What is in my bag?

I was tagged by my extremely funny friend (I mean it in a complimentary way 'cos I know I do use that for strange people too) and fellow blogger Sisi Yemmie on this "what's in your bag?" meme.
Thanks for the tag miss!
Click on her name to check her blog, you'll laugh your heart out and also get your Nigerian pidgin English vocab really updated.

This meme requires that:
1. I take a picture of my bag
2.Talk about the bag
3. Empty it's contents
4. Take a picture of the contents
5. Talk about the contents

So here we go

The bag

It was a birthday gift from a darling friend. I like the colour cos I can pretty much match it with anything.  I also like it because it's big enough to accommodate the things I want to and at the same time still looks small enough to complement my petite frame :)

I can close/open the clips at the side to make it smaller or bigger plus it has 3 compartments, I can conveniently carry my school notebooks in it too.

The contents:

Sorry I didn't label them but they are quite obvious and I'll try to be consistent and go from top till I get to the bottom.

1. My stationery bag - I left it open so maybe you can try to make out what's inside if you need to. It has my usb drive, mini stapler, paper glue, text highlighter, correcting fluid, pencil, eraser, sharpener, paper clips, pens- different colours.... blue, red...
Ok guys I'm a student and I like to always have all my things in place. I'm not a mobile stationery shop :)

2. Sunglasses - A must have now. Important to shield your eyes from the sun

3.Budapest times - One of the very few English tabloids you can find around here. I try to stay updated with what's happening around me. I try to make sure that I finish it before every week runs out because it's a weekly publication so I carry it around and digest it at the slightest available opportunity.

4. Hand cream -For all the apparent reasons

5. Wallet - Everything you can think of in a wallet; money, cards, and it has a nice compartment for coins too. I love it.

6. Note pad - Something creative might just come up at odd times and for other valuable informations that I don't want to miss. You never know when you'll learn something new.

7. Journal - Important dates, to do lists....

8. Pocket tissues -Sneezing, sweating, drying my hands after washing them...and the many more functions they can serve

9. Umbrella - I hate to run around like a chicken, and I don't always remember (more like bother) to check the forecast so it's easier to just keep one in my bag and get on the move.

10. Phones - Communication is important :)

11.Music player & Ear phones - When I need to quickly get my music dose

12. Chewing gum - I carry a whole bottle LOL. I just love that fresh breath and minty blast. If you're talking to me and I can even perceive something as much as garlic smell oozing out, I'll offer it sorry or I might just puke from trying to pretend.

13. Tic-Tac - Sometimes gum is just too stressful and unbearable, so yea there's tic tac  :)

14. My lil bag - Give it a name, I'll tell you what it contains. My hand disinfectant, a little nail file, lip balm, wet wipes, purple song, mirror and brush. I don't like them scattered all around my bag so I keep them in that bag.
If I'd emptied it, this is what it'd look like

So I'll try to talk about the contents now

15. Cynex lip balm - This particular one comes in pink shade. I hate my lips going dry so this works to keep it moisturized while also giving it a nice pinky look and adds some sheen to it. It's the best thing ever since I don't carry makeup around. Before I found this, I used to carry lip balm and lip gloss but now, once I use this one, it does the magic :)

16. Fragrance - I love fragrances so I just love to always have a little bottle of something with me. This is a tiny one from pimkie called purple song.

17. Nail file - I carry my natural nails. I hate it when it cracks or gets a little rough. I try to plan for how I can fix it quickly if it happens when I'm not at home and that little file comes in very handy.

18. Pocket wet wipes - Incase I need to take something off my face or I just need to wipe my hands until I can wash them.

19. Hand disinfectant - Dealing a lot with patients and the hospital has taught me to use this regularly. Using it almost everytime now has almost become a reflex. (BTW, I study physiotherapy, just incase you're wondering what I'm doing with patients and hospital.)

20. Brush case with mirror - I love this little brush and mirror case. It's portable & it's just so convenient that it has both things in one little case

21. The tiny band on the mirror in the previous picture(the one before the last one I posted) is for my hair. I like to carry something I can hold my hair with if I need to. I leave it in the case just like that.

22. And  finally, but very important, my key set. It keeps trying to escape this (It was at the top in the first picture now it's the tiny thing that you can almost not see beside my little bag). Of course I need one if I don't want to sleep on the streets.

There you have it peeps. I hope you liked it. (*Hides face* cos I know it was just so boring)

Apparently I'm one of the last people to do this. Almost everyone has already done this. I mean it's like a flu that has captured all the female bloggers so I'll just say if you haven't done it and would like to, just let me know and I'll tag you.
I'll just go ahead and tag 5 people that I'm sure I haven't seen any post from them on this.
1. Dangel eyes - My model, open your bag, let's see what models carry around:)
2. Naomi Lucas - I recently discovered her blog. I think we kinda have a similar writing style. She's been tagged already by Sisi yemmie so this should be a nice reminder. Open your bag miss :)
3. Simply chic -  I haven't seen what a simple chic carries in her bag yet.
4. Darbie - I don't think I've seen yours too.
5. And finally Coy introvert - my most recent blog discovery.

...... and more tags!

Waiting to snoop around some more :)

Video pick - week 11

Rihanna's new video, "man down".

Apparently, RiRi just shot a man down hehehe

Like always, EnjoY!

LOL who also thinks this girl needs some therapy already?
I actually loved the African flair and I think she could make a very good reggae artist.
She did a fantastic job at it and her voice also sounds perfect for it.

Enjoy your weekend guys!

2 wrongs can't make a right

I saw myself contributing in a little discussion that at some point I thought it wise to stop talking and just listen. I was so surprised at how confident some people could be about their ignorance and weaknesses.

This boy was so adamant on the fact that at some point it is okay to hit a girl (esp your girlfriend).
Why? 'cos it's the only way to put her in check sometimes. I couldn't hold it down anymore, I just had to interject with a resounding "hell no! That's totally wrong!!!"
And he went on to tell me of this little scenario that occured between him and his girlfriend...."
  We had an argument, after a while, I was done talking and I wanted to catch some sleep. But no she wasn't done; She kept talking and talking...and talking...until I couldn't take it anymore. I just had to remind myself that just one slap will shut her up and then I can sleep.

Ok at this point I didn't even know how to tackle that again because I know some girls can have excess strength to talk sha but one thing I did  know for sure was that no matter what, slapping her was absolutely wrong. And why was the argument even supposed to end only when he thought he was done?
So I asked him, " If you can answer sincerely, were you able to sleep after you hit her?"
And he said "no, I couldn't".

That already shortened the whole long sermon I would have adopted in a bit to make him understand that wasn't the solution at all. As a matter of fact, it was so uncalled for.
The aim was to shut her up so he could sleep, but that didn't solve the problem 'cause she ended up with screams and wailings which was even worse than the talk LOL.
The whole situation definitely escalated from something that would have gradually slowed down had it been tackled in a better way to something somewhat of a very chaotic night.

Violence doesn't solve anything. It only shows the level of your intelligence. This I can boldly tell 'cause the older I get, the more I realize I'm better at managing the tendency of me wanting to just scream so loudly at someone that just really provoked me.
Well, well I know all those arguments and 'what have yous'. I can even tell it if you just enjoy hearing it. Predominantly, men are said to be stronger than women and ladies just tend to have this innate ability of being very provocative :) 
Well, I didn't coin it, it's just the general myth. But the truth still remains that, it doesn't matter who is provoking who, taking to violence is never the best remedy. It's like trying to use some gasoline to quench a burning flame. 


There is no excuse to hitting her so don't even say I couldn't stand it anymore. 
Yes you could, if only you had updated your vocabulary with the word "self restraint". And I'll tell you that the mere reason you had that thought in the first place was only because you knew you could hit her and get away with it. If you knew you couldn't, you wouldn't.  If you were looking at 'the rock' for instance, no matter how much he provoked you, you'd think of other ways to resolve your conflict rather than take to violence. 
No matter how much your father provokes you, you won't hit him, would you? Why then is it so comfortable for you not to apply that same principle to every body you meet?

Well I had to learn this the hard way. When we were very little, my younger sister was very troublesome. Annoying attention seeker to the fullest. Thank God for something called -growth and maturity. Phew!!!
She would push you so much that you just want to grab her head and hit it on the wall so you can have a 'lil breather...Why?.. just because you believed you could do it. 
Of course if you'd manage to put your anger to check until my dad returned, then you would have accomplished a whole lot. Trust me, she was never tired. My dad always promised to punish her only if you didn't try to take laws into your own hands ..and yea sometimes, she overdid it so much that my dad had to make her pay dearly for it. But what happens if at some point you couldn't hold on till dad returns? Best believe that girl will have her best laugh when my dad used you to reinforce that simple message
Never try to use out your power on your subordinates...
*Sigh* After a while I learnt it and I can even tell others about it, Anger never solves anything. 


When you think you're over reacting, that's when you need to calm down and think of the many other possibilities of how to handle the same situation.

This isn't just about hitting girls, this is applicable to living with people in general and even animals. If some people took a second to think like this, tell me how it would  have been possible for them to hastily decide that killing the innocent youth corpers just because they were the electoral officers could solve the problems in Nigeria? Tell me how they could have decided that burning down the churches, the mosques and people's homes was the best line of action in salvaging whatever situation they thought they had to handle?

My heart still goes out to those innocent lives that were lost during that post election violence.
May their souls continue to rest in peace. I heard the government tried to compensate their families. But tell me how money can ever make up for those lost lives?
I just don't know why this has become so hard for people to comprehend. Violence never solves anything, it only worsens them.

Message of the day: Learn to shun violence at every given point in time and try to embrace peace as much as possible! Yes indeed, there are better ways of doing things. Can you always bear that in mind?

Enjoy your June

Video pick - Week 10

Hey guys
This week's video pick. Guess?

I had a lot going for me this week that at a point I just wanted to relax and take my mind off everything. I remembered those funny sketches on Saturday night live, I had to go online and find them. I love them.
I love anything comedy, make that good comedy.
I always like to enjoy a good laugh; so if you're a friend with that great sense of humor, be rest assured that I'll never let you go anywhere :)

I found this one Justin Timberlake did recently with Lady Gaga, I thought you might also like it.
Like always, EnjoY!

A good weekend to y'all.

Video pick - week 9

I want to use this week's "video pick" to introduce to you an amazing, amazing artist.

J-JD is one of those rare sort that you can undoubtedly recognize as raw and genuine talent. He hails from Germany and his music is quite widespread in Europe.
What I like most about him is his commitment to what he loves (music). Apart from that, he has a very unique voice, one you can find only on an extremely talented male.

Needless to say I won't need to do this little introduction in the nearest future 'cause true talents like this one cannot be hidden.

Enjoy this wonderful piece, wonderful by J-JD

Have a wonderful weekend.

P.s. To see more works by this artist, click here

Video pick - week 8

Bruno Mars definitely woke up on the wrong side of his bed with this one. Yea he's right, he should just go back to bed :)

I wish I could say it too today I don't feel like doing anything.

I'm stuck with trying to plan my day so I can maximize my time and get the most out of it. It's that time of the year again, when some good relaxation time is a luxury. Exams is here, so many things to do...
Don't worry I'll try to put a real writeup as soon as I'm done with being very busy.


P.s. If you're wondering what happened to week 7, navigate to 'MsJB xcluzivz'

Enjoy your weekend!

Kick the loads off

For this "new month's" post, I'll be dedicating it to a good cause.
It's for people trying to fight excess weight.

But before that, I want to say welcome to sunny days Yes!!!  (except for some drops of rain a few now and then, trying  to mess up the whole fun)

You'll agree with me that one thing that is common with the summer is people trying to show off their six packs and well toned body on a nice skimpy outfit. You don't blame them, when it gets too hot, you just want to rip off everything and just go bare LOL!!!
During the winter, I try to add as much weight as I can but during the summer I don't bother so much tho. Wanna know why?--- Apparently, cold has not dealt with your skinny ass before :)
Well seriously, the fat helps a lot with heat combustion.
That notwithstanding, there's nothing as repelling as fat layers spilling out of your dress, so please if you still have those lil muffin tops(fats around your abdominal area), you might want to still leave some heavy clothes on no matter how hot it may be until you can get rid of them :)

Apart from trying to go cool and trendy, lets look at the dangers of being overweight to health.

It has been known to be the predominant risk factor for several disease conditions which include:
-Hypertension - Increase in blood pressure
-Dyslipidemia - Disorders of lipid metabolism in the blood
- Cardiovascular diseases- Diseases affecting the heart and blood vessels
-Osteoarthritis - Degenerative disease of the joints of the body
-Respiratory diseases
-Diabetes melitus (type 2)
-Stroke
-Gall bladder diseases
-Sleep disturbances
                                 .....................!


If Jennifer Hudson could transform from this

to this

There's nothing impossible sweetheart, you too can do it...

Most of the things you need are those you can find right within you. If you would just search a little deeper, I'm sure you can find 'em. You'll need diligence, perseverance, hard-work, zeal, creativity....

And....of course I know you'll need some motivation too, so I'm sending some your way already

This video is a simple illustration of how you can use dancing to attain your goal of staying fit and healthy. You do not need well defined professional moves. The goal is to move your body for a considerably long period of time to effect some tension on your fat deposits which will cause them to burn out.




... Hold on, I'm not done yet with the motivation

Me in the middle of some workout ;)

And yet another one :)

Hope that helped?
Stay healthy peeps!!!




Enjoy your May!