Thum e Thim Festival

It's with great pleasure that we introduce to you Thum e Thim Festival. Thum e Thim is a Dholuo phrase for Music in the Wild! The event is hosted after every six months and provides thrilling, innovative and entertaining activities such as; live music, comedy, poetry, dances around the bonfire, traditional cuisines and laid-back games. The Festival’s core objective is to nurture talent among the youth; promote culture, tradition and local tourism in Kenya.

For the very first time in the history of entertainment, Trusound Entertainment is bringing to you the biggest, baddest show in Kisumu. Dubbed #ThumeThim (Music in the Wild).

Featuring: The Queen of Ohangla- Lady Moureen, Otieno Aloka, Osito Kale Kassam, Ogina Koko, Nahna and Gabiro.

Going down on 6th June 2015 at Impala Sanctuary- Ksm.

Charges 500 and 1000 VIP.

Hosted by: Mbom The Prince.


Local delicacies to be served like Achwaka, Achiela, Aboka, Ateda, Athola, Apoth, Atwago, Nyuk kal served in Agwata, Kuon bel, Ngege, Mbuta, Obambo,Omena, Osuga, Omboga, Muto, Sewe, Grilled fish.

Thum e Thim (The Real Authentic Expereince)

Thum e Thim is a Dholuo word for Music in the Wild! The event that is hosted every three months is guaranteed to give you a round of exciting, scintillating, innovative and entertaining activities such as: live music, comedy, poetry, dances around the bonfire, traditional cuisines and laid back games. The event further seeks to promote culture, tradition and local tourism in Kenya. For realization of the event's theme……..Music in the wild!! Thum e Thim is held at a unique geographical/historical site that provides fauna & sauna, fresh air and untamed beauty to give you an opportunity to relax, mingle and network while sightseeing, and interacting with the wild animals in their natural habitat.

The Experience:
Regardless of your passion, either as an outdoor adventurer, Beach-goer, Summertime relaxer, Dancer, artiste, Delicacy sampler, or Nature-lover, Thum e Thim gives you an exciting opportunity to catch up with friends and colleagues; to network as you watch the wild; enjoy listening to music; a chance to identify and create new friends as you sample the delicious traditional delicacies. In the era of busy schedules and hustle filled days.

Thum e Thim gives you the opportunity to take a breather; get off the busy schedules, and have a one day fun-filled event that brings out the kid in you!!. Whether as a couple or single, married or not, the event's aim is to make you swim in a sea of unforgettable fun and adventure. A experience that provide will provude you with text of many pages in your diary of a day well spent in future. You will not only enjoy the dazzling experience of great music but a chance to enlarge your business, career and social networks with other merry makers. At Thum e Thim, there's gloom but glee! We give you the opportunity to loosen up, to try new games, to show off you latest dance move and to mingle! The event's deepest desire is to make you happy; to give you total relaxation; to take you away from the hustle and bustle of the daily life; an escape from the noises and cruises of your daily life. An opportunity to share a meal with a monkey, reminisce about your childhood and rediscover yourself! Thum e Thim provides you with one of kind exponential lively activities like bonfire, traditional games, traditional cuisines, dance, music and comedy beyond your imagination.

Music, Dance & Folktales
Do you love to dance? The slow kind? The sexy kind or the African Tango? Do you like to play-the hard tackle or the soft one? Do you like to sing or to listen? ...There's no likelihood that you will be bored because at Thum e Thim, there's only bloom and woods. Woods that we use to light up the bonfire and the trees that provide you with the shadows. Shadows that keep you from the sun as you enjoy your time. There will be series of activities lined up during the day as we build up to the night. At night, Thum e Thim provides a bonfire; lit in the middle of the wild, providing illumination, setting a perfect romantic ambience. …

Bonfire
You can't be in the wilderness without a bonfire, Right! Thum e Thim just have what you need- a bonfire right at the heart of the wilderness, providing you with the ideal warmth and heat in the coldness of the night, keeping you warm as you sip your favorite wine, or porridge, or milk! Think of all opportunities the night and the wild presents!! What else do you need when you can watch the sky illuminated by thousand stars and blue moon; rhythmic music; bits of wine; and the soft blow of heat from the bonfire? Total relaxation, and nerve-cooling adventure it is...

Food & Drinks
Thum e Thim allows you to sample lots of traditional delicacies. There will be nyuk kal (porridge made from sorghum) served in agwata (calabash); Kuon bel (ugali made from millet) served with Obambo (dried fish); Roasted maize, roasted potatoes and cassava, fried groundnuts. Lots of grilled fish and mouth-watering nyama choma! Foods will be accompanied by traditional brews like Busaa served in Abila and drunk using Oseke or milk served direct from the guards.

Games
Remember Ajua? It's Thum e Thim's biggest attraction. Play Ajua while you sit on the three legged stool with roasted maize in one hand and/or uji in the other and you will cherish the African traditions...!There will be other laid back games like Ring toss, Poker, Dice, Darts, Pool table, face painting and bouncy castles for kids.

Target:
The event offers a series of successful activities that provides you with the opportunity to place your product, image or service in the hands of hundreds of potential customers. Our target group is professionals, middle class Kenyans who love to live and love life with consciousness to develop and enlarge their empires.

Don’t you just love this ‘Boy’ Eugene Wamalwa?

Not very long ago, our good minister for Constitutional Affairs, Eugene Wamalwa was sharing meals and drinks with one Jimmy Kibaki of Simama- Kenya.

I am yet to know what happened to Jimmy. Please don't ask me. I also have no idea and i wish not to Google.

In the meantime, let’s proceed.
See, them days, Eugene and Jimmy were very close, in fact, everyone thought except me that Jimmy was preparing himself for an elective post.

What with well planned campaigns across the country, highly mobilized resources and our ever speculative media? -One couldn’t help but think, well, is Jimmy vying for Othaya Seat? (I have chosen not to ask about Simama- Kenya as we all know this was a useless - agenda less- visionless -resource- wasting- project).

Anyway, after sometime, the Simama Kenya campaign just fizzled out and so did the relationship between Jimmy and Eugene.

After Eugene’s ‘estranged’ relationship with Jimmy, along came former Mungiki leader now nationalist Maina Njenga- (add James to the two names).

Again, the two shared tea, few campaign trails that said nothing much and political platforms and then Eugene was all alone.

Maina had disappeared or let’s say Eugene got bored and moved on. Whichever angle you look at it, Eugene found himself alone- yet again.

Immediately after that, Eugene found himself in the company of Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto whom they went ahead and formed the G7. A weapon like we now know was created to politically destroy one Raila Odinga.

The relationship lasted longer then his previous relationships until Musalia Mudavadi also known as Double M, decided to dump ODM Party to join some party called UDF where he declared himself the presidential flag bearer.

After this development, Eugene started feeling a little jittery and insecure with all this arrangement of Double MM being a free agent.

He would soon be seen walking with different people saying different things. Things he didn’t believe in and totally paradoxical to the things believed- in- during the good old days.

Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto nevertheless, were not losing any sleep about Eugene’s insecurities.

Just when you think things would ease up, Eugene’s two brothers- (politically speaking- left him.

The two MPs Soita Shitanda and his counterpart Boni Khalwale whom he had been enjoying their lovely/lonely company left him in preference to their other brother- Double M.

With all these on and off relationships of Eugene, one stops to think for a moment whether it’s Eugene who is such a bad company or it’s him that attracts bad company.

Nonetheless, we still love him. After all, he is our Constitutional Affairs Minister.

A True Sense of Collective Responsibility

Every electioneering year, Kenyans seem to lose their heads. What with politicians cris-crossing the country with their useless campaigns, the media trialling them their like loyal dogs and empty political manifestos accompanied with hollow campaign promises.

However, the sudden death of the two ministerial officials, brought something different among Kenyans.

Something new, not so new but refreshing, something that if we kept along, we would be very far as a nation. Collective responsibility.

In the last two weeks, calm have reined this great nation. There has been no politics, no back stabs, no irrelevant analysis of any kind, no name calling or boring campaigns but peace, love and unity.

The president, his PM and the VP have shared tables several times in the last two weeks so has been the politicians from different parties. Talking passionately even if they are lying like we all know they were.

I don't get it therefore why we at times behave like we do! One is tempted to think. Maybe we need such situations more often. Just to get us back to our senses- whenever we are losing it- like we had started.

This sense of collective responsibility made me proud of ourselves. If only we used the same approach in solving all our problems like settling internally displaced people, poverty, corruption, joblessness, youth unemployment, misuse of state resources, tribalism and mega-scandals among others, then we would be very far as a nation.

Nonetheless, the unity demonstrated and togetherness was such a humbling experience. Wish it would last forever.

Why do people get married for Love? It makes no sense!

One of the biggest reasons people get married is because they are in love. On the flip side, one of the most common reasons why people divorce is because they have fallen out of love.

It beats me therefore, why we marry for love.
Why can't people just get married for some other reasons-like companionship or to keep a friendship we wouldn't wish not to lose?

The danger of getting married for love, like i have noticed is that when you love someone, there is a lot of expectation.The moment one fails to meet some of those expectations, then the journey of what we later call... falling out of love begins, then a call to the divorce lawyer, sooner, the realtor and then we are done.

Where is Dennis Onsarigo and Ali Mohamed?

I am one of the many Kenyans who watched and loved the investigative series on the six-billion- shilling cocaine haul that was caught in Kenya about seven years ago and the succeeding suspected killing of police officers who were involved in the probe.

A story which I must agree was well researched, developed and documented in bounds and leaps.

After several days of screening of the series on KTN, the police came out with guns blazing, threatening of suing the Standard Group- the parent company of KTN.

And it was not just the Standard Group that was under siege, the two brave investigative reporters’ lives were too.
The two reporters' lives took a whole new turn. Not for the better but for the worse.

For the next days, Ali Mohamed and his colleague Denis Onsarigo could not walk, talk, move, eat or do anything like any ordinary people. Their lives had changed. Literally.

The two became ‘Most Wanted’ in Nairobi. Ali realised that he was being followed while he attended class in the Nairobi Campus of Moi University.

The pair is said to have been trailed by unknown people, strange men, an unidentified men, killers on the loose maybe, assassins we don’t know, but certainly they were not the pairs’ friends.

As we speak, the two journalists from Kenya Television Network, is said to have left the country and most predictably hiding in Europe in fear of their security or life or both.

Sources claim that Ali was either headed to a European nation- Norway or the United States.

And when we thought this was all over, there were claims that an editor with Jackal; news blog who broke this story and has been running subsequent stories on the cocaine haul was attacked by dogs in South B- Nairobi.
The men assaulted the editor and threatened to deport him out of Nairobi, a warning implying to kill him if the website continued publishing reports touching on drugs.

I don’t know what you think but it seems that some people are indeed ‘Untouchables’. And it's not just Ali and Onsarigo but anyone who dares to mention cocaine- either in consciously or subconsciously!

Janet Mbugua joins Citizen TV

Finally after months of speculation, it is finally confirmed- Janet Mbugua is joining Citizen TV.

Word has been ubiquitous that the beautiful former news anchor of KTN who was ‘poached’ by ETV (a South African based TV station) would be joining the Citizen TV.

Janet’s joining the station made news not because of her news reading skills- actually; there is nothing so special about Janet- the only thing that caught people’s attention and made her make entertainment headlines is because of her payslip.

It is said that her pay slip will be reading 803,000 shillings a month. An amount that has got many people’s tongues wagging.

I don’t know if you know anyone in the media circles that earn this much. I don’t myself. Okay, I know one, our own queen of radio, Caroline Mutoko. But Caroline’s salary only matches this if it’s inclusive of the too much work at Radio Africa Ltd as a marketing manager.

In some quarters, this is not so much money. In media, it is. Especially, if the camera men/women and dressers get an average of 50,000 or less.

It’s even worse in some stations that pay 15,000 a month while others don’t pay their staff for three months.

And it’s not just the 0.8 million that caught our attention, something else did. The in -excess of 4.5 million shillings paid to ETV to free Mbugua from her contract in South Africa.

You could be wondering who is Janet Mbugua? Well, Mbugua is 27-year-old Kenyan. She started off on radio as a mid-morning show host in 2003.

In 2005 she took a break from radio and pursued studies in Malaysia. In 2007, she came back to Kenya and worked in television as a travel show host promoting Kenya’s hidden resources.

In the same year, the gorgeous journalist’s talents were noticed and she moved from being the travel show host to reading the news in Nairobi for the Kenya Television Network (KTN), before leaving for South Africa in mid 2009 to join ETV. Today, well, you know that already. KTN? NTV? ETV? No, Citizen TV it is.

Back in 2008/09, KTN was the TV to watch. It was just not easy not to. What of Janet Mbugua, Lillian Muli (Citizen TV) and Esther Arunga in your living room every day? It was a world of bevy beauties.

All said and (un)done, the question is? Is it cheaper recruiting and developing talent or its easy just acquiring the already developed talent and paying more? Well, that is a question that can be well answered by S. K. Macharia.

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against Mbugua's salary, in actually sense, I am so happy for her. But if I didn't write this, how else would you have known?

Mr Flava coming to Kenya and the translation of his lewd Nwa Baby Song

Mr Flava whose song Nwa Baby has been getting huge airplay inspite of its lewd vernacular lyrics will be in Kenya on October 15 for Naija Night at the Carnivore.

However, before you plan to attend this event, you may want to know the meaning of some of the words you will be asked by the artiste while performing. So before you reply to 'someone say ashawo'... you may need to check the meaning of the word.

Because I am concerned of what someone might think about you especially our Naija brodas and sisters, I have taken the huge risk of posting a translation of the song in this blog.

Be warned therefore next time you hear the song and start humming or mimicking the words-especially in the presence of a Nigerian- most so if you are a woman.

The song is literally porn in content.

Nwa baby, nye me fege (7x) – Baby Girl give me your vagina
Nwa baby, o kwa Nabania - baby Girl, is this night u will give me
I don hammer no be small, now it's
time to chop money
Somebody say Nabania – someone say it will happen this night
Na takwa ne fe omo wania – please lest chop money and enjoy
See the girls them plenty
Waka waka baby (oh yeah), wuru – walk about baby
wuru baby (oh yeah) -
I go tell my mama, (oh yeah) I go – l will tell my mama
tell my papa (oh yeah) - l will tell my Papa
And I go tell am say (oh yeah) - and l will tell them say
You be waka waka baby (oh yeah) – you are walk about Girl
You be wuru wuru baby (oh yeah) – you are cheating me Girl
Corner corner baby (oh yeah)
Sango sango baby (oh yeah) – you are not straight forward girl
Para rara baby (oh yeah) – l don’t really trust you baby
Oh baby sawaley - Baby open the vagina for me to enter
Sawa sawa sawaley (2x) Open, Open, Open,
Ashawo - Harlot

Kpokpotom kpomkpom, kporokotom - it means nothing but just sound
kpomkpom (2x) - Sound
Kpakolo kpa (3x), kpomkpom - Sound
Ojari kpokpo, ukwu nwa baby – Woman Vagina, Woman waist
Achukwu rege, kpom kpom – Shake ur waist, shake it well
Ashawo, awusha – Prostitute - Harlot
Awusha, ashawo – Prostitute - Harlot
Ashawo, awusha, kpom kpom
Eh eh eh eh eh eh, kpom kpom
Oh baby Sawaley
Sawa Sawa Sawaley (2x)
Ashawo

Nwa baby, nye me fege (7x) – Baby Girl give me your Vagina (7X)
Nwa baby, wa Nabania – Baby girl you will give it to me this night
Na soso walka I come dey go – all the time l move about
Everywhere I go, anai ti fe - anywhere l go, l eat money, also eat Woman vagina
All my guys where una dey – all my friends that are there
From here to saloon hotel – we all move from hair Saloon to Hotel
See the girls them plenty – we see so many girls
Waka waka baby (oh yeah), wuru – they all moving around us, but they all are fake
wuru baby (oh yeah)
I go tell my mama, (oh yeah) I go
tell my papa (oh yeah)
And I go tell am say (oh yeah)
You be waka waka baby (oh yeah)
You be wuru wuru baby (oh yeah) –
Corner corner baby (oh yeah)
Sango sango baby (oh yeah)
Para rara baby (oh yeah)
Oh baby sawaley
Sawa sawa sawaley (2x)
Ashawo

Kpokpotom kpomkpom, kporokotom
kpomkpom (2x)
Kpakolo kpa (3x), kpomkpom
Ojari kpokpo, ukwu nwa baby
Achukwu rege, kpom kpom
Ashawo, awusha
Awusha, ashawo
Ashawo, awusha, kpom kpom
Eh eh eh eh eh eh, kpom kpom
Oh baby Sawa lele
Sawa Sawa Sawale (2x)
Ashawo

Ala de no de, no de - there are different types of female breast
Ala ala de no de, de no de, Ala, we know they there are different types of breast
Ema na ala de no de, no de
Ala ala de no de, de no de, Ala
Ala mama - if the female breast is fine
Wera kagi ji de a ala - l will hold it with my hand
Ala mama - if the breast is fine and standing
Wero noge me jaya ala – l will use my mouth and suck it

What can you do for love? Spanish Duchess can do away with €3.5 billion

There is this incredible story of one duchess giving all her fortune to her children so as to marry the love of her life.

Her name, Oh My God ...I love it. It’s Maria del Rosario Cayetana Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia Francisca Fitz-James Stuart y de Silva. That is actually one name, can you believe it? Amazing right? I have just run out of breath.

Anyway, I was just wondering why she needs to do that. At the age of 85, why does she need a man, seriously? Even if its love? And what happens once she has given it all away? Will the two lovebirds be going hungry or she has some diamonds stashed- away somewhere in a Swiss bank?

The Madrid's Palacio de Lira born has more titles than any noble on earth, besides being a duchess seven times over, a countess 22 times and a marquesa 24 times.

She is also the head of the 539-year-old House of Alba, that apart she does not have to kneel before the Pope and she can ride on horseback into Seville Cathedral.
Am liking this duchess every minute. With all these titles, who need money?

The duchess's personal wealth is said to be something like €600 million ($A820 million) and €3.5 billion.

Anyway, she intends to give all to her children so that they could allow her to marry her love, one Alfonso Diez, 24 years her junior. Did I mention that her children have actually blocked her form marrying this guy?

The guy they feel is out to have her fortune even though the civil servant who also runs a PR business has signed a document rejecting any claim to her wealth.

To win the children, she has already given out six of her children and eight grandchildren a palace each. And I thought someone sending 100 grand to an imaginary lover was absurd.

It’s just funny that her children who are stopping her from marrying this fellow, , as she likes to mention, are all divorced, were all from her first marriage to Pedro Luis Martinez de Irujo y Artazcoz, son of the Duke of Sotomayor, who died in 1972.

Do you think she is rich? - sorry wealthy? I think so. But the not her- she insists she is not that wealthy.