Passive aggression 305 March 30, 2009

New neighbours. Yay!
It’s a couple. Young – late twenties, maybe early thirties. The girl is sanguine, all giggles and frills and cleavage. She has a loooovely African figure. African here means soft and curvy, nice ribs, wide hips, round legs, teeny little waist… lots of cushions. Kind of like a plus size sponge-made coke bottle [...]

Murmurmurmurmurm… March 25, 2009

This is me thinking aloud. Pay no attention.
I, apparently, am weird. Of course I always knew that, it’s just that it’s hit me in a whole new way. Today.
A few days ago, *M* noted that my entire life has been an endless drift from one crush to another. True. *M* figures that means my capacity [...]

Schoolbus trials March 17, 2009

My daughter goes to a very interesting school. For one thing, her teacher – lovely woman – routinely says things like “Chudren, A B C…follow me back.”
It took me quite a while to correctly decipher ‘follow me back.’
For another, the school has four separate campuses, and since the primary campus is overloaded, my [...]

Women!! March 16, 2009

Been away a long while, and my mind is running at 273 kph, so let’s just see, one thought at a time.
Warning: this could take a while.
Volume 1
There are two places in Tz that men are afraid of. No. Scratch that. Not afraid. Terrified. It is so bad that a five-year-old newly-wed [oh come [...]

Gas-lighting … IT style March 3, 2009

I heard about this TCM movie called Gas-light where this guy convinces this chick that she’s nuts. He hides in her attic or something, then every time she leaves the room, he sneaks in, shifts the furniture around, and turns the gas-lights down. So each time she comes back, stuff has moved and the lights [...]

Swahili is a beautiful thing!! Seriously!! March 1, 2009

Sample this:
Mimi ni mamba. Sifa za mamba na kenge wapo – Msanii Dudu Baya.
The song loosely translates to ‘I am a crocodile. The rest are lizards’ by Bad insect.
Not quite the same, is it?
[Of course if you grew up in my house, the dudu means something else entirely, which is equally lost in [...]