My saddest news on readcash
Good evening everyone, it's very sad to let you all know that my account has been flagged spam and I'm really not happy about it because I just started my NFT classes yesterday, could that be the reason?
Well, I don't think so but whatever the case might be, I'd have to return to my old account and revive it to continue the NFT classes, hopefully that doesn't get spammed too and I continue earning...
If not, I'd have to open a new account but I'll surely let you know about the development...
Thanks for always sticking here
For the rest of my classes, I'd be using the other account now... You can now subscribe to me there to enjoy the free classes
Do well to read my first class here too tho
Thanks for reading,
I hope you join me on @james2k21
Good evening everyone, it's very sad to let you all know that my account has been flagged spam and I'm really not happy about it because I just started my NFT classes yesterday, could that be the reason?
Well, I don't think so but whatever the case might be, I'd have to return to my old account and revive it to continue the NFT classes, hopefully that doesn't get spammed too and I continue earning...
If not, I'd have to open a new account but I'll surely let you know about the development...
Thanks for always sticking here
For the rest of my classes, I'd be using the other account now... You can now subscribe to me there to enjoy the free classes
Do well to read my first class here too tho
Thanks for reading,
I hope you join me on @james2k21
NFTs: It's moving crazy
**#38**
**Monday, January 10, 2022**
**1:44 PM**
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Good afternoon readers, it has been two days ago since I posted and that’s due to some shit I have been dealing with for a while. Actually, there is no shit but I have been busy for a while and yesterday was a Sunday, am I not meant to have rested? But NO, I was in church almost the whole day, we left the house around 7am yesterday and didn't even eat anything in the hope that I'll be back early enough to find something to eat but it was just a shocker when I got to church and discovered that there was this program, IMPACT that just ended yesterday and I had to be there. At least, for the grand finale. The program started almost immediately after the main service and it extended till around 8pm and before I got back home, I was really stressed and all I could do was to eat and sleep even though I still woke up to do some research. It has really been hectic. Today is Monday and obviously the first day of the week is always very busy and hence stressful, I got my hands on some books to read to expand my knowledge on NFTs and I am therefore here to give my little quota in building the NFT community and I will be doing this for a while until I get most of the read.cash members to understand the speed at which this technological development is moving. It drives me crazy and I'm sure y'all would agree to that after this series.
let's get going…
**What is an NFT?**
It's an abbreviation for Non Fungible Token, Non-Fungibe?
**What does fungible mean?**
Well, to my knowledge, it means replaceable. Replaceable in the sense that it can be exchanged for something else. For example, Bitcoin, Etherium, these coins can be swapped, any newbie should know about that. Fiat money is also an example, I can exchange $100 for two $50 notes… you get the gist? They are the same and that's what fungible means but when you hear Non fungible, it means you can't exchange it for any other thing no matter how much they look alike because they have specific and distinct data stored on a block chain.
**What is a block chain?**
Some years back, a technology called the block chain technology was launched to ease banks of their stress, it would be of no surprise if banks do not exist anymore in the next few years because what the bank does basically is to validate transactions, what I mean by validate transactions is that they really do not deal with money, they just do simple addition and subtraction calculations by subtracting from the amount you have and adding it to the person's amount you are sending it to. That’s great but block chain came with a better and more decentralized (*doesn't depend on an institution like banks or even the government)* technology that helps to validate transactions just like the bank but this time by a group of computers, all these computers have to agree to your transaction before it is carried out and this transactions are encrypted, yet transparent. This makes the block chain way better for transactions… IT IS JUST WONDERFUL!!!
An NFT is basically anything that can be digitalized, it can be an image in form of an art work (*this is the most common one tho*), videos, gifs, audios, tweets… just name it, once it can be digitalized, it can be an NFT.
**THE PSYCHOLOGY BEHIND NFTs**
For ages, we have seen people go for exhibitions or artwork displays where people showcase their artworks and probably find an admirer or even buyer to purchase these paintings (*not everyone sells their paintings tho and that's part of what makes it rare and even expensive because of bidders, still depends on how beautiful it is tho*). I remember this movie I watched, it’s a series actually, Blindspot where the FBI wanted to retrieve an expensive painting that was stolen from a museum. NFTs would solve such problems. The main psychology behind the high price of NFTs (*I've not discussed the price yet, I will do that later*) is that when humans get abundance in terms of riches that makes them able to cater for their feeding, shelter, meds and basic needs conveniently, the next thing is to create value in things that have no inherent value… its all psychological hype and this hype is also one of the main reasons for their high prices…
I'll end it here…
Stay tuned for the next one, its going to be a long one so seat tight and grab your popcorn…
Thanks for reading.💖❤️💗
Crypto currency: share your experience
Good morning to you all, I hope I met all of us well even though I'm still trying to recover from a shock that I'd never have seen coming 30 hours ago but I guess it's all for good, we put all our feelings into writing, all our fears are settled when we write, all our angers are transfered through our fingertips into our writings. Writing just does a lot of magic if you don't know, maybe for me tho but I have noticed that if I'm not emotionally stable, I can keep writing for hours and feel a little better after a long time, it's a process tho and I'm sure all will be fine in the long run. So yeah, I decided yesterday to start checking up what academics has for me next semester, I've been sleeping and enjoying, now it's time for book I said to myself as I tried downloading some of my next semester course materials, trust me, that was a failure 😂 I couldn't even get where to start, everything was jam-packed and looked scary to open but who doesn't know that either I like it or not, I still have to face my fears, that's why my today is basically going to be on planning how to start preparing for the next semester and how I'll try to balance things up between my books and making money. The stage I've gotten to in crypto is a notable one even though I haven't gotten to start practicing on my own, I feel like I should gather enough information before I start squarely because the last time I jumped into it, I got myself to blame, big time. I tried copying one of my friends that invested into shit coins, they were pump and dump tho and for the truth, the coin pumped but I was unable to swap it. Why? Well, I'll say due to inexperience, I didn't have BNB to swap it and before I could get BNB to buy, it was already dipping. I was asked to wait if I could as it was promising to be a long term investment, trust me, I waited so long and it kept going down." Buy the dip! Buy the dip!" My friends said. I kept buying thinking it was a smart idea because I had BNB this time around but it kept going down and trust me, I do not want anyone in the position that I am in right now. That's why I'm giving a little explanation on my experience.
DYOR
This abbreviation might look strange to newbies but it's not a big deal. It means Do Your Own Research. Do not ever base your investment on what your friends tell you about a particular coin, they could be right tho but always make sure that you take that step to do further research about the coin you're about to invest in.
Ask questions
This is also very important for you to know, you can't know everything and not everything online is the truth. Find people you trust that are doing well in this field and ask them a few questions about whatever you're going into.
Seek God's opinion
No matter how this sounds, still remember that God is the perfect one that makes no mistake, he can tell the future and that's why we can explore when he tells us the future of what we're about to invest in. You might have done all your research and you seem to have no doubt about the investment you're going into, still seek God's counsel because you might be missing something. Learn from the TITANIC.
THANKS FOR READING 💖
Give a pretty nickname for $0.5
Good evening everyone here, it's really been a day!!! What a day!!! You all must agree with me that this has to be the day with the highest dip this year, do I still need to talk about this??? Well, I woke up this morning very late, I slept late yet again and this time I woke up around 8am, checked my phone to see the time and put my data on to receive some messages. The price alert I got from trust wallet was quite disturbing that I had to sit up, what kind of sleep did I sleep? Like as if I really have something I'd have done to stop the dip, there was nothing but I could have swapped it to a stable coin to keep the Balance stable so as to avoid further dip, that was exactly what I later did but I was tempted to swap to Fiat but I thank God I didn't fall for the trap 😂, I have even swapped back to BCH now as I hope that the market would be green before tomorrow morning. It's an opportunity to buy now that the prices are low, learn to be an investor...
I'm sorry if you call this an oppressive article but I'm about to write love if you need to stop reading but I don't want you to, so read on...
I got into an argument with my babe about being romantic and all and she was like I'm not romantic at all, I asked why? She was like I'm meant to have given her a pet name all this while, I don't mean pets as in dog or cats tho, but a peculiar nickname that would be for her only. You get?
It's reasonable to think that your girl would want some kind of special treatments and all but that's not all you need in a relationship especially if it's one that you need to last, I would mention a few before I stage my challenge:
Always stage surprises
You might think she doesn't like surprises until you try it, she might even tell you she'd not appreciate your surprises until you see the smile on her face. It's really important not to be this boring guy that can be predicted, be unpredictable and also learn how to choose what kind of surprise you make, do not stage scary surprises for someone with high BP, that's why you need to know your partner so well that you know what they can react to or not and this is also vice versa.
Spend quality time with him/her
You might be very busy or let's say a workaholic, never allow your work scatter your relationship, it's important that you find better time to have deep talks, talk about the future, talk about movies, not just books only. Make your life fun and you can also try to do away with your phones when talking to avoid distractions.
Now to the main reason I've decided to write this article, *****I'd like everyone to comment the best pet name that'd be peculiar to her and win $0.5.*****.. it's a little tho but it's worth it, just to spice things up.
I'm not going to be the judge, she'd be the judge. She'd going to pick the best entry and this isn't forever, just for a day or a few days as the case may be...
Let's get this ✈️✈️✈️
Thanks for reading by the way 😊
Incest 3
**#35**
**05/01/2022**
Good evening Ladies and gentlemen on readcash, I hope you had a great day, I guess I did too. I've not been too busy today and I had the opportunity to sleep, you might be thinking why I cherish sleep that much but I know the worth of the sleep I slept this afternoon, I don't know why I find it hard to sleep at night this days, I was awake almost through out yesterday night and didn't get to sleep until 5am this morning, how disturbing!! but I think I'm balanced now and ready to bring this story to a close. Let's go ✈️✈️✈️
I started this story about two or three days ago and I guess you need to read incest 1 and incest 2 up to understand this concluding part if you haven't. https://read.cash/@Semaj2k21/incest-1-23544fad https://read.cash/@Semaj2k21/incest-2-abdcf9d8
Continuing...
Frank began to feel uncomfortable in his own house because of the presence of his ex, he even began to make it more obvious the way he was treating her like he just hated her for nothing and that was the message sent to his wife as she kept begging him for his patience till her friend came and this sounded too long for Frank but the funny thing was that this lady (Frank's ex) was still interested in him and there's an adage that "*if a lady wants something, she'd get it no matter what"*. Who would have thought that this lady could be planning to end the marriage of someone that helped and accommodated her. This wasn't her concern as she started making advances towards Frank and at first, he was proving stubborn but he gave to it at the end even though she was on wheelchair, he still thought that since she had a pregnancy for him in the past, she can be the mother of his children and this was the main reason why he gave in to her signals.
This advancements were made under the Anna's roof and she never suspected because they still act to hate each other whenever she's around, this was even the reason why Anna felt safe leaving her husband with a lady that might have the potential of stealing him from her, moreso, she couldn't walk. "*Who would cheat on me for someone that's lame?*" She thought. Not knowing that they were already seeing each other under her nose.
Juliet came back from Canada after a week and headed straight to her friend's house to see her sister and Frank was at home luckily, Juliet thanked the couple for their assistance and help towards her sister, she was indeed grateful and ready to take her sister in for proper care but to her surprise, her sister refused to follow her and Frank was also in support that she still stayed with them till she recovers fully, it was really shocking to hear that from the same Frank that treats her like shit. They accepted his kind gesture and he explained to them that he's just doing exactly what the bible says "render help to whom you can". They were happy about this because her sister was a traveller and might not have adequate time to take care of her properly.
The cat and dog act continued as her sister left them and after a few days, the physiotherapist started coming to their house to help her back on her feet, this went on for about three weeks and at the end of the session she started trying to walk and in no time she was back on her feet but Frank told her not to make it obvious that she could walk already so that they would have enough time together. This act became even more intense and the flow went on and on like that until she started making demands that she wanted to be Frank's original wife. To cut the long story short, Frank hired people to kill his wife and they kidnapped her, and shot her and dumped her body. They called frank to tell him how smooth the execution went and he balanced their payment. Not long after her death, Dara started acting like the main house wife and she even went to Frank's office to replace Anna's pictures with hers, this was when Frank knew there was a problem because it started to seem like he didn't care for his late wife. He told Dara to stop all the act but she wouldn't listen.
On this fateful day, Anna friend, Dara's sister came to Frank's house to mourn with him his wife but to her surprise she met Dara and Frank romancing in the sitting room. She got really angry and went out to make a call to her mother to call Dara and warn her of her act. Her mother called as expected and told Dara to see her along with Frank in the village. They picked a date and headed for the village and all the way they kept passing seemed familiar to Frank but that was just the beginning of the bombshell, as they got to her mother's house and started talking, Frank noticed that this woman was the one that his father had left his younger sister with. He immediately asked for his sister and she told him that not long after he left with his father, her biological daughter, Juliet took Dara in as her sister and she had been with Juliet in Lagos for a while. In short, **Dara was Frank's sister.**
This was an abomination to the land and the consequence was death but even before Frank could die, the police was already waiting for him at home as they found his wife's corpse and the people that killed her had confessed that he was the one that paid them. He was sentenced to Life imprisonment along side his sister and crime partner, Dara and this was how their family went into ruin.
***This is the end of this publication, tried as much as possible to shorten it but it wouldn't make sense.***
****Take home****
In this life as a parent, try as much as possible not to make your Children live away from each other because no one knows the future and the future cannot be predicted.
Thanks for following up till this last episode...
Thanks for reading ❤️💗
Incest 2
**#34**
**04/01/2022**
Good day to this community, I started this series yesterday and I'm ready to continue it even though I'm not sure that this might finish it but I'll try as much as possible to finish it up in this article. I've really thought about how to grow Nollywood movies and I see that Nigeria itself isn't giving them the chance to grow, we don't have enough experts in the field. All the experts we have aren't well equipped and after I noticed that, I forgave them all the criticism I ever have made against them. That doesn't mean they shouldn't create great content tho.
Continuing...
If you haven't read the first part of the article, do well to check it out ( https://read.cash/@Semaj2k21/incest-1-23544fad ) so as to be able to follow the flow....
Frank's wife, Anna wasn't fruitful and she went about all hospitals and even sought the help of the elders traditionally but it didn't bring forth a positive answer. She had no choice but to accept fate of her barrenness after she had spent a lot of money on fertility but Frank was so sure that he was fertile because he had dated a lady years back after he got to Lagos, this lady had even aborted about two or three pregnancies for him and this made him confident that he was fertile. The search for a solution to her problem continued until one of her childhood friends, Juliet gave her a call that her younger sister had a major motor accident and she wasn't in the country at the moment, Juliet begged Anna to help her check on her sister at the hospital which she agreed to do. The accident was quite serious that she had to result in using a wheelchair for her movement and constant visit to the hospital for check up with her physiotherapist. Since Juliet wasn't at home, Anna decided to take her into her matrimonial home, she discussed everything that had happened with her husband, Frank and it was quite a pitiful case that Frank couldn't deny the help even though his marriage was still young and he needed privacy with his wife but Frank had to agree that she should be brought to their house to stay for the main time before her sister comes back from Canada.
On the day of her discharge, Anna took her friend's sister from the hospital and headed to their house, Frank was not at home when she got back, the gate man, femi assisted them into the house and she stayed in the room where Anna had put her. Frank came back from work that day and headed to his room, he didn't find his wife, so he thought of the visitors room where he found her and her friend's sister. On seeing this lady, frank recognized her as the lady he dated when he just got to Lagos, she was his ex but he couldn't tell his wife so he had to pretend nice and she also played along but he wasn't happy with her in their house and he started making that obvious the next day when he started shouting at her and his wife was really concerned and she begged him to wait for her sister to be back from Canada before they let her out of the house because she was really concerned about her mental state especially after the accident incident.
This is going to be the end of today's part, I really hoped to finish it in this article but I don't want it to be unnecessarily long and boring since I'm not putting any images in-between them but I promise to try my best to wrap everything up if that's possible in the next article...
**Anticipate INCEST 3**
All images are from unsplash and edited by Canva...
Thanks for reading 😊🙂💗
Incest 1
**#33**
**03/01/2022**
Good evening readers here, I'm back with my stunning articles, today marks the third day of the first month in 2022 and this year has started moving already. Today has been a good day so far, so I'm not going to rant about my day 😂. I was stuck to the TV for hours watching wildlife documentaries, it was really an interesting one and after about two hours of wildlife documentaries, I decided to watch my first Nollywood movie for the year, the title: Dara. This title is lame, no offense because there's no narration between the name and the movie itself and that's why I'm having a hard time giving this article a title also because I am actually going to write about that movie this evening. Let's move✈️✈️✈️
Frank was a middle-aged man who struggled in Lagos to earn a living, this was no surprise owing to the fact that his mother died while he was still at the village. Frank's father, Amosun had his family raised in the village where he settled after getting married to a woman from a foreign tribe ( *I called it foreign personally because their beliefs and the way they live is kind of weird and scary if you ask me*), it was part of their rules not to pack his whole family away from their indigenous hometown due to some superstitious beliefs. He agreed to this condition, (*maybe he was scared of the deity of the land* ) and decided that his whole family should stay in the village since he loved his wife. After the demise of his wife, he decided to go to Lagos with his children since his wife was dead and she was the main reason he was still at the village. After her mourning, he went to meet her family members and told them he was going to the city and they got really angry and demanded that he left one of his two children with them in the village. It wasn't an easy decision but he had to the lady and took his son along with him to Lagos.
When frank and his father reached Lagos, the struggle began and not long after, Frank's father died also and he was left alone with his hustle. He kept the struggle going and hoped to make it in life, one of the days he was out for an interview for the Job of a driver, a driver to a wealthy woman. This woman got interested in Frank because he was fluent in speaking English language, she wanted to know who he was exactly and he told her his story and she decided to help him, to cut the long story short, they started dating and ended up married. It was a jackpot for Frank as she made him the manager of her company. He later got his dreams lit.
His marriage blossomed and he was obviously in massive wealth but they didn't have a child and this was the main issue they had in the marriage but Frank kept assuring her that she was enough for him and he wasn't concerned if she had a child or not but which man doesn't want his generation to continue? Knowing well that he's also the only son of his family....
I'm going to do something I don't do on a norm but I'm going to stop or let me say give it a pause here 😉
Nollywood movies could be funny sometimes and even too fictional, that's why I wish to add more spice to it so that it'll sound a little more real and I'm going to make this the part 1 and see as you all anticipate for the second part of this story...
Thanks for reading...
I hope you enjoy it 😜
Anticipate the second edition and only God knows if they'll be a third.
Gracias ❤️
First Sunday, first blessings
Good afternoon y'all, I wish you all the compliment of the season, it's great to be hear with you again this year and I'm glad that y'all made it to 2022, I must tell you that it wasn't an easy journey and you too would agree to that because we all had our rough moments in the year 2021, it's a good thing that we all made it into 2022 safe and sound and it's a big congratulations to you all. Happy Sunday to everyone that went to church today, I hope your church service was a remarkable one, it's the first Sunday of they year, why won't it be?... Mine was actually splendid and I'm going to go a little spiritual today even though it's not my specialty but I guess I just have to do this, maybe as per the first worship day of the year. Let's dive in...
Today was a blessed day I must say, I've really got something as a jet pack to make me soar this year. The message was **OUR NEW LIFE AND RENEWED SERVICE BEFORE GOD.**
One thing that must grow in our life this year if at all we don't want to grow at all is our commitment to serving God. I'm guilty of this and I know that, and I hope to be more consecrated to God's work and serve him better than the previous years. For our service to be acceptable by God, we must:
Live our Life with simplicity
Its very important to know that God isn't really interested in doing what he hasn't sent us, we can go extra mile to do very great work on behalf of God but He's much more interested in our lives. As a Christian, we must not be interested in the things of the world, chasing the world can never end, be simple... Don't let the attractive things of the world lure you into sin.
Be diligent
God cherishes diligence, has be sent you somewhere? Go there immediately and do not delay. Jonah wasn't diligent when God sent him to Nineveh and that was why he deviated and was swallowed by the fish. I know we all know the story but if we're diligent with God's work, he'll surely bless us abundantly.
Always be cheerful
In doing God's work, do not complain. If it's not convenient for you to do at that time, instead of you to start complaining or murmuring, it's best that you don't touch his work because God only rewards the people that have done his work with cheerfulness and a clean heart.
Know your place
What do I mean by knowing your place? It's possible God has put you somewhere as a pastor or whatsoever he has given you to do, but you have a Friend that happens to be a little over you in the place God has put him, don't envy such a person because God has put you where you'd be able to blossom and prosper. He gave an example that if it's possible that our wrist watches can talk and reason, and this little wrist watch sees the big clock that's hung at the city square, this wristwatch might start asking why he's not placed so high to the position of the big clock. Let's now say perhaps, this clock finds his way to the top, it'll be so insignificant and useless because no body can even tell what time it says up there. It'd lose its value compared to where it was reachable on your wrist. This exactly is the way God has placed all of us, we are different and have our abilities that differ, just make sure you use your ability to produce the maximum output that you can from where God has placed you...
Thanks for reading...
Happy Sunday and a happy new year to you too...
2022: my year of greatness
**#32**
**01/01/2022**
Good afternoon readers, I'm sure you'd not be able to answer right now as y'all must still be busy eating or doing something at least but I'll still write for you to read when you're less busy. It has been a stressful year already for me😂 but the good thing is that I've been eating all through the day. I'd like to know how all of you have been celebrating your new year since dawn.
Well, let me start from yesterday when I went for the crossover night, we left early for the crossover, me and my family. We had left the house around 7pm because our church was to start a pre service prayer from 7pm till 10pm before we'd start the crossover proper. It was a lovely time to ask and seek God for his help and guidance in this year.
After the prayer at about 9:30pm, we were allowed to take a walk before we came back for the main program, I immediately went to take my phone from where I was charging it, I wanted to make sure I didn't have any message unread into the new year. As I opened my WhatsApp, I saw status rolling in from my department mate as I was wondering and thinking what the update could be about and I couldn't wait for my messages to load completely before I opened my Course rep's DM, lo and behold, it was our MAT 141 overall score ❗❗❗... My head felt heavy and I was disturbed if I should check the result or not but I couldn't resist the urge because I really wanted to know if I was crossing over or carrying over...
I later got the confidence to check the result and my result wasn't that bad, atleast not bad enough to spoil the new year celebration and I was very grateful for that. The crossover started with songs of praises and the I was really happy about my result and my praises to God was like no other. Our pastor came on the pulpit and made a lot of prophesies and what I could really hold on to was **GREATNESS. When you're made great, there's no limit to what you can possess in this life, Solomon was a great man, and riches also came along with it and that's how great I'd like to go this year...**
After the crossover, I made a number of calls to friends and family and I'm still even on that which is part of the reason why I haven't been able to write since. After the calls, we headed home and we encountered on our way series of road blocks by street guys asking for money, their mouths were smelling of alcohol, they were definitely drunk and could do anything, we had to comply so they could let pass, a lot of fireworks were flying in the sky displaying their beautiful colours and I'll tell you that they were nice to see even though their sounds were scary. I can keep going to tell you all that has happened from yesterday till now but I know no body is so less busy this day...
So, enjoy your day and havs a prosperous new year ❤️
End of the year, end of your sorrows?
Good morning fam, I know that y'all are going to be busy today if you're not yet busy tho, but it's been a great year for me, my friends and families and I'm sure that you all must have learnt one lesson or the other from this year. That's the most important thing, try to reflect and see where you've made mistakes, where you've fallen, where you've gotten disappointed and also the good times where you felt on top of the world. If you can't list them all off hand, take a book and write them one after the other and then try to see the way forward so as not to make such mistakes again in the coming year, this is the only way by which you won't run next year just like this year went. I've made my list and I'm going to share a little of things you should look out for next year because people are willing to know what 2022 has for them. I listened to a video clip yesterday and the man said that 2022 has nothing for you if you don't also have something for 2022. There must be a plan. It's not too late to make that plan.
1. **Learn to let go**
There are somethings in this life that you really don't have control over, you should let go of it. Don't hurt yourself because you have failed, you didn't fail intentionally, all you need to do is to look back at the mistake that made you fail and work on it. Don't just sit there and keep regretting why you failed, forgive yourself, stand up and run to success.
**Be yourself**
Never get intimidated by other people's success, set your own personal pace, you can't run with someone that's not you. You are you and there's no duplicate of you. Remember that you're distinct and you need to make that distinction obvious. Let them know that you're different and you can do things your way and still achieve the same success.
**Love those people around you**
You can never be too kind to love, make sure you treat everyone around you just the way you'd want to be treated and always remember that not everyone can express their love for you just the way you do, learn to adapt to whichever way they show their love to you, don't take offences at their flaws. This is the only way we can all live in peace and harmony.
**Never feel bad for setting boundaries**
There are sometimes that you feel like you should have done better, maybe a Friend asked you to do something that you feel is below your standard, don't force yourself to please anyone. It's your standard, always protect it because that's what those people would later value you for.
**Own your story**
Learn to appreciate yourself, not everyone sees you the way you see yourself, not everyone would appreciate that effort, that big sacrifice you made. Not everyone is going to understand the pain you went through to achieve that success. Don't be angry about people that appreciate what you've done for them but be happy to have impacted people's lives positively either appreciated or not.
The cruise list
**#30**
**30/12/2021**
Good morning fellas, it's a bright morning here and a day to the new year and it really calls for celebration and that's why I'm writing this to reflect what has gone through this year in Nigeria. No long first paragraph today...lol
I'm just writing based on a compilation of cruise from the start of this year up to date. The video was sighted in TikTok where I got hold of it and made some screenshots.
**January**
The first month of the year started with cruise, typical Nigeria 😂 this challenge started from Twitter I think that was before Twitter was banned tho and it involved trying to balance two pencils on each other and seek direction from Charlie, an alleged evil spirit by our African parents.
**February**
February started with a trending video of a man on his normal every morning evangelism where he was fond of advising young ladies that men are sweet mouthed, he said all those words like "you're my chocolate" "you're my puff puff" (Who calls his babe puff puff😂🤦) are all lies and for deceit and that was how he trended on twitter and this cruise lasted for quite a long time before it became so old and people stopped using it.
**March**
This one is for them Davido fans, LoL I'm not a hater tho but I value good music. I really didn't follow this trend but it surely started from davido and it was used when we want to express how big something is and we be like" who dey breethe". It was really a trend even till now, it hasn't died along side with 'e choke'. Davido even still released a crypto again with the name "e choke token". Really funny haha
**May/June**
I think this was one of the longest cruise month for it to be merged, we had series of cruise coming up in the space of these two months, sapa is the state of being broke, I don't know where they got the name but if they say sapa, just know it's the synonym of being broke, it's also one of the few cruises that still exist. Then came the Dorime song, oh my!!! This also went a long way and became a laughing stock too, I don't know the meaning of the song tho but it's something that you'd always find me singing, I really didn't go with the sugar daddy association but it also was a cruise of the month.
July
Obi cubana organized a very big burial ceremony for his late mother, the burial held in Anambra state and that was the talk of the week, the rate at which money was spent in videos sent to the social media produced a lot of memes, these memes really made my nights on WhatsApp, it was really a big talk of the week.
**August**
This month too didn't carry last in the cruise list as the crate challenge surfaced on the internet, this challenge didn't start in Nigeria and nobody tried it in Nigeria until some people just decided to turn it to cruise and people took it up and started climbing crates too, this challenge was the darkest because a lot of lives were lost to this challenge, may their soul rest in peace.
**September**
The almighty squid game, this was a Korean series that kept people to their phones for hours, I remember that I watched this series straight without pause. After a week after the series became popular, we also started to copy the green light red light but we replaced their guns with water cannons here. Who wants to die in the name of a game.😂
**October**
Another month for another cruise, but this time was from a Nigerian comedian who acted a comedy skit and uploaded it on YouTube, Sabinos went to a POS point and asked the attendant to give him #1000 and take his card, he now said that he'd come back next week for the card because he's expecting "something huge(hooge)". That was how it became a slang that still exist till now.
**November**
The second to the last year of the month, i don't know where this particular one originated from but damn😂 the memes it produced were very funny along side as people started saying that it's only things that'll put them in Trouble they want to be doing. The snake in the toilet also became a cruise after a video surfaced on the internet where a big snake was found in the toilet, I'd not want to go into details here too.😔
**December**
The last month with the latest trend, this zazu trended even more when portable (an unknown musician to me tho) took to his Instagram page claiming that he sang the song zazu and the other musicians ripped him of his song. This became the talk of the week and trended zazuu as a slang. This 'bam bam' cruise is a song too and I promise you to go crazy if you listen to it. This line keeps ringing in my head like I was the one that wrote the song.
This is a brief of what cruise had for us this year and I hope you enjoyed it as we go again next year...
All images are from screenshots ok a TikTok video.
Thanks for reading ❤️🙂
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Always have a guarantor
#29
**29/12/2021 | Image source: Canva and unsplash**
Good morning my fellow writers and readers, it's two days to the end of the year and I'm sure that you all are making big arrangements for the new year to come. I read a couple of articles yesterday and what most people were writing about are their new year resolutions. Well, it's a good one to do so, but I'm not a fan of just writing my resolutions, I live more by actions and that's what keeps me moving, we all have our differences and who knows, I might later have to write about these resolutions before the end of the year too but we'd see how things go anyway. Another thing that caught my attention was that I read in two different articles about forgiveness and being forgiven, I must say that it's a real good one as I was actually challenged to seek those that I must have offended and make everything right because it's not a good thing to keep grudges into the new year. Another take into the new year is to make good plans. Have you made yours? Answer within yourself 😌
To the article proper,
I met miss Vivian at a job interview in Lagos, I approached her because of the way she was looking, she really didn't look okay and prepared for the interview. I tried my best to cheer her up and make her wear a smile, at least for the interview but it was to no avail. At the end of the interview, I sat close to her, talked to her and she later opened up that she was going through a lot, she had lost her father about a year ago and it has been tough for her, her siblings and her mother to get proper feeding. She said that she decided to leave their hometown and come to Lagos where she would have a better chance of getting a job before she relocates her mum and siblings to Lagos too. I tried my best to encourage her as much as I could but there's only a little I could do, she claimed not to have anywhere to stay in Lagos, I was sorry for her but I also have a wife at home to care about, my wife would definitely not be fine with me bringing someone I don't know into the house either for a long or short period of time. Surprisingly, I got home and asked and my wife agreed that we helped her and make her stay in our BQ. Unfortunately, we both lost the job we were interviewed for and since we studied the same thing in school, we had this business that we could both do but where do I expect her to get that amount of money to start up a business, I discussed this with my wife and she said she'd never agree for me to make Vivian my business associate and I get her point, they are both women. My family and Vivian were really getting close and I decided to tell her about my plan and as I expected, she said it was a good one but she doesn't have that much to start up such a business so I started the business alone and the company was managed by my wife.
After about four months into the business, Vivian came to ask us to borrow her money to start up her business too, after so much contemplations, we decided to help her with a little amount and also supply her goods for the main time before she gets grounded in the business, we came up with #80,000 and gave it to her to start up her's on a small scale which she did and she's now finally grounded in the business and has infact packed from our house as she already earns a living to rent an apartment and in no time, she cut contact with us and also changed the location of her business outlet, we tried reaching her but to no avail and I couldn't help but wonder why she did that, maybe because of the money she borrowed but I saw her as someone who would afford that anytime and any day.
Meanwhile, she had just ordered some goods from us which she was also yet to pay. This time around, she even asked for more than she collects on a norm and I was wondering why but we were already so close that I trusted her with it and I documented everything. We waited for about six months and heard nothing from her, so we decided to report the matter and filed a court case against her, we met at the court house the next week and I wondered how she got the invitation but I guess that's not my job to worry, the good news is that she showed up. After we had both stated our part of the stories, the judge asked for our guarantor for all the goods purchased and the capital we borrowed her but we had no guarantor, the only thing that we had were receipts of the goods she took from us on credit. Vivian denied that we ever borrowed her any capital and since we had no prove or guarantor, she was asked to just return the amount for the goods she took on credit.
**Closing thoughts**
Never because of relationship with someone, except maybe your wife borrow or engage into any business transactions without getting a guarantor.
When dealing business, put relationship aside...
Thanks for reading 😊❤️
Today's article
Good evening or morning, depending on your time zone tho. I hope y'all had a good day, mine was just there I'd say. It's ridiculous to say this but I'm tired of this holiday and I really need to go back to school and enjoy a better lifestyle other than staying at home doing apparently nothing. I tried playing games today, I got bored I dropped it. I tried playing football, I got tired, I dropped it. I also tried sleeping, I slept small, I was disturbed. Obviously I tried eating, I ate a lot and still wasn't satisfied. This means I'm missing the school feeling and I hope we resume school soon enough. This article is going to be short as ever, I honestly have a bad headache on what to write, I've tried thinking so hard but my brain seems to be on leave. Don't get me wrong, I'm not running out of content. I'm just tired...
You must be wondering why my title is like that, I have no idea too but I guess I'm going to leave it like that because this writing isn't really flowing but I'm going to support it with a story...
********** It's story time. *******
It's the story of how I was scammed, I must have been so stupid because this thing happened to me twice. You want to know how?
The first instance was when I was scammed online in the name of fixed matches, for people that don't know what fixed matches are, it's a senerio when some people (agents) go to meet two clubs that have been scheduled to play a match, they'd tell the coaches to inform their players to play according to the script that these agents have brought. These two teams go into the field of play with or without the knowledge of every other person, including the referee. They play according to the script and get the outcome that these agents have sold out to be placed as bets. For example, let's say Capricorn fc and Ryonne fc are to play a match, these agents could meet their coaches and tell them they want an outcome of 3-2, big odds, right?... These two teams enter the game and play exactly this score, meanwhile these agents must have sold these games to people as bet predictions which would surely enter. These agents settle the coaches and everyone involved would get their own share. This was exactly what I was involved in, I met this agent online and he claimed to have fixed a match which I believed. He refused to give me the match and it's prediction until I paid #12,000. After paying the money, you won't believe that he blocked my number and that was how I was scammed. You might be thinking how I believed him? Well, I didn't but I was in one of his WhatsApp groups where people drop testimonies of how they cashed out from his games and I felt I should give it a try since nothing comes without risks but trust me, I felt very stupid afterwards.
The next time I was scammed was also to betting, I was an addict tho. You surely can't imagine how much I've lost to betting. This day, I was just on WhatsApp chatting with friends when one random guy entered my DM and told me that he was an agent for fixed games too, trust me I didn't believe and I decided to play along with him since I had experience but the funny thing was that he didn't ask for money, he just said that I should give him my betting account username, which I did, at least it wasn't my password. I thought. He asked if I had up to #2000 deposited already because he was going to play the game for me through my account, I lied that I did and when it was time, he asked me for an OTP sent by SNET, I stupidly gave him the OTP and he went straight to change my password, after doing that, he deposited all the money in my account into my bet wallet, I couldn't stop it because it was a weekend, after emptying the money into my wallet, he then withdrew the #15,000 that I had in my wallet into his bank account. I was so disappointed in myself and promised never to be that stupid again.
**Take home**
Gambling is not good, you might think it's fun, you're addicted already and if you feel you like it, make sure you don't get addicted because it's very hard to leave it. Thank God I didn't reach the stage of borrowing money to stake, I could have been in a big mess. Play for the passion of the game not for the money or the gain 🕊️💥💥
Thanks for reading my rubbish, hopefully I'd do better tomorrow...
Sleep well y'all 🙂❤️
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After Christmas - last Sunday of the year: count your cost
Hey, it's reading time again and I know y'all are still in the Christmas festive mood, I am too and I really wish this period could continue all the way like this because I'm going to miss all the food and drinks that I've been seeing without stress but I think it's time to put that to a close and focus on the new year coming very soon, less than a week 😉. Its going to be a big celebration because the whole world is going to be celebrating it even though it might be at different times but I really need this year to come to an end so fast so that I can start all fresh again.
It's December, the last month of the year and we are moving close to 2022 daily, we have started having the last days of the year, today is the last Sunday and tomorrow would be the last Monday and so on until Friday which is the last day of the year, it is always recommended to look back from January and account for what you've achieved this year or let me say what you need to make improvements about in the next year to come. This is my summary of how this year has been and I really wish I could state all the months but I guess I'd just give highlights:
**January (month of resolution)**
I remember how hard I was struggling with some addictions last year, not smoking or drinking, don't get your eyes lit up already. It was video games which was affecting my academics, I made a resolution to get it off me. I would tell you it wasn't very easy but I think I pulled through and I'm not more addicted to any video game anymore.
**February (month of love)**
Wow!!! This really must be the best month of this year, if not of my life so far. I met the LOML, we resumed school activities physically February and she also had to come from her state of residence. I remember meeting her at the university gate, it was really a blessed day. The good thing is that our relationship is growing so fast than I even expected.
**March (financial stability)**
This was when I heard of noisecash, I registered and started earning cents, it was really hard to earn but I learnt persistence and determination on that platform, the same person that introduced me to noisecash, @Abhay also introduced me to readcash and explained how everything works, I also registered when he did, my first account @Semaj got spammed, maybe not but I noticed I really never earned from there and I feel the reason is because I was not going by the rules, this gave me experience into my second account which I am using right now, even though there was a time I was away, the good news is that I'm here finally...
**May (first semester exam)**
Oh yeah! I was also able to finish my session in school with the best result I worked for, I guess. This Month was one of the most challenging ones, I had to read back to back because I was adapting to the online teaching system and I needed to put in extra effort to pass the exams well because my test scores weren't encouraging enough, it was her birthday month too, you know who I'm talking about and that was a positive part of the month.
**September (my birthday)**
This was another very nice time of my life, I turned 20 and I left the teenage for the teenagers. I was supported by the best person in my life, she joined readcash this night too, y'all would get to know her as time passes. She really made the Semaj you have here now and I keep telling people to pray for the right person in your life, at the exact time you need such a person.
**December (parties)**
This Month??? It was fun filled, a lot of occasions or let me say parties came up and no one can deny that they did not attend one or two of these occasions, I actually attended a lot that I could never have imagined myself attending last year but I think it's worth the fun, it's the last month of the year and it's a good reason to Joy and rejoice.
**Take home**
Never force anything, this life is a process, flow with it and free yourself from unnecessary pressure and see how things would fall in place...
Thanks for reading ❤️
It's Christmas 🎄
Hey readers, at last the countdown to Christmas was over some hours ago, ITS CHRISTMAS!!!
Christmas is always celebrated by Christians to mark the birth of Jesus Christ, the date, December 25th might actually not be the correct date because this date was actually given by Emperor Constantine who was the first emperor and this date has been accepted since then. Christmas has been the talk of the day especially on this platform and I'm really glad that we have such a number of people celebrating Christmas, a lot of articles have been written by readers here and I've also decided not to be caught off guard. So, I've decided to write about my own Christmas.
I slept quite early yesterday, y'all must have noticed what time I published my last article "Christmas Eve". It was quite early and unusual too but this was because I was tired and I had to take that rest. I woke up this morning to a lot of DMs from friends and family on WhatsApp, everyone's status flooded with "Merry Christmas and happy new year in advance". The level of love showed for Christmas today was exceptional and this proves to you how great Jesus Christ is. After saying my prayers, I came to the kitchen and I met all the ingredients for the jollof and fried Rice ready already.
My mum was to do the cooking while I did something else, I had to assist her with frying the chicken, that was the best work I could do because I had the chance to fry and eat the chicken at the same time... *I almost ate all 😂*
I joined her in the cooking of the fried rice because I wanted to learn how to cook it, she explained every step to me but I guess that's another article for another day. In less than three hours, we were don't cooking the rice ( fried and jollof) and it was time to eat even though I have eaten almost half of the chicken but it was really time to eat the first real meal of the day. After eating, my delivery job was ready to be executed, I was to share food to our neighbors which was what I have been avoiding since, not because i don't like giving but because I don't want them to know that I'm back from school but I guess it was worth it after all because when I got to their houses, I could gather some funds which they also gave me as Christmas gifts. I came back happy and told my mum to call them to show appreciation which she did almost immediately.
After the delivery, I thought I was free for the rest of the day not until my mum asked me to take a nap because she'd be needing my help in preparing one soup that has a complex name, it was the first time she was preparing that soup too but I guess her friends already explained how she'd go about it because she already got all the ingredients ready.
She started the preparation and asked me to help her Split the fish into pieces, I thought the hike knife would be able to do the magic bit it couldn't, I had to use a cutlass for it, this was the only thing I did as I watched her performing the soup wonders and I really wonder how she pulled this off as a first timer.
This is the summary of my day, basically... It has been stressful and I feel it's worth the celebration... Keep enjoying your Christmas ☃️☃️☃️...
Fully genuine content
All images except from the lead image which is from unsplash are from my phone camera... I promise to get myself a new edited photo from Canva as soon as possible...
Thanks for reading 😊🐱💖
Christmas Eve
**#25**
**24/12/2021**
**My 25th article on the 24th of December, Christmas Eve🌲🌲🌲**
A very good evening to all my friends and family here, it has been a long day here for me as we were executing the grand finale preparation for Christmas, I woke up this morning to my full laundry basket, I have been postponing washing these clothes for up to a week now and I was yet going to procrastinate today but that strength came from nowhere and I decided to use it for my laundry. I finished washing after two hours and I decided to eat my food that has been prepared almost three hours ago. I immediately microwaved the food and couldn't even wait for the timer to run out before I removed it, I was damn hungry!!! After food, I realized a missed call from our fowl vendor, so I had to call back and he said he had gotten to his shop so that I'd come to take the fowl, everywhere was densely populated outside my house, the streets I mean. I had to make proper use of my nose mask even though I am fully vaccinated, I got to where I was to get the fowl around 12pm and I was intimidated by the size of this bird, it was too big to control, I thought. I began to imagine the stress I'd go through if I have to carry these fowl all the way back home so I came up with the idea to pay someone to help me kill it. The fowl vendor found me someone to kill and butcher the chicken for me for just #1000, it was pretty expensive but it was worth it if I'm to think of the stress I would go though before I get it home. I got back home and my work was already as easy as ever, I just needed to cook and fry the chicken which I did in minutes. This is a summary of how my day has been...
The Christmas period is always associated with a change in the atmosphere and I wonder if everyone celebrates Christmas or if everyone were christians, I got my answer today, the reason for over crowding in the city during Christmas is because it's pretty close to the end of the year and a lot of people travel to their home towns for the new year celebration, this makes everywhere so busy especially the transportation sector. This period is also characterized with some norm, The following are also associates of the festive period especially in Nigeria:
**Traffic Jams and Road accidents**
We really need to be careful this festive period in our decisions to go out, if it's not really important or necessary, avoid going out, a lot of taxi drivers are in haste to make quick money and they try to cover a long distance in the possible shortest time, hence overspending which may result in accidents that could cause severe injuries or even death in most of the cases.
**Hike in market prices**
I think this happens in every part of the world, festive periods are characterized with hiked prices and this is so because the mentality that everyone must have enough money at the end of the year or maybe people believe that if you have a lot of money into a new year, that maybe the new year would be a financially stable one but I'm here to say that it doesn't matter, December is not the only month to prosper. So, do not pressure yourself because it is December. December is like every other month...
**Knockouts**
This is an inevitable experience in this part if the world, as soon as we enter the month of December, we start hearing different sounds of knockouts. It has been banned severally in this communities due to the fact that it can aid fire outbreak because Christmas and new year are always in the harmattan season and this dryness would aid the spread of wildfire. I am not really a fan of bangers anymore but I can remember those times when I was young and I'd get banger and light it and hold it till it finishes it's knock outs. It was really nice and it's good memories too...
Lest I forget, I'd like to show appreciation to my latest sponsor @ErdoV . I'm really elated and I would try my possible best to impress you even more...
Thanks for reading 😊❤️
Happy merry Christmas and new year in advance ❣️
Santa Claus is home from Rome - #BCHNigerianForumXmasChallenge
**#24**
**23/11/2021**
Good evening readers, it is a privilege participating in this contest, I actually heard about it from a Friend @Abhay just today and it has always being my wish to write something memorable about Christmas. So, I decided to write this article and make it my entry for the competition.
It is every child's joy to meet Santa Claus but is there really Santa? Let's journey... Santa Claus over the years has been painted as a scary hairy human being but we still want to see this man with red hair and a touch of white on his beards. I remember the first time I was to see the so called "Santa Claus". I was in grade three and my school had organized the Christmas carol party for that particular year and had promised to bring Santa from Rome, we all went home happy and told our parents about Santa's anticipated visit to our school and the amount we were asked to pay to fly Santa from Rome. The school really painted a lie to us and made us believe that they booked a flight from and explained how expensive it was and even told us that we were privileged to have had a rich man to balance up the payment for the flight ticket. We all pressured our parents to pay the amount we were asked to pay in school, I remember how I refused to go to school until my mum decided to pay the token for me. The Christmas carol was to hold on Christmas day and the day approached slowly.
At last, the deal day came, I was the first to wake up in the house on that particular day, I had had my birth even before my parents woke up. As soon as my mum came out of the room and saw me all dressed, she asked me to calm down so that she could make food for me to eat so that I won't go hungry but the food preparation was obviously going to take time so I decided to to take Golden morn that morning as I headed out of the house for my school after I had collected transport fare from my Dad, I could not even wait for him to drop me off at school. I got to school around 7am and to my surprise, I met about 10 students in school already, it was a good news, at least I wouldn't be bored, so we started talking about our greatest moment to come with Santa Claus. We even dared each other to touch his white beards because we knew deep down in us, we were scared of Santa Claus.
The moment finally came and our teachers came in a car before the Black tinted Lexus Rx 350 jeep that was decorated red and white ribbons...
"SANTA CLAUS IS HERE", we all cheered!!!
They took him behind the class but we all peeped to see him from a distance, he really looked real. Our teachers arranged us as we went in to get our gifts from Santa, I was the tenth I'm the queue and I saw my mates rejoicing out with gifts, those gifts were also wrapped with decoration materials but some of them already tore the pack and brought out the toys and other collectibles inside the package. I couldn't wait for my turn to enter but as soon as it was my turn and I made my way to the hallway, I started feeling that something was wrong especially when I started perceiving my uncle's perfume on Santa Claus, I then thought it could be that they share the same type of perfume, after all Santa is also human. As soon as I sat on his legs to get my gift and take a picture, I tried to touch his beards and he hurriedly shifted his head backwards and his cap fell, this made me see my uncle's face behind the costume. My Uncle was the Santa Claus...🤣
I ran out of the room and shouted to the other pupils that "**your Santa from Rome is my uncle from home".**
Ever since then, I never believed any story about Santa Claus coming from Rome again...
Thanks for reading...
This is my entry for the #**BCHNigerianForumXmasChallenge**
who's back? Marc de mesel or Semaj
Good evening here, it's a big opportunity retrieving my account back on read.cash, I've been away for a while and I must say I have missed a lot, the friends I made here, family, lessons taught, love showed. I must really say I miss y'all a lot and you would forever remain in my heart. I made an announcement this morning to notify that I was back and you won't believe the amount of love I've gotten from this great family just almost 12hours of being back here.
Thank y'all for still being here
I would first list the things I have missed before I continue my article today;
The great love
I joined this community a little more than 2 months ago and it was really a great opportunity to share my thoughts via words, thanks to @Abhay that brought me into this great family. Today is his birthday by the way... A big shout out to the best buddy ever... Thanks for all you've done.
Crypto news updates
I've really missed in terms of updates concerning the crypto currency market, I left this place when BCH was a little over $700 but to my surprise, I couldn't phantom what has happened to BCH within the few weeks I was away but thank God @MarcDeMesel is back and I'm sure he's here to boost the market again as I would be doing my part in holding all the BCH I'm able to acquire...
This takes me to my today's article, it's quite obvious that I a back literally but my return is not as big as my boss @MarcDeMesel, he's a big enthusiast and promoter of crypto currency especially the BCH. I'm glad you're back and happy for the future of BCH that I can see. I watched his video of about three months ago on YouTube about "keeping your winners and letting your loosers go". I have learnt a lot about that. He stated the reason why Twitter isn't really an addition to the BCH community.
Jack is a Bitcoin enthusiast, and he's also being controlled by some policies, in short, Twitter accounts can be banned if you say what doesn't please them and that was why he resulted in noise.cash where you can give your views on BCH.
He also implored that 90% investors take more of their profits and spend them on themselves. That's not a great investment plan, it is recommended that you should use profits to buy dips and change your mentality to the fact that "dips are opportunities to get more".
I'm glad to be back but I've not really being able to put a lot together but I promise to do so in subsequent articles...
Manage this one on my return.
Thank you very much for the love ❤️❤️❤️
Guess who is back here....
I guess I am, but let's see how this goes😁😁😁
My visit to Funaab
I never tend to agree to what people say when they call me Ibadan based, I was born and lived in Ibadan my whole life. My life since I've been a kid has been like a triangle, I go from home to church to school. Apart from those three places, I had no where else to go. I didn't even have the chance to travel to my ow home town during the holidays or something for vacations.
The only reason why I keep writing
The bad part of my story is that I am now in the same state for my University life also, my friends really ask me questions why I choose to stay in this state but I guess everything has its own reasons, I am the first child of my parents and I used to think that'd make my Junior ones especially my Junior brother to take after my step but it's a pity that it seems like I'm the only one in this state, my Junior brother got his JAMB form and didn't fill the University of Ibadan, I was surprised and was expecting my Dad to shout at him when he gets back from the centre or possibly even ask him to go for change of institution but as soon as he got home, my Dad just asked what Uni he chose and he told my dad FUNAAB, to my greatest surprise, my Dad just nodded in approval. I couldn't move for about five minutes, I knew I had thrown away the best chance I had to run away from home but I guess everything that has its bad side must also have a good side as I am actually enjoying the closeness of my school to my House... What a compensation!!!
My brother was offered admission in FUNAAB, and it was time for them to resume, he had to go to school today and o saw that as a great opportunity for me to leave the state officially for the first time🥳🥳. My mum called me yesterday and told me they were going to Abeokuta immediately after the church service today, we don't attend the same church so I had to rush down to their church after my church service, the joy in me didn't make me remember that I was hungry, I met them almost leaving and joined the trip, my Dad kept driving for hours and it was like we would never come to the end of the road, the road was free of traffic jam, probably because today is Sunday, he drove at the best speed he could attain as we just kept watching the outside views from the inside of the car, we branched a couple of petrol stations to but fuel but most of them didn't have POS which was awful because we almost ran out of fuel, I slept off at some point because there was nothing to do, my mobile network was not responding and I was just helpless until I slept off, when I woke up, we had reached the second gate but the car was on halt, so I got down to see what happened, it was the bumper of the car that had been damaged by the bad roads of Abeokuta, it was a really ugly experience, so we got some screws to fix that back before we now headed to the school, it was a nice experience in all and I really enjoyed it.
The interior view of the school isn't bad at all, their campus is neat and serene and they claim to always have light which I guess is the best thing here.
We returned back home in less than three hours, and ate well and slept because we were all tired..
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My week in four minutes
The way a week ends is almost the summary of how the week has gone, today was the worst of my weekdays. Not just financially but also in School, it's not easy being a student with the way the country is also, Monday started with troubles when they asked us to come for one registration that we already did online,they said that the one that we did online was not valid, that way how my frustration started...
I was forced to download documents of years ago, I couldn't find some of them again, I had to use money to retrieve them which is not easy for me as a student, it was like everything was planned as I spent all monthly allowance in the space of two days, but what can I do than to get myself back together and move on as that is the way federal universities use to defraud their students so to say. After I got all my documents ready, I had to stay on a long queue for hours and when it almost got to my turn, we were all sent out by the secretary, she said she wanted to rest, she's not at fault though as there were no other staffs to help her with the job and it was also the deadline so I was also at fault too so that was how the week started.
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Wednesday was when I knew I was already into deep shit, I opened my telegram and wanted to start my daily earning surveys and site visiting and the bot wasn't responding anymore, I clicked and clicked till I was tired and nothing came forth, so I went to the second platform where I had gone through the stress of referring 25 people to the telegram bot and it was time for me to withdraw again and I was asked to put in my wallet address, I did that and kept expecting the ping on my phone but it never showed up not until I went back there and I was asked to deposit again, I was angry and deleted the chat as fast as I could.
Thursday swept by so fast because I wanted to take a break from all the activities of the week, I even missed my church programme because of that, I was so tired that the only choice I had was to sleep for more than 8 hours and as I was waking up from my sleep, my department was at theirs,they had dropped the hottest breakfast, it was our first semester's GP, everybody was already in the mood so I had to resonate because my GP was not what I expected too but I still thank God because my case wasn't like some people's own, I had actually calculated it before but it was like pouring salt on an open sore. I couldn't talk to anybody till the end of the day.
Friday came and my status was TGIF, Thank God It's Friday. I was happy it was almost the end of the week and we were going into the "Owambe" mood, I needed money too so I wanted to withdraw the last cash in my account but the ATM gallery was too far from my hostel,I then went to the POS to withdraw but I yet forgot my ATM card in the hostel so I was left with the option of transferring to the POS personnel, she warned me that her bank has not been receiving alerts since morning but I was stubborn and still transferred to her and lo and behold she didn't receive the alert and I wasn't given the money, I was asked to log a complain to my bank and it was already late because banks already closed by that time. I now have to wait till Monday before I have the next cash with me which has spoilt my Saturday for me... I hope not to have such a week again...
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The Open-day experience
In primary school, I was a really a notorious student, not in the sense of scaling fences or beating teachers up tho, I was even a primary school "pupil" so how could I possibly be able to beat a teacher up but we had worse students that could scale fences, there was even a boy, kudus that no teacher dared to beat, his father was a herbalist, so he knew about the in and outs of incantations, I was not really close to him because I fear fetish things so I made my distance away from him but I can remember this particular day that he didn't bring his assignments from his house, every one knew that he had not done the assignment just like me and the rest of our gang but this teacher was a corps member, we call them "student teachers", he was very wicked in particular, not to the students alone but also with his fellow teachers so my guess was that the remaining teachers didn't tell him about this boy and his fetish powers.
Teacher: All of you should submit your assignments to the front seat right now!!! As he strikes his cane on the first table of the class.
*All students went forward to submit their assignments in fear because no one could look at his fury.*
Teacher: If you didn't do the assignment, don't let me find out by myself, just come forward and kneel down.
*Me and my guys that didn't do the assignment came out apart from kudus as usual to kneel down as the teacher used his cane to beat us randomly, that was just the preseason of the beating. He counted the notes submitted and did his calculations and noticed one student among those that were seated had not submitted their notes, he was angry as he called kudus out, he forgot about us and took Kudus to the staff room. That was the last thing we heard from the teacher after a loud shout from the staff room, Kudus was later expelled though.*
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Back to my story, we were really stubborn and all our stubbornness used to catch up to us on a day called "the open day", none of us like that day because it on that day that everything we've done from the start of the term would be reported in full to our parents, the most annoying thing is that we never get to stay with our parents when they're discussing our case so the teachers are allowed to exaggerate whatever they have to say but trust me, I grew smart enough not to tell my parents about the open day again. I blocked every possible information that could reach them and I succeeded in that but little did I know that karma was real.
I graduated from the school after a couple of years, furthered my education where they didn't even care about my result and behavior so I had to adjust myself, now that I am married with a son, he's in secondary school and I have never attended one of his school's open day, so I was concerned about karma and drove to his school without his knowledge to ask about the school's open day, they told me they've given him series of letter to deliver to me but he always told them that I was out of the country with his mum which was true at about three years ago but since we've been back, he never delivered any letter. I asked for the date of the next open day and I acted neutral towards him at home since I was once a pro at the game, so the day came at last and it was today as I drove him to school as usual with no suspicion, I drove out of the school as he ran to his class but I parked outside his school for about 2hours and when it was time, I drove in back and went straight to his teacher's office and his teacher called for him, he was in shock as he saw me with his teacher, I asked him to have his seat as his teacher started his story as he interrupted periodically until I asked him to shut his trap, I have never been that harsh to him so he kept quiet and played along as I went to all the teachers taking him each subjects, the story was the same, all they complained about was his laziness and his he disturbs the class, I couldn't talk because I knew it was karma at work but as soon as we got back home, I called him to bring all his notes and none of them was complete, so I sat him down and had a long talk about how I was also like him and how it didn't pay off eventually as I struggled through the university. He promised to be a good boy henceforth and I also hope for the change...
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Must I always be the one to apologise?
Sometimes, it pays not to get close to someone than getting close to the extent that everything that they do, even if they're wrong, you must feel guilty. It's really not nice enough for just a partner in a relationship be the one to push the relationship forward, it must be from both ends and it must be balanced for the relationship to move further... **LETS TAKE A MINUTE TO APPRECIATE MY SPONSORS, ANOTHER HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE LIST BY THE WAY.**
My hunt for babes started when I was of the age sixteen when I was about to finish my Junior secondary school, I got promoted to the last class in my Junior secondary school, JSS3 and I was very happy because my mummy had promised me a Samsung phone that just came out not long at that moment, I also promised her the best grades I could produce, as our exams came close, my reading became intensified not just because I wanted the phone but also because I knew that if I didn't get a phone before I went on the long holiday, I'd lose a lot, because from our seniors, we were made to know that it's during that long holiday that students try to mingle with each other and form cliques before resumption into the senior secondary school and I didn't want to be in the lower set of social students in the senior secondary school so I worked very hard and made sure I passed my examinations in flying colors, as the result was released and I checked mine and saw that I had 7A's and 2C's, my mum was so glad about the results and I didn't even need to reach my house before my mum took me to the store and bought the phone for me as promised, as I got back home and showed my Dad, like you'd expect most dad's to do,he was of the opinion that why did she get me something that expensive but I was happy my mum was able to convince him to leave me with the phone that I needed it as I was going into the senior school.
I went immediately to plug the phone and couldn't wait for the phone to charge completely and as soon as it reached 98%, I downloaded WhatsApp and got social the right away, I got the contacts of all my school mates that has phones at that moment and I was also a big boy at that point in time and I was also added to the class's group, some of us janded as per they left the country for greener pastures but we, the "big boys" had the first hand information and as we resumed in SS1, people respected us because we had a clique,we were the "king of babes" in that set and we were all well known,we all had our methods of getting babes, some were by wealth, others by how handsome they're looking but as for me, I just used to slide into the DM's of fellow big girls and give them some mad punch lines and make them smile at their screen and that kept working for me even till now.
I happened to enter the DM of one beautiful girl in my department, we had not resumed so don't think I went to meet her and deviate from my normal process, we were all added to the departmental group after we were offered provisional admission into the department, I was one of the first people to join the group and I was able to track the way people joined the group, as soon as she joined the group, I slid in and made her glue to her screen through out that day and I thought it was going to be the end after that night because I was just getting into the university setting but there was no much difference as we kept chatting every day for about 5 months. No doubt, I was the closest to her in the department of not the whole university and as soon as we resumed, we became the best couples on campus and that went on and on until just of recent when I noticed a change in her behavior when something happened.
It happened that I introduced her to one of my close friends, he was male obviously and that was the biggest mistake I have made in my life in a long time, he started going out with her and I never noticed it, not until one of my guys told me and I was really surprised about it, I did my background check and noticed that it was true but I didn't react to it, I made her know how she was at fault and all others things I saw, she was stunned about how I got to know but she didn't show any sign of remorse, I left her for days and she didn't still reach out to me, so I went to her hostel to see her, we had a few discussion but the base line was that she was expecting me to apologise to her which I never did as I shouted out loud "MUST I ALWAYS BE THE ONE TO APOLOGIZE?".
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My TME practical 3: Foundry
**Casting of pillow bearing housing**
*Tools and equipments:*
Moulding bench
Moulding flask
Cope - the upper half of the moulding flask
Drag- the lower house of the moulding flask
Moulding board
Rammer
Sprue pin
Riser pin
Heart and square
Moulding sand
**Theory**
casting simply means the pouring of molten metal into a prepared mould. The mould has a desired casting cavity which is the shape of the object.
**Casting process**
Sand casting process
Die casting process
**Sand casting process**
In this process, the mould material is made of sand.
*Advantages*
1. It is cheaper
It is used to make any type of metal products.
It is used for large surface casting.
*Limitations*
Sand casting delivers rougher surface finish.
It is not as fast as other casting processes.
**Die casting process**
in this process, the mould material is metal, it is also called a permanent mould casting.
*Advantages*
Suitable for mass production
It is faster
It makes work accurate.
Definition is always smooth.
*Limitations*
The mould metal must have a higher melting point than the molten metal e.g steel die mode would have to be used to produce aluminium products. If the same metal material is used,the mould might melt with the molten metal.
Ferrous metal can't be done with die casting.
Cost of die casting mould is expensive.
It is not economical to use die casting for many works.
**Procedures**
The following procedures were considered in the making of pillow bearing house;
You prepared the green sand first. this was done by spraying little water on the sand heap at interval while we turned the sand over thoroughly.
We rubbed the sand between our palms for even distribution of the moisture.
After we were done rubbing the damp sand, we seived the sand and separated the lumps from the fine green sand.
The flat side of the solid pattern was placed on the surface board.
The drag was placed on the board with the pattern at the middle.
We sprinkled separating powder on the pattern.
After that, you filled the drug with sand and compacted it evenly with the rammer.
We leveled the sound with the help of the straight edge.
we turned the drag over and fixed the cope to it with the help of the guide pin.
Separating powder was sprinkled on the pattern.
Separating sand was also sprinkled on the compacted sand in the drag.
The sprue and rise pin were placed few centimetres to the partner.
We filled the cope with sand and compact the sand evenly.
The sand in the cope was leveled and vent pin was used to create holes randomly on the mould to serve as escape route for trapped gas during pouring.
A pouring cup was created beside the sprue pin.
Gently, the sprue pin and riser pin were removed also, we lifted the cope from the drag gently.
The channel (runner) was created from the sprue and riser exit to the cavity.
We blew out the loose sand from the cavity and removed and sharp corners.
The metal scrap was charged into the furnace and allowed to melt.
After the molten metal had solidified, the mould was broken and removed the cast.
We carried out fetting by cutting away the unwanted parts.
**Different section of the foundry workshop**
Pattern: the pattern is a replica of what is to be produced it is made up of wood, wood products, plastic, pop and wax, the above mentioned are the commons ones.
*Types of pattern*
1. Solid
Split
Multi split
Moulding: we compact sand rigidly around the pattern.
A. Floor moulding
B. Bench moulding
C. Pit moulding
D. Machine moulding
Green sand: green sand denotes the presence of moisture in moulding sand i.e when a sand is damp or wet.
Melting and pouring: this is done by the use of melting furnaces
Fetting: simply means the cutting away of unwanted part from casting
**Safety precautions in foundry workshop**
Always with the approved safety workshop wears.
Never wear rings or wrist watches in the workshop.
Never use bare hands to bring out molten metal from the furnace.
Do not use your bare hands to rub damp sand.
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