Ostentatious Adolescent Display

I know it's been a while since the last post, I would make excuses for myself, but truthfully I have been lazy.  

Being Christmas, tourist season, time off work to straight chill during the day, good friends, great banter, I have gone out quite a lot. Well quite a lot for me anyway. But... something has struck me as being very odd this year in Lagos. The Lagos vibe is still the same, the same crew of people are in town, new clubs have opened, new restaurants, bars, pubs, the old faithfuls have refurbished, to cut a long story short things are popping off sha, but something is not quite right! Odd! Ok, let me not sugar coat anything, Lagos has been a bit DRY!!!!!!!!! Yes you read right! Dry, Dullin, Boring, Wack, Ko dun!

This got me thinking (and most of my tweeps would know this) IS IT ME? OR IS IT LAGOS? Does everyone feel somehow bored when they go out either to a club, or to someones BBQ? I still don't have the answer to that question, and it's not really relevant, cause I think I've worked it out, I found my own answer. It's not Lagos at all! It's me! It's you if your anything like me! 

Life in Lagos is all about OSTENTATIOUS ADOLESCENT DISPLAY!!!!!! Whether you are 50 married with kids old enough to meet u in the club, or you are 16 and your parents have just started letting you hit rehab with an older cousin, brother sister. The reason you love to go out in lagos is because you want to be seen, you want to pop the bottles, have the hot chicks on your arm, be grinding with one fwine guy, you want to show off your JBL dress, you Audimer watch, you want people to look at you, admire you, you want people to want to be you, you want to be the pivot around which the world rotates (or at least the pivot around which your friends (people that sit on your table) rotate). You have something you want to show off, you are seeking relevance, you have to make noise, everything you do must be POW!!!!! Let's call a spade a spade, you are attention seeking. Actually let me take that back, cause this is just my opinion based on observations, you may not be attention seeking, you may genuinely like to stand in an over crowded club drinking a 9k bottle of champagne which u paid 30k for from the bottle, while at the same time trying to dance to a song you can barely hear through a crappy sound system. Different strokes for different folks. However I call it ostentatious adolescent display. Just like a pubescent teenager feels the need to inculcate himself or herself by doing wild, out there, loud, uptown, theatrical, OSTENTATIOUS if you like things,  so to do Nigerians feel the need to, as the yorubas would say do "fahri", show off all in an attempt to be noticed, to be recognised and celebrated amongst their peers, seniors, juniors, gbogbo won. One small island off the coast off one small state, in quite a small country, with 16 million egos competing against each other for attention. "I fit pop bottle pass you" "My car engine big pass your own", "my table get people wey pass your own", "my cloth get thread count pass your own" "my shoe get red colour under am"... Lagos life is wrapped in fanfare and pageant ... It is damn OSTENTATIOUS, it is ADOLESCENT, and it is all unnecessary DISPLAY!!!   

...so Lagos hasn't changed, Lagos isn't any duller than it was last year, I have changed, I have grown out of the need to "display", if the club is hot, the waiters are long, the music is whack, the ladies are tacky, the men are uncouth. Why stay, just to "feel among" ... I have a well nourished iPod, surround sound speakers, a good bunch of friends...  So DEUCES!!!!!!

Xoxo.