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The Rules
The 1st player of this "game" starts with the topic "6 weird habits/things/hates about yourself" and people who get tagged MUST write a journal about their 6 weird habits/things/hates as well as state this rule clearly. In the end, you need to choose the next 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says "you are tagged" in their devpage comments and tell them to read yours...


I am typing this very quickly, so if there are spelling and grammar errors, please forgive.

1. Whenever I am concentrating heavily on something I tend to subconsciously rock myself back and forth. Nothing freakish, it is simply the equivalent of any childhood habit such as sucking one's thumb inadvertently while sleeping. Some people suck, I just rock. It's rather embarrassing when I do it in public, tho'. To mask it I often wear my walkman headphones or have some music playing, just to make it seem as if what I am doing is somewhat normal.

2. When I am immersed in some sort of intellectual conversation/discourse with friends and the like, and it gets heated or simply gets overly passionate I can be a little intense. I often get bothered with the idea that people may think I am not intelligent enough or that I do not know anything outside of my own experience. This stems mainly from bad childhood experiences, trying to prove myself not only good enough but better in school, at home, etc. This has no doubt created a complex in me. I don't mean to do it, but I have been told by fellow mates that I can get a bit intense and somewhat intimidating at times. Generally, I am exceptionally easygoing and so when I do get offended or feel as if someone is pointing a finger or an insult, I turn into Bette Porter from the L word and spit vocabulary like some freak of nature. In my opinion, it happns rarely. My overall disposition is more playful than serious.

3. I often feel guilty about my being too Americanized and not being more connected to my Nigerian heritage. It is obvious that I cannot help the situation; seeming random events that lead us to the places we now inhabit are obviously beyond us when we are young. However, time and again, I do feel some regret that I may not be "Nigerian enough." Honestly, I have way too many complexes.

4. Like a plague taking over the entirity of my body and mind's landscape, procrastination once incited in me explodes into lethargy. I am terrified of it. It does not mean that I am a control freak or that I am planning my days to the point where my breathing is scheduled. I am subject to procrastination just like everybody else. I just feel that once I get dragged into it, I will fall into a void of inescapable laziness.

5. I am always a fan of the clashing of cultures, more specifically the clashing of such opposing characteristics that it creates a completely new culture in itself. Post-Modern logic exactly, but not quite. It could be a combination of of two globally oppositing customs and characteristics, or it could manifest within a culture distanced only by generations, of simply interests of certain subcultures, I suppose. For instance, the London scene: traditional British backdrop meshed with the multicultural haven of Asia, the Americas, the Carribbean and Africa. To generic an example now, I think, since most metropolitan cities today exemplify these same characteristics of change. I guess this isn't really someting I am ashamed of, it is more about it being a constant fascination; and as an artist I am afraid this fascination may breed repititiveness in my works and the subjects of my works.

6. OK, I must expose something of extreme embarrassment.... I still listen to the Spice Girls and other old school British pop bands, like Five and All Saints, simply for the memories they remind me of, as dorky and embarrssing as they may be.


And now, I tag no one. It stops here.
(chukles)