Heeeii, oya swear!
― If you didn't kill earthworm with salt.
― If you didn't play rubber band.
― If you never bathed in the rain.
― If nobody told you about India vs Nigeria 99-1.
― If you didn't sleep on the couch and wake up on the bed
― if you didn't throw your milk tooth on the
roof for the lizards to take it and give you new ones.
― If you didn't just wash your hands and legs instead of bathing when going to school.
― If you didn't act film in uncompleted building or under bed with friends.
― If you never flew a kite.
- If you didn't use your two legs to build houses with sand.
- If you didn't write ur name on paper and insert it into your pen so that no one will steal it.
- If you didn't close d fridge door really slowly to see when the lights went off.
- If you never waved at white birds expecting your nails to be whiter
- If you never heard of a ghost dat stays under
mango trees at nights
- If you didn't drive a single car Tyre with a stick and called it your car!
- If you didn't mix garri and sugar in your pocket and eat while walking in the street.
- If you never did mama and papa play i.e. cookin grass and sand witout fire.
- If you didn't play table soccer. with bottle cover..........then I guess your Childhood wasn't fun!
Oya choose which one did you do?
Do you knw its not jangilova epo motor? it is JINGLE OVER LIKE A MOTOR!! I bet you didn't know.
Don't be shy, I didn't know either until now I am sure 99.9 % of adults that grew up in Nigeria don't know dat d nursery rhyme "sandalili sandalili" is actually "standard living standard living".
The song in church saying " o singo singo, praise d Lord", is actually " o sing my soul and praise the Lord. I know you are singing it now again, smiles ***Confess.! are you guilty?
hahahaha! keep sharing the fun and laugh it off.
Jesus died over 2000 yrs ago and nobody has ever called him the late Jesus, not even the devil. No where in history! He is still the Living God!
Lol@white birds abd white fingers...that's "leke leke gimme white fingers" LMAO *tear...**on a sunday? Nahh
ReplyDeleteLeke Leke Bami leke, eye adaba bami Leke, o mu dudu lo, o mu funfun bo
DeleteYes o! Jesus is a living God.
Deletelolsss, this woman eee, your own sanko no kwa na another level o
DeleteLoooooool. No tearing of bras on Sunday. Nice.
DeleteI swear I did not mix garri with sugar.
ReplyDeleteI swear I did not play tyres as car
I swear I did not play table soccer.
Even me. Where I dey go wey I go put garri for pocket?
DeleteI did except mix garri with sugar and pour into my pocket
DeleteI made choco milo myself. Mix plenty Milo with water and tie with nylon then freeze. Choco Milo is ready.
DeleteI didn't do most of those things abeg
DeleteI didn't also mix garri & sugar but I did the milo thin. Mine ws called brown ice cream. Loolz
DeleteI wash hand and leg wella. Went to a boarding school and it was the norm during harmattan. We call it rub and shine
DeleteI did all,I miss ma childhood days.
ReplyDeleteI did almost all. It was fun
DeleteMrs. Kork, ur head dey there jare! U just took some of us (not everybody jare) down memory lane. Those were the good old days when men were boys. Kai! Thanks for bringing lovely memories to us this morning! U too much!!!
ReplyDeleteAbeg...wey my mates???
*Ghanaman signing out*
Lol!
ReplyDeleteChildhood was fun mehn! If only one could turn back the hands of time.
Wow! Did all
DeleteStella u didn't add banger to it o! I threw banger to the extent that I had a minor surgery cuz of it. I miss banger days. Nw, the boko boys have deprived us of such.
Merry Christmas in advance BV's
Lol I did almst all
ReplyDeletewow!!! diz brings bac fun memories.
ReplyDeleteaswear!!!
DeleteI'm guilty of all.. I love when the white birds flies over n we'd be enchanting"Lekeleke come give me one better finger". As for my tooth, my mum would ask me to wave it seven times before throwing it on the zinc so that a new one would grow quickly.. Oh my days.. Interesting.. Filled with fun.
ReplyDeletei did virtually ALL! Na me be King of Play that year.
ReplyDeleteWow didn't know it was 'jingle over like a motor' and 'o sing my soul, praise the Lord'. We learn everyday and this is why your blog remains my favourite
ReplyDeleteFacts!
ReplyDeleteLMAO....lekeleke givee white fingers. I remember also the we sing when a plane is flying and we tell it to greet our mother the eko seller, memories.
ReplyDeleteaeroplane to nlo,ba mi ki iya mi eleko,eko meji o yo mi,pamupamu,jigijigi,lolllllls,memories mehn
DeleteAbeg someone should confirm that India:Nigeria. 99 :1 score, heard it as a kid, how the goal keeper saw a lion instead of a ball anytime he tried catching ball.
ReplyDeleteo singo singo, praise d Lord"...OMG....Kia...ignorant bad o...who do me this tin?
ReplyDeleteVery funny, I did most of the things that was mentioned here.
ReplyDeleteGuilty as charged. Lol
ReplyDeleteVery funny, I did some of the things that was mentioned here.
ReplyDeleteI did all of the mentioned above.
ReplyDeleteGenius idea,I no fit swear as I did all above...na the 'o sing oo sing oo wey tire me, still singing it lol
ReplyDeleteMe i did everything oh
ReplyDeleteHilarious
ReplyDeleteLmao
DeleteVery hilarious!!
DeleteStella ukwu sugar how come you come post the Santa giveaway when most of us dey church. Nawa ooo Nnem pls reconsider ooo.
The good old days. Sometimes I wish I had the power to fast forward and rewind the world. My childhood was fun. I had fun with my friends.
ReplyDeleteStella you forgot to add "swell,uga and oriyoma". I grew up in Owerri. When it was very peaceful and save. Gosh I miss my childhood. Shout out to my fellow bvs who grew up in the late 80's and 90's. Especially to those who grew up in Owerri. And if you
are an OJIMGBO girl;much love to y'all.
*crying and reminiscing* my childhood was fun. I miss it so much.
Oriyoma danger!...
DeleteOriyoma chose baby....hahahahaha.
I did all that!,,,my favorite is swell cos I normally buy line 2 house making my opponents hard to pick up their seed from line 1...
Hahahhahaha....You be Ojimblgbo girl? una skul uniform den na die!! with your barrettes.Red pinafore with yellow inner shirt and red Barrett.
DeleteHahaha@the queen;iji ya.
Delete@Sassy; yes o. Correct! I be ojimgbo girl.
Queen of... it means you grew up in ajegunle boundry. My cousins lived there and once came for hols in our place, come and see how they were singing the song. And we were just there envying them because of the songs, not knowing it was because they grew up in a very razz area.
DeleteNow I see where your "razzness" is from...
I did 98%
ReplyDeleteOh my God!!! God is indeed alive!! And I did more than 90percent of all this. Its so funny!!
ReplyDeleteOoh that song...
ReplyDeleteMine I used to sing 'Chancha lili Chancha lili'
Omg, can't stop laughing.
You dare not bath in the rain when my mum is around oo. Those days my bros will poor the rain water on the verandah making it slippery then slide from one end to the other.
I hate the sight of any creeping thing viz earthworm, millipede, centipede. So once I heard salt kills worm, my own na to carry the whole container of salt and throw from a distance on the worm. Lol
My mum started hiding salt container cos of me.
Fess!!!!
ReplyDeleteI did all @ Stella we be age mates o . All those Aunty gwegs go come now de form can't remember any.
ReplyDeleteMixture of garri and sugar was the baddest .. Lol
ReplyDeleteWe even make garri cake and decorate it with gooo gooo.
Nice! Growing up in the suburbs of Nairobi was quite different. I did not play these games but we had a few.
ReplyDeleteLucinda
U just made me remember childhood play back then.
ReplyDelete"If u didn't play TEN-TEN back then" na him b say u don miss sweet childhood play oooo
Hahahahaha, ajegbako things!!
ReplyDeletePresent!
Lekwa mgbeke feeling funky. These were the real deals mehn.
DeleteYes o. Hes the living God
ReplyDeleteHahahahahahahah! Garri n sugar nostalgia
ReplyDeleteHahaha Hhahaa..rotfl..i am guilty of all except 2.
ReplyDeleteHahahahahahahahah....I did all of them ooo except riding a single tire( used the cover of bucket instead while using the bucket handle to control the movement of the cover)lolz, also did not mix garri and sugar in my pocket. Childhood was fun!!! I act mama and papa play tire..choi even acted COMMANDO sef using charcol to make a black mark across my face. I miss being a child with no worries but what play to act next and when the next food would be ready......
ReplyDeleteSeriously. Used esp small paint cover and then straighten d handle n use it to steer d "car". #nostalgic
Deleteam guilty of all
ReplyDeleteam guilty of all
ReplyDeleteI did almost all
ReplyDeleteI never mixed garri with sugar tho,,cos u hardly see garri in our house
Lool..then we would sing
Chekeleke nyem mbo ocha ka iwere oji
I'm always having that white pigment on my nails till now
My childhood was fun jare
Looool!
ReplyDeleteKilling earthworms with salt was my favourite,i loved to see how the wriggled and died!am I not so wicked sef.hahahah
Btw Linda some pple mama and papa play pass cooking and eating oo!some children try sex.!
Abeg na osingo singo Naim sweet pass....nice laughs tho, brings sweet memories....stellla I'm back...and u must enjoy me
ReplyDelete*sorry I meant to say Stella*
ReplyDeleteAwwwwn, dis took me down sweet memory lane of my childhood. I did everything dia n more. My babies r surely gonna miss out on dis fun. This sunday laff aint bad at ol, it got me smile n reminiscing ol thru.
ReplyDelete---MRS AAY
Guilty of all but one...didnt wash just my hand and leg when going to school... Hehe
ReplyDeleteChildhood was fun mehn!
Playing daddy and mommy,had one wicked neighbor that was always joining me n one particular brown-teethed boy together as mummy n daddy,only God knew her plan,mtscheeeew
I was a gangly tomboy.
ReplyDeleteI was a goal keeper in an all- boy football team.My big bro owned the ball n was the captain,so his word was law. I was very good o but my mum stopped me.
There's this one u forgot. A big tyre n a slim person will crawl inside n curve himself. Then ,they will be rolling the tyre. Jeezus. 1000 ways to die.
That tyre stuff is scary. I did it
DeleteChoi Irene I did that...
DeleteHahahahaha...
Drum also.
Deletehmmmmmm. true talk.
ReplyDeleteI miss those old days.
MISS GOODIE
me rep 35 emenike str mile 1 diobu ph
ReplyDelete#GODWIN™
That garri and sugar inside pocket dey sweet die...
ReplyDeleteLol. I did almost all oh. Except bathing only my tummy and going to school and mixing garri and sugar in my pocket, I mixed mine in a nylon. Lol. My childhood was fun, this generation are missing.
ReplyDeleteChai...i tot it was o singo singo ooo...even most choristers are singing it.Stella don correct me big time
ReplyDeleteHahaha I don old ooo
ReplyDeletelol... I did All dis oo and also believed the once told. child hood rocks joor
ReplyDeleteLmbo!
ReplyDeleteI was guilty of some of them o.
I used to think it was osingo singo and sandalili sandalili till about a couple of years back.
My childhood was fun jor.
Sweet memories!
#WhiteDiamondOut
Memories stella! Beautiful memories! I wish I could turn back the hands of time.....I am sad and unfulfilled in marriage bcos of my obsessed and possessive hubby and yes he hits me. Iam so sad not bcos I left a few days ago but how to cope and heal again. I can't even pray, I am blank! Pray 4 me BVs, pray 4 me!
ReplyDeleteO singo singo is o sing my soul? Idonbelivit
ReplyDeleteI remember the milk tooth part...I will dance then turn around and throw d tooth on d roof.backing it...God..
ReplyDeleteThen d one u wave on white birds for white fingers...leke leke give me one finger............hahahahahahha..
And I can remember doing almost all of the things on that list..
It's funny how u think it's only u that these things occur to but everybody actually thought about it..the one where u close d fridge slowly to see when d light goes off...hahahahah..
I did almost all. My childhood really rocked
ReplyDeleteHeheheheheh, am so guilty of evrythn... #growing up was fun..
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ReplyDeleteDid all except the washing of hands and leg;
ReplyDeleteAnd mixing garri and sugar in the pocket..
But their is A game missing..we call it bores riding(Not sure about the spelling tho)..but it is constructed with three car or motocycle bores..
Two is fixed at the back,and one is fixed at the front..then A space is made at the back where it can be pushed with A stick while someone is sitting on the wooden constructed machine..
After construction;you just look for A good road and set the bores..while it is driven turn by turn by the kids around..
Hahahahah...
DeleteI know that car...my brothers had it then..they use it in fetching water..
Bo-ress or something...
Lwkmd!...
Memories...
Hmmm!d young shall grow
ReplyDeleteLovely childhood memories.Feeling nostalgic all of a sudden.I miss my childhood.
ReplyDeleteAhh, the white birds, they actually gave me those white spots on the nails;
ReplyDelete"Chekeleke nyem mbo ocha ka iwere oji". And you will be waving your hands in the air.
No chekeleke again so no spots on the nails. *sighs.
I did more than the ones I didnt do:
°I didnt play in any uncompleted building. We didnt have any around us in the quarters.
°Just hearing about the fhosts of mango trees.
°Ahh, I no bath just my hands and legs. Na kill dem or kill me then oh.
But every other one na correct. That grass cooking na every time we return from school we go de cook am.
It wasn't chekeleke giving those white spots joor
DeleteIt's always on all my nails till now so how come
And I don't ask chekeleke for it either
Lool
Hahahahaha ! If I tell you say I know all those jangilova,sandalili and osingo singo, I dey lie! Lmaoooo. Na the remix sweet pass hop. We learn even through funny things.
ReplyDeleteI did all except throwing my tooth on the roof.
I never heard of the mango tree ghost,rather I heard of witches under banana trees.
I didn't do the tyre thing
I didn't play table soccer but I played "koso" with that funnel looking stuff that rolls before it falls.
Childhood was fun.
I also didn't wash hands and legs, I didn't do the garri and sugar one either.
DeleteYes! Christ lives!
ReplyDeleteEnter your comment...heeheehee! am guilty of all. this is like going down d memory lane.
ReplyDeleteI have just remembered my childhood days. The whole thing used to be fun, when I have nothing to worry about.
ReplyDeleteI did everything even to the extent of going to my neigbour's shop who is a tailor to gather piece of material and tie around my body to dance cultural dance
ReplyDeleteGood old days.
ReplyDeleteConcerning Jesus matter,he resurrected so he can't be late jesus.Tnx 4 dis stella
ReplyDeleteDormot is door mat , i did all except mix garri and sugar in my pocket..... Fun times I swear, growing up is a trap
ReplyDeleteHahahaha, very funny post always funny.
ReplyDeleteHehehehe nice!
ReplyDeleteGuilty of some.I love the last lines , My JESUS is indeed a living God....
Aww... This is so nice..
ReplyDeleteIt brought back so many memories..
I can relate to most of dem. But i never acted movie in an uncompleted building.
ReplyDeleteButty things
waooo.....i love this,did almost all of them
ReplyDeleteYeah, I did 90% of these things. Lols
ReplyDeleteI didn't fly a kite
ReplyDeleteI didn't drive tyre car
I didn't mix sugar and garri in my pocket.
I didn't do most of them.
#ajebutterkid
I cannot come and goan died throway from bad swear. I have done all except put garri in my pocket with sugar. Sugar was a luxury in the village then. Palm kernels did it.
ReplyDeleteMemories of childhood. I remember playing hide and seek during moonlight. I'd hide with girls and touch and pull their budding-seedy breasts. You go para if na fellow boy hide near you.
Is it to cover cloth in your neighbour's house with their female daughter and be reading" Reader" or "Ralia, The Sugar Girl" while body is rubbing body? God forgive me for being an inquisitive child. Pls say Amen
Aaaahhhhh!!!! kehindeeeiii, i know your own must be different. you too saby that kind thing oo
DeleteChai....
DeleteAke...
DeleteShebi I don talk am before, it haff tey wey you spoil. Nur be today.
Little wonder why all the girls wanna marry you??
Buhahahahahahaha
Lekeleke gbami leke gish leke leke gimme ten fingers, song for the the white birds Lool sweet memories!
ReplyDeleteI dint knw abt the o singo osingo ooo.. mayb cos m muslim sha.. I still do that garri bit. . Not in my pocket tho.. I jst pour excess in a bowl. . Eat half of it 1st.. then drink d oda half. . I don't av a favourite food but I'd always turn up for ijebu garri. .
ReplyDeleteHaha haha.... Am guilty of all. Really miss my child hood days.
ReplyDeleteAm guilty of everything except the mango tree own. Just wow
ReplyDeleteguilty as charged!
ReplyDeleteStrawberry n indomie generation peeps didn't do most of these things.
ReplyDeleteI did most,but wash hand n leg?lailai iya nike no go gree.after I don baff she go still baff me again.na wen I wan enter jss 2 I use force free myself
Hahaha can imagine....reminds me of my cousin who the mum and I went to pick from school at the end of one semester in his form one... The boy was smelling like he hadn't had a bathe in ages, when we got home de mama scrubbed him till he was begging for mercy....lol...he is now in uni and I yab him till today
DeleteGuilty on all charges
ReplyDeleteYa Stella I love your sense of humour!
ReplyDeleteI've been down since yesterday, this post jst made my day, love you stella...:)
ReplyDeletePraise the lord!!!!! He reigns forever...
ReplyDeleteI never knew about waving at white birds or ghost under a mango tree. Please I always had my bath when going to school..
Other that the above mentioned, I think I am familiar with the rest. I know it is jingle over like a motor* side eyes at you stella*
God, I think I did all of that, especially the part of throwing your teeth on the roof for lizard, really got me cracking up.
ReplyDeleteI'm guilty of everything....hahahahahaha...chai person don dey old ooo
ReplyDeleteI'm so proud to be a Nigerian
I did all..hahahahahaha, childhood was fun!!!!
ReplyDeleteNext
ReplyDeleteHALLELUJAH @the last paragraph somebody!
ReplyDeleteDid all except table soccer.So much memory.
ReplyDeleteWhatsapp joke...
ReplyDelete#ONE OF A DOPE
Did almost everything especially that mummy and daddy.. Chai
ReplyDeleteI still say jangirova epo moto with my kids on the see saw. The white people look at me like wetin she dey talk
ReplyDeleteLol, its true o.
ReplyDeleteHahhaahhahahaha chai. Mother general of egwureegwu 1.
ReplyDeleteI feel like going 20 years back in time
ReplyDeleteI didn't hear about ghosts under a Mango tree, i didn't do the table soccer. I did they rest but i mixed Garri and Suger in nylon , not my pucket.
ReplyDeleteI learnt it is oh sing on, sing on not singo or sing my soul.
I guilty gaan except that I did not wash only my hand and feet before going to school.
ReplyDeleteGuilty 0f all.
ReplyDeleteI did almost all, building house with sand was fun.
ReplyDeleteD only 1 i dint do was wave at white birds for white fingernails, never heard of it sef
ReplyDeleteWow...
ReplyDeleteSo oh singo singo.... Oh sing, my soul?
Yepa.... Which means na rubbish I being dey sing sinceeeeeee....
Playing as a kid was mad funnnnnnn....
I did almost everything mentioned above.... Lol
Am guilty of all except the garri part..... Lmao
ReplyDeletei did almost all the things listed
ReplyDeleteHahahahahhaaah......I did most of these things
ReplyDeleteI did not do rub and shine and i did not do garri and sugar. Kindly pardon my other crimes your highness atleast i did not fail all.
ReplyDeleteAm guilty of all except d garri & bathing part lol
ReplyDeleteMemories wow!
ReplyDeleteI didn't do all of them, but most of them # shines teeth #
I am guilty of few! Hmmmm.....life thou. Niz one Stella . U are d real thing. Had a gud laff.
ReplyDelete#Herroyalnuttiness
Hahaahhaahahahahahahahahaha, so is standard living standard living. We normally sing Jangilova otiri motor, I don't even know what it means. Chai! Childhood was super fun. Innocent minds.
ReplyDeleteChildhood sweet esp killin earthworm wit salt.
ReplyDeleteI carry first for dat
My childhood was fun did a lot of those things above .Wish I am a child again with nothing to worry about.
ReplyDeleteI did suwe, was a ten ten expert, did i call on, mixed garri n beans et all infact children this days r missing seriously watching teletubies n all those boring stuff on tv.
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