Archive for May, 2005
Manchester’s Madaraka day BBQ - BASH
Not just a bash - Not just a BBQ but two in one!
Saturday 28th May 2005
From 2PM - Till Last Man Standing
Kenyan Music, African Music, Kenyan Food, African Food
Kenya’s latest tunes, Lingala, Ragga + Reggae
African Entertainment, African DJ’s, African atmosphere
Venue: Afewe Pub, Royce Road, Hulme, Manchester, M15 5BP
Tax: £10.00 which includes food (student discount available with valid student card)
Spread The Word - Tell your people!
Map to the venue.
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Friday, May 27th, 2005 at 8:56 PM
Despair,
disbelief,
delectation.
What a 48 hours. What a 48 hours.
What a club, what a team.
I’ll write more about this later, I need sleep!
seen at AnfieldRoad.com
(Let no one say Liverpool fans don’t have a sense of humour. Although jokes about Liverpool parading in an open top bus because some scouser stole the roof are getting old 
Meanwhile if you are in ‘frisco with nothing to do tomorrow, you could do worse then heading here [link NSFW].
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Friday, May 27th, 2005 at 8:48 PM
To celebrate Africa Day BBC Radio 4 are having A Day In Africa. As with all BBC radio content you can listen free online. It is worth a look.
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005 at 12:26 PM
Some of the Liverpool banners in Istanbul:
“Back where we belong”
“Ali Baba was a Scouser”
[Scouser = Inhabitants of and people of Liverpool]
My wife thinks am at work
And so does my gaffer
But I’m in Istanbul
With Stevie and Rafa
[gaffer = boss]
There is only one Milan.
[A classic witty banner. Liverpool are playing AC Milan but also have a striker called Milan Baros. This banner reminds Milan fans that there is only one Milan worth singing about!]
Stick to eating chicken AC
As Turkey will make you sick
Rafa the Bos-phor-us!
[Bosphorus is the river running through Istanbul for those that don't know]
Episode V: Revenge of the Reds
Episode V: The Red Empire Strikes Back
[Well it is Star Wars season]
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005 at 12:04 PM
The Red invasion of Istanbul that began on Monday has picked up pace. Taksim Square has been taken over by Liverpool Fans. Liverpool fans have packed the bars of Istanbul and display their banners to the bemused locals. Both teams in the final were allocated 20,000 tickets, AC Milan may return up to 7,000 of their tickets unsold. All of Liverpool’s tickets sold out before you could say, “You’ll never walk alone.” According to people out there a pair of tickets on the black market will set you back 1000 Euros. Meanwhile it is estimated that at least 35,000 Liverpool fans are going to be in Istanbul by Wednesday night.
So what happened to my big plans? Well as soon as we spanked Chelsea. I rushed online to book a ticket and get this, the flight sold out WHILE I WAS MAKING THE BOOKING. All other tickets are crazy; it would be cheaper to fly to Kenya.
For us Red fans that can not be there check out this clip taken from the Kop towards the end of the Chelsea game. If you think it is loud at the beginning, wait till half way through when the final whistle is blown!
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2005 at 11:18 AM
A kinky shopper was knocked out cold in Asda, a British supermarket, after her Ann Summer’s vibrating thong left her overcome with excitement. After one too many orgasms she fainted, hit her head on a shelf and had to revived by paramedics. Talk about shopping till you drop.
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Friday, May 20th, 2005 at 9:37 PM
It is now vogue to use Kiswahili names for new products. Apple calls their new browser Safari. Mozilla’s News Aggregator is called Habari. Both names make sense. Surfing the web is a journey and habari is just a direct translation.
Now Six Flags Great Adventure Park in American has unleashed the world’s tallest and fastest roller coaster and they are calling it “Kingda Ka”, which, apparently, is the Swahili for either “lose your lunch” or “omigod, what a ride“. Ati Kingda Ka, ati swahili …!
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Friday, May 20th, 2005 at 8:16 PM
The biggest international elite level disability competition outside of the Paralympic Games, the first Visa Paralympic World Cup, is currently underway in Manchester.
Kenya is represented by two athletes :
Anne Wafula Strike who is competing in T53-400m and T53-100m
Eunice Njoroge who competes in T36-100m and T36-200m.
I’ll try and make it over to the stadium on Sunday with my big Kenyan flag and make some noise!
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Friday, May 13th, 2005 at 3:50 AM
Firefox users are encouraged to download the latest update to Firefox, now available (Version 1.0.4). This security update is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Download the latest Firefox here. For more information, see the release notes.
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Thursday, May 12th, 2005 at 11:51 AM
There is an almost 50% -50% male to female split on the Kenyan Blogs Webring. How does this compare to the wider blogosphere? Mena Trott reveals, ” … about an even split of male to female webloggers on TypePad and a 75% female population on LiveJournal. The number of women on Movable Type is slightly lower than on TypePad, but is still above 40%.”
(Mena Trott is a Founder and President of SixApart a company that produce serious blogging tools like Movabletype, LiveJournal, Tyepad).
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2005 at 3:27 AM
The Kenyan Blogs Webring started on July 5th 2004. The ring currently has 63 active members.
Now here is the challenge: how many active members (i.e. not including those in the queue) will the webring have at midnight Kenya time on July 5th 2005?
Leave you guesses in the comments. The correct or closest guess will get personalised KenyaUnlimited stuff from me.
Entries close on June 5th so get yours in before then.
My guess: 100.
(Due to the nature of the prize only members of the Kenyan Blogs Webring are eligible to win the prize, however you are all welcome to leave your guess. Visit KenyaUnlimited for information on how to start your own blog and on how to join the Kenyan Blogs Webring.)
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2005 at 2:11 AM
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. Some funny, some scary, some creepy.
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005 at 2:09 PM
This British General election campaign has been as interesting as a bunch of KenCom bus stop lunchtime preachers. To cut a long story short everyone will vote for Blair and Labour because there is no one else to vote for. Mshairi calls it, through gritted teeth. Blogjam couldn’t be bothered with policies and focused instead on whether the party websites validated.
The reason this election has been so boring is because of Iraq. Everywhere Blair goes its Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. This is a man who can talk himself out of anything. Yet everyone thinks that they can ask him the same question everyone has been asking for the last four and get a different answer. Like they think he’ll stand up and say, “mea culpa. mea culpa. I am not worthy of life.”
Hopefully this will be known as “The election immigration died”. The Torys have put all their cards into scaring people with stories of being flooded with immigrants and refugees to the point that person on the street feels that 25% of all asylum seekers and refugees come to the UK. The true figure is around 1%. The good news is that despite this racist sensationalist campaign it looks like the Torys are going to be given another spanking at the polls. This, hopeful, will lead them to dropping immigration as their scare tactic once and for all. As an aside isn’t it interesting that the further away people live from immigrants the more anti immigration they are. Fredrick Forsythe, the author, lives miles away from anywhere on cold, wet, mushy farm. Yet he did a piece for BBC about asylum seekers, “stealing our jobs, swamping our land.” While people who live in East London or South Manchester which both have large migrant populations don’t really give a toss.
All Blair has to say to get elected is, “you need to make a decision either me or Michael Howard.”
“You lied on Iraq, Blair” = “Either me or Michael Howard”
“You lied on fees Blair” = “Either me or Michael Howard”
“You lied on the House of Lords Blair” = “Either me or Michael Howard”
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005 at 12:31 PM
When we got into work today we found that overnight they had upgraded our useless free drinks machines to the impressive EOX222. This new machine gives from regular chai moto to pick-n-mix drinks like Espresso-choc. This fascinating story would have ended here were it not for the fact that they gave us two identical machines and put them side to side. Every guy in the world knows what happens next but the women will have no idea. So for sake of my female readership I will explain (men can skip the next paragraph).
Us jamaaz seeing the two machines next to each other had no choice but to race them against each other. Kwame took machine A I took machine B and it was on. We had a panel of four judges to ensure fair play. The rules were simple, Kwame and I would press the buttons on our respective machines at the same time and we would see which machine would churn out the selected drink faster. Four cups, four different drinks, four minutes.
The chiles who came to see what the intense concentration was all about, would look and walk away shaking their heads muttering something about boy toys and you can take never take the boy outta the blah blah blah. We inhabit the same planet, we are neighbours but we are from different worlds. To pull the Mars-Venus analogy into 21st century Kenya; Men are from Korogocho, women are from Muthaiga.
What about the results I hear you cry.
I am sad to say Kwame won the first two races, that is for flavoured water and tea. However I bounced back and won the next two that is Espresso-choc and cappuccino. Yet more proof that West Africans are faster at short distance races, yet Kenyans are faster when it comes to long distance endurance races. It all ended in a stalemate 2-2.
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 at 9:04 PM
The first in an ongoing series.
The wonderful world of Kenya.
Kenya is wonderful because :
People talk in four languages simultaneously! Tribal language, English, Kiswahili and Ebonics. For example:
“kusema kweli that guy is such a fake-ass scrub, ngai!”
and
“I’m gonna smack the kumbaff who drop his mozo in the ingokho I was saving for ma babymama.”
Any more examples?
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2005 at 11:37 AM
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