British High commision, Nairobi; Do you have any respect for our time, efforts and money?

British High commission, Nairobi; Do you know that time is money?

While you disrespect people’s time, can you really afford it?
Who gave you permission to rearrange me? I refuse to let anything put me down; the strong, African, beautiful, whole and complete woman that I am, lacking nothing except that UK visa!

With 195 countries in this world, what makes the UK think that they are so crucial to our livelihoods? Really it is a disgusting way of operating. How is it that I am chasing my UK visa like thousands will attest to almost breaking my damn leg??
Was it really a matter of life and death. And if you are not giving me the visa please let me know upfront! Because when I applied for it, I had no intentions to take this trip to go and enjoy sipping on English tea and biscuits! Did you forget that you are a heavy influence in Kenya; Being the British colony that we still are! And after all these years, we even make the tea with a little extra spice, and now we call it chai! Ooh and for the biscuits, please take a trip to industrial area and you will because I don’t really need that experience in the UK ! I have it here.
So, please while you are still holding onto my passport so long, release it so that I can explore my opportunities within the rest of this big world as you can see it’s not about chilling, it is about business!

As for the ladies sitting at the back sorting out the visas at the high commission, Shame on you!
Shame on you for sitting there to discuss me as I walk into your offices. Discussions about me so loud, I wanted to say let’s take it outside. It was very unprofessional and petty that you could have the nerve to discuss me- a visa applicant, through the glass where you know that I was seeing and hearing you. I am not your friend and whatever personal sentiments you may have about me, I have no interest in knowing or hearing. With all the programmes that are offered by the British Council, I highly recommend that you go in and take the leadership programme which I also went through a few years ago, as it will give you all the added-value you need to hold your job positions professionally enough and leaving a better impact to the people you serve and relate to on a day-to-day basis.

Could it have been my new 5” Christian Loubitin heels? Or my or was it my new red hair? Was it just because I had the nerve to come in and fight for my rights after you had sat on my passport for so long ignoring the fact that you were delaying me and my other travel arrangements on the same passport?

See one thing you may not see is the fact that it is your people who are extremely interested in what I offer both from my creative side of life as well as my business side, so don’t get upset at me for being all of that….and that too! Just sit on that desk and give me my visa or give me my verdict in a timely manner (negative or positive) along with my passport and valid reasons as to why not if no is the verdict, so that no more time is wasted as even I cannot afford my time.
See! All I am saying is that the UK embassy is not the air that we breathe and will never be. I therefore hope that you will realise with time that it is unfortunate having to relate with you and until you can check yourselves before you continue to wreck your reputation across the globe....
TOMPI!

Do the fashion show choreographers make a show or mess a show?

Seriously, I had to ask myself for the tenth time in each month ....Why?????????

Today I had to briefly deal with this again, and then I just realised how hectic these choreographers make the runway, the designers' pieces as well as the models themselves. So then I asked one of the models how long they had been coming in for rehearsals, and funnily enough she said this was the second week!

"Second week ??" Oh my!

Second week of rehearsals as the choreographer filled their minds with something that they would eventually tangle up their ideology of the modeling industry. Worse is that the next time he gets a new group of models, he would do the same thing again, and then it only frustrates the modeling agency thats trying to make things right!
So everytime we have the open call, we have to undo what was done by the choreographers, then redo to what is simple and real!

So yes, I know that this is showbiz, but c'mon! Do we really need 6 female models on line one, then 6 male models on line two, then the line 'oners' have to walk in a straight line with the line 'twoers' and look like they are holding hands in sequence. Then for some strange reason, one of the female models on line one gets distracted because of the one million 'turns' and 'poses' and 'stops' and 'two turns again' and 'handshake' with a line 'oner' ...............
and the show comes to a crumble.

Then within a few minutes, it's the blame game backstage as the eager, yet confused audience lose it..

From a designer point of view the purpose of my clothes showcasing in the show is the bottom line. However, when the models set out to dance and do all that 'extra extra read all about it,' what is the audience supposed to be focusing on?

Can the buyers even see the clothes? or is it the choreographed-backfired-movement?
Can't we just have models strut the runway in a simple normal way so that we can see what we came to see?
And how much is the choreographer making to mess up the show?
And why should the show even take place in the first place?

Do the choreographers make a show or mess a show?
Are they mandatory or a show to run successfully?

What's really up with that the 5 turns that trip them off the runway, if they don't fall on the audience itself? Or if they don't bump into each other as they create a bonding moment of confusion only them can relate to?