World Youth Day is a great meeting of young people from all over the world gathered around the Vicar of Christ. It is one of the primary means by which the Church proclaims the message of Christ to young people.
Monthly Archives: February 2011
ENG360 – Inspiring Engineers across the Divide
Want to know what it entails being an engineer? Want to feel the challenges that engineers face in there day-to-day life? Or do you want to experience the comfort and warmth of being among your fellow colleagues who are also pursuing the same profession, the noble profession that makes community life as well as the socio-economic life roll on with smoothness?
Letter from the Editor
It is with great pleasure that I write the editorial for this first issue...
When Culture meets Culture
I had always wanted to visit Africa. For us, the Finnish, it seems to be the undiscovered continent. After talking with some of my friends, it turned out that I had a chance to take care of two flies on one stroke: I could visit Africa and at the same time work as a volunteer.
True Leaders and Happy People Often Shun the Money Rat Race
At the faculty of law, while in university, Tony, a good friend, told me that if I wanted to be a leader I had to be shrewd, demanding on friends, merciless when they let me down, and make sure I made more money than they did. Leadership, he said, was about power, influence and results.
The Power of Influence
The principle of influence has a two fold application since people can have a negative effect on us as well as a positive effect. On your journey to achieve your goals, you will stir up both those who want to help you and those who want to hinder you.
The Excursion to Ndeiya
The excursion to Ndeiya was one of a kind, to say the least. It was an event that followed two others which had taken place the previous night: a barbecue and a get-together with Silvano Borruso on the Battle of Lepanto.
The Nairobi Stock Exchange
In order to understand the stock exchange we must venture to the rationale for it: Why does it exist?
Most people have been involved in trade in its simple forms, say, buying tomatoes in the grocery shop and giving money in exchange for the tomatoes. Well, that is the basic theory of tra de and that is what the stock exchange means in its rudimentary form.
A Review of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested – Sir Francis Bacon.
Robinson Crusoe is the hero and shortened title of The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner. It is Daniel Defoe’s (1659-1731) most famous work of art and has even been described as an immortal classic, loved by people of varied ages and backgrounds.
Radio Avenue
Have you ever wondered about the radio industry in Kenya? Have you ever taken a stroll along Radio Avenue and made a critical observation of the quality of work done there? Maybe you have, or maybe you have never.