Sorry guys not much has happened since my last post. I'm kinda on vacation :) absolutely nothing to do.... (ok I have stuff to do that I don't really feel like doing). My last day was Thursday, it was weird to stop work after 3 years with the same group of people...anyway, I still don't regret my decision.
Kpuff Kpuff is walking now....:), infact she's dancing as well, I think she's preparing for her birthday..lol. My dad says she walks like a drunk...lol
Oh and for all you moms with young kids at what age do you start discipline? (I mean saying 'no'...etc. NOT whipping/beating/lashing...etc). I'm getting the sense that Kpuff Kpuff is starting to take advantage of me, I've been spending more time with her since I stopped working and she throws tantrums and flings herself on the floor when I don't give her what she wants. In most cases what she wants is very specific, like she wants the phone and it MUST be open, and it MUST have music playing already, otherwise she'll fling it out of my hands. Yes I know, what absolute rubbish, please is there any other way to stop this short of ignoring her and letting her cry her head off?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Partaaaay!!!
Kpuff Kpuff is turning one next month...yey!!! Please help I don't know what to do for her birthday, my head is swirling with ideas and I can't organize my thoughts, pinatas, life-sized cartoon characters, shiny squeaky things, balloons, party packs, movie poster invitations, themed baby pictures of each young guest ......someone, anyone, please help!!!
Or should I just go somewhere where they plan everything for you with bouncy castles and all that crap...but kpuff kpuff wouldn't play in bouncy castles!! I mean my kpuff kpuff is very mature she likes the finer things in life...I just don't see those things appealing to her.....lol
What if I go through all this and she cries all day and clings to me...oh boy....or should I just do something small, just immediate family with a cake and candles? and plan the big shin dig for her 4th, 5th or whatever age they start to appreciate these things...
Or should I just go somewhere where they plan everything for you with bouncy castles and all that crap...but kpuff kpuff wouldn't play in bouncy castles!! I mean my kpuff kpuff is very mature she likes the finer things in life...I just don't see those things appealing to her.....lol
What if I go through all this and she cries all day and clings to me...oh boy....or should I just do something small, just immediate family with a cake and candles? and plan the big shin dig for her 4th, 5th or whatever age they start to appreciate these things...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
The last few weeks have been a bit rough for me, for one I handed in my resignation (I know I know) everyone thinks I'm crazy but I couldn't do it anymore, these people were making my life miserable and basically looking for a way to fire me, so I took the graceful route and gave them notice, my last day is March 15th.
On to better news, I found a similar opportunity with another company in the UK we are still ironing out the details, so hopefully it works out otherwise I better go and register for NYSC (gulp). I know I should have waited till this was final to quit but believe me I couldn't do it, I tried.
Also, I finally hired a web developer, he's not as experienced as I would have liked but he seems dedicated so lets keep our fingers crossed.
So on to my nanny gist even though the woman hasn't acted up in the last 2 weeks or so I am still going to let her go at the end of the month. One of our family friends was having a birthday party for his 1 year old son, Mr. and I wanted to go somewhere else, so we planned to go for a few minutes and leave baby and the nanny there so the driver brings them back after an about an hour or so...sounds like a good plan right? well mrs. nanny didn't think so. here's how it went instead
Me: Mrs Nanny you will just go with us to the party and Mr Sunday will bring you back when you guys are ready, Mr and I will leave from there.
Mrs Nanny: ah no oh! you should have told me earlier I didn't bring anything to wear, these are work clothes I'm wearing
Me: something to wear? you know it's a baby party right? you want to dress up for a baby party? (I was getting a bit irritated at this point)
Mrs Nanny: yes oh
Me: (repeats myself) you know it's a baby party? you want to dress up for a baby party?
Mrs Nanny: Yes, I don't know who I will meet there.
Me: whatever I can't force you to go (off to think of another plan)
(after a few minutes, I came back)
Me: Mrs Nanny, you really have to be more flexible (we had had a similar argument a few weeks back about how she couldn't come early on saturdays and she couldn't leave late) I can't always tell you things in advance so you should bring a spare outfit and leave here in the event you have to follow me anywhere
Mrs Nanny: eh that's what I'm saying you have to tell me early
Me: I can't always tell you early, so bring an outfit
Mrs Nanny: (ignores me and continues making baby food)
Me: (goes downstairs)
Now normally I am very patient person (ok I lie I'm not) but I've been very patient with Mrs Nanny so far being she's old enough to be my mom. Does this woman want me to yell at her? this will simply not do, I will not work with anyone regardless of age who doesn't respect me.
On to better news, I found a similar opportunity with another company in the UK we are still ironing out the details, so hopefully it works out otherwise I better go and register for NYSC (gulp). I know I should have waited till this was final to quit but believe me I couldn't do it, I tried.
Also, I finally hired a web developer, he's not as experienced as I would have liked but he seems dedicated so lets keep our fingers crossed.
So on to my nanny gist even though the woman hasn't acted up in the last 2 weeks or so I am still going to let her go at the end of the month. One of our family friends was having a birthday party for his 1 year old son, Mr. and I wanted to go somewhere else, so we planned to go for a few minutes and leave baby and the nanny there so the driver brings them back after an about an hour or so...sounds like a good plan right? well mrs. nanny didn't think so. here's how it went instead
Me: Mrs Nanny you will just go with us to the party and Mr Sunday will bring you back when you guys are ready, Mr and I will leave from there.
Mrs Nanny: ah no oh! you should have told me earlier I didn't bring anything to wear, these are work clothes I'm wearing
Me: something to wear? you know it's a baby party right? you want to dress up for a baby party? (I was getting a bit irritated at this point)
Mrs Nanny: yes oh
Me: (repeats myself) you know it's a baby party? you want to dress up for a baby party?
Mrs Nanny: Yes, I don't know who I will meet there.
Me: whatever I can't force you to go (off to think of another plan)
(after a few minutes, I came back)
Me: Mrs Nanny, you really have to be more flexible (we had had a similar argument a few weeks back about how she couldn't come early on saturdays and she couldn't leave late) I can't always tell you things in advance so you should bring a spare outfit and leave here in the event you have to follow me anywhere
Mrs Nanny: eh that's what I'm saying you have to tell me early
Me: I can't always tell you early, so bring an outfit
Mrs Nanny: (ignores me and continues making baby food)
Me: (goes downstairs)
Now normally I am very patient person (ok I lie I'm not) but I've been very patient with Mrs Nanny so far being she's old enough to be my mom. Does this woman want me to yell at her? this will simply not do, I will not work with anyone regardless of age who doesn't respect me.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
History of Love
So Mr. and I went to the History of Love 101 concert over the weekend. The turnout wasn't great and like most things Nigerian it was poorly organized. I was really looking to Paul I.K. Dairo and Donell Jones. Paul's performance was a joke, I think on the way to the venue they saw a couple of girls hanging out and asked them if they wanted to come along and be his backup dancers.
There were 4 of them in total, 2 men 2 women, I didn't really notice the men cause the women left me with a lot to think about. The first girl had some scarves tied to her upper arm, had on a dress/shirt thingy (these days you never know whether they are dresses or shirts) and leggings (yes leggings not spandex), and some ankle boots or something, she seemed really intent on acting play on stage. The second girl had on a 'face-cap' (yes face-cap not baseball hat) some runner shorts (like the type male track athletes wear) and a top. I hope I'm giving you a good enough visual, infact even better, you remember when you were younger and you did 'step dances' with your sisters/cousins/etc for your parents/uncles/aunties? yeah that's exactly what it was, only worse. My apologies if you know any of these chicks but a little practice never hurt anyone.
(Donell Jones) Then Donell, oh Donell my love, I really liked his performance, it got to the point that I was singing so much that one guy on our table told me and his wife/girlfriend to go join our husband on stage...lol. His DJ was actually sort of attractive, in that ghetto I'll bitch slap you type of way, if that's your thing of course. Maybe I just miss NY a little too much....lol
Now one person I hadn't given much thought to was D'banj, boy did he put on a show. Granted, he yelled a lot of 'things' I'll rather not have heard but you could tell that he put some thought into the performance. Homeboy game out in a bright purple sequinned outfit, looking like a straight up pimp. He had me saying 'kokolet' and 'mamalet' (heeeeeey!!) all day......lol (let's hope this doesn't last too long). He even had a 'towel girl' who just came between songs to wipe his sweat..lol. I'm not even going to talk about the whole 'anaconda' thing.
I'm not really Chante and Kenny fans but they put on a good show as well, they really make a cute couple. By the time 112 came out there about 50 folks left, they didn't come on till like 2:30 a.m. they were good as well.
All in all it was a good show, I kinda felt sorry for the stars though because the crowd was so dull (yeah I know that includes me, but it is what it is..). Where are all those crazy hyper people when you need them?...LOL
So was it worth 50K? probably not but I had a decently good time. Sorry my camera batteries were weak so I couldn't take more and better pics.
There were 4 of them in total, 2 men 2 women, I didn't really notice the men cause the women left me with a lot to think about. The first girl had some scarves tied to her upper arm, had on a dress/shirt thingy (these days you never know whether they are dresses or shirts) and leggings (yes leggings not spandex), and some ankle boots or something, she seemed really intent on acting play on stage. The second girl had on a 'face-cap' (yes face-cap not baseball hat) some runner shorts (like the type male track athletes wear) and a top. I hope I'm giving you a good enough visual, infact even better, you remember when you were younger and you did 'step dances' with your sisters/cousins/etc for your parents/uncles/aunties? yeah that's exactly what it was, only worse. My apologies if you know any of these chicks but a little practice never hurt anyone.
(Donell Jones) Then Donell, oh Donell my love, I really liked his performance, it got to the point that I was singing so much that one guy on our table told me and his wife/girlfriend to go join our husband on stage...lol. His DJ was actually sort of attractive, in that ghetto I'll bitch slap you type of way, if that's your thing of course. Maybe I just miss NY a little too much....lol |  |
| D'banj | and his Kokolets |
Now one person I hadn't given much thought to was D'banj, boy did he put on a show. Granted, he yelled a lot of 'things' I'll rather not have heard but you could tell that he put some thought into the performance. Homeboy game out in a bright purple sequinned outfit, looking like a straight up pimp. He had me saying 'kokolet' and 'mamalet' (heeeeeey!!) all day......lol (let's hope this doesn't last too long). He even had a 'towel girl' who just came between songs to wipe his sweat..lol. I'm not even going to talk about the whole 'anaconda' thing.
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| Chante Moore | Kenny Lattimore |
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All in all it was a good show, I kinda felt sorry for the stars though because the crowd was so dull (yeah I know that includes me, but it is what it is..). Where are all those crazy hyper people when you need them?...LOL
So was it worth 50K? probably not but I had a decently good time. Sorry my camera batteries were weak so I couldn't take more and better pics.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Run Down
I've had a crazy week so far, of course in between I've kept up with the latest blog gist...LOL
Monday
Had to go to Ayinke House close to the Airport to see a doctor. That place is a dump, so how did I end up there you ask? I have been looking for a pediatrician for my kpuff kpuff since we got back and everyone kept recommending this same doctor, and after trying to make an appointment with her for like 1 month, she finally got in contact with me and said she works at Ayinke house on Mondays so I should stop by and see her there. So we got there, asked for her, after everyone pointed us in different directions we finally arrived at her office, meeen her office was hot there was no light (yes I said no light at a hospital) so they had a small gen on that couldnt' carry any fans. She wasn't there so we had to wait for her, thankfully, she showed after about 10 mins. She was actually a lot nicer than I expected, considering the circumstances, she examined kpuff kpuff and told us she is doing perfectly fine and is pretty big :-D for a first baby, then she recommended us to another hospital to get some shots she's due for at 9 months. Looking around while we were waiting at that hospital, I really felt for anyone who had to be admitted there, rude nurses, pungent smells, I mean the works. Yeah we have to find a private clinic with a good ped, pronto. I'm not going back there anytime soon.
Tuesday
I had an 11 appointment with a dentist on Raymond Njoku. Their office wasn't bad, trust me I've been to enough dentists to know bootleg ones when I see them. Anyway, she attended to me about 20 mins late (not bad by Nigerian standards) and told me I need to yank out my tooth cause it was badly infected to salvage :(. So after about 40 minutes of prying, drilling, suctioning, my tooth was pulled out and I was left with a large gaping hole where it once was (don't worry the tooth is in the back so I can still do sisi....lol). Anyway, they asked me if I wanted dentures or a dental implant to replace the tooth, I think I am a little too young to be putting my teeth in a glass when I'm going going to bed, so I opted for the implants, which she said in total are going to cost me about 900 pounds plus one other thing thing that will cost an additional 300 to 400 pounds. The amount of money I have spent on this mouth of mine, it better start bringing money back for me quick quick.
Wednesday
First thing this morning I had to take my baby to get her shots, so my plan was to wake up early take her as early as possible, drop her back at home then go to the bank. Well I woke up got ready and was about to just wipe her down and change her only to find out she had diarrhea...eewww, and her nanny hadn't come yet so I couldn't hand her over to anyone. So of course this delayed us another 30 mins cause I had to clean her up and give her a bath. So we got the hospital and this one was another mad house, it was like an assembly line of mothers and babies. If you see the way some children were crying, I was really tempted to run out of there, but I didn't want to seem unappreciative as our neighbor doctor had gone through a lot of trouble to introduce us to the Ayinke House doctor who recommended us here for the shots. Anyway, after they called my baby orobo a few times and begged her not to break their scale, she got her two shots (measles and tuberculosis) and we have to go back on the 28th for yellow fever. Sigh. She cried small sha, but nothing that 'pat-a-cake' couldn't fix. So I rushed back home dropped her off and headed to the bank.
I have been having some problems with my bank, my clients/employers wired me money since Jan 15th and the money is not in my account, when I checked last month and it wasn't there I thought they hadn't sent it yet since it wasn't the end of the month yet. So I asked the HR chick and she said she had sent it already and sent me the confirmation. Meanwhile Standard Chatered say they never receive any money o!, that the last money was received in December. So this morning, swollen cheek and all (from my extraction yesterday) I marched to bank and demanded to see my account officer Ayo, Ayo wasn't around so I had to see some other guy Bayo who then told me to bring one document or the other from the NY folks so they can trace it. Once they get it they will have information for me withing 48 hours. I'm not feeling this shit at all, if it ends being the fault of the bank, me I'm moving my account oh!
Oh and after working like a 'jackie' yesterday when I got home in preparation for todays deadline, I was told it had been pushed to Monday. And Mr. got by caught by LASMA yesterday too for driving in the opposite direction on a one way, (this is the second time this has happened and we've been in lagos 3 and a half months).
I have also decided to let my nanny go, I will give details in another post, I have to get back to work.
Let's hope Thursday and Friday are a lot better.
Congrats to TMinx and Baba on their Blog wedding!!
Monday
Had to go to Ayinke House close to the Airport to see a doctor. That place is a dump, so how did I end up there you ask? I have been looking for a pediatrician for my kpuff kpuff since we got back and everyone kept recommending this same doctor, and after trying to make an appointment with her for like 1 month, she finally got in contact with me and said she works at Ayinke house on Mondays so I should stop by and see her there. So we got there, asked for her, after everyone pointed us in different directions we finally arrived at her office, meeen her office was hot there was no light (yes I said no light at a hospital) so they had a small gen on that couldnt' carry any fans. She wasn't there so we had to wait for her, thankfully, she showed after about 10 mins. She was actually a lot nicer than I expected, considering the circumstances, she examined kpuff kpuff and told us she is doing perfectly fine and is pretty big :-D for a first baby, then she recommended us to another hospital to get some shots she's due for at 9 months. Looking around while we were waiting at that hospital, I really felt for anyone who had to be admitted there, rude nurses, pungent smells, I mean the works. Yeah we have to find a private clinic with a good ped, pronto. I'm not going back there anytime soon.
Tuesday
I had an 11 appointment with a dentist on Raymond Njoku. Their office wasn't bad, trust me I've been to enough dentists to know bootleg ones when I see them. Anyway, she attended to me about 20 mins late (not bad by Nigerian standards) and told me I need to yank out my tooth cause it was badly infected to salvage :(. So after about 40 minutes of prying, drilling, suctioning, my tooth was pulled out and I was left with a large gaping hole where it once was (don't worry the tooth is in the back so I can still do sisi....lol). Anyway, they asked me if I wanted dentures or a dental implant to replace the tooth, I think I am a little too young to be putting my teeth in a glass when I'm going going to bed, so I opted for the implants, which she said in total are going to cost me about 900 pounds plus one other thing thing that will cost an additional 300 to 400 pounds. The amount of money I have spent on this mouth of mine, it better start bringing money back for me quick quick.
Wednesday
First thing this morning I had to take my baby to get her shots, so my plan was to wake up early take her as early as possible, drop her back at home then go to the bank. Well I woke up got ready and was about to just wipe her down and change her only to find out she had diarrhea...eewww, and her nanny hadn't come yet so I couldn't hand her over to anyone. So of course this delayed us another 30 mins cause I had to clean her up and give her a bath. So we got the hospital and this one was another mad house, it was like an assembly line of mothers and babies. If you see the way some children were crying, I was really tempted to run out of there, but I didn't want to seem unappreciative as our neighbor doctor had gone through a lot of trouble to introduce us to the Ayinke House doctor who recommended us here for the shots. Anyway, after they called my baby orobo a few times and begged her not to break their scale, she got her two shots (measles and tuberculosis) and we have to go back on the 28th for yellow fever. Sigh. She cried small sha, but nothing that 'pat-a-cake' couldn't fix. So I rushed back home dropped her off and headed to the bank.
I have been having some problems with my bank, my clients/employers wired me money since Jan 15th and the money is not in my account, when I checked last month and it wasn't there I thought they hadn't sent it yet since it wasn't the end of the month yet. So I asked the HR chick and she said she had sent it already and sent me the confirmation. Meanwhile Standard Chatered say they never receive any money o!, that the last money was received in December. So this morning, swollen cheek and all (from my extraction yesterday) I marched to bank and demanded to see my account officer Ayo, Ayo wasn't around so I had to see some other guy Bayo who then told me to bring one document or the other from the NY folks so they can trace it. Once they get it they will have information for me withing 48 hours. I'm not feeling this shit at all, if it ends being the fault of the bank, me I'm moving my account oh!
Oh and after working like a 'jackie' yesterday when I got home in preparation for todays deadline, I was told it had been pushed to Monday. And Mr. got by caught by LASMA yesterday too for driving in the opposite direction on a one way, (this is the second time this has happened and we've been in lagos 3 and a half months).
I have also decided to let my nanny go, I will give details in another post, I have to get back to work.
Let's hope Thursday and Friday are a lot better.
Congrats to TMinx and Baba on their Blog wedding!!
Monday, January 29, 2007
Back to Original Programming
Sorry guys, I know I've been AWOL for a minute, it's this work wahala. Anyway I won't bore you with the details.
Last weekend one of my mom's friends came over and she had got her eyebrows tattoed. (I didn't know they did that in Nigeria) Anyway, they looked totally fab, and my mom is considering getting hers done. I don't know about tattoing my eyebrows, what if all of a sudden I want round eyebrows instead of arched eyebrows?...lol (I know I can be a complete ditz), then I'll be stuck with arched ones.......quelle horreur!!. Or what if I just want a totally different look altogether?
So with all this talk of eyebrows, I decided that I wanted to get my eyebrows done. Honestly it's just something I'm not fond of doing. I like the finished look, but I hate the process, I can say that in my entirely life I have gotten my eyebrows waxed a total of 5 times, okay maybe 6. For one it hurts so much and then I breakout in the areas they waxed and by the time my craw craw is clearing my eyebrows are pretty much grown out. So please what is the point? I wanted to try threading them before I left the states but I never got around to. So I had my Aunt employ the Lagos technique of 'scraping' sorry shaping eyebrows with a blade on me......it actually didn't turn out bad, it's thinner than I would have liked, so I have a little too much of the 'experienced' look, but other than that it's not bad.
Does anyone know if they thread eyebrows anywhere in Lagos?
So on to more important things. My baby is crawling (she's been crawling since New Year) and just started walking with support (holding the chair, bed, etc and moving from point A to B). I am very excited and also very nervous, cause the havoc this girl has caused just crawling, I don't even want to know what's going to happen when she can actually walk. God help us all.
Last weekend one of my mom's friends came over and she had got her eyebrows tattoed. (I didn't know they did that in Nigeria) Anyway, they looked totally fab, and my mom is considering getting hers done. I don't know about tattoing my eyebrows, what if all of a sudden I want round eyebrows instead of arched eyebrows?...lol (I know I can be a complete ditz), then I'll be stuck with arched ones.......quelle horreur!!. Or what if I just want a totally different look altogether?
So with all this talk of eyebrows, I decided that I wanted to get my eyebrows done. Honestly it's just something I'm not fond of doing. I like the finished look, but I hate the process, I can say that in my entirely life I have gotten my eyebrows waxed a total of 5 times, okay maybe 6. For one it hurts so much and then I breakout in the areas they waxed and by the time my craw craw is clearing my eyebrows are pretty much grown out. So please what is the point? I wanted to try threading them before I left the states but I never got around to. So I had my Aunt employ the Lagos technique of 'scraping' sorry shaping eyebrows with a blade on me......it actually didn't turn out bad, it's thinner than I would have liked, so I have a little too much of the 'experienced' look, but other than that it's not bad.
Does anyone know if they thread eyebrows anywhere in Lagos?
So on to more important things. My baby is crawling (she's been crawling since New Year) and just started walking with support (holding the chair, bed, etc and moving from point A to B). I am very excited and also very nervous, cause the havoc this girl has caused just crawling, I don't even want to know what's going to happen when she can actually walk. God help us all.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Stressed
I swear stress is just following me everywhere. Right now my pimple and hair concotions are the least of my worries. I have 2 project deadlines for the 22nd of Jan and 7th of Feb. My client/boss is being a complete ass, and they are trying to renege on my contract. I think they suddenly realized "...damn we're paying this 'african' chick a little too much..." well that one is their palava, I'm not giving them room to say anything to me about it again (I kinda slacked off about 3 weeks ago and I heard it from them).
Meanwhile, I'm looking for a full-time web developer to help me with all the work I have to, I mean I am working from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. everyday, I don't have a fucking life! I interviewed 2 candidates today that were referred to me and it was a disaster. Why can't people just answer yes/no questions with a yes or no?. I asked this guy to tell me a bit about himself, and he had no clue...I mean the question is about him? Whatever the case, I need to find someone pronto cause this will just not do, I need more time to 'socialize'(lol) and of course spend with my family.
Oh, before I forget, I went to this place called Coconut Grove (Groove?) in ikoyi over the weekend, it actually wasn't bad. It was like a mellow 'Cafe Wha' for the NY folks. Complete with the oyinbo sounding music and live band. Definitely better than being trampled in a club though.
So what's new folks? How has your week/weekend been?
Meanwhile, I'm looking for a full-time web developer to help me with all the work I have to, I mean I am working from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. everyday, I don't have a fucking life! I interviewed 2 candidates today that were referred to me and it was a disaster. Why can't people just answer yes/no questions with a yes or no?. I asked this guy to tell me a bit about himself, and he had no clue...I mean the question is about him? Whatever the case, I need to find someone pronto cause this will just not do, I need more time to 'socialize'(lol) and of course spend with my family.
Oh, before I forget, I went to this place called Coconut Grove (Groove?) in ikoyi over the weekend, it actually wasn't bad. It was like a mellow 'Cafe Wha' for the NY folks. Complete with the oyinbo sounding music and live band. Definitely better than being trampled in a club though.
So what's new folks? How has your week/weekend been?
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Fine Face No Pimples
Have you noticed that plenty girls in Lagos have serious fresh skin? I mean even fresher than the girls in yankee, it’s not even funny oh! And when you ask them all of them will tell they use pears baby soap or some crap like that or they drink a lot of water. Abeg, who doesn’t know that water thing? Me too I drink plenty water and my face is ok, but not as fresh as I see on these girls.
Since I am trying to attain my MILF status at all costs, I too started using pears baby soap, those bitches were lying men, why can’t we just share the love and become one big bloody attractive happy family??!! Eh? Why are we women so bloody competitive? Even my sister oh? This girl used to have serious “patch patch” skin, all of a sudden she started looking real fresh, to the point that she looks younger than me. WTF?...... I’m going off track. Anyway I did some real investigating and here’s what I came up with (*disclaimer: please if you get big pimples from my regimen, no blame me oh! It’s not my fault that you didn’t do a patch test first – thank you very much) - Guys don't worry you can try this in the privacy of your bathroom, no one has to know you apply facial masks at night :)
Natural solutions (necessary in Nigeria, cause nothing is convenient, either you swim 7 seas to buy it, or you pay through your nose)
+ Juicing: I hear carrot and cucumber juiced at home works wonders for your skin and hair, I am yet to try either just going by what I have heard
+ Aspirin and Lemon juice, apparently a few aspirin (enough to make the lemon juice pasty) crushed in lemon juice applied as a mask (don't sleep with it oh!) just put it on till it dries then peel off and rinse your face, in addition to helping with craw craw it shrinks pores the size of craters (make sure you don't have any open skin on your face, it won't be a nice experience with the lemon juice)
+ Honey, a few people said this, but I tried it and got plenty craw craw, apparently I am allergic to honey, but some people swear by this, personally, I'm not messing with it again.
+ Water, I'm sure you've heard this from everyone already, drink plenty of it.
Shelf solutions
+ Neutrogena clean and clear soap
+ Dudu osun
+ Proactive
As for those of you with fresh faces reading this, please tell us what you do to have such positively glowing skin.
Since I am trying to attain my MILF status at all costs, I too started using pears baby soap, those bitches were lying men, why can’t we just share the love and become one big bloody attractive happy family??!! Eh? Why are we women so bloody competitive? Even my sister oh? This girl used to have serious “patch patch” skin, all of a sudden she started looking real fresh, to the point that she looks younger than me. WTF?...... I’m going off track. Anyway I did some real investigating and here’s what I came up with (*disclaimer: please if you get big pimples from my regimen, no blame me oh! It’s not my fault that you didn’t do a patch test first – thank you very much) - Guys don't worry you can try this in the privacy of your bathroom, no one has to know you apply facial masks at night :)
Natural solutions (necessary in Nigeria, cause nothing is convenient, either you swim 7 seas to buy it, or you pay through your nose)
+ Juicing: I hear carrot and cucumber juiced at home works wonders for your skin and hair, I am yet to try either just going by what I have heard
+ Aspirin and Lemon juice, apparently a few aspirin (enough to make the lemon juice pasty) crushed in lemon juice applied as a mask (don't sleep with it oh!) just put it on till it dries then peel off and rinse your face, in addition to helping with craw craw it shrinks pores the size of craters (make sure you don't have any open skin on your face, it won't be a nice experience with the lemon juice)
+ Honey, a few people said this, but I tried it and got plenty craw craw, apparently I am allergic to honey, but some people swear by this, personally, I'm not messing with it again.
+ Water, I'm sure you've heard this from everyone already, drink plenty of it.
Shelf solutions
+ Neutrogena clean and clear soap
+ Dudu osun
+ Proactive
As for those of you with fresh faces reading this, please tell us what you do to have such positively glowing skin.
Monday, January 08, 2007
Tagged
FOUR JOBS YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE
1.Telemarketer
2.Hair braider (hey, I had to get my hustle on)
3.Graphic Designer
4.Web Developer
FOUR JOBS YOU WISH YOU HAD
1.Trophy wife
2.'Madam' (one who didn't have to ho around though)
3.Trust fund baby
4.Anything else that will bring massive wealth without any work :)
FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN
1.Original Sin
2.The 40 year old virgin
3.Troy
4.Wedding Crashers
FOUR CITIES YOU'VE LIVED IN
1.Lagos Nigeria
2.Queens NY
3.Teaneck, NJ
4.Fairfield, CT
(Ok, I know 3 of my 4 cities are within driving distance of each other, but the question asked for cities, ok?!)
FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH
1.Prison Break
2.Family Guy
3.Futurama
4.American Dad
FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION/TRAVELLED TO
1. EMERIKA
2. Linz, Austria
3. Geneva, Switzerland
4. Las Palmas, Spain
FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY
1.Google
2.Plenty Blogs
3.Work related sites
4.Craigslist
FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
1.Yam and ukodo peppersoup
2.Grilled skirt cake from the cheesecake factory
3.Mongolian beef from P.F. Changs
4.Party Jollof rice, fried rice
FOUR THINGS YOU WON'T EAT
1.Cheese
2.Olives
3.Odon (warri people should know what I'm talking about)
4.Mustard sauce
FOUR THINGS YOU WISH YOU COULD EAT OR DRINK RIGHT NOW
1.Super rick dark moist chocolate cake
2.Asun
3.Guava
4.Shawarma (I actually haven't eaten this since I got back)
FOUR THINGS IN YOUR BEDROOM
1.A mess
2.Clothes
3.Bed
4.Too many baby gadgets to list
FOUR THINGS YOU WISH YOU HAD IN YOUR BEDROOM
1.A permanent invisible maid
2.Perfect contemporary furniture that someone picks out and sets up for me
3.More gadgets
4.Everything within arms reach from the bed
FOUR THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW
1.Jeans
2.Top
3.My bling (engagement ring)
4.My weave..alright (said in the perfect Wendy Williams voice)...lol
ONE PLACE I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
Right here in fornt of my computer...:)
ONE FICTIONAL PLACE I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
Wherever the futurama folks live, they have it made!
FOUR PEOPLE YOU’D REALLY LOVE TO HAVE DINNER WITH
??? can't think of anyone???
FOUR THINGS YOU ARE THINKING RIGHT NOW
1.Too many bloody questions
2.I really should be working
3.I have so much work to do
4.Why do I have only 6 of my 10 toenails painted?
FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE THINGS/PEOPLE
1.My baby and the rest of my family
2.My laptop
3.Cars
4.Shoes
FOUR PEOPLE YOU TAG
Anyone reading this who hasn't done this already!
1.Telemarketer
2.Hair braider (hey, I had to get my hustle on)
3.Graphic Designer
4.Web Developer
FOUR JOBS YOU WISH YOU HAD
1.Trophy wife
2.'Madam' (one who didn't have to ho around though)
3.Trust fund baby
4.Anything else that will bring massive wealth without any work :)
FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER AGAIN
1.Original Sin
2.The 40 year old virgin
3.Troy
4.Wedding Crashers
FOUR CITIES YOU'VE LIVED IN
1.Lagos Nigeria
2.Queens NY
3.Teaneck, NJ
4.Fairfield, CT
(Ok, I know 3 of my 4 cities are within driving distance of each other, but the question asked for cities, ok?!)
FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH
1.Prison Break
2.Family Guy
3.Futurama
4.American Dad
FOUR PLACES YOU'VE BEEN ON VACATION/TRAVELLED TO
1. EMERIKA
2. Linz, Austria
3. Geneva, Switzerland
4. Las Palmas, Spain
FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY
1.Google
2.Plenty Blogs
3.Work related sites
4.Craigslist
FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS
1.Yam and ukodo peppersoup
2.Grilled skirt cake from the cheesecake factory
3.Mongolian beef from P.F. Changs
4.Party Jollof rice, fried rice
FOUR THINGS YOU WON'T EAT
1.Cheese
2.Olives
3.Odon (warri people should know what I'm talking about)
4.Mustard sauce
FOUR THINGS YOU WISH YOU COULD EAT OR DRINK RIGHT NOW
1.Super rick dark moist chocolate cake
2.Asun
3.Guava
4.Shawarma (I actually haven't eaten this since I got back)
FOUR THINGS IN YOUR BEDROOM
1.A mess
2.Clothes
3.Bed
4.Too many baby gadgets to list
FOUR THINGS YOU WISH YOU HAD IN YOUR BEDROOM
1.A permanent invisible maid
2.Perfect contemporary furniture that someone picks out and sets up for me
3.More gadgets
4.Everything within arms reach from the bed
FOUR THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW
1.Jeans
2.Top
3.My bling (engagement ring)
4.My weave..alright (said in the perfect Wendy Williams voice)...lol
ONE PLACE I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
Right here in fornt of my computer...:)
ONE FICTIONAL PLACE I'D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW
Wherever the futurama folks live, they have it made!
FOUR PEOPLE YOU’D REALLY LOVE TO HAVE DINNER WITH
??? can't think of anyone???
FOUR THINGS YOU ARE THINKING RIGHT NOW
1.Too many bloody questions
2.I really should be working
3.I have so much work to do
4.Why do I have only 6 of my 10 toenails painted?
FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE THINGS/PEOPLE
1.My baby and the rest of my family
2.My laptop
3.Cars
4.Shoes
FOUR PEOPLE YOU TAG
Anyone reading this who hasn't done this already!
Friday, January 05, 2007
All in a days work
My baby's nanny didn't come the entire week cause her daughter is getting married. This woman only started in November and I have heard so many stories as to why she can't come to work or whatever. When baby's are involved it's not so easy to fire and hire, it takes a while for your child to get used to someone so I will need a very good reason to fire this woman. Anyway, back to my original story, my Mr. and Mom are supposed to be helping me with her while I work, since both of them can be more flexible with their time. So yesterday, my mom was out, which left Oga in charge. Generally, it's a pain in the ass to feed her with a spoon since it's very messy and depending on her mood she might just spit everything out back at you, so I am conveniently 'not available' when it comes to this mealtime.
Being the good wife and mother I am (insert evil grin here) when it was time to feed her yesterday I went and made the food and said in the sweetest voice I could muster to Mr. to please feed her cause I was very busy with work. And infact, I made sure they did it in another room so I wouldn't hear all the drama that definitely will follow. Well it didn't work. 10 minutes later, Mr. came down baby in one hand bowl of food in the other hand...."take your baby, she doesn't want to eat her food..." and he dumped her on my lap put her food down and bounced.
That's how little madam started with her shakara oh!.....screaming, crying, jerking, stretching.....(where are those people that say I have a quiet baby at times like this?), what song did I not sing?, infact old macdonalds farm had every animal I could think of, from a ram that went baaaa (what sounds do rams make anyway?) to a meh meh goat (this is old macdonald naija style....lol). Anyway, she finished her food after about 40 painful minutes of singing and nodding and stumping my foot to show that I'm happy and I know it. And of course she sprayed me and everything in line with her mouth with her food.
Oh, I also wanted to sing that 1,2 buckle my shoe song, does anyone have the complete words to it?
Being the good wife and mother I am (insert evil grin here) when it was time to feed her yesterday I went and made the food and said in the sweetest voice I could muster to Mr. to please feed her cause I was very busy with work. And infact, I made sure they did it in another room so I wouldn't hear all the drama that definitely will follow. Well it didn't work. 10 minutes later, Mr. came down baby in one hand bowl of food in the other hand...."take your baby, she doesn't want to eat her food..." and he dumped her on my lap put her food down and bounced.
That's how little madam started with her shakara oh!.....screaming, crying, jerking, stretching.....(where are those people that say I have a quiet baby at times like this?), what song did I not sing?, infact old macdonalds farm had every animal I could think of, from a ram that went baaaa (what sounds do rams make anyway?) to a meh meh goat (this is old macdonald naija style....lol). Anyway, she finished her food after about 40 painful minutes of singing and nodding and stumping my foot to show that I'm happy and I know it. And of course she sprayed me and everything in line with her mouth with her food.
Oh, I also wanted to sing that 1,2 buckle my shoe song, does anyone have the complete words to it?
Monday, January 01, 2007
Happy New Year!
I don't believe we're in 2007! it just sounds like it should be so far in the future. All in all I had a very good 2006
- I got married
- I had a baby
- I got a fantastic opportunity to do some consulting work for my employers in NY from Nigeria with the same salary (and no US taxes!!!! :))
- I got tenants who pay their rent on time (knock on wood)
- I moved to Nigeria with my family
- I have a family who loves me very much and parents that are ready to support me in whatever decision I take
Ok I'm going off track, bottom line 2006 was a good year and hopefully 2007 will be better. I don't have any new year resolutions per se, but I would like to make a few changes
- Workout more (ok fine, just workout period)
- Update my blog more frequently
- Work on my temper, it's gotten shorter and shorter over the years
- Actively seek out more business opportunities
- Be myself (don't let any of those snotty ex-QC mates of mine turn me into a snotty bitch as well, haba we've grown past that!)
Anyway, enough of this sappy mess. I had 3 weddings in a row on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, never again, those girls/women that go every weekend try. They were all good weddings, it was good to see familiar faces again but as usualy you know there are always the stuck up bitches who act like they don't know you. Whatever.
So that's how for the wedding on thursday, when we were leaving my cousin asked us to give her friend a ride back to Ikeja, this chick got in the car and started saying "turn left, turn ROIGHT", please what the hell is ROIGHT?!!What's up with everyone in Lagos having an accent anyway?.... So homegirl was flirting with my husband right in front of me sha......."oh you don't know your way [insert sexy giggle here]....oh ok don't worry I will show you the way...." I was like this chick is bold!, I almost left the front seat for her to come and sit down oh! Anyway we finally dropped her off somewhere in Alausa, that's how my Mr. was telling me the next day that the girl left her number in the car!! can you imagine!!
- I got married
- I had a baby
- I got a fantastic opportunity to do some consulting work for my employers in NY from Nigeria with the same salary (and no US taxes!!!! :))
- I got tenants who pay their rent on time (knock on wood)
- I moved to Nigeria with my family
- I have a family who loves me very much and parents that are ready to support me in whatever decision I take
Ok I'm going off track, bottom line 2006 was a good year and hopefully 2007 will be better. I don't have any new year resolutions per se, but I would like to make a few changes
- Workout more (ok fine, just workout period)
- Update my blog more frequently
- Work on my temper, it's gotten shorter and shorter over the years
- Actively seek out more business opportunities
- Be myself (don't let any of those snotty ex-QC mates of mine turn me into a snotty bitch as well, haba we've grown past that!)
Anyway, enough of this sappy mess. I had 3 weddings in a row on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, never again, those girls/women that go every weekend try. They were all good weddings, it was good to see familiar faces again but as usualy you know there are always the stuck up bitches who act like they don't know you. Whatever.
So that's how for the wedding on thursday, when we were leaving my cousin asked us to give her friend a ride back to Ikeja, this chick got in the car and started saying "turn left, turn ROIGHT", please what the hell is ROIGHT?!!What's up with everyone in Lagos having an accent anyway?.... So homegirl was flirting with my husband right in front of me sha......."oh you don't know your way [insert sexy giggle here]....oh ok don't worry I will show you the way...." I was like this chick is bold!, I almost left the front seat for her to come and sit down oh! Anyway we finally dropped her off somewhere in Alausa, that's how my Mr. was telling me the next day that the girl left her number in the car!! can you imagine!!
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
I typed this up yesterday but forgot to put it up, enjoy..
I just got back from PH and I can barely keep my eyes open. I am so tired, but I just had to make this blog entry while the details are still fresh in my head…this is definitely going to be a long one so you better get comfortable.
Saturday
So on Saturday, my brother in law called us at like 7 in the morning and said he was heading to the airport in Owerri (FYI: if you didn’t already know, the airport in PH is closed so you have to fly into Owerri then go by road to PH which is about a 2 hour drive) so we should take the first flight out cause he has a lot of stuff to do. So Mr. and I got ready and he went ahead to the airport to get the details and buy the tickets, the plan was that we would meet him at the airport if there was a flight leaving soon (oh that’s another thing, if you’re traveling locally, you just go to the airport and buy the ticket there like you’re getting on a bus or something…lol). Well he called me and said the 8:30 a.m. flight was cancelled the next one was at 10:00 a.m. and it was oversold but were on standby, so he came back home and we all left the house (quite late) for the 10 o clock one. Only to get the airport and find that we couldn’t check in our luggage, and they wouldn’t take in on the plane. Then we find out that Aero Contractor another airline had a 3:30 flight, so we ran over there to get tickets and finally we were all set, or at least we thought we were. The flight was delayed 2 hours so we finally left at 5:30, Mr. was also cargo-ing some things for his brother so that was another wahala as well but I won’t even digress there for now.
We arrived in one piece at the Owerri airport at 6:30 and his brother was waiting for us, he had arranged for another van to carry all the additional load we cargo-ed for him. So I went in his car with baby and Mr. went with the van because they wanted someone in there with them. That’s how we were going oh, and he said his battery light was coming on and he didn’t know why, so he put off his A/C, it still kept going on, finally the lights got dimmer and dimmer and the car stopped, somewhere in Aba. So we carried all our load and transferred to the van, got all the way to PH (Ebere junction or something like that) and we were stuck there in traffic for like 3 hours. I mean the kind of traffic where you shut off your engine and put the windows down. Anyway finally, we got to his place at about 11:00 p.m. and was informed my mother-in-law was waiting for me and her grand child that she hasn’t met down the street at her place. Well cut a long story short, I didn’t go cause I didn’t want to take baby out that late, I mean it was long day already, so she came over. She is so sweet, she’s really really short J. I mean short. And she bought me lace and ‘george’ (type of fabric as well). I felt so bad cause I didn’t get her anything this trip (I had already sent things to her when we just got back …..so don’t tell me what a bad daughter-in-law I am).
Sunday
We went to church for Mr.’s brothers baby dedication, after we left church the plan was to take me to the airport as I had to be out so I could come home and work on Monday and he was supposed to join me in Lagos on Monday. We took once again the 2 hour drive down to Owerri with 12 police checkpoints along the way (I counted), we didn’t get stopped though but all the same it’s scary, we actually saw a police-man rolling a joint to smoke!! WTF???
When we got to the airport we were informed that there were no flights to Lagos, there were all cancelled, so we turned around and headed back.
The only positive thing about that was I got to spend some quality time with my in-laws at eleast.
Monday
We left the house at 5:30 a.m. got the airport around 8:30 a.m. we got tickets for a 9:30 a.m. flight and we were in Lagos by 10:30….Hurrayy!!!! I practically kissed the ground when I got off the plane.
I just got back from PH and I can barely keep my eyes open. I am so tired, but I just had to make this blog entry while the details are still fresh in my head…this is definitely going to be a long one so you better get comfortable.
Saturday
So on Saturday, my brother in law called us at like 7 in the morning and said he was heading to the airport in Owerri (FYI: if you didn’t already know, the airport in PH is closed so you have to fly into Owerri then go by road to PH which is about a 2 hour drive) so we should take the first flight out cause he has a lot of stuff to do. So Mr. and I got ready and he went ahead to the airport to get the details and buy the tickets, the plan was that we would meet him at the airport if there was a flight leaving soon (oh that’s another thing, if you’re traveling locally, you just go to the airport and buy the ticket there like you’re getting on a bus or something…lol). Well he called me and said the 8:30 a.m. flight was cancelled the next one was at 10:00 a.m. and it was oversold but were on standby, so he came back home and we all left the house (quite late) for the 10 o clock one. Only to get the airport and find that we couldn’t check in our luggage, and they wouldn’t take in on the plane. Then we find out that Aero Contractor another airline had a 3:30 flight, so we ran over there to get tickets and finally we were all set, or at least we thought we were. The flight was delayed 2 hours so we finally left at 5:30, Mr. was also cargo-ing some things for his brother so that was another wahala as well but I won’t even digress there for now.
We arrived in one piece at the Owerri airport at 6:30 and his brother was waiting for us, he had arranged for another van to carry all the additional load we cargo-ed for him. So I went in his car with baby and Mr. went with the van because they wanted someone in there with them. That’s how we were going oh, and he said his battery light was coming on and he didn’t know why, so he put off his A/C, it still kept going on, finally the lights got dimmer and dimmer and the car stopped, somewhere in Aba. So we carried all our load and transferred to the van, got all the way to PH (Ebere junction or something like that) and we were stuck there in traffic for like 3 hours. I mean the kind of traffic where you shut off your engine and put the windows down. Anyway finally, we got to his place at about 11:00 p.m. and was informed my mother-in-law was waiting for me and her grand child that she hasn’t met down the street at her place. Well cut a long story short, I didn’t go cause I didn’t want to take baby out that late, I mean it was long day already, so she came over. She is so sweet, she’s really really short J. I mean short. And she bought me lace and ‘george’ (type of fabric as well). I felt so bad cause I didn’t get her anything this trip (I had already sent things to her when we just got back …..so don’t tell me what a bad daughter-in-law I am).
Sunday
We went to church for Mr.’s brothers baby dedication, after we left church the plan was to take me to the airport as I had to be out so I could come home and work on Monday and he was supposed to join me in Lagos on Monday. We took once again the 2 hour drive down to Owerri with 12 police checkpoints along the way (I counted), we didn’t get stopped though but all the same it’s scary, we actually saw a police-man rolling a joint to smoke!! WTF???
When we got to the airport we were informed that there were no flights to Lagos, there were all cancelled, so we turned around and headed back.
The only positive thing about that was I got to spend some quality time with my in-laws at eleast.
Monday
We left the house at 5:30 a.m. got the airport around 8:30 a.m. we got tickets for a 9:30 a.m. flight and we were in Lagos by 10:30….Hurrayy!!!! I practically kissed the ground when I got off the plane.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Soul Lounge
So I finally 'bubbled' oh!. Last Friday I went to Soul Lounge, which is a teenie, weenie bar/lounge at the palms. I went with my 'socialite' cousin (that's a topic for another day) and her soon to be husband. The place was surprisingly packed, it really wasn't much different from the NY night scene the key differences being, people smoking inside (I have gotten used to the no smoking inside), a lot of older men with small small girls (I mean it's not even shameful anymore oh! these girls were comfortably walking around with their 'daddys') and the music (a lot of Nigerian songs mixed with the regular US hits - it was quite good). There were also plenty little girls with their boobies and booties hanging out, but then again that's not really a Nigerian thing, it's universal.
Funny enough, one of the things a lot of people (5 different people told me this) told me to be careful of in Nigeria were the Nigerian girls. They said they are really agressive and they don't really give a hoot if a man is married (even I saw this for myself). I mean, even when my husband goes out and I don't follow him (I can't follow him everywhere now!, me too I have things to do), everybody is like,".....this is Lagos oh!...you better follow your husband..." which kin wahala be this? I don't want to breath down anyone's neck.
Anyway, I had a good time at soul lounge, but I think I will be laying off the night scene for a while, it doesn't look like I'm missing much, plus I don't like being squished in one corner while people are stepping on my feet.
Funny enough, one of the things a lot of people (5 different people told me this) told me to be careful of in Nigeria were the Nigerian girls. They said they are really agressive and they don't really give a hoot if a man is married (even I saw this for myself). I mean, even when my husband goes out and I don't follow him (I can't follow him everywhere now!, me too I have things to do), everybody is like,".....this is Lagos oh!...you better follow your husband..." which kin wahala be this? I don't want to breath down anyone's neck.
Anyway, I had a good time at soul lounge, but I think I will be laying off the night scene for a while, it doesn't look like I'm missing much, plus I don't like being squished in one corner while people are stepping on my feet.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
I am miserable
I feel miserable, I look miserable. I have malaria, I have a cough and cold. My husband is sick, my baby is sick. We all have to fly to Port-Harcourt this weekend I am meeting my in-laws for the first time, I'm sure they are already cursing me out for not seeing them all this time. The airport in PH is closed, so we have to fly to Owerri and then go by road from Owerri to Port-Harcourt. What kind of sufferhead is this?
Friday, November 24, 2006
Web Woes
Nigerian ISPs have been a frequent blog topic and now I understand why. Since I arrived, I had been waiting on a particular company to install our "faster" connection. It's been about a month and a half and they only just installed on Tuesday, this is after many frustrating calls from my father, and listening to stories of their dishes being on some container that needs to clear or, them looking for one signature or the other to release equipment or, all their engineers being occupied because they were upgrading from one standard to another, I mean these people are very creative story tellers... Anyway finally they installed and so far I have been pleased with their service.
Now, while we were waiting on these first guys to install, we decided to get "broadband" service from another company that is relatively new on the scene. Their sales people were rather prompt in coming to collect their checks and promised to install within 72 hours, they installed within 96 hours instead, not bad considering I had been waiting 5 weeks for the other guys. Then after they installed everything was fine for the first day and then things came to a grinding halt the next day, the speed really really slowed down, I mean I might as well have been using a dial-up connection complete with modem sound effects. Again the endless cycle of phone calls started, "oh ....we mistakenly put you on the wrong plan, we will upgrade your account, try again in 30 minutes...",..."oh...it's still not fast? ok try again on Monday..." on Monday, "oh ok, disconnect from your router connect directly and try again"....I was supposed to try again today but I've given up, maybe over the weekend when I don't have much to do, I'll give it a try.
So presently we have 3 connections in the house, the original one which was here when I came, main problem with that one was that we were constantly losing connection and had to call them, each time I called, the lady at the other end would put me on hold (and I mean just put the phone face down on her desk or something, no hold music, hell... no mute button) and shout in yoruba to some Taiwo to restart the router. The Swift connection, which is anything but swift and the DOPC VSAT connection which is actually quite good so far but "fades" when it rains.
Now, while we were waiting on these first guys to install, we decided to get "broadband" service from another company that is relatively new on the scene. Their sales people were rather prompt in coming to collect their checks and promised to install within 72 hours, they installed within 96 hours instead, not bad considering I had been waiting 5 weeks for the other guys. Then after they installed everything was fine for the first day and then things came to a grinding halt the next day, the speed really really slowed down, I mean I might as well have been using a dial-up connection complete with modem sound effects. Again the endless cycle of phone calls started, "oh ....we mistakenly put you on the wrong plan, we will upgrade your account, try again in 30 minutes...",..."oh...it's still not fast? ok try again on Monday..." on Monday, "oh ok, disconnect from your router connect directly and try again"....I was supposed to try again today but I've given up, maybe over the weekend when I don't have much to do, I'll give it a try.
So presently we have 3 connections in the house, the original one which was here when I came, main problem with that one was that we were constantly losing connection and had to call them, each time I called, the lady at the other end would put me on hold (and I mean just put the phone face down on her desk or something, no hold music, hell... no mute button) and shout in yoruba to some Taiwo to restart the router. The Swift connection, which is anything but swift and the DOPC VSAT connection which is actually quite good so far but "fades" when it rains.
Sunday, November 12, 2006
Whhheeeee!!!
Ok *** just called, he is on his way back home, so I'm going stop hating, now I can be the giggly one....heeeeyyyy!!
Unrealiable
So do you have any friends that cancel plans as soon as their boyfriends/husbands snap their fingers? Ok fine I know sometimes I cancel plans as well for the same reasons, but all the same not all the time. I have a girlfriend who constantly does this, infact I know 2 of them who do this. They could have been calling you all day bored as hell looking for something to do and then you make plans with them. As soon as the Mr. calls them, they call you all giggly "...sorry oh (laugh laugh) I don't know if I can come again..." it's not so much that it's annoying it's more irritating than anything else. Whatever...
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Untitled Post
So did I tell you nothing is straight-forward here? well of the 3 things I have been trying to get accomplished since I arrived, 2 are complete!!!! I now have a bank account and I have a registered company, yey! the third was internet access, my dad had been working on this before I even arrived and guess what? still no access, each time I ask, if it's during the week, the response "it will get done between today and friday" if it's a friday or over the weekend then I hear "it will get done between today and tuesday". This is what I have heard 5 weeks in a row on getting a VSAT connection. It is just ridiculous, how can you practically beg to subscribe to their service? it makes no sense.
Anyway moving on, I noticed a trend in Lagos anytime you pay for something they never seem to have change. At first I thought it was just a couple of coincidences but then every where I went they came back with some story about not having change and I end up leaving my change with them. So last weekend I went to soul lounge (or is that what it's called?) at the palms with 2 of my girlfriends, after we paid the guy was like the bartender doesn't have N150 change, so I'm like no sweat it's not like we're leaving anytime soon, whenever he gets it he should give it to us. So when we ready, we couldn't find the original waiter then we called another guy and asked him to bring our change, he was like the original waiter collected the change from the bartender and has left for the night.....WFT??!!!....Hell No!!!.. So my friend is like "That is not our problem!! go get the change from the bartender and collect it back from the other guy when he gets to work tomorrow!!" Can you imagine?...so to cut a long story short the guy sheepishly went off and came back with our change.
Anyway moving on, I noticed a trend in Lagos anytime you pay for something they never seem to have change. At first I thought it was just a couple of coincidences but then every where I went they came back with some story about not having change and I end up leaving my change with them. So last weekend I went to soul lounge (or is that what it's called?) at the palms with 2 of my girlfriends, after we paid the guy was like the bartender doesn't have N150 change, so I'm like no sweat it's not like we're leaving anytime soon, whenever he gets it he should give it to us. So when we ready, we couldn't find the original waiter then we called another guy and asked him to bring our change, he was like the original waiter collected the change from the bartender and has left for the night.....WFT??!!!....Hell No!!!.. So my friend is like "That is not our problem!! go get the change from the bartender and collect it back from the other guy when he gets to work tomorrow!!" Can you imagine?...so to cut a long story short the guy sheepishly went off and came back with our change.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
I'm home!!!
So I have been in Nigeria exactly 1 week, where do I start? this country is crazy!!. The traffic and the way everyone drives is not a joke oh! other than that, everything is okay, the internet access is not as horrible as I expected. I actually have wireless access at home :). Also, nothing is straight forward, I needed to go open an account, and they are telling me it's not a one day process and I need passport photographs and so much extra stuff and to open with about $3000, na wa oh! Even the corporate accounts I opened in the states, you can open with $5.00 and fund as you get money. I guess the concept of start-up business here doesn't really apply.
Anyway, it's good to be back home, I am starting to notice a lot of things about Nigeria and Nigerians in general that I didn't notice before when I was here. For one, they ask a lot of bloody questions.
THEM: "Ah...so how long are you in town?"
ME: "Oh, I'm here permanently now?"
THEM: "Really?!!!.....why?!!!...."
ME: "Hmmm...I was tired of staying there..." and some other BS
THEM: Some long explanation justifying why I have made the wrong or the right decision, or how I have gained weight, or how I don't remember them and so on and so on
THEM: "So where are you going to live?"
ME: "My husband has found a place in ***** we're just waiting to fix it up and move in"
THEM: "So what will you do here?, what does your husband do? what will he do here?"
....
The questions just go on and on and on, I don't know if it's just me, but I'm used to everyone minding their business in the states, it's almost like they even hem you into a corner so you can't even run from them.
The other thing is everyone just grabs your baby without asking you if it's ok, that I can't stand, even when I say, oh she's fussy, or she's tired, or she will cry, they are still trying to drag her from my arms. What the hell?.
Oh also, I went to the palms and silverbird, and they are both seriously overrated. I haven't done any night trips yet, so I can't tell you about the night life.
Well that's about it so far.
Anyway, it's good to be back home, I am starting to notice a lot of things about Nigeria and Nigerians in general that I didn't notice before when I was here. For one, they ask a lot of bloody questions.
THEM: "Ah...so how long are you in town?"
ME: "Oh, I'm here permanently now?"
THEM: "Really?!!!.....why?!!!...."
ME: "Hmmm...I was tired of staying there..." and some other BS
THEM: Some long explanation justifying why I have made the wrong or the right decision, or how I have gained weight, or how I don't remember them and so on and so on
THEM: "So where are you going to live?"
ME: "My husband has found a place in ***** we're just waiting to fix it up and move in"
THEM: "So what will you do here?, what does your husband do? what will he do here?"
....
The questions just go on and on and on, I don't know if it's just me, but I'm used to everyone minding their business in the states, it's almost like they even hem you into a corner so you can't even run from them.
The other thing is everyone just grabs your baby without asking you if it's ok, that I can't stand, even when I say, oh she's fussy, or she's tired, or she will cry, they are still trying to drag her from my arms. What the hell?.
Oh also, I went to the palms and silverbird, and they are both seriously overrated. I haven't done any night trips yet, so I can't tell you about the night life.
Well that's about it so far.
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