LET’S DO THIS

JEEZ!!! It’s already 2015, and soon it will be 2016…2017…2018 years are flying by so fast. I have never been this excited about a new year, my heart is literary bubbling at the mare imagination of what this year holds in store.

One year later definitely one year wiser.  Carol Mandi, recently wrote about the beauty of being old, it comes with more self-appreciation and confidence, I just cannot wait to see what I am yet to experience.

Indeed there will be tough day, where I will cry myself to sleep. Get angry and have crazy episodes of despair. I might even give up at times. Who knows, I might become lonely or I might experiences tremendous loss. Ow! Things might not work out well but being alive is a miracle on its own.

This year is really promising, I chose to speak positive words over the 12 months that I have to live through. Hopefully God’s plan is I get to live through the year. I sincerely hope I do, but yet again I live barely at the generosities of his grace.

I chose to believe that the sunny days will out way the gloomy days.  I will laugh myself to tears and smile so hard that people will think that I am a wild spices. I will dance in front of the mirror each morning as I remind myself how strong I am. I will work out for all the right reasons and ensure that I enjoy each and every second I put in it.

Tears will fill my eyes as I marvel at the wonders of the Great God will do throughout this period. As I put all my effort into developing the relationship I have with God.

As I make new friends, hopefully not lose the old ones. As I learn to handle life, life will never be fair but its good so I must live each and every second credited to me.

This year will be beautiful more coffee dates, more adventure. YES ADVENTURE, more shopping and definitely giving back to the society. Definitely replaying songs that I love and greater life experience

Most probably more mistakes but yet again greater lessons.

LET’S DO THIS!!

HAPPY 2015!!!!!

Lots of love enjoy the year and let nothing hold you back, things will be thick but choose to see the beauty in it.

 

Lots of love

Joy kiptim

Tinga tales

hey you!

“keep your head high, you are beautiful inside”

Hope you are having a great week, the year is actually coming to an end. I guess there is so much this year has had to offer and many guys are looking forward to the next year. It might look like it’s a bit too early to talk about the next year but it’s important to see ahead of time. Anyway that was not the main aim of this post. Today I wanted to do a bit about myself my own version of “facts about me”. it’s called “GET TO KNOW ME”

This is actually really hard to do, it took me about two hour to do it. If you haven’t done this you should, it doesn’t necessarily have to be put on social media, your own personal journal can do the trick.

I hope you enjoy the article and learn a thing or two about me.

1. I AM SAVED. SOLD OUT. LIVING BY HIS GRACE. HIS CHILD.I AM CHOSEN AND HIGHLY BLESSED.
2. I am an introvert. Believe it or not, I am.                                                                      those who know me will probably refute this but I am truly an introvert with high extroverted tendencies.
3. I am motherly                                                                                                                 I have a very motherly heart. I mother people around me, some like it others cannot stand it at all.
4. I wear my HEART on my sleeve                                                                                  I love people so fast, I simply look for the best in people. It’s a good thing and a bad thing. But once that ship sails it sails.
5. I can talk                                                                                                                         I can talk the whole day, the whole night, every hour… I can REALLY talk. Though I can control it. Plus I like SMART talking
6. My favorite radio station is BBC                                                                                   I am not into music so this actually works for me.  I really enjoy the station and it is really amazing especially since I listen to their African segment
7. Water sports any day any time.                                                                                      I really love water, especially near the coast. One of the top three activities on my bucket list is to go to Sagana (Kirinyaga, Kenya) and do all the water sports available. This can actually work for  ME as a gift.
8. LOVE POETRY AND SPOKEN WORD                                                                 Poetry events make me so happy.  Especially poetry that talk deeply about the society, and is done in sheng or Swahili. They are so real and they hit deep.
9. Sadly I have to admit that I am SHY
10. I AM LOOKING FOR AN ELEPHANT                                                                       Have you really ever seen an elephant? I actually haven’t. I am really looking for one I have a deep emotional attachment to this beautiful creatures. I belong to the mighty elephant clan (TERIKI) of the Tugen people, and I simply love this animal
11. I am a poor reader. I read American for almost 6 months and I still couldn’t complete the book. It’s not the books it’s me.  The only thing I comfortable reading is the Bible which entails a lot of dedication and efforts.
12. Given the choice I would like to travel and travel and travel. There is something about travel that is explainable. I am really praying that my future job will entail lots of traveling
13. Vegetables over fruits anytime. I can eat almost all vegetables except olives, but I cannot stand fruits. It’s not pride it’s just ME.
14. AFRO NATION.                                                                                                       Currently on natural hair journey and loving it.
15. Clearly by now you can tell I am not a good writer. Thank Jesus for spelling and grammar thing. I don’t know what I would do without IT
16. Do I have a deep voice? I think I do. I am really convinced that I have a deep voice. Actually I am sure I do have a deep voice.
17. I am a kalenjin and I don’t run, as a matter of fact I have never heard of a runner from my village. So please don’t ask why I don’t run, it runs deep in the genes(pun intended)
18. I actually use the world ACTUALLY AND REALLY a lot
19. Public display of affection is a NO. I don’t hate it I just find it too much. Yes! I am that African, conserved and just AFRICAN
20. FINALLY I like dance and dance routines and dance moves but I cannot dance to save my life. dance is one of those things that make my heart smile
21. There are people who drink water and those who hydrate. I HYDRATE.

hope you enjoyed

feel free to comment about anything and everything

have a fruitful week

love tingatale

BLESSED,,,

I am currently obsessed with some guy called Pompi, a good friend of mine recently introduced me to him. I am grateful that today the internet is great so the Mizu album is my track for the night

Most of my blog posts are letters to my future self.  MY Retirements plans as I watch NCIS and sip amazing drinks (probably water, am that girl who hydrates I just do not drink water).

so today I decided I was going to focus on  too stressed.

when I was in class one I was too stressed because the Indian boy in my class called jay decided to bully me

In class two was stressed because the I liked a boy,  who turned out to be my cousin.

At age twelve I was sad to be the tallest girl

At  sixteen my mother wouldn’t let me go out, my curfew was at 4.35 pm

then the stress got real!!.

I no longer understood my career choice

I couldn’t figure what next and then i discovered am grown up

FLASH-FORWARD.

am glad that Jay picked on me.  I now know that it wasn’t me that had the problem it was a reflection of how he felt about himself.

I still feel bad about my class two love turn cousin.  the best part we will be friends for life.

being the tallest girl actually turned out to be good. it bring out the authoritative part in me, and is a defense mechanism.

well now my mother really tries to get me out of the house. I am now more discipline and I can now handle  a lot regarding my life outside my home

I GUESS SO STRESSED WAS A DOOR FOR SO BLESSED.

a step at a time

have a blessed week.

tinga tales

thinking friday

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“Cogito ergo sum. (I think, therefore I am.)”
― René Descartes

6.55 pm Thinking what next

Assignments that are slowly overwhelming me.

The scary fact that am growing old.   My friends are getting married, having babies and simply moving on.

  Honestly right now I am just seeing my graduation and thinking what next regarding my masters.

Not that I do not value marriage, I really do. I honour it. It’s a very beautiful thing. BUT everything under the sun has its own time. I really want to get married but not soon, when the RIGHT time comes.

The year is coming to an end I really hope I will be able to account for the previous year. One thing I have wholeheartedly focused on this year is understanding my relationship with God, understanding me and packaging myself with the necessary requirements for a successful life. This is being done in this this order.

This however does not mean that I have overlooked the other people in my life, I still value them and treasure them. However understanding me is really important and will also help my relationship with others

This workout thing, if someone ever lied to you that

keeping your body in shape is easy, o well they lied. It’s HARD but POSSIBLE.  This year I cannot count the number of times I have tried to workout. Some regimes have lasted for a month others for a week but am not complaining, it is way better than last year. Today is day 3 of the T25 Alpha total body work out (insert Shaun T voice.) I almost quite then I remembered the ultimate goal let’s see how this goes. OATMEAL COMING SOON!!!!

Recently I invested in a business it called THE BAG. Yes that the name of the business and it clearly defines the purpose. A close friend of mine thinks the name is too boring but I still like it.  I invested my whole savings into the business and thank God I didn’t incur loss, I cannot necessarily say I gained profit but at least my money didn’t poet, I would be depressed if that happened.

This can go one and on but I guess that it for today.

Have a good day and keep warm

Tinga tales

A IS FOR AFRICAN AFRO

                                   A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life

                                                                Coco channel

 

FEAR OF BEING MORE OF A “HE” THAN A “SHE”

I cut my hair two months ago, and it was on of those scary decisions. I really liked being a girl and i felt like shaving my hair would make me less feminine. But then i needed to change something about my hair and cutting my hair seemed to be the best option.

My hair October 2013

Then one morning, I walked to town and bought everything and anything I thought needed for my short hair. I was still scared at this point, but I needed to do it no matter how I felt. Finally I did and i will be lying if I just say it was easy and I felt good about it, honestly the next morning I wanted my hair back

CURRENT HAIR   

 After years of trying of get my hair straight I decided to love my hard, makonge, steel wool hair. So now A is for AFRICAN AFRO and I am fully passionate about my hair. Every day is a learning experience: one day its perfectly okay and the next day its pure mess.

I personally think it is important to learn form your life experiences, i guess form this I learnt to let go. ITS OKAY TO LET GO  OF THINGS IN YOUR LIFE.  Most probably the change is not as bad as you think and you might as well enjoy the experience. Now my hairline is slowly healing from the many years of torture, i save a lot ( my hair dresser is out of business) and i simply LOVE the new look.

So love your hair, love your choices. If you think you cannot simply do the Ghanaian lines because of yourforehead, simply pimp the style up, you can add accessories and you might fall in love with it. If you simply would like to try a weave and all the men seem to have a problem with it, do it anyway your head hangs on your body and not theirs. what really matters is what you feel or simply want.

stay beautiful in and out. and enjoy your hair no matter how it feels like or looks like.

tinga tales.

TINGA tale?

 

“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”
Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond

You know that crazy feeling you get when you are about to do some thing huge, that me right now.  Happy, confused, scared and excited all at the same time. Part of me screaming run, no one actually has seen the blog, it’s not too late to shut it down, the other part  is telling me to give this a try.

If there is one thing I have learnt in life is to smile when you scared, it gives me the illusion that am strong enough when things are about to get really thick. Who would have thought that the 10-year-old girl who could never write a composition would one day convince herself to write a blog.

So here I am now starting a blog about nothing in particular, anything and everything goes as long as I think its appropriate. If I wake up one morning and I think I need to do a product review on ROYCO mchuzi mix, then that’s what we having. If the pastor in me feels like writing my opinion on the book of Timothy or Titus or sharing my morning devotion with you, well that is all I have for you. Most of my post will be personal stories: from my NATURAL HAIR vibes  to the tales of  my village in Baringo and everything else. My greatest achievement will probably be when my life lessons teaches you a thing or two about life.

Enjoy the read and stop existing and start living

Have a wonderful weekend,

TINGA TALES.

 

 

FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT.

                “its kinda fun to do the hard things in life”  Walt Disney

My mother claims that I once had a natural smile, and apparently the one I currently have is FAKE.

The story of my smile is quite interesting, I never really had a smile, a defined smile that is. I simply expressed my happiness by  opening my mouth in a certain way that I really didn’t like.

slowly I started practicing my current smile and now its permanent. honestly  I cant remember how I previously smiled,  but I really like the new smile now I can easily smile and be proud of it. this is the story I would like to make out of my blogging experience.

I have no idea why i would even think I can do this but, I will gladly take the challenge and see what life has in store for me. I am not a writer, never have been. I am a story-teller and I am going to tell my story.

The story of an African child. the story about my Father, the women in my life, the men that shaped my life, what life throws at me and what I feel I should say. lets see what this chapter of my life will throw at me.

    “FEAR:   WHAT IF I FALL   FAITH: NO DARLING WHAT IF YOU FLY.”