Reminisce...

2012 isn't going so bad after all, apart from the fact that my bestie and I fell out, can't complain much.
I was in my room watching the movie- I don't know how she does it, when a call comes through my cell, caller ID is name-ex(no names), instinctively i get up and move to the window. Then he says, 'hi, i can see you' and waves. I wave back but rush to get my specs because i can't see that far. Sure enough it's him, my ex, asks 'nostalgic yet'? I laugh, he hangs up.
He brought back so many good memories i got a little warm and fuzzy in my insides, sure he calls from time to time, but it had been a long while since i saw him. He had moved out and now this was like his Grandma's place. I remembered the first time i saw him, i was about twelve we had just moved into this new neighbourhood and my brother and I couldn't wait to try out our bikes in the expanse fields.
I was a pretty descent rider, we used to race with my brother and i would beat him each time. It was on one of these races, (nameless) approached me. His first words were, 'Hi, you're new here yeah?' blah, blah, blah, introductions. 'Can i join you?' And as kids of course the more the merrier. Other kids joined us, it was fun, we did this everyday.
He was nice, they don't make them like him any more *sigh* He was good looking too, i remember once all of my family was in the car heading out and i saw him and i said something excitedly, my mum asked, 'That one? with the pink lips?' Looking back i think she was just being protective, she knew i liked him. He helped me carry groceries to the house, he accompanied me to the shops, we were inseparable.
Jazz bar was a hang out place we liked, now that i think about it, jazz bar was not such a bright idea for a kids hang out place, but anyways, they didn't serve beer. They sold pastries, and there was a pool table, we listened to music and ate hotdogs. He held my hand everywhere, i liked it. Back then i loved kids, on most Saturdays I'd be volunteering at Happy Life Children's home, he joined me once in a while. We'd feed the kids, play with them and help out around.
The first time he tried to kiss me was new year's, he took me to the top of a building that night held my hand, but i was too shy, didn't happen, besides i think i was thirteen then, wouldn't have known what to do. He had been brought up different, a kid with a lot of freedom and he knew a lot.
Those days when phones did not exist and the only way of communication was either face-face or through letters. He asked me if i could be his girlfriend, i could not answer him. I was the shyest of people, but i liked him because i was afraid to lose him. That night, i went to the window, called out his name and when he came out, i held out a placard that read yes. I did not know what that meant at the moment but i could tell it meant a lot to him.
From then on his family referred to me as (nameless)'s girlfriend, his aunt to this day still calls me that. We 'dated' maybe a little close to two years then I went on a trip to Tanzania and Zanzibar when i was fourteen, i had just cleared my KCPE exams. I met someone, and fell head over heels. I came back and it wasn't the same anymore with nameless, it fizzled out, soon we were strangers.
Plus we both went away to High School which did not help matters at all. We talked once once, we had both moved on, we remained friends though because that's how we had started out....as friends. 10 years and we are still friends, which is why i don't understand relationships nowadays. One time you're inseparable, the next is like you two are water and oil....I miss the old days, life and love was easy! XO

Movie Review: Transit...

*Humph* What's the fuss about February anyway? Everyone on facebook going on about the month of love....pffft, give us a break!
I on the other hand am doing my first movie review, the first time i watched this movie transit some two weeks ago, i kinda liked it. It was a mix of action, drama and thriller all rolled into one. Second time watching it today, and the whole time i was thinking what the hell, which led me to the conclusion that i must've been really bored the first time to have liked it. I don't really hate the movie though but it has a lot of mishaps.
You can tell its a low budget movie from the cast to the plot. The problem with it most though is the dumb script. It's one of those movies where you constantly find yourself asking "why the hell did they do that?" because so many of the characters' actions are illogical. Four criminals on the run from the cops after a heist, stash the cash on the roof-rack of a family's car so they can beat the police road-blocks and hopefully pick the money up later....
So you're watching the film, it seems a fairly interesting idea for an action movie, the baddies have just beaten the road-block and found the family car with their money, you're anticipating some plot twist and then you hear "lets run them off the road" ???Most of us (criminal or not)would simply follow the car until it stopped somewhere before taking the money back hassle free but our gang of criminal masterminds think it's a great idea to try and run the car off the the open road in broad daylight. It was full of moments where you were wondering how 4 criminals, who planned a decent heist, would be so idiotic when it came to retrieving the bag of money.
The way they attack the wife when she's sleeping alone in the motel, and she somehow manages to escape the motel room within millimeters from the bad guys' grasping hands you'd think she was a ex-CIA or ex-FBI or something, and the way she handles a machine gun? surprise because she looks like a pretty and normal woman, housewife of sorts! Seriously, there were too many times one had to suspend disbelief, especially on how a white collar criminal and his suburban wife could overcome hardened criminals. Sheer luck?
The tree with the perfect place for the bag to sit and then the man in the boat that went straight past and would have no idea at all that the bag was put in the tree somehow finds it?!
And then they burn the four hundred mil? Nkt! After all the struggle, all they've been put through while they were just headed for some family time camping? Personally, I'd keep the money...but hey that's just me!
The good thing about the movie was that it was unpredictable...nothing turned out the way i thought it would. So, out of ten I'd give this movie a 7 for keeping me on the edge of my seat and combining three genres together so perfectly! Good.