sunset saga

By Brian Mbanacho I am yet to date a doctor but I have a few nurses, and each time I have asked if a patient has ever died in their care and whether it affected them. There is no wrong or right answer, I wanted to add, all the while knowing there’s definitely a wrong answer.  “It’s just part of life,” is definitely a wrong answer. So is, “We all die anyway!” I don’t know about you but I don’t feel safe being with someone that’s been hardened by other people’s suffering. Someone who will watch someone die and then cross the road to go eat smokie pasua while asking her friend Njoki where they will be sababishaing later that night. That kind of indifference to death has to be detrimental to any romantic relationship.  But you know what’s worse? Dating or marrying a pathologist. Like that government pathologist, Oduor, who will be the first person to be called after yet another body is fished out of River Yala. I genuinely don’t think anything fazes that man. He has seen the worst...

Who suffers the most when shit hits the fan marriages ?. In most cases I believe it's the children. Followed by the mother. Rarely does the father, and it's saddest if the family entirely depended on the father. It's even gravely when the father is inhumane and don't care about the children. He moves on like a wild animal. You probably know Quincy Timberlake, I came across this piece and just forgot whoever posted it. All credit to you Author ... *** The story of a steamy love relationship and subsequent marriage between former TV beauty queen Esther Arunga and one Quincy Timberlake hit the media headlines in one of the biggest ways in 2009. You all recall it. You also probably know that Timberlake had been married to a lady called Rose Mweni Gideon since 1990s, thereabout. They lived together in Komarock, Nairobi and begot three sons, Trivor, Quicy and Cassidy. Rose was a housewife, born and brought up in Athi River, Machakos County. Then around 2009, Esther Arunga hap...

  #011 Since the wake of 2023 ChatGPT has been the talk of the town. ChatGPT just like google has been a friend indeed only that its more creative and flexible. One of the obvious reasons I don’t get tired of asking it questions is that the friend indeed never gets tired and tell me; I believe you’re a learned fella, right? Why do you find it difficult grasping simple basic concepts? This question you keep asking me why pregnant women eat raw tomatoes, I have explained in three different ways, but you keep coming back. Is it that you’re just a blockhead? The other day I asked why Jace always sleeps with his arms and legs in the air and never gets tired. ChatGPT took time like it was taking a moment to lower its spectacles, rub its eyes only to tell me to pardon the question. Aisuru! Anyways I’m glad for these small small innovations that helps satiate my curiosity!

Ted Malanda makes me laugh during the hardest times. The son of polis knows how to bring out the humour in everything... This is a piece by Ted  *** When you are a child, you are always finding amusing things to laugh at. Bird craps on teacher's forehead, you laugh. Mum falls, you laugh. You see a goat taking a piss, you laugh your guts out. At least once every week, something makes you laugh so hard your tummy aches. But as you age, you increasingly find fewer and fewer things to laugh at. A whole week can go by without you laughing. You barely remember the last time you had a roaring laugh. By the time you are 80, you have seen so much BS that the only thing that makes you laugh is the rare occasion when a certified idiot makes sense.

  After taking his last sip of that Thursday night 16 years ago, Albert staggered to the car tapping his pocket should he have dropped his key. Somewhere at the second fourth or fifth floor was a woman half a sleep waiting for her husband to get home. Arranging words that sting like bees that she wanted to unleash on her 3am man. At the Bomas junction Albert rammed into some vehicle. The offended got out in full rage confronting Albert. Maybe he had hired the car or just bought it the other day with hefty loan from some unforgiving microfinance because wueeeh that guy was furious. They started arguing shortly before Albert withdrew a pistol and fired. Because it was in Gods plan that the offended had to finish paying his car loan, Albert missed his target and hit another guy who was driving home. A guy who I won’t judge, maybe he was just waiting for everyone to get out of town so that he switches off the streetlights – they also need to sleep.  In his head thinking of what he...

Have you ever been at an accident scene? A fatal crash that is. Was the music playing ? Was the horn hooting or was the smoke just coming from the engine silently?  Were there screams of survivors seeking help or were they in the wreck silent and lifeless ? *** It has been my experience that almost all of the time, when a collision has resulted in a fatality, the radio was off - I think this was secondary to the battery probably being smashed to bits or mechanically disconnected. Now it is, however fairly common for the horn to be blowing non-stop and I never really understood why the horn was going, but the radio wasn’t — perhaps radios just aren't made like they were before. In the few instances that the radio was on, I will tell you it was beyond eerie. There was one call where a drunk driver was racing a friend on a back country road, and hit a family of 4 head on. I was the first on the scene. I was able to crawl into the wreckage. The mother was driving, the son 11 was in the...

  You guys ! Is this our own Larry Madowo eating panya in Malawi while we have , smocha, gonga mbili, and mushogi in Kenya?  I don't even mention kuku paka and mshikakis. Let me tell you about Mbewa. Mbewa is a name for roasted mice in some parts of Malawi. It is such a great snack that during the peak season, vendors come out in their numbers along the major roads to sell the delicacy targeting travellers. The main Lilongwe-Blantyre Road, especially between Ntcheu-Chingeni-Zalewa is a major market. Seasoned and cooked to a crisp, Mbewa are also easily found in major cities of Blantyre and Lilongwe. The mice are typically found in maize fields, where they grow plump on grains, fruit, grass and the odd insect. After crops are harvested, hunters burn bushes to identify mice holes so they can trap them. Diet diversification is key to achieving food and nutrition security. Mice are nutritious and contain various nutrients among them proteins.  An average mice of 100 gms conta...