Haidhuru

(excerpted from Cutting Edge)
Writing from Malaysia, an incensed Seth says: “Limkokwing University in Malaysia recently held a small promotion at the Kuala Lumpur Centre. There were some Kenyan students who sang Jambo Bwana. All was well until the students shamelessly told the visitors that the song had been composed at the Malaysian University. Shame on those students!”
(source Daily Nation).

This made me laugh. And realize that liars abound and roam the earth.

Like this time, when me and my girl are catching pints. So this jamaa intent on making conversation starts telling us how he’s been all over Kenya and he’s even written a book. What book you ask? I’m glad you asked. Ati Facing Mt. Kenya.

Wha???

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I stumbled across KBW by way of BruthaCode who’d linked MamaJunkYard who’d linked kina Spidey et al and I.was.hooked. And I was then reading blogs like it was part of my job description. The camaraderie between Guess, MJY and Nick and all those other OBs– erm… OGs was amazing. I was of course lurking as initially, it felt like I was intruding on a family conversation. There was this rowdy, rambunctious, crazy, loud (even in cyberspace, best believe you mofos be louuuud!) and they were having so much fun, I was like “I gotta get me some of this blogging.”

And I started my blog which (say it ain’t so), had my real name in its glory. I mean the full mutumiawamucii.blogspot.com AND pictures of me (what was I thinking?!) courtesy of crappy halo scan as that was in the bad old pre-flickr days. Of course I got 0.0 comments but I got hooked on this whole “you have a story to tell, so tell it!” idea. And, I decided to join KBW. Msanii was one of my first custos and he slowly became a regular (more on the utter loveliness that is Msanii in another post). Then visitors started trickling in, and I started butting in on conversations and the thing that surprised me so pleasantly, was how welcoming everyone in KBW was.

Which brings me to Nick.

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