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I am sorry...mbok, permit me to laugh. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...I'll be back...perhaps to....hahahahahahahahaha...perhaps to say what...(Giggles)...the advice you want...sorry

Mmangsang - Annang

I could have sworn that there's a teensy weensy bit of Nigerian blood flowing in her veins...the face mirror part was quite funny

VillageBoi: What you said is very true, can happen but doesn't always happen like that. You might get a cast you like but as they are doing it for next to nothing (of course transport and feeding is always included as a bare minimum) you have to depend on their availability. If a good choice gets a paying gig on a day you are shooting you have to go with the 2nd or 3rd. A lot of first few shorts are made as a learning experience. I promise to get better!

The Director of this film and I had just finished working on a different short and on the first day of that shoot I had bought this camera to shoot a few BTS (Behind The Scenes) shots. When the guys saw what came out of my little camera we decided to do something to see how far we could push it under low-light. The lighting in this film is just street lights; it was late at night and on 3 of the coldest days we had... oh the joy of suffering for art hahahaha.
This is the BTS - The first clips that ever came out of this camera before I learnt how to use it. Sorry it's only on Vimeo so will have to load fully before playing in some places as per slow internet - BTS - https://vimeo.com/8000672

Ha! I would have to say it's because we are in different locations...in Nigeria, if you are serious, you will find plenty...willing to act but in my opinion a low budget film should try to stick to one location...investing in a good story though

jidegirl12: Which one is atama pls? I'm kinda old schl

You know we akwa ibomites/calabars name the soup after the leaf used or major leaf if two kinds of leaves are used.

Atama soup is what others call banga...but it's not fully banga because yes, we use palm nuts in cooking but we also add egusi (or waterleaf) and then the washed already sliced atama leaf

Mood mostly and then purchasing power. I felt like having yam with fresh pepper and onions in oil this morning and I did. Ate unripe plantain porridge yesterday with periwinkles.

Cute girl with coordinated dance moves for a girl of her age...Nigeria's really got talent

armyofone: have bleach, 409, lysol in handy. A must for my kitchen and bathroom each.


Me and dorty no be friend.

The contendment isn't your kitchen but your chopping board and dish sponge

jidegirl12: Yep give it a try...you'd like it, and kill it with lots and lots of assorted meat&dry fish... Gosh now I need to cook it today!

Can't cook that now...cooked ogbono, okra with goatmeat last week...I am on atama this week...so perhaps next month

VillageBoi: Good to hear you liked the little film. That is one of the issues we run into when it comes to making short films. Most times we make them just to learn and a lot of times we throw in a bunch of 'friends'. Casting can be a bit of a problem for no-budget films. The new Naija short I'm planning to do or shall I say 'was' planing to do fell through for that very reason... I might revive it if I get the 'cast' - a mother and 2 children.

What I think is this...you'll get the right cast if you go to the right places...no one gets paid to act in school, the thrill of having people watch you is enough. Now the thrill of being online even if it's in a short clip is enough for some...check in the right places

I felt the male character was too carefree especially when he was trying to wow the lady...he knows all the processes of love making and his voice wasn't the least bit 'husky'?

But I liked it. Well done

dominique: Hmmm, this is not the first time i'll be reading that kitchen contains more germs than toilet. Does it mean we should start eating off our toilets : o

Even the researcher did not advise eating off the toilet seats...I guess this means extra effort at keeping the chopping board and SPONGE clean...lol

Swit up: wow...... The choppin board in ma kitchen thrice as deadly as ma toilet seater......?? Lawd have marcy......!!!

In a lopsided way, the article is kinda accurate

jidegirl12: With the smoothest black Amala and ice cubed malt on top ....OMG!!

Amala and thick ogbono? Never tried it.

Demdem: Nobody is saying the church is poor. Infact its a good thing for the church to be wealthy. However I believe we have misplaced our priorities. Churches now tend to be business minded than fulfilling the needs of the people within their capability.
Let's take oyedepo 4jets for instance. Don't u think the yearly amount that will be used to maintain, run and facilitates those jets in millions of dollars can be used to subsidize covenant university school fees which even the vast majority of his members can't afford to send their kids.

When the missionaries came, they came with schools, hospitals etc that were affordable and at times free. What will we say is our legacy now? Outdoing ourselves in acquiring vanities in the midst of abject poverty.
It's a shame.

I agree with the last paragraph. If the missionaries came and decided that only the very rich should attend schools or that their medical knowledge should be for those who can afford it...then we would not be here today...
Anyone that wants to own a jet or even 5 jets is allowed to but one would have to ask, if that should truly be a priority. There are evangelists and pastors abroad, why don't they own private jets? Why aren't they afraid of plane crashes?
This is the 80/20 rule kind of thing, when 20% of the population own/control wealth to the detriment of the remainder 80%. This kind of stuff brings forth revolution

Simply cook them both together, add goatmeat, stockfish and periwinkles, spice it with adusa leaf and you simply cannot go wrong

The toilet seat has acquired an unfair reputation
as the dirtiest item in the average household. But
scientists say there are far filthier places in our
house, some of them where we least expect.
Would you chop your vegetables on your toilet
seat? I think pretty much all of us would say No.
But maybe we should think again, reports the
BBC.

Dr Chuck Gerba, professor of microbiology at the
University of Arizona, studies how diseases are
transferred through the environment. This
involves swabbing household items and
measuring how many bacteria - and what sort -
develop.
He particularly looks for faecal bacteria such as
E.coli and staphylococcus aureus.
His studies have found that on the average toilet
seat there are 50 bacteria per square inch.
"It's one of the cleanest things you'll run across
in terms of micro-organisms," he says. "It's our
gold standard - there are not many things
cleaner than a toilet seat when it comes to
germs."
We should be more worried about other
household items, it seems.
"Usually there are about 200 times more faecal
bacteria on the average cutting board than on a
toilet seat," he says.
In the kitchen it doesn't necessarily get there
through actual contact with faeces. It comes via
raw meat products or the viscera from inside of
the animal, where a lot of the faecal bacteria
originate.

Chopping board

Would Gerba be more inclined to chop his
vegetables on a toilet seat then?
"It would seem a safer place," he says. "Not that
I would recommend it, but you might treat your
cutting board a bit more like you do your toilet
seat."
It's because we all fear the dirtiness of the toilet
seat so much that we regularly clean it, so
perhaps this is the course of action we need to
take with our chopping boards.
But the filthiest culprit in our homes is the
kitchen sponge or cloth.
According to Gerba, there are about 10 million
bacteria per square inch on a sponge, and a
million on a dishcloth.
In other words, a kitchen sponge is 200,000
times dirtier than a toilet seat, and a dishcloth is
20,000 times dirtier.
This is the same the world over.
"Always the dirtiest thing by far is the kitchen
sponge," says John Oxford, professor of virology
at the University of London and chair of the
Hygiene Council - an international body that
compares hygiene standards across the world.
Its latest study examines samples from homes in
nine different countries, and finds that 21% of
"visibly clean" kitchen cloths actually have high
levels of contamination. The cloths also fail the
bacterial test which looks for E.coli.
The study identifies faecal bacteria in other
places around the home, and this varies from
one country to another.
Saudi Arabia has the dirtiest fridges, with 95% of
the fridges in the study failing the bacteriology
test for E.coli. And in South Africa, the dirtiest
item is the seal in the bath, with almost two-
thirds with unsatisfactory levels of E.coli and 40%
for mould.
"It's always a bit delicate which countries are the
worst," says Oxford.
"We found that countries like Australia and
particularly Canada are high up on the hygiene
list... Countries near the bottom are fairly
routinely, unfortunately, India and Malaysia."

What about away from our homes? Gerba says
the office is particularly bad.
"Many people don't realise they're talking dirty
every time they pick up their phone, because
they never clean it. "The average desktop has
400 times more bacteria than on a toilet seat."

Beware the supermarket too.

"Shopping trolleys are really bad," warns Gerba.
What's more, about half of reusable shopping
bags have faecal bacteria in them.
"Some people have more faecal bacteria in their
grocery bag than in their underwear, because
they at least wash that."
So what does this actually mean for us in terms
of health risks?
"These numbers of bacteria, particularly for
E.coli, are huge," says Oxford.
"E.coli is an indicator bacterium. It may not itself
cause horrible disease, but it indicates faeces is
around and that might contain other organisms
like salmonella and shigella which really are
virulently pathogenic."
But we all touch these perhaps startlingly dirty
things every day, and on the whole we don't get
constantly ill.
"We're jolly lucky that as we've evolved over two
million years, we have a whole set of genes
whose only function is to get the immune system
in action," says Oxford.
"All of us, in all these countries we have gone to,
rely on Lady Luck too much, keeping our fingers
crossed or sitting on our hands. In a modern
scientific society, what we want is people to
realise there's a problem here and take action."

www.thisdaylive.com

Well, yes some churches don't like some items on the traditional lists and this is always substituted with money and a polite explanation of why you cannot provide these items yourself...
That being said, your mother-in-law cannot be in charge of the wedding...where are your fiance's paternal relatives? They should be in charge...if she doesn't want to be there, no need to force her

Of course you cannot compare when you first met to now...yes, you were chatting non stop day and night...now the butterflies have flown and you are left with the reality that it's only working at your relationship that can keep it on course...I am sure you envy sweet couples, those one that really seem to complement each other...well, any couple that has spent a long amount of time together and still seem sweet to each other...put a lot of work into that relationship...

If you have concerns tell it to your spouse...communication is the powerhouse of any relationship...when you don't communicate, the relationship becomes stiffling...so make efforts to reach out, call...it won't kill you, reach out to the people you love...your friends, spouse, family...

4wardever: Thanks for all the mature responses people. Wd defnitely work on a thing or two.

It's not like I don't luv her & never used to call her and them friends. I relocated last year cos of sch to where I live now & lost contact with many. Thank God for my siblings and maybe facebook for a few frnds.

As for her, there was a time in d rel like 2 - 3 yrs ago we talked endlessly day & night. Then d fire was burning hot but along the line (where I think we are now), you discover that those butterflies don't hold anything.

Of course you cannot compare when you first met to now...yes, you were chatting non stop day and night...now the butterflies have flown and you are left with the reality that it's only working at your relationship that can keep it on course...I am sure you envy sweet couples, those one that really seem to complement each other...well, any couple that has spent a long amount of time together and still seem sweet to each other...put a lot of work into that relationship...

If you have concerns tell it to your spouse...communication is the powerhouse of any relationship...when you don't communicate, the relationship becomes stiffling...so make efforts to reach out, call...it won't kill you, reach out to the people you love...your friends, spouse, family...

Of course! I love the way his lip twitches in his movies as if he is trying so hard not to smile...yes, deserves it...even though these pics don't do him enough justice

How old is your kid brother? How close are you guys and what level of respect does he have for you?

I am asking because the level of respect between sibling these days is crazy...anyways, tell your brother the implications of an oath much less one that involves blood...

If all advice fails, call the girl and tell her that your brother has got a blood disease...and that you are grateful that she still loves him and even wants to do an oath with him regardless of the disease or illness...the girl would surely think twice...but your kid brother should be in on the deal oh

I am thinking that your kid brother has slept with this girl, probably deflowered her and she doesn't want to let him go

Brandy:
Long Distance
Camouflage
Full moon
Come closer
Wow
Have you ever?

Shania Twain
Forever and for always
When you kiss me
From this moment

Brian Adams
Straight from the heart
Everything I do

Phil Collins
You'll be in my heart
Something happened on the way to heaven
One more night
True colours

Joe
Another use to be (I don't know if that's the title)
No one else comes close
All the good girls
Baby I wanna do (I don't know if that's the title)
All of the songs in 'my name is joe'

Dolly Patton
Here you come again
Love is like a butterfly (infact all the songs on this album)

Toni Braxton
How could an angel break my heart(I just love the collabo with baby face)
That somebody was you with Kenny Gee

Kenny Rogers
Don't fall in love with a dreamer
I don't need you
His collabs: Islands in the stream
Bed of roses and others that I can't remember

Cherish the love we have
And when I die - Vanelie?
Forevermore, Lady in Red - Chris de burgh
Good morning beautiful
You are my lover
Just once
I just called - Stevie Wonder
It must have been love
Love is all around me - Wet Wet Wet
Here is your paradise
Babyface - Nobody knows it but me
Don? - I've been loved by the best
Some prisons don't have walls
Tracy - Can I hold you tonight
UB40 - Can't help falling in love, Red Red wine
Everly Brothers - Dream, let it be me
Madonna - Take a bow (I guess this doesn't classify)
Sade - by your side
Michael Bolton - Said I loved you but I lied
Westlife - To be loved, flying without wings, More than words
Boyzone - No matter what
Gareth Gates - Anyone of us, what my heart wants to say, say it isn't so
Peter Andre: where I belong
Lionel Richie - Ballerina girl (all the songs in this album)
Luther Vandross - Buy me a rose
Whitney Houston: everything + collabs

And so much more...

Awww! Cute...cute...cute

How come I can't watch it?

Geo Quence: my guy animation in nigeria has a place but if u realy want to go into it big time u have to put in mind that wat u are about toching is capital intensive, an talking about workstation, 32 inch screen,graphich tablet(wacom), render machine, RAMS not lessthan 32 gig, and a big storage space cos u wil be dealing wit larger files

Are u into animation yourself? Is that how u started? 32g ram? Etc?

Death at a Funeral
Megamind
Family Guy

Others don't readily come to mind.
Dicktator, funny? I thought funny has to do with when you flat out laugh and continue doing so...not smile or giggle lightly at some humourous witty line?

For everyone shouting abstinence...should a married couple abstain? How do you space and plan for your children...if not through these methods?

What the OP posted is for sexually active couples...now, it isn't her fault that sex has become what it is...

kingron: yeah i disvergened all these nairaland babes @Slicqy prizzy yeah @rokiatu, @Enoquin @lepasharon yeah nd @candieangel12 quite weird4 an ugly nigga like me

Put your hand in boiling hot water...yeah, that should wake you up

ghettodreamz: I'm not amazed.. BTW, nice prof pix.

Thanks. Why are you not amazed?

I can't stand a particular fragrance for long...soaps, musks, perfumes and sprays, deodorants...I change them constantly because the 'fragrance' becomes nauseating.

Yep! Jidegirl is right. Just like you checked and saw that Halaal is the opposite of Haram and saw that Haram means forbidden while Halaal is its opposite...that should tell you that it actually is for a group of people that would otherwise view a product with suspicion...and yes, the info is majorly for the muslims...

But reminds me of when I was younger and saw it on Indomie, Beloxxi, Dexter and some other foodstuffs like that...I went gaga...thinking the muslim community had an ulterior motive (no offense intended)...I grew, researched and saw the reason...

it's okay, at least they are looking out for themselves after all, if they don't take care of themselves...who will?..LOL

Did someone say she broke the car windows? Didn't see that...I actually thought she was going to blow the car up or drive off in it...
As for comments on the video and song...I'll take a pass