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Essays and notes from life, work, and everything between.

Mostly personal reflections, year reviews, stories, and thoughts I want to keep somewhere public.

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2025: Minutes of my meeting with SAPA

Severe Absence of Purchasing Ability, or simply put — Sapa is a great financial tutor, as I've come to learn over the past few weeks.

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2024

I went into 2024 without having huge expectations, I hoped to get my finances up, get married, and hopefully stay alive till the year ends. A little bit macabre, yes I know, I just try to remain conscious about my mortality as much as I can.

September 19, 20237 min read

My first travel by air

Early this year was the first time I would travel by air, the tech team of AFEX were going on a retreat to Akwa Ibom State, sweet. The flight was slated for 12 o' clock and we must have checked-in one hour before

September 18, 20234 min read

Human beans.

I'll start with an "interesting" story told to me a former co-worker. The event happened in Jos, Nigeria, while the region was rife with religious and ethnic clashes.

20235 min read

2023: Something like a review

2023 for me started in July 2022, I got a 5x job, quit my then current job and lost the new job 2 days before my last day at work. Hmm, that really felt like a new beginning.

December, 20207 min read

Baring it all — 2020 for me

This is neither a success story nor is it a story of failure, what kind of story is it? A story that happened, just a true story that happened.

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