My love is dead

Spice platter

Spice platter restaurant Abuja. 

Young female artist with talents that will wow you.

Samira with handle name @samsiiii is a 13 year old German artist. She is very talented and took painting as a hobby. Her paintings also has improved over the years.
Here are few of her amazing work.

Quotes

Set your goals.

When you set your mind to do something, do not let anything or anyone stop you from reaching your goals. Work hard, determination and zeal will get you there.

You were just a guy and I was just a girl

Think positive, stay positive and expect positive.

Sometimes when we get hurt by the people we love or trust, it breaks us and ruin us.
Most people come into your life for one reason or the other, but don't believe or think that everyone is the same, it will stop you from loving the right ones.
Be good, stay good and do good surely the good ones will come to you.

MAN and his negative effect on a WOMAN

Was browsing as usual when I came by a post on #Nairaland, it says "Why some women will never get married". Well for starters it annoyed me knowing that the main reason was "them". The pic on the post were 3 ladies in a club doing "only God knows what". Women tend to underestimate themselves and their worth. 
We can never please a man no matter what we do, if you like get all the surgeries in the world, big boobs, big butt, nose enhancement, a botox, he will still not appreciate, and guess what he will leave you for a natural one who is shaped like rectangle. 😂😂😂😂 If you stay natural he will leave you for fake one. You are ugly, he leave you for beautiful one. You are beautiful, he leaves you for ugly one, the list goes on and on and on.

Be yourself and be happy with yourself. Men hardly expose their body to get ladies but we always do that in order to get their attention which will end up ruining us.

This post was made in the very best way possible in order not to sound like a hater for men. I have a dad, brother, male cousins and probably one day a son. If you have no comment of support, please read and move along.
I am who I am and no one, I mean no one can change that.

My encounter with people in the market

So I went to the market yesterday for survey and I got to ask both sellers and buyers questions.
I asked 2 sellers and wanted to do the third when the man said "Didn't you interviewed them already, and it is all the same thing" I turned my back to him cos I don't want him to annoy me. I gave up on him.

My first seller was one guy, he came to buy fish and I was like "Please can I interview you about the fish blah blah blah" and the man just replied "I came to buy fish so why do you need to interview me?" I turned my back to him also. I don't have that patience of listening to him blab, it makes my heart beat fast. If you know kano people, you will understand what I mean. They didn't reply me in a good way, they were mean.
Anyways I went along and got other people to interview and guess what, they didn't go for formal education but they understood my work and cooperated.
It really ain't easy, I gave up at that time on interviewing the guys and thought of interviewing the females only(feminism came in). But then some men allowed the interview to hold and at the end we were all happy.

What I wanted and what I got.

Yesterday, I was lying on my bed watching "scandal" then I remembered how badly I had wanted to become a lawyer. When I was young around 10 people always tell me "You are too curious, you should go for law", "You are smart, you should be a lawyer", "You talk a lot, study law", and all that comments made me wanted to be a lawyer.

I finished my high school successfully, my mom bought me a new laptop while writing my exams (it wasn't a happy graduation laptop, lol). Kept myself busy online while someone told my mom he will get me admission into the university. He kept telling lies about the admission procedures, well my mom seeing he is the so called "head" she sat back but didn't relax. The thing was that all those post ume's that were written, I didn't write even one. There was a day we went to the uni and one man came to meet us, he asked me "what do you want to study?" I answered "Law" and he said that I have a better chance of getting admission if I go into accounting, and I said okay. Months passed, no one gave me a paper to fill, no exam to write, no interview to go to, just a stupid spoiled brat sitting at home.

To cut the story short, my mom got tired and decided to do things herself, her way. I have 2 months now to round up in study. 

My curiosity was meant for research all this while not law.

I still admire law, but I am over it.

TEGAs met @hamzycode a male activist

Being a researcher is not an easy task but an interesting one.
You will get the opportunity to meet with different people and they see you as someone who is doing something amazingly awesome.
We met @hamzycode a male activist who has met and became friends with malala yousafzai. He tweeted us 

"@HamzyCODE

Super excited to have met @girleffect #TEGA champions. Listening to them was inspiring #SheLeads #HeForShe Got mentors for my daughters." He added

"Weeks back, made friends w/@Malala now got more amazing friends championing education is hard to reach communities #TEGAGirlEffect #HeForShe"

And one day hopefully we will get to meet malala and share experiences and stories. #TEGAs

Visit to the park

This picture was taken at Minjibir park, Kano. It was an outing with family and friends.
Had to wake up early morning with my sis to make a snack and sweets for the trip. Got headache and was excited all at once. We finished all the necessary preparations and waited for everyone to come over to our house in order to leave for the park. We all gathered up in our living room waiting for the last group of people who were very late that I started feeling down about the trip already. Finally they showed up late but okay, thank God. We started our 1 hour plus journey to the park which was so very interesting and amazing when we finally reached the destination cos I was tired of sitting in the car.

Fatima on her wedding night

Fatima the half Niger and half Nigerian bride. 

Fatima is the pretty bride from Kano on her Moroccon night. 

She really slayed it. The outfit was just beautiful and it fitted her perfectly. It is not easy to pull it off, but she did it and it came out amazingly perfect. 

With instagram handle @real_taannabi. She is one of the prettiest and fashionable people I know. 

Photography credit: Bilkisu photography

Love

Love can be crazy attimes. When a person loves truly, he loses not only him/her self but also the mind, the heart, brain, soul almost to the extent that you mentally go blind, but love is not always like that.
Loving someone is when you show care and never want to hurt that person.
We all have a different translation or view on love but at the end we all come back to that "strong positive feeling for someone inside you, that makes you do things you never thought of doing". Love is beautiful. Love is life.

I hate you

Hate is a word I strongly advice people not to use. When the feeling of hatred starts of spread inside you, it makes you depressed and you end up being unhappy throughout your life. You don't have to like or love everyone.

Some people hurt you to the extent that you couldn't believe the person is actually a living thing with a heart and mind. But still that doesn't mean we have to hold them in our hearts and hate them. Hating them is not going to solve anything but rather hurt you even more, cos whenever you hear the person's name or see anything of his/hers or similar you feel a lump in your heart, so move on. People will hurt you always, you have to move on and tell yourself "they are not worth my time". Be that successful person people never thought you would be, have a goal, determination, be fearless, courageous and tell yourself " I can make it", you surely will, "hard work pays off".

Hatred is for the less successful people, I spread love and laughter. I have no time to hate on others.

Lets do it.

Ramadan dish

Ramadan the best month ever. Fasting ain't easy, the thirst, the hunger, the weaknesses but it always feels peaceful. It is good to cook different kinds of food at the end of the day and eat together with family, it is like you are rewarding yourself for the fast. Prayers are also very important during this month but you also have to eat good food.

Fauziyya and Ahmad

Fauziyya Tahir slayed in her wedding dresses. It is the dream of every girl to be the star on her wedding day, Fauziyya shone very bright it captured the heart of her soul mate Ahmad (gwadabe).
She is very amazing, down to earth person.
Pictures were captured by giwarmata photography and Tidodo photography.

Buhari is back

The president of Nigeria Muhammad Buhari who has been on a leave for months is finally back to his country. Many Nigerians celebrated his successful return while a very few are mourning over it.

International women's day

We are one of God's most amazing creation. We were made differently, we were made specially, we were made strong.
The famous quote "what a man can do a woman can do", my own version is " what a woman can do a man can try".

We experience more suffering and hurt than men, yet we are strong.
We are women.
We have rights.
We can do it.

Reign lashes

Adama Indimi aka @presido on Instagram has launched her lash line reign... ... . well the beauty queen looks ravishing in those lashes, who wouldn't want to look as pretty.

Locally made pasta

Locally made pasta is really interesting. Using a manual pasta maker.
It is like washing your clothes and then drying them on the rope, thats how pasta is being dried, and it dries really amazingly.
I found it interesting really, never came across someone making it but now.

Pasta in soup with chicken and sauteed minced beef.

Feminist

Being a feminist is not a crime, it is just appreciating the gift of being a woman. We should have equal rights as men both study and employment. I love that I am a girl/woman, we have the right to do what we want cos we can do it.