THE ADVENTURES IN UNPAID INTERNING - WORKING TITLE.

It was corn season and on one fateful evening, my mother (A/N: This woman really needs to start paying me for making her my muse in most of my articles) decided to go out in search of roasted corn and pear or ubé in our dialect. After driving through various streets- seeing as that was where most vendors took up shop as a result of the lockdown of the markets in the state- we came across an elderly woman who took up a small space in front of an electronics/furniture shop. She really didn't stick out like the other sellers nearby but merely looking at her, you could tell that her roasted corn would be nice and without much surprise they were. I love roasted corn, but I always wondered what made them so sweet when the process only involved setting raw corn on a charcoal stove and giving it time to roast. On eating the corn, my mother made an observation, that they reason, why the old lady's corn was tasty, was that she soaked the raw corns in a bowl of saltwater befor...

       I know a woman. She drives a big red truck. Whenever she takes the truck out for a drive, no matter where she goes, people tend to look at her. Some stare out of awe from the beauty and sheer size of the machine. Some stare out of jealousy as they wish to be in the driver's seat of this vehicle. Some stare out of some preconceived notion that a woman should not be driving such a magnificent car. Each reason comes with its own distinct stare and I laugh anytime I see these things because they don't know the struggles that came before the acquisition of such a splendid ride so they only judge by what they see on the surface - A woman driving a big red truck.      There's nothing special in women driving. Honestly. They still have to obey traffic laws, they still need to pay tolling bills, they still check all their mirrors before backing out of the driveway and they still need to update their license every now and then. So what's the big deal abou...

      Johnny Bravo, Ed, Edd and Eddy, Dexter's Laboratory, Courage The Cowardly Dog, Powerpuff Girls(Old), Generator Rex, Kids Next Door(KND), Scooby-Doo(Old plus the Mystery Incorporated storyline), Time Squad, Symbionic Titans, Redakai: Conquer The Kairu, Thundercats(NOT ROAR!), Megas XLR, Samurai Jack, Bakugan Battle Brawlers and many many more. I bet you just had a wonderful dose of nostalgia as you read through my shortlist of old Cartoon Network shows. These were the shows that made my childhood and adolescent years mystifying. I was never an outdoor child as my waking moments were spent either in school or in front of the TV screen filling up my developing brain with different iconic, and comedic, scenes from my favorite shows (A/N: which explains a lot as to why I'm bad at socializing to an extent) . Bottom line is, these shows made me the isolated and cartoonish human that many people have come to know and partially love - I think. Everybody who is a...

        Don't you miss it? The time your naivety was looked over as childish innocence. The period when walking home from school and getting a free ride home from a stranger was not a rare feat. When you could be lazy and carefree without the sinking feeling of your own mortality drowning your every moment. Where in the sake of making money, we resort to deceitful and hurtful means just for the sake of making 'paper'.  Can we go back to the time when passion outweighed profit? And the pursuit of happiness was not tainted by capricious capitalism. Is it a fool's dream to want a world where the means must and should always justify the end.       Don't you miss it? That security blanket you had in the form of a family member, extended or immediate, whom you were sure would protect you as one of theirs. So when did it all go wrong? When did we lose that blanket or rather when did that blanket stop performing it...

    While growing up, there was this girl who lived with her family in the same flat that was attached to mine. Apart from sharing a supporting wall, we also shared a first name, Ebube, and that was somehow the foundation for our friendship. Imagine living next to someone who bore the same name as you. The mistaken shouts of your name you thought were coming from your mother but instead resonated off the walls from the next-door neighbour's house. We had a decent relationship. I visited and played with her, and the family and life were calm. Then all of a sudden, my mother told me that I had to stop going over to their house one day.     Imagine my shock. I had asked why and my mother, being the All-Nigerian woman she is, bluntly told me that is was a demand from Ebube's father. I was confused. I kept wondering why the sudden restriction. I still asked my mother, but she never answered as though in an attempt to lessen the effect of the news. From then on out, the re...

     Salutations to you all locked in your homes with nothing to do but stare into your screens for long hours on end (A/N: I thank you all because you guys are the reason I'm doing this)  or those who conversate with their family members from time to time instead of socially distancing themselves while at home and only coming out for air once the food gets announced. I'm sure by now, for those money-conscious individuals out there, we are already thinking of ways to make some money within the ease and safety of our homes and, like me, are coming up short of good ideas. Well for the sake of the dough , let's hope this post finds you some good fortune soon.      Contrary to what you believe, there are many ways to make money from the comfort of your home. It all comes down to the following questions: What can you achieve? What skills do you have? Can these skills be monetised? Can these skills be improved? Answering those questions, ...

    Hello, welcome and I hope we're all safe? In today's post,I'll be talking on anime. I'm particularly excited about this article, not only because it's on a concept I've grown very interested in, but it's also the first article I took the time to construct. While my other posts were mainly thoughts off the top of my head combined with social media narratives and the 'here says' from other people's perspectives, this one was thoroughly constructed to relay my interests on the matter. So can I get an  A for effort, please? With enough said, let's dive into the beautiful, action-packed, emotional and, of course, erotic world of ANIME.  WHAT'S AN ANIME? Anime , in simple terms, are hand-drawn or computer-generated initially from or closely related to Japan. The name, anime , is a Japanese term for animation, as it covers all forms of animated works. Unlike their Western brothers - as many people tend to confuse an anime with c...