‘Be careful what you wish for, ’cause you just might get it all, and then some you don’t want’ – Daughtry (Home) At times we get fixated on achieving our goals we forget to consider probable aftermaths they might elucidate. I did not give so much thought to the emotional burden that comes with moving across continents. I knew I had …
2022 was the year of album releases from big names, but as always I’m not one to pander to commercially successful albums. I choose my art based on the connection I have with it. Maybe this is my subtle disclaimer that my Top album list is very personal to me and not based on popular metrics used in rating albums, …
First off, I’m very happy this Year-end review was written from Australia. I got my wish to spend my birthday this year and also cross into the New Year in a different country. I came into 2022 continuing with my decision the prior year to overhaul my life and create better opportunities for myself. My major goal for the year …
I stopped updating this journal to release myself of the need to prove I had made the right career move. It began to feel like I was trying to control my life events and make them seem aspirational. It is fine to track progress, but when it became sort of pressure, Me trying too hard to prove changing jobs was …
I did a thing, something I wasn’t sure I’ll have the courage to do. I left my job for another bank. I chose to live one of my greatest fears, and true to it, it’s turning out to be the next hardest thing I have done since summiting Mount Kilimanjaro. It has always been my desire to leave the banking …
August 26, 2013 (Lagos State) – I woke up super early, half excited and half frightened. That day was the beginning of my career journey at Access Bank Plc. I had gone through the interview process, learned patience while waiting to be called for training school, went through the rigorous training school, and was ready to begin a banking career I had …
“Sometimes your life feels like a broken rollercoaster A thousand useless moving parts…” – Look up (Joy Oladokun) I came into the New Year with the mindset that this was the year of me taking less-traveled roads in my life. 2022 felt like a game-changing year that’ll come with early wins which will set the pace for how the year …
2021 was quite a distracting year for me. I spent most of the year trying to survive personal financial losses, as such I wasn’t quite vested in exploring music. For once, music wasn’t exactly a very good escape (that’s how bad the year was for me). Still, the below albums saw me through dark times, especially the album that occupies …
2021 was nothing short of suffocating. I’m used to having one or two challenging months during a year, but the past year felt like a constant turmoil month on month. Starting from the accident I had in January which resulted in PTSD, to when things legit started falling apart ending May and from then on, almost everything practically kept going …
This is the first time since 2012 when I started maintaining this blog I didn’t post in consecutive months. I wanted a month off, but it dragged into three months. It could have extended to four or more, the plan was to give myself as much time as I needed. Before, I’d post song lyrics helping me through the dark …