of being muhindi and from another planet apparently

so it all boils down to one thing..being the color of choice...am not really talking of racism here but well maybe I am..in the sense that, why is it that just coz i am an Indian (muhindi) in Kenya, it means that i apparently am rich, spoilt, can't take a mat (that's public transport here in our part of the world), get whatever i want when i want and you only contact me when u need money but it never crosses your mind to give it back...oh yeah and not forgetting that you apparently think i'm, blessed with brains that need no studying :s

so here's the real deal...yeah my dad is a business man and yeah he makes a decent living but my mum, bro and i work as well and that is how we manage to sustain the household...just coz am dropped in the morning and not boarding at school doesn't mean am spoilt-it means that since i live within the vicinity of school (ok not that much due to the road constructions) why should i spent another 30grand sharing a room with 6 other girls and 2 bathrooms that are barely cleaned once a week where as I can comfortably commute from my residence...and I do take public transport on my way back home...my dad didn't buy me a car as most of u would like to assume :s

oh yes and about me getting what i want-oh my how wrong u are...do u know indian fathers??? salale....u get a lecture before u get anything from them about how they came into this country with nothing but the clothes on their back and how they had to struggle thru the british rule and all that jargon...and instead of giving u the 1000bob that u asked for u end up getting 100bob (10 times less) coz of the rising cost of living and all the other jargon that he gives u...u want that cash u gotta earn it else u can saty happily broke...i mean seriously, washing cars was the job on suday to get abit of cash...so i know how hard it is to get money....and am definitely not spoilt coz when it comes to i really like this the 1st question i always get asked is IS IT A WANT OR A NEED...and since it's usually a want...ehhhmmm i never get it unless i have the cash to buy it for myself...this reminds me of a green hat that i really wanted and well he refused to buy it...and when i went the next day it was sold so i went and bought a bad instead-which clearly wasn't a good quality one coz it's lying torn in the back of my cupboard some where coz i have no time to fix it..so clearly my wants are almost always ehhhmmm u know NONSENSICAL and hence i don't get them..i mean where would i wear a greeh hat really??? i don't even own a green top-unless i would've clashed it with my orange top...hmmmmm...

and me being blessed with brains...i wish...i think am the only muhindi not blessed with them apparently...i gotta study my bloody arse off burning the midnight oil and learning my work coz God knows why he didn't give me cramming power like the rest of my comrades...and as for mathematics...forget that was even option..till today i need a calculator-can u imagine when i wan in high school we used log books for calculations and what the hell was all that cos sin tan thingi bob...sheesh..could we not have left it to drawing the circles and triangles only??? and algebra-why the hell do i need to know what x=??? or if x=2 then y=?? seriosly how is it helping me today besides having killed my brain cells when i was younger???

so yeah back to my point...being a muhindi doesn not always mean that am all the mentioned...i work hard, study hard, party hard (atleast i used to) and am human as well...there's no difference between me and any other human being alive on this planet...i got two eyes, one nose, 2 ears, 32 teeth(though i think mine are less coz i got a few removed) and my blood is red just like yours..

oh yeah and don't mess my hair...granted it soft and all but sheesh it took me a while to get it to look that way u know...and then u go and play with it...really now :s

so the next time you see me....ehmmmmm DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE AM FROM ANOTHER PLANET....