The New Year often brings with it a sense of new beginnings; a clean slate. It’s touted as a time when you reclaim your life and somewhat reinvent yourself. It’s the ultimate time for a rebirth – or so they say. So, we pick up pens and write our resolutions, promising to follow through with each point, this time. But, how long does it last? Last year, mine lasted a month. Unsatisfied with the turn of events, I decided to dig deeper to understand why achieving my resolutions failed before it ever took off. Beyond the curve balls life threw…
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My Dear Daughter, A friend sent me the below in an email and the kernels of truth it contained prompted me to share it with you. Every successful person has a painful story, so never give up. A school bell that sounds as a disturbance at 8 am also sounds interesting at 2.00 pm. It is just a matter of time, so remain undaunted. Not everyone walking fast has an appointment. Some have a running stomach. If a rose smells better than tomatoes, it doesn’t mean the rose can make a better stew. Don’t try to compare yourself to others.…
Food is a big deal in Nigeria thanks to the diversity of our taste buds springboard from our multiple and complex cultures. This background makes the food business a profitable one in Nigeria. However, like most businesses, not everyone gets it right and our Woman Crush Wednesday, Folayemi Agusto, arrived at this conclusion in a heartbeat. Folayemi co-founded Eat.Drink.Lagos, a restaurant review platform that started out as a blog focused on her and her co-founders dining experiences in restaurants within Lagos State. The blog fast became a go-to for honest restaurant reviews to Lagos residents. Fast-forward to 2015, the first…
Today is the first of January, 2020, the first day of a new year. We are here to thank the good Lord for all the graces and blessings we have received. It is a day to also commit the new year into God’s hands, asking Him to be with us and teach us how to trust him and overcome our fears. Today is also the 53rd world day of peace. How many of us read the message of the Holy Father for the celebration of the world day of peace? It’s a wonderful message but as always, good things don’t attract much…
Russell Foster, University of Oxford Our lives are ruled by time; we use time to tell us what to do. But the alarm clock that wakes us in the morning or the wristwatch that tells us we are late for supper are unnatural clocks. Our biology answers to a profoundly more ancient beat that probably started to tick early in the evolution of all life. Embedded within the genes of us, and almost all life on earth, are the instructions for a biological clock that marks the passage of around 24 hours. Biological clocks or “circadian clocks” help time our…
Oh my gosh! He is coming! I’m telling you, My crush is coming! Look at him. Isn’t he so cute? No! No! No! Look at how I look! He can’t see me like this! Oh no! He is just a feet away from me. ‘Hey’, he says, ‘love your look.’ Now, he’s gone. Still my crush, The lover of my mind. Just became a character In one of my most embarrassing moments. Adaudo Anyiam-Osigwe from her book of poems “Words from Beyond when Crying for Myself: Musings of Childhood”xosotin chelseathông tin chuyển nhượngcâu lạc bộ bóng đá arsenalbóng đá…
Reading 1 Jer 23:5-8 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will raise up a righteous shoot to David; As king he shall reign and govern wisely, he shall do what is just and right in the land. In his days Judah shall be saved, Israel shall dwell in security. This is the name they give him: “The LORD our justice.” Therefore, the days will come, says the LORD, when they shall no longer say, “As the LORD lives, who brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt”; but rather, “As the LORD lives,…
Holy Humour Secret service A friend was in front of me coming out of church one day, and the vicar was standing at the door, as he always was, to shake hands with the worshippers. He grabbed my friend by the hand and pulled him aside. The vicar said to him, ‘You need to join the army of the Lord.’ My friend replied, ‘I’m already in the army of the Lord, Father.’ So the vicar enquired, ‘Then how come I don’t see you except at Christmas and at Easter?’ My friend whispered back, ‘I’m in the secret service. Sunday…
Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe, the man who founded the British Urban Film Festival 14 years ago, has been recognised in the 2020 New Years honours list with an MBE for ‘services to the Black and minority ethnic film industry’. Anyiam-Osigwe is a familiar face to UK film audiences having spent 17 years working in film festivals and awards ceremonies, firstly at BFM (Black Filmmaker Magazine), followed by Screennation and latterly with BUFF (British Urban Film Festival) which he founded in 2005. In 2016, Metro newspaper ranked the film festival no.1 in a list of global list of film festivals to attend which…
Laugh Quote “If at first, you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.” William Lyon Phelps Wise Guys Answer To Stupid Question Question: Don’t you know that being fat is unhealthy? Wise Guy: I base my decisions on evidence, not anecdotes. There are people who survive when their parachutes don’t open, but I’m still going to wear a parachute. The vast majority of the time intentional weight loss attempts lead to weight gain not better health in the long term, so weight loss is too dangerous a choice for me. Corny Chat Up Line My doctor says I’m…