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  • Thoughts of a 90's child

    Wife number 2.

    First of all, (let’s catch this wave) Thank you so much for all the views in the last two posts, for sharing, for all the active mind blowing conversations. I love you all. So today is chapos Sunday at my house, as it is in most Kenyan homes. I don’t know what it is about chapos on a Sunday but they just make it glorious. Now, chapos Sunday means catching up with mum, and mother-daughter catching up is on another level. The mother-daughter bond in my view is unlike normal friendships. So we are talking and church vibes come up. I come from a church that is a bit mainstream.…

  • Thoughts of a 90's child

    Baby mama fever!

    I love getting away. If I had the money I’m sure I’d go on vacations more than Vera Sidika. Heck, if I had the money i’d be the female version of Jackson Biko, where people approach me to travel and write for them, such a glorious life. Well until we get filthy rich and can go to Greece over the weekend or to London for fall, a weekend in Mombasa every other random time will do and wherever else our pockets take us. I have finally used the SGR (yeeeey) I feel like such a Kenyan now. Slay queens please don’t judge, we know you were the first group to…

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    She's about to dive in!

    Two months ago I did a post, Secrets from my diary, that basically was what I felt were the right vibes to pick out on when a guy likes a girl. Now after this post that got quite some views guys asked me to do them a solid. The following will be a series what seems very obvious but I ask that you trust the process. 1. She replies fast. Before I even delve into this I believe human beings are obvious, sadly we are, we may want to think our behavior is unique and we are different, but there is nothing new under the sun. If a shawty likes…

  • Thoughts of a 90's child

    Influence

    We never really know it all do we? I feel like this post might be as bit controversial, I am not even sure I want to go down this road considering it goes to the core of my being. But why not play around with words see where this leads us. I think it’s all a hoax, it’s all pegged on something else.There seems to be no ingenuity in how we do things in life. Human beings are very obvious as I have learnt, and there really is nothing new under the sun. I am not trying to be stoic, neither implicit, I just realized it’s really not that complicated.…

  • Thoughts of a 90's child

    Scared to be lonely.

    This morning in the midst of trying to pretend to be asleep for about 2 hours, because laziness can get real, I had a very interesting conversation with my friends. And we all know what happens where girls are gathered. So the discussion today was whether you  would date a person you are not ‘connected’ to for lack of a better word. In my understanding being connected to someone means being the same headspace. Being able to identify with the person you are with. Being very headstrong about the person you are with regardless. (hizi head zimekuwa nyingi…) So would you? Would you let someone who you have no connection…

  • Thoughts of a 90's child

    Situationships

    Wagwan my country people! Strathmore elections are done (I think) so we can move on with our lives now. The first ever feature as promised a few weeks ago is finally here! I’m so excited about this. So i’m at the hostel this week and my friend Jane apps me saying she needs to talk to me. So my paranoid self is there freaked as hell, not that i’d done anything, but there are those things people tell you and in your head you start backdating what could be the problem from 2014. Anyway, she says she wants in and she practically saved me because with these exams I had…

  • Thoughts of a 90's child

    Secrets from my diary.

    In last week’s post I was all Steve Harvey on the relationship vibe and maybe, just maybe, we may go down that road today. So this week I haven’t done much reading. I have a lot of books waiting for me, some from my loyal readers, and some I’ve come across but I just can’t read. Why? Exams are coming. If you are friends with a law student then you know exams are hectic. But that wasn’t going to stop me from posting because despite how tired I am (those who watched my story time on Instagram understand) I really want to be consistent with posting. I want to actually…

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    Larger than life.

    We’ve all been there, we’ve all wanted to be who we aren’t, we’ve all pretended. Some better than others… Saying you’ve never wanted to be larger than life is like saying you haven’t tried to pee ‘quietly’ when boo is around, it is not true and holds no water to argue as such! I feel uncomfortable peeing even when my own schoolmates are around. Imagine what reading Biko’s male perspective segment does to that, when peeing loudly is ranked as a thing women do that men don’t like, it’s preposterous! (always wanted to use that word) Anyway, I digress. Today we talk about the days when we have known that…

  • Thoughts of a 90's child

    Win through your actions.

    ‘Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster…’ so says Robert in the Art of Seduction. He believes we all have a seductive quality and sitting and watching things fall in place is simply laziness. So if things falling into place is a myth, then there is so much we need to unlearn. If we do believe indeed that Greene is right in his thinking. What then about beauty, is that also a myth? Is it in the eyes of the bearer, beholder or beer holder? A few weeks ago I asked a group of friends why they believed a thick woman was better than a skinny woman. ‘Because…

  • Farewell

    My condolences

    2017 was supposed to be the year, the recovery from the horrid 2016, the year of completion. But now it’s only the fourth month and I’ve lost count of how many RIP’s i’ve seen on my timeline for my fellow youth. I’m not trying to jinx the year, I just don’t know what’s going on. Why are we as the youth dying so much? Who did we offend? Is there a point we’re missing? From university killings to the Langata accident and so many people in between. Makes you wonder what battle it is we’re fighting. It’s normal to ‘pass condolences’ when someone leaves. It’s what’s expected. But in all…