Please "compensate" our players

I wanted to write this long time ago, but time everything caught up with me, so here we are. I'm writing this early enough before the games resume next week. I believe in every little someone does to an institution should receive some kind of appreciation. That includes what our tireless sportsmen and women do on the pitch for this great institution. Some go in full force, and in the long run get injured, just to make sure that we have the trophies for this college. But what do they receive after doing everything that there is in participating and winning trophies? From what I saw last year, it was just a few claps and that's it. 'They' will say "you did well, and we would like to encourage others especially the first years to join various games." then the players will be given the trophies to take photos with, after which the trophies will be returned to the games office....and you will remain with those pictures. chapter closed.

My issue here is not to get lots of money into the participants pockets, but just a little bit of appreciation of what they undergo when they are on the pitch. From my little knowledge of psychology, this can act as a prime motivator into winning many more trophies for Kenya Medical Training College, Nyeri campus.

Food Quantity

IF YOU THOUGHT THAT WE WERE DONE, THEN THINK AGAIN...
Food is an issue in any learning institution, and it's not different here at Nyeri KMTC. A balance diet? I'm not so sure about that, but lunch is quite "balanced". For now I don't want to dwell so much on the quality and stuff, I want to talk about the Quantity aspect of it all.

First I don't know where all that food that remains after serving us little food goes. I heard rumours that we are served little food, so that the workers can also have something to eat. Seriously speaking, I don't want to sound unconcerned here, but if the college has workers to feed, must we-the students-suffer for their upkeep in this institution?

My real concern however goes out to us girls, the servers think that since you are feminine your share has to be reduced. What? I'm not on diet, neither am I having plans of being a model. I'm an African Queen, and that tells it all.

The other day I was served with a slice of Ugali. Because I was hungry, I tried to negotiate for more. The woman who was serving (I wish I knew her name), took about thirty seconds to make up her mind. And when she did...you won't believe what she added. It was soooo little, I would quickly compare it to that which a mother squeezes before giving it to an infant. The one that an ant can easily carry uphill.

Anyway, to cut the long story short, food serving (by that I mean the quantity) should improve. If someone demands for more, then it should be added. I have seen huge amounts of leftovers of lunch being served at supper time (especially rice), and the remains of supper's Ugali just sitting in those sufurias idley early in the morning. Why then should they "NYENJA" us, and then remain with lots of it to take to I don't know where? Is it recycled? Is that why yesternight's supper kinda had some rotteness in it?

Issues in the Cyber Room!

So now I have issues with the computer room. The other day-Monday-I was there early enough after a quick lunch to do my research. As you all know, this room is openned at around 9am, a time when most of us will be in the second hour of a day's first lectures. {what was I saying?}. Yes, so I made sure I had my lunch early enough, so that I would have some few minutes to do afew things online. No sooner Had I seated, than someone came in and said
"Tokeni! Nataka kuenda lunch"
So we were forced out of the room, at a time I'll consider the only free time to access that area. This is because the rest of the day is supposed to be class time.
Now my question is, if someone wants to go for lunch, how is that supposed to be our concern. Si you go for lunch and leave the students doing their works in there. When we were leaving the room, I read disappointment on the faces of those whom we were with in there.

If that place is supposed to be of any relevance, then someone's lunch hour, is none of our business.

ati TOKENI NATAKA KUENDA LUNCH! Wee si uende! NKT!%

About our Breakfast

It's like having a row with your mother. You love her and think the world of her, and never dreamt even once that one day it would come to this. But that's exactly what has happened or will happen in what I will write below....(beating, the hand that feeds you). No matter how much you love her, a day or two you will have to disagree with her.

I'll analyze each meal the way I feel it: but for today i will say a word or two about the breakfast...I never did Homescince in my schooling but I want ot believe there is a set ratio of how water and milk should be mixed to produce good tea. But that will not be the case when it comes to making that tea in Nyeri KMTC. I wouyld rather take cocoa+water than what we are served here..More water and less milk! This issue came alive when the school hosted some others colleges for sports and I heard them complaining of what they were served with. I asked those who went to Embu and the story was the same "Ile chai iko na maziwa jo! sii ka hii yetu" About the three pieces of bread, no complain as the story is the same everywhere.

Anyway, the point here is, the ratio or water and milk in our tea should be improved (if that's the matter). why is it that others who pay the same as what we are currently paying get better services than us? Hate me as much as you like, but this things you must be told. (Vigeugeu)

A Super Supper Suprise!

About yesteryear's supper, I just don't know what happened, but one thing is clear; someone didn't get his/her math well. Or was it the usual Tuesday Supper Spell that usually rocks this institution each and every Tuesday, that was cast by I don't know who.

Food was served as usual, but it got finished halfway! Almost 50% of the students didn't take their 'normal supper' and had to put up with what was quickly prepared.

Some of us even had to take pieces of bread meant to be taken for breakfast and tea as supper, a culture that has been here as long as I remember. I'm not writing this from a third-hand point of view, because I was among those who went through the drama.

That Ugali+Soup+a few seeds of beans, you see in the photo above, was shared amongst four hungry men. You can only imagine. It was cold, as evidenced by the condensed-yellow fat.

Anyway, what made it even more unbearable was the fact that, today's Lunch will not be served. Not because I want my lunch, but because that should also have been considered when making that supper. I heard guys swearing that "HIYO LUNCH LAZIMA" Though I know many will sort themselves out by other means, there's this one individual that I'm concerned about-THE BROKE-BROTHER-who was among us. What will happen to him?

{N/B}

the taste of that food reminded me that I have work to do about the quality of food we eat here at KMTC Nyeri

Unknown Fate of those who didn't sign!

Today, in my normal paparazzi duties, I overheard a heated conversation from some of us. It's all about tomorrow's lunch which is supposed to be donated to Tumaini Children's Home. The point of issue was what will happen to those who never put pen to paper to agree to donate that lunch? They also claimed that, apparently it was said that no food will be served during that lunch. Genuinely speaking I feel them, and the college should give them their rightful share. This was supposed to be a GIVING-FROM-THE-HEART affair, not a LAZIMA-UTOE.

The 'April Eggs'

WOW! An April fool's Day indeed. Woke up today morning, ready for my usually delicious breakfast but only to be met with the opposite. Today is Friday 1st of April 2011. It's April fool's day, and hope this date has nothing to do with what we encountered during our breakfast. I don't where to begin or whom to blame, but every was seemingly going on just fine until, you broke that egg open. Normally, a boiled is supposed to have a grey or so york, but this one had a BLACK one with a characteristic smell which most definately sent a warning to those eager to eat it. Apparently some fast-eaters ate it, only to realised what they had ingested when it was too late. Enough said, the eggs went to waste. My question is, WHAT WILL THE ADMINISTRATION (kmtc nyeri) DO ABOUT THAT?