I've tried repeatedly to upload some pictures as promised but simply can't get round it. Sorry guys, we tried. I ended up putting the wrong one instead. I'll appreciate if one of the moderators kindly deletes the uploaded pix to enable me download a better one. Best regards, Ra

Well, hello everyone.

I doubt if anyone here now remembers me or knows that I was ever an active member here. It really doesn't matter. I was probably one of the founding members of Nairaland in 2005. I am logging back in after such a long time, 3 years almost. I feel compelled to commend Seun, the website administrator and the moderators who are working together with him to make Nairaland what it is.

Seun, I am particularly posting this message in recognition of your contribution to my life. Immense contribution, I dare say. I'll cut the notoriously long story short. I met someone on Nairaland 3 years ago and was convinced he was the ONE!!! It involved a lot of traveling back and forth for both parties as the gentleman in question lived, and still does, to the best of my knowledge, in the States. Well, anyway, he most certainly was NOT the one! It thankfully took less than 6 months to realise that, they were the most turbulent 6 months ever!!!

In a completely twisted yet fortunate stroke, I met, actually physically met in Las Vegas while on holiday someone else who had also at some point, now get this, being registered on Nairaland! The most unlikely match ever on earth. We have been married now for close to a year! I am fully confident in saying that it is absolutely impossible for me to be happier with anyone else on earth or for him to have possibly had a better help mate or match. We have both added each other's families into our lives and those families have wonderfully accepted each other. We got married in Ibadan, where his father came down to ask for my hand in marriage from my wonderful mother.

It's a long story and I can only beg your forgiveness (anyone reading this) that I am unable to go into the full story here and now. But I'll give you something better, I will, provided I remember how, post a picture of us both , I'll also give you his user ID when he was a member for so brief a time. He was, as evident from his few postings, and still is a terribly interesting person with a fantastic sense of humor. He is the most wonderful husband and the most adoring father!!!! His user Id? Trooper He is right beside me as I type this and like me, is saying a big thank you to Seun for orchestrating, albeit unbeknown to him, our union!

All the best everyone.

Ra

@Saintjoe..... how sad....

Yet how accurate, how true... how disheartening!

More like lust at first sight, if you ask me

nike4luv, nice attempt darling, I'm dead proud of you, I am. However there's a concluding part missing and I'm waiting for IAH to finish it.

Hot-angel....... Owe leshin oro, oro l'eshin owe, ti oro ba sonu, owe la fi nwa

Some of my faourites of all time remain:

Rattle Snake 1,2 and 3
Violated 1& 2
Oleku
T'Oluwa Ni Ile
Diamond Ring
Glamour Girls 1&2
Shaworo Ide 1&2
Ale Ariwo 1,2&3

Those are brilliant films properly so called.

@IAH, I dare say my Yoruba is flawless, spoken/written. You see, I am excessively proud of my heritage, such as it is, I love everything Yoruba, remember, I hail from Ibadan ....' Ni ile Oluyole, ibi ti Ole ti n jare ohun olohun'......

I personally think it's sad that most children these days are denied the pride that comes with understanding the depth of ones language and wealth of their culture. They all seem to think the English Language is superior to their mother tongue. I find that attitude insufferable. As Lagbaja rightly said...'how many Oyinbo sabi your language?'. Wherever I settle in life, within or outside Nigeria, my children must not only speak Yoruba, they must also speak their father's language (he is from another part of Nigeria ) and definitely without any exagerated accent that suggests they are foreigners speaking a backward language. Lailai!

Anyways, if you promise not to cheat i.e seek help from others, let's start a proverb competition......

Pari owe yi...... afe a je ma fe a yo...............

@ Hot-angel......Nice attempt, love . The proverb goes......

Omo to ba ni iya oun ko ni sun, oun na ko ni fi oju ba orun.

(A child who says his/her mother will not sleep will equally know no sleep)

In which case he would appear to be on honeymoon (with which one of the sisters? I wonder) seeing as he's a bit of a scarce commodity around here now.

Just messing about, don't mind me.

Sexual Healing.... MG

What a perfectly sad summation.

Tunde (Lighthouse Family).... Passing the Hours

The second part of the sentence was me being silly. Get it now?

I stand corrected sholley.... it might very well be nightmares......

hot-angel..... you conduct better research on this if it's of any importance to you. While you're at it, check out why Indian families are more prone to hereditary diseases than most other races.......Geez! Can it possibly be because they are fond of keeping it in-house, so to speak? I wonder

Thanks WesleYanA.... I'll go one step further and say their offsprings WILL be prone to many genetic defects and diseases. It's worth reading up on for those who see nothing wrong in what is called consanguinity and affinity.

If that's the case, then I'm happy for you both .

I rest my case.... whatever makes people happy, taking into cognizance however the unnecessary spread of family and hereditary diseases.

I guess everybody is because it's well outside the boundaries of what is considered normal in our culture and tradition. As for these guys in the Western world, you'll be amazed how many of them have carnal knowledge of their daughters and step-daugters, should we also follow their examples and do like-wise? I think not!

If your partner does not believe in your dreams, I hate to burst your bubbles but you have no business dating such a person. It may not last or amount to anything overtly meaningful.

I'm sorry babe. Promise to take it easy

Well put angela K, very well put!

Unconditionality (if there's any such word)...... provided the recipient is worthy.