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ChocolateDoc, Lagos (2025)

29/03/2024

Have finally satisfied my curiosity about the relationship between the items in the three pictures.

The first time I ever heard or read about Easter eggs was in books, because it’s not common amongst us.
What matters to us about Easter is to follow through the church activities and finally open up our tummies to the delicious rice and other accompanying mouth watering dishes on Easter Sunday😋😋

Well now am surrounded by what I read in books and saw in cartoons so I had to find out the correlation.

Eggs were said to represent new life and rebirth. And the ancient people those days gave each other eggs at spring festivals to celebrate the new season. However eating eggs during Lent was forbidden, so on Easter Sunday it was a great treat to be relished.
There was also a superstitious belief that eggs laid on Good Friday turned to diamonds if kept for 100 years.

Some also believed that eggs cooked on Good Friday and eaten on Easter Sunday improved fertility and prevented sudden death, so the people made it a point of duty to have their eggs blessed before eating them.

Hot cross buns is said to represent the cross Jesus was crucified on, and some believed the spices used to make the snack represented the spices used to embalm Christ body. It was common practice to share hot cross buns amongst the poor during Easter.

The Easter bunny though not directly related to Jesus, represented the ushering of the Spring season, rebirth and new life as it reproduces at a large rate. It has been incorporated into Easter as well because the resurrection symbolises new life, and the bunny represents fertility and new life as well.

How are you spending your Good Friday?

28/03/2024

I was once told that I should be mindful of dressing well while going to the market, reason being that the marketers may assume that I’m well to do and so hike the price of their goods.
I have always wondered why goods sold in our open markets cannot have one price whereby the buyer comes, pays the amount without “how much last” and “you no sell this price” , “I don buy am this price before oo” and all that hassling.

Going to the local market back home have always been one of my worst chores and it’s for this reason above. I will always feel like I didn’t bargain well so I end up going round and round. It’s even more disheartening that I may still end up buying at a particular amount and still hear that someone bought it far cheaper at same place, maybe at a different time.

Wouldn’t life be easier for both buyers and sellers if the price of goods were static, only changed when things like inflation or other inevitable things to play? Just like we have it in the malls and supermarkets and boutiques?

Why must either seller or buyer be outsmarted at each transaction?
I really want to know the reason behind this our traditional method of back and forth dragging of price because it makes shopping quite tedious and time consuming.

What am I even saying, some people will leave Naija if ever that method of marketing is abolished 😂😂

28/03/2024

What’s on my mind?

If I had all the money I want to, businesses and properties, travelled all over the world and visited all the sites there is to visit, eaten all there’s to eat, had all them brands of clothings and other wardrobe stuff….

What else would be my drive in life?

27/03/2024

The argument that exercising is detrimental because people have slumped and died while exercising, people have sustained injuries, and so on, is actually plausible.
Some sports men have met their death on the fields, some have sustained lifelong injuries as well.

But what about those whose lives have been cut short due to illnesses resulting from unhealthy living?
It’s actual fact that the number of those who fall into the the latter category far outweighs the number of the former category.

Incase you enter argument one day of how work outs and exercises are dangerous and bla bla bla.

That been said, it’s pertinent to tune your exercise routine to your body needs and be wary of those ones that can be harmful to you. You can challenge yourself that’s ok, but knowing your limit is is also important.

24/03/2024

And finally, for you who keep supporting and defending a daylight criminal act in the name of “mysterious”

Just sit and ponder for a while:

Somewhere right now, a young girl is been abducted and held against her will and incessantly r***d at random in order for her to get pregnant, so that the cryptic pregnant woman can pay huge sums of money.

Somewhere a young girl has been delivered of a baby for which she conceived via r**e, now that baby has been snatched away from her, never to set eyes on the baby again.

This girl has been given a paltry sum of money, not upto 1/10th of what was charged the cryptic pregnant woman,and she’s been told to run away and never return to that vicinity.
She is further being threatened that if she says anything about what happened to any legal authority, she will meet worse fate than which had already befallen her.

That girl, that young girl, could be anybody, it could be your sister, niece, daughter, aunt or a distant relative.

We will continue to let sleeping dogs lie, until that dog wakes up …….what do I know kwanu?

24/03/2024

In order to cover up your lies and deception, you quickly say it’s mysterious because God works in mysterious ways. Of course it is a default setting in my country that for any deception to thrive, the Bible and God has to be named in it….so so sad.

Our God works in mysterious ways I accept, but I am yet to find Cryptic pregnancy in the Bible. Women who God was deliberate about their pregnancies were visibly seen and confirmed pregnant, and they gave birth exactly at their ninth month.
Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, even the mother of our Lord Jesus, Mary. All these women carried normal pregnancies and there was no questioning about their time of deliveries.
So tell me again why God decided to prolong your own pregnancy to 3years or more? Pray tell why He intentionally wanted to punish you with carrying a pregnancy for more than a year and counting?

The God that I know, and serve, can never and will never be the same with the one dashing you people “ime amu amu” He is not that wicked. Mbanu

Odikwaegwu ooo.

24/03/2024

The only miracle that is bound to Nigeria alone, cannot cross any ocean or desert, cannot extend its grace to humans living outside Nigeria, is the miracle of cryptic pregnancy.

The miraculous pregnancy that cannot be seen on ultrasound and cannot be examined by a qualified medical doctor,

The miraculous pregnancy that must be delivered by the same person that confirmed the pregnancy and no where else, otherwise the pregnancy will disappear as mysteriously as it came,

The magical pregnancy that defies every law of nature, of which the expected date can extend for more than a year and both mother and baby will remain healthy and alive,

The mysterious pregnancy that has been used to shame “the enemies who locked the baby inside the womb”

The magical pregnancy which someone knows someone who knows someone it has happened to, and the baby is alive now and kicking .

The mysterious pregnancy that “oh ye men of little faith” are told not to question because many things happen spiritually that the mere mortal mind cannot understand.

Nd yet we keep marvelling at the outcome of DNA paternity tests? If you can comfortably accept a pregnancy that lasted more than 9 months and counting, you should be ready to accept whatever DNA result you see in years to come oo.

I mean, you accepted the cryptic pregnancy because you believe spiritual things are not for scientists to understand, why then do you seek scientific method to explain the paternity of your child? No nah, the mysterious realm should explain it too.

I still find it hard to comprehend, that at this age and time, someone somewhere believes that a baby can stay more than 9 months and survive it.
No I’m not bothered about the bearer and partner of the so called pregnancy because am quite sure that deep down, they both know the truth.
I’m more worried about people who actually believe it and defend it as a normal occurrence.
We are very far oo, very very far from utilising the Common sense,
it seems not to be common afterall.

Happy Sunday o jare 😂😂

15/03/2024

This is the day that the Lord has made…..all we have to do is rejoice and be glad in it 🥂🥂

14/03/2024

Recently there seem to be a surge of kidney failures especially among the youths.

It is not totally surprising to be sincere. Given what is trending these days among the youths.

The kidneys are delicate organs designed to carry out some essential functions in the body. One of these functions is to filter the blood more than 20times everyday. Huge right? Yea.

Remember, everything you swallow, eventually finds its way into your blood, hence must pass through the kidneys.
Now the kidneys have no right to say they wouldn't filter your blood because it contains toxins from the herbal concoctions which your "preacher turned healer" gave you to cure all your physical and spiritual illnesses, or the large volume of alcohol you consumed so your friends wouldn't say "em no get head to carry alcohol".
Your blood with all the impurities that have accumulated in it so far by what you ingested, will pass through the kidneys countless times, and each time they pass, these toxins will cause a degree of harm to the kidneys. Now imagine the rate of damage that would be done when these toxins pass the same kidneys for about 50 times in a day.

Again, the quest to become light skinned by all means possible is a huge threat to the health of the kidneys. All manner of organic creams and soaps are competing against each other these days. I believe that some are made by experts, but you will agree with me that there are several ones whose production are questionable. Toxins from such creams and soaps find their way into the blood stream though the tiny vessels in the skin which absorb them when applied on the skin. The end point is the kidney who has no option but to do it's work and end up being affected in the long run.

Finally, remember to keep track of your water intake and consciously take water as often as possible. I am also telling myself.

Protect your kidneys. They rely on your better judgement to remain healthy and strong. Do not ingest everything thing that comes your way in the name of healing, or in the name of "cure all".

Do have a great week ahead.

I wrote this piece about two years ago 👆🏻👆🏻
Still valid till tomorrow

13/03/2024

A close acquaintance was recently bereaved of a little tender one, so painful it was.
She said something in one of my visits to her, that everyone who visited to console her, had one or more bitter memories of how unfair life was.
She was surprised that no matter how happy, fulfilled and joyous one looked or appeared to look, it was almost a shock to hear one or two ways in which life had treated them badly.

We talked about it further before looking for what to distract ourselves with.

You see, life doesn’t know it’s being fair or unfair to anyone. It simply knows that it is running its course, because the good, the bad and the ugly make up the sands of the pathway called life.
Unfortunately for us who thread on those sands, we can’t stoop down to choose which sand to walk on. We just continue to walk it through.
While some have mastered this and are determined to keep their peace no matter what, there are still some who are yet to understand this and so keep chasing the peace around.
There are people down in history who have been known to have a rather difficult and challenging lives, yet they are fondly remembered by the good works they did irrespective of what life threw at them. In same vein, there are those who would be tagged as having had the best life could offer, yet posterity only holds the worst memories of them.

I have come to the discernment that life is neither being fair or unfair, dishing good luck or bad luck. Life, in all its essence, is only running its course.
A hard pill to swallow I must say. Don’t we all wish we had someone actually called life somewhere so we can put our foot down and demand to be treated fairly and given all we want?

🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺

13/03/2024

Those days, we always bugged our mum with the question “what are we gonna eat tomorrow “ .
She always had one line of answer “ife afuru erie” meaning “whatever we see we eat”.

It wasn’t as if there was a day we ever went without food, or almost went without food, so now I wonder why we constantly asked her that question.
Maybe we asked the question out of sheer childhood curiosity or mischief to trouble nwanyi mmadu, bt she always beat us to it by that singular answer, and after that line, nothing more will come out as far as an answer was concerned.
We figured out our answers ourselves on days she branched to market from work, or when we are being instructed to make preparations such as picking of beans the night before. Except for those clues, we had to wait on the God of the Lilies and the Sparrows, and He never failed.
Now wearing same cap as a family woman, I have come to the brutal realisation that planning family meals day to day, week to week, month to month, is one low key irksome chore no one talks about.

Like you have to be deliberate not to repeat same dish over and over again, then you have to make sure the 6 classes of food are well represented, then you have to consider some members of the household who may have one nutritional need more than others, and the list goes on.

I do make timetables sometimes, quite helpful I must say, but I have never been consistent with them. It’s either I get bored, or no longer favour whatever is in the timetable, or life happens and what was planned either isn’t available or I’m too busy to make it.

Those who have found ways to seamlessly navigate through daily meal planning without a hitch, please come and cut soap for us.

13/03/2024

Praying for someone is an underrated form of generosity and love.
It’s like giving alms without the knowledge of the reciever.
Consider the hustle and bustle of the day, different engagements here and there, so much to think, plan and execute.
Not to mention one’s own numerous prayer points that seems endless.

Even phone to press and social media to binge on, yet in the midst of it all, someone dedicates a moment, be it a minute, or several of them, up to hours or more, just to lift another in prayer.
It’s undiluted love.

We may not all have material things to show love at every point in time, distance can also be a barrier for physical contact, but prayer goes over and beyond.

Prayer for someone today.

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