Random stuff

"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes."..This is an actual quote from a basketball player in some Uni team. I wonder how he managed to get into Uni in the first place, but I need not point out the obvious in this case.

Have you ever sat and wondered what mechanism some people's brains engage before they speak or even do something. Well, I guess I suffer from the "look before you leap" syndrome which though a good trait, holds you back from plenty of experiences. It is usually painful, especially if you lack patience, to sit and listen to people who think they know it all make a mess of things and you can't do anything about it, moreso if it is your boss or a guy bigger than you who wouldn't mind showing you how brawn beats brain...literally.

It reminds me of when I weighed 30 or so kgs and was at the receiving end of some terrifying primary school bullies. I was four feet nothing, but extremely satirical getting away with subtle smart-ass statements at those I could not match in biscep size. Anyway..I dare them now to flex their bisceps and issue those threats of theirs.... niwatandike kama nyoka! While they exercised their bisceps, I exercised the muscle between my ears, becoming a smarty pants whose homework got copied by the bullies (protection money is not only a mafia concept you know!) Not that I completed my homework all the time. Reminds me one time when I hadn't done my homework and some dudes wanted my books to dub. I couldn't concentrate on my work with them hovering over my head and snatching my book every now and then, so I told everyone I wasn't going to do it ..tuchapwe sisi wote na mwalimu leo..Anyway, with ten minutes to the bell ringing for parade and onto the first lesson (when homework was checked and punishment dished out in generous proportions), I did the last ten sums which was enough to fill about three pages. The trick was do the first ten sums, skip s few blank pages, do the last ten sums and be very nifty when the teacher comes to check your work. You point to the text book where the first sums are visible, then you flip the pages expertly to the final pages pointing to where you have completed. I was a teachers' pet, so there was some level of trust (ok maybe it was because they never saw the point punishing me for stuff I already knew anyway..but do I say!) So everyone knew we were all going to get the beat today, well as it turned out, the teacher would come check your book and anyone whose work appeared incomplete would remain standing at his desk. After going through all our books, It was Eric and the girls who remained seated (someone tell me why only chicks in Primo always completed their homework all the time!) Anyway I got very angry eyes thrown my way (if it were a solid, you would cut right through it!) While the teacher was going round after falling for my tricks, I would fill in the gaps in the interim. For about twenty minutes, she went around dishing on the spot justice. Good thing is boys never snitch no matter the circumstances, so I would get away with it, and hide in the toilets over break time to avoid the hunt that was on for me for not aiding the first bodie with his homework. The funniest thing would be when I was asked to come to the board and show others how I did a particular sum (which I had not done in the first place). I would carry my exercise book to the board, open some random page and pretend to be copying the contents onto the board, in the meantime, I worked out the some from scratch..and that's how dishonesty got my brain thinking at such ridiculous speeds.

Anyway, this was a work of fiction....I never did my homework, I was never bullied in Primary skool ( i was actually the bully) and i got beaten like a snake by teachers more often than I can remember...but the homework thing was true..worked every time like a charm! Was just thinking..what if I did this at that time.