Happy new month of august!

 

Wishing you all my vibrant amazeballs and fans of Keeping up with d Adagiris worldwide a blissful month, full of God's blessings and positive surprises. Next on Keeping up with d Adagiris...

Camouflage 1

I'm big on titles...Especially kuwda titles as these gets my writing juices flowing and gives me a sense of how I want the composition to flow. So perched cross-legged on the edge of my big bouncy bed with my laptop firmly placed on the hollow created by my pins crossed as I begin to type this very draft for kuwda, I turned the laptop on as I'd just gotten a title for this post which is "camouflage" ,the inspiration coming from listening to the hit song with the same title by brandy which in relation to this post couldn't be more apt  spurring me to grab my laptop and start typing away. So why camouflage?

Crimson skyline

To say it was an aberration won't quite do it justice, it was in the least, earth shattering, as  though all forms of life activity mysteriously got sucked out of us,numbing us to stillness as Karl's words reverberated through our respective heads in a shocking statement that would later quite blow up in our faces,

"I'm converting back to Christianity"

He said again in case it didn't sink in the first time. As far as we knew,Karl was happy being muslim or so we thought and was slowly getting used to Mom calling him by his muslim name Omar.

"But why?".

Was all Mom could utter in a shaky voice that thankfully sliced through the stillness which was so profound I was beginning to feel suffocated,

Compound matters

"Part of the process of beginning anew, or changing directions is to know where you want to go. I know this sounds simplistic and easy, but this is one of the most difficult of choices to make with clarity.",

 "The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance.The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,as perfect, as unspoiled,as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose."

Those rich words by byron pulsifer and arnold bennet respectively resonated in my head that morning in light of my recent confusion as to what I wanted out of life and the direction I needed to tow professionally as read in the third part of HASHTAG SURPRISE AWAITS  as I got ready to resume work at  NIMC headquarters to begin a new course in my life, charged with gusto to give my new job my all,create good impressions and do a satisfactory job to the best of my ability,although naturally I was a nervous wreck,I tried to pull myself together and show up to work as promised.

#Surpriseawaits 3

On stepping into the two-storey building with faded painting of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) ,my face suddenly fell sullen and my body chilly from a rush of anxiety which swept through me, causing goose-bumps all over my body.

The whole busy-beehive ambiance of the different offices with staffs  behind desks, jotting notes on files and others frantically waving excitedly,saying hello to colleagues as they resumed for work had a strange effect on me which made me nervous and quite slow,affecting my walking and overall quick assimilation of the things people said to me which isn't  how I normally am thereby lulling my usually lively self  which was now beginning to irritate me but sadly couldn't help myself, I couldn't explain it,I guess am always like that when in a totally new environment,miles away from my comfort zone.

All through school,the dream has always been to get a job,work behind a desk and sign files away,get paid and all that and now,it seems the future I dreamt of back then is  here and I feel quite unready because in all these time,through having new experiences,thoughts,education,exposure,knowledge et al,my dreams have inadvertently changed but what I want now,I couldn't exactly put into words or maybe am just a little overwhelmed from the thoughts of what it would feel like working in an office or the thoughts that adulthood and being responsible for myself had officially begun.

Happy new month of July

This is wishing you all Amazeballs a fulfilled month,full of everything positive you wish for..to you and yours. Happy new month.

I know i've been quite MIA in recent times on the blog,this is due to recent ill-health and the struggle of balancing work schedule with my writing committments,it's been quite hectic,but i know that shouldn't be an excuse,am still working on the best modalities to work things out so neither work nor blog suffers,please do bear with me.


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#Surpriseawaits 2

I couldn't settle down,I kept prancing up and down the entire sitting room,Karl asked me to calm down as Mom would eventually come home and tell me where I'd  landed this job which from the tone of her voice earlier, sounded like somewhere really major.

I sat down half-heatedly,taking deep breaths to help calm my soul,I whipped out my phone from my pocket and pressing a shortcut button to my music playlist, filtering out was the sonorous voice of beyonce's "XO" which felt like  soothing balm to my frayed nerves .

Time slowly dragged by  until early evening when at the blare of the familiar sound of her car horn,I sprinted to the gate as a smiling Mom drove  in a crescent through the interlocked grounds of the compound to park the car in the garage,she stepped out of the car with a spring to her step,beaming excitedly, she told me she knew I must have almost died of suspense,my eyelids fluttering in mock-anger with my lips in a pout,I quipped,

"ofcourse mother! You just left me high and dry,it's unfair na"   

#Surpriseawaits 1

At the dinning table,Mom's piercing gaze swiveled back and forth between Hamz and I,eagerly waiting for a response...my rather moist eyelashes blinked rapidly which drew her angry gaze towards me...slowly letting out a long exhale,I sputtered with a rather croacky voice from palpable fear of how she might react,

 "Hamz ...didn't have a ....virus,it was just a case of benign tumours sparingly spread across the center of his scalp..."

Close shave

If there's something I dislike so much about Mom,it is her penchant for embarrassing her children to make herself look good. She has a habit of calling out your flaws in public...(by public,this means mostly amongst family members and friends) to show people she's doing her best to correct you but you've refused to heed her calls.

The looks I threw my Mom albeit furtively that fateful hot tuesday afternoon could literarily kill an elephant,I was beyond pissed. Admittedly,I don't pray the five daily prayers as often as I should and at the right time which I know is not something I should be proud of but the way Mom called me out that hot afternoon in the presence of her siblings and their children in our compound was so humiliating,comparing me to my cousins whom I witnessed when they were born as the former threw me a condescending look of pity and I couldn't do any thing as Mom already disparaged me before their eyes,I angrily walked past her into the house as she followed me,asking me to stop,I didn't and kept walking on,my anger level rising steadily,she kept shouting and when I'd had enough,I swiftly turned around to face her and told her to stop comparing me to other people's children so I won't compare her to other people's mothers,

Happy new month of june!

This is wishing you all the happiest month of june ever to you and yours! Happy new month from all of us Adagiri brothers!

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