Just after a day our visit to Tarkwa Bay beach, Madam was busy preparing to receive another batch of visitor. Although we can't receive all at once, we will get there to the end (at least for Madam's dept.)
Madam's had been from one company to the other during her career path and I can tell you that, I can recall most of her friends. More so since we were in Nigeria. She invited them home, I've been to some of the functions around Lagos, company dinner etc etc. So you get to know who is the "mak cik" or Aunty in her dept. (knows everyone, can joke with most of them and does emcee duties dutifully....start the dancing and karaoke session). Who does this, that and which area they're responsible with. Thank Allah for the photographic memory.
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oppsss..two Fela Kuti's pix.. should
see his live performance in YouTube
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Right after Maghrib prayer, all 5 arrived after drinks at Tarang's place. We immediately connect. Of course I know all of them, I've met most of them and took pictures of them at one time. Franklin, Richard, Acho (Iheanacho), Yahaya and Anthony made up this group. In the background, some "Nigerian Masters", singing nice old songs from yesteryears in the YouTube. Bobby Benson, Fela Kuti, Sir Victor Uwaifo, Christy Essien Igbokwe in my music track. Ohhhh yes...
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| Anthony and Acho |
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| Franklin and Richard |
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| Yahaya beside Franklin |
It was very interesting to see men about my age and talked about other stuffs than politics. We talked about music, old and new. The impact on the youths today and how it was different from the yesteryears. I mentioned about the song "Seun Rere"(be good/do good) sang by the late Christy Essien Igbokwe....It was a song asking for blessings and also reminder (if a child is bad, they will say he learnt from his mother/father). Anyway, Richard mentioned something about Bobby Benson's song, the Taxi Driver. But Richard's best was yet to come...
Dinner was fried rice, grilled chicken, salad and sambal (from Malaysia). They talked about work, family and food. Food was the main topic as Acho brought up his affinity towards pounded yam (fufu) as his main staple.....
Apparently he's been located to a new area and in fact it was the first thing he did was to look for an eatery good enough for his palate. He did mentioned that he prefers the traditional pounded version and not the powdered ones which is quicker to prepare. Richard went as far as demonstrating the technique of how to pound yam...not just pound it, but to mash it at and angle and twist and turn the mortar stick. For the recipe, you can Google it..no wahala (no problem).
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| Acho the pounded yam lover |
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| Richard stressing a point |
We were about to finish the dinner when Madam came to the table with Fay carrying a plateful of cupcakes with candles for it was Anthony's birthday! How lucky of you....now we expect 'washing' from you (buy cake and food for all your friends and colleagues)
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| surprising the "birthday boy" |
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| Madam and her clone |
We adjourned to the balcony where we had coffee or tea and some chocolates and fruits. We spoke about places to visit and how beautiful they are. We spoke of places like Ibadan (which Richard is quite familiar). Instantly I remembered about the books I read. Books on textiles which I am interested about.
I asked them about adire, aso-oke and aso-ebi (wear same pattern cloth in a group - usually celebrating an occasion as family members or close friends etc.) also about ankara textile and I remembered I asked Richard if they have a softer version of the cloth. It feels that most are heavily starched and it was then Richard mentioned that he and his wife do sew and quite well too.
Then Richard said something that really got us men really excited about. I can't really remember how it happened, but it was when he mentioned that some people asked advice on fashion on models and to choose which model suitable with what style...it was then..all of us when..WOWWWWWW!!!
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| Richards was on fire! |
The eldest in the gathering that night and showed us his...ahem..experience in fashion and the world of modeling. We were short of asking him to cat-walk at the balcony...hahahahhahah.... The other thing that made us burst into laughter and amazement that he could take one look at a person and sew a full set of clothes for him/her.
I mean, staring at a woman's figure and telling her this and that..all the curves is how many inches...hmmmm that would turn my face pretty red though....I think it must be nothing odd about that...as a tailor.....but all of us were still stuck with the models story he mentioned earlier.
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| Franklin giving the 'Thank You' speech |
Luckily, it was Franklin that defused the situation. It was definitely a LMAO situation and he slowly began to give a short thank you speech and with that I send the men down reluctantly since we were having so much fun.
We thanked them for coming and I do hope our path crosses and we could have another chinwag session and maybe this time, we could interrogate Richard a bit more about the models....ahahahahha...
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