2009

Happy New Year. I know it is not in good taste(whatever that means) to amkua –greet – people like this in the third month of the supposed new year but what is a girl to do if she started her new year then? I mean all this is relative the Moslems, Hindus and Ethiopia just across the border are in some century where the rest of the world isn’t but that does not stop them from expressing it.
My Kenyan brethren remember how 2008 started or rather how 2007 ended and we did not say happy New Year properly until April or thereabouts.

This year has been a little kinder to me. I started it by doing exams in the first week of January. Some people are terribly cruel. How do you make an exam timetable like that? How am I supposed to ‘eat’ Christmas with the thought of having exams peeping at me round the corner? I barely enjoyed myself plus…I was moving houses so let’s leave it there. Stressful. I did not know I have so much stuff in fact was tempted to give some away at the though of having to lift one more item into the moving truck. Yes I had lots of help from the male folk in my household but aie…

I was in the supermarket the other day when there was a power outage. Just before the generators kicked in somebody muttered in the darkness “Thank God we are not in Nakumatt”.

I discovered a new interesting voice out here. She makes my day!