SOME ADVICE TO THE FIRST YEARS.

Congrats for qualifying for university and once again welcome to Moi University College of Health Sciences .Below is some advice which  I thought may be of some help as you finalize your settling in.I hope I am not  too late.

1. Respect your colleagues whether their former high school was called Kulemewa Day and Sunshine or was a prestigious academy.After some time you will come to realize that your former high school doesn't matter that much anymore.
2. Be yourself .Do not try to copy other peoples` lifestyles or reading habits.Most of your classmates are as equally confused as you.
3. In Med school you have to work hard .Don't be fooled by the fact that the pass mark is 50%.Even Raila can tell you that sometimes getting a mere 50% aint that easy.NO offense `Baba.'
   
4. For the chics you will have a horde of undulating admirers,especially the seniors(read Team Mafisi)My advice to you;the fear of the rod is the beginning of wisdom...*evil laugh*...
5. Outside catering (read buying food from outside) is more expensive than cooking.Choose wisely.
6. For the Mututho haters,drink responsibly for the sake of your livers and wallets.
7. HELB money is yours to spend and nobody is taking it away from you,so why blow it like a running nose?
8. For the self-proclaimed  `bedroom mburis' beware of  a big disease with a small name.
9. Stealing here in campus is one of the 1000 ways to die.If caught you will be dead before you scream abracadaver!
10. Don't ignore your spiritual life; whether a  Christian,Muslim,Hindu or even a  believer in African Traditional Religion.Try to be close to the Supreme Being  you profess your faith to .Smooth life in this institution requires divine intervention.
11. Have fun and enjoy yourselves.Later you will come to miss your first year in Med school(except  for guys in Physiotherapy and Dentistry ..hahaha!)

Life in Med school is what you make it.It`s your responsibility to ensure  that you have a good experience for  the 4+n/5+n/6+n years you will be in this place.All the best.

COLD WEATHER AND ME.

Eldoret can sometimes go chilly  until you start wondering whether some continental drift occurred overnight and Eldoret Town got pushed to the North Pole in the process.Below are some  lifestyle changes I usually  make in response to the extremely cold temperatures :

1. Outdoors I dress like an astronaut;baggy jumpers,woolen socks and sometimes very peculiar scarfs.Okay,I think from this description we should replace the word astronaut above with watchman.
2. Indoors am usually wrapped with blankets from  head to toe like a mummy. 
3. Taking a cold shower is like participating in the ice bucket challenge.Let me put it this way;if taking cold showers during the cold season made people millionaires,I would be broke as a Nairobbery victim.  

4.The rate of taking `passports' increases rapidly like the heart rate of a man watching Nicki Minaj's Anaconda music video.

6.Spray cans and cologne bottles are my new friends.

5.Washing items like sweaters,blankets and towels is never in my to-do list during the cold weather. By the way I need a new towel.The last time I washed my current towel(I would not say that the water turned dark like Guinness Lager after rinsing it),it decided to go H.A.M.Yeah,the thing kaukad so much after I hung it to dry that it could stand own its own against the wall like a mabati.I had to be cautious not to get  cut while drying myself  for some days!

Those are some of the facts about me and the cold weather.Some facts may have been left out due to their explicit content.

MY CAMPUS KITCHEN GUIDELINES.

                                        

I think somehow men were not created to cook(calm down ladies,it`s just an opinion!)Any way when it comes to kitchen affairs,men try to keep it very simple. Here in campus when I attempt to `prepare food'(`cooking' is illegal), I usually operate under some rules/principles:

1.  If you know how to cook eggs,you can conquer the world.why?Because eggs can be eaten with anything;bread,chapati,ugali and even eggs!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
2.  Meat or tea and bread can be taken for breakfast,lunch or supper depending on the prevailing economic conditions.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
3. When preparing a group meal as men ,it is always ugali.The debate should be about what stew/veges to go together with it.The equation for the situation is something like this:  f=mx+C              f=group meal for men

                       mx= varying veges/stew

                       C=the always constant ugali

4.   A sufuria which my roommate has used to prepare ugali can be immediately  recycled.Haters will call  this water conservation measure laziness.

5.Pouring very hot water  over knives,forks,mwikos and spoons makes them 100% germ free.One of my friends calls this `sterilisation.'

6.Dirty dishes should be soaked in water for a reasonable period of time to drown any harmful micro-organisms.A reasonable period of time in this case may range from a few hours to several weeks.

7. When washing dishes I apply Just In Time(JIT) production model i.e; I produce(read wash)
dishes according to their demand.

8.Kitchen accidents like `burnt offerings',salty soups or tea which tastes like diabetes should not be frowned at.Who knows they may as well lead to new discoveries  on food poisoning!

 9.It`s mandatory to take out all the bedding  after frying omena in our room.

10.If I am visited by some beauty,the above rules will still be followed to the latter.This last rule like most of the above  is made up.