..fo shazzle, ma nazzle!
There are a lot of things I just can not relate to as I grew up with this - instead of the following:
…but it’s also kinda cute. And smart.
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17:40
"Titanic" Coalition Government Fails To See The Icebergs Ahead
» You Missed This As VP Musyoka admits that the coalition government is the cause of Kenyan’s many problems
You, my dear readers must be pretty sick by now of me telling you how I love movies.
My apologies as I indulge you in yet another movie. This one perfectly illustrates the situation in Kenya for me.
The movie is Titanic. Did you watch it? But let me say something before I talk about the movie.
The "unsinkable" Titatic shortly before it's maiden and only voyage. Is the coalition government about to hit deadly "icebergs"?
Former UN secretary general Kofi Anan thinks that the coalition government will hold and so do so many other prominent people. However Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka gave what must be his most controversial speech yesterday and confirmed what we have been saying in this blog and what Kenyans have been saying all along. The VP says that a coalition government is the worst possible kind of government we have ever had. He then went on to blame all the problems facing the country on the coalition government of which he belongs.
This statement from the Daily nation article on the speech was the killer blow for me;
Mr Musyoka bluntly described a coalition government as “the worst form of governance” which allowed politicians to endanger people’s future with impunity. Read the full article.
Now you have heard it from the horses’ mouth.
Back to Titanic. The movie was of course based on a real life tragedy where the biggest steam ship of it’s time, the Titanic sunk on it’s maiden trip from Southampton, England to NewYork City America.
The huge luxury ship employing the latest technology of the time was touted as being unsinkable (We have been told that the coalition government will hold and is unsinkable until the 2012 elections).
In the movie version a budding romance between two characters from very different worlds (played by Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winselet) takes place within the ship. The unlikely romance is held together despite everything by true love which is proved in the end. (The “romance” between PNU and ODM is held together by greed and corruption as VP Kalonzo Musyoka confirmed yesterday.)
And so the unsinkable Titanic hurtled full speed towards NewYork oblivious of the great dangers ahead in the form of icebergs.
The coalition government is hurtling full speed towards 2012 with ,members stealing and grabbing like there was no tomorrow, but like just as the Titanic never reached new York…EVER, the coalition government will never see 2012. The ship sunk on 15th April (1912) and in my vioew the coalition government will collapse a few weeks after that same date this year.
What icebergs do I see ahead?
Good question. Methinks that it will be all about the economy. Most economists think that the country will have been hit by the effects of the wolrd economic melt down by May this year. And without the “glue” that holds the coalition “romance” together i.e. plenty of cash to loot, what are the chances of it surviving?
I would like to think of the Kumekucha blog as that first officer at the top of the Titanic who saw the icebergs looming in the dark horizon and did his best to raise the alrm. The ship tried to turn to avoid the deadly icebergs but due to it’s great speed at the time, it was all too late.
Read more about The titanic
We were right and wrong about the coalition in this Feb 28th 2008 article
Will The grand coalition government collapse in this way?Kumekucha
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14:55
Kiss me on my neck- Erykah Badu
» make mine a double espresso... I want somebody to walk up behind me... And kiss me on my neck and breathe, on my neck
I want somebody to walk up behind me... And kiss me on my neck and breathe, on my neck
Been such a long time, i forgot that i was fine... Just kiss me on my neck and breathe, on my neck
I want somebody to walk up behind me... And kiss me on my neck and breathe, on my neck
if you want to feel me, better be divine
bring me water, water for my mind
give me nothing, breathe love in my air
don't abuse me, coz these herbs are rare
if you want to feel me baby, better be divine...
Bring me water for these flowers growing out my mind
give me nothing, just be gentle, breathe love in my air...
Use me, don't abuse me love me, coz these herbs are rare...
I know it's old school but i LOVE this song.
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14:52
Poetry Meets Technology Meets the Strength of the Human Spirit
» What An African Woman Thinks 
I was having trouble summoning sleep late into last night so I thought I might as well dispense with long overdue business like listening to some of the latest talks posted up at TED.
(Although, as well I should have known, this is not the cure the doctor prescribed for insomnia.)
So I bumped into Aimee Mullins.
Maybe you’ve heard of Aimee Mullins. Maybe you haven’t. She had both her legs amputated at the knee while she was still an infant. Despite this major setback so early in life, she went on to become a Paralympics record breaker, a model and actress. And might I add, motivational speaker.
Her story, as she tells it here, is all about the triumph of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming odds. It’s about how one woman looked the very thing that threatened to hold her down squarely in the eye and by sheer force of will, transformed it into the thing that held her up.
At TED, she spoke about the potential for the disabled to design their bodies for their own empowerment. She herself has 12 pairs of prosthetic legs. Each pair gives her a distinct identity. With each pair, she describes how she consciously makes a choice about who to be. She smiles as she recounts how, on one occasion, someone whose own legs were intact expressed genuine envy about this ability she had to continually transform herself. Genuine. Envy. Of someone who would normally be an object of pity.
All because this amazing woman has focused her creative energy on her prosthetic legs to such an extent as to help transform what once was a disability into a super ability, and in doing so, is challenging the very nature of the conversation about her place and the place of those like her in the scheme of things. It was once a conversation about deficiency. It has become a conversation about potential:
“People that society once considered disabled can now become architects of their own identities…by designing their bodies from a place of empowerment.”
In one instance, she collaborated in the creation of prosthetic legs merely “to provoke the senses and ignite the imagination,” in what she describes as the process of combining emerging technology with age old poetry.
That’s the thing that resonated most with me. She made me marvel anew the place of the creative enterprise in everyday life:
“Poetry matters. Poetry is what elevates the banal and neglected object to a realm of art. It can transform the thing that might have made people fearful into something that makes people look, and look a little longer. And maybe even understand.”
Poetry. Art. Music. The creative enterprise. This is their finest moment—when they give people the courage to look and the eyes to see the layers of meaning and the wide swath of possibility present in a given thing, in a particular moment, in a very specific idea. This is the poetry of everyday life. When we write stories, when we compose songs, when we make art that enables people grapple with ideas that they do not have the courage to confront raw, we build a bridge, we make our difference.
In the comments, there are those who point out that there are thousands of people around the world who cannot even afford one pair of basic prosthetic legs. This is true. This bears keeping in mind.
Also, another voice adds, how far ought we to push this, really? Because once you have cheetah’s legs, where do you leap to from there? What will it mean? Which is a reasonable question—is there a line? Can it be crossed? Who’s to say when it’s been crossed?
Me? Right here, right now? I’m just amazed at the strength of this particular human spirit. And reminded about the potential that lies within each one of us.
Bravo, Aimee Mullins.It's my window, but I don't own the view.
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13:59 The Crips & Bloods: Made in Kenya
» Kenyanentrepreneur.com There’s no way Uhuru Kenyatta is running the ministry of finance. I was watching him at a news conference and he looked beaten down. His eyes were bulging red from excessive drinking, his mouth has the black outlayer seen on people who smoke excessively, the bags under his eyes make him look worn out and [...]
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9:50
Nairobi Real Estate Bubble
» For Love and Money Nairobi Real Estate Bubble
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9:42
Women leaders are key to ‘the Kenya we want’
» Kenya Imagine A government conference encouraging citizens to tell them about ‘the Kenya we want’ via censored media channels is unlikely to yield positive change, suggests feminist activist Awino Okech. Okech calls for Kenyan women to self-organise and engage with political structures using the frameworks provided by feminism or, she cautions, history will not judge them kindly for failing to take on the issues of their time.
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Conflict between the state and Kenya's poor
» Kenya Imagine How can you explain to a hunger stricken peasant in Yatta or Lodwar why their family or community cannot have a decent meal in Kenya? Do you tell them that the weather has conspired with globalization to consign them to their misfortune? Or that good fortune is available only if you are born into the families that inhabit Muthaiga? What do you tell a peasant who knows that in Kenya there are 142 or more District Commissioners, each with a minimum of three cars fuelled by the state, whose specific duties are not too clear?
Makhakara has some questions, and a surprising answer.
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