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I'm upset...must every story have a sad ending??

Hi guys...yeah exams are over... and yes before you freak out i'm still madly in love with the new guy and he's still loving me...although from 10000miles away now because he's in singapore for the next two weeks...what kind of company sends their employee on business trips every freaking month??? I guess when he mentioned '....and i travel alot' he wasn't kidding!
Ok. enough about my whining...how are you guys? Yes i know i promised an exclusive, but i think i'm loving the suspense, aren't you? Ohh i'm especially happy for temmy who dared the fiery depths of love and flew to nigeria to be with her love, and for yeye inc...who's symbo-love seriously requires a top-up and most importantly, i'm pissed off.
How many Grey's Anatomy fans are in the house? Did y'all see the finale?? It was... aaaaaaargggh! I almost cried! So annoyingly sad!! Meredith broke up with Derrick, George is trapped in a love-less marriage and is planning to have kids, Lizzie finally falls in love, but with poor married Georgie, Alex opens his heart but is too chicken and too late to claim his love and the straw that broke the camel's back...Christina and Burke didnt get married....OMG, how can this be any worse...
It really got me down for a couple of hours...Why??? Why? cant at least one person be happy?? Yeye inc thought it was a masterpiece that brought a tear to her eye everytime. I cant stand the thought of seeing that...that.. dingy disconsolate episode again. My flatmates say that its 'cause they want all characters to begin next season single &looking for a fresh start; what's more appalling is that most writers do this to keep their fans in suspense till the next season starts...[feigned gasp of surprise] shame on you!
So i did some research...Results?? It's the same for most abc series, horrifying season endings !! Do they just love to torture me? I loved Grey's Anatomy and now you've ruined it! All I will see now when I watch any series, is the manipulating hands of drunk, sinister writers, sitting in the TV box (or in this case, on my laptop screen), wangling the hearts of their once beloved fans...Now a real shame on you!
Breathe....

Ok. I just had to get that out of my system.
So ola amigo! Whats popping? I'm doing great! Preparing for my thesis, job hunting furiously and learning to make home-cooked English delicacies...You should see the weird stuff i've turned out of our oven, all in the name of making dinner. I got the naija bit knocked fine, but men, apart from roasting tomatoes in ginger and vinegar, garnished with cabbage, lettuce and chicken soup(instant) served with cheese-laced potato and fish crumpets; I'm totally lost with the English cuisine. Although all my effort has earned me wonderful brownie points with mr man, its costing me a sweet bundle. Not that I mind (....hmm, ok i do mind, just a little) but i'd like to get it right the first time so I dont keep making three sample meals before the real one surfaces!
Besides i'm beginning to feel rather inadequate because he's a pretty good cook. I'm pretty sure, if I put down ingredients and give him easy-to follow instructions,he'll probably make better Efo elegusi than i do.
I really need to stop whining!

Now to be a darling...i will answer anticipated your questions about mr man
what's his name?
Do you really wanna know?....Lets leave it as Mr man.

how did you guys meet?
He works in the building where i did my first interview

About him
6feet, slightly muscular moderate frame, i dont know how much he weighs but he looks pretty healthy, he loves spicy food and eats 10 times my meal size, loves cricket (I hate that damn game!...no offense), has a younger sister, can't dance to save his soul but can rock you to sleep, very kind, ambitious and fun (when he's around....am i whining again?) his best friend thinks i'm his tamest experiment (nice complement eh?) and yes...finally he's a Christian so i dont have to argue unnecessarily!
That's all folks, its bedtime for me. Sorry I have no gossip but i'm happy! That's much more than i can say for those nasty tv-show finales...

Love y'all

Edelweiss, Edelweiss

My little brother sent me his classics collection today and you can guess which song jumped right at me....'Edelweiss' (for those of you with incomplete childhood, its one of the songs in 'Sound of Music')
It was like going back in time to the very first moment i heard those notes on the violin...fantastic!!!
It was too beautiful to resist so i decided to do research on what 'edelweiss' is. Apparently its a mountain flower that grows in Europe. its name 'edel-weiss' is from edel- which means noble and weiss which means white!
I wish we had a flower like that back home...or maybe i just dont know the English name for it. It was weird, but hearing that song play over and over again took me back home...to the sweet smell of boli, the music playing softly over our many noisy danfo drivers, the smiling children playing football in the street, the 'feferity owambe parties that we are so famous for..... Aaaah!!! there really is no place like home.

Anyways i have some gossip! LOL. my parnter in crime Yeye Inc has found a breakthrough in the art of loving and being in love...Ladies and gentlemen, i present to you 'Symbo-Love' short for symbiotic love!
This unique type of love establishes a rare and strong connection with one's lover such that, if you dont sleep, they dont sleep....YES Ladies and gentlemen, you could be the proud owner of a lover who is completely in-tune with you.
For a limited fee only, Yeye inc and her beau will demonstrate the superior technique of 'rubbing' that can last 7 harsh months in jand....LOL (FYI this is payback for her making my life an episode of grey's anatomy)

Great things are happening my people.
..my once confirmed bachelor friend has thrown in the towel and wants to join the married folks. For real!! I am totally psyched for him! And for my *^7^&^$%$ loving self! If my friend can change, there's hope for men out there!! maybe even for our newest recruit.
Ok, I have to go read now...
Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever...

in our case... it should be.
iroko tree, iroko tree
bless my homeland forever!

Perfectionist Anonymous!!!

'99.9% is a failure...only 100% is a pass.'

Does life have to be perfect? Should life be perfect….or more precisely can life be perfect??
Do we really require perfection to be happy? Must our alarm wake us up at 6 am sharp, breakfast on the table by 7.05 and our daily bus to work right there on the nick of 7.30.
Must our grades be straight As for us to get the best jobs and consequently the best life? Will our relationships last longer if they were perfect? Perfect with the perfect settings and the perfect partner? Can we truly ever find perfection or it just a fleeting shadow some will forever chase as the proverbial dog chases its tail? Is perfection really the path to ‘the good life’?
Growing up, I was taught to believe that the best things in life were perfect and to truly be happy and fulfilled you must get that perfect grade, that perfect job, the perfect spouse and have that perfect family with cute…perfect smiles. I often wondered why my family wasn’t perfect, I mean, we had great moments and I love them to bits and would never trade them for…hmmm let me not be too optimistic, I would trade some of my extended family for a …LOL, just a silly thought. Yeah, my family is definitely far from perfect so why should I strive for perfection? Is it truly attainable? Is it a utopic dream that some of us must chase (I say ‘some’ because I know better) to feel a reason for existing? And more importantly, is it really worth the sacrifice??
Do not get me wrong, I'm not advocating that we all sit in the sidelines and watch life pass us by. I'm definitely not trying to undermine the importance of discipline and dedication to our dreams but I'm asking the bigger question here? Is this the only way to get there? And when we get there, what do we do??

What is perfection to you? Is it when you get the perfect job or that spiked raise and buy that flaming hot Ferrari and move to a house across the hill? Is it when you discover the cure for cancer and save countless lives from untimely death and painful treatment? Is it a situation when the world is in perfect peace and there are no more hungry children and wars everywhere? Do you even think you are part of what can bring perfection to your world?
I ask this, because I answered all these questions years ago! My answers told me I was different and that I had a long journey to achieve perfection. For many people, life is a learning process, a continuous cycle of making mistakes and learning from them, crying, smiling and embraces whatever greets us, good or evil; mine was different. I saw life as a set of choices…the good ones, enrich you and the people around you; the bad ones demean you and hurt the people around you. Good choices are usually harder to make and bad choices can be avoided by learning from other people’s mistakes. Believe it or not, its simple and very effective. All that philosophy about ‘experience is the best teacher… to me meant, other people’s experience is the best teacher.
This became my moto, since I grew up accustomed to working hard for what I want, no shortcuts, simply doing the dirty work; it came quite naturally! I kept a fairly strict routine, had my goals (to have the highest grades in JSCE (that’s like a mid-high school exam)) and the long term goal of blab la bla… you know the usuals. I remember the first guy that asked me out received a stern warning along with a few tips on how to get his grades up.

As profitable as this was, what shocked me the most was how I became highly intolerable of people’s inadequacies. I just couldn’t understand why people didn’t work so hard….why they blamed the government for everything, or why they just wouldn’t apply themselves to get the good things in life.
Even more infuriating were the people who took shortcuts, who cheated, who bought their way through everything! Talk about being born in the wrong century!! In retrospect, I think I was so straight I was a sharp piercing knife…heavily critical. And what did I gain?

To be continued....