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Passion is contagious

By Alan on July 18, 2011

Anyone who knows me hata kidogo (even a little!) can tell you I love Linux. While it certainly is true, I’m stoked about open-source software in general, be it GNU/Linux, Android, PHP, Apache, git etc. Because I believe passion is contagious, I’ve started a new blog with the specific purpose of documenting and sharing that [...]

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Posted in Kenya | Tagged Android, Linux, mjanja, sheng, Swahili | Leave a response

A scratched "Bamba 50" haphazardly discarded on the ground after use ("top-up trash")

Saved by a bamba 50!

By Alan on July 15, 2011

I made it a habit a few months ago to always be carrying an unscratched Bamba 50. Lots of people thought it was hilarious, not understanding why I didn’t just redeem them right when I bought them. There are many reasons, but yesterday, it was nothing other than an unused Bamba 50 which saved the [...]

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Posted in Kenya | Tagged Bamba 50, Brownies, Kenya, M-PESA, Money, parking, Safaricom, Sarit, sheng, Swahili | 3 Responses

Elephants running

Baby elephants are flippin’ cute

By Alan on January 19, 2011

My sister and I paid a visit to the elephant orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. I guess it’s technically the “David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust,” but most people generally just call it the “elephant orphanage.” I had been to the nearby Nairobi Safari Walk before, which also has an orphanage, but this is a whole new ball [...]

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Posted in Animals, Kenya, Nature | Tagged adopt, Alan, David Sheldrick, elephant, Kenya, matatu, Nairobi, orphanage, Randi, Safari Walk, sheng, Swahili | 3 Responses

They do sleep there…

By Alan on October 27, 2010

So it turns out the refugees down the street are refugees and they do sleep there on the side of the road. Call me naïve, but it wasn’t always obvious to me (and nobody has explained any of this to me). I’ve seen bunches of them come and go pretty regularly since I moved to [...]

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Posted in Kenya | Tagged Burundi, Church Road, Congo, Food, IOM, Kenya, Kinshasa, Kiswahili, Nairobi, rain, refugee, sheng, UNHCR, Westlands | 3 Responses

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