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Taita Cultural Night – Pictures

December 18, 2007 by 2 Comments

So I attended the most recent Taita Cultural Night, and I had a wonderful time. I’m going to try and share the night with you by posting some pictures. (Videos later – slow uploading). I took the pictures with my moile phone so they aren’t very clear. Still, I hope you enjoy. 😉

First, some food. I labelled it, so that I could explain: 1. Chapati ; 2.Kimanga ya matoke (mashed plantain); 3. Nduda ; 4. Matumbo (tripe) ; 5. Beef; 6. Pure (mixture of beans and maize taita style); 7. Kimanga ya Sweet Potato (mashed sweet potato).

Next, the Taita traditional drink. Commonly made out of sugar cane, honey or corn. This particular glass was from honey but tasted evil. Its traditional name: Mbangara

Some lovely dancing ladies:

Finally, traditional Taita drummers whipping the crowd into a frenzy. Trust me, the drums were AWESOME!!

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The Agonising College Admission Process

January 30, 2007 by 1 Comment

Click Here to Check out these amazing tales from the application process, including a hilarious animation.

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Saddam is gone.

December 30, 2006 by 2 Comments

Today I woke up to find out that Saddam, of Iraq, is dead. He was killed early this morning. As I watched it all over CNN, BBC, Sky, Al-jazzeera etc I found myself wondering whether the death sentence was the way to go.

I admit Saddam was a bad man and deserved to pay for his sins. I also admit that I’m against the death penalty.

Now that he’s been killed, does anyone feel any better? Does it undo all the harm he did? Does it bring back al the people he killed(or helped kill)? Does it undo the war? No, no, no and no. You may be tempted to feel better now that he’s gone. Indeed, there were a few hundred people on CNN jumping and hollering about at Saddam’s death. Let’s examine this closely.

Now, these people think that the death of Saddam makes things that little bit better. What goes around comes around, right? He paid for what he did, right? Wrong. Did he really pay? If you ask me, al that was done was that Saddam was saved from the humiliation of life in prison. That’s the fact.

So, if you feel better now that Saddam is dead, think about the guy getting drunk in the pub who has mouths to feed at home, with no way of doing it. As he drinks, he too feels that much better about his life. But only a few hours later, and with a banging headache, he realises that he just made everything worse-now he doesn’t have any money!

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A Gamer’s Manifesto

November 17, 2006 by Leave a Comment

With the last of the next generation gaming consoles hitting the US markets today, people are in a frenzy, risking lives nad even paying homeless people to line up for them, much like they did in Japan.

What’s all the frenzy about? In this CNN report, people are going to extreme lengths to get their hands on the PS3:’ One pregnant camper in Mount Laurel was staying in line despite having contractions. “I’m going to hold out as long as I can,” Julie Mosley said Thursday. ‘ ‘The line Thursday in San Francisco, California, was at least three blocks long.‘

Wikipedia has this to say about the PS3:
‘The PlayStation 3 is Sony‘s seventh generation era video game console, third in the PlayStation series. It is the successor to PlayStation and PlayStation 2 and competes against Microsoft‘s Xbox 360 and Nintendo‘s Wii.


Sony’s retail strategy for the PlayStation 3 involves two configurations detailed in a Sony press release.[10] The “premium” version of the PlayStation 3 comes with an internal 60 GB Serial ATA 2.5″ hard drive, Wi-Fi connectivity, and multiple flash memory card readers, and features a brighter cosmetic silver-colored trim.[11]Both consoles now feature a silver-colored logo, to add to the cosmetic appeal of the packages. The second, alternate configuration of the console has a 20 GB internal hard drive, but does not feature Wi-Fi or a memory card reader. The hard drive is upgradeable, and memory card support can be added through adapters,[12] but Wi-Fi support cannot currently be added.[13]‘

It takes a real gamer to understand and appraise the situation:
‘The Sony Playstation 3 is going to cost $600.00.

In the desolate economic climate of post-apocalyptic 2006, I’m thinking that’s going to be a lot of money. Now, it’s true that at E3 Sony was boasting the Playstation 3 could crank out 1.8 TFLOPS, or 1.8 trillion FLOPS. If that many FLOPS were piled together they would fill the Grand Canyon, assuming each FLOP were the size of a muskrat. So what do gamers want from all that money and FLOP? Just ask them.

Game designers: we’re really busy. Lots of us got kids now, and second jobs and mistresses on the side. You want to sell your console games to the millions of people who are lucky to get 30 uninterrupted minutes to play a game? Fix this first.‘

Read the Complete Gamer’s Manifesto.

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Attention All KBWers: An Idea For the Kenyan Blogs Webring

November 7, 2006 by 3 Comments

Hi. Has anyone noticed that KBW is getting large very quickly? Too quickly for anyone to keep up with a reasonable number of the fine blogs here. In fact, a pal of mine(name withheld) was complaining that this doesn’t feel like a ring at all!

I have been thinking about this a lot, and I think its true: we as members of the KBW should be much more involved in each other’s blogging; we should be regularly doing something as the group that we are. Ama?

Having thought along these lines for a while, I think I have identified a tentative solution: a KBW blog carnival. What is a blog carnival? I think we should at least think about this. (This would be as much fun as Kenyan Blogger’s Day 2006!)

Apart from much more inter-KBW activity, think of how much an individual’s blog could gain if the carnival could be moving around the KBW(each week/whatever duration having a different host).

What do you guys think of this idea?

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