Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The Highlands

When I was getting dressed that afternoon I had every intention of clashing prints, I was going to do an animal print top with the tribal print pants. When I tried it, my mirror nearly reached out and slapped me, the effect was jarring, I hanlele'd out of that top sharply and put on the plain black shirt instead, my only concession to print clashing was my animal print bag. Its not every trend that should be imitated.



I've lived in Scotland for a little over 6 months but the farthest I've been is Dyce where the airport is. I sort of resigned myself to the fact that Aberdeen is dead so if I wanna hang out properly or have fun I'd have to leave town. Seeing as I'm on holiday for the next 4 months I've resolved to explore Scotland properly, or at least do more stuff here.

This gargantuan level of joblessness led me to google "things to do in Aberdeen", that's how I found the Highland Games on Sunday.

According to Wikipedia the Highland games are events held throughout the year in Scotland and other countries as a way of celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture and heritage, especially that of the Scottish Highlands. Its really interesting, its centred on competitions in piping and drumming, dancing, and Scottish heavy athletics and also includes entertainment and exhibits related to other aspects of Scottish and Gaelic culture.

I barely even watched any of the competitions, I was more interested in the fair aspect, the rides, performances, candy floss....






I managed to rope in my friends Danielle, Craig and Dimi




Candy floss has seriously stepped up, when I used to get it as a child, it used to come out of some machine and they'd put a stick in the middle and the floss will wind itself round the stick, now it comes in buckets. Hella disappointing, I felt like it took away from a proper fair experience.

















We didn't hang around for long though, we were there for tops, 2 hours. One thing that was really weird were the 'looks' we were getting. I thought I was the only person noticing them at first, but my friend Dimi was like she was getting the "nigger" vibes too. There were probably over a thousand people there that day and its safe to say there were only about 15 black people on that field, maybe even less. Every single black person we saw however was with a white person, maybe a husband or a wife, we were the only black people that were rolling strictly African, with no Caucasians to cushion the impact of our "blackness". Living in Aberdeen you get used to the overpowering vanilla presence, we're outnumbered at least 8 to 1 but I've never had a single racial experience in all the time I've been here, not even a side-eye (at least to my knowledge). That day though it was like they thought we were coming to invade, the stares were alarmingly blatant, like full on double takes, it was so weird. I mean these are the same people ewe go to school with and live with and do business with but I don't know if its because we were at such a white event and they were surprised that black people could be interested in a Scottish festival or that I just managed to catch the underlying racism that had been simmering below the surface all along.

All in all I was totally weirded out and kinda happy when we left before a fight broke out somewhere or something and the security people start searching for the black people.


From there we went to the mall to see Bad Teacher with Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake and Jason Lewis, Danielle and Dimi didn't like it but I thought it was ok. It had a sort of quirky humour to it, it won't win any awards but its a fun movie and Cameron Diaz's wardrobe is savage throughout, her body is the business. Plus I really love JT as an actor, I wish he'd do more music but he's a pretty badass actor, I mean as Sean Parker in The Social Network he gave a totally bitching line "A million dollars isn't cool, you know what's cool? *in Eduardo Saverin voice* "a billion"....

Damn, Aaron Sorkin can write a hell of a script.





Yesterday my friend Joke came into town from Wales, according to her compared to her town Treforest in Wales, Abz is like London. I totally found a new appreciation for my city while I took her round, its weird how things you see everyday take on a new importance when you're viewing it through a strangers eyes. Obviously Abz decided to gawk itself and embarrass me thoroughly by raining the entire day, I mean, non-stop rain from morning till night-time, I couldn't believe it. We managed to get all our shopping done though, or rather she managed to get all her shopping done, my debit card is on hiatus, the damage I've done recently deserves some kind of shopping rehab.















Stopped off at TGI Fridays to have dinner where we met up with another friend who was in town from Nigeria. That's why I love people visiting from Nigeria, none of this splitting the bill nonsense, Guys who come from back home will handle that bill and even ask you if you want some to go. Unlike these ones we have here that have learned oyibo bad habits and have the liver to be dividing bills. Thank God our paths don't cross.


Trust I handled my lems like a pro.







Leaving for Landan this weekend to hang with my nearest and dearest, Himself is in town, my loves Ediri, Nwabugo, Erenma, Adanna, Hilda, Shally..........messy is too tame a word to describe the weekend I'm about to have. Epic should be more like it.


On that note I leave you with this incredible video I saw last night of the MBGN screening process. When I saw the video the contestants made when they were telling people to vote for them, I was shocked at the girls, like is this the best 36 they could get out of all the contestants they auditioned? My people by the time I saw this video below, I started hailing the contestants that were picked, ndi asanwa. These girls in this video should be placed in a museum and observed, I cannot believe girls like this exist in Nigeria.

The last one is just the highest, her phoneh is the most amazing thing I've ever heard, her phoneh deserves its own seat on a plane, hell it deserves its own passport. Absolutely terrifying.





Love and light xxx

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20 comments

  1. "These girls in this video should be placed in a museum and observed, I cannot believe girls like this exist in Nigeria.

    The last one is just the highest, her phoneh is the most amazing thing I've ever heard, her phoneh deserves its own seat on a plane, hell it deserves its own passport"

    LMAO :D

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  2. LOL @ 'none of this splitting the bill nonsense, Guys who come from back home will handle that bill and even ask you if you want some to go. Unlike these ones we have here that have learned oyibo bad habits and have the liver to be dividing bills. Thank God our paths don't cross.'

    I wish I had your luck,Im stuck with the sharing crowd:)

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  3. This video is too hilarious! It's not been making the rounds for nothing lol. Haha at your stories, especially the first one- the mirror slapped you shey? lol

    Adiya

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  4. This MBGN vid? Seizure inducing stuff walahi.
    What i need is whatever those girls have been drinking that gave them the self-confidence to even buy form, talkless of show up for the audition.

    Sadly though this just goes to show that there are several nigerians who really sound like this

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  5. What are your statistics!!!! lololololol!!!! You are hilarious!!!


    have fun in londres!!!

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  6. Too hilarious, yayyyy see you soon :)

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  7. Glasgow is the Scottish town to be!

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  8. Looolll at bill splitters.. You're def gonna have a splendid weekend (awwwwww ;)..).

    There's so much more to be seen in Scotland btw...just got back from a 5-day trip: All em Castles, waterfalls and amazing nature gifts. Edinburgh, Loch ness and Inverness were awesome...did archery in the highlands as well.

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  9. I lived in Treforest for a year and trust me I can count how many times I actually stayed there lol.... Cardiff and London were always calling!!!!

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  10. Lol at the video,

    I saw a guy yesterday at the supermarket, he was also trying to use the self checkout and he needed help. I COULDNOT hear a word of what he said, all I heard was 'compurrer' and 'faulthy'. Good times

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  11. lol @ nigerian guys going abroad n learning oyinbo bad habits. share bill with u? maka y?. Dats one of d reasons i still love our home grown guys. they dont xpect u 2 do d cheque dance.
    nice read as usual. xx

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  12. oh yes!, naija men abroad have forgotten their manly duties, tsk tsk!..as for mbgn, I caught a seizure from laughter and shock! I thought the girls picked to contest were a disgrace, but after watching this video i had to refrain from thinking such!, like even the english i've heard in my village trumps these girls any day, Chineke dey sha...on the bright side, the video serves as my daily dose of laughter for now.

    HHHenjoy london ooo!

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  13. hahaha. This whole MBGN thing = Jokes galore.

    Hmmm I couldnt help but notice how flawless your face looks!:) Pls, what kinda foundation have you got on?

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  14. Lol@ her phoneh deserves a seat on the plane....
    Nice one girl...xxx

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  15. Ah you beat me. I was about to put that video up on my blog...I call that wonderful lady LionGirl and her incomprehensible roars totally made my day.

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  16. Your post remind me of my time in Dundee! Absolute vanilla! My first week I was terrified of going out no chocolate in sight! Unbeknownst to me they were centrally located in the Oil & Gas program and row together which I wasn't in. I almost whooped with joy the first time I saw a chocolate face!

    I miss those Scottish fairs though, I certainly don't miss the weather! Absolute misery. Find time to visit Edinburgh & Glasgow, squeeze in a visit to St. Andrews too. Tiger Woods was there last summer for the World Champion. Nice. Enjoy your summer.

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  17. you look cute..wonderful blog...the gist is superduper

    mixesandtwists.blogspot.com

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  18. "Unlike these ones we have here that have learned oyibo bad habits and have the liver to be dividing bills. Thank God our paths don't cross."

    I resent the above statement!

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