Since I finished my PhD late 2024, I now have a little more time for hobbies. I learned a little bit about music production and I released two songs on my new YouTube page.
The first one is “God opened the door.” The second one is “Abiyamo Orun.”
My sister wrote and produced her song titled “Save me.”
Enjoy!
Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher is one book that has impacted me. It is a book for multipotentialites (aka scanners) and it helped me understand my personality better.
The Bible(s). There are different Bibles with different set of books. I enjoy reading them all and they are a constant source of challenge, inspiration, agony, and encouragement.
Finally, Igbo Olodumare by Daniel Fagunwa is a Yoruba novel of mysterious creatures that exist in a mythical place. The literary style is so rich and invigorating.
I remembered a quote I read somewhere and I thought it was a simple trick to be productive while procrastinating. It also feels like something scanners love to do.
“I like to work on two tasks at the same time. So that I can procrastinate on one task by working on the other and vice versa.”
Just for the fun of it, my sister and I joked that the title above reads like the title of a love story.
Here are the descriptions we came up with
She thought she was just going for a visit. But Fate had other plans. When Sandra met Jimmy, it was like déja vu. All her suppressed memories of a life with her own man came rushing back. Will Sandra return home or pursue new dreams?
Katie Williams had everything she dreamed of. A visit to the UK was all she needed to escape from her overbearing mother. Then came along Jake, who proved to be a challenge to her. Will 10 days in UK be the end of Katie? Or just the beginning?
March 10-20 was Shirley’s spring break from school and a break from men who broke her heart. But her visit to the UK turned out to be another school when she met a fling from her past. Will she take up the challenge to learn how to love again?
Kushida is your average businesswoman: strong willed and determined. A 10-day business trip to the UK brought her face to face with the dreaded Logan Smart- CEO of Apex and Sons also known to bring women down. How will Kushida maintain her aura? Will she be able to escape from this entanglement? Find out in this roller coaster ride.
I hope you enjoyed these descriptions. We have no intention to write a novel based on this but if you write a novel based on this, we would love to read.
Please if you know someone in Marvel studios that can produce my version of the movie, tell them. Please!!!
While I won’t supply spoilers, I don’t like the storyline of Avengers: End Game. I thought the solution to defeating Thanos was too easy a way out. (By the way, I thought of this long before the pandemic but it is only now I found time to type it up).
When the movie-making people find time after the whole pandemic, here is the movie I want–Avengers: Impossible Solution
The first part, Avengers: Infinity Wars as you may know ended with Thanos successfully destroying half the universe’s population and the Avengers could not stop him. As a continuation, the Avengers and everyone else would adjust to the new life they must now experience. Those who lost their loved ones would mourn their losses and find ways to heal and move on. Overpopulated areas would now enjoy more space. Places like New York will no longer have cramped subway trains. Homeless people can now find houses to live in for free. Rich families who were wiped off can have their property redistributed. Job opportunities would abound for those unemployed. Excess food can be shared more freely in places of lack. Surviving tyrants would find ways to amass more wealth. Governments would restructure and reorganize society differently. I want something that suggests a real chance of living in a different better world.
As this new world evolves, Thanos starts having dreams in which Gamora, the daughter he had sacrificed, haunts him. Everything around Thanos would start reminding him of Gamora. Thanos would become overridden with guilt and shame for killing her. To soothe his emotional troubles, Thanos would try to rekindle a relationship with Nebula, his other daughter who joined the Avengers to defeat him.
Nebula would resent Thanos greatly and her hate would cause Thanos more grief. Thanos would kidnap Mantis so she can help soothe his grief. This won’t work. Thanos would start kidnapping people all over the universe to fill his own planet so that he can have some company. This plan would not soothe Thanos’ troubled mind.
Thanos would find out from a kidnapped witch from Wakanda that the only solution is for Thanos to reverse the destruction and get Gamora back or restitute to everyone in the universe for the loss he caused them. Whichever route Thanos would take, he needs help.
Meanwhile, as Thanos kidnaps, no one would know it was Thanos kidnapping people and the avengers would get together to find out what was causing disappearances and to find Mantis. The avengers discover that it was Thanos and they track him and engage him in war.
As they are fighting with him, Thanos would reveal that he needs their help to undo the destruction because he needs to get Gamora back. Since Thanos had destroyed the infinity stones, he cannot simply undo the destruction. In response, some of the avengers would help Thanos, and other avengers would refuse to help.
As the supporting avengers and Thanos make plans, the opposing avengers also make their plans to stop Thanos. There is plenty of fighting. It would all boil down to the Antman and the Wasp and the time machine that they have. Whom would the Antman and the Wasp support?
There is plenty of fighting and competition. The supporting Avengers and Thanos win and they are able to reverse the destruction and Thanos gets Gamora back. Thanos is briefly relieved. The avengers who maintain opposition to Thanos would explain to Gamora what happened in the future. Gamora would now hate Thanos for always using her to satisfy his own agenda. Thanos is again plunged back into grief and as Thanos tries to stab himself, the opposing avengers would come in and prevent him from killing himself. The opposing avengers would instead take Thanos away where they would torture him severely but slowly to death.
The avengers who had supported Thanos would feel ashamed that they had supported Thanos because they secretly wanted to use the infinity stones to bring back all their loved ones to achieve personal selfish desires. The avengers who opposed Thanos would feel ashamed that their own unresolved feelings of failure and loss had taken the better part of them.
All the avengers would reconcile again and decide what to do with the infinity stones so that no one would ever become as powerful as Thanos again.
Please if you know someone in Marvel studios that can produce my version of the movie, tell them. We can work out an agreeable arrangement. But tell them, please!!!
In all my life, I have had several pens. Most got lost and I wasted money buying several new ones. Sometimes, people have taken my pens and never returned them. Other times, I truly believed that a pen had developed legs and walked away from me.
In all my life, Penski has been the first pen that has stayed with me from start to finish. When I was short of words, Penski never told me to hurry up. When I was at my lowest, Penski never judged me.
In all my life, Penski you know more than anyone else how words sometimes fail me even now they do in describing what you’ve been to me. All I can say is:
For every thought explored,
For every emotion expressed,
For these and many more,
Penski, I thank you.
PS: If there’s a heaven for pens, I’m sure you’ll be there. Rest in power, my friend.
Everything Shola 