Jenwaki's Life Bench

Talk of the dead coming to life right in front of your eyes. Yes, that is what the US music festival Coachella presented when Tupac's hologram performed "live" on stage in front of thousands of fans.   Tupac Shakur, a rapper has been dead since 1996 where he was murdered in some shooting. The high-definition projection of the gangsta rapper's image stood shirtless and incredibly life-like, from his signature tattoos, down to his Timberland boots and jewellery, exchanging lyrics ( Hail Mary , Come With Me , Gangsta Party ) with Snoop Dogg.  After a five-minute performance, Tupac's image is seen scattering and dissolving into the darkness.  The stunt has generated a wave of social media debate that had Tupac trending worldwide on Twitter with about 40 mentions a minute . As I watched the video, I couldn't help but become nostalgic as my mind raced back to the times I couldn't resist shaking my head to the beat of his music regardless of where I was.

And the saga concerning our pastors continues.... According to some investigations done by a local radio station, one popular Pastor with an equally popular church purportedly drove into a restaurant with a woman and it appeared that he was very drunk. He was reported to have started arguing with the woman right from the moment he got out of his vehicle at the parking lot into the restaurant. Once inside, the argument continued until the staff had no choice but to order them out.  On stepping outside, again the argument got quite heated to a point where the Pastor and the woman started fighting. Yeah right!! While driving into the restaurant, the security guards had noticed the reckless manner in which the Pastor drove and decided to keep an alert. So when one of the guards noticed them fighting at the parking lot, he was obliged to intervene as he figured someone might end up being seriously hurt. Apparently, that was the biggest mistake the guard made because the

Do I like bus/ Matatu rides? Aside from being confined in a moving vessel and lets not forget that you are riding with a bunch of strangers who are conversing loudly in all kinds of manner or just quiet waiting to get to wherever they are going. Do I cringe if somebody sneezes or coughs as I imagine he/she could be ailing from some disease caused by some virus that is incurable and am about to get infected? Let me put it this way, I like to get into a bus/ matatu , sit and shut the hell up until I get to my destination. If you happen to be the social extrovert seated next to me, I am not your specimen for trying out your prowess on how best or quick you can make a stranger you just met pour her heart out to you. The only exception is when I have boarded the vehicle with someone I REALLY know. If I happen to find you inside and I DO KNOW you, then it will be small talk for a few minutes and then zip! I value my peace during my rides to wherever but that is not always the case as I a

We claim to be in love or to love someone but how do we know when we have found love or how do we define this emotion that we would travel to the end of the world just to find it?  We sometimes ditch perfectly good relationships in the hopes of finding more of it or spend the majority of time thinking about, striving, praying, hoping, fantasizing for and yes, even seeing shrinks to affirm that you are probably about to get your wish fulfilled.   So how do we know for certain that we have it?"  Is it when we experience that initial rush of lust and excitement, the butterflies-in-our-stomach feeling that happens just at the mere sound of our lover's voice, the trembling and breathless moment when we think about him/her, or when we can’t seem to think straight because our lover is occupying more than half of our thoughts? We also know that these feelings come and go and sometimes we ask ourselves if we are still in love when the feeling goes.   Love and being in love are