CHICKENS AND EAGLES, WHAT ARE YOU ?

On one of our many skype sessions my dad told me a story, it took me back to the days of sitting around the fire place in the village burning our fingers in hot coal trying to roast plum, corn or plantain. It tastes so good plantain and red oil with a dash of salt, or plantain and plum, not forgeting corn and plum but that one is a different topic. So my dad and I were talking and I was expressing my self to him about some worries, fears and challenges and as always my daddy has the answer for everything. so he says Nahsang let me tell you a story and I felt like a like little girl again.

Once upon a time (ten times) there was man(mango) who had a dog(doctor) the dog was white......lol ok seriously now

Once upon a time there was a man who raised chickens, one day he went hiking up the mountain and while he was up there he found an eagles nest with some eggs in it and decided to take one of the eagles eggs home with him, once he was home he put the eggs with some of other chicken eggs his hens had just laid so she can sit on it like the others until it was ready to hatch. the baby eagle hatched at almost the same time as the other chicks. the mother hen raised the baby eagle with her other chicks and the eagle thought it was a chicken too.
the baby eagle ate corn, rice, worms and dirt from the earth like the other chickens, played in the fields like the other  baby chickens. one day he saw some eagles flying up high over the mountains, and he asked his mother the hen " mom why don't we fly like those birds up over the mountains I would love to fly" the hen replied him " we are chickens we don't fly we run on the ground and eat from the earth" everyday the baby eagle looked at the other eagles flying and admired them so much but kept running on the ground with his fellow chickens. so many years went by and he stilled looked at the other eagles up in the sky with envy wishing he was up there, until one day one of the eagles spotted him from below and came down asked him " why are you running around here with these chickens and eating dirt? you are one of us, you are an eagle we fly high over the mountains." that day the eagle realized he was not he chicken and he could fly, he flew high over the mountains and never looked back.
moral of the story:
don't let anyone tell you that you are chicken, you are an eagle and can fly high over every challenge and obstacle. its never too late too fly you just need to realize that you are an eagle and stop running around below with chickens.
I love my Daddy, and Yes I am a flying eagle!

what have I been up to !?!

I've stayed away too long, But for very good reasons. a lot has happened I would not know where to start and where to finish. No worry I will Jist, that fact of the matter is Jist Dey.
things I have on my mind to share

WEIGHT LOSS
I didn't tell you, did I? Nahsang lost 70lbs in one year !!!!! and I'll tell you all about it in details too.

BABIES
I no tell you? my sister born oh! bouncing baby girl. she has pushed my child bearing urge another 5years forward, some things they don't tell you until you experience it first hand and am only the aunty mhmm, that pikin palava no easy at all.

NEW CITY
So I moved!!! it was so over due, but was waiting for the right time and right reason the minute I got it. I was on the go. so far ... I can't say I love it or hate we'll just have to see.

JACK OF ALL TRADE
you didn't know I was a hustler lol. I dabbled my way with hair until I developed a real interest and skill, I can say practice makes perfect am no where near perfect so I keep practicing. but when it comes to the kitchen I throw down, am no Chef but I put my heart in my cooking and I just love it, who doesn't love a good meal. I'll share some of my favorite recipes.

First LOVE

A love so tender so innocent


I was only 14 when I first laid eyes on you. I remember like it was yesterday its been almost 13years how time flies and you still have that face I fell in love with the prettiest eyes I have ever seen on a man. You were sitting right behind me but I didn't notice you till I stood up I didn't want to obstruct your view but I guess your view was me, yes I saw you, you couldn't take your eyes off me, that's when I noticed those eyes and that face.

I was kind of a tom boy, not your typical girly girl you can say, I just I wasn't into the latest fashions, trying to look pretty, give me a pair of jeans and a t-shirt and I was fine, I loved to play video games with the boys, and loved the out doors especially at 14 I just was one of the boys.
what did he see in me, I didn't think anyone found me pretty especially in those over sized school uniforms and that almost bald shaved head then I really looked like a guy not because I am not confident but just cause I didn't consider my self to be that girly plus everyone said I was fat or didn't he see that too?, well maybe I really was in his view and he couldn't help but stare at me.

Dancing is my passion its my life, I dance because its me, and as long as I have these two feet God gave me I shall dance, on that note I was doing what I do best, dancing. it was a school dance I forgot to mention and I get a tap on my shoulder, its the guy with the pretty eyes "do you want to dance?" me? no one ever asked me to dance I just was never the kind of girl that guys picked to dance with, it didn't bother me though I had more fun that way because I didn't have to act all proper and could just be myself. I was already dancing we might as well, OK now honestly it wasn't a dance to remember he had two left feet and couldn't dance to save his life but he was cute, I didn't mind he wouldn't qualify for dancing with the stars I was just glad he picked me, no one ever picked me. that did something for me I didn't understand at first, he made me feel wanted and that was good. He brought out the girl in me and eventually the woman.

It was the summer holidays, I remember like it was yesterday, that perfect unintentional first kiss, I dreamt about it for days I held my lips and I could see your face, I could smell your skin on mine I wonder if you felt the same way, I had butterflies for days, is this what love feels like, I thought I was going to fly there were so many butterflies in my stomach.
then you asked me to be your girlfriend, we were 15 I didn't know what to say but what I hear in movies, "I'll think about it" then ran home, shy. Me? his girlfriend? am I the luckiest girl on earth or what? there was no thinking about it he knew that my heart already belonged to him. he was my first love, first kiss, first boyfriend... the same man I lied to for so long to save our love or so I thought. a love so tender, so innocent shattered in lies, killed and gone forever?

But this love was doomed, from the start, you were so innocent, I had seen too much, heard too much and experienced things I wasn't supposed to. how do I start to tell you these things. what we shared was so beautiful and innocent I loved It I love you I didn't want to spoil it yet alone lose you. So I played a role, I made such a good actress, I played the role of your lady, the woman you wanted me to be and I was good. It became so easy being your lady than being me, I wanted to be yours not me cause you wouldn't want me, then the script ended...

I lied for so long to save a love so tender, so innocent and I killed it, I had to love myself first to love you. There was no script anymore, I had to be me and I wanted to be me, I loved me and didn't even know it until I was tired of acting. I didn't want to act being your lady I wanted to be your lady. so I walked away from our love but never from you with the pretty eyes.
Because I don't want to be anyone but me.