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Questions.

I'm expanding my options for a second degree, so while I'm considering schools in the US, I'm looking into the UK as well (actually studying in the UK cannot be more appealing at the mo). Can a non-immigrant--an international student, to be precise--residing in the US apply for a student visa for the UK via the British embassy in America? Or, Does one have to return to his home country for this? What are my chances of getting a visa to the UK if I HAD to return to Nigeria? Responses appreciated .

Avoid medicated and antiseptic soap in the shower. Avoid drying alcohols and deep cleansing astringents. In fact, I would avoid soap (including those claiming to moisturize), that leave you feeling "crisp" after showering. I recommend using Dove or Aveeno. I assume that you either live in Nigeria or aboard so I'd go with dove, since it's the most available type of deep moisturizing soap. Stick with your chosen product. Consistency is important

The right skin lotion depends on thickness and "gooeyness," the more meat, the better the moisture. I would avoid generic and "thin" moisturizers as they will have no effect. I hear that Nivea is good, although it does nothing for me. I have very dry skin myself and I currently use cetaphil lotion, which has the right thickness, is lanolin and frangrance free, and keeps me moisturized for hours. You could also get St. Ives unscented lotion for extra, extra dry skin if you have no access to Cetaphil. Dove lotions are nice too.

The calves and feet tend to be the dryest areas of the body, and if lotion doesn't cut it for me, I go for oil. Baby oil works wonders for the feet and calves and restores color to ashy skin. I also use Nivea oil. Shea butter is cheap and effective as well.

Lotions are most effective when your skin is damp. Be sure to mosturize immediately after you've taken a bath and wiped off excess water with a towel. This will seal in moisture (from bath water) and prevent dryness longer. If you don't mind the hassle, whenever you have a dry moment at any time in the day, "cleanse" with water, wipe with a handkerchief, and apply some pocket lotion.

If you're worried about your face, I would advice you to stop using Clear Essence as it contains alcohols and other drying agents. There's a specific cleanser by clear essence WITHOUT alcohol, so if you must use something to cleanse your face every day, then I'll stick with that. Look for mild, alcohol-free cleansers.

The trick is to avoid using products that strip oil, and moisturize, moisturize, moisturize.

@Nferyn, KAG, and other whoever whoever atheists:

Christians (or, let me generalize and say Theists) are just as correct in believing in the afterlife as you are in not believing in it.

I'm a Christian but I'm not jumping into the bandwagon with others (at least, I think I'm not, so if others have said something similar, then oh well). Thus I'll throw in a few caveats:

What evidence do you have for the cessation of existence upon death? And how exactly does the "lack of proof" for God's existence actually deny his existence? These questions have been posted (in many ways) time after time by others and none of you have provided conclusive answers for them.

Using evidence or lack thereof as reasons are invalid (sorry Allonym) when formally arguing about matters that do not, in and of themselves, concern evidence. God, as defined by everyone, is not tangible. Please let's cut out the "evidence" crap when discussing God and ADMIT that we're all being motivated by personal beliefs and convictions.

Like a scene from a horror movie, You're just as "in the dark" as we are.

For all your intellectual bickerings, how do you know that we're all not just floating brains in jars? Or that, in actuality, God isn't Mickey Mouse or a talking telephone?

As implausible as my examples might sound, they show the lack of absolutes when discussing matters of the afterlife and God himself. Athiesm is not the ideal--it is the just as much of a choice as theism or religion. Let everyone find his or her own way of making peace with himself or herself. If the starter of this thread decides not to believe to God, then Godspeed (ha) to him.

I don't know if it's me, but I feel that sometimes the athiest pos(t)ers in the religious section act like elitist jerks.

My best Bollywoods:

Yeh Vaada Raha (Sunita movie)--My all time favorite. I cry everytime I watch it.

Nagin (really old snake girl movie) is also nice. Mard is cool.

Na wa o, is my thread that boring,

Your Ideal Naija/African Food Tv Channel

Any fans of BBC food or any other food channel? In short, who loves food Any haters?

If a food channel was created to suit Naija/African tastes, what would u want it to be like? What sort of shows would you love to see with food overtones?

If you were a hater of food stations, what would you include to a food channel of this nature to make it lovable?

please you can be as creative as you like.

Isn't it funny how they end almost at the same time?

Mine's a little odd, to me at least.

I fear waking up and realizing that I'm alone in the whole *whatever*, finding out that nothing ever really existed: My family, friends, this world, ideals, even my physical self. Sometimes I overimagine things, if a person leaves my room, is he non-existent therefore? Is there really a world outside my view or does it exist only when I see, feel, hear or touch it?

I hate those existentialist/nihilism classes.

Now, that's me. What about you guys?

Who In This Forum Lives/used To Live In Ikeja Barracks?

I'm writing a short story with the Ikeja bomb blast as the background. This is for our college literary magazine.

I would like anyone who has lived there, or who still lives there to provide me with some things about the place. Even more helpful, I would like to know the tensions caused by the bomb blast as well.

It doesn't have to be anything huge. Like how are the houses and how did people interact. Domestic squabbles, activities or parties. Do the daddies wear military uniforms about. How do children manage. What did the place look like?

Personally, how did/do you live in there? Was it boring, etc.

hoping for replies

denigrate

Did you know that, on average, the human brain contains information large enough to fill 90 million books?

The mistake Genevieve is making is that she is using success in Hollywood as a measure of her talent. She seems to want America's pat on the back (I see the majority of us here are victims of this too).  What's wrong with her being successful here? Basically what should be improved is the quality of Nollywood movies. Nigerian actors are talented, even more so than hollywood actors, I dare say. I mean, they have to pull their act together in as little time as a week ! They only need top-notch direction. The best actors in Hollywood (Steve Mcqueen, Clark Gable, Denzel Washington, Charlize Theron etc) had coaches that harnessed and tweaked their talents to perfection. If Nigerian actors had that luxury, wouldn't they be as great? Abeg You don't have to be in Hollywood to be the cream of the top.

Secondly, Hollywood is soooo overrated . Many of their movies are crappy as hell, I mean. listen to the dialogue in Star Wars III Revenge of the Sith, ugh!

That, of course, is another topic.

I love horror movies although I'm not really into the gore, zombie and serious bloodshed. I like atmospherical, creepy films that are dark and silent.

My favs:

The Omen
The Exorcist
The Ring
Rosemary's Baby
The Sixth Sense (Not really horror, but love the classic twist)
Frailty
The Others
Any Vincent Price movie
Blair Witch Project
Final Destination (Okay, this definitely has gore, but it's a good campy flick-the-lights-off fun movie). 

This is the most hilarious thread ever

Maybe I'm on a sugerhigh or something but I'm snickering badly right now and I can't help it.

I like have two of her CDs. Here's my favorite of her songs:

Only Time
May it Be
Pilgrim
Shepard Moon
A Day without Rain

What's yours, if you like her?

Oh, I do know my history  I agree with what you're saying.  The impact of trade and globalization has far more influence on world technology and education than colonization ever will--although I still believe that colonialism was an inevitable phase that we had to go through. What I'm saying is that our mentality right about now--intellectual ramblings about racism, tribalism and the struggle for acceptance, democracy, religion, true knowledge about ourselves, other -isms, if you will, might not be an issue. Hell, would Nigeria exist?  We certainly would be living our within our different ethinicities and territories, oblivious the others if we wanted. Nairaland, this site, is filled with issues linking to Colonization in many ways, and it is a conglomaration of the Nigerian Ethnic groups. Would this site exist then?

As far as imbibing western education, Colonization, although it had its sinister ramifications, ensured that much of us were educated faster. At least, that is how I see it. Nigeria's best intellectuals of the colonial period were very much influenced by their surroundings at the time. Africa's great novel Things Fall Apart was all about that theme.

So, I pose my question again. Wasn't colonization good in a way? Without it, would we be this attached to the concept of freedom? (I see you even mentioned the french revolution) Would we come to value our roots the way we do now?

Okay, before y'all decide to hunt me down really think about the above question.

If we weren't taught their ways, how do you think we would have been living our lives right about now? Certainly we would be discovered right now and nonetheless be colonized, but would we have all this techonology, intellectual-ism and political (democratical) sense of self? would Native Africans be winning Nobel Prizes and having seats in world organizations currently? Hell, would we even have Nairaland? I think about it all the time though. Yes,we all think that it was wrong to be manipulated and used for another civilization's development, but still.

Now that we're flaming, sesquipedalian argumentators, can we actually sit and say that it was a bad thing? IMO i think it's confusing, but I will get to that once if this discussion begins.