Things working against you

Sometime ago I was watching The Apprentice Africa (TAA) (it’s a show that gathered 18 contestants from across Africa who compete for a favorable corporate job complete with perks, training and what not) and I felt sorry for Nancy Kalembe, one of Uganda’s representatives on the show. This by the way was the episode thingy in which she was fired.

Apparently you are always advised to make presentations as if you are presenting concepts to people who have no idea about the subject matter. This can be a daunting task and a bit tricky because you have to be careful about deciding how “dumb” your audience is.

The task that got Nancy fired concerned them selling Nigeria to the world, I think, so it involved a lot of strategy in form of media and other marketing strategy. As fate would have it, Nancy was the leader of the said task so basically her word was law and as if fate had one more trick under its sleeve, it place one Eunice Omole in her path.

Now as far as I know, Nancy understands advertising and marketing concepts, her team mates of the other hand were not as averse so this presented problems right from the get go.

When you (practicing media person) ask questions like “who is the audience” continuously it’s not because you don’t know your target, its more to refocus discussions. Her team mates interpreted this to mean she was not focusing on the task at hand and was irresponsible and an inept leader.

I felt sorry for poor Nancy because I could understand where she was coming from. At that point, she had been up for possible eviction about five times and you could clearly see the fight had gone out of her. She looked like she had reached her peak and did not give a hoot… I don’t blame her.

Hustling By Day..........Tallying By Night!......................

I am still having my woes and trying to square them out.Am not yet out the woods yet but am seeing a candle lit at the end of the tunnel.This week has been particularly agonising for me and as we come to its end we look forward to yet another one with hope of making the best of it.Like the old saying goes,the more things change the more they remain the same.

Elsewhere, am seriously weighing my options about moving.The same place am putting up is the same place i was putting up before the shit that was post election violence.After the chaos hotted up some of us who came from not so favourable,subscriber(Read Tribe) had to move.All i did was that i secured what i could and dashed off to safer havens.Some people took advantage and pilfered my items but then that was inevitable in the face of the problem that was post election violence!So after things cooled off and each side took what it rightfully or wrongfully deserved i moved back to my hacienda(Read Estate/Home).So all i did was sanitise and move on with my life.

But ever since i have been having a problem and its not one of my own making but purely out of either circumstance,structural or otherwise.I will briefly describe SNW.

SNW5

To keep this brief.The initials above are that of my house .The place in which i put up is one among those places you could admire to put up.Reasons are it has only eight units which translates to seven neighbours person.Another good thing is that the current neighbours are never bothered with each other so everyone with his or her own business.But one discouraging thing is that recently some IDP like looking neighbours moved in to two or so units were left vacant in the face of the recent skirmishes.Its not them who irritate me most,its their kids who are all noisy and cheeky.This prompts the mothers to keep shouting at them and i find this irksome especially in the mornings as they prepare to go to school and late into the nights.
The other problem has to do with the structuring of the house.The units are not storeyed.So we have the usual roof.We sort of share a single ceiling thus one can follow the ongoings of the other unit just as if you were in the same room.This is so because every room has an entry into the ceiling and never mind its closed.

Mistallying!

I am not very sure if i normally tally well or i normally do otherwise.This is what has been making me seriously think of shifting to another place,but where will i get the comfort of my current place tallying notwithstanding.Now i read before on some other blog on why Kikuyu women go after Luhya men and i thought it was the normal stereotypes that fly around us.SNW6 is my next neighbour.The guy is a luhya.Now everynight i get home from hustling,i undergo a literal nightmare.You see i think i suffer from insomnia.I hardly get sleep till late in the night.This is pertly due to the fact that i am a Daily Drinking Officer (DDO).So on the days i have been unlucky not to have colour for booze i head straight home  and stare at the ceiling till i finally catch sleep.So my next door neighbour on the left when gazing at the ceiling,hooked this kikuyu girl/lady.

So when i get home they are either watching telly or chatting as it were.Then as we get into the night,the luhya starts offloading the merchandise in her.Am told they are called vitu thats why i equate  "them" with merchandise.So as the act progresses,the girl keeps making noises at intervals ,such as those of climaxing.So everytime i hear the wails i normally tally it as a lap or is it coming am told around here????The other day i tallied four and slept off.This four were not in intervals but a continous process and i was amazed by the bull in the man.So i proved the blog right,by ethusing that luhya men are real bulls!So am not even saying what goes through me when the bed is creaking and the wailing.I feel my sexual rights have been traversed.Its like we are literally sleeping in the same room.I wonder what makes them imagine i am fast asleep.The guy knows i normally upload alcohol and why he assumes am always drunk is beyond my skull.
I cant tally anymore i guesss,am in some sort of a box.

So i am still Hustling by day and tallying by Night.®

I stand corrected

the whole post below is a myth... i received an email so i passed on.. disregard... tooooooooootally!!

http://www.snopes.com/business/bank/pinalert.asp
http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/2007/03/more-on-reverse-pin-numbers.html

PIN CARD REVERSAL (GOOD TO KNOW)

If you should ever be forced by a robber to withdraw money from an ATM machine, you can notify the police by entering your Pin number in reverse.

For example if your pin number is 1234 then you would put in 4321. The ATM recognizes that your pin number is backwards from the ATM card you placed in the machine.

The machine will still give you the money you requested, but unknown to the robber, the police will be immediately dispatched to help you.

This information was recently broadcasted on TV and it states that it is seldom used because people don't know it exists.

Please pass this along to everyone possible.

Simple Words..............................

Its been a while since i made a post here.Believe it or not,i have had pretty rough two or so weeks.What with the many trips i have made to central police station after a deal nose dived on my face.Am not even mentioning i had my two or so days as a state guest.But thats a story for another day all together and life must go on wapende wasipende.Staying in town has its challenges especially when incomes keep fluctuating back and forth.

A couple of times we are met with challenges of a very varied degree some good some harrowing.So what really matters is how you handle each one of them.As they say garbage in garbage out.I am in no moods to laugh or go gahgah about such now but i owe my readers and myself an obligation to put forth some food for thought.My shiznit aside life must endelea.

Elsewhere,I have always thought about this before and i am not sure if its only me or many others but there are very simple words that you may need and stay a very comfortable life and grow fat enough to ashame a pig.HELLO&SORRY.This two words are on everyone's lips.I am not sure when any of us used this last but the more recently or often one uses them,the better.Take a typical example of street walking.You are moving from east to west,and because of the crowding on the walk path say like on Aga Khan walk in Nairobi,you by mistake or unwittingly bounce into a lady head on and it could be her fault or yours,what would it cost you to say sorry and if she is civilised enough she should also reciprocate by saying maybe Thanks or atleast appreciate your efforts of being remorseful.But unfortunately i have seen even graduates ignore such sorries or even assume some mistakes that are committed not deliberately but under sudden and upcoming circumstances.

Moving on to life scenarios,You walk into an office which is busy,you wanted to say see me and since you know my desk,you ignore my colleagues and proceed to come to my desk.As fate could have it,am not in or out briefly,the very person you ignored is the same person you want to enquire from about my whereabouts.Personally i wont help such a person.I mean what does it cost one to say hello and proceed to look for me other than ignore the very person(s) that would help you locate me.I have always guys that walk into an office,ignore some staff only to revert back and say hello when they have failed to get the desired assistance or service.

As a true life experience,i have been assisted before here and there and went a long way being advised by many people just because i afforded to say hello or sorry in a timely manner.Its a fact that manners vary from tom to dick but there are virtues we ought to make universal within us.Internalizing basic manners is one very imperative virtue that is required of each and every one of us.It wont cost a nerve to pretend to be virtuous to strangers and acquintances alike.Tanzanians almost beg for anything,Naomba this naomba that.I bet even when the men down there want to have sexual intercourse with their wives they say "Tafadhali naomba Nikuenzi " or something of that nature.There is even the classic joke about how TZ thieves say Naomba nikupore!

So in essence,the long and short of it is that if we can employ the use of such simple words like sorry,hello ,we can stay a good life.Have a virtuous day!Will you?

PS:Tands wake and squeeze your keyboard!