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eucalyptus trees: something good

 sewer outlet                                                          channel to the ground                               eucalyptus trees

When everybody else is busy cutting and demolishing any Eucalyptus tree from their land, the Meru water and sewerage services company has been utilizing this allegedly dreaded water sucking species of flora.

Eucalyptus tree has been known for its unbelievable ability to take up water from the soil in higher capacity leading to depletion of amounts of moisture. 

Their underneath meshwork of roots explore distances in probe of moisture-often endangering the local plant community. This has led to cutting these trees around rivers and other sources of water.

Since 1974, the Meru water and sewerage services has been using this species of Eucalyptus globulos pseudoglobulus as it is known to botanists to drain effluence discharged from the sewage ponds. 

Explaining the reasons behind this method of effluence disposal, Mr. Stanley Mbae, the MEWASS general manager said that these trees have played a great part in ensuring that the waste is not directed to the water sources.

However, he said, the soil covered by the trees in the one acre portion of land where the waste is discharged to has now become laden with amounts of liquid waste which is higher than the rate of uptake. 

“We will soon devise a new method as the soil has now been concentrated with the effluence since the early years of colonialism.  The trees have played a crucial part in reduction of malaria where it would be impossible in terms of space and the growing population in Meru town. In chorus, they also take part gaseous exchange.” Says Mbae in his office.

According to Mustafa Omar, a worker whose duties are to patrol the sewage plant ensuring that all mechanisms are met, the Meru Sewerage plant is the most efficient in delivering and has least odor due to correct handling and manning of the plant.
He explains that after phagocetetive process takes place in presence of algae for 21 days, the toxic waste is discharged from the Maturation Pond through an underground meshwork of 24 metal pipes each 50 cm wide.

The interconnected pipes distribute effluence to the ground through holes punched on their surface at intervals where the roots absorb it.

I think it’s time we plant these trees near our latrines for those in rural areas to avoid building new latrines every time they are filled up.

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inspirational story

"Explain God".

"One of God's main jobs is making people. He makes them to replace the ones that die so there will be enough people to take care of things on earth. He doesn't make grown-ups, just babies. I think because they are smaller and easier to make. That way He doesn't have to take up His valuable time teaching them to talk and walk. He can just leave that to mothers and fathers.

"God's second most important job is listening to prayers. An awful lot of this goes on, since some people, like preachers and things, pray at times besides bedtime. God doesn't have time to listen to the radio or TV because of this. Because He hears everything, there must be a terrible lot of noise in His ears, unless He has thought of a way to turn it off. "God sees everything and hears everything and is everywhere which keeps Him pretty busy. So you shouldn't go wasting His time by going over your mom and dad's head asking for something they said you couldn't have.

"Atheists are people who don't believe in God. I don't think there are any in Chula Vista. At least there aren't any who come to our church.

"Jesus is God's Son. He used to do all the hard work like walking on water and performing miracles and trying to teach the people who didn't want to learn about God. They finally got tired of Him preaching to them and they crucified Him. But He was good and kind, like His Father and He told His Father that they didn't know what they were doing and to forgive them and God said O.K.

"His Dad (God) appreciated everything that He had done and all His hard work on earth so He told Him He didn't have to go out on the road anymore. He could stay in heaven. So He did. And now He helps His Dad out by listening to prayers and seeing things which are important for God to take care of and which ones He can take care of Himself without having to bother God. Like a secretary, only more important.

"You can pray anytime you want and they are sure to help you because they got it worked out so one of them is on duty all the time.

"You should always go to Church on Sunday because it makes God happy, and if there's anybody you want to make happy, it's God. Don't skip church to do something you think will be more fun like going to the beach. This is wrong. And besides the sun doesn't come out at the beach until noon anyway.

"If you don't believe in God, besides being an atheist, you will be very lonely, because your parents can't go everywhere with you, like to camp, but God can. It is good to know He's around you when you're scared in the dark or when you can't swim and you get thrown into real deep water by big kids.

"But you shouldn't just always think of what God can do for you. I figure God put me here and He can take me back anytime He pleases.

And that's why I believe in God.

the youth in KENYA: idea well recieved

the youth in KENYA: idea well recieved: its good you have come out with this strategy. ihope we shall unite and share our ideas.

Them Days in primary school( the letter of love)

                           (dedicated to all pupils and students in Rukuini)

Every time I rewind my mind when relaxed, I mostly revolve around my primary school life (you can call it elementary if you want). Full of adventures from going swimming during class hours, hardening head to a teacher (who one thought you can beat up despite our size) drawing toons and branding them someone's name and all kind of mischievousness. Maybe when you're reading here you remember something of sort. especially if you learnt in somehow reserved school.

I went through several schools, but the most memorable is Rukuini primary school in Burnt Forest area, Rift valley province Kenya. the life was uncontrolled there. Everybody did what they thought was right. We wrote letters to our girlfriends, using "haranguing" and "fabulasticaliously beatifulyer " which we thought wooed the girls at that moment. And miraculously they did love us. They too did the same and we loved them. All those days seemed not to end, and I really miss them.

Sometimes one person was talented in writing this letters which made people flood him with gifts of mahindi choma(roasted maize), ubuange(or kaboru. its fried maize flour) and mifefe (maize stalks which we believed were sugar-cane.). And not forgetting Jussy cola. If you remember this you must be laughing. If you're not you must be sick.

This, however happened to those in rural schools mostly. Like our Rukuini.

Recently i was going through my primary books as old as 10 years old and found five letters, two of which I had written to a girl and three belonging to a long lost friend. Letter writing is the part that intrigued me most. It is in Swahili and English and Kikuyu and Kikalenjin. This is what we called "Sheng"  which by that time we did not know because it was spokken in the Urbanite.

                                                    

TIP 

      TOP 

             IT TO:

                                    OPEN WITH A KEY

                                       AND A SMILE

VRUUUUUUU, PAPA, PAA!!     KUF-DEAD! NI~NDAKUA!!

Kwa Mpenzi Kuku Ndogo......

Kwaja ni salamu nyingi muno kama muchanga baharini. Mbili i want you to know umefendwa naimimi kama shai kwa kikombe ya kauro. I heart ache and headache is knowing your flabbergasting lovely eyes are not seeing me mara iyo iyo. I have no living and eating not very best these days without seeing you in the class when teasher is teashing and me i laugh for you and you laugh to me and teasher does not know what he smells a rat for our rove.

My sugarcane, i see you on water when i bath my face morning and naogopa..because i dont want to interfere beattifuler face of you. The harnguing part is me sing'amui wala kukamua mlimbo mlimbo because you dont want me to go kududuf in Ndunguru river and you.

I love you like sukuma wiki when i see you i shake like a chameleon of a feeble tree. 

I dont want to leave you alone when i go duduf. I will be bringing you Kaboru every day and jussy cora every afternoon till death do us part. 

bye bye My lovery dove in its gitara and in kiswahili i leave a proverb.:

CHALEBISHO NGAHEWA NA NGAWEHUZI HAWAKUFARAGANISHA MRIMBO MRIBO WARIPOKULI KUNTU KUNDULE KUWA UPEPO  HUFUATA FENDERA.

bye bey baibeee babe babes babby babs bibs

sinicerely

   hanton greywolf

I am laughing myself when i copy this letter from the paper. This letter earned me my first Girlfriend, Josephine. And I know she is viewing this post!!!

I told GOD: Let all my friends be healthy and happy forever...! 

GOD said: But for 4 days only....! 

I said: Yes, let them be a Spring Day, Summer Day, Autumn Day, and Winter Day. 

GOD said: 3 days.. 

I said: Yes, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.

GOD said: No, 2 days! 

I said: Yes, a Bright Day (Daytime) and Dark Day (Night-time). 

GOD said: No, just 1 day! 

I said: Yes! 

GOD asked: Which day? 

I said: Every Day in the living years of all my friends! 

GOD laughed, and said: You INDIANS know how to negotiate.

But since you are praying and asking happiness for your friends, I can't refuse. 
I love everyone who thinks of others first, so don't you worry...
All your friends will be healthy and happy Every Day! 

THE OFFICE KUNG-FU

Kung Fu can happen anywhere, kitchen, living room, toilet, and in school-mine found me in office. The manager was not in, and i could not resist the urge to perform my basic Fu skills. The Chi (the power in every person that need to be channeled through Kung Fu) was flowing into real life. It is just a basic Kung Fu Move. The sophisticated part of it cannot be shown here, not unless i am kicking some bad guy ass!!!!

WHEN THE SUN FAILS TO SET......

Sometimes back, a friend called and told me that he had won a green card, and that he was on the move of packing up his belongings.
I really questioned how the green card had been  processed quickly, leaving all other belonging to us. you see we had applied as a group out of fun. Nobody could stop Johnny from packing up; I even broke up with him because I refused to help him pack up, and hid some of his valuables: a woofer, DVD player, flat screen Sony HD TV, two cameras and objected owning up of a computer he had lent me.
It all  happened so quick and we wished our stubborn Johnny a good journey to wherever the hell his stinking green said he had been invited.
Listening to my heart, I knew that all was not well. This is Kenya, I told myself.
You see, Johnny was a maverick. He knew town life and rural life alike. he was a jack-of-all-trades on any issue, and he never lacked answers.
So, we missed our Johnny for a week. Before he came back.
Johnny had been conned a lot, even mentally as it was apparent from the looks.He was filthy and dirty,hungry, bent and gray and old.

Explaining his predicaments to the amused Us, he told us of how he had gone to show the card in JFKA airport, as the card directed. the authorities there had mistaken him for a psycho in clean clothes as that was not the protocol.
Some guys offered to help and that is how he met his fate. They were the bad guys.

So beware of those on-line offers, subscriptions and invitation.
OH, ad for Johnny to survive, he sold me all his valuables that he had left me. In fact I am using his computer, now mine to blog this post.!!!

Great news for all of us that hate drinking our 8 glasses of water a day

In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. coli) bacteria found in feces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of Poop.

However, we do NOT run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey or other liquor) because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.

Remember: Water = Poop, Wine = Health

Therefore, it's better to drink wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit.

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information: I'm doing it as a public service!

Filming in East Africa

East Africa has not been left out in the industry of filming. With its vast landscapes and wildlife sanctuaries in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, East Africa is being marketed worldwide as a filming site. Many films are being shot in the east African coast, on the mountains- Mount Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the Mt. Elgon. Sanctuaries and game parks dominate the Hollywood movie maker’s diaries yearly with several films being shot in Kenya and Northern Tanzania game parks.

In the recent years, Kenya and by extension, Africa has become a favorite location for Hollywood and Nigerian Nollywood movie makers to visit and shoot films. Numerous feature films, comedies and documentaries have been produced here. Some of these have won international acclaim. In the list are:
White Maasai ,The Constant Gardener, Tomb Raider, The Cradle of life, To walk with Lions, Nowhere in Africa, The Rise and Fall of Idi Amin, Sheena, Queen of jungle, Ode and Equator.

Some which have been partly shot in Kenya are:

Survivor, Mission Kilimanjaro for Canada and The Great Savannah Race for France.

“The Constant Gardener" was shot on a location at Loiyangalani, Turkana and Kibera in Nairobi, with scenes from Lake Magadi. It has won over 18 awards and 40 Nominations. Among the awards are 'the best supporting actress in the Golden Globe and Academy Awards of 2005 for -Rachel Weiss and Best Editing in the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. The director of this film-Fernando Meirelles lobbied to have it shot in Kenya than in South Africa as that was its first choice.

The producer of 2003 Oscar-award winner, "Nowhere in Africa", Mr. Peter Hermann, changed his mind and decided not to shoot it in south Africa then he came to Kenya for this film making after he saw "I Dreamed Africa" .This film was shot in northern Kenya in the Pokot land among the Pokot tribes people.

"Nowhere in Africa" was shot in Baringo, Bogoria and Mount Kenya. This film is ranked the best foreign film in 2003. It became the second flick shot in Kenya to win the coveted global awards, after "Out of Africa" bagged the best Picture category in 1985.

"Tomb Raider 2" which stars Angelina Jolie was partly filmed at Hells Gate National Park and Amboseli National Park, home of the African's largest elephant herds. It is here that Disney drew its inspiration for many of the scenes in the film" The Lion King”.

I ATTENDED KINORU BUT I WAS NOT HAPPY

I attended the peace prayer meeting in Kinoru stadium Meru, Kenya this Thursday just like any other person, but i was a journalist. 
The meeting was lively with several ministers and many MPs boarding the bus of PNU Alliance. The stadium was flooded with masses also waiting to fit in the bus. All through it was smooth from when Jirongo came in a copter and Sonko in his jeep--and his open shoes. Until the time of leaving. 
In the commotion that happen when the top guys are leaving (probably it is meant to confuse any person with ill motives not to know who has left in which car), i followed one of the disguised guests closely as he rushed into one of the tinted cars. I dont know if it was his or not, because moments later a guard threw him out of , in presence of the public, soiling his suit. 
Am not embittered by him being kicked out but the mode the guard followed. He did not have to be kicked out(i mean physical kick, the guard used his leg),and in the public.
 I thought it was a peace meeting. The guard should have told him out peacefully. 

Maybe that is what guards are taught to do. And i think they are also taught to wear uniforms. 

Besides, guards are trained to shield the top guys from the misbehaved public, not from fellow top guys.

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Interesting Fact about the Pope John Paul II death

Pope was living 85 years - sum of those numbers = 13 Pope died on 2.04.2005 - sum of those numbers = 13 Pope died at 21.37 - again - sum is equal.... 13 13...that's Maria's number - only that time Holy Mother was showing herself to 3 children in Fatima On 13th May 1981 - Pope was wounded and that time was saved by Holy Mother On 13th Pope went to the hospital for the first time. On 13th died the last child of three from Fatima to whom Holy Mother showed up. Pope died on 02.04.2005 at 21.37. Add all those numbers.... 2+4+2+5 = 13 2+1+3+7 = 13 13+13=26 26 years of pontificate......Coincidence? Or it had to be like this? In the end......he died in 13th week of the year...and when you multiply the time of his death 21 x 37...you will have 777 Pope was living exactly 31 thousands days...if you reverse figures...you will get 13 AGAIN!!!

they call them chokoraa

in meru

CONMEN IN MERU TOWN

Back in Eldoret, I have met so many con-men until I knew the difference between a conman and a person in distress. See, they are the kind of people who come to you asking for help of direction to clinic, hotel, school, and stadium (which are non-existing anyway) or even a lost item….they can make up anything as they are very creative. You will to help them, and maybe you go private away from the public-and the same way you give all valuables at the sight of that shiny dagger ready to burrow into your body. I came to know them well when I lost a phone and some cash. They just came as they come if you are familiar with them (and if you are not wait till you meet one). I met one of them stranded in the rush hour traffic and he started begging me to direct him to the main-stage so that he’d catch a non existing bus which I had never heard of before. I chatted with the man who seemed updated in the current affairs and he told me how he runs in one of the real estate developing company, how he is tired of his position as the assistant manager and so on. Just when we were about to turn a corner, a woman caught up with us and immediately ‘recognized’ the real estate developer. I was convinced. Then a dagger showed up and my phone was gone. I realized later that some shs2, 000 in my pocket was gone too. They follow you in a dog-master relationship then you meet your fate. Eldoret is such a place. And I hear Nairobi is the worst. All over Kenya there are conmen. However, in my stay in Meru I haven’t encountered or even hear of these people yet. As a matter of fact I have only heard of a burglary case only once. Someone tells me there are no burglars in Meru. Maybe I was wrong though. Today as I was walking with my fellow journalist alongside Orange house on Meru-Makutano road, I cross to the other side of the road, leaving him behind. So I had to wait for him. But before he could cross, a man called him. They talked for a while, pointing at one direction sometimes. It was obvious the man was asking for direction. I crossed the road again and neared them; maybe there was some ‘exclusive news item’ to happen. We are always hungry for news. First sight and I recognized the con. This time he was a young man who is an orphans and vulnerable children caretaker who had come for a meeting in Meru and now he did not know where Nanak clinic was. I waited for him to go on with his story of how they help orphans, how he has even been on K24 TV every Saturday and even asked if we have ever seen him. He told us to ask somebody the Nanak clinic for him. Just in time, he called two passersby who came without hesitation. They appeared innocent. After listening to the man’s story, one of them lit up and asked. “Are you the man who comes to K24 on Saturdays? Your face looks familiar”. The man laughed and congratulated us heartily. He called himself John Uche. We knew each other’s names, and I concealed mine to my pal’s surprise. Well, the story went on to an extent of exchanging telephone numbers which he suggested we do it in private. I told my pal that we had a deadline to beat, so we had to go. I knew if we had gone to the private we’d lose our cameras. That is Meru. If you meet such people, be quick in thinking. I tell you, that other con who asked if the first con was a K24 guest didn’t look like he had a TV back at home, if he has a home at all. So look for clues, mode of dressing, talking or any unusual behavior, the names (confirm every 5 minutes) and the exciting coincidences that are bound to make you believe they are genuine. Later in the evening, we found the three smoking and chewing Miraa where we had left them. Maybe they had found a prey.

I WAS LIVING HERE

THIS IS A PIECE OF MY BOOK: TENT BOY TENT LIFE

"The “Operation Rudi Nyumbani” was taking course as the lorries popularly known as Tugogo wound their way on the dusty path leading to the strategically located tent areas. Everyone in the Burnt Forest Town tents was busy tying their baggage and luggage preparing to go back to their niche. My most profound pleasure was being given free lifts to the areas I had just been visiting like Rurigi,Kamuyu, Kondoo Center and Bindura. Surprisingly, the tent school we were in closed with immediate effect from Eight a.m. Monday in the first week of June. Ever heard of a school closing at this time of year (except the striking schools)? Well, that was our custom. What you hear being called a school was just big tents, without doors . No teachers no books and nothing. Only tents that could be mistaken for conference halls. And this wasn't healthy for a Form three student like me. But that was how things were. We had already switched to this kind of life since we were flushed out of our homes in 2007. this year when mentioned sends jitters even to small children who witnessed the work done by the arsonists. They are the reason behind us living in tents and not our houses. The ultimate reason why we were suffering.................."

Standard tuning

I FOUND THIS ON WIKIPEDIA AND I THINK IT CAN BE USEFUL Helmholtz notation Note: This article uses Helmholtz pitch notation to define guitar tunings. v · d · e Standard tuning (listen) Notes in standard tuning. Making a standard tuning using overtones Standard tuning is by far the most popular tuning on a 6-string guitar. It consists of the following notes. String Note Frequency Scientific pitch notation 1 (Highest) e' 329.63 Hz E4 2 b 246.94 Hz B3 3 g 196.00 Hz G3 4 d 146.83 Hz D3 5 A 110.00 Hz A2 6 (Lowest) E 82.41 Hz E2 The pitches referred to above are referenced standard pitch (a' = 440.0 Hz.). In some regions of Europe, especially Germany, Serbia and Poland, and in Russia and Ukraine, where classical musicians use the German system, the B natural is indicated with the letter H: in music notation, H is B♮ (B natural) and B is B♭ (B flat). The guitar, as conventionally fretted, is an equal tempered instrument. The guitar is a transposing instrument. In the case of the guitar, its actual pitches sound one octave lower than notated. Letter names in table reflect pitch in Helmholtz pitch notation. This pattern can also be denoted as E-A-d-g-b-e'. (See note for an explanation of the various symbols used in the above table and elsewhere in this article.) Standard tuning has evolved to provide a good compromise between simple fingering for many chords and the ability to play common scales with minimal left hand movement. The separation of the first (e') and second (b) string, as well as the separation between the third (g), fourth (d), fifth (A), and sixth (E) strings by a five-semitone interval (a perfect fourth) allows notes of the chromatic scale to be played with each of the four fingers of the left hand controlling one of the first four frets (index finger on fret 1, little finger on fret 4, etc.). It also yields a symmetry and intelligibility to fingering patterns. The separation of the second (b), and third (g) string is by a four-semitone interval (a major third). Though this breaks the fingering pattern of the chromatic scale and thus the symmetry, it eases the playing of some often-used chords and scales, and it provides more diversity in fingering possibilities. I open 1st fret (index) 2nd fret (middle) 3rd fret (ring) 4th fret (little) 1st string e' f' f♯' g' a♭' 2nd string b c' c♯' d' e♭' 3rd string g a♭ a b♭ ... 4th string d e♭ e f f♯ 5th string A B♭ B c c♯ 6th string E F F♯ G A♭ Chromatic note progression It is important to note that the relative harmonic ratio (e.g. semitones-steps) between neighboring strings, does not change when moving up the frets. For example when considering the 1st and 2nd strings: e' to b (open strings) is like f' to c' (1st fret) is like f♯' to c♯' (2nd fret) etc. The chromatic (equal tempered) musical scale and the natural musical scale have note pitches that are in some instances similar. The natural musical scale uses natural harmonic pitches. For example, the A note has harmonics pitches for the D and E notes. The guitar fretboard can approximately accommodate to tuning to the chromatic or natural musical scale by adjusting the intonation by a little. Intonation is tuning of the fret notes to other fret notes of one string so that most of the fretboard note pitches are tuned to the pitches of the musical scale. Intonation tuning is done by adjusting the string lengths at the bridge. The open string note of a particular string is kept constant so that when adjusting the string length, most of the fretboard pitches are closely matched to the pitches of the musical scale for this string. Tune the open string by adjusting the string tension at the tuning gear using a decent electronic tuner for tuning. Then check the intonation tuning of the fifth, seventh, ninth, twelfth, sixteenth and nineteenth fret note pitches of this string by ear using an electronic chromatic pitch pipe that comes with the above tuner. If these pitches are too high, move the bridge saddle back (away from fretboard) from about 0.5 to about 9 millimetres for the sixth string for a 0.65 metre scale length. If these fret note pitches are too low, then move the bridge saddle forward a little instead. Next tune intonation of other strings each in same way.