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“WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!” She was yelling at me, her arms flaring. “NI NINI MBAYA NA WEWE?” I had zoned out. I zoned back in and thought to myself “who is this and why is she yelling at me?” My brain quickly registered my surroundings and my eyes accustomed themselves to the…

WAIT! Is the right side of my face paralysed? Let me start from the beginning. I was showering and felt soap in my right eye. Not the little sting that makes you instantly shut your eye and wipe off. It was a lot more. Stinging enough to notice it. After that I went and brushed…

#40ThingsNumber 28.Do a Painting. Sasa wacha niwaambie. Mimi I thought painting ni kama ile ya coloring book just this time with wetter, stickier applicants. First of all, painting ya coloring book has got lines. You just need to color within the lines and if you’re a coloring pro like me, and when I say pro…

Leo ni ile siku. Sun revolution imefanya ile kitu. I now have 1 year experience of ‘life begins at 40’ and I tell you it has been epic. Absolutely epic. This journey has been the best. I have massively grown mostly because I deliberately decided to. I have another post already written for this. I’ll…

#40Things Number 34, sing Karaoke. Done! Karaoke-ring has always been on my to-do list. Over the years I built it up in my head. It overgrew. Nilioverdo. I’d chose the songs I would perform…. perform… I always saw it as a performance. I’d practice in the car, listen to my voice, hate it, chose another…

#40Things Number 25: Summit Mt. Kenya or as I called it, 4985. This was not the original number 25. The original was to fight altitude sickness and go to Lake Ellis again. Lake Ellis is on Mt Kenya. Its 3455m above sea level. A few years ago, we did a hike to Lake Ellis which…

#40Things Number 15. Be a vegetarian for a month. This one I took time before I started. It was one of those things that I really wanted to do but kept postponing. I kept getting asked, why are you doing this? Did the doctor tell you? Are you trying to lose weight? I actually lost…

Nope, not all the way to the top. And not anywhere even close to the top. We cycled from Nanyuki to Old Moses, Mt Kenya. Old Moses is one of the stops as you hike Mt. Kenya. The round trip was around 70km. This was by far the most difficult extreme we had ever done.…

#40Things Number 3: Go Camping. This was an epic camping trip. It was one of those “need to exhale” type of trip. Jangwani is a pretty cool. They have a restaurant and a bonfire place near the camp. Then they have another restaurant and club huko juu… Hweh! You have to climb 103 steps of…

So, Andrew and Carol drove all the way from Nairobi; its a 4hr drive, surprised me in the morning telling me they were almost in Nanyuki and they wanted to take me for a birthday breakfast. But alas! Mimi huyo kwa shower chap chap and headed to meet them at @jibscafebistro. Number 18 on my…