I Stand Amaze...

Morning morning bloggers...Its about 4:11am and I just could not stop playing worship songs so I just had to share these two that have been blessing my soul all night long. They are both by Sinach....I pray that you are bless as you listen.

xoxoxo
YSU

Surprise Surprise Surprise

Its officially August 11th...and I just got a year older. I can definitely say I have seen the Lord's doing in the very past 20 something years and it just keep getting more and more glorious each day...Will try to keep this as short cause I'm out to celebrateeeeee eh eh eh.


For my birthday I decided to let yall into my world a little bit by introducing a dear friend to you, she has tremendous similarities as your one and only YSU So here she is.........





She is ME...yes you read that right, me me me aka MZYSU...I have finally decided to reveal myself since I have grown past the stage of shyness..now you can actually match my posts to a face. (Yeah record the face pretty well because this post will go down soon...lol)


M.E aka MZYSU is an Edo babe by Origin...

....Came to the state to obtain a degree in Engineering and therefore became an Engineer by day...

...Never giving up her true passion for fashion therefore becomes a designer by night...

(Check out my line N'omose Couture :D ) 

 ...With her love for Ankara prints she just could not resist these...

  (Can you tell my now that blues and greens are surely my fav. colors?)

 ....Laughter is the best medicine to most things plus she has to live up to my name so I'm always merry...

(Yes my name is Merrytime as in Merry and Time. I really love my name and always greatful that my parents came up with that. Disclamer: Yes my first name is English i'm not an akata babe forming name or nicknames for myself  :P ) lol but please don't call me mary, merriweather, thyme or anything like that

....She started the Birthday weekend with touring the city with momsy...

...Speaking of momma, here she is...my hero, my number one woman, the woman who brought me into this world 20 something years ago :)

Thats it folks...There you have it...Ms. Merrytime AKA MZYSU :)

Have a great weekend y'all

xoxoxo
MZYSU

Speechless

August! August! August!...Surely my favorite month of the year :) Happy New month everybody, better late than never abi?

This blog post is more for me apparently no one is on my side on this case..

So lately as I turn left, right, front and back every every little kids I grew up with are popping out babies and I'm just like still in shock because some of these young girls just graduated from high school or not even yet a graduate and it just breaks my heart because a lot of these girls don't even know much about what life is all about . Usually it don't bother me much but when I found out one of the little girl I grew up with just had a baby I was plain devastated. This girl lets call her Sammy is probably about 18 or 19 and just had a baby of which the boy does not even want the child or anything to do with her. Sammy growing up was one of the book smart kids that I knew, competing in spelling bees and all that Academic decathalon events across the nation. In a way I put 20% of the blame on Sammy and the other 80% on her parents.

Now the problem I have with alot of African parent that relocate to US is the fact that they all feel like they have to work 24/7 just so they can have things to show off which leads to their children doing all sort of unimaginable things without their parents knowledge. The other set of parents are the ones that think they have to me super strict on their children everything revolve about school work and no play. Sammy's parent were probably the most strict parents I have every met and this girl can not even dare go outside for fresh air without her parent's consent. At age 16/17 I believe she got enough of it and decided to do whatever she want. This lead to her parent beating her up one day and she ended up calling the police and she was taking away by the government and letter ended up in a shelter. To cut the long story short she ended up doing all sort of crazy things afterall she has never had the taste of fun/life outside her house so she was ready to do everything, wherever and whenever which later led to a baby. It really breaks my heart because she is this smart little girl I used to know and could have earn herself an amazing scholarship to university if she graduated high school. In her case I really do blame her parents because you just can't be so overprotective of your kids because once they get out of your sight they will venture out into something that you have always deprive them of.


The other set of parents I can't tolerate are the gold diggers who don't care about the happiness or the well being of their child except what is in for them. Another friend of mine just got engage a few weeks ago and getting married in next year's fall. She is about 20 and knowing her pretty well enough I just think she is way to young especially getting married to someone who is almost 30.They are totally at two different life stage and its like she is skipping a stage in her life. In most african home (At least the ones i know) at early 20's is when you really start to find out who you really are and what you really want. Jumping from parent's house to hobby's house so quickly, when do you get  your alone time?  The guy is a working young man and she is a college sophomore and in my head I was just thinking when I was 20 the last thing my parent will agree to would be me getting married without even finishing a first degree. For me if my daughter really loves the man and the man claims he loves her then I would have said wait 2 years. Afterall if it is God's will then those 2 years to finish her education will not be a problem.

Anyways sha enough of my little rant, I guess you could call me old school if you like but I still think getting married younger than 20 and popping babies anywhere between 16-20 is too young especially when its not a mistake.I may just be too much into the  "finding myself/exploring who I'm" first before taking on the responsibility of becoming a wife and a mother. Many people I know disagree with me about these early marriage and baby outside of marriage/without a father stuff so I shall rest my own case here. This post is more for my rant but of course I love hearing your lovely comments and stand.


xoxo
YSU



P.S  In my next post I shall have a few surprises for y'all and probably a giveaway too. I shall also be answering any/all question so if you have ever wanted to ask me anything you've got a chance to ask me. YSUnspoken@gmail.com is my email and I shall answer them in a future post.

P.P.S. Dancing Alanta, Azonto and Kukere all at ones just because its August and the best people are born in August for sure. Early birthday shout out to Didi and every other blogger or follower born in August :)


P.P.P.S Hillsong Live is going to be in town in a few weeks and I so can't wait for this, I'm sure  inthemidstofher knows how this feels lol :)

Praise your way out

Hey there! How do you praise?

'When I praise people look at me as if i'm crazy but if you don't know my pain you will never understand my praise...It don't matter what you think about me I own Him all the praise because if it was not for Him I don't know where I would be' - Cece Winans

When I think of praise my heart just fill up with so much joy that everything else don't matter anymore. I'm sure I have done a post somewhere before on praise on here but I was too lazy to go find it and there's nothing wrong with expressing my self about praise again. 

Now when we talk about praising God, there are different ways to it but for me it is particularly worship. I love singing worships and doing worship dance and the best part about it is the fact that I know I can sing my heart out or spin till I get dizzy and not care about what people around me think because I know its for God and He is rejoicing with me as I praise Him. There is just something about praise that always turns all situations around. One thing for sure is that I don't know how to pray but what i know to do best is praise, with praise God has always answer all my request. "He that sings prays twice" so there you go my secret recipe to answer prayers. 


Just wanted to give away a little secret to success...In the mean time enjoy this song that has been on my praise list for the past few weeks, I know the intro of the song is long but please listen to it as the word are so POWERFUL I shout again POWERFUL and you will surely be bless by it :)

 





Cheers!!.
YSU




P.S its my blog anniversary this month and I just want to thank you all my faithful readers and commenter even this year that I have been totally slacking...You guys are AHHH-MAZING and totally rock my world 

He's always there :)

*Thinking Cap on * How did time flew by so fast between my last post and now?

How are you lovely blogger and readers doing? Hope the summer is going fabulous especially for everyone who was in school throughout the year. On my end everything have been going fabulous and looking back now I see that I have come very far in the last few months.

If you have been following my blog for a long time you would notice that my blogging trend dropped in a way. Rewinding back to march I had a terrible terrible emotional breakdown that changed the way I was approaching things in life and view about myself and what not. For some people who can read in between the line I hinted here and here and then like 10 draft post that I never publish just because I did not want to be overly negative on here or have a pity party. It all started with losing a friend and then a million other things follow one by one after the other. Now when I love, I love with my whole heart and therefore when I'm broken the heart is broken into a million pieces and therefore every other little damage makes the matter worst...Imagine this was just for a close friend what will happen if this one was hubby eh? lol. Anyway sha I will spare all the negative parts but it Got to a point when I would open my bible and the tears just roll down non-stop, any little thing will just make me cry a river, and even praying or listening to God speak was just a hassle or pointless. (hence another reasons I posted less)

I don't even know how but somewhere somehow just about last month my joy came back all again with a million things happening at ones and all unexpected open doors in different areas. The most amazing one was that my Sophomore year my faculty advisor told me I should switch my major otherwise I might not make it through if I continued at the rate I was at the time. Mind you this was a Nigerian professor on campus that I saw as my father on campus. Somehow somewhere God never put me to shame because I made it through 4.5 yrs as an EE major and had the privilege to sit on the podium along with 13 other students been honored during the 2900+ graduating student's ceremony. Seeing my parents, pastors and the rest of the family smile on that day lifted my soul and reminded me that I can do all things through Christ who strengthen me. Sadly the person who made me become an engineer did not live to witness this day but I know he would have been very proud of me. To top it off I got a Graduate Internship in Florida with all housing, and relocation expenses paid for. God knew that I really needed some alone time in a place far far away where I know no soul. Its been a few weeks now and I can say sometimes I miss home and not having my friends around to hang out with but I am really learning more about myself and growing.

Anyway sha enough of my story, all I have learned in this past months is when it comes to a situation where you cannot even get yourself to ask for God's help, tell someone to help. My mom was my helper all along. She is a fire fire woman and you don't mess with her and her prayers, She was on her knees on my behalf everyday and I have seen God works miraculous works through her many many times and He did not fail this time :)


I'd like to say every breakdown is an opportunity to rise and shine again to the highest height. This post is dedicated to anyone going through one thing or the other that they think they can't get up again. Even when we fall to our lowest level He still lifts us up and reminds us that we are not alone in this. I was not going to post this today but decided to share hoping at an individual will read this.  

A word for you - “It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed. ” -Deuteronomy 31:8



xoxoxo
YSU

It is only a fool that says there is no God :)

 

TAGNESS!

Hey hey hey!...hope everyone is doing FABULOUSSS!! hehe  Darlin D and my musical twin Relentless Builder tagged me in the Eleven's game so I had to do it...Thanks a million for the tag Didi and Relentless :)

Now let's get straight to business, Shall we? I'd say we shall...

Rules...
I. Post the rules.
II. You must post 11 things about yourself.
III. Answer the questions that your tagger posted for you.
IV. Create 11 questions,the choose 11 people & tag them to answer your questions.
V. Remember to let them know you tagged them,No tag backs.
VI. Let the tagger know when you answer their questions

11 Things about MOI

1. I love life and living every bit of it.
2 My greatest motivators are people who tell me I can't do something and so I fight to prove them wrong.
3. I dislike the phrase "Good luck" with a passion.
4. I can't eat banana by itself EVER. (it must be with groundnut, rice or other things).
5. I'm the only yellow sisi in my family to the point my little brother at age 5/6 always ask/thought I was his cousin because my aunt is also light.
6. My happiest moments is seeing people happy or satisfied with something that cost me nothing to do for them.
7. If you want to buy me a present or bribe me to do something, buy me a pair of 5" pump and we are good to go...any color but black will do haha.
8. I want to become a Sale Engineer and Travel the world before I hit 35.
9. I will rather eat fish all day than any other meat.
10. My name means joy and laughter so I'm always smilling (I've got in trouble for laughing over some matters that were really serious).
11. Often time I judge people by their cover because I don't trust people sadly.

Answer's to Didi's questions



1. Do you have any pets? Nope
2. If u were an animal in the wild,what animal would u be and why?? A lion because its the greatest of all and plus I am a leo hehe
3. Do you agree when i say religion is doing more harm than good?? If we are talking about the true definition of religion then yes I agree.
4. What`s your favorite song?? I don't have one o..I get bored by repetition very easily but at the moment my jam is comforter by cece winans (the words are just so powerful)
 5. Do you think non-christians are going to hell?? Let's God be the judge of that because been a Christian does not guarantee heaven either.
6. Do you Forgive Easily ?? If the person apologizes then yes within a blink, if not then probably after a day or two will do
7. If you have to go to the moon and must take just 1 thing with you. what would it be?? My best friend ( he's a living "thing" jor)
8. Would u agree when i say God needs the devil just to create a balance?? I think I am allow to pass this one
9. Do you Love Gadgets?? YES YES YES
10.  What`s you favorite color?? Teal, turquoise, Royal blue, purple and mustard yellow :)

11. Is there anything you have always wanted to tell me?? Jesus loves you :)

 Answer to beautiful Relentless Builder Question

1. Would you describe yourself as fashion-conscious? YES YES...sadly my city is not the most fashionable one so there are some things I can't really pull off without been stared at.
2. Name one song you can never forget and why Chinwe Ike by Resonance, the sound is just too beautiful and meaningful and plus I love Esther's voice so can't forget it.
3. What physical feature would you like to change? Nothing because i'm fearfully, wonderfully, gloriously, beautifully, and preciously made :)
4. Three words that other people use to describe you Quiet, playful and selfless
5. Three words that you use to describe yourself Full of life (haha free me o those are 3 words)
6. Pen (Biro) or pencil? Which do you prefer, and why? A science/math major can't do without a pencil (at least for me)
7. Do you have a favorite fragrance (perfume, body spray, etc).  If yes, what is it called? Nope but I absolutely love curve crush perfect balance
8. What are your pet peeves (Name three at most) lateness/slowness, (I know exactly how long it takes me to do something including the error percentage timing so anything more than that becomes a problem
9. Do you like children? Why or why not? Yes because they are just a bundle of joy and brings out the childishness in me which i love as well
10. What's the name of the last book you read? Radar System Analysis (i just finished exams lol)
11. What's the name of your favorite author? James Patterson (This is from early/late teen since i don't read much anymore since uni)    

So since pretty much everyone have done this post I will not be tagging any particular person(s) however I still got 11 questions so feel free to answer any or all in the comment section :)

1. What country and state are you from?
2. What is your most precious item and why?
3. Eat out or cook in? 
4. What is your greatest memory, (it can be good or bad)
5. Name two reason you choose the career path you are at now?
6. Name one guilty pleasure
7. If you were force to own a pet what would it be and why?
8. What is your favorite foreign desert?
9.Why did you start blogging and what keeps you here?
10. Mention one thing readers  don't know about you from reading your blog
11. Head or tail?


 Have a lovely weekend everyone :)

Cheers
YSU

Sleep over the thoughts....

 'Allo 'Allo 'Allo Everybody (You all just need to hear me say that in YSU voice it sounds better lol). But anyway hope everybody dey fine sha?


I saw this video a few days back and I just could not help but to share.

And then I saw this quick note too...

What's happening with me?
I've been speaking less and listening more for directions...A little Blurry but with each and everyday the picture just keep getting brighter and brighter and I praise God daily for that.




xoxo
YSU

P.S...I dislike the new blogger template which is why every time I want to post I log on and close right out, hopefully I get use to it.

...you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God...