Hailings.......... THURSDAY MEMO.... I dey salute everybody ooooooh. I don realise say I love pidgin English pass anything, but if I try hold straight pidgin conversation, after two minutes I don switch to English. Na only me dey like this? Abi na because I no get person wey dey speak pure pidgin with me? My Bambinos dey try, but the way dem dey pronounce pidgin dey give me headache.
Big Bambino just waka commot now and tell me, “Mama how far, wetin dey wan happen?” I nearly laugh fall from chair. I be correct Waffy and proud of am, but my pidgin don dey misbehave small small. Even my native language from Naija, I fit understand like 30 percent and speak maybe 10 percent. Who else dey this WhatsApp group with me? I get date today, so I dey step out small. Work still dey go on, I don enable comments and scheduled posts go still drop.
Fresh posts go land when I come back. But abeg make una help me with something I hear. I dey attend one party soon and person tell me say dem go prepare Waffy food “Igbo way.” I tell am say I no dey chop for party, she say I go chop once I smell am. I ask wetin dem wan cook, na so she tell me say I go chop ofe aku, wey be stew version of banga soup. Abeg is this true? I don hear of aku sauce but I no know say na banga.
How person go turn banga to stew? Una too dey spoil soup oh. And that black soup wey I see for Instagram this morning? Abeg, e resemble wetin sick person fit purge. I go throw up if I chop that one. Make una enjoy una day jare. *********************** THE GOODY TWO SHOES MENTALITY The goody two shoes mentality will drain you in life. You cannot spend your whole existence trying to be perfect, trying to be liked or trying to avoid offending anyone.
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Copied #***************** KNOW THIS.... ----. Learn to forgive, it is for your own benefit even more than who needs your forgiveness. ----. Smile, it is a face workout. ----. Be more solution focused! Don't dwell on the problems ----. But yourself gifts, you deserve them! ----. The person who gossips to you, will gossip about you to someone else. -----. Learn to mind your business ************************ WEIRD FACTS --- The smarter the person is, the faster he thinks, and the sloppier his handwriting is. - --Women have twice as many pain receptors on their bodies than men, but they have a much higher pain tolerance. - If you can't stop your stream of thoughts at night, get up and write them down.
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