I am really feeling...

Beyonce's Halo

... you're everything i needed more...

Njopulodu (now Asampete) i can feel your halo
Atingalee (aka Nenz) i can feel your halo
Cheks i can feel your halo
Mummy i can feel your halo
Daddy i can feel your halo
Terry, do u have a halo??? i kinda feel smth...

...Hit me like a ray of sun...
...I'm addicted to your love...
...I ain't never gonna shut you out...
...Everywhere i'm looking now, i'm surrounded by your embrace...

Oooooo 12/18/09

Terry Our Dog

Happy New Year....

I have been well. Thanks for all your concern, and for checking up on me. I am grateful

So much has happened, it has been good news all the way, thank God!

My Random Post for today:

Today i sent Betty (a colleague) pictures of Terry - our faithful Alsatian in Nigeria, after she had been bothering me about seeing pictures of him.

I met her later in the hallway and we talked briefly about how handsome and big Terry is. Betty said "he is such a huge GSD" i said "Yes, i always told you he was, that is why i am so cautious around him". Fred and ignorate colleague who was standing with us then said "wow is he that big, do you ride him to the market"? and started laughing

I said "No" but wish i had said something just as stupid

I wonder about the sheer ignorance of people like Fred. Thier lack of shame to boldy display such folly and/or crack such witless jokes amazes me. It is rather unfortunate... for them.

Happy Birthday Omulu!!!!!

Today is my 24th birthday, i'm soo excited and grateful to God for:

1. sparing my life



2. good health



3. provision



4. protection



5. Onyinyechukwu



6. B



7. everyone that loves me



8. everyone i love



9. Making me so successful



10. answered prayers



11. my salvation



12. my parents, dscribe, adia, and my brother



13. my friends



14. my extended family



15. my cousins that have found thiuer life patners



16. my cousins that have had childrens



17. prayer God will anser soon



18. my Pastor



19. my Church



20. my House



21. my Husband



22. my Children



23. God's favor upon my life



24. God's grace



25. God's mercies and goodness that i don't deserve

Father Lord i thank you soooooo much, Lord who can be compared to you? You the maker, the breaker, the Master of the Universe, The I Am that I Am, Ancient of days, The one that shuts the door and no technology can open it, the one that performs miracles and leaves the world's best doctors speechless, Master Mason, You who created a bridge in the middle of a sea in less that 24 hours, Wonder working yet ever faithful father, Lord i adore you and praise your name.

Thank you so much for everything!

7 weird things about me

I have been tagged by dScribe

7 weird things about me
1. I love food…… it’s almost like an insane addiction. Good food makes me happy
2. I like dancing, I like dancing naked.
3. I get very excited randomly for no reason at all
4. I am very sensitive. My mind has an interpretation for everything.
5. I have a very photographic memory that seems to capture negative events most vividly
6. I adore my privacy, I dislike intruders.
7. I’m absolutely in love with my boobies, my fingers, toes and legs….. Father Lord I really thank you O! They are just the perfect size, shape color, weight.

I tag Dr.T, Kpakpando, and Pea

The Early Christmas Gift

How have you guys been o? Compliments of the season. I know I have not posted in a long time, it’s not like I forgot my blog buds, and there hasn’t been much to blog about. A very big to thanks to all those who inquired about me.

Anyway, I am very well and happy; Onyinye is just as well too. B and I have been going through a really turbulent period lately. He started this very rigorous professional program that has been taking all of his time. We get to talk only about 10 minutes in a day, sometimes I get to see him only once in a whole week! It hasn’t been fun at all. We have broken up like 3 times in less than 3 months and gotten back together. LOL. We recently renewed our “commitment” to each other J I went to see him two days ago in the middle of a snow storm (it was my first time driving in the snow),and met him eating supper. We talked a bit, and he excused himself, while I kept myself busy in his bedroom closet (I like to go through my sister’s purses, B’s closet, and wallet). I went through, found nothing interesting and was about settling down when he came in with this really boyish grin on his face.

“So you have seen it ehn? Why are you so nosy?” he said? I was like “seen what”? Funny enough, I had missed the huge red Macy’s shopping bag down below sitting comfortable on his laundry pile. He shoves me off gently and pulls the bag saying “this was supposed to be your Xmas present; I don’t know why you enjoy going through my things” Hah! I grabbed the bag excitedly, and peered in to see the contents. Above was what I found, a beautiful huge khaki Coach Carly bag, with dark brown leather trimming and the signature jacquard fabric. Ewooooo! Kai I was happy O! very happy infact. So I now own a Coach! Thank God O! Coach + my darling Onyinye…… nna men I will be painting the town DEEP RED this Christmas! no be small. Father Lord I thank you.

My happiness wasn’t just based on the Coach bag. It was the thought o! Coach is pricey. I was grateful that he appreciated me so much as to spend that much on a bag….. Just for me. Ah, I was really grateful and very humbled too. B, God will continue to bless you and keep you for me, he will bless your going in and coming out, your steps shall be ordered by God alone, the things you desire, God will grant in his infinite mercies, your life will forever be a testimony of God’s goodness, and he will replenish your purse multiple fold. In Jesus Name – Amen.

How was thanksgiving, and how are you preparing for Christmas? I have been trying to come up with creative Xmas and Birthday dishes (my birthday falls in the third week of January). I’m so tired of the standard MD party menu of Jollof rice, Fried rice, stewed beef and chicken, fried fish, Vegetable soup (Efo riro) w/ Pyam, Moinmoin, and Beans. Please let me know if you have any ideas.

In the meantime, enjoy a recipe from Omulu’s Delightful Kitchen, until we meet soon, same place on blogsville. Cheers!

Yam Po’

Description

Yam Po’ aka Yam porridge/Yam pottage is one of those dishes you grew up eating as a Nigerian. Mummy made it once in a while, and we ate it on Friday nights at FGGC Onitsha. IMHO it’s a wholesome meal comprising decent amounts of vitamins, carbohydrate, fats/oil, fiber, protein, and mineral salts. It is filling; this particular recipe will leave you asking for more!

Ingredients:
· Yam
· Water
· Palm oil
· Fresh Chopped Spinach
· Cray fish
· Washed, deboned dry fish
· Scotch bonnet peppers
· Onions
· Chopped red bell peppers
· Chopped tomatoes
· Knorr cubes/ chicken bullion

Method
· Cut the Yam in small pieces and put in a bowl with water
· Blend the peppers, tomatoes and onions – with a small amount of water and pour mixture in a pot
· Pour in the Oil and the crayfish, fish and spices
· Put the yams in the pot with blended mixture, add small water if needed (the amount of liquid will determine how thick or watery your Yam Po’ will be)
· stir
· Leave to cook
· Add the spinach when the yam is just about cooked (to preserve the vitamins and leave the leaves crisp and green)
· Leave to cool
· Enjoy

TIPS
· You can add boiled Kpomo (Cow skin), beef cubes, Oporo (Dried giant shrimps) Smoked – well peppered Ogazi (guinea fowl) or anything else to your Yam Po’. The variations are endless and only limited by your imagination
· Note that some of the proteins like “Oporo” require some prepping such as, soaking in hot water for a few minutes.

FGGC Osha 2, Thanks, Weddings

Continuing from the last post, in Osha we had a very boring but healthy weekly menu

The soups most times contained really small pieces of beef which ended up in the bellies of some very wicked seniors on the table. We had long wooden tables and benches in the dining hall, arranged in about 8-10 rows. In the classroom area, an old rusty hub was mounted on two metal stakes. The hub was struck rhythmically whenever it was time for a meal, the hub, in addition to the bell served as a reminder for everyone that food was ready

Meals always started with a prayer (in the form of a song) usually led by the dining hall prefect or any prefect charged with conducting the meals for that day. Thereafter, rows were called to go and pick up their tureens of food. Afterwards the food was shared by people on the table. Ooooo I forgot to add, many of us made use of the slightest opportunity we had to show off. In my school, there were correct “levels”. During meals for instance we had to bring in our own utensils, the utensil levels ranged from plastic cups to stainless steel, ceramic mugs, and glass tumblers. Some babes used plastic plates as well, others stainless steel (this was most popular), nice flowered ceramic, fine china, some ajebota’s even used disposables!

Mealtimes were always a bittersweet affair especially during my Junior School year, because the seniors always found a reason to punish juniors during or after mealtimes. I remember grueling moments of kneeling down and raising or flying my arms for hours. Mealtimes also brought good memories for a few because they usually shared letters during meals and announced items that were lost but found. I remember one occasion vividly when I got my very first “love letter” from the second boy that ever toasted me. OMG these memories make me laugh so hard……. I felt so grown and mature, receiving a love letter….. dang it really felt good. Stay tuned for more FGGC Osha gist

Today is the 24 of August 2007. Hmmmm the year is coming to an end really fast. I’m thankful to God for what he has done for me and my family thus far. I’m thankful for the ideas, the numerous opportunities, good health, provision, for giving me people to love, and people that love me, for his presence in my life even when I am so unfaithful, Lord I’m really Thankful

I’m thankful for my family and friends that have found people to share their lives with. I dedicate this section to Cousin Arthur whose wedding is tomorrow in Naija. Arthur please allow Jesus to take the wheel in your lives. I pray that God will provide you with everything you need to take care of your wife and your children, I pray that God will grant you the grace to love her as Christ loved the church, to protect her, and to be with her till death do you part (no cheating). I pray that your wife will be like the virtuous woman in the bible, she will honor and obey you, shore up for you in areas where you are lacking, she will support you in all your endeavors, she will not only be your wife but your friend, your lover, another cousin for us, she will never rebel against you, she will not turn her back on you, God will grant her the grace to take very good care of you. In Jesus Name – Amen

Most of all Arthur, I pray that your new home will replicate God’s original plan for marriage. I pray that this union will mark the beginning of the best days of your life, and will open doors to all our family members that are still waiting for their life partners in Jesus name Amen.