Brighter year? Absolutely.

  Image:Eliud Mwangi Kahiga “MelGut, it frustrates me when people think that my loud personality should always work for me.” “Don’t you dare make that your New Year wish,” I made it clear to my alter ego. “I need you to be on my side. The expectations are sometimes too much. Listen, I need to …

Church!Clothes!Goat!Christmas!

“Well mother, those are my feelings to your question.” “I asked you whether you will ever stop being excited about Christmas.” “Look, I learned about Christmas from you. You literally showed me how sweet it can be. Santa Claus will always excite me. Father Christmas rather.” With the benefit of hindsight, Christmas has always been …

Struggles some men go through for pictures.

Look at that picture again, this gentleman does not want his face exposed to the world. And you should kill all those thoughts of “maybe he is trying to show us his shit shoes! Or his cheap tee” because it is only after that you will notice his ability to perfectly color-block, and also want …

He twitched while on the barber’s chair.

Image:courtesy “I don’t want you applying that liquid that smells like a corpse on my head,” this was me telling Githinji, my barber. As if I am a morgue attendant. “What about us giving it a name, like an aftershave?” he said with pride like he had just discovered water. That without his discovery my …

My marathon experience;kass marathon

Runners at the 2016 Kass Marathon. “The Marathon is an incredible experience. You get to run in the land of renowned legendary marathoners and because it is run on high altitude, it’s one of the toughest marathon course worldwide. The race is highly competitive because a majority of the athletics training camps are within this …

Sue or the boss?

“A girl should be able to scratch herself, right? It is so itchy” Sue teased him. “Only if it will be a quickie, I don’t want to start scratching myself too. And use all your fingers because if you only use one, I will also have to use one. I always get the urge to …

Of your theft demons

“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness” this was just a plain statement to you. Until you encountered accusations of theft. Of those nights that you lay in bed wondering whether your troubles with the accusations had finally bottomed out, those …

The con’s way

Finally, an old friend has mastered his English (you last spoke 2 years ago last), and so you wonder as you continue with the phone conversation. One that you presume is just a case of catching up. Where are you nowadays statement makes you remember the Andrew you know. The Andrew you are comfortable with. …

The woman across the room

I am across the room as she flirts with me. At least it seems so. The leering and smiles suggests she is checking me out and the ring she casually flushes every time she elegantly holds that wine glass implies she is weighing my interest, for some weird reason she believes that is attractive. It …

I refuse to light a cigarette.

“Politics is the process of making uniform decisions applying to all members of a group” that’s Wikipedia for you. Do I care? I don’t know. Should I? Probably. But why...The night of 30th December 2007 and ‘we’ had just sworn Kibaki for a second term. Kapchumba is the village. Not your usual village. Semi urban. …