The one about the scam

It has been a while and I know. I won't bother to dwell on it. However, let me quickly run you through the WHY and that is exactly why we are here. It is ADULTHOOD. Now, I know everyone already knows the entire adulthood is a scam but what they did not mention is that the older you get, the more intense it becomes. I don't like that and I want to fight someone, anyone really. I am here to remind you that is was a scam yesterday, it is today and it will be tomorrow. We should all protest. Scrimmmmm Let us start from straight up after university, it is absolutely wild that we have to work to get…

The one about the pandeversary (get it?).

It has been a year since our lives were altered by the pandemic. For me, it was a year on the 27th March 2021 since we started working from home. I used to really envy my friends who live abroad and had the luxury of working from home, but look at me now, sometimes I find it hard to believe that I am living through these very unexpected times. Prior to the lockdown, it appears my life must have been on the line with my daily commute, but I did not know. In retrospect, I have no idea how I had been surviving. I would leave home about 5.40am every morning just to avoid driving in traffic then go to…

The one about celebrating women because we deserve .

International Women's Day is here again where we will talk and talk while some people will still not listen. Long time, no post though. Hope you guys have been okay and livin lavida loca. I can't believe we are almost halfway through March, this year seems to be going by very swiftly and I am not complaining. Even though I have been AWOL, I had to come out of my writing hiatus real quick to celebrate women. A lot of us women were raised mostly a certain type of way and we have been told what to do per time as a woman. You will hear lines such as, 'as a woman you should', 'as a woman, you cannot' and…

The one about 2020, the year we were not warned about.

Omoooo * 10,000,000. Now now now, someone should have at least given us the heads up that Lucifer was going to find love and use the universe to entertain his girlfriend in 2020. If you do not get my reference, check this out ad by Ryan Reynolds, who by the way is one of my favorite Hollywood actors. His dark humour is topnotch. The year 2020 is the year I cried the most silent tears as an adult. It started a few days after my birthday when I woke up partially blind, I could not see in one eye. I called my sister and told her not to panic but she definitely panicked more than I did. I was home…

The one about the good place.

It feels like I always have to start my blog posts with "long time,no see" or in this case, 'long time, no posts' . Let us thank God for life because wiunnnnn, e be tins. Today, I shall tell you about my good place and it is not Lagos, thank goodness. How have you guys been, especially Nigerians living in Nigeria? How is your mental health? One day, I will write about the events of October as it occured in Nigeria but I am not in that space yet. Initially, I really had no direction for this post, it was meant to be an outpouring of the so many thoughts in my head. I am glad 2020 is finally drawing…

The one about life and its curveballs.

I woke up on Saturday around noon expecting to have a normal day of bingeing on K-drama, sadly it was not to be so because the first thing I saw was the news of Chadwick Boseman’s passing. My first reaction was denial, I figured if I did not think about it then I would not have to mourn yet another person I did not know personally. You see, my first time of experiencing what I have termed this “third party grief” was when Mrs. Ibidunni Ighodalo died. I had never seen her before or even followed her closely on social media. She was just someone I liked a lot and respected from afar. It was shocking to me how much…

The one about online parenting

There are many hard and difficult things in life as well as simple and easy to do things. However, nothing is as easy as online parenting. You know, the one where we give opinions on how we think people should parent their children from behind the comfort of our keypads. There was a video circulating social media about few days ago of one parent that beat his child because he instructed the child not to join a certain whatsapp group, but she disobeyed the father and joined regardless. My post is not about the incident, but it has triggered me to write about parenting from the perspective of someone who is a child and has also lived with new parents…

The one about Friends.

Heyoooooo, it’s Sean Kingston. I have been meaning to use that since I re-discovered Sean’s music a few months ago. His music was lit and I wonder where and what he is doing now. How have you guys been? I know life is gradually starting in most cities, I hope you are safe and wearing your masks religiously. It has been a while and I apologise to you and to myself for not keeping to my goal of putting out a post every fortnight. One of my friends reached out to me on 25th June to ask why I had not put out any new post in a while. I told her I had just not felt like writing for…

The one about traveling while poor.

Sigh. Poverty is a bastard. The year was 2016. My friend and I decided to “disvirgin” our Nigerian passports before it expired. Dubai was the obvious choice for visa and ticket purposes. There was a snag though, we were proper broke. However, we said to ourselves that we have a black man blood in us, and all things are possible through Christ. We got an agency to help us plan the trip. Our first problem was the flight. The ticket we booked was RwandAir on the first leg and Kenya Airways to return because those were the cheapest airlines at the time and like I said, we were broke. It was a total of about 16 hours to Dubai .…

The one about lights, camera and action.

Guys, how are you holding up this rona season?. It has been tough to be honest. We remain thankful for life, for all the privileges we have been afforded this trying times whilst praying and helping people that do not have it as easy as us. I have been unable to write anything for the past few weeks because I have been so lost and frankly, I was also taking my time to process so many things. I don't have a lid on them yet but we move regardless. The intention of this post is to take your mind off of the pandemic for a while. There was a time I did a poll on my IG story asking people…