I have to say that the weekend had a beautiful start. After
devotion I just hung around reading and terrorizing the people plucking mangoes.
There are like ten mango trees in the compound so we have a steady steady
supply of mangos. After mango hunting and eating. I went to the shade of a tank
and had a mini argument on the state of the country and I have to say this is
the first verbal argument I have had on the deteriorating state of the nation
this year. And like all the other arguments that have been going on everywhere
in the country and in the country’s diaspora it has not reduced the price of
fuel or the queues at the filling stations.
Well a few minutes after that I had a talk with Godswill and
Koch. We are planning a sort of hangout at the lodge on the 14th
which is on Thursday. It is a sort of send forth party for the outgoing batch A
corp members of the fellowship, nothing spiritual just mad chills. I for one
know it will be crazy fun, like the story of how I fell of a chair at one
morning devotion in January will be told and so many others. Well if you are a
Corper in Ilorin you should turn up with us.
Koch, Godswill and I are on the planning committee and we
were arranging the programme with so many laughs while a football match went on
between the batch A and B boys. It was a draw and I really couldn’t care less
because football is football and we all know how I feel about the game.
After the game I mistakenly went towards the field with a
bottle of Nutri C, let’s just say I didn’t leave there with plenty smiles on my
face. After chatting with them boys I realized I was late for my appointment
with a friend at Ray Power Ilorin.
Okay, this is the ish. I have wanted to be on radio since I was eight. Since I heard Dan Foster on Cool Fm on a humid
Friday afternoon, it has been a lifelong dream to reach people from the corner
of a studio through a mic and headphones
just enlightening and gisting with people from everywhere within my station’s
signal. So I here I am trying to take a step in fulfilling my lifelong dream
and I have to say I am scared as hell. I won’t sit in front of this screen and
fiddle with these keys (oya see me becoming poetic.) and act like I was born to
serenade the world with my voice; not as a musician that one is a long thing
sef, but as an orator preferably as an OAP. So I chatted with Fat Cat a corper
serving at Raypower. I will never know the story behind that funny name, his
real name is Sunny (and it is pronounced in the funky way o, not the way you
guys have pronounced it in your heads).
He is someone I met in camp and we just hit it off. Yemi my
lover (from camp too) and I used to call him Fat Cow, we still do sometimes
when we want to annoy him. After my talk
with him that is Fat Cat, he pitched an idea to his boss.
I headed home to meet my new oga which is Boredom and had a
terribly long meeting with him from there I had lunch with his wife; Sleep. I
have to say I enjoyed my lunch (that was a miserably long metaphor. No vex.)
After my nap I played some rounds on the Ludo board. The
thing ehn is that I am sort of a Ludo champion now o. Okay, champion is too
high up. I am not yet that high; let’s say like two levels above amateur but I
am making good progress. This is all as a result of boredom and my phone acting
up is not even helping matters. So I have resorted to the next best thing which
is Ludo and I have to say I am enjoying it and best of all it is teaching me
not to take things like games too seriously. Don’t mind me I am the kind of
person that takes too many things too serious.
It rained crazy, before it rained I was talking to
Hot Stuff, his real name is Dami. He is really hot and fine and cool. I even
had a picture of him before I met him, he was on one of these Instagram pages
with plenty cool pictures, where the people don’t look like they exist (you
guys know this na). Who would have known I would have met him a year
later.
Well night devotion was a breeze. Yes! Before I forget there
is a new Batch B girl in the lodge her name is Bumni, she seems like a very
resourceful person.
Before I fell asleep I had a chat with Churchill. I
absolutely enjoy talking to him, even more than I am supposed to enjoy talking
to a man that can’t reciprocate my feelings. This realisation has sparked
something in me and I think it will only be healthy for me implement a decision
that has been dancing in my head.
Nkem Oyaghire
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