It’s
a cold Thursday afternoon. I’m sitting on 6th floor in a heavily
glassed skyscraper office building. I occasionally rotate the comfortable
swivel chair to get a commanding view of the Yaya Center twin towers. At the
back of my mind, I’m disturbed by a promise I haven’t fulfilled. This article
you are reading. I’ve been planning to type it from the time Baba was in Dubai.
Before some medicine student was proclaimed a diva (I thought medicine was
among those hard courses where life revolves around the library, shower and
bed, but apparently, I was wrong. M.B Ch.B students are now divas). I noted the
techno phone (beats logic) the campus diva was using with a lot of concern.
It’s
the kind whose ringtone sounds like 10 sufurias clanking down a staircase. I expected
the latest of Samsung or the latest of HTC or the latest of iPhone or for a
worst case scenario, the latest of Nokia. I had planned to write the article
before Vera removed her tint, spend a preposterously huge amount of paper on
weave. I hear she is now giving back to the society. Whichever ‘back’ that is.
Let me get to the mixed ideas I have for this particular post now that I have
about an hour to kill, a blog, a keyboard and an active internet connection.
I will take you through a short journey of my
personal encounter with internship. Follow me. In a single file, please.
If there is something that can be frustrating, call
it job search. Why? Firstly, recruiters have expectations the size of Mount
Kenya. From brightermonday to jobrapido to career point et cetera et cetera,
the job requirements that are posted are waaaay too ambitious. Unrealistic. The
moment you subscribe to any of the job sites, they spam your inbox with
requirements that are out of this world. You are left disturbed and confused
and confused and disturbed. Some students opt for tarmacking only to meet
unfriendly security guards (who act as human resource managers). It is indeed a
depressing experience to get through such guards. Did I mention the grueling
interviews? Thank God I did not go through such. Life is a mystery of sorts. Allow
me to skip the boring details and dive right to the best things in life.
Entertainment.
WORLD
CUP
People are still on the Jubilee Cord dialogue
nusu-mkate bs.. dude get a grip.. It’s the World Cup month. Some things we left
in 2013 like Temple Run. We are about to start eating, breathing and sleeping
football. I’m about do 1,000 tweets between now and end of the tournament. Any single
detail that will excite me will earn a tweet! Prepare to get pissed off if you
follow me. I’m considering opening an Instagram account (I have this ideology
that taking offensive amounts of selfies and posting them online is a girl
thing, which explains my resistance to have an instagram account). Why I’m
reconsidering that thought is because I’d like to immortalize Messi as he worms
through tiny creases between defenders. I’d like to immortalize Christiano
Ronaldo as he makes those diagonal runs shredding the defense with lethal
finishes. Apart from immortalizing players on instagram, there are things that
I’m looking forward to. I want to see beautiful women showing off their skills
in cheering squads twerking to loud Samba music while wearing short skirts and
Brazilian-flag-themed tops.
I have already toured the streets of Brazil (albeit
on Google street view) and gathered some interesting facts about the country. Firstly,
I admire the fact that Brazil is run by a woman president, Dilma Rousseff.
On
to the facts: Brazil has won the World Cup 5 times (more than any other
country!)
It is the fifth largest country in the world,
has the second highest number of
airports in the world, official language is Portuguese, has 60% of the
rainforests that make up the Amazon rain forests, it has the second highest
Christian population in the world, and last but not least, has the best coffee
in the world.
I’m spoilt for choice on which team to support. My best players are scattered across various national teams. My choices are Brazil, Spain, France and (all African teams -obviously) in that order.
In
between the World Cup, we will be treated to the most amazing show of the year.
Black Entertainment Television awards, hosted by Christopher Julius Rock III
a.k.a Chris Rock. With star performances from Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, Drake,
Usher, Jennifer Hudson, Lil Wayne, Trey Songz and Lionel Richie, it is a night
to look forward to. Lupita Nyong’o has been nominated in the ‘best actress’
category against Angela Bassett, Gabrielle Union, Kerry Washington and Oprah
Winfrey. Lupita without a doubt is in the big league, rubbing shoulders with
the likes of Mary Jane and Olivia Pope.
This
is the month guys!
