Diary of A Mainland Girl

Dear Diary, *whew!* lemme tell you about my yesterday!! It was an "environmental sanitation" Saturday, and as you can imagine, nobody could go anywhere until it was 10am. I patiently waited for 10am before I hit the road. I was going to the Island, Lekki more precisely. Reason? Modelling. Modelling for Davido's older sister Sharon (Rona). Let me tell you a bit about Rona. Rona is like me, only in a light skin and taller body. My God she is beautiful! She is sweet, she is easy to be around..etc. I remember watching her try on one of her "lace frontal wigs", a very blue one, and I muttered "so jealous!" She responded "guurl this wig is LIFE!" I went all "mmmmm hmmmm" (the African American way). I love her, I want her to be one of my best friends. Just as if I knew the shoot was going to drag for like the whole day, I made sure I was prepared. By this I mean, prepared for the party I was gonna be attending later on. A friend of mine ...

Dear Diary, I'm gonna be telling you about my yesterday. Before yesterday (Sunday), I was told that I'd be doing interviews for the premiere of a film called "The Grudge", I was informed on Saturday morning. Sunday came and as usual, I felt I had time, I literally lazied about and wasted precious time. When it was about an hour and half to go, I started running around, "hei my clothes! What should I wear?! Jesus eeee!! Which shoe should I wear? What makeup am I gonna do????!" I was practically disorganized! I managed to sit still and do my makeup without breaking sweat. Lemme tell you what happens to me when I'm tensed and I try to apply makeup in that state, I sweat! Asin better sweating o!! When I was done with the makeup, I marvelled at the fact that I didn't even break one sweat. Then I went to check my phone. Omo! Five missed calls from my senior colleague. "Shit! Shit!! Shit!!!" I cursed loudly. I glanced around to make sure my sister...

Dear Diary, I have missed the shit outta yoouuu!! Where do I even begin?! I'm so confused, I dunno what to write! *deep breaths* Okay, so my last week was busy, asin BUSY! From Funke Akindele and her husband JJC's new series (no, I cannot tell you the name, I don't think it's public yet.. Or maybe it is.. Oh well) to working a bit with the Coded tunes record label. Okay lemme tell you what I did for these two brands before you wee think I featured (not that I won't in the nearest future). For Funke and JJC, I did an interview and just stayed behind the scene mostly..watching, observing... For Coded Tunes, I was simply a Make up Artist who laughed, played and worked on faces. ID Cabasa is soooo simple, I love him! While I powdered his face, I told him how lovely his long pointy nose is. He laughed and told me he passed it to his beautiful daughter who needs it more than he does. Oh and he plays the piano very well!! The CEO of the label is a young girl, I can't q...

Dear Diary, I haven't named you yet have I? Some people think you are #Farrah, Farrah is just me replacing the usual "bye Felicia" so nah, you aren't Farrah. You I will call "Diarina". It sounds perfect yes? You're welcome Diarina. Sigh, I haven't gisted you in a minute, I'm sorry, I kinda got caught up in issues. This week was a bit uneventful save for today. Lemme brief you bout what I did from Monday to today. Monday,, I went to hang out with a friend who had been trying to hang out with me since 2014. This is not me being arrogant, no, this is just me telling you how long overdue the hang was. I left my comfort zone, rode public buses (because no money to waste right now, epp me!!), and went all the way to Gbagada to see Zemm. Yes, Zemm is his name. I even broke my rule and went to his house, he only just moved back to Lagos and wanted to show me his house. It was a nice house, I envied him. Before we left for a fast food restaurant, I advi...

Dear Diary, today was (still is) our independence day anniversary. Did I ever tell you what nationality I am? My bad, well I'm Nigerian, very Nigerian o, ignore all the senrenre I'm about mostly. I went to the studio earlier than normal because the show was moved forward. I was pretty miffed about this but oh well...... Show ended and I went straight to see my guuurl Trina, and we just talked and talked and talked some more! What we talked about?? Mind yo biz a little diary will ya? After a few hours, I left to see my brother Kennedy. He had been very elusive and was literally avoiding me!! I know I have problems yeah, but to avoid me??!!!! I mean all I do is whine and just throw a little fit... Okay maybe I overdo it sometimes but who cares?!! He should handle it! Let him see it as "home training". I'm training him for when he gets married. Period. I sha made him do a bit of what I wanted. Ugh! I wanted to bite him. I tried but he was kinda prepared for my atta...