20 Personal Posts

From Pencil to Stardom with Mr Beast: Ifure Usen’s Breakthrough Moment on X

From Pencil to Stardom with Mr Beast: Ifure Usen’s Breakthrough Moment on X

Meet Ifure Usen, a talented Nigerian pencil artist whose incredible journey to fame began with a single tweet. On September 3, 2025, Ifure replied to a MrBeast post on X featuring an AI-generated photo with a stunning pencil drawing he created of the same image....

September 5, 2025

CMMRS in Saarbrucken, Germany for pre-doctoral researchers

CMMRS in Saarbrucken, Germany for pre-doctoral researchers

In late July, 2025 I attended the Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School in Computer Science (CMMRS) in Saarbrucken, Germany. We had group panel discussions that were helpful because we had the opportunity to meet current researchers and understand their PhD journey and research...

August 24, 2025

Trip to Uganda- Kampala & silver springs

Trip to Uganda- Kampala & silver springs

After three years in Rwanda, I finally seized the chance to visit Uganda, Rwanda’s vibrant northern neighbor, tagging along with a friend to a Toastmasters conference in Kampala, the Ugandan capital. What followed was an 11-hour bus adventure filled with unexpected twists, from a passenger...

May 29, 2025

Finding a song from my phone -an ordinary google task

Finding a song from my phone -an ordinary google task

This was my method for finding a song from a video I watched on my phone. Here I used the split screen feature to open 2 apps at the same time. I open the Google app as one of them and get to the find...

May 24, 2025

Navigating Kigali- motorbikes and an accent

Navigating Kigali- motorbikes and an accent

In Kigali, Rwanda one of the major forms of transport is using a motor taxi. Here you can find them riding along most roads or parked at a corner waiting for passengers.

May 23, 2025

MEME reactions

MEME reactions

Pictures of reactions I found interesting across the internet. Could be memes, but I’m just gonna create a new post for these.

May 10, 2025

A country called Ghana

A country called Ghana

This is an introduction to Ghana I hope you will find interesting. In this post I’ll try to focus on certain aspects a visitor to Ghana might find interesting; people, history, governance, and sights to visit.

May 7, 2025

Iconic images from animation

Iconic images from animation

I created this to separate the drawn/animated images from my original post on iconic images from the internet.

May 7, 2025

Iconic images from the internet

Iconic images from the internet

Pictures that caught my eye when I was browsing the internet. If I find the context behind them I’ll add them below.

May 7, 2025

Quotes from the famous and not so famous

Quotes from the famous and not so famous

In this post we’ll take a look at interesting quotes I found across the internet and books I read. For a glimpse I’m featuring George Bernard Shaw and Captain Jack Sparrow.

April 27, 2025

Haircut in Kigali-Danny the barber

Haircut in Kigali-Danny the barber

Have you ever had a bad haircut abroad? For my haircuts in Kigali I’ve kept the same barber for more than 3 years. Before I get into the story of how that happened. Here are pictures of my favorite cuts he made.

April 27, 2025

Let there be memes

Let there be memes

A collection of memes/pictures I find… interesting!

April 17, 2025

USSD codes for MTN Rwanda

USSD codes for MTN Rwanda

USSD CODES and COMMANDS

April 17, 2025

Pittsburgh's Stunning Skyline Reveal

Pittsburgh's Stunning Skyline Reveal

Picture this it’s Your first visit to Pittsburgh and you were picked up from the Pittsburgh International Airport after your long journey. On the drive from the airport you mostly pass through a countryside just seeing the hills and a few houses. Nothing fancy just...

April 13, 2025

Tunde Onakoya Breaks Guinness World Record with Epic Chess Marathon for Children's Education

Tunde Onakoya Breaks Guinness World Record with Epic Chess Marathon for Children's Education

On April 20, 2024, Nigerian chess master Tunde Onakoya made history by shattering the Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon, playing continuously for over 60 hours in New York’s iconic Times Square. This extraordinary feat surpassed the previous record of 56 hours, 9...

March 13, 2025

Ronaldo Hits Gold in Less Than 24 Hours!

Ronaldo Hits Gold in Less Than 24 Hours!

Cristiano Ronaldo recently launched his YouTube channel with an announcement on Twitter (or X) on August 21st.

August 26, 2024

Is this where Durov's French journey began

Is this where Durov's French journey began

Could this update from the CEO of Telegram have been the start of his decision to visit France?

August 26, 2024

Letsile Tobogo - Botswana's first gold at the 200m olympics

Letsile Tobogo - Botswana's first gold at the 200m olympics

Imagine you win a gold medal and your country declares a holiday to celebrate your win. Now imagine that this is your continent’s first gold medal in a particular event and the first time your country’s national anthem 🎶 was played at the olympics. Imagine...

August 10, 2024

Why is There a Giant Basket on This Building?

Why is There a Giant Basket on This Building?

First time visitors to Kigali might wonder why there is this giant basket on a building? I know I did.

August 5, 2024

Machine Learning Specialization on Youtube - Andrew Ng, DeepLearningAI

Machine Learning Specialization on Youtube - Andrew Ng, DeepLearningAI

For those who promised to go back to Andrew Ng’s coursera course on machine learning there is now a youtube version🙂.

August 5, 2024