Whenever you think you’re having a bad day, try and count your blessings…and remember that there are people out there in a worse position.
Reading about the man who was stabbed to death while walking with his 3 year old girl. They were on their way to the hospital as the wife had just given birth to a baby boy…
“The little girl was left standing in horror as paramedics desperately tried to save her father’s life on the pavement in west Croydon, south London. The pair were travelling to the nearby Mayday Hospital where her baby brother had been born.
Detective Chief Inspector Cliff Lyons, who is leading the investigation, said the circumstances of the murder were “particularly tragic”.
He said: “This was a shocking attack in a public place in the early evening. The victim’s three year-old daughter was with him when he was attacked, though fortunately she wasn’t physically injured.
A security guard at a nearby office described how he took the little girl away. He said: “I said she shouldn’t be watching something like that. I asked around to see whose child she was and somebody said she was the victim’s, so I took her away into our building.”
He said that the three-year-old was “in shock, her eyes were wide open”. She was muttering under her breath occasional words like “mum” and “mayday”. The guard watched paramedics treating the victim for a long time before the man died in front of his eyes.
Are people going mad? How in the world do you stab a man and leave him for dead while his little girl is just standing there? Watching you but unable to understand what is going on? How do you sleep at night? Seriously? I’m sure the medical staff and passers-by may NEVER forget the look on the girl’s face.
This is one family that definitely needs prayers and miracles. I mean one minute they are so happy, celebrating the birth of a new baby…next minute they are wondering where to start….funeral,trying to pick up the pieces of their shattered life, wife becoming a single mom just like that..
There needs to be a special part in jail reserved for this man (the murderer). One where he suffers from excrutiating pain for the rest of his miserable life!
Mine comes from ” Fight of my life” by Kirk Franklin.This album is good…then again I love all his albums, think I can sing along to most songs…from the slow tear jerking songs, to the rousing church sounding tracks, the the hip-hoppy tracks…he nails it everytime!!
Its been on re-play most of today…coz I need some motivation to work.Getting derailed is so easy..wah!
Anyhu I digress, was talking about Kirk…..onto some of my favourite tracks..
He will supply
Hide me
I particularly love the lyrics to this song.
‘It ain’t easy,
But I’m trying hard to get out of Your way
To believe
That what You say
That my change begins today.
The road includes some pain,
And to grow you need some rain
And when it falls, I wanna be where You are’
Ever listened to some songs and thought..”That is exactly what I’m going through/ feeling right now“? Like the musician was speaking to you personally? I think for me, listening to these songs are the moment when I hear the voice of God. Speaking of which, how can one recognise the voice of God? (Something to ask the Chaplain next). I mean, when reading the Bible, its clear that those people actually heard/ felt the presence of God. Like Elijah in the Desert, Moses and the Bush, Jonah in the desert among others. I’m not asking for something huge like a fiery bush, but just something……something that I can attest to.
I found myself thinking about the days I used to attend Sunday School….or Church School as a child. Those were good times: singing, memorising verses from the Bible and being quizzed on it the following Sunday ( I was good..always used to win the coveted lollipop..lol) and listen to the teacher tell us a Bible Story.It was easier then to believe…to have faith and trust. Why is that? Something I’m still working out.
Before I sign out, let me leave you with this song…One that has moved me to tears in the past.
Recipes- I love reading recipes…why I don’t know..guess its relaxing..plus you get the chance to try something bit different….like today I’m trying out one for size..hope it works out…coz twill be yummy!!!
Books- As stated earlier, can read the whole day…point I realised I was addicted was when I left the house during a storm to go borrow some more books..
Artsy creative stuff- Still have some sketches somewhere (went through a phase of drawing whenever I was bored..like during Kiswahili classes, when we were supposed to be reading things like “Kitumbua kimeingia mchanga” and other exciting stuff)…Now I just watch what others do…be it music, fashion, interior design..whatever..it grips me!
4 WORDS OR PHRASES I USE OFTEN
Thingie- Used to describe anything and everything….you know when you can picture a certain word in your head but it refuses to leap off your tongue??
What the fuse?- Attempts of mine to try and stop swearing…it works really…like saying “Sugar” instead of “shit!”….that sort of thing.
Salaams- Me and my love for shout-outs…so its a word that is used ALOT!
Wo-wo-wo- hehe
4 THINGS I HAVE LEARNED FROM THE PAST.
Never to believe everything that a man says at the beginning of the relationship…that honey-mooney phase is just phoooeeey!!
That having a bad temper and a hard head is not a helpful combination.
That I’m turning more and more like my mother everyday…sometimes I hear myself talk and I cannot believe it!
Despite everything…my inner romantic refuses to die….infct its getting worse by the day…when I swapped my James Pattersons and Patricia Cornwells for Nora Roberts and Jude Deveraux these fears were confirmed!
4 PLACES I WANT TO SEE OR VISIT
Barbados- that combi of sun, sea, sand…okie change that to a remote private island….like the one owned by Richard Branson.
Italy- Fashion capital….I sigh just thinking of all the gorgeous shoes that abound!
Lodwar-Need to travel all over Kenya..seriously how can I live in such a beautiful country and have foreign people know more about it than I do..no way!
India- Need to see it to believe it…plus I’m enamoured with Bollywood!!
4 THINGS THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY.
I got really irritated…actually make that angry. Yet it passed…icecream does do wonders!
Did some school work.. Very little though..
Finished reading “Appointment with Death”…..and again..Agatha Christie is the Mistress of her art..I can never figure out who the murderer is no matter how hard I try.
Finally got zee lamp to work..Yippee!! Okie let me confess someone else fixed the lamp for me…Lamp fixing is just not among my special talents..
Not tagging people…technically . King, Darius, Cheri, Mama Pete, Zax,Nzembi, Boyf,……feel free to post one up
I’m fed up! I think there is something about me that causes lamps to blow out. I must have the largest collection of busted lamps…ever!!! Why can’t they just work without problems?? Even when I have a similar model to what a friend of mine does…mine always manages to blow up first!!! What is up with that???
So gave up and decided to be lamp-less for a while….but yeah…this overhead lighting business is not conducive to work…or (ahem)…chilled out moments….there is just something about the soft glow of a lamp yes???
So its back to the lamps…
Val decides to be macho-man mackmende and goes to the B&Q to get a lamp……so had to lug that thing home…Okie I took the bus..make that FOUR buses….just for a lamp!!! Gah!! Which weighed a TON btw…
But yeah..managed to get it back without breaking any vital bits and pieces…..then came the setting up. Which I just gave up on…my room is a disaster zone….and I’m too weary to care….
. King, Darius, Cheri, Mama Pete, Zax,Nzembi, Boyf,……feel free to post one up 
