MISAPPROPRATION

People spend their live doing and wishing for things they should not. All it takes to be happy is to love the right things, in the right amounts. Not money, not careers, but people.
Adult who never understand this never quite get fulfilled.

LIFE AND FAILURE

The hardest things to comprehend in life are failure and age; which are, by some sense, one and the same thing. Perfection is the consequence of age, eternity; wait long enough and everything will realize its potential. Coal becomes diamonds, sand becomes pearls, apes become men! Its simply not given to us, in one lifetime, to see those consummations, and so every failure becomes a reminder of death.
However, love lost is a special kind of failure. Its a reminder that some consummations,no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never become men, not in all ages!
Whats a monkey to think, who with a typewriter and eternity still cant eke out Shakespeare?

ON LEADERSHIP; MY SAY.

The system we are living in colludes with corrupt leaders, condones bad leadership and relegates anything important to the periphery. What we see in the high offices is a shameful lack of consistency in pursuit of larger ideals of development, environmental conservation and education. Leadership should not be approached as a cafeteria, where you order the things that you like and avoid those that you don’t. You can’t choose glory, power, and status and ignore things such as performance, responsibility and accountability.
Within us is the ability to spur our country and continent forward, but it will take a deliberate effort, at personal level to develop such abilities to practicability in the real sense.
We must review our standards and values, and then align ourselves to professional and godly ideals. We must believe in ourselves strongly enough to defend our positions on issues, to internalize our roles, forge a clear identity on the basis of truth and good leadership. This will be achieved by personal efforts, better training, and deliberate quality enhancement. Only then can we expect a future where we would be proud to stand tall and be counted as citizens of this great nation; Obamaland!

Misdemeanour; Kenyan MPs

It’s rather appalling and down right disturbing to watch news in this beloved country of ours. Not that I am any less patriotic than I was on November 5th, or immediately after the Beijing Olympics, but come on, our mps are a total bunch of useless characters. This is of course with an exception of a few, who surprisingly can differentiate between simple and simplistic. I don’t need to mention Hon. Johnstone Muthama and company.
A cross section of the former has been openly ganging up to do some things i would not imagine somebody calling themselves a leader would do in the 21st century. Take fro instance the Coast MPs, publicly calling on the coastal people, telling them that they should be president come 2012. How do you single out one community, polarise them, with skewed politics and expect to have the whole of Kenya stand united? What is tribalism, if this isn’t? And if they think coiling back to their ethnic communities is how to win the presidency, or premiership, do they really think they have enough numbers at the coast only to get to the statehouse? Come on, this isn’t going to happen. My advice to you is that give yourself a national appeal, not a tribal one, and that way you can get your name on the presidential ballot, otherwise we don’t even like you as you are!
I was growing weary of the vibe that every MP was giving, that they would like to pay taxes, but the whole august house has to pass such a bill. Now that there is a way each individual member can pay, can the real men and women stand up please? And now they all go silent! Can the real leaders queue behind Muthama? Philanthropy, charity, or whatever they may rubbish it as, that’s the true sense of being a Kenyan leader; by example, not mouthing everywhere. Ababu, Martha, etc, are you listening?

Interesting observation …….

45 years ago, Kibaki and Michuki were in Cabinet and J. F. Kennedy was running for President. Obama was 1 year old. 45 years later, Kibaki and Michuki are still in cabinet, and Obama is PRESIDENT-ELECT for the same seat Kennedy was running for. In 45 years, we have had Johnson, Carter, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Clinton, Bush 1 and Bush 2 in between as presidents of USA but in Kenya the same guys in their 70's and 80's are still trying to tell Kenyans they can make development models that work? Makes u think??

Seriously, is it just me?

I have been wondering whether anyone else notice the striking resemblance between President Paul Kagame and Gen. Laurent Nkunda!
Are these en related by any chance? Given their history way back, am just thinking how deep a problem Kabila is facing.

A big shame at Athletics Kenya.

The drama and theatrics in Kenyan politics, at whatever capacity end only to begin a new. And we quite never look below the surface of things, really.
I am quite dismayed by the recently concluded elections at Riadha house, not that I run or swim, can do it or will ever consider doing so, unless something really huge and very dangerous is running behind me just as fast, or faster. My concern is the attitude of the old guns now comfortably occupying the prestigious house.
Almost all officials comfortably retained their seats, quite discouraging in a country where power is shared even in the highest office, which by the way I think, is absurdly dangerous. This is an assumption of monopoly of knowledge and skills, which is a perfect cocktail for the looming lapse in leadership gap; not so dissimilar if you are a Kenyan. Worse still is the business-as-usual attitude assumed by Kiplagat and team.
My discontent is not so irrational, and here are my adduced facts.
Soon after being elected Kiplagat said that he ‘…would spend 50% of the time resting, and the rest ensuring that general Tuwey does …’ I don’t know what. But it is to the effect that Tuwey will be doing the work Kiplagat was elected for. So my issue; now that the chairman, implicitly will be doing nothing in the office, unless 100% minus 50% minus ‘the rest’ does not amount to zero, why did he vie in the first place? Why can’t he let this Tuwey do whatever it is that he is supposed to do the office the whole time, now that during his share of the time he will be sleeping in the office? (That’s the only way I know to rest.) and again, why should we believe that Kiplagat will do that, given what he said four years ago, when he was elected, something to the effect that it would have been his last term?
Maybe you don’t, but I see a big problem in our style of leadership, when we are ignoring the ambrosial talent in the youth. And the whole process of elections was apocryphal anyway.
And I almost forgot to mention that all officials elected in Athletics Kenya are men, as though women don’t do athletics! Yeah, of course I remember Jelimo!

OUR LIVES.

Our lives are very interesting. They do not follow the dramatic arc that our good plans intend. Life is not an art, and only in very rare incidences of pure perfection does the world actually become a stage; and that clearly, people, we can see, is a shame. Imagine all you have to do having been premeditated?
The reality is, our live are actually imperfect visions of reality, and only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it. This, my dear readers, is not pro activity, but a reactionary measure.

Problematic English.

AFTER ITS' CURRENCY PROBLEM EUROPE SOLVES ITS LANGUAGE PROBLEMS

I have received fresh news from the ongoing UN summit in the United States concerning the current sorry state of English as a language. The European Union commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5 year phased plan for what will be known as Euroenglish. (Euro for short.)

In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also, the hard "c" will be replaced with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter.
There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced by "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20 per sent shorter.
In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always been a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"'s in the languag is disgrasful, and they would go.
By the fourth year, peopl will be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and "w" by "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.
After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru!

Leaders read.

It has been clear to me for a while, and now i feel obligated to let you know that its not an option for leaders to read, its a lifestyle. If there is anyone following you, you need to know something that they dont. Acommon saying goes that if you want to hide anything from an African, put it in a book, but guess what, they are wrong now. Africans are the medicine for our beatiful continent, and unless we interact with great thinkers, through their books, there is not much we can do for Africa. Our brothers who have gone before us have fascinating reads; think Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o.... list is endless. Recently i read Duncan Ndegwas 'In the Footsteps ...' and that is a really mind wakening book.
Now get up and grab a book!

The trouble with mankind.

I just figured that mankind will be hoist by his own petard.
What is wrong with us? The other day they changed the composition of the galaxy. They ostracized Pluto from the solar system. What can we say of a Galaxy which we keep altering rules for conveniences sake? And if Pluto had a serious name, say Amsterdam, Sydney or Desmond, would things be different?

Pointers you should know

Energy flows where attention goes.
The Economic thought we are taught about scarcity is a lie! There is enough for us in the catalogue of the universe.There are enough resources to go all round the whole world, if only you set your mind to be aware of its infinite nature.
The moment you think about scarcity, it becomes your experience, and when you follow your heart, you hardly chase after the same things.
There is certainly enough for you, if you can believe it, you can see it, if you can see it, you can act from if, and it will show up for you. We all have unbounded potential! Think about the possibilities.

the thing with love

Love, love, love!All the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures o courtship!

wanna know more? check this space.

ANOTHER POWERFUL DEMOCRAT.

Was just watching Joe Bidden give his acceptance speech, and man, that is another powerful American. Is this not the future for America and the world over?
As i sat there listening to this guy i realized how much our leaders should be in touch with the so called 'common wananchi' which by the way i think is as wrong as i can ever get. But thats a story for another day. Anywho, Joe is such a humble leader and so down to Earth. Men these two great Americans sure deserve a chance at the capital hill, and am very sure the world will be a better place. Change is the thing everybody needs, not four more years of the last eight years.

HILLARY IS SUCH AN INSPIRATION.

I was watching Hillary give her speech over the weekend and man, that woman is strong. Among the powerfull things she quoted was that ' ... if you want a taste of freedom, then you must keep going. ...but before you keep going, get going by electing Obama to the whitehouse......NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCAIN!