Way forward Naija!!!

Subsidy saga over (is it really?) we have to move on with our lives. We have to find a way to adjust to the current realities of things. Have you heard? Pure water is now 10 naira. For pure water to increase in price should tell you that EVERYTHING is now very expensive. I went to the market on saturday and i almost couldnt buy anything. Everything was so freaking expensive. Double the regular price. Nothing for 50 naira anymore, not even the silliest of stuff! If i, who isnt really one of the nigerians that live below a dollar a day, can be feeling the pinch so bad, how will those that only earn the minimum wage cope?????

So guys, this is the time to put that age long saying to use 'Cut your coat, according to  you cloth!' Not according to size ooo as ur size fit big pass ur cloth. You have to 'lepa-rize' ur expenditure make e no overshoot ur income.How do you do that??? Do away with the trivials. Prioritize!!! That "Money no go waste" post, read it again and again and again. Cram it if need be but use it!

I will add a new batch of  10 commandments to the 'Money no go waste' wisdom that will also help you. Here they are

• Dont allow fashion dictate to you what to buy, how to spend your money lest debtors set camp at ur gate.
• Say NO to those gucci bags as they scream out at you through the store show glasses
• Eat only when hungry and stop when full
• For the guys, having only one girlfriend will be the best bet for you considering the cost of maintaining multiple girls (babes, pray you are the 'one girlfriend')
• BRT seats are quite comfortable, you know. Try them out once in a while instead of using taxis all the time.
• Sharwama and ice-cream? Very tempting abi? Ok, i allow you. You can have them once a month.
• BB subscription? Who u dey ping sef? Subsribe every other month. Afterall, all the gossip of last year, which motor you carry am buy?
• Make use of that DVD player you spent some money to buy. Stop warming the seats at the cinemas when u can watch the same film at home
• Try to dey siddon for your house! All this weekend waka waka, try minimize am, limit am to church/mosque,market and those places you can trek to.
• Call only people that matter to you - mother/father, priest/pastor, 1 brother/sister (the one you call should call the others and tell them what you want them to know), your mother-in-law/father-in-law (make dem no chase u comot their son house). Try and live in the pre-mobile lines days!

If you also adhere to the above (laffable) very fundamental points, you can make it through the month without having people run when they see you thinking you want to borrow money again.

But if you make mega money. You dont need to adhere to these my advise above. Just share the money this way and all will be well

LOL!!!

You take care of yourselves and each other. Be good
Ciao

Gists from the hols! (Part 1)

The strike, embarked upon by the NLC and the TUC, the strike which grounded any form of economic and social activity in the country for 6 whole days, the strike which we felt we had the same goals for - has been suspended!

Suspension - A postponment of a decision or judgement,temporary discontinuation.
That is my understanding of the word 'suspension'. So now, help me understand, did NLC just temporarily halt this to go back to it if the demands are not met? Or have they called it off completely but dont know how to tell Nigerians that they cant go ahead with their resolve to stick to their demand of total reversal to N65? Did they bring us out to the middle of the road and just leave us stranded? Did they use us to achieve something?

I dont know if N97 is worth all the wahala that has been on since 9th of January??? Thought we said we were not going to settle for less???

How do u feel about this whole episode????


Anyway, that isnt my gist for the day. I had promised to give you gists from my travelssssss (please note the multiple 's'). Yes na. i did a lot of travelling, saw so many sites. Should i name them? ok, ok i will. I went through Ogun, Ondo, Edo (not the kind of places you had in mind abi? lol) Europe, USA, Asia, Abeokuta, Cotonou, Anambra - e  no matter. Afterall, travel na travel, Journey na Journey! Shikena!

My journey to the east was quite eventful. I will start from there but 1st make una help  me thank Baba God for the journey mercies to and fro. Chei, im too do well for me. I heard so many tales of road mishaps that i almost didnt want to travel. But then i thought 'Dont you trust God?' Well, i do, so i enter road.

From Lagos to Ore was uneventful. Well, apart from the 300 and above police checkpoints that one had to pass through between Lagos and Ore and the accompanying traffic these check points caused, nothing much happened. We stopped at Ore to have lunch and rest a while before continuing. Just before entering Edo state (that ofosu area), a trailer carrying a container that was driving in front of us suddenly stopped. We almost ran into the damn thing sef. Before we could say 'Jack' the driver of the truck don climb down. Guess what - he was completely naked!!!! Yes, you hear me well, d guy no wear cloth, no wear boxers no wear nothing! Birthday suit live and direct! The sudden stop don already cause traffic. The guy came down from the truck, his conductor came down the other side wearing only a very 'dorty' looking boxers (the dirtness of the boxers needed to be written in pidgin to be comprehended). At this point, i was petrified out of my skin. I asked my hubby to try and maneuver his way out of that spot as i thought they were armed robbers or something. Thing is, we couldnt move from our position cos there was already a car behind us and we were so close to the truck. We were stuck.

The truck driver and his conductor totally ignored us and all other confused and scared looking motorists and headed straight for an SUV which was just behind the car beside us. Check out blows!!! Before the truck driver got to the SUV driver, the SUV driver had already landed him one blow on his face. A boy of not more than 17yrs came down from the SUV with a stick with which he hit the truck driver on the head from behind, jumped the road median and ran in the opposite direction with one unknown guy in hot pursuit. Blood gushed from the truck drver's head, serious blood ooo. The truck driver yelled, 'get me the knife!' The conductor ran back to the truck and came back with a cutlass. 2 women from the SUV were running helter skelter yelling and trying to stop the fight while still raining abuses on the truck guys. One of the women had a black eye.

Trust Naija people, we no wait to find out the rest, once cutlass show, people make way for forest! See as cars just dey zoom dey pass the tiny space wey the truck remain for road. I was so so so scared. We left the area and d drama and ran. Abeg, i never do New Year, na im person wan make i see nonsense.
I couldnt figure out what i just saw. Maybe the truck people and the SUV people had had a disagreement somewhere behind, maybe where they stopped to eat. A disagreement that probably degenerated to a fight (seeing the dirty body of the guys and the black eye of one of the women) Maybe this fight was seperated much to the displeasure of the truck occupants who had to continue the fight on the road where he hoped he wouldnt be stopped. Well, he ended up with a broken head before the New Year.

And why would anyone fight naked?????

Anyway, let me leave the gist here for now. Stay tuned for more of what happened during the hols.

Happy Subsidis and Subsidat ooo. lol. Stay safe guys.

Ciao!!!

Happy New Year!!!!!!

I popped this champagne for you guys. Make sure you taste your share.  lol

Hello my friends!
Welcome to this brand new year (i know it is coming a tad late but better late than never, isnt it??)
2012!
Ol boy eh, i need a mainframe computer to calculate how old i will be this year *rumpuled face*.
When i was little, i never thought the world would go past the year 2000, you know, with all the stuff we heard about that 'great' year - jubilee year, the year tate heralds another millennium etc. Funny that we are 12 years past that year - ALL THANKS TO GOD.
2011, hmmm, a lot happened in that year - i changed jobs, i lost my dad, i finished my post graduate degree etc. i look back and i am really thankful. Though there are lots of other things i thought would have pulled through for me before the year 2011 ended that didnt eventually, i am still very thankful. Being alive and healthy is just enough!
2012! We have started this year with lots of expectations, with lots of dreams that we wish and pray will be actualized, with lots of bad habits that we wish we will drop, with lots of doors we wish will be opened on to us. All i want to say is - Do the best you can and leave the rest. Cos if you think real hard about it, no kind of hard work or hard thinking by anyone can make the day break faster than it should or make the sun set faster! Everything has been ordered, allow that order flow! If you think things arent falling into places as fast as you love them to, just ask yourself if you have done all you ought to do. If the answer is YES, then know that it is time for you to hands-off and allow the GREAT I AM order things his way.

Dont be too hard on yourself if you have already slipped up on your new year's resolution. it isnt meant to be an overnight thing. keep trying ok?

BTW, i went to the villa for Christmas. Ol boy eh, lots of things happened over there so stay tuned for gists from there.

How did you spend your holidays??? You can give us a sneak peek as you leave your comments.

Missed you guys like crazy!!

You all take good care.

Ciao!

Weeweechu - Go figure!

One beautiful December evening, Emeka and his girlfriend, Nwakaego were sitting by the side of the river. It was a romantic full moon evening, when Emeka said,
"Hey, asa nwa, let's do Weeweechu."
Oh no, not now, let's just look at the moon and kiss!" said Nwakaego.
Oh, c'mon baby, let's you and I do Weeweechu. I love you and it's the perfect time," Emeka begged.
"But I wanna just hold your hand, watch the moon and kiss you." replied Nwakaego.
Please, my nwa a na gba ticket ekiri (pretty babe that people buy ticket to look at), just once please, do Weeweechu with me."
Nwakaego looked at Emeka and said, "OK, just one time, we will do Weeweechu".
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Emeka grabbed his guitar and they both began to sing . . .
"Weeweechu a Mely Klistmas,
Weeweechu a Mely Klistmas,
Weeweechu a Mely Klistmas,
and a Happy New Year."
"WEEWEECHU" IS NOT WHAT YOU WERE THINKING WAS IT????  Tell us,truthfully, what you thought 'weeweechu' was.

LOL

Merry Christmas in advance and enjoy a Happy New Year

Money cannot waste!

This xmas, All na d same.

U buy eggroll N150, I buy puff puff N15, boil one egg N30, all na N45... #MoneyCannotWaste.

U buy 5 alive N300, I buy orange +mango+pineapple N80 naira..my own get natural nutrient..

#MoneyCannotWaste.

... Nepa cut ur light, U pay N2000 sharp sharp, I wait, call electrician for nite for N200 fix my wire back..
#MoneyCannotWaste.

U buy milo, milk and sugar, I buy cowbell chocolate which already contains every...
#MoneyCannotWaste

U pay 5k go watch MI for show, I buy him cd N100, stay room play and sing along #MoneyCannotWaste

U dey chop pop corn of N1000 for silverbird cinema and I dey chop guguru & epa of N20 for house dey watch tv..shebi our mouth dey move, movie dey show! #MoneyCannotWaste

U buy red bull N300 to become active, I buy paraga N20, Am super active...mtcheww
#MoneyCannotWaste

U buy red wine, I buy zobo and add squadron, all ną red wine...
#MoneyCannotWaste

U fix 100k brazillian hair, I buy N3k xpression attachment, I fine pass you...n guys don't know d difference

 #MoneyCannotWaste

U go club for VI, buy hennesey of 40k, Me go one joint, buy alomo N200..all na highness
#MoneyCannotWaste

U pay N50 to watch match in a viewing centre, I stand outside to watch d match all na d same..
#MoneyCannotWaste...

You buy new xmas cloth, i wash my old one, iron am wel well with spray starch wear am on 25th with swagger - all na the same

#MoneyCannotWaste...

Mtchewww..
Abeg Abeg!!!! I no fit shout!!!!=)) 

LOL

How are you all doing. You take care of yourselves for me oooo.

Ciao!

How do you...........................?

Hello people, How was your weekend? Trust you guys had it well.
I dont know why but i am feeling like today is friday! Can you imagine? On a monday i am feeling like its a friday. Well, that goes to show that i have wound down for the year (sub-consciously). I just dey mark time dey wait for holiday to start.

I want you guys to help me out with some answers. The game can be summarized as 'How do you'?

Here goes:

1. How do you tell that really pleasant girl that she has bad breath without hurting her feelings?
2. How do you tell one of your male colleagues that he has body odour without hurting his feelings?
3. How do you get back on track when a mighty belch just escapes you in the board room as you are about closing that your powerful presentation?
4. How do you tell your boss that he has just lied without coming off as rude and risking getting fired?
5. How do you tackle that chicken in your plate down to the bone without coming off as a hungry fellow?
6. How do you dispel the smell of fart that jumped right out of you (silently) while you were in your colleagues air-conditioned car?
7. How do you tell that new 'toaster' that you are sick of meeting stingy guys and that you hope he will be more generous without coming off as being materialistic? (and dont you even begin to tell me that that does not matter!)
8. How do you tell that new boyfriend that passionate kissing does not mean he has to fill ur throat with his tongue (having you fight for breath) without making him feel inadequate?!
9. How do you say 'You are a cunning bastard!' to that cunny bastard of a colleague who awaits every opportunity to drag you down and shine?
10. How do you say 'Stop staring at my boobs' to that boss whose eye level never goes above your chest when he is talking to/with you?

So lets see how far you guys can help answer some questions of national importance

Christmas in the air!

Its in the air. The thrill and excitement is brewing. The air is getting drier - the xmas way. People have started asking the 'will u be travelling' questions. Companies have started putting up decorations. People have started shopping.

Xmas truely is in the air.

Do people still buy 'christmas cloths'? I remember when i was little, my mum used to get our cloths by end of August/beginning of September in order to avoid the xmas shopping rush and the accompanying price hikes in goods. She will buy the cloths (about 2 or 3 different ones - 1 for xmas day, 1 for new year's day and, and 1 for any other sunday in between) and put them in a box above her wardrobe. Every weekend from then till xmas, we will bug her to bring down the box so we can look at our cloths again and bask in the euphoria of having new stuff. Thing is, we might have other new cloths bought along the line o, but that particular set that has been termed 'xmas cloths' have a different effect on us.

We also had christmas shoes,christmas, wrist watch, christmas sunglasses (those rubber multi colored ones), christmas pants etc. Everything we wear on the 25th December morning has gast to be new!

Mehn! It used to be so much fun. We usually travelled to the east around the 23rd of December and that part, we always looked forward to. I remember the kids in the village running after our car when we turn into the road leading to our compound shouting 'Uncle Lagos anota' (Lagos uncle is back) i will grin with pride and excitement. Then when we get to the compound, mumsie will make us all greet our cousins, uncles and aunties in ibo.

The fun of Christmas. I dont think there is any other holiday in the world that has this kind of air around it and the kind of excitement and buzz that Christmas generates.

I may not have 'Christmas cloths' anymore, but i still have the same excitement i used to have when i was little.

Christmas in the air!

Wish you all a lovely weekend ahead.

Ciao




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