Most farm Tractors were designed to carry only one person – The driver.
I’m not talking about those fancy tractors found in Holland which we see in those glossy farming magazines. The ones that have drivers pictured wearing white gloves comfortably nestled in the neat glass cockpit .
I’m talking about run of the mill, normal ,basic tractors that are found in the rural areas used for ploughing farms or ferrying farm produce. Most of them are very old with relic registration number plates like KPT , KST ,KVN etc I even wonder if the owners can remember when they bought them let alone know where they kept the log books.
Anyway back to my story about the design of the tractor. Like I was saying the tractor is not passenger friendly ,the best it can get to carrying passengers is to ferry them on the trailer .Most of you reading this are urbanites completely detached from the rural mashinani setting hence the thought of riding in a tractor trailer is very alien. Not to worry ill break it down for you.
The driver’s bucket seat is usually made of plastic and mounted on springs to give him some comfort from the stiff suspension. That’s why you’ll see the driver’s head bobbing up and down like he is dancing to the tune of the clanging metal that usually becomes louder as the tractor gains speed. The tractor always has some loose metal to clang , if it’s not the weights at the front bumper , it could be the bars that the ploughs are usually mounted onto or some loose latch for the trailer door.
The point is a ride on a tractor is one unforgiving ordeal. Holding on to the trailer needs skill , it tosses you up and down and sideways and woe unto you if you are a weakling because it could eject you making you land butt first on the dirt road. So on a trailer ride of the tractor you hold on tight ! Does that sound familiar ? Kinda reminds you of some situations in life huh ?
The trailer usually has no shock absorbers so its hard to ride sitting if you are bony as the vibration as you are tossed up and down reverberates to your brain. Your pendulous body parts are tossed hither and thither and for a moment they seem to have their own mind . The huge rear tyres with their ugly grooves keep tossing dirt into your face , cow dung, straw , sticks and pebbles. You duck from the dirt , you duck from the low branches of trees while holding on tight at the same time.
The ride can be really bad if if the driver hates you but it can only get worse if the two of you hate each other. With a cheeky smile on his face – you can’t see him smiling with his back facing you but you sense he is really getting a kick out of the whole thing. The driver will be constantly breaking sharply and enjoying the way you are thrown around. He will even drive the trailer close to the bushes as you duck to avoid the thorny branches from your face.
This was the kind of ‘camaraderie ‘ that I had with a tractor driver on a farm I used to work as a supervisor deep in the heart of Ukambani . I’m a trained agriculturist so don’t get surprised . The Tractor driver used to hate me a lot . I must admit that the feeling was mutual. I didn’t like him that much either. I had two reasons for hating him. He had only one so that justifies my hate .
Musyoka the tractor driver was a small dark man with a big stench to himself. It’s like what he lacked for his in small body he made up for it by his smell. That’s my number one reason for hating him. I couldn’t understand how a grown up would stink like that. He had different smells for different days , other days he would have blends that made you want to throw up.Its like he used to ask himself in the morning, ‘’Mmm! What stench do I wear today ?’’ On some days he would be reeking of cheap alcohol and grease, on others it would be urine and sweat well on others he would bless the day with stenches that were really hard to name.
In a farm’s pecking order a tractor driver is just a notch above the labourer . The sad thing is since most of the farm workers are paid per day worked , when the tractor is grounded due to mechanical problems , the driver reverts to the humble role of a farm labourer. Meaning he has to get a Jembe like the rest and dig. These are the days that are hated most by tractor drivers, but depending on the rapport that one has with the farm manager, he could easily be let to loiter around the farm or given the lofty duty of being in-charge of irrigation till his ramshackle machine got fixed.
Whenever I was one man short in my gang I would not let him just laze around like a fat cat. I would smoke him out and give him a Jembe , the other supervisors were nice to him , not me . For this he hated me so much. One day while he was ploughing with the tractor, I was behind him checking he had done the furrows right when suddenly I saw the tractor backing ever so fast ! Let’s just say you wouldn’t be reading this because that skunk nearly run me over if I hadn’t run behind a tree in good time. Such was the putrid hate that the small man had for me ! Still shaken , I picked up a twig hurled into the back of his head . ( ok the workers were laughing at what had just happened to me and the embarrassment triggered my reaction). Nothing was more satisfying at that moment than seeing him jolt from his seat as I heard the sound of the twig get in contact with his head Total Bliss !! I’m not a violent person but when provoked I even surprise myself. The wife who was one of the workers rushed over to help the husband recover from his injury.
Our hate for each other flourished then on. We were unrelenting , we were determined and committed. My hate somewhat dissipated after Musyoka went through a trying time in his life. I just couldn’t gather enough from my hate Chest to gloat over the situation that visited him. You see Musyoka lost his wife , ok before you take out your tissues and cry , I mean someone stole his wife heart and flesh .
My fellow supervisor George was a dark stocky man standing at about 5.5Ft tall. He was a strong Luhya man. In Many farms women workers throw themselves at tractor drivers – they are considered sexy and Macho . I think there is something to do with a man behind the wheel of a mean machine that’s so alluring to ladies I still think if Musyoka didn’t stink so much women would be fighting over him on the farm. George brought in a whole new mix that left Musyoka’s wife smitten. George besides being a supervisor , was able to drive a tractor , I had heard it whispered around the farm that George used to seduce Musyoka’s wife but I hadn’t paid enough attention to the rumour mill. It was clear that either the skunk was too scared to confront his boss or he was too lost in his stench to care. Things came to a head when George bought one of those large Sony radios that were commonly called ‘ Ghetto Blaster.’ Musyoka’s wife saw that piece of Japanese technology and she never went back to the husband again. She moved in with him George would place it strategically at the entrance of his room covered in a luminous green cloth then he would play music at full volume as the small lights that were all around it glowed and mesmerized the folks on the farm. Say im jealous but I really suspected it was not an original Sony – must have been one of those Chinese pass offs - What the heck ! who cares so long as it can get you a woman. George would spend a large bit of his salary in buying batteries for his ‘ skirt magnet’
Musyoka was devastated ! He stunk even more . My hate for him turned to pity , the farm manager and I tried to intervene but the music loving lovebirds had their minds made up. They were two grown ups who were inseparable - it was not illegal . One morning we heard screams coming from outside George’s room . the manager and I rushed there to find Musyoka being beaten like a cell phone thug on River road. After a lot of effort we managed to get George off the poor little man. On the grass lay a Panga which we learnt that Musyoka after much prodding from his friends , gathered courage to go and attack George. The plan badly backfired and that was the last humiliation he could take for he left the next day never to be seen on the farm again. Lets just say as sad his departure was, it was a breath of fresh air. Tommorow ill tell you about one Mueni ( of the same farm ) and her small skirts .’ Stay tuned.’
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Friday, July 15, 2011
THE DUCK DONE SHOT THE FARMER
Some years ago when I was an English teacher in one secondary school , I gave the Form 2 students an exercise. The exercise was all about changing sentences from their active to passive form.
A sentence is written in active voice when the subject of the sentence performs the action in the sentence.e.g Edward is writing another hopeless rant . The passive voice of this sentence is when the subject of the sentence has an action done to it by someone or something else .Thus the passive form of the sentence would be : Another hopeless rant is being written by Edward.
Ok, now that I have refreshed your memory on Form two English let’s move on.
Teaching in English in the Eastlands part of Nairobi was a big challenge. I was teaching in an area where speaking in English was viewed as pretentious and for people who are fake . This was a school where the students thought the word ‘’bingeing ‘’ was the equivalent of a similar sounding sheng word with a naughty meaning. That was years ago so the word must have been long archived in the ever changing sheng vocabulary.
Back to that English exercise. There is a particular sentence that I still remember today. The students were supposed to change the sentence, ‘’The farmer shot the duck “ into passive voice. This young lady who clearly had not grasped the gist of the exercise wrote her answer as “ The duck shot the farmer ‘.I remember reading the sentence out loud in the staffroom and we had a good early morning chuckle with my colleagues.
After marking her work and not forgetting to put a huge cross along the sentence with an equally bigger exclamation mark, I walked into the class where I handed the books back to the students. Before I handed over her book I read the sentence out loud to the class. The students burst out laughing , while the poor author of the sentence hid her face with her shoe in embarrassment. At that time a duck would never be able to shoot the farmer. It was laughable, impossible.
If I met that girl today I would apologize, ask for her book back and reward her with half a mark. If she set the book on fire in an academic bonfire after she ‘murdered school ‘ I will offer her a drink , though I don’t know the equivalent of half a mark in drink .This is because only much later in life I’m I realizing that she was right. She might have been wrong in the context of the exercise but out here in the real world the farmer sometimes gets shot by the duck. In the school of life anything is possible as I have come to learn.
There are many spheres in our lives which we sometimes lose grip or control of. It could be in relationships, marriage, parenting or business. Just when you think you have everything in check and about to recline into your comfort zone is when everything goes bust. Each of us ‘farmers’ have been victims of shootings by the ‘duck’ some heal from the wounds while others die and get dragged by the ‘duck’ to the fire for a barbecue. When the duck shoots you , you rise up get hold of the gun shoot it and have it for lunch - show it who is supposed to be the shooter . I’m writing this from the bottom of my heart since I’m nursing a wound. A duck shot me but I’m glad I came out alive. Now as i sit here listening to Art Pepper's ''Bewitched , bothered and bewildered my favourite jazz jam in the whole world. I have my gun back but in the meanwhile thanks to my student for the lesson. Like a teacher can learn from the student, the duck can indeed shoot the farmer.
A sentence is written in active voice when the subject of the sentence performs the action in the sentence.e.g Edward is writing another hopeless rant . The passive voice of this sentence is when the subject of the sentence has an action done to it by someone or something else .Thus the passive form of the sentence would be : Another hopeless rant is being written by Edward.
Ok, now that I have refreshed your memory on Form two English let’s move on.
Teaching in English in the Eastlands part of Nairobi was a big challenge. I was teaching in an area where speaking in English was viewed as pretentious and for people who are fake . This was a school where the students thought the word ‘’bingeing ‘’ was the equivalent of a similar sounding sheng word with a naughty meaning. That was years ago so the word must have been long archived in the ever changing sheng vocabulary.
Back to that English exercise. There is a particular sentence that I still remember today. The students were supposed to change the sentence, ‘’The farmer shot the duck “ into passive voice. This young lady who clearly had not grasped the gist of the exercise wrote her answer as “ The duck shot the farmer ‘.I remember reading the sentence out loud in the staffroom and we had a good early morning chuckle with my colleagues.
After marking her work and not forgetting to put a huge cross along the sentence with an equally bigger exclamation mark, I walked into the class where I handed the books back to the students. Before I handed over her book I read the sentence out loud to the class. The students burst out laughing , while the poor author of the sentence hid her face with her shoe in embarrassment. At that time a duck would never be able to shoot the farmer. It was laughable, impossible.
If I met that girl today I would apologize, ask for her book back and reward her with half a mark. If she set the book on fire in an academic bonfire after she ‘murdered school ‘ I will offer her a drink , though I don’t know the equivalent of half a mark in drink .This is because only much later in life I’m I realizing that she was right. She might have been wrong in the context of the exercise but out here in the real world the farmer sometimes gets shot by the duck. In the school of life anything is possible as I have come to learn.
There are many spheres in our lives which we sometimes lose grip or control of. It could be in relationships, marriage, parenting or business. Just when you think you have everything in check and about to recline into your comfort zone is when everything goes bust. Each of us ‘farmers’ have been victims of shootings by the ‘duck’ some heal from the wounds while others die and get dragged by the ‘duck’ to the fire for a barbecue. When the duck shoots you , you rise up get hold of the gun shoot it and have it for lunch - show it who is supposed to be the shooter . I’m writing this from the bottom of my heart since I’m nursing a wound. A duck shot me but I’m glad I came out alive. Now as i sit here listening to Art Pepper's ''Bewitched , bothered and bewildered my favourite jazz jam in the whole world. I have my gun back but in the meanwhile thanks to my student for the lesson. Like a teacher can learn from the student, the duck can indeed shoot the farmer.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
A COMPLETE GUIDE TO STARTING OWN BUSINESS
Every employed person most a times thinks of starting a business, some get angry at their employers and vow one day they’ll start their own business …Well I used to think that way until the day I came across this brilliant and inspiring article on a Mashada blogs.Read and see your bubble burst.
9 Reasons Why You Should NOT Start a Business
A journey that begins with a wrong step seldom ends at the right destination.
1. Don’t Start a Business for the sake of MONEY
Top on the list of reasons why people go into business is the strong desire to amass wealth. I have never known of a more ineffective way to think about business than this. As unpopular as it might sound, most business failures stem from this singular fact alone. Why? Because the moment making money becomes your primary focus as an entrepreneur, delivering value which is the foundation of effective business practice becomes secondary. And when this happens, no matter how great your business is, it automatically goes on a downward spin. Nothing kills a business faster than putting money first before adding value to your customers. So when next you’re thinking about starting up a business, I suggest you lose every possible thought about making money and focus entirely on delivering consistently superior value. Trust me, I’m talking from experience (of other people), starting your own business for the purpose of making money is a sure fire way of failing.
2. Don’t Start a Business because you LOST your job
Closely related to the issue of money is going into business because you lost your job. As you’ve probably realized, this is how many people end up as entrepreneurs. At first glance, there might not be anything wrong with this approach of starting up a business, but taking a closer look will reveal a vital truth: people who lose their jobs are often driven by fear and to start a business because you are afraid is absolutely disastrous. The implication is often enormous: top on the list is that you will never exercise the due diligence starting a new business entails. Why? Because the fear of living without a regular income since you no longer have a job will keep haunting you and eventually start making you place unrealistic financial expectations on your new business venture. Second on the list is that you are emotionally unstable the first few months of losing a job, especially when you didn’t see it coming. The disappointment can be disheartening, the more reason why you shouldn’t go into business with such mind frame. Why? Because in the world of business, disappointments are a natural prerequisite for success. Meaning, the more disappointments you get, the closer you are to success.
3. Don’t Start a Business because you HAVE money
I know you’re probably startled about this one. You certainly didn’t see it coming. Well, it’s as wrong as starting a business for the sake of making money. How? Here’s the thing most people with money don’t realize, it doesn’t take money alone to make a business work. Starting and running a business will cost you more than all the money you think you have. There are just too many things a business will demand from you that money can’t even buy, for example: how much does it cost to buy the passion needed to build a SIGNIFICANT (unique and useful) business? Have you ever seen passion being offered for sale? In fact, no university or institute of learning can even teach you passion. Here’s the truth, having money is good, but it’s not sufficient enough to make you want to start a business. Starting a business requires gut, passion, ingenuity, creativity, resilience and so many other personal character traits that all the money in the world can’t buy!
4. Don’t Start a Business because you want TIME Freedom
The thought of not having to wake up early and rush off to work can be very enticing to would be entrepreneurs. But take it from me, I’ve been in the game now for 8 years; the fact that you didn’t wake up early and rushed off to work doesn’t mean you are not at work. Being an entrepreneur means working all of the time even in your sleep. That your fantasy of time freedom will naturally go sore once you choose to become your own boss. How do I mean? You see, it’s not that you wouldn’t have more time to yourself when you’re an entrepreneur, certainly you would. But the irony of it all is this; that time freedom is for you to do some creative work and not for you to be idle and indulge yourself in some unproductive activity. You left your job to have enough time to do what you really care about in life, that’s all the definition of time freedom you’ll ever get – having enough time to make a SIGNIFICANT contribution with your life to the world. True entrepreneurs hardly stay idle indulging in pleasurable activities just because they have time freedom. They are always in the creative process, picking up clues here and there of how they can make the world a better place by utilizing their time, money and life for something worthwhile.
5. Don’t Start a Business because OTHERS are doing it
Anything that is popular has a way of being highly contagious. People just literally jump at it without any logical explanation. Believe it or not, this is how so many people ended up in the world of business. Since everyone they know is quitting their 8-to-5 jobs to go start their own thing, why shouldn’t they do the same? The down side of going with the bandwagon is this; you’ll lack the staying power critical to survival in the world of business. At first, the thought of being your own boss can be very enticing, but sooner or later you’ll realize it’s not a bed of roses. And when this reality sets in, you’re the only one who would be left alone to figure out a way of making it through the stormy days. So start a business because it’s what your soul desires and not what the society or your peers desires for you. Starting your own business is not about boosting your personal ego or winning a popularity contest, it’s a personal decision born out of an internal conviction!
6. Don’t Start a Business because you HATE working for others
Now here comes the tricky one; starting a business because you hate working for others. After wanting to make money, this is another popular reason people give for going into business. Listen, as popular as it may seem, here’s the truth; 99% of popular things are either totally wrong or mere misconceptions. That you hate working for others is no guarantee that you will succeed or enjoy working for yourself. In fact, there’s more work to do working for yourself than you ever thought you did working for others. So if you hate working for others, you might just as well hate working for yourself. What it turns out to be sincerely is this: you simply don’t like work in general and this is why starting your own business is the last thing you should ever think of doing. Why? Because business is the domain of unlimited work; there are no working hours like your regular 8-to-5 job. Welcome to the 24/7/365 days a year working schedule!
7. Don’t Start a Business just LIKE everybody else (Differentiate or Die)
In my field of business development, I have seen so many people go into business just because they saw somebody else succeeding in it. This is a higher form of going into business because others are doing (point #5 above). You observe a business and simply go make a clone of such business. So what do we get? The same kind of business but with different brand names. I don’t get it: “Why would any right thinking person choose to be a duplicate of another when it’s absolutely possible to excel being an original?” As a matter of fact, you have higher chances of succeeding going into business as an innovator than being a duplicator.
The business terrain is already overcrowded with a countless number of companies doing almost the same thing you have in mind to do. Unlike in the past before the advent of the internet where you had only local or national competitors, now your competitors are all over the world and just one click away from your local or national target market. So why would you want to build a business just like your neighbour? Here’s the deal: if your business doesn’t stand for something SIGNIFICANT (unique and useful) there’s no need repeating what others have already done and giving it another name. Meaning, if there’s nothing positively unusual about your business, don’t bother going into business to offer the same old milk but now in a new brand skin or container. Doing this is the fastest route to extinction. In other words, differentiate or die!
8. Don’t Start a Business without SUFFICIENT planning
Business is a highly complex activity and therefore requires adequate planning. It’s been statistically proven that inadequate planning is top among the reasons why most businesses fail. I’m sure you already know that by now (that’s why it’s the second to the last point). Why then did I include it in the list? Because most times, the problem is not about what we don’t know but more of what we do know but never put to use or practice. There’s a phrase that best captures the essence of planning and it goes like this; “He who fails to plan, plans to fail“. And a key element of planning is having a long term perspective of things or as it is popularly called: seeing the big picture. Which intentionally, happens to be the subject matter of the next point to which we now turn.
9. Don’t Start a Business that cannot OUTLIVE you
One of the underlying principles of the Accounting profession is called: “going concern” which means that a business must be in perpetuity. That is, a business is meant to exist as far as there’s still a need to be met. It’s just basic human nature: I mean who wants to raise a child only to watch the child die before their eyes? In the same regard, you should never start a business that has a short lifespan. Starting a business from a short term or temporary viewpoint, as far as I’m concerned is the definition of selfishness. Why build something temporary when you have the potential to create something eternal? The joy of any creator is to see his/her creation rise above their widest dream and outlive the very existence of the creator. So here’s the ultimate question for you “does your business have the capacity to outlive you?” OR “Would your business still be in existence long after you’ve gone?” Never start or go into a new business without asking and answering these questions.
What then is the RIGHT way to start a business?
Start a business because you have something SIGNIFICANT (unique & useful) to contribute to the benefit of the human race!
Why?
Because a business is a tool that entrepreneurs create in order to make a SIGNIFICANT (unique & useful) contribution to the world by addressing a particular problem plaguing the human race.
SOURCE: http://www.mashada.com/go/?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F~r%2FLikeChapaa%2F~3%2FBejUQ-86554%2F
9 Reasons Why You Should NOT Start a Business
A journey that begins with a wrong step seldom ends at the right destination.
1. Don’t Start a Business for the sake of MONEY
Top on the list of reasons why people go into business is the strong desire to amass wealth. I have never known of a more ineffective way to think about business than this. As unpopular as it might sound, most business failures stem from this singular fact alone. Why? Because the moment making money becomes your primary focus as an entrepreneur, delivering value which is the foundation of effective business practice becomes secondary. And when this happens, no matter how great your business is, it automatically goes on a downward spin. Nothing kills a business faster than putting money first before adding value to your customers. So when next you’re thinking about starting up a business, I suggest you lose every possible thought about making money and focus entirely on delivering consistently superior value. Trust me, I’m talking from experience (of other people), starting your own business for the purpose of making money is a sure fire way of failing.
2. Don’t Start a Business because you LOST your job
Closely related to the issue of money is going into business because you lost your job. As you’ve probably realized, this is how many people end up as entrepreneurs. At first glance, there might not be anything wrong with this approach of starting up a business, but taking a closer look will reveal a vital truth: people who lose their jobs are often driven by fear and to start a business because you are afraid is absolutely disastrous. The implication is often enormous: top on the list is that you will never exercise the due diligence starting a new business entails. Why? Because the fear of living without a regular income since you no longer have a job will keep haunting you and eventually start making you place unrealistic financial expectations on your new business venture. Second on the list is that you are emotionally unstable the first few months of losing a job, especially when you didn’t see it coming. The disappointment can be disheartening, the more reason why you shouldn’t go into business with such mind frame. Why? Because in the world of business, disappointments are a natural prerequisite for success. Meaning, the more disappointments you get, the closer you are to success.
3. Don’t Start a Business because you HAVE money
I know you’re probably startled about this one. You certainly didn’t see it coming. Well, it’s as wrong as starting a business for the sake of making money. How? Here’s the thing most people with money don’t realize, it doesn’t take money alone to make a business work. Starting and running a business will cost you more than all the money you think you have. There are just too many things a business will demand from you that money can’t even buy, for example: how much does it cost to buy the passion needed to build a SIGNIFICANT (unique and useful) business? Have you ever seen passion being offered for sale? In fact, no university or institute of learning can even teach you passion. Here’s the truth, having money is good, but it’s not sufficient enough to make you want to start a business. Starting a business requires gut, passion, ingenuity, creativity, resilience and so many other personal character traits that all the money in the world can’t buy!
4. Don’t Start a Business because you want TIME Freedom
The thought of not having to wake up early and rush off to work can be very enticing to would be entrepreneurs. But take it from me, I’ve been in the game now for 8 years; the fact that you didn’t wake up early and rushed off to work doesn’t mean you are not at work. Being an entrepreneur means working all of the time even in your sleep. That your fantasy of time freedom will naturally go sore once you choose to become your own boss. How do I mean? You see, it’s not that you wouldn’t have more time to yourself when you’re an entrepreneur, certainly you would. But the irony of it all is this; that time freedom is for you to do some creative work and not for you to be idle and indulge yourself in some unproductive activity. You left your job to have enough time to do what you really care about in life, that’s all the definition of time freedom you’ll ever get – having enough time to make a SIGNIFICANT contribution with your life to the world. True entrepreneurs hardly stay idle indulging in pleasurable activities just because they have time freedom. They are always in the creative process, picking up clues here and there of how they can make the world a better place by utilizing their time, money and life for something worthwhile.
5. Don’t Start a Business because OTHERS are doing it
Anything that is popular has a way of being highly contagious. People just literally jump at it without any logical explanation. Believe it or not, this is how so many people ended up in the world of business. Since everyone they know is quitting their 8-to-5 jobs to go start their own thing, why shouldn’t they do the same? The down side of going with the bandwagon is this; you’ll lack the staying power critical to survival in the world of business. At first, the thought of being your own boss can be very enticing, but sooner or later you’ll realize it’s not a bed of roses. And when this reality sets in, you’re the only one who would be left alone to figure out a way of making it through the stormy days. So start a business because it’s what your soul desires and not what the society or your peers desires for you. Starting your own business is not about boosting your personal ego or winning a popularity contest, it’s a personal decision born out of an internal conviction!
6. Don’t Start a Business because you HATE working for others
Now here comes the tricky one; starting a business because you hate working for others. After wanting to make money, this is another popular reason people give for going into business. Listen, as popular as it may seem, here’s the truth; 99% of popular things are either totally wrong or mere misconceptions. That you hate working for others is no guarantee that you will succeed or enjoy working for yourself. In fact, there’s more work to do working for yourself than you ever thought you did working for others. So if you hate working for others, you might just as well hate working for yourself. What it turns out to be sincerely is this: you simply don’t like work in general and this is why starting your own business is the last thing you should ever think of doing. Why? Because business is the domain of unlimited work; there are no working hours like your regular 8-to-5 job. Welcome to the 24/7/365 days a year working schedule!
7. Don’t Start a Business just LIKE everybody else (Differentiate or Die)
In my field of business development, I have seen so many people go into business just because they saw somebody else succeeding in it. This is a higher form of going into business because others are doing (point #5 above). You observe a business and simply go make a clone of such business. So what do we get? The same kind of business but with different brand names. I don’t get it: “Why would any right thinking person choose to be a duplicate of another when it’s absolutely possible to excel being an original?” As a matter of fact, you have higher chances of succeeding going into business as an innovator than being a duplicator.
The business terrain is already overcrowded with a countless number of companies doing almost the same thing you have in mind to do. Unlike in the past before the advent of the internet where you had only local or national competitors, now your competitors are all over the world and just one click away from your local or national target market. So why would you want to build a business just like your neighbour? Here’s the deal: if your business doesn’t stand for something SIGNIFICANT (unique and useful) there’s no need repeating what others have already done and giving it another name. Meaning, if there’s nothing positively unusual about your business, don’t bother going into business to offer the same old milk but now in a new brand skin or container. Doing this is the fastest route to extinction. In other words, differentiate or die!
8. Don’t Start a Business without SUFFICIENT planning
Business is a highly complex activity and therefore requires adequate planning. It’s been statistically proven that inadequate planning is top among the reasons why most businesses fail. I’m sure you already know that by now (that’s why it’s the second to the last point). Why then did I include it in the list? Because most times, the problem is not about what we don’t know but more of what we do know but never put to use or practice. There’s a phrase that best captures the essence of planning and it goes like this; “He who fails to plan, plans to fail“. And a key element of planning is having a long term perspective of things or as it is popularly called: seeing the big picture. Which intentionally, happens to be the subject matter of the next point to which we now turn.
9. Don’t Start a Business that cannot OUTLIVE you
One of the underlying principles of the Accounting profession is called: “going concern” which means that a business must be in perpetuity. That is, a business is meant to exist as far as there’s still a need to be met. It’s just basic human nature: I mean who wants to raise a child only to watch the child die before their eyes? In the same regard, you should never start a business that has a short lifespan. Starting a business from a short term or temporary viewpoint, as far as I’m concerned is the definition of selfishness. Why build something temporary when you have the potential to create something eternal? The joy of any creator is to see his/her creation rise above their widest dream and outlive the very existence of the creator. So here’s the ultimate question for you “does your business have the capacity to outlive you?” OR “Would your business still be in existence long after you’ve gone?” Never start or go into a new business without asking and answering these questions.
What then is the RIGHT way to start a business?
Start a business because you have something SIGNIFICANT (unique & useful) to contribute to the benefit of the human race!
Why?
Because a business is a tool that entrepreneurs create in order to make a SIGNIFICANT (unique & useful) contribution to the world by addressing a particular problem plaguing the human race.
SOURCE: http://www.mashada.com/go/?u=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F~r%2FLikeChapaa%2F~3%2FBejUQ-86554%2F
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
TWO GIRLS , TWO FRIENDS
Today i will l tell you about two friends Wawira and Achieng
They are both 20 years old second year university students .
They are great friends always together – inseparable they are .Whenever you see one the other is always behind, in the front, beside or close by.
Wawira and Achieng are contrasts of the other perhaps this what makes them gel so well as buddies.
Wawira is light complexioned very tall and skinny . She is so skinny that if she walks ahead of you its hard to tell whether she is going or coming – just a beautiful tall pole . She has long straightened hair reaching her shoulders that’s the envy of many girls in Campus. Sharon Wawira is also a very bright student in fact her fees is paid for by her local MP who decided to help the girl since her family is poor.
Achieng on the other hand is thick and dark complexioned . Well , she is thick in every sense of the word. Thick physically and thick in the brain too.
Achieng’s grades in class are bad so bad that it is usually rumored that the dad ’’ sees the vice chancellor aside.’’ Just to keep her in campus otherwise she would have been discontinued way back . Achieng’s family is well endowed in resources as she is endowed physically , her family is rich – very rich Anyway whatever she lacks for intellectually she shows for it in flamboyance.A real Fashionista and flosser she is. Always dressed in the latest colours and designs.
Sylvia Achieng has huge bottoms that would make an old African man drool to dehydration. She is a proud owner of big hips ,small waist and large bitties (big titties). I can’t say the measurements in cup size , I wouldn’t know my house is full of mugs. Being exact opposites of each other morphologically, seeing them walk together can be a beautiful yet a humorous spectacle . One tall skinny person and a thick short one walking side by side they look like a Sony Wega and Sony Bravia taking a walk out of the Sony Centre.
You see their friendship is very symbiotic. Each has what the other doesn’t have. Achieng gets help with her class work while Wawira gets treats from her in return. The first time Wawira rode in Landrover Discovery 3 was when Achieng’s Dad took them out for dinner. Wawira has never forgotten how Achieng’s dad winked at and squeezed her bony ass when he was dropping them back at their hostels. “Sick old man ..’she thought to herself, she never mentioned this to her friend. It would be like killing the Goose that lays the golden eggs.
This friendship has not always been smooth. There are times when they fought especially when it came to men. Like I said before Wawira is pretty, Achieng is not that aesthetically gifted but she gets all the attention due to her flamboyance and style. Woe unto Wawira if a man who is a sucker for skinny light-skinned women picks her over Achieng. This always causes a great rift between them. You see Achieng believes since she holds the purse strings and dresses to kill , men should always pick her over Wawira.
Ok Enough of this imagination but im glad it helped relieve me of some anxiety.
They are both 20 years old second year university students .
They are great friends always together – inseparable they are .Whenever you see one the other is always behind, in the front, beside or close by.
Wawira and Achieng are contrasts of the other perhaps this what makes them gel so well as buddies.
Wawira is light complexioned very tall and skinny . She is so skinny that if she walks ahead of you its hard to tell whether she is going or coming – just a beautiful tall pole . She has long straightened hair reaching her shoulders that’s the envy of many girls in Campus. Sharon Wawira is also a very bright student in fact her fees is paid for by her local MP who decided to help the girl since her family is poor.
Achieng on the other hand is thick and dark complexioned . Well , she is thick in every sense of the word. Thick physically and thick in the brain too.
Achieng’s grades in class are bad so bad that it is usually rumored that the dad ’’ sees the vice chancellor aside.’’ Just to keep her in campus otherwise she would have been discontinued way back . Achieng’s family is well endowed in resources as she is endowed physically , her family is rich – very rich Anyway whatever she lacks for intellectually she shows for it in flamboyance.A real Fashionista and flosser she is. Always dressed in the latest colours and designs.
Sylvia Achieng has huge bottoms that would make an old African man drool to dehydration. She is a proud owner of big hips ,small waist and large bitties (big titties). I can’t say the measurements in cup size , I wouldn’t know my house is full of mugs. Being exact opposites of each other morphologically, seeing them walk together can be a beautiful yet a humorous spectacle . One tall skinny person and a thick short one walking side by side they look like a Sony Wega and Sony Bravia taking a walk out of the Sony Centre.
You see their friendship is very symbiotic. Each has what the other doesn’t have. Achieng gets help with her class work while Wawira gets treats from her in return. The first time Wawira rode in Landrover Discovery 3 was when Achieng’s Dad took them out for dinner. Wawira has never forgotten how Achieng’s dad winked at and squeezed her bony ass when he was dropping them back at their hostels. “Sick old man ..’she thought to herself, she never mentioned this to her friend. It would be like killing the Goose that lays the golden eggs.
This friendship has not always been smooth. There are times when they fought especially when it came to men. Like I said before Wawira is pretty, Achieng is not that aesthetically gifted but she gets all the attention due to her flamboyance and style. Woe unto Wawira if a man who is a sucker for skinny light-skinned women picks her over Achieng. This always causes a great rift between them. You see Achieng believes since she holds the purse strings and dresses to kill , men should always pick her over Wawira.
Ok Enough of this imagination but im glad it helped relieve me of some anxiety.
Monday, May 30, 2011
AFRICA'S UNSUNG HERO
AFRICA’S UNSUNG HERO
On this day of May 31st 1994 marked the end of a Hero’s life.
Today I pay tribute to an African Hero less known to many. A hero who on this day in the year of 1994 was killed while going about what could be arguably be the most heroic deeds a soldier ever carried out solo and unarmed!
The good man’s name is Captain Mbaye Diagne and this was during the horrific Rwandan Genocide. It was at this time when Africans were busy looking the other way and the UN was busy arguing what constitutes a Genocide.
Captain Mbaye one of the soldiers in the UN peace keeping force was sent to Rwanda as a Millitary observer of the implementation of the Arusha Accord. A towering Senegalese with an ever-present toothy smile Mbaye a staunch Muslim is said to have risked his life and career to save thousands of Tutsis from being slaughtered by the Hutu extremists.
Captain Mbaye Diagne.
As a UN military observer Capt Mbaye and his fellow soldiers had limited mandate. Regulations barred them from actively involving themselves or taking any side in the conflict. In other words they were reduced to mere spectators in the mayhem.
The first act of bravery was when he( Capt Mbaye )saved children of the then just slain Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimina by hiding them and later ‘smuggling’ them to the Hotel des Mille Collines. During the fateful day of April 7th 1994 Madame Agathe’s Rwandan presidential guard turned on her and her husband and killed them in cold blood. The children had luckily been hidden in the neighbouring UNDP compound and had Capt Mbaye not smuggled them to safety, it was only a matter of time and they would have been discovered and butchered too. On the same day the 10 Belgian soldiers assigned to guard Madame Agathe were later castrated, choked with their own genitalia and shot dead!
To say Capt Mbaye was always putting his life in peril to save people is an understatement. It is not exactly known how many people he saved whether it was foreign journalists or just Tutsis and moderate Hutus who were just minutes away from their death. It is estimated he saved hundreds others place the figure at thousands. By this time the man had gone way out of his mandate as per the UN Millitary observer regulations. His superior the UNAMIR Force Commander Romeo Dallaire knew what Mbaye was doing was wrong but too disappointed by the UN for abandoning him and his troops, did not reprimand the good captain. BBC Correspondent based in Rwanda at that time one Mark Doyle said that when the acts of the Captain came to his knowledge him and other journalists decided not to highlight it lest they put Captain Mbaye’s life in danger. They let him ‘quietly ‘continue with the noble cause.
With only his Pick-up truck and charm, Mbaye smuggled a lot of people to the safety of the Hotel des Mille Collines and later in the night using a network he had established they were whisked to safer regions of the country. Being from Senegal a French speaking nation meant he could easily communicate with the French speaking Rwandans.
What seems to baffle many though is how he could pass through more than 20 roadblocks mounted by the Interahamwe militia just waiting to butcher the Tutsis who dared go through. This is attributed to his charm and the ability to strike rapport with the enemy within seconds. A few jokes , a flash of his big smile and an exchange of a few puffs of cigarette they would let him through. It is also said that he would occasionally go through the roadblocks by giving bribes of cigarettes and money. All this while he did not even have a baton on him since as an observer he was not allowed to carry arms. On each trip he had at least five people to ferry to safety.
The head of the UN Humanitarian Assistance Team in Rwanda Mr Gromo Alex described Mbaye ‘s activities as such:
‘’He had access to most of the areas … the military or gendarme or presidential guard. He covered all the territory, knew most of the people in the command structure. But fairly early on, we could see in this back room in the Amahoro hotel [that] large groups of people all of a sudden appeared and [the] next day were gone. We began to put together that Mbaye was bringing people from all over to the headquarters and then evacuating them or having them picked up and taken to safety elsewhere. And I don't even know the numbers of the people that he saved. But a lot of people know who he is. A lot of people were saved by him, and not just Rwandans but famous journalists. I think they were put in positions where their lives were pretty close to an end, and he stepped in and saved them. (...) ‘’
On May 31 May, Capt Mbaye was tragically killed when a mortar shell landed at the back his truck and shrapnel went through the back of his head. Ironically the mortar was aimed at a Rwandan Armed Forces checkpoint had been fired by Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Forces. The Rwandan Patriotic Forces under Paul Kagame are the ones credited with stopping the Genocide in Rwanda.
It was a definite sad day at the UNAMIR Force Headquarters, They did not even have a body bag to put his remains. In a famous documentary the Ghosts of Rwanda , Gromo Alex Head of the UN Humanitarian Assistance broke down and cried as he described how they made a body bag out of a blue UNICEF tarpaulin and to him it was not the way they wanted to send off the hero. The man who use to give them hope with his charm and smile was no more.
Very few people today know about Capt Mbaye. Even fewer people know that his amateur video footage of the UN peacekeepers in Rwanda is the one of the only video records shot during that time. BBC’s Mark Doyle paused the UNAMIR Force Commander Romeo Dallaire as written in his book -Shake Hands with the Devil- “ Can you imagine the blanket media coverage that a dead British or American peacekeeper of Mbaye’s bravery and stature would have received ? He got almost none. “
Do the Rwandans remember him ? Is there a road , a school or even a statue on the streets of Kigali built to commemorate this great soul ?Do Madame Agathe’s children right now nestled Switzerland Seventeen years later remember the man who snatched them from the jaws of death? Captain Mbaye was laid to rest in his home country of Senegal. He is survived by a wife and two children.
On this day of May 31st 1994 marked the end of a Hero’s life.
Today I pay tribute to an African Hero less known to many. A hero who on this day in the year of 1994 was killed while going about what could be arguably be the most heroic deeds a soldier ever carried out solo and unarmed!
The good man’s name is Captain Mbaye Diagne and this was during the horrific Rwandan Genocide. It was at this time when Africans were busy looking the other way and the UN was busy arguing what constitutes a Genocide.
Captain Mbaye one of the soldiers in the UN peace keeping force was sent to Rwanda as a Millitary observer of the implementation of the Arusha Accord. A towering Senegalese with an ever-present toothy smile Mbaye a staunch Muslim is said to have risked his life and career to save thousands of Tutsis from being slaughtered by the Hutu extremists.
As a UN military observer Capt Mbaye and his fellow soldiers had limited mandate. Regulations barred them from actively involving themselves or taking any side in the conflict. In other words they were reduced to mere spectators in the mayhem.
The first act of bravery was when he( Capt Mbaye )saved children of the then just slain Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimina by hiding them and later ‘smuggling’ them to the Hotel des Mille Collines. During the fateful day of April 7th 1994 Madame Agathe’s Rwandan presidential guard turned on her and her husband and killed them in cold blood. The children had luckily been hidden in the neighbouring UNDP compound and had Capt Mbaye not smuggled them to safety, it was only a matter of time and they would have been discovered and butchered too. On the same day the 10 Belgian soldiers assigned to guard Madame Agathe were later castrated, choked with their own genitalia and shot dead!
To say Capt Mbaye was always putting his life in peril to save people is an understatement. It is not exactly known how many people he saved whether it was foreign journalists or just Tutsis and moderate Hutus who were just minutes away from their death. It is estimated he saved hundreds others place the figure at thousands. By this time the man had gone way out of his mandate as per the UN Millitary observer regulations. His superior the UNAMIR Force Commander Romeo Dallaire knew what Mbaye was doing was wrong but too disappointed by the UN for abandoning him and his troops, did not reprimand the good captain. BBC Correspondent based in Rwanda at that time one Mark Doyle said that when the acts of the Captain came to his knowledge him and other journalists decided not to highlight it lest they put Captain Mbaye’s life in danger. They let him ‘quietly ‘continue with the noble cause.
Captain Mbaye.
What seems to baffle many though is how he could pass through more than 20 roadblocks mounted by the Interahamwe militia just waiting to butcher the Tutsis who dared go through. This is attributed to his charm and the ability to strike rapport with the enemy within seconds. A few jokes , a flash of his big smile and an exchange of a few puffs of cigarette they would let him through. It is also said that he would occasionally go through the roadblocks by giving bribes of cigarettes and money. All this while he did not even have a baton on him since as an observer he was not allowed to carry arms. On each trip he had at least five people to ferry to safety.
The head of the UN Humanitarian Assistance Team in Rwanda Mr Gromo Alex described Mbaye ‘s activities as such:
‘’He had access to most of the areas … the military or gendarme or presidential guard. He covered all the territory, knew most of the people in the command structure. But fairly early on, we could see in this back room in the Amahoro hotel [that] large groups of people all of a sudden appeared and [the] next day were gone. We began to put together that Mbaye was bringing people from all over to the headquarters and then evacuating them or having them picked up and taken to safety elsewhere. And I don't even know the numbers of the people that he saved. But a lot of people know who he is. A lot of people were saved by him, and not just Rwandans but famous journalists. I think they were put in positions where their lives were pretty close to an end, and he stepped in and saved them. (...) ‘’
On May 31 May, Capt Mbaye was tragically killed when a mortar shell landed at the back his truck and shrapnel went through the back of his head. Ironically the mortar was aimed at a Rwandan Armed Forces checkpoint had been fired by Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Forces. The Rwandan Patriotic Forces under Paul Kagame are the ones credited with stopping the Genocide in Rwanda.
It was a definite sad day at the UNAMIR Force Headquarters, They did not even have a body bag to put his remains. In a famous documentary the Ghosts of Rwanda , Gromo Alex Head of the UN Humanitarian Assistance broke down and cried as he described how they made a body bag out of a blue UNICEF tarpaulin and to him it was not the way they wanted to send off the hero. The man who use to give them hope with his charm and smile was no more.
Very few people today know about Capt Mbaye. Even fewer people know that his amateur video footage of the UN peacekeepers in Rwanda is the one of the only video records shot during that time. BBC’s Mark Doyle paused the UNAMIR Force Commander Romeo Dallaire as written in his book -Shake Hands with the Devil- “ Can you imagine the blanket media coverage that a dead British or American peacekeeper of Mbaye’s bravery and stature would have received ? He got almost none. “
Do the Rwandans remember him ? Is there a road , a school or even a statue on the streets of Kigali built to commemorate this great soul ?Do Madame Agathe’s children right now nestled Switzerland Seventeen years later remember the man who snatched them from the jaws of death? Captain Mbaye was laid to rest in his home country of Senegal. He is survived by a wife and two children.
Friday, May 27, 2011
OF ALFRED TENNYSON OF RAMBLINGS AND MELANCHOLIC BURSTS
OH HOW I WISH FLYING WOULD BE EASY
TO SOAR IN THE CLOUDS AND BE UNREACHABLE
DETACHED , ALOOF FROM THE QUAKES AND FLOODS OF LIFE
AND SEE EVERYTHING FROM ABOVE WHERE TIME
AND DISTANCE WOULD NEVER MATTER.
- 14 -01-2009-
That's the date i was in one of my Alfred Tennyson's moods .
Alfred Tennyson one of my favourite poets was one misunderstood person.
He was labelled a hypochondriac, insecure and a whiner.
I tend to think he was a compulsive perfectionist, again greatly misunderstood.
Every ambitious human being has these feelings once in a while.
sometimes i feel like Alfred Tennyson
With his well documented melancholic bouts
Edward Fitzgerald aptly described Tennyson's disposition in Feb 1840 as thus:
''.... I have also made him very out of sorts by desiring a trace from complaints and complainings- poor fellow: he is quite magnanimous and noble hearted, with no meaness or vanity or affectation of any kind whatever - but very perverse ,according to the nature of his illness - so much for poets ,who one must allow are many of them a somewhat tetchy race.
There is that great metaphysical, Doric ,moral,religious ,psychological, poet of age who doesnt like to be contradicted at all: nor neglected in any way." A collection of poems by Alfred Tennyson
The day that i wrote the above poem is the day i really felt inadequate, in life , i was really low and my my mind was full of questions on where my life was headed.There comes ja time in our lives where we wonder about our worth in this life . Are we adding more to life than we are taking ?
TO SOAR IN THE CLOUDS AND BE UNREACHABLE
DETACHED , ALOOF FROM THE QUAKES AND FLOODS OF LIFE
AND SEE EVERYTHING FROM ABOVE WHERE TIME
AND DISTANCE WOULD NEVER MATTER.
- 14 -01-2009-
That's the date i was in one of my Alfred Tennyson's moods .
Alfred Tennyson one of my favourite poets was one misunderstood person.
He was labelled a hypochondriac, insecure and a whiner.
I tend to think he was a compulsive perfectionist, again greatly misunderstood.
Every ambitious human being has these feelings once in a while.
sometimes i feel like Alfred Tennyson
With his well documented melancholic bouts
Edward Fitzgerald aptly described Tennyson's disposition in Feb 1840 as thus:
''.... I have also made him very out of sorts by desiring a trace from complaints and complainings- poor fellow: he is quite magnanimous and noble hearted, with no meaness or vanity or affectation of any kind whatever - but very perverse ,according to the nature of his illness - so much for poets ,who one must allow are many of them a somewhat tetchy race.
There is that great metaphysical, Doric ,moral,religious ,psychological, poet of age who doesnt like to be contradicted at all: nor neglected in any way." A collection of poems by Alfred Tennyson
The day that i wrote the above poem is the day i really felt inadequate, in life , i was really low and my my mind was full of questions on where my life was headed.There comes ja time in our lives where we wonder about our worth in this life . Are we adding more to life than we are taking ?
Sunday, May 8, 2011
THE BIG PERVERTED BROTHER - FINAL PART
I’ve taken a lot of flak since I wrote my article lampooning the big brother show. I had under estimated how popular this ‘thing ‘among my friends and acquaintances.
As a result I’ve been called a Killjoy, someone told me ‘’ haujachanuka ’’ among other invectives that were flung my way . Let me say here that I'd rather be ‘’unchanukad’’ than participate in that voyeurism.
If I really wanted to watch people going about mundane activities like eating, sleeping and showering , I might as well drill a hole through the neighbour’s wall and peep.
My beef with this show is that it would have been better if the organizers gave the contestants tasks that were not only fun-filled but also inspirational. Positive tasks that are in line with the challenges that face this continent.
The Western world is so many years ahead in terms of development that they can afford have luxury of wasting time and money. Lets not imagine that everything that comes from them is useful or relevant to us. Im not against anyone having fun but lets keep the fun sensible and one that leaves us with our dignity intact.What if this ‘’big brother ‘’ was like Donald Trump’s Apprentice . The competitors manage to have fun while at the same time learning and engaging their skills constructively.
Well im done with this Big brother bashing .. so friends don’t kill my cat for deriding your favourite TV show. These are Just my thoughts.
Now still on fun that is wayward there is this thing that has caused a major furor especially among the Netizens in this country.
You see on the 24th of April when most of you were all about the easter bunny there was something of the grotesque nature happening at the Carnivore. Some unsavory Jamaicans by the names of Ding dong and RDX were teaching the Kenyan youths how to have sex in public with their clothes on.
The two thugs have put the event organizers Fisborne Entertainment in trouble with lawsuits just a song away from their doorsteps. During the concert named Swaggarific, the clowns dared ladies to go on stage for lewd dances.
Please watch the videos here http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=jbVjOyscHJA and make sure you have the heart for this here it gets nastier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkF-tB0YfsU&feature=related
Now Kenyans is that fun ? really ? Assuming that most of the people attending the show were teenagers what did they learn? That it’s ok to dry hump in public . That women are like ragdolls to be tossed around in the name of having fun ? I’ve always suspected that at one point Jamaicans gave up on living like human beings. This confirms it.
As a result I’ve been called a Killjoy, someone told me ‘’ haujachanuka ’’ among other invectives that were flung my way . Let me say here that I'd rather be ‘’unchanukad’’ than participate in that voyeurism.
If I really wanted to watch people going about mundane activities like eating, sleeping and showering , I might as well drill a hole through the neighbour’s wall and peep.
My beef with this show is that it would have been better if the organizers gave the contestants tasks that were not only fun-filled but also inspirational. Positive tasks that are in line with the challenges that face this continent.
The Western world is so many years ahead in terms of development that they can afford have luxury of wasting time and money. Lets not imagine that everything that comes from them is useful or relevant to us. Im not against anyone having fun but lets keep the fun sensible and one that leaves us with our dignity intact.What if this ‘’big brother ‘’ was like Donald Trump’s Apprentice . The competitors manage to have fun while at the same time learning and engaging their skills constructively.
Well im done with this Big brother bashing .. so friends don’t kill my cat for deriding your favourite TV show. These are Just my thoughts.
Now still on fun that is wayward there is this thing that has caused a major furor especially among the Netizens in this country.
You see on the 24th of April when most of you were all about the easter bunny there was something of the grotesque nature happening at the Carnivore. Some unsavory Jamaicans by the names of Ding dong and RDX were teaching the Kenyan youths how to have sex in public with their clothes on.
The two thugs have put the event organizers Fisborne Entertainment in trouble with lawsuits just a song away from their doorsteps. During the concert named Swaggarific, the clowns dared ladies to go on stage for lewd dances.
Please watch the videos here http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=jbVjOyscHJA and make sure you have the heart for this here it gets nastier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkF-tB0YfsU&feature=related
Now Kenyans is that fun ? really ? Assuming that most of the people attending the show were teenagers what did they learn? That it’s ok to dry hump in public . That women are like ragdolls to be tossed around in the name of having fun ? I’ve always suspected that at one point Jamaicans gave up on living like human beings. This confirms it.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
THE BIG PERVERTED BROTHER
The Big Brother season is here with us again.
The season when Africans are treated to televised practices of moral decadence.
This time round there are 27 africans in that famous Sodom and Gomorrah called ‘’the house’’
The big brother is one thing that has ever added any value to this continent if you ask me. The fact that the take home prize for the last idiot standing has been raised to US dollars 200,0000 does not even justify the objective behind this big brother thing. It beats me where is the fun is in locking up random strangers in a house then waiting for them to fall sick, fight, have sex or shower ?
I think some bored white guy was hanging out with his friends when he suddenly had a moment of inspiration and said to his pals ‘‘ ….hey guys what if we started a reality show where we lock up guys, put them under camera surveillance get them drunk occasionally and watch them having sex…?..’’ Then the friends stared at him in awe and exclaimed …’’ you are a genius !!!!” in their lives they had never such an intelligent man . That’s how it spread to the Motherland.
Enough with trying to figure out the genesis of this madness -The Big Brother .
So back to the house I hear the Kenyan Participant Millicent was a pioneer of sorts . She is said to have been the first to kiss someone on the show – on the second day !!
This is reminiscent of a former female participant who left an indelible mark in the house for her bi-sexual shenanigans I wonder if she was left with a tongue after the departure from the house. Woman used to lick and kiss anything. Her name escapes me but it wouldn’t add value to my life if I remembered.
She came back and like minded fans feted her like she had come back with a Marathon gold medal .One radio presenter yapped on and on about how this woman had made kenya proud- I cringed in pain.
Sadly for the weeks running Africans will keep their eyes glued to their screens with abated breath grabbing their nethers in anticipation, waiting just waiting for someone to get naked. The specimens in the house will be treated to alcohol ,discretion and inhibition will be frowned upon. They’ll be given childish tasks like singing nursery rhymes and playing hide and seek. They will make bubbles out of soapy water .
I’m sure there will be a task where they will cross dress. It’s the big brother and 200,000 US Dollars for grabs. The first lady to flash a boob will be lavished with praise and the first man to lay a woman in the house will go down in continental history .
Nonsense utter nonsense and waste of time !
The season when Africans are treated to televised practices of moral decadence.
This time round there are 27 africans in that famous Sodom and Gomorrah called ‘’the house’’
The big brother is one thing that has ever added any value to this continent if you ask me. The fact that the take home prize for the last idiot standing has been raised to US dollars 200,0000 does not even justify the objective behind this big brother thing. It beats me where is the fun is in locking up random strangers in a house then waiting for them to fall sick, fight, have sex or shower ?
I think some bored white guy was hanging out with his friends when he suddenly had a moment of inspiration and said to his pals ‘‘ ….hey guys what if we started a reality show where we lock up guys, put them under camera surveillance get them drunk occasionally and watch them having sex…?..’’ Then the friends stared at him in awe and exclaimed …’’ you are a genius !!!!” in their lives they had never such an intelligent man . That’s how it spread to the Motherland.
Enough with trying to figure out the genesis of this madness -The Big Brother .
So back to the house I hear the Kenyan Participant Millicent was a pioneer of sorts . She is said to have been the first to kiss someone on the show – on the second day !!
This is reminiscent of a former female participant who left an indelible mark in the house for her bi-sexual shenanigans I wonder if she was left with a tongue after the departure from the house. Woman used to lick and kiss anything. Her name escapes me but it wouldn’t add value to my life if I remembered.
She came back and like minded fans feted her like she had come back with a Marathon gold medal .One radio presenter yapped on and on about how this woman had made kenya proud- I cringed in pain.
Sadly for the weeks running Africans will keep their eyes glued to their screens with abated breath grabbing their nethers in anticipation, waiting just waiting for someone to get naked. The specimens in the house will be treated to alcohol ,discretion and inhibition will be frowned upon. They’ll be given childish tasks like singing nursery rhymes and playing hide and seek. They will make bubbles out of soapy water .
I’m sure there will be a task where they will cross dress. It’s the big brother and 200,000 US Dollars for grabs. The first lady to flash a boob will be lavished with praise and the first man to lay a woman in the house will go down in continental history .
Nonsense utter nonsense and waste of time !
WHY DON’T YOU GET ANGRY ?
Anger the emotion as we know has long been viewed in negative terms.
I’m not going to be trite and start defining anger according to some dictionary: this is because every one of us has been angry more than one time in our lives and thus we know what anger is.
As a matter of fact there is someone reading this who is angry right now since I chose not to define -anger according to some Webster or Oxford dictionary. The whole point is Anger is probably the most prevalent of our emotions in our world today. I bet I get angry more than I laugh on any one given day.
How do you handle you anger? That’s the critical question. When you get angry are you said to have hit the roof , irked, pissed off or enraged? The degree of anger and how you channel it is important when it comes to handling anger. Whichever way you look at it anger is good - well at least sometimes.
Most of you would agree with me that some of the life changing decisions in our lives we make in a fit of anger or rage. Take for example a lenient employer who for a long time has been putting up with ineptitude from his employees….it only takes a fit of rage for him to scream ,’’You are fired !!!’’ and the problem is hence solved forever.
Let’s flip the coin now and look at the Employee. Yes the employee who is always mistreated and underrated by his/her boss . Low pay, long working hours verbal assault etc. This is one person who needs to get angry and when he/she gets angry the message will be communicated to the insensitive employer. Are you that lenient employer or are you that meek downtrodden employee?
Are you in dysfunctional relationship or marriage ? what more would it take to make you angry and say ‘’Im fed up ! ‘’Is your partner taking you for granted? Are you assaulted and abused more than you are cuddled ? its time to bring on the RAGE ! It is time to say enough is enough .No one has the key to your happiness apart from yourself.
Anger has been motivating factor to the regime changes in North Africa. The people got to that point of no return .Back home in Kenya we are very slow to anger . No wonder the politicians are always taking advantage of us . They dare us ‘’ mtado ? ‘’ . We are like what Fela Kuti sang ’’…suffering and smiling ….‘’
Anger sometimes is good. Get angry but don’t kill, maim or destroy
I’m not going to be trite and start defining anger according to some dictionary: this is because every one of us has been angry more than one time in our lives and thus we know what anger is.
As a matter of fact there is someone reading this who is angry right now since I chose not to define -anger according to some Webster or Oxford dictionary. The whole point is Anger is probably the most prevalent of our emotions in our world today. I bet I get angry more than I laugh on any one given day.
How do you handle you anger? That’s the critical question. When you get angry are you said to have hit the roof , irked, pissed off or enraged? The degree of anger and how you channel it is important when it comes to handling anger. Whichever way you look at it anger is good - well at least sometimes.
Most of you would agree with me that some of the life changing decisions in our lives we make in a fit of anger or rage. Take for example a lenient employer who for a long time has been putting up with ineptitude from his employees….it only takes a fit of rage for him to scream ,’’You are fired !!!’’ and the problem is hence solved forever.
Let’s flip the coin now and look at the Employee. Yes the employee who is always mistreated and underrated by his/her boss . Low pay, long working hours verbal assault etc. This is one person who needs to get angry and when he/she gets angry the message will be communicated to the insensitive employer. Are you that lenient employer or are you that meek downtrodden employee?
Are you in dysfunctional relationship or marriage ? what more would it take to make you angry and say ‘’Im fed up ! ‘’Is your partner taking you for granted? Are you assaulted and abused more than you are cuddled ? its time to bring on the RAGE ! It is time to say enough is enough .No one has the key to your happiness apart from yourself.
Anger has been motivating factor to the regime changes in North Africa. The people got to that point of no return .Back home in Kenya we are very slow to anger . No wonder the politicians are always taking advantage of us . They dare us ‘’ mtado ? ‘’ . We are like what Fela Kuti sang ’’…suffering and smiling ….‘’
Anger sometimes is good. Get angry but don’t kill, maim or destroy
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