Breakfast at the Grand Square Refreshment Cafe is a delightful experience if you're looking for nice, clean, minimal noise and traffick.
The menu is not very diverse, but the stuff on it is very good. The temperature is right and there is no loud intrusive music to distract from thoughts or conversation.
And you also are a hope and skip away from one of the most beautifully organized and well stocked department stores in Abuja City.
I went to the store to buy DV tapes for a documentary White Rabbit is shooting for a client and stopped for breakfast.
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
A New World Is Happening...
A new world is happening.
Its very early in the morning and im sitting on my couch with my traditional mug of coffee and thinking about two things; how the world is changing and how this chica wants to go along for the ride. Living in Abuja has opened my eyes. While a lot of people still enjoy the warm cocoon of a 9-5, there has been an explosion of entrepreneurs, mostly young business owners who have decided to take charge. As recently as 10 years ago, going out on your own earned you an incredulous stare, ‘are you out of your mind’? ‘How will you feed’? ‘At least get a day job’! Etc. But you will be surprised or pleased (as is the case with me) to find that we have bravely decided to step out and take control, yes I count myself among the number. Yup, there are lots of young women doing great things, just attend a sista sista event or a wimbiz (women in business) conference and you’ll be surprised or pleased (as is the case with me). Some people haven’t step all out into the entrepreneurship line, it ok, take your time, be sure it’s want you want to do.
I visited an eminent member of the workforce and watched him just sit there chatting away obviously bored with little to do, but still hanging, at least he has a dependable food supply. I did not have one moment of jealousy at his stability or desire to be in that cute leather seat. I know I am doing what I was meant to be doing.
A new world is happening.
Its very early in the morning and im sitting on my couch with my traditional mug of coffee and thinking about two things; how the world is changing and how this chica wants to go along for the ride. Living in Abuja has opened my eyes. While a lot of people still enjoy the warm cocoon of a 9-5, there has been an explosion of entrepreneurs, mostly young business owners who have decided to take charge. As recently as 10 years ago, going out on your own earned you an incredulous stare, ‘are you out of your mind’? ‘How will you feed’? ‘At least get a day job’! Etc. But you will be surprised or pleased (as is the case with me) to find that we have bravely decided to step out and take control, yes I count myself among the number. Yup, there are lots of young women doing great things, just attend a sista sista event or a wimbiz (women in business) conference and you’ll be surprised or pleased (as is the case with me). Some people haven’t step all out into the entrepreneurship line, it ok, take your time, be sure it’s want you want to do.
I visited an eminent member of the workforce and watched him just sit there chatting away obviously bored with little to do, but still hanging, at least he has a dependable food supply. I did not have one moment of jealousy at his stability or desire to be in that cute leather seat. I know I am doing what I was meant to be doing.
A new world is happening.
Monday, May 25, 2009
kpako vs butty
Yesterday, I watched a 3 ½ years old girl play solitaire on my laptop and then shut it down properly when it indicated that the battery was low and all I could say was ‘na wah oh’. When I was three I was completely clueless, my favourite pastime was playing pranks on my siblings and putting the helps and batman in trouble. Fast forward to 20+ years later and 3 year olds are shutting down machines and 8 year olds are experts on fashion do’s and don’ts. The verdict is in, Kids are losing or have lost their innocence, but it’s hard to decide whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing.
I mean its good when you think of how far ahead they are moving or how cute a smart and quirky child is but don’t you get a little bothered that a child who knows her way around a computer will most definitely find her way around the ‘evil’ internet or 1 who prefers ‘E’ to cartoon network. But maybe I’m focusing too much on butty kids. But butty or kpako, where do we draw the line. Children of nowadays, men! They dey tear eye well well. Its feels a bit scary to watch children grow up so fast, especially the underprivileged. But who am I to talk about the realities of the underprivileged, some of them are forced to grow up so fast because of poverty, abuse, rape, disease, neglect, slavery and so on and so forth. Some of these children live without hope and here I am talking about solitaire and dstv.
Its Children’s day week, take time out to in your own little way reach out and give hope to a child, there are many ways, and there are many organizations. Don’t do it for validation or satisfaction but because you care honestly. I dedicate my Wednesday, 27th may to doing something different that will change the life of one Nigerian child, if you do and every other person does just imagine how many Nigerian children’s lives will be touched in 2009.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.-Garrison Keillor
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become -Louis Pasteur:
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I mean its good when you think of how far ahead they are moving or how cute a smart and quirky child is but don’t you get a little bothered that a child who knows her way around a computer will most definitely find her way around the ‘evil’ internet or 1 who prefers ‘E’ to cartoon network. But maybe I’m focusing too much on butty kids. But butty or kpako, where do we draw the line. Children of nowadays, men! They dey tear eye well well. Its feels a bit scary to watch children grow up so fast, especially the underprivileged. But who am I to talk about the realities of the underprivileged, some of them are forced to grow up so fast because of poverty, abuse, rape, disease, neglect, slavery and so on and so forth. Some of these children live without hope and here I am talking about solitaire and dstv.
Its Children’s day week, take time out to in your own little way reach out and give hope to a child, there are many ways, and there are many organizations. Don’t do it for validation or satisfaction but because you care honestly. I dedicate my Wednesday, 27th may to doing something different that will change the life of one Nigerian child, if you do and every other person does just imagine how many Nigerian children’s lives will be touched in 2009.
Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.-Garrison Keillor
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become -Louis Pasteur:
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
CONFESSIONS OF A CITY CRAWLER
Best Shawama- Chicken Capitol, Zone 3
Best Roast fish- Abacha Barracks (Madam Nancy)
Best long island- Piano Bar, Aristotle(Lam Okerayi)
Best Service- Salamander, Wuse 2
Worse Service (except you are white) - rooftop cafe, British council
Best fried chicken- SFC, Maitama
Best chips- Drumsticks, Wuse 2
Best pizza- Sel Sucre, zone 1
Best Nkwobi, Isiewu and Snail- King Fries, Maitama
Best sandwich- salamanda cafe(dooshima dabo)
Best bread- Sel Sucre
Best Moi Moi- Alexandas
Best Suya- Yahuza
Best Platter- Krystal lounge
Best cake- the oven(flow)
Best Ice-cream- hatlab(dytiem odok)
Freshest produce- market or for shop goers, park and shop
Best Chinese-Chopsticks(Hassan yusuf)
Best fried rice & shredded beef- oriental express(audu maikori)
Best waffles- Suh juice
Best Place for African food- assorted (benny ark)
Best vanilla and mushroom steak- vanilla restaurant (nkem Alfred)
Best Indian- Albasha (nkami armon)
Best buffet- transcorp hilton(kola oye)
Coldest drinks-
cheapest drinks- gardens generally
Best Ambience- chez victor(elvis okpaleke)
Calabar Cuisine- Calabar kitchen(CEO, serene & carmberry)
P.s feel free to add your beSTS
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Fame is like dope
Fame is like dope. You take a little, you want more and more.
I just made a new friend, he is a 10 year old ‘has been’ (translation: He use to be famous 10 years ago). At what point did he loose the fame???
Fame is the glittering price that comes with a successful career, mostly a career promoted in the media. To take a line from a poem by my friend and fellow GAP(guild of artist and poets) member, Simoyan Olayoye ‘paparazzi shots don’t kill, they aide me’. So true, too true.
Fame can change you, to something virtually unrecognisable (just ask Michael Jackson), it can be a catalyst for change (just ask bob Marley or our very own fela), it can do a lot of good or it can be a tool for a lot of bad. The way fame is handled is a sure test for true icons; it can be used to make history or to make history forgotten.
But, there is nothing in the world that has a shorter lifespan than fame (you must have heard of the 15 minutes of fame and the 1 hit wonder phenomenon), it fizzles out.
Whatever the case, while you are famous, propagate change!
ijeoma okeagu
executive director
whiterabbit concePt nig ltd
I just made a new friend, he is a 10 year old ‘has been’ (translation: He use to be famous 10 years ago). At what point did he loose the fame???
Fame is the glittering price that comes with a successful career, mostly a career promoted in the media. To take a line from a poem by my friend and fellow GAP(guild of artist and poets) member, Simoyan Olayoye ‘paparazzi shots don’t kill, they aide me’. So true, too true.
Fame can change you, to something virtually unrecognisable (just ask Michael Jackson), it can be a catalyst for change (just ask bob Marley or our very own fela), it can do a lot of good or it can be a tool for a lot of bad. The way fame is handled is a sure test for true icons; it can be used to make history or to make history forgotten.
But, there is nothing in the world that has a shorter lifespan than fame (you must have heard of the 15 minutes of fame and the 1 hit wonder phenomenon), it fizzles out.
Whatever the case, while you are famous, propagate change!
ijeoma okeagu
executive director
whiterabbit concePt nig ltd
guild of artist and poets
Well if I had known that the battle of the sexes was going to be fought at PLAY SPORTS BAR AND LOUNGE I would have gone better prepared. But it is interesting to note that a gathering of artistic minds could spark up something so deep.
I attended my second meeting of GAP (guild of artist and poets) and I listened to lines that could stir the most docile of spirit. From traditional forms to the more avant-garde, from amateurs to award winners (the ALS grand slam champion was in attendance as well as another member who won an award for a poem she wrote when she was 11).
It is said that poets and artist are tormented souls that purge their ‘emotions’ through the medium of their art, and this gathering of people have done just that. A craving for change is 1 topic that just kept recurring. Change in the way we live, change in the way we treat our neighbours, our country, our environment, even a change in the way we treat change.
And I absolutely positively believe that gap will prove an effective medium for stirring change, because sitting in a meeting you see passionate young people who are ready to take the world over and they will. Take time out and attend a GAP meeting, see what it does for u, its not all serious stuff, you have a lot of fun listening to people dole out the good the bad and the tmi(too much information) poems, its a good avenue for networking and u will be doing all this in a highly relaxed ambience of play . Who knows you just might leave a meeting more conscious, more resolved and every experience will bring you closer to deeper conviction. Looking forward to having you.
P.S GAP meetings hold every Sunday @ 5.30pm,the venue is PLAY SPORTS BAR &LOUNGE, opp peniel apartment, wuse 2, Abuja.
I attended my second meeting of GAP (guild of artist and poets) and I listened to lines that could stir the most docile of spirit. From traditional forms to the more avant-garde, from amateurs to award winners (the ALS grand slam champion was in attendance as well as another member who won an award for a poem she wrote when she was 11).
It is said that poets and artist are tormented souls that purge their ‘emotions’ through the medium of their art, and this gathering of people have done just that. A craving for change is 1 topic that just kept recurring. Change in the way we live, change in the way we treat our neighbours, our country, our environment, even a change in the way we treat change.
And I absolutely positively believe that gap will prove an effective medium for stirring change, because sitting in a meeting you see passionate young people who are ready to take the world over and they will. Take time out and attend a GAP meeting, see what it does for u, its not all serious stuff, you have a lot of fun listening to people dole out the good the bad and the tmi(too much information) poems, its a good avenue for networking and u will be doing all this in a highly relaxed ambience of play . Who knows you just might leave a meeting more conscious, more resolved and every experience will bring you closer to deeper conviction. Looking forward to having you.
P.S GAP meetings hold every Sunday @ 5.30pm,the venue is PLAY SPORTS BAR &LOUNGE, opp peniel apartment, wuse 2, Abuja.
NIgerIaN TiME!!
I goggled ‘African time’ and to my utmost shock, the word actually appeared, and with 121 meanings and 70 pages. I hadn’t gotten over that when I goggled ‘Nigerian time’ and discovered that it had also found its way into main stream diction(ary). Its beginning to catch on I fear, Nigerians have taken what ‘óyibos’ call fashionably late to a whole new level. Everyone has experienced this menace because as long as you are a human being u must have thrown a party be it birthday or just unnecessary owambe or had a wedding or called a meeting and so on and so forth.
Let’s take an average event for instance. You set the time for 5pm, if u are lucky it starts at 8pm if not 11pm. Even when guest show up early the event promoters are not ready becos they take for granted that the Nigerian time factor will cover for their tardiness. At a very recent event I attended, I was quite disappointed to note that even though the venue was filled an hour after the designated time to start, the event did not start for about 3 hours after that, by which time all room for organization was lost, the crowd had built up and they were needy, irritable and critical of everything including the good performances.
I have a friend who has perfected the art of lateness if indeed it can be called an art. If u want to get her anywhere on time please give her an hour and a half before the real time, she will still turn up a little late full of apologies. But I think that most people hate to be early because they believe they will be the first to arrive or they will have to watch every one else walk in and have no one to watch them walk in. The phrase ‘na me dey hold the key’ or ‘na me dey marry or celebrate’ or ‘oh girl when I enter eh all eyes will be on me’ is the usual answer to a question about lateness.
People people people, the world is changing, Nigeria is changing. Have u noticed the latest red carpet (or in the case of the HIPHOP WORLD AWARDS, yellow carpet) craze, well people who are late always miss that. Also you don’t get value for your money when you go late because you miss the beginning and probably the middle depending on your level of lateness, you get icy stares when you walk in and distract a performance. As an event manager, I get really frustrated by the African time factor and I promise you so will you when people show up 2 hours late to your wedding.
ijeoma okeagu
executive director,
white rabbit concePt nig ltd
08037135829
abuja,nigeria
Let’s take an average event for instance. You set the time for 5pm, if u are lucky it starts at 8pm if not 11pm. Even when guest show up early the event promoters are not ready becos they take for granted that the Nigerian time factor will cover for their tardiness. At a very recent event I attended, I was quite disappointed to note that even though the venue was filled an hour after the designated time to start, the event did not start for about 3 hours after that, by which time all room for organization was lost, the crowd had built up and they were needy, irritable and critical of everything including the good performances.
I have a friend who has perfected the art of lateness if indeed it can be called an art. If u want to get her anywhere on time please give her an hour and a half before the real time, she will still turn up a little late full of apologies. But I think that most people hate to be early because they believe they will be the first to arrive or they will have to watch every one else walk in and have no one to watch them walk in. The phrase ‘na me dey hold the key’ or ‘na me dey marry or celebrate’ or ‘oh girl when I enter eh all eyes will be on me’ is the usual answer to a question about lateness.
People people people, the world is changing, Nigeria is changing. Have u noticed the latest red carpet (or in the case of the HIPHOP WORLD AWARDS, yellow carpet) craze, well people who are late always miss that. Also you don’t get value for your money when you go late because you miss the beginning and probably the middle depending on your level of lateness, you get icy stares when you walk in and distract a performance. As an event manager, I get really frustrated by the African time factor and I promise you so will you when people show up 2 hours late to your wedding.
ijeoma okeagu
executive director,
white rabbit concePt nig ltd
08037135829
abuja,nigeria
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