The domestic budget

I have been from time to time acused by the pm of not contributing fully to the domestic budget, reason being i dont go to the local market to source for food stuffs and therefore i dont know the costs as they change from day to day. I've always thought that two hundred shilling a day is more than enough for a family of 3, but the shocker is that whenever i produce 500 it hardly survive the weekend  anyway that said it only indicates one thing, income has to be raised soonest failure i shall be doomed.

The first half of the month is not so difficult since the ration provided can last upto that time but by date 25 we actually begging from the donors for supply(dont mistake donors to mean anyone but peroz on both sides who have constantly assisted their offspring and now the offsprings' offspring-God bless them) Ofcourse this does not come easy or without a rider oftenly "no mucaragia wera?"(do you still look for work?) and actually they have tried to hook us up with all the 'god fathers' they knew in Nairobi, most in the public service and private sector but nothing to show for it. All these god fathers do is promise things beyond their reach, and some with the rhetoric 'when i hear of something i'll let you know' i have really come to hate this statement for nothing is actually heard. You keep calling the person for we are constatly reminded to keep reminding the person for he/she has other businesss to take care of and might not have you in mind, and also risk calls diverted to voicemail, mteja for no pick-up at all, but i say here if someone has the will to get you a job with no strings attached then he should and if not capable should say so and not think by not saying so will make one hopeless or give false promises to make sure his ass is kissed all the time.

Though all this can be termed as corruption which we are 'really trying', in quotes meaning the culture is hard to die, but i'd rather those that ask for money or majorly zegz in exchange for a job than those who take you around in circles and you keep guessing, for i'd rather pay up my dues before hand than later have someone always on my back say i got you that job and now you should pay me up. in the first place you were qualified to take up jobs in this country but the opportunities are limited to a chosen few thats why the 'culture' can hardly die down. That said, though in the meantime i'll continue pushing my luck even in the public service( i hear this like looking to find cats zegzing) but no loosing hope for the economy does not dictate so. This reminds me of a day the pm went to see a 'high profile' ps as mentioned by her peroz, first the meeting took too long being sent from one building to another and then in the final building the person she was to meet stood in a glass window at a top floor waving as she called, but on entrance you are asked for appointments and stuff and you try to convinse the P.As that he called from ground floor but hear none of it , It only takes the merciful intervention of the said person to make a call if he's willing enough. Ofcourse i know all this for before she was composed enough to tell the ordeal i hard to partake the stress ' u know 'stress partaker'.

I have perceived the women folk to have it a little easier on this than the menfolk leave for also having assets valuable to the men whom in most instances have been priveleged to hold the high level positions of affluence in society, but lately getting challenged by the women and guyz like i might soon also be lucky or others i hear already getting lucky by flouting their assets too to the older high achiever women in society but all with caution or 'die trying'.

After the completion of the 'rite of passage' quotes being what society considered as the gateway to a better life earlier has been reduced to a passage meaning university degree is no longer an end in itself. So after completion my ration got reduced by half whereas the pm's remained the same (they say their needs are high, true ),and come to think of it even if you earn higher than your pm with lets say 20k she still earns more than you for part of your earnings is hers for she will always borrow money not necessarily for the domestic budget but also to safeguard hers(even when she's working and earns more).So i can be excused for little contribution to the domestic budget(in the meantime what would i do without her), but save for the little here and there i make from struggling businesses that do not really have an income to show or rather get rich but just 'hand to mouth basis' i know even most employed live on this, at the end of the day is what you are able to put on the table that matters. But for sure it has become even harder when the local sukumawiki vendor no longer breaks it down to 10 bob per juala but now 20 shillings.