things that baffle Judith.....

Things that baffle Judith.... Your phone rings in church - yep Jesus is definitely calling to tel u his coming...... 'soon' You carry your charger come Sunday mass and your checking it every 5-10 mins in-case u have missed calls, sms's or pings- yep Jesus hasn't forgotten he'l definitely call, (that's if u haven't gotten a missed call from him already) As bad as e be u decided not to put your phone on silent it rang out loud and u answered to tell d person "I'm sorry I'm in church I'll call u back " - yep pretty sure Jesus was testing u to see if u would lie, his still going to call 'soon' U go outside to ans call, yep God can wait this call is very important after all Jesus just mite call soon and it just may be him disguised as another caller (i believe he has d power to take other forms). Sitting in d front row of mass trying to unwrap tom tom and chewing gum silently (not possible by d way)then popping it in ur mouth some mins before communion... yeah u need that minty fresh breath/taste wen receiving communion. Wearing shades in church.... the glory of God mite blind you after all prevention is beta Dan cure. **these are some few things I've seen, maybe it's just me cos my cousin Moenyok says I see weird things, lol, abi! is it normal?

NIGERIAN/ABU. upbringing

So I had been seeing all these posters around saying there's some life drawing class on d 16th. Now I was pretty much excited cos finally something practical to do besides needed to sharpen my life drawing skills which had gone sour *BTW* i went out with my friend in d rain to buy a sketch pad tho i tried to convince him to come 4 d drawing he refused. Then i had asked my other course mate if she'd come and she said yes(:D ) . So d time came I went there with my Nigerian/ABU mindset of a class of over 40 students whom have bonded over time, clicks have been made, friends have been picked, relationships being built some grudges held etc so I went expecting to see one young madame Alice seated with her agbada motionless and still quiet all through or was it quite d opposite of madame Alice "unsteady Aminu" that will just take of his shirt pose and take cigarette breaks almost every 5 mins. and when he was tired and wanted a break he sometimes would just get up unapologetic-ally and go, he'd be gisting while posing turning around as I said a bit unsteady. life drawing class 4 me was .... please let's not go there I'd rather not talk about it) *hehehhehe escape* so I walked into class, there was my course mate i felt a bit relaxed and some 3 other students i didn't know. I found a place to sit opened my brand new sketch pad and began smoothing it out (I almost kissed it) and whispered silently to it 'for being quite expensive you'd better give me my money's worth'. Meanwhile as I was having that brief moment with my sketchpad some student had walked in and started taking off his shoes, then socks......., immediately my attention turned to him, that must b d model I thought but y is he taking off his SHOES then SOCKS then SHIRT then JEANS (i silently said in my head 'pls don't, pls don't') then..... OMG! his BOXERS came off. I stood still 4 a minute, where I come from (Nigeria/ABU) this has never happened, u learn anatomy by d books. This kind of things you only get to see in art movies or u hear about it. I stroked my sketchbook not knowing where to start from but then d 1st pose was for 10 mins I hadn't gone far wen d time was up and had to change position I was still in quite a bit of surprise. But before long I got used to it maybe because no 1 else felt uneasy about it not even my geeky course mate that was there, then there was like an intimate connection between d model and we drawing. Rather Dan seeing a nude man we saw lines, shapes and forms. Well though I still struggle with my life drawing I'm hoping to improve and looking forward to more life drawing classes.

Thoughts

As he walked through the door, I knew he was an igbo boy. Tall, light skinned, sculptured broad shoulders, a few cubic angles that gave him an edge or should I say made him look edgy (donno what that word means but i like to use it). I always think I know igbo men just from their physique, so far I've been wrong a couple of times but Boy was he finnnneee! ;) I figured if he asked for anything say like a pen, I'd throw myself at him and whisper lovingly "USE ME". It was some fun thoughts I had in the bank today as I sat waiting for my turn in line bored to death from the endless wait. Too bad no one came through the door like dat but then it's amazing how our imaginations can create, stretch and visualize perfection in an imperfect world. Perfection is almost unattainable and if our minds can visualize perfection something quite so unattainable to an extent to which the word was created for, then the bridge between our minds and getting to that almost perfect state, must be called 'WORK OF ART' in process