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Rotflmao! Boss, you are funny! I hope you are not too attached to your boot straps coz you're gonna lose 'em!

The poem isn't about me and I've come to terms with it. . . took a lot of crying and sleepless nights but I did

. . . Or so they hoped.

By the end of their first year, they started having issue . . . no matter how hard they tried (and they did) they couldn’t get pregnant. So all the problems they thought they had overcome came rushing back.

“Only God knows what is wrong with her Hausa womb! All those concoction the make them drink all in the name of being fertile, who knows that they have mixed with what"

“He can’t get her pregnant? Well Color us shocked! Not! Like we didn’t know Yoruba men are not the most virile men out there”

On and on and on it went that by their 3rd year, they were strangers in their own home. Those who knew them said it was obvious they still loved each other but everything else going on in their life buried the love. This made it easier for him to succumb to family pressure by taking another wife, who of course got pregnant, just like that. He was very, very, very sad the day he told Hadiza his 2nd wife was pregnant. She accepted the news as dignified as she could in the circumstance, wished him well and told him she wasn’t staying. She would go back to her parents’ house in Zaria, continue her teaching job and just live her life. No, she wasn’t asking for a divorce but she couldn’t stay in the house with him and his 2nd wife. 

He pleaded with her but she stood her ground even though it hurt her. They would still be husband and wife but not in the same house.  If he loved her, he would allow her do this. So he did. She moved back to father’s compound, luckily she had her own private flats away from prying eyes. He would come see her every weekleaving his newly pregnant 2nd wife with his family. In the fourth month of the pregnancy, Hadiza got pregnant, making Niyi the happiest man ever. He all but abandoned the other woman and carried on like this was his first child.

Understandably, this pissed the other woman off and it didn’t help that she had the support of his family but Niyi didn’t care, it seemed in his mind her child was his family’s child and Hadiza’s was his. This caused a lot of family problems with the other woman’s family pitching their tent with his family. Ironically, it was during these brouhaha Hadiza’s family took to him. . . he had finally won them over. Unfortunately, they didn’t have much say in what was happening, all they had to offer was their support.

The 2nd wife had her baby, it was a boy, cementing her position as the mother of Niyi’s first son. It would be sweeter if Hadiza had a girl,  . . I bet she thought. Yeah, well no such luck. . . Hadiza had a boy about 2 months after hers and because it was premature, Niyi was at Hadiza’s side morning, afternoon and night, making it very clear he wasn’t budging, not that anyone tried to pry him away.  Their child survived and he assumed now that they were a family, she’d come back home and they would live happily ever after (honestly, I don’t know how men reason), she didn’t want to but she did it for him. The 2nd wife was not having any of that and given the fact that she was in her territory (she was also from Ogun state), she had the backings of her people. Hadiza on the other hand was a lone ranger with just her son and her husband but she was willing to live with the other woman’s troubles as long as it was directed at her.

One day, Hadiza came home from work to find her 3 years old son with marks on his body, His nanny told her the other woman had beaten him over a small offense. Hadiza went to the woman’s quarters, beat the living day lights out of her, packed her things and left the house. Niyi came home to utter confusion, found out Hadiza had gone back to Zaria, jets over there . . . all macho you are my wife and that is my son, now get in the car let’s go back home where you belong and she told him she would only if wanted her child dead before his 5th birthday.

I imagine he rolled his eyes at her high drama but she was insistent, there had been a few times her son eaten something the other woman prepared and became violently ill but they had always chucked it up to him being a premie baby and probably allergic to things. Anyway, they went back and forth for a long time and she said NO. He got angry and said whatever, you are no longer my wife. . . blah, blah, blah, this, this, this, that, that, that and poof! It was over. Oh he still saw his son and all but whatever was between them was no more.

She never had any other child, she threw herself into bringing up her son and her work, she became the headmistress of an all girls school (she considered all of them her children) and He went on to have 4 more children with his 2nd wife,  2 with his 3rd, 1 with his 4th and a few bastards sprinkled all over the state. yes! After losing Hadiza, he didn’t seem to care. Once in a while, their paths crossed. . . for their son’s graduation, when he got married, the naming ceremony of their grandchildren but it was understood there is no going back. When she died at 53, he locked himself in his rooms for days; it was their son and his brother who had to talk him out.

Oh yeah, another Irony, Hadiza’s son and the other woman’s son become very close, they would joke about being th first twins born two months apart. Their children grew up to be the closest of all Niyi’s grandchildren, ready to do battle for one another and people knew better than to try and come between them. . . it was them vs. everyone else, which included cousins from the other wives. Hadiza's granchildren got to know their step grandmother and found her. . . let’s just say she was not the ogre or the wicked witch of the west they had imagined (I've always wanted to know what she thinks when she looks at them)

Well there you have it.

If you subscribe to the whole it is better to have loved and lost than to never love at all. . . you probably see nothing wrong with this story. For me, it is a sad story, there is nothing sweet about it. I mean seriously, who won here? Hadiza who died of a broken heart? Niyi who naively believed love can conquer all or his 2nd wife who spent her life living in the shadows of another, knowing no matter what she did. . . she would never be the ONE for husband? How about his other wives. . . sucked into an already screwed up life all because Niyi wanted to prove himself? 

If I had the power to yell CUT, I'll do it in a heartbeat, save everyone the heartache and redo the moment Hadiza and Niyi met . . . so they don’t. Of course, I’ve been told doing this would be tantamount to cutting off my nose to spite my face because the chances I’ll be here today if they never happened is slim to none. . . see, they were my grandparents.

Even with that in mind, I’m still not convinced this story does not deserve another take. I find it extremely unfair that one wrong turn can derail your entire life story. . . and I can't stop thinking about it.



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I was told this story by someone who might not be the most unbiased person but I think I'm objective enough to see through emotional outbursts. For instance, I don'y believe the day he went see her in the Zaira after the beating was the day the called it quits. I think there's more to it but it really doesn't matter, does it?

I love movies. I love watching them, I love reading about them but more than anything, I love watching them being made, in my opinion, this is way more interesting than the end product. What I especially love in the movie making process is the CUT and the TAKES.

The actor flubs a line, director yells CUT

The actress isn’t emoting  as she should? CUT

The story is not going the in right direction? CUT.

CUT is the chance to work the kinks out and once they feel they are ready to go again, you hear the call

Alice in wonderland, Scene 4, Take 2

Alice has just been given the chance for a do-over.

Sweet!

I wonder what life will be like if we all a chance to CUT!

“Okay, moving to Las Vegas is not what I thought it would be. Director? Producer. . . anybody? Do you mind if we went back to the day I bought my ticket? Yeah, that morning, I'm can buy the Oshogbo Ticket instead”

Alrighty then!

Travelling with Sisikill  Scene 7, Take 2

Viola! It’s all been erased!

Sounds cool, huh? I know.

Before I really got into movies, I used to be fascinated with turning back time. If you are wondering what mistakes I’ve made in the past. . . don’t. This is not about me, it’s about 2 people, whose story I can’t stop thinking about. Every day, every hour, every minute, I think "How differently things could have turned out, How happier they would have both been, if someone had yelled CUT when it started to go downhill.

Their Story

A guy, we’ll call him Niyi meets this girl Hadiza, while studying in abroad. They fall madly in love. . . he has no qualms showing it but she a little bit on the reserved side. I think unlike him, she is more grounded and does not allow her emotions to overshadow the many factors against them. For one, she’s Hausa and he is Yoruba, She is the first girl in her family to go to beyond secondary school. . . in a foreign country no less.  She does not want to abuse that opportunity by allowing love to distract and He. . . well, he was a man.

He manages to convince her that love conquers all, True love never dies and all the other love clichés. She relents and goes with the flow. He was right. . . or at least somewhat right, their love conquers their family objections, friends’ misgivings and society’s rules. They got married. Had a lovely Honeymoon and prepared to live happily ever after in his hometown in Ogun state. She got a job as a teacher in one of the local school, he worked for his father.

Everything was perfect. . .

candide:
Sisikill that line

"and before you know it you are playing a game of whack-a-mole with your thoughts" just cracks me up, i can identify!

and Vescucci,
in heaven i imagine that in addition to new colours, we have new senses with which to experience them, like suddenly we can hear the difference in shades of purple, ok that sounds weird now that i write it down, ramblings,

LOL! I'm glad someone feels it too. It's so annoying, it's like how do you stop yourself from thinking about something when thinking about stopping yourself from thinking about it is thinking about it.

I won't think about it - Whack
But you are thinking about it - Whack
Shoot! that's right I am - Whack!
And you still are - Whack!

Oy! It's by the grace of God, i have not sought solace in the bottle. I hear it does wonders in silencing the voices.

Lmao@ at weird. . . what is weird? More importantly, what is rambling and who defines it? One man's rambling is another person's deep thoughts. Please "ramble away!! 

vescucci:
Here's a bummer!

Have y'all ever wondered when we get to heaven (mighty confident of me, abi but I abhor 'if' in that case) will there be new colours. Not new mixes and new tones and whatever but new 'primary' colours. Say for instance you hadn't seen blue, any shade of it or anything like it before. And all of a sudden you're faced with it. Can you imagine a new colour, surely impossible. It's not even as likely as a monkey typing Romeo and Juliet, because the chances are nil. I used to be bothered whether, say, coffee tasted the same to everybody, but after a lot of reasoning and more reading I've concluded that it does. Most perceptions are universal! Rantings of a stark raving mad man? I'll be back with more itches I can't quite scratch!

It is bummer! One of those things you really don't want to think about because if you do, you kinda start questioning the purpose of IT all. Was watching the Sci fi channel the other day and this guy goes on and on about the earth hurtling into oblivion. . . to its original state and I thought how would we know? We can't know because we won't exist but how can we not exit? How does it feel not to exist? Feel? Did I just use the word feel? Why am I worrying about that when we won't be around anyway? Insanity! Okay, the world is in oblivion, we don't exist. . . what then? Just darkness? But Darkness is a human perception, if Humans don't exist to perceive it, we can't call it darkness can we? We? What we? There won't be any WE to call anything. . . anything. So what now?  

jummiee:
@Sisikill, i feel you my sister. Yeah, chilvary is dead, it's a rare occasion when a man chooses 2 lend a helping hand  to a tired and hassled woman, It's a man's world.

It's so sad! I don't know when lending a helping hand became a matter of man ego.

Seun:
Chivalry was never "alive", fairy tales and fictional romance novels notwithstanding.

Lol, Seun don't make me laugh! The fact that some Nigerian men wouldn't recognize it if it came up, introduced itself to them and sat on their lap. . . does not mean it never existed.

vescucci:
Ah. Our Lady of Sisikill. I have a good feeling about this thread. So the rules are there are no rules, huh?. Just bare your mind? I'll be sure to return with whatever bites my soul. And by the way, since I'm still breathing, chilvary is not dead just decimated. You know, like Hip-pop.

Of course, My fair Prince! Never once did it cross my mind that you would be one of the. . . the you knows. You sir, grew up in a city close to my heart! You can do no wrong in my book.

And Yes! The rules are NO RULES. This is a trashcan and I don't recycle, so anything goes!

kay9:
And who is the prehistoric Philistine that thinks our beloved Lit section is boring?? Giv'em up Sisi, let's school them a thing or two. _**Hiss** . Anway, I'm afraid I never really liked John Grisham (can't figure out why, though), so I'm out of this one.

_{I know almost every other person around here is Grisham fan, but don't y'all bite off my head, ok? One man's food, and all that.}

So, Sisi, call me when the next TEN questions are ready. _{Make'em Stephen King teasers, aight?}

Ah, Boss I don't think I should say ^*coughs*politics^*coughs* on account of not wanting to cause trouble. You know how nice we are, and peace-loving we are, I say so let's just leave that section ^*sneeze*Politics^*Sneeze* in the hands of the Nairaland gods. 

I'm actually disappointed, I thought the JG fans will be all over this like bee on honey with Sam Milla leading the pack!

cbase:
answer to NO 10 or No 7 = "runaway jury", am not sure, been a long time i read these novels

NO 5 = the Brethren

1.5 out of 10 is not bad!!

Peeked into a section on Nairaland. . . ^{for peace sake, I won't mention the section but just know I've got my eyes on you and I have a long memory} and they have this very strange idea that the Lit section is Boring!!

Did I hear you say WHAT??!!!!!

I know!

Hellooooo! This is where the DRAMA happens. . . after the Romance Section and the Family Section and The Politics and The Culture Section. Oh alright,  maybe not the drama.

Oh I got it! How about FUN, LAUGHTER. . . hmm, yeah those two belong in the Jokes and Forum games, huh?

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Okay, Fine! Fine Fine! We read and we write and we talk about things no one cares about like split participles and present future double split, infinitives and genius grants and creative writing, when to use learned and learnt. Yeah, while others go on about the latest movie they saw with their latest date in his latest tricked out car, all dressed up in the latest garb, we are talk about the last book we read and how the author went for surrealism instead of realism. Yes, Yes, this is what we do but it does NOT mean we are boring!

I say we show 'em we can have fun with the things we do.

This will be our WE CAN HAVE FUN TOO THREAD!!!

We will post anything and everything FUN.  .  . Yeah, baby! 

First stop! JOHN GRISHAM! [/b]We have a lot of John Grisham fans here, So why not have fun with Johnny Boy?

Below are Ten questions outlining the plots of various John Grisham novels. Read the plot and identify the title of the book. . . NO CHEATING.

First to finish gets to go next with WHATEVER they want. . . complete a novel in a day? Jump up and down AND Complete a novel in a day? It is at THEIR discreation!!!

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!

[b]Questions


1. Set in the 70s in Mississippi, this novel features a 23 year old college dropout Willie Traynor who becomes owner and editor of a newspaper, Ford Country Times. This novel is the story of Callie Ruffin, the first black voter of the county and features more than one killing!


2. Adam Hall is 26 years old and in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer can ask. His client is an outspoken racist with a violent past who is on death row. But Adam desperately wants the case!


3. Clay Carter works for the office of the public defender. He works there not because he wants to work for a cause, but simply because he has no other job. He finally finds a case of a young man charged with a street killing. The case leads him on to dizzy levels of success.


4. A young boy chances on a suicide and uncovers a secret that could kill both him and his lawyer. The prosecutors are willing to break all rules and the mob will stop at nothing.


5. A story of three judges running a scam from jail. When their scam nets none other than the future President of the USA, the CIA moves in to protect their candidate.




6. Rudi Baylor is a young lawyer who does yard work in exchange for rent. He gets a case where he has to take on a heavyweight corporate defence team. A case that started small explodes into a million-dollar war of lies and nerves.



7. A case involving a war against a tobacco company. Rankin Fitch seems to have the case in control, but then Nicholas Easter steps into the jury box and suddenly everything is out of control for the master manipulator Fitch.

   

8. Michael Brock works with a giant DC law firm and is one step away from partnership, when an incident occurs that changes his life. He leaves the firm with a confidential file and unravels a conspiracy that has already taken many lives.



10. Patrick Lanigan steals ninety million dollars from his own firm and flees to Brazil. But he is tracked down and brought back to court for trial. Reviled as a white collar criminal, Lanigan knows a secret that no one else knows.


TICK TOCK! TICK TOCK!!

Seun or Mod, if you can find it in your heart of hearts to make this a sticky, I will be forever indebted to you! 

kay9:
@ Sisi: Been watching this thread for going on four days now - watching, not posting, because I'm no English guru - but after that last post, I've decided to get my pen and paper. Present participles. Nonrestrictive clauses. Split infinitives. Gee, you could almost make an action movie out of those words!

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Oh my goodness guys, I was digging through the garbage. . . ^{don't ask me why} and I found this. . .

[size=18pt][center]You are Cordially Invited to the Joining Together of two Childhood Icons
Eze and Binta
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When asked why he was getting married, The famous groom, scratched his butt, took a swig of his beer, let out a loud belch and answered answered "Hey, I am not getting any younger. . . might as well do it". The Bride giggled and called him a romantic.


Errrr. . . Okay. 

There you have It.