Rcbowen finally pulls the curtain on the our digs of yore

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The Gland Mullah has finally thrown in the towel on Rcbowen.

RIP: Cookie, Stockexchange, Oldun, Milpolo, et al RIP Mwari

Forever Loving Jah"

Wo-o-o-o! Ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya! Woy-oh!
Yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah! Oh!
(We'll be forever loving Jah;
We'll be forever loving Jah!)

Some they say see them walking up the street;
They say we're going wrong to all the people we meet;
But-a we won't worry, we won't shed no tears:
We found a way to cast away the fears,
Forever, yeah!

(We'll be forever loving Jah) We'll be forever!
(We'll be forever loving Jah) Forever, yes, and forever!
(We'll be forever loving Jah) There'll be no end.

So, old man river, don't cry for me;
A-have got a running stream of love you see.
So, no matter what stages - oh stages -
Stages - stages they put us through,
We'll never be blue
No matter what rages, oh rages,
Changes - rages they put us through,
We'll never be blue:
We'll be forever, yeah!

(We'll be forever loving Jah) We'll be forever!
(We'll be forever loving Jah) Forever, and ever, yes, and forever!
(We'll be forever loving Jah) 'Cause there is no end.

'Cause only a fool lean upon -
Lean upon his own misunderstanding, oh ho, oh, yeah!
And then what has been hidden
From the wise and the prudent
Been revealed to the babe and the suckling
In everyt'ing, in every way, I say, yeah!

(We'll be forever loving Jah) We'll be forever!
(We'll be forever loving Jah)

'Cause just like a tree planted - planted by the rivers of water
That bringeth forth fruits - bringeth forth fruits in due season;
Everything in life got its purpose,
Find its reason in every season,
Forever, yeah!

(We'll be forever loving Jah) We'll be forever!
(We'll be forever loving Jah) On and on and on!
(We'll be forever loving Jah) We'll be forever, yes, yes -
we'll be forever.
(We'll be forever loving Jah)




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[Omollo]

http://kenya.rcbowen.com/talk/topic/moderators-wanted/

[Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants]

Sad to see it go.  I remember a time when he would have had an avalanche of people taking up his moderation request.  The refugees will feel right at home at choo.com.  There is also kenyatalk.com, a latter day mashada.com.

[Georgesoros]

The site really did wonders. Jimmy Mboya, Maziwa, etc were the driving force. Then came the modernists who thought that Kenya was on the right track with the takeover of Kibakists-Railaists. Corruption was almost wiped out, till Uhurus came to power and institutionalized it.

[20 years since Las Vegas]

It always amazes me just how fast time slips away. 25 years of RCbowen. 6 years already since this post was started.

Add; 10 years of Mashada,

And for the real OGs who remember ; forget the Katoto ka Celelac's as Natty Dread used to call us 10+ years ago 

Initially, in the Netscape (took ten years to load) and AOL days when the internet was still new and mbichi (email was new and interesting) and you had to access it by dial-up (mid 90s) we had;



Kenyaniyetu with a very nice "chat" box  where you could chat with fellow Kenyans in real time (way before whatsapp, Zoom et al). That was revolutionary. You were able to connect with Kwiinyans from all over TSA bila msukosukos. Friday evenings after a hectic week of Campo studies were the best ..  but some nasty fights also used to happen there 

Then there was kenyaweb chat I am sure almost no one remembers that.

Halafu Johnny come Lately's like www.mlevi.com by Leo Faya (early 2000)s which had a very hot, curvy but combative chick called Tracy Kanyingi who used to leave everybody panting . These gels these gels these gels I tells ya.  What made it tick was you had your own profile, could post and inbox each other and it had a very fresh layout and graphics. It sunk into oblivion as fast as it rose. It's always expensive to run servers for free for thankless Kwiinyans hamblod

And who remembers safarilady.com. Veritas were you part of the founder ladies? I heard catfights between the owners torpedoed that site too

Those were the days blathees...

[RV Pundit]

Oldunn, time flies.

[20 years since Las Vegas]

Oldunn, time flies.

Ujana ni moshi blathee .
Most of the RCBowen crowd of that era are now dead.
Stocko and Oloo are the ones we know left us, many more are also gone, man. I've learned to live a day at a time, appreciate life & friends, stay close to family and take nothing for granted.

[RV Pundit]

Oldunn/Youngun,

Yeah - I use to see you claiming to be youngun - you must have been 28yrs or about - Njamba was 30.

I was 20-24yrs - I couldnt really post those days - as intellectual debate was way above me.

Those days RCbowen - I needed a dictionary.

That forum improved my horrible English completely.

Anyway you still remain one of legend in these forum - I remember we did virtual stock trading thing - somehow from 100 KES you turned it to 56,000 - I think the next guy was faaaaaaaaaaaaaar away. I thought you hacked into it.

Youre one few people I remain respectful to - and truly admire for their brains.\

You're a gift to humanity. If you were not shy to share you success and interest - outside music - I think many people would benefit.

Write a book man. Dont die with all that knowledge.

[cookie1]

man from garba tura, your handwriting betrays you

Those were the days blathees...

[20 years since Las Vegas]

Oldunn/Youngun,

Yeah - I use to see you claiming to be youngun - you must have been 28yrs or about - Njamba was 30.

I was 20-24yrs - I couldnt really post those days - as intellectual debate was way above me.

Those days RCbowen - I needed a dictionary.

That forum improved my horrible English completely.

Anyway you still remain one of legend in these forum - I remember we did virtual stock trading thing - somehow from 100 KES you turned it to 56,000 - I think the next guy was faaaaaaaaaaaaaar away. I thought you hacked into it.

Youre one few people I remain respectful to - and truly admire for their brains.\

You're a gift to humanity. If you were not shy to share you success and interest - outside music - I think many people would benefit.

Write a book man. Dont die with all that knowledge.

Asante for the kind words bro.
Tumetoka mbali indeed. You have revived for me old memories of those days.
Siku hizi tumekuwa vijibaba kabsaa, Values have shifted as the years have frittered away but we plod on.

[20 years since Las Vegas]

man from garba tura, your handwriting betrays you

Those were the days blathees...

ha ha ha ha ha ha this post has revived Nkooks from a 10 year hibernation



Karibu blo, ulitpoteanga wapi? You must be in Tahiti by now with a Polynesian dogo dogo taabu tupu enjoying retirement Long Island Iced Teas on the beach 
 
I hope it can revive more legends of that era. Whatever happened to;

Natty Dread wa Amsterdam - very surprised hayuko hapa. Maybe after his perpetual nemesis (Olloo wa lengthy tichitals) sadly left us, he lost his passion for verbal viciousness online 
Na Wa Kwitu who used to sell used auction cars hapo South Carolina? Na my buddy Mungu Ngai Pan whom we used to reminisce about mid 90s Rap City jams with? Abby Ngel? - I highly suspect yeye ni Lupita or very close to Lupita. Na Asali? If she was here she would be with us on the music thread guaranteed. Na dengu aka JIrani?  I am sure by now ako in some nursing home on a pension live live, Donzi? ToaToa Princess wa London? Digalo /Diggz wa Moyale? Hasdy? Evian? Muhindi Caleb Essajee? Is he patel on this forum? Kuze? Papa eFwe  wa Louisiana? Ukwelimtupu the shouter on Zanax who used to disrupt kila kitu on the forum praaaaaaa whenever he would speak (Nyinyi nyote ni nyani kazolo mkia! he would say)? Bryan275? Mra-Ciake whom Nkooks used to make fun of for his golfing pics ? And who was always hammered on champagne or vodo hapa on Furahiday nites? Na Mteja? Mwari wa Mugo -  must be - like dengu -- in a nursing home with her daipers being changed by Filipino nurses. Na 5thGLG? Still in Mayotte after relocating from Paree? Still jogging ten miles a day shwaaaaaa and eating just one tiny compote to retain shape?  Former Kwiinyan wa Norway? My other buddy Ole Ole? Sense? Elephant Castle? Nyakinywa? Mil wa Dallas Texas ("hot chest" while jogging)?

It would be interesting also to know what Grand Mullah msungu Rich Wa Tenwek is up to these days after hosting our thankless ngelele for 25 years!

Who else do you remember from that era?

And how many of them are lurking hapa under other pseudonyms?

Apart from Pundito, Njamba and one or two others, very few RCB veterans/legends have remained  consistently active on this online forum which more or less replaced  our beloved RCB. Wakina Kenyatalk cannot even be spoken about - worse than Mashada ten times over.

I really, really miss Stocko Exchange wa Canada. RIP my friend.

As pundito said. time flies, man. Like the wind. You wake up one day and 20 years have disappeared ritru bit, ritru bit, just like that. Isapite.  Hope you are all enjoying this precious but fragile life ride so far as much as I am.

Ni hayo tu

[Pragmatic]

Oldunn/Cookie et al, I am one of the lurkers. Been quietly in all the forums you mention. Very enriching conversations and exchanges. Only forum/board I was ever provoked to sign up was this one due to some post that must have really irked me and thought to make a comment.

Time flies indeed; best to live your life in full and quietly while making meaningful contribution to humanity.

To all those who have fallen May they rest in Peace and kudos to their enriching contributions on these forums.

man from garba tura, your handwriting betrays you

Those were the days blathees...

ha ha ha ha ha ha this post has revived Nkooks from a 10 year hibernation



Karibu blo, ulitpoteanga wapi? You must be in Tahiti by now with a Polynesian dogo dogo taabu tupu enjoying retirement Long Island Iced Teas on the beach 
 
I hope it can revive more legends of that era. Whatever happened to;

Natty Dread wa Amsterdam - very surprised hayuko hapa. Maybe after his perpetual nemesis (Olloo wa lengthy tichitals) sadly left us, he lost his passion for verbal viciousness online 
Na Wa Kwitu who used to sell used auction cars hapo South Carolina? Na my buddy Mungu Ngai Pan whom we used to reminisce about mid 90s Rap City jams with? Abby Ngel? - I highly suspect yeye ni Lupita or very close to Lupita. Na Asali? If she was here she would be with us on the music thread guaranteed. Na dengu aka JIrani?  I am sure by now ako in some nursing home on a pension live live, Donzi? ToaToa Princess wa London? Digalo /Diggz wa Moyale? Hasdy? Evian? Muhindi Caleb Essajee? Is he patel on this forum? Kuze? Papa eFwe  wa Louisiana? Ukwelimtupu the shouter on Zanax who used to disrupt kila kitu on the forum praaaaaaa whenever he would speak (Nyinyi nyote ni nyani kazolo mkia! he would say)? Bryan275? Mra-Ciake whom Nkooks used to make fun of for his golfing pics ? And who was always hammered on champagne or vodo hapa on Furahiday nites? Na Mteja? Mwari wa Mugo -  must be - like dengu -- in a nursing home with her daipers being changed by Filipino nurses. Na 5thGLG? Still in Mayotte after relocating from Paree? Still jogging ten miles a day shwaaaaaa and eating just one tiny compote to retain shape?  Former Kwiinyan wa Norway? My other buddy Ole Ole? Sense? Elephant Castle? Nyakinywa? Mil wa Dallas Texas ("hot chest" while jogging)?

It would be interesting also to know what Grand Mullah msungu Rich Wa Tenwek is up to these days after hosting our thankless ngelele for 25 years!

Who else do you remember from that era?

And how many of them are lurking hapa under other pseudonyms?

Apart from Pundito, Njamba and one or two others, very few RCB veterans/legends have remained  consistently active on this online forum which more or less replaced  our beloved RCB. Wakina Kenyatalk cannot even be spoken about - worse than Mashada ten times over.

I really, really miss Stocko Exchange wa Canada. RIP my friend.

As pundito said. time flies, man. Like the wind. You wake up one day and 20 years have disappeared ritru bit, ritru bit, just like that. Isapite.  Hope you are all enjoying this precious but fragile life ride so far as much as I am.

Ni hayo tu

[20 years since Las Vegas]

Oldunn/Cookie et al, I am one of the lurkers. Been quietly in all the forums you mention. Very enriching conversations and exchanges. Only forum/board I was ever provoked to sign up was this one due to some post that must have really irked me and thought to make a comment.

Time flies indeed; best to live your life in full and quietly while making meaningful contribution to humanity.

To all those who have fallen May they rest in Peace and kudos to their enriching contributions on these forums.

hehehehehe kumbe tuko wengi hapa
Truer words have never been spoken bro.
The reported last spoken words of Jimi Hendrix seconds before he died were;

“The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye. The story of love is hello and goodbye, until we meet again.”

I never take anything for granted these days. Not even a sunrise, delicious food on the table nor every single breath God gives me to take.
When you're young you have all these dreams and ambitions and goals
If and when you achieve them, you find out they were not all they were cracked up to be.
 In fact you may find them to be a little empty and may end up depressed.
Yet you spent years or decades pursuing them
Woe betide us if you didn't take time to smell the roses and appreciate/bond with your loved ones along the way.

Ni hayo tu.

[cookie1]

Eish, you can still lemember all of these folks. The saddest part is those who have left us including Ngatia whom I used to enjoy his youtube monorogues.

Some of them went back to Kwiiiiinya including 5thGLG who is still into running and hiking, others like ngunjiri wambugu pivoted into poritics and eventuarry made it to parliament

ha ha ha ha ha ha this post has revived Nkooks from a 10 year hibernation



Karibu blo, ulitpoteanga wapi? You must be in Tahiti by now with a Polynesian dogo dogo taabu tupu enjoying retirement Long Island Iced Teas on the beach 
 
I hope it can revive more legends of that era. Whatever happened to;

Natty Dread wa Amsterdam - very surprised hayuko hapa. Maybe after his perpetual nemesis (Olloo wa lengthy tichitals) sadly left us, he lost his passion for verbal viciousness online 
Na Wa Kwitu who used to sell used auction cars hapo South Carolina? Na my buddy Mungu Ngai Pan whom we used to reminisce about mid 90s Rap City jams with? Abby Ngel? - I highly suspect yeye ni Lupita or very close to Lupita. Na Asali? If she was here she would be with us on the music thread guaranteed. Na dengu aka JIrani?  I am sure by now ako in some nursing home on a pension live live, Donzi? ToaToa Princess wa London? Digalo /Diggz wa Moyale? Hasdy? Evian? Muhindi Caleb Essajee? Is he patel on this forum? Kuze? Papa eFwe  wa Louisiana? Ukwelimtupu the shouter on Zanax who used to disrupt kila kitu on the forum praaaaaaa whenever he would speak (Nyinyi nyote ni nyani kazolo mkia! he would say)? Bryan275? Mra-Ciake whom Nkooks used to make fun of for his golfing pics ? And who was always hammered on champagne or vodo hapa on Furahiday nites? Na Mteja? Mwari wa Mugo -  must be - like dengu -- in a nursing home with her daipers being changed by Filipino nurses. Na 5thGLG? Still in Mayotte after relocating from Paree? Still jogging ten miles a day shwaaaaaa and eating just one tiny compote to retain shape?  Former Kwiinyan wa Norway? My other buddy Ole Ole? Sense? Elephant Castle? Nyakinywa? Mil wa Dallas Texas ("hot chest" while jogging)?

It would be interesting also to know what Grand Mullah msungu Rich Wa Tenwek is up to these days after hosting our thankless ngelele for 25 years!

Who else do you remember from that era?

And how many of them are lurking hapa under other pseudonyms?

Apart from Pundito, Njamba and one or two others, very few RCB veterans/legends have remained  consistently active on this online forum which more or less replaced  our beloved RCB. Wakina Kenyatalk cannot even be spoken about - worse than Mashada ten times over.

I really, really miss Stocko Exchange wa Canada. RIP my friend.

As pundito said. time flies, man. Like the wind. You wake up one day and 20 years have disappeared ritru bit, ritru bit, just like that. Isapite.  Hope you are all enjoying this precious but fragile life ride so far as much as I am.

Ni hayo tu

[audacityofhope]

Delicious food?? Really? Are you doing a "Kill me quick kind of thing"? Which delicious food? Leave that one out! At a certain age your doctor will tell you there are MANY things you cannot eat and what you should eat. Have you not been told, cancer cells consume 15 times more glucose than ordinary cells? So what that means cakes off the menu. My late dad was told to get off meat, all that choma stuff. It was too late, he would pass on at the relatively young age of 68. At your age leave Tacos alone, if you haven't come back to Kenya you should be asking your relatives in Kenya to send you mwogo and unga for that brown ugali. Eish be real bwana. Grow old graceful - desiderata my fren. Only two things matter when you are ripe to enter a nursing home: What legacy you have left and spending time with your grandchildren. By that time you will be done with traveling the world (part of what you call smelling the roses) as your legs can no longer carry you up a flight of stairs.

See you forgot to say all these things although you ended your post with "Ni hayo tu". Happy sunset years. Ni hayo tu! 

....
I never take anything for granted these days. Not even a sunrise, delicious food on the table nor every single breath God gives me to take.
When you're young you have all these dreams and ambitions and goals
If and when you achieve them, you find out they were not all they were cracked up to be.
 In fact you may find them to be a little empty and may end up depressed.
Yet you spent years or decades pursuing them
Woe betide us if you didn't take time to smell the roses and appreciate/bond with your loved ones along the way.

Ni hayo tu.

[RV Pundit]

Delicious food?? Really? Are you doing a "Kill me quick kind of thing"? Which delicious food? Leave that one out! At a certain age your doctor will tell you there are MANY things you cannot eat and what you should eat. Have you not been told, cancer cells consume 15 times more glucose than ordinary cells? So what that means cakes off the menu. My late dad was told to get off meat, all that choma stuff. It was too late, he would pass on at the relatively young age of 68. At your age leave Tacos alone, if you haven't come back to Kenya you should be asking your relatives in Kenya to send you mwogo and unga for that brown ugali. Eish be real bwana. Grow old graceful - desiderata my fren. Only two things matter when you are ripe to enter a nursing home: What legacy you have left and spending time with your grandchildren. By that time you will be done with traveling the world (part of what you call smelling the roses) as your legs can no longer carry you up a flight of stairs.

See you forgot to say all these things although you ended your post with "Ni hayo tu". Happy sunset years. Ni hayo tu! 

....
I never take anything for granted these days. Not even a sunrise, delicious food on the table nor every single breath God gives me to take.
When you're young you have all these dreams and ambitions and goals
If and when you achieve them, you find out they were not all they were cracked up to be.
 In fact you may find them to be a little empty and may end up depressed.
Yet you spent years or decades pursuing them
Woe betide us if you didn't take time to smell the roses and appreciate/bond with your loved ones along the way.

Ni hayo tu.

oldunn is in mid 40s or late 40s he is just a brilliant dude who retired early.I think he lives in farm somewhere in Kajiado