Kenya Speed Dating

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Kenya's latest and most innovative means to meet other singles and mingle.

This is my latest project.
I know it will be ground-breaking.

There are many single Kenyans who do not know:
1. where to look for other single people
2. who among the crowd is single
3. who among the single is available and searching
4. how to approach a potential
5. which venues are best to mingle with other singles.

I also know many professionals are very busy and do not have time to "play the field"
They also do not want to go on long, boring dates that will lead nowhere.

Kenya Speed Dating is the solution to all these problems.

We provide an opportunity for single & available professionals to meet other single & professional singles.
Imagine going on 15 dates in one day?

We bring together 15male and 15females together and allow them to have five (5) minute date with each other. We believe five minutes is enough to determine if you would like to know more about the person or not.
By the time you have gone on your 15 dates, you should have shortlisted a few people of interest and you can rank them.
You give us your "top three" picks and if the people you noted are also interested in you...we will provide the contact info.

What is the benefit of Kenya Speed Dating?
1. An opportunity to meet 15 "self Declared" single and available professionals.
2. Quick and painless - only five minutes with each person
3. You ask the questions based on your interests
4. If you dont luck out this week you can always try the next week
5. You can use the opportunity to network if not for dating
6. Its a great way to spend friday evening before going home or clubbing
7. You are under no obligation to give contacts or see anyone you do not want to
8. Its inexpensive: 15 dates for 1k

Oblivion

Oh how little we know
Yet it does not matter
Should what we do not know matter?
State of oblivion is no oblivion
For those who know not of

Economic Freedom and Taxation

An essential part of economic freedom is freedom to choose how to use our income: how much to spend on ourselves and on what items; how much to save and in what form; how much to give away and to whom. Currently, more than 40 percent of out income is disposed of on our behalf by government. That means you work for the government 146 days out of the 365 days in a year; 3.20hrs a day out of the 8hrs that you are at work daily.
The sad thing is: the government gets its share before you get your share.
Isn’t it sad that you do not have control of 40% of your income? You do not have a say about where & what the government will your money for.

To make matters worse, you do not have total freedom on how, where and what you can spend the rest of 60% of your income. Your after-tax income is taxed further when you make a purchase (16% on most items, higher for some items).
As consumers, we are not even free to choose how to spend the part of our income that is left after taxes. We are not free to buy weapons, drugs etc. Our doctor is not free to prescribe many drugs for us that he may regard as the most effective for our ailments, even though the drugs may be widely available abroad. We are not free to buy an old automobile (more than 8yrs old).

Another essential part of economic freedom is freedom to use the resources we possess in accordance with our own values – freedom to enter any occupation, engage in any business enterprise, buy from and sell to anyone else, so long as we do so on a strictly voluntary basis and do not resort to force in order to coerce others.

Currently corporate income tax in Kenya is 40%. The government is entitled to 40 cents for every Shilling of profit. That simply means that the government owns 40% of every corporation in Kenya.

Do we have economic freedom?
Have we allowed the government to own us?
Are the services provided by the government comparable to the amount of taxes that we are forced to pay the government?

The Role of Incentives

If what a person gets does not depend on the price he receives for the services of his resources, what incentive does he have to seek out information on prices or to act on the basis of that information?

If your income will be the same whether you work hard or not, why should you work hard? Why should you make the effort to search out a buyer who values most highly what you have to sell if you will not get any benefit from doing so? If there is no reward for accumulating capital, why should anyone postpone to a later date what he could enjoy now? Why save? If there is no reward for maintaining capital, why should people not dissipate any capital which they have either accumulated or inherited?

Is Kenya heading towards a command economy where prices are prevented from affecting the distribution of income? Where the government determines allocation of scarce resources as opposed to supply and demand?
Are we heading to a society ruled by Marx dictum: “to each according to his needs, from each according to his ability.” Can our government run a pure command economy where income is completely separated from prices?

Government Intervention in Free Enterprise

Kenyan government has made some financial decisions that make me question what end they are trying to achieve.

It should be common sense to do away with non-performing, non-competitive enterprises and support those that are competitive. It should also be common sense to buy from the cheapest source and sell to the dearest. Yet this is not the case. We have unreasonable restrictions on what we may buy and sell, from whom we may buy and to whom we may sell and on what terms.



“What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our own industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage….In every country, it always is and must be the interest of the great body of the people to buy whatever they want of those who sell it cheapest. The proposition is so very manifest, that it seems ridiculous to take any pain to prove it; nor could it ever have been called in question, had not the interested sophistry of merchants and manufacturers confounded the common sense of mankind. Their interest is, in this respect, directly opposite to that of great body of people.” Adam Smith –Wealth of Nations. Adam Smith’s words are true now as they were then.



Any productive/progressive nation understands its Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. The nation encourages its citizens to concentrate their efforts on those activities that the nation has a clear competitive advantage or where there are opportunities. Since a nation can not be great in all enterprises; it is vital to be productive in an enterprise that will provide means to purchase those things that the nation needs and can acquire them from others at a low cost than attempting to produce them in-house.



Government decision to reopen Pan Paper does not make economic sense. Why:

· Paper from other countries will continue to be cheaper;

· We do not need further deforestation; and

· National resources could have been put to better use.



Why should the government spend billions of shillings to re-open a company that can not compete with other foreign enterprises?



I sometimes question government ban of particular items such as sugar ban. If Brazil is able to manufacture sugar, ship it all the way here and still sell it cheaper than local sugar companies; I fail to understand why the government should protect enterprises that are not competitive. “Suppose Brazil subsidizes their sugar. Who is hurt and who benefits? To pay for the subsidies the Brazil government must tax its citizens. They are the ones who pay for the subsidies and the Kenyan customer benefits.”

Currently we have oversupply of milk; I would rather see the government subsidize milk prices for export than spend the same amount to reopen Pan Paper.

To Place My Eyes Upon

Is it consciousness?
Comparing oneself to others
A self consciousness of some sort
I notice the small pimple on you nose
That one strand of gray hair
Such effort to hide it, but age does shout
The funny way that one leg
Seems to move faster than the other

It’s not boredom or is it?
I think it’s human nature
To pick out the flaws, the peculiarity
In another human being
Why I do it, I don’t know
Your flaws, your peculiarity are not whats important
But something to focus on
When am with you

Come to think about it
What a bore it would be
Not to have that one thing which others notice
Where would I place my eyes?
It is not for better or worse
But something to keep my eyes preoccupied

Inaction

In 2006, I was writing a poem a day...while looking for some documents, I found the book that I wrote the poems...I will be sharing some of those poems here once in a while. They were written at a trying time in my life..when I was trying to figure my way forward.

This one is called inaction>

What fright is this
That I cannot fight?
Is rejection so gruesome
Far worse than lonesome?
They say ‘better to have loved than
Not to have loved at all’
Yet fright makes me stall
Never to make advances
So onward I press with my dances
Of loneliness, fear, and inaction
Yet around the corner is love n satisfaction

Surviving the Test of Time

In 1941 Bultmann launched his Manifesto, The New Testament and Mythology, in which he explained that the New testament world of spirits and miracles had become decidedly foreign to the modern scientists and technologists who were in control of themselves and of the world.
If this was true then, it is even truer now.

The dotcom generation, the age of gadgets and wiki where you can find an answer to all life mysteries does not seek the truth in the Bible. Does this mean that religion is slowly dying? Will the next generation know anything about the Old Testament and the New Testament? If they do know anything of the word, will the word be of any significance?

Can religion stand the test of time “as it is” or will it adapt to the changes in society?

If this generation does not read the Bible will it end up following wrong disciples?

Ricoeur said: “What we have here is a circle: to understand the text, I must believe what the text imparts; but what the text imparts to me is given nowhere else save in the text: that is why it is necessary to understand the text.”

So this begs the question: how many of us actually read the word for ourselves? With all the false prophets out there why do we allow them to interpret the text for us while we can do it for ourselves?

In Kenya we have seen Pastor Deya, Brother Paul Patni, Hellon etc who have obviously misled people; but I those who were misled allowed themselves to be misled.
We have been given the ability to think for ourselves and read and reason for ourselves; so why allow someone else define your relationship with your Maker?

So can religion is we know it, or as it was known by our parents survive the test of time or will it be kidnapped by self-serving, false prophets? Does religion serve a crucial role in our lives for us to defend it?