EDWIN OCHALY: MARK MY WORD

EDWIN OCHALY: MARK MY WORD: Ahead of tomorrow's London derby against Arsenal, Jose Mourinho has spoken about the Gunners' marquee summer signing, a player h...

EDWIN OCHALY: MARK MY WORD

EDWIN OCHALY: MARK MY WORD: Ahead of tomorrow's London derby against Arsenal, Jose Mourinho has spoken about the Gunners' marquee summer signing, a player h...

MARK MY WORD

Ahead of tomorrow's London derby against Arsenal, Jose Mourinho has spoken about the Gunners' marquee summer signing, a player he managed while at Real Madrid, Mesut Ozil.
The German made the switch from the Bernabeu to the Emirates shortly before the closure of the summer transfer window, and his impact has been immediate.

Mourinho, having worked with Ozil for three years in Spain, is a huge admirer of the creative attacker, and believes Arsenal have benefited hugely from his arrival.

'He's a phenomenal player, he's one of these players that you buy and you complete the puzzle of your team,' said the Chelsea manager. 'You don't need time, you need nothing, he arrives and you have an empty space waiting for him, his quality, maturity and leadership. You know that automatically your team becomes better.

'There are players that you buy that you realise you need to work with, adapt or find the best solution to get the best out of them, but Ozil needs nothing. He arrived, Arsene gave him the shirt, immediately he starts playing and immediately the team becomes better.

'I think I know how to try to stop him being direct influence in the game for 90 minutes, but it's impossible to stop him for 90 minutes because these kind of players always have a moment, or a couple of moments where you cannot stop them and they end up showing why they are so good.'
Arsenal have been top of the table for the majority of the current campaign, but having been in similar positions in past years, and subsequently fallen away, their critics believe there is plenty of time for Arsene Wenger's side to falter.

Defeats to rivals Manchester City and Manchester United have only served to raise further questions about their ability to last the pace, but Mourinho has seen enough to suggest they will be a threat right until the end.

'In my previous time here Walcott was a kid, he's now a man, these other guys are in the best moments of their careers; Wilshere, Ramsey, Gibbs, they are the perfect age,' explained the Portuguese.

'I'm not saying Mesut transformed the team completely. The manager and club gave these players conditions to have stability for their evolution and now when you buy Giroud, Ozil and others, of course the team becomes much better and ready to be doing what they're doing, which is fighting for the title.

'To arrive at Christmas time at the top of the league is a sign they are fighting for the title, they have the squad so they have the conditions to do it.

'Up until now they are the strongest team, they have more points than anybody else and they have already played Manchester City, Liverpool, Tottenham and Manchester United, so the Chelsea game will be the last match against the other contenders.'

Mourinho also had words of encouragement for former Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas, who was sacked by Tottenham Hostpur last Monday.

'In football nothing surprises me, anything can happen,' said the Blues boss. 'When they gave him a three or four year contract it was because they trusted him and they thought he was the right man to be their manager. They had a couple of bad results but I don't think its reason to change the trust or the change the manager.

'In the last six months I spoke to Andre three times, once at a manager's meeting, another time when we played them and again a couple of days ago. I didn't speak about the case, I said come on, the world hasn't finished, tomorrow another job will come, so Happy Christmas. I didn't speak about the case because only the people inside know what happened.'

Our game against Arsenal is the first of a run of four games in the Barclays Premier League over the Christmas and New Year period, with home games against Swansea City and Liverpool to follow, before we open 2014 with a visit to Southampton.

Mourinho remains confident both in his own and his team's abilities and, looking at the bigger picture, sees no reason to be concerned about our upcoming run of matches.

'I know why I came back and what kind of job I was asked to do,' he said. 'To prepare this new Chelsea team for a decade, in the same way the other Chelsea team lasted for around a decade, we can't have a better manager than I am.

'I think I'm the right person to do the job and a bad result on Monday or Wednesday doesn't change that perspective.' Added the Blues Manager

Photo from Mourinho's photos

New Hope Church Choir- Ne Owara

EDWIN OCHALY: HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENYA

EDWIN OCHALY: HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENYA: I COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BORN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD. I LOVE KENYA. AM PROUD TO BE KENYAN. HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENYA   Always be thankful of ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENYA

I COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BORN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD. I LOVE KENYA. AM PROUD TO BE KENYAN. HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENYA

 Always be thankful of what you have, who you are, the family you are born in and the country you are in. I did not choose to be born in the family I am in, I did not vhose to be born in Kenya but it was the will of God that I be born in the Mighty Country Kenya.

Its my mother land and it will forever remain and no man will change that. It is for that reason that I dedicate this opportunity to wish my lovely country a happy 50th birthday since her independence. I love everything in Kenya, the natural resources, the conducive environment around me, the ever prevailing peace year in year out and more so the the National Anthem Crown it all.

It my pleasure to also take this chance to honour these individuals for their participation in bring freedom to our country, just but to name a few;

 Daniel Arap Moi

·         Harry Thuku

·         Mbiyu Koinange

·         Dedan Kimathi

·         Martin Shikuku

·         Mbiyu Koinange

·         Dedan Kimathi

·         Martin Shikuku

·         Jomo Kenyatta                                               

·         Mbiyu Koinange

·         Jaramogi Oginga Odinga

·         Mbiyu Koinange

·         Jaramogi Oginga Odinga

·         Bildad Kagia

·         Waiyaki Higa

·         Argwings Kodhek

·         Koitalel Arap somoei

·         Kungu Karumba

·         Pio Gama Pinto

·         Jean Marie Seroney

·         Paul Ngei

·         Ronald Ngala

·         Tom Mboya

·         Masinde Muliro  Achieng Oneko

h How can i forget mzee Mwai kibaki, he always ensure that i laugh to the fullest when he talk. RAILA siwezi kukusahau and lastly president Uhuru wuo KENYATTAA, May God bless you. To my parents nyinyi pia ni shujaa (you are also heroes) and finally my lovely Fiance Evelyne Aluoch nani kama wewe. 

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY KENYA!!!!! CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSS!!!

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Obama Speech at Mandela's Memorial Service

To Graça Machel and the Mandela family; to President Zuma and members of the government; to heads of state and government, past and present; distinguished guests - it is a singular honour to be with you today, to celebrate a life unlike any other. To the people of South Africa – people of every race and walk of life – the world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us. His struggle was your struggle. His triumph was your triumph. Your dignity and hope found expression in his life, and your freedom, your democracy is his cherished legacy.

It is hard to eulogise any man – to capture in words not just the facts and the dates that make a life, but the essential truth of a person – their private joys and sorrows; the quiet moments and unique qualities that illuminate someone's soul. How much harder to do so for a giant of history, who moved a nation toward justice, and in the process moved billions around the world.

Born during world war one, far from the corridors of power, a boy raised herding cattle and tutored by elders of his Thembu tribe – Madiba would emerge as the last great liberator of the 20th century. Like Gandhi, he would lead a resistance movement – a movement that at its start held little prospect of success. Like King, he would give potent voice to the claims of the oppressed, and the moral necessity of racial justice. He would endure a brutal imprisonment that began in the time of Kennedy and Khrushchev, and reached the final days of the Cold War. Emerging from prison, without force of arms, he would – like Lincoln – hold his country together when it threatened to break apart. Like America's founding fathers, he would erect a constitutional order to preserve freedom for future generations – a commitment to democracy and rule of law ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power.

Given the sweep of his life, and the adoration that he so rightly earned, it is tempting then to remember Nelson Mandela as an icon, smiling and serene, detached from the tawdry affairs of lesser men. But Madiba himself strongly resisted such a lifeless portrait. Instead, he insisted on sharing with us his doubts and fears; his miscalculations along with his victories. "I'm not a saint," he said, "unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."

It was precisely because he could admit to imperfection – because he could be so full of good humour, even mischief, despite the heavy burdens he carried – that we loved him so. He was not a bust made of marble; he was a man of flesh and blood – a son and husband, a father and a friend. That is why we learned so much from him; that is why we can learn from him still. For nothing he achieved was inevitable. In the arc of his life, we see a man who earned his place in history through struggle and shrewdness; persistence and faith. He tells us what's possible not just in the pages of dusty history books, but in our own lives as well.

Mandela showed us the power of action; of taking risks on behalf of our ideals. Perhaps Madiba was right that he inherited, "a proud rebelliousness, a stubborn sense of fairness" from his father. Certainly he shared with millions of black and coloured South Africans the anger born of, "a thousand slights, a thousand indignities, a thousand unremembered moments … a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people".

But like other early giants of the ANC – the Sisulus and Tambos – Madiba disciplined his anger; and channelled his desire to fight into organisation, and platforms, and strategies for action, so men and women could stand-up for their dignity. Moreover, he accepted the consequences of his 


actions, knowing that standing up to powerful interests and injustice carries a price. "I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination," he said at his 1964 trial. "I've cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

Mandela taught us the power of action, but also ideas; the importance of reason and arguments; the need to study not only those you agree with, but those who you don't. He understood that ideas cannot be contained by prison walls, or extinguished by a sniper's bullet. He turned his trial into an indictment of apartheid because of his eloquence and passion, but also his training as an advocate. He used decades in prison to sharpen his arguments, but also to spread his thirst for knowledge to others in the movement. And he learned the language and customs of his oppressor so that one day he might better convey to them how their own freedom depended upon his.

Mandela demonstrated that action and ideas are not enough; no matter how right, they must be chiselled into laws and institutions. He was practical, testing his beliefs against the hard surface of circumstance and history. On core principles he was unyielding, which is why he could rebuff offers of conditional release, reminding the Apartheid regime that, "prisoners cannot enter into contracts". But as he showed in painstaking negotiations to transfer power and draft new laws, he was not afraid to compromise for the sake of a larger goal. And because he was not only a leader of a movement, but a skilful politician, the Constitution that emerged was worthy of this multiracial democracy; true to his vision of laws that protect minority as well as majority rights, and the precious freedoms of every South African.

Finally, Mandela understood the ties that bind the human spirit. There is a word in South Africa – Ubuntu – that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us. We can never know how much of this was innate in him, or how much of was shaped and burnished in a dark, solitary cell. But we remember the gestures, large and small - introducing his jailors as honoured guests at his inauguration; taking the pitch in a Springbok uniform; turning his family's heartbreak into a call to confront HIV/AIDS – that revealed the depth of his empathy and understanding. He not only embodied Ubuntu; he taught millions to find that truth within themselves. It took a man like Madiba to free not just the prisoner, but the jailor as well; to show that you must trust others so that they may trust you; to teach that reconciliation is not a matter of ignoring a cruel past, but a means of confronting it with inclusion, generosity and truth. He changed laws, but also hearts.

For the people of South Africa, for those he inspired around the globe – Madiba's passing is rightly a time of mourning, and a time to celebrate his heroic life. But I believe it should also prompt in each of us a time for self-reflection. With honesty, regardless of our station or circumstance, we must ask: how well have I applied his lessons in my own life?

It is a question I ask myself – as a man and as a president. We know that like South Africa, the United States had to overcome centuries of racial subjugation. As was true here, it took the sacrifice of countless people - known and unknown - to see the dawn of a new day. Michelle and I are the beneficiaries of that struggle. But in America and South Africa, and countries around

the globe, we cannot allow our progress to cloud the fact that our work is not done. The struggles that follow the victory of formal equality and universal franchise may not be as filled with drama and moral clarity as those that came before, but they are no less important. For around the world today, we still see children suffering from hunger, and disease; run-down schools, and few prospects for the future. Around the world today, men and women are still imprisoned for their political beliefs; and are still persecuted for what they look like, or how they worship, or who they love.

We, too, must act on behalf of justice. We, too, must act on behalf of peace. There are too many of us who happily embrace Madiba's legacy of racial reconciliation, but passionately resist even modest reforms that would challenge chronic poverty and growing inequality. There are too many leaders who claim solidarity with Madiba's struggle for freedom, but do not tolerate dissent from their own people. And there are too many of us who stand on the sidelines, comfortable in complacency or cynicism when our voices must be heard.

The questions we face today – how to promote equality and justice; to uphold freedom and human rights; to end conflict and sectarian war – do not have easy answers. But there were no easy answers in front of that child in Qunu. Nelson Mandela reminds us that it always seems impossible until it is done. South Africa shows us that is true. South Africa shows us we can change. We can choose to live in a world defined not by our differences, but by our common hopes. We can choose a world defined not by conflict, but by peace and justice and opportunity.

We will never see the likes of Nelson Mandela again. But let me say to the young people of Africa, and young people around the world - you can make his life's work your own. Over thirty years ago, while still a student, I learned of Mandela and the struggles in this land. It stirred something in me. It woke me up to my responsibilities - to others, and to myself - and set me on an improbable journey that finds me here today. And while I will always fall short of Madiba's example, he makes me want to be better. He speaks to what is best inside us. After this great liberator is laid to rest; when we have returned to our cities and villages, and rejoined our daily routines, let us search then for his strength - for his largeness of spirit - somewhere inside ourselves. And when the night grows dark, when injustice weighs heavy on our hearts, or our best laid plans seem beyond our reach - think of Madiba, and the words that brought him comfort within the four walls of a cell:

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.

What a great soul it was. We will miss him deeply. May God bless the memory of Nelson Mandela. May God bless the people of South Africa.

MOMBASA UPCOMING ARTISTS KILL THEMSEVES MUSICALLY

In the house of the wise are stores of choice, food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has and that when someone gives you a lemon then the best thing you can do is to make lemonade out of it but all these seem not to make any sense to coast new upcoming artist also referred to as wasanii chipukizi.

Instead of being in the fore front to fight music piracy in most regions in the city, the irony is that they are the ones allowing this to happen. They are like cows/bulls taking themselves to the slaughter house to be slaughtered.

The body which is mandated to deal with cases of music copyright has tried its best to help curb the rising cases of music piracy of the local music (East Africa). It has ensured that the bureaus dealing in this vice are spotted and charged where necessary.

The cases of transferring music to the removable disks like Cds, memory cards, USBs, Flash disks etc are dealt with accordingly.

But it has become to my attention that these musicians themselves are now the ones promoting this not knowing that it is killing slowly by slowly and that’s why you will hear the coastal upcoming artists themselves crying that their music is not selling and this cannot make them rise and reach their dream target of being famous like other East African Musicians like their fellow from Tanzania.

Pay a visit to any such known bureaus and the first people you get are the so called upcoming artists coming with their own songs to transfer them to memory cards and flash disks and are ready to give them for free for the attendants to sell them to people at a cost of ksh. 10 per song or even ksh.5 for a song.

In a span of one day I managed to catch of four different artists( names withheld) converting their songs so that they can have the mobile phone format to enable them sell them to the public and when I inquire to know why they are doing so, this is what one had to say.

“Because we are still not famous and most people don’t know about our existence we give them to people so that when they play them on their phones most people will have to know us and this will also make our songs be heard in a wider area” while others could not actually say why they are doing it others were just happy that they can record a song and their pride is when they walk around and hear their songs play in people’s phones, bodaboda and even in the matatus.

“It is very difficult for us to raise or to sell more because we are not known and most of our people are used to Bongo Music (Tanzanian) than ours, so we offer to give them for free that way so that when we do the next one, we are already known “ said one artist

They too also are aware that doing this is a crime but they say it’s a game they are playing safe to help them be known so that next time when they do another one people will have already know them and will be thirsting to hear their songs and will enable them sell.

The Coast Music Pirates are the artists themselves and they are doing this deliberately not knowing that they are the ones helping to kill themselves slowly bin slowly and are also digging their own graves.