Wednesday, 13 September 2023

My life in numbers...

 My life in numbers

1. I believe in & serve the ONE and only true God!

2. Am a second twin and  I have 2 brothers

3.  I have 3 children

4. I have 4 sisters

5. Every 5 years I celebrate my birthday in a big way!

6. I have 6 siblings

7. I was in class 1 in Loreto Convent Valley Rd the year I turned 7

8. I received First Holy Communion at Holy Family Minor Basilica when I was 8 - wearing a long white lace outfit (don't know why I remember that particular detail)

9. I was born in September

10.  My LO turned 10 in 2022...and the colour theme was orange! loved that bday

11. I joined FCA in November..

12. Went to boarding school (Mukumu Girls Primary) in Class 6 - the year I turned 12.

13. I was confirmed the year I turned 13 -and all girls that day were given the names CRESCENCIA!! now you know. This was the name of the then Kakamega Diocese Bishops mother (Bishop Philip Sulumeti) so he said all of us take that name...ahem! oh well.... 

14. I was finally out of Mukumu the year I turned 14....ohh the stories I can tell about Mukumu...forced to grow up and rely on self!

15. My gal cant wait to turn 15 this December (2023)

17. Husband was born on a 17th and 2023 is our 17th wedding anniversary

18. In 2024 - my oldest becomes an adult, card holding adult weuhhh!!

19. Age I started CPAs and began by finance career journey

20. Started campus the year I turned 20 - Eldoret is where the magic happened!

24. Got my first real job at age 24

25. In Sept 2023, I will have worked for 25 whole yrs! Ta imagine!!

26. I was born on 26th and went for my best concert when I was 26 (Chaka Demus and Pliers, New Years millennium concert 2000; and I heard Redemption song for the first time in my life in this concert!!)

27. First trip to the USA when I was 27..just by a simple email application for a 6 week internship and it was granted...very interesting!!

30. Turning 30 passed just like that imagine! no frills...no celebration.... / 2022 - my chox gals came together, shared a meal and cut cake to mark 30yrs since we left the brown Chox gates in 1992!!





32. Got my first child at age 32

35. Celebrated 35th bday in style in South Africa - very affordable trip courtesy of Standard Chartered Bank (pink) Diva card which had just been launched in Kenya; and the idea of celebrating every 5 yrs was born

40. Celebrated 40th bday with buying a nice gold ring for myself/ and this was a cool trip to Dubai that we organised with 5 other ladies...funtimes!

45. Celebrated 45th bday in the Big Apple! oh what a trip - we planned for a good 5 yrs!!!

49. Had major surgery at age 49!

50. Turning 50 in 2024! 


Praise be to God Almighty!

Monday, 11 September 2023

Ground Zero....visit in 2019

 9/11/2001

I entered a restaurant in Nairobi briefly at around 4pm

The TV was muted and I could not read the sub headings

No one was really paying attention to the screen...

I just saw the plane crashing into the Twin Towers and I honestly thought it was a movie or something like that

I went home and reached around 7pm

Put on the TV and woahhhhhhhh...thats when the news hit me!!

What a terrible and sad turn of events..nearly 3000 souls lost their lives..waaa...and incidentally I had been to a restaurant at the Twin Towers just the year before while on a learning visit to NYC

Fast forward to October 2019 and am back to the spot where the Twin Towers were...and amazed at how they have transformed the place. 

For sure resources make you more resilient!