Neighbours 51(b)

Hey its twenty sixteen,I told you this city has really worked on the 'villageness' in me.Am slowly slipping to the 'adopted son-ship' of the city.Yesterday was January 1st,as usual after the intentional sleepless night crossing the year,early morning is dedicated to sleep.In our culture(of course if it supports my habits i will quote it) we wake up to tea.This tells you even if I was to sleep and wake up at 1.00pm I will have a cup of tea.If you visit me and you don't see any evidence of tea,know you are lost,that ain't my house.In our culture too,Christmas climaxes on 1st January.My dad calls it siku_kuu(with some mother tongue accent).Something in me was telling me I have to celebrate this day too.I had no plans,after waking up at around 12.00pm.Armed with the city slang I called my friend''Niaje kingosh,vipi..leo sina form bana, unasemaje?''-I will explain to you slowly the above quote,kingosh is not my friend's name,its a code name we call each other,Hussein is also a kingosh..hehe,next vocabulary (form)_it loosely refers to plans.I know K.U guys are used to this 'form' thing..the only campus where you take a form fill it to request for another form...lets call this phenomena 'a formality'.Back to the previous form,Kingosh promised that 'proffessori' would be around in the evening we do something.Quickly again proffessori is another code name for a certain clique of our friends.So we had a plan(plot) for the evening.Apparently when Kingosh tells me he has some major plan of a meal..at the back of my mind I know chapo won't miss.For me chicken is an obvious.For proffessori the two were just like a double blessing.With a three gang army and quite a massive of information from google nothing could stop us.We quickly set up three departments this time,talk of a lean cabinet.Only three main dockets.Chicken preparation,chapo..then one main for procurement led by kingosh.Proffesssori(former c.s for traffic control) took the chapo docket.Yours truely took chicken dept..obviously.Those other c.s's in the christmas cabinet who were not re-appointed_they were left out in this massive restructuring,as investigations begun.We all started off in the chapo dept. with keen following and instructions to avoid making crisps this time.Kingosh was partly the director of digital strategy and diaspora,as in googling anti-crisp policy in chapo making and taking photos to prove(to critics) those chapos were not 'chapo mwitu purchases from katumbo'.I tried my hand in chapo preparation,that one of rollling these things into a circular shape.It only reminded me of primary school mathematics i.e rhombus,trapezium,triangles.You ask how,my few chapos just manifested the above shapes.I stepped aside.Atleast i was the director of energy and kerosene dept..the jiko was lit by me,without any neighbours help.My prowess too was in commanding chapo masters when to open or close the jiko's door.We made it,yes..by 9.00 pm we were ready.We gave thanks for the food..hehe kingosh refers to this as 'kupeleka chakula mbele ya Mungu kwa maombi',I have never really translated that statement...don't try to either.
In matters cats and rats,kingosh was telling us that those 'ISIS' rats are perfecting their foreign relations policy,he has seen some in their plot.Such news terrifies.Those rats are plus-size(big),I was assuming one rat can carry 2 full chapos away from the house.How could I be thinking like this,because we left some chapos..so you understand what am trying to insinuate.With such news I remembered our two 'lovely' cats,it occurred to me how God has blessed us.Trust me those two cats are a blessing in disguise.Never having to worry of rats,its priceless..it changed the angle from which i view life...as you start the year kindly change the angle at which you view life..don't just stick to acute angle..try an obtuse angle too..i mean a bigger perspective.
Happy new year