I’ve been meaning to do this post for a while now but really haven’t had the time or energy to do it. Immediately after Barcamp Nairobi I promptly feel sick! Yeah that’s right, I reached home and my flu symptoms went through the roof! I got a fever and headache so I took the next two days off!(Turns out it was a week, this post has been sitting in drafts for some time) So I’m here today back at work (and bored already).

I know it’s been a while since I did a post and I’m sorry. I’ve been unwell for the better part of the last week so I haven’t been going to work, or doing much other than sleep, eat and watch TV. I had been working on a post but I didn’t finish it and now I don’t know if it’ll ever be completed and leave my drafts. Anyway while I’ve been gone I’ve been thinking about this blog and the direction I want it take.

This is continuation from yesterday’s post, I told you I’ve been busy and there’s much to write about.

On Friday I was at work reading the paper, Nation, when I came across the an article on asexuality. Usually I don’t read the zuqka, mostly I peruse, prefer the Pulse by far, but asexuality was something I had actually talked about on my blog not so recently so I decided to read what they had to say about it.

I’m not even sure what to start writing about. So much has happened in the last 5 days and there’s much to write about but I think I’ll do a separate post for each separate thing. So where to start? Like I said there’s much to be talked about, but we’ll do it in chronological order starting with Thursday.

So on Thursday I was in the office doing my work as the intern. So I was kinda free and monitoring twitter quite closely and what do I notice there? @savvykenya tweeting about something called the Microsoft Imagine Cup where she was competing. So I asked her what it was about and if they allowed spectators. She said yeah so I decided to take the afternoon off (being an intern does have its benefits though I was asked after :) and go join her there.

So I’ve been an intern for like three weeks now at a small software company called ML. So I think I’ve been there long enough to tell you what life there is like. But first some random info.

There’s only one other intern here (Yes I’m blogging from the office:) But I haven’t seen him since last Friday(He turned up later) so I’ll assume he’s quit. There’re about 10 employees max. We always start the day with a short devotion; singing, bible verses with some inspirational text and then prayer. The atmosphere is very relaxed (too relaxed in my opinion but hey I’m just an intern, right?). Oh yeah, and I do this pro-bono meaning I’m not paid.

Today is Kenya Blogger’s Day. I only just remembered, okay that’s a lie I’ve been wondering about it since yesterday, but I’ve only just confirmed it now. It’s also Madaraka Day with my country Kenya celebrating the 47th year of self rule from colonial Britain.

This is the first time I’m able to celebrate this day because I’ve only been a blogging for about 5 months. My first post was tech related and about the I-pad. Very boring if you don’t care much about tech. But since then the blog has evolved into something I write about anything I feel like. The name also changed from Random thoughts… to what it is today, Private thoughts… because I felt that random thoughts was a little too common and not really what I felt the blog truly represents.

So today I registered for a Creative Commons license here. Its free. I did this on the encouragement of nobodyouknow here. She said that she had found copies of her works on other blogs and they hadn’t even bother to attribute it back to her! Imagine! If I had found my creative genius(WHAT? This is my blog so I be conceited all I want. Hehehehe!!!) somewhere without my permission and no attribute back to me I’d flip!!! So she applied for a Creative Commons license so that at least she can be attributed to next time.

So today Safaricom announced it full year results today. Apparently  Safaricom had turnover up 19.1% to Sh83.96b, subscribers up 18.2% to 15.79m ; dividend up 100% to Sh8b at 20cents a share and a profit of over sh20b. But along with that announcement that the Information PS  Ndemo annouces that the THE KENYA INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS (FAIR COMPETITION AND EQUALITY OF TREATMENT) REGULATIONS, 2010 been suspended to be reviewed! Nkt!!

Now I’m sure that most of you(Kenyans that is) have heard if not read about the aforementioned regulations. They mostly protect the smaller operators from bullying from the dominant player(Safaricom). It mostly(actually only, I think) deals with interconnection rates. So that means when Safaricom decides to raise interconnection rates they have to prove that they’re doing it because their costs to do so have gone up. It also states that “A licensee shall maintain accounting separation techniques to be focused on the separation of revenues, costs and capital employed into categories in order to ensure that there is no discrimination between internal and external pricing in all services provided by the licensee."(Taken verbatim from the regulations)

I write this assuming what I say won’t be judged, much. Most of the people who read this blog of mine are open minded people but sometimes there’s a level where that open-minded ends for example while I don’t judge homosexuals I can’t stand it if two guys made out in front of me. I don’t mind a girl and boy did it or even girl and girl but boy and boy gives me a headache and makes me feel like puking!

When I stared this blog I did it for fun! For the fame. To let the world know what I was thinking. But yesterday I just realised that having this blog has enabled me to learn a lot more about human nature! It’s a truly overwhelming feeling to get comments from you, my readers, that force me to think and do research. Thanks to you all I was able to write a post on Homosexuality in pre-colonial Kenya and now again thanks to my last post I’ve learnt about asexuality. But thats not that brought on this post.