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The Crucial Test

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With his final university examination to contend with, Ade suddenly also had to deal with a severe headache and a rising temperature. From all indications, it wasn’t as a result of intense studying. Most students would break down under such pressure, a subtle reminder of their mortality. Not Ade, he had trained his mind over time to withstand sustained hours of intense studying. Everything points to one answer as he could fathom. “No, not again! I treated malaria just last month,” he thought out loud. His final examination was scheduled for the next day and if there’s one thing he despised, it is taking pills not recommended by an healthcare professional. Besides, taking malaria pills at that instant would only weaken him further and that would be bordering on two injustices committed against his own self in a short while. He took paracetamol, the safe option (or so it seemed). Fast forward to the next day and like an experienced surgeon in a familiar theatre, he

Getting Started

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Hello! You wanna go back to check that first word again. No, you didn’t. Of course it’s just a simple ‘hello’ but there’s more to it. I pronounce that word so good that pulses get racing (let me be great please). That would be a discussion for another day entirely. Now, to the business of the day. Ahem! My name is,,, seriously? We have to do this? Check the end of the post please. Well, I’ve harbored a profound interest in writing for quite a while now but I just won’t write for reasons unknown to me (I actually know some, they’re just silly). Then the Eureka moment when I realized that I have to become an embodiment of my thoughts and my environment. At long last, I crushed my demons and I’m trying to unleash my latent ability through this blog. And I sincerely hope that this new-found urge doesn’t fade just as it surfaced. So help me God.  Ah! That was turning into a note-to-self kind of writing that I almost forgot I was carrying you along. Well, here you