By now we’d be in school after April holidays. During the April Holidays we used to play in the rains, a game called Sliding. Safari Rally was also another major attraction during Easter Holidays.
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During those days we still Oshad our rungus with other kids while playing hide and seek. There was no quarantine and HIV had not spread like today, later in the afternoon we’d go swimming in the nearby river
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If you were born in Ocha and you had some relatives in Nairobi or other major towns then your dad would arrange for you to go visit relatives wa Nairobi or another Ocha and meet uncles and cousins, we would travel in buses that looked something like this… then for kids it was free but you had to sit on the Engine inside the bus and it got really hot. These buses carried all manner of stuff including live chicken. People would carry tea and chapos, pancakes for eating while on the long journeys. Some would vomit, some would fart.
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Or if you came from Nyeri or Kakamega, Nakuru etc, there was a French made car known as the Peugeot 504 Station Wagon, It used to speed like a NASA rocket.
An accident from any of these mostly had no survivors.
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We ate some vintage sweets and candy such as Patco, Goody goody, Rally Gum, Koo coated with sugar [ATTACH=full]302360[/ATTACH]
Eti Odeon, wewe ni wale privileged, sisi Cinema tulikuwa tunaiona kwa local market maybe twice per year kwa projector ya maybe Coca cola ama East Africa Industries
Our childhood was so innocent, pure and fun. Sio like the spoilt brats of today unamwambia aende aokote mayai in chicken pen anasema kuna nuka mavi ya kuku hawezi.
They grow up so fast n when reality of life hits them they turn to drugs n twerking to nab the feelings of failure.
Jeff mwangemi & Ras Mwangize… Reggea time… ire, ire, ire. Tiingz, tiingz, tiiingz. Reggea ilikuwa imepimwa kama dawa… hio story ya kuketishwa juu ya ingine nearly fried my azz on route to shags circa 1989. Kijana wa miaka 3 juu ya engine… Wat a gwan. Kucheza rounders, phaa ile ya kuweka lining za soda like a tower… adventure za kutembea kwa line ya reli area ya jamuhuri estate ikielekea ngong… fishing ya tadpoles… Kulipuwa baruti Diwali…kuenda kuiba snacks uchumi ya Adams arcade… kuenda kuchokoza shogi ndauwo atutoe mbio. Kucheza hide and seek ya mkebe… kukata ile word milk kwa packet ya maziwa ya nyayo kuweka kwa meno inakaa imeoza… hahaha… I miss them days… watoi was ps and Xbox can’t relate.
Is it possible to go back to the days.I really miss them.When we waited for December to have a goat slaughtered and chapo.The soda of those days was healthy.I remember TreeTop with Nostalagia.
Men life was good.I didn’t care about it.