How have you all been enjoying this thing going on with PHCN and the whole nation? I know a lot of us have cursed and cussed, and plenty are tired of cussing already. I’m not tired tho! Stored and refrigerated foods are spoiling, no water, rashes on skin, the heat is making people fall ill… tell me why I should get tired of cussing again? Please!
Anyways, been long I been up in here, some of you’ve been wondering what and where I’ve been hiding. Well, main hoo na! :D
In the next few paragraphs, lemme me kindly indulge you in what have been up to lately. First, I got to defend my final project! Yay! I’m happy for me! Then I got my ass back to Lagos and I’ve been bored ever since!
On a particular boring afternoon, I decided to go say hello to my neighbour (although the real reason for going there was to charge my phone). There I met a guy, tall, fair in complexion, good-looking and e’erythang! I said ‘hello’ but he didn’t respond… I was like yeah, whatever. I settled down to a movie, and my neighbour came. We got gisting and all and he was talking about the dude that didn’t answer when I said hello, how he was a genius, came out with a First Class in Computer Science… I was like dude, how can you talk about the guy like he isn’t here, and to make matters worse he didn’t even pay us any attention. Pride, you would say, right? Well, that’s what I said too until my neighbour told me the guy couldn’t hear a thing! What do you mean he can’t hear a thing?! Turns out the guy is deaf! Awww… e yah! I felt sorry for him; but hey, a lotta people are born deaf, right?! Exactly! I was really sorry for him cos he wasn’t born deaf, he became deaf after his NYSC programme in a Northern state. According to what I was told, the northern wind was so bad it destroyed his hearing ability! That totally brought tears to my eyes! Only in Nigeria will you go to serve your motherland and you come back with a hazard totally ignored and uncared for by the government! No compensation, no pay for damages, nothing! I really really felt sorry for the guy. Now all he depends on is lip-reading and texting. Poor him!
Let’s move away from the sad story… another boring afternoon, I was at my friend’s dry-cleaning place and these two guys walk in.
First Guy: Oyinbo, how are you?
Me: *raises eyebrow* nodded that I was fine
Second Guy: Hey do you stay around here, cos I’ve never seen you before.
Me: Well, I’ve never seen you before too.
Second Guy: What are you studying? (pointing to my laptop)
Me: What?
Second Guy: What are you studying in school?
Me: Oh, nothing for now I just graduated.
Second Guy: Oh, you mean school is not in session?
Me: I mean I just graduated
Second Guy: From school?
Me: *whispering* No, from church!
And that’s all folks! I’m back to my bored state, maybe I’ll go to my friend’s again and see if there are more guys who wants to know if it’s school I graduated from or somewhere else!
Oh btw, TGIF! The Beat Bar Crawl is going down tonight... Y'all going should... enjoy!
Friday, March 30, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
WRINKLE WRINKLE LITTLE SKIN
Isn’t it weird that I’m shedding skin? Ok, that’s not what’s weird. What’s weird is I’m shedding skin, only on my left middle finger! Hehehe… keep that thought to yourself, ai? I don’t wanna be asked why or where the finger has been, please!
Anyways, I hardly shed skin (unlike my brother… he seems to always have a new skin wanting to come out almost every month!) – explains why I’m a little surprised at my left middle finger skin-shedding (let’s call it ‘my LMFSS’ henceforth). Do I hear someone asking “where is she going with this?” Where am I going? Nowhere! I just wanted to inform y’all about my LMFSS, period! Y’all can close this page now… bye bye!
Oh, you’re still here? Curiosity just wants to kill your cat, eh? Well then, let’s make this death a beautiful one, shall we?! *wicked laugh* (FYI, the codeine in my system is responsible for all of this; I am not completely responsible for everything I say on this blog, my Codeine Alter Ego is!) Let’s move on…
So I was staring at the middle finger in question, and I saw how wrinkled and old the peeling skin looked compared to the new skin underneath… huge difference! I thought to myself, since the old one is ‘kuku’ going to go off completely, I can just hasten things up myself and help it get off, so I dug my nails and started to lift and try to peel the weak and removing layer of skin… yeah, and I ended up injuring myself! Big surprise, or not!
And we come to the morale of this codeine-driven blog: Sometimes in life, we worry ourselves to death about issues that can and will absolutely take care of themselves! For example, years ago I used to date this dude, we were totally in love (I think)… then things happened and it was obvious we’d break up… I started to despair, panic and e’erything. I was so sure if we broke up, I would never find someone like him, ever again! I started to think then, would it better to hasten the break-up and just destroy everything once and for all, or should I just leave it and let it be a gradual thing… don’t ask me what I did, cos I ain’t telling… Or maybe I will – I chose the ‘hasten the break-up path’; and in the process a lot of hurtful stuff was said and done. Things that brought tears (and blood… once again, don’t ask!).
I am not about to announce a happily ever-after ending, that I found someone like or better than him… that’s irrelevant to you! What I wanna announce is that in my tiny little knowledge, at that period where I could say I exactly wasn’t mature enough to handle the situation, I worried about something I should have just let happen by itself, I hurt myself and someone else; however tho, life moved on after what seemed like months!
Some of you are not catching on… I’ll rewind… I wanted to hurry up and peel the old skin on my finger. Y? Cos my finger was looking ugly and… ugly sha! So I embarked on a quest titled ‘Avoiding The Ugliness’ – I started peeling the skin off myself! Alas, I injured the finger.
WHAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE:
Years ago, I should have let the relationship run till it came to a natural, more peaceful death.
Today, I shouldn’t have peeled the skin myself… I shoulda endured the ugliness and watch the beautiful new skin come out by itself.
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO:
ALLOW THE UGLINESS!
Most of us are scared that if you lose your partner, or your job, that would be the end for you! Let me tell you, what won’t stay with you to the end WILL NOT stay, no matter how much you force it! You shouldn’t be afraid of the ugliness that follows a break-up, in that ugliness you’ll find yourself… at least I did. I know now what to avoid, and what not to embark on anymore. And in that period of my ugliness, I sorta ‘finished’ myself… You know, when you go to Finishing School, and they teach you all these girly, ‘etiquetty’ things! Yeah, like that. I groomed and developed myself.
After the ugliness wears off, there’d be a new skin! A new you, and as time goes on a new man/woman *wink* A better partner, if you’re lucky!
LESSON:
Don’t try to help situations that can help themselves, everything in life has to do with stages – try to jump one stage, and you might end up in soup!
EXCEPTION:
This blog is totally not for people who are being abused, especially physically, in their relationships. Y’all are free to jump all stages and get out of that relationship!
Yours sincerely,
RBLKWN
ADDENDUM:
Never trust brown bottles, especially those with ‘Codeine’ written on them…
*blowing kisses*
Anyways, I hardly shed skin (unlike my brother… he seems to always have a new skin wanting to come out almost every month!) – explains why I’m a little surprised at my left middle finger skin-shedding (let’s call it ‘my LMFSS’ henceforth). Do I hear someone asking “where is she going with this?” Where am I going? Nowhere! I just wanted to inform y’all about my LMFSS, period! Y’all can close this page now… bye bye!
Oh, you’re still here? Curiosity just wants to kill your cat, eh? Well then, let’s make this death a beautiful one, shall we?! *wicked laugh* (FYI, the codeine in my system is responsible for all of this; I am not completely responsible for everything I say on this blog, my Codeine Alter Ego is!) Let’s move on…
So I was staring at the middle finger in question, and I saw how wrinkled and old the peeling skin looked compared to the new skin underneath… huge difference! I thought to myself, since the old one is ‘kuku’ going to go off completely, I can just hasten things up myself and help it get off, so I dug my nails and started to lift and try to peel the weak and removing layer of skin… yeah, and I ended up injuring myself! Big surprise, or not!
And we come to the morale of this codeine-driven blog: Sometimes in life, we worry ourselves to death about issues that can and will absolutely take care of themselves! For example, years ago I used to date this dude, we were totally in love (I think)… then things happened and it was obvious we’d break up… I started to despair, panic and e’erything. I was so sure if we broke up, I would never find someone like him, ever again! I started to think then, would it better to hasten the break-up and just destroy everything once and for all, or should I just leave it and let it be a gradual thing… don’t ask me what I did, cos I ain’t telling… Or maybe I will – I chose the ‘hasten the break-up path’; and in the process a lot of hurtful stuff was said and done. Things that brought tears (and blood… once again, don’t ask!).
I am not about to announce a happily ever-after ending, that I found someone like or better than him… that’s irrelevant to you! What I wanna announce is that in my tiny little knowledge, at that period where I could say I exactly wasn’t mature enough to handle the situation, I worried about something I should have just let happen by itself, I hurt myself and someone else; however tho, life moved on after what seemed like months!
Some of you are not catching on… I’ll rewind… I wanted to hurry up and peel the old skin on my finger. Y? Cos my finger was looking ugly and… ugly sha! So I embarked on a quest titled ‘Avoiding The Ugliness’ – I started peeling the skin off myself! Alas, I injured the finger.
WHAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE:
Years ago, I should have let the relationship run till it came to a natural, more peaceful death.
Today, I shouldn’t have peeled the skin myself… I shoulda endured the ugliness and watch the beautiful new skin come out by itself.
WHAT YOU SHOULD DO:
ALLOW THE UGLINESS!
Most of us are scared that if you lose your partner, or your job, that would be the end for you! Let me tell you, what won’t stay with you to the end WILL NOT stay, no matter how much you force it! You shouldn’t be afraid of the ugliness that follows a break-up, in that ugliness you’ll find yourself… at least I did. I know now what to avoid, and what not to embark on anymore. And in that period of my ugliness, I sorta ‘finished’ myself… You know, when you go to Finishing School, and they teach you all these girly, ‘etiquetty’ things! Yeah, like that. I groomed and developed myself.
After the ugliness wears off, there’d be a new skin! A new you, and as time goes on a new man/woman *wink* A better partner, if you’re lucky!
LESSON:
Don’t try to help situations that can help themselves, everything in life has to do with stages – try to jump one stage, and you might end up in soup!
EXCEPTION:
This blog is totally not for people who are being abused, especially physically, in their relationships. Y’all are free to jump all stages and get out of that relationship!
Yours sincerely,
RBLKWN
ADDENDUM:
Never trust brown bottles, especially those with ‘Codeine’ written on them…
*blowing kisses*
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