Hair Update #5

Yellooo Beautiful Humans! I hope you are good :) Nolan has grown 1.5 inches long! Yes, I measured! I undid my braids last week Thursday. 1 month of Protective styling. I could have stayed with the braids longer since they were neat and looked good but I had missed Nolan too much! What was wierd and too much punishment for me when I had on the braids was, I came across so many Tumblrs and blogs of beautiful kinky and kurly hair! My gosh! It was torture! Here is one of the blogs I came across and wanted to 'uproot' the braids ASAP.===> fuckyeahcurls*3.

I was so happy to see Nolan longer, thicker and surprisingly softer. I totally credit all that good good to my home-made DC'ng. Here is my regimen:

1 ripe avocado
2 teaspoons of EVOO
4 teaspoons of Honey
2 egg yolks
2 teaspoons of Coconut oil

DC'ng has made Nolan thicker and softer [and that was what I was rooting for]. Now that am done with the protective styling, I have more fun to keep it longer than an hour. I can go 4 hours with the good good mush on my hair! How good it feels!

I now use EVOO more frequently than I did before the protective styling. EVOO works as a great moisturizer for Nolan. Last weekend, I also henna'd Nolan for the 3rd time. Slowly becoming a henna-head! :) Henna makes my hair softer and healthier - Not much falling off [which is awesome!]. It also defines my curls beautifully! Getting a lot of them complements recently. #NaturalMoment right thurr!

I tried something new this weekend. Apple Cider Vinegar. OMG! I call it 'Heavenly Pee'. Why? One, it is GD heavenly! It softened my hair in a way I could not imagine! [These is hair fanaticism right here!] Oi! I could not believe it! Second, it's vinegar. Salty. Kinda like pee. I was a wierd child- not elaborating. HEAVENLY PEE! :D My regimen: Mix half a cu of ACV with half a cup of water. Pour into hair and kindly massage and let it sink in. Simply FABOOSH! :D

Oh! I had a long weekend [4 days! I know!] where I got the time to make my current favorite hair accessory yet. Here it is:

Have a lovely week Milkshakes!

My song of the week:

Swim Good by Frank Ocean.

Cheers :)

To my Beautiful Humans,

The Girl In The City Bus.

My 'Exam' Playlist

Yellooo Beautiful Humans! I hope you are having a good weekend. Today I would like to share my 'Exam' playlist. Yes, today I am going straight to the point! I am having my mid-semester exams which this week I cannot wait for! I am a weird child [and a bookworm]. Last week I played UNDUN, the album by The Roots. It officially became my favorite hiphop phunk album. And I LOVE Questo! Oi!

This week I will be listening to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Her Acoustic soul and poetic talent is just remarkable!

So here is the tracklist:

	Lost Ones
	Ex-Factor
	to Zion (featuring Carlos Santana)
	Doo-Wop (That Thing)
	Superstar
	Final Hour
	When It Hurts So Bad
	I Used to Love Him (featuring Mary J. Blige)
	Forgive Them Father
.	Every Ghetto, Every City
	Nothing Even Matters(featuring D'Angelo)
	Everything Is Everything
	The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Have a splendid week milkshakes!

Cheers!

To My Handsome Human,

The Girl In The City Bus.

#GCB Top 5 songs of the Week.

Yellooo Beautiful Humans! I hope you are good :) Had one weird week and I am thanking God it is over! Mixed feelings and reactions. *Deep breathes* It is hard work being a girl sometimes. Oi! I cannot thank my playlist enough for being there for me! Music has definitely been my muse these week- and a dose of James Bond The Man with the Golden Gun (1974). So here is my Top 5 songs of the week [raped by the replay button :)]


5.)  The Roots   -   Lighthouse ft. Dice Raw

4.) Bibanke   -   Asa

3.) The Roots  - The Seed 2.0 ft. Cory ChesnuTT

2.) Ayo   -  How Many Times

2.) Erykah Badu  -   The Cell

1.) The Roots   -    Make my ft. Big K.R.I.T & Dice Raw

I have listened to UNDUN, The Roots' 13th album this week and I LOVE IT! It has definitely given me some new replay tunes. It is a great listen! 

Cheers!

To My Milkshakes,

The Girl In The City Bus.

#GCB Weekend Playlist

Yellooo Beautiful Humans! I hope you are good :) Long frustrating week for me. Few ups, more downs; it's life, right? So I have just finished working on this weekend's playlist and I would love to share it with you. Cheers to good music that makes me happy and sane.

Crustration-Purple [J Dilla Remix]

The late J Dilla- Donuts

Common- The Light

The Pharcyde-Runnin'

All I need- Method Man ft. Mary J. Blige

Electric Relaxation- A Tribe called Quest

The Sweetest Thing - Lauryn Hill

The Script- Long Gone and Moved on

Gone Baby- MeLo-X

Mood Swing-Asheru ft. Talib Kweli


That is my Top 10. I need not post the videos but I hope you can listen to the playlist when you have time- and well, feel like listening to good soul funk.

Have a brilliant weekend! I will be on a cleanse this weekend and I will be posting you on my Facebook here. Going organic bebe! I need to do some relaxing activities and a lot of studying.

I will catch you on the next post.

Cheers Milkshakes!

To My Handsome Human,

The Girl In The City Bus.

Watch your step!

When I was small, my father told me to watch my step every time I tripped or fell down. Several years down the line, I seemed to have forgotten. Something so small, power so huge! I forgot to do one tiny little 'adaged' thing. To watch my step.

When you do not watch your step. you face the two consequences:
1.)  Look like your going to fall [which in public happens to be a little bit funny, somewhat a comedy :-|]

2.) YOU FALL! [It's not rocket science or anything fancy]
Today morning as I was heading to school, I noticed something 'different' with my walking. I seemed to be knocking my feet on the surface in a manner that is not described as walking. I seemed to trip a lot. I use the same route every single time and I remember to have walked normally. I will not give excuses that my feet had a problem or the steps were increased height-wise. Or maybe even I was too tired to lift my legs. I just simply forgot to watch my step!


Forgetting to do something this 'simple' yet complex at the same time is caused [in my opinion and growing theory] by the following:


1.) Forgetting the reason why we should watch our steps.
     So you think you are all grown and you have 'gone through too much' to not remember small details in life that matter/ make you. This happens all the time! Everybody has done this once or a bijillion times in their lives. Even you reading this post. We focus so much on the 'huge stuff' that happen in our lives that we neglect and forget the 'tiny stuff' that took us through. We forget about our milestones and focus on the success that was there the whole time.


Guess what? This 'success' or 'huge thing' was only to be achieved after we learnt the 'little lessons' and reach our milestones. So in this case, we forget that we once had to learn how to walk so we can watch our step!


Oh! Remember, no lesson in life is tiny. A lesson has no SI unit. The only SI unit affiliated to a lesson is maybe the time put and effort taken to learn it. A lesson has no magnitude. We should not forget the reason we should watch our steps. As most of you say, "Don't forget me when you get rich! Or go abroad!". Don't forget the reason why you should watch your step.


2.) We get too comfortable.
      This happens all the time! I get comfortable with getting a GPA of 3.6 and well, decide to get that next semester. I get comfortable with reading 3 novels a week and decide to do the same next week. I get comfortable working out for one hour for two months and stick to that the next 2 months. That is just lame! [College English for emphasis] This is just lazy, unadventurous and totally stupid!


We should seek to become better people every single minute [if that is even possible!]. How does it relate to my context of watching steps, before I digress? Well, you decide to stay there, comfortable with your routine [which should have been more or less a schedule] and wait to lay Golden eggs! Alas! No Golden Eggs! I digress! Golden eggs make me smile. Back to deep things.


The world changes! If you remain stagnant [lack of a better word] and wait for it to change with you, you will wait and wait and wait! [I will have already have my Golden eggs :)] Change is good! Spice up your days. Fix in a challenge here, cook for someone there. Change is good. Whilst change is good, you have to remember your milestones. They more or less make you.




So today as I went for my daily jog, I decided to speed up and increase my speed! All of a sudden.

Source

I fell down! My water bottle did a somersault and fell in a near by water pool. So many people walking on my trail watching! Oh No! Is this High School all over again? I thought I ran away from that? I stand up quick, dust myself and jog on. Moral of this part of the story: [Plus the above,] I should prepare myself well during an acceleration. Applies in our daily lives too! If your planning to work on something in your life or even add something in your lie, and you have to change things up by 'upping' your game? You have to plan for sh*t and watch your steps! Trust me, during that round, there will be higher steps to take on. So brace yourself!

I jogged back home with a lot of psyke and I could not wait to tell you my story in 3D,

I hurt my hand and knee. I have learnt my lesson!

I learnt my lesson the hard way. I have learnt to remember where I came from- crawling and trying to walk looking at my every step from when I was younger. Try it :)

Cheers Milkshakes!

To My Handsome Human,

The Girl In The City Bus.

GCB Hair post

Yellooo Beautiful Humans! I hope you enjoyed your weekend :) I did! Studied a lot, worked out and watched Boston Legal and my weekly dosage of The Simpsons. I also got time to bask in the sun and try out some turban looks for Nolan [my hair]. This is what went down :)

Courtesy of  Nancie Mwai's The Fashion Notebook Video

A Crown turban. Will take some time after my exams to show you how it's done :)

The India Arie Turban look.

The clarity of my webcam is well, not to be admired but if Apple gave me a mac[since they have thrown out Microsoft], I would be one happy gal :) These were my favorite looks. I will work to give you a tutorial for the second look after my exams. I have a Japanese exam tomorrow and I gotta sleep by 9pm. I do not promise any updates during the week because I am getting Zola [My laptop] fixed. But during the weekend, I will most definitely tell you how things went down. All I have now is that I have the flu! I am weirdly enjoying it though. I have a deeper voice now- I usually have a high-pitched voice [so they say] so I will not get those 'OMG! You talk like a baby' looks. 

Have a fun and cheerful week with a lot of success and peace! Follow the blog and share! Gotta do some endorsement right ?

Cheers Milkshakes!

To My Handsome Human, 

The Girl In The City Bus

Back From Nowhere (II)

Yellooo Beautiful Humans! Beautiful weekend isn't it? Braided my hair yesterday. Woot-Woot! Nolan's on a stretch. He be on a #GCBworkout too :D So I'mma post some pics from the last post. I promised so,... here :)

Nolan on a braid-out :) Stretch bebe. Stretch!

Performing at Nairobi Kinanda Arts Festival last Sunday. Courtesy of Quaint Photography

Last weekend, I woke up in another side of the country. I went to visit by awesome, brilliant, terrific and words-cannot-define-them parents. I took some pics courtesy of my baby Marcus [My camera] . It was a very beautiful weekend.

The Corny blue sky ☻   

As the sun went down

This is Mandy. The hen with all-over feathers. It's actually a breed of its own and normally discriminated by the other 'normal' chickens. Of Chickens and discrimination :(

Early evening...

late evening

later... evening :)

My favorite steps

Baneezaayss!!! OK, Bananas 

㋡ ㋡

Morning Milkshakes!

The most cushiony grass I know!

No, they aren't for Valentines!

So pretty!!!!

Meet Bananzy! Yes, yes! I name everything. They got rights too!!!

 

I kept my promise :) So proud of myself! Have a nice weekend. Gotta go study. Next week I have some exams to ace! That's all I do :)

{Photo Credits: The Girl In The City Bus, 2012}

Cheers Milkshakes!

To My Handsome Human,

The Girl In The City Bus.