You graduate from uni with a Bachelor of Biomedical Lab Technology. Your mum throws a glorious celebration for this milestone. Everything seems in place. You find work in a molecular biology lab. You’re doing a commendable job extracting DNA, running agarose gel electrophoresis, studying those DNA bands under UV light. You’ve even discovered a novel…
Category: Blogging Challenge
June 2019 Blogging Challenge – One new post daily!
Day #5: My Business of Roaches and Chocolate
My house had an infestation of cockroaches. Roaches under the sink, in my bags, under my seats and bed. Roaches everywhere. Big brown roaches. Small black roaches. Winged and wingless roaches. Healthy roaches and injured ones limping from surviving a hit from me. Roaches here and roaches there. I’d be sleeping and I’d hear movements…
Day #4: Things I wish I could do well (or at all)
Sir, can I skip this one? Please? Ah, that was a flat no from you. You haven’t given me a chance to flesh out an excuse. I’d like to explain why I want to skip this one. What’s my excuse? Here it is. Come on, you can’t be cutting me off like that. Let me…
Day #3: Three things I’d do for no pay
It’s just day three of this blogging challenge but I’m already digging deep on this one. My left elbow is folded, resting on the arm of this chair I’m seated on. My first finger has found its position above my upper lip, under my nose, pushing down my mustache. I can feel the warmth of…
Day #2: My Dream Life?
Emily is out in the cold. Her eyes are pinned to the sky. She’s gazing at the stars as crickets and the sound of nature permeate her surroundings. She’s a young girl battling leukemia. Her friend Jason walks up to her and starts small talk. He then squats by her side and continues with his…
Day #1: Intro and Commitment
The last time I attended a church wedding was in May 2015. [I’ll attend one later today. For now, we’ll focus on the last time.] It was my cousin’s wedding. She was getting married to the love of her life, a man I have grown to admire. She’s the first grandchild in our family. Her…