Why is it that Kenyan parents would trust their 30-something year old daughter to make important decisions e.g. relating to her career, what car to drive, how much money to save or invest, how much money to contribute to her parents’ upkeep…yet they cannot trust her to make the decision of the man she chooses [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘The Big 3-0’
November 26, 2007
Milestones
30 years = 10 957.266 days
At midnight (literally- I was born at midnight), I’ll head into my 3rd decade of life!
Regrets? Nothing major, just stuff like:
- I never learned how to dive (the swimming gala trophy at my primary school was named after a girl who dived into the shallow end and cracked her skull…’nuff [...]
March 24, 2007
My Father is not his Hair
I have just got round to e-mailing pictures taken last Christmas to all my cousins around the world (I received the pictures in January but have been procrastinating like mad), and in looking at the pictures again, it never ceases to amaze me how much older my parents, my aunts, my younger cousins, nieces and [...]
February 5, 2007
Who’s Afraid of the Big 3-0?
Definitely not me. I remember watching the TV show “Beyond 2000” with my sisters, and calculating how old we would each be when 2000 rolled around. (Digression: remember those slogans that Mo1 and company used to bandy about like: “Water for all by 2000”…the buggers probably thought the world would end by then so they [...]
February 3, 2007
Ningalijua Moment No. 1
We had a power outage that actually lasted almost three days, and since I’d been procrastinating about putting up this post, it got even more delayed, but as I’d already written it…(or since I’m now procrastinating about finishing post no. 4), here it is four days later.
Last Saturday was one of those days that restored my faith [...]
