Odusolar's Think Tank Hub

So I didn't really break up with Pulpy, I just decided to stay away a little. Sigh, I know you're curious to know the full story so I'll go straight to the point. We had this training at work that centred on saving, investing and re-investing and all I could think about was my darling five alive pulpy. I thought about how much I've spent on it since I fell in love with it. It was love at first sight and it has become my aphrodisiac. But that hasn't been my only unprofitable investment - there's been my unnecessary earpiece/hands-free buying as a result of my being a music freak and I'm almost incomplete without it. Sadly, I've never really been fortunate with getting original earpiece so I keep replacing them every time one ear stops working or it stops working altogether. All in all, the speaker urged us to focus on actual needs not wants. Like stopping our DSTV subscriptions and using our phones to record cartoons from neighbors houses then play it...

I don’t know if this is a rant but this is something I take very personal. I might be a feminist but I like to state things the way they are regardless of whose side I’m supposed to be on. So this guy posted on facebook about how females these days are just about slaying here and there and they’d only date a guy for money because they assume that a relationship is a job opportunity. He ended his post by advising guys to catch them young instead. By them, I mean girls. He advised them to go for secondary school girls who are loyal and naïve because they will make better partners. He said other things too but those are the statements I chose to center this article on. I’d like to declare that I don’t blame the guy in any way. What do you expect when some females totally depend on a guy for everything? Some girls even get paid salaries just for dating someone so his outburst is totally understandable. What I don’t agree with is the generalization. Some, maybe majority of females are...

I love music with all my heart, body and soul so I’m not here to criticize music or any form of art. I believe music is art besides what have I sang eh? So let me just go straight to the point. There are certain things that amaze me about some songs. You know how you hear some songs and you’re wondering ‘really?’, like when Ellie Goulding said ‘’you’re the color of my blood’’ in her ‘’love me like you do’’ or when Uhuru said ‘’you’re the beginning and the end’’ in Uhuru and Wizkid’s ‘’Ungowami’’ (I don’t know if I spelt it correctly and I’m too lazy to google). When I heard Ellie Goulding’s phrase, I know she was being deep and all but part of me was asking ‘how can someone be the color of your blood?’, do you mean like blue, black, red or whatever color of blood there is? But Wizkid’s song was supposed to be a love song but his phrase was a ‘’God phrase” as far as I’m concerned but again, that’s a deep phrase, very deep I must say. Another thing that amuses me is when artist...

Toke Makinwa has never been one of my favorite celebrities but I was curious to reading her book "on becoming" and when I did, to say I was inspired by it would be an understatement but that's not what I'm here to talk about. One of the parts of the book that moved me was when she explained how the two house helps her family had kept grudges with each other which led to one not telling the other that the cooking gas was faulty which eventually led to the house being burnt which in turn led to the death of the maids and her parents therefore marking the beginning of a new journey for her. That's why I'm here. Keeping grudges is something I try not to do though I would admit that I have kept grudges at different points in my life but in the end, is it worth dying for? Of course not. When Mama Dayo died (may her soul rest in peace), you'd think Mummy Bolu was her best friend because she cried the most. Did I say cried? It was more like wailing but the fun...

Being rich is relative, the person you think is rich is seeing another person as rich who's also seeing another person as rich and so on. I'm not even talking about being rich in your heart, wisdom or beauty; I'm talking about money rich. It's hard to tell the source of income of a lot of people especially when they seem to be getting more than they work for. We still wish somehow to have what they have. Basically, the difference between a rich and poor man apart from their mentality is the money. Not everyone has "obvious" money but they are sometimes perceived as rich, someone like me *pops collar*. So what if you don't have the money, how do you carry yourself to almost fit the 'rich' profile without spending the money? Dress well ; It all starts from your looks, bend down boutiques are still very much in business so patronize them according to your pocket and make good choices. Looking good doesn’t have to be expensive. Besides, these peopl...

Ever since my Pastor told us about a very young girl who responded to the "how are you?" question with "I'm great", I decided to be saying "I'm great", I mean, am I not? When Isoken wrote about how people never truthfully respond to the "how are you?" question, I had a rethink. She was of the opinion that people should really say how they were rather than just covering it under the "I'm fine, I'm great" phrase when it's so obvious in a lot of ways that they weren't. I once asked someone how he was and he said "I'm cute" and I was wowed. Sultan responds with something similar every time I ask how he is, he says "I'm handsome". A lot of us are not even confident enough to call ourselves cute or handsome, we're just not really sure of it though we get complimented all the time. Some people would just respond with something like "gud/good, you?" like Abegi, this question...

Shout out to lol for being there for me in times when I had nothing else to type in response to a chat. Yes I said type because you're supposed to type it or act it not say it like my friend Bisi who will say lol in the middle of a telephone conversation if she finds something funny rather than just laugh out loud. A lot of people complain that I lol too much but when you ask like seven questions and you end with a lol, what do you expect in response, seven answers? You must be joking because even interviewers don't ask seven questions these days except if its two or more interviewers. Okay let's leave lol alone, what's up with people telling you to cook for two or eat for two, bla bla ish. I'll tell my friends (especially Dayo) who ask what I had just eaten and he'll say where's my own? I'll say something like "it's in the pot" or "it is finished (like our Saviour said, lol)" and some would want to protest but in my mind...

So it's April, just like that. I remember us complaining that January was like three months, I agreed because it seemed like forever especially if your salary was paid on or before the 20th of December. February strolled in and out then march came too and ended just like that. The first quarter of the year is over but it won't really matter much if it's over if we made good use of our time and learnt enough lessons from the previous months that would come in handy in subsequent months.  Personally, I've learnt a lot from life, experiences, and interactions with others and I'd like to share some of them with us. People die, there's nothing we can do about it but to live . Let’s face it, what has happened has happened and it’s most likely not your fault (except you killed the person) so stop beating yourself up about it and live. Live your life so well that if the person is watching, they’ll be proud of you. Save money, you'll need it. Saving m...