Kenyans are hilarious and creative

February 18, 2018 kking.com

Kenyans are hilarious and creative; log in to any social media platform and you are sure to find some memes that will make your day. Here’s a compilation of starter packs to keep you in the know.

Trust Kenyans to make light of anything and everything and bring the much needed comic relief even in tense situations. On the eve of the repeat presidential polls held last week, a starter park photo for voters was circulating on social media.

The list had an identity card, voter’s card, an umbrella, a warm jacket, gumboots and gloves. Also in the list was githeri, perhaps a lucky charm that turned Martin Kimotho, a Nairobi County public sanitation officer from rags to riches in the August 8, General Election.

So, it seems starter packs is the recent way to describe someone or situation.

Sleepover starter pack

This pack is mainly for girls since many men do not really care about how they will look or feel the morning after spending the night at a friend’s house.

You will notice these girls, especially on Friday carrying a large handbag. Inside the bag you would find an inner wear, shades, toothbrush, make-up kit and a music hard disk and perhaps a change of clothes.

Annoying couple starter pack

An ‘in a relationship’ notification will pop up on your timeline and that is how you know it is about to start raining love. Before you can get great meme to share, they start with the tagging and sharing of lovey-dovey memes. As time goes by, they eventually have a bomb photo shoot and the captions for kinging and queening flood your timeline.

To drive the point home, they will get those matchy-matchy tees and caps with the king and queen captions or the he’s mine, she’s mine tees. Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to like or scroll the new power/goals-couple.

Joining university starter pack

In order to feel completely at home, here are some recommendations. Get a pair of sneakers, rugged pants or shorts and a smartphone. That is not enough though. You also need to know how to pose for a photo.

The catch though, in the pose, is that you should look like you have a deformity in your legs. The pose should provoke a reaction of sorts. With all that at your fingertips, campus should be nothing short of a smooth-sailing affair.

Slay queens starter pack

They are the new breed of women who want to make everyone believe they are the most beautiful divas.

Slay queen starter pack means you should be a pro in applying make-up. Also, you have to pose in a way that you show your ass-ets and have a great fashion sense.

Have an expensive phone that can take great photos and selfies. Despite the slay queen’s penchant for accents, she has very poor grammar. The slay queen starter pack, therefore, comprises of some blonde moments even on common things that are known to everyone.

Hangover starter pack

Weekend is the time to relax, have fun, not to forget chilling and hanging out with buddies. So, you go out with your friends perhaps grab one for the road and it ends up completing the whole journey with many. You will definitely need a weekend recovery. Painkillers, a heavy meal comprising greens, meat and ugali, a soft drink and a loose fitting dress will do.

Moving on starter pack

Every time you come out of a fresh heartbreak you just want to swim yourself in junk and watch some movies that will help you get over the relationship. Well, now this starter pack will help in moving on from your ex with ease. So Netflix and Chill it is. Also, get a new look; you have to look your best. So, change your wardrobe, hit the gym and probably cut your hair.

Road trip starter pack

With a pair of shorts, a polo shirt, a pair of sandals, smartphone, a charging cable and watches, man you are good to go.

See Photos of Kenya’s Most Beautiful Road

December 22, 2018. KK

The 13km Outer Ring superhighway is nearing completion with the contractor making final touches and tarmacking of the service lanes, placing of guard rails and walkways.

The road, which is being built at a whooping cost of Sh8 billion, is in use with most lanes now open to traffic.

The splendour of the road is visible but what remains a challenge is the drainage as some are slowly being clogger up with garbage, grass and weed. There are also damaged walkways due to misuse by vehicles, which if left unchecked will pose a drainage nightmare on the road.

With few spaces left on the long stretch of road for bus stops or pick up points, most matatus plying different routes along the entire highway are forced to make room along the road on the service lanes affecting traffic flow and movement of people.

Hawkers have also made themselves comfortable along the highway as most have set up temporary structures to sell their wares along the service lanes, next to illegal drop off points and even along walkways.

There is also a teething problem of accessing the road from Thika Superhighway especially during rush hours as four lanes merge into two at the GSU bridge.

US Ups Pressure On African Countries to Cut North Korea Ties

January 21, 2018. KK

The US State Department has suggested that President Donald Trump’s recent vulgar comments will not hinder US efforts to persuade African countries to sever ties with North Korea.

“We have very strong relationships across the continent,” said Robert Scott, an Africa affairs official in the State Department. “Those remain unchanged.”

His assurance was offered during a press teleconference highlighting US resolve to prevent North Korea from acquiring any revenue in Africa for its nuclear weapons programme.

DIPLOMACY

This newly publicised US campaign may serve as a gauge of how badly American diplomacy has been affected by Mr Trump’s reported reference to African countries as “shithole”.

State Department officials made clear on Wednesday that they are pressing African countries to end all military and commercial dealings with North Korea.

“Many governments on the continent have longstanding relationships with North Korea that warrant a serious reassessment,” Mr Scott said.

“The United Nations North Korea Panel of Experts has documented multiple instances of North Korean arms activities with various African governments,” he added.

Mr Scott did not name African countries said to be carrying on trade with North Korea in defiance of international prohibitions.

But in a leaked report in September the UN experts cited Tanzania, Uganda and nine other African states as targets of investigations into alleged violations of sanctions imposed on North Korea by the Security Council.

TANZANIA AND NORTH KOREA

The panel said it was assessing claims that Tanzania and a North Korean corporation had signed military-related contracts worth about $12.5 million.

The deals with the Haegeumgang Trading Corporation reportedly involve repairs and upgrades of Tanzanian surface-to-air missile systems and air defence radar.

The UN experts added that they are continuing to investigate North Korean training of Ugandan military and police forces.

In a speech at the UN in September last year, President Yoweri Museveni said Uganda is complying with the sanctions against North Korea. “We are, however, grateful that, in the past, the North Koreans helped us to build our tank forces,” Mr Museveni added.

The US global squeeze on North Korea is yielding results in Africa, Mr Scott said on Wednesday.

“A number of African countries,” which he again did not name, have taken “extremely positive steps to go beyond UN Security Council resolutions in promising to sever ties with North Korea,” he said.

Fire destroys Riomego Primary School dorm in Nyamira

Dorm fire at Riomego SDA Boarding Primary School in Nyamira County. — The burnt dormitory at Riomego SDA Boarding Primary School in Nyamira County on January 20, 2018.

Head teacher Samuel Nyambasora said the school guard raised the alarm at around 11am when the pupils were in a Seventh Day Church service.

ALARM

“The watchman saw smoke billowing from the dormitory and upon realising the building was on fire, he raised alarm,” he said.

Pupils react after a fire destroyed their dormitory at Riomego SDA Boarding Primary School in Nyamira County on January 20, 2018.

Efforts to put out the fire were unsuccessful, and by the time the newly acquired Nyamira County Government fire engine arrived, all the pupils’ property had gone up in flames.

However, no pupil was injured during the incident.

“We are currently trying to establish the cause of the fire,” Mr Nyambasora said told the Nation.

Investigations are ongoing, he added

People Who Clearly Don’t Care Anymore

January 20, 2018 KK

The society we live in has a lot of expectations about our behavior, the way we look and dress, and other aspects of our lives. We’re used to living in a world full of rules we have to follow, and most of the time we feel OK about that.

But every now and then, we all get the feeling that we just don’t care what other people think about us anymore. Some people feel it from time to time; some are born with this feeling and live their whole lives like that.

Those people may be annoying, but Bright Side brings you pictures of people who are so hilarious in their apathy that it’s impossible to be angry with them. Look through them to the end. Maybe they can teach you something!

1.He’s taking it very well.