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(An image of my current #pointofview)

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To thine own Self, be true - William Shakespeare

Integrity is the state of being whole, it is the first step to reaching a state where your body, mind, heart and soul are all in harmony with each other. In order to be in a state of integrity, you have to know what code of ethical behavior to hold to be correct. This does not necessarily mean following a moral code someone taught you, although it might. It means knowing what you believe and walking your talk.

What do you consider important in life? What makes you feel whole and complete? What makes you feel muddy or impure? What makes your spirits soar? What makes you feel proud of yourself?

Every person has his or her own set of rules that he or she believes in, holds true and valuable. It has been said that one man's virtue is another man's sin, so it is important for each of us to examine and actually follow the rules we have been creating all along.

When a person breaks one of their own rules they are weakened and no longer in the State of Integrity. They feel less worthy, less deserving of good fortune and less confident in even the smallest matters. It shakes their self-esteem and makes them uncomfortable with who they are.

When one is weakened in this way, one is easily influenced by the ideas and opinions of others, because one does not know what one believes. One can "sell one's soul" by seeking acceptance by others and agreeing with ideas and doing acts or condoning behavior which violates one's own code of ethics. This is another cause for mood-swings. One is not standing on a firm ethical foundation.

During our teenage years most of us struggle with the concept of "belonging." We wish to have friends, be part of a group, be popular, be accepted. Often it is during this stage of our lives that we being to lose our integrity. In our desire for acceptance we sometimes seem to lose ourselves, trying to become like the rest in our crowd. When a person does this, he starts creating a synthetic identity, one which fits the ideas of the group. After awhile, he forgets he is doing this and the synthetic identity runs on automatic. By now, he thinks it is him.

If the group is into rock and roll, he is into rock and roll, if the group is into body piercing or drugs, he is into body piercing or drugs. The dreams and hopes he had as a child along with his high ideals have become submerged, hidden behind his synthetic personality. The dreams are still there though, and every time he does something which violate his ideas and dreams he suffers a further shattering of his inner self.

By the time he is old enough for marriage this synthetic personality has become second nature and he marries someone who is wearing a synthetic personality of her own. They have not actually met. Only their facades have connected. Inevitably, they both feel misunderstood. Hungry for love and acceptance, they make more and more demands upon each other. It isn't satisfying because the love and acceptance is not reaching the inner being and so they keep on trying to scratch that itch.

The unseen factor in all this is that the true identity of the individuals is submerged. When they created the synthetic identities they had basically believed, "Who I am is not good enough to be liked by others." This initiated a life of pretending to be somebody else, a different character with the same name.

The desire for acceptance and admiration is a very strong motivating factor here, but along with the desire came the self-destructive idea that one must be a certain way in order to get the acceptance. Teenagers, all wresting with the problem of how to be, can be very cruel to any group member who is different or unusual, like chickens pecking the one of a different hue, they ridicule and attack the odd one out. This strengthens the idea that individual personality traits and different beliefs must be concealed. Further, it reinforces the notion that one must present a good, although false, face to the world.

When an individual is in this state of being, it is very possible that the highs and lows correspond to being more or less his true self. So when he is being and acting more like his inner self, he is happier, and when he is wearing his false face he is miserable. You can even hear people saying "I don't feel like myself today."

An examination of your ideas and beliefs when you were growing up can be quite revealing. you start to find yourself again. Sorting out these beliefs from the ones you adopted through eternal influences and adverse experience can be even more revelatory.

Enid Vien

Mosquito za Kwetu...

So, I had one of those nights. Insomnia the end, and when I say insomnia its not your ordinary walk in the park insomnia, my kind of insomnia is for real. Some say it is drug induced but I tend to differ. When it comes I know for sure  I am going to have one hell of a night,  I can't sleep,  I can't read,  I  can't work,  I  can't think,  I can't watch something,  I  can't open my eyes, I  can't close my eyes basically the only thing I can do is rest. Just like I would after jogging walking etc. You get the picture.

Ordinarily I blacking out so  I've never noticed the mosquitoes from my side of town. Ok, I usually see them but they have never come between me and my sleep.

I recently got a fill of these monsters.

Waaaaah, Mosquito za kwetu, first sijui zimesoma au nini, they send a scout to get you from the couch and convince you to go to bed. So you stagger to bed. Kumbe, they know how to pretend haziko. So you check into bed. Niko hapo narest tu mdogo, no sleep at all. Kidogo, naskia ni kama naitwa. 'kaaaasiiiiiim'. Eish?

These creature have a way of synchronizing their noises until it sound like you are being called. I have always wondered what mosquitoes do during the day kuuumbe ziko busy zinacram majina za wasee. I remember when we were kidoz my mother told us never answer if someone calls out your name at night it could be the devil. So i just shtuka but I dont answer lest its the devil. But just by jacking, the damn things mark your last know position.

Then they pull a Pearl Harbour on you. What!!!!! Mosquito ka 50 start hanyeing around your ears. I dont mind mosquitoes I am hardcore I cant get malaria even it was served on a plate. I hate the SOUND OF MOSQUITOES! They even know how to make a noise its like they are dying so that you peep ama a noise such that you think one is trapped under the beddings so that you uncover yourself. Ukijifunua tu ivi, batallion now they are under the sheets and over the sheets. Shit!

I decided to be the human being in this situation. Mortein doom, plugin, weka ON and watch the bastards die one by one.

 Hahaaaa, whose the dead muthafucker now!

I have always thought that the reason I hardly ever notice the mosquitoes is coz of the doom. Shock on my ass, this creatures were pulling ninja warrior moves on the doom. It's like they are daring each other, because they we flying right through the fumes like it was off. I ended up inhaling this fumes paka nikawa high thinking if put my head right next to the doom thingy, they won't have shit on me.

Finally decide to wake up and begin my day. Thinking it has to be over, it morning, its time for mosquitoes to call it a day and I call it a night, I receive another shocker. This monster have perfected a bite on the go tactic, they don't chill as they bite you, as you chomoa your PJs to hit the shower zinakuuma zikiwa zimesonga. The only problem is that they have kunywa so much blood hazies mekit kufly to the ceiling ama wherever it is they fly to so the hide under the bed. Ujinga NI.

I have to go back to the drawing damn board about this. Its no longer about malaria, these things are just playing around.... I am open for any ideas if you have seen worse and dealt with the situation... Help a brother out. Mosquito za kwenu zinabehave aje?

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BE SURE

Caption: Spot the difference.

Now I have always had a theory that I have lived by and a lot has happened in my life because this theory existed in my mind. And in the mind of many others too I'm sure.

"IF IT WAS MADE IN KENYA, THEN IT CAN BE FORGED IN KENYA"

Now this morning my theory was seriously questioned and it got me thinking. I have to be sure whether I can trust my theory and live by it whether it bites me in the ass or simply scrap it in general.

So this morning I was going through my normal routine, well oiled, sharp as ever, roaring 'TGIF', just how I would do it. So I check into the bathroom and the soap wash basically no there. (Harsh economic times) No problem, a little micro-economics will do the trick. I went to the canteen right outside my house to buy some soap that would save my situation.

Me: nisaidie sabuni…

Keeper: unataka gani? kuna ushindi na geisha,

Me: lete geisha…

Keeper: 35 bob

Me: o_O (kwani how much is soap usually?)

So I paid and left, but with a lot of questions going through my mind (The price though I don't usually buy soap was suspicious the pack was suspicious the texture was suspicious generally it was a SUSPICIOUS BAR OF SOAP, but I had to shower). I doubted it from the get go and whether I was blowing nothing into something the thought was in my head.

After a lot of questioning and doubting a man had to do what a man had to do. I had to shower.

No sooner had the soap lathered all over my body, than was there a smell of bar soap. HARUFU YA ILE SABUNI YA PANGA…

Hah! SMS shower pap, and I rinsed myself thoroughly lest thing happen to me.

This was the incident that got me thinking. Kariobangi Light (or wherever this things are made) lazima wakuwe wapole.

I must admit this is not the first time I have heard such an ordeal severally I have indulged in liquor and some of the time I wake up with a hangover from hell yet I didn't indulge in quantities from hell. Sometimes after a couple of tots I find myself in AUTO-PILOT mode which is no characteristic of a legit drink.

Word on the street

It looks legit, it has KEBS seal, It's not in a plastic bottle, it gives you a mind boggling hangover – IT IS KL

It looks like geisha, smells like geisha (before it reacts with water), it is the size from geisha , lathers with the smell of bar soap – IT IS KL

Looks like sugar, a bit bigger grains than sugar, has no taste until like the 4^th teaspoon – IT IS KL

Looks like sportsman, burns like sportsman, there no way to tell – IT IS CHINA (this one you have to be told, zinaitwa sporti za China)

My point is these things are out there so much so that if you dared step into KL and asked for your ordinary tusker, you will asked, "Light ama EABL?" Peeps are indulging so much so, that they have lost track of the original. This brings me back to my theory, it has been forged in Kenya and we are sometimes so used to it that we forget the original. I have embraced my theory for a mighty long time but it's about time I have a change of heart because I don't want to lose track of the truth.

Let us be sure what way do we want to take? KL all the way and risk losing track of what's phony and what's real or we could go the Nakumatt way (spend a few extra shillings) but still be alive and alert.

We are not all equal financially, but micro economy doesn't have to mean FAKE. If we can't have a full bar of soap, I'd rather buy a quarter bar of legit geisha than a cheap full bar of 'Geisha'. This is actually possible, all the keeper has to do is tell the KL agent to disappear, buy a huge geisha and cut it into 4. Is this so hard? #imjustsaying. EABL did it by introducing KEG & KANE (Legit shit that people can afford).

To KL: Please forge the batteries, the phones, the everythings, but don't deal with consumables, peoples lives are at stake. (Halooo anybody there?)

And then what....

happy new year to you all,

according to the Gregorian calender, the new year was some time at the beginning of this year, but according to me, this is as new as it gets, new constitution, new Kenya, new hustle, new state of mind it is all new in the hood...

The euphoria frenzies and the happiness, the winners, the losers we have seen in all in the last couple of days...



Kenyans came out in large number and cast their votes on their opinion about the proposed new constitution which in a few days will be promulgated by the president into law... I was once such fellow and i did enjoy the moment, y'all should have seen this;I was strapped like a bungee jumper, i-pod, newspaper, fanta to take care of the massive hand down, Kanye West stunners so no one could see my eyes, ooooh it was good unfortunately, I was on the cue for exactly 2 minutes so all these preparations were in vain.

anyhow that is besides the point, the question is when its all said and done, what next?

most people i am sure and i can state for a fact went ahead and cast their votes without going through the document... it's all good, it is now law you have your whole life time to read it. but do people, KENYANS in particular understand what the hell this all means to us as a nation...

I have this gut feeling that a lot of people will be disappointed just as it was in 2002, coz from what i have watched on the news and heard in the streets, people voted as they did in expectation of change... which is true change will come, but are Kenyans patient enough to wait for it. Rest assured a couple of fundamental things will change immediately, but these will not boil down to you as the mwananchi. what you expect, will take time and hopefully if the 2012 elections don't sway your focus you might just begin to notice these things round about then...

back to us as individuals, what next for us, i was reading the standard newspaper and they had posted a question about how the clergy will be treated after this referendum... my God, wakenya ni makrack. (Friday 6th August pg 16 Standard Newspaper). i concluded that those were opinions of atheists, but then again, who am I to judge an honest sample?

personally i think people go to church for hope... on my opinion the church did make a flaw in siding against the constitution but that's besides the point right now... i would like to see any one person who was a faithful and after 4th will seize going to church... ukiona yeye, pigia mimi simu. human beings cannot do without church.

At this point we need to evaluate ourselves and start making right choices... as i have come to discover, Kenyans do things according to what the majority does or what is said to them, closing away the better options commonly known as THINKING & RESEARCHING

For example, I went to one church one time, and at some point the priest or pastor or that guy who tells you things from the front, stood and said a prayer, then he said, I am sure you have heard this one time or another in your life

*first the music is left purely to the pianist, who plays a solemn tune in the background*



Everyone closed their eyes and bowed.

pastor: "i am sure you have problems in your life, things are not going according to your plan money is a problem, you haven;t been faithful blab blab blab, i want to take this opportunity to invite you to give your life to Christ....."

In the back of my head i was saying this things are normal, i mean at one point i am broke and the works, then i asked myself, what if i am a good guy does the right thing all day everyday no problem, i pray kila siku, why should i sign up for this?

Mark you by that time peeps had flocked the pulpit like a disaster. *i peeped* (The same peeps who are expected to denounce the church... NO WAY, Ho-say)

Who better to ask than the person, hapo mbele? so i raised my hand and asked MR PASTOR that exact question.

the pastor said, "Son Jesus is an enigma, do not try to understand"

What? so i was meant to sign up for something, i will not understand so that i have to been in those church groups, be forced to pay tithe on my zero income and get involved in church issues.... APANA!!!!!! I will not let my hope and faith be mounted on face value.

my good friends, i made the choice to end my church going career at that particular point. (Don't get it twisted, I BELIEVE IN GOD AND JESUS, i just don't go to church)

another example,

i recently attended an introductory seminar to one of these self enhancement talks and i was astonished by the sheep mentality of people

so, apparently these forum had just ended and they were doing an introduction to the next forum sometime in Jan next year...

wololo these peeps know how to take your money,

so he introduces himself, asks you a couple of leading questions, you know the ones that you will always answer yes, and in the back of your mind you are saying all those yeses, then he tells you that he could tell you what he thinks about you outright(SELF EXPRESSION COUPLED BY INTEGRITY) and he could make you say it as it is also....

I personally think that this doesn't go down well to introduce to Africans coz we think with our heart on matters that involve relations and other people..


A couple of people who had attended the just concluded forum, stood and said how awesome it was, and how everyone in the room should do it... and then came the part about the hard earned money, a non refundable deposit was to be made made of 2000 ksh, In a room of about 200 or so peeps i think i was the only one who dint pay up.(Another ksh. 13000 should have been paid sooner than later)

i was shocked, this was just like seeing an advert on a product and brandishing your cheque book. these people have trained to make you do exactly that.

my point is think before you make choices, analyze what the hell is going on, you cant just get 10 people to tell me that something is good and i should pay for it and i do... its like the supermarket effect, unless you have a shopping list you will be tempted to by the whole store.

i would have parted with 2000 right there but i thought, on such an ambush this 2k is much more valuable to my pocket, now than it would be acting as a deposit.... if my analysis and my questioning of others who have actually attended (keyword: KITAMBO, not just concluded) this forum convinces me that this is the right thing to do, I will go and pay 15,000 before January and i will attend. Until then, my money stays in my pocket.

we have choices, and most of the time, our character is determined by the choices we make... lets as try and make the right ones from a point of reason

one thing is for sure when it comes to beer, i choose the place with the fairest price... screw ambiance, i have that at home screw company, my beer is my best company


PEACE!

The light at the end of the tunnel....

I am now convinced that its possible to have 8 days in a week. i am more convinced that this life right here has to have major oscillations for it to kick ass...

i am saying it, if your life is the same old same day in day out you are old and you have accepted that fact. worst still if the weekends are the same you are in trouble for every day you live you take a day off your life... #imjustsaying

Quiting & lessons learned from the same

so i quit... there comes a time in a mans life when you hit rock bottom, not coz you are broke or you are simply sick and tired but solely because you are at rock bottom literally...

you wake up from a 'stuper' or whatever other situation, all messed up and amnesic and screwed up generally.. all you want to do is get home and sleep start a fresh... at that point you vow to quit and come up with 'elaborate plans' on how you are going to change your lifestyle, friends diet wake up time blab blab

hahahahah, shock on you, you rather curse and rant it all out at that moment when you find yourself languishing next to the devil than waste energy expecting 'miraculous' change.

id suggest you pick up you pieces and forge forward knowing that you are at 0, thez only one way upppppp! than, lie to yourself that everything will be different in the morning.. wake up and smell the bhangi, it won't.

big brother,

whatever it is you want to see changing can actually be changed but it is a gradual process.....you've seen big brother allstars, i was just the other having a conversation with someone about bBA5... and it dawned on me that this is a sample to life.. somehow somewhat, let me explain how...

everyone has a picture of what they what to be seen as in this life... everyone wants to win except the losers... so to achieve success from your personal brand you need a strategy... in all the other BB's, the housemates are placed in the house from their ordinary day today activities and have no prior knowledge of what going on... the twist in BBA5 is that all the housemates have been there and have done that... i don't know how any have bought property... if i was given a second chance to do anything in this life, rest assured my good people i wouldn't loose... this is where strategy comes in.. forget kubahatisha this time around this one need training, coaching, preparation, formula, analysis and the works, how many people did there homework, how many are shrewd.. lets wait and see...

this doesn't stop us from having a strategy the first time around.... to get to what you imagine, the gradual process of change needs strategy, need coaching needs help... no one can claim to be the master of this life... if there's one out there who has a book "HOW TO LIVE LIFE FOR DUMMIES, The ultimate guide on to live from 0 -70 years" i will buy and take it up at whatever age i am... nikifika 70, i will coast...as far as i am concerned hakuna na hatawai kuwa. So we can plan, try, consult, we can experiment and we can have fun while at it... i'm knocking myself out, with no fear of making mistakes... IKO NENE!

Change we can believe in,

the end is surely drawing close... it was just the other day juvenile as could be then, a young gun walked into.... anyhow that's a tale for another day, the point is reflecting on the beginning we have come quite far in this.... the other day i picked up my gown, yes i am graduating it doesn't matter with what but i am graduating in the time that was specified to me to study and graduate. i am proud of myself if you dont believe me come to my feast... ok you don't have not to believe me to come Y'ALL ARE INVITED. the problem i am having is believing that it is all over i have to be different i have to do things different, i have to make new habits, i have to have new trends i have to make new friends... it is a hard lump to swallow but it must be done. change will come change we can believe in.

speaking of end and changes and the works we have a challenge in our hands....

the constitution... i,m sure you know your stand. the thing you don,t know is why you stand there....

how many have read the document end to end? raise your hands... 1, 2, 3... yeah i thot so, lakini tukiwa bar we are like Nzamba Ketonga... tunajua yote..

seriously mimi niko desperate i have to admit i somad page 1 - 5, but then again i am not the bestest of readers but, but, but, in my defense i always read the part that explains the constitution in the daily nation, lakini there are meant to be people who can teach you this things, where the hell are these so called CIVIC EDUCATORS, by the way if you know any of this mwongoz my number is 0725151373, i need to talk to one of them, get afew things clear (Hawa wadhii btw i think wanadish pesa za bure... si they are getting paid?)....If you get one tell him/her i will buy lunch, kujeni pamoja. i am saying this coz we have a document at our hands a document that will affect the so called watoi wa watoi wetu and about 12 million peeps will get the opportunity to decide on this.. I am a well of Kenyan with availability to all the facilities & resources including laziness, what about the rest out there, the other 50% or so who have to get the constitution document, learn how to read, read it get and interpreter interprete think decide and vote in 2 weeks (13 days to be precise)... iz problem.. remember we are all going to vote for this document, A CONSTITUTION si president election ama MP ama ordinary ish, CONSTITUTION of NATION.. Y'all can see how pupa za kina Kenyatta za kuget independence zinaleta mezesha kwa hii constituion tuko nayo saa hii... tuchangamke!

we could be the ones who vote it in, wadhii wa YES mpooo... nawaskia! mnasema yes to something you dont know, sawa basi wadhi wa NO mpoo?... ntawaskia tu with time steadman alisema mko chini... lakini pia nyinyi mnavote NO mmesoma ama mnavote no juu mmeskia abortion? sawa wale wadhii hawa vote nyinyi mko tu chini ka minerals.. i dont need to explain why...

watu wangu wa nguvu... pick up the constitution document, (kam hauna copy number yangu iko hapo, ntakusort) You have two weekends in between skip church or watever it is you do on Sundays... soma hiyo stuff, end to end whatever your decision is let it be from a knowledge point of view... Children read harry porter in a week, 1900 pages, this is 47 pages pekee na si lazima usome in order...i will do it, finish whatever it is i haven't read even though i am the worst reader after kibaki, i will make it my priority because a wise man once said knowledge is knowing a tomato is fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad....

like i said the end is near, change is coming whether we believe it or not... all we gala do is be prepared and gradually adapt to it.


have a beautiful week, God bless