Friday 30 November 2007

Double lives Guy

I am yet to come across a Friday that makes me unhappy! Finally I can catch up on that much needed sleep as I got a bit of insomnia going on so I tend to look a hot mess on my daily journey to work. Anyhoo I made it to the theatre last nite. I am so proud of myself I actually convinced a Naija guy to take me to see a Show! I saw Footloose, rather childish but nonetheless entertaining. Apart from my Father who has seen Lion King 3 times, I don't know too many guys that are into theatre moves. Well guess u can say I am still at the honey moon stage where the guy will do his best to impress you. We even had dinner before the show so that was very cool as well. Thanks to those that recommended that Restaurant "Katana at the International", every bite of my food was just a delight!

Well today I stumbled upon an article in the Metro about a lady who stabbed her Lover's wife 43 times out of rage and jealousy that had been consuming her. The story was reminiscent of a colleague of mine just that my colleague thankfully didn't go and kill the other lady. I know love drives people to do all sorts of weird things but I start to question whether it was ever love to begin with? I'll use my colleagues story to explain what led to this lady becoming a murderer.

Natasha met her boyfriend 7 years ago at her then work place. They were both sales assistant in a store and even ended up attending the same University so they had more than enuff time to know about each other. They are Asians, as most will know it is not customary to be seen dating a guy but hey guess people find a way around these things. She was undeniably in love, and she felt her guy was on that same page too. Her parents had brought tonnes of men to see her for marriage but she refused saying she wanted to do a "Love marriage" as they call it. Her parents decided to give her a bit of space to explore that route.

Natasha and her man started making future plans. He promised her the world and she in turn promised him her all. They were inseparable until they both got city jobs and time became their biggest enemy. Their ritual of meeting each other after school became more of phone calls and sporadic meetings. Natasha started noticing a few changes in her man, the usual, "I'll call you back" and no call comes through or the "We should do something this wknd" but no dates come through. Out of love she ignored these little warnings and was holding on to the fact that she had known this guy for 7 years and they had been wonderful years for her.

What was about to happen one bright morning in the cold of November last year was something that would change her life and perception of men forever. Her man aka "Double lives guy" came to Natasha's house unannounced before she left for work. He knocked on her front door and luckily for him she was the one that opened. She quickly shut the door behind her asking him what he was doing there as her parents were at home. He started crying, and she just looked at him puzzled?

Double Lives Guy: Natasha there is something I need to tell you.
Natasha: What is it? I have never seen you cry you are scaring me!
Double Lives Guy: I am sooooo sorry, gosh what have I done? ...........I AM GETTING MARRIED TOMORROW.
Natasha: Plssss can you quit playing with me! I am not amused, I suggest you tell me what you really came here for?
Double Lives Guy: I swear on my mother's life, they forced me, I was forced, gosh I am so stupid, it is you I love. Butttt I have to marry this girl tomorrow. Ok ok why don't we run away?
Natasha: (Her knees are weak and she is about to pass out), Why r u saying all these things to me? This isn't you? You always said you will fight for us! Fight for love! No one can force you into anything so pls shut-up!
Double Lives Guy: Does this mean you won't consider running away with me?
Natasha: No I won't. I love my family very much, I have even told them about you and they said when you are ready you should bring your mother and family over to propose! So No I will not be running anywhere.
Double Lives Guy: In that case, I have no choice but to beg for your forgiveness and wish you well. Good bye Natasha, you were the best thing that ever happened to me.

...........and just like that he left! Natasha ran back into the house and screamed for her sisters to come down. They all wept with her on hearing this sad sad News. She didn't show up to work for 2 weeks or so and it was hard getting through to her. By the time she got back, she had dropped from a size 12 to a size 8! I was in shock! I also cried cos I could see the pain and confusion in her eyes. For days on end she will get up and run to the bathroom to cry. She is Muslim, I am Christian but at this point I just needed God to console her fully. I prayed for her / with her daily and a year later she has bounced back.

Natasha found out so many things. Double Lives Guy did indeed get married that day but it was not a forced marriage. Apparently he had been dating the other girl for 4 years! This wicked soul did not think it right to break up with Natasha. 7 years of her adult life gone like that. Ahhh well I'm happy she didn't marry him. Perhaps the signs were there and she refused to take hid but apparently the other lady he married is from another town and they don't have any mutual friends that might have raised alarm bells. The wife has now moved into London and Natasha spots her around town driving a luxurious car and looking hot and of cos she keeps thinking to herself perhaps I wasn't pretty enough, maybe he got irritated with my kindness (believe me this girl is too much like an Angel!)

In fact I am sure this is one of the few angels in this world! Her heart is so pure, when she speaks you can sense all the naivety in her. She sees only good in people..............It is because of people like her I feel sad for those blogggers who come here writing nothing significant and really thinking they have gotten a "point" across to me???? I laugh. I pray people find the strength to laugh more about their past and just get on with it and move on, Amen!

Monday 26 November 2007

Reflecting

Hi All, it's been a minute. I'm having one of those Monday's where having lunch will be the highlight of my day. Well guess I have been preoccupied getting to know a new guy but as always only time will tell. I am not looking for Mr Right, in fact that will be a bore but I am looking for Mr Realistic. The sort of guy that knows there is no perfect woman out there, the one that leaves room for mistakes to be made, the one that is big enuff to over look imperfections and work with the other great qualities the woman displays. Most importantly the sort of guy that has a forgiving heart and apologises when he knows he is wrong rather than try to justify the wrong, arhhhh that's just off putting. Forgot to mention, the one that just has to find the energy to wake up for Church! lollol.

I have gotten to a stage where I need a man to convince me why it is worth my time to be in a relationship. Day by day my realisation shows me that I have the propensity to be happy on my own. I mean it is always a bonus if someone wants to add to that happiness but it is damn irritating when they want to steal out of it and leave you hanging. It's like the same tired routine of wine, dine, cinema, more wine and dine but now you know better than to "let yourself go" with the guy. So you get to the crunch where it is either left or right, no middle ground and trust the guy to always come up with the lets stay in the middle approach aka I am still getting to know you. Yeah sure just like you getting to know how many others. I have no problem with this whole lets know each other stuff but you see me I am tired of knowing guys. I feel like just going to pull one out of the past. I know enuff about a few to know that I would have been happy with them if not for my then wandering heart.

I always felt there was more out there, even the ones that did their best to convince me we were meant to spend the rest of our lives with each other I just shied away. Now I'm not sure what I was looking for. Think I got greedy, I think cos I always felt I could get anyone I wanted I missed my boat. Now I want that boat to just turn back and let me hop on for the last time. I know better now and I am not scared to admit my wrongs. In fact its best I admit I was so wrong so as to avoid meeting mediocre men. What they don't understand is I have had way more than my fair share of Queen treatment. Why on earth would I now settle for average? Nah so long as there is youth in me I shall not just settle for the heck of it..........hopefully I won't have to.

To the Prince's I met, thanks for showing me how a princess should be treated cos at least now I have a standard I expect. A Prince once wrote to me:

Our Love…
An unthinkable event
You and me
Two wandering hearts
Once worlds apart
Even still
But now in tune

Though far apart
Each moment resides
Drenched in warm daydreams
Of what may come
We are blessed
In comfort of our connection

Our Love
A tad trying sometimes
Takes console
At every forward path
To reunite in awe
Of our overwhelming love

Tuesday 13 November 2007

Five Pounds Guy

I keep forgetting I can use my Blog to talk about anything really. Although that being said the Blog name is specific to the different frogs we have in town. O well, I had one of the most fun weekends ever this year for me. Friday, birthday party at some lovely Champagne bar and thankfully an old friend took me along so drinks were on him and the highlight was the duck and rice I organised after the bar. Damnnn thinking of it is making me really hungry! Saturday attended a Surprise party then headed for a Nov of Birthdays bash, lets just say I got so wasted that by the time my girl dropped me at home I realised I forgot my house keys in my sister's bag and she was still at the club! Anyway I have a sitting area just before u get into my main hse so I crashed there till she got home. Sunday, went to Church got madly uplifted then went for yet again another birthday gathering. Food was excessive and drinks overflowing but I just respected myself and stayed away from the alcohol. By Monday, I looked like a zombie (understandably) cos I sure hadn't slept enuff.

Today I feel a bit better but I'm getting mad butterflies in my tummy cos a special person is coming into town tomorrow and its going to be a turning point for us. However things turn out, this dude has certainly put Hope back in my life that there are still a few good men out there. Trust I'll be keeping you guys updated. As he is one of my biggest Blog fans, I expect he will do his best to stay well behaved or else he might just get a Post dedicated to him (Heaven forbid).

Ayt, my friend once told me a story I found rather hilarious and irritating all at once! Five pound guy is someone who troubled Eugena for a while. Tried his best to get her to go on just one date but she never agreed. Eugena for starters is a high-flying career babe who always has a suit case packed up cos she never knows what part of the world her job will take her to at any given time. So on this one occassion, Eugena was getting ready for one of her trips. She had called her cab and had about 5 hours to spare before her flight. Her phone rang and to her dismay it was Five pound guy.

Five pound guy asked if they could meet up for lunch that day and she told him she was on her way out of the country. He then told her to call off her cab and he will take her to the airport. Eugena was in one of her good moods (hard to find especially if she is talking to a guy) and she told him to get to hers in the next hour or else she'll just take her cab. He was ecstatic seeing as this for him would have been a one shot moment to leave an impression on her. Surprisingly he got to her house 40 mins after that call. Eugena was impressed as this dude leaves South of London and she lives in the North so according to her calculation he must have been speeding down. Anyway as they proceeded to the airport, the dude started teasing that hope she won't mind paying for his petrol since she was going to pay for a cab perhaps she can just transfer that money to the tank of his car!

Eugena gave him her "ugly look" and at that point she thought okkkk maybe this guy is so tensed he is cracking very dry jokes. They finally got to the airport in one piece and Five pound guy off loaded her bags and they checked her in. Eugena had 2 hours to spare before her flight so she offered to take him for lunch and she will pay. He seemed overly excited. He ordered as much as his tummy would allow him and spoke uncontrollably about nothing of significance. When they were done, Five pounds guy escorted Eugena to the Departure gate. As they were hugging and saying their final good bye, sumtin earth shaking happened.

Five pound guy: Eugena are u not forgetting something?
Eugena: (In her head she was thinking don't tell me he wants a kiss or what??), Five pound what did I forget?
Five pound guy: I can't believe you were about to get on the plane without giving me the money for the parking?
Eugena: R u having a dry joke moment again?
Five pound guy: Not at all, I think £5 should cover the parking.
Eugena: (In her head thinking God what have I done to deserve this act of mere embarrassment and cheapness!!), she gets her purse out and says, Five pound guy I only have £10 note on me.
Five pound guy: Ok give me the £10 I will give you your change when you get back from your trip.
Eugena: (In her head, Yesssuuusssss!!!!) That's ok, keep the change!
Five Pound guy: U r very kind thanks. Bye and have a safe trip.

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL Rewindddddddddd, did I mention that due to Eugena's position at her work place, all her expenses are paid for? Meaning if she je-je-ly took her cab, the company would have paid for it! My poor friend was too embarrassed to share this story as the guy is 31 years old!!!! and to the best of her knowledge has an ok job. I mean where has the pride of men gone!!!! Goshhhh it's really irritating cos Heaven knows it is not about the money, it is about how this guy went about things! If you look at your wallet and u realise you cannot afford a "babe" then why aim to get her? Aim lower ja re!!!

Ok Blogville I hope this makes u laugh a little. Ooo by the way of cos Eugena deleted his number immediately and she has since then decided to just stick to her first instincts when it comes to guys. As we tend to forget "Jand is a leveller".............

Wednesday 7 November 2007

Leech Guy

Thank God it is Midweek. Think I'm getting the winter blues, waking up is now such a daily struggle. O well in everything I still give thanks for a good and healthy life. I haven't had time to gather other people's frog encounters but a friend of mine summarised one she just recently went through. Due to the fact that I wasn't involved in this tale, I will do my best to point out the unfortunate part to her tale.

Leech guy met Sharon at a party (very popular meeting place eh), and after a good nite of dancing and chatting they exchanged numbers. Sharon is in a school outside London while Leech Guy works in London. Over the course of many weeks, Leech use to come and visit Sharon, hang out with her friends and pretty much got very familiar with her environment. Sharon grew fond of him cos of all the time and effort he use to put into coming down to see her. Finally she agreed to become his girlfriend. She initially played it down because she wanted to watch their relationship for a bit rather than announce she has a man and in no time telling people it's over. After 2 months, she was still getting the butterfly effects in her tummy so she became proud of her man and was ready to shout it on the roof top that she was on an all time high.

Sharon started coming down to London to spend time with her man in an attempt to know his group of friends as well. She got along with most of them and at the time she didn't feel any threat to her relationship. Until one day she checked good old Facebook for the daily feed and saw that a girl had left a message that sounded a bit more than just a mere friend......"Miss u loads". Sharon decides to ask Leech who that is, of cos he played it down and said it was an old friend he went to high school with back in Naija. Not trying to be paranoid, she let any negative thought that was building go. Then the wall messages from this babe started increasing. Most times they were non harmful, daily rantings so she still chose to ignore it. Then the babe started sending him Facebook gifts and so Sharon asked once again who this babe was? Leech guy said ok fine, she is an ex-girlfriend of mine, our relationship finished in January but she insisted we remain friends. Now that she knows I have u, she is trying her hardest to get attention and cause trouble.

At this point Sharon was very uncomfortable and cos she was 6 months into the relationship she didn't find it easy following her instinct that sumtin nasty was cooking in that dude's kitchen! She went on holiday with friends, and thought to herself that will be a good time to reflect on her current predicament. I mean why should a girl be acting so "crazy" as Leech guy was tryna insinuate if the dude isn't encouraging it? She didn't want to be forward and start contacting the girl cos that would show that she had trust issues. Leech kept calling her during the holiday and reassured her about their relationship. He even sent money for her to do some clothes shopping for him. Sharon says her friends were always irritated with how much time she spent selecting things for this guy and it was biting into her holiday fun time. Just cos she wanted to make sure he was impressed with her selection. Her compensation was that she could spend a bit on herself as well and hey this was her boify after all so she did it wholeheartedly.

On her return to London, Sharon took the items she bought for Leech to his house. He had a male friend over so they were all catching up on gist when suddenly the front door was being unlocked form the outside and then a lady walked in. She greeted the guys first then looked at Sharon and asked who she was? Sharon thought okkkk what an unfriendly stab at her, and she proceeded to say "I am Leech's girlfriend". The Door Lady stirred at Sharon blank and said are u having a laugh? "I am Leech's girlfriend of 2 years" in fact the house u r in right now belongs to me! I pay the mortgage here and allowed Leech to stay until he finds his place. I live at home with my family but this property belongs to me! So Sharon u see you cannot be Leech's girlfriend.

By the time Sharon looked back, Leech and his male friend had escaped through the back door........ whilst the ladies were exchanging info. The Loser of a Leech had run away leaving Sharon with a stranger Door Lady. God is good that Door Lady was not a lunatic so she escorted Sharon out of the ....... what was now to be her "ex-cheating boyfriend's house". Sharon was sooo maddddd that tears refused to come down her cheeks. I mean how was she to know? She put two and two together that the girl from Facebook was this Door Lady. If only she had contacted her rather than thinking how Leech will feel if he found out. I mean was she really so trusting? There were no real signs of him having a babe and no gossip in town to that effect.

Leech didn't contact Sharon until a week after this event and it was even through an offline message. Said he knows sorry cannot make the situation better and that she didn't deserve this but he really felt that he was going to find the strength to break up with his girlfriend before Sharon found out. He said it was work in progress and that Door lady (his girlfriend) came to his house earlier than she usually does.........LOLLLLLLLLLLLL emmmm plsss u guys are u enjoying this sort of plea???? No remorse, instead justification as to how his Best laid plans went to the bin! Word in town was that Leech was telling people that Sharon knew he had a girlfriend. So good old Sharon did one last thing, she sent an email addressed to both Leech and Door lady stating her defense and making sure Leech can take comfort in knowing that Life itself will teach him a lesson. She isn't going to wish him ill, no need. The all seeing God will do justice to Leech. She prayed for Door Lady that she finds the strength to move on from such a 2 timing geezer but apparently she isn't about to throw 2 years of her relationship away. LOL LOL and yet we wonder why some marriages are doomed from the alter!!!

Monday 5 November 2007

Randy Guy

Hello Blogville! It feels like ages since I last dropped a frog. Well as most of you "normal" people would imagine, the last frog brought a lot of negative energy from some readers who seem very passionate about this frog or in some instances who just harbour so much hatred towards me. Either way I am glad I wrote it and I don't apologise for anything...... I had a fantastic weekend and I'm in such high spirits today! Good way to start the week. I attended an engagement party on Saturday and I was thrown back at how lively the venue was. There probably was 4 girls to 1 guy but it didn't matter cos we all formed our dancing groups and made the most of the nite. As I said in a previous post, my frog days are well over but since a few friends have insisted we check the archives for tales, one of them decided to volunteer a tale.

Randy frog is probably what some will call the average frog. I guess with age one starts to clearly see the difference between a guy that genuinely wants you for more than just a shag as opposed to the one who just needs you for a moment in his life. A few years ago, I attended a birthday party of Mandy's older sister who is married with a few kids. Mandy herself was already engaged to be married so it meant it was just my 2 other friends and I that were single of all the girls that came to the party. I was going through my "ugly smile" phase which has become quite a trademark for me so thankfully it worked as no frog even came close to leap on me. My 2 other girlfriends were not so lucky as they find it hard to be unfriendly. They did their best not to hand over their numbers to any guys but there were these 2 frogs that were so persistent. The 2 frogs escorted us to my car. I did my best to sound more unfriendly so as to scare them away. Of cos u could see their reaction going "biatch, is it cos we are not chatting u up" why don't u just hush it. I decided to just wait in the car. When my friends got in they said Figurella we just did sumtin not too smart. We both handed our numbers to these guys but they are actually correct numbers. Kelly gave Christine's number to the guy that chatted her up and Christine gave Kelly's number in return to her own frog. Therefore each guy was with the other girls number teh girl they actually didn't speak to.

I thought this would be the end ooo, at least let me get home before frogs start calling. Nooo, the guys immediately dialled the numbers and started asking where we were heading to after birthday party? Kelly says we are going home, the guys are not having any of this and pull up in front of my car to try and convince me to take the girls to Zen bar. Ha ha ha, we were there the week before and as always promised ourselves not to return to that venue (beansss we always seemed to end up there but not this nite). They asked if they could follow us home so I explained to them that my parents were around and the girls were sleeping over so that won't be possible. As I was driving off, I realised the guys were still tailing us!!! How scary. So I decided to do a detour and finally lost them. We got home and started laughing about the events that had just occurred then Christine's phone rang. Her own frog had figured out her silliness of giving her number to the other frog to confuse them. Cos she is so nice, she apologised and before I could say jack, these two were in full charge chatting mode.

They both realised that they had some friends in common and family friends n all. Christine starts to get more comfortable with the dude. He had a good job and from the sound of things was progressing rather fast career wise. In short he started getting some high marks in the toasting department. Before long, they decided to go on a dinner date. He said he will get her at 7pm but didn't come till 10pm. He then had the guts to say they should head straight to his house lol lol lol, Christine of cos flips and is like dude I haven't eaten anything so we sure need to get to a restaurant. Cos it was rather late they ended up going to a restaurant where she last ate with her ex boify (Omen). Surprisingly dinner goes well and she gets over his initial razzness. Then he insists they head back to his to watch a movie. She goes reluctantly and then he put on Hitch, she hates the film and tells him but he insisted they see it cos he found it hilarious. She keeps yawning to signify dude it's time u drop me at home, instead he kept going lets go upstairs and sleep lol lol. She says that's ok when your movie is over you can drop me. Once the film was over, Christine heads straight to the door and Randy guy starts sulking, she ignores him until they get to his car. While they are driving, he starts playing BoyzIImen, Maxwell, Joe.....then the CD starts skipping lol lol (Second Omen). He still insist that they can turn back and head to his and she just keeps laughing cos never seen a guy this persistent.

They get to her door step and he storms his way in. He refuses to leave her house and began asking if he could sleep over at her place. Christine starts to get extremely agitated cos she is now more certain than before that this dude is totally randy and is out for just a desert lol lol which in this case is her. He finally gets tired and heads home. By 7am he is already calling her that he needs to see her badly. Guess she woke up on the good side of the bed cos girlfriend finally succumbs to his plea to come and cook for him. He picks her up at midday and they head to his. He invited a few guy friends over and she cooks for all of them. I called her up looking for somewhere to hang but she wasn't comfortable enuff to invite me to his so I told her to just be careful. As u can imagine dude still kept trying to get her into his bed. Finally he gets the message and drops her at home. Lets just say she never heard from him again. Guess he woke up and realised that his Randy Razzness wasn't gonna get him home with her that nite lol. Though the first week was odd for her cos she had gotten use to his phone calls n all, by the 2nd week she was just thankful she caught him out on time as to what his sleazy game plan was.

Hmmmm let me be real, Christine was hurt for a while cos she really thought they were building towards a relationship. She tried calling him a few times and he gave very abrupt responses like "look can I call u back? I'm in the middle of sumtin" ..... I pleaded with her to just hold on to pride. Like I said earlier he was ticking all the right boxes for her and she couldn't place her finger as to why he will only want to get down with her and not want anything more than that. The reason became clear months later..........

Christine found out that he had a live in girlfriend!!!! who was out of town for a bit and that's why he kept looking for a girl who could cook and give him bedroom deserts whilst his babe was away. She finally got to meet him and his girlfriend at Cafe Royale and he of cos blanked her (standardddd) and she just thanked God for her lucky escape.

It's a Frogs World....................