30+ unecessary facts about me
1. Where is your cell phone? In my bag. The ringtone is set to “sunshine” – a cabaret-ish sounding song which bugs the hell out of my dad and (tee hee) and invariably startles my workmates whenever my phone goes off.
2. Relationship? Been on a beta-male experiment. Oh the tension between what my mind wants and what I really, really want for Christmas i.e. the hairy, sweaty alpha male.
3. Your hair….Is getting did tomorrow
4. Work… Love it- wish it paid more. I really, really wish it paid more.
5. Your sisters… None that I slept in the same womb with. But!!! I got sistas- all of them absolutely fab and fierce *weka finger snap right there and wig toss pale. Nani kama Tyra Banks? *
6. Your favorite things…. Books. Trashy books. Well written books. Graphic novels. Snarky romantic romps— love them, love them all.
7. Your dream last night…I went to sleep watching Ty Murray’s Bull Celebrity Bull riding show so I probably dreamt of bulls and hot men (but I can’t remember!!!). Then that Ty Murray! Ngai baba!!! That the guy is Hawt!!!!!!!! Hawwwttt I say!! I would do him in a flash but those country chicks go down hard!! Damn that man is hot!! He is totally a gateway drug to cowboys & country music as to my everlasting shame, I favorited CMT on my remote!!!!
8. Your favorite drink….Has to be coffee. No- you don’t understand. I have a percolator, an ibrik, a French press & a cappuccino maker. My freezer has a little bit of frozen veggies and a lil’ meat but the rest is all coffee. Kenyan Starbucks coffee, Kahawa Nambari Moja, Folgers dark blend morning roast. Gevalia coffee, Dormann’s Turkish blend. Rwandan coffee- Jamaican blue roast etc. etc. I have no less than 20 coffees in my fridge—all for me, me, me!!
9. Your dream car…. I should say the Prius but for the honest truth, me I want a Range Rover. Mbele one with a ka-doggie inside, a ka-son reading Hardy Boys as we go to the Sports Club (Yes- my Babbie roots aspirations are showing. Ah well).
10. The room you’re in….I’m typing this in the (commuter) train so I guess the room is best described as a cylindrical metallic tube with accents of hot army dude (HAD) with pixilated BDUs dozing off in the seat in the opposite aisle – and what’s that? Aish- hot army dude has a wedding ring *me quickly losing interest and looking away to mama sitting in front of him* and it’s a blowzy Latino mama cutting nails and irritating the heck out of me with that gaddamn nail cutting noise as she sits in the seat in front of (married) hot army dude.
11. Your shoes… Crocs … I kid, I jest. I’m wearing ngoroba flip flops- it’s dress down Friday!!!!
12. Your fears….Poverty. Being *that* redundant chick who lives off the glory of the yester-year. You know that chick- she’s the one who starts every story with “When I was in America…” and “When I was in KQ” or “When I used to go out with XX Muigai or XX [name of someone I should really give a damn about]”
13. What do you want to be in 10 years… In Central Africa. Having flown on an old ass Soviet aircraft in the Congo and made enough cash to retire on.
14. Who did you hang out with this weekend? …Ooo! A bunch of friends went for water-sports. Seriously good fun
15. What are you not good at… Off the cuff presentations, going left when I should be going right, and going right when I should be going left. Adding 37 to 35 without using my fingers.
16. Muffins? Aw heck no!! I quit smoking and put on (are you ready for this?) 40-50 pounds. I am seriously disgusting!!! I hate being fat!!!!!! Seriously have a hatred and disgust for (myself) being fat. I have never been a skele/ thin — but this channeling Mo’nique that I’m doing? So played out .
17. Wish-list item… Hardwood floors.
18. Where you grew up…Kenya
19. The last thing you did… Pretend to be sleeping so that I would not share the seat next to me with some loud ass mama who got in the train at the last stop.
20. What are you wearing…Dress down Fridays so jeans and flip flops
21. What are you not wearing… Female condom, Channel #5 (KM said it already)
22. Your favorite pet…small hairy fur-ball of a dog (Jack Russell small- not Chihuahua small though)
23. Your computer…Laptop that I’ve had since grad school
24. Your life… is the product of my good decisions, chance encounters, my glaringly bad mistakes, kismet, shrewd calculations and dare I say-manipulations by my folks, kindness of strangers, momentous and portentous decisions by distant presidents and kings; everyday hostile and quirky encounters with bus drivers, interns and pharmacists, interventions by friends, the love of my family…I would not change it for the world.
25. Your mood…is getting grumpy as these questions are too many
26. Missing…the hot, hot dog-days of summer already.
27. What are you thinking about… The utter impossibility of getting my work done today with my sanity intact as I have to work with human rights docs written in French and Swahili. Urrghhhhhh!!! Like Urrhghhhhhh to the power of infinity squared.
28. Your dream location… In terms of places I been, gotta say that Lamu, Boston & Sherkin Island in Ireland are way, way up there. I need to go to Benin, Mali (after the fighting ends) & India (where the women wear flowers in their hair so that the bus smells of jasmine), Morocco. And I still can’t believe that I’ve never been to SA.
29. Your Ex… Lives life large. Manzi if I live my life on even half the scale that he lives his, I will have a wonderful, great life. He’s all about carpe diem and seizing stuff. He totally rocks!
30. Your Favorite Item… Hands down- my iPod and accessories (kwanza that iTrip? Watch out!)
31. Your favorite colour…Aish- this is so a question to ask a guy I am trying to tune in high-school type of dumb question. I mean, I like blue in jeans but not in meat (or testicles). I like brown in my throw pillows, but not in… you get my drift
32. Last time you laughedsmiled… Today. I saw this awesome classified that made me smile. Here it is: I am of Turkish origin …Love music, apple mac,audi, ipod, cooking, gardening and travel…
33. Last time you cried…(with laughter) is when Little Miss Sunshine did her SPOILER ALERT: When she started stripping and doing her thang with that song that her guka taught her. Annnnddd… OK the entire movie was funny.
34. School… I love, love academia but I think that I’m done. I would like to write more papers, research a whole lot more about the field that I’m in— but I think that I’m done with formal schooling.
35. Love … is worth it. Every single time.
I’d tag Guess but I don’t know where she is at. OK my favorite prof. is it.
Caffein addict….i see.
“but this channeling Mo’nique that I’m doing”….woi you have chekeshad me…kupindukia. you are an uproarious one.
I could also be a wine addict if someone (Msanii) would call me. Aki woiye— kwani you don’t miss me?Then as for the kunona kupindukia thing- I saw your eyes bug out when I saw you last - so yeah- I think that you’re a sweetheart to not hold that against me ((((Msanii))))
Comment by msaniixl — September 21, 2007 @ 7:24 pm
Island3.0 is Lamu
(thanks for the Sherkin Island in Ireland idea!)
/:b
Comment by brad brace — September 23, 2007 @ 7:33 am
Finally…. and Lovin your list.
Tamaka I never thought of you as a coffee person like that! Never ever!
Halafu riiri, that thing about color! so true, thank you for articulating it!!! Awww, you genius haki! I like beige and deep green for my living room but I don’t necessarily like to wear that you get? Its so ambigous!!!
LOOOOL at channeling Monique.Am I feeling you or feeling you? There is a way yaani me, in the last 3 months or so, sijui anag these pills are not working, yaani jana I swear my niece touched my tumbo and went “you are having a baybeee”….whuooot! Not even remotely funny.
I say ati what? Wahhh. Kids lakini can aibisha you- kwanza they do that stuff in public. Like this kid who’s chilling to be seated at a restaurant like 2 weekends ago. So he’s got his head on his mum’s lap then he moves away and says “it’s stinky”. She asks “what?” and he points at her area. Ndaconokire maa. And yaani she went red and then redder and then tomato reddest. Yaani.. tois are just, well, too honest.
Ditto @ “Adding 37 to 35 without using my fingers”. serious..or 97 and 69….**shiver** Like when I need to turn left, I write in the air with my hand to find the direction. tihihi, but then again, you are my lost sister
OMG!! Like seriously for real?!!!! ‘Cause I do that too!!! Like this time I was driving and my bro just looked at me and was shaking his head thoroughly unimpressed and says: “Njugaga I’ll tie up that hand one day ingalau you’ll probably end up in Mexico?” I even have a poem ” I write with my right *shake right hand* and what’s left is my left *shake left hand*
And I love, love, love, absolutely love your “life” thingie. I think I’ll take that and make it mine. Its awesome.
Pris riiri, did I tell you, hey! speaking of human rights reports…ala, someone gave me one in Portuguese…no prizes for guessing which culprit country is that and went “French and Portuguese and very close” alaaa!
Wah!!! You win. You take the biscuit and the gateau. Haki ya mama! We used to work with this guy from hukos Mozambique who used to mix French & Portuguese like it wasn’t a thing. I was in awe at the way he was a cunning linguist ma sista.
Hugs
Comment by KM — September 24, 2007 @ 1:18 am
I’ll surprise you and actually complete it–this reading and writing business is . . . I need breaks . . . but, do you mean I have to type out all the prompts? I mean, that’s WORK!
Ebu you wait until you fika number 27. There’s like 33 questions! Then, habari yako Prof? Mambo? Hali? You well? Sasa? Geithika.
Comment by Keguro — September 24, 2007 @ 6:41 pm
Good to have you back even if it is for a minute!
I love the fear of living on past glory. I have seen it before and it isn’t beautiful at all!
My dear when you go non-profit, you do so literally!
School? I think 18 years is enough….
Comment by acolyte — September 27, 2007 @ 5:47 am
what happened to my comment??????????
did blogsome eat it the way blogger usually eats things greedily? Aki pole sana sweetness… Thanks for visiting
Comment by kipepeo — October 8, 2007 @ 8:21 am
Ati u would tag me but u aint knowing where I’m at? Well, I am here lol - see that.
Love ur list though and I was wondering when someone will get round to tagging me so I can gracefully refuse lol. Aint doing it mami.
Though, thanks for the consideration
Ps: email actually works, u know?
Comment by Guessaurus — October 11, 2007 @ 4:10 pm