simply oroque's view

so this morning i put up the following facebook status: "my very own Meryl Streep finally wins a long overdue "Best Actress" Oscar! woohoo! but why is it that all the black women who win oscars have to be fat (minus halle berry) and play degrading roles? monique, jennifer hudson and now octavia spencer. the angry black woman syndrome is alive and well, clearly. shame" as everyone probably knows by now, i would watch a movie with meryl streep in it even if all she does is sleep throughout the movie. i am that addicted to this woman's acting prowess. i feel blessed every single time i realized that i lived to see real acting and not the crap that beyonce everyone does these days by way of 'acting'. for context, please find below the women i referred to in my status:   monique in "precious"  monique winning oscar  jennifer hudson in "dream girls" jennifer hudson winning oscar   octavia spencer in "the help" octavia

i've been tired lately. like super brain drained and weak as soon as its noon; and no, i don't eat pounded yam for lunch. to cut the long story short, i had to find motivation to go through the day today. i find that some days, no matter how much you have to do, or how hard you push, you just cannot get yourself to do any useful work (hi boss!). and so, i decided to write a few reviews about my trip earlier this year. i find tripadvisor.com to be a very useful site for travellers... the reviews and experiences of older travellers make it near impossible for you to get in trouble at your travel location...but it also makes you paranoid of the locals cos some people have had mad nasty experiences. in trying to get the pictures to attach to my review, i stumbled on the following pictures i have gathered over the years from the internet (i didn't take the pictures and do not own them in any way) and i couldn't help thinking about how much foolishness exists on this one pl

"thats how" (and its pidgin english version - 'na so') is a phrase that you often hear when people are narrating an event where the conclusion does not support the trail of the narrative. you know, when everything is going in one direction and you have almost predicted that you have no worries in the world, only for some dramatic event to step in and change all that. so, for example, imabong the housegirl will be telling the gate man how she was just having a blissful day and 'washing madam cloth for inside baff come dey sing mariah carey by myself, na so oga just come dey shout for my head say if i wake baby ehn, i go pack my load go village this night'. get it? often times, in nigeria, "thats how" stories often end with "see me see wahala", but thats another topic for another day. when we said happy new year at the beginning of 2012, i had no premonition whatsoever that there would be nothing but drama from the word go. the world was p