SPECIAL DAZE

A man opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:

'This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package.'

He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.

'She got this the first time we went to New York , 8 or 9 years ago. She has

never put it on, she was saving it for a special occasion.

Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift

box next to the other clothing he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died..

He turned to me and said:

"Never save something for a special occasion.

Every day in your life is a special occasion."

I still think those
words changed my life.

Now I read more and clean less.

I sit on the porch without worrying about anything...

I spend more time with my family, and less at work.


I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through.

I use crystal glasses every day....

I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if I feel like it.

I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to.

The words 'Someday....' and ' One Day....' are fading away from my dictionary.

If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now....

I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she wouldn't

be there the next morning, this nobody can tell.

I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.

She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels.

I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favourite food.

It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come..

Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.

Live for today, for
tomorrow is promised to no-one.

If you got this, it's because someone cares for you and because, probably,

there's someone you care about

Eko o ni baje o(Lagos will never spoil)

For those who don ' t know what our new Lagos looks like, check it out below..... and Fashola says this is just the beginning!

Special 10

Its been a while since I blogged. Been out for a while and thought it was a good time to come back. Im going to be giving a list of different things on my mind at the moment.

1. Its May 27-Children's day in Nigeria. I pray for all the children of the world(which I personally believe includes everyone because we were all born by someone) and pray that God continually makes us a source of joy to our parents. They deserve it.

2.There is nothing more important than family. It was about time I knew that. I ask of you all, please take family seriously. Spend time with fam, dont hide things and give them your all.Dont forget-Blood is thicker than water

3. Somebody decided to go into my garage and burn the cars there and ofcourse my car was there too but like I always say, all things happen for the good of tommorrow.

4. Happy birthday to Lola Okegbemiro, I know its late but I never got a chance to celebrate with you.

5. Im really thinking of the possibility of a double major. Change my minor in Economics to a major in Applied Economics.Guess what my main major is?

6. The failure of Ronaldo is the success of Messi and my home boy Henry. Big congrats to all who are affliated with Barcelona and Pep Guardiola- 1st coaching role and you bag a treble.Go on now to greater things.

7. The value of true friendship should never be underestimated. Through thick and thin, a real friend would be there. Please do all to keep those who are you true friends, they are hard to come by.

8. I had lost interest in writing poetry(in part because I lost my inspiration and a source of happiness).Im renewing my interest and taking it a step further as I am going to finish the book I started writing 5 years ago.

9. On the topic of interest, I will be going back to things that made me happy and out of trouble....Acting, involvements in church, song writing and a lot more.

10. Do not call me sean again please. I would not be answering you. My name is Oluwaseun Okegbemiro but you can call me SEUN. Im going through a rebranding, finding my inner mojo and be who I really am. All nicknames known to me having been denounced except MC KamiKaze.

Open Letter to my mama

Dear Mother,
I am writing this letter to express my undoubted and unquestionable appreciation to you for being my mother. For a conscious space of time, you decided to have a child. For 9 months, you carried me inside you, therefore a became a part of you, causing you discomfort on the inside, yet joy in your heart. Joy for what you pray to God I will become.Joy for you have brought a blessing to the world.For years you put me on your back, breastfed me, showered me and nurtured me.
A young strong man I have become. I have given you a ray of hope for the success you imagined. Yet, in many ways I have failed you. Failure to be as honest to you as a child should to his mother. Failure to make you my best friend. Failure to heed all your instructions. Failure to not express all the traits you taught me, selective of only what I thought was needed. I heeded to the yearnings of my youthful exuberance and failed you in ways I would never have thought I would.Failure for not being the genius 'the professor' you used to know.
I am using this day to say I am sorry for these failures. Sorry for the trouble I have caused you. Either with daddy, or the time I was deboarded from boarding school or my elementary school flings and my more recent ordeals.Sorry for I haven't been the best son I could.
Mother,I am writing this letter to say I love you from the very bottom of my heart and make a solemn vow today to make every possible attempt at righting my wrongs, dotting my i's and crossing my t's. A vow to be the 'Telemi' you used to know.
Thank you for being my mother and I will forever love you and be indebted to you.

From your dear son,
Alade

Teenage Love affair

At the end of my last year as a teenager, I was just experiencing my very first teenage love affair. With an inner vow, first girl, first love, would mean marriage. In love and life, things do not always work out the way you want them to even when you work so hard at them. A young man with so much confidence, ready to take on the world, taking care of his academics, socially accepted, and wouldn't shy away from meeting a young lady. Then, an emerald would come along, crafted not as the conventional blinding figure on the love-lust mountain, but prised in inner beauty clouded by smugs of 'i dnt care' and as life would have it, you find ur 'supposed soul mate' and very first teenage love affair. The script would say you are ready, ready to let go of the ladies and go for the lady, let go of ur flirtatious self and have her like you would want her to have you, for as long as you both desire to be together...bla bla bla...I am going to stop there...I would actually write a book on this...Should have a lot to write about.
For now, does anyone remember their 1st teenage love affair? Are you still in the affair? If not, are you still in touch? Can you get back together if a chance provided itself?Do you feel as though you might not find love stronger than that?....
These are a few questions that have been spurred by that once young love that would have an impact on ur being, what future would be holding out for....
Just like I wish I had gone to a mixed sex high school system, or wished to have gone to high school prom, or wished I was a NERD, I wish to have my first teenage love affair again...Yes, I do. Do the things I did right well, learn from mistakes and do right my wrongs because there is no love as strong as your first teenage love affair( except ofcourse Agape, or long married life of peace that has experienced thin and thick). Let me hear about your first teenage affair, its impact on your being and
life.
Here is Alicia's account of her first teenage affair:

Can't wait to get home
Baby dial your number
Can you pick up the phone
'cause I wanna holla?
Daydreaming about you all day
In school can't concentrate
Want have your voice in my ear
'Til ma comes and says it's too late

'cause the lights are on outside
Wish there was somewhere to hide
'cause I just don't want to say goodbye
'cause you are my baby baby
Nothing really matters
I don't really care
What nobody tell me
I'm gonna be here
It's a matter of extreme importance
My first teenage love affair

Another secret meeting
On the 5th floor stair case
I'm gonna give you this letter
Of all the things I can't say
Want you to be my first, my last, my ending and beginning
I wrote your name in my book
You last name my first
I'm your Mrs.

Hey boy
You know I really like being with you right?
Just hanging out with you is fun
So maybe we can go to first base
Because I feel you
Second base
Want you to feel me too
Third base
Better pump the breaks
Well baby slow down
I gotta go home now
My baby baby
Nothing really matters
I don't really care
What nobody tell me
I'm gonna be here
It's a matter of extreme importance
My first teenage love affair

Only You

When I stop to think,that you wont be there to smile when I wink
I wont be there to see you dressed in all pink
when I blink and you're not there my hearts gonna sink
I cant sleep, cant eat, can't drink
When I think of you gone
A big part of my life's all torn
in pieces and Jesus, I must have mixed right for wrong
For you to come, I'll be twice as nice
I can't stand to pay the price c'mon
I'll do anything to see you come back to me
Don't leave me alone
I'm in need of a home and a girl I'm a live with happily
Together, matter of fact we be, like the fruit from an apple tree
So I'm 'a plead you to come back
Me and you is where the fun's at
We both know that, we love that
We've been there, we've done that
but we both still got a lot left to track c'mon

The Lover of my life
Please do not make me cry
The Lover of my life
Please never ever leave me alone
Please stay with me
Lover of my life

Girl you cannot do this to me
Your whole crew is in for me
They try to make u realize
We're both too simply too tight
They kind of know its smooth right
From a distance they know our love is like a boom mic
And I'd hate to loose my only date to choose
Even Gods creations are all made in twos
So I say we cruise into the way we're supposed to be
girl you know you've gotta flow with me
And so we be the greatest lovers around
We can make a new whole world together
And be loving it now
We can take our love straight to the top
Maintain the same game forever while were making it hot
So do not try to think of breaking up
'Cos I can make it up to you
With all the love I stuff for you
In the middle of my thugs and crew
I still plead for you to stay with me
'Cos Im in love with you,c'mon

I could stay a whole week
without you no sleep
I figured cos my thoughts go deep
Thinking about you
And bringing my heart to the state of mind
Where i know that I'm beginning to woo you
Where its my plea to get you right with me
And I'll wait for you to come cos you truly fit me
and stay together through the weather like Bob and Whitney
An then we shine like the rims of a silver Bentley
You know I never loved no other like you
To hug a mother might do
It will make me show my hearts broken in two
I'll give my life as a token for you
You might not know that I'm choked up
But men I'm still choking it through
You're my wife to be
And what you is, is what Id like to see
Come girl give your life to me
And I'm a fight for the right to be your only man
and if I gotta fight then I'll fight for free.

When I think about you leaving I find myself grieving
Though it seems deceiving I'm still believing girl you'll stay with me forever
And I'll remain humbly kneeling while your heart is healing
Tear drops revealing the way that I'm feeling girl please stay with me forever