@Kiingsley

@Kiingsley 16 March 2022

Maybe My Last Article Here Hi People! Special greetings to you all. How was your Wednesday? I'm sure it went well. Wednesdays are usually my free day(off day from work), so I was determined to engage fully here to cover lapse because I haven't been up to task this few days. I woke up earlier around 4:30am when I'm supposed to sleep till 7am considering that I won't be going to work. But my mind didn't allowed me to sleep till that. I glanced through my account and replied comments on my recent article as well as reading and upvoting in return. I did that till 6:00am and I was able to cover a large reads. I got up from bed to go and hunt for water because we've been suffering from water scarcity for the past five days...they've not been public light and our Generator we use in pumping water has been faulty for months. I took the two buckets and went to a lounge close to my house and luckily the tap was not locked unlike some days. I fetched and Carried it, passed a short-cornered distance till I got to my house. After that, I took my bathe and moved to my desk with with a cup of tea, sipping and reading with no dirsturbance at all. I wish everyday could be like this🤪. I was still reading till 11:21am when nature call came so strong that we battled at length because I have a target to cover but as it'll always be, it won. Sleep won! I slept till around 1:00pm, I wasn't ready to get up but I needed it because If I give my whole body to sleep, I could sleep till 6:00pm because my body had longed for the sleep for so long. I woke up with my body system refreshed and weakened at same time. It was as if i fought a battle at sleep. I entered the bathroom and gave a good pour of water to my body and the energy came up but not that full because I was hungry too. I checked the pot and found soup there, soup prepared by my brother yesterday. I ate well and was satisfied. Going back to my account to continue, I met my replies on people's comment as "LOW SCORE", I became madddd because that's a big threat. At first I thought maybe someone mistakenly sp**mmed my comments on a particular article but when I checked, I saw that all my comments from the morning were under the same siege. That was it, my account is gone!💔 I started feeling down because I know how far I've come with this account, it's three months old with 100+ subscribers and that's not easy to build for a person like me. I quickly rushed to my Nigeria People to see if there could be a means to resolve it(when I know the chance is very minimal), and ofcourse nothing to be done. I just decided to take my fate like that. I posted a kinda farewell message on a short writes here and a friends encouraged me not to give up so soon, that it might be a slight error. But from what I've seen, I think once an account it tempered, it's gone already and no retrieving....from experience 🤏. But nevertheless I would still stay and watch out for miracle. Maybe it'll happen tonight as I sleep or maybe just this particular moment you're reading this. I don't even know where I stand currently, my other side is saying I should move while another the side is saying I should go, afterall I know how the system works. Or is this where I should apply FAITH? Does faith works here? Lol🤣. But it's not easy to loose something you've built with so much strength, it breaks the heart and depresses the soul. Within these few months, I've made this platform as my home, a day can't pass without me visiting here. I've met lots of people here that I always look forward to read their Articles because those blogs completes my day. Some people suggested that since my recent article was visited by rusty, that means there's possibility of its visitation again and I shouldn't give up yet. So that's why I'm writing with hope, watching out for the miracle. If it continues like this, then I'm gonna say good bye and......(you gerrit) **Thanks for reading friends** **16th March 2022** **MAYBE MY LAST POST HERE🤷** .

@Kiingsley 16 March 2022

I'M LEAVING 💔💔💔 . My account got spammed despite following all the rules. I would be lying if I say I'm not heartbroken but ALL IS WELL. I don't really know what happened and I mustn't blame anyone. WE WILL MEET AGAIN. GONNA MISS YOU ALL💚🥰

@Kiingsley 15 March 2022

Tuesday Happenings Hello beautiful people! How are you all doing? Hope you're good? Please be fine....for me🥰. I woke up today at my normal time, I stayed on bed for almost three hours glancing through my phone with the mind to get up 30mins before work time to prepare for work. I didn't know when I passed the time I targeted and I was left with just 7minutes to go. I got up and applied 'fast & furious' in bathing an dressing up. Thank God I'm a guy and need not to apply makeup. Sometimes I don't even apply cream on my cream. Lead image: freepik.com https://www.freepik.com/free-psd/3d-illustration-businessman-checking-time-sitting-alarm-clock_21517169.htm#query=Late%20for%20work&position=43&from_view=search It was quick for me and within 10minutes I found myself at workplace. I quickly rushed my early morning routine and got My records prepared. After that I moved straight to the bank to deposit cash. I didn't waste time there because there was no crowd. The cashier that attended to me is friend that kept demanding for Christmas package. Funny? He's still disturbing me for Christmas package when we are in middle March. The bants between us is always funny because I know of tactics to cover up and kill the demand. Wait first! Am I supposed to gift them anything when I'm not the owner of the company I'm working for? Those People are funny, they want me to use my own money to buy a present for them 🤣. But thank God my crush is yet to follow them to troll me, I would have considered to give in. Yes! I have a crush on one of their female staffs🤗. Let me stop here... THE PRAYER I Left the bank and when I got to the office they were yet to open the main door for customers to come in and that's because they were still cooking. I entered and not quite long, they said they are READY to open the DOOR and I should lead them in prayers. Well I don't have issues with that because they've made me their pastor whenever it's prayer time. But I deliberately asked any of them to lead us in prayers as i mustn't be the one leading all the time. *[Not that I don't want to pray or lead but because their attitudes toward the prayer meeting is not good. I'd be praying and some of them would be pressing phone and watching videos while some would remember they have to make call that particular moment. I'm the type that don't believe in forceful prayer, if you're not interested there's no need faking it. I've told our boss concerning the problem with them but nothing has changed. So I call them and lead the prayers genuinely not minding who's following or not]* They dragged but I still refused to pray unless they lead. You need to see war! After few minutes deliberation, the one that often watches video during prayers volunteered to lead the prayer which got all of us amazed. She did the prayer in less than 1 minute and that's it. You should know na, all of them busted into laughter immediately she ended the prayer. Casual prayer as its Peak! ________________________ We OPENED for the day and everything was moving well. We had good sales and I Also had time to grind a little here. THE FESTIVAL TALK Our manager came in the evening around 6:00pm and a topic ensued. They said the community is planning on observing a festival they've abandoned since 20years ago. They said the ruler in charge said he want to bring back the event and this festival we are talking about is something that has the capacity to wreck the economy of the community. How do I mean? They said during the days of the festival, no shops, malls eateries, banks etc are allowed to open for business. And this festival is said to last for 7days. Can you imagine that???! Upon hearing this, all of us(staffs) became Happy because that means NO WORK FOR 7DAYS. But how are we going to cope with all these amenities shutdown? I'm too sure it's not gonna work out because the community has developed into a big city compared to when they had the festival the last time(up to 20years ago). They'll surely ammend it. THE BILLING Around 7:00pm, **BLESSING** came to our place that she want to use our restroom. Blessing is a next office neighbor in a laboratory shop, she's an apprentice there and we are slightly fond of each other, even though we've not talked at length anyday. I like her person though. After she's through with the restroom, she came to my desk giving me a greenlight look, saying she lost money today and it's really hurting her. I asked how and she explained. I only pitied her and gave her comforting words. We no dey do transfer to another person's babe🤣. ________________________ I got home late as usual, I sat outside to receive fresh air but the smokes of cigarettes from people close to my door wouldn't let me stay in peace but I still stayed. I began to search on what to write, I sorted out two topics but ended up drafting them because I felt they are not good enough. That was when I started to give a summary of how i spent my day. Sorry for bringing this to you, I promise to make up a better write in my next post. Thanks for reading 15th March 2022

@Kiingsley 14 March 2022

Chameleon as a Pet Hello good people! Hope Monday treated you well? Or dished out your anger against Monday? Oh poor Monday! Monday is so unfortunate to be Monday. I pray it doesn't get angry one day and decide to fight back to all the insults it's received from Humans 🤪. My day went a little bit fine but I considered it not so fine because I battled with chances to come and engage here but it didn't just worked out for me. Hunger came knocking at an early hour and I really felt it because the chef that normally "scratch out" food for me was not on duty today. Yeah, anytime she's on ground, I hardly feel hungry because she'd be bringing plates of all the delegacies they are preparing in the kitchen. And anytime she brings, I usually tell her that she'll give birth to twins,,, she'll smile. I was glancing through my walls and timelines to see if I could get a topic to write and I stumbled at a post on nairaland about a guy that caught a chameleon on his way coming back from school, he posted that he don't know what to do with it, Whetherr to sell it for $10 or keep it as a pet. I was shocked seeing that he's intending to keep a chameleon as a pet. What!!! Chameleon of all animals! I know there are people that love chameleon here but I find that animal somehow. It has a scary look to be kept at home for a pet. Haaa! I went on to read comments and people really commended his Braveness for planning to keep a chameleon as a pet, considering its powerful ability to change colours. *Let me tell you, we grew up to believe that the feature that's making it to change color is not ordinary. It's somehow a Diabolic power. Hello!🥱 Don't blame me! It's what we were told. So, we don't kill it whenever we come across it, we let it go to his way after enjoying the supernatural change of colors. We were told that it life will be hard for any that kills it.🥱* *There was a period we saw it in our farm, it was slowly moving when I saw it, it was on the color of leaves but changed to red when I got closer to it(I was on red polo), that was what actually drew my attention that there's a chameleon there. I called my dad's attention and he told me to leave it and let it go, he said Also that it's a good sign for good harvest for the farm that season...like, it brings success!* Someone dropped a comment that he should go and look for a Yoruba person(Western People in Nigeria) to sell it to, that he's going to make a good money from it, giving a price hint of $200 and above. Actually, herbalist and diabolical People don't joke with such animal because it's rare and also for the fortune/goodluck they've known it for(if it's true though🤷) A guy also dropped a comment that he could help him with what and what to mix to prepare a good charm from it. Hahahah🤣🤣🤪! People are so mean! **Can you keep a chameleon as a pet?** I know we have numerous pet lovers here with cats, dogs, parrots...or I should include snakes to the list? But it's true too, we have people that have snakes as pet. I'm a complete opposite of you guys that love pet, I don't know why, but I don't just find it interesting petting dogs that bite, cats with those scary eyes...Not to talk of chameleon. What if I keep it in my house and it turns to the color of my food and enter inside soup?🙄🙄🙄. Or at night it'll will crawling on my body 🧟🧟. I can't stand it!🤣 **Drop your comments, CAN YOU KEEP CHAMELEON AS A PET??** Special thanks to @FashTioluwa for sponsorship. God bless you abundantly. Don't worry, I go give you that girl wey you dey eye for here.🤸 Lead image form Unsplash.com I decided not to feature clear photos because I think it's scary to behold Thanks for reading 14th March 2022

@Kiingsley 13 March 2022

Mosquitoes don't bite everybody Hello people! How was the weekend? I'm too sure you enjoyed it to the fullest and never wished for it to end. Mine went well with usual tight-scheduled routine. This weekend was too tough for me in terms of engagement here, my engagement got reduced to a not favourable extent, but no cause for alarm because head has been in more than three baskets 🤗. It was 11:33pm, I was sitting outside collecting fresh air while my neighbors were seated too, doing their business. Mosquitoes were flying everywhere, perching on my open legs. I had to go inside to put on a lot socks. The perches and bites continued and I was became uncomfortable with the way I was beating my body as a means of chasing out mosquitoes. When I checked where my neighbors where seated, they were very comfortable and it was as if they used something to direct the mosquitoes to my positions because they were not feeling it at all. The guy in their midst was with open body and was not putting on sock, yet he's not feeling any mosquito hunt. **Why is mosquitoes not disturbing them?** This question really got me thinking, like, why is it that mosquito select People to bite even when everyone is in the same environment? I've experienced this several times and it makes me to wonder alot. At some point, I assumed because I'm light skinned that's why the mosquitoes come for me because my blood will be easy to extract but....who knows, maybe it's TRUE 🤷 I remember when we were taught in biology about insects, mosquito was among but our mind didn't thougt it far to asked the teacher such question. I really wanna know the reason why, even though I'm sure some of the things I assumed might be true. So I've got some interesting fact to present to us; Scientific research has shown that mosquitoes bite some people more than others for several reasons, including the smells that those people give off, the chemicals on those people's skin and even how much carbon dioxide they emit while breathing. Experts estimate that mosquitoes are highly attracted to about 10 percent of all people, with those people's genetics accounting for about 85 percent of their attractiveness to mosquitoes. Other research suggests that people who are less attractive to mosquitoes emit smells and chemicals that repel the insects. As of 2012, there still was much that was not known about why mosquitoes bite some people more than others and what the people who are bitten more can do about it. **Why Mosquitoes Bite?** Only female mosquitoes bite people. They do it for the blood, which contains protein and nutrients that they need either to produce eggs at all or to produce a larger batch of eggs. Before each time they produce a batch of eggs, they will seek out a blood meal. For regular meals, they feed on nectar and other juices produced by plants. Finding Prey A female mosquito begins locating prey by detecting carbon dioxide, which is emitted by animals when they exhale and through their skin. The mosquito uses an antenna-like structure called a maxillary palp to detect carbon dioxide from as far as 164 feet (50 m) away. At closer distances, it uses a feathery antenna to identify certain chemicals, and its nose is perforated with many tiny holes that the odors in the air can penetrate. After the mosquito has found a concentration of carbon dioxide being emitted by a person, the mosquito's sensory receptors tell it whether the combination of chemicals and odors being emitted by that person make him or her suitable prey. **Substances That Attract** Research suggests that, in addition to carbon dioxide, some of the substances that people produce and that attract mosquitoes are sweat, lactic acid, uric acid and a chemical called octenol. Lactic acid is emitted through the skin, especially during exercise. Uric acid is a product of the body metabolizing certain proteins, and most of it is excreted in urine, but excess uric acid can build up under the skin. Octenol is present in a person's sweat and breath. Some people produce greater quantities of these substances, so mosquitoes bite some people more than others. Very large people and pregnant women generally breathe out more carbon dioxide, so they tend to be bitten more often. People who exercise outdoors produce more lactic acid, sweat more and breathe more heavily, so they also tend to suffer more mosquito bites. Many perfumes and deodorants that people to mask their natural body odors also are believed to be attractive to mosquitoes. **Substances that Repel** Commercial mosquito repellants contain various chemicals — such as N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide, better known as DEET — that are believed to turn away mosquitoes by masking the user's body chemicals or by inhibiting the insects' sensory organs. Some research suggests, however, that certain substances already found on certain people's skin make those people less attractive to mosquitoes. Two such chemicals are known as geranyl acetone and 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one. Scientists have looked into the origin of these chemicals — namely, whether they are produced by the body, obtained from the environment or a combination of those methods. The existence of these chemicals found on some people's skin suggests that mosquitoes bite some people more than others not only because some people are more attractive to mosquitoes, but also because some people naturally repel them. *Credit to the* *source* https://www.nairaland.com/1088095/why-mosquito-bite-some-leave/1#12760343 Thanks for reading 13th March 2022

@Kiingsley 12 March 2022

Why is Age Reduction now Legal? Hello beautiful people! How are you all? Hope we are good? My blog today is something that we are all used to and it's a common practice to almost everyone of us...to the world at large. ***To the motivational speakers,*** they told us that age doesn't count when pursuing a dream, age is just a number that should not be allowed to drag us back. At age 60, you can still make millions to start your own life. At age 70, you can still establish your business and gain your territory. These are their common words from those sectors of motivators. But are these motivational words really true or effective? Yes they are, to some extent but to another level, they are completely wrong. How? Just calm your nerves and read on. To the religious people, they still tell us that age is just a number, birth can still happen when someone is at menopause and "papipause",sing Abraham and Sarah as a case study. A man of 70 can pick up himself and creat his own empire. Are these true? Yeah, they are true! No doubt but to some extent too. How do I mean? Read on. ***To the relationship/Marriage section;*** a lot of people still key in with "*age is just a number"* and go about dating or marrying someone they are younger than or older than. This is more of a personal choice though. To some it works perfectly well while to some others, it'll be like a loosed hell on Earth. I won't be saying much about this🙊. Image source https://unsplash.com/photos/RXnwBfUgwoA **Do you know that using fake age is now almost considered as legal?** This is one of the biggest hidden problem of the world right now, every sector want the younger people and detest the elderly ones. Examples of these sectors are; ***The football world:*** This is the biggest of them all, the age reduction is so obvious that it has gotten a tag already as **"football age".** Image source https://unsplash.com/photos/7TtFv9e35KA In my workplace place, one of the interest the ladies pick when they're forced to watch football with us, is to watch out when a players age is called. They'd laugh out loud whenever the age of a player is mentioned. You'd see a very old man, with signs of old age written over his face and they'd say he's just 21years old 🤣. I don't want to call names of player but we know them, infact all of them are on this table. There's one i saw with his daughter in same Picture, daddy is 21years while daughter is 22years, isn't that wonderful?? I think I know why the reduction of ages legally and officially, their mandate has no room for a certain age of players(at the beginning stage of players). ***The employment sector***; This is another phase that harbors this reduction of age. In my country, there are certain jobs you will not be able to fit in if the age in your paper is above a certain level. Let me break it down a bit, for young graduates going into internship (either banking, engineering etc), once you're above 26years old, you don't just bother to apply, unless maybe you want to tame down your age in paper to make it appealing. I know these companies need younger blood, but do they consider the huddles in schooling? No! We all know the annual ASUU strike in naija? This strike is powerful enough to extend the graduation year of the student,,,,it happens on a regular year. Okay, what about the lock down that extended people's Schooling year? They won't consider that, all they know Is that *"make sure you graduate before 26years".* This is why graduates are now fond of reducing age so as to gain employment and the government is very cool with that. ***The Academic/schooling sector***: We all know that there are some schools or faculties that are strict when it comes to admission or acceptance of students within an age frame. In this case, students that are eager to be admitted but are above the required age would have no option than to reduce the age so as to fit in. Image source https://unsplash.com/photos/AQ908FfdAMw In my country, there's a particular compulsory program for every graduate to serve the country for one year (NYSC), this program comes with a certificate that authenticate graduation, so everyone would want to go even if the age of the student is above the framed age(which is 30years). I know the age frame is fair enough to allow all students to graduate before then but never can tell. Anything can delay someone's academic process. So they tend to beat down their age to be able to go for NYSC. **Reduction of age is somewhat legal now!** Since this is the way the world want it, people are now more interested in reducing their age. Since the government is in support (just look at football), people see it as it's normal. **But what if age reduction is a sin?** Have you ever thought of this? Since we all know they lying is an offense before God and looking at it, faking of age is directly lying. I've thought of it severally and I know that if God is going to punish us via this act of lie, that means 97% of the world are going to be punished. The one that baffles me most is that even the religious sector that are supposed to oppose it are the one engaging in it. Sorry to shock you, I've been in church sector and I've seen alot when it comes to age reduction. Half of all these top clergy and followers have their age reduced. Maybe it's not a sin, maybe it's acceptable to God as it's acceptable to the world. Just maybe. **Is your age reduced?** So sorry if this blog got you thinking about yourself, no hatred at all. I'm just writing as one of the thing i found unclear and yet officially accepted. I know most of us are on the table but it's fine! I'm one of those that don't fancy reduction of age, I'm not saying because of religion or what, I'm totally okay with my age and not ready to adjust the age to gain favour. I sound foolish, right? This is me!🤞 ________ **💚** ___________ *Special thanks to you all, for the support so far. I remember when I started my journey here, I'd look at some people's wall and baffles at the number of subscribers they've got, those grounds kept me moving up and not to give up even when earning dropped.* *I've joined the* ***100Subscribers league*** *and I'm super happy 🤸. Thank you guys for staying with me. Thank you guys for staying with my not-perfect writes. For all your likes, comments, upvotes and sponsorship, I'm most grateful. Thank you* @GarrethGrey07 *for the renewal! God bless you. Amen!* ________ **💚** ___________ ***I finished writing before thinking on a topic, so...🤦🤦*** **Thanks for reading** **12th March 2022**

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@Kiingsley 10 March 2022

"I'm not serving God again" Hello beautiful people! Sup with you all? Hope we're all good? The day went well for me, what a stress-free day! Special thanks to my sponsors ________________________ *"...I ever regret serving God, I'm not serving Him anymore"* This was what she said to me when I called her today, she was lamenting and crying, saying words out of pain. I felt it, I felt how hurt her heart was. She continued... *"Bro Kingsley, why is God treating my like this? Why is God treating me as if I'm serving other gods?"* She kept crying and I tried my best to calm her down. Lead image source https://unsplash.com/photos/7I1wrtRz5QQ That was a woman from my hometown, from same church and from the same Church Unit also way back at home before I left, we all related well and the bond continued after I left. Honestly, I lived a "good boy' life when I was at home and that got me loved by many... I'm still good though, I haven't changed.🤸 She had four beautiful daughters before I left and just early this Month, she lost the youngest of them to the cold hands of death. What happened? Just a night fever💔. The baby girl was about three to five years. When I heard the news I was so heartbroken because this "baby" was one of those babies that never stopped screaming that my Nick anytime I visit home. Not only that, this woman had passed through a lot of challenges that almost cost her life. There was a time her husband had a terrible disease in his scrotum that almost made this woman mad because she was running Helter sketter. That period we prayed all we could and glory be to GOD, he was healed. Not quite long too, she lots her immediate elder sister and that weakened her faith in God but we encouraged her not to give up, "in everything give thanks". That same year year also, she was attacked by group of people (fulani herdsmen) in the bush when she went to farm, luckily she escaped, leaving her motorcycle behind, the people took her bike and till today we never saw the bike. But thank God she escaped death. Mehn she had passed through alot! So the death of her three years old baby got her confused, whether God is really existing. I knew she'd come to this point that's why I was reluctant to call her at the exact time the event occured. When I called her today, she said she's not sure if she's going to continue going to church again because it looks like there's no gain. That if she had been on the WORLD she would have consulted some places(spiritual houses) to know what went wrong but the Christian faith is against that. I tried convincing her that we can't question God, God is seeing everything and he knows the best. This reminds me of the article of **@Kristofferquincy** where he buttressed some points about how the world is being watched by God as if it's game( tap here to read). To be sincere, he made some good points there but what do we know? We can't question God. He's the master planner, He knows what would happen in the next five minutes. https://read.cash/@Kristofferquincy/all-good-and-all-powerful-593db006 I remember Also when I read **@princessbusayo** article about asking God a question, she cooked up a question he'd ask God if she's opportuned, she said she'd ask God why the good ones die early while the wicked once leave to enjoy their lives. (Check here). Bad things happen to the the good ones while the wicked ones receive covers and favours. https://read.cash/@Princessbusayo/what-question-would-you-ask-god-if-given-the-chance-11ea04bd **I call this test of faith.** Yeah, that's what I call it. I'm not saying God gives us these exams to test our Faith but one you must know is that, He can't allow the challenge that would kill you to come your way. Every challenges we have faced or facing have a match with our stand. It's not bigger than you! Why the challenges? Okay letme ask you, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A MOVIE WITHOUT ONE CHALLENGE? The answer is no! The same is how this world is, challenges/problems are part of life, infact life is all about challenges (permit me to put it that way). As we keep growing and advancing, we are bound to meet problems along the way, it's just like game of hurdle, we keep jumping them untill we succeed. Problems are bound to come! ***[If you faint in the days of troubles, that means your strength is small]*** We are encouraged to keep trusting God because He knows the beginning from the end. I know it's hard when we loose a love one but He still demand that act of Trust in Him. Don't divert to other gods because you think GOD is slow to work. Thank you for reading 10th March 2022

@Kiingsley 9 March 2022

Heartbreak served hot Hello beautiful people! Wednesday went well, right? Mine was okay with little of leisures. I'll be talking about breakup stories today and I have a lovely true life experience to share. I love my country so much when it comes break-up stories, I don't think there's any other nation that catches cruise more than us with this subject. Breakup supposed to be an awful event that people cry over it but here in Nigeria, we catch cruise on it even when someone is in pain. I know it's bad but it is what it is. This happening is more like a regular thing here to the extent that we rephrased break-up as **"BREAKFAST"** Why "BREAKFAST"? This is because break-up is somehow unavoidable just like the way one can hardly do without breakfast. You can do without breakfast sometimes and I know but that's on a rare occasion. So Incase you see me using "breakfast" instead of breakup, just know what I mean.🤗 There's a song that's currently trending in naija. The songs says "🎶🎶🎶*Heartbreak is a national cake, it must get to everyone...it has gotten to my guy already🎶🎶🎶"*🤣. ________________________ **The story;** Yesterday around 10:00am, a female friend of mine from the village chatted me up on WhatsApp saying that she needs advise on her relationship state **Cut🎬** *[Have you noticed also that people that are not in any relationship often get called for advice? I have been on this stage since I was in high school, I often get called to give advice and settle relationship issues. I don't know if it's a calling,,,maybe I should consult and see if it's a calling so I'd open a business centre ASAP. Maybe if you have such trait, I'd get you employed 🤪]* Continue📽️📽️ Yeah, she came to me because we are close and I'm the confidential type (why am I sharing here??). She said she's been dating this guy for a long time, they planned to marry last year(November/December 2021), but sickness attacked the guy before then, the guy spent huge amount of money to treat himself medically. And glory be to God, he got healed middle last year (May/June). Meanwhile during the sickness period, the lady was there 24/7 taking care of him. After the sickness was over, they continued their relationship and things were moving fine, untill the girl reminded him of their plans to pursue the wedding agenda. That was when the guy started drifting back. He moved back to Lagos without telling the girl. He was giving her different attitudes of "I don't want again" and the lady understood the signals, called him and asked him why the attitudes. The guy is the simple hearted, he opened up to her that he doesn't want to go into marriage now. Image source https://unsplash.com/photos/I8gQVrDcXzY The Lady became shocked because this was what they had planned already. She took it as maybe it's because of the huge amount of money spent during the sick period that made him to drift his mind from the marriage agenda. She asked him to tell him why and he just said it "he doesn't have money anymore for now to talk about marriage". After she narrated, I asked her some questions which she answered, I asked her how many years or months they've been together and she said 8months. I was shocked after hearing this and I told her that I'm not sure if it's money that's making him not to be interested in the marriage again. I knew the end product but I was careful not to say words that might hurt her. So I told her to speak with the guy again and explain to him to calm down, that if it's money, two of them will plan and work towards it. She called him last night, and she dropped audio (recorded call) last night but I was unable to attend to it because I was busy. This morning when I woke up, I opened the Audio message and all I heard was exactly what I thought might be the problem. Yeah, he said he doesn't want again, he just wanna be a free man. That the marriage issue the girl was always bringing is giving him headache. That he doesn't want anything to do with her anymore, they should just be casual friends on "call"(that means No visitation again). I had to call this lady for a lengthy talk, I tried to calm her down because she was crying. Actually, I was eager to dish out the words from "naija pot" but I decided to stay cool and be a gentle man in order not to increase her pain. Firstly, I gave her hopeful words that she shouldn't give up easily, maybe the guy need a little time to cool off and hopefully he comes back within a short time. He thanked me so much but the other side of me pushed me to unveil the truth to her as it stands. ________________________ **Let's talk a little on this breakup.** Do you think you can avoid break-up? Yes it's avoidable. But how? ***[What you're about to read is based on my own opinion. It may sound bad or tag me with a bad guy vibe but I'm cool and full of calmness,,,I no bad please]*** Firstly, stay off relationship if you are not ready to recieve break-up, because it must surely come. Yeah, just stay off and be happy. Human being are unpredictable. Go into relationship when you're ready to tie the knot. I know it happens in Marriages too but, should I say it's better there? I don't know, but to me I think...(let me reserve the words before I'd face attack). Secondly, if you can't stay off and you wanna mingle, please and be expectant. Yeah, be expectant always so that when it happens you won't feel it much. It's just like knowing that an injection (syringe) is going straight to your soft body. Also, don't put your whole heart. 70%-80% should be enough. I'm not saying you shouldn't be committed, you can be committed with a proper projection of your heart. It's where you project your heart it goes. You should be able to control how your heart works, if you allow the "love is blind" sayings to ovetake you, then be ready to see wonders. Thanks for reading. 9the March 2022

@Kiingsley 8 March 2022

Rant and laughs Hello People! Hope you're all doing good? You should find time to be fine 🙌. Is it only me that find it hard when trying to be a good teacher or preacher in writing? I guess No. Most times it's a big work for when I try to search for something outside my box to write, especially trying to be the an advicer, teacher or instructors just like most of you guys. I like it more when I write my past experiences or on how my day went, and these normally come with loads to unserious talks(jokes). ________________________ I disciplined my mind to write on a something educating but the head has been proving stubborn to bend to it. While making researches, my inner mind was busy telling me to write my "usuals" and go but I stayed deaf and kept making my research. My mind kept dusting me to drop all those heartbreak stories I suffered then but I said No, I have crushes here and they might pick signals that I'm not a good guy. [Hey crush there! I'm the 'gooddest' guy, you'd see when we get closer 🥰]. I'm not writting about HEARTBREAKs! Something told me also to write about my neighbors that quarrelled last week, but it'd be boring because you've heard enough about my neighbors already. But nevertheless, let me just give you a hint about the situation. The two of them (the married woman and the young man that quarrelled) are now best of friends. The woman has started feeding the guy again and for sure, the guy has started dishing out his life history again plus his future plans. I'm patiently waiting for another round of quarrel from them, so would stay in my room to be laughing at the winning bants of the woman against the guy. The guy refused to learn his lessons. ________________________ *"Yeah, I still wanna write an educative article today and I'm not letting that slide off",* I assured myself and I entered nairaland to continue my research and I stumble on sometimes I found interesting. This is; *There was a Bus Conductor, who was Very Rude to his passengers.* *One day, a Beautiful Young Girl of around 18 Years, tried to board the bus, but he didn't stopped the bus. Unfortunately, the beautiful young girl fell under the bus and died on the spot. Angry passengers took the conductor to the police station, who in turn took him to the court.* *The Judge was not at all impressed with him and gave him capital punishment. He was taken to the electrocution chamber. There was a single chair in the center of the room. The conductor was strapped to the chair and high voltage current was given to him. But to everyone's amazement, he survived. The judge decided to set him free, and he returned to his profession.* *A couple of months later, an elderly gentleman tried to board the bus. This time the Bus conductor, remembering his earlier experience stopped the bus. Unfortunately, the elderly gentleman slipped and died due to his injuries.* *The conductor was taken to the police station and then to the court, to the same judge.* *Though, he hadn't done anything wrong, but considering his past record the judge decided to set an example and gave him capital punishment.* *The Bus conductor was again taken to the same electrocution chamber where there was a single chair in the center of the room. He was strapped to the chair and high voltage current was given to him.* *This time he died instantly.....!!!!!* ***The question is why didn't he die on the first occasion..?? but, died instantly the second time....??*** *Okay........ here is the Answer............* *During the first time The Conductor was a* ***Bad Conductor****, therefore electricity didn't pass through him. But, during the second time, he was a* ***Good Conductor****, so electricity passed through him freely and he died !!!!* 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 WHO REMEMBER PHYSICS??? Reference: Nairaland https://www.nairaland.com/3627795/collection-funny-stories#60817276 I know most of you didn't grabbed the whole stuff. Letme teach you science a little bit. **Good conductors** are those materials that allow the passage of at reactions (usually electricity current of magnetic force). Example is an iron, wire etc. **Bad conductors** are those materials that don't allow the passage of current. Example is a plastic, wood, etc So now you know where the DRIVER belongs(good conductor🤣). You gerrit? If you don't gerrit then make research about it.🥱 Sorry for bringing you this rubbish-like blog to read. Pardon. 8th March 2022 Thanks for much @DanLawan for sponsorship renewal. God bless you for me 🙌

@Kiingsley 7 March 2022

Love Text Went Wrong Hello People! Hope you're doing good? The day went well but I was less active here, I was a little bit occupied compared to my usual Monday routine. I got home around 9:00pm, took my bathe and luckily, my brother had prepared a Delicious soup. At first I declined to join him when he called me to join him, that was because I took my dinner at work place. After he was through with his portion, the aroma of the soup couldn't just let me be, so I decided to dish out mine and enjoy. Yeah, the aroma didn't lied, it equalled with the taste. I enjoyed myself. I sat down to think of what to write and suddenly the thought of composing a sweet love SMS (text message) came to my mind. Actually there are these two beautiful ladies I have on my phone that bears the same name, with equal space in my soft heart*. [It's not dating or relationship, I'm just on the process to see...]* ***"Jennifer 01"*** *is more like a distanced friend that we're connected very well..yeah, more like a virtual friend. She lives and study in another state. Are we in a relationship? No! But we talk more like People in a relationship. She's a registered member of this platform but she didn't give a try at all to engage. I like her humor and if distance & Network permits me to meet her, I'm sure something good might come out.* ***"Jennifer 02"*** *is that angel I saw in church and admire so much. She's the opposite of the required spec but her beauty got me magnetized to her. I've shoot my shot but she didn't catch it, she let it slide with "I have a boyfriend". As a persistent guy na, I kept pushing. But one thing I like about myself is that, if I'm trying to give you attention and you're not trying to atleast reciprocate 70%, I back off. "Jennifer 02" loves that my calls and Chats always but she want me to be initiator which I hate. She likes waiting for me after evening church service so we could walk together before she diverts to her direction. But for a week plus, I intentionally stopped calling or chatting because I felt she wasn't reciprocating.* So I have their contacts saved as "Jennifer 01" and Jennifer 02" and I never made mistake calling/texting/chatting them. But today, I thought of the far away Jennifer(Jennifer 01) and felt like putting smile on her face via SMS. I composed the message with heartwarming words and sent to "her". Immediately I clicked on "send", it dawned on me that I sent it to the 'Shakara Jennifer'(Jennifer 02). Lead image from Freepik.com https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/man-keeps-hand-rim-spectacles-stares-smartphone-screen-reads-shocking-news-has-surprised-face-wears-casual-checkered-shirt-isolated-white-looks-smething-amazing_20745487.htm#query=Guy%20surprised%20on%20phone&position=21&from_view=search I supposed to feel somehow or awkward but I busted into laughter 🤣🤣. I never believed I would do this kind of thing in my little years of being "clean". I'm not that kind of guy that plays very well in such game.🤗 After the laughter, I gave it a deep thought also that I just broke my rule of not calling, texting, or chatting "Jennifer 02" for a whole month. Now once she receive the SMS, she'd be thinking that I couldn't stay without hearing from her for a long while. To make my conscience clear, I forwarded the message to the real owner. I'm not expecting any reply from both but I know that the stubborn Jennifer would be looking out for me anytime to get clearer "the message you sent". Where are my guys in the house? I mean "the real correct guys" that know how to dribble ladies like Ronaldo. Have you ever experienced this kind of occurrence? Please tell us on the comment section. The ladies, please tell us if you've experienced this too. Thanks for reading 7th March 2022. ***This article is short because sleep was calling my whole body and I need to answer the call.***

@Kiingsley 6 March 2022

Sunday Rambles Hello People! I'm sure you enjoyed your Sunday to the fullest. Mine was as usual, choked up with work and ended with less leisure time to engage here. But I thank because I covered up to 30%. I know I haven't checked your recent article yet, just give me a little time and I'd be there. My Sunday started as usual, woke up very early to have enough time to prepare for church in order not to be late, but as usual, I got to church 2minutes late...I can't just help myself on this lateness issue again. We closed from church and I moved straight to workplace. I got there and meet all the staffs available except one lady that went to her boyfriend's house to spend the weekend. I knew that when she returns she'll have alot to say about her journey, how the **play part** went and how she switched her phone to airplane mode in order to dodge calls from her sugar Daddy. Yeah, you heard it right. She has a sugar daddy that foots her bill while the main/temporal boyfriend is enjoying a stress-free life. The sugar daddy has a wife that's always hunting this girl but she wouldn't listen. I better stop this one here... Work was moving smoothly, customers were trooping in to feel the excitement of Sunday and when it got to football match time, I went to the office to change the Channel and ofcourse the ladies lamented but I didn't give a damn. We enjoyed watching the two premier league matches of the day with outmost excitement. I love how my **being** is, I don't support clubs to heart, so I find it so easy to laugh at any loosing team. Hello! I didn't said I laughed at the team the lost today🤪. The match lasted till around 7:00pm and the ladies started distubing for a change of Chanbel so they could watch NIGERIA IDOL. I refused to change because I was not ready to disturb myself. They reported to the manager and manager still insist that if I can't change it for them, then it's going to be like that, OR they should bribe me. I can't be bribed by those people, so I remain adamant. After a while of pleading, the manager saw the pity and he took the key to the office to change it for them. Our Nigerian ladies like AFRICA MAGIC Channels! I got home around 9:00pm so tired, all my plan was to take a shower first before I'd seat to compose the article for day. I took my bathe within some Minutes and I felt refreshed, I sat down to meditate on what to write on but nothing came out of my 'blocked head'. Does it mean I'm missing a day already so soon? I pondered and decided to just write anything at all because it's too early to start keeping losses(losses of not writing per day). I Checked all channels I could but nothing seemed interesting to my mind. "Yes, let me give up for the day" I Concluded and I was about to lock my door when noise from the lounge close to my house became intensed and alarming. It was all about a boy that stole an iPhone from the people that came to chill out. They caught him and the guy that his phone was stolen used planck to wipe sense into his brain. The boy ran and he still pursued him because he wasn't done with the beating. *The boy in question should be around 15-17years. They are five in number that lives around the lounge. They behave like they don't have home to sleep, maybe it's true, they are homeless or maybe they ran out of their parents house to come and be sleeping in any open store around the vicinity. I know why they always love stay around the place,THEY LIKE TO PICK MONEY SPRAYED BY INTERNET FRAUDSTERS.* So the guy pushed him and caught him again, this time planck was no longer interesting to him, he looked out for a bottle and was ready to Peirce the boy when he got a bottle. That was when people that were supporting him for beating the boy turned against him instantly. They held the guy and collected the bottle from him. He became so angry that he started fighting the people separating him. The people insisted that the guy must take the boy to treat. The boy was bleeding terribly already. The boy was later rushed to the nearest chemist shop for treatment. Time was 11:30pm when all these things were happening and it looked like it's normal Afternoon. The noise woke my brother from his deep sleep. Thank God the boy wasn't killed because police would come and raised everyone in the vicinity. But thank God also that the boy was beating too, he deserved it.🤗 Where is sleep? Time is 12:29am and the eyes are not ready to be closed, the noises from the environment is making the brain feels it's day time. Disadvantage of residing in such environment.. I have to force myself to sleep because I have a long day tomorrow. Thank you for Reading. So sorry for bringing this topic today, I promise to come up with something different 6th March 2022 Lead image from Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/hfvFunLkFgg

@Kiingsley 5 March 2022

Know Me More Greetings to you all! Hope your Saturday went well? Mine was fine as usual but it was full of stretches because of 'BUSYness". Today being Saturday, I had less leisure to read and comment on Articles here, but thank God I was able to cover up to 50%,,,, that's a pass mark. Among other things, weekends are days fill of excitement with regards to football matches. I know that I can't completely stay off from the weekend Premier league, even though I don't want to watch because the club I love to see them play are not playing, I'd still be magnetized to watch. Do I even support a particular club? A big No!🤪. I read the article of **@Ling01** and I decided to write mine because my brain is absolutely not ready to think of any good subject now. So it's idea for my brain to follow this easy topic. It's about questioning and answer. Let's go ****Have you ever had a nickname?**** During secondary school days, I suffered a lot of bullies due to my nature of light skinned and slim nature. And these shameful events generated many funny nicknames. I used to fight and battle with anyone that called me those names then. One thing about bullying is that, once you're reacting to it, the people involved increases their tempo. During secondary school we had a principal(head of school) that had a touch inhis mental system, to the extent that he talks anyhow and behave like a child, so because he has same complexion with me(mine is better than his thought), they generated a name from there and attached to mine. Anytime I hears someone calls me that would lead to straight fight(word fight). That made me a little bit popular in the class too. Another funny again is that, it was Low elself extreme that was dealing with me then, I now realized that I'm very okay & handsome _______________________ **My Nickname**: Yeah, I have a nickname that I didn't give myself but rather was initiated by a group of Lovely People I found myself in their misdt. I've come to love the nickname because even little children that knows me in that environment add "Uncle" to it when calling me.[ **Apostle K | Uncle Apostle K ]** Let me not say about its origin in order not to make this parth lengthy. ________________________ ****What are your hobbies?**** Before now I used to love anything travelling, that's usually my number one hobby. But the story changed when I embarked in series of long journey. The first was during my NYSC that I used to travel to the Eastern part of Nigeria from the south. And another one was when I first traveled to Lagos. Mehn! Lagos's journey made me to finally loose interest in travelling. The endless traffic jam in a congested bus without AC. Although I used the normal cheap means of transportation, but that's like the average because it's not always one would have money to travel in a VIP style. I used to fancy art/drawing before now but I don't know what happened, seems breeze blew it away from my brain. **So what's my hobby?** I love food, yeah I love eating. Also I love to swim alot. Growing up In a place that has river got me acquainted with swimming. I remember days when we used to run competition in rivers on who swim faster or who goes deeper inside the deep. The way I love swimming ehn made my friends to think that I'm related to "Mami water" (mermaid🤣), especially when my complexion is light like that of them...we believed that mermaids are fair in complexion.🤗 ________________________ ****What is your favourite childhood memory?**** This thing I'm about saying is not supposed to be favourite but since I'm grown, I laugh so much whenever I remember it. Okay, during childhood days I was so shy that I don't like saying things concerning marriage or relationship. I was about 10-13years then, if you want to find my trouble, just tell a girl to call me "my husband" and watch world war lV. I cried and fought alot because of this issue. But now that I'm ready to mingle and welcome relationship I can't find anyone to call me that again🤭🤭🤭. ________________________ ****What was your first work/job?**** My first job was a secretary/account clerk in our church at home and they paid well for the position. I was incharge of the office work, I handled all the money that entered the system, I was the P.A to the pastors that they transferred to the station, they almost made me a pastor but my head no gree🤪....that was where the "Apostle K" came from. I did the work and saved for my school. ________________________ ****What's your favorite game/sport to play or watch?**** If it's not football then it can't be any other sport. I've come to love football so much that there are particular matches I can't miss. The best thing about me is that, I don't die for what people trip for in football, I'm not a fan of these international league matches, I'm not Chelsea or Man U, I'm just everywhere like MTN🤪. I'm more like a local football lover, I love more when countries are involved and I love to support the super Eagles anywhere anyday. Yeah, we loose alot but that's where my adrenaline goes up when playing. The just Concluded AFCON2021 was so entertaining even though luck was not our side. Now we're waiting for the biggest tournament of the world #Qatar2022. The final playoff for the qualification in Africa is coming up in two weeks time and Naija is ready already. By the way, the club I often support is Leicester City. The foxes ________________________ I'm such a talkative, the question and answer is not supposed to be long like this but words in my head wouldn't allow me to stop. I beg to stop here because if I should continue, it'll lead to another lengthy lines. Thanks for reading 5th March 2022 Lead image from Unsplash.com https://unsplash.com/photos/S3hhrqLrgYM

@Kiingsley 4 March 2022

Do You Joke At All? Happy weekend People! How is it going over there? I'm too sure that all is well. Today being Friday went well for me, I had all the time to read and comment on articles here. I even shifted to Facebook to have a nice time visiting my favorite skit creators. The thing is that it when it comes to comics, I'm completely different compared to the actors that others trip for. I love my own local & real and not some that goes Shady to tag foreign creators just be came they want to be "universe". I was watching one when I bursted into deep laughter and it really got people's attention🤣. In this world, there's no thing as sweet as getting relieved by catching cruise or swimming in the pools of laughter. When the heart is merry, the whole system adjust to soundness and makes a healthy living. There's a portion of the book that says.**"A merry heart works like a medicine"** that's to say, the merriment of the mind heals the whole body just the way medicine works in our body. I've come across all manners of people, the ones that jokes and and laugh at any moment as if they took **nitrogen ll oxide** (laughing gas) and this makes me wonder if they have problem in their lives at all. I've met the completely opposite side, those that don't find anything interesting. Sometimes I used to think it's because of life problem that made them different but looking very well, it's just their nature. I want to ask, **DO YOU JOKE AT ALL?** Or you are among those that give Maximum attention to life and find the things that make ordinary people to laugh, displeasing? Let me tell you the kind of people I've met that got me wondering. **I DON'T LIKE STICKERS OR EMOJI🙄😍** Image source https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/world-smile-day-emojis-arrangement_16138147.htm#query=Emoji&position=29&from_view=search Have you come across these set of people that hate anything emoji and detest stickers? I've met series of them in the chatting line that anytime I give them a "🤣", that would be the end of the conversation. What's the problem? Like, what's conversation without emoji or sticker? Chat would be boring! I remember when I was having a chat with a female friend, we were talking about random things and I kept giving her stickers, I was surprised when she asked me to stop using emoji because it's making me look like a child! Oh My God! I boldly told her that if using emoji will turn me into a baby, I'd jump on it and infact become a three years old baby. She blocked me because I didn't stopped, with the mind to unblock me later. Well, I blocked her that moment too and when it was time for her to unblock me, she noticed that I blocked her. She get to call for unblocking🤪. Do you hate emoji or stickers? You don't know what you are missing by not using emojis or stickers. Do you know that emojis or stickers are easily used to cover up some things you can't say out while chatting? Let me shock you, I've worn hearts by the usage of stickers and emojis, I love to flow with anyone that's on that lane🤸🤸🤸. **I DON'T LIKE MEMES, COMEDY SKITS OR JOKES:** Come on, tell me which of these you don't like. If you've been following me you'll know that I'm the type that like jokes alot, my article can't be complete without a jot of joke or something that'll make you Laugh or smile while reading. This is my person, I love things that ignites joy into my heart always. I've met people that find it awkward to laugh on things that make others to crack out ribs. Some people find memes as childish and so find it irritating. What of comedy skits? A lot of people find it odd too maybe it's because of what they believe as regards to religious beliefs. I've met people also that all they do or say is always serious about life and the people around them find it hard to chip in jokes to their words. I'm sure you have people like that around you,,, they're everywhere. One thing you must know is that, even if you do enjoy laughing moments with your family, there are times that you'll be alone and maybe bothered with a thought, and you need to laugh out the stress at that moment, there are lots of things online to trigger your luaghter, you mustn't wait for a physical personal to be the only one to cheer you up. That's why we have memes, skits and comedy jokes to do justice to the bugging mind. I've read a lot of articles here that always make me laugh and I rush to read any of their writes because I know there's always something to trigger up laughter there. **I DON'T DANCE** Image source https://unsplash.com/photos/6Woj_wozqmA I'm not gonna judge here because not everyone of us knows how to dance but don't you think you should atleast shake your body occasionally? Although I'm not the dancing type but once in a while I find myself shaking my legs while a sweet sound is being played. Someone would ask, what does dancing has to do with joke? Yeah, let me tell you, there are people that take dancing as a thing of play or childish, you can't find them in any dancing mood, even when everyone is jubilating and jumping they'll still stand still, looking at everyone with a weird look. I know I'm not the dancing type but I don't fail to shake my body whenever I'm in church. Wait! It seems that's the only place I usually dances🤪. Yeah won't blame me, I can't remember the last time I attending a party that the floor was open for dance. ________________________ Life is full of struggles and everyone is striving to survive but that doesn't mean we should kill ourselves with the thought of life. Once in a while relieve the bugging thoughts in your mind and laugh out loud. Laughter gaurantees long life. Maybe you're the type that don't fancy the comic trends of this era, it's good you adjust and flow with us. Maybe it's life troubles that have made you to detest jokes and laughter, you are always thinking about how to do this and that, my dear OVERTHINKING NO FIT SOLVE PROBLEM (overthinking can not solve problem), think less and laugh more. Thanks for reading. 4th March 2022 .

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@Kiingsley 3 March 2022

They came for the food Hello People! It's Thursday afternoon here(the time of writing) and the sun is doing what it knows how to do best. I felt the hotness of the sun when I went outside to wait for a bus bringing us a product and I couldn't just bear it, I felt like my skin was burning. To a certain point I checked my skin to see if it has turned black already. Lol. You won't blame me, I've been staying indoors with my fair complexion 🤦. Thank you 💌 Before today, we received a letter from a health body that they'd be coming to inspect our company as regards to hygiene and standard of practice. They issued some processes the company must meet before they come which include making all the chefs and the kitchen assistant to go get their original blood and genotype certificates. Thank God they did include taking the covid-19 vaccine, my people here would stop work or forge a fake report on that, trust me, none of them would be willing to take the vaccine. Image source https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/medical-healthcare-system-protection-shield-background-design_7551053.htm#query=Health%20safety&position=37&from_view=search Since the day they dropped the later, our manager has been coughing out series of works from every corner, engaging us in every angle not minding if this is a kitchen work or not. He'd call anybody to put this and that in order, getting ready for the day of inspection. He pleaded to all of the cooks to go for their certificates which he sponsored them with transport fare too. They submitted the certificates to my custody and I neatly filled them waiting for the D-day. Not that the manager was afraid of them, he's just trying to make everything cool to avoid unnecessary wasting of time when they come. He called all the staffs yesterday for a brief talking and told everyone of us to behave well in terms of being on their required wears(handgloves and hair covers-cap). I wasn't having any problem with the instructions he gave because I'm just free being as all that concerns me is money. Today being the D-day, we resumed work and as usual, boss instructed some of us to run a final check & clean up and put things in order. To be sincere, I've not seen the kitchen as neat as it was today for a very long time. Everywhere was sparkling as if diamond was used in painting the wall and covering the floor. They supposed to come by 12noon(as their letter stated) but they came by 10:00am and our boss was not around. They entered and walked straight to my direction thinking I'm the boss, yeah, they looked well because I don't often put on company's shirt and I dress like a boss often🤭. We exchanged pleasantries and they asked if I'm the boss and I told them that the boss is not around that they should sit while I put a call through to the manager. I called the manager and he told me to inform them to sit and wait for him because they came before the time they fixed. They agreed and felt relaxed on the big sofa, under the exact spot of AC. I looked very well and I observed that one of them used come on to check the standard of the company(I'm sure that's on a personal level) and the manager usually dodge her because free food was all she come for. Seeing the woman among them, I knew that once we gave them a bottle of soft drink, they'd forget what they came for.🤪. I know what I'm saying. Few minutes, my boss called and told me to arrange a little refreshment for them while they wait for him. I did as was instructed and gave them the refreshment and they thanked me so much for treating them good. Yeah, I took the glory. Lol🤪. Manager came and within five minutes they were done with the investigation. Manager walked down to my desk to collect $4 to give to them as transport fare. And I asked him why were they going so soon or did they forget their documents at the office, he laughed and said they are done with the inspection. Haaaa! ***Me:*** *But they didn't checked anything nor moved away from their table, not to talk of entering the kitchen.* ***Manager:*** *The refreshment you gave them made them to cancel all the checks they were supposed to do.* This is Funny! They left like that without doing what brought them to the place. What would they write in their reports? That's how the system of my society is, just a little gratification and you are good to go. The system is more concerned of the stomach and not considering the due service to be rendered. This is almost in every sector of the society. I remember the days of school when some staffs that where incharge of authenticating some payment receipt and preparing final results on certificates would collect Money to sell out a good grade just because they're in power to write it. You've not seen? Yeah, my friends then bought good grades on the spot of issuance of certificates. Should we talk about the police? This is a full article on it's own, I better not open that chapter now. Thanks for reading 3rd March 2022

@Kiingsley 2 March 2022

Look-alike Trouble Hello People! Greetings to you all. Hope you're all good? The day has been a good one and enough free period to surf the net. The ladies were seeing a movie in Africa magic this morning and their noises got my attention because they were on the top of their voices shouting at the movie characters, I got to turn and see what's up and I found out that the movie was all about what I encountered some years ago while I was serving my country in the Eastern part of Nigeria. That was 2019, I and my group were on a community development service(CDS) and we decided to visit one of the biggest hospitals in the LGA to pray and encourage the patient not to give up, as long as they are still alive, there's hope for recovery to sound health. Image source https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/hospital-isometric-icons-set_2871060.htm#query=Hospital%20ward&position=39&from_view=search We got there and took permission from the doctor incharge and of course we were allowed into the wards. We were on a recognized uniform so that made it easier for their acceptance. We entered and met lots of sick people in the ward, we divided ourselves and I led a group. To be sincere, some kind of sicknesses we saw gave us double thought whether to pray or not, I felt a little shaky when it's time to lead prayer....that was bridge of faith. It normally occurs but when you know that you're not the one to do the HEALING, you pray out your heart and let the HEALER to do His work. Yeah, we prayed. We entered a ward that contained People that have appendicitis issues. Some just finished their operation while some were to be do their operation. We prayed and related well with them and I found that one was serving (NYSC) in my own state(Delta State), in my own very community. He said he had to come down to his own place for the appendicitis operation. I was so touched knowing that he was serving in my own state and community while I was serving in his own state and community. So I promised to come and check on him again in a day time. The problem🦵 That was on Thursday, so on Saturday I and my friend (Ayo) returned back to the hospital to check on the guy, we got there and we found out that the guy was no longer there. We called him and he told us he was discharged earlier that morning. That was a big goodnews! So we decided to stay, pray and relate with the patience in the ward. The new patient occupying the guy's bed was an accident victim, the bruices and flesh tearing was weird to behold. We were about to leave when he signaled his mum to hold me hostage, that I was the one that knocked him down with my bike. Wtf! Image source https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/person-lying-ground-after-car-accident_18946835.htm#query=Accident%20victim&position=12&from_view=search The mom blocked our way and tried to explain to us what the son just said. We laughed so loud that it got the attention of other patients in the hall. We asked him(the boy) how, and when did I hit him, he explained that I hit him and ran off with my bike. So funny! We were running out of time because we had functions to attend at Church, so when we insisted that we have heard enough and we want to go, the woman blocked us again, insisting that we must wait and meet the boys uncle's that was on his way coming. We didn't know that they've called their people already that they've seen the reckless bikeman that knocked down their child. Wtf! I picked it from there and gave them a warning in a harsh tone. "For what? If I was the one that knocked down your son, would I be here presenting myself?". I was burning within already and I was about to make call when Ayo told me to calm down, let him handle the case. **[By privilege, I was occupying an important position in the LGA that once I put on a call, the state body would be aware and respond immediately].** Ayo calmed me down and suggested we should wait for the so called uncle. Not quite long the uncle appeared, I was expecting to see a military man 🤣, but I saw an old man with umbrella. At first he was shocked to see us to be corpers but he stylishly kept his cool. He came closer and we greeted, he asked the boy to explain what happened again and the boy said the same thing without fear. The man picked it up from there that he's going to call the police ASAP. Ayo helped me to maintain my calmness again and talked some good sense into him. After a series of questioning by Ayo to the man, he comprehend all and realized that the injury the boy had, might have affected the memory of the boy and he allowed us to go. We left the scene after a peaceful talk with the man, which he apologized for the harassment. ****What is it my lookalike??**** Lead image source https://unsplash.com/photos/T3KS5s25jyc Maybe it was my lookalike that hit the boy and ran away. But must my lookalike be in that community? I know they say we have a replical of us somewhere but must mine be in that community. I Wanted to know/see the lookalike but I never had the chance. Maybe the injury affected the guy's memory and he took me for another person. Imagine him saying I run a commercial motorcycle when I don't even own a bike. Lol🤣🤣 The uncle later met us one day during our monthly clearance at the LGA, he saw me addressing my people and he came and pleaded to give him an opportunity to apologise to the whole house for the harassment given to me that day. ________________________ Things like this happens and we pray it doesn't meet us at a situation where we are handicapped to save ourself from the mess. The movie they were watching that led to this, was a typical example of what happened to me. A yound man committed crime and ran away to another country, the police were looking for him and they stumbled on his LOOK-ALIKE. The man was apprehended and was terribly tortured to confess but he kept telling the police that he knew nothing about the person in question. Trust the judgement of the police na, they didn't bothered to run necessary test to clarify, all they were interested was on beating the young man to the point he would agree to their terms. The film ended well because the main suspect was later apprehended and the other one was discharged. **Thank you for reading 💚** **2nd March 2022**

@Kiingsley 2 March 2022

Many thanks to @Theblackdoll for renewal of sponsorship. What a good day!

@Kiingsley 1 March 2022

No Better "Last Month" It's a New Month! Glory be to God for always keeping us alive to keep clocking days, weeks, months and years. He is Just too good! Since yesterday I've been reading blogs on summary of engagements and achievements for the month of February 2022. When I first joined this platform, those posts on achievements encouraged me alot and they're still encouraging me not to give up. But have I done a monthly summary once? A big No to this question. I don't know why but I fancy reading other people's success. Maybe I'm scared to see where I'm failing, just may be🤗. In a bid to track records, I initiated the idea of checking my achievements last month, which I recorded and kept it to myself, waiting for this last month (February) to come to an end so I could checkmate and see whether it was a win or a loose. Another thing again is that, I find it hard too to make an open regulation/targets to myself. Things like, giving myself an open target to publish an article per day or targeting an earning target for the month. It's not like I hate this pattern but I just don't want to give myself a high BP. Lol🤣. It's better I control it within, than to say it out and the let the globe witness it. I know nobody is gonna flog me when I fail to meet the target but I know my mind won't allow me to be in peace. Letme go with the common pattern you guys use here, equating my achievements/engagement with what I had in the month of January. ****Number of articles**** From the very first day I joined this platform, I placed a target to be publishing one article per day, just like the common pattern here. That's to say, everyday of the month must have its writes. Under normal circumstances I know this will be hard for me to cope considering my move-around (work), but I still decided to go with that, and did it in a way that it won't bugg my soft mind with thoughts incase I missed. I glanced through my Articles and I found out that I almost made it to COMPLETE but three days slipped off. I remember those three days of tiredness and writer's block saga. But it's fine. My brain needed to relax. ****Earning**** I don't feel like discussing this but it has happened. I had a very low earning in the month of February 2022. January was far better to February but no issues at all. I'm very grateful for the one I've got. If market goes up right now and BCH enters $1,000/BCH, .......*your thought is very low to what I'd do right now.🤭.* I had difficult days that I found tough engaging in this platform and I think that's why rusty reduced its outstretched hands to my account. But it's fine too, this new month gonna be good and better. Amen! ****Sponsorship**** Yeah, I'm lagging in this area, both getting new sponsors and sponsoring others. I'm still maintained my generous sponsors I had in the month of January and I also began my SPONSORSHIP JOURNEY last month. Number and amount not mentioned,,,yeah I'm lagging here. ****Engagement (Reading, commenting and upvoting):**** I've seen people promising themselves to read atleast 10articles per day. And I always wonder, you mean just 10 articles a day? I'm very far from this, I should be talking about 30+ per day. I don't keep count but I'm sure I read, comment and upvote with any little time I have, I do that till me eyes start giving me strain. So I'm still good here, especially when the number of subscribers is increasing. ****Subscribers**** Yeah, I took a count at the end of January and I gave myself a target to meet. I met it and surpassed it. Thanks to you guys for coming, staying and not leaving my wall. A better March for us There's a saying that I'm used to, it says; ***"No Better Last Year"*** ***"No Better Last Month"*** ***"No Better last Week"*** ***"No Better Yesterday"*** Yes, I believe that what's coming is always better to what has arrived. Last month was good and I'm too sure that this month will be better in all ramifications. But that doesn't not mean I'd fold my hand and watch the magic perform itself, ofcourse i will seat up and be up to task to see the miracles. **Happy new month once again!** **Thanks for reading** **1st March 2022** Lead image from Unsplash.com https://unsplash.com/photos/hSB2HmJYaTo

@Kiingsley 28 February 2022

Did My Brain Rested? Hey People! How is it going over there? It's been tough for me since Saturday and that has pushed me off from this platform for a day, or was it two days?🤭 Saturday's afternoon, I received a call from a customer asking if his clothes were ready and I told him I'd make it ready before the next day(Sunday). To be sincere, I gave him a false hope because I had no plan of stressing my myself when I get home that night. He agreed and pleaded that I should by all means get one pair ready for him because he'd be using it for church the next day. Although I've washed the clothes, it's just ironing (pressing) that's left and the public light system has been not been supportive... that's the only means I use in ironing 🤗. I closed from work around 9:10pm so tired and all I was seeing was just me on my soft bed, I wasn't prepared to iron clothes when I get home, because if I'd do, I'll be using the long process(cooking gas method) to iron the clothes (if there's not electricity). On my way going home, I was searching all houses along the way to make sure there's no electricity and yes, there was no light and joy filled my heart. *[I'm not wicked, I just love it when I'm going home at night and notice that there's no light. It's favourable to me when I have works that I don't want to do at that particular period,,but if there's light, my mind would not allow me to rest... I'll later work that night no matter what].* I got home, took my bathe and just sitting down to read articles and reply comments on my previous article, **LIGHT CAME**. **OMG!** My brother was so happy seeing the light and he quickly rushed to plug his phone and laptop while I was still sitting, feeling like a frustrated soul. Time was almost 10:pm already and I knew that.....if I should start ironing, I'm Sure going to deprive myself sleep and I need to wake up the next day by 5:00am to prepare for church. The thought of being a "good business guy" pushed me up to iron the clothes. Yes, I don't like disappointing clients. I began to iron, I tried to be fast but my whole being was call for sleep. I thought of means to get motivated and only music entered my mind. I Searched for a hot Jamz(song) that would get me motivated to keep doing it without getting tired because it seemed I'm spending the whole night pressing clothes. I remembere one "shout artist"(musician) that I used to vibes on his songs way back 2014. I downloaded his mixtape and it really gave me moral because I was reminiscing the old days. The musician has a popular line that goes like this **"🎶🎶You can only run pass ....., when you run mad🎶"** Lol. If you know the name of the artist, please drop it in comment(Nigeria People only).The music almost made me to burn some clothes🤣. I finished the process around 1:30am, I opened readcash to atleast to engage a little before I sleep, I was able to reply comments on my previous article, read some articles and before I knew it, I saw myself in a Dreamland. I woke up exactly 5:10am with the sound of my alarm, rushed to do my things and waited for the day to brighten up so I could deliver the clothes to the clients before going to church. I don't know what happened, I saw myself just few minutes to service time and I was still at home, "no be juju be that" (shocked). I ran quickly to the man's house, dropped the clothes without delay, and took off to Church from there. Lead image source https://unsplash.com/photos/SRhqHvdotuI Church went well and I really enjoyed serving my God in his House again. I closed from church and moved down to workplace direct. And as usual, it's always tough for me to concentrate here on Sunday because of high inflows of customers. The few times I had to engage here were used by my brain to think of what to write, I tensed my brain to come up with something but nothing came out. I decided to postpone writing till in the evening time but hell no, I still could not come up with something when it got to the evening time. I decided to let the poor brain be, it has been working for me for the past months, so not functioning for one day wouldn't be bad. Time got to 5:30pm and I joined in watching Chelsea and Liverpool match and it really relaxed my brain. Chelsea People should take heart. I wish I could get in touch with "**Kepa"** to tell him to be strong because people will throw awful words to him. I really felt for the keeper. After the Match I still couldn't come up with a write, I was just demotivated to visit here. When i got home I went straight to bed. My brain and eyes need to rest too! Now, is my head back? Lol🤣. It's still as it was since yesterday, not wanting to read or write, but I must conquer it because I need money. Yeah, I don't want to go on break again...I need money! **Thanks for reading** **28th February 2022** ***So sorry for not visiting you all these while. Thanks for understanding***

@Kiingsley 26 February 2022

Know Your Boundaries Greetings to you all! How is it going? Hope you're all good? A big thanks to you all for staying with me this far, especially in this period that I've been off and on(in terms of engagement here). Thank you🙏 When it comes to the matter of one stepping on your toes, closeness or relationship must be in place first. This is because it's completely impossible for people you don't know to step on your toes. I'm not talking about just merely knowing but a little touch of relationship attached. Talking about this ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, the war didn't just started like that, relationship (either good or bad) must have been in place that triggered enmity between the too countries. Does it mean that other countries like my dear nation don't know about Russia?, we know them but... In this life, stepping on someone's toes or being stepped upon can not totally be avoided unless you are not really relating with people. Can you leave without mingling with people? I guess no, so we should be expectant of this always as it can come anytime. Even in the digital world, you can step on someone's toes when there have been a connection. So maybe if you are saying you're gonna stay off people in your workplace to avoid this issue, are you gonna stay off People in social media life to avoid it too? You'd end up putting yourself in a lonely zone. I'm very sure some people here have had bants and quarrel because of closeness with someone you met here. I remember when I was leading a group of people, there was this lady that's always bringing up difficult works for the group and it got people to hate her. She's the second in command and I was working under her based on the hierarchy of the system(mine was on another sector). Everyone hated her what she normally does and this became a big problem because people displays the hatred on her face without giving a damn on how she feels. She oftentimes come to me crying and reporting on how they're treating her, telling me to tell my people on to see stop seeing her as evil. I felt bad for her because all that work she normally bring are not her own, but an instruction from the boss, the masses know all these but the lady is expected to liaise with the boss and cut off some but she never did, and on the day of the work, anyone that didn't come would be marked black, and that usually result in payment of fine or being punished. I called a meeting one evening and assembled all the people (yeah, corpers) and explained this fact to them, that all that's happening is just because of relationship. That this hatred on the lady wouldn't have happened if we are far off. The lady was ready to make peace with all of them and 90% of the people were concurring and seeing facts to welcome her back till when 1% among the remaining 10% raised a voice and fight bursted. I left the simple 'peace call' I initiated to settle a hot fight 🤣. ________________________ Have you seen where a girl broke a guy's heart without them knowing? That's impossible! Closeness is what brings all these. Lead image source https://unsplash.com/photos/eZtLqACNlbM I mentioned in my previous articles about meeting my neighbors having a serious quarrel one night when I got home from work. Let me tell you,,, when I told them to explain what caused the issue, they said many things and one the things mentioned involved all occupants of the compound including me (on not treating the compound well). None of them was able to meet or confront me on why I've not been doing this or that in compound, but these two decided to kill themselves with bants. Do you know why? They've been so close and I knew one day their too much bondness as neighbors would result to something like this. I'm not saying the way they were living was bad but i found it not cool for a young man(the guy) to be staying and gisting always with the woman(she's married and lousy). The woman cooks and serves this young man and while he's eating, he tells this woman all about his life...I found it so disgusting. When they were exchanging words(during the quarrel), the woman opened all the records that the guy had told her and was releasing the information to outside People one after the other and this really got the guy mad😡. That day, I wanted to tell him to reduced the so called bondness but it'll look like I'm telling him how to live his life. But thank GOD, he has decided to adjust on his own without letting anyone telling him, the problem is that he took the wrong path. He had been keeping Malice with the lady and the husband 🤣. They've been keeping Malice for a week and when I returned from work yesterday, I greeted him and he went straight to report the woman's attitude to me, saying that the woman is still saying things about him to her customers that came to buy things. He was filled with anger saying his mind to me. I tried to calm him down that he's a man and not all things he hears should bother him. **Lesson:** What's the essence of these stories? It's good to relate with people and make friends but please always put boundaries to avoid some unnecessary issues with these people. It helps you also not to step on someone's toes. In my compound, I relate with my neighbors but not to a certain level. It's usually mere greetings and little exchange of ideas and that's the end. I've studied them and I know that once I give to too much familiarity, they'll take opportunities. Thank God I don't even stay much, they see me only at night. ***Know your boundary when you're familiarizing 🙋.*** Thanks for reading 26th February 2022

@Kiingsley 25 February 2022

I followed the glittering path Good Friday morning to you all (yeah it's morning at the time of writing this). I'm sure you're all good. I haven't been up to task here as I ought to, and that's because I've been highly engaged offline. It happens like that often. The few free times I had yesterday to really stay long here was used for something I thought that worth it. I belong to Whatsapp group where we talk about MONEY making platforms and oftentimes we hit it hard when a good opportunity comes out. Since we don't fancy Ponzi anymore, we shifted to affiliate programs and survey which is very hard to get good ones. Two days ago, the admin posted a survey platform with the payment is via PayPal or gift card. The survey questions were not hard to answer, the only major work there is to be active and answer as many as you can, because the more you answer, the more your point increases and the quicker the your withdrawal. Upon seeing this sweet medium to make a quick money, I jumped into it with full force, I introduced the platform to my group and they all showed interest and that night alone, I got 5referals(referal boost earning too). The time demand was just to much to stay on the site, so we all got tired after getting to a certain points and zoomed off to sleep. We woke up(yesterday), and continued grinding, answering questions and increasing wallet. My referal number increased to 8referals and I was happy because I'm about to cashout 🤸. The guy that brought the info never seized to share screenshot of his attainment level and that for sure boosted our moral. At a certain point I remembered that time has gone and I haven't visited readcash yet with the few time I have had as leisure, but I shouldn't be bothered because what I'd make from the survey should be able to cover for five days grinding in readcash, so I fastened up and kept answering surveys with every opportunity I had. The admin(the guy that brought the platform), posted his screenshot again that he's about withdrawing because he's gotten the to WITHDRAWAL limit, we all became Happy because once they pay him, that will surely boost us to do more. We waited for his payment for hours and nothing happened and we all got demotivated at this moment, no one was willing to do again. *"But they said they have paid People and they are paying, what's keeping them from paying this guy?"* We all lamented but we couldn't do anything. Time wasted! Not quite long, a loan app that once did a referral program was announced that they are back with high percentage of referal pay. Before it was N500 and now increased to N1,000 per referal. That's to say, if you happen to refer up to 10persons, you're taking N10,000 instantly. Who doesn't like this kinda thing??? We jumped into it directly and we began to hunt for referrals. It was a little bit easier for me because I have a WhatsApp group. Immediately I introduced the info to them, the people that haven't done it Before registered instantly. Meanwhile, the process to get the referal bonus is kinda tricky, and that's where most of the people missed it. I missed it too. I was lucky to get paid via one referal that I did and the others refused to come. Why? We don't know. It became obvious that they've stopped paying or maybe we didn't followed the due process. But we did! Maybe there's a hidden Terms & Condition. Some got up to 20referals, expecting to get paid N20,000 but nothing was paid. Lamentations became the order of the day for all of us. Time had gone already and I regretted staying off readcash to do all these platforms. This is a typical example of **"all that glitters is not gold"**. The sharp-sharp ways we consider to make it are not oftentimes the right way. The journey is better if it's slow and steady than to be fast & short and at the end, regret steps in. I remember the days of Ponzi, People fall more on the quick promising ways to make money **e.g deposit $100 to get $500 in 24hours. Y**ou were once a victim, right? Lol🤣. This kinda scenario is very simple, the owners of the Platform would use the deposited money to pay others in order to attract more investors, once they hit their target, they zoom off.🏃🏃 Be patient with the process here, it takes time but one thing is sure, **IT'LL SURELY PAY** Thanks for reading 25th February 2022

@Kiingsley 24 February 2022

Make Peace to be at peace Greetings! How was your Wednesday? Mine went well, I had a three hours straight sleep in the day time... that's because I didn't go to work. It was my off day. I remember how my dad used to tell us that afternoon nap adds flesh to the skin, so Immediately I woke up from the sleep, I had to check my skin whether there was a add up. Lol. As you all know, I write more of my experiences, that's because I find it more easy to flow. I have one to share with you... There's this particular common feature in the in the movie world of my country, where it shows that the karma is real and no matter what, it must surely come attacking. *Let's say if someone is suffering from a chronic sickness that proved stubborn to healing after applying all Medical processes. In the movie world (Nollywood), the only left option is to go to a soothsayer to see what the problem is and the result usually comes out that, the sick person had committed a terrible acts in the past and the evil he or she did is hunting her. Maybe the person has killed, betrayed or broken someone down.* *They will profer the only solution which is to go and appease a certain gods or go and beg for forgiveness in order to authenticate the healing or Deliverance. Yeah, we all grew up with this basic Nollywood ideas and it's been part of us.* Yesterday being Wednesday, I woke up to meet a strange message on my WhatsApp. It reads: *"Good morning* *I just want to apologize for everything that happened in Imo State* *I hope you forgive me"* I was shocked Upon seeing this message, it was sent in the middle of the night at 1:37am. Fear gripped my mind instantly. The movie world reflected and occupied my mind with different reasonings, like; "hope someone is not at the point of dead for her to send this kinda message at that hour of the night?" "What could have prompted her to send this message?" I pondered on different thoughts and I replied instantly that I've been at peace with her and no issues at all. I replied her around 5:00am and it wasn't delivered that's because her data was not switched on. I dropped a message saying I would call her once the day brightens up. **What happened between us then?** *She was a girl I asked out during during nysc at imo state, she agreed to reciprocate the love and we lasted for a short period, reasons Is that I didn't give her the maximum attention she wanted and she later found and moved to a guy from same City with her. [****Although I tried my best to dishes out a reasonable attention to her but I was just tied down with too many responsibilities, I was a coordinator of the local government Christian fellow and that work demands a lot of move-arounds and also was working with pastors in our church there)****. I explained all these things to her but she chose to move away with the new guy.* *I felt hurt those period because we were seeing every minutes, there was no way for me to leave the community in as much as I wanted. They were people I was leading and no matter what, I must not demonstrate the effect of HEARTBREAK in their presence. The guy she followed knew all these and gave his own attitude too. lol🤣* *Within weeks, I was back to myself and let all the past to go, afterall that has been my love pattern. I made sure to get closer to her again and told her to be free whenever I'm around that I don't have issues with her, which she found it hard to believe. Yeah, I was back and everything seemed like nothing happened even when people talked about it in a slight tone anytime they feel awkward moments having us around. Lol🤦* *Seriously, I wasn't having any issue with her, anytime I think about what happened between us I laugh out loud, remembering those "shy love freaks" I exhibited then🤣🤣. This is common to me, I don't regret those moments but rather laugh over them. Afterall I didn't spent much🤣.* Back to the message, I tried calling her to know if she's fine or anything the problem but she didn't picked. So I assumed she was at work and maybe she dropped her phone till after work (she works at bank). Three hours later she called back: ***Me****: Hi Christiana, hope you're good?* ***Christiana****: Yeah, I'm fine, good evening.* ***Me****: What prompted the message, hope someone is not dying?* ***Christiana****: (She smiled first), not at all, no one is dying and I'm very fine. I just felt like to apologise to everyone I thought I've hurt in times past. And I remembered what happened then.* ***Me****: That was a thing of the past and beside I hold no grudges against you. If I were angry I wouldn't have called to see you when I came to Lagos.* ***Christiana****: Thanks so much Kingsley, you don't know how relief I am now.* The conversation ended there. I was relieved too after knowing that she wasn't in danger when she sent the message. ________________________ **MESSAGE**: This bugging mindset must have been with her for the past three years and I'm sure it has eaten deep into her and she didn't know how to go about it. I mean, I'm sure she didn't just wake up that night to drop the message, she might have been disturbed severally on this subject AND I, AT THE other side have been living free as no issue happened between us. It's better to let go of ego and amend whatsoever you think that's weighing you down and live a free live than to keep holding it while it keep eating you up. Image source https://unsplash.com/photos/YsFtudfV-w0 I know it's not easy sometimes to go about making peace or apologizing but I want to assure you that, there's possibility of the person you've hurt not to even remember whether you did something bad to him or her. Yeah, just try it and make peace. I've experienced this kinda thing, if I see that all I need is to make peace to be at peace and the person is not reasonable, I still make a "fair peace" and "lock up" Thanks for reading 24th February 2022 ***I wasn't active yesterday as I ought to. I know it's not only me that allows laziness to take over when during a free day. I even missed publishing yesterday. The second miss for this month, but it's good so long I'm not submitting my page for marking to any lecturer🤣***

@Kiingsley 22 February 2022

Tuesday: Hunger and Love Tuesday wasn't bad, it started on a good note when I received a call very early in the morning from my customer to come and get his clothes to wash and as well as collecting the remain balance he's yet to pay. I went to his house after dressing up for work, I got there and he brought out the clothes and he asked how much was was he supposed to balance, I told him and he dipped his hands in his pocket and brought out naira notes. I was happy even though I worked for it. I got back home to drop the clothes and I gave my brother half of the money for his pocket,,, which he usually use to prepare food (I seldom eat at home these days except I'm deeply hungry at night). I set out to work, and guess what? I trecked it. Yeah, the distance is treckable and I decided to treck and not bothering myself on when I'd get to the workplace. It took me 15mins to get to the office because I was moving as if my legs were heavy and also I was greeting and waving hands along the road. I got there and did my normal routine, Our Generator didn't misbehaved today so things were good. I set out to Bank to deposit money and it didn't take me time to do that because queue was not much there. I got bank from bank and "good" hunger held me. I became weak instantly and I began to calculate whether I didn't eat food last night before sleeping, ofcourse I ate food. I took a very good solid food before closing for work that night which served me all through the night. Yeah, I must find something to eat. But the problem is that, the little chances we used to get free food for breakfast had been blocked by the manager, anyone eating food aside the staff meal(which is usually lunch), must pay/buy. Our food is very expensive to be purchased by staffs, considering the poor salary. Thank God I was with little money, I went outside to buy a low budget bread, I came back and decided to toast it because I find it awkward to chew bread like that. Infact, that low budget bread is always taste-LESS compared to those costly ones. I entered the kitchen, met the baker and asked her to give me butter, she brought out the pack and told me to collect as much as I want. I was packing it in large quantity when my mind reminded me of stomach purge if I eat too much of it, so I got to stop and went with little good quantity. I opened the bread in to halves, spread the butter, blend it together and put it inside the toaster. Within 2minutes, the bread was ready to be enjoyed. I brought it out and just about eating, all the ladies assembled. I don't know how they got to know that the small bread was ready. I told them to cut little by little in order to make it go round and they did so, using their conscience to leave the bigger Portion for me. I was eating the one they left for me when one lady again that's not supposed to be at work today entered and she was like "who showed you how to toast bread?" She asked me that while she was chewing the bread already. She jokingly ate half of what was remaining. Lol🤣. "There's love in sharing but not to this level oo! Lol🤣. I lamented and they all laughed over it. To be sincere, I wasn't satisfied because the hunger was not chased away but was happy because I saw it as love, for them coming together to take a cut of the small bread. Yeah, felt loved,,,,,even in hunger too. Lol🤣. Few hours later, lunch was ready and we all filled out stomach. We ate spaghetti, served together with rice in same plate, with stew and fried Chicken. I should give you a photo? Let me keep it because I don't want you to feel hungry while reading this. Thanks for reading this one again. 22 February 2022 Lead image source https://unsplash.com/photos/YrEylIW5PDc

@Kiingsley 21 February 2022

It's Braveness Was Monday heltic for you? Mine went very well with lots of free time to do my things here, I had time to press my phone to the fullness and I enjoyed doing so. At a point, my phone got so hot that I had to place it inside a deep freezer to regain its strength. Yeah, my phone is my baby! Earlier today while going to bank, I was on bike when i saw some guys holding a big long killed snake, they were displaying it for sale. I would have snapped but I was on bike I can't just tell the motorcyclist to stop that I want to take a snap. lol🤗 The snake I saw gave me this idea of writing today. First of all, do you have phobia for snake? Almost all the ladies I know fall on this category. Even guys are not left out. I remember when I asked a friend of mine would he do when he finds a snake in his a room at night. His reply got me away🤣. I grew up in a rural environment (have said this countless times), our school was a local community school that uses the students to do Manual works, such as cutting grass, sweeping the large premises and other works. Then, the school assembles "outside brooms"(thick brooms used to sweep outside) used by students to sweep premises every morning in a class by class roaster and it's usually early hours of the morning before 7:00am. The only means the school uses to get the brooms is via the students, they would tell us to go inside the bush to cut the particular plant used as broom. Did I said "bush"? It's a forest because the kind of required plant used for the broom is not found in common areas unless you go into the deep. **Let me tell you more about the broom.** The broom is comprised of a lined up, well parked stick from a particular plant, the plant it is cut and combined in a straight form, with their branches scattered wide, used as the sweeping tip. Image source https://www.123rf.com/photo_72288509_broom-bush.html ________________________ One certain week, all the male in my class were asked to submit this broom and we no the consequences for defaulters,,,lashes of cane🤦. The plant is not seen in common places, not even our farming areas have it, unless we have to go deep into the thick Forest and that means Travelling far. One of the class member suggested we go in group because he knows where we could get it. That's simple for us. Four us agreed to join him and we scheduled the next Saturday for that. It got to the Saturday, we all came out and converged in the guy's place with our bicycles and Cutlass each. We set out for the journey and we had fun riding the bicycle to a far land, we were even competing on who drives fast on the way. We took almost three hours to get to the land and indeed, it's a thick Forest. We got there and packed our bicycles, we didn't chained them because bicycle theft was not common then. We launched into the bush and luckily we found the plant and we cut all of them...do you know why cut all of them? Yeah, we could sell some parts and make money when we get home because it's not wisdom to submit everything to school. Oh! I forgot to tell you, we took spade along because we had the intention of hunting Rabbit after getting the broom. So after we've gotten the brooms, we started searching for rabbit holes and we saw one the looked like it. None of us were able to detect if the hole was actually a rabbit whole, so we all just took faith and said we should dig it and see. Image source https://unsplash.com/photos/pASHRAKiDeU Yeah, we cleared the environment, surrounded it so as not to miss it incase it pops out from anywhere. One guy was digging while the four of us were holding our cultlasses ready to strike the big rabbit as it comes out ("big rabbit" how did we know what we've not seen?🤣). Image source https://whyy.org/episodes/our-favorite-rabbit-holes/ The guy dug to some extent and he got tired so I switched with him. I dug to a particular place that seemed has its residential place, I'm not that good in this particular stage because it needs someone with tactics to handle, so I switched with another person again. Thank God the guy than handed over was good. Immediately he got thrust two spade, he said to us; ***Him****: Guys, be on alert. I'm sensing it, we are about to kill it.* ***One of us****: Okay, please be smart too because we can't afford to loose it.* *(He thrust the spade again and he exclaimed.)* ***Him****: it's a snake ooo!* Omo! You need to see how one guy dropped his Cutlass and took off race. We laughed so loud at him🤣. I and the other guy remaining on the scene stood firm, and firmly gripped our Cutlasses ready for war. Braveness! The guy digging it was so brave too that he used his tactics to pin down the snake inside the hole. He used the spade to drag it out while it's still slightly alive, moving its head, bringing out its poisonous tongue. Upon seeing this, the other reamaining one got scared and shifted back a little to watch the movie-like show from afar off. I was brave na, I had to joined the guy to remove life from the snake. I cut the snakes head while the other guy pinned it on the ground with the spade. Yeah, we are set to go home, time was around 6:00pm and the weather was closing to accept the night already. The guy that dug the whole tied it in his bicycle, displaying it for people to see and buy.. Yeah, We planned on selling the snake to any buyer and share the money, but we didn't see any buyer because it was night time already. We later gave it to the guy that dug it for him to enjoy because he's the only that eats snake. The snake was a very big one. I know he enjoyed himself that night. ***If you love snake, so sorry for making you to read about killing what you love. My apologies.*** ***Anyways, incase you're doubting whether the story is fictional or real, my dear it's real life experience 💯.*** ***Thanks for reading*** ***21st February 2022*** `I chose not to add a snake photo in order not the make it scary` Lead image source https://orientdailynews.com/life-style/agriculture/monoculture-planting-deforestation-wiping-off-nigerias-rain-forest-experts/

@Kiingsley 21 February 2022

Lateness Special greetings to you all. I hope you enjoyed your weekend? Mine wasn't bad at all. As usual, weekends are always tough for me in terms of concentration here(readcash), my workplace has more patronage on weekends, especially on Sundays. That's why I was not able to visit your articles and also the reason it took me time to reply comments on my previous articles. As at the time of writing this (11:00pm), my eyes were heavy already, struggling to close and my hands were shaking, calling for sleep and touching my keyboards randomly. The time is just a few ticks to the new day and I must not allow the day to go like that without publishing an article, so I must write even when something reasonable is entering my head. If it worse comes to worst, I'd just play on words on my keyboard and submit when I'm done. 😴😴💤💤💤💤💤💤AND THAT IS IT, I SLEPT OFF AND FOUND MYSELF AWAKE BY 6:12am this morning. I missed publishing yesterday 💔. ________________________ **Let me tell you what happened on Sunday...✍️** Since the beginning of this year I've been attending church late and it keep surprising me because even when I've planned not to appear late the next Sunday, I'd find myself appearing even more late. It pains me so much because I wasn't brought up this way(yeah I brought up myself to detest lateness, I don't fancy Africa Time). As an usher, I'm supposed to be in church latest 6:30am while the service kicks off by 7:00am. I've been battling with this since this year began and it keeps winning me, to the extent my fellow ushers have known me to a chronic latecomer. Not that I appear very late as other church members do, no, mine is not reaching there within the time frame of pre-prayer before the service start. Sometimes I get there by exact 7:00am which is not supposed to be so and by then, ushers have taken their officiating stands already and I would receive slight querry by our leader. Yeah, my work is the reason for all these because we close late and there's no proper time to prepare for church. Among all the staffs, I'm the only one that's attending church regularly because it's not easy for others to cope. If I didn't ironed my clothes within the week because of unavailability of electricity, it's that Saturday night that I would use another alternative to iron it before the next day(Sunday). Last two Sundays, one of the nursing mothers in my church Unit attacked me why I always come late, using herself to compare with me because if anyone want to come late at all, it supposed to be her because of her baby. Other people joined him and it really touched my marrows. I told them I want to try something, to give myself a deadline and a fine. I said they should watch me out that if I come late next Sunday, they should all collect $2 each from me, if I fail to provide the money they should seize my phone. Thank God I didn't give them a specific time to watch out🤣. They all agreed and put it into writing while I signed...(written agreement) Last Saturday came and it looked like the devil was fighting me. I usually cut my hair early in the morning at a salon close to my workplace, I got there that day and the shop was locked, I had to go back to office and decided to cut the hair when we close. I made sure I closed a little bit earlier that day, I got to the salon again and met it locked, jeeez! I had to treck far to look for another one and itbwas late night already. I moved and later got one, the queue was much but I waited. I finished cutting my hair around 10:00pm, time has gone far and I haven't ironed my clothes with the intention of ironing (pressing) it when I get home or to do that very early in the morning (Sunday morning)...all depending on my body stand. I got home and I met my neighbors quarrelling, as I mentioned in my previous Article. I had to step in to make peace. The bants lasted for eternity and I slept off because they made me not to concentrate on ironing my clothe night, so and promised myself to wake up very early to iron the clothes. God being so kind, I woke up just three hours after sleeping, I brought out the gas cylinder, lit fire and use my pressing iron to so my thing. It took my almost an hour to press just a pair of clothe (this pattern takes time). I finished and time was not smiling at me at all. I took my bathe in a giffy, got dressed with just 7minutes remaining to meet up before service start otherwise I would pay almost $20 to before i told to fine me. I was about to go and I couldn't find my house key to lock the door, jeeeezzz! Wtf! I searched and searched and later found it after chopping of 3minutes of my time. I rushed out and thank God I met a bike man on the way before getting to the main road, I told him where I was going and he gave me price that shocked me and that's because of the fuel scarcity, he later agreed on my price and the bargain had chopped off 1minute. I was left with just 2minutes to get to church. I told the bikeman to fire(race high) the bike, if possible let's fly because I'm late already and he concurred. Lead image source https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/courage-man-jump-through-gap-hill-business-concept-idea_1151013.htm#query=Running&position=34&from_view=search In a twinkle of an eye, I saw myself in the church environment, I rushed in to meet my people waiting for me to collect their fine. But thank God service was just about to start, so I told them I didn't come late because I met the kick off of service. They dragged that since I didn't joined the pre-prayer, that means I came late(that's how it supposed to be though), I outsmarted them, that I was not specific on the time, but so far I didn't come when service have started, I didn't appear late. That was how I escaped lateness in church yesterday. Thanks for reading my rants. I promise to come up with something reasonable next time. **21st February 2022**

@Kiingsley 19 February 2022

My Saturday Was Not A Weekend My Saturday was not a weekend. For some time now we have been having power issue in my workplace, the major generator broke down and it's been like that for weeks while we've been using the alternative (plan B Generator). For a big fancy organization like this, the management supposed to be prompt in fixing the faulty generator but they've been procrastinating and I know the only serious prompt that will push them is when the **alternative Generator** develop fault. Yeah, the alternative Gen. has been dribbling us for a week now, daily usage is affecting her and she's telling us she's tired but what can we do?, we must keep using her till the main one is fixed. Today became worst and it disorganized our activities. At early morning at the time of opening, the Gen started malfunctioning, tripping OFF and ON, blowing bulbs and making wall sockets to spark💥. We had to shut it down and call a nearby electrician to check to check what the fault because could be, because it looked like an electrical issues. The man checked, saw some burnt wires on the changer box, got them fixed and within a short time, we turned On the Generator and it started functioning well. I told the electrician to hold on a little and observe if it'll happen again and he concurred. We waited for about an hour and the Gen functioned normal and I let him(the electrician) to go. I collected his number while he left(he said he has another work to attend to, outside the community). Just about 30mins he left, Gen started malfunctioning again, the blows, Sparks and smoke came in another dimension and all the ladies began to scream. I was the only guy around so I have to be brave, I went and turned off the Gen and put a call to the electrician, he didn't picked at that moment. We were in darkness and waiting for a miracle till the electrician called, he said he's was driving when I called and besides he has gone far and can not turn back. So he directed me to adjust somethings on the things he did before leaving,,,, I turned to an electrician at that moment, **braveness**! I made sure I put on a rubber slippers incase it tries to shock me. I did what he said while the Gen was running (I was glad it didn't shocked me) but the problem was still there. I had to turn off and wait for the manager to profer for the way forward. Meanwhile, all these while they've paid a **"well recommended electrician"** that's supposed to work on the major Gen. My manager put a call and pressured him to come and rescue us otherwise we would close up for the day. The man promised to come which he later came in five hours time. Thank God it didn't take him time to fix, he fixed it within some minutes and yeah, our major light was restored. (The normal light without trouble came and we all became Happy) **Must things really be handled this way? Why must we wait when a situation is critical before we force out a reasonable solution? That's life for us.** ________________________ Time was about 1pm and I was so tired and hungry and that's because haven't taken break fast. I later settled myself. We closed around 9:00pm as usual and I had to rush to look for a barbing salon to cut my hair and it was difficult for me to locate one because time was late and my regular Barbing salon had closed. I succeded in getting one and time was 9:20pm already, I met a long queue but I was determined to wait because I mustn't appear in church tomorrow with the bushy hairs. I waited till it got to my turn and thank God for the barber, he knows the work and within 7mins he was done. ________________________ I trecked down to my house and met my neighbors quarrelling. The quarrel was between two occupants, a young man and a married woman, I stopped and tried separating them but my words didn't worked so I decided to go and prepare Noddles and eat to energize my body. The bants became intensed that I rushed out leaving my pot of Noddles on gas/fire while go out to separate them. I was able to separate them and that was when I remembered I was cooking, I rushed inside kitchen to meet my burnt Noodles. That's the disadvantage of having quarrelsome neighbors. Image source https://unsplash.com/photos/mv38TB_Ljj8 I decided to take tea and bread as dinner as it's late already and not ready to stress myself to prepare another Noddles. After that I launched to my bed to type this article, I was writing when I heard a bang on my door and that was them, they were still exchanging words and hitting walls to demonstrate how angered they are. I went outside to meet them again, to tell them nobody should disturb my peace again since they don't want to sleep tonight. I entered my room and ready to go into the Dreamland. Sorry for bringing you this rant, I was fighting with writer's block and I said to my self I must win the day by writing even if the time is far gone. Thanks for reading 19th February 2022

@Kiingsley 18 February 2022

They said money brings out beauty Hello wonderful people. I'm too sure the weekend is treating you cool. Enjoy🤝 Have you come across this saying ***"money brings out beauty"?*** It's a common saying by people and it's kinda true but how does it work the magic?? I bumped into the ladies today in the kitchen discussing about hidden beauty in money. I had to stay calm and listened to all their Analysis. They used one Nigerian famous singer, Tiwa Savege as example, they said when Tiwa Savage started her music career she was not as beautiful as she is now and that's very true. This lady was very skinny when she started her music but now she has good soft flesh attached to her bones. I joined them in the conversation and I asked what actually changes in the body by money that brings out the beauty and they gave their facts, which are as follows; ****Skin color changes:**** One of them said the color of anybody, seeing good money changes and that's because he/she will be applying good skin scream on the skin and as well as eating good foods that have the capacity to keep the color in good state. Also, the ones that like bleaching will go for the best bleaching creams because they have the money(good creams are usually costly). She gave a good analysis because the cream we apply on our skin has a long way in maintaining our skins, and of course our skin is part of our beauty. `I'm sounding too feminine using "beauty", right? Pardon me, but I'm referring to all of us.` ****Good food for soft/tender body:**** Onen of them said good meals in our body brings out our hidden beauties. Like we have two parts of looks, one is the ugly nature which inadequate dieting sponsors alot while the other one is fully sponsored by taking proper diets. I asked her if she's not been eating good food(because in our work place, we eat varieties of food) and she said it's not these types of food. She referred to some funny foreign foods, like all those Chinese foods we see in movies. Lol.🤣 No doubt, it's very true that the nature of the food we eat has a huge influence in our looks. Proper dieting is good for the system, it helps to build cells and fight bacterias too and that helps in disappointing any skin issue. Also, some food helps to bring out hidden flesh in our body (for the people that are slim). A friend of mine once recommended some foods(beverages) to help me bring out my flesh but I didn't followed her prescriptions because there was no money to buy them. yeah, if money is available, you eat anything you like and eat food with prescriptions of doctors. Most of us are still looking the way we are because we are not eating what we ought to be eating. ****Dressing:**** She said once money is available, the dressing pattern changes and that adds to the appearance too. No doubt, our dressing contribute to our beauty and this needs money to secure. For the ladies, you'll make your hair in a fashioned way, put on good dresses that reveals curves and you'd see that guys will be chasing you up and down.🤣. For the guys, you'll cut your hair nicely, put on a nice outfit and that will dominate your so called "ugliness", and watch those motorist to be giving you accolades )like "fine boy", "fresh guy") as you approach them to enter engage their services. I know this magic, the ladies I work with rate guy's handsomeness via their look/dress when these guys come to patronize us,as they're leaving these ladies would be rating the cuteness via their packaging 🤣. ****No stress:**** One of the thing that hinders our beauty is stress. I remember when I was in school in civil engineering department that had few numbers of Ladies, these Ladies appeared like guys during our first year because of stress and as such, some of the guys left them to get girlfriends outside the department. But when we advanced to second year, they all changed because they were seeing money and were not stressing themselves again with academic works because the money was there to pave way for them. They became soft and all of them entered our eyes but we were late already. Lol. When we reduce stress,we begin to glow. And we can only reduce stress when when we've made this money. When we stop working or working with a conducive terms. My workplace sometimes offers me a cool, stress-free work and that has made my skin to look like "I've made this money" and sometime I used to pity myself when people start hailing my look, thinking that I have millions in my account when I know I have nothing in there.. Poverty no good! I have to stop here. Feel free to add your own contribute regarding how money brings out beauty. Thanks for reading 18th February 2022

@Kiingsley 17 February 2022

Have you been chased by a dog? *At exactly 4:00pm the cloud changed and there was a heavy wind blowing like it want to take the earth on a trip, and we all believed there would be a heavy downpour considering the change in the weather but as usual, one can't predict the weather in the era, it ended up dropping three cups of water the city(in my city). You know what next? An intensed heat oozed out and everywhere started burning even when the weather was not sunny. Yeah, we gonna battle with that heat sleeping tonight. Hope you had a cool Thursday?* Talking about dogs, I grew in a rural area where we witnessed dogs do their doings. Before they banned dogs in my community, dogs were kinda useful in terms of security because they have a way of detecting uncommon presence of human in the environment as well as barking against armed robbers at night. Dogs Also were majorly used for hunting. You know about that, right? Yeah, if you want to chase and trail animals during hunting, just get a dog along and success if yours that day. They got dogs banned in my community because of their destructive characters. In those rural areas, houses were not that fenced and kitchen were majorly detached from the main house because firewoods are used as the major source of fire and that's to to prevent smokes from having a direct entrance to the living rooms. Because kitchens are outside and not properly locked, these dogs sometimes enter the kitchen and feast on the food kept there. Another major reason that made them banned dogs was that the bite was too much. You know how dogs barks and bite on people there are not familiar with... Although the dogs we had in our community then were the local ones that has little or no modern culture (,if there's anything like that) compared to modern days dogs that you guys talk about here. Yesterday while coming back from church I witnessed a dog fight between a very young girl(she should be around 19years). I sighted the way the dogs(two big wolf-like dogs) were barking and panting after her as if they just saw a strange being, I thought she would run for her life with cry and shout but she turned back, allowed the dogs to get closer and she chased them back. Image source https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.timesofindia.com/city/trichy/man-falls-into-well-after-being-chased-by-dogs-rescued/amp_articleshow/69625392.cms I got surprised on her Magical performance and I assumed maybe she's the owner of the dogs that's why she was able to chase them away, so I watched her finished her doings and she trecked to same direction I was heading. I had to stop her and ask; ***Me:*** *Hello, are you the owner of those dogs?* ***She:*** *No and why did you asked?(she answered after giving me a funny look)* ***Me****: I was thinking you owns the dogs that's why you didn't run for your life and the way you chased them back baffled me.* ***She****: (She first of all laughed out loud) I'm not the owner neither do I stay in that compound, I'm just passing by and the dogs attacked me.* ***Me****: I saw the way you displayed, you must be a super human,,,for a girl that you are.* ***She****: I can never be afraid of dogs and I've encountered biggers dogs compared to these.* Yeah, she got me amazed and I made sure I gave her some applaudable accolades. She surprised me, ladies I know would shout, cry for help, runaway and leave their shoes scattered everywhere 🤣🤣. I remember when I was in school, the entrance of our mini street had two dogs that they release once it's 6:30pm everyday. These dogs act so strange and bark at anyone that passes by. And our lodge had people that fear dogs, so whenever they go out and time gets to 6:30pm and they are not back, they have to look for alternatives, either they take the bush part or they call me for rescue. Yeah,I became the super hero of the lodge, even guys hire me to pass them through. ****How to pass through a fiery, barking and attacking dog.**** It's very simple, first of all you must not be scared of their barks, it's just a common sound, then NO MATTER WHAT DO NO RUN. I repeat again, DO NOT RUN, even if they're close to you, try to claw on you. Just remain focused and let them know you're not scared of them and with that, they'd respect your boldness and leave you alone. Yeah, I was crossing a girl one night, she pleaded I should back her(carry her on my back) but I refused because I'm not her boyfriend lol. I told her not to run when they come and she agreed. We moved and when they came, she gummed herself very close and I was happy when I thought she'd stay. That night the dogs were fiery, it seemed like they were not fed. Nancy could not stay till the end, the dogs came close to us, licking their tongues like they've seen dinner, Nancy could not withstand all the threats and she had to zoom off, they didn't hesitate to pursue her but thank God she was able to pass through the gate before the dogs got there. The dogs became a thing of concern to us that we approached the owners to adjust the time of their release but they didn't complied, so my roommate developed a method, he cut two heavy sticks, one kept at the entrance of the street and the other at the gate, so he would be picking any of them whenever he's passing there during night time. But He ended up being chased one night🤣. Image source https://theprincelyx.medium.com/i-was-chased-by-a-dog-56e0500b59ef Dogs are good and dangerous at times 🙋 Thank you for reading 17th February 2022

@Kiingsley 16 February 2022

My Love Story: It Ended Well Wednesday has been good to me here, I've been on relaxation mood since morning, sleeping and waking up on my soft bed, cooking and eating delicious meal. Yeeee! I wish everyday would be like this. What did I just said? Oh! I don't want it like this, I love working for money🙋. I haven't been active here since morning even after planning to be here 24/7 since I'm at home today (work free day). I switched into movies and I planned to just watch one episode of a Kdrama I've been watching for the past two weeks, and after the one episode, the suspense pushed me to finish it. What an interesting movie! [Title of the movie: FAITH] Alright, it's about time I drop another love story of mine. It was during my second year in the Polytechnic that I met this school mate on Facebook....just like I mentioned in my previous article, I was very good in catching female friends online I had loads of fun doing that. I was glancing through my "FRIENDS YOU MAY KNOW" when I got enchanted by her display picture. I opened the account to see if the picture is real(because some ladies are fond of using fake beautiful photos as dp), I found her to be real and I moved ahead, I messaged her and it took her like five hours to reply; *Me: Hi, I got attracted to your photos and I'd like to be a friend.* *She: Hi, do I know you? I need to know you before anything friendship****.*** I was so happy receiving her reply, I thought she would snub me for a beautiful girl like her. It was early February (before Valentine's week), so I set the pace of communication on fire, she was taking time to reply but I didn't mind. I would give her a message and it'll take her hours to reply. Since I'm the one looking for sometime, I don't need to get tired(mind you, it's just friendship I was looking for and not the other way🤗). We continued on low level communication, then few days before Valentine's day, she stopped replying and I was like *"maybe she has gone to meet her boyfriend and probably she stayed off Facebook in order not the be disturbed"* (because she stopped coming online). ***[All these while, I didn't bothered to disturb her on seeing one on one, I don't even have her number, I just tried to let things flow].*** Early morning Valentine's day, I dropped a message for her telling her that I'd like to be her val bla bla bla and she replied within hours and I was so happy to see her message. You want to know the content of her message? 🧐. Fastforward, I requested for her number and she gave me, so we planned on seeing one on one. The funny thing is that our class was so close, like the same environment and yet, hard to see. The few times I called her on phone for us to see, she killed the requests with excuses, so I lost interest in requesting to seeing her(maybe she has seen me from her class and maybe I'm too ugly to her standard Lol😂). We finally met one on one... Image source https://www.freepik.com/free-photo/young-african-american-woman-isolated-yellow-studio-background-facial-expression-beautiful-female-half-length-portrait-concept-human-emotions-facial-expression-standing-crossing-hands_12263835.htm#query=Black%20beautiful%20girl&position=28&from_view=search It was a hot Wednesday afternoon when she called that's ready for the show, I wanted to decline because I wasn't with a good amount of money that day, but I said No, let me show up. She directed me to the love garden and when I sighted her from afar, she's exactly her picture but stress had reduced her beauty. We met and exchanged pleasantries, we were having a nice chitchat when she said she want to buy meetpie. Jesus! I wasn't with any money that day unless the N100 I kept for church offering that day. Well I escorted her there and she bought the meatpie, when I manly offered to pay(even not having the amount of money), she declined and I was so happy within me(she just saved me)🤣🤣. She ended up buying one for herself and one for me. (What a falling hand!) After that day, we became best of friends, very far from people that met on-line. She knew my house and always visits, some thing goes with me too, I visit her especially on weekends. Friendship was growing stronger as the day goes by, I became her "assignment lecturer", I always help her to do technical drawing assignments because I was in engineering department and that course is a work over (simple) to us. Each time she visit me, I make sure I prepare food for her and it's all fun. There was one day I 5allowed her to cook and she did well but later broke my plate 🤣🤣, and till today I use that to make fun of her. Did I asked her out? *Should I talk about this?* Well, even before this stage, my friends have assumed that we were dating but dating was very far from the game. Well, I asked her out she didn't hesitate to say Yes and I was the happiest person on planet Earth that day. One thing I liked about her was that, she's not the demanding type and she knows how to manage her resources and I always help her whenever opportunity pops out. Yeah, the relationship did not lasted, she called one day with tears that she want us to remain good friends and not the relationship stuff. I asked why but she didn't give a reasonable reason, so I had to swallow the pain. I was deeply hurt. I graduated from school and left her to continue her one year remaining and she didn't stopped to give me updates on her academic. The good end! Her name is Noye and till today we are best of friends. We talk almost every week both on phone call, chat and video calls. She's now more beautiful and I've been praying to God to capture her heart for me🤗. Happy ending! Thanks for reading 16th February 2022 `Lead image Designed by me via Canva App`

@Kiingsley 15 February 2022

My Love Story: We landed In Police cell Hey People! I bring special greetings to you all. I'm very certain you had a lovely Valentine's day celebration. Yeah, I promised to put up my love stories. I have series of them and I'm gonna be sharing one after the other. Enjoy 🙌 Before my 4months Industrial training (I.T), my main phone was faulty so I switched on to a very small phone and I could only access Facebook via the web. Since Facebook was the only thing I fancied within the capacity of the phone then, I made it my home. I stayed online almost every hour chatting. I met this lady online one day and we got a little acquaintance. I found out we were in the same school but she was a class ahead of me. Does that matters? Not at all so far...💤 Within days of meeting her, i unleashed my wooing skills on her and she fell completely.*(yeah, way back in school, my friends used to throw accolades on how I used to get female friends online even though I don't seriously follow them up, YEAH, I HAVE MADDD SKILLS🤾).* We continued chatting everyday coupled with midnight calls(MTN happy hour calls). We couldn't just waitt for school to resume so we can see. At some point I was beginning to like her but I got a caution in my mind too, not to fall for her because blind dates usually end up the unexpected way. There was nothing like video (because we were using small phones), it's only 'photoed' picture we were seeing. But anyways, she's fine on her picture. Fastforward, I.T ended and school resumed, I traveled back to school from the community I did my I.T. I got to my school town in the evening, I met my roommates and they were all Happy that I returned because I'm often time their favourable chef. They've prepared food already, so I served myself and after eating, Borniface rushed down to welcome me as well. *(Borniface was a neighbour and a departmental mate, he knows most of my moves in school due to we stroll to school together oftentimes)*. I told him that I have a 'movement' and he hurriedly agreed to follow me there and not even letting me to give Him the full gist. **We Set Out To See Her...** Yeah, we moved to the direction she gave to me, she said I should stop opposite a Bank and she'd come and meet me there. We got to the bank and checked for Where we could sit and wait for her. Time was around 7:30pm and almost all the shops in that spot had closed, so we walked to a shop, sat on a table and waiting for the fine girl to come out. Meanwhile, at the front of us were two guys and a lady discussing, they were the ones sitting where we just occupied, it seems they were looking out for something with the intention of coming back to their seat. I don't know how Borniface got to see a purse of a lady on the table, he opened it and saw a phone (China phone, you gerrit). He showed me and I told him the purse is definitely for those people standing in front of us, that he should leave it for them because they'll definitely come and take their stuff when they're done. Omo! Borniface refused, he said luck has shined on him tonight. He suggested we should move and go at that moment before those people would turn back. And I refused because I haven't seen the girl I came to see. Borniface said **"na woman go kill me"** and left with the purse. Saying I should come meet him at home when I'm done with my date. After Borniface left, my phone rang and it was the girl, I directed her to where I was sitting, she came and we exchanged greetings...to be sincere she wasn't what I saw on Facebook Lol. The has a bigger body and I got frowned, I wanted to leave her but it'll look embarrassing, so I decided to play along, afterall we've known for some time now. We sat down on the table and were talking while the people standing on the road approached us that they kept a purse on there table we are sitting. I told them I didn't see, they searched and searched but could not find it, that was then they said they're gonna hold me responsible because they were sure they kept the purse there. Before I knew it, they started searching me and nothing was found...what an embarrassing moment in the front of my babe🤣. They remembered that we were two guys they passed them to enter there and they asked me where's the other guy(Borniface) and I told them that has gone home because he couldnt wait for me. They said I should call him but I stylishly ignored because I was trying to cover him. I later called him due to the crowd that gathered and he came and brought the phone. OMG! Those soldiers in the bank came out and bought the case to themselves. I received "barrack" kind of slap on my face that night. They handcuffed us and pushed us into the army van and drove us to the police station. We got there and the man in charge that night brought out Cutlass and wiped us at the back for five times, I felt like I should die that night because I haven't been beaten like that in my whole life. They pushed us into police cell to spend the night with some dangerous robbers. It was there I found out that all those displays of hierarchy in a police cell within prisoners are real. I got another another beating of my life by those guys I met in the cell. All these while, I didn't drop a single tears because I was blamming myself and also having a friend like Borniface. Early morning, we were called out to write statement of which I wrote what happened and the officer incharge torn the paper, saying that I lied. I was persuaded to write the statement favourable to them but I refused, so they pushed me back to the cell,,,I don't know about Boniface because we were kept in different cells. Around afternoon, they called me out again and when I got to the reception, for the first time, tears rolled out of my eyes seeing my dad. He hugged me and said all will be fine. He said he know I didn't steal what I was accused of. Yeah, he know his son. Fastforward, we were later bailed that day in the evening after paying some huge amount of money even when they said "bail is free". We got home that night and it was late already for my dad to go back so he spent the night in our house. I pleaded to all my friends not to tell him what led to the whole saga and God being so kind, Henry had given him a cool lie on where we went to, before the whole issue came out 🤣.[Henry was roommate] About the girl? Yeah, she came the following day to pay me visit and after that, ~~I snubbed her for the rest of my life.~~ ***.......letme edit/rewrite✍️✍️✍️✍️✍️[I have to edit this part to justify, it's not like I really snubbed her like that, the flow died and we parted ways, she stopped checking up and I did as well]*** The story is real and it happened to me in the year 2015, it's story that hurt but I laugh out loud anytime I remember it. I have another love story to tell, whatch out🙋 Thanks for reading 15th February 2022. ***Yesterday was hell for me at work, we had peak level of patronage that made me suspend my phone,,,, that's why I wasn't around yesterday. Thanks for understanding.***

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@Kiingsley 14 February 2022

Restless Night It's a new week with new vibes and I wish you the best of the week. It's Valentine's day and it's booming already, the way my people take it here make it look like it deserve a public holiday for the celebration. It is hyped the same way with Christmas. Even the single ones take it more personal because it serve as a good opportunity to catch cruise especially on the social media🤗. My head has been blocked since yesterday, I thought and thought on what to write but nothing came out, hence I let yesterday slide like that without publishing. And ever since then, my body system has not been organized because it's just like I missed something important. This is why I don't like publicly setting goals for the month because my mind won't be at rest when I fall out. I woke up this morning far earlier than usual time and that's because readcash kept appearing in my dream. I got up and everywhere was hot and the sweat on the body wasn't funny. It was around 3:30am and everywhere was still calm and not as LAGOS that 2:00am, People are awake already preparing for work. I felt like going outside to sleep a little but the outside looked somehow because it's very dark, kinda close to a road and the compound is mini fenced(scary, but I'm scared). Image source https://unsplash.com/photos/FMk0imVHPH0 I had no option than to go and sleep outside. It was cool and enjoyable till mosquitoes greeted me. I wasn't putting on shirt and these mosquitoes were taking advantage. I thought of going back inside the room but the heat inside was like it's coming from the "seven dimension of hell". So I went inside to put put on a top and a socks, this made me to bare and resist the mosquitoes. I was enjoying the natural breeze from the calm dark environment, lying down on two combined long wooden bench, and within a short period I dozed off. Yeah, I was carried away by sleep not minding the possible dangers, but that's not the issue because I was ready to sleep but the thought of **"do you know that you missed writing yesterday?"** could not allow me to sleep, the question kept ringing and ringing in my head that I had to wake up, I realized also that it's not safe to sleep at that spot because my phone could be taken(stolen) and I wouldn't know. So I got up and decided to really crack the brain to come up with something but the more I tried, the more the head remained adamant. I switched on to Twitter to see trend and I met ASUU STRIKE as number 1 and I smiled even though it's not funny. The government are about to do what they know how to do best. I didn't bothered much on that trend as it doesn't concern me at this moment. The other trend weren't interested to me and I left the app. It seems nothing is interesting to me at all. Could this be the result for not having plans to celebrate the Valentine with somebody's daughter? Jeeeez! I would be at work all through, so it's none of my business. I checked nairaland to see what's up but the topics there weren't interesting to me either. Yeah, everything looked odd and I had to leave. I just have to write even if it means writing the alphabet or writing down numeric numbers from 1 to when I'm......tired lol🤣. That's when I started to write this, flipping my hands on my soft keyboards, writing anything that comes to my mind, not minding if there's a connection to the paragraphs or not. I was connected to a radio station while typing and as usual Valentine's day was their headline for their talk. Mosquitoes were still flying trying to penetrate my soft body but thank God there was no way for them, and exactly 6:31am I entered inside my room because the day had brightened up already. Sorry for the reading this total rubbish-like rant. I promise to come up later with a nice write up. YEAH, I'M COMING WITH MY LOVE LIFE STORY. it's gonna be hilarious 💯. Thanks 14th February 2022