In the Streets of Nairobi

Yesterdays Daily Nation (11/03/2010) headline stroke a different chord bringing out several issues especially on the roads with the ongoing roads constructions. Thus today i take an off and had a rigmarole for several hours in the streets of Nairobi. Nairobi is one great city i must admit.
The attraction of all time is the scenery and our women. The beautification of the city though most was done on the upper part of Nairobi is assuaging the hassles of the city. Why the bureaucrat have to concentrate all their efforts in the Nairobi past Tom Mboya ....i don't know. Maybe, just maybe they do not collect taxes from the 'other' Nairobi. Sitting on a bench under one of these indigenous trees is heavenly. You will relax as Nairobi life swim past you. SO I took a bench along the Moi Avenue..this the middle class avenue. Women in all shapes and heels; some graciously, some labouring walk past by. It is funny that many on the benches are men....our women never rest they are always busy. I guess not many Nairobians will also sit in these benches ..considering it a waste of time..most probably waste of drinking time. SO the women were there to catch my eyes. they wear all the good and bad fashions: wigs, weaves(if thea is a difference or a similarity ask the fashionistas), braids, chemicals, flat irons, cheap or expensive they seem to fit when they fit and to be out of head when they deemed so. one of the sad observation one makes in the streets of Nairobi is that there are very few couples who grace the streets. Maybe we are ready to embrace all sorts of the so called Western ideas, we are not ready to adopt the public display of affection. The only couples walking in the streets of Nairobi are college guys. Athas are mainly mipango ya kando ama ya ofisi.
In my rigmarole i haven't seen anybody complaining of being mugged or being mugged..no one was knocked down by any mobile object..though a bus had scratched a driving school car..I observed how the valuation was done chap chap and the bus guy paying Ksh. 500. whether the bus driver was in the wrong or whether he was just not ready to waste precious time arguing with the driving school trainer was ahead of me. Maybe the negative events which grace our headlines are just isolated cases ..maybe just maybe the newspapers will shift their news coverage ...pumping the positive news to us.
ANyway in Nairobi everything and anybody trends...What a city..Mi love it.

The Land Lords of Nairoberry

Trying moving in Nairobi is one expensive, exhausting affair. It drains you. The matters is made worse by uncooperative landlords. The landlord from where you are getting out from will always come up with a 1001 reasons why you can't move out. Either you did not give the required notice, you have damages to pay...Lotta bulshit. (They will keep quoting and stressing the need for sticking to the contract yet will disregard it when raising the rent and other charges). But in the end it boils down to getting more dollars from you or denying you in the form of numerous deposits. The rich people of Kenya I don't know what is wrong with them...They will reach out for the few coins you have though they are stinking rich..This has really eluded me ..can't you let the poor have some break...Kwani what does money make of people....If the landlords of Nairobi are anything to go by ..

KNEC Sites-Offline

Been trying to log in to the KNEC sites www.knec.ac.ke and www.exanmscouncil.or.ke 24 hrs since the elections were posted to no avail. Am sure most of the candidates, parents and guardians are experiencing the same. So what is the need for these sites if 24 hrs after the announcements nobody can access their results. 24 hrs later am sure the exams are available at the schools. So having these sites beats the logic.
Do the technocrats really know what goes on coz even trying to access the KCPE results gives the same report. There is no excuse for lousy services. The exams results are a perishable service..its shelf life is 2-5 days athawiz it is stale. So the producers of this service should ensure that they provide the best service in thoise five which i believe is possible. The excuse that so many people are trying to access the site is lame. However, there might be varied reason which can explain the current situation. First maybe that those hosting the site are using the slow ass internet we are used to. Maybe the computer hosting the site is dead or anatha tortoise.The site could be running on a MS-Access Database on a P2 machine with 128MB of RAM which is a server by government standards. Or maybe those hosting the site are the same ones offering SMS services so they wouldn't want the site to be fast so as people can send as many SMSes as possible....
This is Kenya anything goes.