Just Thinking Out Loud!

Some 2K10 Goals by God's special grace n power

Paint entire house
Set up entire downstairs including garage
Reduce credit card debt by at least $2k
Pay off any miscellaneous debt
Most definitely get into a committed relationship
~~Most definitely send money to mom for a new car~~
Take time to develop relationships
At least, 2 patents
Aggresively work on developing iPhone App dev skills
Create a webpage for DJing
Expand my career breadth
Visit London
Join Toastmasters
Create a will and a Power of Attorney 4 Healthcare
Take complete control of soda drinking
Work on taking a CPR class

SO, HELP ME GOD!

Some 2K7 Goals by God's special grace n power

~~Finally buy some Nyja stocks~~
~~Get a loaded Thinkpad or Sony Vaio~~
~~Join MentorPlace n consistently mentor~~
~~Put at least $2K in stocks apart from investment club contr. & 401k~~
~~Take complete control of coffee~~

SO, HELP ME GOD!

Some 2K6 Goals by God's grace

~~Have a white paper published~~
~~Work on increasing pay~~
~~Get to the next band at work~~
~~Help renovate mom's place~~
~~Give mom n bro at least $*K each for wedding~~
~~Finally visit Nyja!!!~~
~~Take a real estate class~~

My Videos

Go Getta. R. Kelly

Music I'm Feeling...

2Face
Ebenezer Obey
KWAM 1
Cassandra Wilson
Pharell
Ne-Yo
T.O.K
Don Moen
D4L
Teddy Pendergrass
ColdPlay
DMB
Notorious B.I.G
Delirious
Dem Franchise Boyz
Frank Sinatra
Evanescence
All-American Rejects
Billie Holiday
Seal
Obesere
KEM

Books I'm reading...

~~Zero Debt~~
~~The Millionaire Next Door~~
~~The Street Lawyer~~
African Women: Three Generations
Communication, Sex & Money
The J2EE Tutorial

Cities I Have Visited

ATL, GA
Austin,TX
Detroit, MI
Houston, TX
Charlotte, NC
Corning, NY
NYC, NY

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Funkified (Abbreviated or Americanized) Nigerian names!

I have always wondered how Bob has anything to do with Robert or Bill, anything to do with William. In the Western world (especially in US), abbreviating your name is a normalcy and people almost do anything to make up an abbreviated form of their own names. It's so deeply embedded in the society to the point that sometimes, when I introduce myself as Dare, some people say, "Can I call you D?" I'm like, for God's sake, morrasucker (like Micahel Blackson says), it's just 4 letters. For we Nigerians, help has finally arrived. A good friend of mine sent me an article about Nigerian names being funkified through abbreviations. It's hilarious. Here are some examples:

Oladele - Dale. (Pls, Dale ko, Dali ni)
Uchenna-----Cheney (What?)
Garba----------Gary (Orisirisi!)
Ngozi-------------------------Goslet (What does that have to do with omo Ibo!)
Anywayz, here is the article:
http://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/david-west/naija_rooney/070601.html

Laugh a little! : )

posted by Just Thinking Out Loud! @ 1:57 PM

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