Its a Square and it has Four sides(duh!)Foursquare in Kenya!

Okay the buzz has been Foursquare and it was even banned in Tiananmen Square-China!Just because too many people checked in!So this got me thinking with my new/recent addiction to crowd-sourcing,what if i decided to replace Majiwa as the mayor of Nairoberry(just used it coz i bumped into Abbas yesternight).To try sucker you into “playing” foursquare more often, they give you points when you check into places, and you can become the mayor of the place etc.

Mayor that will get swaggerboy* jealous.I have not tried it yet and of course am tempted to be Chris Colombo on this on.Plus the hope its getting in S.A for example is cool.Add this and the world cup will bamba* more if,you like become the Mayor of Jo'berg!

Guess in Nairobi i can for example say "Kevo@Gwerro's* Messi killing 8-man Nigeria"The Chinese were using it to democratically mark the Tienanmen Anniversary.Thus the ban,We can use this in Kenya to protest the jamming of phones right now in the CBD.

Any chance this new buzz can add commercial value i for the entrepreneur in you.In the mean time let me give it a try and try convincing some friends to join/help me unlock the badges*

*Swagger boy-part of my inner circle peep.
*Bamba-sheng for something exciting,verb-to excite!
*Gwero's-soccer joint in Dandora.

Nairobits Experience(toddler's steps towards web greatness)

Fortune favors the brave!This powerful maxim as been the underlining optimism that is getting me through it all.My life has been the usual tale of poverty,coming from a slum with the hope of succeeding in life.But all too often disappointed by the divide that is poverty.

I had a dream of going to university and progressing to successfully to the career-world!As you may have sensed already,the death of my father the bread-winner robbed me of this dream.Thus i decided to enter the job market as inexperienced as i was and only able to qualify for ungraded jobs.This was when through the help of a CBO that i was a member to i got word of a chance in free computer training.(At first i was not so informed at the prospects presented).Being a staunch believer in reaching for the clouds and searching for silver linings!I dove to this chance with my fingers/toes crossed uncomfortably.

SID-Social Intiative for Development based in Dandora(an informal sector in the outskirts of Nairobi) was the first step in my endervour(i still think of it as a journey).After a grisly and fair interview.Then the subsequent forwarding of names to Nairobits.I was drafted for my first course at the Multimedia arts center!(studying web design,entrepreneurship,web development and finally life skills)My academic journey has reached the focal point that is Media Lab(the last course offered at Nairobits).Socially i was part of the World Start With Me-a program on sexual health!

Heaping praise on an unworthy thing is a waste!This is why i will waste no time in doing so.Because I have been Modeled by what i describe as an all-round-Performance by the Team behind Nairobits!The passion of the teachers is so immense,that i keep asking what is the secret?My answer is simple,Nairobits does not believe in charity its too vertical(in terms of class i guess!)but rather they believe in solidarity!Which is horizontal,respecting the diversity of us the students and learning from us the youth.(teachers blending assimilatingly with students)

What i want as a youth is simple;

Flexibility to make the right decisions

Hone my ambition and industrious nature for the better

Have tons of energy each day to do what i like best and make a living from my passion.

Nairobits gave me this and more.Modern education here is inspired by great hope that is the parent of great result.

I will not paint this road as being smooth for it has been bumpy!Amid all the toils that life has brought me during this time it is the hope of a better future that keeps my wheels going.This also is a feather on the hats of the team at Nairobits for they are the perfect epitomes of hardwork pays!Which plus braveness is favoured by for fortune!Reminding us each day that the Youth can make it no matter what!

*CBO-Community Based Organization

Kevin Isaac Nyasiwo-Fortunate Student of Nairobits(2009-2010)

Down going up!

Can i explain why i wanted to jump off the top of a Safaricom tower-block?Of-course I can explain why i wanted to jump off the top of a tower-block.I'm not a bloody idiot.I can explain it because it is not inexplicable:It was a logical decision,the product of proper thought.It wasn't even a serious thought either.I don't mean it was whimsical-I just meant it wasn't terribly complicated,or agonized.Put it this way say your the assistant bank manager at Barclays in Nairobi.Then you are offered the job of managing a bank in Jo'berg and it starts in June.
Well even though it a really straightforward decision,you would still have to think for a bit,wouldn't you?You'd at least have to work out whether you could bear to move,whether you could leave your friends and colleagues behind,whether you would up-root your wife and kids(if any).You might even sit down with a piece of paper and draw up a list of pros and cons.You know:
CONS-parent(am a mummy's boy),friends,Gor Mahia
PROS-more money,better quality of life(house with pool,barbecue,e.t.c),ocean,no Kenyan politics,no KPLC,NCC!
Its no contest,is it?Gor Mahia!Give me a break.Obviously your parents give you pause for thought,but that's all it is- pause,and a brief one,too.You'd be on the phone with the travel agents in ten minutes.
Well,that was me.There simply weren't enough regrets,and lots and lots of reasons to jump.The only things on my cons list was my kids(the twins),but i couldn't imagine Kelly letting me see them again anyway.Suicide was my Jo'berg.I say that with no offense to the good people of Jo'berg.
Of the many inquests and obituaries i googled,they said the same thing.'He took his own life when his/her mind was disturbed'.Then you read the sad tale of how his wife slept with his best friend,sales on the ipad were low,He had been conned by some pyramid dudes.For me no disturbed mind just,bad thing after bad thing after bad thing,till you cant take any more.Surely that's far enough.At least my obituary should read"He took his life after sober and serious contemplation of the f#$%n shambles it had become.
Not once do you read,The Inter Milan midfielder who was dating the current Miss Burundi,had recently won a treble:he is the only man to be the 'CHAT male artist of the year' in the same year.Rights to His first novel bought for an undisclosed sum by Abigael Akello Arunga.Not saying that being a Inter Milan midfielder,engaged to miss Burundi and a Chat winner inoculates you from depression-sure it doesn't.Am saying these statistics help.
But divorced,prostitute,anorexic or unemployed.Or even (God-forbid) rape victim.There are lots and lots of factors that drive you to the edge;none of these make you anything but f*%%$n miserable.....................
to be continued.