Day 9- How important you think education is/ Day 10-Random songs from my music player.

I couldn't do this yesterday, through absolutely no fault of mine! I tried to, but there was just no time! And since I think day 9 is pretty boring, I'm going to mix it with day 10, so i'll still be on track :)

                                                              Day 9--Education.


Well, the importance of Education really cannot be overstated. Someone once said 'People go to school to get smarter so that they can get jobs'. At this point, I would just like to say that speaking English does not make you educated. Also, no education does not equal no money. After all, English is the normal language for some people (read: mothertongue), and I'm pretty sure if Bill Gates' children don't work for the rest of their lives, and they live to be 100 years, they can never go broke.

However, if you don't have rich parents, or a unique talent, or a reasonable million-dollar idea, i suggest you stay in school. Music is not for everybody. Not every rapper will make it. So it's better to have something to fall back on in case music or whatever you want to do fails.

I think dropping out of school was the dumbest decision Wizkid ever made. He's not even that talented. Why did he not just finish school? He's young. Music will always be there. Is it when he gets old that he'll decide to go back to school? It won't be that easy, let him ask the old men in my mom's classes.

Anyway, that's just my own two cents, you can take it or leave it.


                              Day 10 -- Random songs from my music player.

1. God is Enough - Lecrae
2. Itty Bitty Piggy - Nicki Minaj 
3. We must Praise - J Moss
4. More - Lecrae
5. If we ever meet again - Timbaland ft Katy Perry 
6. Show me Your face - William McDowell
7. Skype ringtone (lol this is my ringtone :D)
8. Don't waste Your life - Lecrae 
9. Angels Cry - Mariah Carey
10. On my knees - Jaci Velasquez 

Lol looking at this random list, i realise I am somewhere between 'Jesus and John Wayne'. Who knows this song? It's by the Gaither Vocal Band.You should youtube it, cos I think it describes most Christians.

p.s.: It's my brother's 21st birthday today :D

Day 8 what i ate today

I was going to do this around 3 p.m but i realised i hadn't eaten anything yet lol. Then I went out, and i remembered i slept around 4 am last night, and i was having a pity party so i ate a lot of ice-cream, so technically i had eaten before 3pm when i thought i hadn't eaten anything. I'm not making sense, am I?

Anyhooo this is what i ate today

• 3:something am : ice-cream.
• 4:20 p.m: Beans and garri lol. The last time i ate beans was what, six months ago? Yeah i think. So my friends cooked beans and we sprinkled some garri all over it and molded it, so it looked like a cake. A bean-cake if you would, like when we were kids lol. who remembers that? 
• 6:something p.m: Shawarma 
• I think i'm going to eat more ice-cream around midnight, so yeah 

:) what did you eat today?

Day 7 - Five pet peeves

If my friends made a list about this, my name would probably be number one haha. I kid. I think.

Anywayyy here are five of my pet peeves. Really in no particular order.

You should know that as I'm typing this, I have no single clue what my five pet peeves are, like my mind is blank. So I'll just sit here till I can think again.

• ''STUPIDS'' - You know those people that appear on your facebook wall like once in six months and try to take you on a guilt trip by claiming you've forgotten them? Yeah those people piss me the hell off. I mean, yeah you have two hands, I have two hands. You have a telephone, i have a telephone. You have me on your friends' list, i have you on my friends' list. Is your hand, broken, that you can't dial a damn telephone? It takes two people to keep in touch. And really nobody owes anybody anything, even if I've forgotten you and you've forgotten me, life goes on. It's not like you're feeding me or I'm feeding you so calm your ventricles, why don't you? 
• False Hope: You know those people who promise to do something for you, but when the time comes, they just dash your hopes without any thoughts as to how you're going to cope? Yeah, well, those people are really mean. But the good thing is, I don't believe promises anymore. The only One who keeps his promise is God. A preacher once said that if God ever fails you, you will get your name in the Guiness Book of World Records as the first person God ever failed. I think it was Damon Thompson. Not sure though. 
• Fake People with Fake accents: Really, I know you live in America. I know you live in London or Heavenstreet or whatever. I know your parents are rich. But darling, you only moved to America two months ago now, haba. Why are you pretending as if you don't understand me when I speak? I mean, if you use your Nigerian accent, i won't flog you, am i your papa? Calm down, biko, life is not that serious. And oh yeah your accent needs more work dear, do you know your American accent makes you sound like someone with a speech disorder? Really, you should try to erase the igboticness in it although i doubt you'll succeed.
• Spitters: why, why, why, why, why????? You know, I don't understand why people spit in public. Ughhhh i am so so irritated as i'm typing this. It is disgusting. That is the sole reason why I hate summer because the floor is always filled with so much sputum i have to walk as if i'm playing suwe. At least in Winter, the snow hides it, you know snow is like a clean slate, even if you pee in it, it won't show lol (not that i've tried it or anything). But summer is just...terrible, terrible. 
• Yeah i can't think of a fifth one right now. So four will have to do. I don't know what's up with me today but something definitely is.  Thanks for reading :) 

Day 6 - Mainstream Music

Today should be Day 7. But I didn't do this yesterday. Lazing around was what i did all day. oh plus i got my hair braided.

Anyhoo Mainstream music. Well. I totally had to google that one. For real.

I love music. It is that simple. I love all kinds of music.

Oh except Fuji music.

That shit is SHIT!!

That shit is hella nasty.

I'm pretty sure it degenerates brain cells. Slowly but surely.

Anyway i mostly listen to Rap (read: Lupe Fiasco, J. Cole, Drake and Wale), and Gospel (read: Tenth Avenue North, Chris Tomlin, Casting crowns, Skillet). Sometimes i listen to some Rock.(Read: pink and avril lavigne) but most of the rock songs i listen to are Gospel. So yeah.

Oh i listen to whatever kind of music Adele sings. i think she's amazing.

And some country music (read: Lady Antebellum, Blake Shelton, Tim Mcgraw, Gaither Vocal Band)...

You know what, I listen to all kinds of music.

EXCEPT FUJI.

I don't listen to Lady Gaga either. I think she is evil. You don't have to agree with me, that's just my opinion and I don't really care what you think so yeah.

 So basically music, mainstream or whatever, helps me stay sane.

Day 5 - Things you want to say to an ex

Okay so I'm assuming this could mean an ex-boyfriend or ex-friend or just an ex-whatever. Since I don't have an ex-boyfriend, i decided to choose an ex-friend. 

This letter, I wrote to my ex-bestfriend a couple of years ago. The only friend who ever really hurt me. Of course I don't have the flu right now. I'm simply too lazy to write something fresh so bear with me. 

Dear friend.

I have come down with the flu.

But you don’t know, cos u aren’t here.

The last time I had the flu

You were there.

You took care of me.

You stayed with me.

You helped me study.

Tablets and Caplets.

Food and Water.

Notebooks and textbooks.

Hot water bottles.

Cold compresses.

Sweaters and coats.

You were simply there.

Where are you now???

What happened to us??

One minute, tight friends.

I blinked, and you were gone.

If only I had held my eyes open just a second longer

I might have seen you disappear.

Now I'm only left with memories.

And semblances of you.

What really happened??

Help me understand, cos I just don’t get it.

Somehow,I don’t think it was just about that little tiff of ours.

And you never even bothered to explain.

Tell me, did you like to watch me wonder??

Or did you like to see me try so hard

To salvage a relationship that only I seemed to want??

And wonder, I did.

Did someone say something to him?

Did i?

Did my words have a hidden meaning??

Was he threatened??

Was I simply too young and immature for him??

Did I bore him that bad??

Did he want a way to simply stop being my friend??

My imaginations ran wilder, believe me.

You bought me a necklace and matching earrings on my birthday.

I look at them everyday.

I miss you everyday.

There are some days I miss you so much it hurts.

Like a pain I can't relinquish.

I miss the way you looked at me when I annoyed you.

The way you always let me win all the fights even when I didn’t want to.

The things only you could say to make me feel better.

The way you always checked up on me after school.

The way we talked late into the wee hours of the morning.

The way you listened to me like no one else ever did.

Most especially the way you believed in me

Even when I didn’t believe in myself.

You came to know me in such a short time.

I was starting to get used to you.

And then you took it all away,

You waved your magic wand

And whisked it all away,

In one breath, with just a wave.

Why???

You've given me ample time to recover,

But I haven’t.

Will I ever??

Why am I writing this, I wonder??

I just need to understand.

Its been 7 months,

And I still miss you.

Will I send this one to you?

Or will it just remain in my collection??

Or will it meet the same fate as its predecessors,

In my recycle bin???

This too, I wonder.

Your forever-friend.

You-know-who. (not voldemort)

Day 4 - Bullet your whole day

Well...today was a pretty ordinary (read: boring) day. Really. Well that's mostly because my housemate is out of town so there was no one to wake me at six in the morning with some very insignificant thing.

No I am not missing her.

Right, so let's see how my day went.

• Went to bed at 5 am. 
• Woke up at 11:45 am. 
• Stayed in bed looking at the ceiling till 12:05/12:10
• Looked for my phone. 
• Found it between the washing machine and the sink. Alas! 12 missed calls. (I guess I hadn't looked for the phone in a while. My friends hate it when I don't pick up my calls.)
• Returned my missed calls. Well I returned three of them. The other people yelled at me later.
• Ate the last meatpie from our baking thingy.(Some of my friends came over yesterday and we baked meatpies. Well they did the baking, I did the eating. Division of labour, eh?)
• Cursed the pimple that decided to rent room and parlour on my face. 
• Watched almost a whole season of Friends and laughed my skinny butt off
• Flirted with a cute, smart boy online for a few minutes 
• Told my friend about it :p
• Worried about my empty wallet. For about a few seconds lol. Then i went back to Friends. 
• Called my friend and tried to convince her to braid my hair. 
• Took a shower. This was around six of course. I was starving by this time. I had only eaten one meatpie. But sometimes my stomach does this thing, like when it's hungry and I don't feed it...the hunger goes away. My mother is scared I might get an ulcer. She worries too much. 
• Tried to empty the vacuum cleaner again. 
• Played with my hair a little. The hunger died. 
• Watched more Friends. 
• Went on twitter for a bit. I was bored. Watched more Friends. 
• Listened to some music. Hugh Laurie (read: House) sings. Did you know? Well I only just found out today.
• Read one of Nora Roberts' ebooks that I got online
• 10:00pm. Went to the kitchen to raid the fridge. Came up with an apple. 
• Raided the store. Found some potatoes. Cooked some potatoes. Tried to make the egg-sauce that my housemate is so good at. Failed. 
• Grilled five chicken wings I found somewhere deep deep down in the freezer.
• So I ate some potatoes, bad egg-sauce and terrific chicken wings. Then I drank some water. 
• Watched more Friends. 
• Blogged. Oh wait that's what I'm doing now ^_^ 

Day 3- A book you love.

Let me start this way.

why? why? why???

why would you make me pick just one book?? There are a billion amazing books out there. So many that have changed my life, come on and I have to pick one?

Le sigh

This is me trying to narrow it down. Bear in mind that many amazing books have been cut off -_-

First of all, any book that is written by Nora Roberts, I LOVE.

I think she's amazing. Really. My favorite author in the whole wide world! Lol. I mean, reading her books practically gives me bookgasms!

Her In Death series are bookgasmic, gosh!

So as long as the book has her name on the cover, you can get it for me as a birthday present...or for Christmas...or new year...or just because. Lol.

Moving on...

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda N. Adichie is an amazing book too. I read the whole book in less than a day, i couldn't put it down. Yes it is that good. I finished it in the middle of the night, with a flashlight. Yes I read it in Nigeria, lol.

The Harry Potter books are also great! I mean, wow!
I've always been an avid reader (of novels), so when my mom saw me reading the harry potter books, she was impressed because they were huge and voluminous. Until one woman told her the book was demonic, and that I would be so deceived, I would go out of my way to look for a way to become a witch like Hermione. Lool. Ridiculous or what? I was banned from reading them of course, but did I panic? I think not. Did I stop? I think not. Is that love? I think yes!

So yeah, those are just a few of the books I love.

p.s May i just say that Romeo and Juliet were the dumbest characters ever created. I mean he sees her on the floor, asks no questions and then drinks poison. She wakes up, sees him on the floor and then stabs herself. How...stupid. What a waste of two young lives. Hmmph.