A.M.A Writes

Sunday was a usually slow day for Cynthia. Normally she woke up and did her personal care routine. Today was no different, at first. She woke up at 7:00am and said her morning prayers. After that, she stood up and went to her bathroom. From the wooden shelf hanging in a corner of the bathroom, she took her face scrub and applied it in her face. Sunday was the only day she had to take care of her skin and pamper it she did. She waited for the facial scrub to do its job and while she was waiting she took a look at her legs. “Yikes. The hairs are already out again. Why did I inherit this hairy trait from dad?” She muttered to herself. She made her way to the bathroom opened the cupboard and brought out her shaving cream. She took her time to apply the white substance on her legs taking note of areas she had taken notice of that had stubborn hairs. While she was doing that, she heard her phone ring. She took a look at the clock on the wall; it was just 7:30 in the morning. Who could p...

Image Credit: Google Images. Before I introduce this topic properly, I want share this definition of 'friend zone' I found online by Wikipedia. Before I did this post, I decided to check out online if there would be like a specific definition for the 'friend zone' situation. Out of curiosity, I had told myself "Ada just check type the words 'friend zone' on the google search page to see if you would find a definition for it" and voila! there it was. I never expected to see a definition of it especially not on Wikipedia so when I saw it, I was quite amused. Anyways here it goes, the 'friend zone' as defined by Wikipedia: The friend zone  is a situation in which one of two  friends  wishes to enter into a romantic or sexual relationship, while  the  other does not. It is generally considered to be an undesirable or dreaded situation by  the  lovelorn person. There you have it. I don't have to define that anymore. Wheew! You want t...

    She got home at 9 o’clock tired but a good kind of tired. Valentine’s Day this year wasn’t bad at all, she thought to herself. It wasn’t what she had thought it would be. She picked her phone from her bag as soon as she got in and checked for new messages. There were messages as usual but she saw a call from Rachel her best friend. Rachel and Cynthia went to the same university, UNN and since then they have kept in touch. Like Cynthia, Rachel just schooled in the east. Her whole family stayed in Lagos. So after her education at UNN she moved back to Lagos and their friendship was given more room to blossom.    Cynthia’s time out with John had been so interesting that she never had the urge to look at her phone for any reason. It must be the reason why she missed the calls from Rachel. Rachel being Rachel was likely calling her to give her details about how her valentine’s day went. She wasn’t looking forward to that conversation but she was going to hear it...

The house was a beautiful looking story building and his flat was the one in front on the first and only floor. He excitedly climbed the staring case skipping as many as 2 steps at a time. He had never been this excited in a long while. Was it because he was seeing Cynthia again? Probably. It was going to give him an opportunity to patch things up with her fully and move on. As soon as he got in he started composing a message to Cynthia. He had no idea where she lived so choosing a place for dinner was a bit confusing. He thought it over and decided to call her instead. At the second ring she picked up the call. “Hello”, she said “Hi, it’s John” “Yeah, I know that” she replied with a giggle. “I just realized I don’t know where you stay so picking out a meeting point was quite confusing for me. So could you help me out? I stay close to 1004 in Victoria Island. What about you?” “That’s cool. I stay in Victoria Island also. Saka Tinubu.”, she replied. “Awesome. Let’s meet...

Image Credit: Google Images. What do fairy tales like ‘Cinderella’ , ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ have in common in their  story lines ? The happily ever after ending with the characters ending up with their ‘special someone’; Poor Cinderella with Prince charming, Sleeping Beauty with her white horse riding sleep-awakening prince handsome and Beast with Belle who had turned him turning into a handsome prince by giving him a kiss ‘true love’s first kiss’. As a result of watching these cartoons as a children, somewhere deep inside of us we have this little voice in us telling us that somewhere, somehow, there’s that special someone set aside specially for us meant for just us and us especially we ladies.  The question that arises from the rational part of our brain, the part that deals with facts and reasoning not blind belief becomes “Is there such thing as the ‘special someone’? If so what makes that someone ‘the special someone’? Is it because you t...

Cynthia kept screaming and screaming. “I don’t wanna die.” She kept shouting. On the other side of the car, John was totally confused and very quiet. Then he noticed Cynthia's purse. It had a detachable leather strap so he just took the purse from her and detached it. At that moment, she quieted down. John didn’t want to give the taxi driver a reason to suspect that they were up to anything. He signaled to her to keep screaming so as to keep the driver distracted which somehow she agreed to despite the fact that they were at loggerheads just a few minutes ago. She continued screaming, “I can’t afford to die. Stop this madness now you this man.” “Shut up you this loud bitch!” The driver yelled back at her, he paying no attention to John at all. Then John quickly swung the strap over his neck and held it so tight while tugging at it hard till the driver started struggling for breath and became weak. Meanwhile, Cynthia managed to pull the hand brake so that they didn't cras...

" GRRRR!" "Grrrr!" "Grrrr!!" The alarm rang. It was nine in the morning on Saturday. Cynthia had heard it ring and she wished she didn't; she just wanted to cover her ears with the pillow to block to the constant ringing. The alarm ringing reminded her of what today was and she didn't want to remember. If it was a regular alarm clock she would have flung it across the room but it was her mobile phone so she couldn't dare. She couldn't stay in bed either, she was already awake and there was no point tossing and turning on the bed. So she grudgingly got up, stopped the alarm and went to wash up.    On her way to the bathroom a bright red heart drawn on the calendar in the veranda attracted her attention so she went to see what it was. When she finally realized it was a reminder on her calendar that today was the fourteenth, she hissed. Everything in her damned house had to remind her it was Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day was highly o...

Image Credit: Google Images Hola! I hope y'all are having a great day. Anyways, I am here with this issue for us to deliberate and discuss on. I am going to bring the issue to you using this hypothetical situation below.  So you know this couple have been dating for a while now. Then one day, the guy takes the lady, a lady in her mid-twenties to a restaurant (or a buka as I heard of in one case) and when the lady is not looking, he goes down on one knee and asks the one question every normal Nigerian lady wants to hear in her life. "Would you marry me?" The lady gets all excited grinning from ear to ear as she says yes. They are officially engaged waiting to get married. They tell you that they are getting married and you are happy for them. How long is too long such that that engagement ring that once brought so much joy turns into a "key holder"? How long before that woman becomes "Lord of the rings?" This question was throw open on a pl...

Hey everyone. How are you all doing? Hope you had a really nice day. I know I did. Work wasn't stressful. In fact all I did was surf the net all day. P.s. don't tell my boss I told you that. I guess that's the perk of being an IT student at where I work (gist for another day). Anyways, I wanted to launch this blog by doing small amebo on the story that has been shaking the celeb gossip tabloid world- the split of the couple whose romance was the world’s most tabloid headline-generating romance- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie a.k.a.   Brangelina.   Well Angelina Jolie Pitt was said to have filed for divorce from Brad Pitt citing irreconcilable differences as a reason for the divorce. Yes, you read it right? I did too. I can't believe that they are actually going to end a twelve year relationship, after 12 whole years of being together. That's ten whole years of dating and two years of being a married couple. You know if a child was given birth to as at the ti...