Who/What am I?
Simply this: a conglomeration of many attributes and aspects! An enigma! A walking juxtaposition!
My friends think I am a conundrum (I love it that way).
I am a chronic over-achiever! I know what i want ....and i am gonna get it! There, use that!
I am black, christian, and saved!
In support of Israel (plus back 'home' ,in Kenya, I have a lot of Israeli family friends).
Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Elohenu, Adonai, Adonai Echad, Baruch schem k'vod malchuto. Adonai Adonenu, mah adir schimcha b'chol ha-aretz, Adonai Adonenu, asher t'nah hodcha al ha-shamayim. Baruch Haba, b'shem Adonai!
Undergrad was Finance/Economics (graduated summa cum laude with a 3.96 GPA), and an MBA as well. Worked for quite some time in the US as an analyst at a certain bank, then decided to move outside to seek fame and fortune. Got both, plus a lovely lady that I hope to some day call my wife.
That is me in a nutshell (there is much more but i'd better stop here)!
Cu Drag,
Spetznaz!
P.S:The following is one of my favorite maxims (by Teddy Roosevelt), and something i strive to live by in my life.
“Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much or suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat” -Teddy Roosevelt
And here is a poem by Rudyard Kipling that i recently found to be awe inspiring:
IF
By Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or, being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, so hold on when there is nothing in you butt the Will which says to them: "Hold on !";
You can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
There Is No God But YHWH And Moses Is His Messenger.
"Beware of a man who says believe in God as I do, otherwise God will punish you. Because he would say tomorrow, believe in God as I do, otherwise I will kill you." -18th-century French philosopher Voltaire.
The funeral oration by, Pericles:
"Then, again, our military training is in many respects superior to that of our adversaries. Our city is thrown open to the world, though and we never expel a foreigner and prevent him from seeing or learning anything of which the secret if revealed to an enemy might profit him. We rely not upon management or trickery, but upon our own hearts and hands. And in the matter of education, whereas they from early youth are always undergoing laborious exercises which are to make them brave, we live at ease, and yet are equally ready to face the perils which they face. And here is the proof: The Lacedaemonians come into Athenian territory not by themselves, but with their whole confederacy following; we go alone into a neighbor's country; and although our opponents are fighting for their homes and we on a foreign soil, we have seldom any difficulty in overcoming them. Our enemies have never yet felt our united strength, the care of a navy divides our attention, and on land we are obliged to send our own citizens everywhere. But they, if they meet and defeat a part of our army, are as proud as if they had routed us all, and when defeated they pretend to have been vanquished by us all.
If then we prefer to meet danger with a light heart but without laborious training, and with a courage which is gained by habit and not enforced by law, are we not greatly the better for it? Since we do not anticipate the pain, although, when the hour comes, we can be as brave as those who never allow themselves to rest; thus our city is equally admirable in peace and in war. For we are lovers of the beautiful in our tastes and our strength lies, in our opinion, not in deliberation and discussion, but that knowledge which is gained by discussion preparatory to action. For we have a peculiar power of thinking before we act, and of acting, too, whereas other men are courageous from ignorance but hesitate upon reflection. And they are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense both of the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger. In doing good, again, we are unlike others; we make our friends by conferring, not by receiving favors. Now he who confers a favor is the firmer friend, because he would rather by kindness keep alive the memory of an obligation; but the recipient is colder in his feelings, because he knows that in requiting another's generosity he will not be winning gratitude but only paying a debt. We alone do good to our neighbors not upon a calculation of interest, but in the confidence of freedom and in a frank and fearless spirit. To sum up: I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to have the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace. This is no passing and idle word, but truth and fact; and the assertion is verified by the position to which these qualities have raised the state. For in the hour of trial Athens alone among her contemporaries is superior to the report of her. No enemy who comes against her is indignant at the reverses which he sustains at the hands of such a city; no subject complains that his masters are unworthy of him. And we shall assuredly not be without witnesses; there are mighty monuments of our power which will make us the wonder of this and of succeeding ages; we shall not need the praises of Homer or of any other panegyrist whose poetry may please for the moment, although his representation of the facts will not bear the light of day. For we have compelled every land and every sea to open a path for our valor, and have everywhere planted eternal memorials of our friendship and of our enmity. Such is the city for whose sake these men nobly fought and died; they could not bear the thought that she might be taken from them; and every one of us who survive should gladly toil on her behalf."
Watu wote wamezaliwa huru, hadhi na haki zao ni sawa. Wote wamejaliwa akili na dhamiri, hivyo yapasa watendeane kindugu.
Translation (Swahili to English):
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. (Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) 
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Coat of Arms
Kenyan Fish Eagle
American Bald Eagle
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women: shall we then prohibit and abolish women? --Martin Luther, reformer.
Spetznaz in training
"To win 100 victories in 100 battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence" - Chinese proverb
Apparently the Chinese intend to test some of their proverbs on the world. Hopefully those in leadership positions in the US are awake and aware, and willing to show China that dragon slaying is not the sole domain of St George.