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It’s been a long term battle deciding whether or not to attach my alias to my real name or visa versa… but I guess the bubble has gone pop!!!!! Anyway, check out a polite interview that was in the Business Daily last Friday that sorta covered me but unfortunately got something wrong… I don’t run a political blog! It just happened that at the end of last year… our political situation was on for the birds!
Not unless you are standing in a supermarket alley showing passing customers how to use a new gadget that is on sale on right behind you can you use the word Peaceful Demonstration (at least when you are in Kenya); because honestly those words constitute being called an oxymoron (a word which is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms) so that should have indicated the outcome of ensuing events!
So it was quite tickled to see our PM standing in front of the press on Monday, to give a go ahead to the University demonstrations that were to take place the next day, despite all hue and cry from the government (of which he is a part of) and the police (who were the reason for the protest in the first place).
Anyway, so apparently the day started off quiet (should have been equivalent of the calm before the storm) the students marched, addressed themselves at the Uhuru Park grounds and started on their peaceful way back to campus…. so far that story is one for the fairy tales we read to children at night.
In Kenya there has never been and there will never be such a thing as a Peaceful demonstration…. where a multitude of people are gathered there shall be chaos… and chaos shall rule!
People shall avoid town by using all other roads that will get them into the estates, roads will be clogged, jams will be created, businesses disrupted, matatus will hike prices, rain will pour, people will get home late, families will be frustrated and we’ll all go to bed tired!
All because someone thought there was such a thing as a Peaceful Demonstration!
Yup people, I’m engaged and have been so for a good number of days.
How has it been? Well at first there was this rush of blood to my face every morning that I woke up with a new piece of jewelry on my finger (no I don’t sleep with it otherwise there would be a huge dent on my cheek in the shape of a square stone)! But now I’m having this calm feeling like at least there is something to look forward to, a new life filled with new challenges, mountains to climb, oceans to cross…and there is also a wedding to plan! Sadly once that thought creeps into my mind, all hell breaks loose as I wonder where shall the money come from, which supplier will do this or that, who do we invite, will they come!!!!??? PANIC!
I know I’ve not blogged in a couple of months, and that it’s been a very eventful beginning of the year especially in the political front; to the point that instead of wishing everyone a happy new year I wanted to wring some politicians throat until all matter that existed there before was squeezed out… but then now here I am surrounded by new things to do, new family to know… and traditions to learn.
Yes, traditions… I am after all a Kikuyu and we are notorious of our intricate ceremonies and hefty dowries plus a host of other things… and only yesterday did I start my schooling on what the first visit to my home is about, what needs to be done, what needs to be bought… for example for small Kikuyu stools are currently being made as I write this… my question is… what’s wrong with using the normal white plastic Chairmania type chairs? Or that I am to dress in traditional Kikuyu garments… which warrants a visit to the National Museum or the leather mill in Thika…but as I’m coming to learn very fast… it’s either you do traditions the right way or not at all… or you just learn to mix and match. For example I think I could convince all that a pair of jeans and a funky leather brown top could constitute a traditional Kikuyu outfit… LOL!
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