My Diary

Photo credit:Internet By Charity Kuria “How did you discover talent?” A question was tossed to Gabriel Dinda the CEO of Writers Guild Kenya. He gave the simplest example ever.  “Suppose you are looking for a misplaced needle in the house. You could decide to ransack the whole place without any particular order with fewer chances of finding it and be sure to have a messy house.  Doesn’t sound appealing. So, why not clean up the place while you still looking for the lost needle? Fold up the clothes nicely. Clean the floor and dust the seats. You will surely find the needle and your house will be in order.” There is absolutely no better way to identify your talent than the above method. Keep doing what you do and do it nicely. This is opposed to just sitting still and racking hard on your brain trying to discover your talent. Gabriel hereby was advocating for doing other things such as work. Probably you are an accountant but have this soft spo...

Photo credit:Internet ByWakini Kuria There are no moments I enjoy most than having the remote control at hand, when someone starts talking of ‘ serikali saidia ’ even on instances where the government has no business. You know!  So your car broke down, serikali saidia , you are stuck in traffic, serikali saidia , so the kids are burning up schools? Serikali saidia, never mind that we are the same people who brought up the damn brats! Remember the old story of a boy who cried ‘oh leopard!’ until one day people got tired of his pranks and never responded to a real distress call. He ended up being the leopard’s meal. I wish you had an idea of just how many prank calls are received at customer care call centres on a daily basis. Now imagine the government being called to respond to pranks calls such as kids burning up schools, traffic jams, collapsing buildings and pouring of illicit liquor. It’s not that I am being careless. No! It’s in my opinion that we a...

By Wakini Kuria When little I vividly remember the evenings when I would have pain on the legs and on the joints. Guka would bandage the foot and the pain would gradually subside. He was a clinical officer you see with a bias to children ailments. My mum, my angel and my rock has literally walked with me on this painful journey. She has carried me on her back to school and around the homestead when the pain got unbearable. She has watched helplessly as her once beautiful and normal daughter 's body gave in to deformity right under her nose. She has gone through all hospitals and religious doors in search of healing for her youngest daughter. She never once lost hope even to date. It took the doctors a long time to discover that I was suffering from arthritis which then was considered as 'ugonjwa ya wazee'  The torment was real as I writhed in bed while the joints got hot with pain, torment was written all over my mum's face whenever she saw p...

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By Charity Kuria Aki where did the ogre stories go? They used to entertain me so. Adventures of Thiga, The ogre with one eye, The giant & the pregnant woman etc were my favourites. What do children of today enjoy? Video games, internet, television etc. Ha! The heroes being Ben 10, Spiderman, Little Mermaid and the likes. Watching things visually doesn't stick in the mind like when reading. If you miss a part you can always re-read for in-depth understanding. When they want you to go sleep stories of cucu wa kweru would emerge, how darkness brought about dark creatures who ate up little disobedient children. Who would want to be eaten or have their ears chopped off? In an instant I would be snoring in another land. Today we've super active kids who are still jumping up and down even when the time clocks 12am. By this time the poor parent has tried any method applicable to get the minor to sleep. That includes promising tamus and a new bike kesho...

By Charity Kuria  Like it or not God is very much alive despite aims to diminish his mighty existence by the evil one. He will always fail you know! He works in mysterious ways and all you have to do is just call upon him on your knees and with an honest and clean heart. You achieve the above through thorough repentance, begging for cleansing of the mind, body and soul. We all want to be successful and happy. Don't we? The question then begs, Who is in your boat? Who are the people you walk with? What are their values and objectives? Are they the same as yours? The wise men say that the books you read and your kind of company determines who you become. Question 2. Who do you call in times of turbulence? Now this is when you know your true friends and the off loaders who will run in the opposite direction when things go south for you. But I've good news for you because God almighty will still pick your call even if you only reach out to him when hopeless...

By Charity Kuria Welcome to Githurai, the land of milk and honey since kitambo before the coming of Mr Googz. Remember na wasee tumetoka Githurai? Guess walihama . This is that place you walk wary of everything and anything. From pickpockets and drugging if not being ran over by the careless and ever in a hurry matatu drivers. They are ever rough if not rude. Thugs here don’t use force unnecessarily, you chat like old buddies as you had over your valuables. On rare cases they will brandish guns but hardly shoot, only when you prove to be too stubborn or too intelligent for your own good. Then the mitumba hawkers who will sell to you by force. Ladies here are most vulnerable. He will get hold of your arm saying ‘ Ni bure kuona na kupima ’ such are hawkers everywhere including Ngara. Well, need I say? The landlord will start a 6 storey building that he expects you to enter before it’s complete and start paying quickly so that he can pay that loan. Did I tell...