This is your girl, Bipper Tripp, and welcome back to my YouTube channel. For our topic right now is zippers. And I love metallic zippers because I think they're very avant-garde. Every fashion shows that I do, I always make it sure that every garment has a zipper. I know I overuse metallic zippers, but I just like seeing them on a garment. Zippers are mainly used as an opening for pants, for skirts, and for other garments. But for me, I like experimenting with zippers. They add up like a oomph factor to our garment, like for example this one. I like how it looks like, it looks so punk rock, it looks so cool. If you are sewing a bomber jacket, if you are sewing a leather motorcycle jacket, or if you just want to attach zippers into your bags or to other garments, or other projects, you can learn from this tutorial. But anyways, you guys, I am going to teach you how to sew an exposed metallic zipper, a pocket, and of course, I'm going to teach you how to sew them on a seam. So these are the examples that I have. So this is the pocket. This one is the pocket zipper, so I'm going to open it. There you go. Voila! I'm going to put my cell phone in it. There you go. So big. Anyways, the other one is the seam. So I did this last year for a sample. And this one, you can sew it on the seam. So this is the seam, but later I'm going to show you guys in a bigger fabric. And this is it. Let's get on it and let's start this tutorial. Okay, you guys, so these are the materials that you will be needing for this tutorial. So fabrics, I already pre-cut it, but on the tutorial, I will tell you the size and the measurement of everything. Your pencil, pins, don't forget. Fabric, scissors, tape measure, your ruler. Of course, you'll be needing metallic zippers for this tutorial. Or if you don't have metallic zippers, it's okay that you have a plastic zipper. Just make sure that the teeth of the zipper is exposed. Voila! So the first tutorial that I will be teaching you for today is the pocket zipper. Here on my table, you can see that I have three kinds of fabrics. So this is the face or this is the shell of your garment. 13 inches long and 12 inches weep. This is the facing and we will be needing it for attaching it to the self or to the shell of your garment. So this facing has 3 inches length and 10 inches weep. And the last pattern that we have here is for the pocket. So the weep is 10 inches and the length is 948. So the first step that we are going to do is we are going to attach this facing into the shell and paint it in place. We're going to locate the half of the length of the facing. So the length of my facing is 3 inches and I'm going to divide it by 2 so that's 140. It's marked. We're going to mark a horizontal line in the middle. Draft your horizontal line. There you go. So the next thing that we are going to do is we are going to locate the half of the weave. So that's 10 inches divided by 2. That's 5 inches. I'm just going to mark it here. And then after that on the left side and on the right side we are going to mark in 1 inch. So the next thing that we are going to do is we are going to measure this point from this point to this point making it sure that it's 8 inches. 8 inches. There you go. Get your ruler. We are going to mark, mark up and draft 2 8 inches. We're going to draft another horizontal line. We are also going to do that at the bottom. So there you go. This is the opening for your zipper. We are going to mark again on this point on the 1 inch here. We are going to mark 4 8's. Just mark it and also on the same side. What we would want to do is we are going to shape it like a triangle all the way there on the edge of the rectangular. There you go. So the next thing that we are going to do after you draft the rectangular line and every line here for the facing. We are going to sew it on the sewing machine. So now we're here on the sewing machine and we are going to sew all of the lines in here except for this diagonal or triangle line here. And of course, we are not going to sew here in the middle here on the middle line because we are going to cut it later. Okay, let's do it. The excess threads. Remove your pins. All that you have finished sewing your facing into your shelves. What you're going to do next is you are going to cut the middle part. You are going to stop here on the edge of the triangle. You are going to cut it diagonally, not hitting the stitch line. There you go. That's good. And do it on the same side as well. There you go. You now have your opening. So the next thing that we are going to do is we are going to put all of the fabrics on the opposite side and we are going to press it. So this is your opening for ear zipper. So we are going to go back to the work table and I am going to put the zipper. So the opening of the zipper is 8 inches, making it sure that it's 8 inches. We are going to take another measurement just to make it sure it's 8 inches. That's good. So what I do with the zipper before top stitching it is, you know, you can base it. And for me, I am just going to pin it because I'm most comfortable pinning everything. As you guys know. And again, we are going to the sewing area and we are going to sew it. Let's go because I'm going to do a top stitch. I am going to change my footer into a single one. There you go. And I will start here on the top. This is the easiest way to attach your zipper to top stitch them. Hey, let's do it. Remove the excess thread and now you have your zipper attached to your shell or yourself. And by the way, you guys, this is how it should look like in the back. So the next thing that we are going to do is we are going to attach the pockets. Let's pin it to reinforce everything. And also in here, do this first on the top. I am going to mark. I'm going to use the sewing allowance 6 eighths. Well here on the other side. Next thing that you are going to do is you are going to close the side. So I'll make it sure that I will hit the edge here on the triangle. To make it sure that everything is closed with as well on the other side. And there you go. So this is your pocket with zippers inside. It's beautiful. Guys, this is it. Your pocket with zippers. So you can actually put a lot of things inside. And this is how it looks like on the inside. There you go. It's really neat. You can actually put yourself on the inside. See? You close it. This is how it looks like. There you go. That's my dog. Just playing with my dress form. So our next lesson or our next tutorial will be this seam zipper. So how are we going to attach this zipper into your seam? So it's really easy actually. So what we need to do is we are going to make it sure that this fabric are identical. We should take the measurement of the zipper. So this is five inches. Five, five, eight inches plus the allowance here at the top of the tape. The importance of this part to access here on the tape is we are going to attach something here. So the first thing that we need to do is we are going to measure five, five, eight inches in here. This is where we, on this line, this is where we want to put the zipper. Of course, we have to mark our sewing allowance, which is me, I always use half inch or four eighths. And here I'm going to mark down again five, five, eight inches. So after here on this line, here on the mark of the five, five, eight inches, we would stop and we would mark. For me, I would always like to use six, eight inches. Mark six, eight inches here and mark down from the top here. Five, five, eight inches, which is the size of the zipper and the excess tape. So that's five, five, eight inches. The next thing that we are going to do, we are going to mark our sewing allowance here on the side until here on the five, five, eight line. And we are going to mark, mark out six, eight inches. So this is where we are going to attach the zipper like this. We need to mark up four, eight inches here and make a diagonal line. Yes, we are going to do that technique as well. Okay, let's sew it on the sewing machine. As you guys can see, I have two fabrics here and I only marked all of the markings here on the first fabric. To avoid confusion. Okay, first we are going to sew the sewing allowance, hitting the five, five, eight, but not too much. We are going to sew the sewing allowance, hitting the five, five, eight inches mark. Going to do next is we are going to cut the triangle or the diagonal line, whatever you want to call it, but I call it triangle. Do not cut further until the edge over there. There you go. So the next thing that we are going to do, we're going to press this seam. Going to press it out like that. So this is it. This is how it looks like. This is the press seam and you can see the triangle there. We are going to attach our zipper on the triangle. So the first thing that we are going to do is we're going to open it and we are going to fold the triangle onto the zipper. Let's locate the middle and that is the middle. And after that, we are going to turn this around in here. Get your pin to make it sure that it's still on place. What we're going to do next is we are going to sew everything on the sewing machine. So this is how it looks like on the back. Using your tweezers, we are going to pull the excess fabric to make it sure it's straight and it's in the middle. Okay, let's do it. Sew here after you attach the triangle or the diagonal lines into your zipper. So you are going to sew all of your sewing allowance to the zipper tape. My sewing allowance would be 6-8 inches. There you go. So this is how it should look like. So I only left a few centimeters of zipper tape to expose. I would do the same thing on the other side. So I start at the bottom. There you go. I'll make it sure that I sew this as well. I stop here, zipper pull and continue on. So this is how it looks like on the other side where we finished and we are going to open the pull. We are going to pull it and we are going to start here on the top of the other side with the zipper open.  There you go. And I'm going to sew all the way down now. I would also prefer to topstitch everything to make it more clean and to make it more beautiful. I like the effect of topstitch. There you go. Now you have finished your exposed zipper.  This is your exposed zipper. So this is it. Open it. Close it. And this is how the back should look like. See that? That's your seam. And this is where we attach the triangle. Our diagonal lines. Your seams. We're here. You're sewing allowances. There you go guys. This is your pocket and this is your exposed zipper on the seam. So that's that. And we're done for this tutorial. Hello guys. Thank you guys again so, so much for watching my tutorials and for supporting my YouTube channel. And yes, we are done with your zipper's tutorial. And I guess we should move on to my next lesson or my next tutorial, which is the skirts and circle skirts. Yeah, I'm excited to tell you guys that I'm going to be teaching a lot on my YouTube channel. We're tripping. It's not just only a travel guide channel. It's also going to be a tutorial for our fashion and of course for fabric making and for sewing. Thank you guys so much. If you like this video, don't forget to hit that like button. And if you are not subscribed yet, please hit that subscribe button and hit that bell button as well. And I'll see you guys on my next tutorial. Stay safe and always pray to God that this pandemic event will be over soon. Okay. Bye guys. See you.


For this What's Neat this week, it's June. And Joe Steinman, I want you to know, has come up with a concept that needs to be talked about. Rather than oil paint weathering the traditional way with oil paints in a brush, which has always allowed the imperfections of crooked streaks that could ruin the model, Joe has come up with an idea. All of these freight cars have been modeled and weathered with the idea of weathering solutions, new idea of decals. Rather than pulling your oil paint weathering, using real oils in a brush, now it can be absolutely foolproof by using straight decals. But simply by taking straight, different variations, colors of streaks, you can even get up underneath your hand rails underneath the roof locks. Something that we could never do with a brush and get right and get straight every time. So for this What's Neat this week, I really think that it's worth talking about weathering solutions, new way to weather, where the novice and the beginner can have quality, contest-looking freight cars simply in a matter of hours by using these decals. I'm going to let Joe explain it in his own words, and we'll show you how to go about doing this. For this June, What's Neat this week? Hi, I'm Joe Steinman. I'm the creator of Weathering Solutions. And today we're going to do a What's Neat this week on Weathering Solutions. And you may be asking yourself, what is Weathering Solutions? Well, going back about eight years ago, I was in the middle of weathering a bunch of cars. And I said, god, there's got to be an easier way of doing this. And I came up with this concept of do the artwork one time and reproduce it to build your fleet up of weathering cars. So these models were done by Mike Morrison. And this will just give you an idea of what we have going on here. What we've came up with is all sorts of different weathering effects for model railroading. And it doesn't matter if you are a in-scale model railroader, we've got decals for small, medium, and large. And you can do just about anything from in-scale to G-scale to O-scale. So kind of getting behind the decals themselves, I had been in model railroading for many years and never really gotten the prototypical running. One day I was invited to come down to Ken Patterson's and see what he has going on down here. And it kind of inspired me to take my modeling to the next level. That's whenever I started getting into the oil base, weathering with powders, oils, acrylics, you name it, dirt from the driveway, wherever. So wanting to bring my models to the next level, I started doing different types of railroad cars, locomotives, and so forth. And I came up with the idea of why not reproduce the weathering effect one time. And then I'm able to reproduce that several different ways and several different times to create my whole entire fleet of... So what this allows people to do is, for the average Joe, or the beginner or advanced modeler, what it allows them to do is it allows them to take a car and either put a wash on it, do some fades, however they want to do it, use our decals. And they can have a competition ready model within 24 hours. And it's really with today's technology, the way that we're able to print these, is it really does create a very prototypical look. And it allows the beginners to now step up their modeling to a sense of being able to produce something that's of show quality. We also have graffiti. And the reason it sets us apart from all the other graffiti, let's say, manufacturers, is our graffiti, we actually print down a white background first. Then we're able to do color on top of that. And with our color, we can do transitions. We can do fades. We can do stuff that nobody else can do. And our decals, literally, are taken from prototype photographs from real rail cars. So anything that you get from Weathering Solutions will have that prototypical look to it. Heck, I like using them because it takes the guesswork out of it. You're able to get that rust streak exactly vertical. All right, to give you an example, we went down to downtown St. Louis to do a photo shoot. And I had all these cars lined up to do a photo shoot. I took the pictures. I actually posted them on Facebook under Weathering Solutions. And Ken, basically, he sends a comment back and said nice photos of the real train cars. And my response was, Ken, I took these pictures. They're HO scale. So by me fooling Ken Patterson, I think this is a testimonial of how realistic these are. Ken, did I not fool you? I thought they were absolutely real. I saw them on Facebook. I said, great hunting, Joe. You got some great Ichabod shots. And you came back at me and said, Ken, these are models. And my jaw dropped. What you've got's a good product. I think it's really worth showing the rest of the modelers out there the effort that you've done because it's going to pay off the average guy at Can Weather overnight with your product with striking contest quality results. You've made it easy for all of us now to be professionals. For a minute, I want to talk about tripod heads. For about 15 years, I've used this tripod head that fit right on top of my Bogan tripod. It's a three-handled head. They still make them. They still manufacture them. I've actually worn this one out to the point where it will not stay steady anymore. It's just it's literally worn out. But recently, I switched tripod heads to what's a one-handle type of a head. These things are actually really great for modeling, for shooting model photos. Simply because it's a one-handle. You look through the camera. You're able to adjust all ways by simply squeezing the trigger and then releasing in the head stage right where you want it to stay. Jeff also uses this type of a head. It's more of a vertical type head, same principle. But it's really handy in that you only squeeze the lever one time, position the camera exactly where you want it, release, and you've got your shot set up just by a one-handed operation rather than twisting three knobs to set up your photograph. It's actually a lot easier. And I'd suggest you guys, if you start shooting model pictures outside or indoors, invest in one of these types of head. I think you're going to find that it will make your photography jobs a lot easier to do with good results. What you shooting today, Jeff? Just a new freight car. I finished recently. It wasn't really based on a prototype, but it's an X-Berlington Northern Walk-A-Side Pox car. It's on the Montana Rail Link and they had a lot of cars they bought off the BN that had pretty bad paint failures where the blue paint basically just washed right off the car. That's nice. So yeah, like I said, not based on a prototype, kind of a test for how to do the technique. Very nice. It's a good day to shoot today.


Yra cyflwladais yw amser ym yesterdayeid yn ysgolwyr fel yw'n rhan o'ch oed gennychtwm ffordd. Dwi hynny'n gweithio'r cyflwladau cyflwladau. Felly mae'r cyflwladiau fel yw'r cyflwladau ffordd yn eu cyflwladau. Cyflwladiau fel yw siaradau oesiau yn 1985. Dwi fyddio'n mynd i ysgolwladau diwylliant acran yw cyflwladau, Mae'r Cyflwladau yn Ysgolwyr Diogel Peithredrif. Yn y cy principles eu gwelddol, sidio i'r ffordd hynny ymddangod yng Nghymru. Mae'n gweithio gael y cwestiynau ar y cyfnodau lle i'r Palsymau. Ond mae'n gweithio'n gwneud i'r cyfnodau ar gyfer ydych chi'n deall yw'r cyfnodau. Mae'r cyfnodau yn ymgyrchol, ac mae'n gweithio'n gwneud i'r cyfnodau ideologigol. Mae'n cael ei wneud i'r cynnwys, cyfnodau cyfnodau, felosofi, cyfnodau, ac mae'r cyfnodau cyfnodau, fel greu cyfnodau ar gyfer cyfnodau. Mae'n ei bwysig o'r cyfnodau, fydd gwaith yn fwyaf ar y cyfnodau! Mae'r cyfrifredig yn ymgyrchol, mae'r cyfrifredig yn gwneud deall. Ac mae'r cyfrifredig yw weig. Ar maedden o walty a'r eich gwirio, mae gennym ymyddol i ymgyrchu o ffroeddiw, ac mae'n bwysig i gwirio i'r stym yn deall. Rhaid i ddim i'r ffordd beth sydd ymgyrchol. Felly, we are working in great deal in countries in Africa with policy makers, central bankers with ministers of finance, such that they will move in a much more effective way to the benefit of their people. Wider has a very important role of coordination, bringing people together from many parts of the world and addressing jointly issues of mutual concern. For example, to bring Bangla Desha's way of coping with environmental shocks to the countries that are now having to adapt to climate change. One of our strengths has been to bring early career researchers together with senior researchers. Facilitating the scholarship of young economists from developing countries. I am one example. So you get to interact with other researchers at your level by giving seminars and getting feedback, as well as working on projects and working with more senior researchers. I got affiliated with UNU wider two years after I got my PhD and it has been incredible. So you get to learn more about your own research, also where the field is going, and questions that you might ask in the future. The conference Mapping the Future of Development Economics is about trying to identify what may happen over the next 30 years. You'll see at this conference, Nobel laureates like Amartya Sann and Joe Stiglitz. Look around the room at the people who are here today, probably half of them are under 40, and that is very encouraging. Well the next 30 years is really going to see an increase in the importance of development ideas. So I think wider is very well placed to do that. But it also has a very important role of helping us look further ahead. There are still many unanswered questions. We have to take out the big ones and wider is a good guidance for that purpose. Some of the old questions still remain how to reduce poverty. Climate change is going to impact considerably. We are concerned about how it will impact the poorest. And how to develop mature and sophisticated economies that don't blow themselves up in the way that we've seen the rich countries do through financial crises. There's still one billion people living on less than one dollar a day, bringing about the evidence that is required to improve their welfare, their living standards. That's what we are trying to do. Wider has never sacrificed its rigor. There were some American economists that described it as wilder, while pursuing independent approaches which were not at that point orthodox, but which have since become so. Good ideas rest on good research. That simply is our mantra.


So exciting news Rebecca why don't you come in here and share this exciting thing we have these people have been kind of saying these suck and they do suck so finally we've heard you it took us a long time sorry it took so long what do we have here Rebecca it's a spigot it's a spigot so look at that the 10 gallon kit comes like this now two of these resin hardener and you just put it on the side and you can just leave it on the side open the spigot pour it out mix it and then close the spigot close the spigot and celebrate thanks for watching we'll see you next Friday I thought we were gonna be listening to you announce this no no no not as funny this time


Ah, I didn't even address the clickbait. Should I still address it today? Okay, clickbait. So I got accused of clickbait. I'm not gonna sit here now and tell you, no, I don't know what you're talking about. This wasn't clickbait at all, all right? So of course it was clickbait in a sense. The video that we're talking about is, Andrew Tate is not Muslim anymore? Question mark? Huh? So that was the title, right? A clear question mark. First and foremost, the majority of people, maybe not a majority, but a loud minority, doesn't understand the question mark. So that was a question, right? It wasn't a statement. So everybody that said, Bobby, take fear, Andrew, put a fear mark. Obviously not. If you would have watched the video then, I was more than respectful. I analyzed his interview and I even said multiple times, that is his opinion. We might differ on this opinion, but it is his opinion after all, and that's fine. I have a different stance on this subject. I never take fear them, and I never would, right? I'm not into the take fear business. But that being said, again, people somehow missed that question mark. It was a pretty big question mark after all. But now, first and foremost, how do I come up with such titles? I use an AI for titles. Nevertheless, of course, I have the last word and I decide if I want that title. So I use that AI, and this AI showed me which title would have the highest percentage of reaching people, especially new people. So therefore, I saw the titles. I had a choice of, I believe, five titles or so. And I chose this one. Yes, this title is obviously very triggering. However, my intention behind it was, and still is, who would click on this video if we're talking about a new audience? Of course, predominantly Christians, because there are many sour Christians out there that are very, very mad that Andrew Tate is not a Christian any longer and that he accepted Islam and they want him back in their camp. You saw many conservatives talking about this as well, such as Candace Owen, and she wants him back as well.  Okay, and so therefore, I made my little calculations and I understood, yes, this will bring many Christian eyes to this video. And therefore, this is indirect Dawa, because once you click on the video, let me remind you, question mark, it's a question.  Is he not Muslim anymore? And then you click on it and you get the answer. Yes, he's still Muslim, absolutely. And then yet again, if we go into the details of the video, he talked about religions and that he believes that religions are like languages and they all lead to the same God. I said it explicitly in that video, that is essentially perennialism. Not saying that Andrew Tate is a perennialist, he certainly is not, he is a Muslim and he said that the Koran, Islam has the clearest message without a doubt. But I simply said that what he was talking about, that there are many roads to God, so to speak, that is perennialism. And that is something that I cannot agree with, of course. And I went on a rant that religions are mutually exclusive. Yet again, if Jesus is God, then Islam couldn't be true. But if Islam is true, then Christianity cannot be true, et cetera, et cetera, you name it, right? So my intention behind this was to reach a new audience, especially people that are not Muslims, but I got the Haram police after all. Anyways, that being said, another intention behind it was, how can we trigger the algorithm? Because my real supporters, they of course understand my situation. We've been not only demonetized, but shadow banned as well. Copyrights striked, videos deleted and whatnot. Since I accepted Islam, the algorithm tried to bury me, right? To the bottom of the barrel. So therefore, how do we get out of that digital prison, if you will? You have to create some triggering titles. It doesn't work otherwise. But as I say, don't judge a book by its cover, right? Open up the cover and check out what is in it. If there was one comment that could have said, hey, listen, the video was absolutely terrible. What you did to Andrew in that video, that was terrible. Okay, then we would have a point. But we didn't. Ultimately, it was all about the title, the packaging of the video that people got upset with. But this video generated, let me see, almost 180,000 views in two days. So therefore, your opinion doesn't matter here. This actually reached a wide audience. And now, oh, so you just want clicks? Guys, come on, man. I'm a guy that makes YouTube videos. Do I want people to see my videos? No, of course not, no. Yeah, duh, of course I want people to see my videos. Everybody that creates something wants people to see it. Otherwise, they don't want to create something for other people. If you create a movie, for example, you want people to watch it, be it on Netflix or go to the movies, right? Duh, you created something.  Ah, that's where you have all those signs outside. Oh, how deceptive. What are you talking about? Right here in Thailand, how often do I pass by a burger joint and it says the best burger in town? And then you go by another burger shop and they say again, the best burger in town. Award-winning burger. So, oh, deceptive, deceptive. Yeah, you have to advertise as well, man. This is marketing. And ultimately, it is all for a good cause because like this, we give Dawa. That's what it really boils down to. Anyways, ultimately I know those are people that are not in my shoes. They don't understand what I'm doing over here. And they didn't even bother to truly watch the video because as I said in the beginning, if you would have watched the video, you would have understand my intention. And everybody that actually watched it said as well that the video was absolutely respectful towards our brother Andrew. Anyways, this is my explanation. I hope it makes sense for you. If not, yeah, honestly, I'm cool either way, guys.


but at some point in my life I was the loudest person in class. See now they pay me to talk. Good morning. How are you doing? I talk to my Facebook, We got to Facebook, we got to on Twitter, the hashtag is white in the morning. We are feeling such type of good 6th day of January. And I hear people cutting off meat. Is anyway hashtag's white in the morning. We have been talking about a lot of things, a lot of things, but right now we're going to focus on figuring out how to recover from 2020, but again I tell you our struggles are different, very different, I've seen new things coming up, smack in the middle of the pandemic, so it's not like some people are suffering, Mama they are suffering different, really I don't know, I had to judge up to, so Kenyashinski, hashtag is where the money, whether it was Val or at Kallavi Val, but it is important for you to meet my panelists and they look sharp. Good morning guys. Good morning. How are you? You're fine. How would you like to introduce yourself? Thank you. Mama may end the interview immediately after this, they will hire her. Ataka mo wuna papers, they will just hire, because she looks so nice. Please introduce yourself. My name is Priya Meja, a second year student at Karatina University, taking Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Where, where, where, where, where? Now when you want to go, ati Bachelor of Who? Science in Nursing. What does that mean?  I'm a nurse at degree level, yes. Why? So say unafakone under strike? That's it. Hi sir. Hi. How are you? I'm fine. You look very tapper. Thank you. What's your good name? My name is Dennis Njeroge of Kamao. I take Information Science specializing in media and publishing. Another science, but for information? Yeah, information science, you know. What does that mean? Whatever we take in our course of information science in media, it has different categories. I will take the instance of a prominent person in the news media section, Willis Raburu. Generally stand into a musician. He did take information science. It has a lot of guys in the media sector. So whatever I'm doing, I'm doing writing, from writing to presentation and everything. And apart from that I'm a creative also. You're creative in a suit. Sazingine look namata. Sorry. Sorry, sorry. It's about personal passion. Yeah. Na nandzal kuwana kuja TV. How can we find you on your social media handles? You can get me on Instagram at prayer underscore major. On Facebook at prayer major. And also on Twitter at prayer major. Okay. I'm a bit confused. Number one, because your name is prayer. Yes. You were just given. Any relation? Are you as confused as me? Any relation to major you, family, friends, family in any way? Just family. You can find me at Facebook njiroge Denise or Denise Kamao. Yeah. I'm trying to get my food in the social media section for officiality. I want to be the next journalist in Kenya. We are sorry. We are so sorry.  Ta kwa bazu. Not a bit really saliamzakika miwa. Saihe is a bazu. And disputed bazu. Anyway, hashtag is one in the morning. We are trying to figure out how to recover from 2020. First of all, what happened in 2020, I know a lot of people lost their jobs. I know schools closed. Tell me, what do you think happened in 2020 that we should recover from? In 2020, basically everything was running well until much when the first case of COVID-19 was reported. And that is where things started becoming somehow not what we used to know because schools were closed. Even churches were closed, something we'd never thought of. And all the social gatherings were stopped because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But then we'd never heard of it before. For me, I had only learnt it in microbiology but I didn't imagine it would come and become a serious pandemic. So it came and disrupted everything and everything came to a standstill. People lost jobs, schools were closed. So most students were just at home and this resulted to a lot of teenage pregnancies. Mostly that is basically what happened and there was also an issue of mental health where most people sank into depression. Yes, it was really a big blow. What do you think happened in 2020 that we should be recovering from? Well, 2020 started off like almost let's say an year of expectations. Had demons, girlfriends, everything was fine. I was hoping to be a secretary at the conference. I was hoping to be a secretary at the conference. Yes, I was hoping to be a secretary at the conference. So everything was going well and everywhere. But it came to the point where we saw it in China and then we were like, this thing can't come into Africa. And then Italy cases were rising and everywhere. So when it came to Kenya, we had this kind of panic before going to the shops, buying everything that can... Tisha and Kaisha. Tisha and Kaisha. Lopata, tissue, sanitizers, they were off. So while you were in the same state, so people were fearing the closing of everything. So in that phase we found that people thought it was going to stay like a month or so, but it came to last, like nine months. In this phase you find that many people have been laid off from their works. They're daily spending mandativo. So with that kind of, let's say, shock, you come in to realize that you need to find something to do. And when you look all around you, you just see negativity because depression starts to kick in. And you find that now you're starting battling with mental health. There are a lot of people who are right now, even who are expecting to go back to school, but they can't because of the situation back home. So this thing has really hit us economically, emotionally and mental wise. It's up to, you might say this, if you can find a good support system, it can really elevate us to go back to the face it is. We were all rushing, like COVID came and stopped everything at instance and made people realize that unity is something key. Namkuna rusoungu. Okay. One of the things that I have witnessed, I witnessed, is moving to the digital age, like literally. 2020 has literally made us do a lot of things virtually, things that we didn't think that we could do. And yes, it's a step forward because I guess the first and second worlds are basically digital age, but it's a bit unfair because it's not across the whole country. That means into machinani maali, haizi access, maybe it has a smartphone or a laptop or a tab, atapata saiba maybe it has an ingumu. So I feel like there has been uneco growth. There are some people who... And it's not our fault, Aki. It's really not. But anyway, let's do this. Let's read your thoughts. We buy in the morning. We're trying to figure out how to recover from 2020. Nanimonam toa poa kisema e. First, never talk about 2020 again. I'm sorry, bobo. I must have been difficult. Okay. Here we go. We have Mwale Mochaio. Says, Silvesta halo. Clear throat. The only thing one can do is to be organized and do what is expected and to always work on what he or she had promised him or herself. And then James, I'll start today. Good morning. Devolo wa mombasha tunding. We are together. I like it. Karibuni chai motu. Usunia mei buni kuset. You want to hear my stomach making noise. Don't do it. Chep Kok Telik says, good morning. We are represented at the Jerusalem Eldart. And then James says, once again, I don't have much expectations for 2021 with how bad 2020 was. It will take time to recover from this. Alas, I still keep some ray of hope that things get better for everyone. But tumi amuwa 2021 and umiwa nawe ya mispel yo 2021. It is the year of Lestolation. You, do you know I have a problem with R&L? You only trap Hillary Bias' good morning by accepting the fact that 2020 is gone, but still it was a great chance for us to learn survival means in Kenya. Siu wongo. Berniz Duati says, 21 masiv tunt. Uwe uwe. Makbiprezen adome. Tatagwa masiv. Testa kawak says, badum nongelia 2020. Uwe. Okay, sorry. Count 21 is here na ina itaji awa attention ilembaia. Amuwa kwa chakunembe 2021? I don't know. Nikolas Mbarekwa says, kujitumato. Kiwva liyani. Kujipanga toh eheh. School of Thought is the same.  Real craze, Felix, by not talking about 20. Mechaoka? Elisa Steve says, please, let's accept and move on. Kindly. Let's just accept and move on. I like the way you think. Moe Xcreen says, first rule of 2021. Never talk about 2020. bell never talk about Ah you say actually its been 9 months Imbarazing me. Imbarazing me in the morning. Netok subscriber. I will deal with you kakafonianski later. But hashtag is what in the morning. So, it's our turn. It's a matter to say umgele 2020. How do we help them? I thought the healing process is about talking, no? What do you think? Ya, it's all about that, but I say people don't want to reflect on what ever happened in 2020. Ya. You remember like the sound like two days to the end of the year. There were so many memes about just waiting for 2021 to come to what's happening in 2020. And then you saw that clip whereby it was saying what if 2020 to part two. So, we find people don't want to... I don't want to watch that series. People don't want that kind of life. Belinda Zimisha and you watch 2020. See watch part two by Zeeway and subscribe. Hashtag, that's why in the morning. Okay, so I want to ask so many questions. I don't know what to do, but how do you think that maybe we can help? I don't know if... I'm gathering thoughts. My thoughts are moving very fast, guys. I understand people have lost a lot. If not lives, you know, because people have died because of COVID-19. Kiyangalia tulikwa nasema. Ah, ah, haizu wa mtumosi. Ah, we are special. Oho, oho, oho, oho. Salam alaikum. Is this still a thing I'm going to leave? Okay. So, we've lost people. People have been affected.  Oh, domestic violence. Kido kido kusji kwaikaikuna de male choma mtua ke. Ani kwa kwa gari akama choma on his way to work. Whoah, what kind of Macasserico is that? Where should we start? Should we be giving out food or to changia watu? Or should we just start with mental health like Tuliza? Bwai uke, what do you think we should do, guys? Personally, I think we should start with mental health. Because once the mind is okay, and your thought is okay, then, then will your body be okay? Because once the thought process is fine, and you start by accepting, it's okay, it was a bad day, and a lot of things happened. But you cannot just discredit it, there are some good things that happened. Let us accept that it already happened, and we need to now move on from that. Because you cannot solve a problem by running away from it, you only get to solve a problem by facing it head on and moving forward. So we need to accept that it happened and find possible means of moving away from this, and getting into 2021, more hopeful and desiring that other things will come, other better things. That sounds nice, but what if kuna mchi na male na kula kituafai, then just give us another disease? Guys, I normally kum na celebrate December, but eat responsibly. Here we talk about driving responsibly, please eat responsibly. Oh, we are tired. How would you use, I'm going to use social media because that's your niche. How would you use social media to empower somebody or not even just empower, just to check on them? Because I am quite sure there have been a lot of people with suicidal thoughts. Schools have been closed, parents now start having to look for school fees from I don't know where. Meanwhile, anyway, how to help? So my thoughts will be this way. You find people need a place they can feel at as if it's heaven for them. So if they can find that you as a creative or you as somebody in your own social media platform, you can produce some comical things, but these people can be able to come to you and say, hey, every man say, mi mi, I'm not good, but I love the way you're doing. You're making me to have a glimpse of hope. And if you're an inspiration person out there, just a quote, a quote of hope can really help this person understand. I like that you said that if I just may interrupt for a bit, but we are here having influencers talking about at all. If 2020 didn't bring out the hustle in you, then there's something wrong with you. What do you even mean? Waking up was achievement enough and facing the day.   So when you don't have, you strive to get. But what if just waking up was a hard thing, bro? Kwa kitanda, nanda ku relax, couch. Just what if that was the most major thing someone did that day? Should we hold it against them? I would say this as much we might try to hold against them. These people as influencers, they need to understand that not everyone is like them. If you agree with him, you can also. Yeah, not everyone has the same accessibility that they have. So they need to understand that Nairobi is not Kenya in general. Most of them in Nairobi. And the way they think that Nairobi because of the all inclusivity, the accessibility and everything that kulemashinani, that person, atapata they have the same accessibility. They don't understand that in the streets, atakule geto, there are people who kajiawtu wana tokatu wana wana. Let me just go, nianzoku uchana, because even when you feel like an athlete, they are on misery outside. So we need to understand whatever you put there, millions of people are watching, are looking.  And then when I go to work, I do place I don't see, I sort of back it like, okay, I see that luck and grace are what we need, see what we can see. What is my solution? I don't need joy. That's my thoughts. That's sad. You talk to me. Say something. Okay, me, Mikauna Stoji, I have a friend, actually, a friend, not really a close friend, but kuna t'aim iperiodiya kovid towards the end of last year. Ile fika what's up mahali, then, you know, iu up tabi ya kuh jamazatu, you don't check on your friends. So he updated on his about suicidal and nobody had noticed. Like a week down the line, he was found dead in his house, so there was a message this guy was trying to communicate to people because maybe he had something that was bothering him and nobody reached out. And it was really a big blow to us as friends because we felt like we had somehow neglected him because it was our role to check up on him and see what could be wrong. Unona. So personally, I think people should be very keen, be very keen on what people post on social media. He's a memes that, oh, what your posting is not as, it is you because you just post what you think. How was it to chokia mahali uone kii kii bod kimiandi kwa kakulain start to post on your status, no? You only post what you think and uki onamto ame post something consistently, suicidal, siji hat broken, siji vitugani reach out, try to reach out on them and check if they are okay. It really helps.  Maybe mimi, I'll handle stress niki nyamaza, like that is my just, in fact, I sleep. Niki shkotu na stress. Yom kweli, hey! I sleep for a few hours, I reset my mind. Niki am kabaruna again until I wake up and I have rebooted properly, we together. But what happens when maybe, let's, for example, you too, maybe you live together, you are, even planning on starting a family, but COVID did something. It not necessarily took away your job, but the people who got pay cuts this year because of COVID-19 and you're already planning to start a family. Now, maybe hasiriya ko, hai ita toka veni hasiriya ke ita toka, if I may use you as an example. So utajam, utajatu me kasi rika u, na shoutu tu kwa nyumba u, nari ame tu, tu mi asupuri ame gali, kupika chai, nari takwa uho thing and you'll be annoyed, and not just at one time, and then go baby, I'm sorry. Ita kwa the next day, badu tu me jatu, na skuremi oswa. Yeah, the same thing.  So how do we help from where we are inside? Kus your next option utatoka wende kwa omako, kama kuna lockdown, ama kwa guardian plani. So what is the solution? How do we help each other here? Wow. It's quite tough, kuma say that, but my thoughts, these are my thoughts. In understanding yourself is the greatest thing that you can do to yourself. Getting to know what you have in you as a person. How do you get to know that? I want the ABC. The ABC into it. You find that as much as we are blaming everything that happened to 20, 20, people came to realize that I can do this. You know, at this phase, I remember this person who started kuza vitu kwa inistit. No na. Out of noya, mtu ranzu kwa niyevo, kuna tuome pata a possibility of doing something they never thought of doing because of these hurdles, which okay, we are blaming everything that it happened, it happened, happened, happened, happened. But sometimes you never know which kind of strength you have as a person. So with this kind of strength that you have as a person can really project you to your next big thing. Don't take anything in life as whatever hurdles comes, you know, human beings love kumtabiliti. We love so much that. Sad that when ukile toa kashidaflani kumanzakusi, kupanik, all of a sudden, but these are adaptability that you can have as a person to achieve whatever you want to achieve later. So my speech, I'm going to tell my landlord adaptability. Landlords who adapt at a upate hasom ustege me to rent. Is that what you want me to tell my landlord? No, no, no. Actually, I'm speaking to that person who right now is in their lowest point. Adaptability can really set you out far. But when you're going to rent issues, I learned something about mind map. You know, mind map, look for solutions. It's either the first thing we're going to ask if Kenyans are willing to give and assist people. If my friends own a zanyoko lea, this type, whatever it is, kumiyakulipa mai fi, ama kukliya mai lon, ama mai, what do you call it? It's a house, a house, a house for now. So if I do that and it goes well, what is the next time I project myself to another level, non-seriously backpale, omen yoko lesa ai, ama lemi go back home, kome parents, I think of something else and then I come. I like to think I'm a very flexible person, not just physically as I'm very flexible, but in my thought process, so that means I have a goal and I work towards it, but because life is life and it's never a straight line, because it's never like this. I na kumiyakulipa mai fi, doi fi kia po juo sawa. So I like to imagine that I am very adaptable, but there are things I will not compromise. So what happens now? Kwanza lastia, kwa pia mende pwa slapi, kia nda kwa isha. I was so confused. I had planned and planned and planned and planned and then whoo, whoo and guys I was just out. Like life had just slapped me, I didn't kwanwa kachinima. Okay, I've been slapped. Now what? How do you help someone who's very rigid, very set in their ways? What would you tell someone like that? Pasa male, I think the greatest thing that one needs to do right now is to just take time and think what do you want? Where are you right now? And what do you want to achieve? Because you can be so rigid. For example, let's say you have been laid off from your job. You used to do a white collar job. And you're at home right now waking up and say you're the breadwin of the family. The kids are looking up to you.   I just need to be there at the office. You're taking applications when you say they are not tiring anymore because of the effects of the pandemic. So is rigidity the best thing you can do? You need to be flexible. If there is something else you can find and do, go ahead and do it. If it's going to bring you income and it's going to benefit you in the most efficient way, you just go for it. I have a message from a fan. Good morning. How are you? Hashtag went in the morning. We have, good morning, Y-24. I have a degree and I don't know how to look. Woo! What's up in your life? Fungiwa shule aki anaku graduate. Oh, okay. I don't know how, I don't know how to look for a job since I've been spoon fed my whole life. How do I start? What do I do? I mean, okay. So say what you want to say there. Professor, you want to take this one. I'm going to watch a prayer mombay. How do we assist? The question is hard. I'm not right. Usha ya moalima kiliza sa lakilam to go to uni. Yeah, that's what's happening right here. I'm going to say this one. I understand that now you are at your lowest limit. I'll tell you of this, at during 2020, that phase, I was back in school, right? And I was expecting to do something creative with my YouTube channel and everything. So then all of a sudden everything came to a standstill. So I didn't have to do anything. So what projected me to the next level was the thinking. So I cannot stay here in all this creativity and I can do something. I'm also a graphic designer. So in the process of doing that, an idea came, what of starting a business? Not that I have any amount of money in my account or anything, but because so this can be one of ways which can help me instead of me going there and get a termak for those periods of time before I go to my first job, this can be my launching pad. And when it comes to money, I won't struggle. Get everything has its own sets and balance. I don't know how to pick up. Actually, if you pick up to say once you are in the place where you have 10 bob, 15 bob, 20 bob, you have no idea. If you have a problem, you can cut away. Doing nothing, you can go to TV. Of which it's not bad, but actually go out there. Opportunities are out there because I was in my lowest point in life, but the moment I had to take a different perspective, that's when I saw opportunities and I'm thankful to Honorable Malko Nyango. He has a group of 80,000 WhatsApp where he shares forgotten bottom millionaires, millionaires who call them that. He shares the opportunities from internationally. It's not local here in Kenya. Ya. Yo was up groups in Liyad. I feel like my heart needs to fly out soon. I'm tired. Just to add on what you just said. Yes, please. I believe it's not just good to sit down and wait for the degree you've earned to get employment. You can find something you love doing and make money out of it. For example, I love designing. So I do graphic design. So when I'm not in hospital, when I'm not doing nothing, I do design and I get paid for doing what I love. Wow. I love writing. So when I write, I get paid. So don't just sit down and waiting for your degree to employ you. It's very good and it's very relevant, but find something else apart from just that. I want to talk about people who have had to live Nairobi because Nairobi wanna just... Wei, sikuwam tu. It is not our home. Whether mezaliwa pa kama niwa kukam, it is not our home, it is not. And often the pressures or how I hear it or if I was to compare with the places that have been uko, others, is the lifestyle is a bit more expensive. So there have been people who have been forced to go back to some other land and I'm yotei ni yetuni motherland. Okay, mezaliwa pa kama niwa kukam. But there's shame in it, you know. Shulikuwam Nairobi for a reason. Nakimeku toa, it's not your fault. You did not do anything wrong, just that life decided, that's it. But there's still shame. So how do we make that better? I remember this time of we were talking with friends and it's better to interact with a lot of individuals whether in the same class or not. So these people, we were talking, they were saying, the worst thing that can happen, okay, on Nairobi, we're talking Nairobi, we're talking to Mbungoma, all these places in the reserve, we're talking to Nairobi. So we were saying, ah kijana weitu ako Nairobi, ako na pesa, unarudi, na joa, with a little dose of mob, nabaikivitu unarudi now.  And then okupati unarudi back, because sometimes that's a shame. It's truly a shameful thing because they expect people from Nairobi have money. So even those people in the reserve, they say, they think that that people onashanga watru na lalala haji because na joa kwa kwa onashamba. If they need something o kukule, ojiwe uku, what helps us is money. Money is dishing out and everything and outside they're not trying to push with life. So sometimes you need to understand that whatever perspective that we have, doesn't apply to all. It's totally different. Okuna matwa metoka from Nairobi ma kuja reserve, don't ask why. Ask, kwa tu willing, come close, mkoma beshinae. Osu yandzi kwa the first person to judge.  What's the best option? So atyame ni if any, anything that can, is in my life, which is death. If not so, atyame ni, hebetu ni kwa stritachin. Ya. Tos kia achini na wail, eh rusungu guys, rusungu is on set. Hashtag is white in the morning. How would you handle that situation? Umona tumtu vizuri, ali kuatuna asoli ake vizuri. In fact, possibly they were expecting that this would be there. Ikumi ze zahidi, uli kwa me save, me save, me save, do uji o mo? Uji o mo shi. And then all those savings kanda su saku kuliparenda ma kutaftafood, o situi transport, o situi ni ni.  How would you, how would you talk to someone like that? Kushiim is a bad thing, guy, guy, guy. And sometimes we are ashamed of things that we didn't do. It was not your fault. It was not you, I, but you're there feeling shame. So how, how would we make soof the pain a little bit? Okay, for me, I think shame is something you can't avoid. If it has come, you just need to find a way of dealing with it because you can't go all through your life feeling shame. Because at the end of the day, it's not going to help you in any way. Because it will not even, it's painful, it's embarrassing, but it's not going to bring results. So you need to feel shame when it's appropriate and then stop and start thinking on how are you going to get yourself up from this shame. If it is getting another job, how are you going to do it? If it is finding another source of income, if it is getting your family back together, if it is pulling things back straight into the line in as much as everything may look crooked, that is what you need to do at the moment because I'm a believer of hope and I don't lose hope. I don't. In as much as things may... Why are you so solid? Why are you so unshakable? That is me, I don't lose hope.  But I believe what does not kill you makes you stronger. So in as much as I'll be feeling shame and harassed, I'll find a way of getting out of it. So if you want to have a heartbreak for five hours, you can do it in five hours. You can do it in five hours. You can do it in five hours. You can live there and keep on crying. See, life must go on. Whatever you're having inside you made trouble for me. Kablon toke, he said. Kulikwana sualingine. Akin li kwa ni me wat, ni mo leka kamaiste. Ooh. Sain me fukuzuwa. Kweyo ni umbana bituzuwa kukuzuwa. Go on. Okay. How do I move on? Because ni si pukuwa kwa relationship mi mi I can't settle. Ehe. Daisy in Gathu. Yabu talk to her. Prayer. Just talk to her. I think watakusovia mach daza fukuzuwa. That's something prayer. How do we help her? Ale kwa me oleka kamaiste. Kafukuzuwa. Navituza kwa uzuwa. Naji yuku move on. But I think she does anasa ni because ni si pukuwa kwa relationship mi mi I can't settle. Do you have a long time guys? Do you spend time with just yourself? Am I just me? Do you spend time with just yourself? Do you spend time with yourself please? Like love yourself first. Be intentional with yourself. Wajom tu. Udu taku beba weni unamu nyesha nezaku beba. Yeah. Ask me. Ask me li kwa kama zorao. Long time girl. Mi mi waz ni beba tube yun naji skia. Nani beba weni naji beba. Sawa. I love on that. Daisy, I think you should just first of all, just as vala nesema. You need to take time with yourself. Understand yourself. Love yourself. You need to create a space in yourself. Penye inafika such that when somebody comes into your life, you don't cling to them. If they come, they find you strong. Such that if they go, you're still they are strong. Not because they came to compliment something, not really compliment, not to support something in you, but because they found you a complete person.   You need first of all to work on yourself. Work on yourself Daisy. It's possible. Trust me. Daisy, you need to be happy. Are you okay? Are you okay mama? Are you okay? What would you like me? What am I going to do when I was done? Right. Happy. It depends on the way you carry yourself. The first perspective matters.  Mikiwa na if you, I can najua this, that balancing act. If I can be able to judge you and see that I can be able to play you, taku dam, if I feel, we are not in the boat, or tell you more, it's because I'm in the car and I depend. So I will tell Daisy this way, relationship is not your starting point of life. Relationship is not your kicking point. Yeah, everything to solution. No, that's the same perspective our parents had. Mostly, but I was doing some kind of research, let me say that. And I found that, not because most of this, our parents' relationship, ama ashoush, relationship ilika, it was atiju ya the perspective yakuwa, everything is well. People are really hurting, but if you are in the 21st century, you have everything that you need, kuna digital media, kuna everything that you can really launch yourself, ok, na elsa majimbo, at this time, nga liji launch. No, na, relationship, siyati ita kupatia ita kwa, the only thing ita kuna kufili omil, ok, dizi yanga okuwa, the person munu na takakuwa bini, prayer me sema, akuna kitu na kubloka oni we, true. Ok, but it's too hard on Peter. Ok, kuna umo nome na kudzaivi, and your guts na sema partner, no matcha, because the relationship siyati ita kwa evo, as matcha to me fukuzana everything, just mean to say ma recollect yourself, go to your friend, munya na izaku host for a while, try to find something that can help you out. What if the situation was a bit reversed? What if to say my hypothetical days in your life kuzana, umo nome a kawzi o, because of this kawsozote? Ah, ina doa defa, kichu mi upenda, let me say with the agenda evo tu, ina kawanga to a little bishi, ina doa umo na sumanga, it's much quicker for a man to make friends, and then akitoka toa apa, longer, yeah. Ata ni tseme, I'm dating, let's say I'm dating prayer, tseme, then siku hapo, I'm calling ma mumbe, ehi, denisa iku hapa, kuna denisa apa, ata sema defa zing, yeah, kuna denisa apa, no na, because of the support, so the support uo kuleana. Ni kichu wamaana, minda sumatribu. If, niki fukuza toa sayi sayi, in this minute, the first thing is my friend, ehi, Arif manzei ni fukuza kule, siku ataka kumeku show, na do you want to say that to me chicken out, because of the shame and everything, ina tu na suma, ehi, ma na tu numa tii nyumba, wana ma tii nyumba, ata ni nyumba ni, and in life, let me just come here and stay at a life, atas kona penda sayo umiliya, don't leave me, don't go, whoo, whoa, okay, all right, but in retrospect, again, 2020 had good things and it had not so good things, but, all these people wama wama moka ii 2020, kina flako, kina aziaj, kina majei, senjei, hadia me meet na umikampo, it's goals, it's absolute goals, all right, it's goals, it's absolute goals, oh my gosh, how should we make them feel bad just because wama wama moka? like why should we why should we troll them for their success? ah, umiliwa suwalingo mo tii. ah, singo mo, na jua ni kituiko, in Kenyans KOT or our Twitter platforms, the Twitter of Twitter, you can be massacred, we find that we are so much triggered with the political system and everything it needs, because they influence whatever happens, everything, so, economically wise, if the political system may influence in a bad way, see what it's not going to aggrieved, it's not going to be with a lot of anger, and anganness, so, kia wana, bishti ako wama wama moka already, wama make, oko like, how? wama say, asha sii vidaza ke sii gali, vidaza ke tike, sii sii wama wasa wama penda? the first time Alians okutrenda ziyad, nili wana commentiaw dem, dem, dem, dem, ati ah, wana wana umem na taftad, dem aneza sangesha kiyono, ataku pikiya na iyo, gali na iyo kiyono, kaji jashain, ali swim tuki dogo, na me umoka, why does that have to be now a problem? See atta where we are, I don't be angry, can we all umoka together please? We need to stop taking each other down, so na salama den, we need to stop that, we really do, we really really do, ok, in conclusion, what would you like to tell the audience? Ok, in conclusion, I just want to tell you that the fact that COVID-19 illi to strike last year, haimanishi it's the end of life, haimanishi that say you lost your job or anything you should give up, never lose hope. For example, a child, not really a child, a teenage girl, munya me, get pregnant, don't drop out of school, I have done a book, I have written a book, it's called positive living and in that book, in that book, I have shared the story of a close friend, she is called Stacy Bed, she got pregnant at 19, then you know, with pregnancy it comes, kwa say wa kwa like, na waz if it's so bad, na na, she was getting stigmatized from friends, family and everything, and to make it to us, she was a pastor's kid, so it's made things a little bit worse, but at the end of it all, ali deliver, she finished her education and came to the campus, she has done her masters, right now she's doing her PhD, I'm telling you she's a powerhouse, you should meet her.  I'm so sorry, it's the memes coming, the memes are here. Okay, talk to us, in conclusion. These are my words, life has a tricky base to play its cards, so you may find it right now that life has really stricken you over, don't lose hope, just as prayers say, don't lose hope. 2020 happened, everything happened, you saw whatever was happening, you saw everything laying itself, from the teenage pregnancies to people being laid off, people going back home and everything, but I'll say this, you never know what opportunity lies out there. So just take yourself, recollect yourself, have a good support system and start your life well. Alright, I don't think I can take away or add upon that. Could I send some greetings? I forgot to say. So I would like to say some few greetings to my co-founder at Mavex Digital Solution, branding institution, company. Don't be afraid to look them in the eye. So I would like to say hi to Kevin, I would like to say hi to my parents and I would like to say hi to Beatriz, my neighbour at home and hi to everyone out there. To my neighbour, he is a Gawiya Skari that's why she's called Salimia.  I don't know most of my neighbors I should change. Change actually. I like my demand for business. I just want you to learn how to deal with a stranger who is working for you. No. I am free. Okay. I hope we have helped at least in some way. I know we can't make everything right. Personally, I'm sure COVID-20, I'm sure COVID-19, thanks, ime tu afekt piya sisi apakwa set it. It's not that we are all sunshine and flowers but I really really hope that you take away what prayer said like just have hope, just have hope. Hey, Sanjay, I think I'll just be calling you niki skia tu. Yeah, give me that hope, give me, give me. Siju tukwita, hope? Is it hope you made a name? No. Okay, tamstu, I go hope. Anyway, at WhitePapam Facebook, WhitePapam channel, on Twitter, hashtag is white in the morning. We have come to the end of the show. However, presenter is Niuengi. Niuengi sana, and that means. Do you know what that means? In fact, just usuzimetevi, just let it be on why. Okay, because we have saws, all kinds of saws, all kinds of presenters, all kinds of shows, entertainment, edutainment. We have sports like basically, we got you. 2021 to Naribu is us, is together, is we is pamoja. Yeah, hashtag white in the morning. My name is Val or at color me that has been my pleasure and my joy to be with you this morning. Simkwanas kupuwa nani aki. This is where we wave wave wave. Bye.


Every now and then, there's a book that really changes your life. But in my experience, the number one factor that determines whether it really changes your life is the timing that you read the book at. So I'm gonna share seven books everyone in their 20 should read, because this is a very important phase of your life and a very important time to not waste, but instead to seize the day. Hey guys, Alex Hyan here over at Modern Health Monk. Before we jump into this video, I've put together a free seven day self growth challenge. It's just you'll get an email or a video a day on how to improve your life and make it 1% better. So you can check it out. It's the first link right below this video. Book number one is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Now in your 20s, it is the best and most important time to dream as big as possible and take every risk imaginable. Now for me, when I was writing my first book, Master of the Day, I read about Santiago in The Alchemist going through Spain and Andalusia, and I just thought, wouldn't it be incredible if I wrote my first book when I was in Spain, tracing the footsteps of The Alchemist? So I did that. I did exactly that. But the reason you should read this book is because this is a book that will encourage you to find and follow your personal legend and risk everything to do it because it will lead you to so much fulfillment and so much happiness in your life and it will be worth it. The second book you should read in your 20s is called Mastery by Robert Green. The reason for this is that the road to building a career and a life is a road, right? It's literally a path of a progression. Like what do you see here? At one point I had no videos on the internet. It was just all blog articles. And so I decided to play with YouTube and just try it out and see if I liked it, see if it made me happy and see if it made you happy. And it worked. And it led to another thing. It led to this book and this book led to another book and that led to another book. And that led to more videos and more opportunities. And I did my doctorate. Now I have a medical practice and I'm running this. What do you see when you look at that? The answer is progression, right? I didn't start with any of those. I built them over seven years. But for many of us we think that if we just get to 30 or we get to where? Wherever, 35, 40, 50, 25, all my dreams are just gonna happen. But most people don't know that it starts by taking massive action on the best opportunity right now and that leads you to the next one and the next one and the next one. So through this process of progression will lead you to the life you really want. And mastery helps you figure out your life's task and how to stay committed to it. The third book is the psychology of money. One of those things that is hard in your 20s is that you aren't making any money. And in my opinion, you should be risking maximally to go after your dreams and your goals because worst case scenario, you end up back in your parents and who really cares anyway? Probably half of the people in their 20s are still living with their parents regardless. This book has a lot of interesting stories on what it takes to succeed with money. But one story really stuck with me which is the story of Bill Gates. So this chapter is all about risk and reward from investing in yourself. Now he talks about the story of Bill Gates who just so happened to be a one in a million student literally one in one million had access to a computer at their school or personally at that time. Bill Gates just so happened to be lucky enough to be one of them and he fell in love with computers. That was his passion and that's what ended up building Microsoft. That risk of being interested in that one thing that he was lucky enough to have exposure to led to him being one of the world's richest men that may never have existed without that timing, right? That was luck, but he sees the opportunity. On the other side of the coin of luck is risk where he talks about one of Bill Gates's friends and other classmates in high school who they said was as good as any, if not better than them was mountain climbing as a teenager and then ended up passing away, dying on a mountain as a teenager. Now that was about a one in a million risk that he took and he lost, he died. That guy could have been one of the initial partners in Microsoft and also be a billionaire but both of them took risks in terms of their life. Bill Gates took a risk that was luck meets opportunity and his friend took a risk that was luck meets opportunity and in life when you see people become successful everything is about some degree of risk but you only hear about the people who risk and they succeed. So I love this book in terms of the psychology of why people succeed. The fourth book is How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Wind Big by Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comics. Now the reason I love this book is that he has one of the most realistic looks at what I think it takes to succeed in life. Lots of successful people write books when they've succeeded. Now you never know if they're like, oh, they worked hard. Well, so did millions of other successful people that were not nearly that successful. So was it really the hard work or was it timing and luck, the business partner where they went to school, their dad, right? You never really know. What I found in this book was one principle which is that he says every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success and it reminds me of the story of Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad when he was talking to a journalist.  What's your dream? And she said, I wanna be a bestselling author. And he said, you know what's funny? I'm not a good writer, but you know what it says in my book, it says bestselling author. And she kind of went off like, I don't wanna learn the dirty money stuff. I don't wanna learn marketing and sales and all this nonsense. And he said, you know what's funny? You don't have a book and you wanna be a bestselling author but I am a bestselling author. And at least this idea that every skill you acquire increases the odds of you being successful, right? A piece of me writing my own books and them doing well is I took years to learn how to do this. That's hard work, right? Most people won't do that. Most authors won't do that. But that platform is the initial community of people who will find your work. So every skill you acquire will increase the chances of your success. The fifth book I would recommend is Shameless Self-Promotion, Milk the Pigeon by this guy named Alexander Hein. Now, the reason I wrote this book is because I don't see any books for 20-somethings or 30-somethings or 50-somethings that talk about these three things. I thought, what is the book I would wanna give to one of my kids just to make their 20s easier? And this book answers and proposes three main questions inherent to life.  Two, how do I find work I love? And three, how do I live a life worth living that is meaningful? All three of these, full of stories on how to answer that question in your own life, are in this book. So those three things I think are the three major buckets of life that I think 20-somethings are especially concerned with. And if you can do this, read this, you'll be a decade ahead of your friends, for sure. The sixth book is Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck. One of the reasons I love this book is that Martha is a coach. I think she's a therapist. And having coached and had therapy clients, hundreds, thousands of people, she's noticed the same major patterns, but one in particular is very relevant. She talks about how a lot of people tried to decide their careers and their life from the mind, but they ended up betraying their gut and their soul in the process. You know, Martha talks about how her dad was trying to get her to go into a certain profession and she never really was that successful and it never really flowed, it was always hard. And the second she started trusting her gut about what profession to go into and what work to do, everything blew up from there. And I find that observing other people and my own career, the same as being true. When you recognize from your gut feeling, what are my gifts, what are my passions, what are my interests? And then you layer on skills, right? Just being a good creative doesn't mean you'll succeed. Being an author doesn't mean you'll sell any copies. You have to learn these secondary skills that synergistically work together. But for her, this book is all about exercises to train you to recognize your gut feelings in your body, trusting the wisdom of the body over what your mind tells you. This is all society's BS, your parents, your teachers, but this will help you reconnect with what you truly want. The final book is by a therapist or a psychologist named Meg Jay, Dr. Meg Jay, why 30 is not the new 20. And the big idea from this book that I loved was this idea that 30 is not the new 20, meaning 20-somethings think that they have all this time in the world and to some degree it is true. But people live their entire 20s unconsciously, not doing work they like, not even thinking about work they like, just going for money or just going for leisure, dating unconsciously, oh, she's hot, he's hot, they're fun, they're fun, but never thinking about the kind of person they'd be happy with long-term. And then we think when we get to 30, magically we've solved this problem. I'm doing work I love and I'm making six figures, I'm dating my dream person that I could marry forever. And usually that doesn't happen because if you're not thinking consciously about your life now, why would you in 10 years? It doesn't magically happen. You need to really live life urgently with a sense of urgency. 20 is not the new 30. You can have the best years of your passion building in your 20s if you're consciously using that time and not doing it with BS, doing a BS finance job you don't like or just being a Bohemian backpacker not aligned with your goals. If you really view time as scarce, it always is. And your view of your 20s is a valuable period of time to figure key things out. Your 30s will be incredible and your life will be incredible, but it gets a lot harder to do as you get older. So, seven books you should read in your 20s. That's all I got for you guys. I have links to them below this video. Check it out.


Hello welcome to everyone to another capsule IR capsule for the Shankar IAS Academy. I'm sorry we missed a couple of classes because too many things were happening internationally and a lot of attention had to be given to those but we'll catch up with that. The major event that we have to cover is as you all know the G20 summit in Delhi. It's already a few days but it has allowed us this time to get a better understanding and appreciation of the situation at G20 because we are not only familiar with what happened at the summit but also some follow-up things have happened that also we are able to cover. So as you know the last one year was G20 festival in India. This is a very unusual thing in international diplomacy particularly multilateral diplomacy. In my long years of experience with international conference I've not seen anything like this so I would say it's a summit like no other. The most important difference from the other summits I have seen is the role played by the host. Normally in international conferences in the UN and others the role of the chairman is rather limited. His main responsibility is to make sure that the meeting is conducted properly, there is discipline and there are also facilities available for everyone and very often the substance need not necessarily reflect the thinking of the host. In this particular case what we did was as soon as we took over from Indonesia we started a new exercise of having many conferences. Normally you have a preparatory committee in New York or somewhere else, prepare an agenda, decide on what should be discussed and even on what the conclusion should be and that is sent to the host country and the host country calls a meeting of the foreign ministers and then the summit. This is how it was done but this time we virtually reformed multilateralism because we gave it a new meaning and a new thrust. First and foremost we held so many meetings in 60 cities in India and abroad more than 100 meetings were held. In other words we kept in G20 countries very busy catching up with so many agenda items which are normally dealt with only at the conference and the first and foremost thing that India achieved by doing this was to project India's capabilities and India's possibilities. Not only to foreigners but also ourselves because many parts of India people were not aware of a conference of this nature and therefore they were always surprised to see that the world had come to their village as it were and also many people foreign delegates arrived and they were given a full view of India's cultural heritage, India's culinary accomplishments or tourism and many others. So it was not just an international conference it was virtually a festival of India in this last one year and the other delegations of course welcomed it and they enjoyed themselves during these meetings but under substantive matters also I think India took the lead for example the theme of the conference was decided by India not anybody else or Siddhaiva Kudumbakam was something that we ourselves gave to the conference and one future idea of one earth and that kind of theme was given and it was generally accepted by everyone because only China which raised some objection asking what is this Siddhaiva Kudumbakam we don't know what do you say it in Chinese is a Sanskrit language of the United Nations all these rather childish questions they raised and just to show that they have noticed what India is doing you know taking over the leadership of the world as it were but even they went along with it in the final analysis the the theme was accepted and it was much of those ideas were incorporated into the declaration and so it was basically the agenda was in accordance with Prime Minister Modi's vision and no one except China challenged it the motto was also accepted and not one of the the declaration the leaders declaration included included several ideas and phrases that were put forward by India even PM Modi's words to President Putin today's era must not be a war I have become part of the New Delhi leaders declaration so the whole world has accepted that notion that war should be avoided this is not the time for war and various decisions on economic matters also the paragraph and not the least the paragraph on geopolitics so inescapability of dealing with the war was recognized by India right from the beginning and decided to do whatever is possible to get a consensus declaration this is particularly because we could not get a consensus in the foreign minister's meeting in the foreign minister's meeting we tried to push the Indonesian formulation where Russia was mentioned by name but Russia had decided that they will not accept that under any circumstances and it get China's strong support and that was why there was some consideration as to whether an agreement would be reached on the geopolitics paragraph of course geopolitics is not the main agenda of G20 as you all know it is basically economic social and that sort of matters but everybody knew that in this particular situation whereas war is waging in Europe for year and a half it was impossible to close our eyes to that and so the logic used in order to introduce this item was to you know start from the very beginning with the realization that this is something we have to accomplish and also because all the evils that are facing the developing countries arise from the war so the connection between the war and the agenda was very well established right from the beginning and we worked very hard on it because both sides the west the Russians and Chinese on the other hand and the west on the other determined to get what they wanted otherwise they were not going to allow the G20 conference to succeed but surprise all surprises India was able to announce an agreement on the declaration on what is called the dealer's declaration on the first day itself even before the lunch on the first day Prime Minister broke the news to the conference that we have reached an agreement and they surprised everyone and when they saw it they knew that this was the only option and what they what India did was of course this was also approved by others was to eliminate the name of Russia from the declaration because with that it would not reach the consensus we knew Russia and China would fight very hard but the method was to select some sentences from the UN Charter which are globally accepted principles so we really stayed in the principles without naming anybody like for example non-aggression non-interference internal affairs integrity of countries these are all concepts which are recognized and propagated by the UN these are words from the Charter but they were selected with the objective of giving the same signal because everybody knew who we are talking about when we were talking about you know the principles of the Charter so the exhortations these exhortations were to everybody but it was very clear in the context that these were interest to the Russians so the Russians accepted the exhortations because the drafters offered them a reiterated reiteration of the national positions and resolutions adopted at the UN Security Council so first they gave the principles of the UN Charter then they included a sentence which would say that it also takes into account all the exhortations offered in the UN Security Council and the resolutions adopted or discussed in the UN Security Council so the UN Charter principles were made contemporary and that was the trick so which means everybody who wanted to criticize Russia read it as though this is addressed to Russia while Russia read it as though it is addressed to the whole world so that was the that was the trick used and it worked because there was no other way and then an exception was also added this is very interesting that after coming to all these agreements there is one sentence there it says there were different views and assessments of the situation so which means everybody is not really endorsing everything because they are recognizing that there were other views so while Russia was happy that the declaration did not mention Russia like the president of France said the declaration is not a victory for Russia so that was the so that was the compromise so Russia thought it was a victory because their name was not mentioned and the west thought it was a victory because all these principles and demanding of action was really essential so the daily declaration was more favorable to Russia it is true than the Bali declaration because the the accusation that Russia started the war is not there directly so initially the Bali declaration was supposed to be reiterated but naturally because of the venue because it was held in India it had to be different and this is what the foreign minister kept saying that it is not possible for us to just copy the Bali declaration that to be this is India and it should reflect India's position well so this is not going to make an impact on the ground situation we all know in fact if anything even during the war during the conference there were attacks and drone attacks and various other things going on and nobody expected that the conference will come up with a call for ceasefire because ceasefire was not acceptable to either side because ceasefire will mean according to the Ukrainians more time for Russia to regroup itself and print things that Russia is about to lose and therefore they want to give them time Russia on the other hand felt that they were going to win and therefore they did not want to give a gap for Ukraine to gather arms and strengthen themselves so both were wanting to continue and therefore this this doesn't mean that there will be any question as the war will continue but this was the best that we could get and so the and then if you look at the other aspects of the declaration the economic and commercial part on various measures to improve connectivity and human-centered developments on the basis of one earth one family in one future this is the interpretation of Vasudeva Kudumbaka which was accepted and having weaker without a position on on the war so the declaration suppose it did not have anything on the war the declaration would have been weak so we accomplished both so though G20 is not the platform to resolve geopolitical and security issues but without a consensus on the war situation the summit would have lost its credibility and relevance and one of the most significant development of the global summit in Delhi was the emergence of what is called the global south because even during the Cold War with the east-west confrontation took place at that time itself there was a conflict between north and south also north-south dialogue and south-south dialogue and north-south cooperation all these were mentioned even at that time so at that time these points were made by the non-aligned movement on the one side and there are some other developing countries which are not in the non-aligned moment were represented in G77 so there was a certain automaticity of agreement between non-aligned and G77 but here the decisions of summit were taken with the participation of the north so it is the north-south agenda or global south agenda which is emphasized but it had the consent of the north that makes a big difference and Russia in China is part of that exercise and therefore everybody as they say in molecular diplomacy everybody is equally unhappy everybody is not happy that never happens in a conference like this so at least everybody was equally unhappy so but here the absence of presidentry of China was noticed because he had come he had agreed to come earlier but maybe he did not come we don't know many people say there are very many reasons the one reason might be to not to be a part of the coronation of India as the leader of global south they don't want to be part of it as it has a dominating presence in bricks so they are focusing on the bricks for the global south and they did not want to join an exercise where India's prominence being re-established but the it is very clear that one building block or the new global order has been built and that one building block is as I said earlier is the global south because it is not very clear who are in the global south who will be the leader of it who will articulate it etc etc all open and that might take some time and the main rival to us in this case is China and others also may not be so very happy to concede India's leadership so later we discover that even Canada is not very happy that India is doing so well we'll come to that in our next story next capsule so what we have done certainly is the that we have built a block many more blocks are required to have a new global order but one has been established and what remains is to find the way to cement it together after all the building blocks are done then we need the motor to pull it back together and then you get a global order and one other claim that India is making is that India is responsible for getting the African Union as a member of G20 on the strength of the European Union being a member of course the European Union it was done exceptionally because European Union acts as one country in various issues and therefore it was logical to bring European Union into it but African Union is hardly enough a union they are still fighting wars like Europeans used to do 400 years ago and they are 400 years ago behind an African Union and therefore it may not be possible for this includes brings it to its whole continent it brings in more population more wealth more broad development but the establishing the bonds of among the countries in Africa will not be very easy because there are very many differences even on the question of the expansion of the Security Council the African Union has not been agree on one country or two countries they want two countries but they're likely to be one country and nobody knows who that one country in Nigeria wants it Egypt wants it South Africa wants it I don't know how many others so they are not able to put forward a candidate from Africa and they are now talking about rotating etc so but a participation of African Union as a single unit will be effective only if they are able to speak with one voice so the membership of G20 will hopefully provide the incentive for the African Union to have a cohesive voice in world affairs without being exploited by China and others but we have taken this initiative basically to show our own goodwill and our own interest in Africa Africa applied sometime earlier but people were not very willing to accept them as a union and therefore India took the credit so and therefore we believe we have received the goodwill and sympathy of the African countries next was of course the pursuit of sustainable development goals the need to address the hopeless state of affairs of climate finance and the inequities of the world belonging to the old agenda and these are all being reiterated basically the same thing but it was lagging behind and that has been updated in addition there were several initiatives like digital public infrastructure then India Middle East Europe connectivity corridor then bio fuel initiative strengthening the global health architecture closing your gender gaps and reform of the UN and international financial institutions such a long wish list here of course we have re-established the positions of the global south and the developed world has been urged to implement them because it is they who have to make resources available so we hope that these agreements they have also a party to it not just the 77 or the global south there may be some some progress but we have to see how this moves on to in Brazil so there was some concern because it always happens when western leaders come to India that they will raise issues of about human rights situation yeah so we expected this but apparently they kept it and the you know bilateral level and they did not raise it formally President Biden said that he had raised the human rights issue PM Modi but curiously the paragraph from one of the UN year resolutions on religious tolerance and freedom found its way as paragraph 78 we did not know who suggested it we did not know whether India had any objection to it but it was not point in objecting because it was a general statement which we all agree we agree that there should be no discrimination we agree that there should be democracy and human rights in all the member states and that is what it says this paragraph so if you objected it in any form people would say oh this is India is showing that this had you had you know is is theirs and we didn't want to claim that obviously and therefore this paragraph was introduced it was a declaration to other resolution of the general assembly which everybody had accepted so the Indian delegation may have treated this as accepted language which applies to different situations and not specific to India but it may be quoted in future you may find western delegations quoting this paragraph to say that India had also agreed to that so the way India turned 2020 into a year-long activity with innumerable meetings in different parts of India and abroad and managed to reach valuable conclusions on difficult issues has greatly enhanced India's prestige and stature India has also showcased its remarkable achievements from reducing poverty to bringing light to the dark side of the moon Prime Minister Modi's stellar performance and indefatigable energy were unanimously employed by all India's dream to be in the forefront of international politics has almost come true India has placed itself firmly as a major player in the shaping of a new world order so this is the briefest possible assessment or analysis of the G20 summit I hope you will take note of all these aspects because in one way or the other these are all going to figure in your examination because there are so many technical words here so many concepts and all these you will have to know very well when we write about or speak about it and the story of the G20 summit is not over the whole year till the Brazilian summit takes place this will be the talk of the town and naturally some questions will arise as it has happened in the case of Canada totally unexpected but this is to be expected because when you really want to reshape the world everybody is not very happy that it goes by the name of only India they would all want to be part of the take part of the cake so that is to be expected but let's hope that there's a new beginning of building a world order in which 125 countries as a bloc as the global south is going to thank you very much I think they are not formally a member of G20 I think so I have not checked this that may be I never thought about this and it may be simply because they are not a member of the G20 because there are non-members there there's around specific invitation we love to check this my feeling is sale was not there because of that we we don't speak about non-aligned policy and though in his most recent speech in the journal assembly the foreign minister said that instead of being non-aligned we are Sarva Mitra that means we are friends of all not non-aligned but aligned to everybody so that is the new new phraseology and strategic autonomy of course is the basis of that so we'll go by our own likes our own thinking and not being pressurized by anybody but at the same time we'll take into account the interests of all and remain friendly to everyone so it was Sarva Mitra friends of all with the new name for India thank you very much