Kikuyu Archive

Hi guys, here is the archive I promised that'll have all the lessons I put up.

Lesson 1: Greetings

ni~ati~a? - How are you?
ni~kwega. - It is ok. (most common)
di~mwega - I'm ok.
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i~ we? - and you?
onanii~ - me too.
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N/B: the we has its e pronounced as in elephant.
Check the Pronunciation Ref. Below.

Of things to come

Here are a few things i'd like to add to the blog:

Kikuyu Lessons
The Mass of Easter Sunday spurred a deeper appreciation of my mother tongue - Kikuyu. An idea struck - why not give it out to others? So, every so often i'll add more "tutorials" on Kikuyu on the side bar. If u like it, post me what more you'd like with it as things go along.

Book Reviews
For some time i'v been trying to found a culture of reading novels. So, every so often again, i'll be putting book reviews on any novels (or movies for that matter) that i'v recently conquered, as I conquer them. So feel free to pitch it your disagreements and comments.

Pleased to Death

Great among the lessons of the Eastertide was the cost of pleasing others.

I have always known I had an unhealthy crave to please others. So far, its consequences had been relatively mild - a forgotten appointment, overlapping appointments, misplaced words, and so on.

This time I almost blew the car - literally. Driving at night, I remembered all the tips n tales of night driving - "Do not drive slowly as you may be car-jacked!", "Beware of speed bumps, they are car-jackers' favourite spots." were top on the list. So i raved the car, ... at each bump, hurriedly changing the gears to my favourite gear 4. Why? To show my dad I can drive at night.

But lo and behold. The temperature gauge nearly clocked the max. temperature, not once, ... but severally. Now I dont need to tell you how dangerous that is.

To make matters worse, I KNEW I shouldn't rave the engine, and I KNEW I was uncomfortable doing so.

T'is then (or rather soon after) that I realized that the first person I should convince is me, then whomsoever else shall learn thereafter. So the resolution: Dont please anyone for the sake of it - it could do more harm than good. Like a good painting, with just the right strokes of the brush, so let be life, ... do what you can to make it as perfect as your touch (or lack thereof) can.

Be Well.

Of Easter

Its rather unfortunate that this has been the only time I have had time to update the events of Easter. Due to the lateness of the hour, I shall be quite brief.

I went upcountry.

Now to other stories.
Lessons learnt:

1. It's been long since I learnt of the tormentious labour of doing laundry, and the satisfaction that follows,
2. The heavenly choir of voices that sung on that Easter Sunday. For sure the gates of heaven were opened if ever they had closed.
3. etc, etc

Lady Luck

Yesterday, ... hoping Lady Luck would turn her beloved smile to my direction, I came to realize that either Jack Frost or some other guy had pissed her off. Her stare was cold as hell ... somehow.

So I walk to the Co-op Bank's ATM at Nairobi West (just near where I stay). It was conveniently out of service. Well, maybe Lady Luck was just playing hard-to-get.

The time is 7pm and the road is known more for hooligans than for safety, but then again, with Lady Luck, nothing can go wrong, ay?

I pilgrimage in great haste to Nakumatt Mega's Barclays Bank's ATM - now that one is never out of service, or so i thought. I came to realize it was, but at least it had a kind message.

Since one of Murphy's by-laws states "If you try something foolish and it fails, destroy all evidence that you started it", i'll let the rest to remain history.

God Bless Kenya,
and a blessed Easter to you all (but forget not to make contemplate on Good Friday).

Just read it - Can't find a title.

So,

I hadn't quite finished reading the book "The Google Story" b4 I got an idea from those guys. I thought of developing it to see how far I can go with it.

Is it often that a friend of yours tells you of a new shop to buy some product you've been looking for? Or have you had an experience with a shop (good or bad) that you'd like to tell others? Or even better, have you ever wished you could compare the prices of an item from different shops as you are seated at your computer?

Have you ever wanted to search online for a product - and have it return to you who is selling it from around your town, Nairobi for example, or Kisumu, or Rongai?

I have, and was wondering how many others have. Tell me, (if you have), what it is you have wanted with respect to this.

Cheers.

I'm Back

... and so i'm back.

T'has been quite some time since i loaded. Nyway, as you probably have gathered from the other bloggers of my class, the habit of waking up to wonder it is that shall be done with the hours that lie in wait.

It is not uncommon to drag and dress and find oneself back to Strathmore, the very scene of many a day's escape. For those of you who have not visited Strath since your departure after the exams, the corridors are bare and the labs foresaken, like forgotten fields of many-a-day's wars.

And for you who share in the unfortunate fate of not having found internship, I wish you all the best, as i toooo go forth in search of someone in need of a little black kid.

Cherio!