It wasn’t business as usual today at the ikeja new garage as a female bus driver ceremoniously joined the drivers plying the Ikeja/Ojodu Berger route. I got to the garage as usual and found people gathering, there was such much euphoria in the air as I fastened my steps just to get a glimpse of the cause. Everyone was staring in awe to see a young lady in her early thirties drive a 17 seater bus into the garage. She was welcomed with noise from the garage boys and from what I could gather, she had been around since last week getting herself familiarize with garage rules and to pay obeisance to her formers. To my amazement, she had with her a female conductor also to help with obtaining fares and settling transactions with commuters. The reason I decided to write this is actually because of the support and cooperation she got from other male bus drivers and conductors. We live in a society where men look down on women who tend to compete in masculine professio...
It's another 365 days tick tock today for me and I'm so grateful for all I have achieved for the last 3 decades. Grace found me, lifted me and prospered me. I chose that funny title for this post because a dear friend wished me a Happy womb escape. Well, she never meant no harm but the quidnunc inside me just went 'whaaaaat, hell no! I can't be a womb escapee". Womb Escape....Is that a new line. I guess so. Literally this shouldn't mean anything. I just feel like making a sensible issue of it. No one whether planned or unplanned should be a womb escapee. God's got plans for all mankind irrespective of how your conception took place. I'll let you into my own life a little to explain what I mean. Precisely 3 Jan three decades ago my mother was terribly sick and had me in her tummy. She was diagnosed with jaundice and the doctors said her only option was to allow them terminate the child so she could live. My dad had no choice but signed the papers. T...
The sweetest kind of romance is one you get from a bowl of sumptuous meal carefully tabled before you alongside exotic drinks to accompany it's digestion. O! How I love food. Any foodie in the house... Say Hi. What kind of location would you have preferred to do justice to this kind of meal? I'd preferred the table set on a boat cruising the carribean on a soft tide in the deep blue night skies, candlelights and pure scents of lilies vaporizing the air and just a seat for two. A tingling sensation from the saxophone of Kenny G and clanging sounds from the cutleries. How would you have preferred yours? Kindly drop a comment. EYEBLOGGZ!!!......
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