With only a couple of hours to go before ushering the new year i want to take a few minutes and do the last 'pouring' out from my heart of 2009.
This year, i have blogged like never before and i have enjoyed and loved every minute of it. What i enjoy even more is going back to my older post and looking at where i have been and where i am now. In this process of capturing and cherishing the moments as well as sharing the events of my life i have learn't many lesson but what makes me even happier is learning that i have also been able to inspire others through writing.
A couple of years back if you were ever to ask me, i would have sworn that i was never born for writing and nothing artistic could be associated with me. Today i acknowledge that nothing is impossible as long as you put your heart to it and have passion for it. I have realised potential that i never thought existed in me!
Before i deviate any further, let me go back to the genesis of this post. This second last day of the year 2009 i want to say a big THANK YOU to all my blog 'fans' many of you are anonymous but i also know many of you :), whats the point of writing and having no one to read yah. To all those who i have inspired to start blogging, i am humbled and wish you the very best as we share. Learning comes from sharing and i hope that many more of my friends will also start blogging then we can all learn from each other.
As we usher in the new year i wish all my readers and friends the Very Nice Stuff that they desire for 2010.
Happy New Year with lots of love, Kamama
12/30/2009
12/29/2009
An analysis of an article
To anyone who can get a copy of October's issue if True Love magazine this is one story that i would encourage you all to read, it deeply touched me i just had to weigh in my thoughts!
12/22/2009
Note from mama
There is this note that my mum gave me when i was joining campus for my undergraduate (The teen's creed for teenagers to remember), that every time i read it it touches the very sensitive parts of my heart.
This is what is says;
Don't let your parents down, they brought you up.
Be humble enough to obey, you may give orders some day.
Choose companions with care, you become what they are.
Guard your thoughts what you think you are.
Choose only a date who would make a good mate.
Be a master of your habits or they will master you.
Don't be a show off when you drive. Drive with safety and arrive.
Don't let the crowd pressure you.
Stand for something or you will fall for anything.
This is what is says;
Don't let your parents down, they brought you up.
Be humble enough to obey, you may give orders some day.
Choose companions with care, you become what they are.
Guard your thoughts what you think you are.
Choose only a date who would make a good mate.
Be a master of your habits or they will master you.
Don't be a show off when you drive. Drive with safety and arrive.
Don't let the crowd pressure you.
Stand for something or you will fall for anything.
12/09/2009
Six basic fears
I don't know why am so much into this positive thinking and self development and mastery stuff of late.
Either am trying to come out of something and i need the motivation or am struggling to achieve something or maybe i feel like am not realizing my full potential or maybe this is just me. But one thing i know for certain about this day is that am trying hard to put a brave face for the world because the inside feels a little scuttled.
From Robin Sharma, to my collection of inspiration thoughts (recent blog posts) and now the latest, this from the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
In order of their most common appearance;
1. Poverty
2. Criticism
3. Ill health
4. Loss of someone's love
5. Old age
6. Death
No. 3 n 4 really got my attention!
Either am trying to come out of something and i need the motivation or am struggling to achieve something or maybe i feel like am not realizing my full potential or maybe this is just me. But one thing i know for certain about this day is that am trying hard to put a brave face for the world because the inside feels a little scuttled.
From Robin Sharma, to my collection of inspiration thoughts (recent blog posts) and now the latest, this from the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
In order of their most common appearance;
1. Poverty
2. Criticism
3. Ill health
4. Loss of someone's love
5. Old age
6. Death
No. 3 n 4 really got my attention!
12/07/2009
Excellence, Passion, Self-Mastery, Beauty, Contribution
I love Robin Sharma, specifically how he expresses his words he is a motivational speaker, author and i guess plus plus many other things, one day i also hope to be a guru of some sort!
This is what he had to say under his blog titled; ONE OF THE GREATEST KEYS TO SUCCESS
A key piece to playing at your absolute best as a leader (and as a person) is to ensure that your daily schedule reflects your deepest values. Anything less is a flight from integrity.
One of the exercises I've been taking our clients through at my "Leadership in Turbulent Times" workshop is called "The 5 Main Values." I take participants through a powerful visualization where they visit themselves, not as they now are but as they want to be at the end of their career. Then they record the main 5 values they will have wished they'd worked under.
I wanted to share my own 5 Main Values with you. I hope you'll share yours with me on Twitter so we can continue this conversation. Anyway, here are the top 5 values I want to work by and stay true to:
1. EXCELLENCE. I adore this word. My goal is to work at a level of excellence, constantly refining my craft as an author and speaker - while delivering outrageous values to our clients.
2. PASSION. Without passion, nothing great every gets built. Passion fuels innovation, builds a fantastic team and makes the impossible possible. I want to express my passion in all that I do. Otherwise, what's the point?
3. SELF-MASTERY. You can't be a better leader than you are a person. So every day, I work intensely on developing my inner life. I read. I reflect. I write in a journal. I exercise. And do all those things I need to do to express my best.
4. BEAUTY. I'm an aesthete. I love beauty in all forms. So I make the time to look for beauty, in both expected and unexpected places. Interesting conversations are beautiful to me; brilliantly designed products (think Apple) are beautiful to me. Great food, fresh nature, cool architecture, a strong cup of coffee in the morning and modern art are all some of the things that fill my life with a sense of beauty.
5. CONTRIBUTION. Leadership is about doing deeds that live on long after your death. I want to do things that will help people awaken to the fact that, regardless of what they do and where they are, they have the opportunity (and responsibility) to show leadership in their work and at their life. Few things are important to me than feeling I'm making a difference for people. And doing my part to build a better world.
This is what he had to say under his blog titled; ONE OF THE GREATEST KEYS TO SUCCESS
A key piece to playing at your absolute best as a leader (and as a person) is to ensure that your daily schedule reflects your deepest values. Anything less is a flight from integrity.
One of the exercises I've been taking our clients through at my "Leadership in Turbulent Times" workshop is called "The 5 Main Values." I take participants through a powerful visualization where they visit themselves, not as they now are but as they want to be at the end of their career. Then they record the main 5 values they will have wished they'd worked under.
I wanted to share my own 5 Main Values with you. I hope you'll share yours with me on Twitter so we can continue this conversation. Anyway, here are the top 5 values I want to work by and stay true to:
1. EXCELLENCE. I adore this word. My goal is to work at a level of excellence, constantly refining my craft as an author and speaker - while delivering outrageous values to our clients.
2. PASSION. Without passion, nothing great every gets built. Passion fuels innovation, builds a fantastic team and makes the impossible possible. I want to express my passion in all that I do. Otherwise, what's the point?
3. SELF-MASTERY. You can't be a better leader than you are a person. So every day, I work intensely on developing my inner life. I read. I reflect. I write in a journal. I exercise. And do all those things I need to do to express my best.
4. BEAUTY. I'm an aesthete. I love beauty in all forms. So I make the time to look for beauty, in both expected and unexpected places. Interesting conversations are beautiful to me; brilliantly designed products (think Apple) are beautiful to me. Great food, fresh nature, cool architecture, a strong cup of coffee in the morning and modern art are all some of the things that fill my life with a sense of beauty.
5. CONTRIBUTION. Leadership is about doing deeds that live on long after your death. I want to do things that will help people awaken to the fact that, regardless of what they do and where they are, they have the opportunity (and responsibility) to show leadership in their work and at their life. Few things are important to me than feeling I'm making a difference for people. And doing my part to build a better world.
12/03/2009
Harmonised Draft Constitution
I have been feeling patriotic of late and so finally i have the constitution saved on my desktop.
Yesterday i started reading it (pat on the back....... :) thanks), a bit late but still this time around i wanna be informed, when people talk about contentious issues i want to know exactly what these issues are. My plan is to read at least 4 chapters every day, there are 21 chapters meaning that it shouldn't take me more that one week to complete it, digesting it might take a bit longer though i hope that 'lawyery' jargon's have been broken down!
From the little reviews atleast i know that i love the fact that it has provisions for dual citizenship, this is something that should make me put a yes and endorse the draft, my brothers and sisters in the diaspora must also be smiling at this. Nothing is perfect but considering we have been operating with the colloquial one i urge all Kenyans to read it and suggest on where we need to improve and finally lets adopt this thing.
This will really mark a milestone to our history.
Viva Kenya!
Yesterday i started reading it (pat on the back....... :) thanks), a bit late but still this time around i wanna be informed, when people talk about contentious issues i want to know exactly what these issues are. My plan is to read at least 4 chapters every day, there are 21 chapters meaning that it shouldn't take me more that one week to complete it, digesting it might take a bit longer though i hope that 'lawyery' jargon's have been broken down!
From the little reviews atleast i know that i love the fact that it has provisions for dual citizenship, this is something that should make me put a yes and endorse the draft, my brothers and sisters in the diaspora must also be smiling at this. Nothing is perfect but considering we have been operating with the colloquial one i urge all Kenyans to read it and suggest on where we need to improve and finally lets adopt this thing.
This will really mark a milestone to our history.
Viva Kenya!
11/13/2009
It's in moments like this
That i need a....
Clearly i have a weakness when it come to dealing to rude people. How can one email ruin my entire afternoon. Not really the email but it just worked to add salt to the already challenging day. None of my secretary back up plans seem to be working, ohh i also hate not delivery on my task, it is my responsibility and i should deal with it right? Right.
Ok, i know i don't want derailment today planning to have an early one to rebuild my energy reserves but did my phone have to die on me on all days ....Furahiday and particularly when i was on an important call?
All this is giving me a soft headache.
Did we have to have our classes in that particular venue. One its far from the road meaning that with the kind heels that i am wearing i will have a long, gruesome journey. Today being today means that we might also meet people coming to pick their departed ones or even join in the service as passerbys - sad.
Whaaa, the real issue is the rude email, for crying out loud i was only trying to be helpful. Since when did being helpful equal nagging!
Too much winning for one day. Have a good weekend y'all.
Clearly i have a weakness when it come to dealing to rude people. How can one email ruin my entire afternoon. Not really the email but it just worked to add salt to the already challenging day. None of my secretary back up plans seem to be working, ohh i also hate not delivery on my task, it is my responsibility and i should deal with it right? Right.
Ok, i know i don't want derailment today planning to have an early one to rebuild my energy reserves but did my phone have to die on me on all days ....Furahiday and particularly when i was on an important call?
All this is giving me a soft headache.
Did we have to have our classes in that particular venue. One its far from the road meaning that with the kind heels that i am wearing i will have a long, gruesome journey. Today being today means that we might also meet people coming to pick their departed ones or even join in the service as passerbys - sad.
Whaaa, the real issue is the rude email, for crying out loud i was only trying to be helpful. Since when did being helpful equal nagging!
Too much winning for one day. Have a good weekend y'all.
Kenya
Evidently, i live in a very beautiful country. I hope some of these photos will help shape up my holiday come December the last thing i wanna do is to be stuck in the the city, what a bore!
11/11/2009
My collection of inspiration quotes
1. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas Edison
2. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. Mohammed Ali
3. If he can't meet you where you are....leave him where he's at. J
4. Every Saint Has a Past, Every Sinner Has A Future. J
5. it don't really matter, what matters is that its happened. Pick up the pieces and move on... its the only way to make it through the storms and waves of life. Kamama
6. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.-Martin Luther King Jr.
7. Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nurture a person’s growth
8. Life is a game, like checkers or chess, and the players opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving or neglect to move promptly, your pieces will be wiped off the board. Time is a partner who will not tolerate indecision. Napoleon Hill
9. Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall into the clutches of the wolf. Mahatma Gandhi
10. There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men. Mahatma Gandhi
11. Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam. Mahatma Gandhi
12. Life is not a sprint but a marathon, u must understand yourself and know at which stage you need to run, jog, walk, crawl, sip some water....but most importantly stick to ur race. Truly me
13. Life is just like a sea, we are moving without an end. Nothing stays with us,
what remains is just the memories of some people who touched us as Waves. Anonymous
14. Baby mosquito came back after 1st time flying. His mom asked him "How do you feel?" He replied "It was wonderful, Everyone was clapping for me!" Anonymous
15. "Success is the effort in the journey, to laugh often to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to eat appreciation of honest critics and endure betrayal of false friends;to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better" Morris Rauf
16. Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your blessings in stone. Sharon Kisire
17. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. Mahatma Gandhi
18. Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. James Allen
19. Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions. James Allen
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2. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. Mohammed Ali
3. If he can't meet you where you are....leave him where he's at. J
4. Every Saint Has a Past, Every Sinner Has A Future. J
5. it don't really matter, what matters is that its happened. Pick up the pieces and move on... its the only way to make it through the storms and waves of life. Kamama
6. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.-Martin Luther King Jr.
7. Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nurture a person’s growth
8. Life is a game, like checkers or chess, and the players opposite you is time. If you hesitate before moving or neglect to move promptly, your pieces will be wiped off the board. Time is a partner who will not tolerate indecision. Napoleon Hill
9. Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall into the clutches of the wolf. Mahatma Gandhi
10. There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men. Mahatma Gandhi
11. Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam. Mahatma Gandhi
12. Life is not a sprint but a marathon, u must understand yourself and know at which stage you need to run, jog, walk, crawl, sip some water....but most importantly stick to ur race. Truly me
13. Life is just like a sea, we are moving without an end. Nothing stays with us,
what remains is just the memories of some people who touched us as Waves. Anonymous
14. Baby mosquito came back after 1st time flying. His mom asked him "How do you feel?" He replied "It was wonderful, Everyone was clapping for me!" Anonymous
15. "Success is the effort in the journey, to laugh often to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to eat appreciation of honest critics and endure betrayal of false friends;to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better" Morris Rauf
16. Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your blessings in stone. Sharon Kisire
17. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. Mahatma Gandhi
18. Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. James Allen
19. Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions. James Allen
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11/03/2009
What next?
In June the editor of a local daily choose to publish my article, in September True Love magazine published my article. Since last year June when i first started the blog i have an accumulation of 50 articles...i call it my small empire of articles where i capture the happenings of my life. Also helps me keep track of where i have been.
I don't think its too early in the year to start asking myself the question so what next? December is already here and we know what happens, the new year creeps in and most of us like taking inventory of ourselves. We all learn to crawl first before we start walking, question is i am still crawling when i should be walking or walking when i should be running? Am i really doing enough for myself?
Honestly, at the moment i have no answer to these pertinent question that i choose to be troubled with. In due time i will, i have faith that the ahhh moment will soon come.
10/26/2009
The Marathon Experience season II
"No medal for us but just a certificate and quite some energy left, I purpose not to miss this kind of race and again. God willing I will be back next year to do the 21km race." Those were my words in my blog dated 10/27/2008 titled The marathon Experience.
Am so thankful to God that those words came to pass. Yesterday we were at it again, this time I had no butterflies in my tummy like I had the previous year the day to the marathon on the contrary I felt organised. However the only problem was that I was unwell the last week to the marathon and am still nursing myself and as such had slacked in my training the last two weeks to the marathon. All in all I was not ready to let the ill health nor the fact that pms was all over the place hold me back!
Dark and early I rose and by 6.30 we were at the stadium. At about 7.25 the race began. I felt comfortable running all through past to the 10 km and I think up to the 15 km point. At some point it started raining and stopped and even started again even more heavily and I was thinking this is just thee race! Trouble started when I was about 4 km or so to the finish line, I had felt my right knee twinge earlier on and had ignored it but now the pain became more and more intense, like it was a dislocated knee or something. Not that I have dislocated a knee before, but I hope u get my drift. Poor me I thought, I had done so well managed to pass many people along the way but now this, everyone will overtake me!.....quel pitie!
I stopped and walked for a while and getting that knee to run again was the hardest and most painful thing i had to endure, from then on it was run a little bit then walk until I got to the stadium entrance.
I definitely knew that my colleagues who had finished earlier on were at the stadium waiting for the rest of us and they might applaud as I approached the finish line but I wasn’t sure if I could run the last 300 meters with my paining knee (talk of wanting to make a statement ;)). I stood outside for a minute or two trying to compose myself while other runners were trying to encourage me and telling me that I can do it and at long last I entered the stadium limp-running and just as I approached the finish line I heard them cheering me on, it felt nice to be encouraged but ideally I would have loved to finish in style.......that is do the last 100 meters sprint as you wave to the 'fans'. Slowly and with difficulty I ran on and waved at them and nothing felt better than crossing that finish line (with some style too). My assumption is that I did the race in about 2.5 or a bit more hours.
I got a medal, a certificate and had no ounce of energy left like the previous year but loads and loads of self satisfaction.
What next? I pray that God gives me another year to do another marathon even though it feels like my body will never be able to exercise again I know that I will recover and again it’s for a good cause....for someone to be blessed with the ability to see!
Dreams do really come true!
Am so thankful to God that those words came to pass. Yesterday we were at it again, this time I had no butterflies in my tummy like I had the previous year the day to the marathon on the contrary I felt organised. However the only problem was that I was unwell the last week to the marathon and am still nursing myself and as such had slacked in my training the last two weeks to the marathon. All in all I was not ready to let the ill health nor the fact that pms was all over the place hold me back!
Dark and early I rose and by 6.30 we were at the stadium. At about 7.25 the race began. I felt comfortable running all through past to the 10 km and I think up to the 15 km point. At some point it started raining and stopped and even started again even more heavily and I was thinking this is just thee race! Trouble started when I was about 4 km or so to the finish line, I had felt my right knee twinge earlier on and had ignored it but now the pain became more and more intense, like it was a dislocated knee or something. Not that I have dislocated a knee before, but I hope u get my drift. Poor me I thought, I had done so well managed to pass many people along the way but now this, everyone will overtake me!.....quel pitie!
I stopped and walked for a while and getting that knee to run again was the hardest and most painful thing i had to endure, from then on it was run a little bit then walk until I got to the stadium entrance.
I definitely knew that my colleagues who had finished earlier on were at the stadium waiting for the rest of us and they might applaud as I approached the finish line but I wasn’t sure if I could run the last 300 meters with my paining knee (talk of wanting to make a statement ;)). I stood outside for a minute or two trying to compose myself while other runners were trying to encourage me and telling me that I can do it and at long last I entered the stadium limp-running and just as I approached the finish line I heard them cheering me on, it felt nice to be encouraged but ideally I would have loved to finish in style.......that is do the last 100 meters sprint as you wave to the 'fans'. Slowly and with difficulty I ran on and waved at them and nothing felt better than crossing that finish line (with some style too). My assumption is that I did the race in about 2.5 or a bit more hours.
I got a medal, a certificate and had no ounce of energy left like the previous year but loads and loads of self satisfaction.
What next? I pray that God gives me another year to do another marathon even though it feels like my body will never be able to exercise again I know that I will recover and again it’s for a good cause....for someone to be blessed with the ability to see!
Dreams do really come true!
10/23/2009
Kamama is now on twitter on http://twitter.com/thymoments . To all the twitters, lets follow and following each other. with all the many social sites to update and check i don't promise but i will try and see if i can keep all the pans steaming at the same time.
Continue being plus size
This year i have made so many visits to the hospital, i think enough to match up all my life's visit to the hospital. What i am wondering is, does the principle of 'when you smile to the world it smile back' or 'when you give you get many returns back' in that, when you start going to hospital you keep going back and back? Or could it be because there are such handsome doctors where i go? My prayer is that God continues to bless me with good health as it has been in the past.
I will leave out the details as to why i was making the visits. So I finally managed to have them prick at my veins and draw blood a procedure that i have never allowed any doctor or nurse to carry out on me, dont ask how i got by with some things. True to the technicians words it was not as painful as i thought and i thank him 'remotely' for being extremely patient with me throughout the exercise. What he failed to mention is that my arm would ache for the next couple of days, nevertheless i forgive him.
The interpretation of the results is what annoyed me, everything else was ok besides my red blood cells count. Fine fine, i know that i might be a little underweight just a little and i work on that but to hear that my red blood cells count was low and that i might be a little anemic was not good news at all.
With all the healthy living that i do, talk of traditional vegetables and am in, natural this and that finds themselves in my house, i even cook my ugali nowadays with 'incasa amaranth' flour leave alone the fact that the flour is so hard to cook with i cant dare prepare it for a visitor. Gosh, i even cook omenas!
Clearly there is nothing funky with being thin not when the doctor tries to give you some high school lecture on nutrition! Now that the world seems to rotate around the plus sized women and tips for this and that on them, my advice would be, continue being plus size well for as long as your health. Follow all the tips they may have for you other than the weight loosing tips because surely the grass aint as green as you think on this side.
I will leave out the details as to why i was making the visits. So I finally managed to have them prick at my veins and draw blood a procedure that i have never allowed any doctor or nurse to carry out on me, dont ask how i got by with some things. True to the technicians words it was not as painful as i thought and i thank him 'remotely' for being extremely patient with me throughout the exercise. What he failed to mention is that my arm would ache for the next couple of days, nevertheless i forgive him.
The interpretation of the results is what annoyed me, everything else was ok besides my red blood cells count. Fine fine, i know that i might be a little underweight just a little and i work on that but to hear that my red blood cells count was low and that i might be a little anemic was not good news at all.
With all the healthy living that i do, talk of traditional vegetables and am in, natural this and that finds themselves in my house, i even cook my ugali nowadays with 'incasa amaranth' flour leave alone the fact that the flour is so hard to cook with i cant dare prepare it for a visitor. Gosh, i even cook omenas!
Clearly there is nothing funky with being thin not when the doctor tries to give you some high school lecture on nutrition! Now that the world seems to rotate around the plus sized women and tips for this and that on them, my advice would be, continue being plus size well for as long as your health. Follow all the tips they may have for you other than the weight loosing tips because surely the grass aint as green as you think on this side.
10/08/2009
My Boyfriend and I - Our Sweet Union!
Without fail we meet every Friday not unless there is something else very important that i have to attend to.
For the past two year we've been together but our union has become closer this year when roles were better defined! Like any relationship, it has not been easy the commitment levels required are high but i have immensely benefited from our Friday dates and also the other events that we hold on weekends and other days. I have met many many friends as a result of our relationship, i have developed my skills and most importantly i have been able to give back to the society.
Attending Friday Rotaract fellowship meetings has been the event and Rotaract is the boyfriend between 6.30-8.00 pm.
Some of our plots have been boring while most have been thrilling. The most recent best date for me was having a saxophonist - Jackson Anduuru - come to share his experience with the instrument since he was young up to now at almost 30 yrs or there about. He further played to us some of his favourite tracks and listening to his jazz cd at home just makes my evenings so serene (not to mention it was autographed with love).
Others have been some financial guys who come to teach us on how to invest our money, a few tips on how to increase the size of the pie so that one achieves more without straining the salary.
Caroline Nderitu, the poet was also a terrific guest. She gave us great tips on public speaking and presentation...the list is long.
But the one who nailed it for me, the one who i will never forget in a long while is one Kahenya of Zuqka.com who gave us a writing assignment! We were supposed to each write an article on social media and how the evening's discussion has influenced us for some catchy reward else buy him and 29 of his pals pints. Since most of us are used to going to listen and then bounce this was a tough one and we automatically lost the bet.
Click on the link below to find out what i had to say......
Eye on social media
As always, am looking forward to this Friday's date! ur welcome yes u... :)
For the past two year we've been together but our union has become closer this year when roles were better defined! Like any relationship, it has not been easy the commitment levels required are high but i have immensely benefited from our Friday dates and also the other events that we hold on weekends and other days. I have met many many friends as a result of our relationship, i have developed my skills and most importantly i have been able to give back to the society.
Attending Friday Rotaract fellowship meetings has been the event and Rotaract is the boyfriend between 6.30-8.00 pm.
Some of our plots have been boring while most have been thrilling. The most recent best date for me was having a saxophonist - Jackson Anduuru - come to share his experience with the instrument since he was young up to now at almost 30 yrs or there about. He further played to us some of his favourite tracks and listening to his jazz cd at home just makes my evenings so serene (not to mention it was autographed with love).
Others have been some financial guys who come to teach us on how to invest our money, a few tips on how to increase the size of the pie so that one achieves more without straining the salary.
Caroline Nderitu, the poet was also a terrific guest. She gave us great tips on public speaking and presentation...the list is long.
But the one who nailed it for me, the one who i will never forget in a long while is one Kahenya of Zuqka.com who gave us a writing assignment! We were supposed to each write an article on social media and how the evening's discussion has influenced us for some catchy reward else buy him and 29 of his pals pints. Since most of us are used to going to listen and then bounce this was a tough one and we automatically lost the bet.
Click on the link below to find out what i had to say......
Eye on social media
As always, am looking forward to this Friday's date! ur welcome yes u... :)
10/02/2009
list of books that i have to read
Amazing how the forces of nature work towards delivery some things.
Without any mentioning of it a friend brags how they have the book ‘Who moved my cheese’ on soft copy, delightedly of course since I had always wanted to read that book I ask him to send me and he happily promises to do so. Some two weeks down the line I am still waiting for that email.
This Tuesday, my eyes spot the book being sold by the street vendors in town I walk up to them ask the price and they say 500bob, I contemplate for a few minutes on whether to buy or not then decide to compare the price in a bookstore and see which one is cheaper (I mean life is all about cutting costs ya!). The next day while at sarit center, I decide to pop in to text books centre and ogle at their variety of books and guess what I came across, my book of desire at ksh 390. Without thinking twice I grab the book and now am so looking forward to reading it.
Back to the main dish......
1. Who moved my cheese (this is as good as done :))
2. EXECUTION - The Discipline of Getting Things Done
3. How to make money in stocks by Willian J. O'Neil
4. Brand from the inside
5. Ten rules for strategic innovators
6. Seeing what's next
7. Millionaire next door
8. Rich man in Babylon
Without any mentioning of it a friend brags how they have the book ‘Who moved my cheese’ on soft copy, delightedly of course since I had always wanted to read that book I ask him to send me and he happily promises to do so. Some two weeks down the line I am still waiting for that email.
This Tuesday, my eyes spot the book being sold by the street vendors in town I walk up to them ask the price and they say 500bob, I contemplate for a few minutes on whether to buy or not then decide to compare the price in a bookstore and see which one is cheaper (I mean life is all about cutting costs ya!). The next day while at sarit center, I decide to pop in to text books centre and ogle at their variety of books and guess what I came across, my book of desire at ksh 390. Without thinking twice I grab the book and now am so looking forward to reading it.
Back to the main dish......
1. Who moved my cheese (this is as good as done :))
2. EXECUTION - The Discipline of Getting Things Done
3. How to make money in stocks by Willian J. O'Neil
4. Brand from the inside
5. Ten rules for strategic innovators
6. Seeing what's next
7. Millionaire next door
8. Rich man in Babylon
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