Re: On and on and on..... go our outages and fluctuations with no end in sight

Assalamu alaikum, Shabir!

Yes, I heard that you're having BIG power problems on the island since Thursday evening when all of us suddenly were treated to the dark ages, yet again.

At the time, I didn't know that this treatment was affecting the entire 'city' of Mombasa till the next day.

You have all my sympathies for what you all must be going through. I am just wondering if this irresponsible power company is going to compensate the residents for all the damage their 2 days and counting outage is causing? The residents should DEMAND this. After all their services are inversely proportional to their constantly hiked up tariffs.

Imagine despite paying these atrocious charges, we still have to deal with spoilt food messed up electrical and electronic appliances with no apology or explanation. Typical of a banana republic which considers all of the above as collateral damage.

I'm surprised that you even managed to get through to their customer 'service'. Good for you since their 'emergency' numbers are redundant. 

That fire at Kipevu. What started it?

On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Issak wrote:

Salaams. Your problem with power pales when you compare ours on the Island. Two days and counting...at least someone at kpl customer care informed us of the cause, a fire at kipevu. Hopefully they sort it out soon. But you are quite correct, we can only develop fully if we do not get roadblocked all the time. What we need are backup plans, prompt responses and acceptance of responsibility.

Take heart, one day we will get there.

Shabir

Re: On and on and on..... go our outages and fluctuations with no end in sight

Subsequent to my email below, we lost power for another couple of times and then, it went again at about 5.45 pm and didn't come back till 5 hours later!!!! Which would make it just before 11.00 pm (nearly midnight!).

Considering these horrors are going to do away with power yet again in a few hours time, i.e. supposedly 9.00 am for their so-called maintenance, I'm having to finish all my work at this hour of the night - midnight.

We, Kenyans, don't get enough rest and are constantly working and trying to make a living despite all the challenges that life in this 50 year old country throws at us. 

One of the culprits (and there are so many), is our useless power company which is constantly taking us to the dark ages. Is it any wonder that we're not developing as we should be?

Having electrical and electronic appliances are a joke. We hardly get to use their full potential before they die on us thanks to this awful power company and it's so-called 'services'. The only thing they 'service' are their bottomless pockets!!!

And as I said before - they are OPAQUE in the extreme.

On and on and on..... go our outages and fluctuations with no end in sight

Yesterday, 25th Sept 2013, we, in Nyali suddenly lost power just before 10.30 am. Of course, nobody was answering their phones except for one person who has promised me that he would answer and he did. Thank God!

At first, I was told that the reason for the outage was a burnt transformer outside their sub-station. When I passed there a few minutes later, there was nobody from Kenya Power doing anything there.

Just shows that among many negative things, they can also lie.

Anyway, this particular employee who was good enough to give me his number and kept his word about answering my calls kept telling me that we would get our power back very soon. 

Unfortunately, we did not! We got our power back after 7.00 pm and this time the reason given was the trucks that frequent Kongowea Market and keep hitting into KPLC poles!!! 

Now, was this really the truth? One can never tell since the earlier transformer one was definitely not.

How can one believe anything these people tell us? So what was the real reason for the hours and hours long outage?

Then, early this morning around 5.45 am, the power went off, yet again, less than 12 hours after the nearly day long one of yesterday. It took a whole hour before it came back. Why had it gone?

Around mid-day, we had a fluctuation where those who have voltage regulators, will switch off everything that is connected to these devices. The thing was on orange for quite a few minutes. Why?

Also, I've been told that our area of Nyali is going to be having a so-called 'maintenance' outage for the whole of tomorrow, Friday! 

These constant outages, fluctuations and supposed 'maintenance' outages are really becoming too much for us. 

When will our misery end....., if ever? Why is Kenya Power such an infuriating, monopolizing company?

Post WESTGATE balm::::::::::SILENCE!

This is very interesting..

Raziya

Vast and Potent! Silence by Madisyn Taylor Silence can make us nervous thinking we need to fill the void, but there is "immense strength in silence". All sounds, from a whisper to a classical symphony, arise out of silence and disappear into silence. But silence is always there beneath sound and is the space where sound can exist. We tend to think of silence as the absence of sound, but silence has its own weight and quality. When you listen to silence, you can perceive its intense depth and power. Taking the time to experience silence calms the mind and rejuvenates the body. Silence is the void where we can hear the many sounds that we often ignore – the voice of our intuition telling us the truth, the sound of the breeze blowing, the hum of the radiator, and the noises we make just because we are alive. One way to experience silence is to wake up before the rest of the world has come alive. Try not to move into activity, and leave off the lights, radio, and television. Sit still and simply listen. You may hear your heartbeat or your breath, but keep your attention tuned to the silence that surrounds you. Stay this way for as long as you can, and allow the sound of silence to penetrate your body until it moves into your core. Feel the gentle, pulsing waves of silence and allow it to cleanse you. Five minutes of communing with silence can leave you feeling vibrant and connected to the universe. At night, choose a moment after everyone around you has retired and tune in to silence. You can also experience silence throughout the day. Even in the midst of activity, moments of silence are always present. Usually we ignore or feel nervous around silence and try to fill these moments with sound. Yet silence is always there – vast, potent, and available for us to step into any time we choose.

MAGIC OF SALT...

1. If you drop a whole egg on the floor, pour salt all over the egg, let it sit for awhile, then use dustpan, the egg will come right up, without all that mess.

2. Soak stained hankies in salt water before washing.


3. Sprinkle salt on your shelves to keep ants away.


4. Soak fish in salt water before descaling; the scales will come off easier.


5. Put a few grains of rice in your saltshaker for easier pouring.


6. Add salt to green salads to prevent wilting.


7. Test the freshness of eggs in a cup of salt water; fresh eggs sink bad ones float.


8. Add a little salt to your boiling water when cooking eggs; a cracked egg will stay in its shell this way.


9. A tiny pinch of salt with egg whites makes them beat up fluffier.


10. Soak wrinkled apples in a mildly salted water solution to perk them up.


11. Rub salt on your pancake griddle and your flapjacks won't stick.


12. Soak toothbrushes in salt water before you first use them; they will last longer.


13. Use salt to clean your discolored coffee pot.


14. Mix salt with turpentine to whiten you bathtub and toilet bowl.


15. Soak your nuts in salt brine overnight and they will crack out of their shells whole. Just tap the end of the shell with a hammer to break it open easily.


16. Boil clothes pins in salt water before using them and they will last longer.


17. Clean brass, copper and pewter with paste made of salt and vinegar, thickened with flour.


18. Add a little salt to the water your cut flowers will stand in for a longer life.


19. Pour a mound of salt on an ink spot on your carpet; let the salt soak up the stain.


20. Clean your iron by rubbing some salt on the damp cloth on the ironing surface


21. Adding a little salt to the water when cooking foods in a double boiler will make the food cook faster.


22. Use a mixture of salt and lemon juice to clean piano keys.


23. To fill plaster holes in your walls, use equal parts of salt and starch, with just enough water to make stiff putty.


24. Rinse a sore eye with a little salt water.


25. Mildly salted water makes an effective mouthwash. Use it hot for a sore throat gargle.


26. Dry salt sprinkled on your toothbrush makes a good tooth polisher.


27. Use salt for killing weeds in your lawn.


28. Eliminate excess suds with a sprinkle of salt.


29. A dash of salt in warm milk makes a more relaxing beverage.


30. Before using new glasses, soak them in warm salty water for a while.


31. A dash of salt enhances the taste of tea.


32. Salt improves the taste of cooking apples.


33. Soak your clothesline in salt water to prevent your clothes from freezing to the line; likewise, use salt in your final rinse to prevent the clothes from freezing.


34. Rub any wicker furniture you may have with salt water to prevent yellowing.


35. Freshen sponges by soaking them in salt water.


36. Add raw potatoes to stews and soups that are too salty.


37. Soak enamel pans in salt water overnight and boil salt water in them next day to remove burned-on stains.


38. Clean your greens in salt water for easier removal of dirt.


39. Gelatin sets more quickly when a dash of salt is added.


40. Fruits put in mildly salted water after peeling will not discolor.


41. Fabric colors hold fast in salty water wash.


42. Milk stays fresh longer when a little salt is added.


43. Use equal parts of salt and soda for brushing your teeth.


44. Sprinkle salt in your oven before scrubbing clean.


45. Soaked discolored glass in a salt and vinegar solution to remove stains.


46. Clean greasy pans with a paper towel and salt.


47. Salty water boils faster when cooking eggs.


48. Add a pinch of salt to whipping cream to make it whip more quickly.


49. Sprinkle salt in milk-scorched pans to remove odor.


50. A dash of salt improves the taste of coffee.


51. Boil mismatched hose in salty water and they will come out matched.


52. Salt and soda will sweeten the odor of your refrigerator.


53. Cover wine-stained fabric with salt; rinse in cool water later.


54. Remove offensive odors from stove with salt and cinnamon.


55. A pinch of salt improves the flavor of cocoa.


56. To remove grease stains in clothing, mix one part salt to four parts alcohol.


57. Salt and lemon juice removes mildew.


58. Sprinkle salt between sidewalk bricks where you don't want grass growing.


59. Polish your old kerosene lamp with salt for a brighter look. Remove odors from sink drainpipes with a strong, hot solution of salt water.


60. If a pie bubbles over in your oven, put a handful of salt on top of the spilled juice. The mess won't smell and will bake into a dry, light crust which will wipe off easily when the oven has cooled.

Kenya Power - the OPAQUE company!

Sharp at 6.30 this morning we lost power, again.

There seems to be no end to these unexplained, unwarranted outages for us at Nyali where this monopolistic power company treats it's long suffering consumers with total contempt.

None of their so-called engineers answer phones. Unfortunately, we have to call them in desperation since their numerous 'emergency' numbers don't even ring! 

They really should remove that huge bill-board that advertises these at the Nyali end of the bridge. How ironic that this huge board is one of the things that greets people as they enter this area, yet, it's all a fairy story.

Coming back to the latest outage of this morning... None of the numbers of their employees were being picked up till after over an hour had passed.

At this point, the senior person who answered told me that he was going to inform another colleague of his who lived in Nyali about it and I should expect a call from him soon.

That is another thing these people never want to commit to - give us a time frame that they operate under. Since this is a banana republic, our officialdom rarely adheres to time, hence our backwardness inspite of 50 years of Independence.

The only statement this senior manager kept repeating to me was that I should have patience. I think Kenyans have been exercising this for the past over 50 years and we are truly disgusted and fed up of constantly being told that we should have patience. Quite a few of us will die doing this and yet nothing will have changed.

Of course, I had no option but to wait for this other person to call me. After giving him more than half an hour, I called him myself and his response left me fuming.

The earlier guy either had not called him about the outage or he was pretending not to know what I was talking about. By this time we'd been without power for nearly 2 hours!!!! And he (the one who lives in Nyali), told me that he had power and so was giving the impression that we were imagining an outage...

He too, told me that he was going to investigate and come back.

Not only did he never come back, but, subsequently wouldn't answer his phone, which was also typical. 

After a total of nearly 3 hours of outage (close to 9.15 am), the first guy finally answered and repeated his mantra about patience without an explanation or apology for all the inconveniences they cause.

The power came back soon after this - just a few minutes short of a total of 3 hours!

How many more times are we going to suffer these outages and fluctuations....? And what causes them? Does this awful power company have an answer?

Retirement Benefits

These are really hilarious and quite true, too.....

Enjoy!

Raziya

                 

At the root of every gray hair, there is a dead brain cell.

Someone had to remind me,
So I'm reminding you, too.
Don't laugh.... It is all true!

Perks of reaching 50
Or being over 60
And heading towards
70 or beyond!

1..
Kidnappers are not very
interested in you.

2.
In a hostage situation,
you are likely to be released first.

3..
No one expects you to run --
anywhere.

4.
People call at 9 PM (or 9 AM) and ask,
'Did I wake you?'

5..
People no longer view you as a
hypochondriac.

6.
There is nothing left
to learn the hard way.

7..
Things you buy now will
never wear out.

8.
You can eat
supper at 4 PM.

9..

You can live without sex
but not your glasses.

10..
You get into heated arguments
about pension plans.

11.
You no longer think of speed limits
as a challenge.

12..
You quit trying to hold
your stomach in no matter who walks
into the room.

13.
You sing along
with elevator music.

14..
Your eyes won't get
much worse..

15.
Your investment in health insurance
is finally beginning to pay off.

16..
Your joints are more accurate meteorologists
than the national weather service.

17.
Your secrets are safe with your friends
because they can't remember them either.

18..
Your supply of brain cells is finally down to
a manageable size.

19.
You can't remember
who sent you this list.

And you notice these are all
in big print
for your convenience.

Forward this to everyone
You can remember
Right now!

AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING:

Never, NEVER, NEVER ,
Under any circumstances,
Take a sleeping pill, and a laxative on

There seems to be no end....

For over a week now, we've been suffering outages in parts of Nyali nearly every other day if not everyday and even more than once in a day!

The interesting part of all this is that despite Kenya Power's 'shouting' from the bill boards and other advertisements all over regarding their so-called 'emergency' numbers, NONE of those numbers really work for us. They don't even ring!

Therefore, when the power goes, we have no way of informing this opaque company of the outage or be able to know when the power will be back or the cause of this latest outage.

The last time I wrote an email and then twitted the link to my blog, I got a response telling me that things would improve, soon.

I very much doubt this statement since our predicament has been going on for YEARS, now, with no particular end in sight.

In fact, a while back, I thought, these people had really improved only to realize a few days later that they are the same as ever - OPAQUE!

We had our latest outage just about 45 minutes ago which lasted approximately 7 minutes! But, of course, we didn't know of the duration. It could very well have lasted for hours, instead.

It goes in the dead of night, too, and lasts for hours!

Re: The T-Junction at Cinemax, Nyali

What a defeatist comment!!!! Sure we pray to Allah to give these people some integrity and brains, but we also try and get our disapproving voices heard. In fact, the complaints email address of the Council is bouncing due to it's mailbox being full! What does that tell you of this Council?

Remember, the hadith of the Holy Prophet (pbuh)? That we trust in God but tie our camels.

With prayers, there should also be some action and what better and very non-violent way than to WRITE about injustices in our midst.

And since we're members of the MCCBO, we really should be doing something about this since quite a few of our members live in Nyali and are suffering the consequences of this.

Officialdom, instead of trying to ease the traffic jams during peak hours, seems to be hell-bent on causing more jams!

Salaams,

Raziya

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Hussein A Abbas Al Hussein  wrote:

Mama Raziya

Let's have patience Allah Karim what can we do if all goes to deaf ears mamangu
Sent from my BlackBerry®

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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:25:03
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Subject: Re: The T-Junction at Cinemax, Nyali

'Evening!


Since my email below to 'officialdom', nothing seems to have changed (as expected), since the supposed officialdom cares two hoots for the community they claim to serve.


They seem to be least concerned with the frustrations that their extremely useless new 'traffic law' has caused to countless residents.


And if you've read some of the comments on LinkedIn regarding this issue, you will find that most people are so tired and fed up with our so-called 'servants' of the people (they are more like 'servants' of the high and mighty and well connected), that they expect all the negative reactions to this latest insanity!


For example imagine the mental and physical condition of a resident (who has a vehicle which quite a few people in Nyali have), after battling with the late afternoon traffic from work in town who finally arrives on the Nyali Rd., and thinks he/she is on the last stretch home and remembers that s/he needs some bread and milk from Nakumatt. So, s/he turns right at the Cinemax junction. After getting the required stuff, tiredly stands in the long line at the cashier to pay and then gets in the car and drives out the gate to turn right and join the main road to carry on further along the road to get home....


Instead what happens? There standing in front of him/her in the middle of the road, this intimidating 'official' human (?!), telling this very exhausted driver to go back to the Rockwall junction and re-join the traffic jam there. In the process s/he will waste another, at least half an hour if not more to get home with very frayed and frustrated nerves.


And you might ask why? All because, some two businesses (as rumour has it), have taken it upon themselves to pay our questionable council to re-arrange the traffic flow for their own personal ends without a shred of planning involved as to the logistics that this selfish action will involve!


These people have only to observe how many drivers really 'obey' their daft rule when there is no intimidating presence of 'officialdom', and they will hopefully realize the stupidity of their new and very daft rule!


The whole exercise is expensive - fuel wise, traffic wise and emotionally! I wonder if this will get through their collective heads.... whoever is involved..?


Very disgusted,
 Raziya

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Hemant Patel wrote:


Dear Razia,
                        Thank you for the well meaning e'mail. You have correctly described this new " most daft traffic rule" at junction of Total stn/ Mkomani and Cinemax. We admire your efforts to bring to the notice of 'administrators' of various departments of our county and Nation over the years even if it falls on deaf ears. Carry on good work. God bless you.

         Have a nice Day.

      Koki and Hemant

Re: The T-Junction at Cinemax, Nyali

Since my email below to 'officialdom', nothing seems to have changed (as expected), since the supposed officialdom cares two hoots for the community they claim to serve.

They seem to be least concerned with the frustrations that their extremely useless new 'traffic law' has caused to countless residents.

And if you've read some of the comments on LinkedIn regarding this issue, you will find that most people are so tired and fed up with our so-called 'servants' of the people (they are more like 'servants' of the high and mighty and well connected), that they expect all the negative reactions to this latest insanity!

For example imagine the mental and physical condition of a resident (who has a vehicle which quite a few people in Nyali have), after battling with the late afternoon traffic from work in town who finally arrives on the Nyali Rd., and thinks he/she is on the last stretch home and remembers that s/he needs some bread and milk from Nakumatt. So, s/he turns right at the Cinemax junction. After getting the required stuff, tiredly stands in the long line at the cashier to pay and then gets in the car and drives out the gate to turn right and join the main road to carry on further along the road to get home.... 

Instead what happens? There standing in front of him/her in the middle of the road, this intimidating 'official' human (?!), telling this very exhausted driver to go back to the Rockwall junction and re-join the traffic jam there. In the process s/he will waste another, at least half an hour if not more to get home with very frayed and frustrated nerves.

And you might ask why? All because, some two businesses (as rumour has it), have taken it upon themselves to pay our questionable council to re-arrange the traffic flow for their own personal ends without a shred of planning involved as to the logistics that this selfish action will involve!

These people have only to observe how many drivers really 'obey' their daft rule when there is no intimidating presence of 'officialdom', and they will hopefully realize the stupidity of their new and very daft rule! 

The whole exercise is expensive - fuel wise, traffic wise and emotionally! I wonder if this will get through their collective heads.... whoever is involved..?

Very disgusted,

Raziya

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Hemant Patel wrote:

Dear Razia,

                        Thank you for the well meaning e'mail. You have correctly described this new " most daft traffic rule" at junction of Total stn/ Mkomani and Cinemax. We admire your efforts to bring to the notice of 'administrators' of various departments of our county and Nation over the years even if it falls on deaf ears. Carry on good work. God bless you.

         Have a nice Day.

      Koki and Hemant

----- Original Message -----

From: Raziya Mohamedali

To: Mombasa City Council (MCC) ; Minister of Transport & Infrastructure, Mombasa County - Hon. Mohammed Abbas ; Minister of Transport & Infrastructure, Mombasa County - Hon. Mohammed Abbas ; Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission - Mombasa ; Hassan Ali Joho

Cc: Catherine Gicheru ; Coast This Week ; COASTWEEK ; K24 Television - Dihoff Mukoto ; Kenya Times ; LETTERS THE STAR ; The Editor- THE NATION ; Mwende Mwinzi ; Ayub Mwangi ; NTV ; Oscar - Editor, Fountain Media (The Speaker Newspaper) ; Salama Radio ; Sisuel Ong'era ; The Star ; Vip Ogola ; Wanjiru ; WEEKEND NAIROBI STAR ; feedback@theasianweekly.net

Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2013 7:48 PM

Subject: The T-Junction at Cinemax, Nyali

'Evening!

Since the past couple of weeks, we, the residents of Nyali, have been treated to the most daft rule at the above mentioned junction.

This road which ends at another T-Junction at Total Petrol Stn/Mkomani, has no sign telling the vehicle users at that end that at the Cinemax end they will no longer be able to access the main Nyali road (join it), and if there are council askaris around they will be told in an unceremonious manner to turn around and go back the way they came and if they want to access the main road, they can now only do so at the Rockwall junction which was at the best of times a mess, anyway.

So now, instead of distributing the traffic at the above two junctions like before, we HAVE to use the Rockwall one ONLY! Increasing traffic jams which during peak times have a domino effect all the way to the bridge.

ALL vehicles HAVE to use this one and only junction whether one is going further into Nyali or towards the Bridge and away.

I wonder who was the genius who planned this...?!

Since our Council is not known for giving much thought to planning ANYTHING, this is one perfect example.

In fact, whenever, this (the Cinemax end), junction is not 'policed', every driver breaks this daft rule.

The boards, too, have been put up wrongly.

Why penalize the residents with such a roundabout way of getting home?

Did these 'planners' do a proper study of the logistics of this irritating and frustrating rule? I very much doubt it.

Please, undo this daft traffic rule and bring sanity back.

Raziya

The T-Junction at Cinemax, Nyali

Since the past couple of weeks, we, the residents of Nyali, have been treated to the most daft rule at the above mentioned junction.

This road which ends at another T-Junction at Total Petrol Stn/Mkomani, has no sign telling the vehicle users at that end that at the Cinemax end they will no longer be able to access the main Nyali road (join it), and if there are council askaris around they will be told in an unceremonious manner to turn around and go back the way they came and if they want to access the main road, they can now only do so at the Rockwall junction which was at the best of times a mess, anyway.

So now, instead of distributing the traffic at the above two junctions like before, we HAVE to use the Rockwall one ONLY! Increasing traffic jams which during peak times have a domino effect all the way to the bridge.

ALL vehicles HAVE to use this one and only junction whether one is going further into Nyali or towards the Bridge and away.

I wonder who was the genius who planned this...?!

Since our Council is not known for giving much thought to planning ANYTHING, this is one perfect example.

In fact, whenever, this (the Cinemax end), junction is not 'policed', every driver breaks this daft rule.

The boards, too, have been put up wrongly.

Why penalize the residents with such a roundabout way of getting home?

Did these 'planners' do a proper study of the logistics of this irritating and frustrating rule? I very much doubt it.

Please, undo this daft traffic rule and bring sanity back.

Your health....

Outages are back in Nyali....

Since Friday afternoon, parts of Nyali have been experiencing constant outages on a daily basis.

It would seem that Friday started it all when we had an outage from before 6.00 pm and which lasted till 10.30 pm. An outage which lasted nearly 5 hours without an explanation or apology as usual.

In fact, everytime I called the various numbers of engineers I have, I was told each time that it would be back in an hour or half an hour and finally the calls went unanswered.

Of course, their so-called much hyped and advertized from huge bill-boards all over - 95551 and the other 'emergency' numbers were all unavailable! What I mean by this is they didn't even ring!

Yesterday afternoon (Saturday), we had another outage and it came and went, again, but no response from anybody from our pathetic power company, as usual. And then somebody from KPLC rings me this morning asking if I have power! Imagine, if I still didn't from yesterday afternoon, what would be the condition of the food, etc., in all these hours!!!! But, of course, they take their own sweet time responding as they couldn't care less.

This afternoon (Sunday), the same happened with the same non-response from the so-called providers of this commodity.

Why is it that while the ASK Show is going on, we, in Mombasa have some of the most terrible inconveniences like water shortages and power outages, yet, we spend (in Nyali), nearly a whole week of sleepless nights due to the constant racket from this contentious show-ground?

Was this show the cause of our 3 days of outages? And are these going to re-start in the days to come? And if so, what is the cause of them?

This power company operates in the most opaque and insolent manner, don't you think?