Kuwda is being nominated for an award!!

Hello amazeballs,the award season is on. To my utter surprise,i got an email from the organisers of Nigerian blog awards informing me that Keeping up with the Adagiris' blog is being nominated for an award in the BEST NEW BLOG and BEST PERSONALITY BLOG categories,to say the year 2015 started on a yummy note would be stating the obvious,thanks to all amazeballs worldwide who got the blog nominated,lol,am so grateful. Now to clinch this award,i would need all of your help to get this coveted award,as you all know,so many blogs are being nominated in the same category,so to nominate the kuwda blog for the categories stated above,here's how it's done:

Ward 309

I was having a roller-coaster of emotions, first was me shivering with apprehension as Mom was unresponsive,splayed on the floor while my brothers battle to revive her as Karl was performing CPR,she was quite stiff and her lips abit parted,add that to feeling hurt about how everyone around the airport scampered away from us as though Mom was some human bag of plague waiting to distend,burst and gradually ooze out,poisoning everyone,they stood afar,barking CPR tips. QT  screamed at me to join them to carry Mom to the car and rush her to the clinic,I hurriedly joined in,lifting Mom's arms and as we were carrying her away,the medical team of the airport came around and asked us to place her on a stretcher they came with,she was examined on the spot and wheeled into their sick bay,where Mom was revived and complained of splitting headache and tummy cramps,she was given pain relievers and we left the airport albeit a little embarrassed at the whole drama.

The other woman

It must have been around three am in the dead of night,the bedside lamp left on,I was deeply asleep,my hands clasped together and stuck between my thighs to keep warm,I felt an enveloping cold permeating my skin,creasing everything in its path as it sinks into my body,coursing through my insides,feeling as though it was brittling  my bones creating a somewhat stinging feeling.


Still deeply asleep and in a bid to keep warm,I outstretched my hand,feeling for my duvet but it was nowhere near me,my face tightened into a slight frown in frustration, I opened my eyes which was blurred at first,trying to take in my immediate surrounding from the partial darkness created by the dim light of the bedside lamp ,I rubbed my eyes,looked beside me and saw Karl swath himself with the entire large duvet,I clenched my teeth in anger,held the edge of the duvet and pulled it towards me but Karl had his hands dugged in tightly,holding on firmly on the duvet,now visibly upset,I sat up,prepared to pull harder at the duvet when I noticed Karl shivering and chewing his mouth as though he was lip synching,I examined him all over,calling his name but he didn't wake up,I figured he was having a nightmare so I slapped him arms and shook him awake.

"Wake up bro! What's wrong with you?"

Carpe diem!

PING! PING!

My blackberry phone buzzed for the umpteenth time prompting me to drop the carrots I was busy scraping dirts off under the kitchen zinc faucet with a knife as I got busy to start preparing jollof rice


I shook water off my hands,wiping carelessly on my short "kukere" jean trousers  and went to pick it up,my lips flashed into a cheeky grin...and when I say cheeky grin,who else could elicit such in me if not a female,lol,it was my bossom friend gloria whom I haven't spoken to in a long while,I immediately started punching my phone's keypad as it was also displayed on my screen that she was typing a message

Glo- Maaaaj!

Maj- Oh lord! Hey darling,how are you,quite an age!

The sound of silence

Karl's eyes flipped open,baring reddish eyeballs,his eyelids flicking rapidly pushing out a drop of tear running down the side of his left eye,he was looking pale,almost a washout with some flecks of dried blood sprinkled randomly over his torso,his breathing the sound of a huffing snore was almost the only sign of human presence in the room aside the old split air conditioner vibrating with an irritating noise ,the room was hitherto dull and silent,all of us,quiet and still,all lost in our individual reverie,I sprang up with delight when I saw Karl open his eyes,I was filled with gratitude to God,I covered my mouth with my palms to prevent me from shouting for joy as I hurriedly went to sit by the edge of his bed,squeezing his arm tenderly which had a needle sipping in intravenous liquid into the arm which was all sore around the area the needle was inserted into him.

"How are you doing bro!"

#Kuwdominion! What they say and tweet about Kuwda

And before we knew it,the year has come to an end,I can't thank you guys enough for all the love and support you've shown me and by extension my brothers through the course of this year and even since the inception of #kuwda I am very grateful.

The year has been a bitter-sweet one,plain-sailing on one part and a little bumpy on the other but all the experiences have made me a stronger individual.

A lot of amazeballs sent in their support and love for the blog in form of sending in what we hash-tagged #kuwdalove photos where they take a picture of them holding a placard with different inscriptions from #keepingupwithdadagiris to "I love keeping up with d adagiris" etc,all  showing their love for the blog,unfortunately,I lost most of the photos saved on my system which got destroyed during the raid on our house as explained in WHEN TROUBLE BREWS but I'd uploaded some on my facebook timeline so I decided to put it on here as a way of showing my gratitude to you all who sent in,especially those who sadly I can't put up your pictures on here because of the loss of the pictures as explained above

When trouble brews

"The times are hard,you have to come to terms with it...there are no jobs, eh! How could you as a woman be so not smart? You're a housewife who scaled down your thriving business for you to be a fulltime housewife,you husband is on a fixed salary,you had the first child,the second,the third,your husband's salary hasn't increased,then the fourth and then fifth child,on the same fixed salary,wouldn't you have started feeling the pinch?"

God made me beautiful

Forward- This is a sequel to I AM MAJ AND I AM MEE and the entire story has been made shorter to fit into one post and avoid a very lengthy piece,to fully digest this piece,I would recommend you listen to the songs  as you read

*Celine dion's Love me back to life playing in the background*

I was walking dead
Stuck inside my head
I couldn't get out
Turn the lights down
The voices inside so loud

Need a jump-start, catatonia
I couldn't feel,
I wish that I could disappear
The voices inside so real

But you stood by my side
Night after night, night after night.

You loved me back to life, life
From the coma.
The wait is over.
You loved me back to life, life
From the coma.
We lovers again tonight.
Back to life, back to life, back to life, back to life, yeah, yeah.

You woke me up, one touch and I felt alive
You loved me back to life,
Back to life, thought I died.
The voices inside so quiet.

But you stood by my side
Night after night, night after night.

You loved me back to life, life
From the coma.
The wait is over.
You loved me back to life, life
From the coma.
We lovers again tonight.

Strong hand, thick skin and an open heart
You saw through the pain, saw through the mask
You never gave up on me, yeah

Life, life
From the coma.
The wait is over.
You loved me back to life, life
From the coma.
We lovers again tonight

Back to life, back to life, back to life, back to life
Back to life, back to life, back to life, back to life yeah yeah

Made of butter?

Forward: This is a prequel to I AM MAJ AND I AM MEE,read,enjoy and do leave a comment and see! i debuted on the blog,lol,finally!

"Baby I've been complaining about my pregnancy discomfort to you and the inconveniences am going through and you don't seem perturbed in the slightest,this is so unfair and cruel of you!"

Mom spewed,engaging dad in a diatribe over the telephone who was in faraway kaduna on an educational course of 3 months.

"Oh yeah?! The pregnancy is causing you a lot of inconveniences? So what am I to do? Huh? Fly over cities to come hold your back or what?massage your swollen feet? Mtseew"

Dad retorted,totally getting Mom so incensed.

Hell hath no roar like an adam scorned 2

Let me start by saying if you get upset easily,especially at someone's foolishness and lack of taking a stand,you shouldn't read this.

My mom is an irrational woman whom no one seem to be able to please,one moment,she needs something and just as you are trying to get that sorted,she comes up with another demand,most probably outrageous than the last and when you try to explain to her how she has to be a little patient or compromise a little,she starts brewing drama and whining about how she has been denied to move ahead in life because everyone has been an enemy of progress,she's such a bitter woman all the time and you know what they say,when mom is happy,everyone is happy but when mommy is not happy...so she comes home and dumps her drama on me...well because am the calm one who tolerates everyone.