The morning began with a pleasant surpise - the first leave/flower buds on the tree right outside my window had sprouted. New beginnings i thought...new beginnings..
What wasn't unexpected was how exhausted I was going to work. I have found myself wishing it were Friday every morning of this week - each day the wish growing in fervency, each day proportionately disappointed that the time fairies had not done me that ka one favor.
For anyone who's around me or speaks to me often, theres few and far in between might I add, will know that i whine quite a bit about my work - this is a subtle strategy to get them to believe that I am an incredibly hard worker who values career progression, pulls in crazy late hours and is riding the yuppie bandwagon till the wheels fall off.
Revelation..just between me an you - everything but the last part is true. two reasons..
1)I dont have the energy to keep up with yuppie trends (even though i recently acquired street cred for taking some friends to a really HIP breakfast joint that was absolutely fab).
2) I really really have been working hard. Pushing myself beyond the limit these past few days. Taking a LOT of shit from my superiors (as they are getting lots of shit from THEIR superiors) all in the name of time pressure and crunch. I have had to work with incompetent collegues, cover up for them (in the short term it really is the smarter thing to do), had to bear with the indecision of studio executives, and accomodate princess like tech gurus, all while letting them rub my inexperience in my face. All in a f**** days work i guess.
Ok so that was more than 2 reasons. sue me. Were certainly making A game, but it sure doesnt feel like one if you know what i mean. Politics, shareholders, Mergers and acquisitions, contractors, Licensing, patents, massive office growth,are all part of the ingredients to this game development experience. Edifying at this stage since I lack a frame of reference, but somehwat unneccesary to this newbies day to day activities.
Anyway, This cookie wont crumble. I have my performace review meeting with my manager coming up pretty soon..whoa does he not know what coming his way! anyway..If theres anything makign videogames has taught me..theres power in context. I will stage it like it was Broadway and I'm Annie. Hard knock life indeed. I get to pick the meeting day, set the environment, set the mood, basically control the flow of the meeting. I then have to hit him upside the head with all the stuff I've been handling under my sleeve, sprinkle some of the areas i think i need direction on - while smothering him with my approval of his mentorship. Thereafter just be agreeable. keep Him in a good mood. Haha all figured out..except I dont know what to say :)
I was checkaing with Angie vile were going to start a club of disgruntled entry level employees - The membership of this thing would hit the flipping roof I am sure. So many shared experiences.
On a nother note I am VERY frustrated with my side projects. Nchi Yetu Version 2 was bliss at the development stage and i was very happy when the progress i had made. But since i began deplying it on a shared server, all tech hell has broken loose. THis new language that i wrote it in (Ruby on Rails) is great for iteration, but deployment is just incredibly frustrating. I doubt theres any one of you reading who can sympathise, but cmon pretend. I'm soooo close to giving up and just paying someone to do it.
So we had take out at work today(as we do everyday with the sweatshop hours) - the chicken Korma i ordered was kadhaa. So being the Kenyan I am i packed up the remains, bebad it as I walked home. I have been noting a growing number of Homeless folk lining the montreal downtown streets at twilight, but I have never been bothered per se by my general apathy of their situation. Leo, with Chicken Korma wielded in hand, I was struck by some serious pangs of guilt as I passed this 40 yr old ish guy stuck in an 80 yr old mans body. Too proud to go back and give this guy my bakshish, I assuaged my guilt by thinking of the 10 or so others I would pass on the way home.
So I'm out of the metro station, and theres this one spot that's always has a dude there, looking dazed, yet vigilant of cops. Lo and behold he was there tonight. My chest up, oozing with righteousness, I asked if the guy was hungry. Shock on me. The guy pointed me to a bag on his side, made a quick nod, and went back to whatever he was doing. My pride was stung. This is some chicken Korma buddy. ONLY in CANADA. Homeless dude is not hungry. Ama I look that suspect. Anyway the next guy i found was GENUINELY starving and was profusely thankful, so it ended well this guilt trip of mine. Ahh the things we will do to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.
On a serious note though, I need to start giving more. I have so MUCH, relatively.. Others have so little. It doesnt matter if they are are here or in Kenya. Other peoples misfortunes are really disguised opportunities for you to do something good. The two are inextricably bound. Just like each one of those homeless guys was an opportunity for me - I challenge you guys to see the misfortune beseiging others close by you as a direct challenge of you character.
Tommorow morning the leaves will be reaching out, and it will be a brand new beginning, AND it will be Friday after all. Been a long time coming....
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Monday, April 10, 2006
The X Journals: In search of a Goodman
These are Dr Xander’s journals.
Journal One
Location: A small science laboratory in the middle of the Perthazon jungle, Noongar Country. *
Time: Present
My name is Dr Xander and I am a Goodmanologist. Goodmanology* -the Kenyan chapter is my main area of expertise (at first it was the International chapter, then it became the African chapter. The African chapter was unsuccessful, so I decided to do the Kenyan chapter. It gave me a better and easier platform to work with, even though the rewards are unsatisfactory or non-existent). However, I have also studied Badmanology.*
I have been searching for a Goodman* for quite a while now. Sometime back Dr Othakenyan (my assistant) and Dr Aseean (trainee assistant) found a Goodman in the jungle. This Goodman was found among the Badmans. They brought it to the laboratory for further observation. However, I had to go for a conference. Took the first canoe ride out of the Perthazon and went for my conference. I left Dr Othakenyan with the task of doing what was necessary and success! With her success she had to resign. Now it’s just Dr Aseean and me. (sigh!)
I am currently about to close my laboratory as Goodmans are very hard to come by.
Yes, it’s been hard looking for Goodmans in the Perthazon. This is because, the Perthazon is saturated with so many Goodmanology scientists. As a result, most of the Goodmans have been ‘taken.’*
Journal One
Location: A small science laboratory in the middle of the Perthazon jungle, Noongar Country. *
Time: Present
My name is Dr Xander and I am a Goodmanologist. Goodmanology* -the Kenyan chapter is my main area of expertise (at first it was the International chapter, then it became the African chapter. The African chapter was unsuccessful, so I decided to do the Kenyan chapter. It gave me a better and easier platform to work with, even though the rewards are unsatisfactory or non-existent). However, I have also studied Badmanology.*
I have been searching for a Goodman* for quite a while now. Sometime back Dr Othakenyan (my assistant) and Dr Aseean (trainee assistant) found a Goodman in the jungle. This Goodman was found among the Badmans. They brought it to the laboratory for further observation. However, I had to go for a conference. Took the first canoe ride out of the Perthazon and went for my conference. I left Dr Othakenyan with the task of doing what was necessary and success! With her success she had to resign. Now it’s just Dr Aseean and me. (sigh!)
I am currently about to close my laboratory as Goodmans are very hard to come by.
Yes, it’s been hard looking for Goodmans in the Perthazon. This is because, the Perthazon is saturated with so many Goodmanology scientists. As a result, most of the Goodmans have been ‘taken.’*
I feel sorry for my trainee assistant (She’s very ambitious. She has studied Goodmanology and wants to study Marriageology and Familyology, as soon as she gets a Goodman). What will she do without the lab? More importantly, what am I supposed to do? My time, energy and resources are going to waste. I need some assistance. I need someone to sponsor my experiments.
If any of you know where I can find a Goodman in this Godforsaken Perthazon jungle, please let me know.
You know where to find me- am at the small science laboratory…in the middle of the…yes! Perthazon jungle.
I finish this journal entry with these famous sayings:
"Why are all the Goodmans taken all the time?" Joe’s twin sister
"Don’t lose hope on all the Man Family" Nat Izzo
*Noongar Country also known as Aboriginal Country.
*Goodmanology- the study of finding a Goodman.
*Badmanology- the study of excessively flirting with the Badman species. Sometimes yields dangerous results.
*Goodman- a type of species from the Man Family. Other species from the Man Family include Badmans, etc.
*Taken-this is the process where a Goodmanology scientist finds a Goodman and experiments on it. Consequently, if the results are very successful, they have to resign from their jobs. With the Goodman, the scientists go on to study Dateology and Courtshipology (collectively known as ‘Going Out’) and maybe…just maybe study Marriageology.
Drowning in Happiness?
So last Friday I went to the salon after work to have my hair done. Ya’ll know I can’t be seen looking shabby, especially not at 23 ….you know spring chicken age and that.
Anyway it’d been raining for the past three days and like every Kenyan I was quite pleased. Mostly because the rain caught me safely tucked away in a building. This particular evening a really heavy shower is pouring and I’m thinking to myself there is no way ‘m going out in this rain. Eventually the rain lulls to a drizzle and I rush out to catch a mathree.
Yaani I hadn’t even fikad Afya centre from Standard Street and the rain had resumed with a vengeance yaani lightning, pathetic visibility the works. As fate would have it, there were no mats going my way. So here I am getting rain all over my new hair and basically hoping that a mathree shows up before I catch a cold (darn investing… I should bought that car)
Anyway, I’m pretty chatty and soon I’m in conversation with a similarly affected woman named Mercy. She’s just done her hair and need to get home in time for a date with her husband who coincidentally had asked to pick her up from town but she’d insisted on taking a taxi. Now the cab fare which is normally 500bob is hiked to 1000bob. I’m just desperate to get home so I offer to pay half.
Rain is worse now and I hurriedly buy and umbrella from the street vendor and brave the rain. When we get to the cab that had offered to take her home, the guy kataaz (refuses) to take us home. Wow. Bummer anyway we get another cabbie to say yes and start our journey. The jam is a mother and the cabbie decides to take Jogoo road. Jam is bad there too and we are in some water. It’s a fun chat and we talk about having the cab stall on Jogoo road as a result of all the water and how messed we would be. P.s the reason I took a cab was coz I was really pressed to go to the loo and couldn’t wait to get home. We laugh it off but I’m silently saying my prayers.
Since I don’t see the point of going all the way to GM just to come back down msa road to my house I ask the driver to use Bunyala road. Halfway home we are in a river. No kidding about this. The water is almost at the window and I’m thinking this car had better not stall here. Mercy is busy narrating stories about her sons and how a mathree she was in had stalled in a flooded zone and the tout had to carry them all the way to dry land though he charged them 20 bob each. We are in good spirits.
At this point I was really asking myself if Kenyans were really clever. All the time God had held back the rain, we were too busy asking for it instead of rebuilding our infrastructure to cope with the rain. I guess God must have been giving us a chance to prepare for the rain by giving us such a dry period but we were too busy thinking of what we didn’t have to appreciate what we did have.
Still in jam water up to our windows almost and guess what…..The cab stalls…. Worse still….water has sipped into the cab. I mean my feet are in the water, and I’m thinking oh heck. I came al this way to drown in a cab….no way. Some Kenyans can smell money in any situation so they show up to push the cab onto dry road all the while shouting about how it will cost us 1000bob. I’m thinking oh my God this is just unbelievable. Just when I though I could stop spending money. Oh well. While they are pushing us out, the water levels in the car have risen so high it's no longer making a difference that my feet are on the armrest, as my bum is getting wet since the seats are now soaking
Thankfully the guys accept 150Ksh thank God for Mercy coz I woulda parted with that k. I’m not street savvy like most.
I get home a few minutes later. So glad am I to be home that I had forgotten my bladder condition.
I enjoyed the experience but it really got me to thinking, what do we do between what we want and when we get it? Are we preparing ourselves to be able to accommodate it or will we be overwhelmed like Nairobi’s drainage system?
Anyway it’d been raining for the past three days and like every Kenyan I was quite pleased. Mostly because the rain caught me safely tucked away in a building. This particular evening a really heavy shower is pouring and I’m thinking to myself there is no way ‘m going out in this rain. Eventually the rain lulls to a drizzle and I rush out to catch a mathree.
Yaani I hadn’t even fikad Afya centre from Standard Street and the rain had resumed with a vengeance yaani lightning, pathetic visibility the works. As fate would have it, there were no mats going my way. So here I am getting rain all over my new hair and basically hoping that a mathree shows up before I catch a cold (darn investing… I should bought that car)
Anyway, I’m pretty chatty and soon I’m in conversation with a similarly affected woman named Mercy. She’s just done her hair and need to get home in time for a date with her husband who coincidentally had asked to pick her up from town but she’d insisted on taking a taxi. Now the cab fare which is normally 500bob is hiked to 1000bob. I’m just desperate to get home so I offer to pay half.
Rain is worse now and I hurriedly buy and umbrella from the street vendor and brave the rain. When we get to the cab that had offered to take her home, the guy kataaz (refuses) to take us home. Wow. Bummer anyway we get another cabbie to say yes and start our journey. The jam is a mother and the cabbie decides to take Jogoo road. Jam is bad there too and we are in some water. It’s a fun chat and we talk about having the cab stall on Jogoo road as a result of all the water and how messed we would be. P.s the reason I took a cab was coz I was really pressed to go to the loo and couldn’t wait to get home. We laugh it off but I’m silently saying my prayers.
Since I don’t see the point of going all the way to GM just to come back down msa road to my house I ask the driver to use Bunyala road. Halfway home we are in a river. No kidding about this. The water is almost at the window and I’m thinking this car had better not stall here. Mercy is busy narrating stories about her sons and how a mathree she was in had stalled in a flooded zone and the tout had to carry them all the way to dry land though he charged them 20 bob each. We are in good spirits.
At this point I was really asking myself if Kenyans were really clever. All the time God had held back the rain, we were too busy asking for it instead of rebuilding our infrastructure to cope with the rain. I guess God must have been giving us a chance to prepare for the rain by giving us such a dry period but we were too busy thinking of what we didn’t have to appreciate what we did have.
Still in jam water up to our windows almost and guess what…..The cab stalls…. Worse still….water has sipped into the cab. I mean my feet are in the water, and I’m thinking oh heck. I came al this way to drown in a cab….no way. Some Kenyans can smell money in any situation so they show up to push the cab onto dry road all the while shouting about how it will cost us 1000bob. I’m thinking oh my God this is just unbelievable. Just when I though I could stop spending money. Oh well. While they are pushing us out, the water levels in the car have risen so high it's no longer making a difference that my feet are on the armrest, as my bum is getting wet since the seats are now soaking
Thankfully the guys accept 150Ksh thank God for Mercy coz I woulda parted with that k. I’m not street savvy like most.
I get home a few minutes later. So glad am I to be home that I had forgotten my bladder condition.
I enjoyed the experience but it really got me to thinking, what do we do between what we want and when we get it? Are we preparing ourselves to be able to accommodate it or will we be overwhelmed like Nairobi’s drainage system?
Monday, April 03, 2006
Kwanchetsi Makokha - a politicians nightmare
Commentry or not..this piece was smoldering.
Lies Too Often Told About the President (Page 1 of 2)
A tab bit too blatant if you ask me. Pesa zimemwagwa? Are we witnessing another Kwenda opnga in the making?
I think we need a new means to hold each author accountable for each article they publish..good or bad....WATCH THIS SPACE....
Lies Too Often Told About the President (Page 1 of 2)
A tab bit too blatant if you ask me. Pesa zimemwagwa? Are we witnessing another Kwenda opnga in the making?
I think we need a new means to hold each author accountable for each article they publish..good or bad....WATCH THIS SPACE....
Saturday, April 01, 2006
KENGEN for those abroad
Dear All,
I mean all out there who read VI and would like to cash in on KENGEN or just read more about what the buzz is all about.
Faida Brokers have done a website on the KENGEN IPO so you can get a lot of info on it and even buy online if you so wish.
I'll give you one positive and one negative piece of info on this share. Read the rest for yourslves, akuna spoonfeeding hapa
:) Stock is undervalued brokers tag it at 20KShs so likelihood of making returns on investment is pretty high
:( KENGEN have only one customer KPLC anything goes wrong at KPLC Kengen suffers big time so keep your eye out.
For all you MKA babies see you kesho
I mean all out there who read VI and would like to cash in on KENGEN or just read more about what the buzz is all about.
Faida Brokers have done a website on the KENGEN IPO so you can get a lot of info on it and even buy online if you so wish.
I'll give you one positive and one negative piece of info on this share. Read the rest for yourslves, akuna spoonfeeding hapa
:) Stock is undervalued brokers tag it at 20KShs so likelihood of making returns on investment is pretty high
:( KENGEN have only one customer KPLC anything goes wrong at KPLC Kengen suffers big time so keep your eye out.
For all you MKA babies see you kesho
Monday, March 27, 2006
RE: Mercy and Eric
I'd have to agree that it's abit extreme. Yeah, he's probably tired of seeing that side of the family, but c'mon, there has to be a way to meet in the midle. But I have to say, making your significant other seem insignificant for the past 8 yrs by practically living with your rela's can have 'side effects'. Hope they sort out those differences.
So, I've been trying to play catch-up with the blogs (not doing a good job of it-vicki, will reply soon), but I caught onto Nathan's interest in the Da Vinci Code. Loved the book, own a copy, can't wait for the movie to come out in May. Here's a link to the trailer for those that may be interested. Don't think Tom Hanks will disappoint on that one. And it's a good thing that Africa's being recognized for more than the usually, with the coming of Tsotsi although I think it's already out. Speaking of which, heard of Shooting Dogs? It's based on the Rwanda genocide. Guess after "Constant Gardener", they figured that atrocities are the way to go, ama? But I think it would be an eye-opener for many people, hopefully not another way to capitalize on the negativity of our homeland. Only time will tell.
So, I've been trying to play catch-up with the blogs (not doing a good job of it-vicki, will reply soon), but I caught onto Nathan's interest in the Da Vinci Code. Loved the book, own a copy, can't wait for the movie to come out in May. Here's a link to the trailer for those that may be interested. Don't think Tom Hanks will disappoint on that one. And it's a good thing that Africa's being recognized for more than the usually, with the coming of Tsotsi although I think it's already out. Speaking of which, heard of Shooting Dogs? It's based on the Rwanda genocide. Guess after "Constant Gardener", they figured that atrocities are the way to go, ama? But I think it would be an eye-opener for many people, hopefully not another way to capitalize on the negativity of our homeland. Only time will tell.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Mercy and Eric
OK
I've never been this stressed out at work. Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Thanks to my title I have minions who need training. Apart from that alls well. I'm buying KENGEN putting all my money there too.Really saying that to irk soem people.
Hey thank God for kenyans like Dennis its good to have some of Kenya shine inside and outside of our borders.
Anyway my main point today, As I run to see a client this morning all stressed out coz our Engineers have a penchant for screwing me over, I heard an interesting story which I'd ike your opinons on.
So Mercy and Eric have been cohabitting for the last 8 years. ALl this time Mercy has habitually had rela's over to their house and visiting her folks every weekend. Now they recently got married. NEW RULES: Mercy is no longer allowed to have those relas of her in that house and she is also not allowed to go see her parents.
It seems Mark and I are the only people who percieve this move by Eric as hypocrisy. Ama the rules of engagement are supposed to flip on ring slipping?
Isn't dating all about impressing and courtship all about preparing yourselves for marriage. Should he have said something over the last 8 years. I think so.
Whats your take?
I've never been this stressed out at work. Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Thanks to my title I have minions who need training. Apart from that alls well. I'm buying KENGEN putting all my money there too.Really saying that to irk soem people.
Hey thank God for kenyans like Dennis its good to have some of Kenya shine inside and outside of our borders.
Anyway my main point today, As I run to see a client this morning all stressed out coz our Engineers have a penchant for screwing me over, I heard an interesting story which I'd ike your opinons on.
So Mercy and Eric have been cohabitting for the last 8 years. ALl this time Mercy has habitually had rela's over to their house and visiting her folks every weekend. Now they recently got married. NEW RULES: Mercy is no longer allowed to have those relas of her in that house and she is also not allowed to go see her parents.
It seems Mark and I are the only people who percieve this move by Eric as hypocrisy. Ama the rules of engagement are supposed to flip on ring slipping?
Isn't dating all about impressing and courtship all about preparing yourselves for marriage. Should he have said something over the last 8 years. I think so.
Whats your take?
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Tid bits
midweek brief..
Hosibitali
I am literally back from the dead this week. On the weekend i got the diagnosis that my right lung had collapsed, a medical case known as a pneumothorax. Totally spontanious, this thing is common in tall, lanky individuals such as yours truly. yeah , search me. I then was admitted to the emergency room, brutally invaded with a metal rod and tube in the chest, and spent sato and sunday high on morphine. Miraculously I am in no pain now, 2 days after i had a tube in my chest. ahh the wonders of morphine and health insurance. Bottomline the things that i felt i learnt in that short spell of pain was that:
- cliche, but really you cant afford to take every HOUR of your health for granted. On any given sunday, you could be using up that precious hour waiting that hour through in a ostpital bed amidsta sea of uncertainty and fear.
- Family, doting and obnoxiously nurturing as they can be, are meant to be just that i guess. Perhaps it would annoy me more if they showed any signs of nonchalance to my emergency.
- Insurance = ALWAYS WORTH IT.
Kengen
Left , right, center front, nyuma. The hype is best decribed my initial feeling of by this article i read in the nation . The raw speculative demand on this one is really just a turn off for this equity option. I think the better thing to do is spend more time analysing the market and picking up on the blue chips that many have been so quick to let go of in preperation for the almighty KG. then again, I could be the same guy a year form now in tears that i did not follow up on this offering..hmmm can i live with the regret? Can you?
Winter blues
Walking to work leo..it was relatively warm! Are we begining to experience the fringes of this beast of a season? I wouldnt place my moeny on it.but it cant hurt to hope...
Addicted
To the Daily show & the colbert report - their approaches to humor are similar yet so distant form one another, but equally satirical masterpieces. Charlie Rose on PBS is also great like reading a biography a day really. Some really interesting Americans out there. But really, none does it for tense drma like 24. Every eposide of this season has been lik watching an entire of the previous season. Kwani those writers/producers are on which kind drugs? i want some of that!!! Me and Chris are forming a Jack Baur fan club. We were thinking o starting by makign the shirts to signify our total idol worship of this man. ..but were not sure if we are the only ones in and over our heads...
Hosibitali
I am literally back from the dead this week. On the weekend i got the diagnosis that my right lung had collapsed, a medical case known as a pneumothorax. Totally spontanious, this thing is common in tall, lanky individuals such as yours truly. yeah , search me. I then was admitted to the emergency room, brutally invaded with a metal rod and tube in the chest, and spent sato and sunday high on morphine. Miraculously I am in no pain now, 2 days after i had a tube in my chest. ahh the wonders of morphine and health insurance. Bottomline the things that i felt i learnt in that short spell of pain was that:
- cliche, but really you cant afford to take every HOUR of your health for granted. On any given sunday, you could be using up that precious hour waiting that hour through in a ostpital bed amidsta sea of uncertainty and fear.
- Family, doting and obnoxiously nurturing as they can be, are meant to be just that i guess. Perhaps it would annoy me more if they showed any signs of nonchalance to my emergency.
- Insurance = ALWAYS WORTH IT.
Kengen
Left , right, center front, nyuma. The hype is best decribed my initial feeling of by this article i read in the nation . The raw speculative demand on this one is really just a turn off for this equity option. I think the better thing to do is spend more time analysing the market and picking up on the blue chips that many have been so quick to let go of in preperation for the almighty KG. then again, I could be the same guy a year form now in tears that i did not follow up on this offering..hmmm can i live with the regret? Can you?
Winter blues
Walking to work leo..it was relatively warm! Are we begining to experience the fringes of this beast of a season? I wouldnt place my moeny on it.but it cant hurt to hope...
Addicted
To the Daily show & the colbert report - their approaches to humor are similar yet so distant form one another, but equally satirical masterpieces. Charlie Rose on PBS is also great like reading a biography a day really. Some really interesting Americans out there. But really, none does it for tense drma like 24. Every eposide of this season has been lik watching an entire of the previous season. Kwani those writers/producers are on which kind drugs? i want some of that!!! Me and Chris are forming a Jack Baur fan club. We were thinking o starting by makign the shirts to signify our total idol worship of this man. ..but were not sure if we are the only ones in and over our heads...
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
EHHH VUTA PUMZ
Since you so subtly omitted yourself from the pics - ndio io.
Memories memories. I had no idea you could break it down like that Viks.
That song its like it has been hammered into my kiwchwa with a msumeno..It just wont go. what sucks is that i dont have it anywhere on tape or CD, so its just the one or 2 lines i remember in some serious loop action hehe..
Tazama the slideshow of the pics - much of this wouldve have been possible if you hadnt help me find my Camera! careless ol me :)
Monday, March 06, 2006
A taste of the holidays
Joy: 'Yiheeee'
Kibet: 'Well Yeah... I know am looking good...'
Wangu: 'Look at me eyes...me large eyes'
Anto: 'I have 2 pointing fingers, that can point into opposite directions!'
Eva: 'Am happy today!'
Deno: 'zzzzzzzzzz (smile) zzzzzz'
Very nice!!!
Salsa Nite
Friday, March 03, 2006
Yaani
I've been away from home for only a few days and all this drama has occured. This is the reason I love Kenya. Never a dull moment.
My two pence,
Well Kibaki should in no way condone the current of lack of respect for due process.
The press should be disciplined but the tactics being used here are barbaric if you ask me and should recieve no support from any self respecting Kenyan.
Can't wait to land and get this first hand. Can we hook up soon kenyan peeps. I'm thinkig Next week. Maybe thursday or sunday. Is how si we salsa or somin?
XxX
My two pence,
Well Kibaki should in no way condone the current of lack of respect for due process.
The press should be disciplined but the tactics being used here are barbaric if you ask me and should recieve no support from any self respecting Kenyan.
Can't wait to land and get this first hand. Can we hook up soon kenyan peeps. I'm thinkig Next week. Maybe thursday or sunday. Is how si we salsa or somin?
XxX
Thursday, March 02, 2006
GVT reputation -up in flames
Those wishing to see some video footage of the media crisis on the ground - BBC have a neat piece, with footage of Maina Kiai, Michuki, and civil protests outside the Nation.
The reporters have been released on bail.
As shiroh commented recently on thinkers Piece, I just hope we dont get complacent about this issue too soon- something has got to give.
The reporters have been released on bail.
As shiroh commented recently on thinkers Piece, I just hope we dont get complacent about this issue too soon- something has got to give.
Woe to the downpressor...
this and that...: Press Freedom: Letter to Kibaki:
"Dear President Kibaki,
On March 2, 2006 armed police raided the headquarters and printing plant of the East African Standard Group. In addition to destroying equipment including the printing presses and burning newspapers, they shut down the Kenyan Television Network television station.
This latest attack follows the jailing of three journalists from the East African Standard newspaper, attacks on the Citizen Weekly, and ongoing harassment of journalists by government-sponsored forces.
I urge you to:
1. Condemn these attacks in the strongest terms possible.
2. Dismiss any member of your government who played a role in the attacks.
3. Live up to your promise to support freedom of the press.
Please copy and paste a copy of this letter on your blog. You may alter the wording to suit your needs."
Campaign started by Keguro, wording copied from Mental.
"Dear President Kibaki,
On March 2, 2006 armed police raided the headquarters and printing plant of the East African Standard Group. In addition to destroying equipment including the printing presses and burning newspapers, they shut down the Kenyan Television Network television station.
This latest attack follows the jailing of three journalists from the East African Standard newspaper, attacks on the Citizen Weekly, and ongoing harassment of journalists by government-sponsored forces.
I urge you to:
1. Condemn these attacks in the strongest terms possible.
2. Dismiss any member of your government who played a role in the attacks.
3. Live up to your promise to support freedom of the press.
Please copy and paste a copy of this letter on your blog. You may alter the wording to suit your needs."
Campaign started by Keguro, wording copied from Mental.
RE: freedom of the press
yes! am sure ur now know what transpired in our beloved country. And not one to walk away from controversy......here goes!
i may not agree with the method or fully support their actions, but I see where the "government" (because this is said not to be official action) was coming from. Talking from experience, I've witnessed first hand how the press has lost credibility and become mercenaries for hire. With a little nudging and a lot of money, you can get the press to sing your song. Let's face it, they are not being victimised because of highlighting corruption. Standard was inclining towards gutter-press standings. I think it was high time some action was taken, though not in the same way as we have witnessed. They should have promptly gone thru the KUJ, Media Owner's Association, and our so called Judicial process.
To other matters, Vicki u know we tight! Had a blast for the brief moments we shared. About the investment thing guys, I would like to remind you to remember some of us are just lowly students. The restaurant sound s like a plan, but I perceive it to be very intensive on time and money. I am discussing starting a company with my dad to go into stocks investment. It has in the pipeline as I was preparing a stock and investment portfolio. So i can get u guys some feedback on that.
PS: Wow to those who read the Da Vinci Code, I hear the movie is coming out soon. Does anyone know about the trailer?
i may not agree with the method or fully support their actions, but I see where the "government" (because this is said not to be official action) was coming from. Talking from experience, I've witnessed first hand how the press has lost credibility and become mercenaries for hire. With a little nudging and a lot of money, you can get the press to sing your song. Let's face it, they are not being victimised because of highlighting corruption. Standard was inclining towards gutter-press standings. I think it was high time some action was taken, though not in the same way as we have witnessed. They should have promptly gone thru the KUJ, Media Owner's Association, and our so called Judicial process.
To other matters, Vicki u know we tight! Had a blast for the brief moments we shared. About the investment thing guys, I would like to remind you to remember some of us are just lowly students. The restaurant sound s like a plan, but I perceive it to be very intensive on time and money. I am discussing starting a company with my dad to go into stocks investment. It has in the pipeline as I was preparing a stock and investment portfolio. So i can get u guys some feedback on that.
PS: Wow to those who read the Da Vinci Code, I hear the movie is coming out soon. Does anyone know about the trailer?
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
How now would i call u stupid?
Dribbleglass knows how....sample this: "If her brains were put in a hummingbird, it would fly backwards" or "Some drink from the fountain of knowledge, but he just gargled". The page has just made my morning.
Githongo made it on the Times Europe Magazine, but funnily the article just didn't make good interesting reading. The whistle-blower's gotten enough attention already.
Githongo made it on the Times Europe Magazine, but funnily the article just didn't make good interesting reading. The whistle-blower's gotten enough attention already.
Monday, February 27, 2006
AFRO SKATING
Hey guys? hope you are all well.
Was watching the winter olympics figure skating competition with my housemate last week.She pointed out that she has never seen an African woman figure skate before. Well, I noticed I haven’t seen one either. So, why don’t African women figure skate?
We came up with a couple of reasons:
1. Look at this picture below
Was watching the winter olympics figure skating competition with my housemate last week.She pointed out that she has never seen an African woman figure skate before. Well, I noticed I haven’t seen one either. So, why don’t African women figure skate?
We came up with a couple of reasons:
1. Look at this picture below
1a. Now imagine if it was an African woman doing this, (all of you knowing that most of them have a big behind). The Afro-chic's big behind would have kwaruzad/gwaruzad that floor of ice, right?
2.Look at this other picture
2a. Now imagine if it was an Afro-chic with a big above, (since most of them have been blessed with it).The Afro-chic would have lost balance ages ago.
So, why don't Afro-chics figure skate? I have given my 2 cents, correct if I am wrong.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Poor Boys
I empathise with the Nakuru High School guys who're will now have to do without the lovely company of the ladies. Having been a beneficiary of Co-ed institutions all my life, i find it sad that the School's administrators are unable to maintain a constructive co-ed environment.
Yesterday morning as i walked towards the bus-stop, the Weekly Citizens' Headline: KIBAKI SENILE caught my eye. My first thought was that this is quite some blog material :) and i was going to buy the paper and do some scanning. Ok... so i didn't buy the paper & the opportunities lost forever! The Kenya Police rid the town of the derogatory material. Next time, i'l buy on sight!
Yesterday morning as i walked towards the bus-stop, the Weekly Citizens' Headline: KIBAKI SENILE caught my eye. My first thought was that this is quite some blog material :) and i was going to buy the paper and do some scanning. Ok... so i didn't buy the paper & the opportunities lost forever! The Kenya Police rid the town of the derogatory material. Next time, i'l buy on sight!
Monday, February 13, 2006
Amen Google video
A recent google goodie I found from fellow kenyan blogger white african was this mashup called Flashearth - which is sweet but im not sure how it performs at sub-broadband bandwidth... I zomme dinto Nai and imagine I couldnt recognize anything from the arial view. This is as far down as you can zoom, but im pretty sure that they are working on layering other important info. Only thing I could tell right off the bat was JKIA on the bottom left of the pic. Ca you guys spot any other major landmarks? Westi, Uhur Highway, Buruburu, Kibera?
And in some more google goodness, my bro sent me this absolute CLASSIC vid and God forbid, I opened it at work..i pasuad sana. Cant beat that for a google video can you?
Monday, February 06, 2006
forum/lunch
hi y'all. about the lunch at viki's maybe u can elaborate on a couple of those topics. If Kui remembers,we discussed the matter but not in detail. Kibet you remember the same?
Since I have Sato classes as well, i am unable to attend. These days am married to my women, books! although i often practice adultery and indulge in TV and sports!
Nice to know they cleared up the dog food saga. The owner of the company was grilled about it, and she said that she got together with a couple of her pals to source a supplement from huko New Zealand. But the only thing that caught our eye was that a lady who own a dog-food manufacturing firm is sending food to Kenya.She said she owns the company, but had no plans of sending the food as part of aid.
But lets ask...u know me i seek out controversy...
Since I have Sato classes as well, i am unable to attend. These days am married to my women, books! although i often practice adultery and indulge in TV and sports!
Nice to know they cleared up the dog food saga. The owner of the company was grilled about it, and she said that she got together with a couple of her pals to source a supplement from huko New Zealand. But the only thing that caught our eye was that a lady who own a dog-food manufacturing firm is sending food to Kenya.She said she owns the company, but had no plans of sending the food as part of aid.
But lets ask...u know me i seek out controversy...
- if the dog food came,would we be able to tell the difference?
- let's face it, that dog food is better than what some Kenyans survive on.wats the harm?
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Round of Applause
Don't u think this guy deserves a round of applause for his precedent setting resignation from Kibaki's cabinet. Even in the event that he's still found guilty or liable for negligence, i'll still respect for the courage of his selfless act. (i.e. assuming that he's resignation was a voluntary act!)
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