Till d next,
God keep una 4 hand.
{Paix et Amour}
- Location:wherever I dey, I dey
- Music:What will tomorrow bring? by Femi Kuti
I will go ahead and express what so many other people must be thinking.
IS IT FRIGGING JANUARY 20TH YET????
ARE WE THERE YET???
ARE WE THERE YET???
ARE WE THERE YET???
LOL.
For the upteenth time, I wish I had a time machine or a time remote! JUST DEPECHE MODE THE STREAM OF LIFE TO W
LOL.
- Location:my lair
- Mood:
contemplative - Music:Aqueous Transmission by Incubus
I'm totally in love with them. And don't go thinking am just some "asiaphile" or something switching preferences according to fad or based on stereotypes or no...I really am attracted to Asian men and I am a black, African female.
CHOQUER!
LOL. My friends know this and the fact that I especially like the girly looking, adrogynous type (Miyavi and Gackt! Whooowhee! *fans herself*). They have accepted that their best friend is ten layers of crazy! My mum has resigned herself to perchance having a pierced Asian kid that is wont to wear fishnet tights and use eye shadow liberally as her potential son-in-law! Or even an Asian kid that has a picture of Ganesh baba in his house, drinks chai and eats no meat. At least she's had a test run of that. I'm Bollywood obsessed and have dated an Indian guy before. I am free - free as a bird - to date men of all races, creeds and colors underneath the blessed rainbow! Thank God we all look different. Now, Asian men go out there and talk to sexy black chicks already! We don't bite...unless you like S&M! And my fellow chicas, whether ye be African American, Latina (read: Borena), African, a chocolate swirl or way too tan, get out there and talk up the Asian guys you dig. The world deserves more caramel to chocolate bombshell babies with slanted eyes! ^__*
Oh, and check out videos on Youtube, just type Asian men black women in the search bar.
1LUV
{Paix et Amour}
- Location:my lair
- Mood:
amused - Music:Kono Sekai de
But have there ever be so many gaffes back to back to back *maniacal laughter* ...uh. Sorry. The gloat monster again. But seriously, this is like a really, really good SNL skit!
First Lady Rothchild the supposed supporter that would have given credence to the Republican claim that Hilary's supporters were defaulting said publicly and I paraphrase,
"He (Barack Obama) had to go and say that all those people clinging to their guns and their religion were "bitter"... You know, those rednecks and stuff..."
Ms. Rothchild is it? First off, I live in the south and trust me those "rednecks" as you so nonchalantly put it don't take kindly to being addressed as such. Secondly, you have in fact displayed the TRUE elitist proclivity that the republicans have been trying to pin on Barack Obama unjustly for about 3 or 4 months now.
Then, Palin forgot that she is the VP pick (of which she was picked and lashed to the McCain campaign faster than a shotgun Vegas wedding! Even faster than my "happy-squeek" reaction whenever faced with images of Miyavi!) and said and I paraphrase, "...in a Palin/McCain presidency..." mm. Yeah. Sorry McCain, seems it slipped her notice that it's McCain/Palin on all those signs and she's finally displaying just how much this whole celebrity thing she's got going is getting to her head. You win some, you lose some.
Finally, McCain thinks that Spain is in South America. If I were a spainard...tee hee hee! Javier Bardem as his character from No Country for Old Men wants a word with you McCain! LOL.
& there were so many other gaffes (read: ginormous blunders!). Let's not even talk about the gazillion other gaffes that the press has quietly ignored when it comes to the republicans and grossly exaggerated when it comes to the democrats. I'm just glad someone is finally paying attention to the McCain camps goofs and Obama is moving ahead in the polls even though they don't really mean anything, but it does do wonders for our confidence, nay? *grin*
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{Paix et Amour}
- Location:my lair
- Mood: chipper
- Music:Declare Independence by Bjork
Gosh that was tedious. Her highness still made it all about her *cough* attention hog! *cough* but at least she has clearly endorsed Barack Obama in a public forum and sealed the McCain gavel smash. *POW! POW!* I'm not going to talk about all the numerous nuances and furtive tensions I felt the entire length of that speech. That's for another journal post I will type up when I am not exhausted. However, Hilary supporters, I hope you are now satisfied. Please vote Barack Obama come November.
Thank you very much.
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{Paix et Amour}
- Location:home
- Mood:
& glad she's had her 15 mins - Music:360 degrees by Asa
What is the whole deal with Hilary Clinton? Everyone in the news keeps talking about Hilary Clinton and how she was disrespected.
Please!
What is she, the frigging Queen of England? Oh your highness, please bestow on me the pleasure of kissing your dainty fingers and acquiesce to my request to be the president of the United States in your stead?
Last time I checked this wasn't a monarchy or an oligarchy but a democracy! Barack Obama won the candidacy fair and square. I am tired of hearing how the democrats should constantly make concessions to her. The white house - and the responsibilities it comes with - is not the personal property or mandate of the Clintons and the Bushes. George Bush senior had his 4 years, Clinton had his 8 and Bush Jnr had his 8 so now it's my turn! Really? Please! The Clintons need to get over themselves. This is about the Obamas and America.
We need to move forward.
On another note, Ben Stein's contribution to the discussion on Larry King live was awful. For a man who preens proudly about being called the "Most Smartest Man in the World" on that awful model show on MTV he sure acted confounded. "I don't see what the democrats were trying to accomplish! I don't see what the democrats were trying to accomplish with this speech. It's wonderful that she loves her husband. Lots of wives love their husbands. She hasn't made him any more human in my eyes and the question to his daughters was just pathetic". Tsk. And you call yourself smart. Then again, I shouldn't be surprised. "Most smartest" is a double superlative. Anyone who studied the English language would realize that is the sheerest form of redundancy. If the "most smartest" man can not discern that then what hope is there for us lowly humans? Balderdash.
Senator Obama, please focus and utilize this DNC to the utmost. This is no time for a soft hand and professorial inclinations. We are talking about the White House here. Convince those petty stragglers still clinging to their erroneous sexist and racially biased (whether they choose to admit it or not, by ones actions shall thee know them) internal ideas and propel this country to where I know it can be.
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{Paix et Amour}
- Location:my lair
- Mood:
aggravated - Music:Shakara by Fela Kuti
I am sooooo EXCITED! I'm giddy like a crazy school girl in the age of N'Sync!
Michelle Obama, the Kennedys, Maria Shriver, Joe Biden. I'm floored! This was bloody wonderful! The tension has been steadily building in my house. We are on CNN And MSNBC 24 bloody 7! I was beginning to wonder if Barack had enough time to blast the competition out of the park and finally shoot that goal into the football net! Wow! Wow!
Oh God, thank you.
Now, for coherence.
It has been an unbelievable 18 months torn between screeching at the TV, wondering why so many people buy into biased and baseless assumptions and wondering why the negative ads were working. McCain has been carrying on like the doddering twat he is flashing the POW card every second in response to every reasonable question quite deserving of sensible, straightfoward answers. Yet...yet, he has the audacity to accuse Obama of flashing the race card and being wishywashy and naive. But enough about rubbish. Let's talk about Michelle and the BLOODY FANTASTIC job she did this evening! If I were a man, I'd marry her on principle alone! She makes me so proud as a woman and an African sharing in this wonderful legacy of America. For the first time in so long, I am reminded of why I chose to leave my country and come here. I am filled with hope and that commonality and community I so missed. This is America. This is the land where true freedom is possible and where one can be rewarded not based on who you know or how much luck you have but on your merit, dedication and hard work. While IMHO it is ridiculous that it took this long for others to realize that the Obamas are the perfect fit for the White House, I am glad that people got to see them as a family and two parents who have struggled to make a better life for their children and will fight just as hard to make a better life for so many deserving American citizens, permanent residents, aliens and people who have chosen to partake in this American Dream and call this land home.
Here's wishing you all the same feeling of refreshment and vivre I have received being part of this political process whether you are in the very thick of it or watching as most people are from the fringes.
Vote Barack Obama come November and participate however you can.
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{Paix et Amour}
- Location:Home
- Mood: cheerful
- Music:My President by me
I mean -- hectic at breakneck speed.
And I just used up all my vacation time to do it. Aii yo! I'm soo exhausted but fulfilled at the same time.
Week before last I went to L.A. I used the first part of the week to do some recording and the second half including the shuumatsu to work from 9 am to 10/10:30pm at Anime Expo. Anime Expo was the bomb but it was very tiring esp. for my first experience. I made some new friends, took a tonne of cosplay pictures, watched some pretty decent anime, listened to some pretty random and interesting panels, reveled in the experience and just plain behaved like a nerd with a Nigerian bent. I loved it. I was drained and hyped up on Bawls but I loved it. I will certainly go next year. I even picked up the Vampire D comics and discovered the face of Queen Idia is in the one of the anime!! GASP!! When I saw Queen Idia in the picture I was like *flail*! What's queen Idia's head doing in ANIME?!! *FLAIL!!* I sooooo wanted to take a picture but I'm a stickler for rules so I respected the artist's request not to take pictures and just scanned the picture on my phone since it has no flash wch is usually why artists don't want you to take pictures I think. Anyways, I thought that was pretty frigging awesome! See! Nigerians are everywhere like undercover agents! You may not know it but we're therrrreeeee....like the penguins from Madagascar.....you didn't see anything....*whisper* but we're therrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeee.....
TEE HEE!
Sorry, campy horror moment. *grin*
You can learn more about queen Idia here (the Ivory pendant rendition that was used in the Anime. As a side note, it's this piece of art that Nigeria used as a symbol in the Festac '77 celebrations. It's that beautiful and intricate. I've always been fascinated by it since my lazy days growing up in Nigeria):
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pwmn_3/h
& here (Brass full cast rendition of Queen Idia):
http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/fam
Since the British have refused to give us back our Queen Idia heads and castings that they plundered during the rape of Benin aka the "punitive expedition", it resides forlornly separated from its roots and origins within glass boxes in the British Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Sp-len-did isn't it?
This was supposed to be a fun journal so I'll stop being bitter about the past now. Back to my anime misadventures.
So,
Anime expo was a blast. I thought somewhere in there I'd go C-RA-ZY and have like some psychedelic type party or something but I didn't have the energy after every day plus I hardly knew anyone so if there were actual parties that went on, I wasn't privy to those parties!
Oh! I almost forgot! I participated in the AX Idol event! Yay me! I sang "Passion" by Utada Hikaru. Later on, I went for Karaoke and sang, "Easy Breezy" by you guessed it: Utada Hikaru! Hurray for Hikki-san! OOOOOoooooeeeeEEEE!
LOL. Karaoke was somewhat a fantabulous disaster! it was soooo funny watching these 5 guys do the Pokemon theme song looking like the crew from the Village people. I think that just about died of laughter @ that point. I should have recorded it and posted it on Youtube! 1 million hits! bbzzZing!
- Location:work
- Mood:
weeee - Music:Fix It by Coldplay
I'm rather bored at work today!
*siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggggggggggg
I figured I'd use all the extra time I had to do something very productive!!
Taa-dann!
I went and read every last one of the translated Kavki Boiz entries! Tee hee! Yay me! I love that they are all so kawaii-ly weird!
Miyavi with Yoppy's baby is my new favourite pic! What can I say about the guy, he's just amazing (I am creatively drained so I can't come up with anything to describe my Miyavi fanlove right now)! Oh! And I also discovered mooto-chan (agatha-chan) is on there! No fair u got an Jrock account before me! You can only pacify me with sweets! LOL.
{Paix et Amour}
- Location:Shigoto de
- Mood:
and antsy! - Music:Congoleo by Angelique Kidjo
I am not interested in doing anything called "work" today. I am sleepy as heck. I had another insomnia bout last night so I'm totally *boouyyy*
All I can think about is Miyavi and his live that I am going for.
So there I was yesterday making a poster to take to the live like I did last year. My poster was a hit when I went and my mum (being the eternal businesswoman) was like, "O-oh, u 4 sell d tin den! Next time carry a batch so u go sell am!" He he heheh! My mum is funny! But anyways back to kinou. My brother was like, "you do realize this whole Miyavi business you have going is like a drug addiction right?" Yes, he is addictive. I must admit. He's my anti-despair more so than an "anti-drug". No matter how sucky the day, all I have to do is see one of his enigmatic smiles or read one of his journal translations or watch one of his lives (speaking of which his performance at Korea and Vegas last year was SIIIIIIIIIICCCKKKKKKK! They are still my all time faves) and I can be optimistic again.
I have an obscene amount of packing to do that is not done yet. I leave for L.A. on Thursday. I NEED this break. I need to recharge my batteries and have something awesome that has happened this year. I can't wait. This is going to be the BAMMMEEEESSSTTT thing EVER! I will probably be hoarse when I get back.
I . CAN'T. WAIT.
Miyavisama,
Here I come.
{Paix et Amour}
- Location:Bleck!
- Mood: & feeling sleep deprived
- Music:Oretachi no Fighting Song by Miyavi
I usually do not discuss politics with people. I often have a tendency to be haughty in my opinion and I can get very heated. But I have to say something...
I am praying...PRAYING...that Barack Obama becomes the next president of the United States. Here's why:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3511&id=12333-5
It's quite simple really. B4 I came here, I saw the US kind of like a noble wolf - strong, proud, noble, equal, free. Then I came and it is like I see that the wolf isn't so strong and can sometimes can be very weak. The wolf is often biased and brainless, the wolf is petty and the wolf is not always equal. I strongly believe that Barack Obama has the wherewithal, the idealism and the HOPE/FAITH to be the catalyst in turning this nation into the "utopia" (for lack of a better word) I believed it to be before I left home and came here. It's not because his father is African. It's not because his Church is devoted to blacks in America and the diaspora. It's not because he's handsome or because was supported by Oprah (who I genuinely see as a mentor). No. It's because of his speech right there. America - the country I have come to know and love, flaws, racism and all - he sees her better. We really need that person that can hope for us and see the light at the proverbial end of the tunnel when we've lost the ability to hope.
- Location:Office
- Mood:
hopeful - Music:Utopia by Gigi (Ejigayehu Shibabaw)
Me fam suprised me with icecream cake and the entire 3rd season of Lost confirming my geekdom! Nobody watches Lost anymore! LOL. It was really good. We gisted. We laughed. We did all the random stuff we always do and I had fun. I thought I was going to paint the town red and rock out since finally after so long my birthday fell on a weekend but I didn't have the energy to drive all the way downtown, pay to get in the club, dance with a room or random strangers, then drive all the way back home tipsier than when I left. The whole idea just wasn't working for me. I used to be such a party girl...what happened I wonder? I also took time that evening to do my little time with the Lord. It was really (sorry, trite word to follow) UPLIFTING. I've made myself 5 promises for this new year. I will strive very hard to keep them.
Ciao Ciao!
{Paix et Amour}
- Location:Office
- Mood: accomplished
- Music:Amour/Amore by me
- Location:Office, after 2 days missed! Rrrr!
- Mood:
and sick - Music:I'm so sick! by Flyleaf
Okiedoke,
I'll stop rambling now. Remind me to put up some of my music and art.
{Paix et Amour}
- Location:Office
- Mood: calm
- Music:Onpu no Tegami by MYV
I made an incredibly stupid mistake. I had a $10K music scholarship for which the president that hands out said scholarship contacted me personally. I had that much on the line and I blew it. I casually forgot all the work and $ spent that went into applying for that scholarship and let it fall by the wayside.
You know how?
By complicating and overthinking something very simple.
By not believing myself, my family and my abilities/talents.
By being insecure and unsure.
See I've come to the realization that we are a generation of IDKs and INSs (I Don't Know or I'm Not Sure). I stepped back and looked at the people around me who are within my age group and realized we are all terminally insecure. But it's not enough to look at others anymore. It's not enough to think in a 'them and me' sense anymore. I go through this cycles where I have my introspective moments and I really take a minute to look deep into myself. I want to go even further this year. I want to go to the core of myself and really look around. Do some searching. Do some understanding and do some serious cleaning. It's going to be a little like Aimiwu going on the search for the Pot of Life or the sea/sludge spirit in Spirited Away getting all that dank crap that was weighing it down washed away by the little girl. In layman's terms (i.e. no confusing imagery/anecdotes) I need to shed all the inconsequential and petty stuff that's holding me back from reaching that higher level of human I want to attain and just go for it! "Don't Hesitate and Go!"
Miyavi's really taught me a lot in a the past year and I'm so glad I discovered his music and him. Just like he's gotten better over the years, I want to also get better. Since he's constantly pushing forward and not giving up - this skinny, girly yaro from Japan's not backing down - hell, I'm never gonna give up to and I'm only going to get better. I'm an insecure, dramatic, fat girl from Nigeria who a lot of people look at and dismiss due in most part because I myself am not comfortable in my own skin. People respect go-getters. People respect people at the "top". I have an concrete idea of what "top" means to me. All I have to do now is get there.
{Paix et Amour}
- Location:In my brain
- Mood: it's soul searching time.
- Music:Neo Visualizm by Miyavi
Wow.
Gimme a moment to process this.
LOL. Ok, processing done.
Well, what to talk about today? I have identified 3 new, unique things that are part of my genetic psyche -
eins) I am something of an environmentalist
zwei) I absolutely love exploring the realms of beauty
drei) I like artistic guys.
See especially with the last one, it's something different for me because I've always dated the analytical, logical thinker. Those are the guys I've always gone for but lately, I've realized that I'm shortchanging myself by doing that. See, I'm a creative person in a logical/analytical field. While music, writing, ideas, design, films and dreaming come to me naturally, I work in IT. If anything, I prove the synced brain theory that the right and left work cohesively and and that left brain vs right brain hogwash doesn't fly. So with the last breakup, I guess it was time I went for my synonyms in a guy rather than my antonyms. I've met this new guy who's very creative and great with his hands and imagining and all that cool stuff and I've found it makes for a very comfortable interaction. I feel almost like I've been trying to fit a round key with a square hole all this time and I've finally realised that a round key goes in a round hole. It's so awesome! He paints, he draws, he cooks, he likes music of all genres and he's foreign like me and I really, truly dig it.
Hmmm....
So why the hell have I been wasting my time again?
*sigh*
*smacks self like a nana would* Ode! (Idiot! in Bini)
- Location:In my head
- Music:Mama by Khadja Nin
What folly!
See what the "digital" age has done to our fingers and hands? I get carpal tunnel not from typing this probably going to be long as heck post but from using the God-given hands I've got to pen words...like my ancestors have been doing for ages! Ridiculous! Not for the first time I imagine how excrutiating it must have been for those using stones and slates to write before the Egyptians came up with papyrus paper. Seriously many props go to countries and civilizations in Africa. But that's another subject.
Ai ya yai
My hand hurts.
Plus with this typing thingie, I can make all the corrections I feel like making of which I just made about 15 from the beginning of this line but with writing once inked, you're done. There is a profound thread in there. An expression of the intrinsic finality of writing by hand as opposed to via keyboard.
*sigh*
Humans and their inventions. I wonder what the future looks like...
No, I'll content myself with the now.
Ciao bellos i bellas!
{Paix et Amour}
- Location:headed home
- Mood: contemplative
- Music:Mollah Solaar by MC Solaar
- Location:somewhere in cyberspace
- Mood: at the silly things I did
- Music:Goodbye for now by P.O.D
So I've been thinking a lot lately of my next trip back home. I miss a lot of stuff in Nigeria and of course there's a lot of stuff I don't miss. When I go home this time, I'm determined to sew a lot of clothes to take back with me. I will go financially and mentally prepared and with a plan in mind. I want to capture the essence of the cities - Lagos, Benin and Abuja - through pictures, artfully gliding from area to area capturing the culture, sights, sounds, smells. Not for the last time I consider taking a photography class if for nothing else to improve the technicality of my shots and build a stylized flair. Anyways....I'm saving up. One way or another, I'm either going home end of the year or going to Japan. If I go to Japan, I have a place to stay!!! I'm SOOOOO happy! I know a few people. Yayoi in Tokyo, Ken in Kyoto and Miyo in Osaka. It should be FUN! I'll be staying with Yayoi. I'll make sure to go when MIYAVI - my baby daddy - is performing! LOL. Seriously I have a pink picture frame @ work with margarita glasses that has a pic of Miyavi back in his rainbow hair days and a caption that reads, "That there is my baby daddy!" No joke yo! I'm a hard core Miyavi fan mannnnn! LOL. I'm 80% kidding. When I go home though I definitely want to go with the goal of gathering information in mind.
I SHALL BE A SPOOONNNNGGGEEEE!
LOL. Nothing like looking at where you come from with slightly foreign eyes, documenting all the things you took for granted back when you just saw it as a hellhole you wanted to escape from. Now...now I see all the beauty I let slip past me. Now I feel nostalgically and optimistically patriotic and I want to encourage that love to grow. Also, I want to see how feasible it will be to open my business - shhhh! I can't tell you what type ;-D . I also want to get as much historical and linguistic information as possible (yes, I will be buying Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba Urhobo and Edo dictionaries people. Don't know when I will get to read them but I'm buying them) to add to my ever expanding brain.
Okiedoke, enough unloading for one day...
that's all for now folks....
{Paix et Amour}
- Location:La coeur de terre
- Mood: contemplative
- Music:Ma'amamilakim by Idan Raichel Project
Yatta! I'm a zap bebe! I zap through cultures and music like an infinite chameleon! Today I'm really loving me some Marie Daulne can you tell? She's the awesome creative force behind Zap Mama.
Love
Love
Love
Love
Loveeeee
Lovveeee
LOOOOVEEE
LOVE!
I'd do a friggin "ee ee ee" dolphin sound a la Tila Tequila and that blonde amazon in the bathtub for her men! LOL. I'm loving her music so much.
If you haven't even discovered Zap Mama yet.....................................
Ho ho-ho ho! You are in for a chocolate covered, nuts thrown in, crunch-munch, mish-mash, psychedelic explosion, Congolese soiree, sonic bombardment of awesomeness a la KING!
EN-JOYYYYYYYYYYY!
Bienvenue Etienne! bienvenue a bebe!
Bienvenue a Clara! bienvenue a bebe!
Bienvenue Ezekiel! bienvenue a bebe!
Wo-ooh-wo-ooh-wo-ooh-wo-ooh-wo-ooh-wo-oo
Ha ha ha!
{Paix et Amour}
- Location:La galaxie magee
- Mood: bouncy
- Music:Zap Bebes by Zap Mama
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