₦airaland Forum

sonnie10:
That is true. But one problem is that I have not been able to determine the nutritional facts (Daily calorie level) of my favorite pounded yam and vegetable soup garnished with orisirisi and small stout to go. Please advice.

Lmao. Pounded yam is high in calories. Do moderate. Vegetables is not that bad, just make sure that the oil you used to make it is not too much. Best of all, it doesn't hurt to let go and just binge eat once in a while. I do that atimes. The small stout one na him I no know o

sonnie10:
Them say Nigerian foods make one fat but you don't look fat in the picture. Who make I believe now?

The key is too eat in moderation and don't go and binge eat and go over your daily calorie level. You'll be fine.

Ilekeh:
Got packs of snails in my freezer right now.
Once my internship is over on Friday, it's all ballz out! Gonna cook my snails and ponmo
Still got fridge piled with Nigerian food my mom cooked when she visited.

Tell them jare. I jammed snails at the Produce Row in LA, I shock! I pack ehn. Lol. Giant stock fish nko? I don't eat foreign food, I only eat Nigerian so I do not miss the food one bit.

Depending on your location, you might or might not miss these foods you the OP just listed. I don't cos that's all I eat and can tolerate. Nigerian food

All these food and foodstuff can be bought. Albeit a bit expensive. But it's there. So I don't think I am missing anything.

I have gotten fresh snails in at the African Produce Store in Los Angeles and at an Asian grocery store in Fresno. even bought Milo and Nido milk at Walmart in Arkansas. I've bought correct Kulikuli and Garri Ijebu at one Lagos International Market in Denver. All those Nigerian kinds of fishes (alaran, panla and all) I get from the Asian grocery stores. There is even a guy here that will sell you a whole goat. He kills it, removes the hair, cuts it up and brings it to your house. All for $300 or thereabout. You go chop am tire

I buy fresh made suya, real mallam style in Houston. Anybody that knows Ahmed in Houston will know he makes bad-ass suya. Finger Licking in Houston and Mama Vero in LA sells good food too.

Vallarta Supermarkets carry lots of food. I buy fresh cowleg, Panla fish (they will even fry it for you sef) , beef, cowhead, Tatase, Rodo, Fanta and Coke(the kind in bottles like Naija own), fresh Catfish for nice spicy catfish peppersoup, crab, crayfish, Shaki, Roundabout, liver and all. Mexican cuisine is similar to ours

Farmer's market... the one around Finger Licking in Houston has anything you can possibly look for. Suya spice (I make suya well well), Custard, Yam, Plantain, Eko (the ones Ibo people call agidi), fresh Naija style bread (they sell those too in Kroger), Oloyin Beans, Yam flour, Semo, Poundo Yam, Noodles (Nigerian ones and not Ramen Noodles o), Ata Gbigbe, Naija Biscuits all sorts mehn. Enter there and you will be transported to Nigeria immediately. Make I even see if i fit find pictures sef.

Sorry for the long story, I love food ni The first thing I look for when I go to a new city is an African Restaurant or store.

simiolu1:
Kindly go to the career section and see. We once talked on a thread before the Tsunami that swept through NL. You and Adedokun were classmates! *tongue out* Please help me with your e-mail address... Want to discuss somethings

Send me a PM and I will respond

dammytosh:
U have still not contributed anything meaningful or helpful to the poster.

My advice to him was based on the premise that smart physicist excel in programming and good programmers are making it big in this side of town.

2 u that is short sightedness yet u can not mention 1 thing the poster can do

Oga, stop it. I suggest you go through my posts and see if u have contributed to him or not. I don't wanna keep going back and forth with you, okay? Bye

simiolu1:
Long time! Greatest Ladokite, you just forget ur people for Physics graduate thread for Nairaland. No be so o...

Lol. How did you know I attended Lautech?
And two, I didn't know there was a Physics graduate thread on here. Can you point me in its direction?

dammytosh:
How come all you typed was my short sightedness ?

Why not tell him what he can do ?

Madam Long sightedness.

I should have said he can be a pilot, astronaut, footballer without given him any direction.


I too know will not allow them acquire knowledge.

Lol. Why are you getting mad? I peeped your profile before replying you. Seeing your topic made me understand the response you gave him. There is no need to engage you further

Have a great morning.

dammytosh:
You will be a teacher.

If you don't want to the go and learn computer programming.

Invest 2 years and after then you will be Employable.

start now and thank me later !

Like seriously? So computer programming is the only way of making it when you've bagged a Physics degree? How shortsighted.

mikeapollo:
If you can afford it, go for a masters in Electrical & Electronics Engineering or Mechatronics at a very good university, e.g. abroad. I understand De Montfort University(DMU) in UK has a very good Mechatronics course at reasonable fee

He doesn't need to go and spend money paying for tuition in the UK when plenty schools in the U.S will admit him with tuition waiver and monthly stipend to boot! Very good programmes too. It depends on it undergraduate CGPA though

Plentiful. My undergraduate major is Pure and Applied Physics. And I had no trouble getting a job in the Oil and Gas industry in Nigeria before I decided to leave and get a graduate degree in IT. I had no problem getting into graduate schools with my degree as well as I had plenty of the prerequisite plus the fact that Physics is considered the foundation of many physical sciences and engineering

My advise to you is not to limit yourself and feel free to diversify. Looking at my former classmates' LinkedIn, I found out that most of them have no problems fitting into the Communications, IT, Energy, Engineering or even Medical fields. Heck, one of them just got a masters in Petroleum Engineering. The opportunity to spread and adapt is limitless. As I said, don't limit yourself. A physics degree opens you to a whole new world.

You might even decide to get a PhD straight.... If you're intent on becoming a college professor. Plenty of schools here will accept you for a combined Masters/PhD programme in Physics. I know cos I have at least two friends who are doing that. It's fully funded with nice stipends and opportunity to publish nice papers

The key is to research, research and research. Find the right fit and the right career path for yourself and the gates of succes has just been flung open. All the best.

ddbluv:
So much talk about dubai & JFK poe. Passed thru dubai but it wasn't my poe as expected. JFK poe lasted less than 3 mins. Dude was advicing me to visit canada sef on 30days hols

Dubai isn't a US Point of Entry. Abu Dhabi is. You only go through Abu Dhabi if you fly with Etihad Airlines (the other national carrier of the UAE). If you fly Emirates, you go through Dubai, which is Emirates' hub and their is no US POE there. Which means your POE will be on US soil.

Almost all Canadian International Airports have a US POE though

Snazzygirl:
. Baby girl, that's gist for the elders. You are too small .
They just wan finish person energy for this my job, was too tired to text u yesterday. I've been packaging the gist though, was just waiting for the time to gist u about my interesting stunts.

Oya drop the gist live in my inbox. You know I love gbeborun I no wan hear say you dey tired.

Snazzygirl:
Lool. See beef o. Where were u when I was roasting in 96 last week. Make I no hear o. Let's trade now, and see if you will survive the humidity.

Mschew. Long hiss again. Mere 94! It's always an average of 102 here everyday. Lol. Humidity that I'm used to in Arkansas.

I see you oo. All the stunts you're pulling. And you no even gist me? There is God oo.

Snazzygirl:
Too hot! Waaay too hot. I prayed for summer, and now I'm wishing it away. Today isn't too bad YET, Omaha is just 74 now. How every every?

BTW, read your illustration to SirRiddy's question, I think I just fell in love

74 and you're complaining? Mschewwww. Long hiss. Let's trade places

Stewee:
This phone plan thing was quite confusing for me when I first got here... It was worse because I came with my blackberry phone. Apparently tmobile is the only provider that still supports blackberry services....I just behaved myself and got an iPhone.

I don't think so. Although I bought a T-Mobile line, I know someone that brought a Verizon branded Bold 5 from Nigeria and the phone refused to work with any other provider except Verizon.

The one I mentioned who had the minutes thingy with AT&T had a Q10 then. And it worked perfectly with her phone

Stewee:
That's weird, because I know Simple Mobile operates on the t-mobile network.

Yes it does piggyback on T-Mobile but when I put it in my phone and tried activating it, it told me to put in my zipcode and there it told me the service was not available in my area. I didn't even bother anymore.

Mystiqme:
Maybe it prefers to crawl..




I kid, I kid.

Typo. Go away and stop quoting me, you this Ondo man

SantaClause:
Oh okay...what about using phones like iPhone wereby you can still use wifi without a working line?? Cos it's an app which requires mobile connection before it works so if I have were to always connect to wifi what do you think? Lol just trying to see if one can safe some cash.

Not possible. I use one as well, and they will always send you messages like a week before your bill is due to pay so that your service won't be uninterrupted. Maybe you can use your Nigerian line with it, but then you can't receive calls or you'll incur high roaming costs.

SantaClause:
I have an app in my phone I have been using for like 2years now. I can call US and Canada for free and when I need to call international number I just buy unit with my card. You can also text as well but you need an Internet connection to do that. I used it to communicate with my school during my admission process. Those in the U.S. It will best work for you guys if only you have Wifi or you get a network without subscribing their plan if it's possible like that.

It's quite different. Such won't work here.

This is because, in Nigeria you can receive calls even if you have no subscription or credit on your phone. Here, if your monthly subscription ends, that is the day you cease to make or even receive calls. You can't receive calls if you don't pay your monthly bill. So for your app to work, you actually have to have call minutes on your line which means paying some money, even if its the lowest plan your provider has.

I don't know about other networks but one of my friends in AR used to use AT&T and her plan was like $25 or $30, can't remember. But the problem was that she was given like 250minutes of talk and unlimited text. Now that's a problem because her talk time sometimes get's exhausted cos they count received calls and also outgoing calls. For people like me who spend hours on the phone calling Nigeria, its a no no.

DARKLIGHT:

It does now, dear. Thanks, Snazzygirl. Anecdotes helps a lot. Thanks, once again.

Before buying any SIM Card though, make sure you know if it works in your area. My friend bought me a simple mobile SIM card from bestbuy but I didn't have a phone. So when I got my phone and tried activating the SIM, It doesn't walk in my area. That was why I got a T-Mobile SIM card. And if I recall now, I paid $80 at the store somewhere in Houston. I guess it included my first month phone bill, the price of the SIM card and maybe the guy put some extra dollars.

Don't get a phone on contract if you're not ready to keep paying between $80-$120 every month...depending on carrier and also the type of phone you get.

Snazzygirl:
Nasee my padi of life!!! Nothing much dear, I dey o. How u dey?

Lmao. I dey for that place wey you keep me

DARKLIGHT:
It's dayton, Ohio. Just only the sim is how much? With both the sim and phone is how much?

Depends on the phone you want.

An iPhone 6 plus with T-mobile (no contract) is $750
Samsung S5 is around $350 or thereabout

A sim card should be less than $50. I actually paid $20 or so when I first came and got a SIM Card. But it might vary based on location.

Snazzygirl oo. Snazzy aye. How far?

Amefrica:
Haha if I hear! Tho I haven't been to Calgary's, but I've been to Montreal's, Vancouver's, the one in Halifax, and some couple more; the award goes to Toronto Pearson haha IMO too

How have you been btw? Long time!

If Toronto is the best airport Canada has..... Then I give up!! Vancouver and Calgary, is better. Ottawa is just like Muritala Muhammed

Long time. Doing great too.

Amefrica:
Good job, Sile12. I'm glad to have gone through some of these airports. But where is Toronto Pearson Int'l Airport?

Toronto Pearson is not fine jor. It's just there. The Calgary airport is actually better At least their baggage carousel is like the zoo IMO Sha

safarigirl:
what is sad there? I can't cook ewedu and I don't want to learn how anytime soon. Is Tonto Yoruba that she must know how to cook ewedu? How many Yoruba girls can cook bitter leaf or banga soup?

I do not see anything wrong in checking google, I would do same, but like I said, I don't wish to learn how to cook ewedu soup, no female in my family can cook it and nobody has gotten divorced in that.

I can cook bitter leaf, and very well too. You know Yorubas eat bitter leaf soup right?

I agree with the rest of your post though.

Originalsly:
I guess you didn't see his pic.... if you did you would never thought he was Mexican....as in this pic first thought would be Dominican and second Puerto Rican. Many are saying she is lucky to have such a guy....I guess because he is light skinned...but most Puerto Ricans and Dominicans are light skinned. I really wonder what does he do for a living? Puerto Ricans and Dominicans generally look down...wayyy down on Africans period but then again....Uche is a cash cow. So far so good for their marriage and I hope it continues that way.

If you read my response to the other guy. I said he was Hispanic, Latino I dunno if he's Mexican or Puerto Rican. I've not been exposed to any Puerto Rican but tons of Mexicans hence my thinking he's one.

Lucasbalo:
He's a Latino of Puerto Rican ancestry. New York has the largest number of Puerto Ricans after Puerto Rico.

Oh okay, thanks. Never knew he was Puerto Rican. I automatically assumed he was Mexican cos when I think Hispanic I think Mexican, cos of the sheer amount of them over here.

VickyRotex:
That guy is yellow, not fair or white

Lmao. He's Hispanic. Latina. Probably American of Mexican or South American descent. Hispanics are not white. They're kinda yellow.

sirRiddy:
Hiding? Should be asking you that.
Everything is kuku well. Still in Ark?

Nope, not at the moment. Will be back though.

sirRiddy:
E n le o

E pele nbe o. How have you been doing? Where have you been hiding? Hope everything is going well?

godG:
Thank you, sis! MsNas na one sure sis of mine. I can only wish you well, always!

Amin. A maa ri're ba'ra wa se. So happy for you. Congrats again.