The Magic is Gone

The cold morning breeze
Brings a promise of better things
And although I may freeze
Like a bird on its wings
I take a walk through the forest
The sun’s rays are just breaking through
And their myriad patterns
Are like a lover’s dance
The dew glistens on the leaves
The dancing shafts of light from the sun’s rays
Create a beautiful kaleidoscope of colour
I pick up a leaf
And hold it to the sun
Suddenly the dawn breaks
The dew evaporates
And the magic is lost

WAITING...

I sing of the beaty of the wonderland
Of roaring rivers cascading down the land
I sing of the joy in the heart
When one finds her Romeo or his Juliet


Suddenly the shimmering rays of the sun are friendlier
The enchanting moon brighter
The whipping winds; more embracing
As one gets sheltered in arm loving


I dream of the one day I will be complete
The mishaps of the past becoming obsole
And surrendering my heart totally
To the stranger who will be my lifelong ally


And suddenly a cold hand caresses my face
Am startled from my deep slumber
He's here, I can feel it
My eyes open and register the silhoutte in the moonlight


I reach out with every fibre of my being...
And just as suddenly the figure melts into the night
Am left with the feint whistle in the wind...
But I know he will be back


The stranger with the cold caress
The silhoutte that left me yearning
I know he will be back
But until then, I'll be waiting.....

Barrage Against Radio Stations

I know it has been said before, but I will say it again. FM radio stations are irritating, and I need to vent off my irritation, and where else but my blog? Bear with me.

Here is the Order of the Most Irritating Awards

1. Easy Fm

When Nation Fm was re-launched as easy, that was the end of it. I mean, who would want to listen to a station called easy? Then they have like 10 songs on the CD that will be played over and over again throughout the day, and when you hear the song…”Come back to me shorty” by Tyrese for the 10^th time in an hour u feel like going (aaauuuuuiiii!!!). And then there is this thing they keep on replaying, ati the thoughts of people about easy, like we don’t know that they just pay people to say:

“I love easy..especially the blues.. ohh they are soo soothing..” Soothing here is said as “soodhing”
etc etc

It’s like nails on a chalkboard…. I get so irritated I could burst… so I just switch stations

And don’t even get me started on the presenters. Talia is sooo fake, I mean, yes she has been across the Atlantic, but just coz u have landed in some airports that are not in Africa don’t mean that u can now speak with a fake twang…gimme a break.

Then there is Ciku, of the busting cheating spouses fame, how can people fall for the same lie everyday? People are so easy to fool.. come on people, think twice before you jump to give names of spouses or girlfriends ati coz u have won a holiday or clothes in a competition u never entered. Kenyans and love for free things… tsk…tsk

Then there is Gladys who, does she, by any chance, try to sound husky like? Urgh, I can’t listen to her for more than a minute.. and Sheila, well, she is superficial…the Di on the late night show.. sample this:

“ Hiiii this is the DI. I have an sms from Mercy in Kinangop who would like to dedicate the song Goodbye my lover by James Blunt to her boyfriend in Othaya….”

Okay, who dedicates Goodbye my lover to their current lover?.. hmmm.. now that is the DI’s audience. At least let me give it up to Munene Nyaga, I could listen to him were it not for the repetitiveness of the songs.

2. Kiss

Okay, this is so notorious no one listens to it anymore. The clown pair of Caro and Nyamabane tries, they’ve been around for long. But just coz they were a success, now there is Shaffie and Kaleche, who have to argue even over trivial things, and have to take sides even if it is a discussion that really makes no sense having argue people against it.

Checki this story they were arguing about..

“ there is this kid who sleeps in the paroz bed. One day, the dad comes back tired and has no time to change so he sleeps naked. In the middle of the night, the kid gets hungry and is looking for something to suckle, and then coz the kid suckles anything suckly, it ends up giving the dad a BJ….”disgusting.

Don’t get me started on Debbie, or Sanaa or Angela Angwenyi…they are all kinda fake…admit it.

3. Classic 105

This only exists because of Maina Kageni, who only discusses matters of pare pare (Xs, u should hook up with him.) Nowadays, people are willing to air their dirty linen as well their dirty minds in public….and this keeps this station going…

Of course I love the music, Kina Lionel Richie, Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Michael Bolton, Michael Jackson…etc etc, the songs still rock…lakini there are just too many adverts and a half of them have to do with the Nairobi Star

4. The Rest

Capital-don’t listen to it…Hot 96-who does listen to it? KBC English- I only listen to the late night show (am a crunk gal day time, and a blues person at nite), despite the irritating Jackie Manyaga trying to sound ‘soodhing’..I vumilia and listen to Boyz II men and other blues they play…

In short (this post has been long), I am also beginning to invest in a huge collection of my favourite music..I will have no use to listen to these radio stations….(except BBC for news, at least it does not try to be something it is not.. it is still same old boring bbc, as well as KBC Kiswahili for a boring, comprehensive coverage of local news…).