I am Meru and you all know that. My mum isn’t Merian but she’s from Eastern. So there’s this paternal uncle (brother to my dad) who’s just too critical and I just don’t like it about him. His name is Kinoti but i will call him Uncle Kinoti due to respect. I will Un (short form of Uncle) to make the story understandable. My dad is 52 yrs old, Un Kinoti is 49. there’s this maternal uncle of mine (brother to my mum) who is called Un Ndambuki. My mum is 48, Un Ndambuki is 38. At 38 Un Ndambuki has achieved so much more to the critical jealousy of Un Kinoti. Un Kinoti most of the times is usually critical of him and I feel he is somehow jealous of him. this streamed from the fact that Un Ndambuki came from behind and has achieved more than him at his age.
back in 2000 I was kinda like 5 years old, Un Ndambuki back then was a form four leaver and he used to stay around with us since we all used to stay in the same compound as one big family moreso he used to depend on Un Kinoti for everything including food, shelter basically everything. In 2001 Un Ndambuki joined university went through till he completed. All this time he used to depend on Un Kinoti since he had offered to help him by bringing him to Nairobi and make him useful. In 2005 he graduated with a degree in engineering. Un Kinoti and his wife were both high school teachers. he luckily got a job and in 2007 at the age of 26 Un Ndambuki bought his first car a Nissan Sunny. pretty an achievement at such an age. Un Kinoti didn’t feel too impressed with it since he felt as if Un Ndambuki didn’t appreciate him back really well by supporting him financially. In 2009 at the age of 40 Un Kinoti bought his first car a probox (old model). since then Un Ndambuki became very sharp minded and in 2010 he got another job in a big company in Mombasa which also meant a big fat paycheque. He was now making 4 times what he used to make while working in Nairobi. From then he kept on changing cars like clothes pesa ni mzuri aisee. the only last cars i saw him with was a RAV 4 in 2014 which he sold and went to do his masters in Canada and when he returned in 2016 he bought a Toyota Van guard.
Un Kinoti in 2011 sold his probox and bought a Toyota Corrola NZE. the problem with the vehicle is that he bought it second hand and it came with a pool of problems. since then till now his vehicle has been in and out of garages more times than the number of dicks have been in a whore’s pussy. he’s always complaining how he can’t afford fuel most of the time and that’s how he leaves his car home to go to work. even his kids (my cousins, 18, 21 respectively ) keep complaining about this. They can’t even borrow his car since he comes up with excuses all the time. to make it worse is that Un Ndambuki gives them his car whenever he visits which angers Un Kinoti a lot. Un Kinoti from 2011 he started building a house upto which till now it has never been completed. He build a house and he moved in still unfinished. the house has no ceiling, has no floor, wiring hasn’t been completed, the house hasn’t been plastered yet. worse still hyo nyumba inaingiza maji as it is evident from the walls a few metres from the floor kuna this whitish stuff that keeps apearing all the time. as you know teaching doesn’t pay that much so most of the time Un Kinoti and his wife and not blessed financially. my cousins always keep complaining how comversations in that house usually turn to “sina pesa”. he once argued with his dad (Un Kinoti and he said on his face "wewe wakati wote si hukuangi na pesa, hakuna siku ushaikuwa na pesa na kazi unafanyanga ya nini? " this hurt him a lot. they once told me they wished he (Un Kinoti) had lots of money like Un Ndambuki and they won’t be suffering like they were. last year Un Ndambuki built a 15M house at home (ocha kwa matha) and of course we were invited for the grand opening ceremony of the house. Hao sisi tukatroop hadi ocha kwa matha. to say the house was well built is an understatement, my friend the house was heavenly made the contractors did a marvellous job. I was waiting for Un Kinoti to come up with his criticing coz he’s always criticizing everything “ooh hii nyumba ni sawa lakini iyo roof iko chini sana”, “iyo nyumba ya mwalimu mafundi wake walimuaribia”, “mwenye alipakia ule jamaa rangi alikosea sana”, he is a critic as if his house is made of glass yet its incomplete.
so he just said its okay and the rest of the party went on unpurtubed. this year is when the critic went overboard. so the company Un Ndambuki works for had advertised internship vacancies for Finance graduates for 6 months and they were paying them 25k per month. seeing that my cousin (Collins Kinoti, 21) was a finance graduate having graduated last year december Un Kinoti reached to Un Ndambuki to help him secure a position for him. They wanted only 4 graduates and so he so an opportunity for him to get hired. from the word go I just knew he couldn’t secure one of the position since he was just an employee of the company and didn’t have much say and of course corruption would put him out because ma big fish wa hio kampuni wangeleta tu watu wao story iishe ivo. 2 months down the line Collins hakuchukuliwa coz of course corruption iliplay part and for Un Ndambuki to make it right since it was beyond his control he said the management had been shuffled and those who came in brought on board there people.
Collins didn’t put out any curses since Un Ndambuki had explained to him the situation and he understood it well. Hapo sasa Un Kinoti akaanza critics zake “Huyu kijana nilimsaidia akiwa form four leaver saa hii hataki kunisaidia ni sawa tu hivi ndo watu hukuwa hii dunia”. I wouldn’t blame Un Ndambuki at all since it was beyond him. what people dont know is that someone maybe willing to help you but circumstances dont allow him to sasa kwa hio situation hakuna vile Un Ndambuki angeokolea Collins. Un Kinoti akaendelea, “Sijaiona mtu anajenga nyumba ya 15M na hukuja kuishi siku za holiday pekee hio wakati ingine ako Mombasa kuharibu tu pesa bure angenipigia simu aniambie nim advice.” Foolish thinking by Un Kinoti. Wacha mtu afanye kitu anataka si pesa ni yake na ameifanyia kazi. mbona pesa ya watu wengine inakuuma ivo sana. wewe kazi yako ni kuongelea nyumba za wenyewe wakati nyumba yako inaingiza maji. maliza nyumba yako kwanza ndo uanze kuongea. na kwanza anakuitisha advice kama nani? kwani yeye ni mtoto ati akuitishe advice? na kwanza mbona mtu akuitishe advice vile atatumia pesa yake? hata mimi siezi kuitisha advice. wivu peleka na huko.
“na alifanya makosa akiuza rav 4 na akanunua vanguard mimi niliona rav 4 iko sawa. ingekuwa ni mimi ningekaa na rav 4.” Upumbavu wa hali ya juu ubaya ni ati yeye si wewe pesa ni yake na alinunia gari inampendeza. wewe kama haikukupendeza ni shauri yako. na kwanza mbona unaongelea gari za wenyewe na yako vile hushinda garage kila siku inashinda ikitoa sauti za ajabu unashinda unacomplain vile mafuta imepanda bei peleka upus na huko. na kama unaona alifanya makosa kununua vanguard wewe tafuta pesa yako ununue hio rav 4 unashinda ukisema. pilipili usiyoila yakuwashiani. Nigga continues, "uyu jamaa na mbona hata hana watoto hiyo pesa yote anapeleka wapi? " he continues ranting since Un Ndambuki has a wife but no kids and with him at 38 years old I dont see him getting kids since he had all the time from 2009 (when he married) to get kids and didn’t now i don’t think he would age would catch up with him. Nigga do you think Un Ndambuki is like you getting kids without planning alafu wakuje kucurse hapa mbona huna pesa?? Pambana na hali yako.
what hurt him so much is that when Un Ndambuki was a form four leaver back then Un Kinoti had advised him to choose to do Education (Maths and Physics option) when he went to campus but he declined and told him he will do engineering since it was his option. Un Kinoti thought he was making a mistake but as it turns out is that he did the right thing by doing what he wanted.
upto now Un Kinoti is overly jealous of him since he achieved more than him in a short period of time to make it worse is that jamaa ametoka nyuma hadi amempita na mbali sana. inakuanga uchungu sana kuona jamaa alikuwa anakutegemea akikupita na mbali inabaki wewe ndo umeanza kumtegemea. Ya uchungu sana ni ati ni kijana na wewe ni mzae.
TAFAKARI HAYO!!!