Category Archives: Think Diary

Viatu Na Bei, Viatu Na Bei: The Nairobi Way

If you cant stop at a hawker’s merchandise, you are not a lady! I know some of you would prefer ‘Mr. Bei’ or some fashion house above Moi avenue but there is something big happening downtown too. Viatu na bei.  The announcer from the shopping stalls would definitely catch your attention. The Shoes come in allContinue reading “Viatu Na Bei, Viatu Na Bei: The Nairobi Way”

Active Nostalgia: 2007/8 Post Election

I opened my eyes from the deep slumber on the laps of my grandmother. I was feeling fresh and strong in my long juvenile bones as my grandmother Helen stroked her palms on my hair. She stretched her legs and sat upright to hold me close to her. I closed my eyes once again toContinue reading “Active Nostalgia: 2007/8 Post Election”

The Fridge & Microwaves are keeping our ladies off the Kitchen

Owning a refrigerator in your home has become a basic necessity than just a luxury and of course accompanying it with a microwave. This is especially evident with many young families, bachelors and bachelorettes. These two electronics are now controversial in shaping up the kind of lifestyle we live now and with our future families.Continue reading “The Fridge & Microwaves are keeping our ladies off the Kitchen”

Fishing Naked Catches the Biggest Fish!

Which generation are you?  Do you belong to the ‘dot com’ or the Y generation? Well, never mind. I saw this picture circulating on the social media platforms and hit my nostalgia hard. Then I came to know where I belong. If my eulogy was to be read, this is how I would want itContinue reading “Fishing Naked Catches the Biggest Fish!”

No, Stop the Mpesa *234#

Press *234# and call from your Safaricom line to get 5 previous transactions on your Mpesa account. That is not news, I know. My problem is, this newly developed idea lacks logic. Don’t crucify me yet but do this, ask your friend’s phone and dial *234#, boom! You will get all their Mpesa account statementContinue reading “No, Stop the Mpesa *234#”

Father dads

Celibacy is not making any sense any more to our priests. Face it, they are having sex and a lot of it! We have read and heard many cases of priests and pastors in love triangles and unending accusations of impregnating their fellow nuns and other women from the church. I once read a story in the dailiesContinue reading “Father dads”

Originally posted on thechulxchronicles:
Kneeling down in her cramped kitchen, the pharmacist opens her fridge door and removes the freezer compartment drawer crammed with three packages wrapped in black bin liners. As she carefully opens the brittle bundles, she boasts of her ability to use the contents to make a pill that can cure all…

KISS TV & QTV could have done better

When KISS TV came onto our screens we all expected the feel of KISS 100 which had taken over the airwaves of Nairobi and the entire country. You could practically wake up with Kiss100 from 5.am when Nyambane played the best mix of music to wake you up and rekindle life to the then ‘onlyContinue reading “KISS TV & QTV could have done better”