| ... IN LOVING MEMORY ... |
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To Michelle
One of a kind...
This is for you.
I Miss you... |
| ... REGULARS ... |
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For
those clamoring for past issues -- check out the archives and hope
to High Heaven that what you want is there!
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| Read
extracts from my journal. Most of the interesting stuff is there and
I am thinking about sharing with you the really neat stuff like when
I helped milk a cow that turned out was a Friesian bull.... |
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| Take a look at the agumbaru's corner
-- (see if you're there!) I rant and rave and pull no punches! For
all you know, you may be next! |
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| Take a look at some assorted links.
I will collect more and organize them when I feel inclined to but
until then -- enjoy! |
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| Something I have been driven to make
by a firebrand lass whose email was in HEX! A very technical page
for watu wa IT. |
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| ... YAAAWN!!! ... |
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I can safely say that I am totally and utterly exhausted.
I have been working flat out this weekend to meet deadlines that
I always seem to keep getting for myself but I am glad to say that
I am 90% done. I completed two reports, did an entire pharmaceutical
system, was treated to a good lunch, saw my nearest and dearest
off for a visit the to the grand-folks, threw my hands in
the air, and waved them around like I just didn't care and did the
preliminary designs for industrial applications for a large Accounts
firm and an Insurance Brokerage.
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| I cannot by
any stretch of the imagination be said to have been idle. I woke up
at 6:30 on Saturday morning! I kid you not! SATURDAY!
And since I work best under the influence of VERY LOUD Aaliyah,
Craig David, Beethoven, Bach, Kurupt, Ludacris, The Coors, The Cranberries
and about a hundred other such good people my neighbours also got
up at 6:30 with me and I am quite unrepentant! Probably the first
time they saw Saturday's Sunrise. The only thing that can make
my smile broader is when I am laughing my way to by cannibalistic
and greedy bank which I am sure must be devising ways for charging
me for merely existing.... I still have issues with Barclays but underneath
all that blue they're not all that bad.... |
| ... SAFARICON ... |
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For those poor misguided souls who make use of a network
know as Safari-Con my sincere sympathies are with you. When
the MD of that establishment showed up on TELLY and asked his subscribers
not to "call so much on Fridays and off-peak hours", due
to the congestion that as religiously as a silly statement
from a head of state brought the entire network to its faltering
knees. I laughed so hard that a rib damn near punctured my
stomach. Since when were people to be dictated to when and where
to call their friends, Romans and Countrymen?
Con-Cell, the other provider is no better. These blokes
are keen to take as much of your hard earned money as they
can in the shortest time possible and they are getting very
good at it. I cannot get over this nonsense of per minute
billing but my hands are tied on the matter. However their services
cannot be faulted.
Moral of the story? At the end of the day you're going to get conned.
At least get conned reliably!
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| ... THE KENYAN SPIRIT... |
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Set off in search of a
Children's home in the Mukuru slums and got there quite later
than I figured. Why? En route I ran across a couple of enterprising
ladies and gents happily engaged in the pursuit of selling clothing,
shoes and other apparel. The chap selling shoes was armed with a pair
of paint tins filled with dirty water and with an associate
was washing the shoes in a bid to make them more presentable. The
sheer number of shoes he had to sell was impressive. I lost count
after pair 50. |
| That sons
and daughters of their parents were keen to acquire the shoes
was quite apparent. Immediately South of South West of his
person was a young lady with the dimensions of a passing station
wagon. She was selling white garments from T-shirts to vests to
shirts to under garments. Her sales pitch when she noticed me stunned
me at first was a tad on the breathtaking side. Taking a huge
pair of white underpants that at first looked like a tent she spread
them open to their fullest, leaped to her feet and holding the delicate
garment under my nose announced to me that "uncle, hii
itakutosha!" That I did not doubt. Me, my twin and the entire
team of players, substitutes, water boys and technical staff of Harlequins
RFC could have fitted in those underpants and still have room to swing
our arms. I didn't quite know how hot cakes can sell so well but
after seeing children of their parents buy vests, T-shirts and inner-wear
for the princely sum of five shillings now I have an idea of how that
commodity known as the 'hot cake' may have sold! |
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| ... THOUGHTS ... |
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The Pakistani friend of my Brother is forever at the Carnivore.
His name could only be Dan Singh!
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| ... FEEDBACK ... |
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I have a constitutional right to give My own shout-outs to whoever
I please!
Gathoni: Where have you got to girl?
Cherie: Still chilling....
Wanja: Where on earth have you gotten to then?
Bryan: I've read your mail and am giving it a thought.
Simiyu: I've read your mail and am also giving it some thought.
Eve: You're not that girl!
Jonah: You, sir, are a River Troll. And no doubt River Trolls
all over will soon be complaining at the insult done to them.
Beth: Still in shock! Thanks for the chocolates!
Miss X: If you have the dimensions of a motor boat that spaghetti
strap and the hipsters simply don't work for you!
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| ... ONE OF A KIND ... |
| Stacy (Hmmm!), Anissa
(Will anything ever get you down?), Cynthia (Proved that distance
cannot break friendships), Jimo (You're a thoroughly interesting
brother), Sue, John, Josephine (African Queen
-- how's that??) Wanja (Thanks for the support), Njeri,
Sam, Allan, Joe, Jim, Kioks, na kadhalika
(Pals 4 ever)! And you too Gathoni of the Friesians
-- me, Aida (Damn u got style!), Sinei (Sarcasm personified!
He he!) and of course one Rani who no doubt will not
mind a mention! |
| ... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ... |
I would like to thank Me for all the support I have
given myself. I am one of a kind and I admire the time I have taken
to do this when I could be doing other more interesting things like
shelling peas.
Let us not forget
Myself for the valuable contribution as well , of course,
as I who is indispensable to this project!
There will also be
some people who will want to be thanked effusively despite the fact
that they have contributed nothing whatsoever. My friends,
mtangoja kweli! |
| ... CONTACTS ... |
| Don't call me, I'll call you!
I'm too lazy to write some database stuff to gather your feedback
so if you are really inspired you can catch me at [email protected]
Or vent in the Guest
Book. Please send suggestions, thoughts, rants and raves and anything
you like to me. I however reserve the right to delete your mail without
even reading it! |
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