Wednesday 14 September 2011

BROGUES,FLATS...SUMMER’S LIKE SOOO YESTERDAY!

    It’s that time of the year again, time to do away with flip-flops, tank tops, nudity and any other ‘summerish’ items of clothing and footwear. I’d always wanted to invest in a pair of Brogues but I just never came around to it really. Okay truth is I honestly couldn’t be bothered, see I’m the kind of person that would go to lectures in her jammies (well, something close to that.lol) or run down to the corner store with her bendy rollers still stuck in her hair…anyway you get my point…

So, in the process of upgrading my wardrobe to accommodate the new rubbishy weather, I thought I’d invest in a pair. I’ve been seeing the Brogue thingies around lately and I used to think they were ugly but lo and behold!, they really are comfy….*winks*

Did you know that Brogues, originally from Scotland and Ireland, were strictly meant for outdoor and country walking back in the early twentieth century? Back then, it was considered inappropriate for social or business occasions. They were originally made from untanned leather with holes at the sides to drain water when the wearer walked along wet surfaces etc yadi yadi ya! (Me and my research skills,ha!) Fast-forward a million and a half years later, it’s now a must-have item (or something). You can rock em anywhere, even to work, wherever really…you dig?
Don’t you just love how fashion can be so old and yet so new at the same time… fantastic!
So, wrap up guys, and be comfy!
And here’s how I plan to do just that…

                                                  Brogues - Peacocks
                                                  Leather Look Ballet Pumps - boohoo.com
                                                 

Later y'all,
FNLP xoxo

Sunday 4 September 2011

#BEYDAY!!!


   Okay I feel this is totally necessary and just for the sake of it. Yes because she really is that special and I absofrigginlutely adore her style!!!. The beautiful and very talented Beyonce turns 30 today and with a baby (hopefully a girl…hehe) on the way, what better way to turn 30 really, no?
    She has definitely come a long way and she has achieved a whole lot in every sense. Jigga’s definitely one lucky dude. 





So here’s to my darling Bey,the number one DIVA!…LIFE BEGINS AT 30…YOU KNOW THIS!!!



 Even with a baby on the way...Gorgeous!!!
DIVA!!!


Later y’all….FNLP,xoxo

Wednesday 24 August 2011

J is for Jollof Rice!!!


so, you know how they say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach? Lol. Well, me I don’t believe that BS though. If a man wants to misbehave, he will surely misbehave. You get me? Anyway, moving on…

But just to be on the safe side, I’ve been making an effort to learn how to cook better. We learn new things everyday trust me. oF course I can cook up a storm in the kitchen and I actually do love cooking but dealing with a Masters in Law is not as easy as it sounds so I actually have no time whatsoever; I mean, I could live on Indomie for a month just beacause of my very hectic schedule.Up until a few months back, I always thought making jollof rice was rather very long and complicated because what I’ve seen most people do is that they start off as if they are making stew, I think they let it cook for a bit and then they also sort of half cook the rice and then put it in the stew and let it all cook together. So basically you end up cooking with two different pots.This is what most people do yeh? Correct me if I’m wrong. So because of this ‘longness’, I always just stick to my fried rice. Less complicated. with fried rice, once you have rice and mixed vegetables, you are good to go!

so recently I was hanging out with my older cousin and it was lunchtime and she announced that she was going to be making jollof rice so i decided to hang out with her in the kitchen while she made it. At first, what I noticed was that she started off as if she was cooking plain white rice and I couldn’t see any other pot of stew or pepper in sight and she made it look oh so so easy. I was totally amazed. What she basically did was she started cooking the rice, and then after about 15mins, she put some tomato puree (I asked her what this was for and she said that it is basically what gives the jollof rice its colour) and then she seasoned as usual with the basics, onions, thyme, curry, pepper, knorr cubes.) and her final step was adding some chopped tomato plum  and she let it all cook together. In one pot!

Hmm so I tried her method today and wanted to see if it was easy for real, first step is to start off as if you just want to make your plain ol’ white rice,






After it has cooked for about 15minutes, add some tomato puree, just enough to make the rice slightly change colour,(please forgive my silly camera for this halfpicture)






And this is where you season it, I usually don’t use much, just salt, onions, knorr cubes, thyme, curry, paprika, cinnamon and some dry pepper. And that’s about it really,




Allow it cook for another 10-15minnutes or so, and then add some chopped tomato plum. Don’t add too much though, I didn’t even use up to half of the can!,






And then I let the rice cook till it was done. Towards the end, I added some frozen mixed vegetables. (this is up to you, I only used about a handful of frozen mixed vegetables, just to make the rice look nicer really),



When its cooked, it should look something like this….,



So there you have it…easy peazy Jollof rice. All in one pot!!!. Oh, and served with some nice home made coleslaw and grilled chicken wings. please does this mean I'm now ready to move into my husband's house? na so!lol

feel free to share if you know easier ways of making J-rice!

*oh boy, I really do need to invest in a good camera!!!*


Later y'all,
FNLP, xoxo


p.s: why do some people pronounce it as 'jellof rice'?o_o, and also is it just me that finds it difficult to cook in a dirty kitchen? When my friends come around, they can't understand why my kitchen tops/table tops are always so empty and it looks as though no-one's ever cooked in there, I think it's just me with the problem...hmmm









Tuesday 23 August 2011

“I LOVE YOU BABY, YOU COMPLETE ME”…HUH?



Hey guys, just a little something I thought I’d share, it totally baffles me when I sometimes hear people say those three words ‘you complete me’ and then suddenly, the impression I get is that perhaps for some reason or the other, before they met their partner, they were incomplete?. I think this in itself says a lot about ones self-esteem. Personally, I strongly believe one must be whole and happy within and even without, before going into a relationship. It is essential to have that self-fulfilment and total self-love beforehand because if you don’t, how else do you expect to take care of another or even give love to another?
It should not be someone else’s duty to complete you, you alone should complete you, and then you become fully equipped to handle and attract the good kind of love from the right person who will then complement you. I come from a society that places way too much emphasis on relationships without even taking time out to consider the possibility that the person may just not be ready to take on such responsibility simply because they are not complete within themselves first. Everybody’s time is different. As a result of the pressure, people then go into relationships hoping that their partners can in some way fill the void, make them happy and ultimately complete them. This is where the problem lies and this is why most relationships fail.

A good and healthy relationship should be between two independent people coming together because they love each other and not a case of one person depending or relying on another for happiness. When one is unnecessarily dependent and relies on another for happiness, you become a burden for the ‘stronger’ person in the relationship and then when push comes to shove, you eventually find yourself dragging your partner down along with you and it all comes crashing. And then of course you become even more incomplete than when you first started out. And then the ugly part is you are back to looking for another person to complete you. It’s a terrible vicious cycle really. Trust me, I have been there before. Not pretty.

So let us eliminate the myopic views and look beyond the pressure by looking more within, if you were to meet you, would you be happy to date you? Before you can be successful in love, you need to be successful in love with yourself first. Take time out to figure out you first and do things for yourself first and then when you finally meet ‘The one’, you can then say… “Baby I love you, you complement me”

Later y’all, 
FNLP xoxo

BRAND NEW, BRAND NEW…



I can’t remember where I heard that song from or who sang it, was it Kanye or someone? Anyway as you lot can see, it is my first blog entry and this is not necessarily a proper blog post but more like an introduction. Well it might turn out to be less than an introduction but I feel like I need to do a post that lets you know that it’s my first post, lol. I think that’s what most bloggers do right? Correct me if I’m wrong. Me and my workaholic self, typing away into the night because its 2am and I also have some other official piece of research work I need to hand in very soon, so this is probably the best time for me to do this…

I started reading blogs only very recently and I have a few that I’m quite fond of and then of course there are some that are just really very totally unnecessary that you almost start to think ‘so did they force this one to blog?’ and then there are the ones that don’t even make sense and all you can think is ‘wait…huh…what the actual f**k???!’ (And no I shall not be naming names on here). But then again, I am totally in support of the freedom of expression and all that stuff so really it’s a free world and everyone should be free, free to talk, free to write, free to love whoever they want to love and whenever they want to love, free to wear whatever they want or not to wear anything at all, just totally free free free!!!

So, moving on…brace yourselves, what I’m about to say is actually really very deep and I just don’t know how to say it or where to start from because it’s just too deep as in, how do I say this really, okay let me try…*deep breath*….okay here goes….

Welcome to my blog y’all! (And no, sorry I can’t tell you my name.)