Its Friday,
I know you know .There is this
excitement that everyone has when Friday knocks ,we feel liberated and ecstatic
like a woman who has just given birth to a bouncing baby boy after a long wait
of nine months. Some extend the trepidation you might think they have broken
the 100m world record hold by Bolt the man who is faster than bullet as they
say.
Everybody in social media goes like TGIF and always trending every Friday
in Twirra as they call it. At times am left wondering if the Kenyans on twitter
meet every Friday after work to altercate the #TGIF while having beer probably
at Galilleo club in Westland, as most of the comments indicate so. Apparently
it #KOT who understand the initials of TGIF,go to facebook and update it as a
status and everyone will be like from which planet is this coming from, what
does the initials mean. Don’t desdain me if you are in both Fb and Twirra,I know
you know, but the majority of who are on Fb are not on Twitter because it’s
difficult for them to operate, they need to attend one of those Friday meetings
the KOT have for them to grasp what really happens on twirra.
Fridays in Nairobi is when you will convene each and every missus in
contrasting colors the world has to offer. In the morning hours masses bustle
along the streets of cbd to their destination either work or school, and the
allegedly ones who go and sit at the Uhuru park, Hilton and jivangee garden. My
rebuttal to such crowd is sympathy as I have never understood why you wake up
in the morning to go sit or sleep at the mentioned venue. My mind at times wrap
up as majority of theses populations are the pickpockets and the conmen/women. I recall one day along the Mfangano Street I met this lady
who the devil of conman had invited her for breakfast in one of the local hotel
along Moi Avenue. The lady was in pursuit of a husband and was willing to do
anything even go to the supermarket to pay for one if sold.Alas!This is a story
for another day as it will divert as from Friday in Nairobi .
Anyhow,
On Fridays you will never fail noting how dazzling
the masses are especially the missus. What makes Friday alluring and curious is
the big bags carried by a lump sum of ladies whom majority being the working class.
You might think they donate some unknown stuff whose only the carrier knows
about to one Mr. Friday who live somewhere along the streets of CBD probably
near view pack towers. The bags at times tell of the agony they undergo come
Friday, squeezed to fit the whole world in it. If handbags could talk and have
someone like Atwoli to defend them, Missus would be paying them monthly wages
for over packing them. Dr.Matsanga on the other hand would say the ladies
carrying these huge bags are homeless like Koffi Anan as they wander with their
furniture’s and attires in the handbag, which they perfectly fit. At times am
left awestruck if to pity the bag for being overloaded or the carrier. Whom do
you pity here?
Nevertheless, Fridays in the offices workers are
very slow and unproductive. I bet many of you will comply with me that minds
are already switched to feel free weekend. We have gone to acknowledge Friday
as a weekend,Maina Kageni ascertain to this during his morning show. On the
other hand we are we are most energetic to social media as we relax and start
going through what’s been trending in the so many blogs we have. One thing with
the blogs it’s so tempting for you to evade opening the link which keeps on
popping up in either your facebook and twitter wall as a link. The topic and
the picture tagged along the link is so juicy for one to bypass. I normally
open and read and I share it on my wall to let others who are Friday gossip
seeker like me to also have a chance to read the trending topic if they have
not done so. Basically most of the day is spent being on “the know” using the
social media. It begets a question in my mind how people in the past generation
survived in the offices on Fridays without the social media. I don’t envy them,
I truly don’t as I find it miserable since they dint share with the world what
they felt, Even if someone attacked them verbally using live channels they
would not retaliate .TD Jake can admit how he had to apologize publicly due to
the social media especially twitter recouping against him. This ken is beyond
any man regardless of power posses. Never underestimate the power of social
media. Anyway this is Friday in the office.
The long awaited moment, evening approaches and
people leave the offices in style, some ladies are picked up and others find
their way to the destination.The party Begins.
By
Esther
