Thursday, June 30, 2011

Chinese Teenage Offers Her Virginity In Exchange For IPhone 4



According to Korea Herald, a ChineseChinese reviews teenage lady revealed on Weibo (a Chinese micro-blogging site) that she was willing to sell her virginity to anyone willing to buy her iPhone 4. The lady even went ahead and posted her photos encouraging offers of iPhones against her virginity. She tweeted…..oh weibod that  it is her “dream to own a iPhone4 but her father won’t let her get one.”

The reaction on Weibo have been majorly negative though a good number of the respondents thought that she could have preserved her virginity for iPhone 5. Others also thought that she might have been pulling
a prank.
In April, a 17 year old Chinese boy sold his kidney for an equivalent of $3,400 to buy an iPad and iPhone.courtesy of www.techmtaa.com



Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Reasons Why Double Intake wont work In NUC


This is what i think..
  1. No one wants a younger sibling to find him/her in colle.
  2. The University hall(the only one in the school) can barely fit the current crop of students.
  3. We used tents last semesters for classes how will they handle an extra 600 students??
  4. The institution barely has enough lecturers for the existing courses.
  5. The mess is small and it experiences major strains during exam sessions,it cant handle additional students and especially with limited time for its opening(12-2pm 4 lunch breaks)
  6. The sporting facilities are substandard,high schools have better kits and we cant keep going to Narok High at games time,ata hao pia wamechoka!
  7. Hostel spaces are few and the contractor for the new hostel doesnt seem to be in a hurry.
  8. Moran already gets filled up with the current No of students
  9. Lecturers like Dr Khamadi cant teach for 12months consecutively....
  10. There are no enough supplies of 'SURE' for an additional population.                                                                                                                                  
NUC is the acronym for Narok University College which was established as a constituent college of Moi University on 16th July 2008. It was initially founded as a campus of Moi University in February 2007 before its elevation to a university college in July 2008.Join in the discussion and let me know what u think.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

DISTURBIA!

Many of us remember vividly the song done by Rihanna,the beautiful girl from Barbados,with a similar title.
According to www.musicbanter.com/lyrics/Rihanna-Disturbia.html "Distubia'' itself is a made-up word. 
Disturb comes from the Latin - `dis' and `turbare', which means, ``to throw into disorder''.
 Therefore, disturbia would be the state of being in disorder.


Sometimes i have that feeling
I toss and turn,i flip and flop
Disturbed and perturbed
by the beauty in my sleep
The beauty that is my dreams
The thoughts make me shoot to my feet
And reality welcomes me,and alas!
Its no longer i dream and i have to act
But in a country like mine,a governance 
like this,The deserving are not always
deserving
I know a person,who knows a person,who
knows a person that can help.
Will it distort my direction,will it bend my dream
Will it distort the information,will it reduce 
desire in my want.
This is so close,my mouth-nose distance
but my hands cant reach it,my tongue
is tied,it has its limits.
But i choose to do my best,choose
to play my part,let me go to sleep
satisfied that i played my part
An disturbed by my dreams.
They wont let me go...
THIS IS MY DISTURBIA!

Monday, June 27, 2011

Ben Gollings' contract not renewed

England Sevens captain Ben Gollings has announced that he will be stepping away from the international game, having not been awarded a new contract with England.
Gollings is Sevens Rugby's all-time record points-scorer with 2,652 from 70 tournaments, surpassing Fiji’s great Waisale Serevi.
Gollings’ international Sevens career spanned over a decade, having made his debut in the 1999/2000 IRB Sevens World Series in Paris at the age of 19.
He is the only man to have played in all 11 World Series contested to date.
Gollings also played in three Commonwealth Games and at two Rugby World Cup Sevens, reaching the final of the latter in 2005 in Hong Kong.
“It was really disappointing not to be offered a new contract with the England Sevens team as it has been a hugely enjoyable part of my life for so many years," said Gollings.
“It is a shame I won’t be able to fulfil my ambition of cracking the 3,000 points barrier or becoming all-time top try scorer, but I’ve been fortunate to enjoy as much as I have.
Ben Gollings;among the greatest ever in England.
irbsevens.com

Meat

...Meat is grilled ambition;it is the tastiest, juiciest,most nutritious
thing that can ever be served up in platter.
It represents Man's dominion over nature,
his triumph over all other species.
It is reward for his position as feudal
 overlord in the evolutionary chain.
To eat meat is to subjugate the entire ecosystem ,
to sit as king at the top of the food chain.It is to be predator surrounded by prey...
The Wag on why he values meat and cant be a Vegan(read Vegetarian)

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Smart kids shouldn’t be doctors or pilots


Published on 25/04/2010
By Ted Malanda(The Standard)
According to a psychologist whose name I can’t remember, food, shelter and a mate rank high up the ladder among man’s hierarchy of needs.
Now backtrack to January when the country was paying homage to gallant sons and daughters who had just clobbered the daylights out of KCSE. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" journalists asked.
They all wanted to be neurosurgeons, pilots and other lofty professionals, of course. None of them aspired to be a farmer or a builder or a good husband or wife.
Their choices make lots of sense when you think about it. Being a farmer or a mason is sweaty and backbreaking work. No glamour at all. In the movies, a farmer is romanticised: Fat cows, healthy crops, a nice old house and car, plenty of food and a dotting wife. But it’s a different ball game altogether in real life.
Farming means calloused hands that aren’t ideal for romance. It is spending your entire life whistling at sheep and chasing chickens in some neck of the woods without cologne and perfume. And it is pure hell when the rains fail.
Sweaty armpits
Masonry is an equally drab existence where you sweat your guts out building mansions for your clients and thereafter retreat to your little hovel somewhere in Kibera. Is it any surprise, therefore, that no kid wants to be an agriculturalist or a construction engineer?
Being a good spouse is no different from farming and masonry, either.
If you asked anyone after their fourth beer, they would confess that a husband or wife is just about the most boring task in this world.
But what these bright sparks don’t realise is that you might be the finest brain surgeon in East and Central Africa alright but you can’t open up skulls without ugali and sukuma wiki in your stomach. And no, this stuff doesn’t grow in the supermarket — someone with sweaty armpits has to raise it on a farm.
Drink and smoke
Besides, you might make so much money but quickly discover that you are too busy to spend it. In any case, wives and husbands don’t get very amused when your phone rings at crazy hours of the night and you quickly dress up and leave. Five times a week? Hell no!
You could also be the finest pilot in the neighbourhood but the thrill of it wears off in a short while when you discover that you are an overeducated and overpaid matatu driver who spends all your life away from your family. Meanwhile, the plodding farmer and the mason will still be sweating through a boring existence, feeding the nation, creating shelter, and raising solid families. With their rough hands, they feed themselves and build their own homes, something you can’t do. Let’s face it, you wouldn’t last a week if they shut down the supermarket.
But here is a parting shot: Pilots and doctors drink and smoke more than farmers and masons. Now you know whose life really sucks!

According to a psychologist whose name I can’t remember, food, shelter and a mate rank high up the ladder among man’s hierarchy of needs.
Now backtrack to January when the country was paying homage to gallant sons and daughters who had just clobbered the daylights out of KCSE. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" journalists asked.
They all wanted to be neurosurgeons, pilots and other lofty professionals, of course. None of them aspired to be a farmer or a builder or a good husband or wife.
Their choices make lots of sense when you think about it. Being a farmer or a mason is sweaty and backbreaking work. No glamour at all. In the movies, a farmer is romanticised: Fat cows, healthy crops, a nice old house and car, plenty of food and a dotting wife. But it’s a different ball game altogether in real life.
Farming means calloused hands that aren’t ideal for romance. It is spending your entire life whistling at sheep and chasing chickens in some neck of the woods without cologne and perfume. And it is pure hell when the rains fail.
Sweaty armpits
Masonry is an equally drab existence where you sweat your guts out building mansions for your clients and thereafter retreat to your little hovel somewhere in Kibera. Is it any surprise, therefore, that no kid wants to be an agriculturalist or a construction engineer?
Being a good spouse is no different from farming and masonry, either.
If you asked anyone after their fourth beer, they would confess that a husband or wife is just about the most boring task in this world.
But what these bright sparks don’t realise is that you might be the finest brain surgeon in East and Central Africa alright but you can’t open up skulls without ugali and sukuma wiki in your stomach. And no, this stuff doesn’t grow in the supermarket — someone with sweaty armpits has to raise it on a farm.
Drink and smoke
Besides, you might make so much money but quickly discover that you are too busy to spend it. In any case, wives and husbands don’t get very amused when your phone rings at crazy hours of the night and you quickly dress up and leave. Five times a week? Hell no!
You could also be the finest pilot in the neighbourhood but the thrill of it wears off in a short while when you discover that you are an overeducated and overpaid matatu driver who spends all your life away from your family. Meanwhile, the plodding farmer and the mason will still be sweating through a boring existence, feeding the nation, creating shelter, and raising solid families. With their rough hands, they feed themselves and build their own homes, something you can’t do. Let’s face it, you wouldn’t last a week if they shut down the supermarket.
But here is a parting shot: Pilots and doctors drink and smoke more than farmers and masons. Now you know whose life really sucks!
http://www.standardmedia.co.ke

Kenya Rugby-highlyts



Kenya rugby 15s team skipper Innocent Simiyu, Joel Ng’ang’a, Vincent Ongera, Daniel Kiptoo, Wilson K’Opondo and Mike Aung before their Victoria Cup match  kick-off against Zimbabwe at RFUEA ground on July 23, 2010.
Kenya rugby 15s team skipper Innocent Simiyu, Joel Ng’ang’a, Vincent Ongera, Daniel Kiptoo, Wilson K’Opondo and Mike Aung before their Victoria Cup match kick-off against Zimbabwe at RFUEA ground on July 23, 2010.

7 new players have been called into the Kenya 15s squad travellin to Harare,Zimbabwe.The seven are said to have caught the eyes of the selectors during the just concluded Bamburi Super Series(BRSS) and the Kenyan tests against The Pumas of  South Africa.the team has a good blend of both the old crop and a new blend of players.Players are drawn from 4 Kenyan cup sides with a large variety from Kenyan Cup winners Harlequins and BRsS winners,Rhinos.The seven include:Isaac Adimo,Antony Nyandigisi,Alan Omuka,Moses Amusala,Martin Likami,Dennis Muhanji and Edwin Achayo.
The team has also invited the services of flanker,Dennis 'Ironman' Mwanja,who is returning to the squad after a spell of injury.
Noticeable exclusions includeOscar Ouma(Nakuru),Andrew Amonde,Edwin Alubaka,Ronnie Mwenesi,Calvin Biko(KCB),and Nzioka Mwema of Quins.
Elsewhere Homeboyz are busy in the transfer window after raiding Impala and KCB.The entertainers are out to sign in Dennis Abenga,Dan Weku,Kelvin Omiyo,Brian Nyikuli all from Impala and Ken Isindu and John Meso,both utility forwards for KCB.Nondies are also in talks to make major signings in this transfer window.
http://www.dailynation.co.ke 

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

I HAVE A DREAM-Martin Luther King Jr.

This is considered to be one of the greatest speeches of all,and if  MLK Jr would have been alive today he would have been proud of its impact and especially to see a black man in the White House.The speech was delivered in 1963,the same year Kenya got independence.A man considered to be ahead of his time who made every moment count and lived for the service of humanity.


Martin Luther King Jr.



The Speech. "I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.
But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.
It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. 
We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" 
We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive .
Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Monday, June 20, 2011

Kenya and Singapore


Every now and then you hear the Prime minister making comparisons between Kenya and Singapore and how the two countrys should be at par.According to an article in the Standard on 26th March 2011,Donald.B.Kipkorir compares the two countries in the following aspects.We have much in common with Singapore; we are former British colonies, and both were gifted independence nearly same time. However, our paths have taken different trajectories. It is easy to explain why by showing why Singapore has succeeded.
When Singapore was expelled from Malaysia in 1965, it was a 697sqkm of useless land abutting the sea and inhabited by a poor fishing community of two million people most of who lived in leaking boats. Kenya was then a rich newly independent country with territory 900 times bigger. Forty-five years later, Singapore with a population of five million people only, has an economy with GDP of $234 billion. With our population of 40 million people, we are happy with an economy that is worth $30 billion.
Its excellent civil service, first class education, top grade infrastructure, and benevolent dictatorship underpin Singapore’s economic success. When the results for our schools national examinations are announced, the ambitions of top students are predictable: neurosurgery, actuarial science and engineering. In Singapore, top students join the teaching profession. Teaching is the most prestigious career there. The education system is so exacting but same time creating an enabling environment for all. Everyone goes to university. The top students go to study teaching and other careers, while the bottom students join universities for beauty therapy. Whatever one becomes, the process is rigorous and under complete control and supervision of Ministry of Education. Singapore scores at the top in all international school tests. If teachers are the top of class, how else can anyone fail?
By its education system, Singapore has created a civil service that is based on merit and performance. The best rise to the top of their careers with annual salaries reaching $2 million. Civil servants earn more than politicians. There, politicians do not dictate the civil service. Most politicians and ministers were career civil servants. Due to its meritocratic civil service, the politicians end up being the best. A minister, who had risen to the top of his civil service career through sheer merit, will always promote same principles and philosophy.
Singapore Changi Airport is repeatedly voted the best airport in the world. It handles over 42 million passengers per year. The Singapore Port is the world’s busiest, and is a favourite port of call for most ships. Its road network is first-rate. Internet and telephone penetration and connection is total. With such infrastructure and supported by top-rate universities, there is no excuse for failure. The only way is up.
Singapore has also developed a venerable medical sector. Every one has either mandatory or government-subsidized medical cover. And of their tiny enclave of a country, 50 per cent of Singapore is covered in forests and water-marshes for environmental balance. No country in the world has such forest cover. There are no poor people or destitute in Singapore. No images of emaciated people trying to survive by boiling wild fruits.
Above all, Singapore has developed because of benevolent dictatorship. Its founding Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, ruled till his retirement in 1990 by iron-grip and brooking no dissent. On retirement, he handed over power to his son, Lee Hsien Loon. While the son is Prime Minister, the father is called Minister Mentor — the real power figure.
In Kenya, we have political leadership that is deeply wanting in education, strategy and vision. We elect those who have failed in their careers or even fugitives from justice, and we expect to change. If we keep re-electing leaders in the current calibre and expecting to be like Singapore, we would, like the co-conspirator Servilius Casca in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare say, but "… wherefore did you so much tempt the heavens?" 
Just to show you how Singapore has developed i hereby present to you images of one of Singapore newest and probably the worlds most magnificent hotel,The Singapore Sky Park.


































Now compare it with Kenya.....