You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence?
“Dreams come true, they sure do! I am a living testimony that they do,”
My opening sentence?
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What experience in life helped you grow the most?
What experiences in life helped you grow the most?
Accepting my mother will never love me the way I wanted! I wanted to be her best son, her best friend. I wanted to displace my Dad, her husband 🤣, my older brother and my late brother whom I thought she loved the most. The frustration and yearning almost became a deadly obsession. Thank God for the right friends in my life, I had to accept my mother’s love for me, though it was not enough, but it was better than no love at all. Now, I don’t buy friendships, if it flows, it flows, if it doesn’t I mourn it for a while and move one. Secondly I learnt the power of one from Tochi a wonderful friend years later. I don’t have to be loved by everyone, I don’t have to be begged to be loved. I just need to be loved by just one person and the world will later fall in love with me. Just one person’s love is all that I need to get by in this world. I later found out it is in the Bible too Matthew 25: 37. Now I don’t bribe people to be my friend, I don’t pay for companionship, I don’t do silly things all because of friendship and I don’t compromise my faith and principles.
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5 of my favorite family traditions
Write about a few of your favorite family traditions.
1). Morning, Evening and Sunday family devotions.
2). Dinner together.
3). Extended family members are treated as part of the family, no discrimination at all.
4). “No one is left behind culture. ” if you are the only successful person in your family, you are a poor man, we take pride in raising other successful men and women in the family.
5). Igbo Amaka.
6). Nwa Boi culture. Igbo apprentice system.
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Places I haven’t gotten round to visit
Name an attraction or town close to home that you still haven’t got around to visiting.
1). I live in Lagos Nigeria and we have a lot of beaches, I have just visited only one and that is not good enough
2). Obudu cattle ranch in Cross River State in Nigeria. A beautiful place to make memories.
3). My village Alor London. I hardly go back village, which is not good enough for a son of the soil.
4). Other beautiful African countries like Ghana, Kenya, Gabon, Senegal, Seychelles, etc
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5 things I do for fun
List five things you do for fun.
1). Cooking and watching people I love eat my food.
2). Being in the company of someone I love
3). Singing and dancing
4). Writing
5). Travelling and sight-seeing
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What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?.
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What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?
My confidence in GOD Almighty The Maker of Heaven and Earth and My Confidence in myself
According to Wikipedia Confidence is the feeling of belief or trust that a person or thing is reliable.
Self-confidence is trust in oneself. Self-confidence involves a positive belief that one can generally accomplish what one wishes to do in the future.
Self-confidence is not the same as self-esteem, which is an evaluation of one’s worth. Self-confidence is related to self-efficacy—belief in one’s ability to accomplish a specific task or goal.
Confidence can be a self-fulfilling prophecy, as those without it may fail because they lack it, and those with it may succeed because they have it rather than because of an innate ability or skill.
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What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?.
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What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?
I want the world to know how much Jesus Christ loves them.
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What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it?.
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What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it?
One night I went to a popular fast food around my neighborhood, they were about to close for the day, I bought a whole roasted chicken for N9,000.00 (Nine thousand Naira), just to get back to my house to discovered the whole chicken was spoilt! And I was mad
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List 30 things that make you happy.
1). Jesus
2). Good food
3). Good companionship
4). Family
5). Good Sleep
6). Financial Securities
7). Honest people
8). Cold drink on a hot sunny day
9). Having constant electricity
10). Good car with no problem
11). Soul music
12). Watching games & sport
13) Adventures
14). Travelling
15). Singing in the shower
16). Cooking for people I love
17). Watching people eating, most especially if they are good eaters
18). Blogging
19). Writing
20). Day Dreaming
21). Minding My Business
22). Riding or sailing to nowhere in particular
23). Charity works
24). Dancing
26). Acting
27). The thoughts of not been afraid where my next meal will come from
28). Accomplishing a very difficult task or tasks
29). Watching movies
30). Cuddling.
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Describe one habit that brings you joy.
Cooking and watching people eat my food brings me ultimate joy
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What are you curious about?
If you could bring back one dinosaur, which one would it be?
Why would I want to bring back a monster? As a pet? or what? I will bring all of them back in movies and pages of story books
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If you won two free plane tickets, where would you go?
America
I have heard so much about America all my life. I have cousins and friends living in America, though I have not benefitted anything from them, but I would want to visit “GOD’s own Country”
A country where the son of nobody can become somebody one day
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What’s the story behind your nickname?
I do not have a nickname
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What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?
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What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being?
1). Eat healthy
2). Enough sleep and rest
3). Drink enough water daily
4). Avoid toxic people and stressful situations
5). Draw closer to GOD Almighty
6). Yearly medical check-up
7). Healthy Human Relationship
8). Exercise and engage in intellectual activities
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What are your future travel plans?
I want to visit all the beautiful Islands in this world, starting from the ones in Africa to West Indies. I want to visit one or two countries a year till I cover a good number of all the countries in this world
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What do you listen to while you work?
Nothing!
Music, radio distracts me while I am working, I prefer quietness
But I play my audio Bible while I sleep
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What’s your go-to comfort food?
Well fried pepper chicken, pepper snail, diced pepper goat meat and beef, ram suya and fried pepper turkey meat, so that the emotions can flow very well while I munch on them
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What foods would you like to make? Ofe Onugbu.
What foods would you like to make? Ofe Onugbu.
Ofe Onugbu also known as Bitter leaf soup, is a popular Nigerian soup. Ofe Onugbu is peculiar to the Igbo tribe of Eastern Nigeria. Ofe Onugbu does not taste bitter in the slightest. The leaves have to be thoroughly washed to get rid of the bitterness before it’s added to the soup.
Let’s cook!
Ingredients:
Assorted meats (Beef, goat meat, Ponmo, Shaki are ideal)
Palm oil
Bitter leaves (Fresh or Dried)
3-4 Medium Size Cocoyam (Ede)
2 Smoked Fish (Optional)
2-3 Stockfish (Optional)
Ground Crayfish
Ogiri
Ground Dry pepper or 2 Scotch Bonnet blended
Seasoning Cubes
Salt to taste
Preparation
Start by boiling your meats, start with the tougher meats like Cow leg and Shaki first. When they’re slightly tender, add beef or other softer meats. When all the meats are tender, add the Stockfish, leave to cook till soft
Do not add Curry or Thyme!
While the meats are boiling, boil the Cocoyam with the skin on. Do not add salt, boil till tender, this should take roughly 20 minutes on medium heat…
When they are soft, gently peel the skin off and pound till smooth in a mortar. Alternatively, chop them into small chunks and purée in your electric blender or food processor till smooth, then set aside…
Wash the Bitter leaves with hot water to get rid of as much bitterness as you can. There should be almost no hint of bitterness left in the leaves after washing.
If you find yourself struggling to get rid of the bitterness, simply boil the leaves with enough water for 15 minutes, then rinse with cold water.
If you’re using dried Bitter leaves, you’ll need to soak in warm water to plump it up and also get rid of dirt…
When the Meats and Fish are all soft, add Crayfish, smoked Prawns, then add the ground or blended pepper. Stir and combine…
Add Palm oil, leave to thoroughly combine for 3-4 minutes….
Now, turn the heat done to low, add the blended Cocoyam into the stock in small dollops, be careful not to add too much. The consistency should be semi fluid….
The Cocoyam will dissolve; thickening the soul, leave to dissolve and combine for 2-3 minutes.
The thickness will depend on your preference. Ofe Onugbu is light and semi fluid though some role prefer it thick and creamy. I like mine somewhat in between.
Then add the Ogiri, stir and combine. Taste for seasoning and adjust if necessary…
Then add the washed Bitter Leaves, leave to cook for 2-3 minutes. Do not overcook your vegetables…
And it’s done….
Serve with garri, Akpu, semo or pounded yam
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Dogs or cats?
None
Both are forbidden in my village
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