Winning Sure Feels Good...Oh Yea...

Hi guys,

So my first blog post here, after so long a break, was me going on about how I am now one of all those chic programming people, hehe. I remember promising to make a post of how the whole journey started. Ok, I surely would come through with that promise, but not with this post, so you see you have no choice than to stay tuned yea?

I also remember hinting you guys of being in Naijahacks2019 hackathon, and having been invited for the DEMO day for 17-12-2109, that was yesterday na, and I'm sure I sent out invites here too, I don't know why I didn't see anyone from this space anyways, or did you come?

Well, if only you had come, then you'd have seen me, along with my team members, techpsyches, make the top first twelve, out of about, how many teams again.... a hundred and thirty thereabouts... Yes, yes, yes, you heard me right, we emerged top winners, and trust me when I tell you, it feels so great. Infact, it's psyching to feel what it feels like. Leave me na, can't someone feel psyched, and happy, and elated, and joyous, in peace again in this country, ahan?

Infact, I think y'all need a surepsyches application in your lives. Yes, on a serious note now,  my team and I came up with a solution for mental health awareness, and more importantly, immediate help and attention to distressed individuals.

While en route our destinations, from the hackathon, my team mate and I were discussing the event and all the nitty-gritties it entailed. We arrived at a conclusion, tho not exactly nobel as almost every other thinking individual knows about it already, that problem full Naija, we country! All it takes is folks who are not too lazy to think up solutions. Trust me, all these... Nigerians are stingy, Nigerians are stingy, no job, no job. You just provide a viable solution to a problem being faced by majority, if not all of the populace, and watch how those same people who did not want to be found in the same space with you, who hated you for no cause, who would let go of their little finger first before offering to epp your life, would come rallying round you, they like you or not, they like something you have, your solution! The most unfeeling of people respond to working solutions, provide one.

Initially, I did'nt have too much faith in the hackathon while applying. Would you blame me? I had applied to too many things already online that awarding me a medal to that purpose wouldn't be completely out of place! But trust me, the outcome beat my imagination hands down, and mind you, my imagination is beyond wild. The organizers were all top notch. What they were able to pull through is beyond words. In all, NaijaHacks2019 was a success back to back.

Was the hackathon journey all smooth, smooth all the way, no. Were there times when my team mates were almost driving me nuts, and serving as the team lead and project manager was almost resembling a suicide mission, you know the one that makes all those dope actors in those action series we all like to watch start repeating "delta, delta, I repeat, delta"? heck yes! But did I give up, heck no! 

And now, we're celebrating with gold medals, and a bunch of other amazing prizes, and when I say amazing, I mean amaaaazing! 

Although, I targeted the laptop prize, oh no, how I did work towards winning a lappy, hehe, but the win I, along with my team members got, is a great start, more than a great start.

Just as NaijaHacks would return next year better, we're here waiting for them, and we'd return as well badder!

In conclusion, this gold medal is dedicated to every single person out there striving to make a difference, striving to help humanity especially when it feels like that humanity do not want to be helped, and do not bloody care about what you are, or trying to do. Keep at it, just keep at it my dears, you are the real MVPs. No worry, hustle go soon pay.