ten reasons to have best friends of the opposite gender

Ten reasons why it’s good to have a best friend of the opposite gender

Ladies guide

1.       You always have a date whether attending a big function, or just going to get coffee down the street.

2.       Your friendship offers an opportunity for you to do a lot more, than you would normally do with fellow girlfriends. For example one gets to watch movies or TV shows that you won’t normally watch... I mean how many  times do you and your girlfriends  sit and decide to watch  Starswars , OR how it’s made ,  or any of those shows on Discovery Channels OR   any of the sport shows for  that matter.....

3.       You always have a personal stylist, someone to advise you on what makes you look really beautiful and outstanding   <<<<<<< provided he has a good fashion sense>>>>>>>

4.       Unlike the constant cat fights with your girlfriends, the rate of small fights or big fights is very slim.

5.       You can always rely on your guy friend to set you up  , when you feeling the need to  hook up with someone

6.        A trusted friend is someone who will always give you good advice, so with a guy friend you can be guaranteed good sexual advice when you have worries about sex.

7.       Ever gone out to a party, function or just found yourself in need of a dance partner? Well with a guy friend around, you never have to worry about such

8.        Whether you know it or not, in your guy friend , you officially have the best wing man in the world,

9.       Have you ever borrowed someone your favourite or just any normal pair of jeans, bag, shoes, name it....  and simply never gotten them back? Yes I have gone through that experience several times over and I know that feeling quite well... with a guy friend, your friendship is secure because you simply never get to cross this line....

10.   Last but not least. You always have a  Cuddling up partner , be it on a cold winters day/ night  and you in need of heat, or on any other given day  and you just want to cuddle ,  you can always cuddle without any awkward feelings between you or  without worries that someone somewhere might  start reading more into your relationship that there really is

In my opinion every girl need a best guy friend... Someone who is as close to her as a brother and someone she can always depend on for support and of course unlimited amount of fun and crazy times.

I can also attest to this because I happen to have a guy for a best friend >>>>                         

 Oooohhhh... the above could also work for gents as well, though I will write a gents guide in due time, in the mean time feel free to use the above as a basic guide

history is made as kenyan elect new president

attached below is  the story of kenyas new president  Uhuru  Kenyatta .

As ther youngest president of the country  hes got a toughroad ahead of him as kenyan expect him to deliver as his promises that he made While campaigning






 http://www.nation.co.ke/News/politics/My-pledge-to-Kenyans/-/1064/1715852/-/item/2/-/h7ws1xz/-/index.html

the highs and lows of kibaki

President Mwai Kibaki is headed for retirement after more than a decade in power that spanned one of the country’s most violent periods, but also saw a new Constitution that has brought hope for change.

A veteran politician from the birth of independent Kenya, Kibaki, 81, will call it a day after today’s polls, leaving a legacy of impressive economic growth partly overshadowed by corruption

For a leader who was popularly swept into power in 2002 on an anti-corruption platform, Kibaki’s tenure saw graft scandals where hundreds of millions of shillings were siphoned from public coffers.

Kibaki’s National Rainbow Coalition — which took power from the authoritarian rule of Daniel arap Moi — was welcomed for its promises of change and economic growth, but soon showed that it was better suited to treading established paths.

“The initial response to corruption was very solid... but it became clear after a while that these scams reached all the way to the president himself,” said Kenya’s former anti-corruption chief John Githongo in Michela Wrong’s book It’s Our Turn to Eat.

Most notorious of a raft of graft scandals was the multi-billion shilling Anglo Leasing case, which emerged in 2004 and involved public cash being paid to a complicated web of foreign companies for a range of services — including naval ships and passports — that never materialised.

Yet Kibaki also boosted the education and health sectors that were reeling from mismanagement under previous regimes, as well as launching ambitious infrastructure projects including large-scale road building.

His government introduced free basic education for children aged between six and 13, and revamped hospitals and clinics closed under Moi.

Closer ties to China have also boosted Kenya’s role as the economic powerhouse of East Africa, even if critics say Kibaki’s drive for growth has come at a potential longer term cost for the nation.

“He will be remembered as the president who pursued expansionist economics... and one who borrowed the most, leading us deeper into debt,” said Peter Kenneth, a minister under Kibaki and now a presidential candidate.

Kibaki’s recent large-scale and flagship projects — started but far from completed — include the development of the super port of Lamu as a second harbour to rival overstretched Mombasa, a transport hub for multiple nations.

Last month Kibaki also broke ground on the Konza project, a proposed giant Internet technology and business hub dubbed “Africa’s Silicon Savannah” which, it is hoped, will create more than 200,000 jobs by 2030.

But golf-loving Kibaki also led the country during the most violent election in its history, when more than 1,000 died in bloody ethnic battles after the disputed 2007 polls.

Kibaki, after a contentious win that the opposition protested was rigged, was hurriedly sworn in for a second term, prompting further violence that was resolved only after former UN chief Kofi Annan helped to broker a deal.

The crisis rocked what had until then been Kibaki’s most popular achievement — a stable economy — with hundreds of thousands forced from their homes and Kenya’s lucrative tourist industry left in tatters.

Kibaki, who grew up in a simple farming family in Kenya’s highland Nyeri district, excelled at school. He later studied economics and political science at Uganda’s prestigious Makerere University and then the London School of Economics.

Kenya’s longest serving parliamentarian — elected in 1963, and swiftly rising to be Trade minister three years later — was also part of the team that drafted Kenya’s 1963 independence Constitution.

In the chaotic aftermath of the 2007-8 post-poll violence, Kibaki would find himself in the unusual position of presiding over a referendum that overwhelmingly endorsed a new Constitution aimed at averting a repeat of the violence.

The 2010 Constitution maintained a presidential system, but introduced substantial checks with a devolved system of government and consolidated democracy and basic rights.

“His greatest moment was the promulgation of the new Constitution... It was a very deep and emotional moment for him,” Kibaki’s son Jimmy said in a recent documentary.

In the future, the elderly statesman — who was left with serious long-term injuries following a car crash in 2002 — is expected to enjoy his retirement on the golf courses of Nairobi and his sprawling estates in his birthplace of Nyeri.

But Kenya’s third president leaves a complicated legacy for his successor.

Leading contender Uhuru Kenyatta — who in 2007 put his presidential ambitions on hold in favour of Kibaki — faces a crimes against humanity trial for the 2007-8 violence that erupted under Kibaki’s  rule.

The legacy of that same violence may also dog the future for the other top candidate, Raila Odinga, whose 2007 presidential bid ended with him reluctantly settling for the prime minister’s post after Kibaki’s contentious win.


http://www.nation.co.ke/Features/DN2/Highs-and-lows-for-Mwai-Kibaki/-/957860/1709822/-/item/0/-/mrlir/-/index.html

vote wisely

dear fellow kenyans

 Today marks a very imprtant day in our history, as we all go out and que to vote for oour next president , may we lll please restrain from violent or speech that amount to hatred
may we show that we are a peace loving country , full of hope for the future and not willing to let hiustory repeat itself

I may not be voting this year, but in my heart i wish you all nothing but the very best, in all that you do today, may the choices you make today, make you a happier person come tomorrow

 one love #kenayakwanza
saundra

Online news journalism that exist in south Africa

After visiting several online news websites the following is my findings regarding the different layouts of this websites.

 Although all the websites do have a drop down menu, this menus come in different styles, In the mail and guardian, http://www.mg.co.za  I found that   they have a wide category of drop down menus as well there lead story is usually printed in red, the website itself has a lot of visuals, and there is abundant use of colour, there is an investigative page as well, that offers readers more details about some of the investigative stories they been working on. There page layout is filled with adverts from various companies. Overall the page is easy on the eye and attracts the reader’s immediate attention as well as its motto is captivating as it sells to the reader.

 At http://www.sabc.co.za/news, here I found blue to be the dominant colour, although red and black were also used frequently, the focus was more on south African oriented stories, here there was very little advertisement, although the websites had links to its TV as well as radio stations, the layout in general was well presented. 

 http://www.timeslive.co.za is artistically presented, with lots of advertisement, it offers the readers an opportunity to subscribe to the newspaper, allows for readers to becomes fans on facebook  has an editor’s choice space , column for most  popular stories for the day, there are plenty of photos and even more stories, as well as videos , has cartoons  and links to its other  news network, the site  also gives more information about the team that  works here, its partner sites, print services among other services that it offers .

“We almost never make it up, promise”, this is http://www.dailymaverick.co.za  motto. This site in my opinion is rather dull, very little colour is used, except for its photos; this site is more of a black and white affair. There is very little advertisement, and just like with most sites the top stories of the day get the most attention. On the other hand the page layout id different whereby they place one story after another and one gets to see the contributors and read more about them.

http://ewn.co.za  I felt the font used was very small, there were very few photos to accompany the stories covered, very little information is given meaning that the reader has to click on the stories to read more, there is a multi media gallery which is impressive.

http://www.iol.co.za/,  orange is a the dominant colour, the front page contains only headlines to the most breaking stories, one had to click  on the different links  to read further , the  page has  a list of the top stories, there is an editor’s choice column and there is a little tagline with the companies details.

http://www.citizen.co.za/citizen/content/en/citizen/home, red is the dominant colour used, the font used is quite big and easy on the eye, there are plenty of photos used and there are some stories in Afrikaans, something I found different from the other blogs that I visited.

Reference

1.    http://www.mg.co.za

2.    http://www.sabc.co.za/news,

3.    http://www.timeslive.co.za

4.    http://www.dailymaverick.co.za

5.    http://ewn.co.za 

6.    http://www.iol.co.za/

7.    http://www.citizen.co.za/citizen/content/en/citizen/home

happy new yaer.. its good to back

ok, so its a couple of hours away from  valentines day ,  but none the less HAPPY NEW YEAR, .. yes it a bit late for that , but hey better late than never.
 
This is th e yaer for grat expectations and  hopefully i will have time to log in here more often than i did last year, technically am not that big on all this social netwoking, but am getting there, slowly but surely

To prove that its beena while since i wa here i even forgot my password and log in details and it took me for ver to remember  the correct details , not to mention the fact that i had already signed up for a new blog.. but thats not important anymore.