Month: January 2014

Several things make up a good partying joint. Great music is a basic standard, and cool ambiance is what everyone expects, in this two regards club spree is in the trend setters league.

It however goes past the basics to providing a wide range of music from old school hip hop to live music bands. These is accompanied by live video mixes in club sessions. There are display screens at every angle you cannot miss the action.

There are great prices and the atmosphere is worth it, here is a peek at the club located on Moi Avenue.

Join the mtaa competitions, a one of a kind competition different from all the usual workshops, youth group, activities and NGO’s that we are used to.

The challenge is about promoting local solutions to local challenges through a two-month competition — the brainchild of Juliani — to find out which is the most organized, informed, relevant, creative mtaa in Nairobi.

Wakilisha mtaa yako. What makes your hood unique, and what does it have going for it? Do you want it to get even better? The challenge asks, which mtaa is the most informed, happening, relevant, creative, and organized?

Create opportunities for yourself and your community. Invest yourself, work hard, and you’ll see the results. Get started simply by joining the challenge, no prerequisites expected.

All youth in Nairobi are invited to join in the competition. All you have to do is sign up at mtaatour.com or by SMS 20540 (with name and route #)

This Saturday, Sarakasi Trust’s Dance For Youth With Special Needs makes a return. It is a show providing full entertainment to everyone but targeting the everyone with special needs. if you ever wanted to provide your loved with a treat, this is it.

The show will be on from 2pm to 5pm courtesy of Sarakasi Trust and Special Education Professionals. Sarakasi Dancers and All Star Djs will perform during the event.

Entry is FREE

Bring your friend,sister,brother,cousin,auntie,your child!! Everyone with special needs this the ultimate party for you!! Come have great  fun! Disability is NOT inability!!

Here is an adventure with a reward at the end. Get to the BJs Electronic store located along Adams Arcade spot the treasure, take a photo and voila, you get a shopping voucher worth 10K. How hard is that?

The treasure is a wrapped box yellow in color. You take the photo and send it to Bjs. If you are the 20th person you get to win a voucher worth 10K.

Bjs is currently giving out amazing offers on all kinds of electronic goods. Here is a lucky client receiving one of the several gifts on offer.

Nax mingle 2nd edition will be off the hook! This year’s event is set to be much bigger in terms of activities and entertainment wise.

Jaguar will be performing live alongside the best dj in Nakuru dj lean from hero radio and other well known djs from hero radio 99.0 fm. The event is organized by Hero radio which is the biggest radio station in the rift valley according to the recent research. The event will be held on 15 Feb 2015 at section 58. Just 1 km from Nakuru town along Nakuru- Nairobi highway

Created in March 2006, online social networking and microblogging service, Twitter, is one of the ten most-visited websites, and has even been described as “the SMS of the Internet.” In fact, according to a study conducted in the US in October 2013, Twitter has overtaken Facebook as the most popular social network.

Locally, Kenyans haven’t been left behind. Popularly known as KOT (Kenyans on Twitter), they are the second most active on Twitter in Africa after South Africans according to Portland Communications and Tweetminster research. Do I need to justify why KOT always win tweefs against other countries?

Anyhow, have you ever asked yourself who was the first Kenyan to join Twitter? Well, wonder no more, we’ve unearthed the tweep who created the first Twitter account in Kenya, thanks to followerwonk.

Ladies and gentlemen, give it up to Tirus Gathere Njuguna (@tirusnjuguna)

Tirus Njuguna

Tirus joined Twitter on 10 April 2007, more than a year after Twitter’s creation, thereafter, he next tweeted a whole year later on 6 April 2008!

Despite being the first on Twitter in Kenya, the blogger is surprisingly not a ‘bigwig’ as he commands a paltry 114 guys and following another 79.

Tirus runs bluef15h creel, whose ‘about’ reads “This blog is mean’t to be a digital archive or journal of my mental thoughts, sightings, inspiration, work and what is happening around kenya.. As time passes on, it will also become a host for my travelling journal.. so happy reading..”

Despite being the first KOT, Tirus isn’t active as he last tweeted in November 2013.

Now you know…

Photo props: Tirus Njuguna

Heartstrings Entertainment opens this year with a hilarious comedy

“Husband For Breakfast” is an unbelievably 3-hander hilarious comedy which brings together well-rated and respected stars. Two stars of the much acclaimed movie Nairobi Half Life Anthony Ndung’u and Olwenya are back again sandwiching the fast ever-rising female actress Aimee Ongeso who was a host on CHANNEL O.

The top theatre guru Sammy Mwangi will be taking this star-studded cast of three through what has already been touted and fanatically described as the comedy of 2014 that will re-define comedy as we know it.

Synopsis

This rib-shattering comedy puts philanderers on notice. It will show that beauty is not in the eyes of the beholder and that beauty can only take someone to one place only, nowhere. A thief storms a house to find an extremely beautiful woman (a self-acclaimed socialite) and what follows is the battle between beauty and brains. For the first time beauty and brains will coexist. The question is who will be the custodian of both, the burglar or the socialite. Hilariously, the audience will be treated to uncontrollable levels of laughter when in comes her husband: a self-proclaimed but failed socialite. This is anon-miss!

At only Ksh. 500, come watch this comedy from 28th Jan to 2nd Feb at Alliance Francaise. Timings are 6:30pm on weekdays and 3&6:30 pm on weekends.

Call 0722/37 745541 for more information or you can buy your ticket through Paybill No. 74722

Strut It Afrika will tomorrow, Saturday 25th January 2014, hold its inaugural continental audition at Secrets Lounge from 10.00am – 4.00pm in search of Kenya’s premium models.

The audition will kick –start the journey to Strut It Afrika Fashion Week (SIAFW) 2014, which will this year be the culmination of a month long S.I.A festival.

With two auditions in Kenya (Nairobi, Mombasa), the team will then head to Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Burundi, South Africa, and Rwanda.

• When: Saturday 25th January 2014
• What: Strut It Afrika Inaugural Continental Audition
• Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm
• Where: Secret’s Lounge

You need to watch this hilarious ‘adult comedy’ this weekend.

“1 Man has 3 fiancees whom he has separately promised to marry when a blackmailing prostitute appears with demands of her own! His very cheeky Nigerian houseboy adds to the confusion but it is his alcoholic friend from the village who literally brings the house down in a madly hilarious show not to be missed!”

Do you have your ticket? Rush now before you miss out…TEMPTATIONS @ Alliance Francaise 24-26 January, the show that will thrill you beyond words…Guaranteed.

Call or pay via Mpesa 0726524124 for your ticket now

Bangaiza is an online social networking service.  It was founded in January 2014 by Bernsoft as a way to connect Kenyans and network while having fun whether at home, work or out at the club .

Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, and receive automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as “People From Work” or “Close Friends”.

For more information, vist;  www.bernsoft.com/bangaiza

Tired at staring at sexy legs at home or at Uni? Get a paying internship today and take her out 

For the last three months, over 30 students and youth are now studying as they work courtesy of us. We look for internship positions and jobs that require no experience from NGO’s, parastatals, multinationals and other leading firms and alert you. They are exclusive, real and suited for the youth.  

SMS the word JOB to 22929 and we will deliver those vacancies right in your mobile phone!

The answer is none.

I’m joking but the real answer is still as scary. I was going over some newsfeeds I received from a leading media house’s digital branch and found that the writer was concentrating on garbage information about Mututho flossing his car. leave such garbage to upstart bloggers.

Let me tell you that the real news was embedded so deep withing the release that I had to scour over it with a fine tooth comb after gagging on the useless post about Mututho’s car.

In passing, it was mentioned that Kenya is indeed a party haven! People love their drink and they don’t do it small when it comes to having fun. There are well over 500 alcoholic brands in Kenya that the government are aware of.

But according to Honourable John Mututho, of the 500 alcoholic brands that are in existence, only 24 have passed government safety tests. Now please look at what is in your cup. Carefully. And have another.

No, I am joking. Ghafla is working at getting the full list of the drinks that passed safety tests.

Source: Standard Digital News

Here is a perfect way to make your weekend celebrations worthwhile. Disco for Youth with Special Needs is BACK!!! Yes next Saturday on 25th January everyone with special needs, friends, family and general public are invited for this ultimate party.

It will be held at the Sarakasi Dome Ngara.

The event is organized by Special Education Professionals and Sarakasi Trust. It will go on from 2pm to 5pm and will feature All Star Djs.

Entry is Free.

The Mtaa Challenge Season 2 on after being launched officially last Saturday at the creative space Pawa 254. It comes after a highly succesful season one and has received wide attention. However, what is it about and  why should you pay attention about it?

MTAA CHALLENGE is a Kama Si Sisi initiative, organized by Juliani. It seeks to connect individuals from the same mtaa, bring them together discuss common issues affecting them, and find creative, relevant and sustainable solutions that will leave their mtaas better.

The challenge is about promoting local solutions to local challenges through a two-month competition — the brainchild of Juliani — to find out which is the most organized, informed, relevant, creative mtaa in Nairobi. It promotes people power possibilities, like Voters vs Vultures says. Here you meet like-minded people and get organized in your neighborhood, and see what you can do to create serious change in your community and country.

Mtaa Challenge is an initiative of Kama Si Sisi, a one-of-a-kind attitude change campaign for Kenyan youth led by Juliani. It targets, empowers and enlightens young people to be responsible and accountable to themselves and their community. It encourages youth to work towards the positive improvement of their surroundings, politically, economically, and socially, “taking care of yourself by taking care of others.”

What are you waiting for? Who’s going to come and fix things? Create opportunities for yourself and your community. Invest yourself, work hard, and you’ll see the results. Get started simply by joining the challenge.
All you have to do is sign up at www.mtaatour.com  or by SMS 20540 (with name and route #)

Come beat your January blues tonight at Club Spree, with Dj_Slakerz and deejaytouchdown.

Get shots as low as 100/=, Beers at 170/= and shisha at 500/=!

Entry is absolutely free.

This is where you need to be tonight. Club Spree is conveniently located in town at Moi Avenue opposite Sanford

There is this photo that has been making rounds on the internet; it’s a picture of Russian Socialite and Editor-in-Chief of Garage magazine, Dasha Zhukova, sitting on a black Bondage Chair.

The black bondage chair is made from a mannequin of a black woman on her back and legs in the air. The chair was designed by Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard and was inspired by an earlier 1969 piece by British artist Allen Jones.Allen back in 1969 created a couple of sculptures, a table chair and a hat-stand that incorporated mannequins of white women in a submissive position scantily dressed in leather.

Understandably this sparked fiery protest form women who felt that it objectified women, turning them into nothing more than a piece of furniture, something on which men could sit on or put their cups on.

About fifty years later, another artiste decides to add fuel on wild fire and make not one but many of such nasty obscene furniture and included black women mannequins. The artist asserts ‘Woman as An Armchair’ was actually a protest against sexism and was not meant to offend anyone. But this chair is driving people berserk especially black people and feminist but mostly black feminists especially due to the fact that it’s a Caucasian woman sitting on a naked ” African woman”

Dasha Zhukova who is also the girlfriend Roman Abramovich (the owner of Chelsea’s football club) has received quite the backlash for this chair especially due to the fact that it appeared online on Martin Luther King Day. She has faced accusations of racism and has been forced to apologize after the internets threw hissy fit over it. This is what she said ‘This photograph, which has been published completely out of context, is of an art work intended specifically as a commentary on gender and racial politics. I utterly abhor racism, and would like to apologize to anyone who has been offended by this image.”

If we are looking for offensive, I think this furniture is utterly and completely offensive to women everywhere regardless of whether you are black or white. Its offensive in that once again, women are turned into a mere piece of furniture, its offensive because these women are scantily dressed, its offensive because the chairs are specifically labeled as black or white. Its offensive when a Caucasian thinks it’s okay to pose on a “black woman” after the years Africans have had to deal with slavery, racism and colonialism. Its offensive because the Mau Mau had to bust their asses in the jungle, braving the cold nights and the gunfire and dying in order to free us from British colonialism.

This photo spits in the face of women like Wangari Matahi ,Mekatilili,Rosa Parks who fought to get us freedom . It’s distasteful to women like Lupita and Oprah who have worked their butts off to get recognize in Hollywood,an industry who i hear has a racist underbelly.

This photo would still be offensive if it was a black woman sitting on a “white woman”. This photo is offensive in so many levels and what’s with the bondage? There are many ways to portray sexism through art; it does not have to be through bonded scantily dressed women.

What do you guys think? Is this photo extremely offensive or are people over reacting?

While majority of women drool over 6 pack abs and chiseled shoulders, most men keep their eyes on either boobs or butts. Men are visual creatures, and it’s no surprise they’re attracted to some parts of the female body more than others. This was witnessed recently when bootyful vixen and model, Risper Faith made an appearance on Comedy Central KE.

Risper’s presence at the show’s posters seems to have attracted a huge audience that without a doubt enjoyed every moment of the show. The event saw the Louis Leaky auditorium at National Museum packed as Kenyans turned up for Comedy Central KE’s first recording.

However, Risper’s moment on stage aroused the audience’s interest as other openly drooled at the MKU student’s well-endowed backside. Even the Chairman of the Board of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund, Gor Semelang’o couldn’t resist the urge to check out the curvaceous Risper.

Photos: Courtesy

Trust Kenyans to always come up with ways of outwitting the Government’s decree. Shortly after the re-introduction of alcoblow gadgets on Nairobi roads, Nairobians took to social media (their citadel) and set up pages with one aim; “Assist evade alcoblow”.

In fact one of the pages descriptions reads, “Yenyewe 500K fine is a lot of cash, lets help each other avoid the alcoblow by posting on this page where the alcoblow checks are. Then we can avoid using those roads”, and just like that the page started operations.

However, it would be long before the page comes under the Police radar.

Earlier this week, Traffic Commandant, Samuel Kimaru, read the riot act warning the admins of the pages declaring, “We are monitoring the pages. We are also redeploying the police to different locations after a few minutes to avoid this,” reports Nairobi News.

He went ahead to identify the targeted Facebook pages as ‘Alcoblow Watch’ and ‘Alcoblow updates’ and added that the perpetrators are helping drunk motorists circumvent the law.

However, the directive seemed not to perturb the pages’ fans as one said, “Its perfectly legal to post your observations on social media or on any other forum this is not a police state as much as the police would like it to be one.” Another adding, “how illegal is it to caution law abiding citizen of where they can be safe. i believe its in order to tell the public where our boys are situated so that they can get help asap. i guess now they’ll be coming to houses where cars are packed and demand we blow the gadgets.”

Another one urged the admin on;

“Admin, kaa ngumu, there is nothing the buggers aka police can do becoz FB CANNOTAND I REPEAT CANNOT SHARE user info. They are just making noise, kibunja tried it and he hit a brickwall once he realized that FB will not help him by revealing user info. There is NOTHING police can do. NOTHING. Keep the page up and lets recruit 20,000 other kenyans till these silly police arrest the real thugs roaming our estates and leave innocent kenyans who want to enjoy their hard earned money.”

The youth engagement platform is on for this week’s session. Machel Waikenda has major plans for the youth, so today’s discussion is unmissable.

Today #askwaikenda in on youth, unemployment, youth fund and the way forward.The essence is to discuss the issues creating the unemployment, the aspect of policy formulation, suggestion on solving it, how youth fund can be used to help deal with this and self empowerment.

The forum is a weekly engagement run by #AskWaikenda mentors for the youth on key issues affecting their lives and livelihood. The engagement takes place every Thursday on Twitter between 12.00 and 6.00 p.m.
The facilitator of the forum, political strategist Machel Waikenda is now the Kiambu Youth and Sports executive member. He wants to use the position to ensure he delivers on his promise to connect all youth across the country through training, networks and pushing for opportunities especially when it comes to tenders.