Love and Lust

Love, that feeling that eluded even the wisest of Men, Solomon. He couldn't understand how people in love function. It evaded him it eluded him.

However, after observation and interacting with the wise, I have come to a simple conclusion. That Love = Lust.

Please indulge me:

You meet a lady. As a man the first thing that crosses your mind is the woman's body. This is natural. The idea of having her in your hands, the idea of holding her and how it would feel.

She arouses certain instincts in you, instincts that progress to wishing that you can have her.

If getting her, happens, the next progression may be into sex. From where feeling of owning her arise. Its only then that you can claim to have known her and fallen in love. Seeing someone for the first time and claiming you have fallen in love is hogwash.

In the real scheme of things, its obsession that is uncannily mistaken for love. This I say with a full conviction that love has to grow on/upon you. Its something/feeling that has to take time to build up in you.

Thus, my final submission is that, for one to fall in love, there must be that lust, lust in its raw form from a male instinct's point of view.

Anything else is balderdash

Mobile Wars Celebrations Premature

Zain lowered its calling costs to 3/- pm and sms at 1/-. This came after CCK the industry regulator lowered the interconnection rates to 2.21 and 0.1 for calls and sms respectively.

A lot has been said on this topic but my point of interest is different.

Caroline Mutoko in her article on Monday said clearly after quoting Micheal Joseph Safaricon CEO, that for the Telcos to make the same cash they were making before Zain muddied the waters, it will require 65% increase of calls from the customers. This is definitely not going to happen. In fact, looking back, Zain is bound to suffer more for that for the simple reason that 80% of their calls terminate at Safaricom. So, while Zain will be haemorrhaging cash, Safaricom will be gaining from Zain. How uncanny.

For these companies to make cash, innovation is the way out. MPesa is doing great changing lives and there is no doubt about that. Its now available in UK ans South Africa. ZAP meanwhile, is struggling, for the simple reason that they can't facilitate sending cash to other network numbers unlike Safaricom.

Next year Safaricom is unleashing the 4G, quite a feat considering that they have locked the data market through their modems which are now the data entry point for new PC users if not cellphones.

This is the trend that Zain ought to follow but thinking that they will transform the Kenyan market Indian way, that will be a very tall order their tactics are usually short lived.

For now, Safaricom is mulling the next step after Zain muddied the voice prices leading to a loss of 2% traffic. The effects of this will not be immediate, rather they will be visible in due course and this may lead to a closure of two companies to leave the market to two well established Telcos.

If this happens, Safaricom and Orange have the best opportunities to survive, but only of they are focused on reengineering their products and innovating new services for their target clientèle.

Assenting to the Alcohol Bill-2010

Kibaki assented to the Alcohol Control Bill 2010. This legalises all traditional liquor as long as it is packaged hygenically. What this portends is simply a mind-boggling game changer in Alcohol sales in Kenya. Will EABL and Keroche the major beer sellers revert to production of traditional-cheaper liquor? Only time will tell, but opportunities galore.

On the Facebook and Twitter world, hilarious and absurd discussions have emerged on this new craze - Chang'aa Cocktails Names to be found at a pub near you. Some of these are quite innovative but other border on weird.

Here they are:
Slippery Eyes, Blindness on The Beach, Migingo Iced Tea, Kisii Anti-Witch Rum, Blind Mary, Crooked Walker, NyanzaPolitan, Morgue Pop, Single Shot, Famous Cham, Shauri Moyo Gin, Red Eye Shot, Chamnorff, Fire Lighter Graves Dry Gin.......!


And here is the wackiest of them all so far: 


TANGAZO!
Je unauhaba wa stairo za kisasa wakati upo na mwendani wako? Usiwe na hofu-Mama Pima Ent, wagema wa chang'aa maarufu kumi-kumi na kuona-mbee sasa wakutangazia uzinduzi mpya wa chang'aa aina ya Promulga Brandy, Watermelon Ice pamoja na Mututho Gin yenye ladha ya vanilla zisizo pofusha wala kuathiri afya ya uzazi kwa bei nafuu
ONYO: Usiinywe kabla ya kufunga kamba kwenye magoti.
Sheria na masharti kutumika... [From FACEBOOK.]

Only Kenyans are this creative.