A Recent Graduate’s Sundays

A typical weekend vibe for a fresh graduate yet to start work would classically go a little like this. Yaay! It’s Friday! Plan, ice cream date after dropping the last CV with friends. Maybe skip a gig and instead smartly spree the money accumulated from the daily transport allowance given,…

Take an Internship and Thank Me Later

The job market is a competitive one; especially in the days, we live in where almost everyone has papers. Employees will even make it harder by requiring you to have more than five years of experience and graduates are always left wondering how good their chances are. Not everyone is…

HOTEL HACKS!

Festive seasons are dotted by very familiar paraphernalia. For instance, there’s food. (Long pause) Yes, not just normal food. Where I’m from, we are speaking chapatti, nyama choma, mbuzi fry, there’s also pilau and the infamous minji stew with lots of soup and waru! Planned vacations are also top of…

Proud to be a Kenyan??

Receptionist spends not one but a 160 million shillings on twenty houses. This is the headline that hit us recently. I’m not the only Kenyan asking myself the question “How?” Honestly, how is that possible especially with the current economy? Then you remember, Oh! I’m a Kenyan in Kenya, and…

Is Uber Becoming an Ad Company?

Ads are everywhere, our website has banner ads so do most website, on radio, TV and also, I’m sure you’ve seen the KBS, Citihoppa or Starbus painted brands or products that aren’t related to transport. Similarly on other online platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter when they recommend content; top…

Let’s Get Sensitive

I was in a jav a couple of days ago exhausted… and frustrated. Mpesa had jammed for over three hours and that completely paralyzed my planned out self-date. So there I was, down five feet from cloud nine with no money. I get into the jav and the matt driver…

Varsity Credit Defaulters

More than 500 graduates who had studied under the self-sponsored programme and have not paid fee arrears amounting to more than 200 million, thus prompting the university to warn that they would submit their names to the Credit Reference Bureaus.

Types of Men to Avoid

“And the Princess kissed the frog, thus breaking the curse and the frog turned into a handsome Prince” I have always loved fairy-tales sadly the reality isn’t as glamorous as one may think. This is because the number of frogs outweighs the number of princes. The dating world is a…