5 things

The infamous and crazy 5 things meme has turned up at Mentalacrobatics thanks to Ndesanjo, well here we go to kick of blogging in 2007.

Five things you didn’t know about me.

1. I’m allergic to Quinine. That in itself would be pretty insignificant except for the fact that it is used to fight malaria and is present in almost all malaria fighting drugs. I now have my own method for fighting malaria. I crouch at the end of my bed and spend two hours every night springing up and biting mosquitoes on their legs. They bite me, I bite them. It’s a dog eat dog world, my son.
2. I’m a sentimental, romantic sap. I keep mementos forever. I have letters I received back in primary school and poetry from high school. I wonder how kids operate in this day of txt messaging. How do you keep a romantic copy of that sweet saying your mpenzi sent you? Plugging your Nokia into a laptop and battling Nokia PC Suite for 2 hours to download the message so you can print it just isn’t romantic.
3. I started KBW but I am the last to know any of the gossip that goes on in this place. Nobody tells me anything, yet everyone thinks I know everything that goes on behind the scenes! That’s why I’m always smiling to myself with a worried look on my face whenever I met a bunch of KBWers! I have no idea what ya’ll are talking about.
4. I learnt to drive in three countries, Kenya, Ethiopia and the UK. The most important thing I learnt in each place:
   • Kenya – courtesy while driving is interpreted as weakness. Let one driver in and the rest will jump the queue and try to ram you off the road. Never ever smile. Never ever be friendly. Never ever be kind. Even to a nun, and especially to nuns driving 4×4 Toyotas.
   • Ethiopia – some people think they are harder than cars. They will step in front of you like hitting them at 50kph won’t hurt them. Watch out for the nutters. Also a bunch of irritated donkeys can do more damage to your car in 30 secs than a bunch of irritated thugs with baseball bats in 5 mins.
   • UK – the British do not care how you drive so long as you look around you while you’re doing it. In the UK the side mirrors and rear view mirror are king. During your driving test you can run a red light, ram into the car ahead of you, knock down a pedestrian so long as you check your mirrors ever 5 seconds. And you don’t just check them; you have to check them in the correct order.
5. I can not blow bubbles with chewing gum and it irritates me. Most of the time I try I end up spitting the gum on the person in front of me. My so called friends like to sit in the front passenger seat while I drive and blow bubbles for hours irritating me. Argh!

The five people I tag are the ones with the 5 most recent posts on the KenyaUnlimited aggregator

Kumekucha
The Alpha Quadrant
Sokari
psykadeelia
modoathii