Category Archives: Life
concrete jungle.
Back in New York. I don’t know if she has missed me at all, but I missed her. The sleepless nights. The laughter. The transparency. New York is a beautiful place, but she can’t love me, because of how many people love her so all of the efforts I make [...]
Tell me the truth: Revolutionary Road
Not surprising to anyone who has seen the film and actually watched it closely, but it is a timeless timeless film. Every soliloquy that you can think of if discussed properly with the right amount of evidence can hold water. Our lives are wrapped thinly around a thread that we rarely see, touch, [...]
it all happens in Lagos.
9:30 AM and the lights go out – the air conditioners cut out, no one moves, no one screams, they just patiently wait for the generators to power back up. There is no central form of electricity, so if you live there you have to supply your own energy.
Guys roam the streets in Occada [...]
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transatlantic sharing…
Today I was fortunate enough to meet a very happy young Nigerian entrepreneur named Ramon. The hotel organized for him to take me around to my meetings and to be honest, I am very lucky because he is nothing short of spectacular. He has such great energy and he is always smiling [...]
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Far from home, close to the equator, but at the center of the world.
Everywhere you go is the center of the world. Anywhere that you are sharing laughter, dance, art, food, water, culture, love, experiences is the center of the world. I am far from home, but sharing all of these things and more with an old friend, familiar faces, and strangers that does not change [...]
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T.I.A. – this is Africa…
I arrived some hours ago, the days, nights, brunches and dinners are blurred over the past 36hrs, simply because I haven’t really slept. I saw two sunrises, rode 3 planes, touched 3 continents all within a 24HR span. The world is small, but it is so humbling…
The local time here was 5.30AM – [...]
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soooo how’s a 12hr layover sound?
Ouch!!! 12 hour layover, I didn’t know they made those, the same way I didn’t know much about butternut squash ravioli was until about seven (7) years ago… So, London – I’m stuck here with you for a little while. So what shall we do on this wonderful adventure… I didn’t intend [...]
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time: isn’t she fickle.
There is never a time like the present. Time waits for no one: it can be kind if you want it to be, but if you are wasteful then time will come back to bite you in the arse. It doesn’t matter who you are, because many of men/women have fallen as a [...]
the truest words spoken today.
“When I have nothing else I try to dream the dreams of a child’s imaginings”
- Viggio Mortensen in The Road.
hungry, hungry, hungry