Another Friday Night Walk(Ride) But Different
I’ve saved a small amount of money because of the free food I’ve been getting invigilating exam at my place of National Service. So tonight, I decided it’d be nice we give ourselves a kind of a street food treat
For the first time ever, my posts will feature snapchat-taken pictures. Pictures taken with a blurry filter in particular, but don’t worry as I feel like the blurry pictures were nice for this occasion. As much as I want to show you what everything looks like, I’ll be showing you most of the things in blur so that it’ll a bit of an exciting read as you form visual images yourself of the blurry things you see.
All the pictures would’ve been blurry if I decided to shoot in snapchat filters from the start, but I only got the idea to shoot tonight with snap filters after I mistakenly tried this filter and liked it.
It was already late when we set out because we didn’t plan to stay outside long. You get this first picture without a blur because I hadn’t decided to go blurry for the night yet. It was only playing around after taking this picture I eventually discovered the blurry filter was the perfect one for the night(imo).
The distance from where I stay into town itself is only a few minutes ride so we were in town in no time.
Every time we do this kind of thing, we mostly start with getting sausage and kebab. My Nigerian friends liked the sausage in my last post where I took a picture standing next to a sausage stand lol. So tonight too, we first headed to buy some kebab. We mostly buy both our kebab and sausage here, but not tonight. Tonight we only bough kebab here(we specifically bought liver kebab) and moved to another joint to buy the sausage itself because according to my friend, “The sausage at this joint is smaller”.
Before this though, we withdrew some money because I didn’t have physical cash. My money was in e-cash form. I won’t be adding a picture of this part because I don’t have a blurry version of it. I have only a default camera shot of it, and it’ll look out of place if I add it.
After buying sausage, we headed to a spaghetti joint and bought some spaghetti. It was a 5 minute ride between the two places. This place appears to be my friend’s favorite night food joint and he’s taken me here a couple of times. They weren’t that many people there tonight as the last time we went there, and the underlying factor could be the fact that the time was late today than it was the last time we went.
We got our spaghetti and rode to another sausage and kebab joint (where my friend believed the sausage was bigger lol) to now buy our sausage. You don’t really see the sausage in this shot because it’s more in the left corner(which my screen didn’t fit into the picture).
I’m not sure why I’m showing you this picture of my feet while I was standing at the second sausage joint or why I took it in the first place so I’m just adding it with no relevant story lol.
Anyways, after we had our kebab and sausage, we went to some nearby store and bought some drinks. This was a new place we went tonight. We normally buy drinks at a store just outside my friends hostel, and if it wasn’t for the fact that the store would’ve been close, we probably wouldn’t be buying our drinks in town itself.
From here, it was back home to enjoy the fruit of our journey lol. I bet you would be thinking maybe, just maybe, I’d show you an unblurry picture of the stuff we gathered, but I’m not:) I initially planned to, but after the seeing the pictures of the blurry food shot, I liked it enough to think it was okay. Sorry:)
Even though the picture is blurry, I think you pretty much see everything in this frame. The sausages are the deep red circles on the bowl, the black circle like spots is the liver kebab, you can see eggs too(or not?). Then our two bottled of Tamarinda and pure water sachets also sitting there.
Now I’m just going to add some random shots of the road and streets I took on our ride to town. I have one of them as my phone’s wallpaper right now and I want you to guess which one and why you think that is what I have as my wallpaper. Let’s see how good you’re at guessing and how much you can read into my mind:)
I think the blurriness gave the picture some certain kind of aesthetic you know. What can I say, I saw some steaks, and the whole food seem nice. Really awesome of you to spend some part of that money. Life is meant to be lived rather than manage. Plus in the part of Nigeria where I live, being outside at past almost 11, makes you a target. Haha.
Yeah late nights are dangerous around here as well, but not as much as in the south. It uses to be very dangerous around here too like 15 years ago or something when I was kid. That was when this sakawa(ritualists) were very rampant and kidnapping children and even adults for money rituals.
So has this particular ritual killing stopped and it is now safer?
Well there hasn’t been a case like that in my part of Ghana in years. It’s still very common in the Southern part of Ghana though. In the south, there’s a new ritualist murder or kidnapping almost every week. The latest one I heard was a man who beheaded a middle aged woman in Spintex(An area in Ghana’s capital, Accra). You can read more about it here
Smiles, the whole story is funny but telling us you don't know why you captured your feet makes it funnier. Well the events was all deserving, nice captures though everything looks blurred.
Thanks man. I thought people would be mad looking at the blurry images but surprisingly the reaction turned out positive haha.
That's it Bro, I've learnt that it's advisable to take those bold steps became there is the tendency that it may turn to be favorable,
Great post as always but I found that if I took of my glasses, all the photos were perfectly on focus! ;-)
Have a great weekend mate and keep up the great work :-)
Haha I would think you would’ve said if you put on your glasses was when everything was on focus. Thanks for swinging by, mate. Hope the weekend is going great:)
Going into town at night without getting kebab and sausage just wouldn’t feel right.
When people take blurred snaps, it’s always very nice for me but when I take them, I don’t like them.
Looking at the pictures, I’m thinking it would be the one taken at 10:22
Right?
Lol I think this is a general thing. We mostly don’t see the beauty in pictures we take ourselves or of ourselves. These kinds of things are appreciated by other people.
Maybe😂
Why do you think it’s that one though?
The time I wrote the comment, I had a lot of factors I considered before settling on that picture
Now I can’t remember. I just know it’s not the last one because of the Tamale tag on it
I was initially thinking it would be one of those taken at 55 or 56 but the first one, I can see the moon there and it made it stand out
Lol great analysis. You got it right! It definitely would’ve been the last one if wasn’t for the big Tamale written there.
I think I even tipped you off by setting that particular one as the thumbnail of this post lol. But you probably didn’t catch that or I’m sure you would’ve mentioned it too.
Oh I didn’t think I would actually get it right.
And I didn’t even realize it was the thumbnail
Blurriness makes the pictures more unique and I did see the combo looks nice. So you guys also buy from where you get more quantity, I thought only girls does that 😁😁😁
Thanks for the nice words. I thought everyone buys from the joint where they get the most meat. Isn’t it just natural?😂
🤣🤣🤣 so true
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