-17- HENRY Over the years, I have learnt some valuable lessons like one can’t really be too careful. I mean you can avoid boarding a plane just so you do not end up crashing but at the end still die if a plane crashes right into your home when you are asleep … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 17
-16- MAXWELL It all happened so fast. One minute I was about to screw my first ever blonde girl and the next minute I was in a car being chased in hot pursuit by a police truck. Henry had barely allowed us to get comfortable in the car before he took … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 16
-15- MARY-ANNE As the video of Marry Me, a song by Falz, a Nigerian artiste was being shown on TV, I couldn’t help but laugh at the comical message passed. Having regained my memory, I had called Henry and the conversation had been something like this: Henry: Hello. Me: Hello… … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 15
-14- AMAKA How I slept off? I have no idea. All I really remember is staggering home after the Agbaya incident and collapsing on my bed with the intention of resting a bit, next thing I recall is waking up by 9pm. I knew the time only because I have a habit … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 14
-13- MARY-ANNE The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why. -Mark Twain I could hear voices, two voices, I couldn’t exactly hear what they were saying as I was barely conscious but I could make out the voices belonged … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 13
-12- AMAKA Standing at the front of the lecture hall in his well fitted black suit with a green tie was Professor Iyagba. “Stand up!” He had thundered. I knew if he had to repeat himself again or come over to pull me up I’ll be in a lot more trouble … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 12
-11- AMAKA “The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don’t know how to be submissive, and so on – because they’re dysfunctional to the institutions” – Noam Chomsky I hate … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 11
-10- HENRY “Marijuana enhances our mind in a way that enables us to take a different perspective from ‘high up’, to see and evaluate our own lives and the lives of others in a privileged way. Maybe this euphoric and elevating feeling of the ability to step outside the box and … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 10
-9- AMAKA Investigations are generally not easy. I never knew this until I had to do a little digging in myself. I have found out quite a lot so far. Firstly, I now know that there’s something going on between Funmi and Maxwell, I don’t know what exactly but I … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 9
-8- MAXWELL A popular saying state, you don’t know the value of what you have, until you lose it but in my case, I think it should be, you don’t know how much you care about someone until you nearly lose the person. Those were the thoughts that crossed my mind … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 8
-7- AMAKA A wise man once said- live your life to the fullest, have fun and do whatever makes you happy because at the end, you would not get out of it alive. That short witty saying is basically the policy I try to live by day in day out. … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 7
-6- MARY-ANNE Death is not as it’s portrayed in movies. It is not fun at all, you are not being judged to go to heaven or hell. It is not even filled with light and it is definitely not immaculate. Its darkness. pitch-black darkness. Your eyes are open but you can see nothing, … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 6
-5- MAXWELL You ever do something that seemed like a great idea at the time but later it’s like you are not so sure anymore? It was one of those days when we had longer nights and shorter days. I knew this because it was just 7PM but the moon was already out, shinning in … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 5
-4- HENRY The weather is truly unpredictable. One minute the sun is so hot that it can roast yam and the next moment it’s raining cat and dogs. I had just left Mary-Anne apartment and was in the compound when I looked up at the sky and noticed the sun was nowhere to be found … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 4
-3- The best way to kill a lion is to make it feel comfortable and just when it leasts suspects, you strike. FUNMI I was doing basically nothing when I heard a knock on my door, just laying on my bed and watching a Morgan Freeman movie. It was monday, a day after … Continue reading Why I Want To Be Bad 3