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