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November 3, 2014

The Case Of The Missing Vaseline

First of all, if you're not Nigerian (or not African), then let me explain that yes, I know that what I am blogging about is called petroleum jelly and Vaseline is actually the brand, but as a Nigerian, I [we] call it Vaseline. Ehen, so I know I have mentioned somewhere on this blog about my obsession with glossing my lips (which is why I wake up in the morning with shiny lips). Whether it's lip balm, or lip gloss, or just good ol' "Vaseline," what matters is that my lips aren't chapped. In my Read More

October 28, 2014

What I Wore To Girls’ Night Out

I recently went to girls' night out with Solachi, Funmie, Ibukun, and Tim, but that's not the girls' night out I'm talking about. I had another girls' night out with another group of girls. This one was with my work friends, Lisa, Tasha, Jemela, and Jennifer. Coincidentally, we had it at TGIF, too. No, I didn't pick the venue. As a matter of fact, it's mere coincidence that I have gone to TGIF twice in such short time. It happened on Saturday. We talked about how most of us are pretty much Read More

October 27, 2014

Conversations With My Vietnamese Friend – Part 1

One thing I have always loved is learning about other people and their culture. I love talking with people who are not like me and finding things out that I probably would have never known. Yes, we can get information from text books and Wikipedia, but it cannot be compared to hearing it from the horse's mouth. Even within Nigeria, it's unfortunate how little we know about each other, except the stereotypes. I'm not saying the stereotypes are necessarily wrong, but they might be exaggerated, and Read More

October 16, 2014

Thanks To My Hair, Chinedu Wants My Number

Remember when I went to Faith's wedding? Of course, you remember, the post went up only yesterday. Thank you for the compliments on the hair. I have received so many compliments on and offline. Just yesterday, someone said to me, "Oh, you finally decided to wear your hair down, it's beautiful." She thought it was my natural hair, and I just couldn't break her heart by telling her the truth. Ha! Okay, so my hair was done via crochet braiding, and it was done by my sister-in-law, Nyambe. She's Read More

October 13, 2014

He Said He Wants To Marry Me

I was speaking to my mommy yesterday and she told me that an interesting thing happened. I asked her what it was and she told me that a man from Umunze (I think it's in Anambra) came to speak to her. He told her that his very good friend wants to marry me. I didn't hear what my mom said, or maybe I didn't want to believe that I heard what she said, so I kept asking, "He wants to marry who?" I asked her this question four times until mom was practically screaming, "You!" She repeated, "He wants Read More

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