Category Archives: maisha

yes, custoomaaaaa!

Anyone remembers this mid-1990s commercial for UNGA where a women enters a shop and asks for flour?
The sales guy comes up with a bunch of flowers and a spoon because “next time, just ask for UNGA”.
I SOOO wish I …

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wendete wa?

“Die beste Bildung findet ein gescheiter Mensch auf Reisen” (J.W.v.Goethe)

I was standing on the bridge to Garissa downtown when I received a very disturbing message that really pissed me off.
It was just like in a movie – standing on …

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Garissa Floods (2)

You may have seen it on the news – Tana River at Garissa has bursts its banks and left 2500 people homeless. The meter reading on 4G01 Tana Garissa (national) station reads a level of 5.65m at the moment. …

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no noise making (in Garissa)

NO NOISE MAKING
@ “Government Guesthouses” (where the generator that provides electricity had been drowned in the recent floods from Tana River…). Self-contained rooms: Ksh. 500/=, 700/= and 1.000 /=.

NOTICE: NO MIRAA CHEWING AND SPITTING ON THE WALLS
PLEASE ASK …

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the voltage

…so I was chilling in my humble room and wondered why the lights are so dark. I rubbed my eyes and decided to pull out the digital multimeter:

Know what? Others don’t have any electricity at all! So this is …

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