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Page views, Headaches and Dreams

I don’t know if this is even newsworthy; this blog crossed the 600 page view mark this weekend. Hurray!!! I feel very pleased, pleased that people are reading my stuff. This weekend I carried a nasty head ache from Friday to Sunday, thank God for church. I was healed! Can I get an Amen?

Aside the headaches and the 600 times my blog was viewed, other things sat in my head in random order. Like the future, my visions and dreams. I want to be a lot of things some of which are written here. However here are some of my other dreams which I will like to share with you.

Being a writer is something I have always dreamed of, writing interesting books that are subsequently made into movies. Before these books turn into movies they develop into comics so that I start seeing characters I create on t shirts, mugs, in shoprite, and on the schoolbags of Abuja school kids. One more thing, I dream of owning the t shirt company.

It wouldn’t hurt to own a mall, to this end I found time to lay out my thoughts and come up with a sketch for a mall I intend to own. Something in 3 storeys, over 20 000m2 of retail space, a cinema, game arcade and other extraordinary stuff you’ll find only in my mall or in my mind. The design is supposed to inculcate traditional architectural styles with modern impressions. For instance, sculpted pillars and columns will feature prominently as well a generous use glass. Shey you get the picture? If it’s not clear, look at this picture.

My mall should look like this, only better.

As an urbanist I also dream of opening as school of environmental design, where my crew and I will mould young Nigerians into Architects, Urban planners, Landscape artists and Engineers that would be creative, ingenious and design sustainable environments. I believe creativity is inhibited by the way we are presently taught our disciplines so am on a mission to free Nigerian kids from the shackles of imposed archaic ideas.
I also think of running a special effects company, where we do digital arts, dope Photoshop designs, special effects, and probably do one correct 3D animation. Something like Despicable Me or Megamind. Maybe we’ll call it “Naija avengers” or something worse and feature Richard Mofe Damijo, Zack Orji and Omotola as voice actors.

Other things I dream of doing include: being a rapper (being shy of the Mic is killing that), becoming a venture capitalist so that I can support young IT entrepreneurs (I like to call them ITpreneurs), sitting on the board of several blue chip Nigerian companies, becoming a millionaire, and becoming President.
Having a family; I dream about that a few times. A pretty wife, fine children that resemble me in fine-ness grow up to be godly like me- yes. I dream and think about this too!

Ok. This is the point I have to wake up and work up to my dreams.

Happy Monday!



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