Edna speaks

My favourite season of Teen Wolf is easily season 3. Evil Stiles is undeniably the best villain of the show. If you watched Teen Wolf up to that point, you'd know that 1 thing Stiles faces is nightmares. He explained at one point that one of the ways to know you are dreaming is, in your dream, you can't count your fingers. Inception explores this concept too. They explore how difficult it is to see specifics in your dream. That's what living your dream is like. Dreams give you a bird's eye view, an overview of what your ideal life would look like. Your "dream house", "dream car", "dream vacation", "dream job" etc do not incorporate the second by second play of what it would be like to live the dream.  Fortunately (or unfortunately), we live in specifics. The problem with living our dreams is that the overview is the same, but because we never knew the specifics, they catch us off guard. And the problem with specifics is that they ...

I’m not one of those people that remove their seat belts and stand up on a plane as soon as a plane touches the runway for landing. I’m that chill 😅  Especially now in the time of COVIK when they ask people to move row by row. I always look at the people that stand immediately in awe cos WHYYYYY 😂😂😂  are you scared that blood will stop flowing to your legs? What is this?  You still have to wait if you’re not sitting in the front row so chill for God’s sake 😂  In fact, for my 1st ever flight, I was with my mum, she made me wait on the plane till everyone got off, then we went to say hi to the pilots, the entire cabin crew etc. there’s hardly any rush for these things. I understand the rush for international flights though. You have to go through immigration and the difference between the 1st off a plane and the last can be almost 2 hours especially if it’s a big plane that’s full.  But people that do this for local flights get me every time 😂  I’m like...

It's been over a year and 6 months since my last upload on this blog, and for some reason, today (of all days), I felt the need to start blogging again 🤷🏾‍♀️ It's not like I've not been writing anything since April 2020. I started some articles in October 2020 and had a draft for my birthday last year, which I wanted to put out, but I just never got around to finishing it. For some reason, TODAY, I decided to dust off the blog and try again.  And it's HILARIOUS that, NOW, at this point in my life, I've chosen to do this because I'm now (and am going to be) busier than ever, between my day job, running my LinkedIn newsletter, and a couple of side projects I do to get some cointttt here and there, LOL. I barely even get enough time to even watch TV. If you've been following this blog, you KNOW that 3 things I live by are Food, Sleep, and Movies. So giving up movies is a big one for me.  But for whatever reason, this is the time I've chosen to pick this b...

All the advice on anything in life that you've gotten till now is USELESS! Yes! you read that right... before you dismiss me and say "oh no for sure she does not know what she's saying", hear me out. Let me make a case for myself and then decide. By now, you've probably heard the buzz phrase "life is a journey" at least once. I think we unconsciously take the phrase too literally. We think of it like: if someone has gone through a certain road, then they should know the way, can show the way and if you follow their directions to the letter, you will get the same results. But that is hardly the case. Think of it like this: Say Edna travels from Lagos to Abuja, the roads were smooth, her private car was in perfect condition, in fact, she drove a Tesla, she drove at 120km/hr on average, alternated between autopilot and her driving herself so she did not need to make any stops. She got to her destination in 6 hours. The next day, her friend...

Ever feel like your life is at a standstill? Like every single thing isn't just working out? Like everywhere you turn there's an astounding "no" waiting for you? Well you and the rest 7.7 billion of us are on this boat, at different times at least. For some people that are privileged to go to primary school, getting into secondary school may be the point where their life slows down. Maybe their family is unable to afford to put them through secondary school or maybe they aren't able to pass the exams needed to enter secondary school. For others (or even for the same people in the previous category), they scaled that hurdle, they got to secondary school and gracefully passed all the exams that took them to SS3 (or there were some setbacks on the way but eventually they got to SS3), then comes JAMB and WAEC. JAMB, of course, jams some, WAEC does it's own thing and if by some miracle, they eventually scale those hurdles, Post UME comes to hold so...

In my final semester, there was this exam that almost broke me (critics will say the exam broke me even). This exam was undoubtedly the toughest exam of my undergraduate degree. This was not because the exam was the hardest exam (the exam was difficult but I don't think it was the hardest) I had ever taken or because I prepared the least for this exam (I started preparing like 24 hours before like I did for most of my exams in that year and semester so that wasn't the case). Here's what happened. It was a cold morning at around 8 a.m., we had this exam, BFN 425 - Quantitative Analysis for Financial Decision. For most of the semester, I was totally clueless as to what was going on in the class. We didn't write any structured test so I never really had a reason to study the course before the exam. The 1st and 2nd tests were classwork and assignment  respectively.   That morning, I was walking into the exam with less than 24 hours of study time and...