestyle of just eating wat i can find in the fridge or making indomie. 'Got a brother who all he knows best is gobble up everything he sees with no thot to the next person (hey sometimes he tries sha, but only sometimes).
Good day, at least i rested except for the feverish condition.
Sunday..... Church and afterwards hurried home cos 'K' was coming to meet my mum. boy, from after church closed, visitor after visitor trooped in to see mummy after such a while of not seeing her. Had to play the perfect hostess while all the while i was thinking of the kind of reception' K' was going to get. Now over the years my mum's attitude to my boyfriends has been anything but encouraging. Her hostility to my male friends has cost me many a relationship and good friendships. so u can understand my anxiety at her meeting with someone i plan on marrying.
Had to involve Baba God here and ask that all wud go well, make she release me make i marry. (i don tire to dey pay house rent now)!
Finally, the ice was broken! Talk about a man's gift making way for him! He loaded gifts with him when coming and had on then most charming smile i had ever seen. (there is something about K's boyish, cute, ''youngish' & innocent looks that wud make u want to do anything for him).
He broke thru her and regaled her with tales of his country and everything under the sun they talked about.
Boy, was i in heaven!! didnt believe when afterhe left she kept asking that i call to find out if he was home alrite.( she was hooked on him already) !
Monday... Independence day! never had i ever felt so proud to be a citizen of this great nation. Was up early, had my bath and was out to be a part fo something that wud affect this nation. My church was distributing free copies of our daily devotional, over 2 million copies. We sang the national anthem, prayed for the country and here's the fun part... we were all dressed in the national colours green white green, had our faces painted the same and even down to the makeup, mascara and all...now how patriotic can u get?!
Had fun with the band giving it a carnival-like touch, us strutting , dancing down the streets and doling out these materials. Felt gud to be part of God's family doing all that stuff and i felt pretty sure God was smiling down at us all and enjoying Himself.
Tuesday.... was late to work cos didnt remember to put my alarm back on (the holiday was bliss, had to sleep without the annoying ring of alarm that woke you to go slave for another man)! And naturally, i ran into traffic and got to work late. thankfully, i wasnt the only guilty one; most of my colleagues turned in late.
Today?! woke up with this embarassing fever rash on my upper lip which i tried very hard to conceal with make up but at the end, i thot to myself, what the heck, it wont kill if anyone saw it, so i maintained.
Nothing interesting happened today (hence the "highlights").
so, there u have it, a lowdown on what went down. Peace!!
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