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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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I recently listened to Joel Osteen on Family TV and he was talking about how we allow "five-minute problems" control our lives. He suggested that before you get worried about a problem, you need to ask yourself whether it is a 5-min, 5-Hr, 5-day, 5-mon, or 5-yr problem. So, the matatu blocks your entry int a roundabout; don't get stressed about it. That is a problem that will be over in 5min [you will enter the junction]. You might get to work late, but hey, that problem will be over by the end of the day! If you shove your way in front of the matatu; you will get bumped and the 5-min problem will become a 5-hr one as you try to sort out the mess and get your car towed away....and then it becomes a 5-day problem in the garage....and a 5wk problem as you try to get insurance claims paid! Instead: I choose to listen to some good music and read the Draft Constitution! Three weeks ago I brought out an old cassette recording that I made way back in 1988. It is so refreshing that I am looking forward to traffic jams every time I am on the road!! Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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The music is Pat Metheny's "As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls" and Darol Anger / Babara Higby Quintet's "Live at Montreux" Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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@Mukiha, You and classic music.I hope to never travel with you in the same car on a long trip coz i would get there dead  .....but i see you have a simple formulae for beating stress/road rage.I hope i have learnt something here  Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2007 Posts: 8,776 Location: Cameroon
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True that mukiha. Road rage got my car badly scratched on the entire left side, half a day at pangani police stn n a terrified mamacita....had I read ths that morning! TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 6/8/2007 Posts: 675
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That's a good lesson. I need to hold back on getting back at Mat drivers! Lest I get myself into a 5 week problem... Form is temporary, class is permanent
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/17/2008 Posts: 23,365 Location: Nairobi
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Good one Mukiha!!!! ..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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Rank: Chief Joined: 8/24/2009 Posts: 5,909 Location: Nairobi
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@ Mukiha...this is a good one. I know that is the best time for me to write up ideas on the note book. Always have one in the car!
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 3/12/2010 Posts: 1,199 Location: Eastlander
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afriend got me a 30 GB Ipod..that can load movies/podcasts... sincerely speaking..sitting in the huge Double M in Jogoo road's 3 Hour long traffic jams are the most awesome time outs i ever have..me, myself and I.....pod.  ..Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven...Matt5:16
- 1769 Oxford King James Bible 'Authorized Version
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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....and today I'm listening to Lee Oscars "My Road, Our Road". What a fitting title... Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/7/2007 Posts: 11,935 Location: Nairobi
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@Mukiha, You are a fan of vinyls...Means your car is fitted with a "Jimmy Rodgers and his master's voice".  .? Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/19/2008 Posts: 4,268
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@Guka.... I hear you.... i think i would also be dead the night before the trip.....
@Mukiha.... thats a good one.... Its been working for me for a while now. I love my music... and have you noticed how people (also stuck in jam pulling their faces) look at you badly when you are enjoying your head-nodding, foot-tapping music? Its like you are violating the rules of the jam by being happy.... LOL. Next time, try even dancing abit and see how annoyed other drivers get....
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Rank: Member Joined: 5/26/2009 Posts: 326 Location: Nairobi
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Lucky you all who enjoy the traffic jam..
Some of us don't, can't.
For, while you are gyrating your head to the sooth of a good number....
And thumping your foot on the pedal while the limo is in limbo...
Some of us are menacingly requesting for our margins...
From distraught, frustrated thirteensome...
Who demand that we get them there now, not later, jam or blueband...
When we succumb to their threat, afande smiles...
For he has had his bread delivered without breaking sweat.
'Sonko' calls, and says the day's target is double yesterday's...jam, afande or insolent thirteensome notwithstanding.
Just then Guka with his Peugeot, keeps it straight in lane...
Training his eye forward, as if there is a prize.
He wont understand, that we need to cut in...
And oops! his ancient side mirror is no more!
It has to be imported from the scrapheaps of Burgundy, we are told...
And you still expect us...
To enjoy traffic jam?
We cant for some of us,
are matatu drivers.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 5/26/2009 Posts: 1,793
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Wa P, very poetic....@ mukiha get some Jonathan butler too, my favorite being 'river of life'
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/27/2008 Posts: 4,114
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@kenmac; I tried Butler; he's not deep enough for my rhythm buds... Nothing is real unless it can be named; nothing has value unless it can be sold; money is worthless unless you spend it.
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Rank: Member Joined: 6/25/2010 Posts: 415
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Where is Michuki when we need him? The matatu guys are a law unto themselves. Before you drive yourself crazy ( literally) , take a deep breath and go... one..one thousand, two..two thousand etc. You will calm down and you will be at peace with the world. It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 5/30/2009 Posts: 1,390
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WaP.That piece of poetry is hot n original.Post more am a fan What a wicked man I am!The things I want to do,I don't do.The things I don't want to do I find myself doing
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/31/2008 Posts: 7,081 Location: Kenya
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Mukiha
...Cassettes...Thought I was the only one left listening to music stored in a 'casstte'.
...hope you have bought your children Ipods to listen to their mahewa while on a long trip...otherwise they would kill you before you complete a 1/8 of the journey for torturing their ears and causing them mental fatigue that may require a drill at Nairobi hospital...
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 7/1/2010 Posts: 7 Location: Kenya
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Traffic jams give a good "marketing" opportunity for whosoever might have the guts! Think of those preachers who keep going in the buses! If only we could take this opportunity to "sell" whatever goods or services we might have! I bought my life policy in the jam! So, jams are good!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/17/2008 Posts: 23,365 Location: Nairobi
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I am trying to luv this on on m-rd today but trust it's too much today, less than 2km in an hour,......DAMN!!!!!!!! ..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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Rank: Elder Joined: 8/1/2008 Posts: 1,432 Location: Marsabit
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@Mukiha and Guka You two lose me anytime you start discussing those oldies!I never even get to identify with any of them:( Anyhow,great advise there,hakuna haja ya stress kwa jam... Nevermind what haters say, ignore them til they fade away - Just live your life
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