The TPF2 Finale - hate it or love it

It has been on for about 3 months with drama each week, having contestants like Hemedi entertain some viewers in the house while others feel he should have been the first one to step out of the academy instead of Ian but things turned out the other way as talents like Jacob, Alice leave the academy and the brother still was in.

Who would have thought he would be among the last 8 contestants? Others say it is fate….but I say a time was coming when he had to go like it or not. But I have to admit for a moment we were afraid Hemedi would take the 5M since shit happens at times….who knows. However, just like judge Ian puts it his time was up on Saturday (June 21, 2008) and those who did not like him were really happy. The only surprise viewers like me got is Stephen from Uganda being evicted. That was so unbelievable but do I say?........its the votes from the viewers, so I wonder what people were voting for? As in….was it about talent, favorite or country? Still no answer.

Come Sunday (June23, 2008), everyone had there own predictions of who will take the 5M home. I got to ask a few people who they think was going to win and about 3 of them said Esther, 5 said David, 8 said Wendy and 15 said it was obvious Victor was going to win since the whole of KMTC was behind him. So I got glued to the screen to see which of the 4 predictions was true, and to my suprise Esther who had less prediction was the winner and Wendy was second, so what actually happened? Was Victor really to win?

I say all the best to Esther, Wendy and the rest of the contestants especially Stephen and Jacob for they are very great singers, to Esther and Wendy….we hope you will do East Africa Proud.

Mp's...Mp's...Mp's!

First allow me to say shame on the mp’s who have the guts to oppose the idea of being taxed. If we the share holders (of Kenya) are paying the taxes no matter how little we earn, then who gives them the right not to? I hear it’s the constitution that says they should not pay taxes, so what we have to do first is change the constitution and let them pay the taxes because it is really traumatizing and so unbelievable to see a share holder who only earns Ksh.4000 still paying taxes while those who she/he elected earning over 1M and they are not paying taxes, remember they also have those allowances……like sitting allowances……entertainment allowances……..you name it…all the allowances you can think of and here they are, some of them opposing the idea.

My fellow share holders, we need to learn from this, you remember what we did during the (2007-2008) elections? No not the demonstration and the killings, am talking about the way we voted for the our Mp’s, yaaaah now that’s what am talking about, we need to not those who are opposing the idea of paying taxes then come the next general election we ignore them and vote for Maendeleo…..ausio? If you feel me say “oyeaaaaaah”

By the way, did you hear how much was allocated to buying cars for Mr. President, his Vice and Ex-president? If you did not then you need to find out. They allocated MILLIONS, and we are the ones to make those millions by paying taxes. Am telling you we need prayers very strong prayers because how can they do that in broad day light? Its not as if they currently ride on matatus, they have cars and very good ones. Mr. Kimunya, hapo umetufinya mbayaaaaaa.

Let’s note those who will oppose the idea and send them home in the next election because that’s the only power we have over them.

Why are people afraid to ASK?

I borrowed a book from my workmate going by the tittle “How to Get from Where you Are to Where You Want to Be” The 25 Principles of Success by Jack Canfield.
This book has been very inspiring to me since it has so much reality in it and can help one transform for the best.

When I got to rule 15, I thought it would be wise of me to try share it with you since it may be happening to you or has happened to you or someone you might know. It is about asking, and the question is “why are people afraid to ask”……..and the answer is may be they are afraid of looking needy, looking foolish or looking stupid but mostly people are afraid of experiencing rejection which comes with the word ‘NO’.

What I realized is that when you fear to ask, you thinking the answer will be No, you are the one rejecting yourself before others do, or when you want to give an opinion and you think it will be rejected, you are the one rejecting it before others do.

This happens to us at work, home, in relationships, at school and even with our friends. I remember in class, I feared answering questions thinking my answer is wrong only for someone else to answer exactly they way I wanted to answer it and our teacher would say it is correct then all of us who did not answer would get some punishment for not participating in class.

Don’t always assume that you will get a No. Take the risk to ask for whatever you want and need. If they say No, you are no worse than when you started and if they say Yes, you are a lot better off.

It costs nothing to Ask, and you will loose nothing by asking whether the answer is a No or a Yes, learn to ask because if you keep quite you might loose the best life has for you like a promotion at work, salary raise, a time off, a date or even a friend.

Internation Day of the African Child 2008

In Soweto, South Africa, thousands of black school children took to the streets in 1976, in a march more than half a mile long, to protest the inferior quality of their education and to demand their right to be taught in their own language. Hundreds of young boys and girls were shot down; and in the two weeks of protest that followed, more than a hundred children were killed and more than a thousand injured.

To honour the memory of those killed and the courage of all those who marched, the Day of the African Child has been celebrated on 16 June every year since 1991, when it was first initiated by the Organization of African Unity. The Day also draws attention to the lives of African children today.

Through this we advocate for the rights of children within our communities to protect them from abuse, child labour, and make the rights known to each and every member in the community. We also advocate for the rights to Education.

Kimunya's day

Yesterday (12^th June 2008) was Kimunya’s day to either conquer or differ with the Common Mwananchi. This is the dreaded day that things begin to change financial, Common Mwananchi begin to adopt new standards of living due to some increase in the many products that they consume daily.

Common Mwananchi were glued to the various Tv stations trying to follow up with Mr. Minister to hear where the taxes have been imposed and where they have been deducted.

There were reduction on certain products such as bread, baking flour, rice and a few more others.

Considered that bread was now going for around Ksh.40, this was good news to Mwananchi, because most of them stopped eating bread but now they will reconsider it.

Then the Mp’s being taxed was also good news, but we want to see it in action, atleast they recognized how Mwananchi is suffering from the heavy taxation.

We must also acknowledge the fact that Kimunya did well by allocating one million shillings to each constituency to support sports, that was good news but the only worry is who are going to handle that money and how it will be distributed to benefit equally and fairly without corruption.

Mwananchi hopes to see more to come.