Oprah's Legend's Ball

I watched Oprah’s legendary Ball and I was in awe ,amazement, you name it and of course it was the talk of the day at work the next day and our Manager just spoke out our minds when he said that He laughed and he cried and he fellowshipped and he was inspired and empowered.On the last day which was Sunday when they had the church setting and started to sing,just the way they passed the microphone to one person after the other was very tastefully and perfectly done and I was extremely impressed when I found out that that part had not been rehearsed but a spur of the moment thing. For lackof a better word WOW! is the only word I can use to describe it coz I am at a loss of words. This was indeed a powerful experience and I was just a viewer so you can all imagine all the people who were present, It must have been an experience of a lifetime just to be around this powerful legends who had paved the way for all of us.

It was amazing, Incredible and everything imaginable. I call up to you black woman, let us join hands and let us live up to this legends who worked extremely hard just to make things easier for us, celebrate their strength and rejoice in their celebration that they changed the world in a phenomenal way, they made it brighter, they made it easier they made our voices heard and they made it possible for us to succeed. Mad power to all of them . Rosa Parks, we speak ur name, Coretta Scott king, Diana Rose, Aretha Franklin and all of you who made History in the making to make it better for the future. Thank you

I could not help but get even more excited when I saw Iman in the crowd, just for the fact that she went to school in Nairobi just makes me feel a little attached and to make matters better I also spotted Barrack Obama getting it down on the Dance floor at the Ball and you should have seen me smile like a proud mother only for the simple fact that he is or might be a Kenyan native, I can’t help but feel strong ties to the whole scenario and that he represented all of us.

I could Go on and on about this Ball but I may never come to an end so I will stop here. OOPS! I forgot about the poem OMG! This was a killer. I shed and shed until I could shed no more

Oprah is my Shero, and one day i will meet this PowerHouse! YES...i will indeed, just to get that billion dollar handshake, i would do just about anything to be in her presence.

Foreign Language

This is too interesting...............

A jungu toured Kenya and thought that he had known the local language (Swahili) . With him, was his wife and daughter, they felt thirsty and decided to flock in one of the local pub, having sat, he summons the waiter in Swahili and the waiter brings the drinks as ordered but fails to pour into their glasses, furious the jungu calls loudly for people to hear that he knows Swahili -He wanted to ask the waiter to pour for the wife first, then the kid and him last.

"Waiter ! kuja hapa tabia gani hii? tia bibi kwanza , tia mtoto halafu mimi nyuma' Haiya!!!

Those of you who like experimenting foreign languages. Always make sure you google the words first before speaking them.

yes! you you and you ! you know urselves Im not ruling myself out...i know I have misled a couple of curious non-Swahili speaking pple. I always tell them that to say hello in Swahili.....you say "matako kubwa" .
Dont look at me weirdly u know U've done it too and trust me it's fun... But the one that cracked me up was when I told my Boss "wacha upuzi" ..Meaning stop being stupid or something close to that.keep in mind that my boss is a female and u know what she thought I said?......................... "I want ur pussy" I was so embarrassed and I could not convince her otherwise. She still believes that is what it means, so we decided that would be scratched out of the syllabus. Now I have learnt to be very careful when teaching Swahili words, especially how the word sounds is very very important. I know u all have gone thru something like that.......Do tell.

"D's First Birthday"

Covered in cake and icing, Your smile stretched ear to ear.

A single candle celebrates, The joy of your first year.

We sing Happy Birthday, You play amidst wrap and bows.

We marvel at how you touched our lives, Just one year ago. I remember the first time I held you, Kissed your head, whispered your name. You are so precious, As a child you'll love this day, For all the sweets and presents too. Each year we'll add another candle, So proud to see you grow. But always with the memory, Of your first day long ago

Last weekend was interesting. A very good friend of mine hosted a celebration at the park to mark her baby's first birthday. Happy Birthday baby D. She was turning one year old.
The venue was at the park because the day was too beautiful to be cooped up indoors and there's something about the outdoors that just makes things look brighter, better, peaceful...Or is is just me? Or maybe I was in the house for too long.

Anyway it is true what they say that the baby's first baby is for the parents . Think about it....What does the baby know about birthdays...The only difference for the baby is ..There are many people and all of a sudden everyone wants to pick them up and play or make faces and make funny noises in the attempt that the baby will laugh....And I'm sure the baby is wondering....Where are u normally when mommy and daddy are tired and I still wonna play?..Why the attention today? Well I guess because its your special day and also because there is some goat meat to be eaten.....I don't believe I just said that but hey that was the best goat meat I have eaten in a long time. Props to the one responsible coz wow..It was juicy or is it succulent, soft, rich... I'm drooling right now even thinking about it.

To top that all we clutched onto our red plastic cups and sipped on our "cokes" or was it? Whatever it was , I was liking it and all of a sudden everyone seemed to look so nice and I was giggling at everything and nothing, whatever I was drinking was good stuff man. M and C were in the same state I was in if not worse and I pity S coz her coke was coke so u can imagine......Have you ever been the only sober person while everyone else is high? dont they look childish & ridiculous?......... it was so bad we were at a point of no return. We got to the point where if one of us pointed at the ceiling, for some reason it looked funny and we would all laugh so hard until our sides ached..Not that there was anything different with the ceiling today than it was yesterday..But today it looked funny. S could not believe we were behaving like this but to us we were oblivious as to how stupid we looked. As far as we were concerned we were having such a good time.

We then all stumbled to the bathroom in the name of going to "powder our noses".... And decided to call a friend/cousin of ours in d.c and I pity her eardrums as we all tried to talk together on that small microphone on the cell phone. Try to imagine three chile's all squashed up in the bathroom all the while trying to keep our balance and then trying to shout onto this small gadget to make sure that we can all be heard. Ofcourse she could not hear or understand anything we were saying coz it was a lot of nothing, but like I said..We were oblivious....We insisted on having this conversation of "four" people and did not care if she responded or not...It was a one sided conversation as we talked onto the microphone and then would laugh for about 5 minutes, get back and talk some more and did not give our friend the chance to contribute on this so called conversation and by this time she is wondering why we even bothered to call her in the first place coz we did not need her input. Sorry gal.......And also for the long message we left when you refused to pick up your phone when we called back after you rudely hung up on us in the middle of such an imprtant conversation btw 4 adults....... hehe...can't help but smile at that one..... no PUN intended.

After we "powdered our noses" we went to meet the rest of the gang at D&B and you should have seen us shamelessly raise our shot glasses in honor of BABY D....Yes indeed...To your 1st birthday. hic*

I Am My Mothers Daughter

You are my mother and my friend,Which is unusual.
Somehow our characters still blend:Your wisdom and my will.
I turned, and you were there for me;I spoke, you understood.
I felt cared for, but also free;You loved, and I was good.
I'm fortunate that I was bornTo someone just like you.
I love you .

Though you are miles away,

You live in what I do.

Mother's day is fast approaching and thinking about my mother brings a smile to my face because she is my rock. mom, thank you for being my friend,my confidante,my adviser,my everything.

i know we are seperated by distance and cannot see each other as much as we would like to but there is no single day that passes without me thinking about you and thinking how fortunate i am to have you for my mother. i look forward to our phone conversations because they keep me going and also because u never forget to remind me how much you love me.

I always think how it must have been for you. Being a single mom is not easy at all but you pulled it off perfectly. your love for me was so great, that i would even forget that my daddy was missing in my life. Yes i would miss him once in a while especially when kids were talking about their daddy's at school and i would instead talk about my super mom who was both my mommy and daddy too. ofcourse i looked forward to the few stolen moments i had with my daddy, but it was all so confusing for me as to why i could only see daddy once in many blue moons. my young tender mind could not understand it, so i just went along with the whole arrangment and would enjoy every minute i spent with him and would hold onto those memories for as long as they could last. Now i am older, i understand the picture more clearly and i believe everything happens for a reason and if things would have been different then i might not have been the person that i am today.

Not very many people have the kind of relationship that we share, ours is free,its pure,its full of love its one that only u and i understand and one that many daughters would want to have with their mothers. our bond gets stronger everyday and my love for u grows everyday. I love you mommy and i count myself very lucky because i am my mothers daughter.

Romance in the 21st Century.

Is it just me or have relationships gone tech on us? .....its funny how technology changes everything. Not too long ago relationships were about dinner and a movie and spending time together,or "courting"....i.e when a guy tries to seek affection from the lady in question by buying her gifts,eating out, or going out with her friends and sitting through long boring conversations in the name of " i love you babie" .

Is there courting anymore? Nowadays people get to know each other for 2 weeks and they think they'v known each other enough to get married. At this rate, very soon we are going to have drive-thru weddings......yes! im not kidding,...that will be interesting...u go in line , wait your turn and then say your vows and in five minutes u r married and on ur way to your honeymoon.Wow! that will be the day.

..And lets not forget that now everyone has a cell phone and everywhere u go u hear the so familiar beeps of "u've got mail" yes u just recieved a text from your so called "baibe" and a picture of him too. why? because he lives out of state. and who said distance is a problem when we have technology.... and the too many dating websites are not helping either. all i have to do is create a profile online, post my picture and bamm...i start getting messages from the guyz. Dating has now gotten to the point where, i can start dating at the click of a button...this is what we call "Relationships Extraordinaire"

I havent tried the phone dating myself but i know a couple of people who have and i'm amazed at how much time they are on the phone everyday in the name of dating or getting to know each other over the phone. Having phone chemistry is very different from ...im gonna call it..."face to face chemistry" . what if your chemistry over the phone is so plutonic that when u r away from the phone you feel like u r going to die or u r running out of "oxygen" coz u cant hear his so familiar sexy voice that makes your heart skip a bit or u just want him to talk and talk because the sound of his voice just makes chills run down ur spine.

then come the day you have to go to visit him and when you meet, u go speechless and not because u dont have something to say but because u r so used to interracting over the phone which is always easy to pull off and the face to face interraction is ofcourse something new at this point. when that happens, clearly u know that u'd rather be on the phone coz there is zero chemistry here. oh no! u go into a panic and u can already feel that uncomfortable silence that we all dread.....your palms start to sweat while u search ur hard drive for a suitable topic to start a conversation going.....and ofcouse over the phone this has never happened. infact over the phone u can't seem to stop talking, the conversation is so smooth and u always seem to have so much to say. what just happened here? what happened to the phone chemistry?...i guess its just "phone chemistry" and thats where it ends...so now u start thinking that ,oh my god! my return flight is not until monday and today is only friday. what to do?