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March 9: The Heart Run
March 15: On Friday, Time To Party!
March 22: Cliff! Mid-life crisis! You're 25!
March 23: For the fourth year running, Nina is turning 23. Shall also make it a point to visit the small children at Kenyatta and kick a ball while they kick me.
April 1: My nearest and dearest had better beware! My plans for my April 1 are complete! :-)

A KUMI KIMI Guide for the novices. A MUST read!
A POEM for someone special!
DEAREST JOHN: John Doe's better half replies with energy to issues raised by her worse half!
DEAREST JANE: A man addresses issues such as crossing rivers for his beloved...
FAVOURITE MOVIES Some notable personalities share their favourite flicks
PRESS RELEASE FROM THE AFGHANISTANI BROADCASTING CORPORATION The proprietor of Afghanistan's first TV studio shares his visions
DEDICATIONS: Music is the language of the heart -- touching messages to loved and not so loved ones

I keep fondly imagining that there is nothing that people can do will surprise me and each time somone does something that not only surprises but flabbergasts me! Flabbergasts! (If you don't know what that is feel free to look it up!)

I acutely hate rumours and rumour mongering and I think anyone who participates in this activity is an individual whose brain has the dimensions, density and content of a Soya bean. In fact let me not mince worlds. Wewe ni mjinga. Wewe ni zuzu. Wewe ni shenzi. Wewe ni duduvle. You have the IQ of a glass of cold water, USHINDWE WEWE!

The facts are simple. You run into an acquaintance you have not seen in quite a while, and there is a lot to catch up on. The banter flows so well that very soon there is an invitation to a home cooked dinner. Home cooked dinners are my weakest point and I accept and am treated to an excellent meal. I then head home replete with news, views and a T-bone steak. However a mere week later what I didn't do! Whatever Children of God may lack it is clearly not a fertile imagination. It would seem that I have received everything from a backrub to a massage, to breakfast, to 2 strong young sons!

I truly have no words....

Nelly Furtardo may have flown like a bird but personally I have some serious beef with these Grammies. Yes yes, I am over 2 weeks late but this is my site and the prerogative of what to write is mine. The fact that the opinions are also mine simplifies things drastically! So much so that I am going to do nothing but freely express myself.

Whatever criteria they use to select nominees I have no clue. Research indicated that some few thousand odd members of a foundation are used to select the contestants and a final voting is held to select the winner. This works ideally in theory but in practice I find it decidedlywanting to the extreme, make no mistake about it!

I find it ridiculous that India.Arie got no Grammies at all! RIDICULOUS! As a matter of fact it smacks of some sort of shallowness on the part of the voting members. There is no disputing that she is not the prettiest of them all but that should have no bearing at all on her music! IF SHE WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO GET OVER 7 NOMINATIONS SHE MUST BE GOOD ENOUGH TO WIN AT LEAST ONE!

In short -- I am not convinced as to either the transparency of the thing or what criteria they used to arrive at the nominees. But yenyewe I almost shed tears with India.Arie when she heard her last Grammy went to U2. Even those boyz I could see felt for her.

Miscellaneous Errata.
That outfit Dre was wearing jazzed me thoroughly and I am thinking critically of getting hold of one, complete with the wig. Outkast shone and I believe they should have taken Song Of The Year.
Mary J performedNo More Drama with a hell of a lot of Drama. I am surprised she did not do herself an injury!
Craig David showing up there was a nice touch! I still think he should have been nominated for a lot more than he was!
I never thought I'd live to see Lil' Kim win a Grammy! Just goes to show that bathroom crooners all over the world also have a chance!
What Blu Cantrell was doing on the nominees list I just Cant-Tell and will wonder until I meet my maker.
If India.Arie was the twin sister of Claudette(?) of City High she would have needed a wheelbarrow to cart her Grammies home. Ugly she is most definitely NOT!
Bob Dylan almost put me to sleep! I'm sorry to say but this dude should hang up his guitar and get himself a nice ranch somewhere to retire!
Someone should talk to the Dixie Chicks about coordinating their wardrobe! One came with what looked like those blankets some of our Maasai herdsmen friends operate while on duty!
I'd like to get my hands on that Album, O Brother Where Art Thou, that no one had ever heard of before the Grammies that took Album of the Year.
Alicia Keys gave a great performance I must say!
At long last Eve got some recognition away from the shadow of DMX and the other Ruff Ryders. Ndugu kama akina Jadakiss have quite a wait before they even get nominated! Let Me Blow Your Mind is a great track.
Timbaland should have been nominated for producing. Anyone who can turn around a dude like Bubba Sparxx should get a lot more than a Grammy!

There seems to be an Indian Conductor plying his trade in Nairobi. The name is Shah. Shuki Shah!

Finally summoned the energy to start work on those articles that I have been promising and have already done two or three. Watch this space!
Postpone the idea of the essays at least for the first few months. I shall get to them in good time
Write lots more of those articles that everyone is harassing me to write.
Let you sample some of My other works. I invite opinions on some of the short stories I've written
Change the entire layout of the page

Otherwise everything will pretty much me the same ;-)

I have a constitutional right to give My own shout-outs to whoever I please!

Aida: Where on earth have you got to then?
Mumbi: Did as I promised. Hit me up ASAP!
George: Continuing doggedly to be a first class jackass. Dude, don't you get tired of doing it??
Laura: Now you, I have no words for you. But I can take a hint!
Anissa: Singing to me is a sure way of getting me to sell BOTH my kidneys!
Jozie: We have taken the maiden from the village. Can we take the village out of the maiden?
Mightypeople: I think you are Mightyfoolish for sending me Mightyamounts of Mightynonsense that I did not Mightyask for. For the Mightylast time would you kindly Mightystop sending me your MightyCrap?!!
That jackass trying to sell me mailing lists: I shall make sure I subscribe you to as many mailing lists that I can find!
Jimmy: You, sir, are the don of dons!
RIP: What's cooking man?!!
Judy: Time's A wasting!
Cherie: Silence is not always golden!
Byran: Am open to suggestions
Geff: How did it go? Did you go all out then??!