Tagged by the Queen

I was tagged by Queen of My Castle

Here are the rules:

1.link the person who tagged you…
2. Mention the rules in your blog…
3. Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours…
4. Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them…
5. Leave a comment on each of the tagged blogger’s blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged…

Well, well, well (konga, konga, konga)

Here we go…

1. I appear very strong because I often keep a fierce-looking face, thanks, in part, to my stint with the Army through secondary school. I also have a very high tolerance level that I can accommodate bull shit to the brim. But inside of me I am as hard as cheese. I usually hold back from crying a lot, whereas people think am trying not to kill someone. At the same time, I can damn all the consequences and just go MAD without care!

2. I am an unusual mix of care-free, careless and extremely careful. To date, I watch both sides of the road at least 2ce each before I cross. In all of my examinations from Sec. Sch., I have not finished more than 100 courses because I believed all I needed was to pass, not necessarily in flying colours. I never forget anything. I still have some lines I learnt in Pry 2 in my head and can re-write them verbatim. But I can choose to erase my memory of something such that I will never recall a thing about it.

3. I stopped copying notes in JSS 2, i.e. 2^nd yr in junior high. To date, I keep the most important things of my life in my head. It has really boosted my retentive capacity but it also meant I never got any free marks for complete notes. Plus, I have been severally asked to leave the class because I appeared totally unserious. I graduated from the University in the middle of the class without notes! I have barely ever stopped reading all of my life. I don’t use the calculator because my head is actually faster than most I have tried to use.

4. I was the king of love notes in sec. Sch. and have had a way with words and advising my friends on relationships but I dint have one till I turned 25, which I practically begged for.lol. We broke up when I was still twenty-5, barely 3 months actually. (I am now in the ‘only’ thing I call a relationship. 1 year and 2 months and counting.)’Am still a master flirt though, but I never go beyond that, never! I love my woman to bits. E no easy to get wetin I get! Even sef, I don dey old.

5. I usually say that I speak 5 languages fluently: Igbo, my native one. The first I learnt actually. I can read, write, speak and understand it. Yoruba, the environmental language. I live in Lagos where the language is predominantly spoken by the settlers. I can also read, write and understand it. English, the third I learnt and had to speak ‘correctly’ to get qualified and transferred to a private school. French, I got my degree here actually. Same story as with the others. I speak other languages in bits and pieces but Ibibio leads that pack. My fifth language is PIDGIN! I am so competent here that I even form words, slangs and stuff. I’m the biggest advocate for the legitimisation of its use! That is why I can’t stand when am told not to speak in vernacular because I am speaking a language other than English.

6. Yes. Time for the big bang! I am from a family of 1 dad, 1 mom and 9 boys; now men. I am the 2^nd and have 7 younger ones. I am arguably the shortest at 1.75m in height. I am not sure how to place myself because some say I am fine but I grew in the firm belief that I am (still) ugly. (facebook: search ‘Cheely Chi’).I would like to repeat, or surpass, this particular feat but I hear that there is an irrecoverable short supply of women who can pair up with me. So, I am just going to stick to what my wife says.

Yes! I didn’t think I was ever going to get thru with this. I have tried. Now ‘am going to tag… Carl, Bighead, Princessa, Solomonsydelle, Smaragd and Uzezi.