I'll just go ahead and highlight my own blog as my blog review for this month's 14 for 14 challenge.
So here goes...
1.Real Name?
T.Notes
2.Who is T.Notes?
No different from every other blogger who has ignorantly decided to
strip naked and bare soul and private opinion on the public streets of the
world.wide.web. I write, not because i have figured anything out but
purely in a bid to make sense of my own existence and this fine puzzlement aka life.
3.What do you do?
Outside of these pages, I'm the next big headed person earnestly pushing through the 9-to-5 (more like9-to-9) drudgery in a desperate bid to own just one bite-size piece of the proverbial big apple. I work as something of a number cruncher in Finance.
Outside of these pages, I'm the next big headed person earnestly pushing through the 9-to-5 (more like9-to-9) drudgery in a desperate bid to own just one bite-size piece of the proverbial big apple. I work as something of a number cruncher in Finance.
4.What kind of music are you into?
I'm all about the Jazz! Paris cafe, Bepop, Flamenco, Smooth vocals, Dave Koz, Latin jazz. A perfect night for me is tapping away with a live Swing & Big Band in a Blues rock lounge - Bliss. I often start and end my day with my Jazz radio app. It's 1:30am right now, and Connie Evingson & The Hot Club of Swedon are strumming some instrumental justice to 'If I had you'. Get in!!!
I'm all about the Jazz! Paris cafe, Bepop, Flamenco, Smooth vocals, Dave Koz, Latin jazz. A perfect night for me is tapping away with a live Swing & Big Band in a Blues rock lounge - Bliss. I often start and end my day with my Jazz radio app. It's 1:30am right now, and Connie Evingson & The Hot Club of Swedon are strumming some instrumental justice to 'If I had you'. Get in!!!
5.What's one of the scariest things you've ever done?
I have chronicled my journies herein of quitting a reasonably cozy job at home to chase after discontentments in a different country. Admittedly, it's not a new idea, this bold move among young people these days...but it's often not said enough how scary the whole ordeal is. If you don't have a financial cushion to fall back on, and you go straight in with honest intentions to slug things out legitimately by yourself - with nothing else except whispy dreams on your sleeves and a prayer on your lips....it's a tough adventure. But yes, i would do it all over again.
I have chronicled my journies herein of quitting a reasonably cozy job at home to chase after discontentments in a different country. Admittedly, it's not a new idea, this bold move among young people these days...but it's often not said enough how scary the whole ordeal is. If you don't have a financial cushion to fall back on, and you go straight in with honest intentions to slug things out legitimately by yourself - with nothing else except whispy dreams on your sleeves and a prayer on your lips....it's a tough adventure. But yes, i would do it all over again.
6.What do you do for fun?
I daydream of retiring at 40 with a cozy retirement fund in the bank and a striving business that keeps passion alive and discontentment at bay. In the interim, I love to travel and get lost among a throng of strangers, new cultures and the delightful music of indecipherable foreign languages...along the cobbled streets of venice or the sandy dirt cliffs of Santorini....Air miles and Avios points are a man's best friend.
I daydream of retiring at 40 with a cozy retirement fund in the bank and a striving business that keeps passion alive and discontentment at bay. In the interim, I love to travel and get lost among a throng of strangers, new cultures and the delightful music of indecipherable foreign languages...along the cobbled streets of venice or the sandy dirt cliffs of Santorini....Air miles and Avios points are a man's best friend.
7.What was your life like growing up?
Gosh I grew up as a frightfully naughty brat. The thought of some of things i got up to are cringy. Let's just say i grew up as a very happy and restless child...and...let's leave it like that ;)
Gosh I grew up as a frightfully naughty brat. The thought of some of things i got up to are cringy. Let's just say i grew up as a very happy and restless child...and...let's leave it like that ;)
8.Do you like to plan things out in detail or spontaneous?
You honestly don't want to see my spreadsheet of life. I'm a sucker for details. I am extremely ambitious, constantly making and reviewing goals. I have a timeline for everything and take great joy in buying a new diary every December. But if I've learnt anything at all, it's how all my best laid plans fall to pieces when I'm not hammering on heaven's doors for help.
You honestly don't want to see my spreadsheet of life. I'm a sucker for details. I am extremely ambitious, constantly making and reviewing goals. I have a timeline for everything and take great joy in buying a new diary every December. But if I've learnt anything at all, it's how all my best laid plans fall to pieces when I'm not hammering on heaven's doors for help.
9.Who in your life has influenced you the most? How did they do it?
That would certainly be J. She keeps me in check, curbs my excesses and is my all round voice of reason. How does she do it? I don't know......
That would certainly be J. She keeps me in check, curbs my excesses and is my all round voice of reason. How does she do it? I don't know......
10.What's your favorite joke?
Haha, These Wowo Boyz have been cracking me up lately!
Haha, These Wowo Boyz have been cracking me up lately!
Here's one of my favourite ones for your viewing pleasure.
11.If you could try out any job for a day, what would you like to try?
I think it'd be interesting to live inside GEJ's fedora hat for a day...and complete the experience with the impeccable Dame P. as my first lady. I think it would be...priceless to know the thoughts behind that characteristic 'thoughtful' presidential pose.
I think it'd be interesting to live inside GEJ's fedora hat for a day...and complete the experience with the impeccable Dame P. as my first lady. I think it would be...priceless to know the thoughts behind that characteristic 'thoughtful' presidential pose.
11.If someone asked you to give them a random piece of advice, what would you say?
Try God.
12.Describe your blog with a phrase.
It's not that serious.
It's not that serious.
13.Conclusion
If you visit T.Note's blog here and i'm certain you'd also agree that at the end of the day, paraphrasing the timeless craft of Nothing Hill...
I'm also just a blog, standing in front of another blog....
Have a fantastic day all...and thanks for stopping by.
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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 seventh post into that journey.
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 seventh post into that journey.
Lmaooooo @that joke! Oh lord!
ReplyDeleteSo happy and restless child huh? What i would give to have details...
Haha, those wowo boyz vidz crack me up on a good day!
DeleteDetails.... Go on and provide your own Leibster's first Toinlicious :p
you made me watch nothinghill last night. loved it again.
ReplyDeleteI actually think it should be recognised as a timeless classic!
DeleteBrilliant movie!
This is great stuff.....glued to each point and wanted more!!
ReplyDeleteHaha! Awesome! You should do one, if you haven't. I'll zippy over to yours to police that!
DeleteHehehehe Q1 Real name? A T-Note... Lmao. Not accepted oh.. thanks for doing this Chief of Staff **In The Notes voice. :)
ReplyDeleteAbout GEJ, all I can say is diarisgodoooooo, and as ussual, that pose shows he is condemning the violence AGAIN OH.. :(
If my parents christened me as T.Notea nko?! Loool.
DeleteThanks for the Leibster's chief.
the first No 11 cracked me up and second one......thanks for the advice:)
ReplyDeleteLol at 'spreadsheet of life'
ReplyDeleteYou need to see when I am drawing out mine. You will be wondering 'where actually is the room for miracles and luck if every second is so planned out?'
But like you rightfully mentioned, the smart thing to do is to turn it in for verification from God. I always ask him for his will to be done. And can he trash those plans? Boy! I am so far away from where I thought I'd be now but every time I look back, I just smile 'cause he definitely has the master plan. I'm about to turn this to an 'I'll tell of his goodness' LOL Please, pardon me. I have experienced his goodness so when it's errm triggered, I sure can tell it :)
I find you very interesting; the kinda person I would wanna have a face-to-face conversation with. We do have. A few in common when it comes to ambition and planning. With me, I think there is need for more discipline to follow through.
ReplyDeleteI love this piece
Yaay!! T notes obliged me *dancing*. Thank you :)!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your replies and I liked the wowo boys joke.
Oh btw, I totally agree with Duru that T-notes is not an acceptable answer for number 1. We no go gree! :P