Comments on: What Did You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

By: DeTamble

DeTamble — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:51:37 +0000

Actually, I’m not African. Never even been there. Not even for an airport stop over. Also there wouldn’t be very much ’seed distribution’ since I’m a girl. But when I was 16 I did wish that I’d been born a boy so that I could be the father of a thousand bastards.

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:30:44 +0000

@De Tamble: That’s a first buddy, that there is a first for an African. I could lie and say that I never thought about your goal of worldwide seed distribution in the past but when I was about 17 or 18 years old I wanted to do just that, so I guess…..I can related ( who woulda thought huh? )

By: DeTamble

DeTamble — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:27:26 +0000

I actually did want to own a brothel. I really did. And in year 3 when we were all asked by our teacher what we wanted to do/be when we grew up I said I wanted to own a brothel. Needless to say I was taken out of that school a few weeks later. Apparently that’s just not the right career option for children attending a Catholic school. Nowdays I have a new goal. Either finish Uni or if I get kicked out (which is likely) I’m going to travel the world and have sex with at least one person from every single country and write a kickarse book about my exploits.

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:18:10 +0000

I do, what are the costs involved in doing that? What type of crowd does it attract….backpacking crowd? Working professionals?
Tell some stories on your blog man…..the people demand couch surfing stories……

By: Mo Ma

Mo Ma — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:14:11 +0000

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By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:06:38 +0000

@controversial: Welcome to my abode, I hope you enjoy your stay and I can be of some service to you. Personally, I was amazed because the approach that Westerns take is clearly very different….a lot of Westerners would rather live in a shoebox and be social pariahs as long as they do something that makes their hear sing e.g. working as a “sex therapist” or a “yoga teacher” or living on welfare or whatever.
You know for a lot of us, we were told that once we had money we were free to do what we pleased, it also amazes me how many of us end up repeating our parent’s old patterns of thought and behavior.

By: controversial

controversial — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:57:09 +0000

oh by the way, i read your comment at the Nigerian Curiosity blog and had to come by and check you out.

By: controversial

controversial — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:56:33 +0000

I am always amazed by the more laid back attitude my Western friends have towards careers. I knew growing up that I had to become a doctor, lawyer or banker. Those where the only things acceptable to my parents. Today, I am an accountant, my sister is a lawyer, and my two brothers are doctors.

I wish I could have taken a backpack and trecked through Argentina or Chile or South Africa. How nice that would have been. But, my parents were right. My accountant’s salary if pretty nice.

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:07:55 +0000

@gal africana: It’s amazing sometimes how we replay the same scene with the same characters over the course of our life over and over again without even realizing it.
When it comes to us as individuals, a lot of the time, it really is our world with other folks just being in it and so perhaps you have been and will continue to be princess/queen many times during your life without even realizing it.

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:02:50 +0000

@Carol: Care to share this dream? Manual jobs are alright if you have a passion for them as a lot of folks over here do….my hats must go off to cleaners though, that job is quite the task first time you do it and the fact I got paid the same when cleaners clearly do more work is one of the things I just don’t get.