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Punda Mlia
#211 Posted : Monday, August 12, 2013 4:00:48 AM
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poundfoolish wrote:
We all tell off our brothers and sisters abroad about. their twengin n hubris..

Why is it that when we are also told the truth we react as if we are the most beautiful creatures on earth?
We would love a place in the big boys table, brag and say how we are making it.. and demand our accolades.. but when its time to asses the facts on the ground.. Nairobi is similar if not worse to that districct in the US,someone mentioned here..where half the pop dont have running water or elec... and heck.. this is our effing capital.. not a district in a far off state..

Just because 1% of us get to work for multinationals, seating in boardrooms. charming western innvestors with our powerpoints n being parted on the back as ti how good or better than contemporaries in the Beijinf/newyork office. Then get to meet your fellow 1% at Psys doesnt make us as good as Oslo? Or Pal Alto.. whether its a foreigner telling us so, one of us.. or one of us from abroad...
Get off the high horses.. effing 80% of Kenyans.. given a chance.. would scatter from this counntry to go hustle anywhere else in Europe US or China..
and ooh.. by the way.. whatever they pump at their EMEA Markets... the money taking us to psys...business class flights... be it Helios money in Equity, Googles Sub sahara office.. Huaweis the IBM's.. thats pocket change to most of these firms back home..
Their pocket change has decked our middle class...

So lets stop yapping of how great we are doing and acknowledge we are just doing greater than our neighbours.. who are.. failed states..

I never read Makau mutua.. but hes captured it as it is...
A chronic case of megalomania... We are only great in East Africa.. land of wars and faminne.. out there we are just that... another one of those countries in Africa..
Untill we accept n change... just face it we are a proud 1%.. feeling nice!!!


Seems we made a mistake telling our fellow village mates that they married an average girl whose beauty, behaviour & character can only be measured/compared within the village. Since they are happily married, I chose to let them be. They are ok feeding on burnt food, lacklustre strokes, kunyoroshwa daily na bibi etc. They hold their heads high and say 'this is my wife, kwanza hanichapi sana kama yule wa Njoro'. Commendable. They only problem is that they are dragging the whole village behind. Hatuhami hii kijiji until retrogressive behaviours are eradicated. Kama you guys can manage the insecurity well, kuna village neighbour inaitwa Somalia accepting Ninjas.

This has nothing to do with diaspora or drawing comparisons. Kenyans are demanding basic services as taxpayers. Let's swallow our pride.

NB: I'm middle class but since I crossed the border the other day, I'm yet to make friends with that class and I find myself frequenting low class pubs and events. That is where I belong - MASHINANI.
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Siringi
#212 Posted : Monday, August 12, 2013 6:49:19 AM
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Watu nguyaz iko chida lets cut akina @kiask,@poundfollish @pundamlia etc some slack. Tufanye harambee tutume Dr. Frank Njenga nakadhalika kushughulikia shida majuu otherwise vijana wanadead. Let us avert the many harambees for funerals. And receiving our loved ones in body bags.
Reading some of their comments nahofia it could be a manifestation of stress. Rink hapo chini.

KENYANS IN AMERICA HAVE THE HIGHEST STRESS-RELATED DEATHS COMPARED TO OTHER IMMIGRANTS


Some diasporans discussing here!

waweke kwa maombi. Peace.
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mkeiyd
#213 Posted : Monday, August 12, 2013 9:42:27 AM
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Going through a bit of this thread shows why we are the way we are and where we are. Picking some poor district in the US and justifying our poverty ni UJINGA. I guess when our president doesn't visit US,majority of the middle class Americans discuss that in their social fora.

In short, @Kiash raised valid points,only in a wrong way.

Poverty,corruption,garbage everywhere,bad roads,pathetic public service etc are NOT the NORM. We need to change that.

Let's demand quality and deliver quality ourselves.

In the mean time @Kiash, find a way of making some improvement.
Afterall, this is our motherland. We should all love her and make her better not worse.
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masukuma
#214 Posted : Monday, August 12, 2013 9:47:12 AM
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mkeiyd wrote:
Going through a bit of this thread shows why we are the way we are and where we are. Picking some poor district in the US and justifying our poverty ni UJINGA. I guess when our president doesn't visit US,majority of the middle class Americans discuss that in their social fora.

In short, @Kiash raised valid points,only in a wrong way.

Poverty,corruption,garbage everywhere,bad roads,pathetic public service etc are NOT the NORM. We need to change that.

Let's demand quality and deliver quality ourselves.

In the mean time @Kiash, find a way of making some improvement.
Afterall, this is our motherland. We should all love her and make her better not worse.

haya meza wembe... we are what we are. if you don't like it - go fly a kite!
All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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ZZE123
#215 Posted : Monday, August 12, 2013 9:49:19 AM
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@kiash - since you hate Kenya and everything about Kenya so much what are you doing on a Kenyan blog???Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you
The man who marries a beautiful woman, and the farmer who grows corn by the roadside have the same problem
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masukuma
#216 Posted : Monday, August 12, 2013 9:52:20 AM
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I am wondering about just what the purpose of this thread is. Kicking yourself and insulting yourself? what is the purpose of this thread?
All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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McReggae
#217 Posted : Monday, August 12, 2013 9:55:18 AM
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ZZE123 wrote:
@kiash - since you hate Kenya and everything about Kenya so much what are you doing on a Kenyan blog???Shame on you Shame on you Shame on you


Signs of LOSERS.....can't keep up where they are and expect us juku nyumbani to venerate them !!!....they should export their clans to the US if they can and just let us be!!!!
..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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poundfoolish
#218 Posted : Monday, August 12, 2013 10:17:00 AM
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What were Diaspora remittances back to their motherland again?


How much did we spend importing petroleum to fuel imported second hand cars? How much did we spend on imported liquor? and cheap Chinese products?
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McReggae
#219 Posted : Monday, August 12, 2013 10:31:23 AM
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poundfoolish wrote:

What were Diaspora remittances back to their motherland again?


How much did we spend importing petroleum to fuel imported second hand cars? How much did we spend on imported liquor? and cheap Chinese products?



Those who remit don't yAP around about it.....hawa ni masaffurers........simply venting out their frustrations!!!
..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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poundfoolish
#220 Posted : Monday, August 12, 2013 10:37:05 AM
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masukuma wrote:
I am wondering about just what the purpose of this thread is. Kicking yourself and insulting yourself? what is the purpose of this thread?


You actually don't know?

Let's just say in any other name it would have been called 'Killing the messenger'
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