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November 30, 2006

jewels of the day

1. US-$ 320 million. Now THAT’S a lot of money.
2. I really miss my guitar(s) as mentioned earlier. Something that will sweeten up lonely evenings in Embu and/or make me play along to the One Man Guitar show next door which happens to entertain me every single evening. Btw, what do you call these big [...]

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November 29, 2006

Dear Java House…

There is this jamaa @ university who – whenever he arrives at a new place – opens a bottle of the local beer and takes some time to chill. He told me it’s this ritual he’s been maintaining since he started studying brewery science (that actually is a subject you can study in good old [...]

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951 & 350

Hat tip Mzeecedric! :-)

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November 28, 2006

Excuse me, but…

…what’s the use of having an exhibition on waste management INSIDE the UN compound in Gigiri (Nairobi, Kenya)? Inside where you need to obtain a visitors pass first to eventually get some interesting informations? And btw, why should we inform the experts if instead the wananchi should be addressed?
Similar frustration comes when you’re thinking about [...]

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November 27, 2006

data cabools, part 2

I wrote about data cables for mobile phones the other day – and came across this shop on Moi Avenue Tom Mboya Street, opposite the old fire brigade, where they sell a variety of cables for different phones and manufacturers. So in case you’ll still need a data cable to connect your (GPRS capable) phone [...]

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my beautiful morning…

“And, as you travel life’s highway, don’t forget to stop and eat the roses.”
…so I was walking on smooth Nairobian roads on Monday morning and found a Ksh. 5 /= coin right in front of NSSF building.
Which makes me realize that one of the other differences between rural folks like me and urban folks is [...]

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November 26, 2006

wapi? (part 10)

November 25, 2006

visual roundup

A collection of scenes I’ve caught during the week. Because life is about seeing and sharing. Here you go:

Some dude presenting puppet theatre aka The Muppet Show on Mama Ngina Street in Embu earlier this week. The puppets looked really really strange. Nice!

Isn’t this beautiful? That’s my way to work every morning.

Back in Nbo for [...]

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