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February 22: Anniversary of an Uncle of Mine -- 20 years of marital bliss!
February 24: Unconfirmed visit to street kids rehabilitation center.
March 1: Miss Universe Kenya Chapter at The Carnivore! Shall be there with bells on! Let's all go!!!
March 2: Koi's Birthday Bash. Again shall be there!
March 3: Recharge batteries from March 1 and March 2.

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

My props and congratulations to the Strathmore School Class of 2001! (Of course the best class came some time before yours!) Top of the country, my sons, top of the county! And to all Strathmoreans, past and present through whom the blue blood flows all I can say is HOYEE MY BRETHREN! It's been a while since I walked the hallowed grounds but when I heard that we were the top of the nation my heart swelled with pride! Yes sir! And a more fitting time to remember my former exploits and mentors I cannot imagine!

Rafa Gortarzar: Physics teacher cum Principal! Without a doubt the man who perfected wearing a lab coat to teach Physics without going anywhere near the labs and discharging his duties as Principal and teacher with clockwork like precision. There were however some unconfirmed rumours about chewing tobacco!

Doc Ainsley: A man to this date I am convinced is so mad as to be totally sane! A feller who illustrates the corrosiveness of sulphuric acid by tossing it in some hapless student's book or by making poisonous gases with his students looking innocently on must have a thing or two loose in his head!

Freddy Ollows: At one go my geography teacher and my rugby coach! You sir had a way with words that has become legendary. Just note this down: fish swim!

Oti Otieno: The fact that you are now the principal of Makini is irrelevant! Upende usipende the blue blood will forever flow through you and your exquisitely fitting suspenders.

Vinny Ogutu: Those Doug lessons of commerce have become legendary old son! The attractions of the classroom windows and that of slumber I fondly remember to this day!

Mr. Kere: Few will forget the ludicrous amounts of time we spend doing the topic "REPRODUCTION". Fewer still will forget your marking system of a tick being equivalent to an eighth of a mark. Fewer still will forget your rather personal anecdotes on the same topic!

Carlo Annoscia: The pipe wielding Drawing & Design and biology teacher who enters the hall of fame by putting many of us off Proctor & Allan cornflakes after explaining to us what 'procto' means in Latin! We still remember that outrageous feller who sported a bow tie, rode a huge red motor bike and smoked form a pipe in a manner Sherlock Holmes was unable to master.

DD Dimba: Most easygoing chap I have ever met who introduced us to the worlds of Physics and Chemistry as well as doubling as an alternate rugby team coach. Moved on up to absolute power as the head of Secondary Section where I understand justice is now both swift and heavy!

Mr. Watene: Our trusting Kiswahili teacher who will be unlikely to have forgotten one of his leading troublemakers! I still think it was perfectly in order to reconcile the pictures in the set book to the climate of the story!

Mr. Muthiora: The gentleman who came to teach us English with enthusiasm who after a month with us found it prudent to teach the same to the Primary Section. I am ashamed to say that we soundly and utterly make his 4o minutes with us sheer hell!

Mr. Mangala: Very burly feller, with the task of teaching 80 errant young men English, who brought new meaning to the term "Feeling Nothing". Who else would unashamedly ask a whole Fourth Former to stand inside a dustbin in full view of his peers?

Mr. Onyango: Our other Mathematics teacher who sported a humongous afro. It was not long before we discovered his Achilles heel -- to ensure an entire lesson was spent doing nothing mathematical all we had to do was ask him anything to do with soccer and the remaining 40 minutes would be whittled away.

Mr. Mwagonah: The man whose grasp of Kiswahili we found acutely disconcerting. Until I passed thorough this man's hands I did not know that there are eight words for rice, not including mchele! Only he could tell you he was setting the exam from the book, give you the pages and snigger to himself as even after he has given you a handsome 10% bonus your performance is still spectacularly unremarkable!

Bogi: As we affectionately knew the librarian. After we shuffled all the library cards for the odd 600 students he will be unlikely to have forgotten us anytime soon.

And finally to my 3 brethren who are there now: you'd better keep it up OR ELSE!!!

"If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again."

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!

George: Dude, do you study to be an idiot or are you like that naturally? I said it before and I will say it again -- if you have beef you say it in a civilized manner. Abuse I refuse to entertain!
Angie: I wish I'd seen your message sooner!
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??!