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, ....