Talking to strangers...

Things used to be much easier growing up...

You remember that story about the boy who loved to talk to strangers?
Been thinking about it lately,
And realizing that, living to enjoy the random cup of steaming coffee with like minded persons is not just a simple indulgence we are free to relax into at will...

I am realizing that I cannot live to enjoy talking to...people,
Simply because for everytime you stir a cup of coffee with a stranger,
There's often the chance of stirring something deeper within the soul of the other person
So life gets unnecessarily complicated....

But I'm certain we are not made to live individually or even in remote dual pitched tents...
That the beauty in quiet conversations is an intentional DNA within the fabric of those of us coffee lovers.
Except that my past records do not serve me in good stead.
Like J casually mentioned today that there's a noticeable number of opp.genders with questionable affections.

I ruefully chose not to continue the conversation.
These days I am ruefully choosing not to continue any conversation at all.
At least until I understand if it's only all the world who wear their hearts on a sleeve,
Or it's something I'm saying....

Like a simple story of a boy who lived to talk to strangers,
and a girl who knew how to make the perfect coffee...

"Everything is permissible"-but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible"-but not everything is constructive uh?

The 14 for 14 Challenge: The T.Notes' Blog Sniffer alerts - NO.GO.Believe's cool blog page.

Intro: The 14-for-14 challange by Janyl. (Click here to familiarize yourelf with the '14 for 14 challenge')

I recently accepted this challenge to go on a quest searching for brand new blogs...with the bull-headed conviction that all creativty is not lost within the nigeria-blogsphere. And also desperate to prove that, contrary to recently popular opinion, not all of the new blog pages are uninteresting (to put it mildly). This is my first post as regards that journey.

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Naijalines recently pointed out that:

Personal blogging is organic mind dump. Space away from the superficial clutter that's the world...reason why some of us love it.
She couldn't have put it any more perfectly.

Opinions, they say, are like belly buttons - everybody has one. In my own opinion, a good blog is just that - a rich brew of good ole, unadulterated, organic mind dump. That's the kind i have been struggling to find until i accidently came across NO.GO.Believe who smartly suggested in one of her posts that Mastubation could save Nigeria.

You might say that i am playing out of the game rules, as clearly her page is not new. She's been on here since 2009. But hands up if you'd ever come across this page? I haven't.
Freestyling from her profile page, J is a self-confessed pop culture addict who recently left the hustle of New York City behind for the hustle of Lagos. I knew i would love her page already.

Trolling through a lot of new blog pages in this ermm...Quest of mine, I have often come across a certain underlying theme of...simplicity??, which i find mildly troubling, albeit unamusing. So, when i came across this spunky blogger who's musing along the lines of...
You know what? F*&k it. Maybe I need more stress in my life. Stress-free living is for retirees and stoners. That certainly caught my attention for a bit.
You know, how you get that good ole-time jolt from reading afrobabe or more recently the likes of crazy Kiah, loud mouthed Toinlicious, or pieces of me...

I can't help it, i'm a sucker for creativity and unpopular opinion in the regular personal/ daily living/musing type blogs. I wondered for a second if i am not being biased in my opinion by sidelining international influence, and once upon a-i have lived abroad, as a pre-requisite definition for a great blog. Then why would Naijawife, NaijaHusband, Freaksho and atilola be great blogs by the same standards also? I just think people maybe ought to dig deeper and give that sh&t some extra good squeeze before dumping simplicity all over the place and going home with a shiny plaque. I don't know...i don't get it...but hey, what do i know yeah..

So, my first blog of note is No.Go.Believe....because i like the way her mind works, and how she wittingly polishes her thoughts into fine wit. I noticed her posts of late have been drifting into retweets and quotations....But maybe if you guys busied over to the page, hit the follow tab, and dropped a note or two...


P.S. If you've got an awesome new blog, that's worth a shout out, you would make the job easy for a brother by dropping a note, and i'll mozey over to yours in a flash!

P.P.S: Kiah and the likes of you, you guys are not new blogs, and if you have ever clocked over 20 comments on a post, you don't count either.

P.P.P.S: In trying to link afrobabe's old blog, here's the first google response i got below. Talk about going out with a bang!!!Salute to the masters of the art!Looool!!
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Content Warning

Some readers of this blog have contacted Google because they believe that this blog's content is objectionable. In general, Google does not review nor do we endorse the content of this or any blog. For more information about our content policies, please visit the Blogger Terms of Service.
I UNDERSTAND AND I WISH TO CONTINUE I do not wish to continue

The 14 for 14 Challenge - The T.Notes' Blog Sniffer alerts

The T.Note's Blog Sniffer alert---

So, in line with Janyl's 14-for-14 challenge, i'm on a mission to find awesome new / fresh bloggers.
I will be chronicling my journey as my submit for the challenge. #Cheat!

 Frankly, this is how i waste most of my time herein....so much so that i use up hours until it's stupid o'clock and my fingers & mind will curse me if i dared attempt to put up any proper post myself.

But yes, i'll sifting through blog by blog, post by post, in search of those quirky, authentic and unsung pages. And for each gem i find, i will make such a hullabaloo about it and forcefully direct y'all to go on there and drop your opinions.


Note: I have no interest in promoting any page for any awards. All i'm after is...those few good ones...for whom i'm hell bent on keeping their cursors moving and comments buzzing.


So hey, here goes...who know, you might be next.

Who is this girl?

The first one that shows up in the video - the red top and shiny pants.
The face is insanely familiar....
I'm not much of a nollywood person,
And my Naija trip is all caught up in blurred lines.
But i could have sworn i know that face....
Any takers?

P.S...I pulled this out today, because i am determined to perfect those dance moves!

Only problem is, at the last party, i was all up doing yahoozee, until i quickly noticed that is clearly yesterday's dance moves!

Life will be beautiful still / Stars fell on Alabama

If you were to ever stumble and fall off a mountain's edge,
don't forget to enjoy the view.
And remind yourself that somewhere in the horizon, a toddler's laughter fills the air
at the wonder of his new pup lapping warm milk out of a bowl
And the dribbles from its whiskers will remind someone of golden summer mornings,
of sucking sweet nectar juice out of a flower's lazy stems...

If stars were ever to fall all over Alabama,

don't ask Ella why.
Just pull aside the blinds, and let the morning chase away your blues.
Fight for life, yes, if you must - with your tools of trade and a prayer close to your lips
Only remember that whatever tomorrow brings, life will be beautiful still.

So don't forget to enjoy the view.

*No disaster will come near your dwelling place*

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S4

2014: I cannot recall the original post title

There you go,  I give up!

I have tried and tried to get rid of this blog, but clearly that is not happening anytime soon. This page is like a relentless rabid dog created without purpose, on a random idle monday afternoon, and which has now been stuck to my posterior since then. How does a stupid blog become a dogged unyielding part of you?

I have created a hundred pseudo personalities online in a bid to start afresh on a more dignified note - become something of a respectable Myne Whitman, but every effort has fallen flat with little motivation. Just imagine....what if Toinlicious, afronuts, musco D, Kiah, caramelD, verastic, naijalines, honeydame, SisiYemmie, and all the other blogs you have grown to know and love were only all just me - the many amazing faces of yours truly, shape-shifting. #T.Note conspiracy theory.2014.

Anyway, finally acknowledging the futility of my efforts, and also in response to Atilola, Janyl.B, and every post and email convicting me of joining that elite club of absentee bloggers :), i hereby commit my quota of renewed zealousness to my haphazard blogging roots - i.e, to that lofty clarion call of resuscitating good ole blogsville.

Besides, i have received sign-off from a certain important someone, to go ye into all the world and blog blog blog.

Happy 2014....

I expect you've all had smashing holidays, but i don't expect any of your holidays was as impressive as mine. Modesty is yet to be my strong point. But anyways, wait for it.......I was in Lagos for Christmas, after years of being away! Even though in my mind it's always only felt like yesterday...that blue eyed novice BA passenger on a quest to acquire a prestigious masters degree and conquer wall street. Boy, how time flies.

So this Christmas,  i hopped on an overcrowded emirates flight and anxiously joined the merry league of 'returnees for the holidays'. Even i was laughing at the irony of it all. I have always considered myself 100% pure blood -gidi... but I have to say,  It's funny how a couple of years can change your perspective on things...but that is a different discuss altogther. My mission was simple - Eko for show, and i was going to milk out every oink of good times in two weeks! Besides Chi-town has been acting all kinds of stupid these past weeks.

So, as far as my holiday was concerned,

• Gidi was MAD FUN!!!!!
• Gidi is mad expensive!!!!---£££ gone with the wind in a few days! Everything is thousand thousand Naira!
• Obalende looks great!!!Thumbs up Fashola!
• Partied at the beach till midnight - free good music, no swanky club entry ticket!
• There's a funky rooftop bar in shoprite ikeja - the music was banging!
• Phone calls are much cheaper now!
• DSTV is boring.... overrated at best.
• I used up three doses of malaria meds in two weeks. Mosquitoe wan kill me finish.
• Saw #The Closer Play at Oriental Hotel - I was not impressed. The Closer is a white play, the emotions were exagerrated to try to suit a nigerian audience. On top VIP ticket.
• GTBank customer service needs an overhaul.
• Park your phonetics at the airport, everybody is on a phonetics level in lagos now.
• And yes, Park, baby pullover! Show me your particulars, baby pullover!!!!Hahaha!!!!And i know the dance moves too! I know the dance moves!
• All my stock investments in NSE have reduced to peanuts!
• And somebody please explain to me how stock registrars move addresses all around town without communicating to investors?!
• Overall, I think the trick with Lagos is to keep your expectations to a manageble minimum. You are not in New York, or London, so get with the programme. 
• But ermmmm, Lagos traffic....

All that said, and moving on to serious business, i.e new year blogger resolutions: 

 

• I will unfortunately be shutting down my favourite pseudo blogs at sisiyemmie.com, verastic.com, and mynewhitmanwrites.com.
• I will now be accepting proposals to monetise this blog and henceforth invite you all to read about bikini wax creams and the nasal sprays.
• Watch out for my twitter account, where I will begin my political aspirations starting with 5000 followers in 3days and thereafter, one of those future award in 2014. I have learnt that all things all now possible, thanks to social media.
• I will also be feeding you regular celebrity gist for all your faithful fans of maheeda and etc...

Yes, 2014 feels good...so just like with the good ole days....

 

Welcome to my T.Notes!

Excuse any errors and un-fine sounding words, i have sleep-walked my way through this one.

T.Note 01.14: Every good thing takes time, breathe easy.