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FUN TIME WITH UNCLE ZAC......memories!!!
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| Judith Lah | May 27, 2010 |
FUN TIME WITH UNCLE ZAC......memories!!!
Ete Ekole
Hey all former G-street inhabitants,
Just to say ashia to all. We sure will miss him. Yes we do have some very good memories of all sorts, lets cherish those.
be strong guys.
Love,
Ettie.
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Judith Lah
Yep ET.......
We all, sure have tons of memories of just things Uncle Zac would say, or do, or how he used some words to discribe situations... "its a disaster, its a catastrophe, Lord have mercy!, Oh!!, Ala wakuba ...bla bla bla.." He was full of good humour! G-street quartet should compose & sing a song for him!
Weh, May he Rest in Peace!
Love
Judith
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Christine Njeuma
No be so, Judith? Really funny expressions from papa. Hm, G-street quartet, na wah oh. We were really something. Ha ha. Thanks for your mail, ET. May papa's soul rest in perfect peace. Thanks all...
Bibi
It looks like a good day to fly
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Embelle Njeuma
My funniest ones were after he has eaten and about to take a nap, he would drag his feet going to the room and singing.."Eeh Ka-manyaka-Di-La-na teh-teh..!! and/or if he wanted to exclaim, he'd say "Su-ku -ba na lai"!!
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Christine Njeuma
ha ha ha, for the ..."Eeh Ka-manyaka-Di-La-na teh-teh..!!, there was a whistling part 2 of that. I can do it. Ha ha ha...
It looks like a good day to fly
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Judith Lah
I just di hear Uncle e voice singing this piece! Embie u get for sing am for me. So this whistling expertise no be Aunty L e one eh? I cannot recall hearing Uncle Zac whistle. This is really funny!
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Lovet Ngale Effange
There were many instances of humour with Uncle Zac. What was very funny was that Uncle Zac did not believe in I hear say. So if you were telling him something, it should be first hand information.
I remember Mbamba Sophie had come home and met Judith Meh. Judith told her that uncle travelled and it was all drama because She refused to leave. She said uncle Zac was hiding from her. Now uncle returns from his trip and while eating, Bato told him what happened, you can only imagine how he put it. Uncle listened attentively and the following conversation took place:
Uncle Zac: You be dey there?
Bato : No sir
Uncle Zac: you be see ye?
Bato: No sir
Uncle Zac: No tell me again. I want person wey e be dey there make e tell me.
Bato: Judith sey make i tell you
Uncle Zac: Hmmmmm Bato.....you no di tell me weti i want here.
At this point i was in the kitchen gigling.... how the excited Bato has been tamed:-))).
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Judith Lah
Jojo, you are just cracking me up right now. Thank you so much for making me laugh. I dey bolo di yawn and frown like mad woman b/c I get very little nang last night. You just make ma day!
I remember on one of his birthdays, we decided to surprise him and act out little sketches about him, for him.
Judith Meh piled clothes under her clothes to make her stomach big like Uncle's, then she walked in immitating Uncle Zee... and then said "... asehh Yebe... opening the pots...chop no dey this house! I remember Uncle laughed until he almost knelt down! We all had different sketches for him and it was a really fun birthday celebration for him that year!
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Ete Ekole
Hey guys this has been an interesting read. In the midst of sorrow and pain one can smile. I just couldn't help laughing. Yes, Uncle zac will exclaim, "It is really a disaster", Lord have mercy! and the famous one which i still can't get right to date, Sunnabanalahi (whatever that means). Like i said, there is so much to cherish.
EEE
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Christine Njeuma
Ete...Ha ha, ET, the expression was suku ban allah-i. I guess it's an expression in Hausa, whatever it means?? ha ha...
It looks like a good day to fly
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Embelle Njeuma
Papa also added:
Isri-Rama-dra-Him!!
hahahahhaa....!
hahahahhaa....!
Isn't it strange that papa didn't become Muslim?
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Judith Lah
Embie you don finish me all all with this one!
Isri-Rama-dra-Him!!
I remember! Then when he combines everything and hisses it under his breath I remember looking at him in amazement! suku ban allah-i..Isri-Rama-dra-Him!
.....and then there was another one with Allah wakuba...which I cannot remember. Funny, really funny.
.....and then there was another one with Allah wakuba...which I cannot remember. Funny, really funny.
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Christine Njeuma
Mama mi yeh, I don remember some one. This one always stuck in my head, since those days...This was in yaounde...in the house in bastos...one evening we... were frying chicken in the kitchen with some aunties. Papa was going out, so he passed by the kitchen, took a piece of chicken, ate it and said...hm hm hm, this is very tasty...very succulent...like a chick!! Then he ran out of the kitchen. Ha ha ha, just imagine if me and Embi be understand what he really meant????? Chei!!!
It looks like a good day to fly
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Judith Lah
Na really chei!! hahahaha
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Embelle Njeuma
Christine, you de really make da wan up now!! chei!! remember also for yaounde he said puff corn (popcorn). na dat "it's a disaster"..then he make he mouth..shaking his head from side to side..."it's bad!" or "I am finished". talk about negative comments!
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Judith Lah
hahahahahahahaha!!!! I fit just imagine. "O Lord!!"
"Lord have mercy!!" this one don tight for ma tongue till today!
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Judith Lah
I remember one time he had indigestion in Etoa Meki when I was in University of Yaoounde, I was at home with Marlene and Mark.
Uncle made us believe for about an hour that he had been poisoned!
First of all he had just come back from Buea, as soon as he opened the door, he held the railings on the banister and refused to climb upstairs. He said he could not climb.
He kept exlaiming
"Oh, they have poisoned me, those people have poisoned me! Zacharia Njeuma, I knew this is how I will end. I have been poisoned. Oh"
He said this aloud over and over... you should have seen us panicking and confused. 3 of us had to help him walk upstairs, asking him what he had eaten since we actually thought it was poison, where he had eaten, whom he saw last... Then after all that interview, we figured out it was constipaion and we sent Mark to buy some suppository. Then Uncle asked Mark to insert it for him...!! because he was too scared of medications:-))
After a few minutes, and emptying his bowels, he was fine. Early the next morning at 6 am, I saw him running with is bag downstairs... yelling, I am off to Ngoundere!
Uncle!!
Can you believe later on in the evening when he returned from Ngoundere, he said he just wanted to scare us...
Can you believe later on in the evening when he returned from Ngoundere, he said he just wanted to scare us...
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Yibe Lah
Good people,
Sorry I am so cut up with work, but have been reading all your mails. We sure will miss uncle and my memories of him are fun, they make me smile. May His soul rest in peace as he marvels the Heavenly bodies with his exclamations.
I remembered this one;
Almost finishing his lunch one good afternoon, Uncle Zac called for Christopher
Uncle Z: ChisssStopherrrr
Chris: Yes Sar!
Uncle Z: Who made this food?
Chris: Judith Meh, Sar
Uncle Z: What did she call it?
Chris: Rice and Stew
Uncle Z: This is verrrrry baaaad! (shaking his head, pointing at the food with his fork and still chewing)
Uncle Z: It doesn't taste like stew! This is a disaster!
Uncle Z: Look at water running everywhere, oil running in its own direction.
Yibe.
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Christine Njeuma
ha ha, Yibe too funny!! This is hilarious!!!! I say eh Jojo, na papa be di call u seh Ngaliiiiii??
It looks like a good day to fly
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Ete Ekole
Yes Christine na e!
Yibe that your story is soo Uncle Zee
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Christine Njeuma
Good people,
I remember one. Remember when he would sneeze...and recite some looong prayer, either in English (my Lord and my God have mercy on me, poor sinner, grant me forgiveness for my since...bla bla bla)...
in Hausa (bi si bi lai dra man dra him...bla bla bla...)...
or in Douala (Na som loba, gita na te-te...bla bla bla)...
All that DRAMA for one sneeze!!
Bibi
I remember one. Remember when he would sneeze...and recite some looong prayer, either in English (my Lord and my God have mercy on me, poor sinner, grant me forgiveness for my since...bla bla bla)...
in Hausa (bi si bi lai dra man dra him...bla bla bla...)...
or in Douala (Na som loba, gita na te-te...bla bla bla)...
All that DRAMA for one sneeze!!
Bibi
It looks like a good day to fly
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Ete Ekole
Christine!
Really for only one small sneeze. Wona go kill me. It's so impressive how everyone remembers all those phrases. We used to repeat after him in the kitchen, room or corridor.
Christine, i hope say wona know hausa well well.
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Embelle Njeuma
quite funny. nice memories...what of "O Lord of israel"
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Judith Lah
Hahahahaha!!
I remember when we all went to Mamfe for Bishop Lysinge's ordination, we had to spend the night at aunty Florence Arrey's house in Besong Abang. We got to Mamfe late in the night.. And suddenly, when we got to the outskirts of Mamfe, uncle started saying ''in this Mamfe any creature we see on the road now is a devil or a witch''. It was about 1 am.
Suddenly a dog lunged from the bush on our right as we were driving and ran accross the road. Uncle yelled '' ah ha, look that is a devil! That is a person! That is a small devil''.
We were all so tired, u should have seen the look aunty L gave him. We laughed the rest of the way with Judith Meh!
later he said he just wanted to scare us...
Sent courtesy of my Wireless Blackberry.
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I remember when we all went to Mamfe for Bishop Lysinge's ordination, we had to spend the night at aunty Florence Arrey's house in Besong Abang. We got to Mamfe late in the night.. And suddenly, when we got to the outskirts of Mamfe, uncle started saying ''in this Mamfe any creature we see on the road now is a devil or a witch''. It was about 1 am.
Suddenly a dog lunged from the bush on our right as we were driving and ran accross the road. Uncle yelled '' ah ha, look that is a devil! That is a person! That is a small devil''.
We were all so tired, u should have seen the look aunty L gave him. We laughed the rest of the way with Judith Meh!
later he said he just wanted to scare us...
Sent courtesy of my Wireless Blackberry.
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Essen Judith Meh
We all feel a deep sense of loss with the passing away of Uncle Zac. Aunty Limunga and Uncle Zac actually raised me up so much so that at times i forgot i was earning a salary. They have always been so kind to me.
Uncle Zac in particular was always very entertaining especially when he returns home form work....dragging his feet and asking "Judith, what is there for food?"
Judith: Good Afternoon Sir, there is sese plantains and vegetable
Uncle Zac: hmmmm..which other thing dey weh you fit make am weh i fit swallow and in how many mins?
Judith: I can make okro in 10mins
Uncle Zac: Come go look time....and he`ll insist..udon see time? ok i di wait
It was only after his meal that he`ll ask...Who else dey for house?
Judith: Guards and Bato
Uncle Zac. always had a problem pronuncing Bato..he will either say Ba Ba or just TOOOO!! or Beto! and will conclude that..its easier to just say TOOOO!!!
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Judith Lah
Judith Meh!!! this is so funny. Yes, I remember when Bato first came to G-street and how he used to announce his 3 names when you asked him his name... I remember him telling uncle "Bato Bages Beyongo" Uncle struggled with the names until he started calling him "where is this Beto guy? Beto!!"
You all remember how he carried Mbamba Sophie (RIP) to his green mercedes!
Mbamba Sophie used to come first thing in the morning everyday to G-Street to look for Uncle. Sometimes she will sit at the gate until or in the garage until someone woke up inside the house. Uncle did not like these early morning visits everyday.
So Mbamba Sophie now started looking for excuses to give why she was there.
The most interesting one was that her tennant had resfused to pay her the rents! according to her the tenant had big eyes and big lips.
. she would say "Na so eye... (gestures with her two hands), Na so mop.. "(gestures with her hands) then will say "Papa God forgive me, no be cush weh I di cush, na thing weh ma eye take see"...
Well this particular morning when she came, Uncle invited her to sit in the living room, next to his regular chair. Very calmy, he asked "Mama wetin you cam do again this morning?" Mbamba Sophie started again... "no be da man no di want pays e rent"
Uncle Zee..."You be dey here yesterday evening, no be so?"
Mbamba Sophie "Yes but"...
Uncle: Wetin I be tell you for night?
Mbamba Sophie: eh
Uncle: wetin don change between last night and this morning..
Mbamba Sophie: da man di...
Uncle: I don tell you, this, no be ma house! This na Limunga e house...
I don't know what Mbamba Sophie started saying and Unle Zee just scooped her on her waist, carried her, feet and hands dangling through the kitchen and outside. Opened the door to the back seat of his merco and dumped her inside. Her feet were still dangling outside, he gently tucked her feet back inside, climbed on the wheel and sped out and took her back to her house!
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Lovet Ngale Effange
Yes Judith I remember that day. The action was so fast that I was left baffled at uncles strength and quickness..
I remember Uncle Zee went to one quinquelerie in Douala to buy some building equipments. At Likomba, he bought some bananas. As soon as the car stopped, Uncle Zee undeed all the bottons on his shirt, folded one leg of his trousers, peeled one of the bananas and took a big bite. One of the guys he was with asked why he did that, uncle said "when they see me, they go think sey i be one of them. They no fit suspect sey i carry money for my skin"
That was hilarious. Uncle Zee trying to play gangster.
Judith Lah
Hello good people…
I know we are all dealing with the aftermath of Uncle’s departure. May God grant him eternal peace. Christine, Embie.. hope you are finding time to rest...
Please if you remember, lets keep the humour going…
I remember sometime back, when Ngonda sent a lot of stuff.. to Cameroon In short building material for her house. Uncle Zac went to the airport to pick up the many, many, many baggages. Of course he had to pay all kinds of custom duties to clear the stuff.
He told us that he had paid and paid and paid and with all the heat in Douala , his irritation was one hundred percent!
Finally he got the stuff out, everything was loaded into the bus and when he was about to enter the car, another custom officer came running out with some papers asking him to pay one more time for some other thing…
In his own words…
“I did not say anything. I just looked at him and grabbed him by the collar” gesturing with his right hand, indicating that he lifted the officer off his feet and in the air. “and when I thought he was about to faint, I dropped him” You should have seen the way he indicated the drop with his right hand! “Then I turned around and walked into the car”.
We were like “chei uncle, do you have that much power?… what was funny was I had never seen uncle lift anything heavy. For him to have lifted an officer with his one hand as he was showing was pure comedy.. “He said… oh yes that is how I am if I have been pushed too far into the wall”
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