My emotions

Okay I've been so overwhelmed by school lately, being my final semester, I barely have time for myself, not to think of blogging sef. But anyway, I had the opportunity and time to do a little re-evaluation and reflection on life, (one of my favourite thing to do and place to be) well I got a little something out of it, which I decided to pen down...really helped me re-focus and channel more energy to my passion and purpose in life: Africa................

Enjoy;

Today, I Wept

I wept:

When I saw your face
Flashed on the TV screen today
In despair, begging for help
Your eyes met with mine,
And I heard your soul weep
So I wept too

I wept:

When I saw you crawled up
In the hut on the TV screen
And you looked up
As the camera closes in on you
Your stare said a lot,
You were clinging to something
Extra-ordinary for hope,
I felt what you felt
So I wept more

I wept:

Because I am guilty,
And I’ve ignored you too long
I made a promise to come back for you
To make things better
But I’m still here
Whiling away time
I feel so guilty
So I wept even more

I wept:

Because I was disappointed
In myself, that it had
To take a television message
To remind me of you,
My brother and my sister
I ponder on how comfortable
My life is here, and yours?
So I wept harder

I wept:

When I heard the number of
Faces like yours starving in
My Great motherland; Africa
Now the image is stuck in my head
And now;
I can’t stop weeping.

New Year!!

Alright!!! well it's almost 16 days into the New Year already!!! and overwhelmed will be an understatement. As usual, we had our new year's party at my parents new-house (mine too, so..) as is tradition...and I was amazed at how many people showed up...any-hoo it wasn't a memorable one for me personally....I was terribly sick!!!...still don't know how I started my Year with a horrible cold, Oh well!! moving on...I know a lot of you would've have made tons of Resolutions for the new year....well I didn't make any...as I realized, they are just stupid (to me, anyway), because half way through the year, you realize you haven't even taken the first step to accomplishing anything, that might have been on that list, and anohter year comes, same routine....so I decided, if I really need to make any changes, or attain anything this year, I will, regardless of my resolutions................................


I'm glad it's another year....cos pheeww!! boy was 2007 something!!! definately my most challenging year ever!!!! I was faced with challenges in every area of my life, and I mean every one single area of my life,..faith, friendship, relationship, career, academica, mentaly, physically, emotionally, family, church, ministry, my integrity, personality....you name it....anything and everything..about me was (I believe) tested, criticized, pull apart, (some tried to tarnish)..but hey I thank God!!! I'm still here, standing tall with my head up high!!!! and still got my huge personality with me!!! even bigger this time around...................................

The fact that I'm still new to this blogging thing, I'm still trynna get my head right, with it....nonetheless, I intend to share my interests with everyone who reads my blog.....I'm a very strong willed naija girl, who loves good Music, Naija of cos....my faves right now,Fela Kuti, Asa, Seun Kuti, Femi kuti, Eldee, Dbanj, Tuface(really wasn't feeling his 2nd album at 1st, but it grew on me sha....absolutely love the song dedicated to the "SHADY POLITICIANS"..4got the title), John Legend, Heather Headley, Ingrid Michealson, Alicia Keys, Lagbaja(at times sha), I'm loving Olu Maintain, (mainly just for Yahoozee only!!), NoLess!! watch out for him!! here in the states!!!. I'm an African Politics freak!!! (be prepared to read alot of my rantings on that subject).....I love good movies!!! and live to make fun of naija un-edited english movies, where I can see and hear the production crew along with the actors!!!! lol!!!........I love to talk to people, (randomly..I don't think there' anything wrong in that).....I Love the entertainment industry, as much as I love Politics,................reason why yall should stay tuned to this blog??!!?? well let me tell you, why!!...well why not?..there shouldn't be a reason to, or not to...just stay tuned!!!! PERIOD!!!...and oh!! watch out for my mini series talk show on Youtube!!! and local t.v stations for those in the Twin cities area!! ya hearrrd!!!hee hee...okay, I think that's enough self centering......well hopefully I get more bloggers and people to read these rants..till then hmm I guess it's adios!! hasta luego!!!!...............ki Olorun so wa ka yo ola ooo!!!! (for my yoruba peeps!!!)

Thinking about what you're thinking about

Today, I was really unproductive with everything I had on my to-do list.....it's finals period so I guess the feeling comes once in a while. However, I did a lot of reflection today, about life, love and living, (which is what my blog is all about)..........Life!!! what is this Life all about, what are we supposed to do, or be doing?, why am I still on this earth?, where is my life gonna take me?, have I invested well enough in my future?, what will be the consequences of my actions in Life?, can life be in plain Black and White?.............these questions were flashed in my mind today. But then I remembered this book I just picked up "The battlefield of the mind" by Joyce Myer...I haven't gotten really far, however with the few pages i've read so far, she said something about "thinking about what you're thinking about", yeah it's a complicated statement, but really what this means plainly, is just, filter your thoughts, by removing the negatives and keeping the positives.....Life becomes easier to live. And you know actually remembered those words today, and I gotta admit, it was hard to not pay attention to the negative thoughts in my mind, but when I did, I had an ease about a few things that were burdens to me..............so I guess I'm starting to figure Life a little bit, starting with my thoughts by "thinking about what I'm thinking about"............................

A welcome message to myself and anyone else........

Alright everyone, I have been seeing and hearing about blog this, blog that, blogs blogs blogs!!! So I started checking out some quite popular blogs, especially my brother who's crazy about "bella naija", I think her blog is his closest source to the happenings in Naija and the diaspora...any-hoo after checking out a lot of blogs for quite sometime....I realized this blog thingy was made for me, as i'm quite the chatterbox....well long story short, here I am, with my own blog page or don't really know what it's called sha.



So, some might still be wondering, who the heck I am?....well my name is Naomie, I'm a proper Naija girl, living in the states at the moment......I tend to be very controversial at times...any-hoo i'm not gonna sit here and type a whole boring list of what i'm like...you'll get to know the real me as time goes by....and the thing is, different people percieve you differently, so I might be nice to someone, and be a monster to another....................well I think this is enough ranting for now.....we'll see how this works...but anyway sha I'm excited I have my own blog page...or wtv it's called.....I'll keep this interesting!!! I promise...............for now, it's Oda ro ooo (in my yoruba language)!!