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To all the ladies, this certificate is for all the ladies who think they gonna turn their men cracy!

End Year Love

It's the ending of the year
It just began and I'm off
I was waiting for it all this time
But there is something wrong

I have something holding me back
It makes me not want to go
I wanna stay cause I have this feeling
I could do good back home

But I don't disappoint and I go
I say nothing about it
I make no big deal
And no one knows

I have this regret inside my head
Something no one could imagine
Cause I'm a weird person
I had that strange feeling

I had it for a reason
Maybe it was for really nothing
But truly I knew there was something
Maybe not yet but it could be

I knew I'd be back but I got nervous
Cause the reason I didn't want to go
Was a reason why I have this emotion now
Something new to me I think it could be real

I want to give it a try
Maybe something cool can happen
Maybe I can get in that race
The race or game they always talk about

The one with love
They say no loves the same
You got to discover it
You must not deceive

You must be true
You got to try your best
Make the best of yourself
And let your heart take care of the rest

CITY IN THE JUNGLE!

CORRUPTION EATING INTO OUR ECONOMY.

As i'm posting this (today, 15th Nov. 2006), Hon. Kiraitu and Prof. Saitoti have been re-appointed to the ministerial posts (Energy and education respectively) before Anglo-leasing and Goldenburg scandals are finalised.

Rampant corruption in Kenya continues to stifle growth in East Africa's biggest economy, despite the enactment of key reforms in recent years, a continental review body said on Tuesday.

The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) said Kenya also needed to overhaul its outmoded constitution after previous attempts were stalled by political posturing and acrimony among the country's political parties.

"Kenya has had, and continues to have, a significant and debilitating problem of corruption," said the APRM report, which was submitted to the Pan African Parliament.

"Decades of endemic corruption have fundamentally perverted cultural values," it added.

Despite noticeable progress on reform, the country still faced many challenges including implementing strong and effective anti-corruption policies, and enacting terrorism and money-laundering laws.

The government should also restructure state expenditure and its wage bill, the report said.

President Mwai Kibaki came to power in 2002 vowing to clamp down on the graft and nepotism which had flourished under his predecessor Daniel Arap Moi.

But his government has been mired in corruption scandals -- some implicating senior officials -- which have drawn the wrath of Western donors and many of the nation's 32 million people.

Last week a senior British official said top-to-bottom corruption in Kenya had heightened the country's vulnerability to terrorism and made it an increasingly popular route for drug-traffickers.

The peer review mechanism is a cornerstone of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) plan under which governments subject their policies to external scrutiny.

African leaders have acknowledged that some countries are reluctant to open up to scrutiny and so far only 25 out of 53 countries in the African Union have signed up for review.

The report also assessed included Ghana and Rwanda.

It said Ghana was "an oasis of peace and tranquillity" in the tumultuous West African region, but corruption remained prevalent despite the government's policy of zero-tolerance.

The APRM applauded Rwanda's efforts to achieve national unity and reconciliation after the genocide of the 1990s, but urged the government to establish a clear land policy and remove all restrictions on political rights, among other reforms.

Now who will save us from this?

Hint Of Relationship.

What He Says and What He Means:

"Take a break, honey, you're working too hard."
Really means...."I can't hear the television because of the noise from the vacuum cleaner."

“You look great in that dress.”
Really means....“Wow! It’s way too short!”

"I missed you."
Really means...."My shirts need ironing, I haven’t eaten since you left and we are out of toilet paper."

"I'm not lost. I know exactly where we are."
Really means...."We have overshot by 200 miles."

“I love you.”
Really means....“Will you have sex with me?”

“I bought you flowers.”
Really means....“The florist was having a closing down sale.

"I am listening."
Really means....“I was listening to the radio but with a bit of luck you might actually think I was listening to you.”

“I can fix it myself”
Really means....“Look up the number of an emergency plumber.”

The difference between men and women : Talking

When a man returns home tired and weary after a hard day’s toil he needs about twenty minutes peace and quiet just to unwind from the stresses and strains he has suffered. Unfortunately when he gets home his wife needs to tell him, all the problems and issues which have developed during the day. Luckily men have developed the ability to listen, appear interested and sleep all at the same time.

If you want to make a woman happy talk more, if you want to make her really happy talk about your relationship, if you want to make her ecstatic talk about the diamond ring you are going to buy her.

Women have the ability to talk and listen at the same time - so she’s not being rude when she interrupts while you are speaking....oops! Of course, if you interrupt her while she’s talking you’re in real trouble for she knows that men can’t talk and listen at the same time (n thats a normal thing).

Never snore while a woman is talking (hell! what she talks pauselessly!). It may give her the impression that you’re not listening.

While women have developed the ability to listen to six conversations simultaneously men have developed the ability to listen to one conversation in a rowdy pub while a 100 decibel wall of sound bombards them from all around.

Male speech is minimalist. It has no place for the twists and turns, the flowery imagery and innuendo that embellishes the speech of females. Shortly after meeting a woman in a club a man is likely to say, ‘Let’s go to my place and have sex’ A woman compensates for the man’s lack of language skills by filling in the blanks. She will know that what he is trying to say in his pathetic little way is, ‘I am a desperately lonely slob with absolutely no social graces but having consumed eight pints of Tusker. I have plucked up the courage to come over and talk to you and make a complete fool of myself.’

A few wealthy people are lording it on the majority

About 90 per cent of public expenditure on salaries and allied benefits is paid to just about 500 people. Among these are 222 Members of Parliament and just fewer than 300 other assorted fat cats.

Mr Aaron Ringera of the Kenya Anti-Corruption commission, for example, is paid Sh2.5 million a month, basically for doing next to nothing. The edifice he presides over is at best a dynastic witch-hunting outfit. But more realistically, it is a veritable white elephant that should never have been.

In this ornate white elephant edifice are another five gentlemen who "work" with Ringera. They are paid Sh1.5 million each a month for oscillating between petty political witch hunting and doing nothing. The hunters of fortune at Kacc cost Kenyans a minimum of Sh10 million a month.

In another part of Kenya, the lowest paid public university lecturer has a consolidated salary of about Sh80,000 a month. This is basically to say that the top six people in Ringera’s office earn the salary of a crying 125 lecturers, yes, 100 and 25. But that is not all.

It is common knowledge that our indolent and absentee MPs are the most pampered fellows on a public payroll anywhere in the world. It is perhaps not worth mentioning that this frivolous and gay-loving lot fixes its own pay package. To attempt to unbundle the package here will be to overwhelm my reader with a sense of nausea.

It is behind this background that the ongoing university lecturers’ strike, as well as other clamour for better terms in the public sector, ought to be looked at.

The question must be asked, What kind of society have we created? Do we seem to have created a plutocratic state in which 500 people are holding 30 million others hostage? Is the whole nation at the mercy of 222 MPs and a couple of dozen senior public officers?

At any rate, the parallels between the society today and pre-revolutionary Europe must continue disturbing those who have read history.

Just like France before the 1789 – 1792 Revolution, Parliament has become the enemy of the people, where it should be the people’s watchdog. Ours is easily the only National Assembly in the world that can give Government a blank cheque to spend billions even without interrogating the intended expenditure, as they did this week.

While the rest of the nation is evolving into a landscape of stormy discontent, people’s elected representatives have become self-pampering mascots with a keen addiction to pleasure-seeking.

When Parliament gives Government blank cheques amid brewing labour storms, then such a Parliament can no longer be counted upon to ventilate public grief.

The Cabinet, on its part, behaves like proud and exclusive nobility. It should surprise nobody that a Minister who had nothing three years ago now boasts of a fleet of 70 (yes, 70) sleek limousines and assorted real property in all the prime places you can think of in the country.

The bigger tragedy is that university lecturers seek not to redeem the nation from the decay, but to join the exclusive club of the eating chiefs. We are a people whose leadership has lost interest in the welfare of the people as well as the people’s respect, and they really do not give a damn.

Where our intellectuals should be trying to redeem Kenyans from the den of lions, they are instead jostling for space on the lions’ dining table.

Who can speak for ordinary Kenyans when Parliament, the Judiciary, the top notch of the Executive and our literati all think only of their wallets?

Who will speak for Kenyans when the grotesquely paid are also the ones with the opportunity to steal in Anglo Leasing and Goldenberg style?

Worse still, these less than 500 people are immune to the law. They can play about with Goldenberg and Anglo Leasing and ring circles around you for 16 years and beyond.

But if you thought that was the entire expanse of the tragedy, you are mistaken. For, we ordinary Kenyans are a big part of the problem.

We cannot believe it when our prophets tell us that the daily war of words between Narc-Kenya and ODM-Kenya is an exclusive members ’club dispute. ODM-Kenya and Narc-Kenya are identical twin brothers.

They are fighting over who has the right to loot Kenya and who hasn’t. They are bogus and fraudulent political outfits, whose members do not want to hear about their history.

They do not even pretend to speak for Kenya. The name of their game is power and personal wealth.

Kenya needs a new deal. Kenya needs fresh gallant men and women who can speak for her. We have no place for avaricious parliamentarians who cannot recognise a national powder keg, even when they sit on one. Nor do we have a place for university dons who crave to eat from the table of privilege amid debilitating poverty.

Kenyans should not be deceived. We are firmly in the grip of the eating chiefs.

The barking chiefs in Narc-Kenya and ODM-Kenya are eating you, alive.

They are able to gravitate across the country making all manner of political noise because you have placed food on their table; you have given them a home and security. You are educating their children in exclusive schools, and God knows what else you haven’t done for them!

University lecturers, a selfish and privileged lot in their own right, now want better sitting and eating space on the table of privilege, when they should be carrying the rest of the nation with them in the search for better things. Nobody cares about you. That is unless you can stand up for your rights and ask for a new deal from your leaders today, now.

Inappropriate Syllabus in Our Education.

Today, Thursday, 26th of October 2006, i wanna trash our education system (not only the 8-4-4 system but also the old system). As am writting this, form fours are doing their final year exams (i wish them the best wishes) while our good dons are on strike demanding salary increment. Here are the subjects and things that must be overhauled and reviewed to match with our current generation. These subjects subject us to full dilemma: Geography, History and CRE. I know majority of us here passed through this. They are conflicting in one way or the other.

History vs CRE: The first lesson in the morning is History. We were taught that man evolved through a series of stages: Homo sipilis, homo erectus, homo sapiens (the current man), there are even others called zinjathropus, kenyapithecus... historians should arrange them in order. In CRE: God created man and send him to the world (courtesy of eating the 'forbiden fruit'-- i dont know this fruit!) and told them to multiply and filled the world. It brings some confusion of which we dont know the origin of man (i believe in what the Bible tells us).

Still in History, now its about the discoveries. We were told that, the first European to set foot in Africa starting with the Portuguese voyager, Vasco Da Cama, then the missionaries like Dr. Livingstone, Dr. Krapf, Dr. Speke, the list is endles. Some of their discoveries are Cape of Good hope (now Cape Town), L. Rudolf (L. Turkana), L. Albert, Mt. Kenya, L. Victoria, etc. The issue here is: how can somebody discover a place where there were human beings? Things like this should not be taught in school. Its part and parcel of neo-colonialism.

Geography and CRE: In Geography; earth (planets) was formed when molten particles falling off from the sun gathered through gravitational force and solidify (i dont know the formation of the sun). But in CRE (Biblical point of view) , God created the earth.

My fellow bloggers, we are in 21st century (computer age, dot com generation). Relevant things (lemmie not say subjects) should be taught in our schools. Some of the relevant things are as follows:
1. In history, our children should learn how industrialised nation are where they are. How Stalin made Russia a super power? What was his policies in the 5 year development plans? How about the US. Why did it not participated in the first World War? What was the people like Wilberight and his brother thinking when they made the first aircraft? How about Bill Gates with his windows and micro-chips? And many other science discoveries.
2. In Geography, the core thing should be human geography. What is the need of studying physical geography? What is the benefit of knowing the formation of rocks, Rift Valley, volcanic mountains n so on. The thing that should be taught is the types of rocks, that there is Rift valley (it is beyond our knowledge how it was formed, only God knows).

By scrapping some unnecessary items, we will reduce the bulk in our studies. Core subjects should be highly emphasized. The subjects which are relevant to the economic growth (like science and information technology). I dont see the reason why professionalism should not be induced in our students right from the high school. Currently, the main challenges is the economy.