3.0 and the business of life with baby girl
Magaidi.com 3.0 is now up and running. Beyond numerous technical issues about loading backgrounds on the previous template, the absence of a neutral color made it difficult for me to include certain other things within the site that I would love to, for example pictures. Additionally, the links were abit difficult to follow thus I have settled on a minimalist theme. Content though has not changed. I will painstakingly be updating links over the next few weeks.
I have been following closely the recent happenings at the TED Global conference and the way forward. With bloggers such as Ethan Zuckerman, I almost feel like I am at the conference myself. I am encouraged by what I have read and seen and look forward to learning more in the following days.
THE ONE
On a more personal note, baby girl and I have decided to undertake the business of life as one. I am excited, exhilarated and in awe all at once. The proposing part (surprisingly enough) was quite nerve racking I have to say. I could barely sleep knowing the next day was to be the first day of the rest of my life. A good friend asked me how I knew she was ‘the one’. My answer is that it was very difficult to explain how ‘I knew’. The best analogy I can give is that I felt like it was the final day before a really tough test - and I knew that I had read every single book! I will blog about this soon.
Repercussions of a Weekend Gone Wild
The household is reeling after the celebration I had for my birthday. Balaclava clad men My boys picked me up, we had to paint the town red! That we did and the party headed back to the house where a bright idea was hatched to play spin the bottle. This idea was shot down and truth or dare was quickly adopted. From what I can remember there was alot of grown up talk flirting and embarassing secrets revealed, none more embarassing than my boy K, who revealed begrudgingly that he had fleeting affairs with the house help and kept in touch after his trip to the states. The story is now rife in the Magaidi friends network.Someone french-kissed someone, and since the affair was caught on tape (complete with audio unlike KACC) - I believe this will come in handy down the road [insert evil laugh here]! Baby girl spent the next day cleaning up, I spent the day nursing a hangover - obviously she was not amused. The household is now split in two. I have been informed that any semblance of authority I may have had has been ceded. From now on, I am told that going out will require express written permission and I have to fill this out. I have also been informed that to be fair she has offered this as her end of the bargain
The Ex - The Question
Mr Magaidi (”KT”-now I am told):
What to do about Ex’s? This question dogs relationships the world around. I have a particularly (and uncharacteristically) tight relationship with my ex, which initially was a problem for baby girl. I don’t blame her and never did even back then. On my trip back to Kenya a few years back, she was all nerves wondering what would happen between us (my ex and I) since our break up had been mutual. I tell you this because I frankly didn’t know - I knew what I wasn’t going to do though.
We’ve moved on since. I spoke to her this past December. She hooked up with some other dude and they’ve been together for some years, the guy is now in Seattle, WA and they’re still together. My situation is a unique one. A friend visiting from that area told me the dude has another chic here. My Ex sms’d me, she has no idea and asked me whether if I knew I’d tell her: What to do?
Conversations
Magaidi
[Sidenote]: Mos Def was nominated for best actor at the B.E.T awards. Yet they want us to take them seriously! Even my neighbor’s fish knew Jamie Foxx would take it.[End Sidenote]
A junior banker on my team came over to my desk last Thursday and told me she was planning on calling in sick the next day because she’d made plans to go to Florida. We have a strict vacation policy where I work, and the fact that everyone wants to take days off during summer to walk their cat, feed their racoon, grease their elbows and do wierd things all at the same time doesn’t help. It’s my duty and obligation to report abuses of the system here but I didn’t partly because, well let’s face it, I have called in sick while at the airport headed to Dallas for some gallivanting with Lady M and also, I like that she’s bold enough to approach me. That means my ‘open door policy’ is working, maybe abit too well but nonetheless it’s working.
Back at the office on Monday she approaches me again. She looks like a mess, has barely slept all weekend and if I’m not wrong, that’s the same outfit she had on Thursday! She broke up with her boyfriend. Maybe this ‘open door policy’ is working abit too well for me. Ok OK..so they broke up, aparrently there was a big brouhaha in Florida and the boyfriend took his stuff and left her stranded at the hotel. She got back at 1 AM Sunday night. She’s all teary. That’s a sad tale and if I cared i’d have sent her home but there are two other people out. I know your heart is broken and you look like you’ve drunk a barrel of Jack Daniels and you’ve had an emotional weekend but there’s work to be done. I don’t make the work up, just so happens its there, so do it nagging migraines, heartache and all.
I hate it when people share their lovelife stories with me in the office. I couldn’t care less. I know my Karaoke bud is going through a divorce and the dead beat couldn’t care less, actually I think I care more than he does. I don’t need to hear about how many kids you and your insipid duck-faced boyfie intend to have, I need to attend to client matters..and blog about it. By your looks, the less of you we have in this world the better if you asked me!
Happy Mother’s day mom!…and other issues.
Yesterday was a very important day for me and other ’spoilt!’ sons and daughters around the world. My mom tells me that her phone kept ringing or beeping the whole day. I had to wish her a happy mother’s day! Love you mom. She keeps asking when we’ll be travelling home to see her. My sis and I plan something this December - and we’ll be surprising her! Show up un-announced!
OK now back to business: I promise not to mention anything about Lucy Kibaki - well atleast not on this blog, I figure anything more I have to say will be overkill, plus i’m hoping we’ve moved on from that. I have spent some time working on other projects. Sim, of the excellent Swahili Cafe invited me to make a contribution here and there so I’ve contributed kidogo there. There is also wind that I might be headed to the West Coast, Los Angeles to be exact - Job related though - next week so I needed to plan afew things. My impression of LA, each time I visit is that it’s too ghetto (if I may use the term) - and the traffic is enough to drive a sane man completely berserk. Afterward I intend to go chill in Long Beach for two days before heading back East.
I have a few things on my mind amongst them changing the design of this site. Any suggestions will be welcome - i’m actually looking for pointers so call me, e-mail me, send smoke signals, holla however you can - i’m listening!. I’ll be addressing those within the month.
A.O.B
Celtics unceremoniously lost in game 7 to Indy. OK - so they wouldn’t have gone anywhere because anyone out of the east has to face Shaq and the heat but my disappointment stems from the fact that we missed a golden opportunity to send Reggie Miller unceremoniously off to the sunset! I can’t stand that dude!..
-
About
Magaidi.com is the journal of the African kid. A diary of sorts, a collection of musings and a discussion point on the way forward for the motherland.
