Notable 09 from '09

As 2009 draws to a close, it gets increasingly difficult NOT to be nostalgic. A little while back I started a list of all the things that made us talk in 2009.

#9. lightupnigeria: Any nigerian web crawler worth his salt would have heard about the online movement that swept (and is still sweeping through) Naija. LightupNigeria was the brain child of Amara Nwankpa and to some extent Eldee the Don that got all of twitterNaija tweeting. Soon enough we were noticed by CNN who did a special on the cause. For getting almost 90% (this is a rough estimate) of nigerian tweeters to don a burning green lamp (created by blogville's own genius Seye Kuyinu) next to their avatars, LightupNigeria makes this list.

#8.Jenifa: As a card carrying member of the YFB on twitter (yoruba film board) i have watched plenty of movies in 2009, but I guess we can safely say that the one movie everybody watched, heard, tried to watch, loved, tried NOT to watch in 2009 was Jenifa. Its like, as in, you know, it was everywhere!

#7. twitter: This year was definitely the year twitter came and blew facebook out of the water! 140 characters and still going on strong!

#6. kanye west: Kanye West seemed to have solidified his spot in the anals (pun intended) of history on the fateful award day when he got up on the stage grabbed the mic from Taylor swift

#5. michael jackson: There were a lot of deaths in 2009, but the one that shook us all the most was MJ's death, and in true Kanye West speak, imma let u finish, but Micheal Jackson had the best death of all time!

#4. Tiger woods: Im sure a lot of people cheated on their wives in 2009, had a one night stand, maybe even had a mistress or two, but Tiger took it to a whole new level! 13 mistresses and still counting. Nobody is giving Tiger the piss about having extra marital affairs, but attempting to cover it up and sound like its nobody's business just blew things out of proportion.

#3. yaradua: And in the midst of all this one would wonder where our president is right? only in Nigeria would you have a sick president who is out of the country who refuses to hand over to his #2. One can argue, and be correct within limits, that what was he doing when he wasnt sick? afterall they call d man baba go-slow. The president is yet to address the country about d panty bomber situation, the last I heard he's supposed to be thumb printing d budget from his sick bed in Saudi Arabia. o well, we talked about Mr President a lot in 2009 and from all indications we shall still be talking about him in 2010.

#2. Umar Farouk Muttalab: The wanna-be Christmas day panty bomber was a very last minute entrant into this list, and from Nigeria, to the US, the whole world has been talking about him. It is indeed very sad cos I never thought the day would come when I would see a nigerian born and bred suicide bomber. I mean we do yahoo, we do demons (lol) but we do NOT do suicide bombings. Not only has the idiot put the country under the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

#1. Swagger: If there is one word that should be allowed to die a very peaceful death, it would be the word "swaggar". Damn! when TI proudly proclaimed that no-one on the corner had swagger like him, I guess he didnt know what he started, cos Nigerians definitely set out to prove him wrong! From Terry G telling us to "ginga our swagga" to it oozing out of DPrince's body., damn! swagga was everywhere in 2009! Hopefully everyone has maxed out their swagga credit, and 2010 shall be free of swagger.

Anyways, that was my top 09 for 09 List. What would have made yours? Here's to 2010 ushering in the best of everything we want!

Almost made the list:
Obama, Koko Mansion, Octomom, Rita, Fuel scarcity, Recession, Trending Topics, The W experience, H-factor, Exams, twitboo, breakups, weddings, Bffs, Verastically Speaking, Sarah Palin, Lady Gaga, ....

Merry Christmas....NOT!

yeah, I'm not feeling this christmas at all. This is the first christmas in a long time that I have not spent in Nigeria with family. The last christmas I spent like this I was uber depressed cos I was homesick and my boyfriend broke up with me. I had akready planned out how depressed I was going to be on christmas in advance, thank Goodness for friends that have been trying to fustrate my plans.

All my close friends have travelled to naija and I'm totally unbashedly hating on ALL of you who got to travel to naija. I wish BA would cancel your flight or your luggage'll get lost or something. If all else fails, I take solace in knowing that y'all would still come back in January to face the bitter cold! can i get an Amen somebody? (cc Sir Scribbles).

This year I didnt even bother making any stupid christmas list, cos the fat, bald old man refused to bring ANY of the things I wrote on my list. The only thing I got on that list was my stethescope and I freaking bought it by myself! Like I was good all year! awesome, if you will, but what did I get? Nothing. So this year, I've decided to be bad, and I've been B-A-D, spank me!
o well, I will be in grinch mode for the rest of the day, but while you're chowing down on jollof rice, and battling the thigh of Jaxter the turkey/chicken, and prolly washing it down with a bottle of chilled coke in d midst of family and friends, do not forget the reason for the season.

We Three Kings of Orient are...

I'm sure everyone who reads this blog has heard about the autotune sensation that is T-pain. In case you havent, lemme refresh your memory *presses F5* dark, dreads, well built...got it?

Now I'm sure you also know Timaya. I'm sure you know him, them call him timaya, just because he's getting higher....

however, do you know what Tpain and Timaya have in common? If you said their names both start with the letter T, you'd be right. If you said they are both musicians, once again, you'd be right. If you said they could pass for twins, you'd be right once more!

However, I'm sure there's one thing about them that you dont know. They are actually triplets! I bet u d

idnt know that! and I found the third person on....wait for it

on Twitter!

yeah, I found their triplet on twitter, no one but my sweet poraro Onimartin!

well, lemme give you the full story. you see, what had happened was, their mom was chilling in downtown portharcourt when she met their dad, an American immigrant who worked for Shell Petroleum....one thing led to another which led to rough play, and before she knew it she was pregnant.
When she told their dad, he was a little excited, but then she told him she was going to have triplets. Then he flipped!
3 kids! hell no!!! He told her they only did it once and so she couldnt be pregnant with 3 kids, and he was going to take the one child that belonged to him. He took the first baby that popped out, whom he named Faheem Rasheed, but we all know as Tpain.
Their mom later moved to Lagos because of the unrest in PHC, before Onimartin "escaped" to the United States.

This is very coded gist that you might not hear anywhere else! but as per the Paparazzi of blogville, I had to bring you this gist in gbona feli feli form!.....aside from the fact that Onimartin called me "too chicken to blog about him"

I'm going to be writing a lot of posts this december God willing, cos I have to get out all these pent up posts!



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What's your sign?

I really have been neglecting my blog of late, and I wouldn't be quick to jump to blaming twitter for it. The truth of the matter is that I've been so busy this academic year, especially as I'm in the hospital most of the times and not on my computer as I used to be for the past two years.

Yesterday was World Aids day and I must really commend my twitter folks (yet again) for really going all out. I read countless of tweets about AIDS, getting tested, knowing your status etc and you had to be deaf, blind or totally illiterate to have missed the message.

I was at work yesterday, and I casually mentioned to my colleagues in the lounge 'its world aids day guys, lets go downstairs and get tested". The responses I received were not really on the positive side (no pun intended). Even medical students were reluctant to go get tested (for free, i might add).

I decided to brave it and go get tested, cos i felt kinda hypocritical to be spreading the message and still be reluctant to go get tested. There were a few things i noticed while i was at it:

1. I was secretly hoping that I wouldnt come across anybody i knew.

2. While waiting, I almost felt ashamed. It was like if I saw someone I knew, I felt like they would judge me or assume that I had engaged in risky behaviour (which m

ost people WOULD assume)

3. while taking the test, my life flashed before my eyes, LOL!

4. I had to wait 20 mins for the results and i had to force myself to thi

nk positive thoughts (no pun intended again :D)

5. If I have learnt one thing from my years of blogging, its that if Im thinking something, chances are I'm not alone.

There's a subconscious stigma attached to being tested, which should not be so. At a time I was trying to work on getting oraquick testing kits and getting people on nigerian campus to undergo voluntary testing. I havent abandoned that project yet, but i wonder if people would be willing to voluntarily undergo testing.

If you think Ignorance is bliss, try Knowing- its the bestest feeling in the world. Get tested before the year runs out. Like my good friend Jenifa would say "spread d nuus (news), not d firus (virus)"!

PS: I've had a poll before that i lost because i changed my layout, can you pretty please take the poll again? thanks!!!! (you guys rock!)