When you think you’re alone… (long post)

Hey all! sorry, been MIA. Been busy busy busy, plus power failure and inconsistent internet connection makes it difficult to blog. Anyhoo, lots to say. Was sick throughout the weekend - had malaria. Tried taking 3 different malaria drugs over the past two weeks and none worked. So, had to make that much dreaded trip to the hospital and doctors prescription –injections for 5 days (ick!) and tons of medication that made me feel sleeeepy!

Anyhoo, on Sunday I managed to get out of the house for a bit. My friends niece turned 1 and she’s the first grandchild in the family. My o my, talk about a party! I mean her grandma took this pretty serious. She (i.e. grandma) and all her friends were in blue lace and headties. Yes! You read right, ashwebi at a 1yr old birthday party! They even shared out souvenirs for guests – vase, dishwashing liquid, party packs (for the kids. wish I got one, I’ve always loved party packs hehe, that’s the big kid in me lol) and a few other random items. It was fun though, naijas sure love to party (even if the celebrant can hardly walk lol).

On to the story of the day ….So, this morning I was having ‘one of those mornings’. Woke up thinking “gosh, don’t feel like going to work, bored at this job, blah blah blah” and it hit me February is fast approaching (February - the end of NYSC), What am I going to do after that? Nothing looks promising in the job market. I don’t want to remain in my current position, it’s getting boring, blah blah blah. Guess I was feeling this way ‘cause of the movie I saw yesterday (gist for later). Then I get to work a tad late, missed the 7:30am Thursday lecture and my boss reminds me (again) how important it is for me to attend the lectures. “The bank is downsizing, little things like this would make it easy for you to be kicked out” (and I’m thinking – whatever men!), dude prolly sensed my lack of interest and that I was having ‘one of those mornings’, so, he says a joke to lighten up the mood and walks away. I know he meant well, but I just wasn’t in the mood to hear that.

Few minutes later, I go to the main building to get a copy of a customers’ audited accounts and geez, you should hear how rude some people are to their subordinates! This lady goes off at this poor girl who was tryna help me get the financials, simply because she asked if she should include some excel spreadsheet with the audited reports. She sounded soo rude and the girl looked soo pissed and it wasn’t even 9am yet, imagine! Then, I think to myself – I’m sooo glad I don’t work in that unit. And right there, my frustrations from earlier this morning reduced considerably.

Point of the story is- we humans can be difficult to please. When I was searching for a posting for NYSC, I remember praying ‘God give me an understanding boss’ (‘cause we all know how naija bosses can be), and I got one. I’m learning from my job, my boss NEVER screams or yells at me (even when I make the silliest mistakes). He corrects me with a decent tone, and here I am complaining of boredom, while some poor girl is being yelled at and talked to rudely simply because she asked a question *sigh* forgive me Lord. Goes to show, we are never alone. When you’re feeling scared and confused, it takes one little incident to help put you ‘back in check’. We thank God for his presence in our lives.

I express my fears to one of my closest buddies and as always, she calms me down a little by telling me her new prayer. According to her, it’s no more “God find me a job”, it’s now “God use me for whatever you want after NYSC, place me where you believe I’ll make the greatest impact to your glory”. Nice prayer, don’t you think?

In other news, the funniest thing happened at the cinema last nite, while we were watching a Nigerian movie The Figurine-araromire – NEPA TOOK LIGHT! LMAO! Yes! And I’m soo not making this up. About an hour and 30mins into the movie, the place goes dark. Everything is off, little light in the room coming from peoples phones. Gosh, my friends and I were cracking up! Then the light comes on about 5minutes later and we are back to a scene that took place 20mins into the movie. Even funnier! ‘cause they had us screaming “fastforward o, it’s getting late”. Hahaha! the things I’ve seen in this country, too hilarious!

..and, yeah they recently started showing Nigerian movies on the big screen, we doing BIG THANGS!! lol

P.S.: keep in mind power failure at the cinema isn’t common, actually this is the first time i've ever experienced it.

Meanwhile, y’all should check out the site for the movie The Figurine. Pretty entertaining movie, you’d be impressed.

www.figurinemovie.com

In conclusion, here's a short funny story I received earlier this week:

Proudly Nigerian

An American lawyer and a Nigerian from Warri are sitting next to each other on a long flight. The lawyer is thinking that Nigerians are so dumb that he could put something over on them easily...So the lawyer asks if the Nigerian would like to play a fun game.

The Nigerian is tired and just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and tries to catch a few winks.

The American lawyer persists, and says that the game is a lot of fun.

I'll ask you a question, and if you don't know the answer, you pay me only $5; then you ask me one, and if I don't know the answer, I will pay you $500, he says.

This catches the Nigerian's attention and to keep the lawyer quiet, he agrees to play the game.

The lawyer asks the first question. 'What's the distance from The Earth to the Moon?'

The Nigerian doesn't say a word, reaches in his pocket pulls out a five-dollar bill, and hands it to the lawyer.

Now, it's the Nigerian's turn. He asks the lawyer, 'What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down with four?

The lawyer uses his laptop and searches all references he could find on the Net.

He sends e-mails to all the smart friends he knows, all to no avail. After one hour of searching he finally gives up.

He wakes up the Nigerian and hands him $500. The Nigerian pockets the $500 and goes right back to sleep.

The lawyer is going nuts not knowing the answer. He wakes the Nigerian up and asks, 'Well, so what goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?'

The Nigerian reaches in his pocket, hands the lawyer $5 and goes back to sleep, pocketing $490.

Who says Nigerians are not intelligent?

xoxo