MONTEÈCLAIRS TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE

18:32 hrs …It was Friday evening 10 th February, 2012 at Planet One Hotel, Maryland… I had started the day in high spirits, asking God for extra grace at job because I had a lot on my plate already. It just wasn’t my job that caused the clutter, but my incessant worries & guilt pangs over my unfinished professional thesis, my failure to comply with the you-version one-year-study-bible etc. Regardless of whatever the day had in stock, I had decided to keep the appointment for a business dinner that evening at 17.00 prompt. The thoughts of dinner and hotel’s ambience kept me going…and so I counted the time, said my goodbyes at  17.03hrs and dashed off on a bike to beat traffic (whilst wishing I had a power-bike instead). A new chapter  of FGMFI was having its first meeting of the year and featuring a prolific international speaker, who also happened to be a senior friend of mine, someone I’d like to call an ‘Odd-Speaker’ perhaps because of his unusual persp...

LOVE HANDLES A friend used a queer picture as her blackberry display picture recently; it showed a lady betwixt a choice of assorted natural fruits & a slice of yummy looking chocolate cake. On either side of her shoulders were two beings, an angel pointing to the fruit & a demon brandishing an insidious 3-prong fork pointing to the cake. {hehehe! Does it sound familiar?…lol} I was still thinking about the picture when Chidinma walked in looking all-fine, slim & ‘hot’. Even though still slim, she looked a lot better than how she’d been few years back, ‘toothpick’ or ‘I’ like some Nigerian comedians would call a size ‘6’. She had added some flesh in the ‘right’ places, developing what some erroneously refer to as 'Love Handles'. The term " love   handles" actually is a bit of a misnomer. They are really sections of fat on the sides and front of the belly. Love handles are zones of "stubborn fat," the first place people gain it and the la...