BIG OR SMALL PICTURE

Weird and normal week. Can't complain though, not this one. It has been full of everything and everyone; relationshipwise, friendshipwise, economicwise and *sigh* academicwise. Friends have been friends, conmen have been conmen and b**ches have advanced in their own field.

What made me write this post is because of the so called "bigger picture". We always hear this in movies but how many times do we choose to sacrifice that one small thing that we love for that bigger thing that we really hate being present / happening? How many times do we give up our seat in the bus for that one person who needs it? How many times do we ditch salt and eat tasteless food? How many times do we keep aside that one person who means the world to you and choose the many that they can't live without?
You never know the magnitude of this pain until you actually experience it and well, I experienced this "big picture" and it's not really a good one to look at.

A lot of people may not see what the picture is. Some may even benefit from it without knowledge about it. You will have several reasons to justify it. You might wanna tell yourself anything desirable so that you'll sleep at night but one thing is for sure: things won't be the same again. Whether big or small, the choice of picture and consequences that will follow is all yours.

Have a lovely weekend guys!

Exams already smelling but still ...

This is probably the worst part of a semester to any student. It gets even 'better' for a Maseno University student who has notes of only half of his syllabus just because the elections got in the way. With news of exams being next week, unlike we previously hoped for a one more week allowance, everyone is now locked indoors absorbing knowledge. The cold and rainy season is also part of the motivation process. All the best in your exams guys.

On the same line of academics, impromptu CATs are also hell on earth for any student. If you've ever woken up at 7:15 am, got to the lecture hall at 7:45 am and then you were told that you 60 minutes CAT started at 7:10 am, then you know what i'm talking about. Curse Advertising II !! But a student gotta do what a student gotta do. *wink*

Let's get to the fun part, shall we. There will be a Maseno University Aids Control Unit sponsored event tonight at the GSQ from 6 pm to midnight I think. There shall be HIV testing and counseling, Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC), STI screening and treatment and most important of all, mad fun! You don't wanna miss that. Besides, it's free!

And finally, the Droid heads. I was snooping around some blog and came across this android app called Sidebar. It is basically a new way of multitasking on your android, a brilliant one I must say. Once installed, you have to configure it a little, to your own liking, and then you're ready to go. With this, you don't need a menu button on the screen or even the dock. You could hide it and leave your whole screen blank. The sidebar is hidden on any side of the screen that you chose and once tapped, it appears with your selected apps. You can navigate from one app to another with this side bar and it also doubles as a task manager. Go try it! 

>> Side Bar Download

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

It's been ages since I celebrated St. Patrick's Day or Paddy's Day as the Irish call it. Maybe it's because I was in a high school named after him and once I was out, the holiday was out of my way just like my Chemistry or Physics text book. Or maybe I've never had enough motivation to celebrate it.

I read somewhere that St Patrick's Day is an official holiday in Ireland: they celebrate the coming of Christianity to their land. The best part of this celebration (no matter how Christian it should be) is that the Lenten restrictions on eating and drinking alcohol are lifted for the day, which has encouraged and
propagated the holiday's tradition of alcohol consumption. Now I'm really sad that i didn't discover Wikipedia early enough. Otherwise each of my St. Patrick's High school mates would have been uniformly high on every 17th March and maybe we'd still be celebrating the holiday even after high school.

Well, no worries. I've read Wikipedia, check. I'm out of high school, check. Now, let us celebrate St Patrick's Day like we're supposed to, check. One more thing; remember to compensate on all those non-alcoholic St Patrick's Days you missed, double check !!

HAPPY ST PATRICK'S DAY PEOPLE !!!