THE WORST HAS HAPPENED!!!!!!!!!!!

"..………..It is safe to say that the worst has happened….


My ponytail just fell off my head and landed right in the middle of the floor as I was strutting back to my desk with my cuppa tea….Funny thing, is that that has been my worst nightmare since I got this dam* ponytail!


In my moment of panic, I spilled the tea on the floor and managed to scathe my hand in the process……….To add insult to injury, whilst I was deliberating about whether to gather what was left of my dignity and sprint to the toilet, or to get some napkins and clean the mess that I made….who had to pick that exact moment to walk past? A fine as* brother…one of the few I've seen since I joined this company…..Talk about Sod's law!.....mmhhh mmmhhh mmmhhhh (Brownie points were taken away from him though when he asked if I was ok - c'mon, do I look ok standing in the middle of the floor with my scanty hair,  bewildered expression, ponytail on the floor and tea on my arms….Smh)  …  …..Anyhoo, that jolted my mind back into action….who cares about the mess on the floor when my reputation is seriously at stake!  I made it to the toilet in record time…Usain Bolt ain't got nothing on me…..


I just made it back to my desk and all I can think about is…..Please please ground, open up and swallow me………my only consolation is that I'm in a different office today so I don't know a lot of people here….but then again, I can't got some of their expressions outta my head! I feel like screaming …….."whatcha looking at"!!!!


…...I'm gonna pop out for Lunch now…..maybe they would have forgotten by the time I get back……..Abracadabra!!!!!!!"


LWKMD!!!!!!!!!!!! I laughed so hard when i saw this email from my dear friend who is so comical that should her day job fail, she knows what to fall back on! Oh dear.. Talk about embarrassment! What women go through to stay with and in the times?! 
Hey after all said and done there ain't no crime in buying your hair if it wont grow!:)


Sweetie i know you're reading this and i just want to say thank you for allowing me share this with the world so they can have some good laughs too! :) 


As for that brother in your office, i suggest you seize the day and block him in the elevator to chat him up, starting the convo in the lines of........."hey about the other day you saw a damsel in distress..............."i leave the rest for your creative and comical imagination! Also for the brownie points, you should give to him, not take out cause he might as well have walked past you laughing or with a serious face and you'd still take off brownie points! 


Love ya to bits hun and it is safe to say that i and my followers on 9jaspititout are solidly behind you should you decide to never step foot in that office where "your plight" occured! lol...


Hugs n Kisses boo
Chinny ;)

Osondi Owendi

"If you like vex, na you sabi"! That's the literal meaning of Osondi Owendi or rather the meaning i prefer. I love those two words! Lol..

I can imagine Brit is beefing Gaga and Riri who have taken the spotlight
I can imagine Omo sexy is wishing she was the one interviewed by CNN and not Gene baby
I can imagine about 150 million people wished they were the ones who won the 312million dollar lottery and not the guy who did
I can imagine Kel wished she were B at some point, leader of the pack...("say my name" remember?)
I can imagine 20 million girls in Britain wished they were Kate M
I can imagine the 11 contestants who will get kicked outta A.Idol will wish they'd be D Idol.

I can imagine the repubs musta been pissed when D democrat sat on the highest seat of power
I can imagine you wish you'll be me when i win the blog-writers award!!!! http://www.blogwriteraward.com/Toplist.aspx ......hehehe (remember to vote)

I can imagine.........many more things! :)

I guess what i'm trying to say at the end of the day isss.....................................................

OSONDI OWENDI!!

hahahaha :)  

Faffing around,
Chinny

Anger

Have you ever been so angry, you feel like smashing your cell phone or a glass on the wall? I have.. I get so angry sometimes i feel like the only possible release i can get is to break something.. But i never do... One day i think i will... I want to know how i'll feel afterwards, you know just like we see in the movies.

Anger is a terrible emotion. Anger has shed blood, caused lifetime strifes, taken nations to war, lost love, jobs and family relationships.. Anger has lost progress and success.. Anger is the enemy. It may be the enemy but its inevitable.. Sometimes justified, other times irrational; whatever the case may be you have to control what you do with the anger, if not the consequences may be damning.
Scripture says "be angry and do not sin, do not let the sun go down on your anger Ephesians 4:26".. Hmm... How does one accomplish that feat? How do we know when to draw the line on anger when your tongue might run ahead of your head and say things which hurt and which you'll later regret ? How do you control the wrong thoughts that go through your head when you're angry? I don't know... At least lets be thankful that "getting angry itself is not a sin".. What is a sin is the product of anger..

Let me take you back to one significant consequence of anger...
- Cain killed Abel-... Genesis 4:4-8.. Cain was angry with God for rejecting his offering and accepting that of his brother! Can someone please tell me why Cain killed Abel since it wasn't Abel who rejected his gift??! Wait.. .He killed Abel out of jealousy! That has to be the only rational explanation.. Jealousy, a passion consuming often times unjustifiable emotion. See what it can cause?! Eternally damning consequences as God cursed Cain to remain a wanderer of the earth. I kinda felt that was a very harsh punishment but hey who are we to question God? And besides Cain was lucky not to have been struck dead instantly for such a heinous crime..

Often times after getting angry and causing hurt we start to feel remorseful and wish we could take it all back.. Sometimes we go a step further to apologize and sometimes we refuse to concede to humility to apologize.. We swallow our humility and rather give into self justification that we are or were right in the circumstance... Judge for yourself which is better, to live with humility or pride?

I leave us with one thought... Get angry, smash a glass, break the table, but as you do all this remember one person.....Cain.....Do not sin.
But if you do sin, God will probably not curse you to be a wanderer, but you've certainly unwoven one thread of righteousness (James 1:20)from the yarn which he is spinning into your life... However we thank Him for his mercy, grace and forgiveness available to ONLY repentant souls..

Food for thought...

Tuyo por siempre,
Chinny

God, the world's only professional

I've been procrastinating on this thought for a long time now, but today is the day of action. I was writing about Desire, the dream deferred (click to read), when i got the inspiration to write on this topic. God's many professions... In my mind's eye i was standing on a hilltop towering above the ocean and all i could see before me was a vast expanse of open sea... And then i saw the horizon and i thought 'wow"!! God, who are You?

He:
Formed night and day.......Engineer
Drew the landscape...........Architect
Raised the foundations........Builder
Painted the sky...................Artist
Separated the colors of the seasons........Event planner
Colored the flowers/trees........Florist
He:
Created the animals........
and then,                     
Created you and me.......Creator.
WHO is He?? 


HE IS GOD. The universe's only Professional. The Multitasker of all Multitaskers, The Professional of all Professionals, The Employer of all Employers, The Employee of all Employees.... He was....... He is......... He is to come.......
How do i describe Him to You?
Read Job 40: 7-14

“Brace yourself like a man; 
   I will question you, 
   and you shall answer me.
 8 “Would you discredit my justice? 
   Would you condemn me to justify yourself? 
9 Do you have an arm like God’s, 
   and can your voice thunder like his? 
10 Then adorn yourself with glory and splendor, 
   and clothe yourself in honor and majesty. 
11 Unleash the fury of your wrath, 
   look at all who are proud and bring them low, 
12 look at all who are proud and humble them, 
   crush the wicked where they stand. 
13 Bury them all in the dust together; 
   shroud their faces in the grave. 
14 Then I myself will admit to you 
   that your own right hand can save you.

In His words He tells us who He is, A Poet too! ... The Contender of all Contenders.. Alpha and Omega-Beginning and End. He formed every profession and is an expert of all. Even the wars of old were planned, reminds me of Project Management! The treasures of the temple were bought, Procurement/Supply chain; he has a choir in heaven, Musician; He listened to and encouraged Job, Psychologist,... He did many more things! There's no other way to describe God than summing Him up in this one word, He is EVERYTHING!

So love your profession and jobs with the joy that your Father was once that, is and will always be that person you are today!

Lord You Are EVERYTHING!!!

Tuyo por siempre,
Chinny 

LettER To aLL MY SiLenT BloG ReaDerss

Dear Silent 9jaspititout blog reader,


God don catch you today! You have been reading my blog ever so often without saying a word! I know YOU. With unspoken words but satellite tracing technology i know where you access the blog from, time you did and which country you are in! Yes, i say thank you to the "white witches", they made such possible! Now i am going to query you for logging onto my blog without dropping a line to say hi, commend my posts or to dispute my opinions even? You are like a pedestrian that stops by at the non-free newspaper stand to read a paper and leaves without paying for it! Lol.. :D... Time to pay has come ooo!! It is time to for YOU to vote for me so maybe i can begin to eat 'akara' from this blog (ps: akara since the daily bread is taken care of already)


Now its very simple, all you have to do is click this link http://www.blogwriteraward.com/Toplist.aspx and look for 9jaspititout.blogspot.com on the Toplist. You should find my blog between numbers 275 and 250, click on vote and make my blog count for something! Its not easy to be a blogger in bloggerville, requires a lot of thinking and sometimes research make pesin no come yarn for here :D.. So today and for the next few weeks VOTE for me, while i continue to entertain you with my rantings, after all there is a saying that goes "silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me" so just be rest assured that i ain't shutting up anytime soon! :D. I take God beg you, try and pay for that newspaper today and anytime you read am you hear?! Lol..


Just so you know, the blog-writers award is an international educational organization that is encouraging writers to present their works to a larger community. You are my digital community, so support me.They will make financial awards to the best blogs out of all the listed blogs for the award. My blog don manage enter, so help me become potential for the award or reward available.


Thanking you in advance for your esteemed support. 

Your's loyally,
Chinny


PS: if the reward plenty i fit dash you some ;) (notice the font size??!) Shhhhh.... its our lil secret! hehehe

Dear God-sequel...

Dear God,

How are You today? I know You are doing great, after all You are God! How are the citizens of Heaven doing? I can’t wait to meet them someday; I bet they are in awe of You daily... Oh what a wonderful sight it must be to see Your children clad in robes of white with halos around their head kneeling before Your throne in total surrender and worship of You… I hope to join them someday too, at a good old age when I have fulfilled Your plans for my life.

I’ve only ever written You one letter in my life before and that was when I was upset with You. I wanted a UK holiday visa so badly, I coulda paid any amount to anyone who would guarantee me that visa. I put the desire for a visa before You; it was my priority for that season. I wanted You to give it to me but I forgot to check with You if it was what You wanted for me. Then came the blow! You bounced me and I wept. I wept so badly. Cried that You would let the embassy bounce me for the 3^rd time, cried that I wasn’t gonna be able to attend my twin sister’s graduation, cried that I wasn’t gonna be able to meet up with a ‘love interest’ at that time, cried that I wasn’t going to spend Christmas with my sisters who were travelling too, cried that my passport was ruined. Yes God, I cried. I was upset with You. How could You love me then let me constantly be rejected for an innocent request? Couldn’t You see my pain? What did I do to You that You wouldn’t let me be happy? These were all the silly questions I asked You and I back then. I was foolish right?? I should have known better as your child, maybe I did but I refused to acknowledge the truth. A seemingly trivial problem to be denied a visa… After all it was just a three times request for a holiday!! So I wrote You the letter below:

Dear God,

Are you on leave?? Cos lately you've been kinda silent, especially when i needed you the most! I know you are there but it sure feels like your not!

What did i do wrong? Why would you let all these 'trials' try to steal my joy at this time of the year when it should be a season to rejoice, be happy, loving and giving? Are you trying to punish me for sins committed through actions or for sins committed through thoughts? Which one God?
I'm sad and I’m sorry too. Sorry that i feel this way and that i failed to trust you more. For even that feels like sin itself, not letting go and letting you. You said the plans in my heart are many, but only your 'counsel' will stand. I respect and appreciate that. But you also said that ' when my ways please YOU, even my enemies would be at peace with me'. So makes me ask, what did i do to displease you that you will not let the sun stand still and the moon stop till revenge is upon my enemies? Cos they are not at peace with me but at war.. The battle is not mine, it’s yours but i feel the 'stings' and 'hits' of the blasts on my heart and head.
Tell me...
I wake up every morning and my heart skips a beat.. Out of heart ache and fear and anger and frustration.. My eyes tell a different story altogether. I literally have to wear sun shades to hide the sadness and despair seen in it.
It was supposed to be perfect this season and now it looks so bleak, so cold empty and numb..

I need answers God. . I’m waiting and I’ll wait for as long as you are ready to talk to me!

Yours Faithfully,
your child..

(The picture showed my tears)

Do You remember God? Of course You do! You’re all knowing, never changing, ever remembering and ever seeing. You saw and heard it all. I remember feeling a lil better after writing you that letter, even though I still didn’t have the visa. I resolved not to care anymore, resigned myself to fate! Maybe I was never destined to visit the UK unlike the rest of my family… I was “Chinny The Reject”! Lol..

Now when I read that letter above I ask myself it was just about a visa or if there was something else?! Gosh its deep even for me the writer. Of course You were never on leave; You just decided it wasn’t time for me to go anywhere just yet. Just like an earthly father says No when a child asks to go outside to play, You said no when I asked to travel. I don’t know what You were protecting me from then but I am thankful that You said No. I know I may never have told You this before but for every time You turned me down or did not give into my request, You wove a fiber of strength and patience into my impatient and demanding skin. You taught me what surrender means, You gave me patience… I never saw it back then but now I do. Now I know what plans You had for me… Just like a potter molding clay into any shape, You were molding me, fortifying me like a silversmith would to his gold, baking me in the oven of adversity like bread, allowing the sands of time pass through the hourglass in my life so that I would understand why it goes so slowly…

So Dear God, Thank You. Thank You for tolerating my excesses and loving me regardless. Thank You for not striking me dead for questioning Your supremacy, thank you for showing me who made and owns the nations of the earth, YOU. Thank God, God no be man o for if man be God o I for don die, I for don kpeme.

And lastly God, THANK YOU for granting my request SIX YEARS LATER, it was only long enough! Lol.. ;)…

This is where I sign off to grab lunch for the day. But I promise one thing God, I’ll write you more letters from now on and when I do, it won’t because I am upset with you but because I want to praise you for who YOU are, MY EVERYTHING<TREASURE & PRIORITY>

Take care of you God and be sure to write back to me because I will be expecting your letters… Hugs n kisses.

Yours adorably,

Chinny aka Tata, aka Coco aka (anything you wanna call me :)

My weekend

I've missed my blog this last few days.. Remember my story on "the art of scheming", well yeah i still got to go to PH and all i can say is that i went at the right time! Between getting decent  work done between Wednesday and Friday, visiting home to see my folks, getting a  much needed home service pedicure and relishing my mommas cooking, the weekend was fabulous!

List of food consumed in 2 days:
1. Beans with fish and stew
2. Fried plantain and sweet potato with carrot stew and oats
3. Cake and juice
4. Oha soup with pounded yam and animals
5. Chapman and spring rolls
6. French toast (bread fried in eggs and milk)
7. Fish pepper-soup with white rice
8. Fried rice with Chicken
9. Goat-meat pepper-soup
10. Fruit salad after every dinner.

After the list above can someone please tell me why I've not moved from this stressful Lagos and not living under my father's roof?! Lol!
I had fun and i wish i could afford to fly home every weekend just to see my beautiful's mother face, my handsome father's stylish hats and to enjoy food from their pot! Lool..

So that's how my weekend was... how was yours? Tell me what you ate! :)

4 ever me..
Chinny ;)

10 random things about me

1. I like muffins! (the only thing i ever find myself craving)
2. I browse health websites every blessed day looking up different stuff (health freak!)

3. I should have been a pharmacist (even doctors have noticed)
4. I like driving (when driving i find myself saying often "oh its a woman, no wonder"! as though I'm not one)
5. I love babies (my middle self acclaimed name is Tata..i think they are God's cutest gift to man)
6. I hate cockroaches (especially the flying ones) and rats! Yuck!
7. I sometimes forget to eat (hence my size plus my diet is whack!)
8. I can wag my ears. (that was me and my brother's special sign when playing the card game of jackpot)
9. I sing everyday (i have a song applicable to almost every situation i find myself in)
10. I actually cook about five times a year max (apart from indomie noodles)!:D.. Don't judge me!

 So there you have it, my business on the net! Tell me yours, 10 random things about you!! Share with me please....

TGIF

I just lost everything i typed! I don't know how it happened but i ain't finding it funny.

Anyway I'll start again. So i was saying that i wonder why everyone keeps saying TGIF when Monday will only come back so quickly, you'd wonder what you did with your weekend anyways! For those blackberry users, animated funny DPs (display pictures) expressing joy over TGIF is a common sight on Fri! While on Sunday night or Monday Mornings, animated even funnier DPs of poor ole "Monday" sitting in a psychologists chair, asking why everybody hates it is a regular hilarious sight! Um in response to that question, duh!!! Of course they hate Monday, its the beginning of the work week! They like to not have to wake up so early (notice i used 'they'?) I exclude myself as i can't say I'm doing badly in the sleep department seeing as i wake at 7am in Lagos??!!!! Unbelievable right? Well not for me! I live precisely 8 minutes away from my office, so you see I'm veryy lucky to not know what the madt traffic in this town is like.(i hope it stays this way)
So anyway back to TGIF talk, Monday or Friday, its all the same to me since I normally don't have much planned out for the weekend (being the 'dry/boring' gal i am).
For this weekend I'm jet-setting to my sisters house to spend it with my cute Lil banana (nephew) whom i absolutely adore. You see my flat-mates are MIA, one is off to the UK, and the other.........i don't know where in God's green earth he is.........all i can say to him is, rent la waste! So i can't imagine myself all alone in our semi-big three bedroom apartment wondering what the rest of the world is doing outta the house on Saturday!
Sequel to my last post, i never thought i would be in Lagos this Saturday, smh...scheming scheming gone ditching! Sobs....

Anyway its 4:37 and i'm quarter to leave....sooo...... have fun people! Chinny is leaving the building....

Hasta luego!    

Coco-C or Y.. (whatever works for ya!)

The art of scheming

I had it all figured out in my head... What dress to wear, purse in hand, matching earrings and shoes and hair accessory to adorn myself for the wedding on Saturday in PH. All that was left was the ticket to fly...

My friend's wedding is on Saturday and i want to attend it. I didn't make early plans to attend so of course i didn't book a ticket in advance...twas a spontaneous or last minute decision to attend the wedding when i realized i could harness my talent of scheming to actually be at the wedding but not on my cost! I'll fill you in...
So here i am wondering how to "suddenly have something come up in PH" (work-wise) when i remembered that a certain someone is always asking me to take initiative! So i thought to myself, this is your chance to take initiative and be proactive! So i make 'something suddenly come up in PH' so i can get to fly out to kill two birds with one stone! hehehe... think of me as the artful schemer ;).. So anyway little Miss Proactive Schemer, gets an A-okay to work in PH for the rest of the week starting from today and I'm smiling inside me from ear to ear.
So i have them book me a flight for this afternoon so i can take my time to get a little work done here, dash home to pack my stuff and be on the late afternoon flight to the south-south of 9ja, my original home. Heck I've called my mum two days in advance to announce my arrival! Then he drops the bombshell on me....."Miss, cancel your flight, you'll go next week"!!!!!!!!! "Of course i say yes as fast as an answer is required but inside me my stomach just churned".. Artful schemer my foot! I just shot myself in the foot if you ask me :(
Reason for cancellation? Well my associate who I'm to meet with in PH "suddenly had something come up" and he has to be here in Lag so i get to stay back to meet him here! Great!!

And so here i am moping and kicking myself for not booking a flight in advance all because of  'awoof', which don purge me now! Hisssss....

Warning: Don't try to scheme, it just might shoot you in the foot! Boy will my sisters laugh at me for bragging of my scheming tactics! :-P