The Sherriff of the Wild Wild East- Patrick Shaw

Growing up in Eastleigh and schooling in Offafa Jeri primo, The name of the late police reservist Patrick Shaw was legendary. The burly senior Supritendent was said to be very fast on his feet and on the draw and inspired terror in all of us.

The class wag would memserise us with tall tales of how he and and his pals had been chased at night by the arguably most memorable police officer in Kenya's history. We would be told of how one of his pals had been shot by shaw but the bullet had passed through his shoulder and the bloke had gotten up and kept running (this heroic bullet dodging chap was, mark you, an 11 year old primary school kid, oh the innocence of childhood that we actually believed such stories!)

It was said that Shaw did exile a couple of hapless thugs from Nairobi ('go back to Muranga and never step a foot in Nairobi again or else...')

I despite my curosity and terror of Shaw, never did get to encounter him. If one of you ever did, please tell me of the encounter

And for all potential grooms out there.....

As me and my best pal Mose keep saying (probably because we are envious of other blokes who manage to get themselves hitched)

Once you say I DO ......You are surely DONE! .....completely.. kabisa done for!

Remember this Song?... anyone?

Remember this song on VOK radio morning in the mid eighties,

Hata wewe karani, amka kumekucha, Kwani hizi ndizo saa za kwenda kazi
Hata wewe mwalimu amka kumekucha, kwani hizi ndizo saa za kwenda shule

Uvivu ndio adui, wa ujenzi wa taifa, jiepushe na uvivu...wewe!
Tujenge taifa!

And we thought every one was jengaring the nation then. How so naive we were!

Tragedy and Joy abound!

They are about to name into the cabinet a thief and a murderer. Where did the rain start to beat us?

on a happier note, my friend John is getting married later this year to. How I wish I was back at home. I miss my ol beautiful land! and the simplicity of life there. I miss my friends, Dear Mose, Mercurial Sara, The hilarious Silas, Sensible Toni, Delightful Eve and Forceful Sue.

Send a shout out if any of you happens to visit this blog sometime soon!

Design or Chance

Evolution as proposed by Darwinists (if they can be called that) is something that logically speaking is not even possible. Ofcourse this does not mean that it proves that God created the world, you need Faith to believe that. Just that as an alternative to creation, it sounds even more unbelieveable if you think deeply about it.

The universe as it is is not a hierarchical system where components are placed in order of increasing or decreasing importance. if it was, then the darwin theory might have been, theoretically at least, possible. But as it is it is a system of intertwinned components which cannot possibly function or even exists without the other.

Take life for example. A possible darwin suggestion is that life started as a single cell structure coming into being through a chemical reaction of sorts (which no scientist to date has ever managed to understand let alone duplicate but let us assume it is possible) the single cell then mutated to be a multi cellular organism and later with specialised organs such as the heart tissue, blood tissue and so on. Which leads us to an immediate problem. say the heart exists inorder to pump blood through the body. If that is the case, blood tissue could not then possiblly have evolved before the heart tissue did otherwise it would just congeal and the organism would die. But the heart cannot function without blood which feed it with the oxygen it needs to keep its cells alive. so did the heart cells evolve, stay for a couple of million of years without oxygen while awaiting the mutation and hence the evolution of the blood tissue? these are just two organs. look at it more broadly to include the lungs, the kidneys, the liver, muscle tissue. did our great animal ancestor have to move around for a couple of million of years without lungs while awaiting their evolution?

A possible way out of it would be ofcourse that all the organs evolved simoultaniously, which again is as silly as saying that in multi secconds, an ameobe suddenly turned into a highly comlex multi system organism. if you can believe that, then you might as well believe in creation.If you now stretch this arguement to cover the highly complex flora and fauna system that constantly feed and sustain each other as well as the delicate temperature system that keep the earth being just right to sustain life (an which men seem to be hell-bent on destroying) then evolution sounds more and more absurd. That is my opinion.