OLE OLA EDITION

It’s a cold Thursday afternoon. I’m sitting on 6^th 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!