How Celebrated Journalists Are Celebrating Their Valentine’s
Year in year out, Valentine’s Day is always a day of love and care between or among the loved ones. People gift who they value regardless of blood lineage.
A person may decide to gift a friend, relative, boss, lover, child or parents. Generally, it’s a day of showing great recognition and care to loved ones.
Today, as the global world celebrate Valentine, some champs rather than getting chocolates of valuable pleasantries, they have decided to celebrate the happy day uniquely.
To them, as long as it makes them happy or look like a normal day, they have thought of celebrating themselves as others celebrate their siblings and parents.
For instance, Clifford Mulama a Kenyan journalist based in Nairobi says, Valentines Day is just like any other normal day he is engaged at work.
As a normal day, he claims he usually hears and see people spoiling their loved ones with gifts but he has never found himself in a position to gift perhaps a girl or found himself receiving a gift.
On a day like this, Mulama says he is neither expecting to receive anything in form of a gift from a person nor going to gift anyone. Rather, the intelligentsia promise that next Valentine he’ll have something to do.
Esther Ndinya, professional Kiswahili translator and editor based in Nairobi, says that her Valentine Day found her at work but unlike other years, the Swahili guru say, she’s celebrating Valentines with her super mother.
” Valentine is just a normal day like the other. In fact it found me at work and I am not bothered anymore. However, my lovely mum must smile. That woman is a gem. I’ll get my mum a present” says the Swahili editor.
Ibran Nabungolo another journalist and editor based in Nairobi claims as a man he has never ever tried to gift a person on Valentine’s Day either been gifted but this time, as long as he is still searching, he will gift his younger sister.
“I have never been gifted and also, I have never gifted any person. Maybe perhaps Valentine has never found me in love with someone’s daughter but today after work, I’ll put a big smile on my sister. She always look up to me as her mentor. She deserves better. A brother’s gift” Ibran narrates.
Poetess Wangari Thuo alias She Writes Right a student at Catholic University of Eastern Africa on her side, self love is essential.
The scribe says, even though none of the Valentine has ever found her in love, that won’t make her fail to spoil herself.
” There’s no Valentine that has ever found me dating. What I expect this time round, the usual. To watch jealously –ha ha– as others get a treat in their lives as I just give a sigh. But of course I’ll get myself some delamere yoghurt and cadbury chocolate. That’ll definitely make do” she describes.
Previous years, we as a society have been bumping on gifts all over on social media where couple receive as others give out but unlike the previous years, maybe the economy is high or many have avoided flaunting social media with what they have received.
In an exclusive talk with an Inooro FM journalist, Alice Njoki alias Princess Wanderi, the journalist looks blessed than ever.
“First time I received a Valentine’s gift was 2021 and this year, I’ll get a bigger gift than before.
“This son of a man is my dream guy. I guess he’s still being tempted to get me a vehicle “ narrates the hopeful and joyous journalist.
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