By Yasir Aladodo
At the beginning of the semester, I was at the top myself eating and drinking whatever my mouth desired. From Students’ Choice to Feel at Home, all the mini restaurants in the minimart knew who Yasir was.
Though I have food stuff, I said to myself that ‘mak I bend’ if I put anything on fire with my hands.
But little did I know that I would end up just like Arsenal FC, who were cruising on top of the Premier league table only for the title to slip away from their hands at the dead minute. My plan has failed.
I opened the cabinet of my food stuff and realized I needed to struggle before I could get something out of it to put on fire. From 1-1-1, I have been relegated to 0-1-0.
I could still remember this day after the postponement of the UDUS examination. It was after a weary evening lecture on Tuesday. I came back to my room and started opening all the pots. Perhaps, a miracle can occur and may find something inside the pots. I ransacked the whole room and even a trace of Garri was nowhere to be found. Sapa.
That was when I admitted to that ‘pressure ti wa.’ Even Garri is no longer ‘even. Luckily for me, I woke up to a 3k credit alert on my phone. But when I realized that I still have more than 25 days to spend on campus, I began to shiver. This was an amount of money that could barely spend a day with me at the beginning of the semester.
But here I am, thinking of how to manage 3k for over 20 days when my gas has even finished.
Do you know what came to mind ? I used 1k of the 3k to stake a bet. Who knows, I may be lucky. But God decided to quickly punish me as all the games I picked even one I no enter.
As if I have seen it all. When I went to class the following morning, the lecturer recommended three books and gave a presentation which cost about N4,000. At this moment, I’m cut between the anvil and the hammer. I de see shege. I’m injured at the injury time.
But the truth of the matter is that I failed to foreshadow all these things when I was spending money like Obi Cubana at the beginning of the semester.
As a student, if you know your financial stamina, you need to be prudent right from the day one you resumed on campus. Else, you will see shege.