ASO EBI PALAVA!

So, it's December again and I'm sure a lot of us have a million weddings to attend, and in Nigeria you may have to buy aso ebi, right? Aso ebi is  an outfit  guests wear to an event perhaps to give them a uniformed look? It's been our tradition for ages.  Celebrants select an outfit their guests and family should wear(it's not compulsory but you might look odd if you don't wear it cause everyone would be wearing it or you might not be allowed into the party) Yes! Some celebrants have crazy rules!  Yesterday, a friend of mine was sulking about the whole 'aso ebi' thing. My dear friend is 'miss popular'  so she has over 12 weddings and somehow she has  had to buy not just the aso ebis but she's on 5 different  the  trains, lol! Meaning she had to pay for the bridesmaid dresses also(I no envy her o!)  She goes 'Bisodun I'm broke, all my money has gone on aso ebi' next thing I knew she started tearing up. I couldn't believe she was crying. She said she had spent over a hundred thousand on aso ebis this December alone and is still in debt.

Okay here's my thing, firstly some aso ebis are ridiculously expensive and you see that's the problem a lot of guests have with purchasing aso ebis? Dear Brides, you know what your friends can afford, so why use an aso ebi worth tens of thousands? There are certainly cheaper prettier aso ebis out there, no one is going to know whether your aso ebi was thirty grand or three grand! It's called taste! Secondly, 'Eyin iyawos' don't think your friends are stupid o, we know the market price of that 'ankara' o! Why over inflate the price? God is watching you in 10D o!!!! Even if you want to put 'fisi' do it reasonably! Pity us now, we are still going to pay Baba Ranti to sew one mad style for us now! Pity us. Thirdly,  sisters out there, it is not a must, I repeat, it is not a must to buy aso ebi o!!!!!!! Please don't go owing money or begging for money because you want to buy aso ebi. A lot of us ladies are guilty of this. 'Gbese' here and there! Let's be bold enough to say ' I love you my dear friend, but i can't afford your aso ebi'.  I'm not Saying people should be malicious and unnecessary reluctant to buy aso ebis o, if you have money please support your friend! And if you don't have, please don't buy,  dont go incurring debts, cause your friend will be the one to suffer for it if you don't pay for her aso ebi you rocked so well that you graced the front cover of those style magazines.

A cousin who got married six years ago said some of her friends haven't still paid for the aso ebi they bought, she has two kids now, and the aso ebi was just two thousand?????? 

Whats your aso ebi palava? Please drop a line!

To be continued............

CATCH 22

What's your crazy tale???

Here's mine

Well, my life has been pretty much straight forward, but one incidence I'll never forget is what happened when I was ten. Till date, it's the craziest thing I've ever had to do! I was vacationing with my family in the UK. My dad told my big cousin(about 18) and I to go print out photos at kodak. So while we waiting for the pictures(which by the way felt like forever) my cousin calculated the money and realized there was change for a burger and fries at mcdonalds! Oh Lawd! Mcdonalds? I could eat their fries even if it fell into a gutter! Thats how much i loved it. We did not mind sharing one burger o!,it was luxury for us back then!) Watching my cousin separate the coins from the notes, made me super excited. The coins were for our burger and fries. For me this was amazing, buying mcdonalds without waiting on mummy or daddy???? I was so excited. We rushed down to mcdonalds which was across kodak, and had a lovely meal. Smiling sheepishly, we made our way back to Kodak to pick up the photos and then we were slapped with a bill way more than what we had baragained for. Chineke! i almost wet my pants. We began to panic. My cousin looked at me, I looked at her. She looked at me again, and I looked at her also.
'Biso, what will we do?' She asked teary-eyed.
;I don't know', I mumbled innocently like a child that i was.
And then... My cousin suggested the craziest thing ever, she said we would have to beg for the balance. I think it was just 75 pence we needed. Beg ke? God forbid! But Omo mehn! We had no choice!
So, little Bisodun went round the streets of London begging for money. Luckily, people felt sorry for me because i was a little child, they handed me chicken feed, some 1 penny, some 5. At last we got our money ready, in fact more than what we needed sef. 90 pence!.
The sad part was that we couldnt pay out transport fare, but trust us now, omo naija, we legged it o! Even though it took us forever.
Atleast we had our photos! Praise the lord! Hallelujah!!!!!!!


What's the craziest thing you've done? pleas drop a line!!!!