THIRTY THINGS ABOUT ME ON MY... BIRTHDAY!

A friend of mine once said, “A writer has no secret...” and really that statement makes me wonder if I should do this or not. But this weekend (22^nd October) I will be hitting my 30^th birthday and I want to do something different. Even up till this moment I’m pondering if I should post this note or not, but if I did, it means you are seeing 30 personal things about me on my 30^th birthday: Here we go...

1. I am a writer... I guess you know that already.
2. My childhood ambition was to become a soldier (military intelligence unit to be precise)
3. Nothing gives me greater satisfaction than the presence of God
4. I am an Estate Surveyor
5. Had a 7 track musical album in 2004 that had some airplay in RayPower, Premier fm, and one Abuja station
6. I focus more on acting and writing because personal study shows my high strength there
7. Acted in 2 Christian movies... (But I neva see d cd o.)
8. Self published a book in 2009 called Recovered Generation
9. I have never had a girl who knows how to cook more than me
10. Though girls flock around me, I’ve had only 5 relationships in my lifetime, and I don’t double date
11. I love Ghana, South Africa, and Canada... Aside Nigeria I wouldn’t mind living there
12. I don’t get angry easily but when I do it boils like fire
13. When I focus on something I do it like there is nothing else in the world
14. Was offered a job if I change to Islam after NYSC and I said NO!
15. I like anything creative, in fact anything inspires me
16. There is hardly anywhere I go to that people don’t trust me
17. It takes me a while to decide, but once I do it takes only God to make me go back
18. When I pray God hears
19. I don’t joke with dreams
20. My favourite number is “7”
21. My favourite colour is white
22. My favourite soup is pepper soup
23. My favourite sport is Chess or football... but I’m no pro in either. Lol.
24. My favourite drink is anything Lemon
25. I gave my life to Christ in 1993
26. I got Holy Ghost baptised in 2001 and water baptised in 2005
27. I don’t like politics
28. I don’t like people who lack integrity
29. I have about 1000 unpublished poems, numerous articles, and short story collections.
30. I could do crazy stuffs at times, but I never take them as habit. i.e., I jumped fence/sneaked out of school in my JSS but stopped it myself, I tasted cigarette a cousin gave but later told him I can never be a smoker, I tried stout/beer too when mocked that I couldn’t but told them it’s not my nature... all these were over ten years ago.

1

I must give kudos to Myne Whitman whose recent blog post encouraged me to do this. Maybe when I get to 40^th birthday I will do ‘40 Things About Me on My 40^th Birthday’. Lol.