tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-346108502024-03-05T17:32:49.744+03:00An Awkward Man & His Awkward ViewsA personal space for out of depth and awkward views, commentaries, observations, inspirational messages on family life, Kenya,travel,reviews, un workable ideas and much more.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-11183282227098489842024-01-17T16:42:00.009+03:002024-01-18T11:26:55.237+03:00Nyabohanse- The Village Where Everybody Is A YouTuber In Kenya <p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJmbXKgtXzOLLLFc0CsYXs2tS9CgLk5h63cw7XQldeqy8bLOyhjLgcNM7FbSOgYDuryi7QbTB1ZXfZ3tflUw-UvALuDvZ_GRrfQbzXCNOOm7eXzWEr1eQu4IJz-YJymb3nS3L5tlzQkgwqa81SenLx_EiczzSlcHWCVz-qGBWyrbm421j5_DvSgg/s1201/Nyabohanse%20map.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="844" data-original-width="1201" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJmbXKgtXzOLLLFc0CsYXs2tS9CgLk5h63cw7XQldeqy8bLOyhjLgcNM7FbSOgYDuryi7QbTB1ZXfZ3tflUw-UvALuDvZ_GRrfQbzXCNOOm7eXzWEr1eQu4IJz-YJymb3nS3L5tlzQkgwqa81SenLx_EiczzSlcHWCVz-qGBWyrbm421j5_DvSgg/w375-h264/Nyabohanse%20map.JPG" width="375" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Image: Courtesy of GoogleMaps</span></i></div><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I recently asked on a different forum if anyone knew about Nyabohanse; this after hearing the name pop up here and there. No one seemed to know much about the place, so I did some digging up and I am glad to know this amazing village. </span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">---------------------------------------</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Nyabohanse is a village in Kuria District of Migori County. The village has been made famous by Fredrick Marwa, a Kenyan Wanderlust who has been traveling and sharing his stories on YouTube for 7 years. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>I_am_Marwa has become such a big brand that he has followers all over the world. For 7 years he has made his living via YouTube and we have watched him become a positive influence on his community. Watch his stories on Jalango and Lynn Ngugi TVs online. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In the process, he has turned his whole family and village mates into YouTubers. The sister -Dee Mwango has become a world traveler too and is currently in Jamaica. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">They have built a beautiful home for their parents and a major upgrade of their living standards. In the last two weeks, Marwa has also been holding what will be a one-month house-warming party at his gigantic 7-bedroom house named Villa Medellin, after his favorite Colombian destination. He started vlogging in Colombia and hence the attachment to Medellin.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The party has brought the whole world into Nyabohanse village. Many YouTubers and followers have visited his home, village, and nearby Isebania and Migori towns. Many of the visitors came bearing gifts and lots of phones, cameras, clothes, furnishings, and medical equipment have been donated to the village, to individual YouTubers, to Marwa and his Argentinian girlfriend Rucio. There is another two weeks or so of partying. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">From his lengthy videos while in his home, Marwa has introduced the world to his relatives and his neighbours. Not surprising that many overseas visitors are so connected to the people of Nyabohanse. They brought specific gifts for specific YouTubers based on what they had expressed in the videos. Many destitute families and causes have been assisted too. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">There were YouTubers from US, Canada, Jamaica, Anguilla, the UK, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi and it has been a revolving door at the Villa with guests coming in and going. Some stay for a day, others a few days, and others longer. Some have taken time to visit nearby Maasai Mara, and Tanzanian border towns, some have driven to and from Nairobi, some rode bikes, some hitch-hiked to the destination. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Depending on the hierarchy, some slept in Villa Medellin, some in their parent's home, some camped, and some stayed in Nyabohanse and as far away as Isebania. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">It has been a logistical nightmare just getting everybody to get some camera time with Marwa and he probably shoots 3 to 4hrs of videos daily to receive guests, and gifts, shout out to blessers and sponsors, and also encourage upcoming YouTubers who are there for minute or two of Marwa's endorsement. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This is as real as reality TV can get and the characters from Nyabohanse have not been short of amazing. I see many growing to prominence and fame and I see many disappointments too. It is a very competitive environment and you can feel the underlying tensions boiling. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Many foreigners have also fallen in Love with Nyabohanse and a few have bought land and plan to settle there so prepare to keep hearing about this village in South West Kenya. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Marwa runs a YouTube Masterclass online and also sells a clothing line called @SoftLife. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Nyabohanse probably has the highest number of Youtubbers, per capita anywhere in the world. Even young kids and probably every young person in the village has a YouTube channel. Including all of Marwa's immediate family- mum, dad, sisters, brother, aunties, employees, everybody. Check out his mum's channel at @congratsmum001 for some entertainment. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Just like young kids in many rift Valley villages know a famous athlete from their neighborhood and wish to emulate them, so do young kids from Nyabohanse! Their role model is Marwa or Dee Mwango his sister. They are millionaires by all measures and worth emulating. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Before your mainstream media catches on the Nyabohanse revolution, I know there will be many stories coming out of this now-famous village. The village that probably has leaped from the last century into the next digital era. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Check out their YouTube pages-</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@iammarwa</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@rocabreratravels</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@babushkakenya</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@deemwango</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@davidjunior</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@congratsmum001</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@claudejoseph </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@Geenyada</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@@Majja_ke</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@Burundian_Traveller</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@tinamaroa</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@ChrisMustList</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@MAASAIWITHPASSPORT</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@mamagifts</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@max.one.from.kenya. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@stanleytheexplorer</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@Makena_j</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@Charlowkush001</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@Lines_ke</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@Royalkheem</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@hello.Baby_</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@iammayuguno</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@adebenztv</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@kenmacharia</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@Mofromkenya</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@captainkevinkenya</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@Mercysempire_ke</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">@vinnandleni</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">-------------------</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="x1i10hfl xjbqb8w x6umtig x1b1mbwd xaqea5y xav7gou x9f619 x1ypdohk xt0psk2 xe8uvvx xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r xexx8yu x4uap5 x18d9i69 xkhd6sd x16tdsg8 x1hl2dhg xggy1nq x1a2a7pz xt0b8zv x1fey0fg" href="https://www.youtube.com/live/W97enBzI2GE?si=BmZC3vPnEh5S4SsZ&fbclid=IwAR1aLcMWSW5K_Whl5iJUjqovNljOLX1aORPv_vJ24q05EUoPW7reFVWyCFU" rel="nofollow noreferrer" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; background-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/live/W97enBzI2GE?si=BmZC3vPnEh5S4SsZ</a></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-69085913351979998502024-01-17T15:01:00.001+03:002024-01-17T15:01:32.719+03:00Is Blogging Still A Thing in 2024? <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTJlswL4UpO9zLwRCkSa7lrTqQzSvJeiopmIrI6BFeyQpg2NBMg34Hf15DHADWzJ0ohEfzbvwVQiI9PxqGMfvI-lUhiXWkLWPNXfKjoZYsKXbZdBa1h8ZrmGmGFDpc20K_8mr0LD54XCmzK7gi07r31wc4F7UZMFqBwzqA6muJnq-wFHqx9ixWqA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="360" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTJlswL4UpO9zLwRCkSa7lrTqQzSvJeiopmIrI6BFeyQpg2NBMg34Hf15DHADWzJ0ohEfzbvwVQiI9PxqGMfvI-lUhiXWkLWPNXfKjoZYsKXbZdBa1h8ZrmGmGFDpc20K_8mr0LD54XCmzK7gi07r31wc4F7UZMFqBwzqA6muJnq-wFHqx9ixWqA" width="135" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Image Courtesy of @FreePik</span></i></div><br />My first blog post was on 13th November 2006. It did not go well and I guess being the thirteenth may have had something to do with it. Up to 2014, I was consistently writing articles about my daily life, re-posting articles that touched me and commentaries on Kenyan life.<p></p><p>My blog was named <b>Tekelea</b>, a verb, Swahili word meaning to be fulfilled, to attain or to achieve. In due course, it changed to <b>Above The Din Of Life </b>and lately <b>An Awkward Man & His Awkward Views</b>. </p><p>My first article was published on 13th November 2006 and was monetized on 17th November 2009. </p><p>Coming back here is quite some therapy happening. It is a different world we live in. Back in time, blogs were big and it was before YouTube became big. This was 2006. The word blogger in Kenya has a totally different meaning from the rest of the world. I am glad to see that the dictionary still defines it as " a person who regularly writes material for a blog", further the word "blogger" can also simply mean a person who writes and publishes a blog. </p><p>18 years later the world has changed so much. We now have AI, and social media has become something else but I think I want to go back to writing here and write so much. I will have to google and find out if Blogspot is still a thing. What is the strategy for Google today? Is Blogspot still top in their strategy? </p><p>I will come back here with my findings and the way forward, but just know that I am back and back in a big way. </p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-77602865139490706652023-11-09T14:44:00.000+03:002023-11-09T14:44:16.482+03:00My Cottage Journey <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In 2008 I wrote the above in a post here. Having set a target of 5 years to get that dream cottage, its now 8 years since but the good news is that the cottage is almost done!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It started in 2009 when I got together with three friends and bought a piece of land near the shores of Elementaita. We did not have any specific plans at the time, but I vaguely had a proposal running in my head. My proposal was to bring together about 10 friends and building holiday homes collectively in some exotic locales of Kenya. I had in mind places like Naivasha, Coast, Mt. Kenya, Mara or Amboseli. </span></div>
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In January 2015, I made a resolve to dedicate the next 8 months to building a getaway cottage in Elementaita. I did not need a project plan. I knew what needed to be done. My land was in a remote area with a lot of pastoralism and a fence was the first step of my journey. </div>
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Having done my own concrete fencing posts in an earlier projects, I had 6 moulds and therefore needed to add 4 more so that I can make at least 10 fencing posts everyday. </div>
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I decided to do the fencing posts on site. A gracious neighbour allowed me to use his compound for security. I needed a caretaker of fundi to work on the post and take care of the land after fencing. Raymond was recruited as a casual to work on the posts for ten days. </div>
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On 17th January, I went to Mwariki area of Nakuru Pipeline area to buy sand from the local mines. I needed to buy quarter inch ballast, sand, cement and Y8 rebars. </div>
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Life is hard and we all are fighting one battle or the other. True we do have occasional episodes of some good times when the stars are aligned in your favour, but it seems we are always fighting challenges and obstacles most of the time.<br />
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Some say that life is not fair and we should not expect it to be smooth. Some say that the true mark of man is how he handles and overcomes challenges that marks one as a success.<br />
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Others like the good people at <a href="http://www.thindifference.com/">www.thindifference.com</a> say that life has gifts and challenges. Its your duty to identify your gifts and utilize each them for your benefit.<br />
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They say "Each of us has gifts. We may not recognize it right away, or some may take time to develop. Either way, we all have gifts. It could be writing, dancing, leading, lecturing, designing, inventing, thinking, business etc. In our life, we have gifts to use.<br />
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We all have challenges. Each of us has challenges. They stare at us each day. Our challenges can be procrastination, disorganization, drugs, alcohol, laziness, negativity, unhealthiness, anger, poverty, etc. In our life, we carry a challenge or two."<br />
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In the context of our third world realities, it may not be possible for opportunities to abound for one to take advantage of his gifts.<br />
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Two men who are in the lowest echelons of our society and who are my friends have earned my immense respect and admiration for overcoming challenges that would overwhelm many. Here are their stories.<br />
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Ernest is a security guard working for a multinational security firm. He plys his trade in my block of flats in Nairobi. He is the first born in his family and the burden of expectations from his family is just too heavy. He moonlights as a carwash guy, cleaning at least 8 cars in the compound when he reports for duty. Between 7 pm and midnight, he will wash the cars and earn at least a thousand shillings from each every month. That meagre amount complements his net salary earnings of seven thousands. Ernest has taken all loans possible from his salary.<br />
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Over the last two years we have talked about his desire to get out of the poverty circle. His father has a two acre shamba and with four sons, there is not much land available for farming. He once mentioned that his home is on the outskirts of a small rural town. I asked him if he consider building some four rooms for rental. Construction is not expensive in his part of the country where bricks abound. He took up the challenge and commissioned his young brother in high school to bake the bricks. His father donated some timber for curing the bricks.<br />
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In no time, the rooms were ready and the forces of demand and supply soon dictated that a lodging was preferred to the monthly lease by the locals. Although he could not afford to furnish them with beds, a mattress on the floor was earning him three hundred shilling a night. The possibility of earning over a thousand shilling a day as opposed to washing a car for thirty days to earn the same was his eureka moment. He used to call me to chat on how that was eye-opening moment.Soon he was planning to run a pub in the compound and increase the rooms.<br />
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Two years later, he is about to resign from employment to go to the village to run his pub and lodging. He is moving his family to the village in the new year. He has a chicken project planned for the wife who was jobless in Nairobi. He will lease one or two farms to grow sugarcane as well as manage a brick making enterprise to supplement his income. He says that he will be busy with the bricks, chicken and sugarcane businesses in the mornings and the pub later in the day.<br />
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As part of my encouragement and support, I donated to him two empty crates of beer and an old computer that will be refurbished to house a hard disk of 40 plus hours of music to keep his patrons entertained.<br />
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I wish Ernest all the best on his ground-breaking venture.<br />
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The other gentleman I have met and admired makes a living in a trade we called "chupa na debe" or "wadebe" in our youth. He buys old newspapers, plastics and metals from those who have more than they need. He is the original OLX though his repertoire of products is limited. Mbogo was brought up in abject poverty and was not lucky enough to get an education. His family had a small piece of land that was disputed and forced him to look for a way out.<br />
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Without education, he didn't have many choices and ended up scourging for scrap metal and paper. He soon built a network across the City and beyond into the region selling his papers as far as Kampala. I met him when I wanted to get rid of my heap of old papers and as we were measuring the same we got talking and became good friends over the last three years.<br />
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Mbogo today owns a nursery school in his adopted village employing three qualified teachers and earning some money from a business he admits he knows nothing about. He has entrusted his business to the teachers and the community supports him.<br />
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He recently invited me to his village as his boy was being initiated into manhood and I was proud of his determination to overcome the challenges he was dealt by life. He has a permanent home and thriving farm on his one acre shamba. And what a transformation- when in the city he rides an old bicycle and adorns some not so pleasant clothes. However in the village he is well dressed and groomed. When I inquire he tells me that in Nairobi, no one will sell scrap metal to a neat person, there is a mental lock we have on who should trade in old papers and scrap metal.<br />
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These two men have earned my respect by the way they have overcome adversity and make something of themselves. They have used their gifts and not dwelt on the challenges laid on their paths. Hongera.<br />
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Do we let our gifts shine through, or do we let our challenges weigh us down?<br />
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In a country where sports events are known to degenerate to
chaos with cases of vandalism and hooliganism, I was pleasantly surprised by
the deliberate order exhibited during the recent Safaricom Sevens tournament
held at the Kasarani Sports Complex. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Right from the entrance off the highway, multiple security
checks were mounted to ensure that only those with tickets were allowed into
the complex. Media notices were made to the effect that no ticket sales would
be made at the site on any of the four days. As we got closer to the main gate,
physical checks to ensure no weapons and unauthorized merchandise were sneaked
into the stadium were professionally conducted. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Once inside the stadium, there was visible security in the
parking lots and along the way to the stiles including dogs. Once inside the
stadium there was visible security everywhere. The fact that all fans were
issued with age appropriate bands to ensure no underage fans were sold alcohol
was a plus and spoke of the organizers being socially responsible. In view of
the bad publicity from a recent rugby tournament during which more was reported
on the raunchy happenings off the pitch than rugby action, it was only proper
that such measures be taken.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I do hope the other crowd-pulling sports like football,
basketball and athletics can follow suit and ensure similar measures are taken
during their events. There is hope that we can see more Kenyans can spend
quality time supporting their chosen sport’s teams. With more spectators coming
to cheer their team, I do believe we can be able to make money from gate
collections necessary to ensure sustainability of many sports teams.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The only downside at Kasarani was the low turnout which
could be due to high entrance fees or due to other competing events taking
place at the same time. On the last day, I don’t believe the 60,000 seater
stadium had more than 15,000 fans in the stands. In such a big venue, there are
many alternate means the organizers could have explored to fill the stadium
including subsidizing entrance for schools, police, military and other
uniformed cadres who deserve to be encouraged to come to stadiums. Designated
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also have sections set aside for other special groups like disabled members of
society. For a tournament that could hardly fill the less than 10,000 capacity
KRFUEA Ngong Road stadium, I think it is a bit ambitious for the organisers to
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<i>“ Live with intention. Walk to the Edge. Listen Hard. Practice Wellness. Play with Abandon. Laugh. Choose with no Regret. Continue to Learn. Appreciate your Friends. Do what you Love. Live as if this is All there is.”</i></div>
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Paint a picture of your life in five years? Name three things your have to do each year to reach your five year goal in each of the following:</div>
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1. Family/Love life or Relationships<br />
2. Health & Fitness<br />
3. Spiritual/ Religious life<br />
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Most people can't answer this questions, yet we all want to have a successful life. Just like a Baker aiming to make the best Cake in the World, we have to decide what the ingredients are & how much of each ingredient we need in advance & deliberately. You cannot bake a perfect cake without all your ingredients nor their quantities. All things needed to have a Good life are like that.</div>
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A Good life is only possible if deliberate action is taken to achieve all this, otherwise if you can't deliberately quantify your steps in all the five parts, just sit and watch by the sidelines.</div>
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Success has to be Deliberate, Quantifiable & Planned in Small Steps. Plan your Life before Your Life Plans You.</div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Maiandra GD","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">"I once asked my friend, "What is the secret behind
your happy married life?" He replied,"You should share
responsibilities with due love, and respect to each other. Then absolutely
there will be no problems. "I asked, "Can you explain?"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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issues whereas my wife decides on smaller issues. We do not interfere in each
other's decisions. "Still not convinced, I asked him to give me some
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Maiandra GD","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">He said, "Smaller issues like how many kids to
have, the neighbourhood to live, which car we should buy, how much money to
save, who, when and where to visit, which sofa, cooker, refrigerator to buy,
monthly expenses, whether to keep a maid or not, where to go for holidays,
whose mum we should visit etc, etc, are decided by my wife. I just agree to
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said, "My decisions are only for very big issues. Like whether America
should attack Iran, the uranium enrichment in North Korea, whether Britain
should lift sanctions against Zimbabwe, how to fully exploit Africa's economic
and intellectual potential, whether Yoweri Museveni and Barack Obama should
retire, whether Arsenal FC needs to buy new players or change their coach to
improve their play, whether Usain Bolt should retire now-while still at his
prime etc, etc. My wife never objects to any of these decisions and we live
happily!"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I feel that I have not been true to my various promises I have made in the past about my desired regularity of posts. But hey! that is what happens to the best laid plans, always.<br />
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I am back and promise that I will be very regular here, especially now that I have a blogging partner in my daughter Natasha. She is starting her own blog and I am exited that the family will have two bloggers. I will guide her on the ropes of blogging and I know she will be a very good blogger famous in the world. She will be better than me and many others.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-61040179843867693792013-08-06T21:11:00.000+03:002013-08-06T22:38:16.811+03:00Dear Sunshine............<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I write to you on behalf of all Men from our corner here in Eastern Africa. It not like </span><span style="background-color: white;">they elected me their sole voice, but I know many will agree that my </span><span style="background-color: white;">plea to you concerns them too. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Anyway, I know we haven't gotten along all that well in the past. </span><span style="background-color: white;">I didn't cause the sunburns, but I could </span><span style="background-color: white;">blame my forgetfulness for not carrying my hat knowing what you are </span><span style="background-color: white;">capable of. It wasn't me who scorched the succulent young plants that a family depended on or caused droughts. Anyway, I am no angel either. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know you have been hiding from me for a while now and I guess the lesson you wanted to teach me about needing you has sunk. Absence makes the heart grow fonder they say. On a few occasions when you have shown your face for a short while, I have embraced you like a long lost friend. And indeed you are just that. I don't know why you are playing hard to get. It may be that you and your Mum Nature don't like our part of the world much, it may be something they call Global Warming or it maybe its some mysterious cycle that mortals like me may not comprehend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Whatever it is, Sunshine, and whatever you are planning next; please understand that in our part of the world we have no idea how to deal with your teeth-chattering, dull grey and shiver-inducing replacement. We were born with a sturdy skin pigmentation, a sense of adventure and a love for the great African outdoors. We were not born with a gene that tolerates being indoors too long, the hearth and fireplace were meant for cooking not warming our limbs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Remember that our days are regulated by a slight morning chill, just </span><span style="background-color: white;">enough to keep our senses sharp, day long sunshine and warmth that is </span><span style="background-color: white;">retained in our mud walls and woolly kinky Afros, our early evenings </span><span style="background-color: white;">are warm and suitable for a few hours outdoors to allow the chicken </span><span style="background-color: white;">pens refill, women finalize their culinary duties and put the young </span><span style="background-color: white;">ones to bed. We were not made for huddling in the house in full sight </span><span style="background-color: white;">of children covered head to toe, sniffling and eagerly waiting for the wife's broth. This cold is making us </span><span style="background-color: white;">look bad.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When the morning comes, we are expected to be first out of bed as soon as the cockerel announces a new dawn, but lately we cannot afford that luxury and our role as breadwinners and hunters may be questioned for</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">we are now wont to hang around the bed and house too long to allow the </span><span style="background-color: white;">day warm just a wee bit more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Remember that from our youth we are taught not to be anywhere near the </span><span style="background-color: white;">fireplace. We were admonished by the elders that sitting astride the </span><span style="background-color: white;">three stones is not for men who hope to keep the family safe from oblivion</span><span style="background-color: white;">. There is nothing to warm there. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Our mothers too won't allow any young man hanging around the hearth </span><span style="background-color: white;">with his sisters and exposing his loins and their chance of being </span><span style="background-color: white;">proud grandmothers to the vagaries of the smoke and heat of the </span><span style="background-color: white;">homestead's </span>hearth<span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I hope you now understand why all men are missing you so much. We have </span><span style="background-color: white;">lived with at least a month or two of dipping temperatures every year, </span><span style="background-color: white;">but not what seems like half a year. Didn't they say that it will go </span><span style="background-color: white;">on well past August?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Seems like every new day is worse than the previous. The weather man </span><span style="background-color: white;">and all his technology and gadgets doesn't seem to know if and when we </span><span style="background-color: white;">will be reunited and my anger and impatience is now directed at them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I suspect your absence for so long is not something they are able to explain to me and all the suffering African men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">If nothing else, just remember that the indoor fires in stoves, </span><span style="background-color: white;">heaters, whether they are driven by firewood, charcoal, electricity </span><span style="background-color: white;">and so on are all meant to "dry out" or <i>kausha </i>our loins and thereby cut our </span><span style="background-color: white;">supply. Please do come back sooner dear Sunshine.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-60840741432381111402013-07-30T22:14:00.000+03:002013-07-31T09:25:38.365+03:00Photography Runs In The Family......<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have always loved and practiced photography and in my school and early days in employment I did a bit of photography moonlighting shooting wedding and all manner of events. I have always had a camera at hand having invested heavily in my passion. </div>
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As technology improved and went the digital way, the business side of my passion died and I no longer invested in seeking new markets, but I continued taking photos of my travels, family, friends, events and so on. In the meantime, photography has become localized and we now have young and awesomely creative photographers who are not only earning a handsome living from their cameras but also splashing the digital space with very creative images. </div>
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I am therefore not so surprised that my children have taken an interest in the art and are proving to be better than I am. Of course my son Gregory is using a host of editing tools to come up with very creative photos especially of the macro genre. He is a big fan of the Kenya's leading photographers like Mutua Matheka, Kitoto, Mwarv, Emmanuel Jambo and many others. When the time is right I will introduce him to one of the leading lights for mentor-ship and training. </div>
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I recently encouraged him to start a blog where he can post any of the photos he thinks are worth sharing with the world. I us some of his photos as my screen savers for my electronic gadgets. Here are some he has taken using a phone camera. </div>
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I have not been here for a while and it really bothers me that amongst all the things that I love doing, I am not able to create time to come here for a sessionful of venting, sharing, preaching, bragging, condoling, conversing or debating.<br />
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Between my miserable attempts at earning a living, parenting, having some "me" time, reading, travelling, staying healthy, giving back to society, educating myself, investing, farming, fighting, loving and generally surviving, I seem to have run out of time and I cannot be able to find adequate opportunity and space for my beloved blog.<br />
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Blame it on all the other competing activities in the same alley like Facebook which I actually enjoy,twitting which I dont enjoy doing but love following, writing for work, reading numerous genres ( and I enjoy this too or writing money-making proposals that never see the light of day, it seems like all the juices are sucked out of me and I have nothing left in me for the blog.<br />
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But wait a minute, why the heck do I seem to get time for just about everything else and not the one thing that makes me feel good. Writing is therapy for me, makes me feel good when I churn out a good thoughtful piece however small it may be. Even a phrase with the right choice of words in the right places makes me feel good. I know there is pleasure in writing because it is creating, it is sculpting, molding and giving form where none existed.<br />
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Seeing that writing means so much to me, I am resolving to do it more often and make it more meaningful. I want it to be focused and not aimless chatter and commentaries on just about everything under the moon. I want to write more about my experiences, my observations, lessons I learn everyday, my proposals, my ideas ( and I have very many and wild ones ), my passions, my pet peeves, parenting, relationships, my fears, my aspirations, my projects, my travels and travails, my reviews and my society.<br />
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I will ask God to help me stay away from politics because our brand of politics is just too distressing. I have no problem with our politicians, but I think there is everything wrong with our politics. Should I get carried away in my writing and end up touching on politics, I pray that I will not be partisan but objective in my opinions.<br />
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This new journey starts tonight by forcing time and prioritizing and ensuring that there is at least some 30-45 minutes every evening before bedtime for some writing. So help me God!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-61783725783086782292013-03-01T10:24:00.001+03:002013-03-01T10:26:37.865+03:00Opportunity - Mirfat "Susan" Musa's Chance For Fame & Mullah<div style="text-align: center;">
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My take is that should Susan be known to someone more brighter than she is, here is an opportunity that can make her a "celeb" and maybe some dough while at it. Kenya finally gets a person who is famous for being (in)famous. This is our own homegrown answer to the Kadarshian Sisters, the Hilton Sisters and Nicole Ritchie all rolled in one. Our girl Susan is famous for no talent at all. she is famous for being rude, domineering, nasty, ill-mannered, class-worshiper, pretender, ignorant of the world around her, vain and owner of zero-eating etiquette.</div>
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So how does she go about it? It is obvious the girl has no counsel around her because as soon as the backlash started, she was on her twitter page saying that the show was scripted and that the person she so ably depicted is not real! Bad move! Take advantage of the swelling public interest girl!</div>
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There are many marketers and owners of products who can pay a tidy sum of money to use her as an ambassador or magnet to pull crowds. Imagine the organizers of the Mingle event daring the bravest of Kenya's young men to date her? Imagine if she was to make a presentation to the thousands of women who hate men on how to deflate a man's ego in the shortest time! Imagine if she joined a cause that is counter to her personality and totally ignored the public's perception of a man-eater. No, not the jiggers- that is crowded and already well known. How about sanitary towels, anti-rape, anti-blindness or any cause looking for a heroine to take it to the next level. <br />
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Imagine if she advertised as the answer for domineering mothers-in-law. Imagine a badge or t-shirt endorsing a product saying that with product X, you can date Susan and come out alive! How about a fencing match with Susan? How about selling barbed wire and fencing posts with dear Susan as ambassador? The good people at the Rhino Ark can use the girl to market their latest initiative to fence the Eburru Escarpment Forest. How about Visa and Mastercard? How about sellers of general knowledge books? Imagine a spin-off show by Tujuane producers as Kenya's search for the male equivalent of Susan. The list is endless. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-24878623118057040262013-02-25T14:20:00.000+03:002013-02-25T14:20:57.318+03:00Opportunities- Posta Sleeps Through The Revolution!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK) ( aka Posta for brevity sake) is one example of organisations in Kenya that have slept while opportunity and her sisters were knocking very loudly at the door. What do I mean? </div>
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Every family wishes to have a postal address rental box. I know for a fact that there is scarcity of new postal rental boxes and in some families, up to 3 generations are sharing one postal address as does extended families and whole neighbourhoods. Many SMEs also wish to have their own rental boxes, but demand by far outstrips supply. Bearing in mind the amount of space that a rental box takes, I cannot understand why Posta is not rolling out 10,000 per month! Every new shopping mall needs to have a subsidiary post office and you don't even need to take up expensive shop floors but a parking bay. Most of the expensive building are letting out their parking bays at between Kshs. 8,000 and 12,000 per month. One such bay can accommodate as many as 256 boxes at the front (assuming that its 8 x 8 ft) and the same number or more on one other side. With five hundred rental boxes from one parking bay, you don't have to be a genius to see how Posta can make loads of money. </div>
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Some say that they may be broke and don't have the 2 million needed to put up the structure- 500 locks, 1000 hinges, a door and metal casing for the boxes, but they can start a subsidiary separate from the debt-ridden mother ship and with long term credit, many Kenyans will be willing to pay the Kshs.4,000/- it will cost upfront or in installments of Kshs. 111/= per month for 3 years! </div>
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Many including Posta managers are always lamenting that Mobile telephony, internet and couriers may have taken over the express business and personal mails, but there is opportunity in traditional mail like shares, dividend, land registry correspondence, school certificates, etc I don't ever see registered mail being transmitted through text messages or emails. We all want to touch and feel the real thing. Isn't that opportunity for Posta to work with the conveyors of such documents. It is called captive market! </div>
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For any serious transformation of the Posta to happen, they have to move their thinking away from the traditional Post Office set up. The colonial era post office will not do. Posta needs to outsource. They need to learn from the banking industry's agencies or the M-pesa agency model. I know being a parastatal, there are a thousand and one reasons why its not "doable". The biggest reason is that no other parastatal has done it before! With the recent enactment of the Public Private Partnership Act, I believe this is another opportunity waiting for a taker. So the model of post offices have to move away from the tradition.</div>
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The agency model can also see Posta utilize the home delivery model which naysayers may wish to say is an anti-thesis of the traditional rental box model! If you have devolved postal agencies some of the local agencies will deliver to homes of their customers. The same can be done for slums and poor sectors of society where one box can be shared by up to 20 families with the agency owner managing the mails received via a register. For a small fee, he will deliver your mail to your home. </div>
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Kenya has not been left behind in the E-commerce & Online trade front. Many intra-city business are using the online platform to showcase their products and services. The trade is facilitated by plastic money, mobile money and cash on delivery. In my view Posta needs to get into the game and facilitate delivery via postal boxes. With increased efficiency, every purchase should be in the buyers post office within 48 hours (after all even long-service buses and matatus are "couriering" tonnes of goods across the country overnight).</div>
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Posta can also take advantage of the failure by physical address system project which would have seen the city gradually move to the delivery of mails going physical to homes and offices. Unfortunately since 2006 when the idea was mooted as part of the Afri-Cities beautification programme, not much has happened and no one has bothered link it to some use beyond security and assisting visitors find an address. The project has not worked and may not work because City Council as the implementer lacks credibility. Posta needs to go out and grab that project and own it. For the whole country to go physical address system, it will be another 30 years and since one of the benefits of the system is quick delivery to final addresses of mail, Posta has the biggest stake and interest in the project.</div>
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All these opportunities may need the management and board of directors to shed away all the organisation's history gathered over 100 years that the organisation has existed in different forms. They also have to operate like the box did not exist. It is not enough to think outside the box- imagine there was no box at all! Do not take study tours abroad to study other countries, come up with a home-grown solution. One for Kenya. M-pesa has failed to click anywhere outside Kenya. Think local solutions to our local unique and peculiar problems.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-38186994291040622792012-11-27T23:20:00.001+03:002012-11-27T23:20:04.560+03:00Radio Jambo Converts<div style="text-align: center;">
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Radio Jambo is now a gospel station Seems like I didn't get the memo from Radio Africa Group. Tell, when did Radio Jambo, once touted as Kenya's home of sport and talk, get "saved"? I bumped into the station after many months hanging around Capital FM, XFM and Machoka's Roga Roga only to get a shock by the deeply religious reportoire of local and international gospel music on air.<br />
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Is it not a fallacy then that Kenyan's are mad about sports and English Premier League? Seems like that love will not pay the bills! So are we then officially a religious people? No chance in view of the crimes especially of a domestic nature that we witness on a daily basis.<br />
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I will keep an ear on the rest of the "new" Radio Jambo's programming for the rest of the week. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-67249755705519439932012-11-27T23:07:00.002+03:002013-03-01T13:07:22.565+03:00Opportunities Begging For Takers<div style="text-align: center;">
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For some time now I have been contemplating a series of articles here of the various opportunities I see all around me that are just begging to be taken by individuals, companies, state agencies, leaders and so on. Why do I care, you may ask or why cant I take the opportunities myself? Well the truth of the matter is that I am a fountain of ideas, but unfortunately I don't have the courage or resources to implement them. The ideas are not all about making money, otherwise I would have cashed a long time ago. Most of them are just ideas that can save the state coffers a load of cash or make the life of citizens much better. Others are just plain common sense and you keep wondering just why didn't any one see them earlier.<br />
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You may wonder why I bother writing about it instead of taking the fight to the owners- the guys who are in positions where they can change things. Well, I have tried all that and more. I recall once when I made an appointment to see the then Mayor of Nairobi to discuss possible cost-free solutions to the perennial hawking problem in Nairobi. However after a long presentation, I realized he was not listening or did not see the opportunity therein. Of course my idea was not bought and we still have the problem. I have made formal and informal presentations to opinion shapers and implementers all over the place. I have written to the media via Letters to the Editors and opinion editors, some times I do get published and most of the others I am just ignored. Anyway, I am determined to share some of the opportunities that I see around my society just waiting for takers.<br />
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Please indulge me.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-57169857856260823722012-11-25T23:10:00.001+03:002013-03-01T13:05:19.510+03:00Been A While........Seems like time just flies right past us. I must admit that a statement I heard on radio today kind of woke me up- that we are just a month away from Christmas. Did we not just start this year the other day? Is it time to bid the year adios? So soon?<br />
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Anyways, it has been a rather hectic year for me both at a personal level as well as at the career level. As always there were numerous ups and downs too, but as always I believe what distinguishes one set from the other is attitude. I am always grateful when things are working out and when they are not, I make a point to learn at least one lesson from each unfortunate or unsuccessful episode that I encounter. It has not been different this year.<br />
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At another front, we are now bang in the centre of the silly political season when the whole country seems to lose her marbles. By the way, I have tried to stay away from making any political statements or commentaries in this forum or anywhere else apart from a very small circle of close friends who know me and where I am coming from. That circle is less than five people and even then, we hardly ever seem to agree or share any position. The reason is that my political views are radical and anti the Kenyan script where we are all supposed to take tribal, regional or religious sides.<br />
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Anyways, I will not change my position on desisting from sharing political statements just like I learnt that you should not discuss with strangers any of the following no go topics- sex, family, politics, religion and money! Really? So what else is left to discuss, especially for Kenyans. The weather? I think if you take away politics and EPL from the diet of daily small talk you will end up with a rather boring bunch of Kenyans.<br />
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I think the year 2012 has also been a rather tragic one for me because my mortality has been reaffirmed by the deaths of people close to me. I lost three close friends and at least another four or five acquaintances within the year. November has especially been bad because people of my age were seperated from the world of living and it just seemed so unfair. Why should people who seemed to have everything to live for just depart from our midst so fast and so unexpectedly. Nobody seems to fully explain the phenomena of life and death, but the lessons I take is that we need to live for the day.<br />
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Reminds me of an advert I saw the other day from a website for chain of hotels called Viceroy. It is simple but loaded. <b>" Remember to Live"</b> - life is hectic and may just get you lost in it that you may forget to live. How many times do we get so immersed in a work project, in office politics, in religion, in family affairs, in our neighbors, friends, that we forget to live our own lives . I know many people who devote so much of their time in the lives of their children,parents, siblings or friends that they seem content to put their own lives on pause. Their own needs can wait. Seems to me that we must be selfish if we want to lead well balanced, purposeful and meaningful lives.<br />
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Anyway, seeing that I have not been able to post anything in more than a month, I am glad that I have let off my rumblings about time, politics and living life. See you some time soon and remember to register as a voter soon so that you can exercise your democratic right to choose your rulers.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-75767341256730877342012-09-21T08:36:00.000+03:002012-09-21T08:36:31.469+03:00Office Guys- No Loo've Lost<br />
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use the office loo early in the morning. Don’t get it wrong, I am not keeping tabs on my workmates loo
timetables, but I happen to use the small rooms for changing and freshening up
every morning from my walking gear to my office gear. So I make a mandatory
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<span lang="EN-US">Here, I keep bumping into these senior colleagues
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minds. Their greetings are superficial and hurried as they enter the cubicles!
These are guys you would expect to be more comfortable using their home and
personal loos, but no, they want to jostle for space with their drivers,
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I hate like using public loos, be they in a 5-star hotel, at work or another
person’s home. I feel like that business needs to be accomplished in the
comfort of your home where any discomfort thereof can only be for your family
members and not your workmates or total strangers. Which reminds me of a pal
who in the old days when public toilets were all nasty and best avoided; he was
a walking almanac of the best public loos in the city. He knew which café,
cyber, supermarket, and office you could sweet-talk or bribe your way into. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Back to my office pals. It doesn’t help
when the guy with the current record for the smelliest activities also happens
to be a guy you like. Somehow, the pong will always get in the way of
reinforcing your friendship. I just wish he would keep it at home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-26280961969289173562012-09-04T11:53:00.003+03:002023-11-09T14:35:08.328+03:00Letter To My Son-The Story Of My Handwriting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">I am told that your personality can be
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investigate the personality of a criminal through forensics including literally
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<span lang="EN-US">While I will not differ or hold a contrary
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of paper and pen I am using that determines what my handwriting will eventually
be. If I encounter very some high grade smooth paper and a softer blotter
underneath, my handwriting flourishes and borders on sexy calligraphy!, if on
the other hand I end up with one of those extra thin points or tips on a thin
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seem to be on a never-ending search for the perfect tip and nib. Over the
years, I have retained handwritten diaries not because I had anything important
to say, but because I had just the right paper to write on. You can imagine my
joy of 365 blank leafs to come back to every day. Talk of a daily fix!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">And so it was the other day when we went to
buy back-to-school stationery for the kids and I stumbled upon some disposable
pens with the finest nib, I have ever encountered anywhere. I quickly picked up
some black, blue, green and red pieces and headed to the counter. Each would
cost Kshs. 350/= and here I was about to spend Kshs.1000/= on disposable ink
pens. My children’s stationery for a whole term including boxes of pencils,
colour pencils, erasers, sharpeners and other such stuff was only costing me
about Kshs.1500 only. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The clerk at the till was obviously
brighter than I was and was quick to offer unsolicited advice against buying
disposable pens at that outrageous price. He thought it was more sensible to
buy a fountain pen and lots of ink which is what I did. Unfortunately they only
had school type plain but functional pens costing Kshs. 85. I grabbed one and
later in the day tested it and loved it. It was taking me back to my fine
handwriting! Don’t know what that had to do with my personality, but the pen
was fine and the paper too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So to test drive the pen, I wrote a letter
to my son and earned myself a big bear hug and some mumbling of “ I love you
too Dad”. The fruits of a good handwriting I guess…… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-42521211591288429882012-07-24T15:26:00.002+03:002013-03-01T13:12:00.872+03:00Let Us Find Ways To Enjoy Thika Superhighway<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is need to ensure that all the
drivers and passengers using Thika Superhighway are getting the maximum value
of the 27 billion shillings that the country has invested in the project? However,
the recent fatal accidents on the road have generated debate on the readiness
and ability of Kenyan road users’ to utilize this national asset effectively. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In my humble opinion, I think the
handling of the expected final product by managers of the project (KENHA) and
their client (Ministry of Roads) is laid-back and their lack of preparedness is
giving the motoring public a raw deal. They seem too excited about the 3 year
construction period which is a means to an end and not the road’s 50 year
usability period. They seem ill-prepared for what ought to be a giant leap for
Kenya’s transport sector. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Even before the road is officially
commissioned, the Traffic Police have stepped in to arbitrarily reduce the
speed limit to 50 kmph as a way of averting the accidents. Rumble strips and
humps have become an eyesore on an expressway that was meant to ease the
perennial traffic jams that continue to cost the economy in time and money by
creating a three lane unhindered road designed for speed. As is usual with Kenyans when faced with a
problem, we are known to go for the solution least likely to offer a lasting result.
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is nothing wrong with Thika
Super Highway design or infrastructure or the intentions behind the project.
There is however everything wrong with the managers and owners of the road
imagining that everything will be clockwork smooth without any effort or input!
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is the first expressway in Kenya.
Usage of a three lane high speed road is new to many. We have only seen three
lanes on Mombasa Road/Uhuru Highway/Chiromo Road which are one continuous city
thoroughfare where the choice of lane is dictated by destination or exit point
and not speed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On an expressway, however the old
“keep left” rule learnt in driving school applies with only one or two exceptions
defined by law. The outer lane (to the extreme left) is for the slowest
vehicles like trucks, buses, trailers, etc which are expected to be moving
at the speed of 80 kmph or less or those
exiting into the service roads to their left, while the middle lane is for all
vehicles moving at over 80 kmph but not more than 110kph . The inside lane (to the extreme right) should
always be free and not used unless you are overtaking a slower vehicle in the
middle lane or your vehicle has a siren (police, fire, ambulance or
presidential motorcade). Its important to remember that the road was designed
for safe high-speed operation of motor vehicles through the elimination of
intersections and roundabouts. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This sounds all sensible, but how do
we ensure that every single user of the road understands and adheres. It cannot
be through the so-called “sensitizations” that KENHA conducted one morning near
Safari Park Hotel and which at most may have attracted a handful of drivers and
idlers on a road reportedly used by 250,000 vehicles daily. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The starting point should be
installation of very legible signage on the road utilizing the traditional
traffic and informational signs as well as the new LED technology to inform,
persuade, warn and occasionally threaten with prosecution those intent on
breaking the traffic rules. This should be enriched by a 6-month to 1 year
multi-media campaign on radio, TV, print, outdoor, online and onsite with a
view of introducing and inculcating the best practices by use of “Do’s and Don’ts”
with visual, audio and print messages in all languages used by the potential
road users and on all media possible. Finally the law enforcers should come
down very hard on offenders in a very public way with a view to ensuring that
copy cat tendencies are discouraged. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Gill Sans MT","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I imagine that this is not the first
time that similar challenges have been faced by road users here and abroad. In
days gone by, it must have been a challenge for road owners and managers when
the our forefathers first transited from the horse cart to the much faster
automobile or even the first time that paved surfaces were used as roads. The
history of highways and expressways is not very old even in the developed world
and we need to take heart in the knowledge that we are pioneering the same in
this part of the world. For a minute, think about the confusion that the first
roundabout or dual carriage caused in Kenya not so long ago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-33366110421629694932012-06-07T08:54:00.000+03:002012-06-07T08:54:11.472+03:00I am getting a living eulogy<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We are close to the middle of the year and its as good a time as any other to reflect on the state of my life so far. In fact what is on my mind is not the many promises and resolutions I made to myself about some idealistic or lofty goals I set for myself at the sunrise of the year, but more about what my whole life is worth todate and for whatever time I have left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Make no mistake, I am not about to die and I dont have a terminal condition that gives me only a short time to live. It is just that I am wondering and musing about the words and reaction my death will get from those who are near and dear to me. Seeing that I have no control over their reactions and emotions, I have decided to write for myself the eulogy that I hope they will read during my wake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Infact I feel good about it because I have already come up with the opening lines of my obituary. It goes like this:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Death has chosen a bad time to visit, at least for me, but in the knowledge that the day of our birth and the day of our death are the only certainites in life, there wasnt a way out it seems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In days gone by, a man's measure was arrived at by how best he lived within the confines of his society's definition of honour, family pride, love of his nation, success at raising a family amidst plenty, how many enemies you put on a stake, etc A man lived by the dictates of his society but today different people impose on themselves different standards and expectations. We are no longer expected to all live within the boundaries set up over a long period and called called history, heritage or culture..............." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I will pick up from here and continue to finalise the 2000 word's speech I will be reading during my funeral! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Dying has inspired some great words and my favourite is a poem written in 1932 by Mary Elizabeth Frye called "Do not stand at my grave and weep" I also hope to be able to write my own poem that will accompany my eulogy. </span><br />
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<dd style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Do not stand at my grave and weep,</span></dd><dd style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am not there; I do not sleep.</span></dd><dd style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am a thousand winds that blow,</span></dd><dd style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am the diamond glints on snow,</span></dd><dd style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am the sun on ripened grain,</span></dd><dd style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am the gentle autumn rain.</span></dd><dd style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When you awaken in the morning’s hush</span></dd><dd style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am the swift uplifting rush</span></dd><dd style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of quiet birds in circling flight.</span></dd><dd style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am the soft star-shine at night.</span></dd><dd style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Do not stand at my grave and cry,</span></dd><dd style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am not there; I did not die.</span></dd><dd style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i><br /></i></span></dd><dd style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Image courtesy of </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>http://danimatchison.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post.html</i></span></span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"> </i></dd>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-36635134498180553472012-05-24T15:08:00.000+03:002012-05-24T15:08:09.625+03:00Why I Will Not die A Conformist<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Many people in the world
tend to flow with the wind. Many people are afraid to be different, to go
against the grain, so to say. That is why we have become a society of
hypocrites, people who seem to lean on one side, but when a vote is taken, the
results don’t tally with the general view. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Take Kenyan politics for
instance, we all claim that we are rid of tribal leanings, that tribe is not a
consideration when we vote, that we vote on merit and based on a candidates
manifesto. But the politicians know us better and when they campaign, they
appeal to our tribal instincts; they play to our fear of domination by other
tribes and successfully corner the voter. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Another good example of
how hypocritical we are as a society is to be found in the religious sphere. We
confess to being deeply religious, but a close examination of the society shows
a very immoral, sick and crude people. Watching TV or reading the press, one is
exposed to a people deeply troubled, entangled in immorality, cults, witchcraft
and everything else that is anti-religion. How would you explain the domestic
violence that seems to almost have a sanction? How do you explain widespread
practice of FGM? What about the greed that is consistently exposed to have
invaded our religious institutions? Many countries that do not profess religion
above everything else have a better human rights record than we ever will dream
of. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Deep inside my heart, I
have always been able to see through all the lies that my society lines up in
its feeble attempt to defend itself, and that keeps me striving to avoid
falling into the same quagmire. Every day, I try to weigh all the decisions I
make and ensure that what I do is based on whether it is right and proper and
not motivated by any other factors. I don’t want to die a conformist who knows
he made decisions to please the gallery but not his conscience. I don’t want to
die a thousand deaths on the inside because I didn’t have the courage to say
what I felt deep in my heart. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don’t want to die a
conformist. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-37371542635672535252012-05-14T19:07:00.000+03:002012-05-24T15:09:03.281+03:00Maybe We Are Human After All<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Kenya’s top award winning
investigative reporter</span><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Mohammed Ali of the Jicho Pevu fame was today charged
with theft of a mobile phone worth Sh100, 000. He appeared in court charged
with the theft of a mobile telephone. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;">Only last week a debt
collector accused lawyer Ahmednasir Abdullahi of forgery and claimed that he
was not qualified to practice as an advocate. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;">Mr Bryan Yongo claims Abdullahi does not have
a Certificate of Completion of Pupilage as required under the Advocates Act. The
lawyer is best known for his recent ferocious scrutiny of judges past rulings
and qualifications during the vetting exercise as a representative of LSK in
the Judiciary Service Commission.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Only yesterday, Scott Thompson
the CEO at Yahoo-US was replaced after the emergence of allegations about a
fake computer science degree for the past week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Remember Dominique Strauss-Kahn,
a former IMF chief and potential French President in 2012 who was accused in a criminal
case relating to allegations of sexual assault and attempted rape made by a
hotel maid, Nafissatou Diallo.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is easy to blame these
men who have excelled in their various specializations for the disgraceful falls
and having an Achilles’ Heel , after all they have been at the forefront
fighting the good fight and our perception of them was of men beyond reproach.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;">Is our perception to
blame? Do we set high expectations for ourselves through their actions at the
best of times?</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Why do we get surprised and
wonder where the chink in the </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">armour</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> came from? </span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34610850.post-54969651147893067122012-05-14T13:27:00.001+03:002012-05-24T15:09:32.675+03:00How Long Does It Take To Decompose?<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">We all know the dangers of disposing waste that is not bio-degradable, but we rarely know how long it takes for the waste to be one with earth. This will shock you......</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Paper Towel - 2-4 weeks </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Banana Peel - 3-4 weeks </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Paper Bag - 1 month </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Newspaper - 1.5 months </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Apple Core - 2 months </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Cardboard - 2 months </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Cotton Glove - 3 months </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Orange peels - 6 months </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Plywood - 1-3 years </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Wool Sock - 1-5 years </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Milk Cartons - 5 years </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Cigarette Butts - 10-12 years </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Leather shoes - 25-40 years </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Tinned Steel Can - 50 years </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Foamed Plastic Cups - 50 years </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Rubber-Boot Sole - 50-80 years </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Plastic containers - 50-80 years </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Aluminum Can - 200-500 years </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Plastic Bottles - 450 years </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Disposable Diapers - 550 years </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Monofilament Fishing Line - 600 years </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Plastic Bags - 200-1000 years </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Entrepreneur and former Minister, Njenga Karume is the latest prominent Kenyan to be put down by cancer. Cancer which the US National Cancer Institute defines as " <span style="background-color: white;">a term used for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and are able to invade other tissues. Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;">systems. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Cancer is not just one disease but many diseases. There are more than 100 different types of cancer. Most cancers are named for the organ or type of cell in which they start - for example, cancer that begins in the colon is called colon cancer; cancer that begins in basal cells </span><span style="background-color: white;">of the skin is called basal cell carcinoma."</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It was only a short while ago that Public Health Minister, Hon. Beth Mugo came out to announce that she is recovering well from breast cancer and probably a year ago, it was her Medical Services colleague, Hon. Prof. Anyang Nyon'go who reported that he had successfully battled with prostate cancer. A leading city marketer and newspaper columnist Jerry Okungu is recovering from the same type of cancer. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I do recall at the time the good Professor was going public about his case, he was widely acclaimed as brave because African dont make public their disease, especially so if you are a leader. He broke some ground there and as a result we now see many other publicly admitting and telling it all. That is how Hon. Mugo, Mr. Okungu, the late Maathai's family and now Njenga Karume's family are able to come out and say that they are suffering from or their beloved has succumbed from a specific cancer . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Early last year I was <a href="http://tekelea.blogspot.com/2011/04/prof-nyongo-you-should-not-whine-do.html">seething mad</a> at the Minister for whinning and doing nothing, but I am glad to note that he did not let me down and soon thereafter set up the <a href="http://www.africacancerfoundation.org/about.html">African Cancer Foundation</a> (ACF) and it was during Foundation's launch that Kenya was introduced to the ever bubbly ten year old leukaemia patient, Rose Nasimiyu who went on to win the nation's heart with her brave demeanour in the face of a disease that not many in her age bracket would understand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">According to the ACF website, the Foundation "was formed on April 6th, 2011 as a charitable Trust and incorporated in Kenya on June 15th, 2011. ACF seeks to mobilise resources, carry out research, create awareness and provide services for the prevention, management and treatment of cancer in Africa. It also seeks to establish best practice standards and promote exchange of experience with existing centres of excellence around the world, thereby reducing the knowledge gaps between the Global North and South." The foundation is led by Zawadi Nyon'go, the minister daughter and from the look of things they will achieve their mission plus more. I wish them luck. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Last year, our very own and world renowned Wangari Maathai was felled by the ovarian variation of the disease, so was author and <span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">paediatrician Dr. Margaret Ogolla, </span></span> <span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Court of Appeal Judge Justice Moijo ole Keiwua and hundreds of other not so prominent Kenyans whose trysts with the disease happened far from the media glare. According to KBC, "d</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">octors are warning that cancer has reached epidemic proportions with developing countries such as Kenya bearing the brunt of the disease due to lack of knowledge, capacity for screening, early detection, diagnosis and treatment. </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">It is estimated that there are more than 18,000 new cases of cancer every year, with experts saying that more cases go un-diagnosed because of victims' ignorance and lack of access to medical facilities." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">There has been in existence since 1995, the Kenya Cancer Assocation led by Dr. Siele. "KCA </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13px; text-align: left;">is a voluntary run </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 13px; text-align: left;">non profit making organization established in Kenya in 1995 after recognition that Cancer was emerging as a leading cause of death in the country. Its core mandate is to raise public awareness on Cancer as well as mobilize and lobby stakeholders including the Government to prioritize Cancer in their programs" Actually there is a proposed </span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Cancer Control Bill which is lined up for presentation to Parliament soon. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That cancer does not respect the mighty and powerful is evident in far away South America, where former Brazilian president Lula has suffered from throat cancer, Argentine President- Cristina Kirchner from thyroid cancer, Venezuelan Hugo Chavez has also been undergoing cancer treatment for some time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A recent movie I watched called "50/50" about a young man’s struggle with cancer shows that fear of the disease is greater than the disease itself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My humble prayer is that the thousands of poor Kenyan's who suffer from cancer are able to access quality medical care and advice and diagnosis happens early enough to ensure many fully recover from the disease. </span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">The cheap Chinese and Indian bikes have revolutionized motorcycle riding in Kenyan. In every corner of this country, there are hordes of boda boda operators waiting at road junctions, town bus termini and every corner. Apart from boda boda operators, the motorcycle has changed the very essence of micro and SME set-ups. Farmers can now send milk and other produce to far-flung places, freelance service providers can serve large areas in a day and for leisure and social purposes many middle class rural families now have an affordable means of getting from point A to point B.</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">In the urban areas, there is a new revolution of motorcycle riding for lifestyle purposes. On any given weekend, you are likely to meet with a posse of bikers heading out to Naivasha, Magadi, Thika and beyond. These bikers have the financial muscle to buy the most powerful and technology laden machines available anywhere in the world. These bikers do not ride for a living, but live for the ride. In their other lives, they are astute business men, lawyers, managers, doctors, creative, pastors, entertainers, high-end mechanics, expatriates with a sprinkling of the petrol heads, rich and spoilt kids who can afford the lifestyle. </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">They are likely to be seen in the latest Harley Davidsons, Yamaha R1s, Suzuki Hayabusas, Honda CBRs, etc. The motorbikes they ride will set you back anything from half a million to 1.8million to acquire a second hand one from Japan, Britain, Dubai or US. </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Some of the better known bikers include Pastor Allan Kiuna, head of Jubilee Christian Centre, Moses Nderitu, an enteprenuer in the sanitation sector, Arthur Igeria, a city lawyer and Charles Kimenyi a music teacher, Oyunga Pala a renowned columnist and DJ Stylez of Code Red DJs. A few other die-hard enthusiast have formed themselves into groups with a view to propagating the biker lifestyle. They include Outriders Association of Kenya whose members are known to offer outrider services to major road events. They are also participants in the Friday night basketball events held in Nyayo Stadium. </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Another grouping with a following of about 1750 is Kenya Bikers who are active on Facebook. They organise rides to places like Narok for purposes of charity and recreation. If you put your ear on the ground and listen hard enough, you are bound to hear whispering about another mysterious community of kids who are into bikes for purposes of executing stunts and illegal road races. There is talk of large sums of money exchanging hands in outrageous bets. For instance the race record for Nairobi to Naivasha is 17 minutes while those who race further do Nakuru in 38 minutes. You hear of possible deaths caused in the chase for glory and fame within these circles. It is likely that relatives of the dead riders may not know the exact circumstances of their unfortunate deaths. </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">There are many other riders who do it in singles without joining any groupings. Many expatriates fall within this category and will usually bring in their high-end motor bikes into the country and sell them at the end of their tours of duty. You will likely find them around Gigiri and such other neighbourhoods. The other class of bikers are the professional riders who have grown on motor-cross tracks. Most of the young ones start honing their skills at a very early age and graduate into higher age-sets with time. </div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">The one common thing with all these riders is that no expense is spared and the bikes are meant to make a huge a statement about who the rider is and their financial ability. They use the well-known brands in riding gear and accessories. Unlike the messenger and boda boda who wear helmets costing Kshs. 2,500, these class of bikers spend close to Kshs.120,000/= worth of in boots, helmets, riding jackets with full body armour, pants and a few other stylish gadgets meant to make the ride enjoyable like bluetooth communication sets and mounted miniature cameras to record every moment for purposes of sharing with friends and posting on Youtube.</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">So next time you look down on your rear view mirror and see a robot-like rider bearing on you at the speed of lightening and looking more like a lost MotoGP racer, make sure you give him the way; he could be part of a big posse out to beat a record. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9