Earth to Scarlet Boy... (part 1)

I know its been a while that I posted something on this blog… trust me it wasn’t totally my fault… but I will try and give a brief summary of what happened since my last post…
Ok, exams have come and gone with their usual stress, sleepless nights and migraines but like they say… I did my best and as thus can only hope for the best from my lecturers as per result and all, my department had their final year week (finally, see the pix ) before the exam that is and it went well, apart from the dinner which was largely marginalized and trust yours truly, I and a coupla friends decided to boycott the silly dinner and go clubbing which I must say made more sense, but that’s another story for another day, I (finally) submitted my project after much shakara from my supervisor, he approved it (after a little incentive from yours truly i.e, a bottle of vino), my land lady aka Bwehole (from her pronunciation of borehole, trust her benin tongue nah…) finally got me to leave her hostel. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not as if I didn’t want to leave her hostel or that I was making trouble, she was just becoming impossible! And so lucky for me, I moved to Papa C’s crib in town lets call my new abode no 79 and was actually glad for a change in environment and style of living so I said goodbye to the communual life of my former hostel and took another step towards bachelorhood little did I know… first was the constant 6am wakeup call thanks to the noisy bikes in the area and of all rooms, yours truly chose the one with the window facing the main road… u know the rest… then there is this creature, why I call him a creature you will find out shortly, this guy doesn’t sleep cos I wonder why every day he decides to terrorize the neighborhood with his preaching I mean, I don’t se anything wrong with preaching, but at 4.30 am, then there is a problem. So im sleeping when…

Mr. X (singing and I must say in a very terrible voice) – I thank u lord u are holy, and forever you are lord. HALLELUYAH!!!

Scarletboy: (scrambling to the window) WTF!!!!

Mr. X: Brethren, I have come once again, repent…

Scarletboy (diving under the pillows): ooh… here we go again…

Now you would think that after 2 or 3 weeks of this preaching one would get used to it, lie lie! I still jump up every time I hear the guy singing, gosh it scares the crap outa me sometimes. I wonder why the lords chosen decided to build their headquarters on this road also… but who am I to complain?
to be continued...

Stress!!!

This past week has been one of sorts… my lecturers decided to bury the hatchet and have resumed lectures and they have found new ways of venting their frustrations of grievances and guess how? They are piling us with assignments and term papers and notes and references and this and that… and right now I don’t even have a life talk less of having time to blog… God help me cope oh!!!

I just miss the days when I was carefree and didn’t give 2. Now I have so many thots in my head like what I’m going to do when I get out of this hell hole, when I will finally let myself love someone again, if I will ever do that, when next I’m gonna get laid and it had better be soon (just kidding)…

I finally decided to stop using the cyber café near my hostel and get me a zoom mobile data card (ah an clap for me now!!!), boy did that turn out to be something else. I got to the zonal office and was told by the smug looking sales girl that the prices had been reviewed so I ended up paying 15000 instead of 5000 as if that wasn’t bad enough the sales girl told me my money was short of 500 (how this happened I will never know but I swear that girls hand moved at the speed of thought!) then their gen chose that day to pack up so imagine trying to configure my laptop with the battery which (quoting riley freeman in one of my favorite cartoons “the boondocks” thank Black Jesus!! ) I managed to charge. Ok now, Mr. Technician install the drivers and all. That’s when my laptop decided to start displaying its talent it refused to install the driver and without it I would be unable to browse, u go fear begging laptop to do well now. Finally it installed and when it was the allotted time I happily tried to connect only for it to show error, contacted the customer care only to be told that I hadn’t been registered on the network and that I should come to their office the next day, I got to the office only for them to tell me that nothing could be done till Monday. As if that wasn’t enough, on my way back some scruffy men who called themselves policemen stopped me and were nearly carting me away to their station cos I was in possession of a computer with internet connection, see me see wahala!! Since when did having a laptop become illegal in this country? Well trust me now as a lagos boy i no fit deh dull myself. I just told the guy point blank that unless he had any evidence that I was doing anything wrong he should let me be or I was going to call my (fictional) uncle who was a major general in the army (trust me now ehn, police for Eko never hold me na these dull Benin policemen go come chop my money. Ori Oda!!!) Anyway the zoom thingy started working only for me to find out that the service over here at Ugbowo (Unibend’s host community) was abysmal. It takes up to 30 mins to open facebook! I later found out that I had to be at an elevated position to get good service so… u go fear browsing on my hostels decking (lol).

Lately I’ve been sorta moody (wish I knew the bloody cause!)And its affecting the way I relate with a lot of people… I’m naturally an introvert and find it difficult to make friends so you can imagine how fast I’m loosing them. Hmm… I’m just TIRED!!!

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The pix above is a warning to everybody entering Unibend how the school will truly bend you