Friday evening….

Been resuming by 6:30am and leaving the office at about 9pm for the past 2 weeks….but today…somewhere on the Lagos-Ibadan express way is the girl that stole my heart away…Been  listening to music and dancin on my seat…guess i would be outta here by 5pm…

It’s an evening all of Lagos has been looking forward to. It’s the Experience 2007…an gospel music concert organised by the House on the Rock (Pastor Paul Adefaransi). Tye Tribbett, Kurt Carr, Israel Houghton, Don Moen, Lionel Peterson, Cece Winans, Pastor Marvin Winans and the Hon. Bishop T. D Jakes…whoa…let me hear you SSSSSSSSSSSSSSCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM………………..

Okay she is just gone past the redemption camp, she should be….here any moment now…owww..i’m blushing****

Oh no! The parents are in.

When are you going to tell your parents?

I thought you didn’t want me to tell them.

But who would you tell them you are going to see everytime in Ibadan

My friend

I dont want any wa ha la, just tell them

I’ll tell them in 3 years time

Then don’t talk to me until three years time….

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Hi honey, just told my parents i asked you out. They want to know if i’d pop the big question.

OH MY GOD! SO WHAT WILL YOU TELL THEM! 

 Well i smartly avoided it by saying it’s stage by stage….

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Umm, today i finally got to tell my folk about cutie and the response

 WHERE IS SHE FROM?

WHAT OF OTHER GIRLS IN CHURCH?

WOULD HER HIGHLY SCHOOLED PARENTS ACCEPT YOU?

SHE IS NOT VERY TALL

WHICH CHURCH DO HER PARENTS ATTEND?

AS A FIRST SON YOU CHOICE IS KEY AS SHE’LL DECIDE IF THE FAMILY STAYS TOGETHER OR IF YOUR HEART GETS STOLEN AWAY….

I sat there answering on question after another and i was wondering…a really sweet, well bred young lady from a fine stock said yes to your son who owes where he is to God’s mercy and love and instead of being happy for me you are……

well well i guess i understand, even when my elder sister was getting married to the finest young gentlemam in the church i still felt like xraying his life to make sure he doesn’t tear us apart.

Dad, mum, love is all that matters…well and maybe family acceptance, money, religion, friends, beliefs, etc…but bottom line…when I look into her eyes, when i hear her voice, even when she tries to annoy me all I see is the future, the future, the future…cutie…cutie…cutie love.

The Feminine Touch

Been really busy the past couple of month. Craving for a vacation. It has been back and forth with one reviewing mgr or the other looking at one report or the other. But in the midst of all these each time I hear the message alert tone (ding dong) or the ‘honey bun’ ring tone on my cell phone…a little knowing smile creeps up on my face. I pick up the phone and the all too familiar name (Cutie) shows up. They say you have to die to experience heaven…but for one brief moment…I seem to creep out of the pressure, toil and sweat….enter into another realm…a realm of peace, joy, and lotsa love…a realm where noting seems to matter but two hearts which beat as one…two souls - bonded…two voices singing the same song, mouthing the same words and thinking the same thoughts.  

A few people have asked, what plans do you have for her…question  now should be…what plans do we have for us. Though she hasn’t said yes…we have been fighting over the names of our two girls and the boy (who I’ve been insisting must look like her but she want to look like me)…

…the story goes on

My love,
There’s only you in my life
The only thing that’s bright My first love,
You’re every breath that I take
You’re every step I make

And i
(i-i-i-i-i)
I want to share
All my love with you
No one else will do…

And your eyes
Your eyes, your eyes
They tell me how much you care
Ooh yes, you will always be
My endless love

Two hearts,
Two hearts that beat as one
Our lives have just begun

Forever
(ohhhhhh)
I’ll hold you close in my arms
I can’t resist your charms

And love
Oh, love
I’ll be a fool
For you,
I’m sure
You know I don’t mind
Oh, you know I don’t mind

’cause you,
You mean the world to me
Oh
I know
I know
I’ve found in you
My endless love

Life of a Consultant

It’s almost 8:30pm on a Saturday evening. Signed in at the office by 7:30am this morning. Spent 30 minutes in the car park wondering how I’ll drag myself upstairs to start work. It had been a really busy week. I had been constantly closing between 8 and 10pm for the past few weeks thanks to a manager that has been flowing ‘monkeys’ at me. The latest being he asking me to come up with a baseline for review of a Bank’s IT infrastructure.

BASELINE! BASELINE! BASELINE!

First he asked for a work programme for the infrastructure review and I took two days to develop that and submitted it at 12 noon on Friday. Then he calls me a few minutes to 5pm and starts giving a lecture on what he expected and like he said…he couldn’t see the technical depth.

-it’s 20 minutes to five pm on a Friday evening

-I am starting a new project on Monday

-I am yet to effect corrections on a proposal you gave me an hour ago

-I am yet to effect the partner’s corrections on the report for the last project I did

-I owe another manager my finalised report for a project I conclude in May which the partner is yet to sign off on

-You are asking me to do a detailed technical s*** in an area I am not very conversant with all these constraint?….

His solution…get someone to work with and hand over to.

Brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that? All your experienced hands are off on one project or the other. The guys in the office just resumed a week ago. The only experience person around….well…

Okay I finally get him on the ‘team’ and after telling him what we had to do he said… ‘let’s come and do it 7-12 tomorrow’. Okay, fine by me. 7am-12noon!

Saturday 1am: finally went to sleep after a 30 min telephone conversation with…umm…sweet, yummy, chocolatey, honey…Cutie love….

Saturday 5am: Wake up! wake up! wake up! House mate back from a party…had to go open the gate

Saturday 7:15am: off to the ofc

Saturday 7:20am: passed by ‘team member’s’ house…car still parked

Saturday 7:30-8:00am: sitting in car sleepy and hungry

Saturday 8:00am: called ummmmm….Cutie love…to complain and she said go grab a bite

Saturday 8: 01am: called ‘team member’ and he asked for an hour or two

…went back home…ate breakfast…went back to work…briefed team member…started the research and …………..team member said, ‘I have a wedding to attend’

 

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Well I rummaged the net until 1 went home to get a lil nap was back by 6 pm and continued rummaging the net. Got 43 web pages open and…okay bottom line I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT I AM DOING! But the good thing about this consulting business is that…monday morning…or sometime during the week…mgr would have his shining report with all the facts and figures he needs. God bless www.ctrlCandctrlV.net