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Phone call

by Azuka on August 25, 2010

<Insert appropriate dial tone onomatopoeia here> Azuka: Hello Lady on other end:  Hello A: Is this Third World Grocers? L: Are you serious? I hope you never find Third World Grocers. A: … L: Everyone’s been calling me asking for Third (…)

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Sweetie

by Azuka on November 20, 2008

hello sweetie That was the first message I sent when a friend of mine signed in after a long hiatus from Yahoo Messenger. Understandably, she was shell-shocked. This was the Azuka — who, a while ago wasn’t comfortable when others (…)

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Notebook

by Azuka on November 7, 2008

I’ve always wanted one, I think — right from back when my Dad got a cheap Compaq running Windows 95 that his company was going to throw out. It didn’t have a battery, was slow as hell (I had no (…)

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I’m back

by Azuka on August 24, 2008

… or at least, have been since Monday. I wish I could say Nigeria was completely fun — not that it wasn’t, but being away for quite a while had gotten me unaccustomed to some of the important things. Like (…)

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Accident

by Azuka on June 2, 2008

I started taking driving lessons about a week ago. It’s been exciting in a way — never mind the fact that the instructor uses a very old Volkswagen ‘Bug’ Beetle. The gears make the most awful grinding noises in the (…)

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They said…

by Azuka on May 27, 2008

‘They said a witch was caught this afternoon close to Garrison,’ my cousin Bukky informed me breathlessly. Who are they? I wondered. It took me about ten seconds before it registered. They — that quaint Nigerian way of using the (…)

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