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Food › Re: Paste Pics Of Your Healthy Meal Here. by cococandy(f): 9:15pm On Apr 03, 2015
bukatyne:
I have not even watched it

Because because coco has ran to obodo oyinbo and started cooking shinshong, she is laughing at me cry cry cry
me? Na lie.

There's no time soup or some kind of fufu is not in my fridge.

I just do them moderately. Like once a week or two weeks.
Even back in naija, they weren't my favorite.

If only I can resist rice, then I'll know I'm really serious. That's my weakness.
Food › Re: Paste Pics Of Your Healthy Meal Here. by cococandy(f): 8:53pm On Apr 03, 2015
bukatyne:
angry
what? grin
Food › Re: Paste Pics Of Your Healthy Meal Here. by cococandy(f): 8:53pm On Apr 03, 2015
shocked
If I'm like this after having kids ehn.
Anything I ask DH he will just give without thinking twice.

BABE3:
Chillisauce, remember that picture of the dark skin girl (the one with strong yansh), this is her mum.
Food › Re: Paste Pics Of Your Healthy Meal Here. by cococandy(f): 8:49pm On Apr 03, 2015
So true and so funny grin
EfemenaXY:
Very bad jor.

Our foods are / were designed to help our ancestors cope with the backbreaking manual work they did in those days. From waking up at dawn before the cock crows and working till dusk doing things like fetching water from the stream in clay pots, to using grinding stones, digging yam ridges, chopping fire wood, climbing palm trees, and so on.... but these days, no one works like that. Not with modern appliances and office / less manual jobs.

But the food hasn't changed. Instead of eating with just bush meat, you've got cow leg, cow nose, goat meat, stockfish, pork, chicken, periwinkles, snails, etc in just one pot of soup laden with palm oil...not to mention the portion or size of Eba/ poundo/ Amala/ fufu to go with it.

Listen to this sister's trials and tribulations...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SqrtXmDDaM
Food › Re: Paste Pics Of Your Healthy Meal Here. by cococandy(f): 8:34pm On Apr 03, 2015
EfemenaXY:
grin grin grin
BABE3:
Ha! cheesy
I dey come.
Don't worry guys I won't give up. cheesy

I found this 15mins made me sweat more than 20mins on my trainer.

So I will try to combine the two.

One in the morning and one in the evening.
Food › Re: Paste Pics Of Your Healthy Meal Here. by cococandy(f): 8:19pm On Apr 03, 2015
BABE3:
Awesome. After doing the routine several times, it becomes easier. At this point, you should increase the exercise time to 3 mins or/and reduce rest time to 30 seconds.

The point is to keep challenging your body.
Phew I spoke too soon.

After I finished, I had to crawl upstairs because I couldn't use my legs grin cry

Back to my trainer.
I missed you baby. Don't mind babe3
Food › Re: Paste Pics Of Your Healthy Meal Here. by cococandy(f): 7:54pm On Apr 03, 2015
BABE3:
Cococandy

That's a full burpee. The D position is a jump. You're supposed to jump up then go back to position A. Then repeat for 2 mins.

So was the routine difficult (before you got stuck)?

Efe, yes you're right!
Thanks.

No it wasn't difficult.

My challenge would be to keep it up.
Career › Re: She Asked Me To Carry Her Hand Bag, I Refused And She Fired Me. by cococandy(f): 7:51pm On Apr 03, 2015
Thinkr:
madam if a male boss holds a brief case its 99% sure those things contain office documents or so but a female hand bag? Are you kidding me? Why not say a female carrying brief case? I have worked in a bank and I had female bosses my dear. I do things and joke with them but anytime dey cross the line I make hell out of the office that day. Get that into your head
Ok I've gotten it into my head that you raise hell in the office if one of your bosses does something you don't like.

Any other thing?
Career › Re: She Asked Me To Carry Her Hand Bag, I Refused And She Fired Me. by cococandy(f): 7:44pm On Apr 03, 2015
Thinkr:
I expected nothing short of this. Hand bag is not official stuff for me to carry. Your feminist ideology is making you lose your mind sad
What if his male boss asked him to help him carry his briefcase? Then he can be called a feminist?.

May anti-feminism not make you lose not only your mind but also your livelihood. Amen.

One unwritten rule, never outshine the Master.

If you want to get ahead in your work place, little things that or helping your boss get coffee or lunch could be all it takes to get you ahead than your mates.
Pride will be the undoing of many people.

I know some people have deep comprehension issues so let me clarify that I don't think anyone should stomach abuse in any form to retain a job.

But holding your boss's bag or briefcase doesn't count as one such incident.
Just tuck your silly pride away and get what you want from there and move on with your life.

The OP will still be searching for a new job while his mates there have gotten promotes to new levels.

Let's hope hey don't Fire him at his new work place because he's too big to do something for his boss.
Food › Re: Paste Pics Of Your Healthy Meal Here. by cococandy(f): 7:40pm On Apr 03, 2015
Oh I used to do that in my former exercise video.
I don't even know what the guy called it.


Thanks a lot.
EfemenaXY:
Lol!

I think this is what she was referring to:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf7wZvraWV0

Babe3, abeg confirm if I'm right? cheesy
Career › Re: She Asked Me To Carry Her Hand Bag, I Refused And She Fired Me. by cococandy(f): 7:37pm On Apr 03, 2015
OP I hope your pride places you on a monthly salary.

Mtchew.
Career › Re: She Asked Me To Carry Her Hand Bag, I Refused And She Fired Me. by cococandy(f): 7:35pm On Apr 03, 2015
Orunto:
You are very wrong, insurbodinated abd covetous. How can your boss give you Instruction and you immediately start coquetting? You are on your own. You want to be Joseph without knowing how to dream.
i had to laugh
Where do you guys come youbwith such jokes grin
Fashion › Re: Lingerie! A Must Have! by cococandy(f): 7:18pm On Apr 03, 2015
moca:
That means I dey come amelica be that cheesy tongue
yes o. How I wish smiley
Food › Re: Paste Pics Of Your Healthy Meal Here. by cococandy(f): 7:17pm On Apr 03, 2015
Babe 3 which one is burpee? grin
I was trying to follow that exercise you gave to efe and I got stuck there.

So I'm doing YouTube in front of the TV.

I'm already tired of my hybrid elliptical trainer.
One type of exercise can be boring really.
Food › Re: Cook In Your Kitchen, Take Pictures And Post It Here. SIMPLE! by cococandy(f): 7:10pm On Apr 03, 2015
Gizdodo.
Served with homemade potato hashbrown

Family › Re: How To Treat Your Mother Inlaw. by cococandy(f): 6:56pm On Apr 03, 2015
Thanks smiley
taryour:
Oh sorry sis I just read that story. Even though both stories are different. Truth be told the wife acted very wisely for not going physical with her mother inlaw or throwing words at her. The husband as well took the best decision there.


On the cake, I only glazed the top with caramel and returned it back in the oven for another 2 minutes, you can use melted chocolate as well.
Family › Re: How To Treat Your Mother Inlaw. by cococandy(f): 6:37pm On Apr 03, 2015
taryour:
Yes my sister, some older women are troublesome and we can not help that. My mum and I still had a little quarrel like 2 weeks back, yet I dint insult or talk back at her. What I did was avoid her calls and simply send her a text message stating were I feel she went wrong. Was I expecting her to apologize? NO.

But wetin I go dohuh She is my mother, I was the one that later called her and went to visit her. 3 days ago she repeated the same thing I just overlooked it.

She is my mother and there is nothing I will do about it.

Mother inlaws come in different characters,ONLY a wise woman will act right and correctly. At the end of it all she remains your hubby mother and now your mother once you are married to her son.
Exactly. At bold summarizes it. There's no one size fits all.
There's a correct response to any situation. Always applying tolerance and kindness works most times. But If unfortunately a woman finds herself in a situation that only the break up of her marriage will make the MIL happy, then she's justifed to take off the kid gloves and show some tough love.

They will reconcile afterwards and the love will even be stronger than when they pretended to get along.

Are you going to give me the cake tip? embarassed
Family › Re: How To Treat Your Mother Inlaw. by cococandy(f): 6:33pm On Apr 03, 2015
Depending on age, I even see old people as kids.
This saying that the older one becomes the more like a kid they act is very true.
I've experienced it.

I absolutely adore old folks especially those ones that are no longer physically strong.
They throw tantrums and asks questions like kids sometimes it is amusing.
And you're looking at them like "so someday I'm gonna be like this" grin

And some of them are just full of blessings.
If you buy then only one wrapper they will bless you until your black cheeks blush bright pink. Aww.


bebe2:
me too oooohh

i didnt spend 20yrs in education to start acting like i was raised by wolves grin grin

on the topic, older ppple are troublesome no doubt.

my gran ma came to live with us wen i was a teenager, lord knows d woman can talk. she complains about everything,

can be very annoying. but wat can we do? beat her till she shuts up? shocked shocked

we just pet, and pretend we are going to do wat she says, and that makes her happy. but in reality we do wat we want cheesy
Family › Re: How To Treat Your Mother Inlaw. by cococandy(f): 6:20pm On Apr 03, 2015
No this one is a different story but on the same thread
Just click on the link.

I'm still with you on the not returning violence for violence. I am anti-violence.

This one is a story of a woman who did practically what this baba in the story told the girl to do but instead the MIL paid her back with worse treatment. Are we going to act like such things don't happen?

Me I'm even saying the lady was tough to insist the MIL goes to a homeless shelter that day or the marriage would be over.
Even though I may not be able to do that if I was her, I can't judge her for it.
The MIL clearly had it coming and would probably have continued if the DIL didn't stand up that one time and said her piece.

Sometimes tough love is what works

taryour:
Sweetheart I read and followed that thread from the beginning,though I stopped along the way. My stand still remains she had no right whatsoever raising her hands to slap her mother inlaw was CRAZY.


If I were to be in her shoes I would simply walk out or go into my room and lock myself up till my hubby returns. I will utter no word. YES that is what I will do.


If my own mother slaps me I would never slap her back or talk back to her, what I will do is cry and walk out, even if she calls me back,that particular moment I will walk out.

To be very sincere with you cococandy, marriage has tought me a whole lot. I used to be very very stubborn and when I mean stubborn,you don't dare cross my path I no go gree o. I am always ready for fight oo. But as we grow up we learn to leave something behind and pick new things. Its not being weak but being Wise.

As stubborn as I was, there was a limit to it and boundaries. My hubby has taught me to be more patient,tolerant and overlook things.


What the wife did in that thread is totally wrong, nothing justifies her action,nothing whatsoever. If she was on a clean slate with her mother inlaw then she wouldn't have had any issues let her take the pictures. To even thing she went as far as getting physical with her mother inlaw infront of her friends is really really bad.

Let's call a spade a spade abeg.
Family › Re: How To Treat Your Mother Inlaw. by cococandy(f): 6:20pm On Apr 03, 2015
taryour:
Your apology is accepted and I also apologize. Oya come let's share this super delicious moist cake *winks*

Ermmm by the way,are you male or female?
I like the middle one.

Can you pls share a tip on how you achieved the color separation? Thanks.

Maybe in the kitchen thread. If it not too much trouble.
Family › Re: How To Treat Your Mother Inlaw. by cococandy(f): 6:14pm On Apr 03, 2015
bukatyne:
Hello friend kiss

How is our oga doing?
he's fine. And yours? smiley
Family › Re: How To Treat Your Mother Inlaw. by cococandy(f): 6:13pm On Apr 03, 2015
Shollypopzz:
My sister, u too see am?? Na so confusion confuse me oh grin grin
Seriously. You can't seem to have a different opinion without someone implying that your parents didn't raise you right or you're married to a wuss or you must be projecting your own personal experience or evil.

Well what if it was one's personal experience? It all the more lends credence to the topic doesn't it?

It would be so much fun if we could disagree respectfully.

Let me keep wishing.
Family › Re: How To Treat Your Mother Inlaw. by cococandy(f): 6:06pm On Apr 03, 2015
I wouldn't even hit back at someone my own age let alone an older person.
Seriously I'm so anti-violence I don't even want to spank my kids.
So I'm with you in that angle.


But when will the posters on this forum admit that some older women are troublesome.
All I see is blaming the girl and insulting those who try to say that men should set boundaries in their homes.

It is like everyone is saying amost the same thing but some can't just agree because they don't like the folks saying it.
bebe2:
i see ur point,


but physical fight with an elderly woman?

i beg no excuse.

ok, lets assume she wansnt her mother in law, its iya alata the pepper seller that slaped her, so

she will put her bag down and start to rumble? dem go fight naked each other for street abi?

and if the husband is lucky, he too might be on his way frm work with his frd and dem too can watch the show abi?

there is no excuse for getting physical with her MIL or anyone for that matter.

w
Family › Re: How To Treat Your Mother Inlaw. by cococandy(f): 6:03pm On Apr 03, 2015
https://www.nairaland.com/2221772/pls-wife-fought-mother-following/14#32098730

Taryour
Greatgod
Everyone else

Try read this woman's story and give me your honest opinions.

It is all good to teach tolerance but someone learning from you guys would also love to hear what you have to say in such a situation.

For now Let's do away with taking gentle swipes at other posters and actually discuss.(I hope that is possible)

In my opinion, that woman handled her problem the way she thought was best at the moment.
I can't judge her even though if I was her,I don't think I'll even have the liver to send the MIL out to a homeless shelter.
Maybe I'll bear her for another day or two while I buy ticket for her to leave.

I can imagine if the man wasn't there that day, maybe they would have fought. Who wouldn't want to hit back after someone crouched from under you and pulled your both feet from beneath you making you land with force on the floor? The reason why I won't fight back in such a situation is because I'm afraid of getting beat up as I'm not strong. Not because I'm so good that I say thank you to every act of violence meted out on me.

Let us try to be fair. Thank you.

I don't think anyone whose head is correct will tell one to go and fight their MIL but acting like there are no bad MILs is like ignoring the problem.

some despite anything will hate you for not being the girl they wanted their son to marry, for not being her friends daughter she has been eyeing for her son,for not being from the area she wanted her son to marry from etc etc
It will only take time if that one is open minded for them to really see you for who you are and love you or accommodate you.

It Is unfair to make it out to be the girl's fault alone.
There are bad women everywhere. Do they suddenly become Angels when they become MILs? I guess not.
So every once in a while, a MIL will be to blame for an issue going on between her and her DIL. Let's not downplay it.
As in that woman's case above. She was even kinder to the MIL than her own son was. Meaning that the man knows his mom and didn't want that interference. But she was treating the woman like her own mother.

This story also puts to rest the argument of treating one's MIL like one's mom, it may not work.
I love my mom to death but also very carefree and somewhat flippant around her. A MIL may misunderstand that. So what works for me is to act even more guarded and respectful towards my MIL Because she can't understand me like my mom can.
Just study the woman and follow her the way you see is better according to your own situation.
Fashion › Re: Lingerie! A Must Have! by cococandy(f): 5:37pm On Apr 03, 2015
Moca I dreamed of you today. I don't even knew what we were talking about grin
Family › Re: How To Treat Your Mother Inlaw. by cococandy(f): 5:27pm On Apr 03, 2015
Shiningmama:
I had similar experience too. How my MIL was advising me to be pounding yam for my husband to take to office so that he won't look outside. She gave example of how she will roast a whole chicken and she and her husband will eat and merry then. I was just laughing when she was telling me. She asked me why I was laughing and I told her that sebi despite all the roasting of chicken and merriment her husband still went ahead and married another woman.
She just kept she didn't know what to say again. I begged her sha for laughing. I wasn't expecting her to say such things when she knows all her own pampering and merry merry didn't stopped her husband.
I can tell you your MIL is a nice woman.

Some would have taken serious offense at that question.

Me I for just sit down listen. And say thank you at the end. No questions asked.
Family › Re: How To Treat Your Mother Inlaw. by cococandy(f): 5:25pm On Apr 03, 2015
Na wa. So person no fit come nairaland type that sons should maintain boundaries between their mothers and wives or that MILs should respect their DILs.that must be a very evil opinion
Smh.

Why the unnecessary catching of feelings? No offense.

I would assume that anyone especially if raised in Africa knows that respect for elders is non negotiable.so it goes without saying that before a lady is married, she knows she has to respect her MIL. (Of course there will be the exceptions to the rule)
Now does the MIL know that her DIL is a human being with feelings too? Is it wrong to say a MIL should respect her DIL too?

Someone who can't slap her grown up daughter will raise hands to slap someone else's grown up daughter and we turn the girl into a witch because she reacted.

I don't know the last time my parents hit me. Maybe as a teenager in my early teens.
After that if you do something wrong, they will tell you "you're now an adult. Do you want to be flogged or slapped like a child before you learn"
Most people here didn't even get hit by their parents but then somehow it is ok to get hit by parents-in-law.

You guys can keep pretending that such problems don't exist or that it is only the duty of the DIL to bear all but the problem won't go anywhere with such attitude.

Taryour pls I'm not trying to rain on your parade, your story is sweet and teaches tolerance which I'm an advocate of BTW but it is as unbalanced as they come. And the fact that you were already expecting someone to attack you for it is funny.
Who no like sweet story grin
For the girl looking for poison to kill her MIL, I don't have any words. Shey she no fit leave the man if it is that bad.
Anyone with a brain will agree she's evil. so what's the lesson? Don't try to kill your MIL?

Well she can try and end up in jail for the rest of your life. Or be killed too. (He who lives by the sword dies by the sword)


If only nairaland is A place where people can share different opinions without things getting heated up and some people with agenda and issues making derogatory remarks about other people's families and how they were raised just because they have different opinions.
Romance › Re: I Am Torn Between HIM And Masters Degree by cococandy(f): 4:52pm On Apr 03, 2015
iykedare:
What she should seek for is work experience and not masters degree. There is no guarantee that she will get a job with the masters. Work experience gets you even greater opportunities than masters degree. She has bachelors degree and that is enough for her at this stage of her life.

She shouldn't abandon other aspect of her life unless she is not convinced that he is 'the one'.
and you are who to tell her what to do with her life?
If she wants a phd,she can get one.
She can have any education she wants without being told off for it.
Not all education is gotten for job prospects.

What is wrong with you people?
Romance › Re: She Bugs Me To Death! How can I handle her? by cococandy(f): 7:38am On Apr 03, 2015
You can take out a restraining order against her if she continues with the threats.
Some people are over clingy to the point of being dangerous if not handled carefully.

Or you can get someone who you think she might listen to talk some sense into her.
Maybe help her get the clear picture of what she's doing in case she's not aware.


And pls when you say no, mean no.
Welcoming her back into your home,accepting her gifts and food send mixed signals.
If you're not into her,don't even fan one embers of her affection by being nice,since you've ibviousky seen that she misreads niceness for love.

The best solution is a clean break.
Don't respond to her calls.
Don't text back.

Be firm but not cruel.

If she doesn't get any attention from you in a while and sees that you're never going to give it, hopefully she will pitch her tent elsewhere and forget you.
Romance › Re: I Am Torn Between HIM And Masters Degree by cococandy(f): 7:27am On Apr 03, 2015
anitank:
I don't honey, and neither do you. But it's 2015 and no right thinking man in this century wants his wife to stay at home doing absolutely nothing when other women are attaining greater heights in the corporate world and making names for themselves
Well don't assume for them. A masters degree doesn't have to take anyone away from home. So For now according to the story in the post,no one can really say what his reasons are for not supporting her her educational advancement.

I wish I were optimistic like you to believe that no right thinking man in this century wants a woman that's not progressing financially or academically.
Just do a little opinion poll on nairaland alone and you will see that such men abound.
Politics › Re: Buhari Will Be Nigeria Worst President by cococandy(f): 5:43am On Apr 03, 2015
kenny987:
All of u saying, 'If Buhari doesn't perform well, we'll vote him out in d nxt 4 yrs', do not fail to realise that d reason it appears ur vote makes any meaning is because GEJ made that possible. He could have manufactured a reason to get Jega out of office even 1yr b4 elections but he didn't. He could've acted like other more heartless Presidents we've had n masterminded an assassination of any perceived enemy n nothing will come of any investigation (Remember Bola Ige).

So, the point is, will elections n votes remain viable n be allowed to count in GMB's tenure? Nigerians are not prepared to hit d streets n protest or even die for wat they want cos we love life too much n that's not bad but it can be used against us...small teargas n hardship, we'll all flee n hit d social media which may not be as effective as it is today, also thanks to GEJ.

Again, ppl keep saying Southerners n GEJ are tribalist n he divided us along religious lines...is there any time we weren't? if Boko haram really wasn't a Northern agenda, why has d bombing stopped? So, when Southerners begin to act more righteous n vote against their own as some did GEJ, I hope it won't come back to bite us such that we become victims of the same tribalism that Northerners hold the highest degree obtainable in. Soon, it will be that GMB needs more time, there's so much rot...bla, bla, bla. Did GEJ not also need d time to tackle d endemic rot in Nig?

I hope Buhari has the pill, magic wand n panacea for Nigeria otherwise, it may stare us in the face that (God forbid), we made a mistake but we're unable to correct it cos d electoral process would have been truncated. I pray the hope reposed in him is not in vain.
Family › Re: Please Mothers,i Need Your Advice Urgently Pls by cococandy(f): 5:12am On Apr 03, 2015
Me that doesn't play with my sleep embarassed
Una dey make me fear o

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