Nostaligia

Dear Kissa,

Hope you have been great. I am ok. I was just thinking about you and decided to write to you in greeting. It has been a long time since we last wrote to each other. I am good and all is going well.

I am planning to travel to Nairobi over the holidays and I hope I will get a chance to you see you. Our estate phone both number  is 020 456 746, please call me on 29th of March at 5 pm. I will be waiting for your call. And don't forget like last time. Or you can call me and ask the watchman to call me. Don't forget like last time when I had to wait for you for over 2 hours. I will be looking forward to your call.

I will come to Nairobi to visit my sisters and I can't wait to play with my nephews and my nieces and my cousins as well. I hope I will also get a chance to come to your house and see all those beautiful windows and dolls that you tell us about......

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My love,

The only thing that makes me sleep is to dream about you.
I get home and I cant imagine how tired you are because you have been running through my mind.
I love you like I love myself, only more.

The roses are red, so is my heart for you.
Violets are blue just like this card I made for you.
My kisses are hot just like I sent them with this letter...

I get down on bended knees to ask you....

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I remember the process of sitting down a d writing a letter used to be very interesting. I would sit and pour out my hear and in details at that. I still treasure the letters I wrote to someone. When I finally get to share all.   This longing was brought about by my friend who shared a love letter written to him a long time ago by his then teen girlfriend. I would have loved to add it to my collection but I only had to copy but a few rhymes from it.

It reminds me of some of the old blues song like " Last Night" by Az Yet. Oh men, when they sang that song, I would watch them on TV doing the video, and oooh men!!! I will be on cloud nine. That was then, how I miss those days...

A little Smile

As I was walking to work this morning and children were going to school, I saw the sweetest thing ever and I thought to myself, "now, that is how things should be." After a while you get used to routine and your life falls into routine that it is hard to change. When you view change you view it as a threat. It is like a virus that eats away at you and causing disease. However, the common saying is that change is as good as a rest. That might be exactly what I need. Then again, all is good when love is there....

My morning routine goes something like, wake up, prepare for work, have breakfast, walk to the bus stop and off to work. This morning was a bit different. I decided to leave the house a bit early, I took time  observing the children as they walked to school. What was touching was these two children were going to school on a motorbike, the girl seemed about 7 years and the boy 6 years. The girl is slightly taller than the boy, but he insisted that the girl sit first from the rider. Being an elder child, the girl was feeling protective of the brother and being a man in the family, the boy was feeling protective over his sister. The rider picking them up looked upon them smiling and decided to indulge the boy and when they got atop the motorbike and the girl started yelling that the brother will fall off and kept telling the rider to stop so that they can switch places. Off they went and I don't know how they concluded that matter.

For me, it reminded me how often as friends we have fallen off that motorbike without really caring when, how or what was going on with our friends and sadly some of our family members. How often have you remembered to say hello, or just wish someone a good day? With this era of cellphones,  the conversation has gone from a hug a kiss and a hello to a text message "hi, hw r u?", from, "I am coming to see you" to video chats and people seem far and far away and the technology doesn't make it better. It certainly makes us feel closer or nearer but it drives us insanely apart.

We should take care not to to fall off the motorbike, less we prove Einstein right when he said;

and become....
be social, be lovable. Its free.

Live as I Live-Just Like That.

When I was young, I was too fearful to do wrong because I knew I would be punished. As a teen, I thought the world was against me, so I lived like I had nothing except my friends. Early into adulthood, I realised that I had much more to offer and therefore got over myself and the world was my oyster. All I had to do was make sure that everything I did was principally and legally correct. Yes, that was my life. One think I believed in my naive experiences, was that as I matured and experienced life, one thing that would not follow me into old age was gossip. 

As I slept, as I went about my business, there were people talking about me. Well, I do admit, I love the attention and If people don't talk about me, they would be irrelevant. I also talk about people. I tell my friends about my achievements or accomplishments, what I did and I also tell my other friends what we talked about. When I talk to Greg about Tom, and Mia to Nel, I will go back to Tom and Nel and tell them what Greg, Mia and myself talked about them. Now that is also defined as gossip. Let's go back and define the word gossip. 
Gossip literally means: Casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true.




Yes, this is what it means to gossip. And we have it all around, we have it at work. In our homes, our places of shopping and it is even worse when you live in a small town or community. One person said that "what someone says about you does not define you, they have a right to their opinion and you have a right to ignore them". This sentiment is experienced by many and they go through it every single day. Gossip at work ruins lots of relationships especially of you choose to listen to it. As soon as you listen and act on the gossipers you are following the crowd and if they fall in a ditch, you fall in that ditch with them too. I'm a firm believer in loyalty and professionalism. You can socialise with your workmates, that is OK, you can go out after work for a drink or dinner, enjoy yourself, after all, if you spend more than eight hours together in an office, what is two more hours, but that is as far as it can go. 

Now,, let us define rumours. A rumour is - a currently circulating story or report of uncertain or doubtful truth: "they were investigating rumours of a massacre. This one is brought about by envy, jealosy and unfounded malicious feelings. I believe that when rumours and gossip areossip are combined they become a deadly combination for disaster.  This leads to disastrous results and the consequences neither too pleasant nor too exciting. Rumours are also started to gain leverage over the victim and in this instance the hurt, pain and victimization is not an experience one would want to live or relive. his is in society is common and though unacceptable it is widely practised. I shall do well to listen to the counsel found in 

As I age, I will still follow my parents' advice and practise the Bible principle,  hey while you are busy talking about you, live your life, for this world is not your home, and it is just passing us by. And while you are busy talking about me at this age, but, hey, if that is what you enjoy in your past time, have fun. 

I will be busy, 

Time and Tales

When times goes by, we grow older and wiser, we become one. We learn we cry, we laugh, we teach. We become aunties, uncles  brothers, fathers and mothers, we live and we learn. We become stronger with each passing day. There are many sad and depressing things in the world right now. Pure pain and heartache, mean and cruel people, This is what we see all around us and every where we go. We always go round and round and round, sort of like time in sand. All we hear are tales after tales after tales.

Be careful when someone is too nice to you and treats you just the way you want to be treated because, when the deal is too good, think twice. We all have gone through that at one point or another and sometimes people say that you should not believe it because then it will happen and that if something goods comes to you on your lap, then it is only right for you to grab it and run away with it. Now, I am not saying this is a bad thing and being an opportunist, I am confidently stating that I will take it and run with it. However, when you are grabbing it think of the consequences. Does the good outweigh the bad? Does the time spend to do this in a positive or negative light.

An example is that my friend, Kim, has been single for a while now and she has got used to being alone, which she has come to realise that it is easier on her than it is to be in a strenuous relationship. And recently she came to good fortune of a gentleman who showered her with attention, and was thoughtful kind and considerate. While on normal occasions a man, Kent, would never introduce you to a fellow man in terms of hooking you up, this particular man, was what is commonly referred to as godsend. Kent hooked Kim up with a thoughtful and considerate guy, she was ecstatic.

Short lived though, she came to realise that the man, Fred,  was not only immature but insensitive and unapologetic. In short, he was simply rude, mean and cruel and was only a proper gentleman for selfish purposes. You might say that my friend had to do with the sudden change in attitude for the man, but nothing doing, and I'm not saying this, just because I wasn't to take her side, she is a very naive lady and it is was easy to take advantage of her. My advice to you all, try and understand the person you are with to try and foresee the ditch you might land yourself in. For my friend, all she needed to note was that the guy in question, Fred, never mentioned names in conversations, it was always my dad, my uncle, my sister, my mother and so forth. When talking about your family in general, you will throw a name or two and then refer the relationship later. That was an oversight on her part to which she was sub conscious about but never really took it as a big deal.

  One day when Fred took his aunt to buy a microwave, he came back with a sorry mood that scared Kim and awoke her from her slumber. She realised that time is very precious and as she sat there and contemplated her next move, she was already calculating just how far  and how fast she could run  away from Fred. After all, she had no time to waste for the precious time can not be recovered. Just ask the patient who missed the ambulance by a minute. 

Kenyans Voted Ugliest in Africa - 22 January 2012 - Guide2Uganda News

http://www.guide2uganda.com/news/78176/Kenyans-Voted-Ugliest-in-Africa

Kenyans were last weekend voted the funniest looking people in Africa. With 48 participating nations in the Annual Most Beautiful People of Africa Awards, held at the Gregor Theater in Bloemfontein SA, Kenya took the last position, dislodging Zambia and reclaiming the title it held in 2000.

It posted 7 points out of a possible 540 points. The top position was taken by Rwanda, followed by Cameroon and then Ethiopia as second runner up. The last three positions were Kenya at 48, Zambia at 47, then Gabon, at 46. The judges said they gave their points based on presentation, physical appearance, grooming, communication and other areas.

Coincidentally this came just a week after an article on Kenyans appeared in the Pretorian Bird. The article, in the entertainment section, claims Kenya has the funniest looking president on earth, and a VP with a strange looking head. It goes on to say that Kikuyu women and Luo men pose the most weird features.

"Women from the Kikuyu community have small legs, totally no figures, and a little exeggerated heads. They lack good behinds and those who have them look like inflated baloons.They are shaped like pyramids turned upside down.A big upper frame and an almost inviscible lower bit. 

Luo men on the other side have distorted facial features..say big lips and huge noses or should we call them knobs. Kikuyu men are also unproportional, and most of them are stunted. They walk leaning foward. Plus they have long rusty teeth."

"Those from Kisii Districts are small people, the average Kenyan man will stop growing at 5'2"...5'4" tops. Kisii men have mango shaped heads, and bowed legs, a feature also common in in their Luhya counterparts."

He goes on to describe Kaleos as "Funny little pitch black emaciated fellows, raking in millions from the track. However long they'll remain in Europe, their features never improve". "Nandis will have rounded foreheads, and thin, long arms". While occupants at the coast province are said to have "Wide faces, almost like a widescreen telly, especially taitas,and durumas"

"Kenyans do not know the meaning of good grooming" The writer says. "The women hate their dark skins and opt for mercury bleachs which mess them up. The result: A scary (unpigmented)light face, black legs, and a black back". As much as the Kenyan accent, of standard english is admired, "there's too much mothertounge interference, common in Merus, Kisiis, and Kikuyus".

While Luos were pointed out as to be suffering from chronic 'braggitis'. The research funded by the institute of Primate Research at the University of St. Kenkley, also noted that Kenyan men are very marketable in the Kimberely area of SA and parts of the Guateng region. Reason, they are big, hopeless spenders.

Moral lesson, "Be careful dating a Kenyan online." Accepting the Award Ambassador Kinyesi, complained of biased judging. Also present were dignitaries from all around Africa.