SPARTA!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love Nairobi. And Kenya. Yay for Maasais and Sonford and Harambee. In fact, my last post was all about how awesome Nairobi is, and how it is me. I’m still gonna move, though. This city, like the person I am, has a lot of ugliness in it. Now, while I can […]

Of Mice and Men.

There are boys…and then there are men. The problem (of our generation is finding a good way to spend iiiit :D) more often than not, is sorting the chaff from the gems. (that actually kinda rhymes. Kinda. Camaaaan.) I have something against the male species who originate/reside in a specific sub-location in this our Nairobi […]

MY NAIROBI

The first thing most people think when they hear ‘Kenya’ is the classic brilliant sunsets silhouetted by the figures of colorful Maasai warriors and elephants on a savannah. And of course, loud, ‘African-sounding’ drums. There are always drums. I’ve never seen an elephant. And of course I can’t run particularly fast, not since I was […]

I learnt…

…that sometimes, no matter how much you love people, sometimes you just wanna take out a 9 millimetre and send them to their Maker. …that I need to stop quoting stuff I see on the net like it’s the gospel. The net is like Wikipedia. But worse. …that I do not believe in shaving, and […]

Happy birthday to me

Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The […]

My mind is a strange place to live.

Last night, I dreamt of San Pedro. And it all seemed like yesterday,not far away. Not true. Actually, last night my dreams were a bit warped. I dreamt that my parents (or was it the entire world? I feel that would be disastrous) had the power to rewind time. They did so, to when I […]