MONTEÈCLAIRS TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE

Men are fascinating creatures and I’ve got lots of them (varying breeds) around me (thousands of them I beleive). I’ve been studying them a while now. I admire their courage, dedication to work and family, charisma and their I’ve-got-it-all-under-control-attitude to situations (even when it’s obviously otherwise). It’s amazing how even though their bodies metamorphose, ageing with time, having responsibilities, dependents and expectations increase, THEY EVERLY REMAIN CHILDREN. Please don’t take it the wrong way when I call the ‘men’ ‘boys’, no disrespect intended ; I totally adore your gender, sometimes wishing I was…hehehe. {but thank God I’m not…phew!} Oh!, you don’t believe me. Ok, check this out. Why do men have to get married?  Because someone needs to care for them, wash their clothes, ensure they take their bath, do their home-work (regularly given & marked by their boss at job), cook and ensure they feed, monitor, motivate and duplicate them. The aspect that ...

Cold, chesty cough, fever, nausea , cramps…only me! Ah! Lord I called, “can I please (most humbly) have some healing bread? ”. Trust my Jesus, He answered speedily. But that’s not the gist of the moment. As I was munching my bread (divine healing) , one of my friends initiated a chat centered on Asoebi that really set my mind rolling...enjoy!   “…Hilton :- No offence to my yoruba fellows but I got this line from someone's profile message; "#For Instance If there were no owambe, life would have been so boring for the Yorubas. What would have been the meaning of the word Aso-ebi?" Ò luw å B єя yL:- 19 members in this group, no Yoruba...I'm living with Racists in this community …#eyes rolling# Eki:- {makes a face} na u know o @ beryl Hilton :- "owambe" and "asoebi" are two of the most important words in the yoruba vocabulary Eki:- #Smiles# Eki:- To understand how important it is, I'd tell this story. I was in d salon in school and d...

We all have our ‘I’m Sorry’ stories to share “…Oops! I’m SORRY I came late”, “I’m only human, so I’m sorry”, “SORRY I forgot we had a date, SORRY I was supposed to call earlier” I’m sure you’ll get over it, I’m sorry…”.   The thoughts kept reverberating in my mind and I concluded, the nagging woman is equivalent to a man full of sorry (s), so I’d rather be by myself than marry a guy who has a predisposition of apologizing. Some people are so good at it that it almost feels like they deliberate upset you just so they can say the word, ‘SORRY’. Regardless of how hard you try, certain folks, friends and family simply can’t be banked on to deliver on their word or tasks even when the weather is favourable…. then comes the ‘S’ word again. #eyes rolling# My disdain for that word (especially from the same person a lot of times) was aroused again after seeing a scene featuring Janet Jackson in the Tyler Perry movie, ‘Colored Girls’. The lines went something like this:- “…...