now showing

People of Rwanda! I have some great news for you: Kigali has a new cinema! I know!! Yay! Woohoo! Imagine confetti and streamers is raining down on you at this very moment. Finally,… Read More →

dangerous curves ahead

About 2 years ago, my sister and I stopped at a fast food restaurant to get some take-away chips and chicken (the chips were for me and the chicken was for her). When… Read More →

a call to arms

A lot of my friends who know I don’t drink alcohol, think that it’s because I’m a Christian… which, doesn’t make a lot of sense, because the same Christ we are referring to… Read More →

hello moto

Since we’re on the topic of Jingles, I thought I’d share a few of the questions (with their answers) that I am often asked after people spot my pink helmet and find out… Read More →

Maybe I should fit her with some Michelin tires

Yesterday, after lunch, I was about to ride off to work when the askari at the restaurant parking lot pointed out that the back tire of my scooter (Jingles) looked a bit flat.… Read More →

that shirt brings out the colour of your mind

I think I should get a new look. In cartoons, the characters where the same outfit every day – it’s sort of like their uniform. Sometimes I wonder what my uniform would be… Read More →

argh, matey!

I don’t know if anyone cares about a software, music and movie piracy in Rwanda. It is rampant. It is rife. It is… um… gotta think of another ‘r’ word to truly add… Read More →

A Club for Christians

Urgh – I am so bored. I want to go out! I want to dance and dance and dance until the heels break off my shoes and I’ve made maximum use of my… Read More →

the history of chicks

When I was young, I would often hear the question, “Which came first: the chicken or the egg?”. Being a regular at Sunday School back then, I thought the answer was obvious –… Read More →

Rwanda ♥s girls

You know how sometimes, you look back on your life and you remember moments that seemed simple and insignificant at the time but now you are able to recognise them as turning points… Read More →

over it

I spent a lot of last year broke, hungry and single. Sometimes extremely broke, not that hungry and quite single. Other times I wasn’t too broke, and only kind of hungry but ridiculously… Read More →

Proverbs 16:24

I am a sucker for a compliment. Even if I feel it is undeserved… or possibly untrue… they make me all goofy. I usually (as my Kenyan friends would say) start drawing a map… Read More →

2012 annual report for this blog

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 9,000 views in… Read More →

come again another day

I usually love the smell of rain. Correction: at university I had a friend who loved the smell of rain so now the smell of rain reminds me of her… and she was… Read More →

shooting stars

One of my favourite songs, or rather, one of my favourite lines from a song, in Grease, is when Rizzo sings “But to cry in front of you, that’s the worst thing I… Read More →

the spice of life

I am not sure of when I became aware that I was black. I don’t mean that for the first part of my life, I thought I was some other race, and then… Read More →

almost famous

There are a several amazing things that happened in 2011 that I didn’t blog about. You see back then, I was this sweet humble thing that would have considered that bragging… but times… Read More →

a stiff upper lip

I once fell for a young man pretty much because he had an awesome beard. It was just – oh – what is the word? Wow. Yeah, it was just wow… and it… Read More →

yum, yum, yum – delicioso!

I don’t know why I was so hungry today. I had a decent breakfast which involved me mastering the art of toasting a sandwich over the open flame of our gas cooker using… Read More →

it’s my party

Sometimes I feel so tired that could cry, but tears take up way too much energy. Sighing dramatically is much more fuel efficient… so I’ve been sighing a lot lately. I don’t know… Read More →

it’s a hard loc life

I probably had at least one different hairstyle for each year I’ve had on this planet. I’ve had afros of varying sizes and structure; twists; braids; twisted and braided extensions; hot-combed hair; relaxed hair;… Read More →

one for the road

The problem with working on more than 5 things at the same time is… uh… wait… what were we talking about? Who ever came up with that, ‘women are multitaskers’ theory? Dude, if… Read More →