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budaatum:
Do I know what abula is?
You funny. Ifon Osun is in Osun State. We not far from Ibadan. About an hour if I'm driving.
In fact, you get to go through it from Lagos to get to Ifon.
And since it's half way there, you got to stop at Ibadan for abula,
except when Ibadan people say amala, you got to check they don't mean lafun.
Drive on to Osogbo and you wouldn't be disappointed.
And only sub amala for iyan if you're a pig!

Enish is run by Sola and Eniola Medupin, a husband and wife couple, now plus a daughter born last Thursday.
Sola's ma ran a restaurant in Nigeria, so I'd say they got pedigree.
I'm light weight these days so subbed my iyan for fried yam with efo riro and fresh fish and washed it down with a Gulder.
If I move suddenly, I just might burst!

The Peckham joint is called Lolak and is run by Mama Lolak.
It is on Choumert Street. Her abula is £8, so cheaper than most places.
It's not so much a restaurant I suppose, but a proper buka.
Might go there someday soon.

I'm walking distance to 805 by the way, but don't go there much. Been supporting Enish instead.
But all this talk makes me miss home.
Three day old from seed tete or ugwu mixed with ewuro both from my farm, cooked in palm oil from my very own palm trees, tomatoes and peppers with smoked fish caught in the Owala River, eaten with yams I planted and washed down with palmy from my own palm trees is to die for.

Except the bloody river is infested with schistosomiasis during the rain season, which paralysed me from the waist down!
Talk about an ab'olonje ku, except the onje is all grown and cooked by me.
There's nothing like killing oneself with one's own hands, I tell you.

All this write up for me

Of course "amala dudu" (i.e. black amala) is made from dried plantain & yam flour.
Amala dudu" is cooked for the Ibadan and as far as Oyo environs palate (Osun and Oyo States)

"Lafun" which incidentally is white, actually is black amala's brother from another mother
"Lafun" is made from dried cassava flour & originates from Egba land (i.e. Ogun State)

An "abula" is "amala dudu" or "lafun" plonked in a sea of ewedu, gbegiri and obe ata
serenaded by a lot of all sorts of assorted orisirisi meats, like shaki, ponmo, oxtail, raincoats, jackets, abodi, fuku, liver, cow leg etcetera

The plonking, in the midst of those assorted orisirisi meats usual suspects, is the recognisable sign, that tells you're having "abula"

I know by names, its run by them.
It's just that I was curious which restaurant, when I heard they managed a top restaurant in Lagos for a decade.
Thought maybe they gained their experience working in Federal Palace Hotel, Eko Hotels or somewhere similar

Lolak on Choumert Road hasnt got the appealing look. It, just get as it be. Soulless

Dont know whether you remember, the back in the day & now defunct "Adani", situated along New Kent Road?
Used to operate from one of the blocks of shops just before the Esso filling station

Mentioning "Adani" is taking me down memory lane,
now I am now reminiscing, losing count of the number of times, when waiters come to our table,
and plunge drinks on it, less than fives minutes of our sitting down, after arriving unannounced
then saying at and to our quizzical looks, that one of their patrons sitting at the far end, instructed them to serve my better half and I the drinks
Upon straining to see who is the person, it either turns out to be one of my cousins or one of our mutual friends

Enish, hands down, beats 805.
Dont get me wrong, I havent anything against 805, not especially since after their improved on interior, major upgrade works etcetera.
There is the new Empire to the right of 805 and two others to its left .
The first left is Ghanaian or Sierra Leone, whilst the further away left one is Naija, just like Empire is too.

Give Barking Road East Ham/Canning Town DLR "Abula" a trial
Your life will never be the same again

Nkan ngbe. Schistosomiasis what?
Man is his worst enemy

I enjoyed reading you taking pride in reaping the benefits of your arable work
eating and enjoying the fruits of your labour

This side of life is too short. Sighs

budaatum:
Oh me in gott! I'm afraid I didn't remember to share with you all until I was done!

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HardMirror:
you patting yourself on the back does not mean you made any sense.

You need to go to SpecsSavers

HardMirror:
You faulted from the beginning trying to enforce your believe in god.
'whether i believe it or not, god has authority over me'? Lol.

You not only take delight in your ignorance(s)
but also have a penchant for giving false and/or misleading account of how posters' comments came about and why were written the way read.

I think you found my response intellectually demanding when I responded to the remark you made about seeing me as a slave to authority.

You couldnt get your head round my reply that said:
"You see wrong.
Though I am a free born, whether you accept it or not, both you and I, are slaves to the authority of God"

Is "... trying to enforce your believe in god" another from your list of collective individual ignorance?

Permit me to rephrase my comment, whether you accept it or not, you are answerable to higher power(s)

HardMirror:
That is how dodos think.

Dodos think of ẹwa aganyin and that special spicy hot sauce

budaatum:
Haba! Ota l'ekunle!
I figured the tarting was competition, you slimy, jumping on my parade!

Nah, no competition,
If I had done a Bobrisky, and put on a low cut blouse, then that's competition and competing

Given half a chance, you too, will do same, jump, on an awoof parade

budaatum:
Ah well seems the individual involved doesn't quite love as much as I was thinking.
Must be that "agape love", which, if you asked me, is seeming more like some fake love that doesn't exist.
It sure sounds nothing like the master taught, least not like I understand it.

I dont know why I've never added fake love along with agape, philia, storge, pragma, eros, tough, philautia and ludus as another different type of love.
I included tough love but fake love escaped me.
It just beats me how it managed to slip through.

budaatum:
No, I never been to a joint in Barking

Come out of Canning Town DLR, and it less than 5 minutes walk to the destination.
I think the place is called "Squires"

budaatum:
There's one in Peckham though

If you say there's is one in Peckham, you're then prolly referring to the one on Choumert Street.

budaatum:
a proper mama put, I sometimes go for a quicky

I put that nondescript joint on Barking Road, Canning Town end side to be precise, with their "abula" speciality over and above the Peckham joint

You know what "abula" is, dont you?
You've tasted and eaten "abula" before, havent you?

budaatum:
But it's Enish today.
The owners are friends I haven't seen in a while so today na today!
I might post a picture just so no one misses out.

I like its ambience
Prior to setting up Enish, which restaurant and where in Naija, were the couple before managing?

HardMirror:
i see you are a slave to authority

You see wrong.
Though I am a free born, whether you accept it or not, both you and I, are slaves to the authority of God

HardMirror:
All your arguments are appeals to authority.

The only person doing arguments on this thread and often elsewhere on this forum is you

HardMirror:
You lack confidence in your own self.

Sums you up
Have you just been back from a voyage of self-discovery about yourself?

HardMirror:
A free thinker does not because a figure of authority says something accept what is being said.
I would rather be one than a zombie.

In my own right, I am a figure of authority
and my middle name is Maverick.

HardMirror:
Common sense should tell you true human survival and existence as not been a function of things we cannot disprove,
rather it has been solely based on things we can prove

Common sense should tell you this isnt always true
and that true human survival and existence has been a function of relying on informed blind faith when confronted with things we cannot prove

HardMirror:
Reason why we are so against religion.
Too much resources going into a subject that has nothing to give.
Not backed by truth but speculation

You have to be wicked, self centred, have no compasion, no conscience etcetera for you or anyone else for that matter, to be against religion
Not that you know, what true, pure and religion that is without fault is
"Religion is like having a classroom", he claims. Indeed. SMH.

I suffer ignoramuses gladly
I am patient with them but not with those who are proud of their ignorance(s).
You can come back for more slam dunks
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budaatum:
It wasn't a booking. You seem to have seen it as one however, hence the tarting.

I was doing attache and gumming myself to you.
Not only you but I too, like to be in places where love is shown
and especially, where shown with some money please.
I was tarting up to look good, for tagging along with your rendezvous with 5helumiel

budaatum:
And I was going for the Gulder and pounced yam anyway,
and they don't exactly give it a way regardless of the tightness of ones ass!

I know.
Business rate etcetera are killing

budaatum:
All the same, I think rain is forecast.
Thankfully I got no hair!

Rain, at times, could be a killjoy

Have you being to the nondescript Abula joint on Barking Road.
as I dont want to get nicked for DUI,
I used to jump on the underground for having Abula and my Naija Guinness there.

budaatum:
You booked late.

I didnt read you call out for bookings, so whats the "you booked late" all about

budaatum:
Must be all that tarting you thinking about doing.
Wonder what for.

You rather I have the appearance of a hobo

budaatum:
I'm at Enish tomorrow avo.
You may pay for my Gulder. I'm planning 2 but doubt I would get that far since I'm light weight lately.
You may fork out for my pounced yam and efo riro though so it's worth your while. Lunch is at 4pm.

Sumptious and I am salivating already.

I dont want to get water on my hair, so if it doesnt rain tomorrow avo, I'll be there
If I didnt know you better, I would have taken you to be a tight-arse git for asking me to pay for your guilder, pounded yam and efo riro

raptex:
How do I break the news that I'm no more a Christian to my parents.
My Dad doesn't take it lightly with me and my siblings if we decide not to attend church programmes

Was it Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of America, that said:
"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist,
but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God"
'

malvisguy212:
its is very easy to make your self believe there is no God, even if you cannot disprove His existence .......
see how silly it sound?

One fair lady said:
"We can have all the information knowledge in the world,
but it means nothing without the wisdom to know what to do with it"

HardMirror:
there are a trillion things you cant disprove.
I guess everything you cant disprove must be true.

... but this isnt something about the other trilion plus things you cant disprove

To ordinarily know, is not to be wise
because wisdom, actually, is the right use of knowledge.
No wonder, the bible repeatedly observes that:
The fool, the opposite of the wise, says in his heart, "There is no God."

Asimov's the saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom,
sums up the time we live in

maxxy:
When we meet the kidnappers, we will ask them why they cut her hair

I dont think its the kidnappers that shaved off her hair
I think it was done at the "orphanage"
The close shave she had sent shivers down my back
Only God knows what she went through, what was going on in her mind
What a traumatic experience to undergo at such a young and tender age

Some people get liver sha

maxxy:
More details emerging on how she was found...

So we were in Ghana this morning ....A4 was with me.
Suddenly he got a message from a woman who sent him a picture asking if that was his daughter
and that she saw Elo in an orphanage in Benin.
She gave the name of the orphanage and the address.

So immediately took up my phone and called our security head in Lagos and gave him all the details as the lady gave us.
He said we should give him an hour and he called his colleagues in Benin.
They immediately rounded off the place and lo found Elo in the said place.
Of course we got on the plane and headed straight for our security head's office.

There we made a video call to Benin where the commissioner of police put Elo on the call.
Elo screamed in ecstacy when she saw her parents and her older sister Treasure....
she identified all of them while jumping happily
and even told A4 "daddy they barbed my hair" lol.....
praise God she's found.

From PU

PU - Pastor Uvie is also a gospel minister from Christ Embassy

joyfullyjoyous:
How did she get to the orphanage home

... and why was her hair barbed
The whole how she disappeared and got found story just gave me goose pimples

oshe11:
...

How would you sleep tonight?

oshe11:
...

You get liver sha

Shelumiel:
I am not gay, sorry .

Your apology is unnecessary, as no one is fazed over whatever your sexuality is
Your sexual orientation or preference is, unimportant under the circumstances.

Shelumiel:
I am not gay sorry .

I take responsiblity for the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks I make
and not for how you understand them.

My comment was for entertainment, not about what happens and goes on with you behind closed door

Shelumiel:
Mtchww. ..

Man period things?

budaatum:
I don't know why you're so concerned about me. Must be love! Wanna show that love with some money please?
What you doing tomorrow evening?

Bud, I have nothing doing tomorrow I can't shelf.
Should I go have a manicure and pedicure done.
Have my finger nails done up, my toe nails painted and have myself tart up.
Which swanky restaurant you have in mind?
#NaDemDeyRushUs things

Shelumiel:
Please what is your point ?

Same as yours
but unlike you, took time out to demystify the OP

DailyNaija:
A self-acclaimed Evangelist has warned people to desist from praying naked as it is a way of seducing God.

Ben Dzwa who doubles as a farmer and Benue State official, took to his Facebook page to share his thoughts on the act which quite a lot of people have prior to this time, thought was more effective.

According to him, the act is not only unscriptural but also a way of trying to seduce God to answer prayers...continue...

Shelumiel:
I seriously do not understand why people would want to pray naked .

budaatum:
How about, "to reduce the barriers the Holy Spirit encounters as it attempts to enter one"? One must help God help oneself na. Though, if God is tempted by the sight of naked flesh, one should wonder at the limitations and almightiness of that God, I would have thought.

There is nothing that stirs and moves God, like coming to Him "gbalanja" just the way He first created man.

You come to Him that way, showing you aren't hiding and have nothing to hide or hide from.

Now this isn't talking about physical butt nickedness
but rather talking about opening up
and not window dressing or clothing things up.
Expose yourself to God, expressing your vulnerabilities etcetera

ivysunday:
oh my broken English

There is nothing wrong in or broken with your English.
Your English is a long way better than my Chinese

ivysunday:
Yes, who can prevent it? Celestial being is one kind of Buddha.

Explain in a clear and detailed way, leaving no doubt or misunderstanding what a Buddha is

ivysunday:
Time does not exist in nonmaterial world.

True

ivysunday:
We are created to live happily. We are created is a necessity

Its true we are created to live happily.
Mind you, created to live happily, is relative though.

What necessity were we created for ivysunday?

ivysunday:
We are the solution to the situation because we are the problem

Please explain how we are the problem, when the problem was there even before we emerged or arrived on earth?

ivysunday:
All people living happily is the solution to the environmental problem, as it is in fact crisis of soul we are facing

What environmental problem are you talking of?
What is the crisis of the soul we are facing?

ivysunday:
What's your answer, please do teach me.

Hmm, there is a high prize to pay being a teacher.
Be careful to teach.
Leave teaching to One that's constitued to teach and show you things

ivysunday:
Yes, it is very interesting. We are one.

Time is a snitch.
Time will tell, if we really are one.

bunbit23:
Respect to whom respect is due!
That which you don't know, do you see how I gladly answered to help the ignorant gain knowledge of the truth?

That's fruit of holy spirits. Signs telling you "He is a light bearer".

Could you please tell us the day waters was created?
If you can't, bye bye and be careful not to pass wrong information where there's truth. You will always be humiliated for truth is light.
Where there's light, darkness never stand.

We are more spiritual than physical.
Angels guide

Please tell when day was constitued.

You wouldn't be asking what day, the first, the second, the fifth or the sixth day, was water created, if you at all, know when and how day was constitued.

bunbit23:
God said, '
'Let there be a dome in the middle of the water;
let it divide the water from the water.'
7 God made the dome and divided the water under the dome from the water above the dome;
that is how it was,
8 and God called the dome Sky.
So there was evening, and there was morning, a second day.

Do you think, without the dome dividing the waters, without initially separating the body of waters above the heavens & the body of waters on the earth, further creation work on earth, could easily, have continued?

bunbit23:
Water is water. It stand alone. It's visible, you can see her, I can see her.
What's the essence of comparing water with deep and something lengthy abracadabra?
Tell us the day water was created since its not a "by the way".
For your information, nothing on earth is as valuable as water.

Deep is synonymous with something that has length, breath and height. Right?
Now, what do you think, the deep, is, in Genesis 1:2?

Do you think, without initially separating the body of waters above the heavens & the body of waters on the earth, further creation work on earth could easily have continued?

bunbit23:
If this is proving to be true, why must bible refused telling you it was created on the first day or second day perhaps last day? Can't you think and become wise?

What a rookie question
Everyone except you knows, water was created before time
I hope you understand that or do you want a simplified answer, so as to be intellectually undemanding for you

ivysunday:
So glad to hear you say that. Thanks. Yes, I am buddha.

Are you?

ivysunday:
No time exists.

How do you mean "No time exist"?
What time is it now?

ivysunday:
Yes, we are created to live happily.
This is a necessity and the start of the solution.

How and why is living happily a necessity?
How is living happily the start of the solution?
Living happily is the solution to what?

ivysunday:
What you said highly resonates with Lifechanyuan values.

Interesting isnt it

bunbit23:
You have started asking questions to learn from grand master of knowledge!
This you should have done earlier and expect true definition and answers to help knowledge.

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Grand master of knowledge indeed
Just answer the question
and stop blowing your trumpet

bunbit23:
Indeed it's a secret knowledge. Secret is act of hiding a thing from the unknown.
This is why it's not secret to the known but the unknown.
Understanding the word of truth brings confusion to the ignorant.
From your explanation so far @muttleylaff, your understanding about the creation of heaven and earth means creation of waters?

Do I blame you for an attempt to twist the truth?
You are just like your masters (religious leaders).
You learnt from them and can't make a difference.

But then, try as much as possible to get knowledge and understanding of the words as written in the Bible not as explained to you for truth is light.
Truth stand alone and never lay behind anything.

Waters are waters when you read the first chapter of book of genealogy (Genesis).
The writer was precise, mentioning waters and never called heaven and earth waters as you do!
Why?
Because he got guidance by Holy Spirit!

When he said "God created heaven and earth in the beginning" in Genesis chapter 1 verse 1.

Please spare us false information not to misinterpret his true information.

When he said in verse 2 of genesis chapter 1 that....
The earth was unformed and void, darkness was on the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God hovered over the surface of the WATER.

Don't think he forgot mentioning water in first verse bit have to repeat in second verse.

What do I have to tell you here?
We took oath of truth to say the truth and defend the truth whenever and however, even though we did, that does not mean we should persuad ignorant to become wise hence am sure wisdom is as precious as good.
I don't expect everyone to pay the prize, this is why everyone must not be wise!

It took the writer nothing to say "in the beginning God created heaven, earth and waters" if he does.

Have you read the Bible book of genesis chapter one?
If you do, what other thing was repeated as often times as the word WATER?

Then, why do you think it was a mistake for the writer not telling us that water was created in the first day or third day or sixth day as he carefully stated on other things?

Are you learning and growing in knowledge?
Truth is life! Truth stand upright!!
Truth is just and don't need support therefore whenever you are saying the truth, avoid supporting it with anything.
Only a fool find truth incomprehensible!

Angels guide!

You'll get into deep trouble, the way you're going on with this

Deep is synonymous with something that has length, breath and height. Right?
Now, what do you think, the deep, is, in Genesis 1:2?

Do you think, without initially separating the body of waters above the heavens & the body of waters on the earth, further creation work on earth could easily have continued?

bunbit23:
...

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C'mon come step in the deep end with dada

bunbit23:
Perhaps you don't know that I Odogwuakataaka do not give a dog precious food. Wisdom is valuable. As precious as gold this is why a fool can't get wise no matter how much he try to understand.
Secret knowledge of the gods and goddesses belongs to their beloved not to ofeke.
I may choose to ask you one question but what is my gain engaging a fool in a spiritual matters?

You come across as someone with an exaggerated sense of their ability(ies)

bunbit23:
Nevertheless, I may like to read in your verse from the Bible,
from Genesis to Revelation "where your god created waters".
Perhaps it's your god that created waters.
Since you know bible too well, let us read along with you "a verse where your God created waters"

"¹In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
²Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep.
And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. "
- Genesis 1:1-2

God created waters in Genesis 1:1 above, where and when it said:
"In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth"

It is the surface, of the not yet separated, body of waters above the heavens and the body of waters on the earth, created in Genesis 1:1, that the Spirit of God, in Genesis 1:2, was hovering over

bunbit23:
If you can't give us the verse, be quiet like a fool
and stop displaying your stupidity in the public.
I have gone far in the realms of spirits and can't return a failure.
As for you, you are nothing but a chaff.

Do you mind exhibiting some modicum of decent behaviour and language kept in good taste and propriety?

Maamin:
@Muttleylaff help me check this Op quickly to be sure.
I mean I just read that he claims God did not create waters(sea).

I read your detailed backed up with scriptural verses rebuttal.
Maamin, you just have to settle to agreeing to disagree with him

blueAgent:
Total crap.

You would say it's total crap, wont you

blueAgent:
So whose voice did People hear during Jesus baptism on Earth?

"This is my beloved son in him i am well pleased"

"In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word, was God."
- John 1:2

"And the Word, was made flesh,
and dwelt among us,
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth."
- John 1:14

It is God's voice the people heard.
God, by now had already become a Father,
and that's why people heard God talking about "...my beloved Son...."

blueAgent:
I guess it was your voice.

Stick to the matter at hand discussed.

ivysunday:
Buddha Sakyamuni said that all humans are equal

The bible, in Genesis, agrees with the remark that all humans are equal

ivysunday:
and we are future buddha.

#IfYouKnowYouKnow
If you know, you know, then you are already a buddha, a knower

Being and/or becoming a buddha, a knower, can be now and doesnt have to be in the future sense.

ivysunday, by the way, I am a buddha right now, increasingly knowing more by the day and not a future buddha

ivysunday, you too, can be a buddha, can be a buddha now.
You can know things, that Buddha Sakyamuni or Xunfeng, your Spiritual guide, knows nothing about and hasnt written anything about
You can know the truth firsthand,
and when you know the truth, you will like discussing it, you will like, directly discussing the truth.

ivysunday:
If you know the origin of human beings and the transmigration of Life, you will know you can be celestial being someday if you like.

Without knowing anything about Buddha Sakyamuni and what he had before said,
I already know the origin of human beings & know about the transmigration of Life,
and if you like, I also know, we will, someday, of some sort, be celestial beings.

You see Adam (i.e. as in, Man or human beings) is a product of, necessity is the mother of invention
Also note that, a need and/or problem(s) encourages creative effort(s) to meet the need and/or solve the problem(s)

There were two problem situations
and the necessity being the mother of invention, is the start of the solution, to solving the problem situations

It's strongly evident, that there were "situation problems"

This encouraged the Godhead to propose creative efforts to solve the "situation problems"

Man, is the start of the solution, not just only to solving the "situation problems" but is, also, to meet a need

Man (i.e. human beings) is NOT an accidental happening, rather is the product of a well-thought-out plan
hence the earlier reference or earlier use of, necessity is the mother of invention

Maamin:
I did as well...
but I wish she could narrow it down to a particular point of her own words and understanding

"It is the glory of God to conceal a thing:
but the honour of kings is to search out a matter."
- Proverbs 25:2

I doubt, we are going to have the pleasure and privilege of reading her talk about any point,
in her own words and/or according to her own understanding

Exwizard:
Awon ode, how many fight have they won against seating governors during their antecedent

There is always a first time or first person to win against seating governors during their antecedent

Maamin:
Bro! I was beginning to get surprised as well ..i mean I be like, who are you? And you be like the cosmos blah blah blah in the beginning..blah blah blah Consciousness kicked in to form blah blah blah!

At the end you drop half of encyclopedia and my question is lost like a needle in a hey stack without getting a direct answer.

The articles she is dropping here is not coherent enough to answer the query.

I blitzed through almost all she has ever posted as much as I could last night.

I enjoyed what I so far read, and the little reservations I had, here and there, didn't stop me from bookmarking for future reading.

It is a shame, it's somebody's else work or article, that's published and not her own composition, thoughts or
what she sees from her viewpoint