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On When life gives you tangerines

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  Kdrama should never make such a series like this again, this is the hardest series I've seen. And it's not even the one with the most tragedy (a lot of saeguk will it give it run for its money). But it's the rawness of it. The realism that's embedded in each of the episodes. We watched them grow from childhood with dreams, to adulthood with optimism. And we saw life beat them over and over and over. We saw the harshness of life sap some light out of their eyes. But through it all, we still saw unwavering tenderness between our two MCs.  We saw them trudge trudge through parenthood, more financial crisis. We saw them evolve, regrets in middle age and we saw them pick up their dreams again. We saw them find pleasures and contentment, making do with the situation they'd been served by life.  This was a masterpiece of being alive and I didn't even know when a tear escaped my eyes in the last episode cos why was this so heartbreaking, tear-jerking, and whimsical at...
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On Dancing for the Devil

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  For someone like me that had fallen prey for brainwashing 419, I can totally get how people become brainwashed to religious cults. Especially if you're doing it for "supposed protection" of your family. The craziest thing about this documentary is that the religious audio snippets by the cult leader is probably the least impressive thing you'd ever listen to. Like the very least, bottom barrel. Okay maybe I'm just biased to never take anything that is covered under the umbrella of religion as trustworthy but this is just crazy. Like literally, once I hear men of God, my brain just screams "Grain of salt. Take this with a full spoon of salt." So you're telling me that you're a Christian, and you read your bible and someone is telling you they're the only way to God and you believe it? My heart goes out to the victims though.
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On Court of Gold

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Oh this is an amazing amazing documentary.  I started off by rooting by Team France. By episode 5, I was on Team Serbia (rooting for the underdog and shit). But after team USA defeated Serbia, and by episode 6 for the finale, I couldn't help but cheer for Team USA. I watched the finals live but rewatching the highlights, that was a phenomenal game  Team USA is so arrogant, it grated on my nerves. But I mean why wouldn't they have that confidence?. They've won this gold for 4 times consecutively before the 2024 game. Others would chant their country's name before a game, and team USA was chanting "GOLD." Like not for once did it cross their minds they could actually get silver. It is Gold or nothing. I felt so bad for France. In their own country, and team USA defeated them in both the men and females for finals. I'm shaa looking forward to 2028 Olympics. I know it'd even be more obnoxious since it'd be in the United States. 
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On anointing and Vertigo

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  Personally, I believe What usually causes that supposed anointing is vertigo. That's how one prayer house put a leg for me cos I refused to fall under their anointing. A na-ekwu that I never liked going out, then we were always going to different churches and ministries to my absolute annoyance. I can never forget when I was going to church in my first year and the pastor said to hold your neighbour and prophesy to them. Normally, I've never gotten the fruit of the spirit in my life so I did nothing and continued praying. This girl that held my hand started guessing different things. I kept telling her, "nah, nothing like that in my life. No one in my relative lived in so and so place. Sorry, that's not about me." It was definitely awkward. To my shock, after this prophecy session, pastor actually said on the pulpit, "if you didn't get it correctly this time, keep trying. You'll get the hang of it." I was stunned cos is it guesswork they were w...
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On Dinosaurs and human existence

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  Fascinating. Dinosaurs went extinct 60+ million years ago. The bible history as we know it is only 6000 years ago. It blows my mind. I believe there are definitely other species in the galaxies that human beings haven't discovered yet (and hopefully we shouldn't). And the question (for me at least) has never been about whether there is God (or supernatural being). The question is whether this being is interested in with human beings affairs, as as plebeian as we are. Probably not. We're most likely left to our devices and maybe this being chimes in when he is bored.  All I'm saying is that prayer is not going to help Nigeria. It doesn't matter if you're able to pray for 12 hours like that church in my first year wanted. Even the audacity of a church member to ask me why I didn't attend. Like me chinenye, pray for 12 hours, Is it ment??  Once he asked me that stupid question, I never went back to that church again. Kmt
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On Scandal (the series)

Just in the first scene of Annalise Keating walking into that classroom and writing "How to get away with murder" on the blackboard, you already know you're in for a ride. By the end of the first episode with that death scene, you're sold. In Grey's Anatomy first episode when Meredith got to the hospital and saw that Derek Shepherd, the man she slept with the previous night was an attending. Then by the end of season one when we found out he was actually married, the gaggery. As a viewer, you literally went Holy shit with her. Unless your phone was at 1%, nothing would stop you from starting the next season immediately. The last scene for Scandal season 1 was the most anticlimactic reveal I've seen in the history of series endings. I literally hissed, turned off my data and went to sleep. I managed to start season 2 to know if I'll be hooked, I'm still not feeling Olivia Pope. She had been having an affair with the president candidate and shinning tee...
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On reading and Imagination

Now this is the weird thing I never realised till now, I don't really conjure scenes when I read. Like when I saw the Maze runner movie, Harry Potter, Shadowhunters, Twilight for the first time, I just went in for the story. The setting being in line with the books is the least part of what I consider.   I was hyper focused on the words and storyline. The imagination part of indulging in books isn't for me. I will always choose the authors writing style first and foremost before the plot. That's why I really didn't enjoy that "Broken, a halal love story." I didn't like the authors writing style. It wasn't flowing for me (or maybe I'm excessively nickpicky).  The lead character is great, but the author's writing style is too descriptive to the point of ridiculousness, I think she was trying too hard so reading that didn't quite feel natural for me. While reading, I always check new words that I don't understand from the context. I need t...
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