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• Nightrunning… with Lesbo Drama…

  Posted: July 23, 2008, 6:39 pm by Zax

  Last weekend… My initial plan to go home, grab some ice cream and watch some movie flopped right outside the gate to the apartments I stay. Jerry*, a certain pal of mine was in the hood to ‘see’ a certain dudette who had just been given the power to read (Graduated), on spotting me, a [...]

• I have no clue…

  Posted: July 11, 2008, 5:01 pm by Zax

  But I hope it will be a good make-over… Like The Standard did… he heee… So, guest of honour? mmmmh…

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  Posted: July 8, 2008, 1:29 pm by Zax

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• When She Does…

  Posted: July 4, 2008, 3:39 pm by Zax

  Sometimes things happen to us that make us really wonder what goes on in people’s minds. Even the people we know so well, or think we know so well end up putting us in situations that are very hard to term. Being hit on, being vibed (kukatiwa), being flirted and all sorts of things that [...]

• Lately…

  Posted: July 1, 2008, 6:05 pm by Zax

  It’s been crazy lately… After project implementation, auditors came in for the quarterly departmental audit and boy can it get worse!!! We have outsourced both the internal and external audit functions and this time, they sent over some audit role freshmen… from a newly appointed audit firm by the company. Boy, do they suck or [...]

• Ku-grow, Ku-shift… Ku-boeka… Uzee…

  Posted: June 27, 2008, 12:45 pm by Zax

  Somehow, Random Kenyan hainibambi tena. Hii keja maze imekataa kushika na nafeel ni time ya kushift sasa. Ma-last year hivi, around August, story za ODM na PNU zikiwa zimeshika moto, nilimada exams zangu za semester ya fao ya Post Graduate yangu ya Computer Science. Sasa, kama mkenya halisi, nilijipekeka kwa bar kusherekea… ama siji iliwanga [...]

• Meeting “Wilkister”…

  Posted: June 26, 2008, 5:13 pm by Zax

  It’s been disappearing mode… projects and projects at work. Apparently, all I have done since I joined my current employer is to upgrade systems and processes and I will be done by the end of the year. IFAS, ERP, ISO, Branding… That is called turning technology and operations around and that was my target…  I [...]

• Ukitafakari hayo…

  Posted: June 13, 2008, 10:17 am by Zax

  Mke na mumewe walisikizana wakitaka ngono watatumia code “kupiga simu” ili watoto wasielewe. Basi siku moja walikua wameteta hawasemezani. Baba akamtuma mtoto: ” mwambie mamako nataka simu!” Mama akamwambia mtoto: ” mwambie imeharibika!” Baba akanena: ” mwambie basi nitakwenda kupiga nje” Mama akamtuma mtoto: ” Mwambie akienda kupiga nje na mimi nitafungua simu ya jamii!!!” Ukiyatafakari hayo……… ………………….wacha ninywe [...]

• Fame Randomness…

  Posted: June 9, 2008, 4:11 pm by Zax

  I think booze is slowly beating me… or am I the one beating it? Well, Friday night I went to 680 hotel, to dance to some Kayamba, it’s been a while and since there has been virtually no time for gym, dancing is the next closest exercise I can imagine… considering Sex is almost not [...]

• Riots…

  Posted: June 6, 2008, 11:24 am by Zax

  For anyone who wants to use Haile Sellasie Avenue, Uhuru highway or Mombasa Road… Its a NO GO ZONE… Am sitting in my office on one of the Buildings around haramnee House and I can not help feeling sorry for motorists and Pedestrians along those routes… Be careful… Apparently, Kenya Polytechnique Students are on rampage [...]

• Successful?… Acceptable.

  Posted: June 3, 2008, 6:17 pm by Zax

  This Madaraka day I was on random plots around town, you know the usual Nairobi thing… My pals and I went to Tusker Project Fame, only to get to the gate at 715pm, for a show starting at 730pm, and be locked out after parting with some 500/= for entrance fee… and driving all the [...]

• BarberShop Nostalgia…

  Posted: May 30, 2008, 12:42 pm by Zax

  Tuesday evening, am at my faithful barbershop in the hood, I missed out shaving last week since the chap closed down for three good days, mourning the events that transpired huko Moscow after John Terry and Anelka answered Alex Ferguson’s Prayers. After bouncing around and dissin’ the guy for a few minutes, I finally sit [...]

• 2 Questions…

  Posted: May 27, 2008, 5:47 pm by Zax

  My 25Th Birthday ended on a bad note last weekend.   I got into a very bad fight with the Mrs. … Designate. Somehow the fight prolonged into Sunday and Monday and everything I tried to offer was deemed unreasonable option, so I offered my last option… of course after my second last one of taking a [...]

• Not Anymore…

  Posted: May 27, 2008, 11:40 am by Zax

  We don’t talk no more We don’t laugh no more We don’t play no more We don’t cry no more   I am your oxygen no longer I am your teddy bear no longer I am your happiness no longer I am your passion no longer   You share no dreams anymore You plan future with me no more You give me my space not anymore You share [...]

• Isn’t He Cute?

  Posted: May 23, 2008, 2:11 pm by Zax

  Isn’t He Cute? That, I bet was one of the comments ‘they’ had when I finally arrived in this world and in less than 24 hours, I will be 25 years old. Yes, I will have lived a whole quarter of a century. I am a special one; even Jose has nothing on me. This, I [...]

• Sorry

  Posted: May 21, 2008, 10:58 am by Zax

  For anyone who reads my blabberings… Yesterday I played around with privacy settings and locked up my blog. Just discovered that now. Its all fixed now. Thank you.

• The Rival

  Posted: May 20, 2008, 1:43 pm by Zax

  The holidays had been full of fun. Playing cha baba na cha mama with Titi, Chichi and Boyi. I had had my fair shares of serving as the father of the house and attempted to a great extends to demand my rights as the head of the household… (If you get the drift). It was [...]

• So What Happens…

  Posted: May 19, 2008, 6:24 pm by Zax

  My last post (The one before this) I was ranting above how an Ex-Clande… (Is there something like that? although she was way past that.) could not invite me to her wedding coz of drama that would have been anticipated with my presence at the ceremony. Well, Chantal* wedded easily without much drama since I [...]

• Saaay What? Ati I Cannot???

  Posted: May 14, 2008, 8:21 pm by Zax

  Before anyone interprets this in a weird way lemmie endeavor to express myself. Sometime in 2007, I met this very fine chic, Chantal*. I liked her and after talking to her about thrice, I knew we were going to be really good pals, the possibility of getting past that was remote, as then. We could exchange [...]

• After Final Randomness…

  Posted: May 13, 2008, 11:37 am by Zax

  My last post was April 29Th. Surely time is moving really fast. I cannot really figure why I dint find time to write something despite having written several drafts that went only as far as my Random Kenyan Folder on the laptop… Well, I completed my Post Grad Dip. As early as January I was really [...]

• Final Randomness…

  Posted: April 29, 2008, 4:11 pm by Zax

  Finally I cleared my Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science. The relief I had when I finished my undergraduate is nothing compared to what I feel now… it is absolutely relieving. With my drinking pals out of the country and others out of the capital, a possibility of going home was looming, at least until I [...]

• Four Me, Myself and I

  Posted: April 19, 2008, 3:10 pm by Zax

  Somewhere in the course of my randomness yesterday I found some nne mara saba maneno’s at Bomseh’s and decided I would pick the queue… So… FOUR JOBS I HAVE WORKED 1.       A teacher (I enjoyed seeing kids understand me… they called me mwalimu at shags… very respected mtu…) 2.       A Clerk (As almost everyone has done) 3.       A Disc [...]

• Off…

  Posted: April 12, 2008, 3:13 pm by Zax

  It is about that time again… going to sit 4 my final exams for my Post Grad Dip. A course I took out of impulse but now I realize just how great it has shaped my career… then I still have some accounts exams to sit somewhere in July… Things have been happening here and there [...]

• 24 Season 10, shot in Kenya…

  Posted: April 10, 2008, 4:29 pm by Zax

  If Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) shows up in Nairobi I will for the first time ever fight to get that autograph. This guy is definately my favourite act on television. He takes me back to my childhood days when everyone I liked, I wanted to be like them… Of course I can’t be Jack Bauer… He [...]

• I Met Her Last year…

  Posted: April 8, 2008, 12:48 pm by Zax

  That title, well, for the lack of a better one to describe the post, I guess… Last year I met this chick, let’s call her Vienna*. Vienna* is an Electrical Engineer but had gotten tired of the slow pace at which her career was moving (Having spent 6 years at University of Nairobi on the course) [...]

• Nigger, Do I look Gay to you!!!%@**&)(!!!

  Posted: April 7, 2008, 1:18 pm by Zax

  I am on rampage most of my Fridays. Its mosty a routine I have been playing for sometime since I cleared college and hit the corporate world… 5.00pm sees me leave office, peep at my evening class for a few minutes and find my pals for a drink and to catch up over issues that transpired [...]

• Were you there, Boarding school?

  Posted: April 1, 2008, 5:00 pm by Zax

  Boarding school, primary boarding school is a phase that hardened me beyond what I needed. In some certain recent post I realized that boarding school actually shaped me. I had arguably some of the roughest times of my childhood at some certain boarding school in western Kenya whose only reason my parents thought was appropriate for [...]

• 1,000/=, I will dance for U, naked…

  Posted: March 31, 2008, 9:30 am by Zax

  Yeah, that’s just how plainly she put it. After what I though was a careful analysis of the patrons around and noticing one or two things… about my pal and I, she came, sat on my lap and initiated a conversation, may be she noticed I was a novice in this whole thing… HER: I have [...]

• Changing Fortunes…

  Posted: March 26, 2008, 3:14 pm by Zax

  Do you ever walk around on the streets then suddenly run into a former school mate who represents nothing close to the high flying dude/ chic back in Primary or High School, or even college? Things for sure change and in such times is when you realize just how lucky you might be, how blessed you [...]

• Development Finance, The way Out…

  Posted: March 26, 2008, 11:32 am by Zax

  At the end of my Bachelors degree programme at one of the local universities several years ago, I did my research paper on The Role of Development Financial Institutions in Kenya and Africa in general. Back then I did not have much clue on what goes on around the Finance sector, the policies, processes and [...]

• Isn’t it Time Kenya decentralized?

  Posted: March 17, 2008, 4:09 pm by Zax

  In 2007 during the height of campaigns, politicians were all over the country, the press and in forums detailing the good things that they intended to help Kenya achieve. Well, it is about three months since they messed up my TV programs schedule, got me in to trouble with my feelings and associates as I [...]

• Childhood randomness…

  Posted: March 14, 2008, 12:52 pm by Zax

  I got home early yesterday after my evening class got cancelled so I had time to catch up with Hits not Homework and The Apprentice. The topic on Hits jana was just soooo rib tickling, I laughed over and over as Solo, some two guys he had for his backup and Eve argued their points through [...]

• Ok, This Made me laugh…

  Posted: March 13, 2008, 5:12 pm by Zax

  This is a real story! Apparently… A story is told of this young girl who boarded a matatu from town (NRB). the Matatu was headed for Western Kenya. On reaching Westlands the gal got from her seat and walked to the driver and asked, ‘Tumefika Naivasha?” In amazement the driver answered her,”bado mtoto”On they moved and on reaching [...]

• Uhuru Kenyatta, Do You Even Know What it Feels Like???????

  Posted: March 13, 2008, 9:13 am by Zax

  How possibly am I to alight at Nyayo Stadium and walk all the way to The Central Business District of Nairobi for the rest of the time until someone slaps some sense in Uhuru Kenyatta’s now power driven brain? The traffic problem that Nairobi experiences has absolutely nothing to do with public vehicles coming to town, [...]

• Cocktails Zone, Nairobi Style…

  Posted: March 12, 2008, 10:39 am by Zax

  Since I became a professional and something close to an authority in my company’s decision organs sometime last year, I have been here and there and up and down various restaurants and hotels attending the so called cocktails that every solid professional body, prospective supplier, supporting customer and interested parties invite me to. It is a good thing, [...]

• Sensation Obama…

  Posted: March 12, 2008, 9:31 am by Zax

  First of all, my acnestral home is way far from K’ogelo Siaya. Neither have I been to Honolulu- Hawaii, Chicago nor Indonesia where Barack Obama grew up, has relatives or represents. Photo: (www.cnn.com) Since mid last year, I became an ardent supporter and die hard fan of Obama. I did not have cable TV till a month [...]

• Night Running, The Way I know it

  Posted: March 3, 2008, 1:04 pm by Zax

  There was a theme in town the past Friday… Every Nairobian was in somewhat a newness mood after the agreement between Raila and Kibaki. Life in the recent past for some party goers and revelers like yours truly had become so unusual, spending most of ‘my’ time, meaning my outdoor time in the house and having [...]

• Male Minds, Fascinating…

  Posted: February 29, 2008, 3:34 pm by Zax

  A look at these captions got me really imagining how some people I know play and are played like real toys… Well, if you are as lucky a dude, play your game nicely… at least until you are sooooo buzzted…   Randomness… Was just thinking, prince Harry is in the army fighting huko Afghanistan and Iraq despite his [...]

• My hopes, Prime Minister Odinga

  Posted: February 29, 2008, 9:17 am by Zax

  Possibly, these are just my own imaginations but hey… the cfonstitution still allows me to imagine…   With the political power sharing deal signed and awaiting its implementation in the constitution, Raila Odinga and The Orange Democratic Movement emerge as the real winners, if you look at it in that direction. With the Prime Minister being in charge [...]

• A guy and chics…

  Posted: February 27, 2008, 11:39 am by Zax

   Part 1 Tim took it as courtesy, like being kind and offering the best customer service he ever could get in the world. He was right, atleast until he became wrong. He was wrong for expecting it to just end at the customer service, she had ideas her own for a lot more… They walked to the basement for the tests, and from [...]

• Tagged Maneno’z

  Posted: February 26, 2008, 5:17 pm by Zax

  First, Archer since you tagged me kwa giza(with your new darkness theme) washa lights first… that theme hapana, black is cool… but that grey black kwako, inaleta nuksi na macho zangu… 1. I have never slept past 5am since class(standard) 6, Even when I spend the night out, I tend to take coffee and sleep for [...]

• She-Mote, What am man would want…

  Posted: February 22, 2008, 3:04 pm by Zax

  Shemote Every man’s dream - a new variation on an unoriginal theme. Got this from a friend and I think its hilarious, If only it were possible…  

• Dressing Contrasts-Baks,RO and MO1 and a “hot” Mayor

  Posted: February 21, 2008, 12:34 pm by Zax

  Ever checked out the dressing differences between Baks and Mo1? Well, there happens to be a very clear difference between these gentlemen, style and variety being the key issues. Mo1 Very nice ties A variety in suits he wore/wears in public Trendy shoes Nice casual shirts Baks Less variety in suits (practically a now notorious one stripped navy blue suit he has [...]

• Valentine Randomness

  Posted: February 19, 2008, 2:48 pm by Zax

  Me and Monique Valentine is always great, I mean the love, the gifts and all the drama people engage in and et al. I have always been involved, buying gifts and flowers and going 2 dinners and all that stuff, and of course making out in the giza and having that sheepish smile the following day [...]

• Resurrection

  Posted: February 19, 2008, 8:12 am by Zax

  In my previous life, my blogging life, I had a nice hood here at wordpress. I loved my articles and the fun I had with lots stuff I read from my favourite bloggers and from the response I had from those who chilled at my hood…. It was fun…. This was until I faced some very [...]

• Hello world!

  Posted: February 19, 2008, 7:50 am by Zax

  Welcome to WordPress.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it and start blogging!

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• Only Constitutional Order Will Save Kenya.

  Posted: January 18, 2008, 4:10 pm by Zax

  I have officially gotten tired of the mannerisms that both Kibaki and Raila have displayed in their quest to lead this country. If I had a choice I would give the leadership of this country to a different individual away from Raila, Kibaki and Kalonzo. They sound so damn silly with whatever statement they appear [...]

• Selfish Kenyan So called Leaders & My Worries

  Posted: January 15, 2008, 9:22 am by Zax

  Imagine by 730am, Parliarment road was already closed! I saw about 3 minitary lorries full with guys who looked like cops or some trained chaps in blue suits with guns branch through the junction of Moi Avenue and Harambee Avenue near Hunters Restaurant. As I walked to office, everyone around looked worried especially after spotting those [...]

• Do You Have To?

  Posted: January 14, 2008, 11:28 am by Zax

  When I started blogging, one close blogger warned me that at some point You will encounter some people writting comments on your blog that will insult you as an individual. I have been away from the internet due to some house searching then moving mission that I was conducting since Thursday. So today I come into [...]

• Are The USA and UK Concerned With Thier Interests or Kenya’s?

  Posted: January 9, 2008, 4:14 pm by Zax

  Lately since we resumed duty nothing much has been going on, just clearing up my IN Tray and so on, no one sends much mail like they used to fly during the campaigns. Spirits are low and as much as the colleagues are talking, its not like it used to be before. There is that anger [...]

• Will Mediation Save Kenya?

  Posted: January 9, 2008, 7:58 am by Zax

  I honestly do not know how much mediation will take place to save this beloved Kenya. Yesterday I experienced my first serious traffic jam on my way home especially with the fact that African Union President John Kufuor was leaving the airport and we had to pave way for his smooth ride to Statehouse. Deep within [...]

• Our Situation

  Posted: January 7, 2008, 10:47 am by Zax

  So a lot has gone on in the recent past since the seriously disputed elections. What I think? They were rigged. Yeah, someone can hack me with some crude weapon but with people like Daniel Moi who rigged the elections twice, they were rigged. But how do I benefit with Kibaki or Raila as president? [...]

• So What next Mr. Kibaki and Mr. Raila?

  Posted: January 5, 2008, 6:28 pm by Zax

  So we queued for hours to make that all important vote with the hope that we will change our livelihoods for the better and place our future generation in a better place than what we have present. I personally woke up at 5am on the election day and went all the way to Langata where my [...]

• Kenya at Crossroads

  Posted: January 2, 2008, 10:00 am by Zax

  Why does it have to happen this way? We need to get back to sanity, we need the leaders to put aside the differences and consider the Kenyans as the people they are fighting about. 1.People are being burnt alive 2.Homes are being torched in daylight 3.Shops are closed 4.TV and Radio have been in a blackout 5.Kisumu City has [...]

• Arrrrgh!!!

  Posted: December 24, 2007, 10:23 am by Zax

  Does it ever occur to you sometimes that you find everything around just out of place, misplaced, not supposed to be or you cant just finish an assignment that you started? I am totally undecided on so many things lately. Last week, on monday I arrived job the happiest and most psyched up person, I was going [...]

• Tim’s Quest

  Posted: December 21, 2007, 6:33 pm by Zax

  Episode 1  After hitting several tots of Viceroy to get his psyche pumped up for the raev, Tim rushed to the gents a few minutes after his boy Tash… ooops, only that he ended up at the ladies… ‘accidentally’, I guess the drinks were showing him things upside down… and thats when he saw it all. Right at the opening [...]

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