Procrastination

I am currently working hard on getting rid of this bad habit of mine.

It just seems so easy to say I'll do that later than address the issue now, and before you know it you've run out of time! I know none of you readers have this problem, but I wonder how many people have failed exams because they put off reading till it was too late? What about the person that has been saying this year will be the year I will start learning to drive? There is always a reason for putting off doing things, but I've made up my mind that I'm going to work on it and do things immediately I realise they should be done.

Sorry I've got to go, time to take out the trash!

It's Chico Time!

I was a fan of Chico for a while during X-Factor, and love his perfomance of Chico Time.

His Single of the same title is out on Monday 27th Febuary.

Here is a 30 sec clip of the single video.

Chico - Its Chico Time

I wouldn't say he has a future in the industry, but if he is smart and gets the right people to advise him he could get himself somewhere. Remember Jade from Big Brother?

Bring back the 70's

Looking back, I enjoyed the 70's.

I was young, very young had just arrived in Nigeria from England, so my brothers and I got fussed over a lot. At the time we thought we were on holiday and having an adventure in a foreign country.

Nigeria itself at the time was relatively peaceful, the economy was good, in fact the economy was enjoying a boom so much so that the government decided to splash out.

The All African games prompted the building of the National stadium in Lagos, a few years later Festac 77, with the building of the grand theatre with a roof that looked like a General's military Cap, Festac town and the greatest splash out was one that benefited every working Nigerian, the Udoji award. Oil money was speaking everywhere.

Christmas in the 70's was fun, we lived in Lawanson, Surulere and street parties were the in thing, and we the kids would stay up late and watch the world from the balcony of our houses. If we had visitors and were lucky to be given money when they left, we would be over the moon! The magic amount in those days was One Naira (100 Kobo), a lot of money! Sometimes instead of giving the money to our parents, we would keep it and when they are not around would go to the shops and buy ourselves a bottle of coca cola, in those days it cost a princely sum of 10 Kobo!

While we were not super rich, we lived a comfortable life, went to private nursery school and the family had a car so we didn't start using public transport until we started secondary school.

Life was good, a lot of good music came out at the time. Fela was young and making waves, Juju had Sunny Ade and Ebenezer Obey fighting for supremacy.

I started secondary school in the 70's and attended one of the prestigious schools in Lagos at the time Igbobi College. There are a few events that I remember from my days in secondary school, the first was the military coup of Friday 13th February 1976, which stopped me from getting to school, another was the day of our inter-house sports, which ended in riots, and I had a difficult time getting home.

Most of the memories I have of the 70's are good, one thing I don't miss is the fashion! Platform shoes, those ridiculous trousers, Afros weren't too bad.

Do you have good memories of growing up?