I know this is coming late but I guess it’s a testament to my laziness. To potential employers, don’t mind the first sentence. It’s an entrance thing.
To be honest and sincere, I don’t feel like writing anything. Although, this is a commitment I have to keep up too. Even though there is no prenup involved, I think I better just pick up the jotter and write the shit that comes to my mind. On that note, I believe March was a lot better than February and a little better than January hopefully a lot worse than April.
SpongeBob
“If I find a girl that likes SpongeBob the way I do, imma have an orgasm and eventually wife her”
I guess it no news to those around me that I love SpongeBob, his character is one of high optimism and carefreeness. SpongeBob lives his best life under the Pacific Ocean inside his pineapple house within Bikini Bottom facing every challenge with a lot of optimism and belief that everyone is good deep down. He always finds joy within the worst of situations and keeps on going for that boatmobile driving license that he seems to never get with childlike enthusiasm for over 20 years now. I’d love that kind of enthusiasm to be frank but one person you’d have to love his Patrick, SpongeBob’s best friend who never seems to stop believing he is intelligent even when it’s quite visible he has a lot of setbacks in that area (I guess his perspective to things is just a little different). It is the kind of belief everyone should have even when the world or systems make you feel worse or a lot worse than you actually are.
Coding
I love to code, I love CS, I love python yen yen yen but to be honest, it is very hard to maintain a constant relationship with these things. What made me fascinated with programming? Ooh, it those useless movies where they show Hackers hack into systems within a minute and I too wanted to do so within a minute, and also the belief that I’m going to change the world with code. Well, this March, we are progressing bit by bit, reading the necessary books and watching the right tutorials off YouTube. I’m 40% complete with a particular Data Analysis with R (unusual) course and I’m reading a book called “An Introduction to Statistical Learning”. I intend to be an intermediate Data and Machine Learning Engineer with a big Portfolio, a great GitHub account and few completed jobs (>=3) by the end of this year. I’d also love to be Polyglot (Python, R, C++) and so the reason for R, I just hope I’m not confused as I’m right now in the next 6 months because it might be detrimental to my growth down the road but I guess we will just have to ride with it all the way.
Oh yeah, I’m joining the #100DaysOfCode Challenge and I’m going to be writing accompanying articles monthly (I couldn’t write about my automated valuation python code maybe in my #100DaysOfCode article)
Friends
“F is for friends who do stuff together ” — SpongeBob
F.R.I.E.N.D.S was a hit series which I loved and still love and I believe my friends are more or less like the characters on F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Wait, why did I say the previous sentence again, I have no idea (I guess it’s the weed from #yemi2020 that is still acting up). I guess friends are the next thing to family and in my case, it is every shade of true. I have my Patrick (Jacob), Squidward (Timi), Mr. Krabs (Simi), Plankton (Laolu), my Pet (Gary who is without a doubt Akinkuolie Oluwaseun) and oh the love of my life, Sandy Cheeks, all of whom I have missed ever since I went for my internship at Cadbury Nigeria Plc. (I guess I need to talk about that place)
And I won’t lie, it was fucking great to see them in school, I know deep down I wasn’t looking further to school because of Adio or Malomo or Oluwajobi, it was all because of friends. These friends have now become the people I do shit with, and I can categorically say have pushed me to be better in every aspect of my life including laziness.
There are some people I didn’t mention because they’ll be pissed off I wrote their names like Ayo and the other Ayo and the “other other” Ayo and so on and so forth. And some because we are just kick-starting a possible wonderful relationship together.
Coronavirus
Why it wasn’t called the Chinese Virus or Wuhan Virus baffles me till today? I mean Ebola Virus was named after a river in DR Congo where it was first discovered and Lassa Fever was named after a village in Nigeria among many others. So as far as I’m concerned, it is the Wuhan Virus. The Wuhan Virus was played down by the Chinese in December only for March to come and I’m being sent home by a person who loves to see his children every time in the person of the Vice-Chancellor of my prestigious University, OAU. Now I’m home because of the Whan virus, I can’t see my friends and I can’t get enough of my parents' belief that I’m seeing a movie every time I’m on the laptop. On a serious note, I have never really experienced a pandemic before, even Ebola wasn’t really a pandemic for Nigerians but from the looks of it, I stan every medical, administrative personnel who sincerely want to curb this “modafucka” right from China (Wuhan Virus). I wish I were a billionaire (smh), I would have done something I guess. All the same, I believe Nigerians and the rest of the World need to sit the fuck at home and bond with their parent or family members or girlfriend(s) or wife or husband or son(s) or daughter(s) and watch Netflix or DSTV whichever one works for you.
I do hope we find a cure and I pray those who are infected get back to their stable state in no time. Although one thing I have learned is that STEM in Nigeria is a mess, a final year undergrad student can’t even develop something or a mechanism or design or something to aid solving the issues on the ground but what do I know?
SIT THE FUCK AT HOME. Like pandemics before, it would pass (this isn’t the end of the world)
Christian Life
It is funny how my life is pretty much the same as the way it was a year ago. This is an excerpt from my article — 21 Days Gone
“I and God have not been the closest for a long time after He didn’t do what He said He will do after I did my part. Although, I will try to work things out with Him, hopeful that he stills wants me.
- Read my Bible
2. Pray for 15mins
Change is difficult and hard to see but not impossible”
I wish the story were different but I guess we keep on trying till we find our sun, and we fall before it half-blind.
God took a bet
“…The LORD said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD” — Job 1: 7–16
I know the topic might seem a little too extreme but that’s just the way I see the passage. Satan roamed around, saw Job, probably tried a few tactics, failed, met God, challenged God concerning Job, God took the challenge, Satan did what he did best and God hoped for the best outcome. Is the narrative not the same as one who gambles or bet? God absolutely trusted his boy, Job and therefore left him to the devices of the devil and believed the outcome of this adventure for Satan would be fruitless and be in his Favour. A Liverpool fan definitely trusted his Liverpool side to dominate any team after going practically unbeaten for a long period in the EPL, and sure as hell didn’t think a Watford would defeat his side. Watford here is the devil, Liverpool is Job and Jürgen Klopp and his never walk alone fans are probably God here (although this god failed). Job could have failed God but I guess God holds the Trump card of knowing the end from the beginning so, after all, he knew he would win (I mean Job is human after all). Though, my question here would be, why would God give the devil such power? Does life not mean much to him (Job’s children)? What was he trying to prove? And one thing I thought God couldn’t behold evil.
Money Issues, Personal stuff and many more
I’m a genius but I’m just a lazy one — Akinlua, Olorunfemi
Money was not an issue this month of March courtesy of PiggyVest and a few writing gigs. Can I hear a hallelujah? Though we have had our own fair share of money issues and will still do, it just great to have finally dealt with most of them. Hopefully, April has great things in stock for me.
Lil Wayne once said “I’m a genius, under pressure, no question, I’m really special. Upper echelon when I bless you, molest you with intellectual…” you definitely don’t want to hear the remaining. I might not get the top-notch grades but there is this tingling feeling that makes me say the same words that Patrick spoke: The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma. My IQ might not be really high but I definitely know I’m going to make some really cool changes to my Naija with this brain of mine, and some journalist is going to come to me to seek my permission to write my biography “The Enigma of our Time: the man that redefined technology”😂😂😂😂.
I love writing even though I make a lot of mistakes, I find it freeing, and it reveals a part of me that the world really doesn’t know. I guess you should find your shitty hobby too.
Prayer to April
“I’m ready, I’m ready” — SpongeBob
We better make use of this break to write code, read those long-ass books, watch some tutorials and bend the computer the way we want. I want you to be better than March. I know great things are within you, and I want to believe that you will love and cherish the moments we will share together. This boy wants to grow and be a Machine Learning engineer so do your best to guide him through the evil that fills the 30 days within thy womb. I pray thee, that you bless me with wisdom and knowledge and good sexy code. Amen
Playlist of the Month
“With the little I’ve devoured from Joyner Lucas’s ADHD, it’s safe to say we have great music on our hands”
1. Lauv — Invisible Things (go download his album 🔥🔥)
2. George Ezra –Shotgun
3. Dua Lipa — Don’t Start Now
4. Robinson — Watching You (her EP 🔥🔥)
5. Robinson — I Tried
6. Joyner Lucas — Devil’s Work
7. 5 Seconds of Summer — Red Desert
8. Dua Lipa — Cool
9. Lukas Graham — 7 Years
10. Khalid — Therapy
“Red, red desert
Heal our blues
I dive deeper for you
What a blessing
To feel your love
Twilight moments with you” — 5SOS
I guess it’s crappy but all the same, I fulfilled my end of this long commitment to writing this shit down.
I can well say I’m SpongeBob in real life.
It’s Akinlua, Olorunfemi Praise. Your Egyptian Baby 👶😎.
Mechanical and ML and Data Science Engineer in training.
Wide believer of everything life.
Thanks.
