Nairobbery!

 There is something scary about witnessing someone getting robbed in these streets!

So am standing there waiting for my uber and across the road, i hear mwizi mwizi!! and right before my eyes, a man is giving chase to another man who has, as I gather, grabbed his mobile phone! they ran on the busy highway and cars are forced to screech and swerve! weuhh

the thief was faster and so the poor man lost his phone, just like that

The uber finally arrives and we head out - turns out he too witnessed it from another angle. The thief was on a boda boda and snatched the phone from the guy who was walking along the road...the boda boda was destabilized by a passing vehicle and tilted over, so also the boda driver had to flee since it was clear they were together with the thief

By the time we passed near the scene...the boda had been impounded...and the distressed victim was there as well (question...is the boda now his asset??? hehehhehe)

Yaani in this day if a phone is taken you are really set back!!

Keep Safe!

A story of why I should have stayed behind...

clouds have gathered

i have one more thing to do

then make a dash for it

Rain and Nairobi dont mix

45min later am stuck at an intersection

it starts to rain

i know this is gonna be a long ride

i inch forward

ONE hour later i have barely moved

a text message comes

Airtel - you have 7705MB data and

it expires 04/05/2018

i see it as a sign

i can watch youtube!!!!

silver lining i tell u

thank you JESUS!!

5 hours later

i limp into the house

i should have stayed behind

...the end

FlashBack...earth tremors in Nairobi!

A couple of years ago....I was seated at my desk minding my own business

Office was on 5th floor of a building in Westlands....suddenly I felt like I was in a lift that was going down...that inertia that leaves your tummy feeling funny....I looked up and at the same time, my colleague looked up...(open office manenoz) and said....ai...did you feel something?? Suddenly an item on top of the cabinet moved........waaaaaaa panic...........off we went to the other offices....everyone was at the corridor...this was strange....another colleague was standing and had felt nothing.....we all ran downstairs ...with someone shouting *don't* use the lift!!!......the guys in first and  ground floor wondered what we were all about - turns out they felt nothing.

We all ran to the front of the building....the Director was frantic wondering where everyone was (you see we didnt have any drill of where one is to stand once there is an emergency....so we were not all at the front of the building)...she made the call....lets close for the day!

So...silly us....we went back to our desks, shut computers, picked handbags...that kinda stuff....aki...you should have seen her....we were not supposed to do this...she is the only one who walked out with her handbag....so how were we to go home with nothing....

Haki drills are important!!

http://www.panapress.com/Unexplained-tremors-spark-panic-in-Nairobi--13-506412-17-lang2-index.html


My heart goes out to the victimes of earthquake in Italy last night...I cant even imagine how that feels!!

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37171953

Baridi!

eh si nairobi  is cold these days!!

am in a warm sweater and jacket

and still had to put on the heater

my phone says its 18 degrees

but i beg to differ....more like 2!! :)

anyways, better cold than rain

better rain ya usiku

ile that makes you glad you are home and dry

but i guess not all our prayers can be answered the same way

someone else hates the hot weather

someone else wants it to rain

either way

nairobi is too cold!!!