Monday 31 December 2007

igbo girl in calabar!

hi people,

Compliments of this beautiful season. I hope you all enjoyed yourselves thoroughly. I know i did.

I had it all mapped out since October.I was gonna spend christmas in Calabar my University town. So on friday the 21st of December at the close of work,i packed my bags and gravitated towards the airport.

Let me use this opportunity to say that i bargained for a 5.25pm arik airline flight but ended up leaving Abuja around to 10pm.They apologised though.

Metroplolitan hotel was ok.I was impressed by the improvement on the place. I remember that we used to go there for cokes and meat pies. Gist is, some firm bought into the place and the rest is history.
Im still trying to figure out why they used nylon to cover one section of their glass door at the lobby instead of replacing it.

The next night was the miss carnival queen show. Unfortunately I could not attend and that’s how my vip tickets were wasted. sob, sob.

The next day I visited the mariners resort and the museum and at night I attended the Awilo show. Olu maintain also performed. Fantastic!

I had a nice day the next day visiting old friends and generally going round Calabar.

On the 27th the carnival took place. It could be likened to the west Indies carnivals that took place in lagos those days I was in secondary school, only bigger and better!

29th saw me going to Tinapa. Boy was I impressed! I dare say the place is world class. Was it the studios, the shops, the hotels or the grounds? I'll leave you with pictures cos my description may not do the place justice.

I was to leave on the 30th by 3.50pm but trust Virgin Nigeria to disappoint. I got a text message saying the flight had been delayed till 18.50 lt. That’s 10 minutes to 7pm!

However, this one disappointment turned out to be a blessing as I was able to watch the annual ekpe masquerade show.

I finally arrived lagos at to 8 in the evening.

Calabar is definitely the utmost tourist destination in Nigeria, at least for now. I highly recommend a visit to the place.

I enjoyed myself. I hope you enjoy the pictures.


awilo & his dancers.one of them is nigerian.nice


trust me ,this place looks really nice now


i think she must be a fairy!


efik regalia


edo


one of the carnival queens


tinapa


tinapa


ekpe!


Sunday 16 December 2007

Making a baby

This is funny & CLEAN.There is not one dirty word in it, but it should make you smile!
The Smiths were unable to conceive children anddecided to use a surrogate father to start theirfamily.
On the day the proxy father was to arrive, Mr.Smith kissed his wife goodbye and said, "Well, Im off now. The man should be here soon."
Half an hour later, just by chance, a door-to-door baby photographer happened to ring the doorbell, hoping to make a sale. "Good morning, Ma'am", he said, "I've come to...""Oh, no need to explain," Mrs. Smith cut in, embarrassed, "I've been expecting you." "Have you really?" said the photographer. "Well, that's good. Did you know babies are my specialty?" "Well that's what my husband and I had hoped. Please come in and have a seat".
After a moment she asked, blushing, "Well, where do we start?" "Leave everything to me. I usually try two in the bathtub, one on the couch, and perhaps a couple on the bed. And sometimes the living room floor is fun. You can really spread out there." Bath tub, living room floor? No wonder it didn't work out for Harry and me!" "Well, Ma'am, none of us can guarantee a good one every time. But if we try several different positions and I shoot from six or seven angles, I'm sure you'll be pleased with the results." "My, that's a lot!", gasped Mrs. Smith. "Ma'am, in my line of work a man has to take his time. I'd love to be In and out in five minutes, but I'm sure you'd be disappointed with that." "Don't I know it," said Mrs. Smith quietly. The photographer opened his briefcase and pulled out a portfolio of his baby pictures. "This was done on the top of a bus," he said. "Oh, my God!" Mrs. Smith exclaimed, grasping at her throat. "And these twins turned out exceptionally well - when you consider their mother was so difficult to work with." "She was difficult?" asked Mrs. Smith. "Yes, I'm afraid so. I finally had to take her to the park to get the job done right. People were crowding around four and five deep to get a good look" "Four and five deep?" said Mrs. Smith, her eyes wide with amazement. "Yes", the photographer replied. "And for more than three hours, too. The mother was constantly squealing and yelling - I could hardly concentrate, and when darkness approached I had to rush my shots. Finally, when the squirrels began nibbling on my equipment, I just had to pack it all in." Mrs. Smith leaned forward. "Do you mean they actually chewed on your, uh...equipment?" "It's true, Ma'am, yes.. Well, if you're ready, I'll set-up my tripod and we can get to work right away.""Tripod?" "Oh yes, Ma'am. I need to use a tripod to rest my Canon on. It's much too big to be held in the hand very long."
Mrs. Smith fainted !

Monday 3 December 2007

lily

hear ye! hear ye!

lily my dog had 7 lovely puppies last week.