NIGERIAN UNDERGRADUATE CREATES VERNACULAR BIBLE APPLICATION FOR SMARTPHONES

A 25-year-old Nigerian undergraduate, Kayode Sowole has introduced smartphone apps with Bible available in four languages: Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa and even pidgin English. Sowole, a student of computer science at the University of Lagos, gave Nigerian smartphone users the opportunity to study the bible in their preferred language, just by one touch of a button.

According to him, with this innovation, you do not need the Internet to read the Bible. Neither do you need to bring a Bible to church. You have it in the local language of your choice on your phone. The download is currently available in four languages. While Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa app versions contain both the Old and New Testament, the pidgin version has only the New Testament.


The app development was reportedly completed last October. The inventor confessed that he got his inspiration from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, whom he calls his hero. Sowole received a million naira prize for his app at the competition launched by MTN provider, however he doesn’t seem to focus on the commercial aspect and profitability of the project now. One can download the app for free at wazobiabible.com.


According to the student, he took part in the contest to popularize his app and his skills, which yielded the expected results. Not spoilt by the fame Sowole is already working on some other app ideas applicable for the Nigerian market. “I believe I have not really achieved much. I believe we can have another Bill Gates and other IT giants among the Nigerian youths. I can be one.”

YOU COULD BE HAPPY EVER AFTER

As human beings we are often times sub-consciously selective and prefer to fall in love based on certain physical or material attribute that our object of affection possesses. If she is fresh with a firm tummy, standing breast, hour glass figure and straight legs, then she has to be the ONE or if he has six packs, looks dapper, drives a custom made car and lives in Banana Island, then he is the ONLY ONE for you; otherwise he or she can keep their love for someone else.

Everyone has some level of expectation from the person they hope to fall in love with. We all desire that special person that will show us another world we never knew existed. That one person that comes to mind whenever you listen to John Legend’s ‘All of Me’ and when it rains or snows, we always wish we were wrapped in their arms.

Setting your sights on a Drop Dead Diva or an Omo Baba Olowo is not entirely a bad idea if you ask me. An average woman should be able to appear elegant and attractive and any man going into a serious relationship should be able to support his partner. However, there is no guarantee that ending up with a very beautiful woman or a moneyed man is your one way ticket to everlasting happiness. No amount of good looks or riches can make up for all the years of emotional and physical abuse that lies ahead of you if things turn awry. Factors such as beauty or wealth in which many love relationships are built on these days, can sink within a short time. This is because these factors are mostly tailored for flings or trips and not for long lasting relationships or marriage.

Occasionally, we find that relationships these days crash even before they start flying simply because they were built on deception from the inception. True happiness in a relationship cannot be completely determined by the size of a man’s wallet or the size of a woman’s hips. Every object of our affection should be judged by whom he or she is and not entirely by their physical or material attribute. And let it never be said that we have forgotten the most fundamental objective of love which is happiness.

When you eventually fall in love, make sure his bank account or her physical endowment is not the only thing that attracts you. One of the most important reasons we often choose to fall in love is to attain a state of unimaginable joy. So we are constantly in the lookout for this wonderful person and when we find them we try to keep it in a permanent state. To find someone who makes us happy is one thing and to keep them is another thing.

We fall in love, expecting it will work itself out but it doesn’t always work out that way. Often we are faced with situations that will try to take away our happiness. Sometimes we are not well prepared or strong enough to hold on, often times we find more happiness in the arms of someone else, other times we just let the happiness go because we think that we do not deserve to be that happy and in exceptional cases we give up our happiness on the altar of ethnicity or religion.

I have felt what true love and happiness can be like and I advise that you hold onto what feels true to you. What is most important is that when the storms rage and all you have left is each other that your partner is someone you can trust absolutely. Someone that will not let go off your hand when the waves come to test the steadfastness of your love.

DEAR MR PRESIDENT, ITS TIME TO TAKE ACTION

Dear Mr. President, I must admit I am finding it difficult trying to find a good reason to write you at this critical time. But then I think it would benefit both of us if you attempt to listen to what am about to say in the course of this conversation. Remember this is between me and you.

Dear Mr. President, I am running out of patience and someday I might be forced to ask for your Patience. I hear she is the mother of the peace we have all been searching for. Has ‘Mama Peace’ heard of all the atrocities committed against ‘her children’? What kind of mother would watch whilst her children are living in fear without an attempt to put up a fight or has her strength failed her again? I want to believe she has no idea of what is going on.

Dear Mr. President, I have tried to picture you as you might have been as a young boy without shoes playing on the lonely streets of Otuoke. Did you live in so much fear and terror like my brother Mohammed in Damboa? Are you asking me why he can no longer play football with his classmates just like you did? Have you not heard that his best friend Abdullahi was hacked to death in cold blood while he slept in his hostel? Mr. President what kind of a man do you expect him to become if he survives the next slaughtering, the next suicide bomb attack and the next abduction.

Dear Mr. President, did you even hear they have taken our daughters again. I heard they took them in their hundreds while they were asleep. As a father your Excellency, I am sure you felt so much joy when you gave out your daughter in marriage sometime ago. But these little girls are your daughters too, or are they not? Do you say you do not have an idea what they are going through at the moment? If you don't bring them back now, the enemy will come for more and more. And when they take all our daughters, what will happen to our sons?

Dear Mr. President, I have heard that many years ago you were a fairly honourable and learned man, until you went to politics. You wined and dined with hypocrites who tell you to keep climbing that you will not fall. Mr. President, do you realize you are going down in history as the worst leader this country has ever had? Yet they keep clapping for you while they feed fat from your misery.

Dear Mr. President, I do not think too much of 2015. Do you expect me to vote for you? Does it matter if I vote when you have surrounded yourself with ‘do or die’ cronies? Mr. President, between me and you, what can you say you are coming back for? The last time you came, you promised us fresh air but each time we try to breathe, they blow us away. No matter the amount of promises you make, we will never believe you until we see a transformation. And time is not your friend your Excellency.

Dear Mr. President, you and your gang of media commandos can put up propaganda of how the insurgency in the country is all politically motivated but since you know the problem, kindly find a solution. You can say you are doing your best but I see nothing but more dead bodies. Tell me Mr. President who do you hold responsible for all these carnage. Just tell me one person who you think should take the blame for all these unwanton loss of innocent citizens under your watch if not you. What do you feel when you see all the lifeless bodies on the street?

Dear Mr. President, I can tell you are extremely saddened by all these unfortunate incidents, like you were when those helpless kids were killed in their sleep and the bomb blast before that and also now that our daughters have been abducted. But how long are we going to keep looking at your sad face? Mr. President, how many more will be gone before you at least know what to do?

Dear Mr. President, how do you sleep at night while most of us live with so much fear? Does it help that you live in a fortress that is fortified enough to withstand any terrorist attack? What do you feel when you look from your castle and see your people crying in the streets because they don't know who would be the next victim. I hear that they are heading down south to your kinsmen but if the rumours were true would that bother you at all? The least you can do is give us some hope that our lives will be safe tomorrow.

Dear Mr. President, what makes you the commander-in-chief and not the commander-in-speech is the single fact that your action should speak louder than your words. If all you do is sit there and make heartfelt speeches to the families of the deceased, do you not think that the enemy would see you more as a weak General. Mr. President, it is time to take action.

Dear Mr. President, Am sorry I did not introduce myself properly but I know you know me now. I am that concerned Nigerian who is not happy with the state of affairs in this country. I have a lot more to say but that would be when I can look you in the eyes.

Thank you, Mr. President for your time. I hope you found this conversation useful. And also that you realize the importance of the things that we spoke about. God bless you Mr. President.

NIGERIA BECOMES AFRICA'S BIGGEST ECONOMY

Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as Africa's largest economy after the government announced a long-overdue rebasing of the country's gross domestic product.

The new figures were announced by officials of the Nigerian Bureau of statistics on Sunday. The new calculations took into account some new sectors like telecoms, information technology, and entertainment industries that were negligible or non-existent in 1990. The Nigerian telecommunications sector is clearly the largest in Africa and the film industry alone is now worth 853.9 billion Naira ($5.1 billion) or 1.2 percent of GDP.

According the Finance Ministry, it is a clear indication that the economy was becoming more driven by the service sector. It indicates a clearer picture of Nigeria’s economic landscape, and the significant opportunity for growth and wealth creation in the Nigerian economy.

Nigeria's GDP for 2013 totaled 80.3 trillion naira, which almost doubled its gross domestic product to more than $500bn. Nigeria has been emerging as an investment destination owing to the size of its consumer market and growing capital markets.

The new GDP also moves Nigeria 11 places up to number 26 in the world ahead of countries like Austria with $394.7 billion; Venezuela with $381.26 billion as well as Columbia, Thailand, Denmark, Malaysia and Singapore among others which has $369.6 billion, $$365.96 billion, $$314.88 billion, $274.7 billion and $269.86 billion respectively.

However, Nigeria still faces an immense challenge in terms of infrastructure deficits. Slow ports, bad roads and a lack of electricity are some of the major factors hampering business activity.

UNTIL TWERKING DO US APART

When someone accepts to be friends with you, it is a privilege that they are conferring on you. In the same way, when you allow people into your life, they also have to consider your friendship a privilege too. And both parties must not take this privilege for granted.

If for any reason these privileges are misplaced, the value you place on yourself or on your friend is questioned. It’s dangerous for either party to assume that they are too elegant, witty or successful for their friends. By undermining yourself so that you can fit into the same spectrum as your friends is gullible. What is the point of being in a friendship where you cannot be your real self? There are few things as rewarding as being in a relationship were both parties have mutual respect for each other.

Life has thought me that the most enduring pleasures on earth are the simple ones. It is in those euphoric conversations you have with a classmate you have not seen after graduation but whom you know will always remain a true friend. It is in sharing the passion of an absorbing game of football with your buddies even when you guys support opposing teams. It is in listening to tales of adventures during the Biafra War from grandma or helping the missus out in the kitchen while she prepares your favourite meal. It is in playing hide and seek with your little cousins during the holiday or in preparing your daughter for her first day in school.

The people we remember with the most fondness when their thoughts cross our minds are those with whom we have had these pleasurable moments. No matter how hard we try, we cannot forget them because the happiness they have given us is eternal. In a world that is full of challenges, they have managed to keep us afloat with these irreplaceable moments.

There are few things as wonderful as being able to find comfort away from the abrasiveness of this world and step into a place where we can be ourselves with little or no inhibitions. It is in moments like this that our stars shine brightly. However, moments like this can turn out to be the worst moments of our lives when we share it with the wrong people.

My undergraduate days were some of the best moments of my life. This was long before smart phones and twerking replaced common sense. My friends and I did so many wild and crazy things in college. Things I would rather not talk about now. Till this day, each time I remember our escapades conducted in good faith and brotherliness, it leaves a lasting smirk on my face.

A few days ago, a video of two friends having a private pleasurable moment went viral on social media. Let me start by saying that I do not encourage young people to always capture very sensitive moments on electronic devices. However, I must admit it sometimes hard to resist especially when they are being cheered on by a bandwagon of manipulative friends.

The presumed culprit in the incidence has tried making a case for herself which I find even more provoking because the fact remains her innocent friend's life has been turned upside down. And the annoying thing about this is that even if she manages to pick up the pieces of what remains of her dignity, there would always be a constant reminder on the internet of the moment she let her goods out.

What is in this for the rest of us who haven't made it this far scandal wise? Its perhaps simple. Never undermine your value by allowing someone else so much privilege all in the name of friendship. And never take anyone's friendship for granted, thus shattering pleasurable moments, relationships, dreams and self worth all at once.

Have a pleasurable and scandal free weekend people.

YOU WILL ALWAYS FIND SOMEONE THAT WILL LOVE YOU

You must have at one point or the other in your relationships had misgivings that your partner was minding more than just your business. Well in this age of social media, it’s almost always the case. Many people in committed relationships tend to have pockets of extra relationship affairs scattered all over the place. Well, as long as your partner makes you feel that you are still number one, what’s the big deal with sharing their affection with others, right?

Here is the big deal, when you give your partner an inch they most likely would ask for a yard. That harmless fling with the girl down the road swiftly metamorphoses into a secret steamy affair. And all of a sudden, your number one position is soon under threat. Then your partner stops giving you the usual dose of daily affection and hardly tells you where they are going to or coming from. At this point, you can’t help but worry about the true state of your relationship.

So, what do you do when you find out your other half is warming up to someone else? Would you get all insecure and see yourself as inferior and wished you were as intelligent, wealthy or beautiful as the other person? Do you burst into hot passionate tears and hope that they both drown in your tears? Would you just accept your fate and move on because you believe that what is meant to be will always be? You can come up with a thousand reasons but is there really a satisfactory method to respond to an external threat to your territory?

There was this case of a young lady who had found out that her boyfriend of three years and four months has being conducting a private affair with a seamstress who lives in another part of town. The affair started out when she began sewing uniforms for the company he worked. And the affair gradually evolved as she took it upon herself to ensure he never ran out of nice clothes. 

The young lady in question later got wind of the affair from an inside source in the office and "Operation The Boy Is Mine" was launched. Early one Saturday morning, after the covert lovers have had a Friday night of their lives, the scorned lady shows up unannounced at the front door of their secret hideout. Both women needed no introductions and what followed next can be better summarized as a "Battle for Love" with the seamstress ending up in the hospital.

That was the young lady’s way of defending her terrain. It can be so humiliating to fight over someone who claims to love you. She could have been badly hurt and the man she so desperately wanted to have would eventually settle for another woman. I personally don’t think anyone should descend so low and fight for the love of another. To physically fight a love rival is a totally foolish thing to do.

There is never a guarantee that someone you love is going to love you in return. You cannot force someone to feel what they are not feeling no matter how hard you try. It's not advisable to have someone who loves you through guilt or manipulation. This is because the relationship will never last and you would not want to keep shedding your blood to keep them.

It's very difficult to shower your love on someone and watch it go down the drain. What to do? Count your losses, learn your lessons, wish them the best and move on. 

The most important thing in every relationship is that you love yourself so much to realize when someone is taking you for a ride. Life is too short to keep on watching and praying for the day you will be loved right back. Just keep loving yourself and you will find someone along the way who will love you as much as you love them.

Love is not by fire or by force o. Peace!

DEAR LORD, TEACH ME TO LOVE: THE FERVENT PRAYERS OF A LOVERHOLIC

Dear Lord, we all get a little lost here. The sweetened vulnerability of this love thing is petrifying. There are so many things I do not know about love. So many more I will love to know.

Today, teach me to love not just myself but the one who loves me. Teach me not just to love her in parts of her but in her perfect wholeness.

Teach me to love far beyond her physical and emotional limitations and know that I can love her completely and unconditionally. Let our love know no boundaries or seasons.

Just telling her "I love you" is not enough. Teach me to always go beyond the words. Let those feeble trifles which others see as enjoyment, be nothing to me but broken parts.

Teach me to love, teach me to be like you. Give me your heart that is full of love or I will continuously fail at this journey. Make my heart gentle and my spirit strong.

Teach my heart to love even when selfish desires in layers of lust are masquerading as true love. Help me to pay attention to those little things that matters most.

Bestow me with the honour of understanding the story behind every scar and redemption. Help me to feel her sadness and seek nothing but her greatest joy. Teach me to question her value less and love her for what she’s worth.

Teach me to love her regardless of whatever she does, good or evil. Let me see what she does and not only what she doesn’t. Teach me how to sacrifice for her, listen to her concerns and be sensitive to her needs.

If I ever get tired of loving her, remind me of how unhappy I was all the times I loved selfishly. Reduce me to love to the point where it’s impossible for me to be self-absorbed.

Teach me to take care of her in a way that she hasn’t known before. Teach me to put my hand in hers as we walk softly on this faithful voyage. No matter how long I live, may I never stop loving her.

TODAY, I WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

This morning I came across this priceless email (Originally adapted from "On the Anvil" by Max Lucado) that a friend sent me about three years ago. It’s one of the most compelling pieces I have read and I thought I should share it with you my esteemed friends.  

Today I will make a difference. I will begin by controlling my thoughts. A person is the product of his thoughts. I want to be happy and hopeful. Therefore, I will have thoughts that are happy and hopeful. I refuse to be victimized by my circumstances. I will not let petty inconveniences such as stoplights, long lines, and traffic jams be my masters. I will avoid negativism and gossip. Optimism will be my companion, and victory will be my hallmark. 

I will not let past failures haunt me. Even though my life is scarred with mistakes, I refuse to rummage through my trash heap of failures. I will admit them. I will correct them. I will press on, victoriously. No failure is fatal. It's OK to stumble. I will get up. It's OK to fail...I will rise again. Today I will make a difference.

Today I will make a difference. I will be grateful for the twenty-four hours that are before me. Time is a precious commodity. I refuse to allow what little time I have to be contaminated by self-pity, anxiety, or boredom. I will face this day with the joy of a child and the courage of a giant. I will drink each minute as though it is my last. When tomorrow comes, today will be gone forever. While it is here, I will use it for loving and giving. Today I will make a difference.

I will spend time with those I love, my spouse, my children and my family. A man can own the world but be poor for the lack of love. A man can own nothing and yet be wealthy in relationships.

Today I will spend at least five minutes with the significant people in my world. I will spend quality time talking or hugging or thanking or listening to all the beautiful people in my life. Today I will make a difference.

While I was going through this email, I realized that true friends are those who leave lasting legacies in our lives and everything you get from them has so much value. It might just take a while for us to realize so. In my case it took me close to three years to appreciate the value of this email.

As I sat on my desk pondering over what I had just read, I realized that I have made little or no difference in the last three years. In this period of time, I have had lots of ideas, fantasies, dreams, crushes, goals, cravings, relationships that didn't see the light of the day. I frequently underestimated the difference I could make in the lives of others. I have just one life and only one chance to make my life count.

And to those of you reading this, always remember that you are special and if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. That no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that you can make a difference in your immediate environment and in the world.

Today is a good day to start making a difference in the world. There is something left for you and me. I have decided that I will do whatever it takes and you should too and I pray you find the grace to make a difference.


#HappiestManInTheWorld

7 THINGS I LEARNT THE DAY MY HEART CRASHED

It’s being 12 months since our break up and I hope you finally got what you wanted.

I have gone out to the movies and had dinner with a lot of guys, some of whom were more handsome and charming than you are and a few others who were richer and were even willing to spend the rest of their lives with me. I say this only to prove that it isn’t that I can’t find men who are better than you but there was something about you. Every time I go out with them, I tell myself that the most important thing for me now is never to forget that there was you.

I cannot forget the day you said those three words. The three most unemotional words I have ever heard “It is over”. Even though I always braced for impact, those words hit me like an explosion and I thought dear life was over. In one instant my world was turned upside down. That day, I learnt 7 things about love and life that has changed the way I live and love.

1. The first thing I learnt that day as you laid by my side staring into my tears soaked eyes, was that everything can change in one moment. In the morning we had all these dreams we shared and at noon it was obvious they would never come to pass. I was disappointed by the amount of time I wasted on things that did not matter and the things I couldn’t get done because I thought I still had enough time. That day, I learnt never to postpone anything ever again.

2. That day, I realized as I watched you walk out of my bedroom leaving the pieces of my heart in your trail was that you can never really influence anyone’s decision to live their life in a way that seems right. I learnt to always eliminate negative energy from my life as soon as possible and to listen to people’s problems but don’t get too connected with it else they transfer their negative energy to me and go with my positive energy. I learnt not to lose myself trying to save someone else.

3. What also struck me that day as you slammed the door behind me as if my house was on fire was that once it doesn’t crush me, it only makes me stronger. So strong that I can no longer be broken by any force. All of a sudden the heart break was not that devastating, it almost felt like I have been rehearsing for it but it still did hurt. I really loved you and it was sad to watch you walk out of my life. And that sadness made me realize I only wished for one thing, that you would be happy. I learnt that the one thing that mattered in life was deriving joy from the happiness of others.

4. I learnt that day as you hurriedly jumped into the taxi like you were running for your life was that if you must succeed in any relationship, you must learn the fundamental law of appreciation. I learnt to always have a gratitude list and be full of thanks for the people in my life and never to take them for granted. And to try and ensure that the last thing anyone would remember me for is how well they were appreciated for everything they have done in my life, good or bad.

5. As my repeated calls to your phones went unanswered, I learnt to always acknowledge strength in my perceived weakness. I may not be perfect but am doing just fine. I have tried to live a good life and get better with every passing day. I have learnt not to be right all the time and to accept the things I cannot change. I learnt that I cannot move on if I keep regretting what has happened in my past which I cannot change. That I needed to have a greater measure of my soul under my own influence and never hold onto something that does not come from my heart.

6. I learnt that understanding is much deeper than knowledge. People know a lot of things that they do not necessarily understand. People don’t understand the importance of those little things you do for them until you stop doing them. A lot of relationships are built on emotions and without understanding they will eventually collapse.

7. Lastly, I came to understand that all men are not the same. You left the sweetest taste in my mouth but then good things don’t last forever. I learnt that it’s not enough to keep searching for the best of men but to be the greatest woman ever.

I am now a happy woman and I hope you are too.

HOME ALONE ON VALENTINE'S DAY

It's that time of the year again set aside for lover's to show how much they love their other half. I wonder what last year was like for you. Were you able to feature in your lover's plans? Here is what I am implying; as a wife, fiancée, girlfriend or mistress, were you left on the bench as a possible substitute? Did you lose the Valentine's Day trophy to a rival or maybe he went for one of those boring board meetings that last way into the dark? 

And if you lost, what did you do and what do you intend to do this year? Many women just sit and watch when they find out that they have lost out in the love game. But do you really have to resort to depression just because the man now thinks you no longer make his heart go boom boom?

I actually believe that by now every woman should know what her man is capable of. Every woman realizes that when it comes to romance, most men are not usually professionals. Or how many men do you see reading romance novels or watching telenovelas? As far as most men are concerned, such matters of excitement and mystery associated with love is not top priority. Your best chance of scooping some romantic treats out of your man is whilst he is still knocking on the door of your heart.

In some cases, that moment he walks you down the aisle, real romance dies. Please don't get me wrong, a handful of men still find time to indulge their wives in the Valentine's Day rituals while others choose to forget. And trust them to come up with a thousand reasons to their defense. 

So, if you are one of those women whose boyfriends or husband did not give a treat and you have resorted to wailing and gnashing your teeth, I think you are deceiving yourself. Why should you let him see your tear-streaked face? Even if you feel left out, don’t let him see it. If he decides not to give you a treat on lovers’ day; then, so be it. But, please be nice about it and let the pay back be unsuspecting.

I am not trying to call out our men here but am just giving the women a defense-mechanism against the tough realities of life and love. There is an African proverb that says; since the hunter has learnt to shoot without missing, the bird has also learnt to fly without perching. So women out there, on no account, should it be perceived that you are staging a valentine revenge.

Well, here is a story of a woman who decided to make her valentine's day memorable, despite her husband's inattention. Maybe you can learn a thing or two from it. 

I have been with my husband for about eight years now and for six years as a married couple. For the last four years, he has come up with one excuse or the other why he couldn’t spend Valentine’s Day with me or even buy me a gift on that day. So I decided that since my husband has intentionally stopped marking the Valentine's Day, I would find a solution rather than sit in the house and be frustrated.

I always had this self-pity thing going on but last year I decided that all that would be a thing of the past. So, when, a few days before Valentine's Day, my husband told me he had a management meeting on February 14th, I became indifferent. I quickly planned with a colleague to swop shifts with her. 

That day, I decided to do the night shift. I simply left a note for my husband that one of my colleagues on night duty fell seriously ill and I had to stand-in for her. He didn’t like the idea of me doing night duty at all. He always complained that he hated coming home to a cold bed. Well, if I have been warming his bed for six years and I still don’t qualify as his Val, then I won’t warm it on February 14 period. Not again unless he does the needful.

My colleagues gave me a well deserved treat at work that night. We had a little office party and I thoroughly had the fun of my life. By the time I got back home early the next morning, my husband looked like he had just woken up from a nightmare. I tried to smoothen out his ruffled feathers but deep down in my mind I knew I had put one past him.

This year, you will not believe my darling husband woke me up this morning asking what my plans were for the day. "Am not sure honey, why do ask"? I replied with all the insouciance of a seasoned workaholic. Then, in a moment of breathtaking innocence he said he would like me to accompany him to a boat party later that evening. 

I was shocked and at the same time excited because I could never have imagined he would attend such a party considering how busy he always seemed. I stopped short of asking him how he got the invite but I rather announced that I can't attend because I had nothing befitting for the occasion. My face went from dismay to ecstatic joy when the man pulled out a beautiful Maxi Bandeau dress and black leather footwear to go with it from a shopping bag and handed them over to me.

"Where did you get this from" I asked stylishly. He explained that he knew the woman he was married to and that he had got them on his way from work, just in case I came up with an excuse. At this point, my poor husband looked so pathetic that I had to pull the plug and agreed to be his Val.

Well, so what can I say? I still could not believe this was the man I have being with in the last four years. He has been calling me all day, just to make sure there was no last minute change in plans. He even sent flowers to my office, and trust me I will not let this opportunity slip away without possessing my possession. 

My phone is ringing again and am sure it's my val. Ciao!