It's gonna be a great day!!!

Morning fam,

It's never a good thing to wake up on the wrong side of the bed.

Monday morning 21st march, i wake up with a start and find myself drenched in sweat. There is no light (as usual) and the weather is mad stuffy. i feel around for my phone and check the time. 2.42 am.

Na wa o. i hate it when i wake up by this time. I can never get back to sleep for one and that's when the minions start reminding me of every serious thing in my life at that point in time. I toss and turn for what seems like six hours and when i look at the time again, it's just 3.25 am!!!!

I might just kill myself at this rate.

Fortunately, much much later on, the weather picks up and all of a sudden, i hear thunder and serious wind starts blowing...... Glory!!! the rain starts falling as if we have never seen it before. It's a relief and i manage to doze off after shutting all the windows.

I get up later and start getting ready for work. The rain is still falling hard and seeing as i initially didn't want to drive to work since Suzie's fuel was very low, i'm seriously torn between leaving in the rain or going with her. The decision is made for me when i notice my other colleagues standing outside(They live in the same building) waiting for the rain to stop. We load up in the car and head off to work.

The rain is falling hard and everywhere is very wet. We make it to Ikota and out of the blues, the LCC officials up ahead of us suddenly stop vehicles to presumably let some schoolkids cross the road. Now, this act, even though done with very noble intentions, was done in a very stupid manner seeing as the roads were wet and we are on the expressway.

That, ladies and gentlemen is how my whole day turns to utter shit!!

There were four cars ahead of me. The first two hit themselves and screeched to a stop, a green RAV 4 SUV just ahead of me managed to slam the brakes on time to avoid colliding with the ones up ahead. I desperately slam the brakes repeatedly, but the road's very wet and my car is too close to the RAV 4.

I can only watch helplessly as Suzie skids on the wet surface and rams the green SUV with an almighty crunch!!!! ouch.

The ladies in the car scream and i am dazed for a minute. Fortunately, no one was hurt, and i get out of the car to check out the damage.

Shiiiit!!!... Its awful. My bonnet is crumpled up, headlights are smashed, one pointers is no where to be found, front grill is damaged and my bumper is torn in two or three different places.

and that is just on the outside.

We can see the radiator leaking and i can't tell what else is affected as we can't open the crumpled bonnet to look inside properly.

I go to the other vehicle and a young lady comes out looking very irritated. we inspect the damage to her own car and fortunately it's nowhere near as bad as mine.

The LCC guys come over and help direct traffic to other lanes and we manage to get the cars to the safe side of the road.

My office guys in the car know a panel beater close by and we have to call him to come over quickly. To her credit, the lady is very calm and doesn't want to cause a scene. She calls her husband and i speak with him over the phone.  He directs his own mechanic to come over and assess things as well.

It's crazy.  We're waiting for the mechanics and i'm just standing there miserably in the rain thinking about not just the financial implications this will toll on me to get Suzie fixed but also the money for repairs to this other vehicle. (of course, since vehicle insurance is just for very rich dummies, yours truly, the very sharp guy has never bothered with it).

Anyway, the guy comes and we tow the vehicles to his workshop. He is one of those upbeat types, full of good cheer and vigour.
 He tells me "Ahhh Oga, make we thank God say nothing do una o. Afterall na only money we go spend to repair moto".

 I know he's right but i still feel like clobbering him on the skull with my wheel spanner.

"Goners"for life

Chai, you've got to feel for Arsenal fans right now.

It's not enough that just as far as January, a team that was being tipped to win the League has been floundering worse than our Naira....losing to Watford and other moi moi teams in the EPL, cursing their long suffering coach and settling comfortably for their usual 4th position.

Then you have to give them Barcelona in the Champions league again!!. Chai, when it rains for the Gunners, it pours o.

Watched the two legs of their 2nd round clash and honestly, the word "outclassed" is an understatement as to how Barca made them look.

You have to hand it to their fans though. Everywhere you go it's always.."Gunners for life" being yelled at the tops of their voices, even as Messi continues pooping on their defence everytime they meet.

Well, goodluck to them.



p.s: This post is kinda what the bible referred to as trying to remove the speck from your neighbour's eyes while ignoring the log in yours. Let me not just go into Manchester United woes.

When Love is not enough

Why is Nigeria like this?'

So i'm in the office having a discussion with a colleague and i'm shocked at what she is saying.

This is a well liked Yoruba lady who happens to be married to an Igbo man. First statement she makes that really got to me was this:  "As for me o,i will never allow my daughter to marry a man from Igbo tribe"

This, coming from a lady who is herself married to an igbo man. Naturally, i jump in and add my two kobo about how that mentality is so 1945ish and that it really shouldn't matter where someone is from and all....Turns out she's been having problems getting his people to like her and accept the fact that their son could get married outside his tribe.

After agreeing that she might be unfairly generalizing, she accepts the fact that i'm right but still maintains that it's a total no-no for her again. I brush it off and assume she's in the minority. Later on, i think about it and realize that it's not just the way she as a Yoruba woman feels, it actually cuts both ways. I'm very certain that i have several Igbo folks that would certainly not want to marry a non -Igbo girl.

Truth is that there is this mostly unspoken generalization by us as a country about how we perceive people from other tribes within the same Nigeria and honestly, it really sucks!.. I can go on and on about it but i won't.

In this day and age, why do we still do this to ourselves??

We need to be more open and focus on the fact that we're in this sinking boat together o. The sooner we realize this, the better for everyone. How unfair is it to wrongly generalize and label people into different boxes based on some stupid sentimental ideas handed down from our misguided elders?

To be fair, inter tribal unions happen fairly regularly,but in the case of about 80% of them, there have always been little issues -wranglings and squabbles or full out war of the tribes based on this archaic notion that "WE" are better than "THEM".

Personally,i have no particular preference about whom i choose to hitch up with. The only thing is she has to be "THE ONE"  and should be worth all the time and effort. Honestly, From all sides, this negative mentality has to stop. You hear issues such as - language barrier, Traditional values, tribal characteristics (real and imagined), inability to cope with Culture bla bla bla....

I really worry for our country o. There is still this undercurrent of hatred and bigotry that simmers just below the average Nigerian psyche.
It shouldn't be so.


Shouldn't love be enough? heeem ya!!

Is this life?

Hello People,

Been a while since i was here.
well, that's because living in this country these days has become like a very terrible reality show which almost every one finds themselves itching to get out of.

You wake up in the morning drenched in sweat from the light-less night, drag yourself out of bed, get ready and head off to work, endure horrible Lagos traffic for hours, get to the office and break your back off working throughout, endure demanding clients, try to keep your boss off your back, fend off complaining co-workers, leave the office late, endure part 2 of the traffic series , get home to darkness and complete the whole cycle by sleeping off without power. Is this life?

You listen to the radio on the way back from work and you hear serially depressing news about how on daily basis, foreign currencies are taking almighty dumps on our Naira, endlessly stretched out queues of cars waiting to buy fuel remind you that Suzie's fuel gauge is hovering just above "E". There are beggars everywhere; on the sidewalks, in traffic, lumbering with their child guides alongside your vehicle. Young boys with plastic bottles containing foamy water rush up unsolicited to your vehicle, squeezing the bottles on your windscreen looking to wash in hopes of you blessing their hustle, young beggar girls running beside your cars peering at you and singing in bad, hausa-tinged pidgin asking for whatever you can give them.

Shit gets real when you sight grown ass women defying all maternal logic and carrying babies,in most cases badly dressed twins, under the blazing sun or in rain to casually stroll beside cars in traffic soliciting, depending on the mercy or kind heartedness of others to give them scraps.

If a single man like me is complaining, imagine what the married folks must be feeling right now. You get home after a long hard day, there's no power, the weather is crazy hot, the kids are crying in discomfort, no fuel to power up the generator, inverter is dead and wife is totally frustrated. Is this life?

 Salary is paid at the end of the month, and instead of elation when you get that alert, you feel a despair at the fact that you're actually already in deficit and the incoming alert will only serve to sort out some of the debts you've already incurred during the course of the past month.

You think of all the things you long to do and get downcast when you realize that, with the current economic reality, you are seriously n a very long thing!!!

Honestly, at this point in time for our country, i really have to ask: what did we ever do to these criminals who have been ruling this country for years and are still in power right now?
Its become a weekly occurrence to hear of one "big man" whom EFCC has arrested for stealing scandalous sums of money in the recent past. Scandalous as in Billions and Billions of Naira!!!!!!

Meanwhile, virtually everyone of us, normal folk are struggling to make ends meet, living from hand to mouth while trying to survive.

It's enough to give you a depression induced headache!. I ask again: Is this life???