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21/07/2024

Remember this Kenyan runner Abel Mutai who was just a few feet from the finish line, but became confused with the signage and stopped, thinking he had completed the race.

A Spanish runner, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him and, realizing what was happening, started shouting at the Kenyan to continue running. Mutai didn't know Spanish and didn't understand. Realizing what was taking place, Fernandez pushed Mutai to victory

21/07/2024

An interesting stuff I saw at Life Stories

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I am now 29 and have 3 kids with my wife, Franziska, who carried and birthed them all like a pro. Here’s what I would tell my childless 24-year-old self about how to be a supportive partner during the ‘becoming parents’ phase:

1. Wifey carried baby IN her belly for 9 months. So, you carry baby ON your belly for 9 months every chance you get. Not only does it help her recover but it bonds you to your kid more than imaginable.

2. Wifey is breastfeeding and—while beautiful and fulfilling for her—it’s exhausting. So, you change EVERY diaper you can. From diaper #1 onward. You will get over the grossness fast. And you will prevent imbalances and resentment in the relationship; in fact, when all your wife’s friends are complaining about how absent and unsupportive their husbands are, your wife will be bragging about you.

3. Make her the decaf coffee every morning. Even if she leaves it cold and forgets to drink it most mornings because she falls back asleep while you’re working or (later) taking the kids to school. She was up all night feeding the baby so help start her day in a way that helps her reset.

4. Tell her she is beautiful and help her see that in the moments when she is feeling most self-critical and hopeless about her body. Remind her of times when she achieved goals in the past. Remind her she is a superhero. She literally just moved all her organs around and gained 20 + pounds to give you a child that will be a gift to you for the rest of your life. Help her see past her body image issues and stay focused on a positive goal, one day at a time.

5. Take the heat. Hormones are crazy, both pre and post birth. She won’t seem like herself every day and sometimes she will say things she wouldn’t say if she didn’t feel like she was hungover, caffeinated, and on steroids every day.
Remember your job is to be her rock through all of this, so toughen up and keep perspective when her tongue is sharper than you know her best self intends. Normal will return soon and you want her to be grateful that you kept it together when she wasn't, not resentful and disappointed that you hijacked her emotions by making her problems yours.”

Credit : Smart Hacks

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I suppose no 3 does not apply to Nigerians. 😅
No 5 is a basic necessity.

19/07/2024

" Call those who call you"

" Love only those who love you"

We say it is self love to do so.

Quotes that may appear nice and harmless until you give it a deep thought and realize they are actually harmful and can subtly take you away from what God will have you do.

Love those who love you?

Yet Jesus taught the opposite. In fact, he said to pray for your enemies and do good to those who don't deserve it. Matt5:43-48

Tough huh? But those are the Lord's instructions. So whose followers are ye?

If Jesus was practicing self love, he wouldn't have any businesses hang.ing on the cross, nails driven in his hands, stripes that left sharp tear(cuts) across his back and many others, for you and I who didn't deserve it by the way. He would have loved himself enough to stay away from that cross. But he didn't.

So is thanksgiving an application for more?

That sounds nice! But that makes our ultimate purpose for giving thanks, as acquiring more, not really that we are grateful. Now do you not see the selfishness in that?

What if there was no 'more'? Wouldn't you give thanks? 🤷

So thank God if you want to thank God. Apply for more if you want to apply for more. But never use thanksgiving as a means to an end. God is not 'Odumaagala' from your village or Amadioha, si gi gbuta isi nwere isi.

Like we are doing trade by barter with God- I give thanks, and he gives me more. Nah.

God is sovereign. And in International Studies, one of the characteristics of sovereignty is that the nation is not subject to external influence or interference. They can make decisions and take actions of their own without external coercion, and are certainly not up for subjugation.

Same as God; He will do what He wants, how He wants to and when He wants it done. Thanksgiving is good. Prayer is good and so is every spiritual activity we engage in but your thanksgiving will not 'FORCE' the hand of God, neither will your prayers.You cannot manipulate nor control Him.

Believers must learn to do things for the RIGHT REASONS. Purpose over practice. Give thanks because it is good and you're really grateful not because you want to 'move' the hand of God for more. You're not a gambler, you're a believer!

How then should thanksgiving be done?

Why do we give thanks?

True gratitude is about acknowledging God's sovereignty and it is done in honour and reverence. We give thanks because we love God and we are truly grateful. The intention is not to acquire more, it is to express gratitude such that whether He gives us more or not, we are still grateful.

" But Solomon sacrificed a thousand bulls and God appeared to him" you say,

Yes but The Bible was also clear on WHY Solomon did it. The opening statement of vs 2 of that passage explains it. 1Kings3:2, Solomon loved God so he gave. This giving was an act of love and honour. It was not from the intention to manipulate God into appearing.😆
In fact, he never expected God would appear the way He did. Man was just doing his thing.

So your motive for thanksgiving is just as important as the practice if not more. You can be doing the right thing but for the wrong purpose.

For example, if I give a friend 30k today as a gift in the hope that somehow tomorrow he will have to come through for me, I am being generous but with an exploitative mindset.

It's like Effioque who reminded Inem of the 60k favour(project ) he did her and threatened to withdraw it if she didn't play to his tune(by firing the girl).
That's how we are with God when we give thanks as an application for more.

Some people are good to people only for the fear or hopes of what tomorrow will bring. Maka echi di ime. Be good because it's good.

Give thanks because you are truly grateful. Don't make it always about what you will get Again, purpose over practice!

Learned this over the week at The FaithCom Church - Thanksgiving & Traditions.

Hope it blesses you.

UD ✍️

16/07/2024

Fear short people 😆😆

15/07/2024

The other day at the hospital, I had met a doctor. He was hot. 🔥 I mean his brain, and so were his colleagues. For example the Sanographer guy alone (the image scientist) had a BSc in Rad, to his name. There was also the PVC CT, PGD, USS and MARN, only him oh! You will know that these guys didn't come to play. Even if you cheated in school, there's no way in hell you would have made it through all of that. 😁

So these guys(for as far as I could observe) were professionals in their respective fields. My heart was at ease with them.

The doctor too, he was nice and quite very time-conscious. It was what I loved most about him. What would have taken others eternity to do, he did in a twinkle of an eye and I could get out earlier than I anticipated. There was no 'come today, come tomorrow ' with him. Everything seemed quite organized, I was impressed until the moment five nurses walked in...

I wasn't sure what to make of the nurses, but they didn't strike me like people who had acquired minimum a degree in Nursing sciences. They looked like me, a regular but on white gown..I could be wrong but 'nurse Eliza' was the kinda vibe I was getting or perhaps they were interns.

Whatever the case, my suspicion increased when the doctor addressed them. Apparently, Mr Doctor was attending to a pregnant woman before I walked in. After he motioned me to a seat, I listened as he asked the five nurses, with the exception of Jane (not real name), what a woman's first pregnancy was called (obviously in medical terms).

Even I, could attempt a guess, not to mention a supposed medical practitioner. They all went silent. None of them knew the answer. Mr Doctor was disappointed and didn't fail to show it.

" Jane, please save me the time and tell these block heads what it is" Idabosky doctor I suppose, because I was almost going to burst out a laugh.😂

" It's Primigravida sir" Jane said.

And the doctor took over lecturing from there,

" Did you hear her? Primigravida. It is derived from two Latin words ; Primus meaning first and gravidus meaning heavy. That is first pregnancy. So if a woman is pregnant for the first time, it is referred to as primigravida.
Write it down if you have to cos the next time I will repeat this again, y'all won't like me" he fumed.

Ah! Apparently, Mr Doctor must have mentioned it before now otherwise he wouldn't be getting this upset.

" So are these the humans(nurses) we are supposed to entrust our lives with?" My mind was busy 'wilding'

This kontry! Chineke parakwa tule! 🙆

Mr doctor was done with his lecture and the preggy woman had left too. So he turned to me and said " so young lady, what can I do for you? "

In a few hours we were done with 'em procedures and he made his prescriptions which I was which I was to collect at the counter. I went there and met two nurses. They handed the drugs and I brought them out to..like..you know have a look before I leave.

I noticed there weren't any names, only the dosage was specified. And I was skeptical about comfortably swallowing a drug I didn't know anything about, especially given the ' primigravida' episode. So I turn to one of them and ask " these drugs, they don't have a name?"

" They do" she replied

"So could you please write the names on each of the drug sheets for easy identification? "

She shrugged her shoulders in the negative " I can't ma!"

" Are you kidding? What do you mean you can't? So am I supposed to just take drugs I don't know about? "

"But it's doctor's prescriptions"

" Even so, am I not entitled to the knowledge of whatever it is I'm ingesting? "

" Okay the drugs are manythynennnghujjjjs...testeoek,. bla bla bla..

" Nah Sis, you will slow down. I can't possibly memorize these names right now, I am not a medical practitioner like you. Besides you just called out their names and I don't know which is which. So please I'd appreciate it if you can write it down on the drug sheet just like you did the dosage"

She looked at me as though I were a troublemaker. (Maybe I am sometimes 😂 ) And then the nurse by her side whispered to her " Just do what she says"

Eventually, they wrote the names of each drug like I requested, and I thanked them.

As I was leaving, I overheard one of them say to the other " this lady must not be from this part of town" (I get that a lot).

Maybe because I was maintaining steeze. I have great composure especially when I'm visiting a place for the first time. My Korean style has never let me down. And my shoes are kinda always making the statement. I like to leave a good first impression wherever.😉

I smiled my way outta the door as she continued " na only oyibo fit dey do like this o" 😂

Funny! But if being conscious of this little life I have is what makes me 'oyibo' then so be it my sister. In this era where they are leaving cotton wools and surgical towels in people's bellies, leading to unnecessary dea.ths, one cannot be too careful. Life no get part two.

UD ✍️

12/07/2024

Reflection and Resilience.

Everybody talks about succeeding but nobody ever talks about failing...

" happy to announce that I won the offer as the new MD of World Bank at 17 "

But how much work, tears, or several failed attempts before the big break, nobody really knows or tells. And I think it's important they do.

What makes one appreciate the success more is the resilience, the story, the falls that made for the success.

Earlier this year, I set a personal learning goal to complete at least three courses every month to expand my knowledge and skills in my chosen field. I'm proud to say I consistently achieved this goal until June, when life's unexpected event (a good one) got the better of me. I'll gist you later. 🤣

As a result, I was not in my elements and so I didn't meet my goal for the month. But that's okay too. I mean should we let our setbacks define us? Absolutely not.

Instead, choose to learn from the experience and bounce back stronger.

It's the second week of July, and I'm unto completing the second course already. It's not been easy but what can a girl do? 🤷

From this experience, I have learned that:

1. Setbacks are inevitable, things may not always go the way we plan but they also don't dictate our future.

2.Resilience and determination can help us get back on track. When you fail, what do you do? Do you sit back and wail or do you get back up?

Remember the words of Dre in the movie 'Karate Kid' ?

" Life will knock us down but you can choose whether or not to get back up"

Seen that movie? I loved it too.

3. It's not about being perfect, but about persevering and growing.

Let this be a reminder that we all face challenges, but it's how we respond that matters. Keep pushing forward, and never give up on your goals, including your showing up on LinkedIn. It may look tough now but it gets better with time. Trust me!

Everything you're dying to have now- the job, that promotion, the engagement, the offer, that scholarship, that admission, that spouse, will happen for you. But how badly do you want it? How resilient are you? Can you wait? Or you choose to give up right before it happens?

Anyways, I totally enjoyed taking this comprehensive lesson on the project management software called 'Monday dot com'

Of course I am conversant with the use of the tool which is what drew my interest in this course in the first place.

But this was on a more detailed level - from account creation, to project boards, task creation and assignments, columns and views, permissions and privacy, integrations and automations, structuring PMO workspace and so much more.

Trello used to be my only go-to for project management but after this, I think I'm rooting for 'Monday' today. 😆

It's such an excellent work tool for creating, organizing and executing your projects efficiently. I loved its features even though they were a lot. Trello is much simpler and easy to navigate.

Loved to learn things like this and improve your knowledge and skills, as well as position yourself better for career opportunities? Join the 360 Freelance Hub and learn at little or no cost. Your future self will thank you for this.

Rooting for you too.

UD ✍️

10/07/2024

Health
Love
Money
Family
Happiness

You? 😆

10/07/2024

" Call Inem and say I was here"

The response of a certain man after he ate at a friend's restaurant and was asked for payment. The memes around this incident have been nothing short of hilarious! Nigerians sha!🤣🤣

Now from a customer service perspective, these are the notable mistakes from the three people involved that could easily be avoided by training, product and customer knowledge, as well as effective communication.

1. Inem:
Inem owns the business and she owes her staff especially the newly employed, proper training on acceptable customer service approach as well as product/ service information.
If the sales girl knew that Iffioque was a regular customer or an VIP, who perhaps paid ahead of every meal before visiting, she would not have accosted him the way she did.

And that's why CRM tools are super important. Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools essentially provide valuable insights into customer behavior, data, and preferences, enabling businesses to deliver personalized experiences, enhance customer satisfaction, and build strong relationships. Hubspot, Zoho Desk and Zendesk are my favorites amongst others. They help businesses to better understand their customers, tailor their approach, and encourage customer loyalty.

2. The sales girl: she acted wrongly by gripping the customer's shirt and propelling violence, even though it was her job to demand payment for every meal served. On no account should a customer be treated in such a humiliating manner. I believe that there is no conflict that effective communication cannot resolve especially where the parties involved are mature enough.

Customers are the lifeline of business. And customer-facing roles require this understanding- if there is no customer, there is no business. Train your staff on appropriate ways to handle difficult customers. And if there ever be an occasion where a customer incites vi0lence as against peace, he or she may be reported or handed over to security. Accosting them physically is unprofessional.

3. Ifioque - you mean you sat for two whole hours after you were served food, had eaten and paid, instead of a simple " oh I already paid to your madam, kindly call her and confirm payment" ?

I see no wisdom in that.

Moreso, threatening to withdraw a favour you did to a friend unless the girl was fired was way overboard, perhaps even manipulative. People should beware of such friends like that.

Onyinye ekwensu!

Finally, if I were Inem, I wouldn't fire my staff simply because a customer said so especially if she's good at her job. If we listen to every angry customer who says " fire him, fire her" we probably will have little or no workers left. 🤣

I will take responsibility for the incident and apologize for the terrible customer experience, compensate the customer by waving the bill for that day, perhaps offer an extra special delicacy as an additional apology. Then train my staff to ensure such ugly experience does not repeat itself.

That way, everyone is happy!

Have something else you might like to add?

Meanwhile it's the last photo, for me. Nigerians no dey disappoint 😆😆

UD ✍️

07/07/2024

Service at The FaithCom Church today.

"The Lord My God brought it for Me"

That's our response to the Mind-blowing Miracles that we are set to walk into this New Week because Our God is willing and able (Eph 3:20)

I'm super excited! What an assurance!

Awesome service it was for me.

What about you? Did you go to church?

Where did you worship?

Did you learn something? Share if you don't mind.

Happy Sunday!

With Love,
UD

07/07/2024

Sundayyyyyy!

07/07/2024

Such a beautiful garden. Love it.

05/07/2024

WHAT MEN NEED TO KNOW (HUSBAND)

1. Intimacy in your marriage will suffer if you keep coming home late

2. Your wife doesn't find you sexy because you buy her expensive gifts, she finds you sexy because of how you attend to her emotions

3. Your wife will struggle to give you her body if she suspects you are entertaining another woman/women. Faithfulness makes you sexy

4. Don't avoid your wife the whole day then expect her to be turned on for you at night

5. Women make love with their emotions, for them, the feeling of being loved is important. If you hurt her, she won't desire to make love

6. If she doesn't feel ready to make love tonight, find out if there is an issue and address it.

But if she is genuinely tired or not in the mood, it is not the end of the end of the world. How you treat her today, will determine how love making will be tomorrow

7. If you realize you are demanding conjugal rights, know that you are no longer having intimacy but sexual perversion and coercion. Intimacy is not demanded, intimacy is invited and mutually celebrated

8. Sometimes all she needs from you is not your p***s, but your arms to hold and cuddle her

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No.8 particularly. Prof William Wachira said to tell you that. 🤷

05/07/2024

Whah?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

05/07/2024

People are going through a lot. If you see an opportunity to be kind, take it.

04/07/2024

Nkem. ❤️

Nkenaanim! 💃

How can a man be so fine? Who needs food when I can have you? 😍😉💃

Now you quit scrolling,

Have you got a man or I should mind my business? 😁🏃🏃🏃

03/07/2024

The levity with which office workers in Nigeria treat weighty matters is concerning and the stress that comes afterwards is alarming.

Nobody cares for anybody!

You will see this in Nigerian schools, public offices, even security parastatals etc. Something that ordinary should not take a minute to accomplish for you, they will make it take days, weeks and months accompanied by lots of nasty attitudes in-between.

One would think that health workers will be any different seeing that they deal with lives and that any single mistake or delay could be catastrophic, but even so, their own lackadaisical attitude is worse. And this is something that needs to be addressed.

Last week at the hospital, a staff member was busy watching Davido's wedding clips in the office early in the morning when tens of people; the weak, the strong and the heavily pregnant were lined up waiting to be attended to by her.

I was there again today. And this time, I lost my cool!

I was merely directed to go pick up a file from the office across the hallway.

So I walk into the lady's office- a middle aged woman I think, an angry bird by default. She was attending to a group of women and I'm not sure she even heard my pleasantries cos the first thing she queried me with was " Ehe? Why are you here by this time? And why are you dressed like that? "

While I was still trying to make sense of what was going on, she goes on and on about how we don't hear word, how they constantly dish instructions and we go on and act as we like. She was yelling. Next she says " you're gonna have to come back next week. I cannot attend to you"

That was when I cut her short,

" excuse you ma! You will not speak to me in that manner! Have we met before? This is literally my first time in your office. Never met anything like you in my entire life until now. So where have we had the conversation of what I should or should not wear or what time I should or should not meet you? Is that how you address your first time visitors? Your colleagues that directed me here didn't give me any of such heads-up. With due respect madam, you're rude and if others accept that from you, I will not"

I continued,

" Just because we occasionally bow to fate and show up in offices like yours doesn't mean you can treat adult humans like children. You will not speak to me in that manner! "

Suddenly the office went silent. If a pin dropped at that point, you would hear it. The other women looked at me in awe. I wonder if it was my anger or the English.

My makeup artist had once teased that even though she knows I'm a grammarian from time but that my English hits differently when I'm upset"

That must have been what happened today... 😁

Then I turned around, checked my wristwatch for time and 'swagaliciously' walked out of the office. I had seen enough unprofessionalism for one day and so I wasn't ready for more. My intention was to head home first and rest.

Then I noticed someone running after me " sister please wait" she said

Apparently, the office lady sent someone to call me back. Was that guilt? I had no idea but I went back to know what it was she was calling me for...

Then she says " em..before you go and tell them that I refused to attend to you, it's not like I don't want to attend to you o, it's just that there is how things are done here. Look at all these women here. They are all on gowns not trousers. It will be partial to attend to you in their presence "

Then I replied,

" First of all madam, I don't know these women or why they are here. I simply came to pick up a file. Secondly, this is my first time here. If you feel I was short of standard, The ideal thing to do would be to inform me. Inform not harass me.

" Oh hello, I understand you're here for the first time, however there are requirements expected of you before you can access my office. I'll pardon you because it's your first time but this should guide you for next time sakes"

Shikina! That's how communication works and that's how normal humans behave.

You could even decide not to attend to me, that's fine but you will state your reasons in an APPROPRIATE manner.

And if at all you must blame anybody, it has to be your colleagues who sent me here without proper information or briefing. If they had me given head-ups or talked about the requirements, do you think I will show up here doing the opposite?

And who makes the damn rule that trousers aren't allowed in an office? Jesus Christ! What year are we in again? 1804?

She didn't apologize, instead in a bid to satisfy her conscience, she asked me to wait outside to 'see what she can do'.

I waited for a while then she came back with a list of impossible alternatives which I wasn't ready for and frankly didn't have at the time.

So I walk back into her office again, bend over the desk, with my two hands on the table and I said the last piece of my mind,

" you know what? I don't have time today. I will be back next week like you said. And I'll be here rightly dressed and on time.."

I was going to add " God help you you don't attend me like a normal human being should ", but on second thoughts, I zipped it.

For the records, I was dressed all black today... I even felt weird before leaving the house cos what if they " who goes me there" on the road? Which da.gger I get?😁

A Back boyfriend-shirt on a black jeggings and a black face cap and some transparent glasses was a lot of attention. But then there was my statement shoes and my Pedro green bag to tune it down.

Perhaps I was too hot for the woman's office. I should have appeared on an over-the-knee length skirt or a ba la blu dress.

Y'all didn't tell me there was a dress code for visiting the hospital.

I walked out of the office with the other women still staring at me like I was an alien fallen from space . My steeze was intact. 😁

I guess I have six days to go look for long skirts for my next appointment. Can't even remember the last time I wore one.

Living in Nigeria is hard.

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UD ✍️

02/07/2024

Between Allysa Callaway and Amanda...in " It Takes Two"

Ally: what the heck were you doing over there anyway?

Ally: I wanted to see what it was like to be an orphan

Amanda: (shocked) What? Why?

Ally: because it looked like fun

Amanda: Fun? Being an orphan? What's the matter with you?

Me: 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fun ke? Hunger never wire you mai dia! 😁

One of the things I love about Hollywood is their conversations. It is literature in action. Love it

01/07/2024

Now we can all agree that this year is the year for love

Thank God I married earlier. Cos how was I supposed to deal with all these oppressions? No breathing space for single pringles since we said happy new year.😅

Congratulations to our fashion goddess Prudential Gabriel.

Now we are about to witness a fashion show. And Vekee James seems to be on the beat too! Love it.

I love love! ❤️💃

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