Touchin the sky....

...was what OMARI West came to convince us to do last Sunday and so with little convincing, I found myself waiting in line at the stadium. The hip hop crowd was looking good and I daresay that it was one of the very very very very very few times I have found myself in the company of potentially good looking, taller then me male species in this city. Before you start scouting for those cheap tickets, I should probably clarify that a good number of them were foreigners..hehe gotcha!

So nyway on a scale of 1-10, I would give this show a 5.5.Induldge me....
The hotstuff
1)Using local talent a.k.a the violin playing chics was great I thought. Gave the chance to the hosts to shine.
2)Kanye's giving props to artists he has worked with and dropping tracks juicy tracks from them.
3)The dj he brought to the gig working those decs like his life depending on it. I'm not a fun of all the scratchin' scratchin' but when done well, it has a totally different effect.
4)The chance to see real life good looking lads, even though i'm doubtful if they are of legal age:(....It should also translate to 'this is not a common thing here' :)

The could have been better
1) Why did we have to wait so long before the show started?
2) They could have had more djs on site to warm up the crowd and get them in the mood. I missed the opening act, but I heard it was basically a fiasco...too many singers on stage = too many cooks in the kitchen
3) After all the waiting, the show would have gone on for longer..
4) Where was the matching band xteristic of Kanye's performances. That would sure have added some jazz.
5) The dark sun-glasses on throughout the night...soo not kool. Im HUGE on body language and unless we are outside in the blazin blazin sun, I see no reason why people a) wear sun glasses at night b) wear sunglasses at night indoors in a highly humid environment..SERIOUSLY! If I see your face, we connect...its just polite. Plus we waited all the while to see you...hmmm
6) What is it with folks who go to concerts and spend all night sitting down? Seriously? The tunes were droppin, some folks were sitting...This happened at other concerts Ive been to here so I have every reason to believe that the beef is with the people.

Oh well, that havin been said, Kanye West's Touch the sky concert..CHECK!
Aaaa, one last thing..he is called Omari! Sooooo sub saharan africa that name..

Billboard material no?

Sometimes that pin hole of a photo taker...read camera does come up with some pretty classic stuff. For example, this little tusker at the Kenyan coast
Darn good, if I should say so myself:)

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I thought I knew my toons....

..until I was involved in a conversation the other day. In my day, when we had one station (KBC) that started its transmissions at 5.00pm and if you switched on the tv any earlier, you got this annoying tiiiiiiiii sound and then as it got closer that turned into some random music e.t.c. e.t.c. Any Kenyan reading this will relate so I move on.

So the discussion starts between with a how kool Donald Duck was and his nephews Huwy, Luey and Duey were the koolest.Irene beb asks arent those guys called Kwik, Kwek and Kwak. Heheheh Jeff and I proceed to laugh all the way home at how ridiculous that sounds (well because in our worlds there was no indicator that there would be another name for the patitos).
In a bid to proove Irene wrong, I table the motion at the next dinner with a mix of nationals at the table and get the shock of my life. Not only are there other names for the duckies in other languages but most of them sound nothing like the original ...
American: Huey, Dewey and Louie
So go nuts, find yours:)!

Belgian (Flemish): Loekie, Joost en Viktor
Danish: Rip, Rap og Rup
German: Tick, Trick und Track
English: Huey or Huebert , Dewey or Deuteronomy , and Louie or Louis
Finnish: Tupu, Hupu ja Lupu
French: Riri, Fifi et Loulou
Icelandic: Ripp, Rapp og Rupp
Italian: Qui, Quo e Qua
Kroatian: Hinko, Dinko i Vinko
Malaysian: Hama, Bama i Sana
Norwegian: Ole, Dole og Doffen
Polish: Hyzio, Dyzio i Zyzio
Portugese: Huguinho, Zezinho e Luisinho
Russian: Billy, Villy i Dilly
Serbian: Raja, Gaja i Vlaja (cyr: Раја, Гаја и Влаја)
Slovenian: Pak, Žak in Mak
Slovakian:Hui, Dui, Lui
Spanish: Hugo, Paco y Luis
Czech: Bubík, Dulík a Kulík
Turkish: Cin, Can ve Cem
Indonesian: Kwik, Kwek dan Kwak --> Dutch colony, hence the resemblance
Swedish: Knatte, Fnatte och Tjatte

..and then we move on to the smurfs and I almost have mini-seizures at the names that go round the table.
Die Schlümpfe(German), Els Barrufets (Catalan),Hupikék Törpikék (Hongarian) and more Smurf talk ...arrrmmmh hello! talk about having to readjust the paradigm.

You grow up watching Walt Disney stuff and one day, you realise that you are not alone.There are others out there! Incredible!
Nacho has a similar posting ...good to know I'm not alone:) Support group anyone?

Goats are hotter than supermodels

Well thats at least what was going through the mind of this Maasai man's head while his arm was draped around a supermodel.

Probably one of the best pictures of the century if you ask me and a priceless story too!