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A ruined day worth of code. It's been a day since my nephew decided my laptop has not been having enough shower lately... I left it in the living room where it was charging while lay down in the bedroom. Unbeknownst to me, my little nephew was up to some mischief. It was raining and he was at the door with a cup, trying to collect water. The little devil in him must have told him my laptop needed to take its bath because that's what he did! He poured water into my laptop…
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I can't live without you!❤️😚🥰 Humans, no doubt, are social beings which translates to us being dependent on one another. As the popular saying goes, "no man is an island of himself" and I believe no matter how advanced science and technology becomes in the future, humans would always need other humans for one thing or the other. While having this attribute of dependency an being sociable, we still manage to retain our individuality, that attribute that gives us a feeling of…
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...and breathe! *As medical students who just completed priclinicals, the excitement of being a step closer to becoming actual doctors was all in the air, we had just rented an apartment which wasn't that far from the teaching hospital and were taking a tour in the university-cum-hospital premises.* *As we walked down the main road leading to the Orientation Centre, one of my friends, Abel turned his neck around as if looking for something, the look on his face made me and…
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The Myth about Eczema. We had a friends' hangout this morning at one of my friend's house. I usually bone these slowly becoming more frequent visit invitations due to me being closeted for God knows how long. I naturally don't like social events that much but it has grown much more worse or should I say better?? Anyways, I decided to follow my friend who literally dragged me out of the house today to go and meet with the other friends (duh!! She didn't really have to do that…
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Why do lies have labels and the truth doesn't? (1) Labels are being used to describe lies as if they are some sort of colors refracted through a prismatic pyramid: white lies, yellow lies, pink lies, Grey lies, green lies, blue lies and even black lies. I just came to read this on a Facebook post as I had no idea there were literally "50 shades of lies." I only knew of the white lie, well here's a life hack: you should get your kids some packets of lies for their coloring…
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The intricacies of truth(2) Still on the topic of the various shades of lies, how the truth encompasses all, and how certain people are delusional(yeah! That's the word I am looking for. ) when it comes to the truth, we will talk about how people let the truth take a backseat as they argue with one another on which version of their "truths" is inferior or superior to the others. Remember on my last post I said something about the truth not being hard to find as long as we…
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Terrible things I have seen(1) How many "what-a-bad-day-to-have-eyes moments have you seen?" I guess some of us have had quite a few, while people like me have had, a couples of handfuls to be light in words, scratch that pal! See these eyes of mine👀? I have seen a shitload of "what-the-f***" moments with them(just saying how I feel🙄). There are times I wonder how I managed not to have fainted or piss myself during one of those moments. Some of these moments scared the…
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Terrible things I have seen (2) I talked about the experiences that scared life out of me yesterday, today I am going to be talking about experiences that stopped me dead in my tracks because the stages of fright were too hard to process. Experiences that turned me into an empty bottle for some minutes, before my consciousness finally came back. This one also happened when I used to be in a boarding house. I think I have posted this one in an article I wrote long time ago…
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Even my alarm clock is disappointed in me! Happy Sunday my read.cash lovelies! How are you all doing today? Hope you all are doing just fine! To those that went to or go to church, have a wonderful Service! I imagine you must have woken up early in the morning to prepare yourselves. I myself had it in mind to wake up early in the morning, but the usual thing happened. I once talked about a type of sleep sometime ago in one of my past articles; polyphasic sleep so due to how…
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Five things that make me happy. Happiness is a feeling or a state of mind we all want to be always immersed in, but life happens sometimes and the happiness is taken away from us, still we cherish the happy moments we have had in our lives because we have felt what it is to be unhappy, sad. Happiness can be created either by one's self, or by another person, while both forms of happiness are worth cherishing, the happiness created by one's self is more guaranteed and long…
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Dealing with trust issues. People who have trust issues are much more greater in number than those who don't and you all know the reason why. I doubt if anyone here has never been betrayed by either a family member, a friend or anyone else within your circle. The depth of hurt is something many of us do not overcome, not even in two lifetimes. There are other reasons why a person might develop trust issues which include mental health disorders or even past childhood trauma,…
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Corporal punishment for children : for or against? A news about a woman who almost killed her child with beating has surfaced online. She 13 year old child with a razor blade, apply grounded pepper on the wound and afterwards spanked her mercilessly with a cane until the girl fainted. What were this woman's reasons for doing such? When interrogates by the police after she was reported, she said that she had sent the girl to purchase some food items for dinner since around…
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Rants and musings. Good afternoon from this side my people! How have you all been? I missed writing here yesterday because I attended a wedding and I got too tired to write after coming back, although I tipped some articles early thus morning but was too brain-fogged to comment on any of them. I had wanted to write about the wedding I attended but there isn't really to worry about. It might sound kind of mean to say this about someone's wedding but to me, it was so boring…
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A sudden morning illness. There's been a power shortage for the past week in our area so most of the night, I leave the door open and put little clothing on when I go to bed. Yesterday however, they brought back the power in the night. I suspect it must have been around 2:00am in the morning. I woke up to a fast whirling of the ceiling fan and an intense breeze coming into the room through the door. It was the breeze of the fast approaching harmattan. It has been like that…
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Adaptation. I have lived in different places at different times. I was born in Kaduna, had lived in kogi, Edo(though I was still little), Abuja and now Kano. For my non-Nigerian readers these are states in Nigeria. One thing I have reaffirmed while living in all these places is that our environment, the language that's spoken therein and the people have a strong influence on us, if we live long enough in that place. For a person like me who is very observant, I tend to…
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My first discovery in my journey into mindfulness. The first time I read about mindfulness and decided to engage in it, I noticed many things about myself in an hour that didn't in months. It was both an eye-opening and scary experience. I took a back-seat and played a third person character in my head and I could "see" all my thoughts in front of me. All of them. I practiced it for a week and after seeing the results, I made the decision to practice I go the rest of my…
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A message to my fellow students. I write not from a place of a fellow student who shares similar feelings to other students pertaining the calling off of the 8 months' strike. A lot of us are unprepared be it academically, financially, mentally, emotionally or otherwise, there are even some of us who aren't prepared at all but still, there's no option for us than to resume. Despite having wanted the strike to be called off, I felt a little uneasy when I learnt it had finally…
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Some tips on maximizing productivity. Yesterday I was reading scrolling through my Twitter feed when I stumbled a post on tips on how to stay productive. At first glance I knew it would be helpful but as I was looking for a particular post at that time, I decided to save the photos for a later read after scanning through them. Sadly upon checking my phone gallery this morning I couldn't find it. It turned out that when I tried to save it, I was hasty with it so perhaps it…
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Down with malaria Within the span of 8 months since ASUU embarked on its strike, I have fallen sick up to four times. However none has been worse than what I am experiencing now. When I woke up yesterday in the morning, I was quite okay but as soon as it was around 10:00am, my body temperature became high, there was this internal cold I started feeling and I felt palpitations in my chest region. I was the only one left at home so I took some drugs and went back to sleep.…
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Convalescing in school. Good afternoon dear readstars! I hope you all have been living life strong and appreciative. We all gotta keep up with the pressure without breaking ya know. Remember I told you guys I was sick in my last article? Well unfortunately, it turned out to be worse than I had expected. Anyways I am very much better now and I want to thank all those who commented on my last article wishing me a speedy recovery. I resumed school while I was still on…