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By:
Ainea Bolingo
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Oct,06-2016 14:52:23
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The other day, I was shooting on some set that reminded me of Sylvester Stallone's look in the movie, Rambo. This was one of the best action movies those days. The only other movies that could rival it were Chuck Norris in the Delta Force and Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon.
Anyway, as I was shooting, a lady told me I must be a mother's boy as I have a big tattoo praising my mother. It made me think people who refer to one as mummy's boy these days rarely really mean it. The children are treated with soft gloves by both parents. Those days though our parents loved us, they used to play bad cop/good cop.
It was rather obvious your dad was playing the bad cop and your mother the good cop. As indicated before, I was one that was proudly born at Pumwani Maternity Hospital, together with other prominent personality like Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero, Kibwezi West Patrick Musimba and many more. My mother was full of praise for the hospital and remember, on the birth certificate, the place for nurse or doctor was indicated the name of the midwife.
This reminds me that I came from the old generation as I am sure most birth certificates today come with Doctors' names. When it came to discipline, the only parent who could compromise or cane you and still spoon feed you was your mother. Fathers used to play the bad cop and when it came to discipline they would cane you a style we used to call "come and see" meaning when you were being canned or disciplined no one was to interfere; not even your mother--they could only see! Most of the dads would close the door of the room and put the keys in the pocket while canning. It's not by chance that you find that 95 percent of our generation is disciplined up to date.
The fear of our father was next to God, then the math's class teacher came next. Apparently, those days, I don't know if it was fear of maths in primary but one could think all Math teachers were born by the same mother. They were all harsh and used to be the school discipline masters.
By the way, do students stand up when the teacher comes to class with the phrase "Good morning or afternoon teacher?" In Buru Buru 1 Primary School, I remember two of them. A Mr Maina who used to be known simply as "Mr". Apparently, nearly every school, especially in Eastland's, used to have a teacher referred to "Mr." Now Mr Maina used to have the quickest slaps when you failed to answer simple maths questions he used to call 'mental sums'. The questions used to come from a book printed from UK known as Preparatory Mathematics and use to have no answers.
When Malkiat Singh introduced Mathematics books with answers, we were the happiest students!
The other teacher was a Mr Guya also known as "Waaguy". This guy was huge and he used to carry a whip in his coat I think he had a special compartment made by the tailor. This is the tutor who used to call us with Sheng names. He referred to me as Otis when canning me. The others who never missed his cane were Simba, Geofu, Conrad, Kairo, Felo , Nzoks and can't forget two friends one Vinnie and Spiro who used to be Waaguy's pet discipline boys.The man made us stuff carton and thin mattress inside our shorts to avoid pain.
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