my country, my beer!

the sassy one came by last week (it was her birthday yesterday, go wish her!), and brought us a gift that shall truly be treasured. she managed to find some liquor shop in Canada that sold Tusker!! for those of you who have no idea what i am on about, Tusker is Kenya's no. 1 beer, and in the one minute you read this, another 260 bottles of it are being drunk!

i remember when i was in undergrad in India everytime i came back to college from vacations home i carried cartons of Tusker.. relived the rolling savannah, the breathtaking Rift Valley, herds of zebra grazing, pink flamingos lifting off in formation, barbecues crackling and the crisp, fruity aftertaste of Tusker.

it brought back a lot of memories of the homeland, it's been nearly three years since i've been home. friends have moved on since, and i've lost touch with lots of them. life takes us on such divergent and twisted paths that we wonder if some paths will ever be recrossed, or if some steps will ever be retraced.

i try to rest my head wherever i roam,
but where the heart is, that is home..