Get ready for renovations !

We all have this fantasy about the future and how we want it to be. We build this future world where we make our lives so perfect and have the people we love the most with us. We can project a whole day of the future we want and still be happy. But what happens when something slight about this world is changed?

This happened to me recently and I have to admit, swallowing it in was the most difficult thing. Fortunately, I was under the influence which provided me with enough courage to face it as one of the many factors that I don’t like but have to live with. It’s true; factors that are designed to change your future are always major – no matter how small they seem to be at the moment. You will think you are okay with something that’s bound to come but once it is here, you don’t even know how to go about it.

In other news, you better design your future world that is build up in your head in a way that it can accommodate renovations. Make it flexible so that if anyone in your life exits before you live it, you can always make amendments. To those that have lost their loved ones so soon, hope you gather enough strength and courage to rebuild your world. You need to be strong for those who depend on you. For those who are temporarily away, hang in there. Patience is a virtue but I’m not saying that it always pays. 

The Vampire Diaries season 4 finale episode

The Vampire Diaries season 4 finale episode, “Graduation,” airs this Thursday, and based on this new sneak peek and extended promo, it’s going to be a fantastic episode!

It’s been a complicated season of The Vampire Diaries – first Elena turned into a vampire, then she was sire bonded to Damon, then she lost her humanity, then her world narrowed into hating Katherine.

Meanwhile, Jeremy discovered he was a Hunter, then was killed by Silas, whom Bonnie was lured into raising as she learned expression magic from the creepy professor Shane.

Now, only the season finale remains. The veil to the other side has been dropped, and dead supernatural creatures are flooding to Mystic Falls.

The cure for vampirism is in Damon’s hands, and Bonnie has died and turned into a ghost. And then there’s the high school graduation to deal with!

Check out the third extended promo released: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdT4S-xILF8&feature=youtu.be

Holiday: here we come!

Finally! The long awaited holiday is here! I have never anticipated an holiday like I did this time round and it's not just about the books and academics but some other reasons.

I'm finally done with my 3rd year in campus and that's not something that you take for granted. Funny how time flies and you don't realize it. I just can't believe that next time we open, it'll be my last lap in the 8-4-4 marathon. I've seen many leave. I've bid 3 classes goodbye and now it's my turn to be at the top of the pyramid and breath the air before flying out into the world.

In that connection, I wanna congratulate all the friends and enemies that just completed their four years in Maseno University. All those Christians, Muslims and pagans that I knew. All those that we engaged in legal & illegal 'food' supplies. All those that knew me and those that didn't. The likes of Bizzle, Oyier, MM, Andrew Mutuva, Ngugi, Ricky, Amu, Hamfrey, Otiato, Abraham Dalle, Olulu, Pepe etc etc. It's really hard remembering all of your names but I'm just glad you pulled through quite fine. You never left any souvenirs ... that's the sad part that you'll have to face next time we meet.

Back to me, I pray that as I start my long holiday, a lot of positive and self-developing things will happen. I hope that I'll grow more than I've done in the past long holidays. By growing I mean literally and in the mind. I really need to fatten-up (If you know me, you know how I'm not so slI'm). I hope that i'll learn new stuff that I've always avoided. It is time. So help me God.

Kwa hayo mengi na machache, I wish a happy and smooth long holiday to my fellow comrades and hope to see you well as we reopen. I hope you won't be as fat as I'll be then.

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 !!!

LETTER TO ALL MY GIRLFRIENDS

Dear Ex-Girlfriend,
How have you been ever since ... you know what. I hope you are good and that whoever came after me isn't doing as much or as good as i did. Better still, i hope you are still single so that on this Valentine's Day you could just catch a horror movie, all alone, after a long day of sweating your armpits off. I recommend re-watching Wrong Turn 1,2 and 3: it will remind you of me. Wait, it actually remind you of you. Please pick another movie. I'm just kidding, have a lovely Valentine's Day.

Dear Girlfriend,
I hope you skipped the above letter. Unless, God forbid, you wanted to read of what you'll be reading in future. I told Santa to postpone my Christmas gift till this day: just to be with you. Guess Santa isn't real after all. I really miss you and hate the fact that everyone today will be reminding me that. All that red, surprise gifts, holding hands, exchanging smiles, stealing glances, blowing kisses, firing winks, sending flowers, sharing ice cream, licking on chocolate etc.
No worries though. I always find something to convince me that Valentines Day is just another ordinary day. Just that everyone's role models are Bassanio and Portia. Besides, chocolate is just sweetened and repacked human feces. No biggie.
Love you to the end of the world babegal.

Dear Future Girlfriend,
LOL ! Keep your hopes high.


HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!