IN 2015 YOU SHOULD...

 


1.    KEEP GOD FIRST
Cliche? Maybe, but you can't neglect this. When you think about all the amazing things we can achieve and accumulate here on earth, but notice at the end of the day we leave them all here and go with none of them. So this world is just an opening act. So, God should be at the forefront of everything we dabble into. Reading the bible, praying, worshiping him is very important. With God's approval we can stand before any man/circumstance.

2.   NOT BE SCARED TO THINK
Notice I didn't say 'worry'. I mean think! Task your brain! Most times we are scared to think to certain places in our minds, scared to question ourselves, scared to admit our faults. Sometimes we are scared to think about our future, scared to generate and develop ideas we have. We have so much capacity to create amazing ideas in our brains that can be fruitful. So this coming year, fight the barrier of not thinking, of not tasking our brains.

3.  PLAN AHEAD
Jot down. We cannot predict the future, but we can take steps towards it. Most times we tend to head-plan and not write down bi-monthly/yearly goals we hope to achieve. It goes a long way. Strategize, draw business/growth plans, develop ideas. There is no limit to jotting down, just use it as an expression and pour out all your thoughts-in writing. Soon all the dots will connect.

4.   DO IT
Fear is a bitch. It fights us and always wants to defeat us. Whenever you have an idea, fear tells you stuff like "You're just one of many" or "you don't have capital or connections" or "theres no time", or procrastination kicks in and puts the final nail in the coffin. If you have an idea, after much research and strategizing, make steps, start the race, build the foundation and move towards actualizing them. We can't keep lying to ourselves that we aren't good enough.


5.   NOT DO ANYTHING FOR FREE
Simply put. Nothing good comes easy. Sometimes people tend to always seek services for free at a cost of friendship or familiarity. This new year, don't do anything for free. Time and effort is money and it's high time we realize that. Also you also should pay people for services they render no matter how small. Simple principles of business.



6.   NETWORK !!
Business is definitely built on relationships. Everywhere you go, network, sell yourself{market yourself}, Simple and short. Networking never goes wrong.



7.  DROP THEM, IF NEED BE.
As we grow older, we may grow past some of our friends/relationships and that's okay. You may not be into the things those friends do, and there's just no correlation. Friendship should be built on mutualism. Gaining from each other, learning, growing off each other. Your friends have to be in line with your goals. If not, drop them off. Life is too short to carry excessive weight. Always try to have intellectual conversations that you can feed off.



8.  RESEARCH
We plainly hate doing this. But it very important. Going into a business? Do lots and lots of market research. Basically, ask questions from people who run similar businesses or have past experiences, use 'GOOGLE' !! It's so simple yet so difficult. EVERYTHING you need is on there. Proper research helps cover all the loopholes there is going into any business/field.



9.  PUT YOUR PHONE DOWN
Can we just put it down? Try and leverage the beneficial activities you do and match it up against the hours you use your phone doing basically "nothing''. When you do use your phone try researching on your interests, look for opportunities. Its seems simple but its very hard. Doing other leisure stuff like chatting, using Instagram, Tumblr and all are very enticing but at the same time highly time consuming and as we know TIME is money.





10. LIVE A LITTLE
Why not? Don't be too hard on yourself. Loosen up, warm up to others, don't be stuck up, being stuck up isn't the new cool. Dance! a lot.. Laugh a whole lot too, its free at least. Its okay to have free-spirited conversations too, you can't have intellectual conversations all the time, ease up sometimes. Also create lots of family time, they are the most important people in our lives.

POVERTY DEAD.

What have I done to you Old man?
I'm tired of those longs bouts of intercourse,
Back and forth you diminished every strength,
Glamor in turmoil and cheezing in sorrow, what the fuck is going on? 
Poverty, you know very well you aren't my portion,
The distance between us is like passing through a needle, its un-foreseeable,
But you fucking always want to show your shameless face.
You seductress, with chains of laziness and impossibilties, with uncompleted projects and procrastination,
with your sultry gait and well-oiled thighs.

We are done, we were never a thing. God didn't put this light on me for a showcase, I'm the real shit.
Look, i'll strut on your fucking runway, I'm ready to kill shit right before your eyes. 
Fuck all those flashy things, I want substance, I'll get that shit, you just watch me.
I'm dead to you, forever, you're pet show is over bitch, Time to put light bulbs in this hallway. 
I see your pasts achievements, their commendable, yet they aren't enough. 
Those tricks and lies and laid-back motives seemed fun, but its over now.
The fickle world you built was a hell of a show, cover-ups, tidy outsides, condemned insides, unfulfilled tasks, luring into your thighs and deep inside you.
You stagnated slut, running round in circles and dragging your subjects in your trail,
I'm no longer/never was your subject, all these invisible mansions you built are shit and piss,
utter trash, eat it up cos that's what you are yourself.
All those lies, for all these years, all the deceit and make-beliefs,
all these ideology you kept making seem relevant.
Bitch you spit out abominations, fucked your betrothed's sister and fucked a fellow like you.
Shameful man. Dead to this shit, been here too long., you are utter darkness and not a single light in you.

How can you make one glory in word of mouth, hopeless promises, unreachable targets, unforeseen dreams,
half baked projects, settling for peanuts, contentment in sorrow, wallowing in whatever life brings.
Look this shit is a movie, and you'll watch shit unfold.
All your excuses and make-ups saying shit was gon get better in no time, this ship just kept sinking,
All your gifts that seemed like the sun had begun to shine, they were just your dirty tactful means. 
Those lies you put in heads, saying shit is in the blood, saying its been like this for generations,
I'll tear that shit down and build a bridge over it.
You used my passions as bait, further dragging me into your sanctum, how evil can you get? 
God done did his part, deposited these seeds on this land, 
And you kept trying to make the seeds seem like they were too much to do shit with,
These seeds are gon grow now, right before your eyes, right now they are being planted.
Watch out for the harvest bitch.

REMEMBERING NIPPY !

                                           


  Yesterday would have marked Whitney Houston, a.k.a THE VOICE'S 51st Birthday. I remember hearing I will Always Love You over and over again through my childhood, evergreen and still fresh. Through all the trauma, Whitney was a beautiful soul, elegant, with so much charisma, and a brave one too, never scared to put someone in check (check her interview with Wendy Williams). We will always Love You Nippy. 
My favorite Whitney Song is "Saving all My Love for You".

VIDEO MONTAGE..

• I LOVE THE LORD(LIVE)

• I Have Nothing(LIVE  IN SOUTH AFRICA)

• Saving All My Love For You(LIVE)

                 

               
                                      .WHITNEY AND MICHAEL.


WHAT ARE YOU FAV WHITNEY SONGS ?>>>>

DO "MARRIAGES" STILL WORK ?

 

                            
                           
                                       


  Back and forth, back and forth. Basically today, I saw a marriage that had reached it's climax. The husband literally told his wife, that he can no longer put up with her and she should leave their matrimonial  home before he returned from work. In my mind I thought " The f+ck was happily ever after meant to be then ?" Back and forth, back  and forth, she kept running her mouth, till he got up and landed a warm (lol) slap on her cheek. Discussing with my cousin, I was just thinking like go home, sit down, agree for changes, make up, have good sex or something and move on..Like it was that easy... We then came to a conclusion that the "marriage" institution  is fading away and washed up. Yes. I don't know if people get married for acclaim, or for childbearing, or for "marriage" sake, or "getting old" sake. Some give up two months in, one year in, was marriage supposed to be beans ? I am getting confused mehn. The husband gave an excuse of neglect from the wife, and hence his reason for cheating.. Reason enough? I don't know.. Another situation I happen to know of, The husband married this lady, they had two children, and he left for America for over 20 years... Only to return, and take the children, and leave the wife behind..  I couldn't and still cannot and will not be able to get my head around this one.. Never.  Cruelty at the highest level.  I happened to witness one of the most unconditional love ever, with my grandfather and my grandmother. He was bed ridden for almost 20 years with stroke, and this woman never left his side, even to the point where all his body parts had failed, she stood by her husband. I felt the love when in their presence. So, is it the current generation that are neglecting "marriage"? Or we aren't just here for marriage? 
    Forth and Forth, In all I realized WOMEN/WIVES are strong, beyond physical strength, God gave them higher levels of endurance, in the woman I saw today, I saw a woman even through strife, she did not want to lose her man, she was fighting for what belonged to her, and remember the man was already opting out, SMH ! (Lol)

THE EMEZI SISTERS.

Running through the INTERNET, I found these "sisters' of mine, who are from my state, ABIA STATE, IN NIGERIA. AKWAEKE EMEZI AND YAGAZIE EMEZI. Both are extremely artsy beings. I love the aura of nature and simplicity they ooze. It gives me "INDIE VIBES'' i'm inspired. They grew up in Umuahia and Aba in Abia State, before later moving to the United States of America.

• AKWAEKWE EMEZI. 

WRITER, FILMAKER AND PHOTOGRAPHER.
Her bio on her website reads- Akwaeke Emezi is an Igbo and Tamil writer and filmmaker based in liminal spaces. She was born in Umuahia and raised in Aba, Nigeria. Her work is often set in a landscape of disquietude, excavating the surface to reveal forces of psychosexual dislocation and violence. Brutal and surreal, it pushes past comfortable morality to honestly explore the margins of humanity. 
Here are some of her amazing photos.



 
   Aze has some short films, which are amazing like UDUDEAGU, find the videos here - AKWAEKES VIDEOS
Follow her on instagram @azemezi 
Website- azemezi.com

• YAGAZIE EMEZI

VISUAL CURATOR, CARTOONIST, VIDEO BLOGGER.

Her bio reads- Yagazie Ledi Francisca Emezi was born and raised in Aba, Nigeria and moved to the United States in 2005 where her love and yearning for home led to an intensified passion for Africa and the arts. She is also a visual artist and cartoonist, as well as a video blogger whose YouTube channel is a popular digital platform that discusses social issues, hilarious snippets of personal life, and a plethora of topics rarely addressed openly in African communities, such as eating disorders and sexuality. She is currently relocating back to the continent. visit http://www.yagazieemezi.com for more.

WATCH ONE OF HER VIDEOS BELOW

• BE INSPIRED.

SOMEWHERE IN LAGOS, The Rain Came Out To Play.

The rain too, came out to play, and after it played its part, we snapped these pictures. The pictures were not taken with a professional camera, but I sat on these pictures for a while, and I felt they are worth showing. This was basically how quick people got back to activities after a "Rain" break, that was the inspiration behind these pictures. And yes, we bought oranges from the young man, they were really expensive though. 

CHAMELEON

> When I was writing this, I was thinking about being a loner. No- life having being, stuck-up, insecure, introverted, but people see you and think of you as the exact opposite, they think you are proud, but you are just timid, they think you are rude and snobbish, but you just want to be alone. And they keep judging, on and on..

Permit me to add, soundtrack for this post--
x. ERYKAH BADU x ON AND ON