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Sunday 9 June 2013

Nicki Minaj Goes Island For Busta Rhymes' 'Twerk It' Remix

Nicki Minaj and Busta Rhymes

Nicki Minaj has proven to be both a hip-hop and pop threat, but her versatility doesn't stop there. Through the years, the Trinidad-born hitmaker has dabbled in dancehall, showing off her Caribbean swag, making her most recent splash with labelmate Busta Rhymes on the remix to his new reggae-drenched single, "Twerk It."
The Dungeon Dragon first released his Pharrell-produced island thump last month, and Thursday night, he gave the track new life by adding the queen of Queens, New York. This time out, rather than employing her alter-ego Roman or her sometimes London accent, Nicki leans on her West Indian roots and lets loose a deep Patois. "Dutty gal, when ya see mi and what yu fi do/ Bow down, big chain and it heavy too," she raps in a slow and measured pace.
Keeping with the vibe, Nicki goes on to shout out dancehall influencers like Vybz Kartel, Beenie Man and Bounty Killer, before repping for her birthplace, spitting: "Trinidad an no Jame$ mi no chat 'bout."
Busta Rhymes, who is Jamaican-American, has always dabbled in reggae. On his 2009 album, Back On My B.S., he and Pharrell created a similar vibe with "Kill Dem."
This isn't the first time Nicki has embraced dancehall, either. Back in 2010, she hopped on a remix of Jamaican reggae singer Gyptian's hit "Hold You," and earlier this year, she contributed to French Montana's Lil Vicious-sampling single "Freaks." Though Montana's single is technically a rap song, Nicki's verse was drenched with island slang. "I feel like this song brings back the essence of the dancehall," 

Thursday 6 June 2013

NEW LOVER..

I have found a new lover; he is the man of my dreams
 
He delights in the beauty of the creation in me, the wonderful bones that have been perfected and configured to carry the weight I bear. He loves me beyond the word love and is ready to go to the depth and heights to see me smile and not just for a while but a while longer
He finds satisfaction in the pouring of sweet words from his lover’s mouth, and in the glow of the beautiful skin that radiates its light to the world. His gratification rises with a beautiful scent of the heart’s innermost peace.  
 
I have found a new lover; he is the man of my dreams
 
I believe in him, his dreams, and mission for me. He makes me cross mountains and wide rivers so I can see his vision for me and he cares a little too much forcing my heart to give more of me. He looks deep in my eyes and I can sense that all he sees is the beautiful version of me and the amazing being he wants me to be; with him 
 
Pure happiness filled my heart as my life is engraved in his and together, we live day to day. Doubts and worries overwhelmed my heart when I thought about tomorrow and my insecurity caused me to be blind of the joys of today.  As the sun set, he said “I am not certain that tomorrow will come but you should know that tomorrow is a metaphor because with our souls intertwined; we have lived together a thousand tomorrows full of love and pleasures of the world.
 
I have found a new lover; he is the man of my dreams
 
He gave life back to me and my bones danced with joy leaving behind sadness of the world and embracing the madness of the heart in love, love that cannot be altered, in its purest form it shines beyond coloured petals in the morning sun and its levels are all positive never less than one. He listens to my cry and hugs me all night long saying it is going to be okay and he makes my life easier, even with the less that I own, I am under no stress like a new born

He is the definition of love that I have been looking for. He makes me a free soul, fully liberated from a prison in the chambers of my heart.  The agony of the world was ready to swallow me when he appeared and his gentle hands were around me. He is the perfect fire that purifies the innermost parts of my fascinating body, With Him I am refined and made a new. He is the flower that blossom in autumn and light in a dark night.

I have found a new lover; he is the man of my dreams

Check out this breaking up letter..


Woman dumps cheating boyfriend by leading him on hunt for all his belongings she's hidden. The letter was posted on Imgur two days ago and has already been viewed more than 300,000 times.

LMAO!!

Monday 3 June 2013

And now you can kiss the bride.. L.O.L


girl in the left: "oohh... that's how you do it!"
girl in the middle: "Mommy said I must close my eyes when they're start kissing."
girl in the right: "I'll tell my mom to find me a groom!"

If I had three minutes with President Jakaya Kikwete…


 I am such a reader,. I love reading especially reading on matters that i hardly know or dont know of totally.. As World Bank is one among my dream international organization and I being a young economist i tend to read more and more articles from the WB blogs..

SO, i came across this article of Jacques Morisset (just google him --what an intellectual!!)  who is *** The author is the World Bank’s lead economist for Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi, and the author of the third Tanzania Economic Update titled Opening the Gates: How the Port of Dar es Salaam can transform Tanzania.’ He is a PHd holder from the University of Geneiva but resides in Tanzania.

Please read it and share it, its very eye opening and interesting..





Imagine that you are in an elevator. It stops to pick up the next passenger going up.  It turns out to be H.E. Jayaka Mrisho Kikwete, yes, the President of Tanzania himself, accompanied by a group of high anking officials.  The President turns and asks you what you think is the most important thing that he could do for his country. You have less than three minutes to convince him.  What would you tell him?


I know what I would say, loud and clear: “Your Excellency, that would have to be improving the performance of the port of Dar es Salaam.”

No doubt there are plenty of issues that matter for Tanzania’s prosperity: rural development, education, energy, water, food security, roads, you name it. They are all competing for urgent attention and effort; yet it is also true that each of them involves complex solutions that would take time to produce impact on the ground, and it is hard to know where to begin and to focus priority attention.

This is not the case for the Dar es Salaam port, as most experts know what to do.
So why the port of Dar es Salaam?

The port represents a wonderful opportunity for his country. The port handles about 90%  of Tanzania’s international trade and is the potential gateway of six landlocked countries. I would tell him that almost all citizen and firms operating in Tanzania are currently affected, directly and indirectly, by the performance of this port.

When children are desperately ill in hospitals, the medicines that they urgently need to cure them are likely to be stuck inside the port. When farmers are keeling over due to excessive prices for fertilizers, this is partly as a result of the long delays at the port. Not only are the vehicles that transport us and our goods delivered to us as sea freight, they are also fuelled gasoline/petrol brought in by tankers from abroad. Come to think of it, a large portion of what Tanzanians eat, drink, or use in a typical day came into the country through the port of Dar es Salaam at some stage, either during its production or in its final state.

I would emphasize the symptoms of the current poor performance of the port.  Delays in processes are generally long, very long. In mid-2012 for instance, a typical container spent an average of 20 days in the port, including the anchorage time and the time spent before the merchandise exited the premises. In Mombasa port, the same container would spend an average of four to six days, or two to three days in the world's most efficient ports.

Although this average delay masks huge variations across customers and products, it translates into significant monetary costs for shipping companies and importers that are generally passed on to local consumers. To illustrate the magnitude of these losses for his country and the region, the World Bank's Third Tanzania Economic Update has calculated that Tanzania and six neighboring countries could earn up to US$2.7 billion per year (or approximately seven percent of Tanzania's GDP) if only the performance of the Dar es Salaam port was at par with Mombasa’s.

At this stage, the President might ask what exactly he should do to improve the port's performance. The good news is that many experts involved already have an idea what to do. They have proposed to improve both the soft and hard infrastructure in and around the port. On the soft side, this means rationalizing current processes and procedures that are overly complex and end up penalizing users. For example, modifying the sequencing call of vessels and storage tariffs, as well as simplifying custom payments.

For hard infrastructure, equipment, such as cranes, needs to be modernized and new berths built to increase capacity. These well-known actions have been identified for a while now but have not yet been implemented or only at a half-hearted pace.
Leadership for Reforms

“Well,” Ndugu Kikwete might say, “if my country is losing so much money and experts know what to do, what can I do to speed up the implementation process?” My answer would be three-fold. Firstly, some of the actions require money but I would quickly explain to him that this is not the main reason for the resistance to reforms. Indeed, many actions are inexpensive and others can be funded by private operators. Ports are good businesses, including in Tanzania, and potential private investors have been queuing to invest in the port of Dar es Salaam.

Secondly, I would explain to him that the lack of progress in the implementation of efficiency enhancing reforms in the port is partly the consequence of the absence of information about the cost of inaction. Not many people are aware that a more efficient port could boost the Tanzanian and regional economies, at least not in the magnitude of the figures mentioned above.

Thirdly, and more importantly, I would point out that he would have to fight the vested interests that are gaining from the inefficient state of the port.

The port is handling about US$15 billion of merchandise and this amount is expected to grow as the result of the expansion of regional economies. What is the corruption rate on these transactions? Of course, it is difficult to capture in exact terms, but if the corruption rate is, say, 20% of the value of the traded merchandise, this will be equivalent to US$3 billion per year!

Long delays also provide an opportunity for connected users to speed up processes through illegal payments. Such opportunistic behavior would not exist with an efficient port since there would be less room for negotiation. Why would users pay extra-money if the average delay in the port was only four days?

Another group winning from the port inefficiency is constituted by domestic companies that are facing less competition from imports. Longer delays of the imports contribute to higher costs and translate into some sort of ‘protection’ for the associated local industries. This protection could be as high as 22% of the merchandise's value if it is imported by container. This is four times higher than the average official import tariff charged by customs. Thanks to this protection, domestic firms can increase their profits or have less incentive to produce the most efficient way possible. As a result, the final consumer or investor loses, either by paying too much or accepting low quality. The trade-off is of course that faced with tougher competition someday some local firms could lose jobs or disappear.

My three-minutes are gone...

At the end of my three minutes, to convince the President further, I would conclude by telling him that he should not forget the "three Cs". The reform process in the port of Dar es Salaam requires:

- More Competition - by bringing new private investors in the port to finance new investments and offer better quality services;

- Less Corruption - by reducing the opportunities for rent-seeking behaviors by specific groups, and;

- More Communication by launching a strong advocacy campaign, which will help stimulate the appetite for reforms and increase the accountability of policy makers.

Thank you, Mr. President.