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GRriinnnnng! Grrinnnng! Grrinnnng! Peeping in….
Jesu! Its been a while here, dust has gathered, spider-web, wao!!, see ds place like a grave yard! Oh well. I’m sorry. What can I say? It’s just been a long time I put up any post, I tried to revive last year but it didn’t werk so I believe I ll do better this time!
Ahem! *clearing throat* I am done with my Msc prog!!! Like play like play o! I said I was going to start it in 2011 and well, I m done. I m so grateful to God alone and all the wonderful people I work with. They ve been magnificient, what with letting me leave early on Fridays and missing Saturday work…
Well, since i ve been away for over a year like that and i m hoping to find new readres here let me just introduce myself once again, i m Jay! former Tomboy turned big girl*literally big*, plus sized ahem (leavng it small small sha)! ehen, banker by day, lover and friend by night. Chief blog stalker, i m passioate about writing, just too lazy sometimes to. i also have two darling friend which you ll be hearing about in the place from time to time. lets call em ER' and Nory.
ER's a sister, colleague and best friend and NOry's is also a sister, family friend and bestie and she works with one popular naija artist that i m not crazy about so i try to stay away from his topic ans he s the on paying ha salary.
Ok that said what has been happening o? in the last two years, i ve worked, schoooled, made friends, met new abulous people, some ccrazy, some fun, others a tad serious and some just generally unwell but i grateful for these relationships and there s also a special Mr. lets leave that gist for anoda day.
Testimony timne.... Blessing time...Since i close late from the office almost evryday and i have to go to an extreme part of the mainland, i call home for now, sometimes i m opportuned to use a speedboat ride home. From Marina, it only takes about 25-30 minutes to get to my end and so it beats the countless hours that one spends in lagos traffic... speaking of traffc my goodness, i ve left my ffice @ 530 severally and gotten home around past 9ish to ten, i mean if i were travelling to benin i would have made it safely to the rusty city. i digrees ema biinu.
So, this particular day, i made it to CMS To board the speedboat and i couldnt get a ticket so i rushed down to Victoria Island just beside Addax office where i could get several boats ready to take passengers my way, Fortunately and den eventually unfortunately i got this boat and i tot all was good n dandy becos it was already getting dark, i had never take a boat when it was dark but i decided that facing the traffic would be worse so i go it. we moved and it took just a few meters to know that the engines where not in top shape and we were even overloaded. The driver after much prodding from passengers turned back to fix us inside another boat. we got back to the jetty and once peopel started unloading we realised that they were filing into the last boat for the night and that boast already had passenengers which meant that all of us who sat at the back would not get seats on that boat.
They immedately gave us the options of using the road but told the rest of us that the engine wasnt so terruble it was just becos we were overloaded and we dould mamage it. recultantly and for fear of traffic at 7.30 pm we set sail( abi nor bi d word) with te hfaulty engined speedboat. forgive me as i eneter pidgin here, na so we begin dey blow go o , next minute we don hit open water o na im d boat begin dey sway dangerously as the waves were quite much becos of that morning's rain fall and the engine stopped
Open water, no visible land in front, no land @ the back just dark cold, smelly dirty water of the atlantic. i lookled at myself and my colleague who was with me and i said Hian! na so i go die here? i m finished. Theyu tried!! tried!!! triedd!!!!! engine nor gree, the driver and the other guyt who was supposedly his conductor sat atop the speedboadt and started making fantic calls but all we could here was ha! u ve closed, call rafiu nau, he may be able to arrage one boat for you ds night. My own don reech me!!! i reached into my bag and my fone was off! battery flat, i said to myself is this the way ill quench without any of my family members knowing????
I asked my colleague if i could use his own and he said he s battery too was out. wao! finally after 20 minutesof drifting in open water, the engine started. God must have worked overtime that day for us becos i dunno o ! it was traumatic, we set out again after another 5 minute gbosa! speedboat stopped...
story to be continued...
Gotta do some saturday office work!! i m in the office by the way! damn this office work jare..
mwaah...
Jay....
