Truth's Advocate(s)

and they bring it with every blog post...

Hi,

My name is Sammy Adebiyi  and No i'm not impersonating, stick with me for a minute you will understand what Dayor writes.

Let me tell you a few things about me. This is my chronicle, lets call it Salt's chronicles. I am a relentless builder who blogs in the spirit, i live my life according to the book, the truth uncensored, although she is out of control, she lights a lamp every night for the dark world to see.

I must add, the mindshade of the Life of a young christian doesn't get easier but i'm winning...i promise, being a yes girl always keep people looking over their shoulder at me, i take refuge at Rock haven.

Oh! Look Its ebunite, she takes pride in her renewed mindset but in the midst of her Random musing, she also possess Power, Love and a sound mind.

In becquiz's world she is a C.I.A from Teshuva but i must tell you from the heart of soul sisters who has worship and swag with a rarejewel placed in her by the creator.

"I am Rhapsody Phoenix"

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I know half of what i wrote above doesn't make sense, but then i REALLY wanted to appreciate you'll that stand for the TRUTH in this crazy world, just so you know, i read your blogs even if i don't comment all the time. I appreciate you people so very much and i know the Lord will crown all your efforts with success. Please, keep doing what you do. The Lord is your strength.

The Girl at the foot of the hill.

xo

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Its now officially Ex-TechnologyIntern

So am finishing my internship today....12/10/10...really am so glad i worked here i couldnt ask for a better place well except for the Ikorodu traffic hmmm.. lemmi say i had a blast...ook scratch that not exactly a blast cuz i wasnt really able to be the 'talkative' that i am cos of the older people around me..

In my appreciation to timbuktu media(thats the name of the publishing firm) for this experience am going to do free advert, i knw they dont know this but it wat i wanna do!!!

The newspaper is NEXT so incase you've not heard of it now you know, so y'll that read my blog buy Next Newspaper too its just -N-150 and NeXTonSUndaY -N-200, now we also do News Alerts and its -N-100 per month just text 'Start news' from an MTN line to 33234...and you get breaking news as it happens, check out the website www.234next.com, be a fan on facebook ( http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lagos/234NEXTcom/114689570833?ref=search ), follow us on twitter @234next anything just do one at least..doing all to is allowed ooo..

So when next you are at a newspaper stand ask for NEXT cos You are NEXT! ok! i tink dt just came from ma head and its totally crappy, anyways bottom line just buy the newspaper jawe...Thanks...

Am including a picture of my ID card cos it has to be returned and i really wanted it...i had to crop the head out cos it was not so nice...

technology intern

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i walked 'the' walk (litrally) 23 sept

So today is a very memorable day well after this thunderous rain that fell in ojota, ketu, ikorodu and probably everywhere else,

So i had to go to computer village after work to get a memory card, getting the mem card was not the problem everythin dt happened afterwards was d problem...1st of all gettin a bus to ojota from ikeja was like getting an admission into unilag...do i v a choice i'ld wait till ma turn, i finally gt admission nd d rubbish transporter takes us thru this traffic infested route then after he notices his mistake he starts screaming 'i go fu*# up y i con pass this road'...really the remedy to their(nigerian bus drivers) predicament is under mount everest mshewww

Before i even got to ojota dz rain started oo in full force i just knew dt itz either i pay 500 to ikorodu or am so sleeping under the rain unfortunaty there was no even bus to even start lookin for who to pay the 500 bucks to, so now am under the rain and drippin even with ma useless umbrella...this is one of the times i wished i had a boyfriend to comfort me...so instead of moppin, wishin for a bf and watchin d agbero boyz fightin under d rain, i decide to walk to ketu cuz i knew standing there was useless...

This is d 2nd time i wld walk to ketu d first was jst out of curiousity bt today's was a necessity and even worse i had to do it without ma sandals..but funni enuf for some reason it was fun walking the streets of lasgidi barefooted..nw dts nt easy to come by..so i v stories of 'when i walked the streets of lagos' to tell ma children yeah! finally i gt to ketu unharmed and unbruise but drippin like no man's biz i get a BRT life saver yeah indeed!!!

Bare feet on d street of lag! I am going to stop here but i got home at 11.00pm and crashed like never before with ‘Am so not going to work tomorrow’ on my mind!

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I Think I made an enemy… 8th sept

I’ld just go straight to the point cuz really nothing interesting happened on my way from work…


Am standing under my umbrella under this heavy rain trying to protect my hair from the rain waiting endlessly for a bus(been standing for close to an hour) this huge bus (not a moolue) came around and I threw my crème chick out the window and ran to secure myself a seat…I got a sit but we had to sit 5 in a row crap!

The enemy…

We got to a bus stop and this guy and girl enters, I had to stand up for the girl to go inside to get a vacant seat..trying to pull one crème chick that she’s not she was now very slow ‘can’t this girl see that am waiting for her’ came to my mind..first of all that made me angry..

Finally she sits her skinny ass down msshheeewww …ojebi u for sleep for road.. then the guy sits beside me..

Cause of enimity…

The dumb fellow decides to sit down and out his hand behind me, and his hand kept poking me…the already cranky and irritated me I decide to tell him in the most polite and phonetical tone ‘your hand id disturbing me’ and he replies in the razz-est agbero voice I’ve ever heard ‘owo mi disturp e, o de ge danu (my hand is disturbin you, then cut it off)’ when I was about to give him a well deserving reply the guy sitting behind him motioned for me to calm down so out of respect for this guy I withdrew..

Aftermath

I just noticed that the guy was trying to look at my face and probably register it and he had the look that said ‘shey we are in this small town together just don’t let me catch you on the street’ when I noticed that he kept trying to look at my face smart me I just kept looking the other way because I know that when anything happens like this itz only mouth I have…

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Random musing of the day

Yeah i know it was a Monday but this particular Monday was unique; no bus, rough garage, heavier traffic, MORE lousy people, LOUDER horns to crown it all up RAIN...WTF or is it just me?? Maybe not...then now i have a sore throat oh great smth to help me with my day right?


So its a rather odd day even at work...i don’t have anything to do and since in the process of cleansing my thoughts and changing my perspective of many things i’ve stopped facebook-ing and tweeting, am just looking, coughing and reading random blogs to occupy the day till its time to go home jare...am still waiting and coughing.

Yipee its 5 am so excited well maybe not as excited as i’m sounding sha since its 5 and in this alausa bus-stop its so difficult to get a bus without strugling and since an too crème to start pushing i guess i’ll just be patient till its my time...so just like 10mins after waiting my time comes and its not for a bus oo..its for a tuk-tuk as i’ve heard them call it in india films but for u d@ don’t do india movies well i mean ‘keke napep’ and for d older ones u’ll probably know it as ‘keke maruwa’-if you know it as keke maruwa just knw you are OLD #justsaying..anywayz bk to the tuk-tuk, when it was time to pay then this guy i don’t know from adam just says he has paid for me ‘thank you’ was all that could come from my mouth but in my mind a lot of evil thoughts v started brewing and i started thinking of the nasty thing i would tell him if we get to our destination and he starts asking for my number and all trust me the thinking was not so nice but i’ll let it go since he knew better not to even talk to me after his kind gesture btw wat he paid for was just 30bucks so don’t start getting impress-ed...

then again i kept wondering is it compulstory to pay for someone especially when you enter a bus with a familiar person?? Its now becoming a norm!!!

At this point am on a high cos am listening to sign of a victory by r-kelly, who wouldn’t when listening to dt FAB song....wow!!!! SNAP

Ok bk to my musing...Am a single girl now so what does that say to you?? Well it means i am licensed to bring out my antenna that spots cute-fine-looking boys nd trust me it has a better service than ‘hemtihen’ am just saying but today’s signal was not so strong sha due to the fact that every fine boy i saw today had a major no-no there was this one looking very sexy-face, style et all but when he turned to look at me then i saw a red i mean blood shot red-eye...ewwww dt alone spoilt the fine boy he was oozing *smh* (now that am thinking of that eyes i hope they don’t hunt me in my sleep), then this other guy i saw he doesn’t v d looks to make any girl droll et all i was just attracted by his dressing...altho i don’t like pink but it has a way of looking good with a suit since i was analysing him (blame the fact that i was standing and waiting for a bus) i just look down then he has this aladin-genie kinda shoes on and no! Am not kiddin its enough that its pointed then it now looks up into the heavens gosh, i just started looking at the guy in d light of the shoes...thats enough of the fine boy- not-so-fine-boys for the day, then i decided to withdraw my antenna before i get a virus in my sever + i saw this gay-looking guy and am wondering why does every gay-looking guy i’ve ever seen have a BIG head?? Just wondering...

And my day was not wasted cos i learnt something today from a very little boy that does not even know he touched a part of me today hmm...in the cab going home there was this boy selling this –N-20 lemon sweet and he just kept dancing and super hyper active and making it all fun for him btw this was not the first time i’ve seen this particular boy...but today he just touched one place deep in me that if this boy that sells probably not going to school is happy doing what he is doing then who am i? It was a great lesson for me and it reminded me of the bible verse that says

‘whatsoever that your hands findeth to do, do it with all thy might for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest - Ecclesiastics 9:11’

am gonna try my best to be a good chid from now....

So am on the quest to become a good girl with that i did all what mumsi asked me to do and more sef without grumbling... i guess i’ll just keep practicing and they say practice makes perfect-very very soon i hope!!!

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Salty SALT

You know when you cook the perfect meal – the right aroma, perfect look, but it touches your tongue….damn! too salty, then you wish you did not add that pinch extra you added at the last minute well too late you just gotta eat! Well that’s the perfect description of my day…Saturday.14.08.10

I wanted to see my friend today and I had planned the day so perfect I was just waiting for the time to leave the house then I remembered and double damn! I forgot to collect her number and I can’t remember the name of her street (just retrieved my line-no contacts) so my forgetfulness was the extra pinch of salt…

So since I have permission from the man of the house (dad- which is very rear) I cannot waste it, then I call seun who wanted me to spend some time with him, I decide to go to his house, when I got there, he wasn’t home I waited for almost an hour, am just there biting myself all burnt but I could not do a thing damn! Why did I come here today??going to his place was the extra pinch of salt..

Being wondering why damilare has not called me all day to ask how am doing and all then I remember damn! I told him to last night to let me be for a while…once again my forgetfulness is the extra pinch of salt…

So seun came 45mins after I got there, not so much to say cos I was burnt, then we decided to go to the cinemas, we watched salt

From the beginning up until the end I was blown away then the end …damn! Why did it end that way??So the end of SALT was the extra pinch of salt…

But I had to eat and hope, that tomorrow I cook better..

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A Happy Groundnut Festival 21st July

For crying out loud this is the 21st century!!!now I wonder when do they want to stop living in bondage?? For how long would they continue to living in darkness?? Its so sad… then they want to impose their barbaric tradition on us cos we live here?? Me I cannot stay at home cos of some ‘no-women outside’ festival ooo and besides am not even a woman(at least not yet) am still a small girl and even sef my God big pass all of them.

So I get to work, the first thing I do is open my office mail (something I never do often) and hmmm *drumrolls* the mail is right there sitting in my inbox (duh..where else would it sit) and it states that am gonna get paid this July, I guess my birthday is not gonna be so bad afterall(there is nothing worst than being broke on your bday) so am freaking in a good mood knowing that now a lot of things would fall into place and I canget myself a good birthday gift for all of my hardwork(yeah all of this is not laziness oo try it if u think so!) now what am I going to get myself ehen??

Today is moving at cheetah pace well maybe cos am so excited and since they are doing their so called festival I v to leave work early today so am rushing down the bridge trying to catch up with mumsi then my lovely gown decided to hook a market woman’s market abi sales wateva (am sure u v a good picture) then it all comes down OMG its broken, do I just leave?, am I to pay for that?, why today?, this one that am wasting time I hope mumsy doesn’t leave me?, all of this and more suddenly rush through my small head and am just standing dumbfounded cos really this was the last thing that I ever imagined could happen to me (really don’t rule out chances)..the bottle of groundnut is –N250…wateva here is –N200 dats all I have, I pay the woman reluctantly and am off just like that??na wa oo! am just happy I wasn’t some crazy old market woman, I just wonder where my head would b by now.

We did not even get trouble from the festival people and this is the earliest v gotten home since I started work wow! The thought that am gonna sleep early bring JOY…Call me a sleepaholic if you like am proud!!!

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Don’t rule it out!!! 20th july

I start this day with high hopes expecting to have a reply to my mail from yesterday but getting to work my hopes are dashed and it has determined my mood for today…
So today is not taking the turn I want it to then I take solace in the internet of course facebook, twitter, blogging etc finding out stuff ranging from the ‘white baby’ (no comments) to dele momodu’s 2011 aspiration for presidency(donno why am just seeing this) this am going to comment on hmmm….having mixed feeling concerning this wait oh is it not the same ovation guy that studied Yoruba in school?? Am not judging o I know that there would be more to the guy than ovation but presidency???dats too much if u ask me on a second thought we do need a change in this country…well if he wins and becomes president then probably Nigeria would look like something out of a glossy paper and I think that’s good for us..for now sha am still keeping my vote.
Yes o…they disappointed me oh! They are back!!! Although they still acted like typicals by staying away for close to a week…yeah the men-in-black are back in ojota and what does that say to me ‘HUMAN TRAFFIC’ on the pedestrian bridge so since everyone has to go through the bridge or get detained there is a 90% chance of meeting your primary school classmate oo…so I meet Damilare on the bridge when I thought I would not see him till next week now am glad am on this bridge…with all today’s findings I’ve learnt not to rule out the chances of anything happening from the black parents giving birth to a white baby, to dele momodu wanting to be the next president to unexpectedly meeting damilare…so am not gonna rule out the chance of getting my BB for my birthday Yeah!!!

P.S: Tobi finally stood up to jog today but i know its not gonna last long...

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Sneakers craize!!! 19th July

Everyday am wondering what this annoying alarm is for? I innocently asked last night and guess what she wants to wake up to jog every morning..and she never stood up since all these days, so I just suffer interrupted sleep for nothing No way!!! Am up today and I just know I cannot be suffering for nothing so I decide to wake ma dear sister from her faraway dreamland (probably dreaming of MI well dats only where he would be..lol) she’s all sleepy but finally puts on one leg of the sneakers and could not get herself to wear the other leg after 5 mins she just dumps herself back on the bed (still with that one leg on) and sleeps back…wow so much for jogging in the morning..i just knew it would not work lets see how it goes for her probably by Friday she would have finished wearing her sneakers…
Today’s work is all good really nothing much to say about this place cos really officially v zoned out until they pay me…so I finally sent the mail requesting for my payment today oo now I just hope I get a feedback ASAP…I meet ene and olaitan (girlfriends from school) its was fun catching up and all being in the BRT with ene was probably a mistake sha cos she was gisting me about girls from school that starved themselves to get a BB and I kept laughing out loud and getting strange stares from stranger (that felt good tho’ being the centre of attraction in a bus full of almost 100 people) and am wondering na by force to buy BB??this is wat this craize has done to our youth of nowadays…Na wa o…Na real wa!!!

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The day’s Cookie Crumble 18th july

Officially this is the most annoying alarm ever made abi created which eva the most annoying part is its not my alarm..its tobi’s (one of my elder sisters)and she would keep snoozing instead of putting the damn thing off…coupled with the fact that am not in a good mood again this morning but yes being in this house you have to go to church so am making an effort cos I love God and Mrs Akibo would not allow the devil posses me to staying at home…anyway church was not so bad although it was prayer all through don’t get me wrong I love prayer but not when it is too long sha… SO cuz I say am having a downtime at the moment HE calls me and sings for me…that’s like the sweetest thing anybody has ever done for me coupled with the fact that you have the most amazing voice am really glad to have you Damilare so officially am your number one fan…so ma day got a whole lot better
Ok so now SHE has started again oo...what has caused all this shouting and complaining again o…nothing I do is ever good enough for you…would you even listen to me at all then He tells me to apologize for what now? All this parents sha they think because they are parents that exclude them from apologies???its really not supposed to be that way and am really not crying cos of all u said so don’t think u make me cry am just so angry!!!so I made sure the apologies did not come out frm me cos honestly if it did It wouldn’t v been sincere…anyways at the end of the day we are good sha…I guess am just learning the things I would never do to my kids and the thing I should make an habit e.g apologizing Chai this children will enjoy ooo and am having 2 kids not 18!!!!

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Transport3rs

I thinks this species of human beings were specially created or they just decided to go to the same school (skul of no-training) cos anywhere you are in this particularpart of the world they all have the same mentality and its really so annoying..what sori who do u think am talking about???all these commercial bus drivers and their ever present conductors, first of all they know how to collect money but its so hard to give 'change' dat is now a normal practise with them then now talk of driving skillz hmm...dats zero, they look all calm and smiley when they are calling passengers wait till they get to the steering its like they are possed or something, and then they just do anything that comes to their mind be it cursing the passengers or passing a blocked route when they can see another route that is traffic-free,forgetting that there are humans in the bus and you need to either apologise or ask for opinions well maybe i blame it on the frustration but nevertheless i don't think it should be so! then again what will people like me do now enter okada??NO way so till i get ma car i guess am stuck!!!

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15 july

I get to work late today and No! its not cos of my oversleeping, mummy delayed me today..well history right?? yeah history is the rest...so am unexplainably happy today and the rounds of disk cleanup for the week is going well, i had sports and elan desk to attend to and it was fun at least i laughed and maybe i was wrong about this place being just for grown-ups i am just in the grown-up section i guess..Going home today was just messy thanks to the rain for soiling my day with mud and it has given the bus drivers the licence to increase the normal #150 fare down to ikorodu to #200...rain thanks whole lot!!but i know that when i get home am gonna be consoled with good food so am not so bothered

P.S: the men-in-black were not in sight(just as i thought)

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smiley...14th july

The only reason why this post has a title regardingsmile..is cos smeone asked me 'have you made someone smile today?'
So the day starts as usual a very sleepy bus ride to work and jumping buses and all get to work and still doing my round of disk clean up and defrag for the week, i know its not more thn that but i just feel this joy when am coming to work knowing that i v work to do is that supposed to make me happy??knowing that they have not paid me? really i don't care i love the feeling of responsibility..its all good sha so i think am gradually getting out of ma office shell...

Transit is another buzz worthy part of myday...please can you move your behind did i send you to lap someone before you start sitting on my own leg mmsshewwww this people can be so annoying i won't let this spoil my already good day...moving on i get to ojota and i see people crossing the road hmm...i just knew that the non-efficient men-in-black were not that efficient...after forcing people to climb the pedestrian bridge for 3 weeks now they've left but atleast they still stayed for up to 3 weeks!! 3 weeks o people not 3 dayz..now thats commendable..very unusual men-in-black behaviour if u ask me..Oh k time to hit the ever present ikorodu road ttraffic *yawns* come to think of it as much as we don't want traffic its still feels very abnormal and unusual when there is non!!!.....zzzz

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The Journey so far...

Since i just wanna start the daily thingy i'ld just gradually give the load down on things that v happened before since i started work (the memorable ones)...so all the happening that happened before i got a job is gone into the history books cos its all long story jare but i just Thank God i sha got the job! started work 12th may really on this day i wz the happiest person on planet earth at that moment just recently broke up with my then boyfriend chai another long story i was pretty optimistic and ready to start and enjoy my single life with the new job, hoping to meet alot of people and make new friends but i got a shocker!!! i am in an office with people way older than i am...i feel so young well ofcourse am young bt being here makes me feel like am 12 or something so am all quiet and not saying jack(and i think its going to be like this till the end of IT because ofcourse they are not going to overnight become age group or would they??) anywayz they think am shy dats not even half of it at all..what exactly am i supposed to be saying when there is talk of my husband, my wife, my kids going on in the air..i dont think there is much to contribute if u ask me and much less from a 19yr old girl hmm...so there goes my hope of having fun in this IT...against the stone..

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Technology Intern

So the concept of this is to talk about my life as a technology intern in timbuktu media and all my everyday finding and hmm..transit..the posts are kinda goin to be in 2 sections work part and transit (things i think would be funny or buzz-worthy)..i really hope i can pull this off till the end of my IT and even after, even when am nt inspired to write i'll try my best to keep up...xoxo

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Confession of a Sleepaholic

4.30 alarm goes off...than i press stop..now wake up at 5.58am...oh shit am late AGAIN!!!
Now looking out the cab every morning, my mind is everywhere but there then gradually...they begin to slid down and down and down..not my mind jor my eyes..its just 30mins drive to the bus-stop and am sleeping in the cab ALREADY..Now am going to leave out the almost 2hr drive to my office well i guess you can imagine the rest...anywayz since the rate at which i started sleeping wz ALARMING and ofcourse am not pregnant..i just keep asking myself ''what is causing all of this??'' no answer come but then again i know whats wrong its called L.A.S.G.D.I.STRESS...i know its too early to complain but mehn..Its crazy, its just been 2 months and a couple of weeks traffic here traffic there..then jumping buses..hmm..don't even want to go there.I think we the upcomping generation need to do somthing about lagos(i kow thats a whole lot of work) but its worth the try..buh till then i think i really have to go back to sleep...zzzzz

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Ear-less!!!

Where are the ears of the youths of this generation? Where is the generation that learn from other people's experience? where is the generation that believe their body is the temple of the lord and not some toy to be played with by a guy? I ask myself this questions when i start hearing true life stories of our generation, they prefer the 'experience is the best teacher' adage of which Yes! i agree to some extent but not when that experience will tanish your image and your future why dont we all just learn from people that have made those mistakes...i was with a friend sometime last week and we got talking well mostly about girls and the mistakes they make and a story of a girl who has a boyfriend of 3 yrs...and a yr and a half gone into the relationship sex was introduced few months later she missed her period 'cliche rite??' well yes kinda but why must it be a normal thing? cos i wonder why you would want to have sex with a guy and not use protection knowing the concequences, for crying out loud its all over the media...what do we listen to these days its really sad and knowing this is happening in this present generation 'jet age' like they say its even sadder...it makes me wonder if the next genration would even be born with ears at all(I pray so!!!)...come to think of it, it really begins with you!!!

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Fabulous Single Life Pt1

why must everything have its pros and cons???
Ok!i got single a couple of months ago exactly one and a half months ago...long story...(post later)

Its not really like am having a blast being single and all but really i must confess its really cool, the fact that you are not anwering to anybody, u are not obliged to call and send text messages, u can go out with anybody without having a jealous somebody asking u silly questions, best part u av loads of guys on ur list trying to take u out (for d fine ones sha!!!)...But for me hmm...my single life so far has really been dulling, if i was nt on dis IT of a thing then i probably would av more time for myself but come to thing of it this so called single freedom and girl power as u would like to call it comes with its own large share of'cons' being that it comes with alot of loneliness..really girls lets face it, you may go out and have the fun of your life all day but at the end of the day you just long for that one person, that special person that you can lean on when there is no one else, i know cos i feel that too sometimes even if i try to assure myself that i only need God in my life for now but the truth be told...just want you to know you are not alone on this one...But really its better to be alone with God than deep your hands in sin!!!

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