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Balalalalalalaaaaaa

Interesting, I was just reading an article on Sheikh Khalid Balalas struggle while on exile in Europe and was instantly reminded of those days back in the mid 1990s. I happened to live in Frankfurt am Main by that time – that city where he stayed in Germany, I think in a hotel somewhere close to the main station and a german MI5-nini had him under surveillance….
Politics. Facts, unimportant details that pop-up from various parts of my brain, something I will never need to remember. And yet, the visual memories of that time, even of those hectic days in the early 90s (Kamukunji & Co) keep on coming back. So many things have changed in Kenya in the meantime, life has been going on, we’re having 2005 and I am sitting here, reading this other article and thinking to myself: will our children ever ask us about the politics during our heydays and what we were actually doing about it?

oranges and bananas in Gamaanii

The beauty of politics in Germany these days is that apparently almost all so-called leaders didn’t like the election results from last September 18th. Germany is on its way into a big coalition between the Soccer Democrazy Party (SPD) and the Corrupt Demon Union (CDU) and since there’s a LOT of money to be saved in future, no one likes to be responsible for it. Hence, many elected leaders retired (Schröder, Fischer, Müntefering, etc), some just keep on playing games (äähh-Stoiber) while other are just too dumb to realize what’s good and bad (Merkel). Can you imagine the irony when election campaigns are focused on personalities while in the end, none of those elected had the guts to endure?

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Joji Kichaka & Ängie Ferkel

Either way this sort of free entertainment "Made in Berlin" still makes up for some great satire and maybe we’re not talking oranges or bananas over here (like in Kenya) but instead, it seems to be a battle between potatoes and cabbages. And I just wanted to note down that women are becoming stronger these days (which is good!) but then I thought of Mrs Merkel and asked myself: wot kaind of Thatcher iss zaehd? Gakunywo kagîra thooko….

karibu mgeni :-)

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According to gvisit.com, this is where the last 20 blog visitors come from… and there are even more neat Google Maps Mashups on GoogleMapsMania :-)
(Aterere… I think there’s a shida somewhere with Nepal showing up on the map. I do have two friends working in Kathmandu, but I know for sure they never read my blog coz of that lousy inet connection – so maybe it’s just an IP that is assumed to be located somewhere in Nepal? Hash, CG – WPusers – does this happen to your site stats as well?)

as IF i had NOTHING better to do…

I think one day in future, my little niece will be old enough to ask questions – and then she might ask me about the stuff I used to do when "I was younger".
"Well, my dear", I will reply, "when I was about 17, I got my own home computer. An ATARI 1040 STF with an external 30 MB HDD. In Kenya. Imagine this thing running in an environment with frequent power failures – and it worked! Yeah….and so when those x86 / IBM compatible machines became available at an affordable rate, I switched to a Pentium I with 133 MHz and an operating system called Chernobyl 86 Windows95 which took some time to be installed and had more bugs than features. However, by that time in 1996 I was able to go online for the first time. …So as years passed by, computers became more and more powerful and operating systems more user-orientated. In fact, my dear, I think I’ve wasted spent the best part of my twenties (and 30s!!) in front of different computers, trying to fix this and that hard- and software problem, trying out different operating systems and trying to understand why things just didn’t work out the way they were supposed to be…I mean, all I wanted to do was actually USE those machines, you know?"

"But why didn’t you use Mac computers?"

"uhmm….."

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My dear bro KPT just skyped-in this hilarious picture from Taipeh, Taiwan:
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… and of course he asked about the real meaning of this road marking.

My guesses:
1. Only people wearing flat glasses are allowed to use this road.
2. Make sure to use this road ONLY when you’re carrying your jackhammer along with you.
3. (censored)
4. ( also censored :-)
5. No way, maaaan, this ain’t any traffic symbol – it’s some new taiwanese way of warchalking.
6. Wait…isn’t this that guy from that movie…ah…what’s his name again….John Malkoholicvich???
7. The subliminal acknowledgment that Taiwanese DO have bowlegs (is it the Japanese influence ??? ;-)
8. 42.
9. It’s a three-legged octopus that escaped from a Sashimi plate and got hit by a lorry on the road…
10. a Taiwanese painter got bored and invented this strange road marking without any meaning
11. Kikuyumoja’s next blog-entry (BE) :-))))
12. ….