When I was still a newbie at InterCont, I used to stay on after my shift, & ask if there was anything else I could do. One day a much older colleague took me to a pillar in the lobby and thumped it, saying, "Unaona hii? Ndio imeshikilia hii hoteli, hapana wewe. Enda nyumbani." 😂
Dads will be aggressive & unapproachable all your growing life then one day out of nowhere they wanna start having random & regular ass conversations??
Like, I don’t know you like that.
And it’s not even a grudge thing; it’s just unfamiliarity.
Nairobi has a certain perpetual urgency.
A restlessness.
An agitation.
A tension.
A certain uneasy vibration that hovers over it.
You don't realise or feel it till you step away.
Everyone needs to take regular breaks from this city, even if for just 24 hours.
Tomorrow I'm leaving home at 3.30am for work. 😭😭 What's this life?? If my dad had stolen land instead of dancing to Daudi Kabaka, I'd be pale on IG posting fake inspirational quotes & reminding people we all have 24 hours. 😎
One of the few occasions I've worn a jacket was when I went to my daughter's pretend restaurant in 2015. She couldn't stand to hear that her prices didn't match the food quality. 😂
This is how my bro has shared his good news in the family WhatsApp group. My mum has called me to ask if that means they are so broke, they only have a tiny piece of bread left! 😂 😂 😂
Marie Stopes’ 5-day, free vasectomy camp was supposed to be offered only at the Eastleigh clinic.
But by Day 2 the turnout was so huge, they had to redirect some of the traffic to the Sameer Business Park branch.
But boys on Twitter would have you imagine no man would do it.
"Gichana fupi, amenona, round, huwesi jua tumbo ni wapi, mgongo ni wapi." 😂 😂
I had to find the longer version of this video. West Pokot Governor, Prof. John Lonyang'apuo is such a natural clown! Plus the accent just completes the unintentional comedy act.
We had a persistent cockroach infestation in the staff locker rooms of a hotel I worked at. One day during a recurrent fumigation, a colleague of mine asked one of the contractors, "Hii dawa huwa mnanyunyiza hapa, ni ya kuua mende ama ya kuwapa mimba?" 😂
He got a warning letter.
It should be a thing that anytime a speaker at a wedding says, “Ndoa ni kuvumilia”, their mic is cut off.
People should vumilia pilipili, constipation & the economy, not the people they have chosen to love & live with.
Dead that script!
Eliud Kipchoge needing to explain what happened in the race <<<<<
We sometimes place our heroes on such a lofty pedestal, we forget how human they are.
A friend of mine told me these days she takes cold showers because of how hot it has been lately.
Let me tell you: it could be as hot as the day of judgment…
My sister is finally free from pain & invasive treatments.
She now rests in the most perfect & eternal peace.
I hope one day our souls will be reunited.
Nind gi kwe, Achieng' nyar Okoth. 🕊
Do y'all ever sit and remember that 7 years ago, Malaysian Airlines, Flight MH370, operated by a whole B777-200, disappeared without trace with 239 souls on board and has never been located to-date??!
A curious thing about this Covid-19 virus is how it monitors social behaviour; doesn't infect people when there are less than 100 gathered, is more active after 9pm but retires promptly at 4am, is aggressive in bars but coy in restaurants...
This clip has cracked me up. Mike Tyson is asked a question by a journalist in India and it appears from the accent he must have thought the guy wasn't speaking English! 😂 😂
My dad advised me that when travelling by road & the bus makes a stop, follow the driver & conductor. They not only know where the food is good/clean, what they order might give you an idea how long the stop might be.
One time Poxi Presha was opening for Joseph Hill at Nyayo & the crowd was booing. He stopped the music & said, "Wasee, mnajua nini, huyo jamaa hatakuja stage saa hii. Vile hii concert imepangwa, lazima niimbe first. So afadhali mtulie nimalize; nimebakisha song tatu." 😂 😂
I want to practise a romantic love that thrives in freedom; a love where my partner doesn't a feel a sense of duty, burden, obligation, constraints or unfair emotional/physical labour.
It's still an abstract idea so I hope I can find resources to learn from...
Do you mentally convert foreign currency to Ksh, when you're abroad? A shop attendant in Dubai once told me, "Bradhe, ukiendelea hivyo hakuna kitu utanunua. Pesa za huku ni za huku, za home ni za home."
He said first time he moved there, he couldn't even buy bread w/o cringing.
I caught a Dar Lux coach from the Namanga border post to Nairobi. It has WiFi, comfy seats, functioning W.C. & USB charging ports. For Ksh 500, it's super bang for buck.
Yoh! People!! Have you been to The Collective at View Park Towers?? My goodness, this place is vibes. It's an art gallery in a restaurant & a restaurant in an art gallery. They are currently featuring collaboration between
@ClaversOdhiambo
& vinyl artist, Njogu.
Some of
@EbruTVKenya
's show,
#EbruJibonge
, are sexual harassment by any definition.
Watch this interaction; observe how clearly uncomfortable the women are, how the rude male host still follows & tells some of them off & how he liberally touches them!! 🤢
A few weeks before KCSE, my math teacher pleaded with me, "Jullu, I've been teaching for 35 years, no student of mine has ever scored an E. I'm about to retire; please don't blemish my record."
Guess who scored a D - and made his teacher proud??
I recently found out there's a bunch of friends called
#UjiCrew
, that meets regularly to talk, laugh, crack jokes & hug, over Uji. Isn't that the most beautiful thing you ever heard?
We grew with a Gusii boy called 'Pope', who we all presumed was named after the head of the Catholic Church. It's only in very recent years we found his name was 'Bob.' 😂
Kuna legend alitoa 200. Jane Muthoni managed 5. Shapiro, 50 kwanza, akaenda 'hivi kidogo', akarudi na 20.
Hawa na masela wa pale jiweni, most for whom these amounts are their daily budget.
But when they heard Bonnie's newborn "Ati amefungiwa hosy?!" they stepped up.
Ubuntu. ♥
"Do you think Kenyan chillez are too available?
Are they too loose?
Are they too willing?
Are they too desperate?" ~
@ShaffieWeru
Well, turns out Kenyan chillez can plot, plan, strategize, organize and mobilize swiftly & effectively to deplatform rape apologists. 👑
In high school I was stupid in math & science and the teachers & I had made peace with it. Our Biology lab had snakes preserved in some liquid in jars at the back of the class. The teacher used to tell me, "Wewe keti pale nyuma uangalie nyoka." 😭
Why do Joluo dendo names? Akoth becomes Akothee. Ochieng' is Ochibo. Even English names aren't spared. My cousin George is called Ajos. 😂 Washington is Awosi. 😂 😂
An ex-colleague of mine who was recently laid off has opened an eatery at ACK Peter's Church, Kahawa Sukari. It's called Cluster Place Café. Y'all go & have a delicious meal and support her if you're in the area. RT
Yesterday I heard the most beautiful & fascinating story. There's a group of female friends in Nairobi who meet privately to just smoke weed & masturbate! And once in a while, they get someone to teach them Weed Yoga. What level of self-love & friendship is that!! ♥ ♥
Lately I've been pondering about 'ultimatum' friendships.
Friendships that require walking on eggshells and watching one's words & actions.
Friendships that nearly require a performance checklist to make sure one is friending right.
Fickle & tenuous friendships.
I once lived with an aunt in Mukuru Kwa Njenga. We survived on a hand-to-mouth & often, 'nil-to-mouth' basis.
Today one of my brothers took me on a tour of his various business projects around Njenga, Fedha & Imara, in his own car.
He also bought out our former landlord!
🙏🏿 🙏🏿 👏🏿
On this day 12 years ago, exactly a week before my birthday, my daughter arrived in the world. A 3.6kg, 50.5cm bundle that has brought me joy ever since I set my eyes on her. This girl is the thing that beats on the left side of my chest. 💕
I ate a measly plate of chips at my daughter's Sports Day earlier today. Now I'm back home, tryna live my happy chapo & ndengu life. Why then has this child come to the kitchen with, "Kwani you're eating again?" 😡
Chieth.
My bro brought me a live chicken. It was all fun & games when my daughter & I were feeding it kumbe the child thought it was a pet. She came back from school and found it had been converted into stew. The look on her face & the tone of her voice... 😭 😭
My daughter has neither heard of nor been to the GP Karting Racing Circuit, so I decided to surprise her. I even told the cab driver not to mention anything about our destination. Kufika, sis wasn't impressed much. "No, dad. Not my kind of thing."
I'm fine. 😬 Not.
First time my friend & I tried the hyped Smirnoff Ice, we weren't feeling it so we decided to buy Viceroy and use the Smirnoff as mixer. My fren. At the end the night, I tucked the kanzu I was wearing into the shorts I had underneath and jogged from Pipeline to Doonholm. 😂😭
A jail chaplain spoke about Lanez starting a daily prayer in the protective custody unit that has lessened the tensions between inmates. He said of the 15,000 inmates he's come into contact with, Lanez stands out. He said the daily moment of prayer is really powerful.
Sneak hand-written notes into your children's lunch-boxes & pencil pouches, reminding them how kind, brilliant & beautiful they are and that you love them. 💝
Once a upon a time, my daughter wore a full crown of dreadlocks, which my Rastafari, receding hairline self was vicariously living through. Then one day she woke up and decided she wanted them gone. 😭 😭 I've never recovered from it.
It could be as hot as the day of judgement but, a cold shower? I'm not boarding. ✋🏿
The sting of cold water is a boarding school trauma that I'll never recover from.
My mum told us of a preacher on a KBS who had carried a small bucket to collect sadaka in. Someone asked him, "Hizi pesa watu wanatafuta kwa nguvu hivi, wewe unataka kuchota na ndoo?" 😂 😂
A friend of mine has invited me to his home & suggested I plant a tree during the visit.
It's the coolest idea I've ever heard. 😃
I'll always suggest it when I invite people to my shagz or visit theirs.
Imagine green & living memories of your friends all around the home. 🌳
I wanted to buy a mango for Ksh. 30 but I've decided to add Ksh. 140 and buy a can of White Cap instead because 2018 is about wise financial decisions.
My 11yo daughter just completed her second solo intercontinental flight. When these guys are babies, you wish they were a little older so they'd do more things by themselves. Then one day they are suddenly grown, talmbout, "Dad, don't worry about me." 😩😩