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Down Memory Lane

Today is World Radio Day,this day right here brings fresh memories of my first real job though an attachment at Baraka FM in Mombasa.Back in 2008, it was extremely difficult to get a job or an internship for that matter at such a prestigious radio station.So I approached a certain KTN journalist- Ngumbao who owed me a favor.May God rest his soul. You see, Ngumbao came to Airport View Academy to interview students who had passed in KCPE.While talking to me he asked what I wanted to be.For those who know me, know that from an early age I had it all figured out,I wanted to be a journalist.He said to me casually- if you ever need help ,come see me.So when I was required to be attached, I went to collect on that favor.Since that was like eight years before, Ngumbao did not remember but he said -why not.He called up his friend Mwangi who was the big boss at Baraka Fm and asked for a favor.You see....this girl right here received a call."Come report on Monday". If i say i was ha...
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A Review of the Movie Series 'From Scratch'

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From Scratch is one of the most interesting and emotional movies i have watched in a long time. The Netlix movie series begins quite interesting highlighting the main actress,Amy's desire to study art in Florence,Italy.It is here that she bumps into Lino and its love at first sight. When Amy acted by Zoe Saldaña falls in love, she does not know that she would lose her husband, lino acted by Eugenio Mastrandrea to a rare form of cancer,and face rejection from his family for being a black American. However, as fate will have it, towards the end of the series the family accepts her even to the extent of traveling to America to be with him in hospital.When Lino finally dies, Amy travels with her adopted daughter to Sicily for the first time to be with her mother- in -law who has since lost her husband. This believable script is well choregraphed and the venue scenes perfectly selected.The actors make the plot seem so real. From Scratch is based on a real life story and that is what ...
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