There's this Tribe from a certain part of the country that decided a very long time ago that the letter 'H' was a useless letter & they vowed to drop it in their speech. So they all opened their windows & flung the letter 'H' out. It was'nt the only letter that they had problems with but it was the most irritating. There was letter 'V' which they pronounced as 'F' & 'CH' became 'SH'.
Pa Yekini, a very honest hard working man had problems with his son a 1st year student at University. The boy was not regular in class & whenever his father chided him, he did not mince words by letting him know that he had serious interest in music. Pa Yekini " Then why dnt you sing in the shursh, Pastor Shuks can guide you?" His son responded that Pastor Chuks is his manager & described the kind of music he was going into. Pa yekini called on Pastor Chuks who welcomed him & asked after his health. Pa yekini " am fery well tank you but more important is my son Yekini, he seems to be wasting his life; he says he's going into music & that you are the manager. As a matter of fact he said the type of music is called IP-OP".
This reminds me of my Art teacher whose assignment went thus: "I want a drawing with the caption 'At ome in my ouse'.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
HOUSEHELPS, DOMESTICS
Note the difference: You'll soon be able to employ househelps yafoo, yafoo. A month ago, about the 1st week of December, a majority of househelps resigned their jobs; one grandfather, grandmother, or some relation or the other has died again & they have to go for the burial & they never come back. I've fallen prey to this once too often & yet I have'nt learnt.
Come 1st December, my very dumb houseboy whom I liked bcos he was dumb & stupid said he stopped working with immediate effect.
Oh shocks!!!! How about my New year party; what about my Wife's b/d; who's going to clean up after my xmas cooking. Any way my wife solved that by zooming of to Dubai for the Hols.
The fact is that when I told this young boy of 20yrs of age that his money was not on hand, he staged a protest that he would not leave the house until he got his money.
Was I infuriated!!! This was a classic repitition of the previous year. The housegirl then said she was not going nowhere until she got her dues. In that instance she was outside of the house so she could go no where as far as I was concerned. This time the houseboy was inside the house & said he was not leaving the house untill he got paid. Is this a game of Poker or what??? So I said to him that he would not be getting one kobo until he was outside of my house. He sat on the carpetted floor & when I was ready to go out I locked him in, seealed the toilet , the kitchen etcetc. Before I drove out he yelled for help; I let him out & told him to come for his pay some 2 days later which I regretted, bcos the young lady who did this same thing previously I kept waiting for a whole month.
One thing that baffles me is the energy we exert following up what these helps are supposed to do. "You dnt sweep here, you dnt dust here, that plate is not properly washed & so on so forth" Cant we do without these people? Yes we can if properly structured.One thing is that we domestically a lazy lot.
WE go to offices & exhibit mental energy but cannot stand the strain of straightning the bed.
Come 1st December, my very dumb houseboy whom I liked bcos he was dumb & stupid said he stopped working with immediate effect.
Oh shocks!!!! How about my New year party; what about my Wife's b/d; who's going to clean up after my xmas cooking. Any way my wife solved that by zooming of to Dubai for the Hols.
The fact is that when I told this young boy of 20yrs of age that his money was not on hand, he staged a protest that he would not leave the house until he got his money.
Was I infuriated!!! This was a classic repitition of the previous year. The housegirl then said she was not going nowhere until she got her dues. In that instance she was outside of the house so she could go no where as far as I was concerned. This time the houseboy was inside the house & said he was not leaving the house untill he got paid. Is this a game of Poker or what??? So I said to him that he would not be getting one kobo until he was outside of my house. He sat on the carpetted floor & when I was ready to go out I locked him in, seealed the toilet , the kitchen etcetc. Before I drove out he yelled for help; I let him out & told him to come for his pay some 2 days later which I regretted, bcos the young lady who did this same thing previously I kept waiting for a whole month.
One thing that baffles me is the energy we exert following up what these helps are supposed to do. "You dnt sweep here, you dnt dust here, that plate is not properly washed & so on so forth" Cant we do without these people? Yes we can if properly structured.One thing is that we domestically a lazy lot.
WE go to offices & exhibit mental energy but cannot stand the strain of straightning the bed.
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