Year: 2018
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Book Review: This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay
The truth: the hours are terrible, the pay is terrible, the conditions are terrible; you’re underappreciated, unsupported, disrespected and frequently physically endangered….but you are a low-grade superhero – your utility belt containing a scalpel, some tongs and a wipe-clean hoover
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Your Options as an AS Genotype Couple
Discovering what our options were was difficult for me because the information is so dispersed, online and in real life. This post is your one-stop to answering the burning question “What do we do now? What are our options”. It’s a long one but I promise it’ll be worth your while.
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Out & About: Art4Dev Exhibition by Actionaid
So, I stepped out of my books and into the real world for Actionaid’s Art for Development Initiative (Art4Dev). Actionaid Nigeria if you didn’t already know, is a non-profit organisation with international presence, working with the poor ans excluded communities to promote the rights of people living in poverty and they take it seriously.
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Food Photography: Okro Soup
I’ll be honest and admit that I wasn’t prepared for how beautiful this Okro looked on camera. Zooming in close, my lenses picked up on those tiny delicate hairs on the okro pod, giving so much texture to this simple vegetable. I fell in love with the pentagon shape of the okra slices and the…
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Book Review: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Meet Eleanor Oliphant, an unconsciously witty, socially awkward, and reclusive 30-year-old, with a dark past. Then a crush and a unlikely incident with a colleague changes everything.
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Book Review: Circe by Madeline Miller
Circe was a strange child, lacking any notable power, despite being a goddess. She was not street-smart, cunning or beautiful and so was ignored by her father, unwanted and despised by her nymph mother and siblings, and remained largely unknown. Circe struggled to navigate her world, understand the politics required to thrive in it and…
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Movie Review: Tyler Perry’s Acrimony
hen she said “I gave him everything, and I was everything he needed me to be” I knew I had to see this movie. This is another one with our favourite girl Taraji P Hanson, and she had me feeling all kinds of ways in this movie, and I’m not even sure how to articulate…
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Book Review: The Outsider by Stephen King
This book is not as entertaining as it is disturbing. It brings up a lot of personal questions with respect to the power of identity its theft. What if there is another you?
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Food Photography: Rice and Stew
I decided to attempt dark food photography after being inspired by a Pinterest blog. My first attempt was a disaster because I couldn’t get my camera settings right, the black cardboard came out looking blue and I didn’t know as many Adobe Light room tricks as I do now.
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Movie Review: Avengers: Infinity War
It’s here! The moment we’ve been waiting for. Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk and the rest of the Avengers team up to fight Thanos; their most powerful adversary yet! His mission: to collect all six Infinity Stones and rebalance the universe. And as usual, our fate rests with the Avengers. You have to be living under…
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5 Photography Resources I Learn From
haven’t been posting twice weekly like I planned to because I’ve been more focused on my photography business. If you follow this blog, you’ll already know that I make stock images and sell on a number of platforms to earn extra cash to keep this blog up.
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Movie Review: A Quiet Place
The suspense and panic in this movie is so contagious and will have you mindful and unable to speak. Don’t bring popcorn to the cinema for this one guys. Don’t be the one to get everyone killed.
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Easter 2018 Giveaway: Winner Announcement
Last week, I started my Easter 2018 Giveaway and the support has been overwhelming. If you didn’t see the post you should click here
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Your Options as an AS Genotype Couple – Adoption
Edited by the Chocoholic Girl 4. Adoption Child Adoption is still viewed with a lot of skepticism in most Nigerian families primarily because of the strong believe in a biological connection to be called ones child. Preferring the blood of my blood” or mini-me, most Nigerian men and women would just rather not explore this…
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Your Options as an AS Genotype Couple – No Children
Edited by the Chocoholic Girl 6. No Children Yes, I know this is the road least travelled but a road none the less. Very rarely will an African couple opt to remain together and not have any kids at all. Love is hardly that serious for most Nigerians and in fact it is safe to…
