tansali paparazzi

hey y'all!
i just got back from the movies...i had a fantastic time....i didnt know how much i needed to get out of the house.
first of all i wanna say thank you to my gurls for commenting on my first write-up..thanx lovelies..lol!
oh yeah...back to the movies..i saw I LOVE YOU MAN..and it was hilarious..i was sceptical about it at first,but men!..i did laugh my butt off!...still feeling very high from the movie...wow!..it must have really been a while since i last went out to see a movie....Somebody stop me!!!!..lol
ok guys..enough of my silliness....hope u guys had a cool evening too.
will think of something more interesting to write pretty soon,but for now back to chatting..and later midnight studies...
have a fabulous weekend people..much lv!!

ok..i'm kidding myself here,but i just feel like writting some of my thoughts and things that have happened this week..and a while back.
firstly..i suck at writting,so for anyone who cares to read,please bear with me.
ok here goes nothing,i had a fantastic time yesterday chatting to my DIVA..u know who u are..and i was over the moon..been waiting for this day forever..lol..
secondly...i have been really down with tooth ache...i have a double extraction to do..and its kinda terrifying,but if i dont do this,then i may have no teeth before i hit 40.
most exciting for me is my music,my sister is doing good in Nigeria..3rd runner up on MTN west African project fame...i was..and still is so proud of her...well,i'm here doing my own lil thang,..i recoreded a movie soundtrack for a Nigerian film called PERFECT CHOICE,starring JIM IYKE!...Boy was i thrilled!!!..and now i plan to record my songs..not sure if i want to release an album,but i would love to share it with everone...I also love GOD...and i want to represent HIM in all i do...by His GRACE that is...lol
well guys..i'm off to the cinema...am not sure which movie to watch,but i'm torn between 17Again...and I LOVE YOU MAN..lol!..i love romcoms....
ok guys...i'll be back later..y'all have a swell weekend...
xoxo!!

When you feel down
There are many options
Maybe to frown...
When you feel on top
Don't forget there maybe ways
To get to the very TOP
When life is on the fast lane,
You  ignore the fact that
It  just might be the wrong lane

REWIND
rewind your thoughts
you might have missed the bright side of the downturn
Plus a smile makes each day a year younger.
rewind your excitment,
there might be more to life while being at the top
Plus you get all you want, without all the answers
rewind your gear, rem. you ain't no mechanic
you may be able to refil your tank
but you really never know how the engine to your life ride works.

xoxo

X-18___there is this one guy you always had a crush on..But you all never got a chance to date. ()
O-19___there is that one guy you are attracted to but he thinks you are a great friend.lol
X-20___There is that guy you always thought was trying to talk to you but then he wanted your friends
number....or he used you to get close to her.
O-21___Everytime you are about to get into a relationship you think about this one guy who u r not
dating but with you both "talk aint straight"...and you are wondering '‘your going to have to
forget him because he will definitely find out u r hooked'... 'do I really want to be hooked..lol
X-22___That one MAN you think is cute but you also know it is ssssssssssoooooooo wrong!!
O-23___your man off course...always there to make you happy.
X-24___there is that dude who never wants you guys to talk about his girlfriend because he wants to
talk about you...but nothing is going on.
O-25___there is the dude who likes you but you don’t feel a thing for him.
X-26___that boy who is your brothers friend but you wish he wasn’t...lol
O-28___off course the EX...The one you either never forgot or the one you wish you never
dated...either way they’re running a marathon in your mind.
X-29___That one guy, you just want him to ask you out, just so you can get to look him the face and say "NO"..lol
O-30___the celeb. you dream about.
X-31___The guy you had a one night stand with and you kicked him out the next morning.
O-32___The guy you cannot be with but you have a great sex life.
x-33___You girlfriends husband ....if he wasnt you will be all over him...

xoxo

In the next couple of months, in fact, June 1, 2009, to be precise, the biggest television reality show in Africa, Koko Mansion, would begin with a big bang.
Billed to be aired exclusively on the wholly Nigerian satellite television, HiTV, Koko Mansion, a brainchild of top musician, D’banj with support from the honcho of HITV, Toyin Subair. It revolves around 12 beautiful and talented girls that will live in a mansion for eight weeks, with the eventual winner becoming the ideal Miss Kokolette.
The mansion, according to the organizers, is situated in an undisclosed area in
Lagos. D’banj is also expected to play a vital role in
the oncoming show.
While in the mansion the lucky 12, would be groomed and tested
in various activities in order to determine the one with the
greatest Koko Virtues, worthy of being a wife material –a
Kokolette.
Some of these Koko Virtues that would be determined by viewers, who are also the
ultimate judge in the intrigue-filled show, would be looking out for are: the ability of the Kokolette to cook sumptuous meals for D’banj and his friends, especially during impromptu visits; as well as the ability to furnish and maintain
the mansion. The Kokolette must also be industrious while,
being able to take care of the home front; her ability to be
respectful and courteous at all times would be put to test too.
The potential Kokolette must be able to emulate notable women in society and several others even as she shows the ability to impress D’banj, under all circumstances in order to win the public’s votes to be in the house.
Top celebrities such as super model Oluchi, Nollywood actress Funke Akindele (Jenifa) and celebrity hair stylist Bobbys would be invited to teach the ladies poise, biks girls’ mannerisms and how to maintain a fashionable
hair-style.



D’banj would among other things, help the public determine who the winner should be, based on their ability to please him. He is currently one of the most eligible
single young men in Nigeria and it is believed that the music star will be able to adequately represent most men in the limelight, who people assume would not appreciate a complete woman. So, with the help of his friends and
associates, the public will know the most tolerant, hospitable and respectful woman in the mansion. Meanwhile, D’banj’s entertaining character may also act as a catalyst that will bring out the girls’ true personalities.
The winner of the show will emerge the most sought after Kokolette and will have full access to D’banj during her reign.
The Kokolette according Morayo Aka-Bashorun, Business Development and Sales Manager, HiTV, must be a beautiful young lady, at least 18 years old; she must be smart and
intellectually savvy; she must also possess a fun talent.
She must be willing to explore and definitely be a WIFE material. She
must be well cultured with sound domestic training, and an absolute diva with the ability to get along with a diverse crowd. The Kokolette must be someone with good moral values,independent and ambitious aside being a creative person.
The Kokolette must also be an excellent host, a very creative person who understands and can get along with the celebrity lifestyle of the hip hop star. Most importantly,
she must be D’Banj’s number one fan. A video audition would
help the panel determine the 12 finalists.
Eviction starts in the second week of the show, where two ladies with
the least number of votes from the viewers will be ushered
out.
However, eviction is primarily done by the public and could be based on D’banj’s comments.
Interestingly, each week, among the three ladies up for eviction, it would be D’Banj’s prerogative to give Koko Mycine (immunity) to one of the girls. He can only use Koko Mycine once in the duration of the show. “The winner will among other benefits, be crowned Kokolette 1, get a Chris Aires Diamond ring, a brand new convertible car, feature in his next music video, You Don Make Me Fall In Love alongside N5 million in cash. Aside these goodies, the winner will be D’Banj’s companion at public events both within and outside Nigeria. She would further emerge as HITV’s Hi-Babe.
The organizers further explained that D’Banj would not be living with them but would be required to come in often to see the girls.”
“The show is not about D’Banj, but about the Kokolette”. Also speaking at the unveiling, the founder of HiTV, Mr. Toyin Subair in his remark said the concept of Koko Mansion was a brilliant idea coming from brilliant Nigerians.
HiTV, Subair said, hopes to use Koko Mansion to show all the virtues of a true African woman. “It is going to be the biggest reality show in this side of the world and that can only happen on the platform of HiTV. It is the mother of
all reality shows, Koko Mansion.”
Subair, an intellectual property lawyer, further assured that the show would
not in any form promote immorality or nudity as the case may
be.

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http://www.africanews.com/site/Malawi_Sexy_Nigeria_movie_star_visits/list_messages/23442

Favourite fashion item
My goodness i love shoes, shoes and more shoes

Faavourite Movies
Something new, Last king of scotland, the  story of us, Riding in car with boys, Maxcolm X, Sound of music, Games women play, Games men play, Girls cot, Uyai, Reloaded, letters to a stranger,etc.

Favourite shops
 I like specific shops for specific things.Jean :Gap, Tops: zara, gap,debenham, asos.com . Shoes: asos.com and vivaladiva.com shirts: T.M.Lewin, Bags: Barrat, topshop, asos.com. Sunglasses and accessories: asos.com. Underwear: asos.com, victoriasecret.com, babyphat.com, debenham etc.  I love internet shopping but if i have to go to the shop i will. I am yet to find a shop in Lagos i like, suggestions anyone?

 My Favourite Heros
Oprah Winfrey, Elie Gisel, Mandiba Nelson Mandela,  Winston churchhill, Wole Soyinka, Sigmund Fued, Jean Piaget and Barack Obama.

Favourite celebrity crushs
i have many but, Theirry Henry, Simon Baker and  Majid.

 Favourite Fashion Icons
Sienna Miller, Sanna Lathan, Victoria Beckham, Genevieve Nnaji, Rita Dominic.

If you could be stuck in an island with anyone of you Favourite people who will you want it to be and why?
Need I think about this, easy  Mandela. I just want to be around him because he represents for me Hope, passion, and Love. 

If you could be anyone of your favourite people for a day, who will it be and why?
Oprah Winfrey, I want to feel what it is like to be the most powerful woman in the world, count her trillions, take a bath in her luxury bathrooms, fly her private jet, rescue abused children, and OMG wear her lovely collection of shoes.... what could be better than this?

 Five  Favourite  leisure activities
Reading, Blogging, listening to music, good movies and some more reading.

Favourite outfit
I can do no wrong with my gap jeans and t-shirt, nice  heels as long as the hair is right.

Favourite Quote
When a man is down to nothing God is up to something

Favourite Food
I love indomie instant noodles, beans and plantain.

Favourite books
 Bible, Authentic power, power of simple prayers, purpose driven life, the naked trader and sticking out your neck.

Favourite Hang out sports
the lounge at palms, planet one bar. suggestions anyone?

Favourite people to hangout what?
who else my only sister and cousin, we have fun together so much fun.

Favourite Feature in a man
Smile, height,  and teeth.

Favourite Presidents
Obarack Obama, Jimmy carter, Mandela and funny enough  Idi Amin dada of uganda....... before you crucify me I just find the man interesting,  I cannot help it i am a psychologist with a weird sense of everything.

Favourite Advise ever recieved
Never will I forget what one of my lecturers at Oxford said to me in 2007 he said, in life never strife on becoming rich, strife to be a better person because with what you are you will become.

Favourite items owned
My laptop,  digital camera and mobile fone.

Favourite time of the day
ofcourse nights, i can think better.

Favourite football team
Gunner for life

Favourite sports
football and tennis.

Favourite cities
London, Paris, Cardiff, Oxford, Geneva, Lagos.

Favourite shoes
its my black number, by pierre et terra love it.

Favourite phone brand
Nokia please



 

 

 

 

 

•Evangelist Ukpabio •Photo: Sun News Publishing
•As pastors fight over demons
From JOE EFFIOING, Uyo
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Helen Ukpabio, tele-evangelist, church founder,    film actor and movie producer, is one clergywoman who can smoke out one witch in a crowd of millions of saints. Or so it seems.

Nearly all her films, which however are anchored on morality, has some elements of futile display of witchcraft powers which eventually get subdued by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Thus, when she literally came to paint Uyo red (her members actually marched in the streets wearing reddish T-Shirts) about three weeks ago, on a campaign which theme was “Coven on Naked Wire”, then it was obvious that something witching was in the air.

And those who expected a bountiful harvest of witches advised in the crusade posters to come out for free deliverance, were not disappointed as it was reported that  more than 500 people, mostly children  voluntary went out to label themselves witches or wizard in order to get the awoof deliverance.
But that is where the story began to get K-leg according to Apostle John Okoriko, the founder and president of Solid Rock Kingdom Church, whose church along Ikot Ekpene Road Uyo is only about 300 metres from Helen Ukpabio’s Liberty Gospel Church situated in the same axis.

Okoriko told The Sun a few days after the “Coven on Naked Wire” crusade that the claim of delivering 500 witches and wizards was nothing but a charade since there were no such number of witches in Uyo, as such the claim was fraudulent and ungodly especially when Ukpabio was reported to have instructed those delivered to be attending the various branches of her church for eight months for them to be monitored.

 “It is embarrassing in 21st century where every nation is going scientific and to the space that we are still talking about witchcraft. It is time we faced reality and not absurdity. I strongly disagree with the notion that Akwa Ibom state has been taken over by witches.”

He said if at all there were witches and wizards in Uyo, they were not up to 10, not to talk of 500 who purportedly did the confession in a single church programme.
“I challenge all prophets and apostles to open contest to prove if there is more than one witch in Akwa Ibom. In the Bible we hear of the Witch of Endor; which means there is always one witch at a time in a town; not 500.

“And how can you tell 500 people who voluntarily confessed witchcraft to be attending your church for good or bad eight months for them to be completely delivered. Witchcraft is no spirit; it is a think of the flesh like drunkenness, fornication or stealing so it doesn’t call for spiritual deliverance,” he reasoned.
Okoriko stressed that church leaders who are benefiting from the alleged witches were manipulating people to conference, adding that such assumed witches are always the poor. 

This thing is dragging our state backward; people have been brainwashed to think negatively. If the suffer a slight misfortune in their businesses instead of looking for practical solution, the pastors will tell them that they are attacked by witches and the person will become a slave to the pastors. It is sad. 
“If this state has been taken over by witchcraft, why can’t we use witchcraft to achieve good things; at least win international football matches? All we need to do is put eleven bewitched boys on the pitch and win the world cup.

These so-called men of God are hireling or spiritual mercenaries,” he declared. 

If Akwa Iboºm has only one witch or wizard, so who is the witch of Uyo? And the 500 that paraded themselves as witches? Okoriko says: “They are fake witches.”

Source: www.sunnewsonline.com

By Tom Porter for MPBN
April 17, 2009
 
A new cultural event makes its debut tonight -- the Maine African Film Festival. The week-long festival features dozens of screenings at a variety of venues in southern Maine, including the Cumberland County Jail. The festival was prompted by a desire to explore and celebrate the growing, and on the surface unlikely, links between Maine and Africa.

"Seeds of Change: A Fresh Start" looks at the challenges faced by Maine's immigrant African farmers:  "We are Somalia, we don't know the culture of the country," says one Somalian in the film. 

Produced by Scarborough-based filmmaker Sharyn Paul Brusie, Seeds of Change examines the difficulties faced by many mostly-Somalian and Sudanese farmers as they struggle to make a living in their adopted homeland. One of them, Hawa Ibrahim, spent an entire day at the Lewiston Farmers market and made about $20 dollars. 

"I love farming, I really do, because in Africa farming is just part of life," says one person featured in the film. "It's not a business, it's part of life. So I'm not making money but I love farming," he says.

Seeds of Change premieres on Wednesday in Portland.  It's one of 27 screenings taking place in and around Maine's biggest city over the next week. The festival organizer is Kazeem Lawal, who describes himself as a Nigerian American.  "It's a way to continue to celebrate the colors of Maine. Maine is fast evolving in terms of what we know as Maine maybe 40 years ago, as compared to what Maine looks like today, and I think with all that extra color, I think it makes Maine even more special."

"In Maine it's been the African community that's been growing rapidly," says Noel Bonam, director for the Office of Multicultural Affairs for the State of Maine. While there are no firm numbers available, he estimates Maine's African population to be between 8 and 10 thousand.
"The population has more than doubled in the past five years and I think that is significant, and I think having a film festival not only offers the opportiunity for the community to celebrate their own identity but also to educate the larger community about their neighbors from Africa."

"We have documentaries, we have fiction, we have shorts, we have films that cover a wide of topics, from child soldiers, we have a film about oil from the Niger delta of Nigeria," says Lawal. "And we have just fun films, like musical kinds of films about this German guy that travelled west Africa for three years collecting old vinyl records of African funk and disco from the 70s."
 
Tom Porter: "Is there much of a pan-African film industry, or is it quite fragmented? Does it have an identity?"
Kazeem Lawal:  "It's out there."
TP:  "Because we know about Bollywood, and other parts of the world with thriving film industries."
KL:  "The third biggest film industry in the world right now is Nigerian films, called Nollywood, which is kind of interesting.  You have your Hollywood, Bollywood and then you have your Nollywood.  And I'm hoping gradually, as we build momentum with this festival, we'll be able to give Nollywood its platform here to showcase what's the big deal about Nollywood, and have films and hopefully some directors, and actors here, and music to show where that's coming from."

Funded with help local businesses, the Maine Community Foundation and the Maine Humanities Council, the festival is not just showing movies; some screenings will pave the way for panel discussions on a variety of topics.

Venues range from the Children's Museum of Portland to the Cumberland County Jail, where inmates will get the chance to watch and then discuss three movies about crime and redemption. On Wednesday night, meanwhile, there'll be a public discussion on what it means to be African in Maine.

For more information on the Maine African Film Festival, go to TMAFF.ORG

In regards to dating rules and regulation i am very modern. I am part of  the new generation and  i believe it is ok  for a woman  to ask a man out however, a woman has to proceed with caution always. Dropping a few pointers will not hurt, but were can a sister draw the line?

These days some women just take this rule to the very extreme and it is sad because while doing so, humilate themselves and further encourage anti-socialite men thinking any woman who is being friendly is out to chase them. As if, if a smart woman wanted a man she couldn't get him before he said Jack Robinson..................... and all the sisters say amen.

Before writing any further i must stress here, i am no feminist activist or woman's right whatever, i just think some of our actions as women permit men to treat us with such disrespect and then we wonder why....... ladies, Girls.......... if you see a man you like, walk up and say hi, if he response good for you, keep the conversation flowing, kind of be in control and remember you are the one who wants his number without asking. At this point all roads leads to how to get him to ask for a date or something without seeming desperate.

If he calls luck you, if he doesnt stop making excuses for him, assuming he is busy with work, if a man wants you he will make time. so when all is said and done take your cues and never disturb a man or try to convince him why he should date you just have Fun.
Irrespective of what the popular saying is, there are more than enough men for all of us. You just have to know how to swim in the dating pool.....

 

Rebecca