tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-194187662024-03-07T06:32:19.307+01:00The.HanyeéThe.Hanyeéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03039189155809607681noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19418766.post-1154005920286062262006-07-27T15:04:00.000+02:002006-07-27T15:29:44.793+02:00Oh No They Didn't !!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/rockybalboa.html" target="blank"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.blueicetech.net/afrikananuts/images/rockybalboa.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">I will step in and rant about this before either <a href="http://ciikuandhermess.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Movie Buff</a> or <a href="http://nichgich.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Couch 'Tato</a> do:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><b>Rocky Balboa aka Rocky 6?</b> Why oh why did this movie have to happen? I was going to go off on a long, vicious blog tirade about this - but I just have no energy to spare today.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Bullet points?</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">- I think Sylvester Stallone's bank account finally fikad a point where he inserted his ATM card to withdraw chumz and: <br />(1) The ATM shredded his card instantly<br />(2) The ATM asked HIM for money<br />(3) The ATM returned one of those slips with the message "Wacha Mchezo Naniiii!"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">- That speech impediment is finally killing off the rest of his thinking capacity<br />....</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Seriously, this will probably end up being as washed-out a movie as, say, anything after Police Academy 5. This kind of creativity rot and lack of imagination makes me want to eat my teeth!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Don't get me wrong..I loved the "Rocky" series, with Rocky 3 being my absolute favourite. Now this edition will tarnish a classic series of movies into some has-been garbage bin of DVDs that will be quickly forgotten.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I was gonna put the storyline in here but it generates to nadirs of retardation that I dare not dance with. But <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479143/plotsummary" target="_blank">check it out here </a>nevertheless.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Can't think of what needs to be done in Stallone in retribution. Maybe get him to peddle <a href="http://www.matismusic.com/" target="_blank">Matisyahu CDs</a> in downtown Beirut...yeah, that should do the trick!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:86%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Currently Listening to:</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The Fray - How to Save a Life</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Khadja Nin - Mama Lusiya</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Ne-Yo - Sexy Love</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Jua Cali - Bidii Yangu</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Shadz O'Blak (Remember them?) - Serengeti Groove</span></span><br /></span>The.Hanyeéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03039189155809607681noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19418766.post-1153404789420565082006-07-20T16:03:00.000+02:002006-07-27T14:43:32.076+02:00The Friggin' Kisima Awards<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blueicetech.net/afrikananuts/images/officespace.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.blueicetech.net/afrikananuts/images/officespace.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">So now, who won the so-called version of our Grammies?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">We need to know what happened during the Kisima awards..the losers, the winners, the drama, the performances, the disses et al. Being out of Kenya currently makes the sources of such info harder to come by.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><a href="http://www.kisimaawards.co.ke/" target="_blank">The Kisima Awards website</a> is too ghetto and to think that someone is / was actually paid to put together and update the site? (3Mice must have pushed this one to the accounts guys to put together!). What I'm I supposed to do on that website? "Vote who I think should spearhead the fight against piracy?". Your site gets 5 mikes for usability...yeah, usability retardedness!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Oh wait! Those news whores - The Nation and The Standard - are waiting for the weekend (all in the spirit of timeliness, just like the word "News" suggests...) to unleashe the news on their <a href="http://mywordsonly.blogspot.com/2006/07/damn-bastards.html" target="_blank">premium content magazine sections</a> - and after making us wait so long, ask us to chomoa cash to get information that is already wrapping today's nyama at the local butchery</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Kisima Awards Trust - style the fuck up and update your website with the winners and the happenings of the awards. I am guessing the organizers awarded their cronnies, mates and bosses as usual. Yay, that's what we want to read about.<br />And the next time you need a website done, dont take your broke-asses to 3Mice!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Entertainment Media/ Media houses - news was not called olds for a reason. Do your job. We will do ours and read the crap you put out to us (an eon later...) and then blog to bitch about it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Anyone with updates on the Awards, tafadhali hola and update distant folk on what unfolded. Did Amani win Best Newcomer? Did they give Redsan a Lifetime Achievement Award? Did 3 artists manage to scoop all the awards up for grabs, thus rendering the seemingly democratic voting process faker than a 30 dollar bill? Oh what tangled webs they weave....</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Arrgh! Makes me want to re-enact the above scene from "Office Space"!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><b>UPDATE</b></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Here is a <a href="http://www.eastandard.net/mags/pulse/articles.php?articleid=1143955605" target="_blank">list of winners</a>, in case you didnt catch them...kudos to all who won.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">As much as I think Nameless is a great artist and totally respect his work, persona and professionalism, the Male Artist of the Year honestly should have gone to Jua Cali, who has grown to great extremes as a lyricist, an artist and a professional.</span> <br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The dudes at Campusvybe.com had a so-so pictorial of the Kisima Awards that was put up here - <a href="http://www.campusvybe.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=57&Itemid=73" target="_blank">at least we get to see some pics</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">And on that note, I have officially ceased to care about these Awards. Not until next year at least..</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:86%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Currently Listening to:</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">India.Arie - Wings Of Forgiveness</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Nameless ft. Nyashinski - Jidai</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Kirk Franklin - Imagine Me</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Injili - Nisamehe</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Crossfade - Cold (Acoustic Version)</span></span><br /></span>The.Hanyeéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03039189155809607681noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19418766.post-1151017199288651042006-06-23T00:59:00.000+02:002006-06-23T10:53:32.416+02:00One.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blueicetech.net/afrikananuts/images/MaryBono1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.blueicetech.net/afrikananuts/images/MaryBono1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">A good friend of mine told me that he thinks this was a desecration of probably U2's best ever song...a classic...a deity among songs if ever there was One (hehehe, that choomokad nicely)....I beg and continue to beg to differ most vehemently.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Me? I think this is the most passionate and intense I have ever heard Mary J. Blige. Across a career spanning some 14 odd years. Sparked the ma-excitoz I felt when I first heard her go crazy with with Wyclef as they Called 911. Seems she thrives off collabos with eccentric musical geniuses. Remember "As" with George Michael?<br /><br />Bono, The Edge & co (woishe the other dudes end up as "& co"...its like those mamas who used to be in Destiny's Child..anonymous tu...digression..) tagteam with Mary J. in an immensly soul-tingling way. I could feel an inexplicable tinga-bubbliness somewhere in theiya! The live performance at the Grammies earlier this year left many utterly blown away.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br />Kwa ufupi, this retouch of U2's "One" has guzad my musical hanjams in a way they haven't been guzwad in a long time.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;">One.</span><br /><span style="font-size:86%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Currently Also Listening to:</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Sergio Mendes ft. Q-Tip - The Frog</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Kutless - All The Words</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The Fray - Over My Head (Cable Car)</span></span><br /></span>The.Hanyeéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03039189155809607681noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19418766.post-1145467273397972982006-04-19T19:17:00.000+02:002006-04-19T19:35:45.300+02:00Clicking Away in the Kitchen<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blueicetech.net/afrikananuts/images/foooood.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://www.blueicetech.net/afrikananuts/images/foooood.jpg" alt="" border="0" width="129" height="150"/></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">After dropping a very cool <a href="http://calendar.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Calendar</a> circa last week, the kids at Google Inc. have dropped what could easily one of the coolest resources atop a lot of bachelor checklists.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I will call it <b><a href="http://base.google.com/base/search?a_n0=recipes&a_y0=9&a_s0=0&a_r=1" target="_blank">Google Kitchen</a></b>. The Ultimate listing of all sorts of recipes, from <b><i>Grilled Swordfish With Cucumber Lime Salsa</i></b>(though that one is reaching my kitchen NOTHING!) to exotically cooler sounding ones like <b><i>Braised Chicken Teriyaki</i></b>…adventurous ones like <b><i>Drunken Chicken</i></b>, not to mention the pant-dropping <b><i>Asian Hot Pot With Chicken And Sweet-And-Spicy Dipping Sauce!</i></b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">After a polite relocation earlier in the year (c’mon, I have to pin my blogsenteeism on something!), the need to sharpen the cooking skills has become a necessity. Heck! They have become an implement that Darwin would look at and rub his hands in glee as sufficient proof of his Theory of Natural Selection. Only the Strong Survive. Survival for the Fittest. (Did I just go all sciency and geeky on you? Wacha I stop right thurr!)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Why you ask? Obvious answers to obvious questions:<br /><li>Home cooking is cheaper<br /><li>Home cooking is healthier (guffaw! I laughed my way into typing that one!)<br /><li>Don’t want no random dude in a kebab shop touching my dish with his bare hands <i>(shuku mikono hujui zimetoka wapi - Mashifta)</i><br /><li>You get to learn something new each time you cook<br /><li>Bloody tamu feeling when you cook something tasty and right<br /><li>And the ladies diggg a brotha who can cook (this one is more motivational and honestly belongs to the top of this list…would compare this to a chunky mama would look at a poster of Halle Berry ama even Beyoncé endlessly, cursing under her breath as she works out in the gym...just to be able to fikia the same jeans size…)<br /></span><span style="font-family:verdana;">These recipes will saidia with all the ideas and versatility they bring. Lakini the truth is this wont magically make me a gourmet chef (though I hope Google are working on something to fix that), but I could do with the practice and the ideas.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Too bad there is no nyam chom recipe. Actually, you don’t need one. The shida here is actually finding a goat and sorting it out without the authorities making a meal out of it (couldn’t resist that one!)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Karibuni a polite lunch, dinner, breakfast whenever.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><i>Disclaimer: You might need to beba a ka-stock of Actal / any other dawa ya tumbo, lest you unleash <a href="http://milonare.blogspot.com/2006/04/fartosynthesis.html" target="_blank">mad pungence a la the Milonare :-) </a></i></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Currently Listening to:</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The Roots – Guns are Drawn</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Matisyahu – King without a Crown (Live Version)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Jaguar Wright – Free</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">K’naan – I Was Stabbed By Satan</span></span><br /></span>The.Hanyeéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03039189155809607681noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19418766.post-1134119582746218402005-12-09T10:13:00.000+01:002005-12-09T10:41:06.153+01:00JAM-huri Day Weekend!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4656/1921/1600/nyamachoma.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4656/1921/320/nyamachoma.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">After a bit of a blogospheric hiatus (sounds like a scientific name for a disease!), me is back, ready to go crazy this Jamhuri Day weekend! There has been mob drama all up in this place. Seeing that the Prezz has been utterly shafted by all those ministerial rejections (by Jehosaphat, what did he expect by appointing a bum like Maina Kamanda as Minister for Gender and Sports? Bet that dude knows fuckall about sports!), I don't think the brotha is going to have a deadly Jamhuri day. Those White Caps will not go down with utamu as they usually do after a long day at work at State Hse. Many a golf ball will bear the brunt of his fury and frustration. I'm sure he has struck off that all-nighter at Ka-Choi this Sunday for Super Rock (and boy, won't Roosay be maaaad that she has been kaziwad the hanyee this weekend...). </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The Hanyeé's weekend will be one dotted with one festivity after the other. Living up to the name, that's all.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">- A certain pal is getting hitched today and it's such an unbelievable scene (if you know Sieka, then you will understand why) that we have to be there to take photos and ensure that there is evidence that this isn't just some long-winded hallucinatory occurrence. Plus a lot of other friends will be there, especially at the evening party...yet another good reason to dunda kiasi !</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">- Yet another pal, this time a dude we grew up in my hood with, is leaving the good old club. Again, I could describe the escapades he has been thru to get thus far and thereby ruin his marriage before it even started!. Congrats (ha! ha! I should be saying "Fare Thee Well!") Maurice. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">- What's with all these people that I know and grew up with getting married? Me getting old? Hapana! Pressure to start thinking of nuptials and all? Har-de-ha-ha-ha! First it was uncles (when I was aged 0-11), older cousins (12-18), older neighbours and guys you knew from school (19-22), people you grew up with / shared a diaper pack with / went out with / who were shag-buddies (22-now)....Aaargh!!!! There's no for caving in to pressure!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">- Digressing, it's a looooong weekend! Yeah baby! A great Jamhuri Day weekend for sure! And a perfect excuse for all those Kenyans in the diaspora to dodge the RSPCA, PETA and other animal rights activists and sort out how they will sink their teeth into some juicy goat ribs. Accept no substitutes! Meanwhile, after the bones and all have ishad, don't forget to boil them (and the kichwa of course) for a fat sufuria-full of soup. <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://reloadedexperience.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Poi</a>, I guess on Monday we can do a ka-soup instead of the chai :-)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">- Making and spending time with J. This is the bit where I type with a "Muttley the Snickering Hound" grin on my face!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Have a funky Jamhuri Day weekend, people! And do tell what no-good you got upto (or plan to get up to) this weekend!</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Currently Listening to:</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Talib Kweli ft. John Legend - Around My Way</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">John Legend - Refuge (When it's Cold Outside)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Kanye West - Touch the Sky (samples off a tamu Curtis Mayfield classic, "Move On Up")</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Brian McKnight - Crazy Love</span></span><br /><br /><br /></span>The.Hanyeéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03039189155809607681noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19418766.post-1133439917396976242005-12-01T13:12:00.000+01:002005-12-01T13:30:47.673+01:00Missing in Action (M.I.A.)<span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;" >Eyes closed<br />Daylight or night<br />She's not here<br />Crazy<br />Her scent's just breezed by<br />Hazy<br />I kinda see her lie<br />Looking, Yearning<br />Blowing kisses<br />My heart's drumming<br />Pulsating<br />Look who's next to her<br />Fuck this, I'm not imagining<br />Yet she's not here<br /><br />Girl, you're not here<br />But you send senseless quivers<br />Thru my mind's eye<br />Same place I see<br />The flash<br />Me seeing<br />The radiant smile<br />Pursuing<br />Those soulful eyes<br />Still the first time<br />Laughing<br />At my stupid jokes<br />And giggling turning into mingling<br />And tangling<br />Ah! Satisfying<br /><br />But I feel you're not here<br />Foolish assed me<br />Not being there<br />When your warmth<br />Beckoned<br />Dumb assed me<br />Confused<br />By the fact<br />That our connection<br />Blossomed<br /><br />But when you get here<br />I won't stop<br />Seeing<br />What you mean to me<br />Believing<br />That you being here<br />Is not just an<br />Illusion<br />Foolish assed me<br />Won't shut these eyes<br />Or let<br />Some other nigga unleash<br />Mad surprise<br /><br />Coz I will be here<br />Eyes closed<br />In a realistic dream<br />Feeling<br />You back here<br />Arms<br />Somewhere where they belong<br />Knowing<br />You're back here<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Currently Listening to:</span><br />Never Been in Love - Talib Kweli<br />Somewhere Only We Know - Keane<br />Closer - Slum Village ft. Dwele</span><br /></span>The.Hanyeéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03039189155809607681noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19418766.post-1133276678923972972005-11-29T15:41:00.000+01:002005-11-29T16:04:38.930+01:00Sijui Niseme...<span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;" >Aaaah yeah! Feeling my blog mdogo mdogo, takin this baby on a polite test type / drive / post...whatever it is you do to a new blog to get the right feel, see how many seconds you need to go from 0-60kph (find the equivalent in megabytes, O ye geeks...), get a feel of the all-leather interior, how those tyres grip the road....OK, so I am getting a bit carried away.<br /><br />This is a crazy journey I am embarking on...as I continue to discover myself. I think of this journey as a critical path in my life that's all in my face in the form of a map. This blog, The.Hanyee, is my navigation guide for this life's map...my compass to finding my true North. My processor to help turn all the laughter, the tears, the drunken times, the love, the loathe, the disco, the loose nyam chom plans, the quiet times I sometimes crave, the annoying, the attractive, the lust, the voices of reason, the noise, the music...into words and feelings that will be expressed thru this vessel.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Currently Listening to:</span><br />Break You Off - The Roots ft. Musiq<br />Curious - Tony Yayo ft. Joe<br /><br /></span>The.Hanyeéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03039189155809607681noreply@blogger.com3