[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":125},["ShallowReactive",2],{"featured-posts":3,"blog-listing":25,"popular-posts":120},[4,10,15,20],{"path":5,"title":6,"date":7,"category":8,"image":9},"\u002Fblog\u002Fthe-chinese-farmer","The Chinese Farmer, Claustrophobia & other short stories","2023-07-17","Lifestyle","\u002Fimg\u002Fthe-chinese.webp",{"path":11,"title":12,"date":13,"category":8,"image":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Fquarter-life-crisis","Quarter Life Crisis","2023-03-08","\u002Fimg\u002Fquarter-life.webp",{"path":16,"title":17,"date":18,"category":8,"image":19},"\u002Fblog\u002Fvalentines-rant","A Valentine's Rant","2023-02-15","\u002Fimg\u002Flove.webp",{"path":21,"title":22,"date":23,"category":8,"image":24},"\u002Fblog\u002Ffire","Fire","2023-01-31","\u002Fimg\u002Ffire.webp",[26,29,31,33,35,42,48,54,60,66,72,78,84,90,96,102,108,114],{"path":5,"title":6,"date":7,"category":8,"image":9,"excerpt":27,"description":28},null,"A poor widowed Chinese farmer had nothing but a horse and a son to call his own. One fateful day, the horse got lost and all his neighbours came around saying, \"that's too bad\" to which he said \"Maybe.\" The horse later on returned bringing with it six others (please don't ask me where from) and the neighbours came around saying, 'Well, that's good fortune.' To this the farmer said,'Maybe.' While trying to tame the new horses, the son fell and broke his leg. The neighbours came around saying, \"That's too bad\". At this point I believe the farmer ought to have asked them to find something to do, but he said, 'Maybe.' The following day, the Emperor declared war and all able-bodied men were dafted into the war. The farmer's son was spared and did not have to hide like our guy Jussup from the Caucasian Chalk Circle. The neighbours said that to be good fortune, and of course, the farmer responded with a cold maybe. The story goes on and on, and I hope and pray that the neighbours learned to mind their business at some point but that's besides the point.",{"path":11,"title":12,"date":13,"category":8,"image":14,"excerpt":27,"description":30},"I’m going to be 25 in April. That’s a quarter of a century. Makes a girl think.",{"path":16,"title":17,"date":18,"category":8,"image":19,"excerpt":27,"description":32},"Happy Valentine’s Day.",{"path":21,"title":22,"date":23,"category":8,"image":24,"excerpt":27,"description":34},"I am well aware that I missed out on the “Happy New Year” window and now kindly receive warm greetings from me. I hope this finds you well and that this month that is definitely not January has been kind to you. Mine, on this end, has morphed into a December ultra and something about it feels quite illegal.",{"path":36,"title":37,"date":38,"category":39,"image":40,"excerpt":27,"description":41},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbetween-you-and-bali","The Distance Between You and Bali","2022-12-14","Law","\u002Fimg\u002Fbali-ban.webp","What do you get when you combine your hedonic self and the world's largest Muslim majority nation? That’s right. ARRESTED.",{"path":43,"title":44,"date":45,"category":8,"image":46,"excerpt":27,"description":47},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftoxicology-101","Toxicology 101","2022-08-06","\u002Fimg\u002Ftoxicology-101.webp","The weekend is upon us yet again. Congratulations to us for holding on and making it through another week. More importantly, there’s a guy you owe this to. You probably know him as the American Industrialist who founded the Ford Motor Company. If you are an ardent student of history, you may also know about his role in revolutionizing factory production with his assembly line methods. The man Henry Ford is the guy you mostly owe your weekend to. Much as it is increasingly proving to be insufficient time for us, the two-day weekend is less than 100 years old. Ford was a great contributor as he began giving his workers a two-day weekend in the 1900s. It was only until the late 1930s that the American begun limiting companies to a 40- hour work week.",{"path":49,"title":50,"date":51,"category":8,"image":52,"excerpt":27,"description":53},"\u002Fblog\u002F24","24","2022-04-29","\u002Fimg\u002F24.webp","Allow me to sneak back into your lives like I didn’t leave you high and dry. I would be allowed to come back with no apology or explanation as the zeitgeist of us 20 somethings allows us to do in pursuit of our own interests.",{"path":55,"title":56,"date":57,"category":8,"image":58,"excerpt":27,"description":59},"\u002Fblog\u002Fdaniel","Daniel","2022-01-15","\u002Fimg\u002Fdaniel.webp","It’s 3 am in the morning and I turned in my sleep, woke up and I can’t sleep anymore. Our dog Tina ( short for Mutina) is barking relentlessly from right outside my window. She is a mixed dog somewhere between a Dagorreti and Githurai shepherd that is not so aesthetically pleasing. I’m not sure if the situation outside is as dire as she presents it to be or Tina is just being a dramatic bitch especially with her pregnancy. I try to distract myself from imagining an imminent attack so I focus on Tina and how someone needs to introduce her to family planning. Therapy too as she is constantly in between pregnancies, puppy birth and losing puppies at teething stage. Those that survive become everybody’s favorite and she is rejected for as long as they live. Sherlock Holmes in me discovers that Tina might actually be responsible for the death of every dog she ever gave birth to reclaim her throne in this home.",{"path":61,"title":62,"date":63,"category":8,"image":64,"excerpt":27,"description":65},"\u002Fblog\u002Flove-yours","Love Yours.","2022-01-03","\u002Fimg\u002Flove-yours.webp","Not so fun fact. This was ready some time before Christmas but my December might have over understood its assignment. Here we are using it as our 2022 debut blog. There couldn’t have been a better write to do with this since Love covers a multitude of sin. (Let’s pretend it’s not a few days into the new year and you may or may not be reading this from your work place \u002F study desk.) In fact you are reading this so I know your holiday is but a distant memory already.",{"path":67,"title":68,"date":69,"category":8,"image":70,"excerpt":27,"description":71},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbirds-and-liars","Of Birds and Liars","2021-10-20","\u002Fimg\u002Fbirds-and-liars.webp","A bird told me you are feeling very tired lately. Tired of a lot of things the most recent being that old phrase I just used. It's philosophical and much deeper than the the boy from high school xaxaing in your inbox made it seem, hear me out. You remember our golden King Midas? King Midas, together with the Muses, was asked by Apollo ( the Greek god of light and music ) to judge a music competition between himself and a Phrygian shepherd called Marsyas. Apollo played the lyre while Marsyas played the flute and both were so good at it that the judges were unable to decide who had given the best performance. Apollo then challenged Marsays to play his instrument upside down which he was unable to do and so Apollo the god was announced winner by the Muses. Midas however contested the fairness of the test but the Muses were against him nine to one. Apollo was raged at the mortals for daring to challenge a god and so Marsays was killed. As for Midas, Apollo called him an ass and touched his ears which immediately sprouted up, long and hairy like an ass's.",{"path":73,"title":74,"date":75,"category":8,"image":76,"excerpt":27,"description":77},"\u002Fblog\u002Fi-hate-mondays","I Hate Mondays","2021-09-22","\u002Fimg\u002Fi-hate-mondays.webp","Close your eyes and picture this. I know you did not close them since you are reading this, so go ahead and betray me but do keep imagining. It's early Monday morning, a little before 8am and parents are dropping off their kids at a certain elementary school. The kids line up at the gate as they wait for the principal to let them in. Suddenly there is a loud bang, followed by another then another. Pandemonium ensues with children screaming and bullets flying. The principal is killed as he tries to help the children. It does not stop and in no time a custodian also dies as he tries to pull one student to safety. The police arrive and parents are being shouted at to quickly drive off as they arrive to drop off more kids. The police manage to barricade the line of shooting with a garbage truck and twenty minutes later there is silence. The damage is far done as two adults lay lifeless with eight children and a police officer wounded.",{"path":79,"title":80,"date":81,"category":8,"image":82,"excerpt":27,"description":83},"\u002Fblog\u002Fdoes-the-grind-ever-stop","Does the Grind Ever Stop?","2021-09-01","\u002Fimg\u002Fgrind.webp","THE GRIND NEVER STOPS! SECURE THE BAG! LET’S GET THIS BREAD! RISE AND GRIND! SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK! I’D RATHER BE TIRED THAN BROKE!",{"path":85,"title":86,"date":87,"category":8,"image":88,"excerpt":27,"description":89},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwell-with-your-soul","Is it Really Well with your Soul?","2021-08-09","\u002Fimg\u002Fis-it-well-with-your-soul.webp","Quick disclaimer: This is a blog that shouldn’t have been. I have been ridiculously uninspired to write lately and i got a reminder that this blog doubles up as my elite diary. This is one of those ‘Dear Diary’ entries that has found its way to you because I believe we are all so intricately connected, you just might relate.",{"path":91,"title":92,"date":93,"category":8,"image":94,"excerpt":27,"description":95},"\u002Fblog\u002Fgolden-touch","The Golden Touch","2021-07-20","\u002Fimg\u002Fthe-golden-touch.webp","There are things you come across in life that stick with you forever. Some scar you for life and cause a paradigm shift in your entire existence. I once read a story by Bikozulu and from the blues he mentioned that he had discovered that Kiambu women can’t pee silently. These words echo in my mind every time i have to get to that business which is way too many times for anybody. Now understand that i have dedicated my life to drinking water and minding my own business. The latter comes automatically when you religiously do the former and have to spend most of your time flushing the toxic and bad energy out of your system.",{"path":97,"title":98,"date":99,"category":8,"image":100,"excerpt":27,"description":101},"\u002Fblog\u002Froaring-20s","Roaring 20s","2021-07-01","\u002Fimg\u002Froaring-20s.webp","Are your twenties roaring? Why does such a phrase even exist?",{"path":103,"title":104,"date":105,"category":8,"image":106,"excerpt":27,"description":107},"\u002Fblog\u002Fnew-beginnings","To New Beginnings","2021-03-10","\u002Fimg\u002Fto-new-beginnings.webp","Heeey Faam! We are family right? Friends that became family, right? Family is just not blood , you dig? So we are going to do a thing that families do. Let it be known i consider you my siblings by extension. You see how you have a fight with your siblings and then go quiet for a while and bounce back with no formal apologies? You find a common thing to laugh about and the beef is gone, that's what family is. I am well aware i deserted you for a while, didn't pop up for Valentines even. As the self proclaimed creative I am becoming, i went up to Himalayas for creative inspiration. Now who would be mad at a girl who has spent her mornings running for kilometres up the mountains seeking to be at peace within herself? The sunrise has been finding me on my yoga mat channeling the creative genius within all for you. Whether this happened in my daydreaming or is a deep desire of mine is absolutely irrelevant to the course here.",{"path":109,"title":110,"date":111,"category":8,"image":112,"excerpt":27,"description":113},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbecoming","Becoming","2021-01-29","\u002Fimg\u002Fbecoming.webp","Just hold that thought right there. I know what came to your mind the moment you read that title. I can bet you already have an image of Mitchelle Obama in her plum- colored turtleneck, wide legged trousers and the matching over-coat. I also know that you have chosen to remember the snatched waist with the gold circle buckle and the curls on her hair over the seemingly handsome man who is holding her hand. That alone says everything you need to know about human beings.",{"path":115,"title":116,"date":117,"category":8,"image":118,"excerpt":27,"description":119},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhello-world","Hello World","2021-01-14","\u002Fimg\u002Fhello-world.webp","The literary brilliance of Shakespeare's play, that has for centuries maintained popularity as the greatest love story, is undoubtedly profound. Julia here however begs to disagree with Juliet's words above. As an ardent student of Prof. Ben Sihanya ( who confidently refers to himself as the oracle shrine of wisdom), I was convinced that there is so much more to a name from our lessons on trademark. This took several weeks of sitting through long lecturers that always fell on the afternoons. You already know how the afternoon heat and a full stomach work against keeping eyes open. I however hope to persuade you to join my school of thought shortly and in a more exciting journey.",[121,122,123,124],{"path":61,"title":62,"date":63,"image":64},{"path":73,"title":74,"date":75,"image":76},{"path":85,"title":86,"date":87,"image":88},{"path":109,"title":110,"date":111,"image":112},1790669030639]