Kimi Shy

                                   Before SS1, Valentine's day was a day when my Father made us all dress to the nines and he took us to the "swankyest" restaurant in whatever town we were in usually Abuja or Calabar. Fast forward to senior secondary I changed schools from an all girls boarding to a mixed boarding. I became aware of what the holiday meant (the whole lovers situation). In an all girls school, Vals day was just a low key day for "school daughters and mothers". In the mixed school though it was a whole other monster. The night before, girls stayed awake talking about all the boys that liked them and who they will be expecting gifts from. Come morning, girls will go to class holding their breath hoping that the boy they have a crush on has finally grown a pair and put something nice in their locker. This day also was also the unfortunate day that boys picked to play practic...

I know a girl, she knows how to stop a crowd, though she is not the most beautiful, there is something about her that catches the eye. She holds her head high, laughs from her heart and wears a smile like gold. I know a girl with a heart so true a love so pure and a mind so strong. She wears her love like a dress and her thoughts she's not afraid to share. That's the girl I want to be, Soft and strong and pink. -YD                                                Soft and Pink is an expression I stole from Wendy Williams. I love it, because it refers to some things a woman sometimes is. I have been wanting to write on this and what it means to me for quite some time and my thoughts have been all over the place. So soft and pink, if your mind is not in the gutter when you hear these words, you  think of fluffy a...