On reaching our office gate there were hundreds of youth holding balloons and wearing T-shirts with a kazi label. My mind went into overdrive because we have a youth employment initiative but i had not heard that we were giving out ballons and T-shirts. My hangover was now gone as i rushed to enter the building only to find our corridor full of balloons literally. I had to kick my way to the office and by now i was laughing. On reaching i inquired what was happening and my colleagues were at pains to explain what was happening.
There was a strange sound coming from the boardroom and went to see what was going on. On entering i meet with this muzungu whom i later came to know was Tazmany Arboleda from New york. He was inflating balloons using a machine as if the world was coming to an end. I asked one of the youths who were assisting him what was going on and he told me that they wanted to make people happy "tunabamba wasee." That did not make sense to me. I took a flyer that he had given me that had a website www.mondaymorning.info On the website there were pictures of people with green balloons in japan and orange ones in india. Funny enough i still didnt get it. How could someone make all this effort to make people happy by giving them balloons.
I decided to get to my work but i was still puzzled. They went on for hours up until 10:00 am. During the prime time news i saw the story and still didn't get it.
The next day the daily nation had a story on the balloons and this is when i really got it. Its a very eccentric way of making people happy and even making them forget about the grenade attacks.
Tazmany Arboleda from New york had managed to make me laugh on a monday morning with a hangover. He had achieved his objective and had broken thousands of Nairobians monday morning routines by simply giving them balloons.
Kudos to this artist but that is just my opinion.
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