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May 12: Howard is celebrating something. We don't know what but there is food and drinks!
May 13: Happy birthday Eunice! May you continue to be a cantankerous old bag!
May 18: Something... can't quite remember what!
May 19: Watch Spiderman in excellent company ;-)
June 1: Hope frantically that this is a holiday of some sort!

Another POEM for Another!
INTELLIGENCE is not as common as you think!
Fun and games at a UNIVERSITY RIOT!
There are SOME DAYS...
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

Gorblimey! This rain is fast getting on my nerves. The number of times I have been caught neatly in the open bereft of cover of any kind cannot be enumerated. I have experienced the same rainfall that a farm usually does and I for one object strongly to arrive wherever I am going a dripping and squelching mass!

This site is now eight months and 42 issues old. Those who are wondering where the missing 9 issues of October and early November are I am sorry to say that they are forever lost and it had not occurred to me to archive them until someone threatened me with physical harm. However the Journal is complete from its infancy. New things have been introduced and some things have been dropped. Hey, I am a dynamic dude!

I have received all sorts of correspondence from people, wise people and otherwise people and I believe I have replied to all the mail that I have received, unless of course it was particularly unintelligent correspondence! If you feel slighted you can always write again but I promise nothing ;-)

I have also received all sorts of proposals from all sorts of people who want me to write stuff for them, do sites for them or for me to partner with them. However they are far too many requests and I need to filter the riffraff from the serious stuff. I am going to put up a link for precisely this purpose in due time. I am willing to do it but the onus is on you to convince me that you are serious.

Here is a page that I have finally been driven to write by sheer demand. It is a compilation of things that tick me (and I'll bet you too) off. Hear me VENT!

To Mr. Venger and all the fantastic boyz at ARSENAL -- you are the men! You are the men! SALUT to the entire technical staff and squad of Arsenal. A rare hat trick cannot have happened to more deserving men! And to those unfortunates (you know yourselves, you poor fools!) who for some reason side with Manchester United all I can say is POLE BOSS! Labda next year!

GUNNERS! GUNNERS! GUNNERS!

I stumbled across a caricature of a television show masquerading as entertainment that is shoved down our throats Friday evening, in place of the tried, tested and much loved La Femme Nikita. This thing is the most ludicrous excuse for a television program that I have ever had the misfortune to set eyes on and the next time I resist the calling of my crew to go out I shall calculate PI to the 12000^th decimal place or mow the lawn at night with nail clippers. The program, you ask?

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD

The only word for this thing is corny. CORNY! It is cornier than a hundred hectare maize plantation. Since the demise of La Femme Nikita finding telly to watch on Friday when one is determined to resist the calls of friends and colleagues to go out is an uphill battle. One would rather watch a washing machine at work than take in an hour of this stuff. Sample this:
First of all, Robin Hood himself is depicted by a feller I suspect who just attained puberty the other day.
Main Marian, upon close inspection seems to be more muscular than Robin
Robin , Marian and just about everyone forgets that they are supposed to be in England and speak with a heavy accent straight from the South. America, not England!
Little John is not as depicted in the tales we know and love. The Little John we know is a burly lad. The caricature we see on telly is smaller than Robin Hood.
Marian seems to have forgotten that leather hotpants were a fashion development of the other day and sports some rather fetching ones some 400 years before they were invented.
Robin and Little John can receive any number of blows from fists or kicks from boots without feeling a thing. However one blow from their bare fists is enough to lay Prince John's men (helmeted and armoured in steel) to complete and total unconsciousness at once!
Everyone on the program sports some very good boots that I fear have more than a passing resemblance to CAT footwear. How old is CAT, do you think?
Robin and his men, even when outnumbered 200 to 1 still stab, gore, maim and behead impressive numbers of soldiers, and it is fascinating that not only do none of their number ever get injured, but also us fascinated audience have yet to see blood anywhere on swords or on bodies.
Despite a quiver, as far as I know, holding a limited number of bows, young Robin can shoot until he is blue in the face and the number of arrows in the quiver remains constant.
Young Robin's talents have to be seen to be believed. Who else can fire three arrows simultaneously and hit three different targets that are nowhere near each other? Certainly not me!
When Robin or any of his men are cornered somewhere, the enemy soldiers, in what is clearly a show of chivalry, cheerfully await their turn the get the snot beaten out of them. Despite surrounding the Merry Man or woman, only one will slug it out at a time while the rest wait patiently for their turn to be kicked in the teeth.
When Little John tells Robin he'll be back in five minutes we are left to wonder exactly how it is that he will know that five minutes have elapsed seeing as none of them sports a watch or even a portable hourglass!

If it's true that we are here to help others, then, what exactly are the others here for?

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

Njeri: Keep your chin up will ya? Things ALWAYS work out!
Yvonne: I gave up the cryptic crossword because it was too cryptic. Rephrase!
The dude who said I am a KANU supporter: Sir, you cannot be more in error. In my vocabulary jackass and politician are interchangeable words.
Gathoni: Not too sure if that was a compliment!
Mumbi: Ball's in your court!
Kenyana: Howdy doo!
Pinky: To say that I am flattered would be an understatement!
Hilary: The next time God is doing his creation bit wait until the brains are given out before you split, OK?
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!