TEN THINGS YOU PROBABLY DON’T KNOW ABOUT ME

As humans, we tend to camouflage a lot of deep things that have to do with our personality. But in the real sense of it, the sensitive human part of ours is one thing that makes us “Human”. I doubt if we would be called human beings if we are devoid of sensitivity.

That was me trying to make a grand entrance…

Ok, straight to the business, my mother is a woman and Dad is a man!

Huh?

 I’m sure you are wondering if that’s something you probably don’t know. Well, I had some time to sit down to think and was able to come up with a few things a lot of people don’t know about me. This is not to say that some people don’t, but a lot of people around really do not know (especially the ones I met in the past few years). What I am about to do is share just 10 (Ten) of them with you….. even though I have a jar full of items.

This is not a top ten list of my deepest behavior or thoughts. It is just a list of 10 things ‘you’ probably do not know about me.

1.   I was born a Christian, but have a VERY LIBERAL RELIGIOUS VIEW. This means, I don’t condemn any religion or believe that any is superior/inferior to others. The one thing I hold on to is that everyman has something he needs to believe, which is why we all have our various ways of connecting with the creator. With experience I’ve had so far with different religious doctrines, one thing stays consistent across all which is the belief in a divine being (creator). As for me, I go to church, I believe in God and accept that Jesus is the son of God that’s the way I connect with the supreme being.

2.   Two months to age 27 and I STILL LOVE FAIRY TALES. Do you remember snow white, Cinderella, beauty and the beast, Aladin, little red riding hood etc... Well, I can start with them and never get tired or bored watching all of them. Knock yourself out if you want, I just slipped being stuck to book of nursery rhymes by just an inch. I still think they are really good.

3.   A FAILED MODEL – I once claimed to be a model at early Uni days around age 17/18. Luckily I was signed up with an agency *name withheld* and sadly at the other leg of it I never got a single professional Job. Failed or not, once a model always a model J (I learnt some modelling tricks). I blame the failure on not living in Lagos as long as it makes me sleep well at night.

4.   Launched a fully registered COMPANY OF MY OWN BY AGE 21- I am sure some of you have seen a logo that reads NASH Entertainment with me before… well it’s a fully registered company I launched officially at my 21^st birthday. Native and Skills Hammerlock Records and Entertainment was registered as a record label and an entertainment company to take up audio, video and tourism. I set the target to establish my own company by 21 which I did. A long dream still alive till this present day. My empire will ride on the NASH Platform.

5.   I have recorded ENOUGH SONGS TO COMPILE ATLEAST (3) THREE FULL ALBUMS AS AT 2011 and yet I never officially released an album. I released a 3 track ‘not for sale promo cd’ in 2009. One of the songs – Gbabe hit the top of many music charts in Ibadan while another song on the same cd  - Sewere produced by Zeez hit several charts in Lagos peaking at No1 on Unilag FM and  No6 on Rhythm top 20 Naija hits sometime in the year 2009 while I was in school. The 3rd track on the cd titled ‘MissQuintessential’ will be the centre of the next thing on the list of things you probably don’t know about me.

6.   MISS QUINTESSENTIAL WAS INSPIRED BY A LADY – A track on my ‘not for sale promo cd’ released 2009 was written and composed from start to finish in less than an hour. The interesting part you probably didn’t know was that I had a babe I was crushing on back in school in mind while writing that song… she was my muse for this one. I denied being inspired by a babe to write the song all the way and even at radio and press interviews till this confession.

7.   FALLEN IN LOVE TWICE – I have genuinely fallen in love with ‘just’ two women. I dated one of them for just about 5 months. The Second never wanted to date me and now I’m crushing on another that looks like one of them and she doesn’t even know. This is quite dicey because there is confusion between genuine crush or crush because she looks like someone I once fell in love with. I doubt if I will be able to find that out. Who knows?

8.   Definition of MUMU FOR LOVE (aka Sucker for love) – This is one thing I find very embarrassing all of the time. Every tough guy has his MuMu moments. In this case, mumu for love. For the people that are really really close to me, they know how bad it gets when I really like a babe. To them it’s no news I become the most useless person that exists on the face of the earth. I’ve been a hopeless romantic in few cases. This was never for the eyes of the general public. It also explains the terminator attitude I have around certain women. I don’t want to be sharing my mumu buttons around.

9.   A SHY GUY – A lot of people will challenge me for calling myself a shy guy. The truth is, I’m one of the shyest people I know. But it’s a different kind of shy. I have performed all forms of art from singing, dancing acting MCing on big stages in front of a crowd too many times with super confidence but still feel super shy if I have to sing/act in front of one or two people. Most people see this as pride, so I suck it up and pretend like I’m really suffering from pride.

10. Was ONCE A HAPPY-GO-LUCKY GUY – There was once a happy-go-lucky young boy many years ago that was never bothered about anything, he never rationalized anything or weighed options before making moves. Lived based on the NIKE principle ‘just do it’. I got into a lot of trouble being that way growing up. A lot of people I have around me now will really doubt I’ve ever been that carefree and happy. I guess life took its toll on me. Things got quite super serious when white collar got into the picture.

As I wrote earlier, all the things you likely do not know about me is not limited to the ten above. I just randomly selected ten to pen them down to paper so don’t say you know all about me just yet.