A 16 Year-Old Gem :)

Helloooooo :)

How are you doing?
So, I had an amazing conversation with my friend Azeezat this morning. It started with this question, 'If you were opportuned to meet 4 people, (dead or alive), right now, who would they be and what would you talk about?
My reply was 1. Dad 2. President Lincoln 3. Helen Keller 4. Any of  the black men and women in the 'Historic' times. (There are lots of amazing people in the world, both dead and alive, that I would love to talk with). And we would talk about life, God and their motivations/ principles.

One thing led to another and I stumbled on 'Anne Frank' (Another great person I really wish I'd meet), and She's officially my new best friend (after God, family and Boyfriend)...

Anna Frank (June 12 1929- March 1945).
Image Source: www.aucklandmuseum.com

I ended up watching a movie about her and if you have about 2 hours to spare, please watch it too (Also, read her documented diary: 'The diary of a young girl'). It's so worth it and a billion things to learn...
Anne Frank (Part 1)

Source: Youtube

Anne Frank (Part 2)

Source:Youtube

Anna's story has thought me about appreciating the gift of FREEDOM. The freedom to live and be opinionated; the freedom to enjoy fresh air and the company of good friends; the freedom of sleeping on a bed and good health. The freedom to enjoy amazing moments with family and the one you love. The freedom to have an amazing relationship with God and the freedom to be you in a turpsy turvy world.

Beyond the tears and all, I saw a little girl who loved life till the very end and I still see a child who lives forever through her story.... 

Anne Frank story inspires us to never give up on life and to remain true to our dreams and faith in God despite whatever changing circumstances we might face...

I also learnt that maturity and wisdom has nothing to do with a person's age (TRUE!!!!)

Please read some of her wise thoughts below (and she was about 13 or 15 when she started writing):

•  “Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.” Anne Frank

• “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”― Anne Frank

• “It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” ― Anne Frank

• “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”  Anne Frank

• “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.” ― Anne Frank

• “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” ― Anne Frank

• “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” ― Anne Frank

• “I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!” ― Anne Frank

• “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” ― Anne Frank

• “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” Anne Frank

• “Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.” ― Anne Frank

• “Memories mean more to me than dresses.” ― Anne Frank

• “There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.” ― Anne Frank

• “Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.” ― Anne Frank

• “Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery” ― Anne Frank

• “People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can't accept, but still a religion, it doesn't matter which, keeps a person on the right path. It isn't the fear of God but the upholding of one's own honor and conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that: "A quiet conscience mades one strong!” ― Anne Frank

• “How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!” ― Anne Frank

• “I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.” ― Anne Frank

• “I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too. ” ― Anne Frank

• “Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” ― Anne Frank

Wishing you a great day. Be inspired by this 16 year old GEM :))

Hugs...

Thanks a billion for reading....

XOXO

AMAZING SPIDEY...

Had an amazing time today at the cinema with 'the amazing spider-man'.

Was is it a good movie? Absolutely

Worth my money and time? Definitely

Favourite scenes? 'When the blue collar workers came to help 'spidey' conquer the Lizard (Really touching)...The 'car thief' scene (Very funny)...And how he told 'Gwen' he was spider-man (Tres romantic)...

Watch it again? YESSSSSSS

Recommendation? Watch it if you haven't...Sure you'll like it too...

And if you've seen it, what's your thoughts?

In love with the reboot of this action thriller.. Well done Mr. Webb.

How was your day?

Evanescence- Bring me to life

Thanks a million for reading...Hugs :)

MR. EKO

Recognise him? Well, he is Akinnuoye Agbaje Adewale also known as Mr. Eko from the lost series. He's also the really handsome dude from OZ, GI Joe and the Bourne Identity.

Right now, he's telling a far more important story (His true story) in his new movie 'Farming'. 

Farming is about the practise followed by many Nigerian parents in 1960s and ‘70s’ Britain of having children informally fostered.

When he was six weeks old, his parents – a Nigerian couple studying in London – gave him to a white working-class couple in Essex, he says in an interview.

He lived in his foster home with more than 10 other African children, including his two sisters. The climate at the time was such that he grew up fearful of being physically attacked because of his skin colour. And although he was black, Akinnuoye-Agbaje thought of himself as white and developed a fear of his own race. So much so that when he occasionally saw black sailors in his town, which had a naval dockyard, he would run away from them. “I just remember being petrified,” he said. “It was as if they were the bogey man to us. Fish and chips and corned beef, that’s what I knew.”

When he was eight, his biological parents arrived unexpectedly and took him and his sisters to Nigeria. He couldn’t speak the language and had trouble fitting in, so his parents became frustrated and sent him back to England – without his siblings – a year later. Settling back into life with his foster family took its toll and he had what he called a cultural identity crisis. “I wanted to assimilate and go back to the abnormal normality I knew,” he said in the interview. “I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn’t because that’s who I was.”

As a teenager, Akinnuoye-Agbaje turned to violence to defend himself, but he also attacked others. “It was a time of standing up and standing your ground or running, and there wasn’t anywhere to run,” he said. “The local skinhead gang really ran the streets. They made my life – and anyone’s who was a shade darker than pale – a misery.”

So, he made a drastic decision – he became a skinhead. Not only did he take on the look of one, shaving his head and wearing the clothes, but he adopted the racist attitudes as well. And he fought alongside them as what he described as a brutalized animal that was unleashed in battle. “When a child wants to be accepted, he’ll do anything,” he explained. “And if it means you’re getting a certain amount of notoriety from a fight, that’s what you’ll do. If all you’ve known is racism, abuse and persecution, then all of a sudden you’re getting some recognition, that’s your new drug. That’s what you want. By the time I was 16, I was someone to reckon with. I was so eager to repudiate any connection with any immigrant race I would go above and beyond. I was desperate to belong to something. That was my drive as a teenager.”

Unable to control him and worried he would influence the other children in their home, Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s foster parents reached out to his real parents, who had him shipped off to boarding school in Surrey. Initially a difficult transition, he suffered from self-hatred and even attempted suicide, he gradually got on the right track. Becoming diligent with his studies, he later received a law degree. While in school he started modelling which brought him around the globe and to Hollywood, where he eventually was cast as Mr. Eko on ABC’s Lost and then Simon Adebisi in the HBO series, Oz.

Watch Mr. Eko

Last month, Farming was among the recipients of the London-based Sundance Institute and WorldView awards for focusing on social justice issues in the developing world.

I really love this guy and like the fact that he rose above certain challenges to be a force to be reckoned with in the world. Can't wait to watch this new movie, aren't you?

Have an awesome day...

Thanks for reading :)

~ FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART ~

I remember coming home from one of our famous excursions organised by my primary school to a pink box of story books. I was so glad and couldn’t wait to start reading and drawing the pictures in them (I loved the seven dwarfs and I’m sure you will marvel at the pictures I have of Sneezy and Happy). It was a cherished treasure even though I can’t find them now.

These treasures, otherwise called cartoons have always been a part of me and my family (Except for mom). From the Snow white days (Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is cutest of them all? Yup, me ~Ha~), to Cinderella (We all wish to be her), Rapunzel (My hair isn’t as long ~sad~), sleeping beauty, beauty and the beast, little mermaid, Tom and Jerry and the Walt Disney crew.

Well, papa usually bought such books for us to improve on our reading habits and vocabulary (uhmm, i think to make us happy too), though, I wish we did the 'bed-time story thing' (You know, where you had a story read to you till you fell asleep ~tears~) like in the movies. Still, I love my fairy-tale stories. I remember writing my own ever-after stories and wishing I was Barbie- how can I ever forget her?

As I grew older though, I was introduced to the world of Barney and friends, Voltron (One of my favourite action figure), and the Flintstones. Still yet, the world needed saving and man’s brilliant imaginations created action heroes like Spider Man, Green lantern, Captain America, Batman and Robin and News reporter-Clark Kent in superman.

I was hooked for a while to these action heroes but I kind of fell out of love with them  and in Love with Mulan (the Chinese warrior, it was my favourite cartoon for a while though), the Dalmatians (I guess there is a Crueller in our lives), Anastasia, Scooby Doo (World’s best dog), Pocahontas and John Smith and Pinky and the Brain (Are you thinking what I’m thinking?).

Right now, my love for cartoons isn’t lesser as it still tugs at the child in me even though it’s strange (My sister says so), I look forward to Symbiotic titans, laugh at Sponge Bob’s Jokes, and fascinated by Ben Tennesen in Ben 10. I think I watched all the cartoon movies created last year. It's that 'bad'.

Yup, still love me cartoons (watched tangled and puss-in-boots yesterday) and hope to create one (I'm a big advocate of you can do whatever you set your heart to do with God's help). Surprisingly, you will be amazed at what you can learn from them. In fact, people are asked cartoon-related questions on ‘who wants to be a millionaire’- your next million might depend on it.

So, why don’t you take time out to remember your childhood cartoony days?




Have a great monday...

Love you...


Mwahhh...

~ AWWW ~

I just watched one of the most romantic film ever...(Awww, want to get married too)...Its Bollywood again (Please don't blame me, we had our regular NEPA wahala, was bored, so I decided to watch something lovey dovey...)...Awww...Well, this one is called ‘Anjaani Anjaana’ meaning ‘girl boy’...I don’t think I can explain it much, you just have to watch it...Ok, I know you don’t like their songs or you think its long, blah blah... Well, I will gist you and try to make you watch it as well..It’s about Kiara and Akash (for those that don’t know, me and Akash are married ~batting eyelids~)...Two strangers who met on the bridge to commit suicide. Akash was a Wall Street guy who was affected by the economic depression affecting New York and Kiara was betrayed by her fiancée. They met and decided to die together (5 attempts, they hated life that much sha???)...But after much, they decided to live a little bit and try dying again on New Year’s Eve. They decided to fulfil each other’s wish on what to do before dying (swam on the Atlantic, skating, went to a gay club ~it’s not what you are thinking, some guys stole their car and they went to get it back, and fell in Love)...The ‘fall in love part’ was my favourite (Loved the proposal, Oh my God)...Anyways, I loved the story. Its 2 hours long and I was hooked all the way...

I even liked their original poem

‘What wish is one that can be easily obtained

What wish is one that can be easily obtained

Where there is no struggle in fulfilling it

Which once attained should feel like an achievement

Or else life just goes by.’

Yup I loved the story. I think you should watch it.

The story taught me to stop worrying about things much (Even Jehovah supports that) and live my life. There is much that life offers us, though there are a billion interferences (Another day story). But we should live life all the same.

While watching the movie, I started thinking about what I want to do before I die...I want to be happy in the long run you know.

So here is my list

1.    Finish the bible; Important

2.    Get a guitar; Must

3.    Tour the world; Must do, really want to see the (hey, don’t blame me)

4.    Go to Las Vegas; Yeah its part of touring the world. But I love the sin city.

5.    Also visit Erin Ijesha in Ekiti State; Really want to go there... (It’s got the most breath-taking view)

6.    Get married and have the most beautiful kids; Hey boyfriend if you are reading this, know that I love you much to have a never ending story with you.

7.    Learn a foreign language; at least one (already working on my french)...

8.    Karaoke; Really shy though

9.    Win something; Ok, I’ve got an award once but hey you know the one billion Naira promo stuff they advertise on TV (big grins)...

10.  Ice skating

11. Go on a merry go ride

12. Hit bull point on my dart board (No one has achieved that yet)

13. Write a novel..(Have to stop procastinating though)

14.  Take painting lessons (Inspired by Ishan~smiles~)

15.  Visit the orphanage

16.  Meet a president; (planning to be one, Vote for me when it's time ~winks~)

17. Get a tattoo; (NAH)

18. Learn salsa (froggy four eyes zeezat just suggested it...)...should I???

The list goes on. Will update the list as soon as soon as something crazy enter my head (Oh yeah, bungee jumping)...Remember, fun, spontaneous and adventurous are the watchwords...No regrets...

Work time...

Have an awesome day...

mwahhh...

INDIAN NIGHT OUT

Been watching a lot of Bollywood TV (Watch for this word, will be talking about it a lot) ever since my baby sister grew up and knew what a TV is used for. Nma (My smarty baby sis) lives, breath, eat Bollywood (B4U Music too) and sad to say, its’ grown on me...

Ok, I lied here technically, I’ve been watching Bollywood Movies since forever, thanks to Papa (may his soul Rest in Peace). From MAAD, to Salaam Namaste, Kabhi Khushi Khabi Khan, Don, Players, Pyaar Impossible, Black (Rani killed that movie), brainiac ‘3 idiots’ tons and tons of Indian Movies...Whew, so I’m here (gister moi) to tell you the story of the one I watched last night...It’s called ‘Taare Zameen Par’. I love this movie because it’s not a love story but its love story (But seriously, those guys can love sha)... Anyway as I was saying, I love ‘for the special child’...I fell in love with Ishan and
Amir Khan and I think my 8^th resolution is to start painting (I can hear Tochukwu saying

‘stupid’)...Back to my story telling...It’s about Ishan, he is a gifted child who paints a lot but his dad doesn’t want him to do that…His dad wants him to be more involved in school, sports and things a ‘normal’ child should be doing (? TIME: what is normal???)...He was bad in maths, English and basically was at the bottom of his class. His teachers hated him; his parents were embarrassed by him and thus sent him to boarding school. He felt bad and depressed and the once amicable, talkative and mischievous Ishan became lonely and quiet...Then enters my own Mr. Indian, Amir Khan, the art teacher who became Ishan’s mentor and best friend. He changed everyone’s mind set about art and painting by organising a painting competition that changed my own perception towards art. That boy Ishan is good. Mr. Amir Khan did not do badly either. Ishan got to improve in his academics and became a force to be reckoned with at school. His parents became proud of him mostly because of his talent.

The End.

Lessons learnt;

Let your child be whatever they want (Good things only ooo).

Encourage them, develop them, we can’t all be doctors, lawyers, bankers, astronauts, etc. Today we talk of Schubert, John Grisham, and even our own TY Bello and Chimamanda Adichie who is doing pretty well in photography and literature.

I planned to be a farmer but fear of what ‘they’ will say scared me. Please let’s encourage other people to be themselves. It’s not what the school or society wants. Its Gods will and what you want that matters OK.

So what do you say, was watching this movie a waste of my time???(Nah, don’t so...)

And why are you reading this???Don’t you have something to do now???(Just joking ~big grin~)

Bon journee

Mwahhh